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IPS - Inter Press Services

• U.S.: Climate Policy Derailed by Corporate Intere ...
  
  BOSTON, Dec 6 (IPS/TerraViva) - As the U.S. climate delegation arrives in Copenhagen nearly empty-handed, watchdog groups back at home say they know why: a political system gone astray due to the influence of huge amounts of corporate cash.
  
  
  
• CLIMATE CHANGE: Youth See Their Future in the Bal ...
  
  COPENHAGEN, Dec 6 (IPS/TerraViva) - Young people from 44 countries are demanding that world leaders take decisive action on climate change. The time for talk is over, they declared at the end of a weeklong Children's Climate Forum here.
  
  
  
• RIGHTS-TURKEY: Jailing Kurdish Children to Unde ...
  
  DIYARBAKIR, Southeastern Turkey, Dec 6 (IPS) - Turkey is signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, but that does not stop minors in the country's Kurdish dominated eastern and southeastern regions from ending up with stiff jail sentences.
  
  
  
• DEVELOPMENT: Indonesia Still Struggling with Disa ...
  
  JAKARTA, Dec 6 (IPS) - Despite being hit by powerful earthquakes this year, Indonesia is still reeling from the lack of an effective disaster management system that could prevent extensive loss of life and damage to property.
  
  
  
• POLITICS-NAMIBIA: SWAPO Wins
  
  WINDHOEK, Dec 5 (IPS) - The ruling South West Africa People's Organisation party (SWAPO) has won legislative elections in Namibia, with voters also giving incumbent President Hifikepunye Pohamba a second five-year term in office.
  
  
  

Scoop - NZ

• Wellington Builder going to France
  
  Wellington builder Adrian has fought off stiff competition from tradesmen from all over New Zealand to be selected to restore a french villa. The job, posted on Builderscrack.co.nz by expat kiwi Pauline who lives in France generated huge interest, with over 100 applications in several days. Pauline ...
  
  
  
• Dubai's financial crisis: Q&A
  
  Q. Where did Dubai go wrong? I thought it was in the "oil-rich Gulf"?A. Dubai is part of the United Arab Emirates, seven city-states which have separate ruling families, separate budgets, but security, immigration and foreign policies in common. Abu Dhabi has nearly all the UAE's oil. To keep up, Du ...
  
  
  
• Bailed-Out AIG Forcing Poor to Choose Between Runn ...
  
  What are we getting in return for the bailout? So far, predatory credit card rates, exorbitant bank fees and obscene Wall Street bonuses. But we're being robbed in other, sneakier ways, too. It seems that taxpayers in the poorest, most vulnerable parts of the county are getting plundered by the same ...
  
  
  
• A bit of inspiration as we head into Copenhagen
  
  We are the last generation that has a chance to make a difference on climate change and the task can seem daunting. But, as one of the original Greenpeace activists Bob Hunter once said,Big change looks impossible when you start and inevitable when you finish.50 years ago this week, the world agreed ...
  
  
  
• A note to self from the year 2020
  
  Today almost 100,000 people around New Zealand received an email from a future self in 2020 ...  »  PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  
  
  

Independent ( London )

• Evidence of mass cannibalism uncovered in Germany
  
  Evidence of mass cannibalism in which even children and unborn babies were on the menu has been uncovered in Germany by archaeologists.
  
  
  
• Violence erupts on Greek riot anniversary
  
  Protesters hurled rocks and burning garbage at police today as violence erupted during a march to mark the first anniversary of the police shooting of a teenager, whose death sparked massive riots.
  
  
  
• Philippine troops arrest dozens under martial law
  
  Philippine troops arrested 62 people and discovered another major weapons cache today after martial law was imposed in a southern province following the country's worst political massacre.
  
  
  
• 112 die as fireworks explode in nightclub
  
  Five men were being questioned by Russian authorities last night after a nightclub fire that killed at least 112 people.
  
  
  
• Parmalat man’s secret £90m hoard of masterpiece ...
  
  Italian tax investigators have seized works by artists including Van Gogh, Picasso and Cézanne in raids on properties belonging to a disgraced businessman judged to have been largely responsible for Europe's greatest ever corporate bankruptcy.
  
  
  

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Malaysia recalls its UN envoy over Iran nuclear vo ...
  
  Summary: KUALA LUMPUR: The Foreign Ministry has recalled Malaysia's permanent representative to the United Nations (UN) in Vienna for consultations over the passing of a resolution on the Iran nuclear issue by the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Austria las ...
  
  
  
• ElBaradei opposed IAEA motion against Iran
  
  Summary: Salehi "It is true that the director-general may have a say to some extent but he cannot make decisions. We have the Board of Governors that makes the decisions for the IAEA. From what I learned, in the last move concerning the resolution, Dr. [Mohamed] ElBaradei tried very hard and spo ...
  
  
  
• Iran left out in the cold
  
  Summary: A major pillar of United States President Barack Obama's earlier Afghan policy, articulated in a March speech, was missing from his long-awaited address on Tuesday in which he committed an additional 30,000 US troops to Afghanistan. source: Asia Times Online read more
  
  
  
• Putin: 'No information on Iran's work on nuclear w ...
  
  Summary: Russia has no information that Iran is working on the development of nuclear weapons, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. source: RIA Novosti read more
  
  
  
• Soltanieh: Resolution jeopardizing IAEA spirit
  
  Summary: Since last year developing countries have augmented the pressure and they have mobilized their means to resist such a situation and not to let a few countries to change the agency from its statuary, promotional activities which is main reason the agency exists. source: Press TV read m ...
  
  
  

The Daily Galaxy

• The "METI (Message Extra-Terrestrial Intelligences ...
  
  Efforts to Search for and Message Extra Terrestrial Intelligences (SETI and METI) have met with a lot of opposition. Some say that there's no life out there, possibly because they view the universe as only slightly larger than the Earth...
  
  
  
• The Planets of Alpha Centauri: The Hunt for a Pan ...
  
  James Cameron’s new movie Avatar depicts a gas giant with a habitable moon, Pandora, around it. Could there be real habitable planets orbiting among the three stars of the Alpha Centauri system? What are the odds that a "Pandora," really...
  
  
  
• Worldwide Change in Blue Whale's Song Baffles Sci ...
  
  The function of whale song, even the better-studied song of the humpback whale, has long baffled marine scientists. Songs of the blue whale, the planets largest living creature, can be divided into at least 10 types worldwide, each type retaining...
  
  
  
• 3 Billion Supernovas Create a Gigantic Intergalact ...
  
  Recently astronomers used the Suzaku orbiting X-ray observatory, operated jointly by NASA and the Japanese space agency, to discover the largest known reservoir of rare metals in the universe.The data shows it took some 3 billion supernovas to produce the...
  
  
  
• "The End of the World as We Know It" - The Rise of ...
  
  
  
  
  

Natural News

• Slim-Fast warning: Bacterial contamination leads t ...
  
  (NaturalNews) If you drink Slim-Fast and suffer from diarrhea, cramps and vomiting, now there's a new reason for such effects, beyond the simple fact that Slim-Fast is made primarily from processed milk and sugar water: All Slim-Fast beverages have just been recalled by the manufacturer due to possi ...
  
  
  
• Now You Can Even Die Green: Biodegradable Eco-Coff ...
  
  (NaturalNews) A Colorado-based company is now offering U.S. consumers the option of being buried in a fully biodegradable casket made out of banana sheaves and bamboo. "As more and more American families and communities look for eco-friendly solutions to everything in life, Ecoffins provides fitting ...
  
  
  
• Study Reveals Stronger Muscles Lead to Better Brai ...
  
  (NaturalNews) A recent study published in the November 2009 issue of Archives of Neurology revealed that the greater muscle strength a person has, the more likely he or she is to maintain proper cognitive function over time. The study examined 970 men and women and found that those individuals who r ...
  
  
  
• NaturalNews to publish year-end discounts and spec ...
  
  (NaturalNews) On December 28th, NaturalNews will publish a free guide to be distributed to all readers, featuring year-end discounts and specials from health-related companies of all kinds. This guide is free to readers and listings are free for health product companies. The purpose behind this guid ...
  
  
  
• Warning: drug ads are harmful to your health
  
  (NaturalNews) If you watch TV or ever flip through a glossy magazine, you are bound to have seen ads conjured up by Big Pharma working with slick advertising agencies. As it turns out, what they are selling isn't necessarily health -- or the truth. They are pushing pills, even if they have to twist ...
  

  TheGallopingBeaver

  
  
• Protecting "Traditional" Marriage . . . .
  
  Let's put this whole gay marriage thing to bed (so to speak). "You're not dead yet." That oughta do it . . . . (Cross-posted from Moved to Vancouver )
  
  
  
• I want a Torture Inquiry
  
  To:Prime Minister Stephen Harper pm@pm.gc.ca CC:NDP Leader Jack Layton Layton.J@parl.gc.ca ,Liberal Party Leader Michael Ignatieff Ignatieff.M@parl.gc.ca Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe DucepG@parl.gc.ca .Subject: I Want a Torture Inquiry .Dear Prime Minister Harper, .I am very concerned by t ...
  
  
  
• Smoke 'Em if You've Got 'Em . . . .
  
  Quite the interesting contraption, would you not agree? Used extensively in Ottawa, Victoria and Washington, DC. (Click to enlarge) Gives a whole new meaning to "Let's go outside and light up a butt," eh ? ? ? ? H/T "drf" (Cross-posted from Moved to Vancouver )
  
  
  
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• A Blue Black Friday . . . .
  
  I don't want to be Scrooge here (well, maybe I do) but personally, I think this is a positive development. People just don't need all the crap they buy! Per Reuters this afternoon: Shoppers spent less over Black Friday weekend Sun Nov 29, 2009 4:53pm EST | By Nicole Maestri SAN FRANCISCO (Re ...
  
  
  

Media Matters for America

• Quick Fact: Fox News' Chris Wallace calls climate ...
  
  On the December 6 edition of Fox News Sunday , host Chris Wallace claimed that emails stolen from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (CRU) showed that "some of the climate scientists were apparently fudgers and tried to suppress opposition comments." FACT: NASA scientist: ...
  
  
  
• WashPo again lets Will misinform about gl ...
  
  The Washington Post once again provided column inches to serial global warming minsformer George Will, who in this week's installment piled on the recent global warming controversy concerning reportedly hacked emails from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia. Falsely cl ...
  
  
  
• Fox News ignores Dem support of Congressional memb ...
  
  A Fox News Bulls & Bears segment discussing Republican Sen. Tom Coburn (OK)'s amendment to the health reform bill that would force members of Congress to join the public option if it becomes law focused on the supposed "hypocrisy" of Democrats supporting a public option that they would not enroll i ...
  
  
  
• NBC adopts right-wing's "climategate" smear
  
  NBC Nightly News repeated the unsupported claims that recently stolen emails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia "show climate scientists massaging the data" and asked if the "books [have] been cooked on climate change." However, NBC reporter Anne Thompson made no a ...
  
  
  
• Anti-gay right advances new smear that DOE offici ...
  
  Conservative blogs have claimed that Department of Education official Kevin Jennings is unfit as "Safe Schools Czar" because he supposedly promoted "child porn" by allowing an education organization he founded to recommend for students in grades 7-12 books that included sexually explicit conte ...
  
  
  

Global Research.ca

• Bhopal: 25 years of poison
  
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• March 11, 2004. The Madrid 3/11 Bombings: Was it R ...
  
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• Neo-Cons Get Warm and Fuzzy Over "War President"
  
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• This is Obama's plan for Afghanistan, a carbon-cop ...
  
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• Obama administration backtracks on Afghanistan wit ...
  
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TPM Cafe

• TPMCafe Site Update
  
  Some miscellaneous updates and answers to questions about TPMCafe below the fold.... E-mail - Spam - TPMCafe - Abuse - Comment Spam
  
  
  
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• Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Poli ...
  
  One last thread we wanted to pick up on was the degree to which the worldview-based divide, as we call it, has begun to suffuse issue debates not previously structured by authoritarianism. Bill mentioned health care in an earlier... Politics of the United States - United States - Health care - ...
  
  
  
• Authoritarianism and Party Choice, Response to Sid ...
  
  With the week coming to an end, we don't have too much time to respond to a couple of the threads our colleagues have raised for us. We have a couple more posts, which we will add in turn.... Authoritarianism - United States - Politics - Society and Culture - Republican
  
  
  
• Cognitive Development and the Authoritarian/Non-Au ...
  
  Cognitive development is a topic that Marc and Jonathan touch on only briefly in Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics, but I think it can do a great deal to provide insight, and point to further directions of inquiry... Stage 3 - Marriage - Relationships - United States - Sta ...
  
  
  

TruthOut

• Morales Highly Favored for Re-election in Bolivia
  
  The Associated Press reports : "A victory by Morales, who led opinion polls with about 55 percent support, would extend the stability he has brought to a country notorious for coups and that had five presidents in the five years preceding his December 2005 election.... read more
  
  
  
• A Nation of Ostriches and Peacocks
  
  A new Pew poll finds Americans are at record levels of isolationism, although large numbers are unilateralist and a plurality see China as the world's leading economic power. read more
  
  
  
• Obama Heads to Hill to Push on Health Bill
  
  The Associated Press is reporting that President Obama, urged by Democrats, is headed for Congress in an effort to bring the party together on health care reform: "Sixty is the precise number needed to overcome Republican stalling tactics in the 100-member Senate. Reid will need all 58 of the Senate ...
  
  
  
• We All Breathe the Same Air and Drink the Same Wat ...
  
  Some 8,000 kilometres from the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Native American environmental experts from 66 tribes came together at a summit here this week to address the most pressing needs in their communities - problems, all emphasised, that know no geographic boundaries. These in ...
  
  
  
• The Secret to Legal Marijuana? Women
  
  Why women have signed onto marijuana reform -- and why they could be the movement's game-changers. In September, ladymag Marieclaire ruffled some feathers when it published a piece about women who smoke weed. But its most interesting effect was not the "marijuana moms" chatter it unleashed, and ins ...
  
  
  

Planetsave

• Big Fish in the Great Lakes
  
  The ancient lake sturgeon, a threatened species, is making a modest comeback in the Great Lakes after more than a century of overharvest and habitat destruction. Even as news spreads of the possible imminent invasion of giant Asian carp in the Great Lakes, there’s also good news — the mammoth ...
  
  
  
• Reducing Greenhouse Pollutants will Save Millions ...
  
  New research out of the UK shows definitively that reducing greenhouse gases can save millions of lives around the world. The research makes use of case studies to demonstrate the co-benefits of tackling climate change in four sectors: electricity generation, household energy use, transportation, ...
  
  
  
• Rare Butterfly Rediscovered in Maine
  
  The Spicebush Swallowtail butterfly species was identified in September by Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Department biologists. 1934 was the last Maine sighting of the butterfly.  The recent finding was in the hardwood swamps of Berwick and Wells. Read more of this story »
  
  
  
• Caveman Thanksgiving: Prehistoric Man Roasted Bird ...
  
  New findings, published in the October issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science, indicate early Europeans enjoyed a much broader diet than first suspected. We have known for a long while that early man hunted big game such as mastodons, now prehistoric bone findings show that early man also ...
  
  
  
• Some Restaurant Sushi Contains Endangered Species
  
  A recent study has produced some astonishing and disturbing results. Tuna was ordered from 31 sushi restaurants. Genetic tests were then used to identify the species of fish ordered. Nineteen of the restaurants surveyed incorrectly described or could could not indicate which species of fish they ...
  
  
  

Water Quality - WordPress

• What should I do with unwanted prescription and ov ...
  
  Do not flush them down the toilet! Wastewater treatment plants are often not able to filter out the
  
  
  
• Do boat cleaning products contain phosphorus?
  
  Many boat cleaning products do contain phosphorus, a major contributor to algal blooms in the Lake.
  
  
  
• Why do blue-green algae deplete oxygen if they are ...
  
  First, to clarify, blue-green algae are actually a type of bacteria, they are classed in the phylum
  
  
  
• Why do Lake Champlain beaches close sometimes?
  
  Beaches in Missisquoi Bay and St. Albans Bay have been occasionally closed due to toxic blooms of bl
  
  
  
• What do car washes do with their dirty water?
  
  In Vermont, the dirty wastewater from car washes must go to a wastewater treatment facility.  At som
  
  
  

Public Citizen in Texas

• No Nuclear! San Antonio Platica Tonight featuring ...
  
  Please join the Energia Mia Coalition including the Esperanza Center, Southwest Worker’s Union No Nuclear! Platica Tonight a discussion with local activists and visiting energy expert Arjun Makhijani FRIDAY, Dec. 4th – 7pm at the Esperanza Center (210)228-0201 922 San Pedro Ave, SA, TX 78212 Mar ...
  
  
  
• Green-up Your Life! Flushing trees down the toilet
  
  By Kirsten Bokenkamp From office paper, to toilet paper, paper towels, paper coffee cups, newspapers, paper bags, magazines and catalogs, notebooks, napkins, and packaging, we cannot escape our dependency on paper products. Check out some of these crazy facts related to paper manufacturing and use: ...
  
  
  
• West Texans Question How Proposed Tenaska Coal Pla ...
  
  Citizens aware of extreme drought conditions point to potential serious conflict over water if coal plant were built (Abilene) – The Multi-County Coalition, Sierra Club, Public Citizen, and individuals from the West Texas areas of Sweetwater and Abilene raised questions about how a proposed Tenask ...
  
  
  
• Austin Community College: A Leader in Sustainabili ...
  
  As a student at Austin Community College, I have witnessed the school adopt many environmental programs and truly set a great example to its student as to how be good stewards of our environment. The college has been recently featured in the Times magazine to recognize its new Renewable Energy Progr ...
  
  
  
• Power to the People: The Fair Elections Now Act
  
  As early as the time of Socrates, people have identified money as a corruptive influence in politics, specifically in democracies.  Elections now cost double and triple what they used to, which means more and more of our Senators’ and Representatives’ time is spent dialing for dollars.  Th ...
  
  
  

Press TV

• Iraqi MPs pass new electoral law
  
  Iraqi lawmakers have finally ended a long-running impasse over a law needed for parliamentary elections to be held next year, paving the way for political reconciliation and the withdrawal of US troops.
  
  
  
• Turkish police clash with Kurdish demonstrators, 1 ...
  
  One man was shot dead on Sunday in southeastern Turkey in clashes between Turkish police and demonstrators denouncing the prison conditions of jailed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan.
  
  
  
• 12 killed in bus crash in Syria
  
  At least twelve people were killed and seven injured when a passenger bus collided with a lorry on the main highway between Damascus and Baghdad on Sunday.
  
  
  
• Polls show challenger ahead in Romania run-off
  
  Romania's presidential candidates are once again running neck and neck, with each claiming victory in Sunday's run-off election.
  
  
  
• Viva Palestina will head to Gaza
  
  An international aid convoy is scheduled to take humanitarian supplies to the Gaza Strip from London, marking the first year anniversary of Israel's three week war against Gazans.
  
  
  

Axis of Logic

• If capitalism is crap, what's the solution?
  
  
  
  
  
• Israel’s Impunity for War Crimes
  
  
  
  
  
• Manipulating the Honduran Election Results
  
  
  
  
  
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• Bogus Honduran Elections Today: Hypocrites Washing ...
  
  
  
  
  

They Gave Us a Republic

• "It should be more easy to get out of war than int ...
  
  The irreplaceable Bill Moyers on how the separation of war powers in the U.S. Constitution was designed to make it more difficult, not easier, for the nation to indulge in war. Our founders knew too well the habits of European kings who went to war at the drop of a royal hat or for the lust of a roy ...
  
  
  
• It wasn't a factual account! It was just an idea f ...
  
  I miss out on so much wingnutty goodness by having a family that consists of sane people. There is not a single birther, tenther, truther, or Faux Noise fanboy in the bunch. (You try to make a tenth amendment case to one of my family members and you will get smacked down with the ninth: "The enumera ...
  
  
  
• Saving the Middle Class - Liberally
  
  I am a Liberal, and I support government building a strong middle-class by creating good jobs and preventing Wall Street from cheating working people. Elizabeth Warren, chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel, explains how pro-bank, anti-worker policies over the past 30 years have brought the mid ...
  
  
  
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  
  Throw out everything from the stupid emailers, and the evidence is still overwhelming. Next!  "The UN's official panel on climate change has hit back at sceptics' claims that the case for human influence on global warming has been exaggerated. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sai ...
  
  
  
• Welcome to the Hypocrisy Hall of Fame!
  
  My email from the DCCC had a link to the following this afternoon.  Interesting reading... Hypocrisy Alert: 68 House Republicans Take Credit for the Economic Bills They Opposed Welcome to the Hypocrisy Hall of Fame! These Republicans have been caught trying to celebrate the benefits of projects they ...
  
  
  

Care 2

• You Gotta See It to Believe It -Restoring the Fore ...
  
  Watch this video showing the work of Stream Team - healing the earth one forest at a time...And find out how YOU can be part of effort! Submitted by Chris Otahal to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  
  
  
• Diver Vs. Whale
  
  What would you do if you were scuba diving and unexpectedly faced a huge whale or whale shark? Would you have the guts to try and find out which species you are face to fin with, or would you thank your stars the gigantic creature hadn't seen you and swim Submitted by Daphna Yanez to Environment  | ...
  
