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Thomas Paine

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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • DEVELOPMENT: EU Aid to be Used for Fingerprinting
    BRUSSELS, Jan 13 (IPS) - Aid traditionally reserved for keeping victims of war and disasters alive may now be used for security-related projects such as the fingerprinting of refugees, European Union officials have decided.
  • DEVELOPMENT: China’s ‘Ant Tribe&#821 ...
    BEIJING, Jan 13 (IPS) - Every day Yang Hongwei takes the bus home from work, staring silently at the European-style villas, luxury sedans and twinkling lights from the plazas that he sees through the window.
  • ECONOMY: Dubai Debts Prompt Review of Islamic Fin ...
    BEIRUT, Jan 13 (IPS) - 'The World’, a manmade archipelago off the coast of Dubai, developed by the Nakheel real estate company - which partly relied on the issuance of Islamic bonds, or sukuk, to finance the ambitious project - has come to symbolise for many the vulnerability of the Islamic fina ...
  • DEVELOPMENT-CAMBODIA: Minority Languages Face Ex ...
    PHNOM PENH, Jan 13 (IPS) - One of Cambodia’s oldest languages – S’aoch – appears headed for extinction in the next decade. Other languages spoken by its minority people are lining up to take the place of the 6,000-year-old language in the most endangered category.
  • COTE D’IVOIRE: Elections Under Threat Agai ...
    ABIDJAN, Jan 12 (IPS) - Preparations for presidential elections scheduled for the end of February or the beginning of March - elections which have already been postponed numerous times since 2005 - have again reached an impasse in Côte d'Ivoire.

Scoop - NZ

  • Brownlee forces SOE to withdraw blog
    Powershop is a subsidiary of Meridian Energy, an SOE. It is the most highly rated power retailer by its customers, with 92% satisfaction. On the Powershop website, there's a blog. On this blog, the CEO of Powershop, Ari Sargent, wrote a post on the Government's proposed electricity sector reforms. I ...
  • Dope Smoker Vs Liquor Baron
    Last month Southland shearer Lionel Paul Joseph Taumata was sentenced to six months in prison for possession of 709g of cannabis leaf, 22.4g of cannabis oil, more than $10,000 cash and a 20-litre container of isopropyl alcohol, used for the manufacture of cannabis oil.In sentencing, Judge Phil Moran ...
  • Attorney Kurt Haskell Passenger On Nigerian Bomber ...
    Kurt Haskell, Detroit area attorney and passenger on the "Christmas bomber" flight 253, discusses the arrest of a second man that an FBI agent insinuated was carrying a bomb, the inconsistent statements from the FBI and US Customs - particularly from spokesman Ron Smith - and an account of the sharp ...
  • Copenhagen .. and beyond
    We've all seen Hollywood movies in which humanity is threatened by an unstoppable force, powerful beyond comprehension, which is eventually, in the final climax, held back and thwarted by our hero straining every sinew and pushing really harda4¦Over recent weeks I have been in two meetings with Ed M ...
  • Freak Current Takes Gulf Stream to Greenland
    An unprecedented extreme in the northern hemisphere atmospheric circulation has driven a strong direct connecting current between the Gulf Stream and the West Greenland current. The unprecedented negativity of the "Arctic Oscillation" and the strong connection of the Gulf Stream with the Greenland c ...

Independent ( London )

  • McCanns dismiss detectives' claims over Madeleine
    Gerry McCann angrily dismissed Portuguese detectives' claims that his daughter Madeleine is dead as he arrived at court today.
  • McCanns dismiss detectives' claims over Madeleine
    Gerry McCann angrily dismissed Portuguese detectives' claims that his daughter Madeleine is dead as he arrived at court today.
  • UK assistance team heading for Haiti
    A team of specially trained firefighters from West Sussex were among those preparing to fly out to help rescue victims of the Haiti earthquake today.
  • Thousands feared dead in Haiti
    A major earthquake rocked Haiti, killing possibly thousands of people as it toppled the presidential palace and hillside shanties alike and leaving the poor Caribbean nation appealing for international help.
  • Andrew Buncombe: India's ale pales by comparison
    During the long hot months of India's summer, respite is often found at the end of the day in a nice cold bottle of the local brew, the condensation wiped with eager anticipation from the bottle as you grab for a glass as the sun goes down.

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

The Daily Galaxy

  • Get Your Daily Dose of Awe @The New Daily Galaxy F ...
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  • "Did I?" New iPhone Application For Your Personal ...
    David Kuschner is an associate professor in the early childhood education program at the University of Cincinnati created an iPhone app that sprung from his nagging worry “Did I call my mother today?” Kuschner’s mental reminders to check on his...
  • The Daily Flash -Eco, Space, Tech (1/12)
    Terrorist Threat: Adding More Names to Watch Lists Isn’t Change, It’s a Step Back Adding more names to the government’s terrorism watch lists as a way to prevent another underwear bomber, as President Obama promised to do Thursday, won’t work....
  • The Pandora Project: Zeroing in on Earth's Twin - ...
    "It's only a matter of time before more Kepler observations lead to smaller planets with longer period orbits, coming closer and closer to the discovery of the first Earth-analog." John Morse, head of the astrophysics division at NASA headquarters in...
  • New Findings: Sudden Antarctica Warming Cycle 15 M ...
    An international team of scientists now have proof of a sudden, remarkably warm period in Antarctica that occurred about 15.7 million years ago and lasted for a few thousand years. Last year, as Sophie Warny, LSU assistant professor of geology...

Natural News

  • 25 ways to improve your health and happiness in 20 ...
    (NaturalNews) The New Year is upon us, and for many people, it includes a New Year's resolution for achieving improved health and happiness in 2010. Here are twenty-five health-enhancing ideas to help you accomplish that goal. #1 - Replace sodas or soft drinks with tea or water. #2 - Commit to eatin ...
  • More evidence emerges that Americans are drugged o ...
    (NaturalNews) As NaturalNews has previously reported, the U.S. is a nation seemingly hooked on mind-altering drugs (http://www.naturalnews.com/027054_drugs_antidepressants_health.html). A study released last fall in the Archives of General Psychiatry documented a dramatic increase in the use of anti ...
  • Three Approved GMO Crops Linked to Organ Damage, N ...
    (NaturalNews) Genetically Modified crops (or GM) are genetically modified organisms (GMO) that have been altered to meet a specific profile. They have also been the subject of controversy almost since their introduction two decades ago. A new study pinpoints three variations of GM corn (maize) as be ...
  • Global deep freeze threatens 2010 food supply
    (NaturalNews) The global deep freeze now striking North America, Europe, China and other regions may lead to severe food shortages and price hikes throughout 2010. Right now, rare freezing temperatures are destroying root crops in their ground, wiping out citrus orchards and devastating food produce ...
  • Dr. Hyla Cass releases new audio course to enhance ...
    (NaturalNews) On the heels of her popular book, 8 Weeks to Vibrant Health , Dr. Hyla Cass, M.D. has just launched her new 8 Weeks to Vibrant Health Audio Course , featuring 9 audio CDs, her "8 Weeks" book and an accompanying workbook. It's all about teaching women how to restore their energy, enhanc ...

    TheGallopingBeaver

  • Dear Vatican,
    I take issue with your simple dogmatic and doctrinaire construction of a judgemental and vengeful sky-god. Given what we now know about everything from quarks to black holes, and the fact we mere humans are made of the same matter as stars, your belief in an emotionally fraught deity seems to be a l ...
  • COP15 Copenhagen Blogs
    Two of 'em, from folks participating and observing the talks. Here and here . I had meant to post these a while ago, but life happens and I was distracted. Anyway, both are authored by academics researching social and economic dimensions of climate change. It is interesting to compare the discourse ...
  • Facebook Wars - by the numbers
    Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament - 155,000 Canadians Who Don't Care if Harper is Proroguing Parliament - 163 I Support the Prorogation of Parliament and the Prime Minister of Canada -713 Stephen Harper - 29,452 Michael Ignatieff - 28,822 Jack Layton - 27,697 and just to be a cow about it : ...
  • Why have a Parliament anyway?
    Roy MacGregor, while largely acknowledging that Stephen Harper seem to have little but contempt for Parliament, insists that no one but Parliament Hill reporters and opposition MPs much cares about prorogation, which is hard to pronounce and just plain boooooring. Few people care about what Parliame ...
  • Iggy gone inside 90 days?
    But Harper still gets a majority...according to a numerologist. Still, disregarding the source, it is an interesting scenario to ponder: Bob Rae for all his faults would at least have the Liberals acting like an Opposition. But to get there, the Liberals would at least have to join the present.

