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Thomas Paine

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Monday, November 23, 2009

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Q&A: Glass Half-full 15 Years After ICPD - Part 2
    ISTANBUL, Nov 23 (IPS) - Fifteen years after the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), the glass is half full, according to Purnima Mane, deputy executive director of the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA). And not much better for the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of all ...

  • INDIA: Women’s Political Empowerment, Yes; ...
    NEW DELHI, Nov 23 (IPS) - Despite getting suitably politically empowered, the Indian fair sex continues to lag behind on almost all crucial developmental parametres like education, health and economic participation.

  • Q&A: ‘MDGs Don’t Recognise Role of ...
    SYDNEY, Nov 23 (IPS) - As the number of people living in poverty swell to over two billion, Amnesty International Secretary-General Irene Khan makes a strong argument for human rights to be made central to development and eradication of poverty.

  • Q&A: Wanted: Economy at the Service of Mankind
    TOKYO, Nov 23 (IPS) - The outbreak of the global financial crisis that followed the collapse of the U.S.’s major financial institutions last year sent many economies into a downward spiral. Many were also forced to rethink their economic development models.

  • SPECIAL OP-ED: People First, Turning Words Into ...
    ROME, Nov 22 (IPS) - The promotion of women's rights at the global level should not be limited to treating the female population as a gender that is discriminated against and must be protected.

Scoop - NZ

  • The benefits of a nuclear Iran
    Iran could be building "the bomb". Iran would then be the second power in the region to possess the bomb, and would certainly be the first of what will soon be a rapid escalation of regional states with the wealth and wherewithal to acquire the bomb. In addition, this proliferation of bomb-owning st ...

  • Video: Meredith Whitney calls Double Dip Recession
    [ VIDEO ]Please click PLAY  »  PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews

  • The Hidden Dangers of Energy efficiency
    an interesting dilemma . If business saves a heap of money thru the most common carbon reduction of energy efficiency and uses that money to build more of the same ...have we saved anything ?  »  PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews

  • If nothing else, save farming
    George Monbiot's article on peak oil , which may be much closer than you think , and what needs to be saved . The importance of food ...and all sorts of stuff that may slightly terrify you .  »  PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews

  • Maori Party looking at the big picture ?
    As far as the public's concerned, Hone Harawira is the Maori Party's biggest political management problem at the moment. But the party's facing a bigger, more important decision at the moment than whether the MP for Te Tai Tokerau should stay or go. It's deciding whether it should vote yes or no on ...

Independent ( London )

  • Incumbent president wins first round of Romanian v ...
    Incumbent President Traian Basescu won the first round of Romania's presidential election last night, and will face leftist leader Mircea Geoana in a Dec. 6 runoff, exit polls showed

  • Tony Patterson: The bratwurst is yet to come
    It takes no more than a trip to a run-of-the-mill Berlin supermarket to realise that the Teutonic Christmas machine has already been thrust into top gear in preparation for the big event. The shelves have suddenly begun bursting with Germany's famous Dresdner Stollen Christmas cake and hundreds of c ...

  • Alive and well, the conjoined twins separated by 1 ...
    It took three agonising days, but then came the sound Moira Kelly had been waiting for – the sound of two-year-old Krishna blowing a raspberry.

  • Iran's opposition defiant in face of crackdown
    Iranian opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi said yesterday that the reform movement would not be cowed by the hardline government's harsh methods as riot police prevented a demonstration by moderates taking place.

  • Battle lines drawn on US health Bill
    Opening skirmishes in the healthcare battle that will dominate Barack Obama's domestic agenda into the new year began yesterday, after the US Senate voted to begin debating a Democrat Bill to reform the industry. The starting gun was formally fired late on Saturday, when senators narrowly voted for ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran Seeks Guarantees on Enrichment Deal
    Summary: Soltanieh With the international community scrambling to rescue the third party enrichment deal with Iran, Iranian officials have come out today with a conciliatory note, signaling a willingness to talk further. The nation, currently holding a massive simulation to prepare for long thr ...

  • Iran to hold war games to protect nuclear sites
    Summary: TEHRAN, Iran — Iran will begin large-scale air defense war games Sunday aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from possible attack, a senior military commander said Saturday, reflecting the country's concern that Israel could make good on threats to strike militarily. source: A ...

  • Ahmadinejad rejects threats, embraces talks
    Summary: While embracing more talks over Iran's nuclear issue, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejects threats as part of a continuing campaign of psychological warfare against Tehran. source: Press TV read more

  • IAEA Hopes to Rescue Third Party Enrichment Deal W ...
    Summary: The persistent reports of Iran’s final rejection of the draft third party enrichment proposal has been greatly exaggerated, it would seem, and officials are scrambling to put forth a last ditch effort to rescue the proposal. source: AntiWar.com read more

  • US behavior contradicts its change motto: Rafsanja ...
    Summary: Rafsanjani TEHRAN (ISNA)-The recent behavior by the US government is in contradiction with its President's change motto, said Chief of Iran's Expediency Council. source: ISNA read more

The Daily Galaxy

  • iPhone App Sends DNA To The Stars
    Sending the genetic code for fundamental protein that makes all photosynthetic life (and therefore almost all life on Earth) possible to alien stars? There's an app for that! MIT artist in residence Joe Davis has, as well as one of...

  • Could Interstellar Dust Clouds or Neutron Stars Ha ...
    In his famous lecture, "Life in the Universe," Stephen Hawking observed that what we normally think of as 'life' is based on chains of carbon atoms, with a few other atoms, such as nitrogen or phosphorous. We can imagine that...

  • "Deep Thought"? - Beyond the Large Hadron Collider
    Some scientists are already looking beyond the Large Hadron Collider and onto the next generation of ultimega-atom-smasher. That's because scientists actually plan things and can concentrate for longer than four seconds, unlike the mass media which reports on them. One...

  • Image of the Day: "The Geometry Galaxy"
    Centaurus A (NGC 5128) is the nearest giant, elliptical galaxy to the Milky Way, at a distance of about 11 million light-years. This beautiful and spectacular appearance is due to an opaque dust lane that covers the central part of...

  • Mysteriously Warm Antarctica Cycle 125,000 Years A ...
    "We didn't expect to see such warm temperatures, and we don't yet know in detail what caused them. But they indicate that Antarctica's climate may have undergone rapid shifts during past periods of high CO2." Louise Sime of British Antarctic...

Natural News

  • Cancer industry abandons science to keep pushing m ...
    (NaturalNews) The cancer industry has blatantly abandoned science these past two weeks by insisting women under 50 should receive annual mammograms even though the industry's own scientific task force concluded that such screenings result in too many false positives. Essentially, the U.S. Preventive ...

  • Traffic fumes may cause dementia
    (NaturalNews) A recent German study published in the journal Environmental Research revealed a definitive link between prolonged inhalation of automobile fumes and inflammation of the brain. An analysis of a group of women found that those who lived closest to busy roads were the most likely to deve ...

  • Study Finds Obesity to be Major Player in Cancer D ...
    (NaturalNews) A November 5 report prepared by the American Institute for Cancer Research (AIRC) revealed that over 100,000 people a year develop cancer due to obesity. The study divulged pertinent data indicating a direct correlation between excess body fat and the development and propagation of var ...

  • Twenty-one questions about mammograms, cancer scre ...
    (NaturalNews) There's a lot of talk about mammograms and cancer screenings this week. A U.S. government task force altered its recommendations, saying that women under 50 should receive no mammograms at all because the risk of harm far outweighs any promise of saving lives. This, in turn, led to a v ...

  • Aspirin kills 400% more people than H1N1 swine flu
    (NaturalNews) The CDC now reports that nearly 4,000 Americans have been killed by H1N1 swine flu. This number is supposed to sound big and scary, motivating millions of people to go out and pay good money to be injected with untested, unproven H1N1 vaccines. But let's put the number in perspective: ...

TheGallopingBeaver

  • The old order passes
    INTRODUCED IN 1935, KODACHROME IS DEAD . Last week, I discovered that Kodak ceased the manufacture of this wonderful film this year, after 75 years, but will support its processing until the end of 2010. Sad, but inevitable, for a number of reasons: in the 1990s, other colour emulsions finally caugh ...

  • Learning how
    CITY JOURNAL is a thoughtful magazine that covers issues of concern. Sol Stern has a worthy article, titled " E. D. Hirsch’s Curriculum for Democracy ". So, who is E. D. Hirsch, and why should you care? E. D. Hirsch is an American educator who is concerned about the decline in acadenic performanc ...

  • 'Lympic loudspeakers and wars coming home
    This morning's bullshi t (emphasis mine): Vancouver police have a new crowd control device capable of emitting painfully loud blasts of sound, just in time for the 2010 Winter Olympics, CBC News has learned. The Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) can use sound as a weapon, emitting tones that cross ...

  • Skullduggery abounds
    THE NEW YORK TIMES has a report about what has been called a "computer hack" into the University of East Anglia’s Hadley Climatic Research Centre. Why should you care? Well, according to the Times, the revelations: are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate sc ...

  • Shoes dropping
    Colvin's testimony was alarming and the Conservative Party response, true to form, abysmal and disgusting. But there are shoes yet to drop regarding Afghan prisoners. So far the discussion seems to be around what happens to prisoners after Canada hands them to the ANP or ANA. The next shoe to drop w ...

Media Matters for America

  • Fox & Friends hosts falsely suggest ...
    On Fox & Friends , co-hosts Gretchen Carlson, Brian Kilmeade, and Steve Doocy falsely suggested that Organizing for America director Mitch Stewart compared Sarah Palin to a terrorist when he wrote in a fundraising letter that her book tour is "dangerous." In fact, Stewart wrote that her tour is ...

  • Quick fact: Wallace falsely claims health bills d ...
    On Fox News Sunday , host Chris Wallace falsely claimed that it's a "fact" that the House and Senate health care bills direct the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force to "determine what services, what tests, screening, are covered and aren't covered," and asked whether that amounts to "governmen ...

  • CNSNews' Jeffrey falsely suggests Senate bill "man ...
    Terence Jeffrey, editor-in-chief of the conservative website CNSNews.com, falsely suggested that the Senate health care bill "would mandate federally subsidized abortion" in a manner inconsistent with the Hyde Amendment's restrictions on the types of abortions for which federal dollars can be used. ...

  • Quick Fact: WSJ's Freeman claims "there h ...
    Wall Street Journal assistant editorial page editor James Freeman claimed that efforts to pass cap and trade legislation will fail because there is "no premise" for such legislation since "there hasn't been any warming since 1998," later adding that "there's no proof that this is happening as ...

  • Quick Fact: Hannity falsely claimed Gore was wron ...
    In an interview with British filmmaker and climate change skeptic Phelim McAleer, Sean Hannity falsely claimed that Al Gore's statement that a 2007 ruling by a British judge about Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth , in Hannity's words, "favored his point of view" was "absolutely false." ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Jerusalem Syndrome
    Akiva Eldar hits the nail on the head: What could they possibly want from us? That was the combined reaction of the president, the mayor, the cabinet ministers and the head of the opposition. After all, they said, Gilo is... Gilo - Israel - Jerusalem - Middle East - East Jerusalem

  • Man, Everybody Is Disappointed In Obama
    I think that President Obama's problems are not reflected in his 49% approval rate in the latest polls. Next week he'll be at 56% or 46%. Whatever. I don't put much stock in them. But I do put stock in... Barack Obama - United States Presidential approval rating - United States - White House - ...

  • Intel Inside? Prove It.
    Here is a thought experiment. It is Sunday, and various employees of Intel's R&D and consulting facility in Chantilly, VA, just outside of Washington, are working through the week-end. The facility is suddenly surrounded by several thousand evangelical Christians--mainly educated... Israel - Wa ...

  • Establishment Reality
    For me the most distressing aspect of American politics over the last 30 years is the realization that the Washington Establishment really does rule the country no matter which party holds the White House or Congressional majorities. Progressives suffered through... United States - White House ...

  • We Interrupt This Optimism...
    Until recently, I have maintained an attitude of resolute optimism about the myriad challenges of today's world. I told myself that in trying times, politicians around the globe will surely summon their inner statesmen and women and commit themselves to... United States - Warfare and Conflict - ...

TruthOut

  • World Awaits US Plan to Help Curb Global Warming
    Washington - With just over two weeks to go before global climate negotiations in Denmark, the United States has yet to decide whether it can meet international expectations and offer to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by a certain amount in the next decade. read more

  • Thousands Demand Closure of Fort Benning's School ...
    This weekend, thousands of people gathered at the gates of Ft. Benning to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the killings of 14-year-old Celia Ramos, her mother Elba Ramos and the six Jesuit priests with whom she worked at the Central American University in San Salvador. Nearly 5,000 people are gat ...

  • Art Levine | Gingrich, Palin, GOP Offer Magic Jobs ...
    With the economy still reeling from unemployment at 10.2 percent , Democrats and progressives are battling a barrage of GOP-driven misinformation about the first $787 billion stimulus plan as they look to create a new, targeted, fast-acting jobs program, possibly before Christmas. Aiming to cash in ...

  • Silicon Sweatshops
    Taipai, Taiwan — Hourly wages below a dollar. Firings with no notice. Indifferent bosses. Labor brokers that leech away months of a worker's hard-earned wages. A corporate shell game that leaves no one responsible. Such conditions are widespread at the contract factories cranking out some of the m ...

  • Iraq Throws Obama a Curve Ball; Key 2010 Elections ...
    Reminiscent of the political problems in Afghanistan that have plagued the Obama White House, on Monday Iraqi Vice-President Tareq al-Hashemi vetoed a set of amendments to Iraq’s election law approved by the Iraqi parliament. The veto may lead to a delay of the Iraqi elections, currently scheduled ...

Planetsave

  • Invasion of the Fish Snatchers?
    Bighead carp are one of two non-native species of Asian carp causing widespread concern among Great Lakes advocates. The other is silver carp. Great Lakes advocates are calling it a “ conservation emergency ” now that non-native Asian carp have been detected within seven miles of Lake Michigan ...

  • MSNBC to Air 2 Hour Special on Animal Conservation ...
    Writing for GreenOptions I sometimes get contacted by PR firms wanting to promote projects. Sight unseen I usually shrug them off, I happen to only write about items that I have seen or used, and can feel good about endorsing. When MSNBC contacted me the other day with a preview of a new special o ...

  • Green Holiday Gifts: CarbonFree Certified Coffee G ...
    If you’re looking for an easy gift idea that supports your ideals and is delicious while doing it, we recommend sending gift boxes from Grounds for Change to the coffee lovers on your list this year! Every single bean that they roast is Fair Trade Certified, Organic Certified, CarbonFree Certi ...

  • The Western Lake Erie Waterkeeper
    One of the leading voices in the campaign to rescue Lake Erie from dying again is a persistent, thoughtful, dedicated water protector promoting awareness of the Lake’s benefits, supporting lighthouse restoration, fighting resurgent algae and proposed new pollution sources, and seeking funding to ...

  • Green Books Campaign: The Lazy Environmentalist on ...
    This review is part of the Green Books campaign . Today 100 bloggers are reviewing 100 great books printed in an environmentally friendly way. Our goal is to encourage publishers to get greener and readers to take the environment into consideration when purchasing books. This campaign is organized b ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Public Citizen in Texas

  • You CAN teach an old dog new tricks . . .
    Las Brisas Energy Center, a proposed pet coke power plant, is still in the midst of a protracted permitting process which most recently has taken the form of a state hearing. Opponents have claimed that projected pollution from the proposed plant has been under-estimated by engineers. Testimony ...