  
  
• 4 Childhood Lessons & Climate Change
  
  There is so much complexity in the politics of climate change right now, but as the Copenhagen climate negotiations heat up, I think there are a few simple childhood lessons to review or keep in mind. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  
  
  
• Beautiful brute: Famed Lincoln Grizzly changing lo ...
  
  You once needed a camera or really bad luck to see the Lincoln Grizzly. Since the 830-pound bear died in a car collision two years ago, he’s been sitting in the window of the Lincoln Ranger District office. And in that time, he may have done more good Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat  |   Note ...
  
  
  
• Man arrested for dealing drugs
  
  WATERVLIET, N.Y.- A Watervliet man accused of dealing drugs is behind bars after multiple police agencies discover he's supplied over 40 kilos of cocaine to local drug dealers over the last several years. Submitted by Dee C. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  
  
  

GreenBiz

• A Dozen Tips for the Total Greening of Your Busine ...
  
  During the past several years, the word "green" has taken on new meaning and usage as it has quickly entered the business vernacular in its many forms. What does it mean to select, design and operate a business in the era of green?
  
  
  
• ICLEI USA Unveils Comprehensive Toolkit for Greeni ...
  
  ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability USA launches a comprehensive resource today to guide cities and countries, step by step, through the process of greening their communities.
  
  
  
• The Value of Building Commissioning
  
  Much of the attention in the green building world is focused on the most flashy techniques or the latest technology, but there's an old-fashioned yet very green building technique that's starting to recapture interest: Building commissioning.
  
  
  
• Kohl's Aims for Carbon Neutrality by Close of 2010
  
  Kohl's Department Stores has set it sights for its U.S. stores, distribution centers and corporate offices to operate with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by the close of 2010.
  
  
  
• How Local Ingenuity Can Model Success for Sustaina ...
  
  With world leaders poised to begin climate talks, it's time to apply lessons learned locally to the global playing field. We need critical thinking and action by leaders who are willing to apply those local solutions to drive change at a global scale.
  
  
  

Reuters Global

• Darfur: Is the war over or is the world losing int ...
  
  It's more than six years since mostly non-Arab rebels in Sudan's western Darfur region revolted after accusing Khartoum of neglecting their remote corner of Africa's biggest country. Khartoum's U.N. Ambassador, Abdalmahmoud Abdalhaleem, declared in New York this week that the "war in Darfur is over. ...
  
  
  
• What to do while the world burns
  
  GlobalPost's Mort Rosenblum on how we're out of time on global warming and why Copenhagen needs to get some tangible laws.
  
  
  
• Other rumbles in the Iran nuclear storm
  
  In the sound and fury following the U.N. nuclear governors' censure of Iran last week for its cover-up of a second uranium enrichment site, and Tehran's rejection of a nuclear cooperation deal with world powers, a broader, festering issue was obscured.
  
  
  
• History comes alive at Demjanjuk trial
  
  Entering the Munich court this week to cover the trial of John Demjanjuk, 89, accused of helping to force 27,900 Jews into gas chambers at an extermination camp in 1943, was like stepping into a history book.
  
  
  
• War and Peace, by Barack Obama
  
  On Dec. 10, Barack Obama will star at a glittering ceremony in Oslo to receive the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. That's just nine days after he ordered 30,000 additional American troops into a war many of his fellow citizens think the U.S. can neither win nor afford.
  
  
  

Ezra Klein

• Tab dump
  
  1) Bob Kuttner recounts his back-and-forth with Obama. 2) Explaining the persistence of poverty. 3) DC's panda is getting sent back to China . Pretty clear evidence that obama's recent trip was a failure, no? 4) Good post by Dylan Matthews on the systemic bias towards pro-war opinions. Recipe of ...
  
  
  
• Will AIG have its revenge?
  
  Gabe Sherman's look at the tussle over whether AIG's traders should get fat salaries seems to come down to this: The company is scheduled to pay another $198 million in retention payments to some 240 remaining FP employees in March 2010. Right now, according to AIG executives and Treasury sources ...
  
  
  
• Imagining the world of inaction
  
  A nice point from Jonathan Cohn: When corralling sixty votes depends on winning over some combination of Senators Susan Collins, Joe Lieberman, Ben Nelson and Olympia Snowe, passing truly liberal legislation is going to be difficult, if not possible. The only way to change that is by electing more ...
  
  
  
• Meet the new Senate, not the same as the old Senat ...
  
  Breaking a filibuster is a bit of a time-suck. You have to call a cloture vote, then wait for 30 hours while that cloture vote "ripens." That's fine if you only have to do it every once in awhile, but if it's on every amendment, often multiple times a day? No good. Recognizing this, Harry Reid stru ...
  
  
  
• No grand bargains
  
  I was talking with a conservative deficit hawk earlier today, who said that the greatest disappointment in this debate has been that five or 10 Republicans didn't come together and create a voting bloc for a bill with better cost controls. That's right, and it's weird, too. The relevant math of he ...
  
  
  

Booman Tribune

• Casual Observation
  
  If I grew up in Alaska I probably would have considered going to college in Hawaii, too. But I don't think I would have been surprised or disappointed to discover that Hawaii is filled with Pacific Islanders. Just sayin'.
  
  
  
• Serious Question
  
  Does this Tiger Woods controversy matter to you? Does it mean anything?
  
  
  
• Motivational Speaking
  
  I see that things are also going swimmingly in Iraq.
  
  
  
• The Age of Bloodthirsty Partisan Bloggers
  
  According to John Fund the only reason the Democrats haven't given up their effort to pass health care is because they are afraid of bloodthirsty bloggers. I think that is some pretty idiotic analysis. But things sure have improved from the days when you had to no way to know how members of Congre ...
  
  
  
• Land of the Brave Right Wing Hoax
  
  Too bad it's all a fictional land, (though one apparently Glenn Beck's Project 9/12 website lives in) but still ... Tedd Petruna's email about a passenger preventing a potential hijacking by "A-Rab Terrists" (h/t to Talking Points Memo)that has gone viral among conservatives reads like parody, bu ...
  
  
  

European Tribune

• Sunday Open Thread
  
  For your idle and not so idle chatter...
  
  
  
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 6 ...
  
   A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:1921 – Birth of...
  
  
  
• Saturday Open Thread
  
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Futurismic

• The Adventures of Phil Wade
  
  [based on a true story, Sarah tells me - Ed.] 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 ...
  
  
  
• Cellphone app could help illegal immigrants
  
  This is going to be controversial: A UC San Diego professor said he has developed a cell phone tool that may help guide illegal immigrants safely across the border. Similar to the way hungry drivers can find a restaurant through the global positioning system devices in their cars and cell phones, il ...
  
  
  
• Wikipedia’s frontiers
  
  Here’s an interesting thinking-out-loud piece at The Guardian from Mark Graham, which responds to those suggestions from the other week that Wikipedia is losing editors because the crowdsourced encyclopedia is ‘complete’. Wikipedia still has much to do: the map above suggests there are still w ...
  
  
  
• Bionic limb pr0n
  
  If you’re fascinated by bionic limbs and other prosthetic technologies, you’ll want to be checking out Wired’s gallery of photos showcasing the current state of the art – we’re still a good distance from the uncanny valley in this field, but the actual utility and ergonomics of the designs ...
  
  
  
• Somalian pirate ’stock exchange’
  
  The Somalian tanker pirates are back in the news – apparently they’ve set up a sort of ’stock exchange’ to handle the influx of business and investment opportunities and feed their ransom money back into the local area [via BoingBoing; image by bazylek100] The gangs have made tens of million ...
  
  
  

Therapy News

• Creative Therapy Program in NYC Shows Marked Succe ...
  
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary In a time when most tales from the world of mental health are focused on the inadequacy of care and the difficulty that many have in accessing professional help, the observation of those programs and initiatives that are actually experiencing success and bringing a gre ...
  
  
  
• Ten-Year Study Shows Loneliness can be Contagious
  
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Plenty of medical health issues are understood as being contagious, and specific measures are taken to avoid encouraging their spread. But can mental health concerns be contagious? A new study conducted at the University of Chicago with collaboration from the Universit ...
  
  
  
• Study Suggests Pet Ownership for Mental health is ...
  
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline The benefits of pet ownership may be quite clear to those who enjoy taking care of and being around animals, but while pets have been show to increase overall mental well-being, a just-published study in the journal Family Process notes that mental health professional ...
  
  
  
• Is it an Affair?
  
  By Dana Vince, LMHC, Infidelity Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Dana and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile There is the obvious definition of an affair, having sex with someone other than your spouse. But are there different types of affairs? And now that we have the Internet, how do ...
  
  
  
• Are You Willing to Lower Your Anxiety?
  
  By Ernest S. Schmidt, LCSW Click here to contact Ernest and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile While you can seek out many powerful tools and methods to reduce anxiety, including cognitive behavioral therapy, relaxation exercises, and general stress management counseling, whether or not these method ...
  
  
  

Mountaintop Removal

• Kennedy to attend W.Va. mountaintop mining rally - ...
  
  State Journal Kennedy to attend W.Va. mountaintop mining rally phillyBurbs.com AP Robert Kennedy Jr. is coming to Charleston to call for an end to mountaintop removal mining on Coal River Mountain. The son of the late Sen. ... Kennedy to Attend Rally in Charleston Dec. 7 WVNS all 14 news articles  ...
  
  
  
• Bomb Appalachia (and Face the Music) - Huffington ...
  
  Treehugger Bomb Appalachia (and Face the Music) Huffington Post (blog) Use of mountaintop removal has exploded since 2002, when the Bush administration began changing the wording of exemptions to a rule requiring stream buffer ... Ashley Judd to speak after screening of "Coal Country" Examiner.com ...
  
  
  
• Kennedy Protests Mountaintop Removal - WCHS
  
  Kennedy Protests Mountaintop Removal WCHS ... the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, and Climate Ground Zero to protest blasting on Coal River Mountain as well as mountaintop removal mining. ...
  
  
  
• Mountaintop removal opponent starts hunger strike ...
  
  WOWK Mountaintop removal opponent starts hunger strike at Capitol Charleston Gazette An 81-year-old opponent of mountaintop-removal mining started a fast on Monday that he hopes will draw attention to and help end the controversial practice. ... 81-year-old activist begins fast to end mountaintop r ...
  
  
  
• Coal industry offers cautious, diplomatic response ...
  
  Coal industry offers cautious, diplomatic response to Sen. Byrd comments on ... Chicago Tribune Robert C. Byrd's attack on mountaintop removal mining. The National Mining Association said Friday it agrees with most of the West Virginia Democrat's ...
  
  
  

Memeorandum

• Obama Silent On Public Option In Speech To Senator ...
  
  The Huffington Post : Obama Silent On Public Option In Speech To Senators   —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  As President Obama finished his speech to the Democratic caucus in the Capitol's Mansfield Room on Sunday afternoon, Joe Lieberman made his way over to Harry Reid.  —  The independe ...
  
  
  
• Stolen E-Mail, Stoking the Climate Debate (Clark H ...
  
  Clark Hoyt / New York Times : Stolen E-Mail, Stoking the Climate Debate   —  AS world leaders prepare to meet tomorrow in Copenhagen to address global warming, skeptics are pointing to e-mail hacked from a computer server at a British university as evidence that the conference may be much ado a ...
  
  
  
• Understanding Climategate's Hidden Decline (Marc S ...
  
  Marc Sheppard / American Thinker : Understanding Climategate's Hidden Decline   —  Close followers of the Climategate controversy know that much of the mêlée surrounds an email in which Climate Research Unit (CRU) chief Phil Jones wrote about using “Mike's Nature Trick” (MNT) to “hide t ...
  
  
  
• Gates Expects 2-4 Years of Big Afghan Role for U.S ...
  
  Associated Press : Gates Expects 2-4 Years of Big Afghan Role for U.S.   —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Robert Gates says Americans should expect a significant U.S. military presence in Afghanistan for two years to four years more.  —  Just as in Iraq, the U.S. eventually will tur ...
  
  
  
• Democrats consider new presidential nominating pro ...
  
  Mark Preston / CNN : Democrats consider new presidential nominating process   —  Washington (CNN) - National Democrats are considering changing the presidential nominating process, by establishing a new primary calendar and deemphasizing the influence lawmakers and political insiders have on c ...
  
  
  

Energy & Environment News

• Green Inc. Column: Trimming the Costs of Wind Powe ...
  
  Significant challenges remain before the wind-energy industry can achieve its potential, and chief among these is cost.
  
  
  
• Expect Temperatures to Rise in Copenhagen
  
  Take your pick: Will it be islanders against the landlocked, developing against developed, or OPEC against clean fuel?
  
  
  
• Betting on Copenhagen
  
  The vital issues facing next week's Copenhagen Climate Talks, from an (informed) alien perspective.
  
  
  
• In Marin County, a Public Fight Over Private Contr ...
  
  Communities in the Bay Area wrestle with whether private-public partnerships in municipal services make financial and environmental sense during tough economic times.
  
  
  
• As Sewers Fill, Waste Poisons Waterways
  
  Many sewer systems are overwhelmed, spilling excrement, medical waste and chemicals into waterways.
  
  
  

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.1, Mid-Indian Ridge
  
  Thursday, December 3, 2009 06:28:49 UTC Thursday, December 3, 2009 11:28:49 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  
  
  
• M 6.0, southern East Pacific Rise
  
  Thursday, December 3, 2009 06:12:32 UTC Wednesday, December 2, 2009 10:12:32 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  
  
  
• M 5.3, Philippine Islands region
  
  Tuesday, December 1, 2009 16:11:09 UTC Wednesday, December 2, 2009 12:11:09 AM at epicenter Depth : 91.10 km (56.61 mi)
  
  
  
• M 5.2, Malawi
  
  Sunday, December 6, 2009 18:29:13 UTC Sunday, December 6, 2009 08:29:13 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  
  
  
• M 5.1, Malawi
  
  Sunday, December 6, 2009 18:00:01 UTC Sunday, December 6, 2009 08:00:01 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  
  
  

China Dialogue

• Copenhagen: what does China want?
  
  Some of the country's top climate officials and experts recently gathered in Beijing to discuss China's position at key negotiations on global warming. Cao Haili reports. What stance will China adopt at the climate-change talks in Copenhagen – and what do the country's climate experts think? To fi ...
  
  
  
• A warming debate in India
  
  There is little consensus on climate policy in India, where growth-first advocates battle it out with global-warming cynics and beleaguered progressives. Navroz K Dubash reports. US climate politics loom large on the global stage. The twists and turns of senate deliberations are a favoured topic amo ...
  
  
  
• Two faces of China's coal industry
  
  A project in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, could eventually clean up the planet's fastest growing source of greenhouse gases. Jonathan Watts reports. The world's newest carbon citadel rises up between the blasted deserts of Inner Mongolia and the coal-black lands of Shaanxi province . Ordos is a city t ...
  
  
  
• When the ice melts (2)
  
  Greenlanders have been master survivors and have little to fear from global warming, writes Fiona Harvey. The real disruptions will be felt in sub-Saharan Africa, south-east Asia and southern Europe. Denmark has a special interest in climate change, in part because of its sense of responsibility – ...
  
  
  
• When the ice melts (1)
  
  Greenland is warming up. Its glaciers are moving faster and its ice sheet is disappearing. And, reports Fiona Harvey, it is all happening worryingly faster than science predicted. Disko Bay lay glinting with ice on the bright afternoon we sailed in. Icebergs as big as buses floated among others the ...
  
  
  

AlterNet Top Stories

• Defense Contractor Makes Up Wild Islamic Terrorism ...
  
  Weird story.
  
  
  
• Krauthammer: My Pants Don't Tingle When Obama Gets ...
  
  War isn't a matter of national security for the neocon.
  
  
  
• Unfriendly Fire: Michael Tomasky Attacks Michael M ...
  
  I am so sick of hearing this straw man argument from liberals.
  
  
  
• Cops Taze Disturbed, Unarmed Naked Man to Death fo ...
  
  Thank God for safe, humane, non-lethal technology.
  
  
  
• Good Cod Almighty, We've Got a Global Fishing Cris ...
  
  Cos is providing the most evidence for the unsustainable manner in which civilized humans are pillaging the oceans in search of cheap and plentiful protein.
  
  
  

Threat Level

• AOL Ditches Security Tokens To Make Logging In Eas ...
  
  AOL customers who sprang for the company’s $10 “PassCode” security token to harden their account can get ready to toss their fancy crypto-numeric keyfobs in the same landfill as all those CD-ROMs AOL mailed them in the 1990s. As the Virginia-based company prepares for its December 10 spin off ...
  
  
  
• Yahoo Issues Takedown Notice for Spying Price List
  
  Yahoo isn’t happy that a detailed menu of the spying services it provides law enforcement agencies has leaked onto the web. Shortly after Threat Level reported this week that Yahoo had blocked the FOIA release of its law enforcement and intelligence price list, someone provided a copy of the comp ...
  
  
  
• Report: U.S. Fears Public Scrutiny Would Scuttle A ...
  
  The proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement has been shrouded in secrecy, and the Bush and the Obama administrations have declared it unsuitable for public debate because divulging its contents could harm America’s “national security.” A few recent leaks have showed that the unfinished ag ...
  
  
  
• Geez, Google Wants to Take Over DNS, Too
  
  Google now wants to be your browser’s phone book, launching a DNS service Thursday in hopes that users will let the ad and search giant take over yet another part of their net experience. Browsers ask Domain Name Service servers (DNS) to translate urls like http://wired.com into the web addresses ...
  
  
  
• Feds Prosecuting More Counterfeiters, IP Pirates
  
  Federal prosecutions of criminal counterfeiting and copyright infringement cases have jumped over the past five years, as have IP-related prison terms, according to a Justice Department report. The congressionally required report reviewed dozens of cases involving counterfeited pharmaceutical drugs, ...
  
  
  

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Amazon says no plans to open physical stores
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc , the world's largest online retailer, has no plans to open stores anywhere in the world, it said on Sunday, in response to a report it was planning to open high street shops in Britain.
  
  
  
• UPDATE 2-Kuwait sells Citi stake, makes $1.1 bln
  
  * Says had invested about $3 bln in preferred stocks in 2008
  
  
  
• OECD warns public debt jeopardizes recovery: repor ...
  
  MILAN (Reuters) - Countries with mounting public debt jeopardize the sustainability of their economic recovery from the global financial crisis over the next several years, the OECD's new chief economist said in a interview in an Italian newspaper.
  
  
  
• Philippine media may seek U.N. role in massacre pr ...
  
  MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine media groups may ask the United Nations' to intervene in a probe into the massacre of 57 people in a suspected clan feud that has stoked tensions ahead of elections next May, six local journalist groups said on Thursday.
  
  
  
• Sunshine, sewage to power cities of the future
  
  LILLE, France (Reuters) - "These are the three giant stomachs of Lille."
  
  
  

Pine River World News

• Blogmaster musings: Product Review - Prestone's Ic ...
  
  Pine River World News December 6, 2009 It's not too often I take the time to write a product review. In fact, I think this is the first time since I praised the lubricant qualities of Wholesome Farms 'Whipped Spread' - a 'butter substitute' - that I currently use to grease the hinges on my Chevy pi ...
  
  
  
• YEMEN: Houthis officially take on Saudi forces
  
  IntelTrends - The following article is from Press TV, Tehran. Houthis officially take on Saudi forces ©   Press TV December 5, 2009 Houthi fighters say they have opened a front against Saudi Arabia in northern Yemen, as the Saudi invaders reportedly step up their offensives against the Shia popul ...
  
  
  
• Paul Craig Roberts: Trickle-up Economics
  
  The following column is reprinted with permission from Paul Craig Roberts. Trickle-up Economics ©  Paul Craig Roberts December 4, 2009 Goldman Sachs senior executives are arming themselves with New York gun permits, according to Alice Schroeder on Bloomberg.com. The banksters "are now equipped to ...
  
  
  
• Pak editorial describes Obama's new Afghanistan p ...
  
  The following editorial is from The Frontier Post, Peshawar, Pakistan. A jigsaw puzzle ©   The Frontier Post December 4, 2009 It is hard to make out a clear sense of President Barack Obama's new Afghan policy. It is a jigsaw puzzle. In the same breath, he has spoken of escalating the war and the w ...
  
  
  
• Saudi editorial: Afghan surge
  
  The following editorial is from Arab News, Jeddah. Editorial:  Afghan surge ©   Arab News December 3, 2009 After three long months of careful consultation with military and foreign policy advisers, it must be hoped that there is actually more to President Barack Obama's plan for U.S. operations in ...
  

  PDA AMERICA

  
  
• More Troops Are Wrong Answer in Afghanistan
  
  By Paulette Garin President Obama’s authorization to send another 30,000-plus troops to Afghanistan is clearly a move in the wrong direction. Our involvement in Afghanistan has been morally suspect and legally questionable from its inception. Who ...
  
  
  
• Kucinich in the News on Afghanistan
  
  Congressman Kucinich is making a major impact in his challenge to the escalation of the war in Afghanistan. See the following: MSNBC, The Ed Show, December ...
  
  
  
• Healthcare Not Warfare Field Call Dec
  
  On this call we had the Co-Chair of our Healthcare NOT Warfare campaign, Donna Smith, update us on the fast breaking news that the Sanders Amendment has been intouduced on the floor of the Senate. ...
  
  
  
• Tim Carpenter Interview with Richard Hill WPKN
  
  Host Richard Hill talks with Tim Carpenter, national director of Progressive Democrats of America, about strategies for promoting a progressive agenda in the light of recent political developments.
  