Media Matters for America

  • Quick Fact: Fox's straight news also misrepresent ...
    After Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy claimed that a New York City-led initiative to encourage reduced salt intake would allow the government to "decide how much salt is in our diets," Fox's purportedly straight news programs Happening Now and Special Report also covered the salt-reduction i ...
  • Deficit hawk Beck attacks Fed's "windfall profits, ...
    During his January 12 Fox News program, Glenn Beck claimed there was a "double standard" by Democratic politicians in attacking "windfall" profits from energy companies, but not criticizing what Beck described as the Federal Reserve's "windfall profits" over the past year. Beck did not mention that ...
  • O'Reilly uses poll showing 57% approval for Obama ...
    Bill O'Reilly cited a CBS poll announcing a drop in Obama's approval ratings and commented, "Talking Points predicted that last week with Dick Morris -- I predicted that Americans were not thrilled with President Obama's rather unemotional response to the Christmas Day terror situation." But the CB ...
  • Special Report highlights Brown's fundra ...
    In a report on the Massachusetts special Senate election on Fox News' Special Report , correspondent Molly Line highlighted how the campaign of Republican candidate Scott Brown claims "they've raised $1.3 million in the last 24 hours," but made no mention of Fox News' role in helping Brown rai ...
  • Fox News provides MA Sen. candidate Brown a forum ...
    In recent days, Scott Brown, the Republican nominee in the special election for the Massachusetts U.S. Senate seat, has made numerous appearances on Fox News to raise funds for his campaign, solicit volunteers, and peddle misinformation. In the wake of the November 2009 elections, Fox News prov ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • What Good are Fancy Derivatives?
    The Nobel-winning economist Robert Solow, in a respectful review of John Cassidy's fine book How Markets Fail, asks: How much do all those exotic securities [credit-default swaps and the like], and the institutions that create them, buy them, and sell... Credit default swap - Robert Solow - Se ...
  • The Last Big Question: Will Health Care Reform Be ...
    There's only one big remaining issue on health care reform: how to pay for it. The House wants a 5.4 percent surtax on couples earning at least $1 million in annual income. The Senate wants a 40 percent excise tax... Health care - Senate - Excise - United States Senate - Health
  • Liz Cheney Knows Racism When She Sees It (She Was ...
    After years of supporting her racist father, Liz Cheney is finally calling out racism where she sees it -- in the words of Harry Reid. Liz Cheney insists that Reid's comments about Obama were racist because they involved "I mean,... Harry Reid - Racism - Strom Thurmond - Liz Cheney - United Sta ...
  • Gideon Levy of Ha'aretz: Israel Is Mentally Ill
    This is a fascinating piece by one of Israel's top writers. Levy asks how it is possible for any country to behave as irrationally as Israel, over and over doing things that undermine its chances for survival, its friendship with... Israel - Gideon Levy - Middle East - United States - Warfare ...
  • Democrats Should Tax The Hell Out Of the Upcoming ...
    This is from today's New York Times. "Industry executives acknowledge that the numbers being tossed around -- six-, seven- and even eight-figure sums for some chief executives and top producers -- will probably stun the many Americans still hurting from... New York Times - Wall Street - United ...

TruthOut

  • The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage
    Why same-sex marriage is an American value. Together with my good friend and occasional courtroom adversary David Boies, I am attempting to persuade a federal court to invalidate California's Proposition 8 -- the voter-approved measure that overturned California's constitutional right to marry a per ...
  • Regime Change in Tehran?: Don't Bet on It… Yet
    The dramatic images of protestors in Iran fearlessly facing -- and sometimes countering -- the brutal attacks of the regime's security forces rightly gain the admiration and sympathy of viewers in the West. They also leave many Westerners assuming that this is a preamble to regime change in Tehran, ...
  • Canada No Longer a Haven for War Resisters
    Prime Minister Stephen Harper is determined to send back the some 200 American asylum-seekers who have fled the Iraq war. Toronto, Canada - Canada has long been a haven for Americans escaping their wars. During the American Revolutionary War in the late 1700s, an estimated 50,000 colonists who wante ...
  • My Crazy Trip to a Goldman Sachs Executive's Brazi ...
    I have made friends with a lot of people in my life. But as working-class kid from Pittsburgh, perhaps my most unusual friendship was with a Goldman Sachs executive, Pedro Henrique Fragoso Pires Garcia. Typically in Brazil, people abbreviate their names, but Pedro used his full name. including his m ...
  • Activists Worried About "Secret" Internet Treaty
    Mexico City - An international treaty to combat copyright infringement and piracy, being negotiated by Mexico and other countries, could curtail expansion of the internet, violate people's rights to privacy and freedom of expression, and undermine multilateral accords on intellectual property, activ ...

Planetsave

  • Killer Whales Are Evolving Into Two Different Spec ...
    Scientists have found that Killer Whales in the North Atlantic Ocean differ in both diet and genetic makeup. In fact, they’re in the process of splitting into two different species all together. Researchers examined the teeth of 62 whale skeletons, some that were hundreds of years old. They found ...
  • Japanese Whalers Strike, Sink Sea Shepherd’s $2 Mi ...
    All five crew aboard the Ady Gil, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s new intercepting vessel are safe, but the fate of the prized new boat is in doubt after a collision with a Japanese harpoon vessel left it disabled off the coast of Antarctica. Anti-whaling activists, the Sea Shepherd Conser ...
  • Barn Owl’s Wisconsin Appearance A Rare Event
    The Common Barn Owl is not so common in Midwestern states where it’s considered vulnerable. A recent surprise appearance in Wisconsin highlighted the species’ fragile status in the region. A raptor listed as an endangered or threatened species in seven Midwestern states made a rare appearance in W ...
  • Michigan Offshore Wind Proposal Stirs Waves
    A map prepared for Michigan’s Great  Lakes Offshore Wind Council shows areas of high wind power production potential in the state’s offshore waters. One of the first proposals for a major offshore wind project in America’s freshwater has surprised Michigan regulators and begun to stir oppositi ...
  • Friendship between LION, TIGER and BEAR
    This post contains additional media. Click here to view the full post . . If we could all just get along like these three unusual friends, we would live in a much different world. In human society, people often do not like others simply because they are different. Humans kill over this matter. In ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Worried About Comanche Peak Water Use?
    Are you worried about the water usage of the proposed 2-unit expansion at the Comanche Peak nuclear power plant up near Glen Rose, Texas?  Then you might be interested in the Brazos River Conservation Coalition meeting tonight at 7pm in Granbury, where they will discuss the impacts of increased wate ...
  • Austin Climate Protection Conference and Expo
    Austin Energy is hosting the Austin Climate Protection Conference and Expo this Friday and Saturday, January 15th and 16th from 10am to 5pm at the Palmer Events Center.  Admission is free to the public and participating professionals, but you’ve still gotta register. The 2nd annual expo will featur ...
  • CPS-NRG Lawsuit: Settlement Meeting and Citizen In ...
    Representatives from San Antonio’s CPS Energy and NRG Energy, their partner in the proposed South Texas Nuclear Project expansion, met this morning to try and reach a settlement on their $32 Billion lawsuit.  But CPS acting General Manager Jelynne LeBlanc-Burley apparently walked out of the meeting ...
  • Dallas Morning News Editorial: Texas, a state of d ...
    Great editorial in the Dallas Morning News this weekend. We couldn’t agree more Editorial: Texas, a state of denial on pollution rules To the surprise of no one, the Environmental Protection Agency announced tougher ozone limits this week. The move to tighten pollution standards had long been anti ...
  • Perry spews hot air on warming
    Op-ed originally published in Sunday’s Amarillo Globe: Column – Andy Wilson: Perry spews hot air on warming AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry’s recent essay (“EPA ’science’ doesn’t add up in global warming equation,” Dec. 27, 2009) is full of hot air and not much else. The governor’s outrage produces more he ...