  • EPA Should Use Clean Air Act to Address Climate Ch ...
    Statement of Tyson Slocum, Director, Public Citizen’s Energy Program *Note: Tyson Slocum is delivered this statement today at a public hearing held by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on regulating greenhouse gas emissions from new and existing industrial facilities under the Clean Air Act ...

  • Austin has a dirty secret Happy Hour Wednesday
    Wednesday afternoon from 5-7 pm, let’s get together to discuss how to make Austin’s Dirty Secret a secret no more! Join us at Spider House for our group’s first ever happy hour meet-up (complete with dirty drink specials!). We’ll discuss our plans for convincing City Council to phase out Fay ...

  • Copenhagen Summit: The First Step to a Journey of ...
    Finally, Global warming is getting some international recognition. Since the Kyoto Protocol is about to expire in 2012, the UN, with help of the Danish government, is organizing an international summit about global warming. The summit will be held on December 7th through the 18th at the Bella Cente ...

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

Press TV

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Lieberman Just Wants To Keep His Chairmanship
    Unless the ghost of Hanuka Past comes for a midnight visit, count on Liar Joe to be the key vote that kills the public option. The one and only thing that makes the Bush presidency look good in hindsight is the thought that this man could have been a heartbeat away from the presidency. Liar Joe Lieb ...

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Let's remember what happened the last time we mistook a middle-eastern country's bluster for threat.  "Iran has begun five days of large-scale war games to simulate attacks on its nuclear sites, officials said, warning it will retaliate if provoked. The head of Iran's air defence said the aim of the ...

  • Abdicating Personal Responsibility
    Don't let the celebrity bullshit and the can-she-be-any-stupider shadenfreude hide the most frightening, yet neglected, revelation in the latest political "biography." "My life is in His hands. I encourage readers to do what I did many years ago, invite Him in to take over." This is classic born-aga ...

  • Joe Lieberman: obstructionist putz
    Joe Lieberman assumes everyone is stupid. His assumption is correct when it comes to our useless old media. It's too bad for Joe Lieberman that Al Gore (you remember him Joe?) had a hand in the development of the Internet . We can now easily search for all kinds of information. Lieberman Repeats Cla ...

  • To Stop the Secret Bailouts
    From Crooks and Liars: MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan talks to Rep. Alan Grayson about the amendment passed by the House Financial Services Committee to allow an independent audit of the Federal Reserve. If Alan Greenspan is not happy about it, I take that as a good sign they did the right thing. It only too ...

Care 2

  • Man seriously injured in bear attack after climbin ...
    A man was left seriously wounded after climbing into a bear enclosure in a Swiss zoo yesterday. The 25-year-man climbed onto a wall surrounding the BärenPark (Bear Park) in the city of Bern, Switzerland, before falling 13ft into the enclosure, police Submitted by Simone D. to Animals  |   Note- ...

  • Rare white tiger: King in Belgrade Zoo
    A three-year old male white tiger named Khane looks out of its enclosure at the Belgrade Zoo November 22, 2009 According to conservation group WWF, there are about 4,000 tigers left in the world and they are considered an endangered species. White tigers Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat  |   Note- ...

  • Frog Legs Trade May Facilitate Spread of Pathogens
    A new study of Antarctica's past climate reveals that temperatures during the warm periods between ice ages (interglacials) may have been higher than previously thought. Submitted by Nancy Bridget to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

  • Ten Elegant, Inexpensive Handmade Holiday Gift Ide ...
    Looking to make this holiday season really special without breaking the bank? Consider handmade gifts. Here are ten ways to put a special glow into this season's giving. Let's face it: there are plenty of temptations to overspend and o Submitted by Daphna Yanez to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |  ...

  • Bringing an End to World Hunger Through Unimaginab ...
    Heifer's Approach: Long-Term Solutions for Sustainable Futures Ever since our founder, Dan West, Heifer's approach to providing assistance to struggling countries has been characterized by long-term development, rather than short-term relief. Submitted by Evelyn B. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add ...

GreenBiz

  • The Case for Water Disclosure
    This report details the rationale for the Carbon Disclosure Project's new program, the CDP Waster Disclosure, an initiative aimed at helping institutional investors better understand the business risks and opportunities associated with water scarcity.

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

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

  • Greenbuild 2009: Gore Lauds USGBC for 'Leading the ...
    Nobel Laureate and former vice president Al Gore welcomed thousands of building professionals to Phoenix, praising the U.S. Green Building Council and its members for being the vanguard of the movement to green the world's buildings.

  • Climate Counts and the Green Race to the Top
    If climate regulation will burden businesses or increase costs, then why are so many companies strengthening their voluntary response to the climate crisis in the midst of an economic downturn?

Reuters Global

  • For Rudd, now it’s personal
    Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd may be a shoo-in to return to office late next year, but this week his reputation as a transformative leader will be on the line

  • Haider’s heirs disown troubled Hypo bank
    The Austrian province that enjoyed a big payout from the part sale of Hypo Group Alpe Aldria during the reign of hard-right leader Joerg Haider now refuses to put more cash into the ailing bank.

  • The two faces of Angela Merkel
    Chancellor Angela Merkel was recently named the world's most powerful woman by Forbes magazine. But the German leader sometimes shys away from tough decision at home.

  • Dream job or snake pit? UN appoints new spokesman
    It's not uncommon for journalists at some point in their careers to cross the barricades and become the people who dish out the news as spokespersons for an organization or firm, rather than being on the receiving end. It requires a different set of skills that can make the transition tough, and a s ...

  • Does the EU need another president?
    The fact that European Union leaders have not yet reached a consensus on who should become president of the 27-nation bloc, with time running out before a summit on who should  be given the post, has compounded my belief that they should scrap the idea all together. During the horse-trading of the ...

Ezra Klein

  • Sarah Palin's ghostwriter gets hold of John McCain ...
    The front page of John McCain's web site reads: I remain committed to opposing any bill that puts your health care decisions in the hands of government bureaucrats while adding more than a trillion dollars to our country's deficit. Taxpayers simply cannot afford this government takeover of our heal ...

  • Democrats find 60 votes to go find 60 votes
    Ben Nelson, Blanche Lincoln, and Ben Nelson have all said they're voting for cloture now. That makes 60, at least barring any surprises. The bill can pass go. But that's all it can do, at least for now. Today's cloture vote is so Democrats can begin debate and modification of the bill. During that ...

  • Read Ron Brownstein
    Ron Brownstein's latest column is probably the best thing written on both the delivery-system reforms and the cost controls built into the Senate bill. Read it.

  • You can't cut the deficit without a bill that cuts ...
    David Broder has a column today expressing skepticism that health-care reform will really cut the deficit. But he doesn't provide much evidence for the charge. The specific budget gimmick mentioned in the column is that Reid has delayed the subsidies "from mid-2013 to January 2014 -- long after ta ...

  • Talking about talking
    The Senate is -- sigh -- "debating" health-care reform. Actually, to be more technical about it, they are debating whether to move forward to debating health-care reform. But as with the House, there's no real debate here, and few votes are up for grabs. Which is, I guess, as it should be. It would ...

Booman Tribune

  • Things That Don't Happen in America...
    ...because we never do anything wrong: Military commanders are expected to tell the inquiry into the Iraq war, which opens on Tuesday, that the invasion was ill-conceived and that preparations were sabotaged by Tony Blair's government's attempts to mislead the public. They were so shocked by t ...

  • Sad Announcement
    I have some sad news to report. Longtime Frog Ponder, billjpa, died unexpectedly on Thursday. His daughter dropped me an email to let me know and to tell me how much Bill had enjoyed the site. I always enjoyed Bill's passion. He was always up on the latest outrage and appropriately upset about i ...

  • Casual Observation
    I don't know, maybe if you represent a state from the Old Confederacy you shouldn't repeatedly refer to Medicaid as a medical ghetto. It just sounds a bit racist. Don't you think?

  • In a Bit of a Jam
    Joe Lieberman was so busy in 2007-8 shilling for Republican presidential candidate John McSame that he didn't notice that the three leading Democratic contenders (Clinton, Edwards, and Obama) all had health care white papers that included a public option. Or, so he claims. And, anyway, he's agains ...

  • Froggy Bottom Cafe


European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Dream Logic, Redux
    Does Not Equal is a webcomic by Sarah Ennals – check out the pre-Futurismic archives, and the strips that have been published here previously. [ Be sure to check out the Does Not Equal Cafepress store for webcomic merchandise featuring Canadians with geometrically-shaped heads! ] Project Wonderfu ...

  • Publishing economics round-up
    OK, here’s another link-collection post, but there’s more of a theme to this one: I noticed I had a whole bunch of pieces about the economics of publishing, so why not shove ‘em together and see what juxtapositions we get? We’ll start with this article discovered at TechDirt, an impassioned ...

  • 3D object scanning using an ordinary webcam
    Just in case you thought Tom Maly’s speculations about fabrication tech eradicating Fed Ex were a stretch too far, and that the technologies required are no where near ready… well, you might have a point. But even so, 3D technologies are developing rapidly and cheaply, as demonstrated by some pe ...

  • Tomorrow’s world: the demise of Fed-Ex
    Those of you in the States may not be aware (or even care) that the staff of Royal Mail were recently engaged in wildcat strikes as a protest against the machinations of their management. Much as a lot of us have sympathies with their plight, it’s hard not to see them supplying the nails for [...] ...

  • IBM brain simulations reach cat equivalency
    You can’t so much as turn sideways without stumbling over this story, especially in the transhumanist and Singularitarian neighbourhoods of the web, and with good reason. So let’s just cut straight to the meat of it: Scientists, at IBM Research – Almaden, in collaboration with colleagues from ...

Therapy News

  • Educators Face Mental Health Challenges Among Stud ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary The stresses typically involved with an academic career are many; from intense peer pressure and other social issues to the drive to do well and parental expectations, students may feel subject to a high level of demand, easily leading to a feeling of being burnt out. ...

  • Oklahoma Gears Up for New Certification Regulation ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary In many different specific fields, counselors can provide their clients with valuable mental health services that can have a positive and profound impact on personal health and well-being. But sometimes, those without proper training, education, and experience are allo ...

  • Study Examining Effects of Distress on Brain may H ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, has been gaining attention recently as its prevalence among military personnel becomes more widely known, but this mental health concern is certainly not limited to men and women in the armed forces. Able to effect people of al ...

  • World Health Organization Expresses Concern over M ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary The late summer and early fall seasons in the Philippines were especially cruel in terms of weather this year, inundating the region with a series of tropical storms and floods that killed scores of people and left many others in a state of devastation. That state, unf ...

  • Review Finds Women More Prone to Post-Stroke Depre ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Having a stroke is an event that’s likely to cause mental and emotional difficulties; whether it’s apprehension at being hospitalized, loss of memory or function, or any number of associated issues, stroke can greatly impact mental well-being. In some cases, strok ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Rob Perks: Interior Department Comes Out Strong (R ...
    Rob Perks: Interior Department Comes Out Strong (Rhetorically) on Mountaintop ... AlterNet Interior doing its job by pledging to crack down on mountaintop removal ? That's certainly welcome news. Aye, but here's the rub: the department said its ...

  • Mountain Top Removal Debate Heats Up - Appalachian ...
    Mountain Top Removal Debate Heats Up Appalachian Independent The moving piece tackled the tumultuous topic of Mountain Top Removal –a technique of mining coal which involves blowing up entire mountain peaks to expose ...

  • Documentary, artwork at UW-L show destruction caus ...
    Documentary, artwork at UW-L show destruction caused by mountain-top removal La Crosse Tribune Moved by the destruction of the Appalachian Mountains, the Beehive Collective has chosen mountain-top removal as this year's theme. ...

  • EPA investigating W.Va. mine site - phillyBurbs.co ...
    EPA investigating W.Va. mine site phillyBurbs.com AP The US Environmental Protection Agency are investigating Massey Energy's mountaintop removal operation at its Bee Tree Mine. The agency sent Massey's ... Responding to Harmful Government Inaction, Protesters Stop Blasting on Coal ... It's Getting ...

  • Mountaintop removal mining protests going national ...
    Mountaintop removal mining protests going national Linex Legal (registration) ... protests at Environmental Protection Agency headquarters and across the country Friday to demand the end of mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia. ...

Memeorandum

  • Wave of Debt Payments Facing U.S. Government (Edmu ...
    Edmund L. Andrews / New York Times : Wave of Debt Payments Facing U.S. Government   —  WASHINGTON — The United States government is financing its more than trillion-dollar-a-year borrowing with i.o.u.'s on terms that seem too good to be true.  —  But that happy situation, aided by ultral ...

  • Microsoft and News Corp eye web pact (Financial Ti ...
    Financial Times : Microsoft and News Corp eye web pact   —  By Matthew Garrahan in Los Angeles, Richard Waters in San Francisco and Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in New York  —  Microsoft has had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would involve the media company's being paid to “de-i ...

  • Copenhagen will fail - and quite right too (Nigel ...
    Nigel Lawson / Times of London : Copenhagen will fail - and quite right too   —  Even if the science was reliable (which it isn't), we should not force the world's poorest countries to cut carbon emissions  —  Exactly a fortnight from today, the United Nations climate change conference open ...

  • Durbin open to changing public option to pass heal ...
    CNN : Durbin open to changing public option to pass health care bill   —  Washington (CNN) - The Senate's second-ranking Democrat said Sunday he was open to changing the government-run public health insurance option in the chamber's health care bill to ensure that the measure passes.

  • Freshman Dem: Passing health care reform worth los ...
    Martina Stewart / CNN : Freshman Dem: Passing health care reform worth losing my seat   —  Washington (CNN) - A freshman Democratic senator said Sunday that he will support his party's efforts to pass health care reform legislation even if that means losing his seat in next year's midterm elec ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Putting innovation into reverse
    Companies from the developed and the developing world face threats from growing “green” protectionism. John Elkington looks at how one corporation hopes to address the problem. The great American inventor Thomas Edison said: “Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of ...

  • A watershed moment
    The world’s largest hydropower project will soon reach its final dimensions. Peter Bosshard draws a number of conclusions from the experience of the Three Gorges. Later this year, the water level of the Three Gorges reservoir is scheduled to reach its final height of 175 metres. After 27 million c ...

  • Can the US match China’s efforts?
    Dialogue between the two countries has produced some positive examples of green collaboration, but Obama still needs to show leadership on climate. Hou Yanli explains how. US president Barack Obama’s first state visit to China and his joint announcement with Chinese president Hu Jintao have renewe ...

  • China debates the downturn
    Discussions about the path to economic recovery expose a rift between the advocates of “rebalancing” and those who argue job creation should override green concerns. Leo Horn-Phathanothai reports. Dreadful as their consequences are, economic downturns are not always all bad news. For one, they t ...

  • Obama’s China moment
    The US president can use his first China trip to find new ways for the two countries to jointly build a low-carbon economy, writes Joshua Wickerham, but only if he focuses on common opportunities. As US president Barack Obama visits China, he has the opportunity to appeal to both countries’ growin ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Prosecutors Drop Plans to Appeal Lori Drew Case
    Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles have filed a notice that they do not intend to pursue an appeal in the Lori Drew cyberbullying case, thus ending the controversial and lengthy case. “We have a notice with the 9th Circuit that we are withdrawing our notice of appeal in the case,” a spokesman f ...

  • MPAA Says Copyright-Treaty Critics Hate Hollywood
    If you don’t back a copyright treaty being negotiated in secret, you must want to destroy Hollywood, its blockbuster movies and all the jobs they create. At least that’s the message from the Motion Picture Association of America. It’s spelled out in a Thursday memo to the Senate Judiciary Com ...

  • Hacked E-Mails Fuel Global Warming Debate
    An online debate over global warming science has broken out after an unknown hacker broke into the email server at a prominent, U.K. climate research center, stole more than a thousand e-mails about global warming research and posted them online. Global warming skeptics are seizing on portions of t ...