  
  
• Afghanistan: the Roach Motel of Empires
  
  By Dr. Zoltan Grossman | AfterDowningStreet.org In just a few months, Afghanistan will surpass Vietnam as the longest single war fought by the United States in its history. In his West Point speech on November 30, ...
  
  
  

Marler Blog

• It is against the law to have E. coli O157:H7 (a.k ...
  
  This morning’s papers across the United States are covered with paralyzed, former dancer, Stephanie Smith’s battle against food giant, Cargill. Cargill’s hamburger, sold at Wal-Mart, nearly killed Stephanie with Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome , and has left her, with brain damage, with failing kid ...
  
  
  
• Safeway and Beef Packers, Inc.'s (Cargill) Recall ...
  
  Safeway in cooperation with Beef Packers, Inc.’s (Cargill) recall of 22,000 pounds of fresh ground beef that may be linked to an outbreak of Salmonella, Safeway Inc. is recalling fresh ground beef products with "Sell By” dates of September 28 through October 11, 2009. The recall affects all stor ...
  
  
  
• More Video of what Cargill E. coli Hamburger did t ...
  
  This video was produced by the New York Times less than two months ago:
  
  
  
• Dancer Paralyzed by E. coli Infection Sues Meat Gi ...
  
  The Story of Stephanie Smith Captivated a Nation Stephanie Smith, the twenty-two year old Minnesota dance instructor left paralyzed by a burger tainted with E. coli filed suit today against Cargill, who produced the contaminated meat. Ms. Smith, whose “The Burger that Shattered Her Life” profil ...
  
  
  
• A Dancer's Fight with E. coli O157:H7
  
  We are filing suit on behalf of Stephanie Smith, the young dancer profiled in the New York Times , against food giant Cargill in Federal Court.  Here is a video of her story:
  
  
  

AutoblogGreen

• Et tu, Clarkson? Top Gear names Toyota Priu ...
  
  2010 Toyota Prius - Click above for high-res image gallery Jeremy Clarkson seems to hate anything that "greens up" or in any other way adds an "eco" label to his cars - and some environmentalists don't exactly appreciate the television host either - so it's with some amusement that we learn that ...
  
  
  
• AutoblogGreen for 12.04.09
  
  LA 2009: Mitsubishi will bring an EV to U.S. in 2011, but it might not be the i-MiEV Really. Shoot. LA 2009: First Fisker Karmas now expected to hit showrooms in Sept. 2010 Delays were expect ...
  
  
  
• LA 2009: Audi A3 TDI named 2010 Green Car of the Y ...
  
  Filed under: LA Auto Show , Hatchback , Audi , Diesel Audi A3 TDI - Click above for high-res image gallery At the LA Auto Show this morning, the Audi A3 TDI was crowned the 2010 Green Car of the Year, wresting the title away from last year's winner, the Volkswagen Jetta TDI . Even though thre ...
  
  
  
• Best Buy Geek Squads to start testing Mitsubishi i ...
  
  Filed under: LA Auto Show , Hatchback , Mitsubishi , Specialty , Electric Mitsubishi Geek Squad i-MiEV - Click above for high-res image gallery While Mitsubishi didn't unveil any new vehicles at the LA Auto Show today, company president Osamu Masuko did announce the latest step in his company's ...
  
  
  
• AutoblogGreen for 12.03.09
  
  LA 2009: Officially, Official: Golden state to get first dibbs on the Chevy Volt A bit of a reward for relentlessly pushing for plug-in vehicles. LA 2009: Mitsubishi unveils Geek Squad i-MiEV, brings PX-M ...
  
  
  

Rafe's Radar

• Reporters' Roundtable Podcast: Air travel tech
  
  This week on the Roundtable: air travel and technology. As we all get ready to spend lots of time in airplanes, and quite likely more time in airports waiting for airplanes, I thought it'd be appropriate to bring in experts on the topic of modern air travel. And we have two great guests for this ...
  
  
  
• The yogurt makers of tech: Gadgets to avoid
  
  Don't buy these one-trick ponies--unless you like gizmos that gather dust.
  
  
  
• Boxee gets Clicker app, but not all Clicker data
  
  Clicker really was made for a living-room app like Boxee. But Boxee itself is feeling a bit crowded.
  
  
  
• Asana promises workplace nirvana
  
  Heavy on vision but light on the details, new workplace apps company emerges from Facebook tech talents. Originally posted at Webware
  
  
  
• Reporters' Roundtable Podcast: Tech biz turkeys
  
  Why is it that as Thanksgiving approaches, when we should be focusing on the good things in our lives, journalists take the opportunity to talk about what's bad? I don't know, but I do know that I'm not immune to the trend. This week on the Reporters' Roundtable: tech business turkeys! Unlike t ...
  
  
  

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

• The Globe and Mail: Amy Goodman's border woes has ...
  
  The Globe and Mail: Canada Border Services Agency won’t comment on why the host of the widely syndicated radio and TV program Democracy Now had her speech checked at border Read more
  
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
  
• Breaking News: Morocco Blocks Human Rights Activis ...
  
  Updated on Saturday at 2:35 a.m. Earlier this week Democracy Now! covered the story of thje Western Saharan human rights activist Aminatou Haidar . She has been on a hunger strike for three weeks since being deported against her will by Moroccan authorities occupying her homeland. Haidar, known a ...
  
  
  
• Vancouver Observer: Amy Goodman Gets Brilliant Sto ...
  
  Read the Vancouver Observer article about Amy Goodman’s detention at the Canadian border: “Well, it’s official. Suspicion of criticizing the 2010 Olympics gets you on a watch list at the Canadian border. Want to come to Canada and discuss the environmental shame that is the tar sands? Go ah ...
  
  
  
• Tavis Smiley interviews Amy Goodman
  
  Check out Tavis Smiley’s interview with Amy Goodman Watch / Listen / Read transcript
  
  
  

Farming Pathogens

• Pigs Do Fly! Implications for Influenza
  
  The influenza genome is segmented. Eight pieces of single-stranded RNA encode for 11 proteins: PB2, PB1, PB1-F2, PA, HA, NP, NA, M1, M2, NS1, and NS2. The segmentation allows influenza of different subtypes infecting the same host to trade segments like card players on a Friday night. Most of the re ...
  
  
  
• Breeding Influenza: The Political Virology of Offs ...
  
  What better way to medicate against a holiday’s genocidal origins and the hunger now swelling worldwide in the wake of a related banker-brought recession than with a bellyful of turkey, stuffing, yams, and pumpkin pie? Despite its rotten ambiguities Thanksgiving remains my favorite American holida ...
  
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
  

Digg Green

• The Fiction Of Climate Science - Forbes.com
  
  Why the climatologists get it wrong. Many of you are too young to remember, but in 1975 our government pushed "the coming ice age." Random House dutifully printed "THE WEATHER CONSPIRACY … coming of the New Ice Age." This may be the only book ever written by 18 authors. All 18 lived just a short ...
  
  
  
• British weather service to publish 150 years of da ...
  
  Britain's Met Office national weather service said Saturday it would publish data from weather stations worldwide and had "every confidence" it would show temperatures had risen in the last 150 years.
  
  
  
• Dept of Energy: Wind Farms Have No Impact on Prope ...
  
  Economists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have found no conclusive evidence of any widespread property value impacts in communities surrounding wind energy facilities.
  
  
  
• Google, Schwarzenegger Unveil Tool to Battle Clima ...
  
  Internet search giant Google--along with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger--has unveiled a version of Google Earth that predicts both sea level changes and wild fire danger caused by global warming
  
  
  
• Study shows variability in ocean's CO2 uptake
  
  There are substantial variations in the amount of carbon being absorbed by the North Atlantic Ocean, a study shows.
  
  
  

Invisible Opportunity

• Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright and Sporting Wood
  
  By Les Visible The explosive nature of this climate scam is epic. It’s off the charts and the silence of the S&MSM is, against all the laws of physics, acting as an amplifier. This one has legs, not smooth and shaved, velveteen columns from the pipe organ of Heaven but Kenyan, long distance runnin ...
  
  
  
• Your Endangered Mass Media needs Your Help
  
  By Les Visible This is the same free and independent media that shilled for the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and now Iran. This is the media that has been caught out in more proven lies than I can count. This is the free and independent media that didn’t cover the Gaza genocide and turns a blind [... ...
  
  
  
• BELL TOLLING for Swine Flu (Transcript)
  
  A few weeks ago we put up a YouTube of Sister Teresa.  Here is a transcript of that video. An interview with TERESA FORCADES Monastery of San Benet Montserrat – Barcelona 9/23/2009 TC: Teresa Forcades has corrected some of the figures and data quoted in this interview. My name is Teresa Forcade ...
  
  
  
• Osama bin Laden Responsible for the 9/11 Attacks? ...
  
  By David Ray Griffin The idea that Osama bin Laden was responsible for the 9/11 attacks has been an article of faith for public officials and the mainstream media. Calling it an “article of faith” points to two features of this idea. On the one hand, no one in these circles publicly challenges t ...
  
  
  
• Peru’s ‘human fat killers’ were ...
  
  I guess I have three questions about this story.  Was the first story the lie? Is this story the lie? Or are both stories lies? By Guy Adams When police in Peru announced that they’d broken up a criminal gang who roamed the Andes killing peasant farmers, draining the fat from their dead bodies, .
  

  Insurgency Watch - Posts

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

• The Secret to Legal Marijuana? Women
  
  Why women have signed onto marijuana reform -- and why they could be the movement's game-changers.
  
  
  
• 10 Signs the Failed Drug War Is Finally Ending
  
  2009 will go down as the beginning of the end of America's longest running war. Here's 10 reasons why.
  
  
  
• A Smart Way to Battle Drug Addiction and Save Live ...
  
  Harm reduction is a public health approach that stresses pragmatic solutions to social ills like substance abuse.
  
  
  
• The Feds Are Addicted to Pot -- Even If You Aren't
  
  The government keeps pushing the BS that pot is addictive and has serious health consequences. And no wonder -- lying about pot is a lucrative business.
  
  
  
• The War on Weed: Marijuana Is Basically Harmless - ...
  
  The war on marijuana is insane; our officials keep sacrificing tax dollars, lives, civil liberties, and their own credibility in this misguided and losing effort.
  
  
  

Twilight Earth

• Photo Sunday – Copenhagen
  
  Photo's of Copenhagen Denmark, where the United Nations Climate Change Conference is being held. Related posts: Social Media + Copenhagen = Hopenhagen Photo Sunday – The Truth of Clarity as Darkness Falls Photo Sunday – When its Raining on Sunday Morning
  
  
  
• Cop15 Clip Reel Videos – Watch Them Here Before ...
  
  Twilight Earth has a series of Clip Reel Video's that will be playing at the Copenhagen Climate Talks. You can now watch them here before they go to Copenhagen! Related posts: Social Media + Copenhagen = Hopenhagen Top 10 Climate Change Commercials (Videos) Time lapse proof of extreme ice loss – ...
  
  
  
• Dont Stop the Drilling to Save the Polar Bears
  
  Oil and Natural Gas drilling operations are endangering wildlife. Should we stop drilling to save Caribou and Polar Bear? No. Related posts: Out of Work Polar Bears in Washington D.C. Palin: Feds are Wrong, Beluga Whales and Polar Bears Need No Protection Eco Activist Buys Drilling Rights for 22, ...
  
  
  
• The Story of Cap and Trade – From the Makers of ...
  
  The Story of Cap & Trade is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution being discussed at Copenhagen and on Capitol Hill. Related posts: Downstream, the Modern Day David and Goliath Story of Big Oil in Canada Technology Transfer and Climate Change (Video) White House Farmers M ...
  
  
  
• Uncontacted Tribe Lands Bulldozed by Brazilian Ran ...
  
  A UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in Paraguay, inhabited by an uncontacted tribe is being bulldozed by Brazilian cattle ranchers. Related posts: Brazilian Cattle Ranchers to Destroy Tribe’s Forest Lands Uncontacted Brazilian Awa Tribe Members Flee Loggers Bulldozers Colombian Oil Company to Drill on ...
  
  
  

Inhabitat

• Make Your Own Solar Powered Shoes!
  
  If you’ve got an old pair of Chuck Taylors that you’re thinking about chucking, wait! Lost Values’ solar light kit can transform your tired footwear into a kick@$$ lighting fixture for the street. Inspired by the bizarre but prolific urban practice of throwing old sneakers over phone cables, t ...
  
  
  
• Fifth Annual Gorgeous & Green Benefit in San Franc ...
  
  This year’s Gorgeous & Green Gala is happening Tuesday, December 8th at the W Hotel in San Francisco and Inhabitat will be on the scene! If you would like to join us at the event, tickets are still on sale for this star-studded fundraiser benefitting Global Green and its many green initiatives; in ...
  
  
  
• California Approves Orbiting Solar Panel Project
  
  Earlier this year California’s biggest energy utility PG&E announced that they would purchase 200 megawatts of solar power beamed down from outer space starting in 2016. As out of this world the proposal may have seemed, it has recently found solid Earthly ground as the state’s legislators have ...
  
  
  
• One Ton CO2 Cube to be Dropped on Copenhagen
  
    While Barack Obama visits Copenhagen this week for the United Nations Framework Convention, he may catch a rousing and informative glimpse of a ton of CO2. And we don’t just mean “a lot” of exhaust coming out of his secret service’s cars – we mean an actual 27-foot cube of CO2. ...
  
  
  
• The Green Sight + Sound Eco Art Benefit is Tonight ...
  
  CALLING ALL SAN FRANCISCANS! If you’re looking for a way to recover from the rampant consumerism of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, you might want to head out to the Mina Dresden Gallery tonight for a chance to party, collect amazing eco-art, and support two non-profts at the green sight + sound b ...
  
  
  

Pogue's Posts

• What I Bought This Year
  
  People seem to be interested in what the consumer-tech columnist would buy for himself and his own family, so it seemed like a slam-dunk.
  
  
  
• Who Pays When an iPhone Is Stolen?
  
  Why AT&T is - surprisingly - not in the wrong when it comes to iPhone-replacement fees.
  
  
  
• Flight Track: My Personal Travel Assistant
  
  The travel app Flight Track is simple, useful and smarter than the airlines it keeps track of.
  
  
  
• A $25 Cellphone? That's Crazy Talk.
  
  This week, Palm released a follow up to the Pre, a cheaper, thinner, lesser phone called the Pixi. The official price is $100 with a two-year Sprint contract, but Amazon is selling the thing for - are you sitting down? - $25.
  
  
  
• Crowdsourcing Comedy on Amazon Reviews
  
  Some unexpected humor can be found in the reviews of the world's largest online retailer.
  
  
  

Open Your Eyes News

• Pesticides eyed in bee colony collapse
  
  UPI – Pesticides may play a primary role in the collapse of commercial bee colonies, which contribute billions to agriculture yearly, a U.S. study says.Last winter, 29 percent of hives in the U.S. succumbed to colony collapse disorder Suspected causes are mites, stress from shipping bees long dist ...
  
  
  
• Israel closes sole oil and gas terminal on Gaza bo ...
  
  Yahoo – The population of the Gaza Strip is facing an acute cooking gas shortage this winter, after a unilateral Israeli decision in October to permanently close the sole oil and gas terminal between the coastal Palestinian territory and the Jewish state. The Nahal Oz crossing has been shut down f ...
  
  
  
• Scientists Behaving Badly
  
  The Weekly Standard – Slowly and mostly unnoticed by the major news media, the air has been going out of the global warming balloon. Global temperatures stopped rising a few years ago, much to the dismay of the climate campaigners. The U.N.’s upcoming Copenhagen conference–which was supposed t ...
  
  
  
• Likely cause of drug-resistant epilepsy revealed
  
  BBC – Experts believe they have uncovered the root cause of “stubborn” epilepsy that fails to respond to drug treatment. Tests on patients’ brain tissue revealed some seizures are caused by electrical connections between nerve cells rather than chemical ones. Read Article
  
  
  
• Urgent relief needed for flood-ravaged PNG
  
  ABC News – Thousands of people need urgent relief supplies after heavy rains caused flooding in Papua New Guinea. Several days of heavy rain last week washed away food gardens, roads and bridges and contaminated water supplies across Oro Province. Authorities say up to 10,000 people need urgent re ...
  
  
  

Monkey Smashes Heaven

• Blacks, Latinos, Other Opressed Nations Are Born S ...
  
  Blacks, Latinos, Other Oppressed Nations are Born Stupid Say Imperialists by End Imperialism (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) It is widely accepted amongst scientists that “race” as a biological or genetic concept simply has no meaning; it does not exist in nature. (1) There is no single gen ...
  
  
  
• 25th Anniversary of Union Carbide murders in Bhopa ...
  
  25th Anniversary of Union Carbide murders in Bhopal,India (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Hundreds marched through the city of Bhopal, India to mark the 25th anniversary of the worst industrial accident on record. The marchers demand clean-up of their poisoned environment. In the face of the pu ...
  
  
  
• Gringos should pay their eco-debt
  
  Gringos should pay their eco-debt (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Recently, Brazil’s president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva or “Lula� commented on the First World and the current environmental crisis. Lula said that “gringos� should pay Amazonian countries to prevent defor ...
  
  
  
• Polish reactionaries attack communist symbols
  
  Polish reactionaries attack communist symbols (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Legislation to imprison and fine those who possess or buy communist symbols has been approved by Poland’s reactionary president Lech Kaczynski. Those who posses, purchase, or spread items or recordings containing co ...
  
  
  
• Polish reactionaries attack communist symbols
  
  Polish reactionaries attack communist symbols (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Legislation to imprison and fine those who possess or buy communist symbols has been approved by Poland’s reactionary president Lech Kaczynski. Those who posses, purchase, or spread items or recordings containing co ...
  
  
  

PakAlert

• U.S. Wars and the Opium Trade
  
  Sean Sailor When Turkey in the late 1940s became a site of NATO and US forces its rank became cemented as the number one supplier of opium to the heroin markets of the US and Europe. This illegal opium market was primarily centered in Europe, where the final processing into heroin was done before g ...
  
  
  
• Wake Up, America!
  
  This criminal cabal of power elites, banks, corporations, government officials, and the mainstream media have effectively destroyed our economy, and the foundation of constitutional government which we have taken for granted. These evil people have stolen the wealth of the US Treasury whilst exploit ...
  
  
  
• Obama’s speech on Afghanistan: A compendium of l ...
  
  In his December 1 speech at West Point announcing the deployment of 30,000 more US troops to Afghanistan, President Barack Obama attempted to justify a major escalation of a deeply unpopular war on the basis of lies and distortions. That he had to resort to such falsifications reflects both the reac ...
  
  
  
• Video: Camp FEMA – American Lockdown
  
  “An Excellent Documentary” With the film’s gathering of excellent interviews, it provides viewers a good glimpse at the horror that the US government is becoming by persecuting people based on their political beliefs. And while I was aware of some of the events such as the Missouri report on ...
  
  
  
• Operation Enduring Turmoil
  
  Pakistan has been labeled the most dangerous country in the world, (a safe haven for terrorists). The leaders of our country are eager to invade and the mainstream media is working tirelessly to create the fear that will allow them do so. The fact that only six corporations dominate our major media ...
  
  
  

ecogeek

• Oregon Wave Project Under Way
  
  A project to build the country's first wave power station off the coast of Oregon is finally moving forward.  Wave power company Ocean Power Technologies just signed a contract with Oregon Iron Works to start building 10 buoys, with the first one to be deployed a year from now off the coast of Ree ...
  
  
  
• Mitsubishi Develops EV Charging System for Apartme ...
  
  Even as electric car technology hurtles forward, there are still challenges remaining as to how to integrate them into our society.  How to make battery charging readily available to urban and apartment-dwelling drivers has been one of those challenges, but Mitsubishi has designed a system that co ...
  
  
  
• IBM and Syracuse Complete Green Data Center
  
  IBM and Syracuse have completed construction of the Green Data Center on the university's campus.  The data center will demonstrate new technologies and ways of gaining efficiency for other companies and nations looking to build better data centers. The project, first announced back in May , will ...
  
  
  
• On-Site WInd Power Provides 100% of Power to Data ...
  
  We've heard of data centers that are running on green power, though these are often mostly done through buying energy credits for distant generating facilities. But Woodstock, IL-based Other World Computing is the first to have 100% on-site wind power to run its operations. The 39 meter (128 f ...
  
  
  
• Volt Launch Will Begin in California
  
  Since last May , rumors have circulated that the Chevy Volt will start rolling out in California before other locations and that rumor was just made official at the LA Auto Show.  The Volt will become available to Californians late next year. The launch project will act as a demonstration of marke ...
  
  
  

Times Online - Science

• Dubai cheaper than Doncaster as room rates tumble
  
  In the wake of Dubai’s financial crisis, a night in a five-star hotel there is now cheaper than a night in a three-star property in Doncaster. Four-star hotels, including the Al Manar, are offering rates of less than £30 a night, and prestigious five-star city-centre properties have slashed ...
  
  
  
• My hols: Kelly Jones
  
  People imagine that touring is exotic and, yes, I have been to a lot of countries, but the truth is that the venues we play are often in low-rent areas or industrial parks on the edge of town.
  
  
  
• Neofile
  
  Enter the dragon
  
  
  
• News in brief
  
  Seat shortage ends space trips
  
  
  
• The weird and wonderful world of travel — ac ...
  