Press TV

  • ISI: Afghanistan behind unrest in Pakistan
    Pakistan's intelligence agency (ISI) says terrorists cross Afghanistan into their side, urging Kabul to do more to stop the border crossing by Taliban and al-Qaeda linked militants.
  • Larijani slams US for terror of Iranian scientist
    After Iran accused the US and Israel of involvement in the assassination of an Iranian nuclear physics scientist, Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani moves to deplore the terrorist act.
  • Haiti braces for huge earthquake death toll
    Thousands of people are feared dead after a massive earthquake struck the Haitian capital, toppling the presidential palace and hillside shanties alike.
  • Afghan civilian deaths rose to 2,412 in 2009
    Civilian casualties in the Afghan war have risen significantly in 2009, compared with the previous year, to 2,412, the highest number since the ouster of the Taliban regime in late 2001.
  • Top Obama adviser meets Saudi King
    White House National Security Adviser James Jones has met with Saudi King Abdullah as the Arab country is involved in a military intervention in Yemen.

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • This Explains Everything
    Well, it doesn't explain the deference Traitor Joe receives, but nothing does. From Ken at Down with Tyranny: Since the Obama administration came into being, it has seemed unthinkable to me that the people in charge went into this monumental undertaking without a plan, as keeps appearing to be the c ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Dozens dead in Haiti earthquake. "A 7.3-magnitude earthquake which struck off the coast of Haiti is feared to have killed or injured dozens of people in the capital, Port-au-Prince. Haiti's envoy to the US said it was a "catastrophe of major proportions". Buildings, including a hospital, are reporte ...
  • Balance the State Budget in One Easy Step
    There may actually be an almost free lunch for revenue-starved states like Kentucky on the verge of completely shutting down state services: legalize pot and tax the ever-lovin' shit out of it. Hey, Stevie boy! You wanna bring shoppers from surrounding states pouring into Kentucky to spend every dim ...
  • Social Promotions for Proven Failures
    Funny how the wingnuts who rail against social promotion for struggling school kids have no problem giving a pass to neocon advisors who have been catastrophically wrong about everything for four decades. Frank Gaffney is on Fox right now making his argument that Obama needs to appoint a 'Team B' to ...
  • Twisted Values
    When I was in high school, we had words for girls like this.  For the one on the left: Taken.  For the one on the right:   Splinters. nonny mouse, at Crooks and Liars: Have a good look at these two women, both wearing the same bathing suit. Which one, in your opinion, would you consider as 'sexier'? ...

Care 2

  • As in Humans, Sleep Solidifies a Bird's Memories
    Sleeping is known to help humans stabilize information and tasks learned during the preceding day. Submitted by Nancy Bridget to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Take it or leave it? (Infographic)
    Are you in a dillema, while designing your dorm room? Can't decide what to take or what to leave? Relax! This info-graphic has come up with solutions to resolve your queries. Submitted by Katie Miller to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Google 'may pull out of China after Gmail cyber at ...
    Internet giant Google says it may end its operations in China after hackers targeted the e-mail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. Submitted by Alisa Roberts to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Talk about long haul: Arctic terns travel 44,000 m ...
    The arctic tern may only weigh a quarter of pound but the dauntless bird will travel the equivalent of three return trips to the moon during its lifetime. Scientists including a team from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) made the discovery Submitted by Sophie Smith to Science & Tech  |   Note-it! ...
  • Global Warming Indigestion May Kill Gorillas, Mon ...
    Red colobus monkeys would be among the primates most threatened by warming-induced leaf changes, a new study says. Submitted by Nancy Bridget to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

GreenBiz

  • Sustainable Consumption: An Idea Whose Time Has Co ...
    For many years, the idea of sustainable consumption has been embraced by NGOs and others, but widely shunned by business. This is changing fast, and the signs of growing interest are coming from unlikely locations.
  • Can China Turn Cotton Green?
    Producing "natural" cotton clothing is a huge and filthy global business that, Chinese-commissioned research shows, will be extremely difficult to clean up.
  • Sustainable Consumption: An Idea Whose Time Has Co ...
    For many years, the idea of sustainable consumption has been embraced by NGOs and others, but widely shunned by business. This is changing fast, and the signs of growing interest are coming from unlikely locations.
  • Can China Turn Cotton Green?
    Producing "natural" cotton clothing is a huge and filthy global business that, Chinese-commissioned research shows, will be extremely difficult to clean up.
  • Why the Triple Bottom Line Matters More Than Ever
    The concept of a triple bottom line, where social and environmental factors are considered along with economic ones, is also getting a lot of attention. Is this another business fad? I don't think so.

Reuters Global

  • European Parliament’s theatre of politics
    Every five years, the European Parliament gets a chance to show its teeth as it quizzes candidates to serve in the European Commission, the powerful body that enforces laws across the European Union. But rather than a rigorous examination of the nominees, it tends to be more of an exercise in politi ...
  • Iran denies nuclear “halt” but technic ...
    Iran hastened on Monday to deny an Israeli media report that it had suspended uranium enrichment for two months to mollify Western powers mulling more sanctions against Tehran over suspicions it wants the programme to yield atomic bombs.
  • Haiti earthquake: live coverage
    Live coverage of the Haiti earthquake from Reuters and other sources.
  • EU holds hearings, but who’s listening?
    The European Union has more people than the United States and is a bigger economic trading zone, but when it comes to hearings to choose its top officials, the EU has a long way to go to match the high-profile hearings the U.S. Senate puts presidential nominees through
  • Nigerian president on the way back?
    Will Nigerian president's comments be enough to end growing disquiet at home?

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • New Material Needed To Respond To DNC Fundraising ...
    So, with all the hot water many Democrats are in now, aided by the new book, Game Change, no doubt the fundraising calls will get more and more insistent. They have to overcome not just what was in the book, but stories like this from the Washington Post, “Sen. Reid and son, Cory, Each [...]
  • “Dead Heat” [Updates]
    UPDATES: Don’t miss the internal Democratic party memo, posted at the end of this blog post: “Internal Memo To Top Dem Donors Warns Mass Senate Race Is “Very Tight,” “Urgent”” ALSO: Tune in to John Batchelor’s radio show, on at 9:10 p.m, which will cover the Scott Brown saga. Tune in via i ...
  • President Obama, the CIA and the Master of the Cov ...
    Editor’s Note: Reprinted from Truthout.org with the express permission of Mel Goodman, whose bio is at the end of this post. Former Deputy CIA Director John Edward McLaughlin. (Image: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: CIA) The Obama administration quietly announced Friday the a ...
  • Highlights from the Coakley/Brown Debate:
    “Coakley says no more terrorists in Afghanistan,” writes Ed Morrissey for Hot Air: While most of the post-debate attention has focused on Scott Brown’s Reaganesque moment in declaring that the Senate seat doesn’t belong to the Kennedy family or the Democrats but to all Massachusetts voters, Coak ...
  • Harry Spins A Race
    Notice, I said Harry Spins A Race, not Harry Spins Race. That “A” is important, because that is what concerns me far more than what some are calling Reid’s racist characterization of Obama. Game Change, the gossipy potboiler destined to make authors John Heilemann and Mark Halperin richer tha ...