  • Feds Charge Three With Comcast.net Hijacking
    Three alleged members of the hacker gang Kryogeniks were hit with a federal conspiracy charge Thursday for a 2008 stunt that replaced Comcast’s homepage with a shout-out to other hackers. Prosecutors identified Christopher Allen Lewis, 19, and James Robert Black, Jr, 20, as the hackers “EBK†...

  • Judge Calls Bull on ‘Psycho-Acoustic’ Beatles ...
    A federal judge dealt what may be a death blow to a Santa Cruz, California, company marketing Beatles music and other tunes as 25-cent downloads, despite the company’s claim that the tracks were computer-generated cover versions produced by a process called “psycho-acoustic simulation.” EM ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • U.S. dollar no longer a one-way bet
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - The one-way bet in the U.S. dollar that has lasted several months may be over for now despite distress over its malaise that has stretched from Washington to Paris.

  • Taylor Swift, Jackson win American Music Awards
    LOS ANGELES, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Country crossover star Taylor Swift overshadowed the late Michael Jackson at the American Music Awards on Sunday, winning five awards including artist of the year.

  • Hundreds in south China oppose waste incinerator
    HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hundreds in China's southern city of Guangzhou protested outside government offices on Monday, opposing plans for a large garbage incinerator in a sign of the region's rising public assertiveness over green issues.

  • European Factors-Shares set to snap losing streak
    PARIS, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Financial bookmakers expected to see the leading European benchmark indexes rising on Monday, as stocks were poised to snap a four-session losing streak, helped by rising commodity prices.

  • Taylor Swift wins five American Music Awards
    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Country crossover star Taylor Swift overshadowed the late Michael Jackson at the American Music Awards on Sunday, winning five prizes including artist of the year.

Pine River World News

  • F-35s hit by delays, cost blowout
    The following article is from The Australian. F-35s hit by delays, cost blowout ©   The Australian By Cameron Stewart November 23, 2009 A DEFENCE report from the U.S. has confirmed that the massive joint strike fighter project is now far behind schedule and over budget, raising doubts about when A ...

  • Profile: Henry Okah, leader of the Movement for th ...
    IntelTrends - The following article is from the Sunday Sun, Lagos, Nigeria. Mystery world of MEND leader, Henry Okah ·  Untold story of his life and struggle ©   Sunday Sun By Daniel Alabrah Sunday, November 22, 2009 Sun News Publishing After weeks and months of being on the trail of the leader ...

  • Jordanian commandos join war on Houthi fighters
    IntelTrends - The following article is from Press TV, Tehran. Jordanian commandos join war on Houthi fighters ©   Press TV November 21, 2009 Jordanian commandos have recently joined the state-led and Saudi-aided offensives against the Houthi fighters in northwestern Yemen, reports say. The Arab- ...

  • Islamabad under pressure over Blackwater presence
    IntelTrends - The following article is from Press TV, Tehran. Islamabad under pressure over Blackwater presence ©   Press TV November 20, 2009   19:11:30 GMT Islamabad is under pressure to meet a deadline to explain the alleged sanctioning of the presence of a notorious U.S. security contractor, ...

  • PAKISTAN: Americans buying land around Islamabad
    IntelTrends - The following article is from the Daily Times, Lahore, Pakistan. Americans buying land around Islamabad, NA body told ©   Daily Times By Irfan Bukhari November 20, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly Standing Committee on Human Rights was told on Thursday that American nationals ...

PDA AMERICA

  • Video: Afghan Exit Strategy: Winning With Jobs Not ...
    From Current In the midst of the superheated debate over the course of the war in Afghanistan, two men, one an American, the other an Afghan citizen, release this provocative look at the underside of an ...

  • IOT: Healthcare for All November Call
    In this call Terry O' Neill from the National Organization of Women (NOW) joined us to talked about the Stupak amendment which was included in the heathcare bill in house. Also Mary Grace Farley joined ...

  • Repeal the Hyde Amendment
    By Mary Grace Farley The “Repeal Hyde” Action Group supports adoption of Medicare for All with all abortions included and funded as the essential medical service it is. We work proactively, aggressively and creatively ...

  • 2010: A progressive strategy to win
    By Brent Budowsky | The Hill Progressives throughout the nation should rally around a strategy that could bring a surprise victory in the 2010 elections with a clear electoral plan and a program that is patriotic, ...

  • Hackers Won’t Quit, Neither Will We
    Author’s Site Hacked Following News of Gaza Book Release Just as news of the early release of a book about Gaza was made public, hackers mobilized, taking down the personal website of the prominent Palestinian ...

Marler Blog

  • Settlements Reached in E. coli Lawsuits Against Au ...
    On September 15, 2008, Ingham County Health Department (ICHD) was notified that nine students of Michigan State University (MSU) were seen in the emergency department over the weekend with gastrointestinal symptoms of abdominal pain, diarrhea, and bloody diarrhea. Lab cultures had confirmed that at ...

  • Yet another E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak Linked to a C ...
    Colorado health officials said yesterday that a Denver-area E. coli outbreak in January and February was likely caused by exposure to animals at the National Western Stock Show in Denver. The report Friday from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment said the outbreak probably orig ...

  • E. coli Lawsuit Filed in Maine Against Fairbank Fa ...
  • Settlement Reached in Yet Another E. coli Raw Milk ...
    A confidential settlement was reached yesterday in the following outbreak: On May 12, 2008 the Lawrence County Health Department (LCHD) was notified of a case of HUS in a child with a history of bloody diarrhea. The health care provider reported that the child had consumed unpasteurized goat’s mil ...

  • Alamosa Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Leaky Water ...
    A state report has indicated the city of Alamosa ignored a recommendation to have a deteriorating drinking water tank inspected years before the 2008 outbreak that sickened hundreds. The final Department of Public Health and Environment Report on the outbreak was released Wednesday along with an Ex ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 11.23.09
    Aptera Update: Backstory uglier than we knew? Unanswered questions run deep, by the looks of it. POLL: Is the Tesla IPO for you? Money maker or bad idea? ...

  • Long-Term Thinking: "Cost to Own" mindset grabs ho ...
    2011 Chevy Volt - Click above for high-res image gallery So many things are changing in the new automotive reality, it's hard to know where to start. Everything from the kind of hose we connect to our cars (liquid filled? electric?) to the sounds the vehicles make is different now than it used to ...

  • REPORT: Tesla Motors planning IPO "soon"
    Filed under: Earnings/Financials , Tesla , Electric Tesla Roadster - Click above for high-res image gallery Rumors about Tesla's plan to go public have been circulating since 2008, but a down stock market seemed to put a damper on the start-up's IPO. Now, the word on the street from Reuters is tha ...

  • AutoblogGreen for 11.20.09
    Greenlings: What's the difference between kW and kWh? The h makes all the difference. Japan EV Club creams Tesla range record with Tokyo to Osaka run How long will this one stand? ...

  • AutoblogGreen for 11.19.09
    Officially Official: Aptera production pushed back to 2010 Not a surprise, but not good news, either. Tesla Roadster donates tire squeal sounds to two new video games Vroom. ...

Rafe's Radar

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!

  • Watch What You Tweet
    A social worker from New York City was arrested last week while in Pittsburgh for the G-20 protests, then subjected to an FBI raid this week at home—all for using Twitter. Elliot Madison faces charges of hindering apprehension or prosecution, criminal use of a communication facility and possessio ...

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

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

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

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

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

  • Hacked Emails: Bitter Feud In Scientists Over Glob ...
    Emails and documents posted on the Internet after being hacked from a climate-change research center may raise ethical questions about a group of scientists who contend that humans are responsible for global warming.

  • China Harnesses Mountain Wind Power
    In the mountains above the southwestern Chinese town of Dali, dozens of new wind turbines dot the landscape - a symbol of the country's sky-high ambitions for clean, green energy.

  • Buried Antarctica "Alps" Point to Hyper-Speed Glob ...
    An international team of experts have mapped a huge, incredibly old location, mentioned in the notes of a Russian explorer from half a century ago, buried under hundreds of meters of ice. In an amazing break with tradition this process...

  • Unbelieveable Underwater River - Video
    From professional diver Anatoly Beloshchin in a cave at Cenote Angelita, Mexico: We are 30 meters deep, fresh water, then 60 meters deep – salty water and under me I see a river, island and fallen leaves… Actually, the river, which you can see, is a layer of hydrogen sulfide.

  • Climatologists Baffled by Global Warming Time-Out
    Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years. Some attribute the trend to a lack of sunspots, while others explain it through ocean currents.

Invisible Opportunity

  • The Hour of Judgment and the Hour of Need
    By Les Visible When I look at Obama; Hillary Clinton, Geithner, Bernake and most of the world’s leadership; the movers and shakers, the front guys and the puppeteers and elves, I don’t see human beings any more. I see reptile aliens moving under the elastic, plastic human simu-skin. I see what m ...

  • Self Interest and the Keys to the Kingdom
    By Les Visible We know that those who create the wars are doing it for profit or some sort of gain including the actual financial end, which tends to follow in any case, whatever their other purposes may be. Actually these lives are sacrificed and the blood is spilled to gain the favor of invisible ...

  • Unconfirmed reports of large numbers of deaths fro ...
    Unconfirmed reports are coming in that thousands of people in what appears to be a rural area under quarantine in the western Ukraine have been killed by vaccines. A Ukrainian woman who crossed into neighbouring Poland told people there that she had driven into the Ukraine to meet a friend but was ...

  • Aspirin kills 400% more people than H1N1 swine flu
    By Mike Adams The CDC now reports that nearly 4,000 Americans have been killed by H1N1 swine flu. This number is supposed to sound big and scary, motivating millions of people to go out and pay good money to be injected with untested, unproven H1N1 vaccines. But let’s put the number in perspective ...

  • My boy’s agonising death after virus vaccina ...
    By ULRIKE REINHARDT and MARCUS HEYL With trembling hands, the distraught mother stroked the yellow bear which belenged to Finlay – her beloved son. The little boy died two weeks ago at the age of 21 months after having a vaccination against swine flu. // Doctors reported the case to the Paul Ehrli ...

    Care2 Picks


  • 3 Levels of CERN Time Anomalies
    Here is a chance to discover the three known and speculated levels of time-distortion (dilation) anomalies, and will soon be occuring at CERN LHC in one form or another. Submitted by SirRobert THE FIFTH KNIGHT to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

  • It Appears NAIS Enforcement Gets Underway in Wisco ...
    Amish farmer prosecuted for failing to register for NAIS despite religious objections. Exemptions allowed under legislation are being ignored by the agency.Amish said leads to the individual numbering and tracking of animals which violated their beliefs Submitted by John Farnham to Animals  |   No ...

  • Obama Nominates Monsanto Rep For Agricultural Trad ...
    Nominated Islam Siddiqui Chief Agricultural Negotiator in Office of US Trade Representative Currently VP at CropLife America, a corporate trade group that represents Monsanto, Dow Chemical, DuPont, Syngenta : less truth-in-labeling + hormone treated meat Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech ...

  • The Evil Empire
    He promised change, but has delivered none. His health care bill is held hostage by the private insurance companies seeking greater profits. The most likely outcome will be cuts in Medicare and Medicaid in order to help fund wars that enrich the military Submitted by Pete M. to US Politics & Gov't ...

  • RN reports increased adverse reaction to flu jabs ...
    Bell's Palsy,severe burning sensation in their hands and feet, headache, and nausea/vomiting,2 seasonal flu victims were healthy with no medical conditions, took no daily prescribed medicines, were elderly but fit and died with 2-3 days of vaccination Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afg ...
    BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency ? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in Afghanistan Sri Lanka ...

  • Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United Press ...
    Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan , Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more »

  • Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA new ...
    Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more »

  • An Evolving Afghan Policy - American Chronicle
    An Evolving Afghan Policy American Chronicle ... triumph for the forces of Islamic extremism, al-Qaeda would once again gain a foothold, and the return of the Taliban would likely destabilize Pakistan . ...

  • Schools close in Pakistan following university bom ...
    Schools close in Pakistan following university bombings Emirates Business 24/7 ... in Pakistan after suspected militants bombed a university close to the capital, sowing fear across the country as the army presses a major anti- Taliban ... and more »

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

  • Week in pictures: 23rd November
    A picture for every day, taking a snapshot view of what is happening in the world around us. Come and browse through our gallery of this week's most inspiring images.

  • Weird and Wonderful: the 'poover'
    The days of dodging dog poo on the pavement could be over. Islington council’s latest acquistion in the fight against canine fouling is the "poover" - a specially modified 125cc Honda bike complete with water and suction kit to remove dog faeces. Ruth Polling, Islington Council's Executive Member ...

  • Wastewater 'a valuable source of energy'
    Wastewater can be a valuable source of raw materials and energy rather than simply a by-product, according to one researcher.

  • YouTube adds full-length TV shows
    YouTube today (20th November) introduced 4,000 full-length television shows to its online video-sharing site, including episodes from Peep Show, Father Ted and Hollyoaks. The new area, called Shows , will see the Google-owned site play full-length episodes of British content for the first time, foll ...

  • New species of crocodile revealed
    A fearsome 20ft crocodile equipped with three sets of fangs that existed in northern Africa millions of years ago is one of three species revealed by researchers this week. The pre-historic animal was unveiled by Paul Sereno of the University of Chicago and Hans Larsson of McGill University in Montr ...

Fabius Maximus

  • A look at global warming written in a cooler and m ...
    The hacked emails and papers from the UK’s Climate Research Unit reveal the underside of climate science (as the many bizarre conclusions do the same for the anti-AGW mob).  Spinning data to conceal contrary evidence, avoiding freedom of information requests, purging the profession of skeptical ...

  • We are withdrawing again from Iraq, forever
    Again America is agog at the prospect of massive troop reductions from Iraq, as always one Fridman Unit or more in the future.  A look at the history of these announcements can help keep these hopes in a realistic context, as in this post from the FM website’s artives — dated 12 April 2008. â ...

  • About the significance of the CRU hack, and this l ...
    The best summary of this to date IMO is this: “Baby Steps“, Jeff Id, The Air Vent, 21 November 2009.  Below is long excerpt.  I recommend visiting his website to see some of the best coverage of this issue. Excerpt There are several people who want to claim that these emails and data have no ...

  • Important News, still breaking, about Climate Scie ...
    It’s a look behind the veil at the machinery of the Global Warming propaganda campaign.  This major theft and release of information has validated long-held suspicions about the AGW story.  More broadly, this shows the power of the Internet, and (using John Robb’s phrase) super-empow ...

  • A phrasebook for translating Washington into Engli ...
    Here’s a helpful guide for American’s reading the latest news from Washington, provide by Lewis Lapham in his book Lights, Camera, Democracy! (2001) — a book I strongly recommend every American read.  Although written many years ago, it’s still current because nothing significant ...

sibeledmonds - tweets

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • World’s Largest Earthquake-Safe Building
    The world’s largest seismically isolated building, the new international terminal at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gökçen Airport, is now complete and open for business. Stretching over more than two million square feet, the terminal doesn’t sit directly on the soil, but rather on top of more than ...

  • Sushi DNA Tests Reveal Fraud
    A biologist walks into a sushi bar and orders some tuna. What does he get? Escolar, a nasty fish with buttery flesh that can cause bizarre episodes of diarrhea, accompanied by a waxy intestinal discharge. It’s not a joke. It happened five times to the same scientists during a brief research proj ...

  • Ghostly Bones of Galactic Feast Revealed
    A new infrared image of the galaxy Centaurus A reveals the gassy, ghastly bones of a galaxy that it consumed several hundred million years ago. The parallelogram of stars leftover from the collision had been obscured by dust. But using new processing techniques in the near-infrared part of the spec ...