  The prophets of doom should fall silent: this has been an excellent year for new travel writing, including books by authors who made their name with travel, then moved to other genres. William Dalrymple hasn’t written a travel book in a decade, but Nine Lives (Bloomsbury £20) sees him in In ...
  
  
  

Environment _ National Geographic

• Crime-Fighting Leech Fingers Perp
  
  Police in Australia say a blood-engorged leech, through DNA testing, led them to a man responsible for the robbery eight years ago of a 71-year-old woman. Video
  
  
  
• Alligators Sing to Set Up Singles Clubs? (With Vid ...
  
  Only an alligator could truly understand the allure of this thunderous "chorus." But a new study says the song may be an invitation to reptilian romantic networking.
  
  
  
• Presented By:
• Leaves "Magnetized" by Air Pollution, Study Finds
  
  Although they wouldn't be physically attracted to a magnet, "magnetic" tree leaves along heavy traffic routes may offer a quick, cheap way to test for air pollution, a new study says.
  
  
  
• PICTURES: Best Mountain Photos of 2009 Announced
  
  A steam-shrouded bison, a bikini-clad diver, a seven-year-old shepherd, and other wild wonders stalk our selection of winning pictures from the latest Banff Mountain Photography Competition.
  
  
  

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

• Jon Stewart on Healthcare
  
  The Daily Show's Jon Stewart takes a look at the healthcare successes of the Democrats: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Democratic Super Majority www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Ron Paul Interview (h/t GottaLaff :)
  
  
  
• Score One For The Working Families Party in NYC
  
  Score two, actually... Via The Gotham Gazette, The Working Families Party , a political party that has made significant contributions to Connecticut's political landscape, has taken over New York city : Both Liu and de Blasio had the endorsement of the Working Families Party , yesterday and in th ...
  
  
  
• That's Alright Obama
  
  A little northern humour on the bailouts in the key of "eh?" The banks may not all be solvent but the comment threads are. Deposit your thoughts below.
  
  
  
• A Politician That Might Just Do What He Promises?
  
  A Middletown Township, Pennsylvania, politician telling you he has done nothing for the last 6 years: "Nobody does nothing better than Steve Young" H/T the Smirking Chimp and I have to wonder if this is even real? [update] Holy crap! It might just be for real and he is a Democratic candidate, a ...
  
  
  
• Goin' Down The Memory Hole
  
  It's Tengrain Presents... So you know you should get over there and read it all!
  
  
  

SPL Center

• Dobbs Courts Latino Support, Angers Nativists
  
  Think back to Jennifer Anniston’s distress when Brad Pitt dallied with Angelina Jolie; Debbie Reynolds’ angst when Eddie Fisher strayed with Elizabeth Taylor. Now meet the latest big-name heartbreaker: Lou Dobbs. No, he hasn’t left his wife. But some of his most ardent anti-immigratio ...
  
  
  
• Dutch Lawmaker Brings His Anti-Muslim Spiel to U.S ...
  
  A Dutch lawmaker notorious for his Muslim-bashing is scheduled to speak tonight at Temple University in Philadelphia. Geert Wilders, who has repeatedly compared the Koran to Hitler’s Mein Kampf, was for months banned from Britain because of concerns that his anti-Islamic views would trigger violen ...
  
  
  
• Anti-Black Hate Crimes Rise, Data Remains Flawed
  
  The FBI yesterday released its 2008 Hate Crime Statistics report. Overall, the numbers were up slightly, by 2 percent. One of the biggest jumps was in the number of anti-black hate crimes, which went up from 2,658 in 2007 to 2,876 in 2008. That constitutes a rise of nearly 8 percent. The jump in an ...
  
  
  
• Canadian Neo Nazi Wanted in Connection with Calgar ...
  
  A prominent member of a Canadian neo-Nazi group is wanted for attempted murder in connection with two bombings in Calgary. Police announced Monday that they’re looking for 24-year-old Kyle Robert McKee, along with a 17-year-old who cannot be publicly identified under Canadian law because he’s co ...
  
  
  
• Hal Turner Trial Set to Begin Tomorrow
  
  The federal trial for white supremacist Hal Turner is scheduled to begin tomorrow morning. Turner, a neo-Nazi blogger and Internet radio host, is charged with threatening to assault and murder three federal judges in Chicago. Turner wrote on his blog that they “deserve to be killed” and posted t ...
  
  
  

Rio Times

• Lula Biopic: Tears and Controversy
  
  By Jaylan Boyle, Senior Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - A film charting the rise of ‘the most popular politician on earth’ (according to Barack Obama), Brazilian president Luis Inacio ‘Lula’ da Silva, has been screened at a private gathering attended by many political luminaries, the President and ...
  
  
  
• Flamengo in First
  
  By Doug Gray, Senior Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO – They may have left it late, but their timing could not be better. Whilst first Palmeiras and now Sao Paulo appear to have faltered at the crucial minute, Flamengo finally seized the moment this weekend and surged to the top of the league with just one ...
  
  
  
• Rap Pioneer Fab 5 Freddy in Rio
  
  By Doug Gray, Senior Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - A genuine legend of hip hop arrived in Rio last week for the tenth and final Hutuz Rap Festival. Since the late 1990s Hutuz has recognized and rewarded the biggest names in Brazilian rap, graffiti and break dancing but finally bows out this year, though ...
  
  
  
• Christmas in Gramado
  
  By Davi Baldussi, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil is perhaps best known for it’s natural beauties, Rio, futbol (soccer), Carnival and a few more long said qualities. But there is a small city located in the state of Rio Grande do Sul (Big River of the South) named Gramado (Grass Plot ...
  
  
  
• Getting Mortgages in Brazil
  
  By Carlos Graffigna, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - The Brazilian banking system is not world-renowned for it’s transparent efficiency, and when a foreigner is looking to get a mortgage here, the process can be daunting. The first question that is usually considered for a mortgage in Braz ...
  
  
  

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• Hundreds of NYC Students 'Die' on 25th Anniversary ...
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 3, 2009 The International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal and The Yes Men Today hundreds of students in NYC joined protests around the world demanding accountability from Dow Chemical Company and the Indian government. Several hundred students from Parsons the New Schoo ...
  
  
  
• Are Obama and Clinton Being Honest About How Afgha ...
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 3, 2009 Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) "Only after the Taliban refused to turn over Osama bin Laden [did we send] our troops into Afghanistan." -- Barack Obama at West Point, Dec. 1 "[The Taliban] were given a chance to turn over al Qaeda and bin Laden before ...
  
  
  
• Food & Water Watch Victory Shows Power of Grassroo ...
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 3, 2009 Food & Water Watch "Food & Water Watch's campaign to give public schools the option of serving artificial hormone-free or organic milk proves that grassroots action really works. As a result of public pressure, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) dir ...
  
  
  
• UN: Use Upcoming Rights Review to Press North Kore ...
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 3, 2009 Human Rights Watch (HRW) United Nations member countries should call for an end to grave human rights violations in North Korea at the review of the nation's human rights record scheduled for December 7, 2009, Human Rights Watch said today. Issues to be raised ...
  
  
  
• Greenpeace Asks Schumer to Investigate Big Oil’s ...
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 3, 2009 Greenpeace Greenpeace Executive Director Phil Radford today sent a letter to Senate Rules and Administration Committee Chairman Chuck Schumer (D-NY) asking him to investigate the controversial "forum" co-sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute (API) and N ...
  
  
  

Common Dreams-Views

• An Open Letter to Congress From US Scientists on C ...
  
  by Climate Experts As U.S. scientists with substantial expertise on climate change and its impacts on natural ecosystems, our built environment and human well-being, we want to assure policy makers and the public of the integrity of the underlying scientific research and the need for urgent ...
  
  
  
• Not So Fast, Filibuster
  
  by Jim Naureckas The United States has made a dramatic change in its system of governance—with little debate or even attention paid in corporate media. read more
  
  
  
• Cancer From the Kitchen?
  
  by Nicholas D. Kristof The battle over health care focuses on access to insurance, or tempests like the one that erupted over new mammogram guidelines. But what about broader public health challenges? What if breast cancer in the United States has less to do with insurance or mammograms and more ...
  
  
  
• War No Longer an Option for Our Nation
  
  by Dr. Matthew G. Masiello "In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weigh ...
  
  
  
• Afghanistan: Why We Can't Win There
  
  by Robert P. Pearson Gen. Stanley McChrystal has asked the Obama administration for an additional 40,000 troops to win the war in Afghanistan. Unless you have lived or traveled extensively in Afghanistan, it is hard to understand why this is an impossible task. Once, right after 9/11, a friend of mi ...
  
  
  

Karl Burkart

• Finnish cleantech, Oy
  
  Finland's cleantech sector traces innovative industry back to ancient roots.
  
  
  
• Scroogenomics: an answer to 'cyber monday'
  
  'Cyber Monday' results in 33% spending surge, but Scroogenomics author warns of billions in waste.
  
  
  
• World's fastest computer to investigate climate
  
  Oak Ridge, TN is now home to 'Jaguar,' the world's fastest computer.
  
  
  
• Do you want to get green certified?
  
  Pinemark launches green certification.. for people.
  
  
  
• Orangutan speaks out on deforestation
  
  Princes Rainforest Project releases funny Orangutan video and a stunning interactive e-book.
  
  
  

Water Privatization

• The Record: Letters, Dec. 5, 2009 (The Record and ...
  
  Letters on mammograms, New Jersey's business climate, ERISA's protections, Old World values and the origins of a discussion group.
  
  
  
• Research and Markets: Opportunities in the Latin A ...
  
  DUBLIN----Research and Markets has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan's new report "Opportunities in the Latin American Municipal Water Sector" to their offering.
  
  
  
• Red Bluff votes to contract sewage plant (Red Bluf ...
  
  City staff is negotiating a contract with Southwest Water Company to take over the operation of the city-owned Red Bluff Waste Water Treatment Plant.
  
  
  
• Research and Markets: This Essential Analysis Fros ...
  
  DUBLIN----Research and Markets has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan's new report "Analysis of Indian Water and Wastewater Treatment Equipment" to their offering.
  
  
  
• In Marin County, a Public Fight Over Private Contr ...
  
  Pam Welsh was a retired risk management analyst immersed in her family's life when she learned this year that her Marin County bedroom community was considering a contract to have the world's largest water company operate the local sewage plant.
  
  
  

Guardian

• '14 days to seal history's verdict on this generat ...
  
  Tomorrow 56 newspapers in 45 countries take the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial. We do so because humanity faces a profound emergency. Unless we combine to take decisive action, climate change will ravage our planet, and with it our prosperity and security. T ...
  
  
  
• Minister sets China climate timetable
  
  Beijing official gives strong indicator for when China's output of greenhouse gases will start to fall China's carbon emissions will peak between 2030 and 2040, the country's science and technology minister told the Guardian as the global climate change summit began in Copenhagen. In an exclusive in ...
  
  
  
• Summit strategy: Making an impact
  
  Ensuring you get what you want out of an international negotiation is a tricky business. As Copenhagen begins, each country's delegation will be preparing for battle. Experienced summit-goers have honed their success strategies over the years. Here are some of their tips: 1. There's safety in number ...
  
  
  
• How the global editorial came about
  
  Today 56 major newspapers in 45 countries speak with one voice on climate change ahead of the Copenhagen summit. This is how it happened Climate change poses a particular challenge to journalists. It is almost incontrovertibly the biggest story we cover; perhaps the only one with genuinely existenti ...
  
  
  
• US downplays Afghan troop plans
  
  Obama administration softens July 2011 Afghanistan troop withdrawal target by describing timeline as 'signal of urgency' The Obama administration is striving to soften a contentious July 2011 target to begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, describing the timeline as a signal of urgency and the ...
  
  
  

Diigo | Green Community

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• Free classified Ads - beatyourprice.com
  
  Free classified Ads. buy and sell pets, computers, real estate, cars, business at beatyourprice.com Comments: Free classified Ads. buy and sell pets, computers, real estate, cars, business at beatyourprice.com - alexander hampp Tags: Best , Articles , green , environment , sustainability , organic , ...
  
  
  
• Green Credit Cards Committed to Environment
  
  Green Credit Cards Committed to Environment - Camden, New Jersey Comments: Green Credit Cards Committed to Environment - Camden, New Jersey - alexander hampp Tags: Green , Credit , Cards , Environment , sustainability , eco-friendly by: alexander hampp
  
  
  

Electronic Intifada

• Human currency
  
  "We do not negotiate with terrorists" -- a long-cherished mantra of Western democracies. In reality all the major powers have at some stage been forced to discuss with militants, from Northern ...
  
  
  
• Propaganda disguised as academic inquiry at the Un ...
  
  Chancellor Richard Herman of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign recently resigned due to his cooperation with political influence-peddlers seeking to gain admission for less qualifi ...
  
  
  
• Gaza Freedom March less than one month away
  
  The Gaza Freedom March that will take place in Gaza on 31 December is an historic initiative to break the siege that has imprisoned the 1.5 million people who live there. Conceived in the spirit of Ma ...
  
  
  
• Report finds new Israeli war doctrine targets civi ...
  
  The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) released today [2 December 2009] a new report which exposes the shifts in Israel's combat doctrine as evidenced in the prosecution of oper ...
  
  
  
• Boycott of Ahava Dead Sea products makes an impact
  
  The international campaign to boycott Ahava beauty products has recently won the support of a Dutch parliamentarian and an Israeli peace group. During the past few months, activists in Canada, the UK, ...
  
  
  

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

• New Public Option Compromise: An Exchange Of Nonpr ...
  
  group of 10 senators are considering a new compromise that would replace the opt-out public option in the Senate health care bill with an exchange for non-profit insurers administered by the Office of Personnel Management — the entity that runs the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHB ...
  
  
  
• Carly Fiorina Exploits Recent Bout With Cancer To ...
  
  California Senatorial candidate Carly Fiorina is exploiting her recent bout with breast cancer to lie about the role of the U.S. Preventive Task Force and fearmonger about the consequences of health care reform. “This Task Force was explicitly asked to focus on costs, not just prevention. As it tu ...
  
  
  
• FLASHBACK — McCain: ‘I Say God Bless T ...
  
  Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has responded to the AARP’s endorsement of the Senate health care bill and its $436 billion of cuts to Medicare and Medicaid by encouraging senior citizens to rip-up their AARP cards and send them back to the AARP. Today, McCain argued that if the government limited the ov ...
  
  
  
• CNBC Responds To Jobs Report By Advocating Stimulu ...
  
  Yesterday, the Department of Labor reported that the unemployment rate dropped to 10 percent in November, and the U.S. economy lost a much lower than expected 11,000 jobs last month, which is the fewest since the recession began in December 2007. The wider measure of underemployment also fell to 17. ...
  
  
  
• EU Report: Israel ‘Working Deliberately To A ...
  
  Israel’s Haaretz reports on a confidential European Union report which “accused both the Israeli government and the Jerusalem municipality of working deliberately to alter the city’s demographic balance and sever East Jerusalem from the West Bank.” [The EU report] said that both bodies assi ...
  
  
  

thwap's schoolyard

• 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 ...
  
  
  
• A Coalition Could Get Us a Public Inquiry on Tortu ...
  
  Gotta run. But I'll be back to flesh this out. I think the post title will get people thinking though.
  
  
  
• Eric Margolis on Afghanistan's Torturers
  
  Eric Margolis isn't my cup of tea. There's a reason why he's carried by fecal-brained Toronto Sun. He was a strident anti-communist and was quick to condemn the Soviet Union or People's Republic of China for their violations of human rights, but also seemed to give the United States the benefit of t ...
  
  
  
• Cheryl Gallant: A Profile in Wingnuttery
  
  Check out this bit of crunchy badnesss: That smiling Stepford Wife is Cheryl Gallant of the "Convicted of Complicity in Torture and Going to Prison Party of Canada." Ms. Gallant is obviously trying to be Canada's version of the USA's own female wingnut member of a dying "conservative" movement (t ...
  
  
  
• Seeing Malalai Joya
  
  I went into Toronto a few nights ago for Malalai Joya's stop on her book tour for A Woman Among the Warlords . Because of the crowd I had to sit in the upper-level of the beautiful Trinity-St. Paul's Anglican Church. Unfortunately, the acoustics upstairs aren't as good as they are downstairs appar ...
  
  
  

Financial Sense Editorials

• Market Observation: Housing
  
  by Tim W. Wood. "This past spring and summer there was a surge in real estate activities. The consensus amongst the realtors and builders that I talk to are of the opinion that the worst is behind us. However, the charts say we are now seeing another housing slow down."
  
  
  
• If You Think the Past Decade Was Bad For Stocks... ...
  
  by Robert Folsom. "A disastrous ten years for the stock market ends in just a month. Will the turning of a new decade change investors' luck?"
  
  
  
• The Future of America’s Natural Gas
  
  by Dr. Marc Bustin. "Natural gas prices have plummeted. Natural gas storage is at a maximum. Producible gas reserves are up 35% in the United States. Demand for natural gas is down because of the economy. Then suddenly a new-found U.S. natural gas producible reserve is suggesting that the U.S. in fa ...
  
  
  
• Behind Global Warming
  
  by J. R. Nyquist. "What does the theory of anthropogenic global warming signify? On the Web Site of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise we find a page on coping with economic sabotage. "Sabotage is a wartime concept," it says"
  
  
  
• Expecting Upside Breakout
  
  by Carl Swenlin. "On Thanksgiving Day Dubai announced that it would be delaying loan payments by six months. This resulted in a global selloff, in which the U.S. markets participated on the following day. There was virtually no follow through selling this week."
  
  
  

on Government Oversight

• Morning Smoke: Congress' Research Arm Applauds Oba ...
  
  President Obama's lobbying reforms praised by Congressional Research Service [Politico] Pentagon Eyes Consortium To Spur Rotorcraft [Aviation Week] How the Afghan Surge Was Sold [Danger Room] (or not us?) Will Obama Expand Afghan War Contractor Force? Gibbs Says He'll Look...
  
  
  
• Loophole in Derivatives Overhaul Legislation Under ...
  
  POGO just sent a letter to the House Agriculture Committee raising our concerns about an amendment offered by Chairman Collin Peterson (D-MN) that could potentially create a major loophole in the Committee’s bill to strengthen the regulation of over-the-counter (OTC)...
  
  
  
• Government Turns to Contractor for Support in Acqu ...
  
  This week, General Dynamics (GD) announced that it received a $15.6 million five-year contract to support the Department of Defense’s Defense Acquisition University’s (DAU) learning asset program. GD is also providing support for the Army’s combat training program. In response...
  
  
  
• ACORN's Hellish Year Ends With a Glimmer of Hope f ...
  
  If Time magazine calls the ‘00s the “Decade From Hell”, the community advocacy organization ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) probably considers 2009 to be the Year From Hell. Over the last year, animosity towards ACORN has intensified....
  
  
  
• Morning Smoke: Senator Seeks to Block Bernanke Re- ...
  
  Bernie Sanders's block ups stakes for Fed [Politico] Will Australian JSF Buy Avoid Delays? [AVIATION WEEK] U.S. to Evaluate Tanker Replacement Without Northrop [Bloomberg] Mistakes in Stimulus Report Under Review [The Wall Street Journal] Move to Repay Aid Helps Bank...
  

  Digital Journal

  
  
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change refutes ...
  
  On the cusp of global greenhouse gas emission negotions which begin Monday in Copenhagen, the IPCC has issued a statement backing the science behind findings of climate change.
  
  
  
• Snow storm doesn't hamper Halifax Explosion memori ...
  
  An early December snowstorm didn't stop about 80 people from attending events planned for today in memory of the Halifax Explosion but only served to remind them of what the victims went through on December 6, 1917.
  
  
  
• New Howl in the Wilderness: Coywolves
  
  There’s a new animal prowling the northeastern forests, a bigger and more powerful predator: a coyote and wolf hybrid scientists are calling the Coywolf.
  
  
  
• Climategate is 'elephant in the room' for Obama's ...
  
  President Obama's decision to head to Copenhagen for the final sessions there is a symbolic gesture on the importance of the matter - but the 'climategate' scandal may cast a longer shadow for Democratic strategists.
  
  
  
• Iran says 20 nuclear facilities needed, offers lit ...
  
  In order to provide adequate enrichment for its nuclear power plants, Iranian authorities are now claiming a need for 20 enrichment sites - a move the Western nations believe is an attempt to hide weapons production and expansion.
  
  
  

End Homelessness | Change.org

• Questions Surround Vancouver's Cold Weather Homele ...
  
  In Vancouver, B.C., an individual's right to sleep on the streets is directly correlated with the rise and fall of a thermometer's mercury. The permits local police to forcibly remove homeless individuals from the streets when temperatures become dangerously cold. Yet with temperatures already dip ...
  
  
  
• Homelessness This Week
  
  The ubiquitous police crackdown on street communities was this week's theme. But there was also a fiscal miracle in Massachusetts and a discouraging end to Thursday's story of a baby born homeless in Washington state. Planned Shelter Cuts Canceled It's a kind of V-Day for homeless advocates in Mas ...
  
  
  
• Keeping Your Holiday Wish List In Perspective
  
  No matter what holiday you celebrate this December (if any), chances are you've thought about what you want. Things that you desire, items that you need. Maybe you've made a list and given it to loved ones. Maybe you've asked others what they want this year, so you can start your shopping. This is e ...
  
  
  
• Baby Born in Homeless Camp
  
  This week in Vancouver, a baby girl was born. No, she was not born in a hospital with family eagerly anticipating her arrival in the waiting room. This little girl was born outside in a tent, part of a homeless camp that sits down an embankment off of Highway 50. Sure, it may be nice to think that t ...
  