Environmental Graffiti

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • More Readers Air Their (Clean) Laundry
    In our fifth installment, Green Inc. readers respond to our post on efficiency, clothes dryers, and the resurgence of backyard line-drying with pictures of their clotheslines.
  • Q&A: Hong Kong's Air Pollution Problem
    The air pollution reached "life threatening" levels one in every eight days last year. A spokeswoman for the Environment Protection Department comments.
  • On Our Radar ...
    A roundup of electric vehicle news coming out of the Detroit auto show (from our friends at the Wheels blog).
  • Spanish Solar Firm's Model: Build and Sell
    Grupo OPDE is one of several solar energy developers that are increasingly employing the leveraged financing model used by private equity funds and used in traditional fossil fuel-based projects.
  • After Climate Talks, Lingering Disputes Between Da ...
    Complaints of an unnecessarily prolonged detention surrounded the release late last week of four Greenpeace activists who crashed a royal dinner party as part of demonstrations associated with the Copenhagen climate talks last month.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • 'Civil support' apparatus appears, Oh noes: Obama ...
    Article I Section 10 Clause 3.... No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State , or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such immine ...
  • TSA goon loses notebook tracing blogger leaks; hon ...
    Next time at the airport: "resonant effects allow THz waves to unzip double-stranded DNA, creating bubbles in the double strand"..... But first, Crush the Bloggers with Fake Tweets!!! "Sent Blog Message to entice M... [?] to respond" --Randomly found TSA investigator notebook re manipulating Twitt ...
  • New TSA leak PDF; False Flag ops for Detroit Chris ...
    An interesting confluence of events as Obama suddenly grants INTERPOL diplomatic immunity of sorts, while an apparent airport false flag operation or at least 'shady biz as usual' unravels pretty quickly. Good times in the shadow state for 2010. We found some snippets on the case from two noted jo ...
  • First protest of 2010: Palestinian popular committ ...
    With a new year comes renewed awareness of the various interlocking scams and awful scenes continuing to unfold around the world. The activities in Gaza are also prompting more action in the West Bank - today's demonstration vs Israeli settler colonial operations near Bethlehem is the first protest ...
  • Corrupt Transportation Security Administration goo ...
    The Transportation Security Administration is a headless corrupt golem that threatens the safety of all Americans. No one is even in charge of this messed up agency, however like many of the federal security-oriented bureaucracies, its security divisions have become bloated and aggressive. Becaus ...

Daily Censored

  • Is Green Dot ‘Public’Schools using their non-profi ...
    "I lodged the initial complaint (against Green Dot) in August. They've been conducting an investigation ever since. I've been sending them information as often as I can. They don't like how I do it publicly, but they did provide me the case number recently. Since their investigation is ongoing, they ...
  • Here are the names! They don’t even hide their in ...
    The new charter hucksters and their deep pockets don't even hide the fact they are taking over public schools. The sad fact is the Obama Administration does. Take a look at the new self described "challengers of conventional thinking". They are all captains of sophistry and market fundamentalism. ...
  • African Farm Workers Face Repressive Conditions in ...
    The World Socialist Website has a full report on the exploitive abuses of African farm laborers in Italy. Like many countries in the world the wages for the hardest jobs are so low that immigrants—with or without official legal residency status— are used to harvest crops. When workers push for bette ...
  • Yemen on the International Stage . . . and the Ame ...
    By Brian Downing A slew of terrorist plans, mostly failed in the execution, have been traced to a group operating in Yemen – al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. World attention is focused on Yemen and also on the United States, as a response is expected. Proximity to oil resources, Iran’s involvemen ...
  • DID TEACHERS’ UNION FUND COLOMBIAN TERRORISTS?
    By guest blogger George Thompson Just as the mainstream media ramped up anti-terrorism fear to justify invading Iraq and Afghanistan, the same could be said of the campaign to generate distrust of teachers’ unions in order to justify further privatization in both the US and Canada. Indeed, as the ma ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

Institute for Policy Studies

Pine River World News

  • Europe Takes up Switzerland's Initiative against I ...
    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Pravda, Moscow. Europe Takes up Switzerland's Initiative against Islamization ©   Pravda.ru By Sergey Balmasov January 12, 2010 The success of the Swiss far-right who managed to obtain enough votes at a referendum to ban the construction o ...
  • Paul Craig Roberts: Is Anyone Telling Us The Truth ...
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Paul Craig Roberts. Is Anyone Telling Us The Truth? ©  Paul Craig Roberts January 8, 2010 What are we to make of the failed Underwear Bomber plot, the Toothpaste, Shampoo, and Bottled Water Bomber plot, and the Shoe Bomber plot? These blunderi ...
  • Pakistan fed up with U.S. diplomats and embassy st ...
    Pine River World News / IntelTrends January 8, 2010 Pakistani police and the general public are fed up with U.S. diplomats, embassy staffers, and, yes, even 'private security contractors' claiming "diplomatic immunity" whenever they're stopped by police investigating suspicious activities. These en ...
  • Why Americans Must Soon Die in Yemen
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Stanislav Mishin, a frequent contributor to Russian newspaper Pravda. Why Americans Must Soon Die in Yemen ©  Stanislav Mishin Source: Mat Rodina January 6, 2010 Yes, I am sorry to say, to my American readers, but it is that time again, that v ...
  • Ramzy Baroud: Media Vultures Coming
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Ramzy Baroud. Media Vultures Coming ©  Ramzy Baroud January 6, 2009 As you flip through a range of channels on your TV or browse through a stack of newspapers and magazines at a newsstand, you may feel lucky about living in a world where such ...

    PDA AMERICA

  • Sing It If You Understand
    Cross-posted from Docudharma When Obama needed the votes of progressives to get elected, his message was Change We Can Believe In.  But now that he no longer needs us, now that he has power, he has ...
  • Looking into the Continuing Financial Crisis – Wha ...
    by Randy Shannon | Treasurer, PA 4th CD Chapter Progressive Democrats of America December 30, 2009 The chart at the right from the St. Louis Federal Reserve shows that banks have record low liquid assets, and that ...
  • Tax on Health Care Will Erode Coverage for Middle ...
    Cross-posted from the ALF-CIO Blog A new year brings with it lots of hope. Let’s hope 2010 brings a health care reform bill that does not penalize working families with a tax on their coverage. Because right ...
  • Tim Carpenter on the Nicole Sandlers Show, Air Ame ...
    Tim Carpenter discusses the recent developments in the Health Care debate in Washington.
  • There They Went Again & Again & Again…
    Cross-posted from Docudharma In another arrogant collusion to once again deny us any possibility of what we want — real health care reform, single payer, public option — those who do what they want, but not ...

Marler Blog

  • More Video about US Attorney's and FDA's failure t ...
    You really have to question, if we do not criminally prosecute Stewart Parnell and others responsible for over 700 illnesses and at least nine deaths, when will we?  Why has it not happened?  Where is the outrage?  Why the double standard for corporate executives?  Perhaps they need a bail-out too?  ...
  • One Year after over 700 sickened and nine deaths c ...
    Good question.  I asked some of my clients their thoughts. “As someone who testified in front of the House subcommittee last February, I saw the emails that Parnell had sent out,” said Lou Tousignant, whose father, Clifford Tousignant, died from eating the tainted product. “I saw that he knowingly s ...
  • CLASS I RECALL Massachusetts - Adams Farm Slaughte ...
    According to and FSIS press release this evening, Adams Farm Slaughterhouse, LLC., an Athol, Mass., establishment, is recalling approximately 2,574 pounds of beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) an ...
  • Petition to FSIS for an Interpretive Rule Declarin ...
    I know FSIS has been busy the last few months, but it would be nice if I actually received an indication if FSIS was going to act on the Petition I filed October 5, 2009 - one way or another.  Perhaps this letter will prompt a response?
  • Food Safety News IPhone App Coming Very Soon
    This is going to be great - and Free:

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 01.13.10
    Detroit 2010: BYD's plans to bring the all-electric E6 to the U.S. slightly detailed Nothing says ambition like a Chinese company that wants to be the world's biggest automaker in 15 years. Detroit 2010: ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 01.12.10
    Detroit 2010: LaHood says Volt is "obviously the kind of green car Americans are looking for" So says the guy who works for the government that owns 60 percent of the company that will sell the Volt. Det ...
  • Detroit 2010: Toyota FT-CH a younger, cheaper brot ...
    Filed under: Concept Cars , Detroit Auto Show , Hatchback , Toyota Toyota FT-CH live unveiling - Click above for high-res image gallery Toyota brought a downstream version of the small hybrid Lexus LF-CH concept that was unveiled in Frankfurt to the Detroit Auto Show today. The FT-CH Concept - tea ...
  • Detroit 2010: LaHood says Volt "obviously the kind ...
    Filed under: Detroit Auto Show , Hybrid , Sedan , Government/Legal , Chevrolet , GM , Electric The 2010 Detroit Auto Show kicked off this morning with a positive little speech by United States Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood. Speaking about the coming electrification of the automobile, he ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 01.11.10
    How to turn the World's Cheapest Car into the World's Most Overpriced Car Yikes. Sin City's illegal activities include falsifying vehicle emissions tests Thousands paid to keep driving dirty ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • HOWARD ZINN: "Holy Wars"
    Howard Zinn is an American historian, social critic, and activist. He is best known as author of the best-seller A People’s History of the United States . He spoke at Boston University on November 11, on the subject of American “Holy Wars.” Thanks to Robbie Leppzer for filming this event.
  • Sick With Terror
    The media have been swamped with reports about the attempt to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day. When Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, now dubbed the “underwear bomber,” failed in his alleged attack, close to 300 people were spared what would have been, most likely, a horrible, viole ...
  • The Fight Against Hydraulic Fracturing is Heating ...
    Dozens of New York State and City legislators and environmental activists gathered on the steps of City Hall on Monday to urge Governor Paterson to step back from the Department of Environmental Conservation’s “Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement” (SGEIS), otherwise known as t ...
  • Coming Up: Dr. Atul Gawande
    Dr. Atul Gawande, a practicing surgeon, associate professor at Harvard Medical School and staff writer for the New Yorker magazine joins us to discuss health care reform and his new book, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right.
  • The Poetic Justice of Dennis Brutus
    Dennis Brutus broke rocks next to Nelson Mandela when they were imprisoned together on notorious Robben Island. His crime, like Mandela’s, was fighting the injustice of racism, challenging South Africa’s apartheid regime. Brutus’ weapons were his words: soaring, searing, poetic. He was banned, he w ...

Farming Pathogens

  • Do Pathogens Time Travel?
    Evolution arises from a wealth of failure: 1) natural selection requires large and variable populations comprised largely of organisms that fail because their designs do not match their present problems and 2) chance destruction occurs at all spatiotemporal scales. So clearly strict optimization doe ...
  • We Are All Astronauts Now
    Five years ago I gave copies of this essay to a few friends and family as a year-end holiday gift. As a first stab I think it’s aged well, despite its ignorance of the work of Berger, Harvey, Reichenbach, among others. I offer it now to everyone else in a similar spirit–all in good fun, [...]
  • 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 holiday. ...
  • 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 wave a ...

Digg Green

  • Milky Way over the Alps (Stunning Timelapse VID)
    This awesome timelapse video captures the stars in the night sky over the Alps.
  • Could we be in for 30 years of global COOLING?
    Britain's big freeze is the start of a worldwide trend towards colder weather that seriously challenges global warming theories, eminent scientists claimed yesterday.
  • America's Incredible Shrinking Car Population
    Fewer Americans are buying or driving cars, which means trouble for the auto industry but good news for the environment, as other forms of transportation become more popular.
  • How cold is Europe? Even Norway's buses can't take ...
    Bus engine oil is freezing in Norway, and Ireland is reporting its lowest temps in 50 years. In Britain, which looks like a baby Greenland on satellite images, Prime Minister Gordon Brown is turning into the nation's weather comforter-in-chief.
  • U.S. Navy Brings Solar Power to Pearl Harbor
    Catch an aerial view of Pearl Harbor and it’s easy to see the potential for rooftop solar energy. Parts of the U.S. Navy base in Hawaii are open space but much of it is a dense conglomeration of buildings and facilities, and every roof could be a potential sustainable energy generator. The Navy is ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Swine Flu ‘False Pandemic’ Claim
    By CHRIS POLLARD A LEADING health expert says the swine flu scare was a “false pandemic” led by drugs companies that stood to make billions from vaccines. Wolfgang Wodarg, head of health at the Council of Europe, claims major firms organised a “campaign of panic” to put pressure on the World H ...
  • WHO Scientists Corruption Scandals Appear Endemic
    By William Engdahl The much-touted threat of an H1N1 Pandemic flu fades in the mildest flu season on record, and governments are left sitting on millions of dollars of stocks of vaccines. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe will begin an official investigation into evidence of scanda ...
  • Video – Drug firms made ‘false H1N1 cl ...
    The severity of the H1N1 outbreak was deliberately exaggerated by pharmaceutical companies that stood to make billions of dollars from a worldwide scare, a leading European health expert has claimed. Wolfgang Wodarg, head of health at the Council of Europe, has accused the makers of vaccines for the ...
  • Chemical analysis links ISI to CIA killings in Kho ...
    The chemical fingerprint of the bomb used by the Jordanian double agent that killed seven Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officers at a US base in Khost Province of Afghanistan last week reportedly matches the kind produced by Pakistan’s Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). According ...
  • The CIA Misspells Al Qaeda Terrorists Names and By ...
    One of the 9/11 hijackers appeared on the no-fly list with a deliberately misspelled name. The CIA supplied that name just like they did Umar Farouk Abulmutallab’s. DCBureau is publishing the page from the [...]

    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 decision I’ve ma ...
  • 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 Pakist ...
  • 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 13- or ...
  • At Home with a Swat Lashkar
    I just finished up a few days in Swat and while I’m working on a story about it, I thought you might like to see a few pictures I took while there. Enjoy. Share/Save
  • FACTBOX: Uzbek militant leader killed in Pakistan ...
    Washington PostFACTBOX: Uzbek militant leader killed in PakistanReutersBy this time he is thought to have fled the region for the safe haven of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. * Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader ...Pakistan to Target Taliba...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • Report: Monsanto Corn Causes Organ Damage in Mamma ...
    A report released by the International Journal of Biological Sciences states that three types of Monsanto corn, cause cancer and organ damage in mammals. Related posts: Monsanto Bets on the Hungry to Double its Profits by 2012 USDA: No Environmental Impact Study Needed to Deregulate Genetically Mo ...
  • Interior Secretary Tells Big Oil – Public Lands ar ...
    Last week, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said that big oil will no longer be "the kings of the world" like they were under the Bush administration. Related posts: Wind Could Replace Most if Not All Coal Plants, says Interior Secretary President Bush Opening Public Lands Near Parks for Drilling S ...
  • Fast Food Strikes (Out) Again
    A recent article in the Huffington Post has me completely infuriated. What did it say about soda? Are you sitting down? Related posts: Putting the Gross in Groceries – Food Inc. the Documentary The Beef Stops Here at Sacred Heart Hospital Good News Monday – Bloggers Donate 720 Cans of Food to Food ...
  • U.S. Department of Labor Rolls Out New Green Jobs ...
    Under the leadership of U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis, green jobs have become a priority at the U.S. Department of Labor. Related posts: 15,000 Green Jobs Coming to London Site Update for Twilight Earth: Change In the Air EPA Seeks Comments on Greener Site Cleanups
  • Senior Citizen Tells Youth – Dont Make the Mistake ...
    A heartfelt letter from Gene Steele to the next generation. Related posts: Global Youth Video to World Leaders: Youre Not Done Yet and Neither are We Twilight Earth Exclusive Cop15 Video – China Youth in Copenhagen Senior Citizens March 25 Miles Against Mountaintop Removal

Inhabitat

  • Win a Hymini Portable Wind + Solar Gadget Charger!
    Put green power in the palm of your hand! Having trouble keeping your gadgets charged on a daily basis? Ever had your cellphone run out of juice on you in the middle of an important day? You’re in luck – we’re giving away one incredibly handy HYMini charger so that you’ll have access to [...]
  • Recycled Robot Fish Teach Japanese Children About ...
    Floating garbage has found its calling in these incredible sea creature robots hand-crafted by marine scientist and educator Masamichi Hayashi. Assembled using recycled items including plastic bottles, food containers, styrofoam, raincoats, and motors removed from windshield wipers, these realistic ...
  • Reclaimed Wood Eco-Clocks Keep Time in the Urban J ...
    It’s 2010; the beginning of a new decade of great, green design. Rather than counting the days of their lives like sand through the hourglass, eco-minded inhabitants of today’s urban jungle could soon be watching time pass with these gorgeous, artfully laser-printed time pieces. Each one is hewn on ...
  • Inhabitat Joins the Treecycling Fun at NYC’s Annua ...
    This past weekend the New York City Parks Department hosted their annual Mulchfest, providing New Yorkers with an easy, eco-friendly way to dispose of their holiday trees. With over 80 chipping or drop-off locations throughout the 5 boroughs, it was super easy for everybody to participate, including ...
  • Solar Puppy Sweater is Only a Little Bit Silly
    If you’re going to dress your dog up in silly outfits, they may as well serve a purpose. That’s the tack behind this solar puppy sweater created by Erik Shiegg. According to him, the hi-tech canine couture is capable of charging an Android phone in no time, plus “the dog feels good and I’m feeling [ ...