  • When Good Rockets Go Bad
    > In the grand scheme of human space programs in Russia and the United States, catastrophic failures are relatively rare. But they are often quite spectacular and make a big impression on the public and on the funding for space exploration. The explosions in the videos we’ve ass ...

  • Malaria Gaining Resistance to Best Available Treat ...
    WASHINGTON — Malaria that is resistant to the best available drug is more widespread in Southeast Asia than previously reported, new research shows. The worrisome finding poses a risk that travelers could carry this strain of the malaria parasite to other parts of the globe and unwittingly spread ...

The Progressive Realist

  • "Praying for the End of Time" in Afghanistan: Meat ...
    President Obama has been receiving a fair amount of heat lately for " dithering " about U.S. policy towards Afghanistan. After all, the administration has been thinking through its Afghan policy since late summer . Critics in the opposition party say the President's decision is " long overdue " and ...

  • Talking About Sanctions – Again
    Representatives from the five security council countries and Germany met today in Brussels to discuss the fact that the Islamic Republic has not accepted the P5+1 offer to ship its uranium out of the country for enrichment. Meanwhile, President Obama is talking about sanctions and “consequences ...

  • Expanding the U.S.-India Comfort Zone in a Time of ...
    Dr. Manmohan Singh’s American month began with a warm lunch for George Bush in Delhi and will end with a more constrained dinner with Barack Obama in Washington. Always happy to oblige on cosmetics, the White House has awarded this meeting the status of a state visit, although in India’s parli ...

  • What Hezbollah Is Thinking
    By all accounts and measures, Hezbollah, since the 2006 war with Israel, has dramatically strengthened their position in Lebanon. On the military front, they've developed a long-range weapons capability and restocked their missile arsenal; politically, they've been able to stymie the formation of a ...

  • We Interrupt This Optimism...
    Until recently, I have maintained an attitude of resolute optimism about the myriad challenges of today's world. I told myself, that in trying times, politicians around the globe will surely summon their inner statesmen and women and commit themselves to the arduous search for solutions. A more comp ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • In Health Care, A Bad Day For The Senate and The N ...
    I'm not sure who comes off looking worse here : The U.S. Senate or the New York Times . A typical example: On the same program, Senator Arlen Spector , a Democrat of Pennsylvania, shrugged off criticism by his former party that the Senate bill would end up vastly increasing the federal budget and w ...

  • Please, Enough With the Length of Bill.
    A few months back, I wrote a column titled "The Ten Dumbest Arguments Against Health Care Reform." But now I feel bad, because I missed the single dumbest argument, which those opposed to reform seem to have put at the center of their case against it. And here it is: The bill is really long! We’v ...

  • Lightning Round: Amazingly, Conservative Republica ...
    How is one to account for Barack Obama 's precipitous drop to 49 percent approval in the latest Gallup daily tracking poll? Is is the grave pronouncements printed in British blog posts? Democratic legislators throwing temper tantrums because Obama isn't doing their job for them? No, as always, for ...

  • Friday Afternoon OH SNAP!
    So you don't normally expect a lot of snark about financial regulatory reform, but today is different, because House Financial Services Committee Spokesman Steve Adamske just sent out his fisking of a recent National Journal article on regulatory reform, which I've posted in full after the jump. Her ...

  • A Devil of a Job for Democrats.
    Terence Samuel explains why Democrats need to focus on jobs: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will win his motion to proceed on a health-care reform package that should shave $127 billion off the federal budget deficit over the next decade -- the legislation will come to the floor of the Senate be ...

Andy Worthington

  • Justice Department Pointlessly Gags Guantánamo La ...
    One of the saddest stories in Guantánamo is that of Abdul Hamid al-Ghizzawi, a Libyan married to an Afghan woman and with a newly-born baby daughter, who was running a small bakery in Jalalabad, Afghanistan at the time of the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001. Fearing that he would be sei ...

  • Obama’s Failure To Close Guantánamo By January ...
    President Obama’s admission in China that he will miss his self-imposed deadline for the closure of Guantánamo is disastrous for the majority of the 215 men still held, and for those who hoped, ten months ago, that he would move swiftly to close this bitter icon of the Bush administration’s law ...

  • Rep. Jerrold Nadler and David Frakt on Obama’s T ...
    In the wake of Attorney General Eric Holder’s announcement that five Guantánamo prisoners — including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — will face federal court trials in New York, and five others will face trials by Military Commission, much of the media has been consumed with the whining of oppo ...

  • Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo on VOA News ...
    On Monday November 9, after a screening of the new documentary film “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (co-directed by Polly Nash and myself) at the New America Foundation in Washington D.C., as part of a short US promotional tour, I was interviewed by Tabinda Naeem of UrduVOA News (the ...

  • UK Judge Approves Use of Secret Evidence in Guantà ...
    Those of us who have been aware that the principles of open justice in the UK are being threatened in an unprecedented manner have, to date, focused largely on the use of secret evidence in cases related to terrorism — widely ignored by the general public, and by much of the media — and on [...]

Buzzflash

  • Maria Allwine: Waiting to Die in the Good Ole USA, ...
    BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Maria Allwine What if we all just stopped working? All of us -- just stopped going to work and started living the lives we talk about and long for? What if we all just stopped getting in our cars and driving through the horrific traffic that leaves us angry and spent be ...

  • Back to Our Future
    Body Have we lost the capacity to dream and the ability to distinguish between matters of substance and what Jon Stewart refers to as “our obsession with the trivial?” Have our leaders let us down or have we failed to demand enough of them and provide vigorous support for them? Betwe ...

  • Move over Michael Moore, here comes ‘TEA PARTY: ...
    BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY   On Monday, November 23, producers and sponsors of a Tea Party film they hope will re-energize the movement, will hold a ‘Cinematic Sneak Peek’ via a live webcast.   By Bill Berkowitz   “It began as a ripple; an online whisper; a grassroots awakening to a new threat ...

  • The dictatorship of the independent proletariat
    Body Doubtless you recall all those plucky reassurances from the Democratic establishment earlier this month about what sure looked like political bloodbaths in Virginia and New Jersey. In the former's gubernatorial contest, the Republican victor annihilated the Democratic loser among in ...

  • Bill O'Reilly Doesn't Care About the Constitution, ...
    BUZZFLASH MEDIA PUTZ OF THE WEEK Bill O'Reilly For reporting that is an embarrassment to the profession of journalism, and for being beholden to corporate paymasters rather than the citizens of America. Poor Bill O'Reilly. Bill O spends his hour-long show spinning lies and deceit about the world ar ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • Rule-of-law extremism engulfs primitive Eastern Eu ...
    (updated below) Lithuania is currently embroiled in a bizarre and deeply confusing political controversy which reveals what happens when a country becomes gripped by extremist ideologies.  Evidence has emerged that Lithuanian intelligence agencies allowed secret CIA prisons to be maintained i ...

  • Rule-of-law extremism engulfs primitive Eastern Eu ...
    (updated below) Lithuania is currently embroiled in a bizarre and deeply confusing political controversy which reveals what happens when a country becomes gripped by extremist ideologies.  Evidence has emerged that Lithuanian intelligence agencies allowed secret CIA prisons to be maintained i ...

  • The Washington establishment suffers a serious def ...
    Something quite amazing happened yesterday in Congress:  the House Finance Committee -- in a truly bipartisan and even trans-ideological vote -- defied the banking industry, the Federal Reserve, the Democratic leadership, and mainstream Beltway opinion in order to pass an amendment, sponsored by GO ...

  • The administration guts its own argument for 9/11 ...
    "What I'm absolutely clear about is that I have complete confidence in the American people and our legal traditions and the prosecutors, the tough prosecutors from New York who specialize in terrorism" -- Barack Obama, yesterday . "Holder said five other Guantanamo detainees would be tried by mi ...

  • The Weekly Standard's smears indict only itself
    Even for The Weekly Standard, this bitter, juvenile McCarthyite attack on the ACLU by Thomas Joscelyn sputters with so much fact-free, impotent, and self-defeating rage that it's hard to believe it was printed.  Right in the headline, it oh-so-cleverly smears the ACLU as "Al Qaeda's Civil Liberties ...

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Homeopathy really doesn’t work
    A couple of years ago, I re-posted an old article of mine about homeopathy discussing its ludicrous claims, its feeble attempts to provide a scientific explanation for those claims, and basically pointing out that no solid evidence has ever been found that infinitely diluted solutions of spurious in ...

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

  • Genetically engineered heavy metal fans
    The wastewater released from industry often contains high levels of toxic heavy metals, which can kill organisms, damage ecosystems, and accumulate in the foodchain. Electroplating, lead smelting, mining, and countless other processes produce enormous volumes of such wastewater. In a perfect world, ...

  • Juggling cancer nano news
    Latest news reports from yours truly on Spectroscopynow.com Juggling matters on the brain – UK scientists have used magnetic resonance imaging to reveal that learning a complex task like juggling can causes changes in the white matter in the brain. The findings could have implications for developi ...

  • Berlin Wall falls in Australia
    Twenty years ago today, my girlfriend (now my wife) and I lay on a bed in a cramped backpackers’ hostel in the Katherine Gorge National Park (now Nitmiluk), in Australia’s Northern Territory, watching news of the fall of the Berlin Wall (now rubble). Outside insects were buzzing ferociously, the ...

change: org.

  • Humane Euthanasia Isn't Rocket Science
    The only reason I can imagine that gas chambers still exist in animal shelters is because people must not know that they're real. I have a hard time thinking of a bigger public relations nightmare than the idea of innocent puppies and kittens being sent to the chamber. Yet, more than half of the cou ...

  • Honey, I Shrunk the...Pig?
    The latest craze to hit the United Kingdom is miniature pigs, or micro-pigs. They are the size of teacup when young and grow to be about 55 pounds -- about a third the size of adult pot bellied pigs. Breeders report that they’re clean, intelligent pets and could be a good solution for people who a ...

  • Guns and Golf Clubs Shouldn't Have Anything in Com ...
    Hunting never should have been labeled a “sport.” The day it became entertainment, as opposed to part of food chain politics, it was only a matter of time before the “practice” devolved into canned hunts, allowing people to literally play with lives. In case you’re not familiar, a canned ...

  • These Are the Puppy Mills in Your Neighborhood
    The USDA has an online database that houses inspection reports and data on which USDA registered breeders have current licenses, and which are expired. Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), this is all available to you. What can you do with this information? The point of FOIA is accounta ...

  • European Union Proposes Animal Testing Loophole
    The European Union Parliament plans to downgrade animal welfare in their latest update to a decades-old directive. The version that's in place demands that alternatives to animal testing are used whenever there are "reasonably and practically available" options. The new proposals allow researchers ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Tea Partyers Turn on Each Other
    by Kenneth P. Vogel After emerging out of nowhere over the summer as a seemingly potent and growing political force, the tea party movement has become embroiled in internal feuding over philosophy, strategy and money and is at risk of losing its momentum. read more

  • CIA 'Ran Secret Prison for al-Qaeda' in Lithuanian ...
    by Andrew Osborn in Moscow The allegations have sparked a parliamentary inquiry after President Dalia Grybauskaite said she harboured "indirect suspicions" that such a facility existed. According to unnamed former intelligence operatives quoted by ABC News, the CIA built the secret jail in 2004 and ...

  • Report Says Nuclear Plants Are Poisoning Our Water
    by Mike De Souza Nuclear facilities and power plants are contaminating local Canadian food and water with radioactive waste that increases risks of cancer and birth defects, says a new report to be released today. read more

  • Court Rejects David Miliband Bid to Suppress CIA E ...
    by Richard Norton-Taylor The high court today flatly rejected claims by David Miliband , the foreign secretary, that releasing evidence of the CIA 's inhuman and unlawful treatment of UK resident Binyam Mohamed would harm Britain's relations with the US by giving away intelligence secrets. Evidence ...

  • UN Urges Global Action on Children
    The UN children's agency says one billion children around the world are still deprived of food, shelter, clean water and healthcare 20 years after the adoption of a treaty guaranteeing children's rights. Hundreds of millions more children are constantly threatened by violence, Unicef said in a repor ...

Lifehacker

  • This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights]
    This week we rounded up the best online backup tools and explained how you're backing up wrong, detailed how to build an excellent Boxee-based media center, and cured your various aches and pains with some simple home remedies. Five Best Online Backup Tools Local backup is a useful and necessary pa ...

  • PTS Desktop Live Makes Performance Benchmarking S ...
    If you want to put your computer through the paces and get some feedback and benchmarks, you'll be hard pressed to find a tool more packed with tests than the Phoronix Test Suite Live CD. PTS Desktop Live is an Ubuntu Live CD with the Phoronix benchmarking suite preconfigured and installed. Reboot y ...

  • Twitter/Facebook Client Brizzly Open for Sign-Ups ...
    Brizzly , the web-based social media manager that ranked as one of our readers' favorite Twitter clients , has dropped the invite code requirement and is available for anyone to log into. It's still technically in "beta," but mostly to keep up the fairly rapid pace of feature development. [via TechC ...

  • Windows Surface Scanner Finds Bad Hard Drive Sect ...
    Windows: When your computer starts acting hinky and spitting out error messages, it's hard to know exactly where to begin to diagnose the problem. Windows Surface Scanner gives you a place to start. This free utility takes a look at your hard drives and ferrets out any physical errors it finds, so y ...

  • Use a Paring Knife to Sharpen Your Vegetable Peel ...
    It's important to keep your knives sharp for a safe and efficient kitchen, but it's easy to neglect the other bladed tools, like your vegetable peeler. Food weblog Chow shows how to keep a sharpener's edge with a paring knife. By running the tip of a paring knife along each blade of your peeler ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • An Interview with Matthew Hoh
    By Derrick Crowe If Matthew Hoh could tell you one thing to help you understand the U.S.'s predicament in Afghanistan, he'd tell you: The presence of our ground combat troops is not doing anything to defeat al-Qaida. Think about that for a moment. We are paying roughly $1 million per troop, per year ...

  • Make Them Pay For It!
    Commentary By Ron Beasley I have said for years that the best way to end foreign misadventures like Iraq and Afghanistan was to make the millionaire pundits and neocons pay for them. Let's see how enthusiastic Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes are when their wars are being paid for by them. So they want ...

  • Of Good Intentions And Imperial Overreach
    By Steve Hynd Yesterday, my good friend Derrick Crowe posted a quote from a recent piece on just wars by the Center for American Progress. It struck me as perfectly encapsulating the pitfalls of the kind of "we didn't mean to aquire one" notion of benevolent empire Americans seem to have inherited f ...

  • Milliband's Lies and Spin for Continued Occupation
    By Steve Hynd David Milliband, the British Foreign Secretary, is a typical Blairite. If his lips are moving, he's spinning something - nothing gets said without it serving a domestic political purpose. Yesterday he had this to say about Afghanistan: In an interview with the Guardian at the end of a ...

  • Milliband's Lies and Spin for Continued Occupation
    By Steve Hynd David Milliband, the British Foreign Secretary, is a typical Blairite. If his lips are moving, he's spinning something - nothing gets said without it serving a domestic political purpose. Yesterday he had this to say about Afghanistan: In an interview with the Guardian at the end of a ...

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Copenhagen Countdown: 17 days
    If you've spent the week following every change of direction in the political winds about the likely outcome of the forthcoming UN climate summit, you'll have seen more twisting than the average Chubby Checker song. Extending borrowing from the arts and entertainment world: "To bind or not to bind" ...

  • Climate: A defining issue
    A couple of weeks ago, the cat came well and truly out of the bag: there would not be a legally binding treaty at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen next month. Or will there? During his meeting on Tuesday with China's President Hu Jintao, President Obama appeared to indicate that some sort of co ...