  
  
• Homeless in Pennsylvania
  
  The first time I saw Carol, I almost didn't talk to her. I assumed she was a volunteer helping the homeless in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Turns out, she was homeless. Carol says she is homeless because of the economy. She had a stable job in a restaurant, but when the economy went sour, her hours beca ...
  
  
  

Ceasefire.ca

• Call for ICC investigation of Canadian military an ...
  
  UBC Professor Michael Byers and human rights expert Professor William A. Schabas of the National University of Ireland have called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to expand its preliminary examination of alleged war crimes by Canadian officials in and related to Afghanistan. In a letter wr ...
  
  
  
• Give peacekeeping a chance?
  
  Dr. Walter Dorn, Associate Professor of Defence Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada and the Canadian Forces College, suggests in a new op-ed article that a UN peacekeeping force is the best hope for building a more peaceful Afghanistan: There is already a small UN “good-offices” miss ...
  
  
  
• Roll up the Taliban to win?
  
  Canada’s area of military responsibility in Afghanistan is being reduced to maintaining a security perimeter—described by one Canadian soldier as a “doughnut of stability”—around Kandahar City and conducting anti-Taliban operations in Arghandab district just to the northwest of the c ...
  
  
  
• Obama escalates Afghan war, promises a way out
  
  U.S. President Barack Obama announced on Tuesday night that he is increasing the U.S. contingent in Afghanistan by 30,000 troops and asking NATO to increase its own troop presence by 5,000 to 10,000. He also stated that the U.S. would seek to speed up the transfer of responsibility for Afghan securi ...
  
  
  
• UN pulls half its staff out of Afghanistan
  
  On November 5, 2009 the United Nations pulled half of the staff it had in Afghanistan out of the country. A total of 600 of the 1,100 foreign UN workers currently in Afghanistan will now temporarily depart until the situation gets better. The UN also threatened to permanently remove all staff if th ...
  
  
  

Kevin Trudeau Show

• Slimfast Recalled for Bacterial Contamination
  
  December 5, 2009 Natural News By Mike Adams If you drink Slim-Fast and suffer from diarrhea, cramps and vomiting, now there’s a new reason for such effects, beyond the simple fact that Slim-Fast is made primarily from processed milk and sugar water: All Slim-Fast beverages have just been recalled ...
  
  
  
• Gore Cancels Appearance at Climate Conference
  
  December 4, 2009 The Washington Times By Jennifer Harper Former Vice President Al Gore on Thursday abruptly canceled a Dec. 16 personal appearance that was to be staged during the United Nations’ Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, which begins next week. As described in The Washington Timesâ ...
  
  
  
• Congressman Calls For ClimateGate Investigan
  
  December 4, 2009 Prison Planet By Paul Joseph Watson Representative Candice Miller has called for a Congressional investigation into the climategate scandal, saying that the deliberate destruction of data by scientists intimately involved in the UN IPCC in order to avoid FOIA requests was a “crimi ...
  
  
  
• It’s Over, Al Gore
  
  Decemeber 4, 2009 Jones Report Aaron Dykes Al Gore has just cancelled a high-profile appearance at the upcoming Copenhagen climate change conference only days after ‘ClimateGate’ revelations cast doubt on the legitimacy of the scientific ‘consensus’ (”hiding the decline” is not scientifi ...
  
  
  
• Can America Stop the Coming Oppression?
  
  December 4, 2009 Prison Planet By J. Hapiak Could Climategate Unravel the UN’s Plan to Rule the World? In a matter of days, President Obama will write a brand new chapter in American history, one that fulfils the promise of change that the Americans asked for, but not necessarily the change that t ...
  
  
  

Pambazuka News

• Guadeloupe: Demand for support for the independenc ...
  
  Felix Alain Flémin, secretary general of the Guadeloupe Communist Party (GCP) has called for international solidarity in support of the struggle for independence and self-determination of the people of those Caribbean islands under French colonial do...
  
  
  
• Katrina victims face eviction
  
  Following reports of federal government plans to repossess temporary housing from Katrina victims, the US Human Rights Network - http://www.ushrnetwork.org has called for the Obama administration to reverse this decision and provide those affected with substantive directive support.
  
  
  
• Extradition threat for Black Liberation activist
  
  As the US opens up political channels with Cuba, Black Liberation Army - http://www.thetalkingdrum.com/freedomfighters.html activist Assata Shakur faces extradition from the country where she has lived under political asylum since 1984, writes Paul Scott. While the mainstream media portrays Shakur h ...
  
  
  
• Stop senate renege on black farmer compensation
  
  ColorOfChange.org - http://www.colorofchange.org/farmers/?id=1842-429864 is campaigning to ensure that a US senate bill to compensate black farmers in the South for discrimination gives them the money they deserve, rather than capping the total amount available at $100 million, which would only cove ...
  
  
  
• Ekiti must hold free, fair elections
  
  The North America-based Ekiti Focus Group has strongly condemned election violence and intimidation in Nigeria’s Ekiti State, describing reported cases of ‘arson, maiming, ballot stuffing, ballot hijacking, and shooting’ as ‘barbaric acts’. In a statement the group called for ‘the releas ...
  
  
  

War in Context

• Obama wanted a surge, he’s getting a surge, and ...
  
  Obama wanted a surge, he’s getting a surge, and it feels good By Paul Woodward, War in Context, December 6, 2009 Mine might not be a headline the New York Times would choose, but that’s the story they tell under their flatly descriptive: “How Obama Came to Plan for ‘Surge’ in Afghanistan. ...
  
  
  
• Separatists, Islamists and Islamabad struggle for ...
  
  Separatists, Islamists and Islamabad struggle for control of Pakistani Balochistan By Chris Zambelis, Jamestown Foundation, December 3, 2009 To say that the U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Afghanistan in October 2001 shook Pakistan to its core would be an understatement. Since then, the war in ...
  
  
  
• Jones: Bin Laden still spends time in Afghanistan
  
  Jones: Bin Laden still spends time in Afghanistan AP, December 6, 2009 National security adviser James Jones said Sunday that al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden still spends some time inside Afghanistan. Most recent U.S. estimates have placed bin Laden inside Pakistan. But Jones, a retired general, sai ...
  
  
  
• Obama’s ideal partner: Turkey
  
  Obama’s ideal partner: Turkey By Joshua W Walker, Today’s Zaman, December 6, 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama laid out his new Afghanistan strategy on Tuesday night by ordering an additional 30,000 US forces to the country. While the majority of the analysis and discussion in Washington has c ...
  
  
  
• Iran will not quit treaty, its nuclear chief asser ...
  
  Iran will not quit treaty, its nuclear chief asserts By Nazila Fathi, New York Times, December 6, 2009 Urging moderation after a week of harsh rhetoric over Iran’s nuclear program, the head of the country’s nuclear agency emphasized Saturday that Iran would not seek to pull out of the internatio ...
  

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• Dr Kelly WAS murdered and there has to be a new in ...
  
  Six doctors who believe government scientist David Kelly was murdered have launched a ground-breaking legal action to demand the inquest into his death is reopened.
  
  
  
• Man With Lego Toy Gun Gets SWAT Team Response
  
  If you were wondering what happens to 29-year-old men who still play with Lego, take Jeremy Bell as an example. The partner at digital marketing company Teehan+Lax was surrounded by heavily armed tactical officers, cuffed and held against the wall of his Richmond St. W. office -- until, that is, the ...
  
  
  
• Is Erik Prince ‘Graymailing’ the US Governmen ...
• The Great Game: U.S., NATO War In Afghanistan
• Excluded from the Copenhagen Agenda: Environmental ...
  
  World leaders are meeting in Copenhagen in December 2009 with a view to reaching an agreement on Global Warming. The debate on Climate Change focuses on the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions and measures to reduce manmade CO2 emissions under the Kyoto Protocol.
  
  
  

The Intelligence Daily

• Silenced Heroes: What happened to Pat Tillman?
  
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• Human rights report exposes US abuse of immigrant ...
  
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• Torture systematic in Egypt: rights groups
  
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• Peak Oil: Adapting for Big Changes Ahead (video)
  
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• The Peak Oil Crisis: China in 2010
  
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My AntiWar

• Timeline: the Search for bin Laden
• Is Erik Prince ‘Graymailing’ the US Go ...
• Mental Health Teams Embedding to Fight Stress
• West Bank Settlers Step Up Resistance to Freeze
• Philippine Troops Arrest Dozens Under Martial Law
  

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• Christmas Trees Banned For Climate Summit
  
  
  
  
  
• Clinton, Gates: No Exit Strategy For Afghanistan
  
  
  
  
  
• China Lending Boom May Hamper Banksâ�� ...
  
  China’s lending boom may erode the quality of bank balance sheets as a jump in lending was “unavoidably” linked to an easing of credit standards, the Bank for International Settlements said.
  
  
  
• Gordon Brown: climate-change sceptics are 'flat-e ...
  
  The Prime Minister launched an outspoken attack on climate-change sceptics amid growing signs of public doubts about the scientific and political consensus on the environment.
  
  
  
• American Indian land sold off by IRS to pay off t ...
  
  The 7,112 acres - or 11 square miles - of Crow Creek Sioux ancestral land in central South Dakota was auctioned off on Thursday by the US Internal Revenue Service to help pay off more than $3.1 million (£1.9 million) in unpaid taxes, penalties and interest.
  
  
  

Innovation Canada

• Extreme exposure
  
  It’s about 5°C in the chamber, and Geoff Hartley, wearing a burlap tunic and sandals, is trying with numb fingers to put small pegs in small holes. It’s just another day of chillin’ out at the Brock University lab of Stephen Cheung, a world-renowned scientist who studies the impacts of extrem ...
  
  
  
• Green Growers
  
  Deborah Henderson likes to think about the Cuban capital of Havana when she goes in to work. Not the music or the beaches, per se, but the vegetables and the gardens. “Over 75 percent or more of the vegetables consumed in Havana are produced within the city,” claims Henderson. As the director of ...
  
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
  

Signs of the times

• Video shows Palestinian man hit in car attack
  
  Violence erupted in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday when a Palestinian man entered a petrol station at the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba in the occupied West Bank and stabbed two settlers. But that was not the end of the story. According to the Israeli army, the Palestinian was then shot by ...
  
  
  
• FLASHBACK: Disturbing organs trade in Italy
  
  The struggle for cash is taking a sinister turn in Italy, as hundreds of desperate people are prepared to sell their own organs to raise money for their families. The shop windows of the streets of central Rome - among the most famous shopping passages in Europe - are showing off their me ...
  
  
  
• Tea Party Purge: A Cause Without a Rebel
  
  The Tea Party movement has reconnected the cooperation between conservatives and libertarians that harks back to their mutual opposition to FDR's big government days. But a host of these newly forged alliances have failed to take hold. There is an undercurrent of ill-fitting philosophies and anti-in ...
  
  
  
• "The Battle for Israel's Soul" - Channel 4 on Je ...
  
  Jewish fundamentalism is something the mainstream media torch is rarely shone on, with recent articles about spitting at Christian clergy being confined mostly to the israeli press. Few exceptions exist: this year, Australian journalist Anne Barker reported on her experiences on getting caught in ...
  
  
  
• Italy: Bloggers Demand Berlusconi's Resignation
  
  Today is " No Berlusconi day" in Italy. A group of bloggers have organized a protest in Italy, with some international support, to demand the resignation of scandal ridden Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. Berlusconi is a growing source of embarrassment for Italy. The No Berlusconi Day move ...
  
  
  

Threat Level

• AOL Ditches Security Tokens To Make Logging In Eas ...
  
  AOL customers who sprang for the company’s $10 “PassCode” security token to harden their account can get ready to toss their fancy crypto-numeric keyfobs in the same landfill as all those CD-ROMs AOL mailed them in the 1990s. As the Virginia-based company prepares for its December 10 spin off ...
  
  
  
• Yahoo Issues Takedown Notice for Spying Price List
  
  Yahoo isn’t happy that a detailed menu of the spying services it provides law enforcement agencies has leaked onto the web. Shortly after Threat Level reported this week that Yahoo had blocked the FOIA release of its law enforcement and intelligence price list, someone provided a copy of the comp ...
  
  
  
• Report: U.S. Fears Public Scrutiny Would Scuttle A ...
  
  The proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement has been shrouded in secrecy, and the Bush and the Obama administrations have declared it unsuitable for public debate because divulging its contents could harm America’s “national security.” A few recent leaks have showed that the unfinished ag ...
  
  
  
• Geez, Google Wants to Take Over DNS, Too
  
  Google now wants to be your browser’s phone book, launching a DNS service Thursday in hopes that users will let the ad and search giant take over yet another part of their net experience. Browsers ask Domain Name Service servers (DNS) to translate urls like http://wired.com into the web addresses ...
  
  
  
• Feds Prosecuting More Counterfeiters, IP Pirates
  
  Federal prosecutions of criminal counterfeiting and copyright infringement cases have jumped over the past five years, as have IP-related prison terms, according to a Justice Department report. The congressionally required report reviewed dozens of cases involving counterfeited pharmaceutical drugs, ...
  
  
  

PERRspectives : Blog

• Notorious Hothead McCain Now "Madder Than I've Eve ...
  
  Facing a surprisingly strong primary challenge from Tea Party darling J.D. Hayworth, Arizona Senator John McCain is now appealing to frothing-at-the-mouth Tea Baggers in the only language they understand: anger. But when McCain told Don Imus Friday that "I'm madder...
  
  
  
• Birther Palin Now Declares Her Family Fair Game
  
  During the 2008 campaign, then Senator Barack Obama rushed to Sarah Palin's defense in reaction to the media frenzy over her 17 year old daughter's pregnancy. "Let me be as clear as possible," Obama said, adding: "I think people's families...
  
  
  
• McCain's Wartime Reign of Error
  
  When it comes to matters of war and peace, over the past decade no American political figure outside of Dick Cheney has been as egregiously and frequently wrong as John McCain. Yet despite his almost uninterrupted record of error on...
  
  
  
• When George Met Jack at the White House
  
  When it comes to social events at the White House, the only thing worse for a President than self-serving gate crashers is when the miscreant has an invitation. And so while conservatives gloat over the Secret Service failure that allowed...
  
  
  
• Republicans Give Thanks for Short Memories
  
  Former Bush press secretary Dana Perino's jaw-dropping statement Wednesday that "we did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush's term" didn't merely serve to confirm President Obama's terrible judgment in appointing her to the Broadcasting Board...
  
  
  

Blackspot News Feed

• Links for 2009-12-06
  
  BBC News – Eye fears over holy shrine ‘visions’"An Irish eye surgeon has said an "unprecedented" rise in the number of cases of an eye condition could be directly related to people staring at the sun at a holy shrine."(tags:cult idiots ) Dear God, please confirm what I already believe – life ...
  
  
  
• Twitter: The Grease Trap Of The Human Meat Compute ...
  
  For a while, I had a capture of my twitter feed running here. It ended up doing something weird to my API calls, stopping me from running my desktop client, so I killed it. Which is probably just as well, as I talk a lot of shit on Twitter. It’s basically mental slurry, the wet [...]
  
  
  
• Defense Contractor Makes Up Wild Islamic Terrorism ...
  
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• The Secret to Legal Marijuana? Women
  
  Why women have signed onto marijuana reform -- and why they could be the movement's game-changers. In September, ladymag Marieclaire ruffled some feathers when it published a piece about women who smoke weed. But its most interesting effect was not the "marijuana moms" chatter it unleashed, and inst ...
  
  
  
• We All Breathe the Same Air and Drink the Same Wat ...
  
  Some 8,000 kilometres from the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Native American environmental experts from 66 tribes came together at a summit here this week to address the most pressing needs in their communities - problems, all emphasised, that know no geographic boundaries. These inc ...
  
  
  

Consortium News

• Obama Pleases the Neocons
  
  Washington's neocons gloat at their success in goading President Obama into an Afghan War escalation, reports Robert Parry. December 3, 2009
  
  
  
• US 'No-Fly' List Keeps Growing
  
  A frustrating holdover from the Bush administration's "war on terror" is the ever-growing "no-fly" list, notes Ivan Eland. December 3, 2009
  
  
  
• Afghanistan: Roach Motel for Empires
  
  By escalating the Afghan War, the United States falls deeper into a trap laid by Osama bin Laden, writes Zoltan Grossman. December 2, 2009
  
  
  
• Obama with Blood on His Hands
  
  President Obama's Afghan War decision guarantees more civilian deaths and more war violations, says Nicolas J S Davies. December 2, 2009
  
  
  
• Colin Powell's My Lai Connection
  
  From the Archive: The Afghan War escalation recalls Colin Powell's tie to an earlier war and its war crimes. By Robert Parry and Norman Solomon.
  
  
  

CounterPunch

• Alexander Cockburn : War Cries From a Defeated Man
• Linn Washington, Jr. : Juvenile Injustice in a Phi ...
• Geoff Berne : Barbarians at the Schoolhouse
• Todd Alan Price : Milwaukee League Comes to the De ...
• Frank Green : Slim Turnout at World Peace March

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Israeli military urged to release Palestinian acti ...
  
  On Saturday, Human Rights Watch stated that the Israeli military appeals court should end the administrative detention of Mohammed Othman, a Palestinian rights activist, and order his immediate release. Othm ...
  
  
  
• Palestinian man run over by Israeli settler (Jack ...
• PA promotes Swedish initiative (Roi Kais, Ynet Ne ...
  
  The Palestinians are aiming to convince European states to endorse a Swedish initiative calling for the recognition of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital in line with the 1967 borders, the PA' ...
  
  
  
• 'The Freeze' is just another scene in Israel's mas ...
  
  Like every production, be it a flop or a hit, the future of this show will also be decided by the audience. In the meantime, as the first act shifts into high gear, the viewers are yawning. The government an ...
  
  
  
• Lebanon's Palestinians: refugees for life (Rita D ...
  
  Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's visit to Beirut on Monday casts the spotlight on the plight of nearly 300,000 Palestinians in Lebanon who fear they are doomed to be refugees for life. His brief trip com ...
  
  
  

Water - AlterNet

• Good Cod Almighty, We've Got a Global Fishing Cris ...
  
  Cos is providing the most evidence for the unsustainable manner in which civilized humans are pillaging the oceans in search of cheap and plentiful protein.
  
  
  
• No Future Act of 2010: Oil Industry Comes Up With ...
  
  Not surprisingly, the industry's bill requires expedited oil drilling everywhere -- Arctic Refuge Coastal Plain, fish-rich Bristol Bay, and on the Florida Gulf Coast and Panhandle.
  
  
  
• The First Projections for Water in 2010 Are Out: P ...
  
  California's water supply projections are grossly misunderstood by the media and the public and are misused by narrow water interests in the state.
  
  
  
• Surprise: Schwarzenegger Uses 'Drought' Announceme ...
  
  A broad coalition oppose the peripheral canal because it would inevitably result in the increased diversion of Delta water to corporate agribusiness and southern California.
  
  
  
• 25 Years Since the Bhopal Disaster, We've All Beco ...
  
  The Centers for Disease Control has documented that the average American carries more than 100 toxic chemicals in his or her body.
  
  
  

TruthHugger

• furlough programs, commutations and pardons BACKLA ...
  
  Maurice Clemmons was a mentally unstable felon. Where was his follow up? Where was his parole officer? Where was the mental health infrastructure that could have defused this violent explosion?
  
  
  
• Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up Nov 30, ...
  
  The Texas Progressive Alliance welcomes everyone back from the Thanksgiving Holiday with these highlights from the blogs. TXsharon has arranged by area 60 TCEQ fugitive emission videos obtained via the Texas Public Information Act. The videos were taken throughout the Barnett Shale area using a GasF ...
  
  
  
• How Serious is Road Rage Anyway?
  
  The psychological meltdown in America is becoming epidemic. Man Gets 120 Days for Shooting Cyclist in the Head   related articles: 6 Ways to Reduce Your Chances of Getting Doored CORONA, Calif.—Police say road rage may have led to a fatal shooting near a freeway in Corona.
  
  
  
• Nobel Peace Prize Confiscated
  
  Iranian leaders are so insecure that the peace efforts of one of its own are a threat to their masculinity.  Robbing Shirin Ebadi of her internationally recognized Nobel Peace Prize, is really tacky.  This is not the first time Amadinejad, and the counsel that controls him, have acted out like the ...
  
  
  
• Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up Nov 23, ...
  
  The Texas Progressive Alliance as Thanksgiving week begins brings you this week’s highlights from the blogs. The Texas Cloverleaf clues you in on why you can’t breathe in Denton County– gas drillers! WCNews at Eye On Williamson has some Thoughts on Straus’ Interim Charges – including topic ...
  
  
  

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Living With A Terror Suspect: Detainee U’s Landl ...
  
  by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 6 December 2009 The ma
  
  
  
• Say What? Peace Prize for a War President? by Cind ...
  
  by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbo
  
  
  
• Four Men Leave Guantánamo; Two Face Ill-Defined T ...
  
  by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 5 December 2009 On Mon
  
  
  
• U.S., NATO War In Afghanistan: Antecedents And Pre ...
  
  by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com 5 December,
  
  
  
• Obama's True Colors By Timothy V. Gatto
  
  By Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad liberalpro.blogspot.com December 4, 2009 Let me
  
  
  

Unexplained Mysteries

• Pilot UFO file released in China
  
  A report recounting a UFO incident in China including radar images and recordings of communications between an airline pilot and an airport radio ...
  