Pogue's Posts

Open Your Eyes News

  • White House says stimulus has saved two million jo ...
    Reuters – President Barack Obama’s emergency spending measures last year saved up to 2 million U.S. jobs, the White House said on Wednesday, but it warned that the outlook for the economy remained uncertain. Read Article Ed – And despite “bailing out” the banks to the tune of trilliosn of dollars un ...
  • UK anti-terror stop and search policy ruled illega ...
    The Independent – A crucial element of the government’s ­counter-terrorism policy lay in tatters tonight after a European court ruled that the ­”arbitrary” stop and search of people without suspicion was illegal. Seven judges at the European court of human rights said that random stop and search p ...
  • Thousands feared dead as major quake strikes Haiti
    Reuters – A major earthquake rocked Haiti, killing possibly thousands of people as it toppled the presidential palace and hillside shanties alike and leaving the poor Caribbean nation appealing for international help.A five-story U.N. building was also brought down Tuesday by the 7.0 magnitude quake ...
  • North Korea calls for peace treaty to replace armi ...
    Reuters – North Korea said on Monday it wants to reach a peace treaty quickly to replace the ceasefire that ended the 1950-53 Korean War in order to build trust with the United States and revive dormant nuclear disarmament talks. But the White House made clear that North Korea must first resume long ...
  • US, Israel accused of assassinating nuke scientist
    ABC – Iran is blaming the United States and Israel for the assassination of a nuclear scientist who was killed in a bomb attack on a Tehran street. Professor Massoud Ali Mohammadi, a lecturer at Tehran university, died when a bomb strapped to a motorcycle was triggered by remote control outside his ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Dear Maoist-Third Worldist… Many roads to so ...
    Many roads to socialism? (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Dear Maoist-Third Worldist, There is no First World Proletariat. Only blockheads fantasize about First World revolutions. First Worldists are a joke. I get it. What I am not sure about is the Maoism side of Maoism-Third Worldism. Isn’t ...
  • Σχετικά με τη ρήξη μεταξύ Μάο και Λιν Πιάο.
    Σχετικά με τη ρήξη Μάο-Λιν Πιάο Πηγή: monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com «Αγαπητέ Μαοϊστή Τριτοκοσμιστή, Προσπαθώ να κατανοήσω το μυστήριο σχετικά με την πτώση του Λιν Πιάο. Ο Τσου Εν Λάι και ο Ντενγκ Ξιάοπινγκ χρησιμοποίησαν εδάφια του προέδρου Μάο για να επιτεθούν στον Λιν, ωστόσο βρίσκομαι σε σύγχ ...
  • Movie Review: Avatar (James Cameron, 2009)
    Movie Review: Avatar (James Cameron, 2009) by Prairie Fire (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Avatar (James Cameron, 2009) is part of a long tradition of “going native” movies. In this sense, Avatar has been correctly described as “Dances with Wolves in space.” Nonetheless, there is more to Avatar ...
  • United Snakes meddles in Middle East, Iran and Yem ...
    United Snakes meddles in Middle East, Iran and Yemen.. First Worldist “left” cheers (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) The Obama administration is increasing the US involvement in the affairs of both Iran and Yemen. This should be no surprise to anyone since the Obama administration is as fund ...
  • RAIM: Fuck the border
    Posted in ..Monkey and the Troublemakers, ..RAIM-Seattle, Communism, Latin America, Maoism, Maoism Third Worldism, Maoisme, Maoismo, Mexican Liberation, North America

PakAlert

  • Destination: Jerusalem
    by: Haris Mumtaz | United States Of Islam The night was shimmering up in the sky and within the silence of words coming out the noise of bombings and explosions. Children stressed, demented under the safety of their shelters while their parents are either resisting on the streets of Gaza or sitting ...
  • ALERT: Indian RAW Seminar Targets Balochistan
    See below full list of Pakistani Participants Who Are Endorsing This Indian Meddling. Pakistan Needs To Support The 14 Separatist Insurgencies Inside India “Selected” Pakistani participants invited to discuss autonomy for ‘Balochistan and Kashmir.’ Unfortunately, the Pakistani media is clueless ...
  • The World’s Worst Terrorists Based In Washington
    AMERICANS MUST ASK; WHO IS BREEDING TERRORISM? The above-captioned article was written by John Pilger in the daily The Yumiuri Shimbun, of Japan, dated 30th August, 1998. He says “In recent years Muslims have been the greatest sufferers from state terrorism.” The excerpts of his above-mentioned arti ...
  • 10 Sci-Fi Weapons That Actually Exist
    Sure, the gear may look like it came straight out of Avatar or Battlestar Galactica. But all of the laser weapons, robots, sonic blasters and puke rays pictured here are real. Some of these weapons have already found their way onto the battlefield. If the rest of this sci-fi arsenal follows, war may ...
  • Earth ‘to be wiped out’ By Supernova Explosion
    The Earth could soon be wiped out by the explosion of a star more than 3,000 light years away, according to American scientists. By Ben Leach | telegraph.co.uk T Pyxidis Photo: NASA The star, called T Pyxidis, is set to self-destruct in an explosion called a supernova with the force of 20 ...

ecogeek

  • Detroit Auto Show Overrun by Electic Cars
    Electric vehicles have become a common theme at this year's North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Major manufacturers are unveiling new electric vehicles that aren't simply blue-sky concept car shells. They are designed, engineered and specified throughout, even if they aren't goi ...
  • Sponge-Like Glass Cleans Contaminated Water
    A new glass material engineered by Dr. Paul Edmiston at the College of Wooster has the ability to clean polluted water by absorbing contaminants like a sponge.  What can't nanotechnology do? The material is called Osorb and has amazing properties.  It's a reactive glass, allowing it to bind with ga ...
  • Printable Lithium Batteries Coming Soon
    First came printable solar cells , then printable OLED lights and now ladies and gentlemen, we have printable lithium batteries.  Japanese researchers have announced they've developed a way to manufacture the batteries with mass-output, roll-to-roll printing technology. The printed battery sheet is ...
  • Starfish: Carbon Storage Heroes
    According to a new study by British researchers, starfish and their fellow echinoderms (sea urchins, sea lilies, etc) act as a significant sink for CO2.  The ocean bottom-dwellers store about 2 percent of annual human CO2 emissions. Researchers knew echinoderms store large amounts of calcium carbon ...
  • Why Antarctica Isn't Melting Like the Arctic...Yet
    You've probably noticed that you read a lot of stories on Arctic melt , how quickly it's progressing, opening up shipping lanes and hurriedly moving towards ice-free summers.  But what you don't read much about is melting of Antarctica's ice sheets.  If global warming is causing polar ice melt - wh ...