  • Copenhagen Countdown: 24 days
    Here in London, we've reached that time of year when the Sun rises after you do and sets comfortably before you leave the office. And the hours in between are filled with grey, malevolent drizzle. Have the week's diplomatic moves shed more light than the Sun is currently doing here on the likelihoo ...

  • Copenhagen Countdown: 31 Days
    Most of those concerned with climate have had their eyes on Barcelona this week, where delegates from 192 countries plus hundreds of observers, campaigners, lobbyists - and journalists - convened for the final session of preparatory talks before the UN climate summit in Copenhagen . As I've reporte ...

  • All's fair in the climate blame game
    At the UN climate negotiations in Barcelona. It's a story that's been coming for the last few months; now that it's being written , the first cards of the blame game are being played. Remember the UN climate conference in Bali two years ago , and the road that stretched from there to Copenhagen? ...

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

  • Dream Logic, Redux
    Does Not Equal is a webcomic by Sarah Ennals – check out the pre-Futurismic archives, and the strips that have been published here previously. [ Be sure to check out the Does Not Equal Cafepress store for webcomic merchandise featuring Canadians with geometrically-shaped heads! ] Project Wonderfu ...

  • Publishing economics round-up
    OK, here’s another link-collection post, but there’s more of a theme to this one: I noticed I had a whole bunch of pieces about the economics of publishing, so why not shove ‘em together and see what juxtapositions we get? We’ll start with this article discovered at TechDirt, an impassioned ...

  • 3D object scanning using an ordinary webcam
    Just in case you thought Tom Maly’s speculations about fabrication tech eradicating Fed Ex were a stretch too far, and that the technologies required are no where near ready… well, you might have a point. But even so, 3D technologies are developing rapidly and cheaply, as demonstrated by some pe ...

  • Tomorrow’s world: the demise of Fed-Ex
    Those of you in the States may not be aware (or even care) that the staff of Royal Mail were recently engaged in wildcat strikes as a protest against the machinations of their management. Much as a lot of us have sympathies with their plight, it’s hard not to see them supplying the nails for [...] ...

  • IBM brain simulations reach cat equivalency
    You can’t so much as turn sideways without stumbling over this story, especially in the transhumanist and Singularitarian neighbourhoods of the web, and with good reason. So let’s just cut straight to the meat of it: Scientists, at IBM Research – Almaden, in collaboration with colleagues from ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • International Whistleblower News (November 16, 200 ...
    [UK] Develin, Kate, “NHS whistleblower ‘sacked for revealing dumped x-ray scans’,” Telegraph.co.uk, November 14, 2009. Dr Otto Chan, a consultant radiologist, believes that he was labelled a troublemaker after the revelations about the Royal London. He claims that hospital bosses decided to ...

  • CIA to pay $3 million so Horn will not oppose vaca ...
    The CIA has decided to pay Richard Horn $3 million for a unique settlement of a fifteen (15) year-old spying case. The government not only wants Horn to dismiss the case and release the CIA and State Department officials who spied on him, but the government also wants Horn to promise that he will no ...

  • Bad Apples in a Rotten Barrel
      In the United Kingdom, a former investigator of the Royal Military Police (RMP), speaking anonymously, alleges that Senior British army commanders in Iraq refused to investigate Iraqi civilian abuse claims. According to BBC News on October 11 th , the whistleblower claims that while he has seen d ...

  • Whistleblower Film Festival Features Silkwood, spo ...
    Tomorrow, October 15th , The DC Labor Film Festival’s Whistleblower Film Series continues with a screening of Silkwood . The film is sponsored by the National Whistleblowers Center and recounts the true story of Karen Silkwood, the gutsy plutonium factory worker who took on her supervisor’s unet ...

  • 2009 National Conference and AGM of Whistleblowers ...
    Whistleblowers Australia (WBA), an association of whistleblowers in Australia, will host 2009 National Conference and annual general meeting at Aquinas College of the University of Adelaide from December 5-6, 2009. The conference theme is “blowing the whistle in the workplace.” Shelley Pezy, con ...

Defense and the National Interest

  • DNI to close — update
    23 November 2009 Many thanks to everyone who wrote in.  My wife and I are deeply touched. We’ll try to find someone to at least take over the site as it is and keep the links intact.  Several people have contacted me with ideas.  In the meantime, I’ll leave everything up unless we start ...

  • DNI to close
    Probably on Monday, November 23, depending on how my travels work out. Please go ahead and download any thing you’d like to keep — I’d particularly recommend Boyd’s briefings and the 4GW manuals. I have great faith in the growing number of bloggers and commentators who cover many of the s ...

  • On War #322: What Is “Political Correctness?”
    William S. Lind 18 November 2009 In response to the killing of 13 American soldiers at Ft. Hood by an Islamic U. S. Army major, a number of senior officials have expressed their fear, not of Islam, but of a possible threat to “diversity.” “Diversity” is one of the many false gods of “Poli ...

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

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

Science Express

  • New Laser Technique Advances Nanofabrication Proce ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to create tiny patterns is essential to the fabrication of computer chips and many other current and potential applications of nanotechnology. Yet, creating ever smaller features, through a widely-used process called photolithography, has required the use of ultraviolet ...

  • Novel technique shrinks size of nanotechnology cir ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Colorado at Boulder team has developed a new method of shrinking the size of circuitry used in nanotechnology devices like computer chips and solar cells by using two separate colors of light.

  • Geneticists publish largest-ever study on African ...
    African, American, and European researchers working in collaboration over a 10-year period have released the largest-ever study of African genetic data--more than four million genotypes--providing a library of new information on the continent which is thought to be the source of the oldest settleme ...

  • Chronic infection now clearly tied to immune-syste ...
    A new study finds the cross-talk between 'killer T-cells' and 'helper T-cells' can only happen in the presence of interleukin-21, a powerful immune-system protein. UAB researchers say if interleukin-21 is missing, the immune system's anti-viral efforts fail. The study mice were treated for lymphocyt ...

  • German 'science train': next stop Shanghai 2010?
    How will we feed nine billion people in the future? Can we ever have a disease-free world? Can robots play football?

    Blacklisted News


  • The War on Soy: Why the 'Miracle Food' May Be a He ...
    Vegetarians aren't the only ones who should be concerned; there's soy in just about everything you eat these days -- including hamburgers, mac 'n cheese and salad dressing.

  • As millions of Americans struggle to hold on to th ...
  • US builds up its bases in oil-rich South America
    From the Caribbean to Brazil, political opposition to US plans for 'full-spectrum operations' is escalating rapidly

  • Scientology Trial Reveals Alleged Work Camps and B ...
    Blackmail, cover-ups of child abuse, labour camps, embezzlement and coerced abortions are spelled out among the 53 pages of allegations by seven former Scientologists - some of whom had climbed high in the church hierarchy - tabled in the Senate.

  • Under H.R. 2454 Cap and Trade Bill, homeowners nee ...
    Beginning 1 year after enactment of the Cap and Trade Act, you won't be able to sell your home unless you retrofit it to comply with the energy and water efficiency standards of this Act. H.R. 2454, the "Cap & Trade" bill passed by the House of Representatives, if also passed by the Senate, will be ...

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

Innovation Canada

  • Building better bridges
    (Reprinted with permission from ResearchLife, Summer 2009 issue, University of Manitoba, umanitoba.ca/research) It was 1952 when Aftab Mufti, a 12-year-old boy living in Karachi, Pakistan, began building bridges. His mother planted a vegetable garden that summer and to help her water it Aftab and hi ...

  • Viral control
    Depending on whom you ask, the H1N1 flu virus that is making its way around the globe could be anything from a particularly virulent form of influenza to the next worldwide pandemic. As virologists scramble to understand the virus and develop vaccines against it, a Halifax facility is already on the ...

  • Fear factor
    Let’s say you’re wandering through a deserted alley late one foggy October night. You turn a corner, and lo and behold, you’re surrounded by a crowd of brain-thirsty zombies. Your pulse quickens, your amygdala fires, your respiration is off the charts. You try to run, but you trip and fall. As ...

  • Fuels of the future?
    A recession-related dip in flight demand might actually be considered a green blessing. Just a small one, mind you. The David Suzuki Foundation estimates that aviation is responsible for up to nine percent of the total global climate-change  impact of human activity, so it would take a huge drop to ...

  • i2eye with Bif Naked
    The last few years have been a roller-coaster ride for Bif Naked. After two years of touring, TV work and datelessness following her 2005 album Superbeautifulmonster, the Vancouver-based alt-rock singer-songwriter — whose real name is Beth Walker — met and married her husband, sportswriter Ian W ...

Signs of the times

  • More than $98 billion in improper gov't payments
    More than $98 billion in taxpayer dollars spent by government agencies was wasted, much of it on questionable claims for tax credits and Medicare benefits, representing an increase of $26 billion from the previous year. In all, about 5 percent of spending in federal programs in fiscal year 2009 was ...

  • Iraq's lessons, on the home front
    Volunteer veterans help California city use counterinsurgency strategy to stem gang violence Famed to readers as the birthplace of John Steinbeck and in supermarket produce circles as the "Salad Bowl of the World," the city of Salinas carries darker renown in the netherworld of California's prisons ...

  • England: 'Rain like this happens once every 1,000 ...
    The full and devastating impact of England's worst recorded day of rain was still emerging last night as tributes were paid to a policeman swept away by floodwaters while trying to save others. PC Bill Barker was helping motorists stranded on a bridge over the Derwent in the Cumbrian town of Wor ...

  • UN official urges countries to learn from Cuba on ...
    Havana -- The representative of UNICEF, or the UN Children's Fund, in Cuba said here Friday that Cuba is among the countries that have best implemented the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and that countries in the world should learn from Cuba on the protection of children's rights. Jose ...

  • Royal Canadian Mint went into damage control over ...
    Ottawa - Faced with what may prove to be a huge gold heist right out from underneath its nose, the Royal Canadian Mint ordered polls and consulted with a high-powered Ottawa public relations firm as it worked on damage control, access to information documents show. What is clear in 66 pages of note ...

Threat Level

  • Prosecutors Drop Plans to Appeal Lori Drew Case
    Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles have filed a notice that they do not intend to pursue an appeal in the Lori Drew cyberbullying case, thus ending the controversial and lengthy case. “We have a notice with the 9th Circuit that we are withdrawing our notice of appeal in the case,” a spokesman f ...

  • MPAA Says Copyright-Treaty Critics Hate Hollywood
    If you don’t back a copyright treaty being negotiated in secret, you must want to destroy Hollywood, its blockbuster movies and all the jobs they create. At least that’s the message from the Motion Picture Association of America. It’s spelled out in a Thursday memo to the Senate Judiciary Com ...

  • Hacked E-Mails Fuel Global Warming Debate
    An online debate over global warming science has broken out after an unknown hacker broke into the email server at a prominent, U.K. climate research center, stole more than a thousand e-mails about global warming research and posted them online. Global warming skeptics are seizing on portions of t ...

  • Feds Charge Three With Comcast.net Hijacking
    Three alleged members of the hacker gang Kryogeniks were hit with a federal conspiracy charge Thursday for a 2008 stunt that replaced Comcast’s homepage with a shout-out to other hackers. Prosecutors identified Christopher Allen Lewis, 19, and James Robert Black, Jr, 20, as the hackers “EBK†...

  • Judge Calls Bull on ‘Psycho-Acoustic’ Beatles ...
    A federal judge dealt what may be a death blow to a Santa Cruz, California, company marketing Beatles music and other tunes as 25-cent downloads, despite the company’s claim that the tracks were computer-generated cover versions produced by a process called “psycho-acoustic simulation.” EM ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • 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...

  • House GOP Reverses Role from 2003 Medicare Rx Vote
    With its talking babies and warnings of government takeovers and terrified seniors, the grandstanding by House Republicans during Saturday's narrow 220-215 passage of the Democratic Affordable Health Care for America Act was entirely predictable. And if that vote count sounds...

  • 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...

  • Pat Boone and the Right-Wing War on the AARP
    Back in 2003, Republican leaders praised the AARP for its support of President Bush's unfunded and deeply flawed Medicare prescription benefit. But now that the 40 million member organization has endorsed the House Democrats' health care reform bill, the GOP...

  • Sarah Palin's Willing Objectifiers
    As Sarah Palin travels the country filling her coffers, the debate rages as to whether the former Alaska Governor is a victim or beneficiary of sexism (or possibly even both). But while her allies and Palin herself have left little...

Blackspot News Feed

Consortium News

  • Should Obama Fire Gen. McChrystal?
    Facing military pressure to escalate in Afghanistan, President Obama may need an inner Harry Truman, says Ray McGovern. November 20, 2009

  • The Vision of "The Blind Side."
    The story of a Republican family that adopts a homeless African-American boy is a tale of human potential, writes Lisa Pease. November 20, 2009

  • Learning the Wrong Vietnam Lessons
    A Newsweek retrospective on Vietnam extracts the wrong lessons and applies them to Afghanistan, says Douglas Valentine. November 19, 2009

  • A Three-Step Afghan Strategy
    Decades of U.S. misjudgments on Afghanistan have left President Obama some difficult choices, states Bruce P. Cameron. November 18, 2009

  • KSM and the MSM
    U.S. mainstream media is averting its eyes from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's declared motive for 9/11, writes David Swanson. November 18, 2009

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

  • Band-aid proposal (Saleh Al-Naami, Al-Ahram Weekl ...
    Another bone of contention is that Fayyad insists his proposal is based on the roadmap, which states that the primary commitment of Palestinians is to continue security coordination with Israel and to eradic ...

  • Egypt: Israel must stop settlement (Al Jazeera)
    Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has told his Israeli counterpart construction work on land taken from Palestinians in 1967 must stop if there is to be peace. Speaking at a press conference following their m ...

  • Jerusalem Syndrome (Akiva Eldar, Haaretz)
    Sometimes tourists show up at Jerusalem's mental health centers, convinced that a voice from the heavens told them they were the messiah. The illness, commonly known as Jerusalem Syndrome, usually passes onc ...

  • Israel air strikes in Gaza: Will Hamas rocket truc ...
    Israeli warplanes carried out air strikes against targets across the Gaza Strip Sunday morning, just one day after Hamas announced it had reached an agreement with all Gaza-based militant factions to halt ro ...

  • Palestinians looking to U.S.-style suburban housin ...
    The hills around this city have seen plenty of construction, often the distinctive red-roofed homes favored by Israeli settlers. But the bulldozers and laborers active here recently are laying foundations an ...

Water - AlterNet

TruthHugger

  • Barbara Ann Radnofsky Announcment Tour
    It is certain that Barbara Ann Radnofsky will be on the ballot for the Democrats in 2010; we don’t know who will be on the ballot for the Republicans. Radnofsky will formally announce her candidacy for Texas Attorney General and her December 3 filling for the primary election in a five-city tour. ...

  • Texas Progressive Alliance Round Up Nov 16, 2009
    The Texas Progressive Alliance is starting to feel an odd craving for can-shaped servings of cranberry sauce as it brings you this week’s highlights from the blogs. TXsharon continues to follow the abuses of Aruba Petroleum in a Barnett Shale backyard and Wednesday the Wise County Messenger picked ...

  • To Dave Cashin Re: Proselytizing
    To Dave Cashin Re: General Order Number One, Forbid Proselytizing Before I answer all of Dave’s points, I will say that Humanitarian Missionary work has achieved wonderful results by helping people through hunger, poverty, education and displacement.  Whether they are victims of war or natural di ...