  
  
• Ancient Egyptians tormented by bad teeth
  
  A review of studies performed on Egyptian mummies over the past 30 years has revealed that the ancient Egyptians suffered from a plethora of denta...
  
  
  
• Bigfoot sighted in San Antonio
  
  A supposed Bigfoot has been reported following sightings in San Antonio last week. Police were called when several homeless people witnessed a "bi...
  
  
  
• Voynich manuscript is genuine
  
  The mysterious 246-page Voynich manuscript named after Wilfred Voynich who obtained it in 1912 has been dated to the 15th century and found to be ...
  
  
  
• NASA's Mars rovers - true explorers ?
  
  The true definition of an "explorer" has been called in to question by two astronomers suggesting that the Mars Rovers and the Hubble Space Telesc...
  
  
  

Grassroots

• A militarized regime in Honduras continues, Via Ca ...
  
  amp-soldados-hondurenos-atacan-manifestacion-2009-06-28-13976.jpg Paraphrasing Lisa Sullivan, School of the Americas Watch Latin America coordinator, the Honduran election last Sunday is another case of political ‘whitewash’ in the America ...
  
  
  
• Insights - Fall 2009
  
  Cooling the Earth with Food Sovereignty Agriculture ... will likely be a pivotal issue when the world’s leaders meet in Copenhagen this December to finish negotiating a global climate treaty. Grassroots International and our partners and allies are working hard to show that sustainable agriculture ...
  
  
  
• Cooling the Earth with Food Sovereignty
  
  Agriculture ... will likely be a pivotal issue when the world’s leaders meet in Copenhagen this December to finish negotiating a global climate treaty. Grassroots International and our partners and allies are working hard to show that sustainable agriculture can play a big role in stopping climate ...
  
  
  
• Why Food Sovereignty Is the New Food Security
  
  IMG_2759.JPG   read more
  
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
  

Climate

• December 5-6, 2009
  
  EPA Poised to Declare CO2 a Public Danger (Wall Street Journal) The EPA will early this week, possibly as soon as Monday, officially declare CO2 a public danger, a move that could give the U.S. negotiating leverage in Copenhagen. Renewables to Supply One-Third China's Energy by 2050 (Reuters) ...
  
  
  
• December 4, 2009
  
  India’s Climate Target Mirrors China’s (Reuters) India set a goal today for slowing growth of its greenhouse gas emissions, an announcement that contrasted with a harder line a day earlier when diplomats said India, China, Brazil and South Africa opposed the a goal of halving world emission ...
  
  
  
• December 3, 2009
  
  Saudi Arabia: Hacked E-Mails Will Have ‘Huge Impact' on Copenhagen (BBC) Saudi Arabia’s lead negotiator says the hacked e-mails and resulting controversy stirred by skeptics and conspiracy theorists will have “a huge impact" on next week's UN climate summit. That's a boon for the world's le ...
  
  
  
• December 2, 2009
  
  British Scientist Steps Down During Probe of Hacked E-Mails (Washington Post) Phil Jones, a central figures in the uproar over hacked e-mails from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit, announced he is stepping down as the unit's director while the university investigates. Aus ...
  
  
  
• December 1, 2009
  
  India Rejects Danish Climate Draft (AFP) India today rejected a Danish draft proposal on climate change which seeks to cap emissions, widening the gulf between rich and poor nations ahead of next week's Copenhagen talks. 'Mad Monk' Australia Opposition Head to Fight CO2 Laws (Reuters) Aus ...
  
  
  

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

• Preaching peace, flexing muscle: America's 'surge' ...
  
  NEW YORK -- There were no surprises in President Barack Obama's historic speech at West Point last Tuesday. Obama faced the choice between guns (Afghanistan) or butter (his national health plan). The Nobel Peace Prize winner chose guns. As expected, Obama will rush 30,000 new troops into the Afghan ...
  
  
  
• War, More War or Morer War - Debate Freezes Out th ...
  
  The headline ran in The New York Times a month ago, on November 7th: "All Afghan War Options by Obama Aides Said to Call for More Troops." According to White House insiders, Obama considered three choices for digging our way deeper into the "graveyard of empires": General Stanley McChrystal, command ...
  
  
  
• Dana Lyons' Three Legged Coyote will cure your ill ...
  
  If you're bummed by Obama, nagged by nukes and turned totally off by your TV, here's a happy holiday homeopathic: THREE LEGGED COYOTE, the soulful, irreverent and occasionally hilarious new DC by Dana Lyons. (Lyons Brothers Music. www.cowswithguns.com ).  My brilliant singer-songwriter-activist lon ...
  
  
  
• The No-News No-Column Column
  
  I don't have a column this week. You see, I analyze and interpret the news, trying to find something that others haven't touched. When there's lots of news, I have a playground of riches. But during the past week, there were only two stories, and every reporter, columnist, commentator, pundit, blovi ...
  
  
  
• Rampaging Climate Deniers' Losing Battle
  
  The recent tempest in a teapot over leaked emails in the UK that purportedly proposed silencing climate deniers has succeeded admirably in advancing the agenda of the deniers, who, absent any substantial credible evidence for their viewpoint, have moved into the realm of personal slander. On the fac ...
  
  
  

Ten Percent

• This Was Not Suicide It Was Murder
  
  A single mother leapt to her death with her baby because her only means of support was withdrawn, other benefits were denied and the local council then demanded she repay housing benefit. The verdict was suicide and unlawful killing of her baby, but this was murder, cheap cruel bureaucratic neoliber ...
  
  
  
• Viva Morales!
  
  Head over to Abiding in Bolivia for a lowdown on what our wonderful English speaking media are up to, hint- not what could be called journalism.
  
  
  
• No Shit Sherlock
  
  In London 93% of the population is in reach of eight or more megabytes per second, but in Wales it is 38.4%, while more than one quarter cannot access even two megabyte services. Lord Roberts of Llandudno “Figures show Wales is still lagging behind when it comes to broadband access and speed. We ...
  
  
  
• Friday! Vegas- Possessed
  
  Terry Hall (look his wiki page has a pic of him smiling, this is good as reports from those who have met him are that he is a lovely chap) & Dave Stewart’s project that produced (or overproduced, not sure about Stewart on this) a nice pop album and this great single, with a big [...]
  
  
  
• 7,000 Coalition of the Unwilling
  
  Only 25 out of 43 NATO ‘allies’ and even the 25 are mostly shamed of being honest what they are committing and why. And this is different to Bush & Iraq how?
  
  
  

Paul Krugman

• Protocols of the elders of finance
  
  A report from inside the conspiracy.
  
  
  
• Bernanke does a bad, bad thing
  
  Unhelpful remarks on fiscal policy.
  
  
  
• Just the usual disaster
  
  But shouldn't we be doing better?
  
  
  
• Good news is bad news
  
  Good news is bad news, because this month's not-too-bad number deflates the sense of urgency.
  
  
  
• Double dip warning
  
  The chances of a relapse into recession seem to be rising.
  
  
  

No Quarter

• What Do Miss Americas And Afghanistan Have In Comm ...
  
  At first blush, one would think, not much. But recently, a number of Miss Americas, and one Miss Utah, who is also a former sergeant in the Army, traveled to Afghanistan to meet with the troops. Oh, you might recognize one woman in particular, especially if you are a fan of The Amazing [...]
  
  
  
• The Incredible Shrinking Jobs America
  
  Editor’s Note: Tune in to John’s syndicated radio show tonight at 11:00 p.m. ET to catch NoQuarter’s Larry Johnson on the experts panel, via iTunes (select Radio, then scroll to and select News Talk Radio, and scroll to and select KSFO-AM). ———————————— Cash for Caulke ...
  
  
  
• Hang ‘Em High?
  
  Lacking something cheap and vulgar for your Christmas tree? Leave it to Barack and Michelle Obama to provide you with a new benchmark for tackiness and audacity at the White House. For the first time in the history of the White House Historical Association issued White House Christmas ornaments, t ...
  
  
  
• Larry Johnson on The John Batchelor Show Tonight a ...
  
  TONIGHT: Tune in to John Batchelor’s syndicated radio show when Larry Johnson joins the weekly experts’ panel. The syndicated shows run every Saturday and Sunday on many stations and via iTunes (select Radio, then scroll to and select News Talk Radio, and then scroll to and select KSFO-AM). Toni ...
  
  
  
• Baucus Raucous
  
  Editor’s Note: This story just goes to show you never can predict who’s naughty, naughty, naughty. My goodness. Max Baucus?   No Conflict of Interest.   Spoke to John Stanton, CQ, re the Max Baucus flapdoodle re the fact that last February 2009 the senator nominated a woman, Melodee Hanes ...
  
  
  

Environmental Graffiti

• Polo Like You’ve Never Seen It Before
• Gazing into the Center of the Milky Way
• 10 Most Incredible Natural Arches On Earth
• Diver Vs. Whale
• Heavy Petting [PICS]

Foreign Policy in Focus

• President Obama's Afghanistan Election Speech
  
  An assessment of what Obama said -- and what he didn't say.
  
  
  
• Poets for Peace
  
  As the United States escalates the war in Afghanistan, poets speak out.
  
  
  
• A Tale of Two Human Rights Awardees
  
  Washington supports those who protest against regimes it opposes and ignores the human rights activists of allied countries.
  
  
  
• Climate and Capitalism in Copenhagen
  
  The negotiators in Copenhagen are likely to address only half the story, argues columnist Walden Bello.
  
  
  
• Why Dubai?
  
  FPIF's weekly update.
  
  
  

Global Elite

• Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K Gov ...
  
  Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there wil ...
  
  
  
• President European Commission Advocated World Gove ...
  
  Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International Affa ...
  
  
  
• Billions of People Expected to Die Under Current C ...
  
  Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in the d ...
  
  
  
• Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of a G ...
  
  Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare progr ...
  
  
  
• Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
  
  Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’s ...
  
  
  

Al Jazeera

• Morales wins Bolivia re-election
  
  Exit polls give incumbent more than 60 per cent of vote in presidential polls.
  
  
  
• Iraq MPs resolve poll law dispute
  
  Parliament approves new version of law paving the way for elections early next year.
  
  
  
• Violence erupts during Athens march
  
  Protesters commemorating teenager's killing last year clash with Greek police.
  
  
  
• India-Pakistan in Afghan spat
  
  Suspicion between rivals grow as both countries vie for influence in Afghanistan.
  
  
  
• Afghan rape victim lives in fear
  
  Two-years after she was attacked, 14 year-old Samiya has yet to see justice done.
  
  
  

Green Inc. - NYT

• Hopes and Tensions on Eve of Climate Talks
  
  On the eve of the highly anticipated meeting, negotiators are hopeful, organizers are working out the kinks, and Copenhagen police are girding for two weeks of events.
  
  
  
• U.N. Environment Chief Calls on China and U.S. to ...
  
  Achim Steiner warned on Saturday that wealthy countries face a backlash from the developing world if they don't offer more at the climate summit in Copenhagen.
  
  
  
• Water Heater Efficiency Rules Draw Criticism
  
  Environmentalists say that the Obama administration's proposed energy efficiency standards for home water heaters, released this week, could be much tougher.
  
  
  
• Obama Aims for Later Copenhagen Arrival
  
  President Obama had planned to attend the Copenhagen climate summit on December 9 but is shifting his plans in order to attend later in the event, when other world leaders will be there, the White House said today.
  
  
  
• Share Your Thoughts On Climate Change
  
  As the Copenhagen climate conference begins, we invite readers to share their thoughts about global warming and clean energy.
  
  
  

Dot Earth News

• Book Report: 'Blessed Unrest'
  
  A determined environmental activist explores a book proposing that community action can overpower elites.
  
  
  
• Climate Panel Defends its Findings and Members
  
  The leaders of the last review of climate science by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change defend their findings and the scientists exposed in the email disclosure.
  
  
  
• Copenhagen, Climate Files, Hot Sharks
  
  A roundup on climate files, the treaty, angry Copenhagen prostitutes and a study claiming sharks are getting more aggressive in warming waters.
  
  
  
• A Murdoch Lays Out Logic for Cutting Carbon
  
  A conservative young media mogul tells "conservation-minded" conservatives why carbon cuts make sense.
  
  
  
• The White House Convenes Young Green Leaders
  
  The White House tries to boost prospects for the climate bill with a youth forum.
  
  
  

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• Inline doc help via wiki? Usability & design unity ...
  
  I had a half inspired idear for something phrased in all seriousness as "wikified micro-documentation" . Credits due mainly to thinking about the nice work people in Drupal usability group & #D7UX. (If I could somehow turn this into a flame war about the function of UNIX Man pages=a win). Also the ...
  
  
  
• Titanium nanoparticle pollution cancer link; Morge ...
  
  It was just another day in Switzerland during Late Capitalism. The beloved World Trade Organization, having already helped bring about a huge collapse in global trade, decided they should have a meeting somewhere widely thought of as really rich and white. It's been ten years since wily bad kids an ...
  
  
  
• New for HongPong.com: Drupal 6 a win?
  
  It's been a long time in coming, but now we've got Drupal 6 running on hongpong.com . The database patching and everything else went perfectly. I've installed the 'Fusion' theme and have just started tweaking it up (please be patient for more tweaks... ) I whipped up a silly new banner featuring And ...
  
  
  
• Drupal 6 a win?
  
  Andrew Jackson vs teh octopus is ok Still a mess At least it's not Wordpress Still Confusing :-P FTW!! Voting is implied consent - boo
  
  
  
• PETA sucks, but Lady Gaga and Rihanna are pawns fo ...
  
  PETA is a deeply bad organization which attempts to vanguard around some edgy cultural iconography and save some animals, which all basically translates to trashy soft-core porn style imagery. Because what we all need is a certain "Girls Gone Wild" edge to social progress. This is a very good analys ...
  
  
  

Daily Censored

• State [of] Affairs
  
  I have been reading this crap about Desiree Rogers.  This is wrong.   What I am reading.  Then I realized I shouldn’t be reading this stuff about her.  No one should.  She is the Social Secretary for the White House.  I believe it is her job to plan social events.  I believe it is her [...]
  
  
  
• Book bannings – The News Story
  
  By Saul Ortega and Nelson Gassett “[I]t is critical to listen to as many diverse voices as possible. When it comes to Cuba, we do exactly that.â€� –President Barack Obama, responding to questions from blogger Yoani Sanchez, November 19, 2009 On November 15, the U.S. Supreme Court decided ...
  
  
  
• Medical breaches rarely make national headlines
  
  Medical breaches often get a mention in a local or state paper, but rarely do they make national headlines.  Over the past two months, there have been numerous breaches, barely getting a mention, but, when taken as a whole, reveal just how at risk our personal information really is. In October, a n ...
  
  
  
• There’s more to climate fraud than just tax hike ...
  
  As the left ignores the evidence of criminal destruction of data that was the subject of Freedom of Information requests, the right has had an open field to frame the agenda behind the climate fearmongering as an issue of big government tax scheming. In reality, tax hikes are the least likely motive ...
  
  
  
• A PERFECT STORM: Massive Ontario School Closures ...
  
  By Guest Blogger George Thompson Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine, outlines how “disaster capitalism” is geared to quickly take advantage of crises as opportunities to expand areas of profitable corporate activity. She cites how the New Orleans crisis brought about by Hurricane Katrina was ins ...
  
  
  

AlterNet's Breaking News

• 'The Blind Side' tops North America box office
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Institute for Policy Studies

• Domestic Worker Abuse Doesn't Just Happen in Leban ...
  
  Poor treatment of migrant domestic workers hits closer to home than you might think.
  
  
  
• Copenhagen Touchdown
  
  SEEN Co-Director Janet Redman begins her story of the UN Climate Change conference.
  
  
  
• President Obama's Afghanistan Escalation Speech
  
  An assessment of what Obama said—and what he didn't say.
  
  
  
• Cap and Trade Should Go the Way of the Dodo Before ...
  
  Climate change is serious, and we can't afford to hand the fate of the planet over to the very polluters, banks, and traders that have gotten us into this mess.
  
  
  
• Climate Scams Won’t Save the Planet
  
  Cap and trade is a scheme that tries to sell business-as-usual as a solution to global warming.
  
  
  

Godspace

• End of the First Week of Advent – What are W ...
  
  This first week of Advent has been a wonderful opportunity to explore different aspects of our Christian journey as all of us wait for the coming of Christ.  Some of us wait in joyful expectation, others wait in the midst of heartache and pain,  all of us wait with hope and anticipation for the pr ...
  
  
  
• First Saturday of Advent: Holy Waiting: A Reflecti ...
  
  Today’s post comes from Liz Dyer who describes herself as a follower of Jesus Christ who lives in Texas (Dallas/Fort Worth area). She is married with two sons.  She enjoys reading, blogging, listening to music, going to movies, the emergent conversation and hanging out with friends and family. ...
  
  
  
• Let Our Eyes Be Opened – Advent Reflection b ...
  
  This afternoon’s Advent reflection was written by Kimberlee Conway Ireton.  Kimberlee is the author of The Circle of Seasons: Meeting God in the Church Year. You can visit her online at http://kimberleeconwayireton.net. Let Our Eyes Be Opened Jesus stood still and called them, saying, †...
  
  
  
• Advent Reflections by Karl Westerhoff on the Loss ...
  
  This morning’s post is another very poignant reminder that Advent is not necessarily an easy time especially for those who have lost loved ones.  This is the season when many of us remember the pains and griefs of the past years.  It is the season when we long to see the brokenness that is ...
  
  
  
• Shifting Your Wait: An Advent Reflection by Jason ...
  
  The submissions for What Are We Waiting For This Advent Seasons are coming in fast so I plan to post two each day over the next week or so.  Also a reminder that you can find links to daily scripture readings here The second reflection for this first Thursday of Advent comes from Jason Fowler.  Ja ...
  
  
  

Equality Trust

• Plans to force banks to reveal millionaire staff
  
  Banks will be forced to reveal how many of their staff earn more than one million pounds a year, under recommended reforms of the financial sector to be released today. Read more
  
  
  
• To tackle child poverty we must also address inequ ...
  
  Kate Green, Chief Executive of Child Poverty Action Group , writes for the TUC's Touchstone blog that "if we are to take seriously the issues of child poverty and child wellbeing then we need to tackle the high levels of inequality in this country." Read the rest of Kate's article
  
  
  
• We need tax reform, not tax and spend
  
  Over the last year we have watched as a bank-induced credit crunch morphed into debate on public services cuts. While the public have bailed out the bankers, whose flawed system led us into this mess, it is those least able to afford it who are facing the reality of having their pay and benefits fro ...
  
  
  
• Public sector incomes: what we pay them
  
  Six million people work for the state in Britain, in hundreds of professions. Find out how their incomes compare, from the top to the bottom. From the Guardian, Tuesday 17 November
  
  
  
• Discussion on the Today programme of a fairer syst ...
  
  The main party leaders have been setting out their visions of how to restore growth to the economy after the recession. A report by the left leaning pressure group Compass, criticises the policy of cutting public spending to curtail the recession. The group says gaps in public finances should instea ...
  
  
  

IntelNews

• Blackwater CEO admits he was CIA agent
  
  The founder and CEO of private security company Blackwater has revealed he worked as a CIA spy and carried out a number of secret missions before being fired by the Obama administration. Erik Prince, who heads Blackwater Worldwide, recently renamed Xe, gave a rare interview to Vanity Fair magazine, ...
  
  
  
• News you may have missed #0207
  
  Congo court upholds death sentences for Norwegian 'spies'. Judge unseals records of man claiming to be FBI spy. Does this photo show a classified CIA drone?
  
  
  
• US embassy worker caught monitoring Pakistan naval ...
  
  Pakistani news outlets have reported the arrest last month of an employee at the US embassy in Islamabad who was reportedly caught monitoring Pakistan’s Naval Headquarters at Zafar Chowk, a site targeted by a suicide bomber on December 3.
  
  
  
• News you may have missed #0206
  
  UK sets up counter-hacking unit. Ex-Shin Bet chief hints Israel won't strike Iran without US consent. Czech artist denies having spied on US diplomats.
  
  
  
• US government urged to release data on social netw ...
  
  An Internet watchdog has filed a court complaint to force the US government to disclose how its law enforcement and spy agencies monitor social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter.
  
  
  

After Downing Street.org

• Someone Finally Notices That the President Should ...
  
  Where will we be after April when the only good thing on television is gone?
  
  
  
• Government Claims No Federal Court Can Hear Gitmo ...
  
  On Friday afternoon, December 4, 2009, the government filed reply papers in support of its motion to dismiss the case of Al-Zahrani v. Rumsfeld, arguing that no federal court has the power to hear cases seeking accountability for abuse of detainees at Guantánamo. The Center for Constitutional Rig ...
  
  
  
• KBR Employee Brutally Raped at Joint Base Balad in ...
  
  KBR employee brutally raped at Joint Base Balad in Iraq | Ms. Sparky I just received this email from a reader. I have not verified the authenticity of the original email (my disclaimer) but it appears to be authentic. I have also not been able to verify the date of the rape, but am deducing it occu ...
  
  
  
• Anti-War Rally Set For Saturday, December 12th Fro ...
  
  We will tell President Obama "No You Can't!" send more US troops to Afghanistan Anti-War Rally set for Saturday, December 12th from 11:00 am to 4 pm at the White House Washington, DC - Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) will join former Rep. Cynthia McKinney, former Sen. Mike Gravel, Nobel Peace Prize no ...
  