Times Online - Science

  • Boss fish tick off cheeky cleaners who stop the fr ...
    Fish living on coral reefs have similar disciplinary structures as humans working in a business environment, scientists have found.
  • The Eureka Quiz (No 3)
  • Why non-scientists are a pain in the arts
    The Moon landings were fake. And it doesn’t take a genius to work it out, apparently. Think about that famous image of the American flag, flying proudly on the lunar surface. Wait a minute! There’s no wind on the Moon! In fact there’s no atmosphere whatsoever — it’s a vacuum. So how could the fl ...
  • School Report: How can a car go 1,000mph?
    Students at Backwell School, near Bristol, found out what it’s like to get behind the wheel of the Bloodhound SSC (supersonic car). The rocket-powered vehicle aims to reach a speed of more than 1,000mph in 2011 to beat the land speed record, which at the moment stands at 763mph and was set by An ...
  • Bike Geek: From cotton mills to Mona Lisa
    Manchester’s industrial heritage looms so large that even today the city has not quite shaken off its cotton mills and workhouses image. Most of its famous scientists and engineers — John Kay (who gave the textile industry the “flying shuttle”), Charles Rolls and Sir Frederick Henry Royce, James ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • This is what motivated healthcare activists look l ...
    For those of you confused about the lack of motivation from activists in supporting Obama's and Congress' healthcare reform, healthcare activists take to the streets in California demanding REAL Healthcare Reform. Single Payer. Too bad the people in charge in Washington, D.C., aren't truly intere ...
  • People Need To See Doctors Now
    We can sit here and discuss healthcare reform as we wait for reform, but there are so many reasons why so many people need access to Doctors and hospitals to kick in NOW. From Mobilization For Healthcare For All , here is one of those reasons: While heath care reform dominates the national debate, ...
  • Tea Party Credo: "If you can't reform your image, ...
    Last week I posted on one of the Tea Party leaders and a "Man of Faith", Dale Robertson, who has some serious messaging issues to deal with, as you can see here: It appears that Robertson has decided to reform his image in the only way he knows how: When you're a Tea Party activist and you've bee ...
  • KWIN-uh-pe-ack Poll is up - And so am I...
    It is way too early in the morning but I figured I'd check for the latest Quinnipiac poll results for the Connecticut Governor's race : In an early look at the 2010 election for Connecticut Governor, Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz runs best among possible Democratic challengers, trailing Republi ...
  • Note to Simmons and McMahon: Crystal Balls and Tea ...
    Smash mouth political commentary from Linda McMahon and Rob Simmons : "Isn't it sad that after 30 years in Washington, Chris Dodd is still writing letters and putting out press releases after the fact,'' Ed Patru, spokesman for Linda McMahon, said in a press release. "The H1N1 shortage didn't just o ...

SPL Center

  • Uganda’s Harsh Anti-Gay Legislation Has Amer ...
    While activists around the world criticize pending legislation in Uganda they call the “kill the gays” bill, some Americans are being outed for their connections to those involved in the proposed statute. The latest is Richard Cohen, who claims he has successfully counseled thousands of gays to beco ...
  • Columnist Describes Barrage of Threats from Nazi L ...
    ROANOKE, VA. — Pulitzer-prize winning columnist Leonard Pitts told the jury this afternoon that his “blood ran cold” when he received an E-mail from white supremacist Bill White with his home address, telephone number and a reference to his wife. When he clicked a link in the E-mail and saw that Whi ...
  • Federal Jury Convicts Missouri Extremist
    Whoever complained that the wheels of justice move slowly would have enjoyed this week’s trial of Robert Joos Jr. A federal jury in Springfield, Mo., needed nine minutes to convict the reputed antigovernment white supremacist on charges of being a felon in possession of firearms and a felon in posse ...
  • Indictments Detail Alleged Police Cover-up in Beat ...
    At about 11:30 on the night of July 12, 2008, six teenagers brutally assaulted a Latino man in a Shenandoah, Pa., park while yelling “Fucking spic, “Go back to Mexico” and “Tell your fucking Mexican friends to get the fuck out of Shenandoah.” As they gathered at one of their homes after the attack, ...
  • Racist Skinhead’s Wife Behind European &#821 ...
    The online news site European Union Times (EUT) — which recently “broke” a story about President Obama preparing for an imminent civil war — is being cited as a credible source by several libertarian bloggers who are hyping the story. It turns out the EUT was created in October and is registered t ...

change: org.

  • Ensuring A Level Playing Field For Every Child
    1. What cause or causes would you most like to promote as a Changemaker and why? We must end the Cradle to Prison Pipeline crisis. Incarceration is becoming the new American apartheid. A Black boy born in 2001 has a 1 in 3 chance of going to prison in his lifetime; a Latino boy a 1 in 6 chance. Unle ...
  • We Are The Lucky Ones
    1.What cause or causes would you most like to promote as a Changemaker and why? The fight against cancer . Cancer is projected to become the leading cause of death worldwide in 2010. But there is reason for hope. One-third of all cancer incidents are preventable and one-third are treatable with ear ...
  • “Where Will I Do My Service Year?”
    What cause or causes would you most like to promote? Most immediately, passage of a health care bill that assures a quantum leap toward universal coverage and starts us on the road to reform of the financing and incentive system. Expanding Medicare and Medicaid would be good ways to go. Another mode ...
  • A Fair Living Wage And Benefits For All Workers
    1. What cause or causes would you most like to promote as a Changemaker and why? I would like to promote two interconnected causes, one educational and the other economic: to ensure that every child in this country receives a high-quality public education, and to ensure that every worker has access ...
  • Gay Marriage Lowers Straight Divorce
    Forget couples therapy! Straight married couples ought to just move to states that recognize same-sex marriage if they want to save their relationships. Because as it turns out, states that have legalized same-sex nuptials have the lowest divorce rates in the country. Nate Silver has the goods . He ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Haiti Earthquake: Devastation Emerges
    The extent of the devastation from a huge quake in Haiti is slowly emerging, with a number of UN peacekeepers among thousands of people feared dead. Jordan, Brazil and China have all reported deaths. UN chief Ban Ki-moon said the head of the UN mission in Haiti and his deputy were missing. The 7.0-m ...
  • Obama Wants $33 Billion More for Wars
    by Anne Gearan and Anne Flaherty The Obama administration plans to ask Congress for an additional $33 billion to fight unpopular wars in Afghanistan and Iraq on top of a record request for $708 billion for the Defense Department next year, The Associated Press has learned. The administration also pl ...
  • Seeking a Cultural Revolution: From Consumerism to ...
    by Matthew Berger WASHINGTON - The last 50 years have seen an unprecedented and unsustainable spike in consumption, driven by a culture of consumerism that has emerged over that period, says a report released Tuesday by the Worldwatch Institute. read more
  • Health Insurers Funded Chamber Attack Ads
    by Peter H. Stone Just as dealings with the Obama administration and congressional Democrats soured last summer, six of the nation's biggest health insurers began quietly pumping big money into third-party television ads aimed at killing or significantly modifying the major health reform bills movin ...
  • Activists Protest in DC over Guantanamo Prison
    by Nafeesa Syeed WASHINGTON - Dozens of human rights activists marked the eighth anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo Bay prison for detainees by protesting by the White House on Monday. Members of Witness Against Torture, which is calling on President Barack Obama to follow through with his ...