  • Texas Progressive Alliance November 9, 2009
    The Texas Progressive Alliance hopes everyone had a happy Election Day last week, and is already looking forward to the next one. Here are this week’s highlights. TXsharon continues to report from a backyard in the Barnett Shale. Despite all the local and national press on drilling related toxins ...

  • Health Care and The Brick Wall
    So, the wellness party is short lived.  The Senate is drunk with its own power … regardless of the fact there are millions  in health care distress.  Senators are so busy posturing in front of cameras, to get elected.  They continue to sabotage the current administration, ignoring mill ...

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Why Food Sovereignty Is the New Food Security
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  • Resource Rights and the Right to Food at the World ...
    wfs-pic09.jpg In 1996 the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) organized the first World Food Summit in Rome to, in their own words, “renew global commitment to the fight against hunger. The FAO called the Summit in respons ...

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

  • Climate change and violence in Mexico
    mexico200601-003.JPG Cab drivers are often a good source of news information, or at least a good barometer of public opinion. Such was the case when I finally arrived in Mexico City this afternoon for visits with Grassroots International’s p ...

  • Climate change in Mexico
    mexico200601-003.JPG Cab drivers are often a good source of news information, or at least a good barometer of public opinion. Such was the case when I finally arrived in Mexico City this afternoon for visits with Grassroots International’s p ...

Climate

  • November 21-22, 2009
    Obama Ready to Offer Target for Cutting CO 2 (Guardian) The Obama administration has been consulting international negotiators and key players on Capitol Hill about signing up the U.S. to a provisional CO2 target in Copenhagen, now less than three weeks away. White House Adviser Rejects Idea o ...

  • November 20, 2009
    UN Climate Chief Seeks $10 Bln Pledge from Rich Nations (Reuters) The UN climate chief has called on rich nations to pledge $10 billion a year for three years at next month's Copenhagen summit to help poor states begin to tackle climate change. Germany Calls for Binding Climate Deal in 2010 (A ...

  • November 19, 2009
    EU: Russia Ready for Deeper Emissions Cut (AFP) Russia is ready to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 20 to 25 percent by 2020 from 1990 levels, raising its target from 15 percent just weeks ahead of a UN climate summit, the head of the European Commission says. Power Plant-Only Climate Bill P ...

  • November 18, 2009
    Senate to Put Off Climate Bill Until Spring (Wall Street Journal) Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says the Senate will delay debate on a climate bill until “some time in the spring”. The EPA, meanwhile, is moving ahead with its greenhouse gas endangerment finding. Ministers Making Progres ...

  • November 17, 2009
    Obama: Copenhagen Deal Should Have 'Immediate Effect' (Reuters) President Obama said today that climate talks in Copenhagen next month should fix a new deal which has "immediate operational effect", even if an original goal of a legally binding pact is out of reach. Senate Climate Bill Faces Na ...

TomDispatch

  • Tomgram: 'This Administration Ended, Rather Than ...
    [ Note for TomDispatch Readers: On Friday evening, TomDispatch will be switching to an updated version of this site. It's possible that you might not be able to reach TD for some hours. If so, we expect to be back up on Saturday morning. Tom ] The Afghan Speech Obama Should Give (But Won't) ...

  • Tomgram: Pratap Chatterjee, Afghanistan as a Patr ...
    It's now a commonplace of the Afghan War. Western leaders in London , Berlin, Amsterdam , and Washington , as well as on flying visits to Kabul or even Kandahar , excoriate Afghan President Hamid Karzai for the "corruption" of his government. In return for their ongoing support, they repeatedly ...

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

  • Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Surveillance State, U.S.A.
    Wars come home in strange, unnerving ways -- as Americans have just discovered at Fort Hood. Even before Major Nidal Malik Hasan went on his killing spree, that base, a major military embarkation point for our war zones, was already experiencing the after-effects of eight years of war and repeate ...

  • Tomgram: Droning On
    [ Note for TomDispatch Readers : A number of you have recently written in for clarification on contributing to this site through your purchases at Amazon.com. Here's my best shot at a useful explanation: If you click on any book image at this site -- like the book-cover image of The End of Vict ...

Smirking Chimp

  • Bill Moyers' Message to Obama: Study History or Re ...
    How LBJ Was Sucked Into Escalation In Vietnam And Why Its Happening Again Elders are considered wisdom keepers in most of the world's cultures, perhaps just not our own. They are repositories of important lessons, keepers of the collective memory, and as such, usually revered. In our own midst, in o ...

  • Obama as Hamlet: Wrestling with the Question of Af ...
    — from Dissident Voice Obama’s approval rating has slipped under 50%. Still, I think most Americans whether they should or not feel sympathetic towards him as he wrestles with what to do in Afghanistan. That, I think, is how the White House wants us to view this interval: the president is a Hamlet ...

  • Inspired By Oprah, Homeless Guy Ends 25 Years of S ...
    NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) - A homeless man who began shouting at New Yorkers in 1985 said that Oprah Winfrey was the inspiration behind his decision to call it quits in early 2010. "I've had a good run," said Tracy Klugian, who has barked non sequiturs at passersby on the corner of Third Avenue ...

  • Critics of Afghanistan need to look in mirror
    PARIS -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton swept into Kabul last Thursday to rain on Afghan President Hamid Karzai's second-term inauguration parade. Clinton commanded Karzai reduce rampant corruption in Afghanistan so Washington could justify sending more troops. She is the former first lady ...

  • What's Thanksgiving really all about?
    The Thanksgiving holiday is just around the corner, but this year I am tempted to skip the festivities. While some Americans mark this holiday as an occasion to give thanks and gratitude for their perceived blessings, that benign and admirable purpose too often takes a back seat to what Thanksgiving ...

Ten Percent

  • Missing Words
    And todays missing words from this report are ‘framed‘ and ‘lied‘, as in- the government, police, FBI and CPS framed Lotfi Raissi and lied about the evidence. Yet as we know the powerful do not have the such words used about them that’s just for the likes of us guv’nor. Even the pr ...

  • Transgender Day of Remembrance
    Better late than never, oops. GodlessLiberalHomo has a post that both reminded me and meditates on loss from the structural violence that bigotry can quietly and sinisterly rely upon. It’s up to every person to rigorously examine their own thoughts, attitudes and assumptions and for us to challeng ...

  • Definition Of An Imperial Liberal
    We will tax the rich a tiny tiny bit but only in order to kill foreign subjects of our crusades. (Bloomberg) — Higher-income Americans should be taxed to pay for more troops sent to Afghanistan and NATO should provide half of the new soldiers, said Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services ...

  • Danny Boy
    Bob Ainsworth, the Defence Secretary will tell MPs that the independent investigation will seek to establish whether the Army committed war crimes after the gunfight in 2004. Families of the Iraqis claim that some of men survived the exchange of fire only to be tortured and killed afterwards at Ca ...

  • EDL/WDL Routed In Wrexham
    Thanks to Proper Tidy for this report from comments:- Fantastic day. Several hundred attended the communities festival throughout the day – atmosphere was positive, peaceful and fun all day long! Andy H, the young drummers from Flintshire, and Chris from Sinnermen/The Mayors did us proud, along wi ...

Paul Krugman

  • Deficit hysteria
    Isn't there something weird about a conventional wisdom that's at odds with market prices?

  • Paging Henry Higgins
    The linguistic divide endures.

  • Joke Europeans
    If these countries can run up debts of more than 100 percent of GDP without being destroyed by bond vigilantes, so can we.

  • 1994
    An interest rate spike that didn't quite work as advertised.

  • Role reversal
    The same people now warning about the alleged Treasury bubble dismissed warnings about the housing bubble

No Quarter

  • Barack Losing Mojo and Modo
    * Bumped up * When New York Time columnist Maureen “The Modo” Dowd decides that butt snorkeling for Obama is no longer fun, you know the hopey-changey holiday season is kaput. Maureen apparently was inspired by Hamlet, who lamented over the long-decayed Yorick: Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Ho ...

  • Truly Great Ideas Trump Oil As a Worldwide Commodi ...
    Does the U.S. still have what it takes? What about repressive regimes? I caught this short, fascinating segment today on Fareed Zakaria’s CNN show, and think the ideas are cool, especially that of a 14-year-old girl. (Below the fold, find out more about the ideas and about “TED.”) These ide ...

  • In 15 Minutes, Join No Quarter Radio’s Sense on ...
    As we continue to navigate our current economic landscape and the peaks and valleys along the way, I am honored to have Bill Venezia join me tonight on No Quarter Radio’s Sense on Cents with Larry Doyle. Who is Bill Venezia? One of Wall Street’s giants, Bill was without a doubt the top bond sale ...

  • What’s Fueling America’s Rage?
    * Bumped up * We’re sorry that so many comments were lost yesterday, but that always happens during server upgrades. We hope you’ll re-post many of your sharp observations. What is fueling America’s populist rage? Is it the unemployment situation? Is it the volatility in the markets? The weake ...

  • Candidates jump into races in non-existent Congres ...
    As we recall, the cardboard cutout humping children working at the White House recorded 440 Congressional Districts that received $6.4 Billion in Stimulus money which was used to create jobs. The problem is, none of those districts exist. Well they do now. A well-fed Uber-conservative “Think Tan ...

Environmental Graffiti

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Green Inc. - NYT

  • Home Improvement, With Tax Collector as Lender
    New York has joined more than a dozen other states in approving a fast-spreading new method of financing renewable-energy and efficiency improvements.

  • On Our Radar...
    Climate change and national security, and other energy and environment coverage on the Web.

  • India to Spend $900 Million on Solar
    The Indian cabinet approved a plan on Thursday that would vastly increase the amount of solar power produced by the country.

  • Green Builders' Study Forecasts Job Growth
    Building green could add hundreds of billions of dollars to the economy, according to a new report released by the United States Green Building Council.

  • Study Says Air Cars are Inefficient
    A paper from the University of California, Berkeley, concludes that compressed-air energy storage is a relatively inefficient technology when it comes to personal transportation.

Dot Earth News

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  • Katherine Fitts on Alex Jones: financial disorder, ...
    Previously: Negative Return on Investment Economy: Katherine Austin Fitts and the fake war on drugs Katherine Fitts on Alex Jones, I grabbed this post off dprogram.net which is a sturdy little new aggregator site. Nicely done everyone... The world divided into the pro-centralization and anti-central ...

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

  • Murs and Slug: Felt 3 is recommended immediately!
    It's time to listen - embedded flash player- Felt 3 is here. There was one track on the Current earlier tonight. Don't miss this. Felt 3: A Tribute to Rosie Perez drops soon... http://www.myspace.com/mursandslug Protagonists: Murs: "So fly should have been in Starfleet". This is it!

  • The Vortex or authoritarian Singularity
    Sorry there have been some tech glitches precluding me from posting more lately. But also a lot of neat things in the works :-) In response to The Agonist thread on 8 Thoughts on 2040 : Among the Kurzweil set there is a lot of happy talk about a Singularity describing a point where the rate of ch ...

  • Collapse, conspiracy, concern trolling, commidifie ...
    "I have heard much of the nefarious, and dangerous plan, and doctrines of the Illuminati, but never saw the Book until you were pleased to send it to me." "It was not my intention to doubt that, the Doctrines of the Illuminati, and principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On t ...

Daily Censored

  • Sarah Palin: Feminist Hero
    She was posing for the cover of Runner’s World magazine. It never occurred to Sarah Palin, when she leaned on a disheveled American flag and held up two Blackberries to the camera, that her legs peeking out from those running shorts would end up on the cover of Newsweek. Sarah Palin is calling ...

  • The Higher Education Fiscal Crisis Protects the We ...
    By Peter Phillips Police are arresting and attacking student protesters on University of California (UC) campuses again. “Why did he beat me I wasn’t doing anything,” screamed a young Cal Berkeley women student over KPFA radio on Friday evening November 20. Students are protesting the 32% incr ...

  • Swine Flu, Bio Weapons, Dictatorial Rule, FEMA Cam ...
    Guest Blogged By Terry Morrone In times of cataclysmic change, democracy may be deemed a practical impossibility. Are the armies of the super rich cooking up a disaster that will so traumatize us that we cannot resist their propaganda, that we will become putty in their hands, and they will remake ...

  • Has “nation building” ever worked?
    Michael Collins November 21, 2009 was a bad day for Afghanistan if you look at the news reports.   That’s nothing new.  Afghanistan has had decades of bad days since the Soviet invasion and the civil war sustained by U.S. financial and intelligence efforts in partnership with the Pakistan ...

  • Has “nation building” ever workd?
    Michael Collins November 21, 2009 was a bad day for Afghanistan if you look at the news reports.   That’s nothing new.  Afghanistan has had decades of bad days since the Soviet invasion and the civil war sustained by U.S. financial and intelligence efforts in partnership with the Pakistan ...

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Godspace

  • A Thanksgiving Prayer
    American Thanksgiving is less than a week away and we are all looking forward to what is fondly called Turkey Day.  It is my favourite American custom which I have embraced with great enthusiasm not just because I love good food and good fellowship but because I love the opportunity to think about ...

  • Today was World Toilet Day
    Did you know that today was World Toilet Day.  It sounds to most of us as though someone is cracking a joke, but the lack of toilets is no joke for the 2.5 billion people in our world who lack adequate sanitation The World Toilet Organisation themselves are encouraging website visitors to head over ...

  • Living into God’s Time – The Story For ...
    My friend Tara Malouf has just produced an extraordinary calendar – not like your ordinary calendars that begin in January and go through the twelve months of the year as we know them but one that flows to the rhythm of the liturgical year.  It begins in Advent and follows the seasons of the ye ...

  • Walking with God – Why Is It So Hard?
    Several months ago I wrote a post in which I commented on the fact that in order for people to move from communities of poverty to the middle class they need to be willing to give up relationships for accomplishment and efficiency.  I have thought about this a lot over the last few months – [. ...

  • The Coming Of the Lord is Near – Advent Medi ...
    Here is my Advent meditation video for 2009.  I have really enjoyed putting this one together as I have been meditating on What Am I Waiting for this Advent? A high quality version for use in large groups and churches can be purchased and downloaded here.  You can see my videos from the last [.. ...

Equality Trust

  • Archbishop of Canterbury: higher taxes "good for s ...
    A divine intervention from Dr Rowan Williams reported in today's Daily Telegraph .

  • Thinking Allowed: Is an unequal society bad for yo ...
    Thinking Allowed on BBC Radio 4, broadcast Wednesday 16th July and available to Listen Again for 7 days . Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society works. Research has shown that health and social problems become more acute in an unequal society, where the gap between the ri ...

  • Beware the liberal drift. Equality, always
    Read Labour MP John Cruddas' comment piece in the Guardian. Which way forward for the left? We must tackle society's glaring wealth and income inequalities.

  • The Spirit Level - recommended holiday reading
    The Spirit Level has been picked by the Guardian as one of their best summer reads . The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better, by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett (Allen Lane, £20) For anyone whose morale has been sapped by all the recent revelations of greed and di ...

  • Richard Wilkinson among social experts analysing C ...
    David Cameron's speech on poverty, the state and the mass engagement of a new generation of community activists on Tuesday set the direction of travel under a Conservative government. In the Guardian today a panel of social experts analyse the Tory leader's key points. Prof Richard Wilkinson, Direc ...

IntelNews

  • Analysis: Cyprus-Russia-Israel Arms Affair Points ...
    Diplomatic observers were surprised in November 2008, when the then Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to meet his Cypriot counterpart, Dimitris Christofias, during the latter’s official visit to Moscow. Considering the traditionally close bilateral ties between Russia and Cyprus, the excuse ...

  • Privacy concerns as NSA admits “helping” Micro ...
    Security experts raised privacy concerns after a US National Security Agency official revealed that the Agency collaborated with Microsoft during the development stage of Windows 7.