  
  
• Neocons Get Warm and Fuzzy Over ‘War President†...
  
  Neocons Get Warm and Fuzzy Over ‘War President’ By Eli Clifton | Anti War.com U.S. President Barack Obama’s plan for a 30,000-troop surge and a troop withdrawal timeline beginning in 18 months has caught criticism from both Democrat and Republican lawmakers. But a small group of hawkish forei ...
  
  
  

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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Time - Top Stories

• Many Mutual Funds Are Up 50% in '09 -- But Beware
  
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• What Obama Really Thinks Of The White House Press
  
  Obama effectively painted the press as an obstacle to not just the much-needed economic recovery, but to America recovering its 20th Century position as an economic powerhouse.
  
  
  

Washington Independent

• VIDEO: Angry New Yorkers Denounce Terror Trials, D ...
  
  A few hundred angry New Yorkers gathered in a cold and rainy Foley Square in downtown Manhattan on Saturday to protest the Obama administration’s decision to try the suspected Sept. 11 attackers in a civilian federal court in New York.  Organized by the 9/11 Never Forget Coalition, speakers ran ...
  
  
  
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  NEW YORK — Despite a cold and steady rain, the 9/11 Never Forget Coalition managed to attract a few hundred people to Foley Square in downtown Manhattan today to protest Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other alleged co-conspirators in the Sept. 11, 2 ...
  
  
  
• Erik Prince’s Brushback Pitch
  
  In case you missed it, Blackwater founder Erik Prince outed himself as a CIA asset in an extraordinary Vanity Fair interview. Prince complained that powerful forces within the government were throwing him under the bus with anonymous press leaks about the private security company’s connections to ...
  
  
  
• ‘The Christmas Sweater’
  
  Mike Madden has a must-read report on Glenn Beck’s Christmas movie/one-man show, which seems to have bombed at the box office.
  
  
  
• Support the (Extended) Surge
  
  Via The Weekly Standard, a USA Today/Gallup poll finds support for Obama’s “extended surge” in Afghanistan: A narrow majority of Americans support President Obama’s revamped strategy on Afghanistan, according to a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Wednesday, but there are broad concerns that the c ...
  
  
  

CowBoss' Brain Food

• Change, They Say, Is Good. But Is It?
  
  It's said that Alexander the Great wept when he realised there were no more lands left for him to conquer. In other words, there was nothing new to challenge him; there was no raison d'être. It's a laughable thought today, isn't it? Submitted by cowboss Left CareII to Society & Culture  |   Note- ...
  
  
  
• Teacher breaks 4th grader’s arm for ‘forgetting ...
  
  LAHORE: A female teacher of a private school thrashed Muhammad Jahanzeb, a fourth grade student when he was unable to explain a poem by Allama Iqbal, causing multiple fractures in his arm. Submitted by cowboss Left CareII to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  
  
  
• We're expanding, while economy shrinks
  
  Americans now have another excuse for hitting the fast food establishments and getting farther out of shape by adding unwanted weight, and it's allegedly not their fault. The latest health discovery is called "recession pounds," and some researchers Submitted by cowboss Left CareII to Society & Cul ...
  
  
  
• Reports call for radical rethink on food policy to ...
  
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• TV host curious about attacks on animal ag (audio)
  
  “Anybody from a city, in my opinion, who spends a day, a week, maybe even just a few hours on a working farm is going to be quickly disabused of a lot of what they believe,” Rowe told AgriTalk radio host Mike Adams last week. Submitted by cowboss Left CareII to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  | ...
  
  
  

Suzie-Q

• Prof. Watson calls Morano an ‘asshole’ ...
  
  Marc Morano Climate Depot Sunday, Dec 6th, 2009 A professor who is accusing global warming skeptics of engaging in “tabloid-style character assassinationâ€� of scientists, called an American climate skeptic “an assh*leâ€� on the December 4, 2009 live broadcast of BBC’s Newsnight prog ...
  
  
  
• SNL: Party Crashing Couple- 12/5/09 (VIDEO)
  
  SNL Salahi Skit Spoofs Party Crashing Couple, Secret Service (VIDEO) Huffington Post First Posted: 12- 5-09 06:47 PM   |   Updated: 12- 6-09 03:32 AM UPDATE: The Salahis did not appear on SNL’s opening scene. But the show did begin with a clip lampooning the party crashers and a ...
  
  
  
• Hans Blix: Bush and Blair misled the public and bo ...
  
  ‘Bush and Blair misled the public… yes, it’s conceivable both could end up on trial’ So why hasn’t UN weapons expert Hans Blix been called to give evidence at the Chilcot Inquiry? By Tim Shipman and David Jones Daily Mail on 5th December 2009 Tony Blair and George Bush were orchestrating a ...
  
  
  
• Dr Kelly WAS murdered and there has to be a new in ...
  
  By Tim Shipman, Deputy Political Editor Daily Mail 0n 5th December 2009 Six doctors who believe government scientist David Kelly was murdered have launched a ground-breaking legal action to demand the inquest into his death is reopened. They are to publish a hard-hitting report which they claim pr ...
  
  
  
• Law Enforcement Tapped Sprint Wireless Customers 8 ...
  
  Police Tapped Sprint Customer GPS Data 8 Million Times In A Year TPM Muckraker Justin Elliott | December 4, 2009, 6:03PM Under a new system set up by Sprint, law enforcement agencies have gotten GPS data from the company about its wireless customers 8 million times in about a year, raising a host ...
  
  
  

Solari

• Managing Inflation: Labor Costs Down or Capital Co ...
  
  By Joe Weisenthal View Larger Chart Continue reading Morgan Stanley: Here Comes A Brutal 2010
  
  
  
• Energy Tax Incentives
  
  DSIRE is a comprehensive source of information on state, local, utility, and federal incentives and policies that promote renewable energy and energy efficiency. Established in 1995 and funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, DSIRE is an ongoing project of the N.C. Solar Center and the Interstate ...
  
  
  
• Will Ben Be In by Xmas?
  
  By Scott Lanman and Craig Torres Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke left a Senate confirmation hearing with support for a second term heading a central bank that may be shorn of its powers to supervise financial firms. Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd of Connecticut backed Bernanke ...
  
  
  
• Do It Today!
  
  “Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow.” W.E.B. Dubois
  
  
  
• Who’s Your Foodbank?
  
  Claims for Emergency Unemployment Compensation increased by 265,300 in one week to an all time record of 3,859,553 for the week ending November 14. If you can give money or volunteer time, I encourage you to remember and support your local food bank. Here are links that can help you locate the food ...
  
  
  

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 - 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

• Purple Hearts On Death Row: War Damaged Vets Shoul ...
  
  Soldiers are coming home traumatized by the carnage they've seen. As veterans, we believe those who commit crimes due to severe mental problems should be treated, not killed.
  
  
  
• Prop. 8 Challenge Puts Homosexuality on Trial
  
  Much more than marriage is at stake in the federal legal challenge to Prop. 8. Like Brown v. Board of Education,it can change American life. But it can also go very wrong.
  
  
  
• What the FBI's Murder of a Black Panther Can Teach ...
  
  The legacy of Fred Hampton, who was assassinated under COINTELPRO in 1969, should be our demand that U.S. officials be held accountable when they break the law.
  
  
  
• Why Is the Department of Homeland Security Incarce ...
  
  The DHS should re-consider its policy of jailing "unadjusted" refugees.
  
  
  
• Why Fanaticism Can Be a Good Thing
  
  It's popular to think the world gets changed by delightful people, but agents of change are often obsessive, intransigent, unreasonable, and demanding.
  
  
  

Sideways News

• DIY boom as Brit homes get funky
  
  The winter weather may be drab, but British homeowners are indulging in a taste of the exotic as sales of leopard-skin wallpaper and lime green kitchens surge.
  
  
  
• The official Sideways News gift guides
  
  Braving the crowds at Christmas time can be a daunting endeavour. Thanks are due, then, to the web for the ability to shop for gifts without leaving your chair. But despite the ease with which we can buy online, there's still a bewildering array of things to choose from - so with this in mind, we'v ...
  
  
  
• Winner of the week: Helen Mirren awarded
  
  Oscar-winning actress Dame Helen Mirren has received an award for her "outstanding and lasting" contribution to film and television.
  
  
  
• Week in pictures: 30th 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.
  
  
  
• Zuma: an end to political inertia?
  
  Speaking on World Aids Day, South African President Jacob Zuma declared he would undergo an Aids test as a signal that the era of political inertia, blamed for thousands of deaths, is over.   Zuma declared his intention to help the estimated 5.7 million South Africans infected with HIV by distribut ...
  
  
  

Fabius Maximus

• Dark origins of the new COIN manual, FM 3-24
  
  Obama has cast us into another expansion of our wars, assuming COIN theory shows the path to victory.  But the basics of COIN have received astonishingly little analysis.  Note for example the paucity of critical review of Kilcullen’s works.  Here are one of the posts from ...
  
  
  
• FM newswire for 4 December, hot articles for your ...
  
  Today’s broadsheet from the FM website pressroom, with 7 sections of hot news.  Lot’s happening in the world today, mostly either overlooked or misinterpreted by the mainstream media. Links to interesting news and analysis Another disproof to climate doomsterism A sitrep about fr ...
  
  
  
• Media madness #2 – their lies and ignorance ...
  
  An ongoing series at the FM website describes how we’re ignorant because we read the newspapers.  Today’s example comes from USA Today:   ”Americans’ tax burden is lightest in developed world“, 25 November 2009 — Excerpt: You’d never know it from all the cable news chatt ...
  
  
  
• FM newswire for 3 December, hot articles for your ...
  
  Today’s broadsheet from the FM website pressroom, with 7 sections of hot news.  Lot’s happening in the world today, mostly either overlooked or misinterpreted by the mainstream media. Links to interesting news and analysis Ignore the b.s. commentary; here’s all you need to know ab ...
  
  
  
• Explaining the government’s response to the ...
  
  Much of the commentary about the financial crisis in the general media is little more than superstition – recommendations like the 14th century efforts to control the Plague by killing dogs (which, of course, made it worse).  Here are two excerpts from the professional economics litera ...
  
  
  

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  sibeledmonds: Boiling Frogs Exclusive: US did ask for this fight! Obama’s speech= A new milestone for Washingtonian denial http://boilingfrogspost.com
  
  
  

WIRED Magazine | Science

• 7-Foot NBA Center Wins eBay Auction to Name Shrimp ...
  
  A shrimp that lives on southwest coast of Australia has a new name, thanks to an Australian graduate student, eBay and former NBA basketball player Luc Longley. It all started when Anna McCallum, now a doctoral student at the University of Melbourne, discovered a previously unknown shrimp while wor ...
  
  
  
• Controversial Signs of Mass Cannibalism
  
  At a settlement in what is now southern Germany, the menu turned gruesome 7,000 years ago. Over a period of perhaps a few decades, hundreds of people were butchered and eaten before parts of their bodies were thrown into oval pits, a new study suggests. Cannibalism at the village, now called Herxhe ...
  
  
  
• To Deflect an Asteroid, Try a Lasso, Not a Nuke
  
  To save the world from the real threat of a major asteroid impact, one engineer has imagined a scheme similar to George Bailey’s wish to lasso the moon for his sweetheart in “It’s a Wonderful Life.” The plan is to attach a gigantic weight to an Earth-bound asteroid using an enormous cord. T ...
  
  
  
• Dams Could Alter Local Weather, Cause More Rain
  
  As if America’s aging dams were not in enough trouble already, new research suggests that their reservoirs could be increasing the intensity of extreme rainstorms in their immediate vicinities. That’s a problem because the dams were designed for the climate that existed in the area before they ...
  
  
  
• Feeding Birds Could Create New Species
  
  Something as simple as feeding birds can change their biological fate, and even seed the formation of a new species. Central European blackcap warblers that spend the winter in the birdfeeder-rich United Kingdom are on a different evolutionary trajectory than those that migrate to Spain. The popula ...
  
  
  

The Progressive Realist

• Are the Germans Taking Over Romania?
  
  Handelsblatt reports that it’s time to pick a president, and the Social Democratic candidate looks in a strong position - although he finished second by a few points in the first round of the French-style presidential election, he’s got promises of support from several other parties, notably the ...
  
  
  
• Foreign Investment Increasing In Iraq, Led By UAE
  
  A recent report by the Dunia Frontier Consultants company found that foreign investment increased over the last year, led by the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The report said that direct foreign investment had more than doubled in the first nine-months of 2009 compared to all of 2008. Total investment ...
  
  
  
• Questioning the "Cobra’s Anger" Offensive
  
  The administration’s Afghanistan surge strategy strikes me as a questionable allocation of national resources. But the strategy-qua-strategy has sounded perfectly reasonable to me, and I think there’s reason to believe that an adequately resourced population-centric strategy can be made to work. ...
  
  
  
• Drone Strikes in Afghanistan: About Those Civilian ...
  
  Scott Shane has a must-read in today's New York Times about the possible expansion of the CIA's program of drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal areas to Baluchistan, the large and sparsely populated southern Pakistani province where the Afghan Taliban is headquartered. Having written about the drones ...
  
  
  
• Iran, Israel, and the Middle East's Nuclear Future
  
  In one of our posts last month, we promised a critical look at the Israeli position on a nuclear weapons free zone in the Middle East (NWFZME).  Today, we published an article in ForeignPolicy.com that does this; to link to the article, entitled, “Iran Is No Existential Threat”, click here . ...
  
  
  

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Lightning Round: The Long, Slow, Uncertain, and Fr ...
  
  It has been frustrating to see the White House and congressional Democrats react in slow motion to the unemployment situation, wasting time with summits and relying too much on optimistic economic forecasts. Moreover, even good news can be bad news when it comes to instilling a sense of urgency abo ...
  
  
  
• Can We Get Some More Savinos Up in Here?
  
  New York State Sen. Diane Savino first made a name for herself as a labor activist for the SSEU. She's been a staunch defender of workers' rights, helping raise the state's minimum wage for the first time in a decade and passing the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. But since the failed gay marriage ...
  
  
  
• The Little Picture: Transit.
  
  El tracks, downtown Chicago. From the Prospect archives: Did the stimulus screw commuters ? And why we're eating Europe's dust on high-speed rail. ( Flickr/ ReneS )
  
  
  
• I'm On My Way Home.
  
  The week is over and it's time for me to head back to my corner of the interwebs, so some thanks are in order. First, thanks to everyone for reading my posts! This has been a fantastic week, and I'm really glad that I've had the chance to share my opinions with you. I really appreciate The Prospe ...
  
  
  
• Let Obama Be Obama.
  
  President Obama 's own instincts on the conundrum of jobs versus deficit continue to be better than those of many of his own economic advisers. He is under heavy pressure from the commentariat, the deficit hawks in Congress and the think tanks, and from the budget balance faction at the White House, ...
  
  
  

Andy Worthington

• Living With A Terror Suspect: Detainee U’s Landl ...
  
  The man identified in legal proceedings in the UK as Detainee U is a 46-year old Algerian, who, as two High Court judges explained on December 1, “has been continuously in custody since March 2001,” held without charge or trial, on the basis of secret evidence, “save for a period from July 200 ...
  
  
  
• Four Men Leave Guantánamo; Two Face Ill-Defined T ...
  
  On Monday, the Obama administration announced that it had transferred four prisoners from Guantánamo: Sabir Lahmar, an Algerian, was transferred to France; an unidentified Palestinian was transferred to Hungary; and two Tunisians, Adel Ben Mabrouk bin Hamida Boughanmi and Mohammed Tahir Riyadh Nass ...
  
  
  
• Video: Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo, Plu ...
  
  Earlier today I posted a link to a 15-minute video on Truthout, “The Human Cost of Guantánamo,” featuring an interview filmed by Sari Gelzer and Troy Page in San Francisco, during my recent US tour to promote the new documentary, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (directed by Poll ...
  
  
  
• Truthout Video: The Human Cost of Guantánamo
  
  Out now on Truthout is a 15-minute video by Sari Gelzer and Troy Page, featuring an interview with Andy Worthington, journalist and author of The Guantánamo Files, which includes excerpts from the new documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (directed by Polly Nash and Andy ...
  
  
  
• Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo, Torture an ...
  
  On Tuesday, I was delighted to have the opportunity to talk for an hour to Kevin Barrett, “9/11 truth advocate” and the author of Questioning the War on Terror, on his show, “Fair and Balanced,” on No Lies Radio. The show is available here (you may have to switch off the live feed on the [.. ...
  
  
  

Buzzflash

• Turn Off FOX Campaign Supporters Share Tips on Out ...
  
  BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT by Jeffrey Joseph Since we are fortunate enough to have a very intelligent and driven set of readers here at BuzzFlash, we've received some tips and success stories worth relating in the national drive to Turn Off Fox. Reader Melissa Bishop of Vero Beach, FL, has brought back a ...
  
  
  
• BuzzFlash Mailbag for December 3, 2009
  
  BUZZFLASH MAILBAG Want to join the conversation? Share your thoughts with other Mailbag readers by clicking here . You also may comment below; post articles yourself at BuzzFlash.net ; or send urls for BuzzFlash to post to: www.buzzflash.com/contact/newstip.html . Subject: Washington's Governor is s ...
  
  
  
• Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for December 3, 2 ...
  
  BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZFLASH MINUTE The only thing the GOP seems to have accomplished is NO, NO, and NO some more, with some I OBJECT, I OBJECT, and I OBJECT some more. The Repuglicans only goal in Washington, D.C. is to bring down the President, with no thought whatsoever for the health and well being ...
  
  
  
• Bhopal Disaster's 25th Anniversary: Another Act o ...
  
  BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Meg White An attack on a community perpetrated by an amorphous group that could be in any country, with no allegiance to any particular government, constitutes a fright far removed from any conventional war. That's why we have a special word for it: terrorism. But terroris ...
  
  
  
• Dave Lindorff: Epicenter of Mendacity, Obama's Ill ...
  
  Nobody in the corporate media mentions it, but the war in Afghanistan that President Barack Obama just ramped up by 50% this year, with the dispatch, first of 17,000 troops last spring and now with another 30,000 troops to begin deployment on Christmas, is being fought on the shaky legal basis of a ...
  
  
  

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• Do Obama officials know what his Afghanistan plan ...
  
  On the vital question of whether Obama is committed to begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan in July, 2011 -- or whether that's just an aspirational target subject to being moved -- the statements from key administration officials aren't merely in tension with one another, but are exact opposit ...
  
  
  
• America's regression
  
  Ronald Reagan, May 20, 1988, transmitting the Convention Against Torture to the Senate for ratification : The United States participated actively and effectively in the negotiation of the Convention. . . . Ratification of the Convention by the United States will clearly express United States opp ...
  
  
  
• The commendably missing element from Obama's speec ...
  
  (updated below) Comparing video clips of George Bush's 2002 West Point speech on Afghanistan with the one Barack Obama delivered last night, Rachel Maddow argues that Obama has now embraced the fundamentals of the dreaded "Bush Doctrine":  namely, we will fight wars even in countries that are ...
  
  
  
• Obama's exceedingly familiar justifications for es ...
  
  (updated below) In order to prepare Americans for Obama's Afghanistan escalation speech tonight at West Point (at least he's not wearing a fighter pilot costume), White House officials have been dispatched to speak to the media (anonymously, of course) to preview all of the new and exciting a ...
  
  
  
• The face of rotted Washington
  
  Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh -- who was one of the most vocal cheerleaders for the invasion of Iraq, talks excitedly about punishing , and even bombing , Iran, and is now demanding full-scale escalation in Afghanistan -- was on Fox News yesterday and highlighted what a fraud most so-called "fiscal conser ...
  
  
  

The BiPartisan Report

• Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
• Those holier than thou Conservatives
• Dennis Kucinich: Enemy of the good, pursuer of the ...
• Betsy’s Bullshit, Round 2
• The difference between politics and governing

Sciencebase

• Swine Flu Watch
  
  Somehow got my family enlisted on the UK’s FluWatch program. The scheme, which has members of the public monitoring their colds, sore throats, and flu symptoms is being run by University College London with various eminent medical organisations as partners. Having been invited to join by our fami ...
  
  
  
• Twitter, Facebook and Sciencebase
  
  Regular readers will hopefully have spotted I’ve cleaned up the site a little recently and added a couple of new widgets to the Sciencebase sidebar menu just below the About section link to my Research Blogging posts. The first widget heralds the relaunch of the sciencebase.com Facebook fan page ...
  
  
  
• Absolute chemical headlines
  
  A wide range of stories again in this week’s Alchemist column on ChemWeb.com Absolute configurations reveal themselves through NMR spectroscopy using residual dipolar couplings in small molecules, according to an international team who have put it to work on an anticancer compound. Discussed also ...
  
  
  
• Recognisable scientists versus artists
  
  According to the promoters of a new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London aimed at UK Scientific Heritage: “Scientists are no longer unrecognisable boffins” thanks to the Science in Focus exhibition, which runs until 17 January 2010. Well…I take issue with that remark! Which o ...
  
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
  

change: org.

• 56 International Newspapers Print Same Editorial D ...
  
  One blog post isn't enough to influence the outcome of the Copenhagen summit. And one news story on the front page of a national newspaper isn't enough either. But one single editorial printed on the front page of 56 newspapers in 45 countries from India, to Lebanon, to Poland, to America (Miami) mi ...
  
  
  
• Another Aidworker Victim in Chechnya's Kidnapping ...
  