  • News you may have missed #0191
    Peru-Chile spy dispute deepens. UN-Iran in secret nuclear negotiations, says paper. Analysis: The real spy war between CIA and DNI.

  • News you may have missed #0190
    Indicted Liberian leader continues to allege CIA complicity. Debate on who should protect US computer networks continues. Case of Pakistani 'spy' arrested in India gets thicker.

  • FBI kept tabs on Pulitzer-winning author Studs Ter ...
    The FBI, which acted as America’s political police during the Cold War, spent several decades watching Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Terkel, who died earlier this year at age 96.

After Downing Street.org

  • Leaked Documents Reveal No 10 cover-up over Iraq i ...
    Leaked documents reveal No 10 cover-up over Iraq invasion • Inquiry to hear how Blair hid true intentions for war • Military 'ill-prepared' for aftermath of invasion By Richard Norton-Taylor | Guardian.co.UK Military commanders are expected to tell the inquiry into the Iraq war, which opens o ...

  • Tomgram: Nick Turse, Out of Iraq, Into the Gulf
    Tomgram: Nick Turse, Out of Iraq, Into the Gulf | TomDispatch.com A basic principle taught to any young reporter is: "follow the money." A similar principle should apply to U.S. foreign policy reporting: follow the bases. As striking facts-on-the-ground, such bases tell us much about bedrock U.S. po ...

  • Yoo Called the Cops on Us This Morning - What's Wr ...
    By Cynthia Papermaster We had the best turnout ever for this morning's Yoo protest at his house! It was simply amazing! There were about 30 people there for an hour or more, holding banners and signs, singing, and sharing their hopes for John Yoo's future as part of the "Yoo Banishing Ritual". The p ...

  • War, Peace, & Power Abuses: David Swanson in Fresn ...
    Q&A video that follows this one is at: http://youtube.com/afterdowningstreet read more

  • Three Cheers for Women Behaving "Badly"
    This Sunday on Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox, one misbehaving woman interviews another one. Thank goodness for women who do buck the system and resist "going with the flow," just so as to appear socially acceptable to a society that is not so polite. Cindy interviews Malalai Joya, a female Afghan Parliam ...

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

  • Dems’ Health Bills Would Adopt New Mammogram ...
    Both the House and Senate health reform proposals would force insurance plans to follow the recommendations as part of a minimum swath of services.

  • Dems’ Health Bills Would Adopt New Mammogram ...
    Both the House and Senate health reform proposals would force insurance plans to follow the recommendations as part of a minimum swath of services.

  • Another Gitmo Detainee Wins in Federal Court; Scor ...
    Farhi Saeed bin Mohammed, an Algerian national who was captured in Pakistan and turned over to the U.S. military after fleeing from Afghanistan, was ordered released from the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay by a U.S. District Court judge yesterday, according to the human rights group CageP ...

  • Gitmo Prisoner’s Death: Suicide or Murder?
    Jeffrey Kaye at Truthout has a good piece today on the suicide — or murder? — of Yemeni Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh al Hanashi in June. It’s a powerful reminder of why human rights advocates, as well as U.S. military leaders, think it’s important to close that priso ...

  • Reid, Baucus Approve Wyden’s ‘Free Cho ...
    Senate Democratic leaders have amended their newly released health reform bill to include a contentious provision allowing some workers to receive cash vouchers toward exchange coverage in lieu of enrolling in employer-based plans. Here’s an explanation from a statement released moments ago by the ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

  • Tax those carbon gluttons
    LEMME TELL YOU about a carbon tax you’re gonna love. Two such taxes, actually. I tell you, kid, Stephane Dion had the right idea, but the wrong sales pitch. The fun starts with the government giving you maybe $2,000 as a carbon dividend. Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Society & Culture  |   No ...

  • Why do we hate? Academics seek answer in new field
    Hate is everywhere, but the fundamental question of why one person can hate another has never been adequately studied, contends Jim Mohr of Gonzaga University, who is developing a new academic field of hate studies. Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

  • 'Fat for cosmetics' murder suspects arrested in Pe ...
    Four people have been arrested in Peru on suspicion of killing dozens of people in order to sell their fat and tissue for cosmetic uses in Europe. Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

  • 6 Ways Agriculture Impacts Global Warming
    Sure, agriculture provides us with the food we all eat every day. But do you know how those agricultural practices impact global warming? Turns out there's some pretty big impacts, on both the sustainable and industrial sides of the equation; employing su Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Society & Cu ...

  • We love Butchers
    Former chef Josh Applestone and his wife, Jessica Applestone, are typical of the new butcher breed. He was a vegan, she was a one-time vegetarian when they founded Fleisher’s Grass-fed and Organic Meats in Kingston, N.Y., in 2004 Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |  ...

Suzie-Q

  • SNL: Palin 2012- (11/21/09) VIDEO & PHOTOS
    Palin 2012: SNL Gives Viewers A Glimpse Of Horrifying Future (VIDEO, PHOTOS) Huffington Post First Posted: 11-22-09 08:59 AM   |   Updated: 11-22-09 09:58 AM “Saturday Night Live” combined Sarah Palin and the disaster movie “2012″ last night to imagine a world in which Pa ...

  • Tina Fey Impersonates Palin At Ad Council Dinner ( ...
    Tina Fey Does Sarah Palin At Ad Council Dinner (VIDEO) Huffington Post |  Rachel Weiner First Posted: 11-20-09 05:39 PM   |   Updated: 11-21-09 08:40 AM While hosting the Ad Council Annual Dinner Wednesday night, “30 Rock” creator Tina Fey brought back her famous imperso ...

  • Is Christian Right ‘Trolling for Assassins&# ...
    Rachel Maddow Interview with Former Evangelist Frank Schaeffer: Christian Right Is ‘Trolling for Assassins’ AlterNet. Posted November 19, 2009. Schaeffer: “There is a crazy fringe [receiving] messages that have been pouring out of FOX News … talking about doing away with Obama, asking God ...

  • American representatives promoting property in Jer ...
    Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee (in highway patrol $hades) and NY state a$$emblyman Dov Hikind with minor Muslim curiousity (Al Aqsa Mosque) in background (Menachem Kahane/AFP) IMEMC, November 18, 2009 A Democratic State Assemblyman from New York is leading a mission of 50 US citizens through Isr ...

  • Protests at UC Berkely as student fees increase 32 ...
    This video was from yesterday, where student protesters sit around a van to block regents from leaving UCLA. The UC Regents voted earlier in the day on November 19, 2009, to raise student fees by 32% by next fall quarter. Here is today’s update: ktvu TV 36 Posted: 7:14 am PST November 20, 2009 ...

Solari

  • Putting the Gold Market in Perspective
    Does it look like the Gold market is anywhere remotely close to a bubble? Apparently, the bubble callers and crowded trade folks haven’t done their research. Doesn’t look crowded to me. Continue reading Gold Contrarians Will Get Killed

  • France Finds Monsanto Guilty
    Posted By Dr. John Mercola France’s highest court has ruled that U.S. agrochemical giant Monsanto had not told the truth about the safety of its best-selling weed-killer, Roundup. The court confirmed an earlier judgment that Monsanto had falsely advertised its herbicide as “biodegradable” and ...

  • Money & Markets - Week of 11.22.09
    Dubai Ruler Tightens Control, Downgrades Key Aides Bloomberg.com (22 Nov 09) Government Debt Default, How (Not If) Will it Happen The Market Oracle (21 Nov 09) Bets Rise on Rich Country Bond Defaults Financial Times (22 Nov 09) [Must subscribe to read full article.] Chart of The Day: Layoffs Even ...

  • Precious Metals - Week of 11.22.09
    Moves to Mine Gem Potential Financial Times (20 Nov 09) [Must subscribe to read full article.] Gold Holdings By Country Zero Hedge (19 Nov 09) Global Gold Hedge Heads Below 10moz MiningMx (17 Nov 09)

  • Geopolitical - Week of 11.22.09
    Former NASA Director says World Trade Center Towers Felled by Controlled Demolition 911 Truth.org (21 Oct 09) Amy Goodman Interview: As UC Regents Approve Major Tuition Hike, Students, Faculty Decry Erosion of Public Education in CA and Nationwide Democracy Now (20 Nov 09)

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

  • Interview with Ted Garber – Life, Inspiration an ...
    I recently had the opportunity to interview one of my favorite musicians, Ted Garber. Ted recently released his new album "American Rail." Related posts: Barack Obama CBS 60 Minutes Interview Transcript and Video from Nov. 16th, 2008 Consumerism – Chasing That American Dream! Inspiration from E ...

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  • The Quinnipiac Bobcats get Top Rankings for Sustai ...
    Quinnipiac University is installing twenty-five Windspire vertical wind turbines at the first university micro-wind farm in the country. Related posts: Windspire Wind Turbine Generating Electricity at Michigan Governor’s House Mariah Power and Windspire Wind Turbine Featured on 20/20 Mariah Powe ...

  • What Could be Finer than to be a Tweed Rider? DC T ...
    The first annual "tweed ride" took place in Washington DC on Sunday. Whats a Tweed Ride? It's a trend that's catching on in Europe and the U.S. Related posts: Cycling Clothing: No Shorts, Jerseys or Jackets – Just Pasties Busted! Coal Lobby Fakes Letters to Congress EPA Names Top 20 Green Power ...

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

Inhabitat

  • NL Architects Unveils Ascending Green-Roofed Stair ...
    NL Architects recently unveiled a beautiful green-roofed office complex for the Welfare Department and Work Agency of the City of Groningen in the Netherlands. Featuring ample amounts of daylight, large open public spaces, and an ascending series of terraced green roofs, the new SoZaWe office is sur ...

  • DIY “Colour-In” Dress is a Coloring Book You C ...
    If you’ve always dreamed of designing your own clothes, but just don’t have any sewing skills, you’re in luck! Berber Soepboer and Michiel Schuurman have come up with a way for you to put your own creative spin on a dress – no sewing necessary! Their Colour-In Dress lets you decide how color ...

  • Build Your Own Lego Dress!
    How cool would it be to be able to construct and reconstruct your clothing everyday according to your mood just like legos? Refinity’s “Fragmentedâ€� clothing lets you do just that with their colorful and customizable snap-on pieces that let you decide how long, short, wide or thin your ou ...

  • Would You Wear Your Dead Pet as Jewelry?
    When a beloved pet passes away, it’s only natural to want to keep their memory close – but how close?!! A few very, er, enterprising companies are giving mourning animal lovers the opportunity to wear the remains of their dearly beloved furry friends as pearls or even diamonds. Technically, this ...

  • Studio Lindfors’ Haunting Visual Prediction of O ...
    The phrases “melting polar ice caps” and “rising water lines” are so ubiquitous now that they’ve almost lost their meaning. It’s all too easy to think “it will happen to that city, not mine.” Well to give us a bit more perspective, Studio Lindfors has presented us with these haunt ...

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Open Your Eyes News

  • Children should be allowed to play in the dirt, ne ...
    The Telegraph – Scientists have discovered that bacteria on the surface of the skin play an important role in combating inflammation when we get hurt. The bugs dampen down overactive immune responses, which can lead to rashes or cause cuts and bruises to become swollen and painful. Read article

  • Russia ‘is now a criminal state’, says Bill Br ...
    BBC – Russia has now turned into a “criminal state”, according to the man who was once its leading foreign investor.Bill Browder of Hermitage Capital was reacting to the news that his lawyer had died in prison in Russia after being held for a year without charge. Read Article

  • Zimbabwe women, receiving rights award, speak out
    AP – After the beatings by President Robert Mugabe’s policemen, the overcrowded, lice-ridden jail cells, the degradation of nightly strip-searches, Jenni Williams and Magondonga Mahlangu still cling to hope for Zimbabwe. They talk of hope that the devastated country still may be able to write a ...

  • UK fury as credit crunch civil servant lands Roths ...
    Daily Mail – The civil servant who oversaw the taxpayers’ stake in Britain’s crisis-hit banks is at the centre of a conflict-of-interest row after it emerged he is to join a leading investment bank.John Kingman, the former chief executive of UK Financial Investments, is to become the new ...

  • Iran sentences former vice-president to six years ...
    Daily Telegraph – A former Iranian vice-president was sentenced to six years in prison as reprisals meted out to leaders of street protests against the disputed presidential elections claimed their highest profile victim. Read Article

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Cuba, ALBA Nations Condone Sri Lanka, Revisionism ...
    Cuba, ALBA Nations Condone Sri Lanka, Revisionism Further Exposed (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Revisionism was on display in recent events. Recently Cuba gave an official statement reassuring its international relations with Sri Lanka. Both countries claim to be socialist in some sense. Depu ...

  • Smash the old world!
    Smash the Amerikkkan Dream and all First Worldist lies! From Politics Are Over Posted in ..Politics Are Over, Communism, Maoism, Maoism Third Worldism, Maoisme, Maoismo

  • Дети Третьего мира голодаюÑ ...
    Дети Третьего мира голодают и страдают от задержки роста, дети Первого мира страдают от тучности (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com, translated by the Russian Maoist Party (RMP)) Согласно недавнему оÑ ...

  • Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist Movement – Se ...
    RAIM-Seattle forms (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) A new RAIM cell has formed in Seattle. MSH sends a red salute to RAIM-S. From the RAIM-S website: “- What does RAIM-Seattle want? A utopian society. We want a world free from oppression of groups by groups and people by people. A world withou ...

  • Third World children starve, suffer stunted growth ...
    Third World children starve, suffer stunted growth, First World children suffer obesity (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) According to a new UNICEF report, 200 million children under 5 in poor countries have stunted growth due to insufficient nutrition. Of the 200 million, almost 90 percent live ...

PakAlert

  • Video: CIA / US is behind ALL insurgency and terro ...
    In a surprising move, the Pakistani Taliban has denied responsibility for the recent attacks in Pakistan. Instead, they blame Xe Services as well as the country’s own security forces. Author and investigative journalist Webster Tarpley gives his take on the situation. Also See: U.S. Shifted Pak ...

  • U.S. Shifted Pakistan Terror Leaders To Afghanista ...
    LAHORE: General (retd) Mirza Aslam Beg has alleged that the US has shifted Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Hakimullah Mehsud and the other Taliban leadership to Afghanistan. In an interview, Aslam Beg said when the Pakistan Army started the operation in South Waziristan, a helicopter flew from ...

  • TSS: Ahmed Quraishi with Zaid Hamid
    After 1 year of Mumbai attacks, India still doesnt answer the main questions related to Mumbai attacks. Also See: Video: Pakistan Response to the Mumbai Dossier (in English) – Must Watch Mumbai Terror: Evidence being deliberately ignored! Israel’s Role In Destabilizing Pakistan ...

  • Arrival of Imam Mahdi and Rise of Islam
    By Sajjad Shaikh The coming of the Mahdi is one of the major signs of Judgement Day. Unlike the minor signs his appearance will signal that the Final Hour is near and that believers must ensure that they are ready to endure its trials and tribulations (fitan). The Mahdi will come at a time when Mus ...

  • Paid Lying – What Passes For Major Media Journal ...
    By Stephen Lendman 11-9-9 Today’s major media journalism is biased, irresponsible, sensationalist reporting that distorts, exaggerates or misstates the truth. It’s misinformation or agitprop disinformation masquerading as fact to boost circulation, readership, viewers, or listeners, and on vital ...

ecogeek

  • Wind Power Could be Stored as Ice
    A perfect way of storing electricity generated by wind turbines has been elusive so far.  Ideas like super-sized batteries , compressed air and hydroelectric storage have all been floated.  One company though thinks the answer could be as simple as making ice. Calmac has come up with a storage sy ...