  Chechnya's war is over, says the Russian government. It has been pacified. The means were illiberal and often brutal , but they got the job done. That is, essentially, the official line --one that is increasingly out of sync with reality. After a brief period of relative calm under the repressive ru ...
  
  
  
• Questions Surround Vancouver's Cold Weather Homele ...
  
  In Vancouver, B.C., an individual's right to sleep on the streets is directly correlated with the rise and fall of a thermometer's mercury. The permits local police to forcibly remove homeless individuals from the streets when temperatures become dangerously cold. Yet with temperatures already dip ...
  
  
  
• The Day the Grammys Chose to Honor a Musician Who ...
  
  Grammy nominations were announced last week , and among them you'll find your regular cast of musical superstars. There's Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Madonna, Kings of Leon, the Black Eyed Peas, and even Daryl Hall and John Oates (for those craving a 1970s-80s flashback). You can also add to t ...
  
  
  
• Emergency Contraception: What Good Is "Available" ...
  
  You've probably seen the tag line for Plan B emergency contraception (EC): Because the unexpected happens . Well, what women may find even more unexpected is that the morning-after pill can still cost up to $70! These are hard economic times and, even for a gal with a credit card, that's a tough pi ...
  
  
  

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• Italians Say 'No Berlusconi'
  
  by Elisabetta Povoledo ROME - Tens of thousands of protesters gathered Saturday in Rome to express their exasperation with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who is on trial on corruption charges and who was politically bruised this year by scandals involving younger women. Many of those who gathered ...
  
  
  
• New Website Helps Shoppers Avoid GMO Foods
  
  Shopping for products that aren't genetically modified (GM) can be challenging, particularly in the United States where there are as yet no laws governing the labeling of products with GM ingredients. To make it a little easier on concerned shoppers, the US advocacy group Institute for Responsib ...
  
  
  
• Battle Over Mountaintop Mining Slowly Gains Ground
  
  by Vicki Smith MORGANTOWN, W.Va - Environmental activists gained more momentum this year than in the past decade against the destructive, uniquely Appalachian form of strip mining known as mountaintop removal, though they have yet to mobilize the millions of supporters they want. The activists have ...
  
  
  
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  by Rod Mickleburgh VANCOUVER - The alleged hounding and 90-minute detention of U.S. broadcaster Amy Goodman by Canadian border guards demanding to know her views on the Olympics is making waves throughout the U.S., and none of it is good for Canada's reputation. "I could see any country in the world ...
  
  
  
• Danish Police Issue Protests Warning Before Summit
  
  COPENHAGEN  - Danish police this weekend spelt out a tough warning about any violent protests at the 12-day UN climate conference starting in Copenhagen on Monday. "We are ready," Mogens Lauridsen, head of operations at Copenhagen police, told AFP late Saturday. "We have mobilized enough force from ...
  
  
  

Lifehacker

• Make Your Holiday Lights Dance to Your Party Musi ...
  
  Looking for a novel way to add some color to your holiday party? This simple hack lets you set a string of Christmas lights to dance to the beat of your tunes. Photo by Someone Somewheres Life . For this trick you'll need a strand of Christmas lights, some wire cutters, electrical tape, and a stereo ...
  
  
  
• Make a Cheap Backyard Skating Rink [Outdoors]
  
  Don't let a lack of backyard pond discourage you from turning Space Balls into an opera on ice. All that stands between you and your dream is some PVC pipe and plastic sheeting. Building an indoor ice skating rink is a feat of engineering. An outdoor skating rink, however, is a much simpler affair. ...
  
  
  
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  This week we explained how HTML5 will change the web as you know it, offered 10 alternatives to the recently-fallen BitTorrent tracker Mininova, and helped you decide whether or not you really need to upgrade your RAM. How HTML5 Will Change the Way You Use the Web Firefox and Safari partially suppo ...
  
  
  
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  Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Firefox extension ReloadEvery lets you automate the refresh process by allowing you to pick a time interval right from the context menu to reload any web page. We've mentioned ReloadEvery before , but that was back in the day—now, it seems like so many things we w ...
  
  
  
• RateTea Helps You Rate, Review, and Find a New Fa ...
  
  There are thousands of teas on the market today, but few ways to tell the good from the not-so-good without tasting them. RateTea is a gathering spot where tea lovers can gather to review, rate, and learn about the teas they love. RateTea provides loads of information about the history, styles, and ...
  
  
  

Newshoggers - AfPak

• I See Friedman's "Yikes" and Raise
  
  By Steve Hynd Tom Friedman, when he shucks his schtick that every brown person is just a child who needs American leadership, can actually state the bleeding obvious pretty well. The president’s spokesman, Robert Gibbs, said flatly: “This can’t be nation-building.” And the president told a c ...
  
  
  
• Would You Buy A Used War From David Cameron?
  
  By Steve Hynd David Cameron promises a civilian surge from the Ministry of Silly Walks. I wish British conservative leader David Cameron would make his blessed mind up. Does he want to kowtow to the neoconservative wing of his party and their Bushite buddies or does he want to win the election? With ...
  
  
  
• Afghan National Army
  
  Commentary By Ron Beasley The Plan A in Afghanistan is to train the Afghan National Army to defend themselves so we can leave. There is no Plan B. As we have said here before Afghanistan is not a nation but a collection of tribes so can you have a national army without a nation? This via Digby: As y ...
  
  
  
• Incapable of Doing COIN
  
  By Steve Hynd Nir Rosen lays the truth out there: "The troubles with COIN are institutional. The American military and policy establishments are incapable of doing COIN." It's something I've argued in the past and that Sean Naylor adds more evidence for today. Rosen says it for pretty much the same ...
  
  
  
• McChrystal Tells Afghans No Early US Exit
  
  By Steve Hynd General Stan McChrystal is signalling to the Afghan leadership that Obama's 2011 "beginning of the end" is just a number they shouldn't take seriously. The top US military commander in Afghanistan has met senior politicians there as part of a charm offensive to sell Barack Obama’s ne ...
  
  
  

Water Wars

• Environmental Hero Tom Graff: 'The Godfather' (Env ...
  
  A stark reality was brought home to Californians in 2007 when a federal court ruled that thirsty cities and farms must cut back on the water they take from the ailing San Francisco Bay-Delta. The message from the court: Protect the Delta’s ecology.
  
  
  
• Scientist’s Himalayan mission provides unwelcome ...
  
  Inching over the treacherous surface of the Rathong glacier, almost 5,000 metres (16,400ft) high in the eastern Himalayas, Dr Shresth Tayal stooped to inspect a 7m steel rod he buried vertically in the ice six months ago.
  
  
  
• Underfoot and Under-Appreciated (Great Neck Record ...
  
  Water, Slipping Though Our Fingers Underground on Long Island there are vast aquifers filled with water, some closer to the surface and more susceptible to polluting influences, others deep with pristine waters thousands of years old. Water knows no boundaries. The water in the aquifers flows in var ...
  
  
  
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  Mumbai, Dec. 3: India’s commercial capital is bracing for severe water shortage and sporadic water wars.
  
  
  
• The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) | Nation (The T ...
  
  India’s commercial capital is bracing for severe water shortage and sporadic water wars. ... | Read.. After his night halts at Dalit homes, Rahul Gandhi will now mount a more direct challenge to Mayavati’s key vote bank by wooing Dalit youths at a rally on her citade ...
  
  
  

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McClatchey

• Iraqis reach last-minute election deal
  
  BAGHDAD — Iraqi lawmakers reached a minutes-to-midnight deal late Sunday, clearing a path to national elections early next year that are seen as crucial to a smooth U.S. troop withdrawal.
  
  
  
• Tacoma area prepares tribute for fallen Lakewood p ...
  
  Two days from now, the families of the four Lakewood police officers killed last week will file past legions of honor guards and waving flags into the Tacoma Dome.
  
  
  
• War costs, while high, are a small part of budget ...
  
  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama insisted last week that as the nation confronts record government debt and pressing economic needs at home, it cannot afford a lengthy, ambitious nation-building effort in Afghanistan_ but limiting U. S. involvement is unlikely to make much of a dent in th ...
  
  
  
• Ex-Myrtle Beach mayor tagged as Elmer Fudd
  
  Former Myrtle Beach Mayor Mark McBride acknowledged several months ago being the controversial online commentator "Elmer Fudd," a business associate said Saturday after being subpoenaed by an attorney for the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce.
  
  
  
• State bought lots from firm tied to N.C. lawmaker
  
  RALEIGH -- At least four state agencies bought expensive high-tech surveillance gear from a private security firm tied to Senate Majority Leader Tony Rand.
  
  
  

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

• Climate visions: a widening divide?
  
  At the UN climate summit in Copenhagen It's been two years minus just over a week since 192 governments agreed to formulate a new deal on climate change. There are now just under two weeks left before they're due to conclude it. As anyone who's employed builders will know, overruns and unantici ...
  
  
  
• Copenhagen Countdown: 2 days
  
  When activists and journalists can't get hold of government documents, you know things have turned serious. OK, I'm exaggerating a bit. But it is a trend that you notice as a reporter; the more things actually matter - the closer events move to what governments really hold to be important, rather t ...
  
  
  
• Copenhagen Countdown: 10 days
  
  This was the week that saw the heavyweights come to town. The EU had said it, UN climate convention chief Yvo de Boer had said it: without something firm on the table from China and US, together responsible for about 40% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, it would be very difficult to reach a ...
  
  
  
• China completes the climate circle
  
  A fair bit of the doubt and confusion surrounding next month's UN climate summit has suddenly cleared, with the world's two biggest greenhouse gas emitters - the US and China - announcing pledges on curbing greenhouse gas emissions. As is set out in the Bali Action Plan - the agreement made at the ...
  
  
  
• China completes the climate circle
  
  A fair bit of the doubt and confusion surrounding next month's UN climate summit has suddenly cleared, with the world's two biggest greenhouse gas emitters - the US and China - announcing pledges on curbing greenhouse gas emissions. As is set out in the Bali Action Plan - the agreement made at the ...
  
  
  

Afghanistan Sun

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• Seven Uzbeks, Afghan bandits perish in Maidan
  
  TIMERGARA: Seven Uzbeks and one Afghan militant who were killed by security forces during a clash at Hundak area of Maidan in Dir Lower were buried by police in a local graveyard at Timer here on Sund...
  
  
  
• US service member killed in road bomb
  
  KABUL (AP): A U.S. service member was killed by a bomb planted in eastern Afghanistan, NATO said Sunday. The American died Saturday while on foot patrol, Sgt. Angela Eggman said. She did not provide ...
  
  
  
• Its the end of the beginning, believes McChrystal
  
  KABUL (NNI): The Top US general in Afghanistan Gen Stanley A. MacChrystal has said US president Barack Obama's pledge of sending additional thousands of troops to the embattled country was 'the end of...
  
  
  
• Historic Herat under threat
  
  HERAT (NNI): The minarets, domes and fortresses that pierce the skyline of Herat testify to its 2,700-year history. As the gateway to Afghanistan from Iran, many important figures passed through the c...
  
  
  

Futurismic

• The Adventures of Phil Wade
  
  [based on a true story, Sarah tells me - Ed.] 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 ...
  
  
  
• Cellphone app could help illegal immigrants
  
  This is going to be controversial: A UC San Diego professor said he has developed a cell phone tool that may help guide illegal immigrants safely across the border. Similar to the way hungry drivers can find a restaurant through the global positioning system devices in their cars and cell phones, il ...
  
  
  
• Wikipedia’s frontiers
  
  Here’s an interesting thinking-out-loud piece at The Guardian from Mark Graham, which responds to those suggestions from the other week that Wikipedia is losing editors because the crowdsourced encyclopedia is ‘complete’. Wikipedia still has much to do: the map above suggests there are still w ...
  
  
  
• Bionic limb pr0n
  
  If you’re fascinated by bionic limbs and other prosthetic technologies, you’ll want to be checking out Wired’s gallery of photos showcasing the current state of the art – we’re still a good distance from the uncanny valley in this field, but the actual utility and ergonomics of the designs ...
  
  
  
• Somalian pirate ’stock exchange’
  
  The Somalian tanker pirates are back in the news – apparently they’ve set up a sort of ’stock exchange’ to handle the influx of business and investment opportunities and feed their ransom money back into the local area [via BoingBoing; image by bazylek100] The gangs have made tens of million ...
  
  
  

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Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• Upcoming Training Seminar to Focus on National Sec ...
  
  The National Whistleblowers Legal Defense & Education Fund will host a conference call training seminar covering a number of innovative and alternative ways to successfully represent national security employees. The three presenters, Mark S. Zaid , Stephen M. Kohn , and David K. Colapinto , all seas ...
  
  
  
• Indonesian activists suffer police investigation
  
  My counterpart in Indonesia, Emerson Yuntho, has been swept up in a flurry of police activity associated with the Third Conference of State Parties (CoSP) of the United Nation Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC).  I just met Emerson last month when he visited our offices at the National Whistlebl ...
  
  
  
• International Whistleblower News (November 23, 200 ...
  
  [Canada] MacCharles, Tonda, Richard Colvin: Portrait of a whistleblower, theStar.com , November 21, 2009. Talk to people who know Richard Colvin and a few key traits emerge. Driven, committed to Canada's mission in Afghanistan. Knows his stuff. Takes copious notes. Sociable, yet discreet. Above all, ...
  
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
  

Defense and the National Interest

• On War #323: Milestone
  
  William S. Lind 23 November 2009 One of the ongoing themes of this column has been gangs and the role they play in a Fourth Generation world. Here in the United States they already serve as an alternative primary loyalty (alternative to the state) for many urban young men. Gangs will likely be a m ...
  
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
  

Science Express

• A solution to Darwin's 'mystery of the mysteries' ...
  
  Biological species are often defined on the basis of reproductive isolation. Ever since Darwin pointed out his difficulty in explaining why crosses between two species often yield sterile or inviable progeny (for instance, mules emerging from a cross between a horse and a donkey), biologists have st ...
  
  
  
• Study uncovers key to how 'triggering event' in ca ...
  
  Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered what leads to two genes fusing together, a phenomenon that has been shown to cause prostate cancer to develop.
  
  
  
• Rapid supernova could be new class of exploding st ...
  
  (PhysOrg.com) -- An unusual supernova rediscovered in seven-year-old data may be the first example of a new type of exploding star, possibly from a binary star system where helium flows from one white dwarf onto another and detonates in a thermonuclear explosion.
  
  
  
• Map of Human Bacterial Diversity Shows Wide Interp ...
  
  (PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Colorado at Boulder team has developed the first atlas of bacterial diversity across the human body, charting wide variations in microbe populations that live in different regions of the human body and which aid us in physiological functions that contribute to our he ...
  
  
  
• Researchers discover key to vital DNA, protein int ...
  
  (PhysOrg.com) -- A researcher at Iowa State University has discovered how a group of proteins from plant pathogenic bacteria interact with DNA in the plant cell, opening up the possibility for what the scientist calls a "cascade of advances."
  
  
  

TechDirt

• The Language Of 'Piracy' As A Spectacle
  
  I've discussed in the past why I'm not thrilled about the use of the word "piracy," even as it has become rather standard for describing unauthorized file sharing. It's inaccurate, and is used by the entertainment industry to paint a picture of pure evil, where a more nuanced and accurate view migh ...
  
  
  
• Let Them Sing... About Copyright?
  
  Shocklee points us to an awesome little app that lets you type in whatever lyrics (or, well, words) you want, hit play, and whatever you type will be sung for you , using clips from various famous songs. It's a really fun little app (though, I was amused that they have no clip for the word "lyrics" ...
  
  
  
• TV Exec Upset When Daughter Doesn't Want To Bring ...
  
  Just about a year ago, ABC TV exec Anne Sweeney was telling people at CES that they were in the providing good content business , and she wanted to see it delivered however people wanted to watch it, on whatever device they wanted. But, it's a little more difficult to apply that message to her own ...
  
  
  
• Washington Post Learns The Importance Of Fact Chec ...
  
  On November 26th (Thanksgiving), the Washington Post put up an article about the group Public Enemy and its efforts to help the homeless in DC. Nice enough. However, there was one oddity in the article. It claimed that the band's famous song 911 is a Joke was about the attacks of September 11th . ...
  
  
  
• Apple Fighting Macpro In Australia, Despite Is Usi ...
  
  Reader mick alerts us to a legal fight in Australia with Apple working hard to stop computer firm Macpro from being able to keep its name . The company has been in business since 1983, prior to Apple introducing the Macintosh (which happened in early 1984). In other words, Macpro should have prior ...
  
  
  

VacTruth

• Mercury Spill causes scare at local H1N1 clinic
  
  A thermometer accidentally broke Friday afternoon spilling mercury onto the floor of the gym at the Greenbush School in West Warwick.
  
  
  
• BIG PHARMA’S CRIME SPREE
  
  Across the U.S., pharmaceutical companies have been pleading guilty to criminal charges or paying penalties in civil cases...
  
  
  
• Patent Application Suggests Influenza Vaccines Lik ...
  
  The inventor has realised that the conditions used for influenza culture can increase the risk that pathogens.
  
  
  
• Three students show side effects after flu shots
  
  “The vaccine is not the issue, some kids do pass out.”
  
  
  
• Newburgh attorney takes down Wyeth drug company
  
  Big Pharma Shakedown
  
  
  

BroadSnark

• Liberals and Conservatives Fuel Conflict
  
  An incident happened at my friend’s job the other day that perfectly demonstrates why liberals and conservatives are ultimately doomed to fail in their efforts to resolve conflicts. One of the employees is a very young woman.  She’s not particularly mature.  It’s her first job.  She w ...
  
  
  
• Some Things You Might Have Missed
  
  Db0 has a new post up on how he ended up calling himself an Anarchist.  He’s also started a meme.  I’m really looking forward to reading other stories.  Noor posted a link to her story in the comments.  You should definitely read them both. Thanks to @solidadrocks for tweeting this a ...
  
  
  
• Ignoring Elites is so Elitist
  
  Jim Vandehei and Mike Allen at Politico wrote a story about how Obama’s White House is “working systematically to marginalize the most powerful forces behind the Republican Party.” The Heritage Foundation quoted that story and then did a fascinating little maneuver where they tried to turn “ ...
  
  
  
• Rewriting the Drug War News
  
  Ever read a news story and want to bang your head on the wall because of all the underlying assumptions written into it?  Me too. Stop the Drug War has a new project called the Drug Policy News Writing Demonstration Project. The Drug Policy News Demonstration Project seeks to raise awareness of the ...
  
  
  
• The Danger of Good vs. Evil
  
  The Heritage Foundation put out a morning bell yesterday.  The gist of the message is that Obama slighted Reagan by not showing up for the Berlin wall ceremonies and for not mentioning Reagan in his speech.  Reagan is, of course, the savior who freed the world from the communists. My personal favo ...
  
  
  

Executive Intelligence Review

• The LaRouche Show, December 5, 2009
  
  Trash British Global-Warming Genocide; Look to Indo-Pacific Frontier!
  
  
  
• The LaRouche Show, November 28, 2009
  
  Copenhagen Summit Must Reject Genocide Policy
  
  
  
• The LaRouche Show, November 21, 2009
  
  LaRouche's Four-Power Agreement, Or a New Dark Age
  
  
  
• The LaRouche Show, November 14, 2009
  
  Bringing the United States Into LaRouche's Four-Power Agreement
  
  
  
• For Mideast Peace: Defeat Parvus Doctrine
  
  EIR Editorial Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, November 13, 2009, Vol. 36, No. 44
  
  
  

Armies of Liberation

• US Sanctions Iran Based al Qaeda, Zawahiri Promise ...
  
  The US Treasury Department placed financial sanctions on Saad bin Laden, thought to be in Pakistan, and three alleged al Qaeda operatives in Iran including a Yemeni. The terrorist designation Friday froze their assets within US jurisdictions and prohibits Americans from financial dealings with the ...
  
  
  
• Arabian Peninsula al Qaeda groups merge
  
  In the face of Saudi Arabia’s success against the al Qaeda organization, many Saudi operatives have fled to the more hospitable climate in Yemen, joining others who recently arrived from Iraq, Somalia, and Pakistan. Al Qaeda in Yemen announced its merger with Saudi Arabia’s al Qaeda organization ...
  
  
  
• Yemen strikes multi-faceted deals with al Qaeda
  
  Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh recently struck a deal with Ayman Zawahiri, and Yemen is in the process of emptying its jails of known jihadists. The Yemeni government is recruiting these established jihadists to attack its domestic enemies as it refrains from serious counter-terror measures aga ...
  
  
  
• Yemen’s Multi Faceted Deals with Al Qaeda (A ...
  
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• Yemen’s three terror fronts
  
  By Jane Novak March 28, 2009 3:18 PM Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula took credit in an internet statement Friday for a pair of suicide attacks that targeted South Koreans in Yemen. A teen-aged suicide bomber killed four South Korean tourists in Shibam, Hadramout on March 15. A second terror att ...
  
  
  
  
  
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  By Jon Heyman, SI.com The Cubs are still "not close" to dealing talented yet troubled outfielder Milton Bradley to the Rays or Rangers, the two teams ...
  

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  SAN FRANCISCO: A global water crisis is looming, but the path to profits is a muddy mess of regulated industries, giant companies with small water ...
  

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  - Dec 05, 2009
  

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  By KEVIN MAURER AP Writer WILMINGTON, NC - Government data from the 1990s that failed to find a link between polluted water and child illnesses at Camp ...
  

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