  • Fastest Computer in the World Focused on Climate C ...
    The Jaguar XT5 computer, housed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Knoxville, Tenn. and owned by the Department of Energy was just named the fastest computer in the world by the TOP500 list .  It has a performance speed of 1.759 petaflops or quadrillions of calculations per second and that po ...

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

  • 203 MW Wind Farm Completed in Utah
    It's great to see some of the large wind farm projects that were just ideas a couple of years ago become reality. First Wind's Milford Wind Corridor project has just seen the completion of its first phase - 203.5 MW in Millard and Beaver Counties in Utah, the largest renewable energy facility in th ...

  • Solar Spacecraft to Launch in 2010
    The Planetary Society is planning to launch a solar-propelled space craft in 2010 after its first attempt landed in the ocean four years ago. The LightSail-1 would run on the pressure of light hitting its four triangular-shaped Mylar sails.  The society sees the project as a way to achieve long sp ...

Times Online - Science

  • Lure of the deep is irresistible to science
    When HMS Challenger left Portsmouth in 1872 on the world’s first dedicated expedition to explore the nature of life, many believed that beneath 300 fathoms (164 metres) lay a barren, lifeless wasteland. Whalers talked of huge sucker-marks found on the heads of sperm whales, fishermen wondered ...

  • Sea angels and jewel squid discovered by Census of ...
    Beyond the reach of the last tendrils of sunlight, far beneath the waves, lies the planet’s largest — and strangest — habitat. Although long thought too extreme for any form of life, a decade-long exploration has revealed a startling range of exotic new species and alien ways to eke out a ...

  • The Large Hadron Collider back in business
    SCIENTISTS successfully restarted the Large Hadron Collider this weekend, aiming to power the £6 billion Big Bang simulator up to record-breaking speeds.

  • It’s a grolar, the climate-change polar bear
    POLAR bears face a new threat besides melting ice — male grizzly bears are moving into their territories, competing for food and are even mating with their females.

  • Daniel White solves the Mandelbrot set with beauti ...
    It may look like an underwater cave but this is the image of a three-dimensional fractal, the result of years of work by a computer programmer.

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Valuable Lesson From Sarah Palin's Book
    TRex has extracted and documented the bulk of the knowledge that can be had from Sarah Palin's new book, Going Rogue. Trust me on this, there is a valuable lesson to be had from her book that every Blogger, journalist and pundit should be sharing with anyone that is truly interested in the politic ...

  • Valuable Lesson From Sarah Palin's Book
    TRex has extracted and documented the bulk of the knowledge that can be had from Sarah Palin's new book, Going Rogue. Trust me on this, there is a valuable lesson to be had from her book that every Blogger, journalist and pundit should be sharing with anyone that is truly interested in the politic ...

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

  • The more things change, the more they stay the sam ...
    I woke up today to the news that it has been a whole year that gay and lesbian couples have been allowed to share the same rights as everyone else in our State. The right to settle down, get married and live as a family has changed a lot of people's lives in Connecticut . I did a quick inventory o ...

  • Windsock Joe
    We really want to know which way the wind blows, Joe? The other day you were dead set against the Public Option, much to the chagrin of Connecticut voters. And now? Sen. Joe Lieberman has reached a private understanding with Majority Leader Harry Reid that he will not block a final vote on healthca ...

SPL Center

  • ‘Tea Parties Against Amnesty’ Planned in 50 Ci ...
    In 1773, American colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor to protest taxation without representation under British rule. If they were around today, the colonists might be surprised by the array of perceived ills around which their modern-day counterparts have been rallying at symbolic “tea parties ...

  • Child Rapist and Anti-Catholic Cult Boss Gets 175 ...
    Cult evangelist Tony Alamo was ordered today to spend his remaining years in a place that nobody will confuse with heaven. A federal judge in Texarkana, Ark., sentenced him to 175 years in prison for transporting young girls he called his “brides” across state lines for sex. Before being sentenc ...

  • Neo-Nazi Turner Sprung From Jail, But Muzzled
    Neo-Nazi talk show host Hal Turner, arrested four months ago on charges of threatening to assault and murder three federal judges, was released on bail today in Newark, N.J. Turner’s attorney, Michael A. Orozco, told the Hudson Reporter that his client will be under house arrest at his home in No ...

  • Dangerous Liaisons: Congressmen to Join Nativist H ...
    At noon today, five members of the U.S. House of Representatives will hold a press conference at the House Triangle with Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). FAIR has been listed as an anti-immigrant hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center since 2007. ...

  • In Christian vs. Atheist Documentary, a Bizarre Ad ...
    In a new documentary pitting atheism against faith, contrarian critic Christopher Hitchens debates evangelical pastor Douglas Wilson on the merits of Christianity. “Collision,” released today, has already generated buzz: Hitchens and Wilson have appeared on National Public Radio’s “All Th ...

Rio Times

  • Rio Gangs Look to Restaurant Robbery
    By Doug Gray, Senior Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO – It is simply an unfortunate facet of life in Rio that after a few months of living here you are certain to know someone who has been on the wrong end of a street robbery. While any major city has its crime problems, Rio’s tend - rightly [...]

  • Coca Cola Invests Big in Brazil
    By Jaylan Boyle, Senior Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - Representatives of the Coca Cola corporation said recently that the company intends to significantly increase it’s expenditure and investment in Brazil over the five years to 2014, to coincide with the FIFA football world cup of that year and the O ...

  • Portela and the Majesty Of Carnival
    By Bruno De Nicola, Senior Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - February may still be three months off, but the majority of those involved with Carnival have already been hard at work, the weekly rehearsals are underway, and Portela Samba School, founded on Rua Portela in the Madureira neighbourhood of Zona No ...

  • Help Saga Continues
    By Doug Gray, Senior Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - Despite reports to the contrary over the last few weeks, months, indeed years, Help Discoteca in Copacabana is still open, and seemingly doing better than ever. It is testament to the global reputation of the huge club on Avenida Atlantica that so many ...

  • Culinary Tourism in Santa Teresa
    By Bruno De Nicola, Senior Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - Though sometimes written off by the national press, businesses can undoubtedly flourish in Santa Teresa, the historical and truly bohemian neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro largely because it consistently captures visitors’ imaginations. Certainly ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • New Resolution Calls on Congress to Lead by Exampl ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 20, 2009 Electronics TakeBack Coalition Representative Mike Thompson yesterday introduced a resolution that calls on Congress to craft a plan to deal with its own e-waste, only using recyclers certified to the new e-Stewards Standard - the highest in the industry. read ...

  • Unique Food Safety Conference Tomorrow
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 19, 2009 Government Accountability Project Tomorrow, November 20, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) and American University Washington College of Law will sponsor a day-long conference focusing on problems with the current food safety system in America, and h ...

  • Local Community Radio Act: One Step Closer to the ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 19, 2009 Prometheus Radio Project This morning, the Local Community Radio Act (S592) passed unanimously out of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation with a voice vote. Both the Senate and House versions of the bill are on their way to full floor ...

  • Statement from NLIHC President Sheila Crowley on H ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 20, 2009 NLIHC The National Low Income Housing Coalition joins housing advocates from Texas in applauding the decision by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to reject the plan submitted by the state of Texas on how the state would use Hurricane Ike di ...

  • Peace Groups Call Nationwide Phone-In to White Hou ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 20, 2009 National Peace Groups An ad-hoc coalition of national peace advocacy organizations is calling on people from every corner of the country to inundate the White House on Monday (November 23rd) with phone calls against military escalation in Afghanistan. read mor ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • New York's Tough Enough for Terrorist Trials
    by Michael Winship If you want to royally tick off New Yorkers, try telling us what to do. That's probably why the police stopped trying to enforce the jaywalking laws here years ago (as opposed to Washington, D.C., where I once got one too many tickets and was sent to pedestrian school). And that's ...

  • McChrystal Testing the Limits
    by Ray McGovern It is not too late for President Barack Obama to follow the example of Harry Truman, who fired Gen. Douglas McArthur in 1951 for insubordination.  Then, as now, the stakes were high.  Then it was Korea; now it is Afghanistan. No more slaps on the wrist for Gen. Stanley McChrysta ...

  • 8 Steps Obama Could Take to Save Our Food System
    by Robyn O'Brien The landscape of health has changed. No longer are our families guaranteed a healthy livelihood, not in the face of the current rates of cancer, diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer's and allergies. In the words of Elizabeth Warren , Harvard University law professor who is head of the Congr ...

  • The Administration Guts Its Own Argument for 9/11 ...
    by Glenn Greenwald "What I'm absolutely clear about is that I have complete confidence in the American people and our legal traditions and the prosecutors, the tough prosecutors from New York who specialize in terrorism" -- Barack Obama, yesterday .read more

  • The New (Green) Arms Race
    by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Hobbled by opposition from the carbon incumbents and their short-sighted allies on Capitol Hill the Obama administration acknowledged this week that it would not return from Copenhagen with any groundbreaking commitment to control green house gases. Meanwhile, Congress is ba ...

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Cockermouth faces up to aftermath of floodwaters
    Cumbria police urge thorough checks as owners return to 900 homes and businesses Get the latest on the floods with our live blog Cumbria police was reopening 900 homes and businesses in Cockermouth to residents this morning, as the county was facing up to the aftermath of the most severe flooding ...

  • Party leaders debate the economy
    Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg debate the economy and business at the CBI conference in London 12.40pm: Cameron faces questions again on Tory plans to replace the FSA's supervision of the banks with a beefed up Bank of England. Business is still not convinced about this one. 12.32pm: We' ...

  • Henry: I nearly quit after handball
    • It all went too far, I was very worked up, says Henry • 'The day after the match I felt alone, really alone' Thierry Henry has admitted he considered ending his international career, and that he felt "let down" by the France Football Federation following his handball against Ireland which help ...

  • Sarah Palin's Going Rogue selling fast
    Former vice-presidential candidate's memoir racks up 300,000 sales on its first day in shops Sarah Palin's memoir, Going Rogue, has become one of the bestselling non-fiction books in history after it sold 300,000 copies in its first day on sale. Palin's publisher HarperCollins told American press th ...

  • £149m tanks being used just for training
    MoD says vehicles improved for use in Iraq are unsuited to Afghanistan conflict The Ministry of Defence spent £149m on an "urgent" upgrade to 900 tanks that are now only being used in training exercises, it was revealed today. The tanks, upgraded for use in Iraq, are unsuitable for deployment in Af ...

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

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

  • Wallace Selectively Quotes CBO To Suggest Senate B ...
    This morning on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace selectively quoted the Congressional Budget Office analysis of the merged Senate legislation to suggest that the Senate health legislation would increase government outlays on health care over 20 years and bend the cost-cure upward: WALLACE: Accord ...

  • Blanche Lincoln’s Website Still Says She Sup ...
    This afternoon, Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AK) announced that she would vote for cloture on the motion to proceed but promised — at least 3 different times — to filibuster reform if it includes a public option. “I’m prepared to vote against moving to the next stage of consideration as long a ...

  • Blanche Lincoln Justifies Opposition To Bill That ...
    NOTE: We are live-tweeting the Senate vote for cloture on the motion to proceed at @wonkroom. In a dramatic and long winded speech on the floor of the Senate, Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AK) announced today that she would provide the 60th vote “in support of cloture on the motion to proceed” to the ...

  • Landrieu To Provide 59th Vote On Motion To Proceed ...
    This afternoon, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) took to the Senate floor to announce that she would vote on a motion to proceed with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Landrieu is the 59th Senator to commit to voting to open debate on the floor. Senate Majority Leader Harry Ried (D-NV) would ...

  • Financial Services Industry Warns That Transaction ...
    With House Democrats seriously considering proposing a financial transactions tax (FTT) to pay for a new jobs creation package, the financial services industry has gone on the defensive. The premise behind a financial transactions tax is that it is so small (a fraction of a percentage point) that a ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Ah Loves This Video!!!
    It's brilliant!

  • Me vs. Richard Dawkins
    (Wonder what kinda traffic that title will generate!) I don't have much of a beef with Atheist Richard Dawkins . I think most of religion is mumbo-jumbo. I have a rather positivist view of religion. First, humans needed religion to try to explain existence. Then they needed philosophy. Now, sc ...

  • Guaranteed Annual Income
    Nobody should starve. Nobody should be homeless. Nobody should have to sell their soul for a buck. People shouldn't be forced to call other people at dinner time to sell them subscriptions to the "National Post." People who make $45,000 a year really ought to shut-the-fuck up about "people who don' ...

  • The Protestors Showed More Maturity Than Elizabeth ...
    Here's what the Green Party's leader Elizabeth May said about the protesters in Parliament yesterday: At a press conference, Green Party leader Elizabeth May said it was "heartbreaking" that MPs"laughed" as the young people were removed from the gallery. She said "those were our children we threw ou ...

  • A hearty thanks to the eco-protestors in the House ...
    We need more of this : A loud protest in the visitors gallery of the House of Commons resulted in several arrests and the brief shutdown of question period on Monday. Around 200 young protesters chanted slogans to support Bill C-311, an NDP private member's bill on climate change. Six people were re ...

Financial Sense Editorials

  • Market Observation: The Rally Lives
    by Tim W. Wood. "The rally out of the March low lives on. Cyclically, this is a higher degree move that is, thus far, still intact. From a Dow theory perspective, there was a short-term non-confirmation in place the week of November 13th, but this last week that was corrected and the uptrend was rec ...

  • The FDIC Anesthesia Is Wearing Off
    by Robert Prechter. "Perhaps the single greatest reason for the unbridled expansion of credit over the past 50 years is the existence of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, another government-sponsored enterprise created by Congress."

  • Stocks Still Overvalued
    by Carl Swenlin. "Stocks have been in the overvalued end of the normal P/E range since the early-1990s, and this condition shows no sign of abating. Below is an excerpt from our daily earnings summary that will offer readers a better perspective."

  • What will drive the gold price in the days ahead?
    by Julian Phillips. "Gold is higher than ever before and is still climbing. Many investors are waiting for a fall in the gold price, because they are looking at the past market shape, that has not factored in the major sea-change in the shape of demand. Even many institutional analysts have not real ...

  • Do the Feds sense a Wil-e Coyote moment ahead?
    by Tony Cherniawski. "Federal Reserve officials are stepping up scrutiny of the biggest U.S. banks to ensure the lenders can withstand a reversal of soaring global-asset prices, according to people with knowledge of the matter. "

on Government Oversight

  • Senate Re-Introduces Bill Closing Legal Loophole f ...
    Back in May, POGO blogged about the tragic case of Lt. Col. Dominic "Rocky" Baragona, who was killed in Iraq in 2003 when his Humvee was struck by a supply truck driven by a Kuwaiti transport company that had contracts...

  • Morning Smoke: Senators Re-introduce Bill Requirin ...
    Bill would allow foreign contractors to be sued in U.S. courts [Government Executive] McCain wants review on defense work by retired brass [USA Today] John Kerry vs. Blackwater Xe [The Washington Independent] House Attacks Fed, Treasury [The Wall Street Journal]...

  • House Financial Services Committee Passes Paul-Gra ...
    The House Financial Services Committee voted 43-26 yesterday afternoon in favor of an amendment introduced by Reps. Ron Paul (R-TX) and Alan Grayson (D-FL) that would remove restrictions preventing the GAO from auditing the Federal Reserve. The amendment was modeled...

  • Ineligible Firms Receiving Contracts Intended for ...
    Today, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report documenting lax oversight controls and fraud related to Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) and Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (VOSB) contracts. The GAO report was released at a hearing before the House Committee. ...

  • What Happens When an Ethics Tree Falls in an Earle ...
    A recently sustained bid protest from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that a contractor did indeed get an unfair competitive advantage when they hired a former government employee to prepare their proposal and failed to disclose the information to...

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