Lifehacker

  • Laptop or Desktop: What's Your Main Computer? [Re ...
    Unless you need a serious workhorse PC, modern laptops have plenty of power for most computer users; it's why laptop use has grown so much in recent years. Still, according to the New York Times, desktop's aren't dead just yet. Why? For one, PC makers have spent the last couple of years trying to p ...
  • The Malaysian Home Office [Featured Workspace]
    A workspace is forever a work in progress as the needs and projects of the user change. Today's featured workspace has a year's worth of transformations under its belt and each one is interesting. Lifehacker reader Snecx calls Malaysia home and has a spacious living room there which serves as his ho ...
  • Frequently Asked Questions About Google Wave [Faq ...
    The Google Wave Preview has been available to one million+ people for over three months now, but questions about Wave still abound, even by the early adopters who have gotten in and taken it for a test drive. After publishing a book on everything I know about Wave , I still get many of the same ques ...
  • Properly Care for and Feed Your New HDTV [Mainten ...
    Back in the day, you bought a new TV, set it up in any old corner of the room, and dusted it whenever you remembered. Plasma TVs need the kid glove treatment, though, if you want to keep them in pristine condition. Photo by lisibo . Plasma televisions are expensive, so they're worth the extra effort ...
  • Gadget and Gear Deals of the Day [Dealhacker]
    Deeply discounted computers, peripherals, and printers await inside today's Dealhacker roundup. Here for the freebies? Fair enough, we've got free iPhone games, TV shows, guitar lessons, and over 120 free albums on Amazon.com. Computer Gear! HP Pavilion Elite HPE-150t Core i5 Desktop for $799.99 + ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Ignatius Violates Op-Sec
    By Steve Hynd David Ignatius, stenographer to the spies and spooks of all nations, has a column today which is essentially a begging letter on behalf of the CIA for more money and resources. His point, already well made elsewhere, is that the CIA failed to observe standard operational precautions in ...
  • Not Winning The Village
    By Steve Hynd ABC has a story from Afghanistan right now about a female Major on a PRT team who, after the local malevillagers cancelled a meeting about a new girl's school, went ahead and had a secret meeting about a secret school with the women of the village anyway. The entire story, by embaed Ka ...
  • The Good News: We're Only Killing One Kid A Day In ...
    By Steve Hynd The Afghan Rights Monitor says that an average of three children under the age of 18 are killed every day in Afghanistan. Children are the biggest victims of the war in Afghanistan, with more than 1,050 people under 18 years old killed last year alone, according to an Afghan human righ ...
  • CIA Bomber Provided Drone Strike Intel
    By Steve Hynd The more information surfaces about Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, the spy-cum-suicide bomber who blew himself, three guards (at least two of whom were Blackwater mercs), his Jordanian handler and four CIA operatives to bits at a CIA base in Afghanistan last week, the more bizarre t ...
  • Sustainability and Afghanistan
    By Dave Anderson: The basic US strategy in Afghanistan is to use a surge of forces to create temporarily more favorable facts on the ground against the Taliban, Pashtun tribal militias and other armed groups that are not favorably disposed to the current Kabul government while the Kabul goverment gr ...

Water Wars

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Electronic Intifada

  • Don't forget Free Gaza Movement women
    Although I appreciate Asa Winstanley's warm review of To Gaza with Love (4 January 2010), he left out every woman involved in the organization and founding of the Free Gaza Movement. I'm disma ...
  • Making a business out of Palestine's struggle
    Soliciting the support of people in the US-based Palestine solidarity movement, Palestine Note recently launched a new website that aspires to become the online hub for all things Palestine. While the ...
  • Nablus executions: Shoot first, ask questions late ...
    The brutal killing of three Palestinian men by Israeli military forces in Nablus last week on 26 December 2009 sparked grief and outrage across Palestine and brought the northern West Bank city ...
  • Uphill battle for academic freedom in US universit ...
    Despite the expanding and momentous student-led boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, open dialogue around the reality of the situation in occupied Palestine continues to be an uphill batt ...
  • Church in hot water over Jerusalem land sales
    RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) - Israel's bid to keep occupied East Jerusalem under its sovereignty and prevent its incorporation into a future Palestinian state has been boosted over the years wi ...

CS Monitor - News

  • podcast091204
    Fewer US jobs lost in November and impact on economy.
  • 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.

The Wonk Room

  • Health Insurance Industry Contributed Millions To ...
    Last September, ThinkProgress reported that despite its public support for health care reform, the insurance industry was engaged in a “duplicitous” campaign to undermine the effort. Now the National Journal has confirmed that from September to December 2009, “six of the nation’s biggest health insu ...
  • Joe Wilson Still ‘Nervous’ About &#821 ...
    Late last year, Rep. Joe “You Lie” Wilson (R-SC) sparked a series of sweeping changes in the way immigrants are treated by proposed health care reform. Despite the fact that President Obama wasn’t really lying about the fact that health care reform benefits would not apply to undocumented immigrant ...
  • Progressives Push Lawmakers To Close The Loopholes ...
    This afternoon, Health Care for America Now (HCAN) hosted a press call outlining some of the remaining loopholes in federal health care reform legislation. Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA), health expert Karen Pollitz, former Blue Cross chief medical officer and former state regulator Michael McGarvey, an ...
  • Bank Lobby Bemoans The ‘Absurd’ &#8216 ...
    esterday, Politico reported that the Obama administration is mulling over implementing a bank fee in its next budget, in order to “recoup” the cost of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) and decrease the deficit. Of course, the banking lobby is up in arms: Edward Yingling, president and chief e ...
  • Positive Movement On Iran’s Two Clocks
    One of the key challenges for President Obama’s Iran engagement policy has been to calibrate an approach that addresses Iran’s nuclear program but that doesn’t serve to strengthen a regime that a significant number of Iranians clearly see as illegitimate. As others have noted, the administration is ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Canuck Konstitutional Kryzezz and Tiger Woods
    I've been absorbing the day's events. But I gotta hand it to the CBC. When I checked in to get the latest news and analysis of this dramatic forcing of the question of the competing powers of our various, ancient branches of government, ... what do my eyes behold as the lead story on the CBC news ...
  • I Always Thought Christie Blatchford Was an Idiot
    (I changed the title, so that it says "Idiot" instead of my first choice "Moron" because that's what I call Blatchford's sister in stupidity, Rosie DiManno .) I haven't read you for years and years and years Christie. You used to appear in the Toronto Sun, writing brain-dead criticisms of left-win ...
  • Is Tom Flanagan Simple?
    Last night , on CBC's amusingly titled "Power Panel" Tom Flanagan tried to make himself out as something other than a "harper stooge" by trashing harper's inarguably ridiculous excuse for prorogation (to deal with the awesome task of winding down the response to the great recession) and wishing that ...
  • Please Read
    I first posted this excerpt from this recent post . But I think it got lost in the shuffle of the reporting on General Natynczyk's about face on whether we'd actually detained and transferred that one suspect over to his Afghan abusers. The thing is, this account of CF actions in the field [dating ...
  • Online Petition For Public Inquiry Into Torture
    Pursuant to the goal of bringing accountability and the rule of law to Canada, and starting the process of getting the harpercons into the prison cells they're inevitably going to be thrown into, Alison at Creekside has a link to an online petition for a public inquiry into torture . Please sign it ...

Financial Sense Editorials

  • Market Observation: Clear Thought in Confusing Tim ...
    by Rob Kirby. "How often have you heard a talking-head or pundit from the print media try to “explain” how the U.S. led global economy faltered the way it has? We’ve been dazzled and fed explanations regarding root-cause, ranging from sub-prime mortgages to credit-default swaps to lack of regulatory ...
  • Th*nk*ng (Gadgets)
    by Fred Cederholm. "I’ve been thinking about gadgets. Actually I’ve been thinking about CES 2010, phones, drones, stereo-3D- flat screen TV, programming, BETAs/ VCRs/ DVDs/ BlueTeeth (or is it Bluetooth’s?), PDAs, and communicating. The quality of our lives does not seem to be a function of the love ...
  • Precious Metals Roar Into 2010
    by Warren Bevan. "It’s nice to be back to work after a hectic and unfortunately stressful holiday season. The general complacency regarding markets in general continues on into the new year and the metals are back on track to their wining ways, but more on that next week. Let’s get right into thin ...
  • Gold Outlook for 2010
    by Nick Barisheff. "Each year for the past three years, I have returned to share perceptions about the precious metals industry and specifically about gold. Generally, this forces me to step back and assess the previous year's events and then to speculate about what they may indicate for the coming ...
  • Why You Should Care About DJIA Priced in Gold
    by Elliott Wave Int. "Of the many forward looking market indicators we at EWI employ, one of the most interesting tools (and least discussed in the financial media) is the DJIA priced in gold -- "the real money," as EWI's president Robert Prechter calls it."

on Government Oversight

  • Quote of the Day
    GAO has come to see these recurrent problems as not due primarily to mistakes, lack of expertise, or unforeseeable events. Rather it is the outgrowth of a system in which key processes and incentives are better at saying "yes" than...
  • The Good Old Days of Signing Statements?
    The Obama administration apparently has a new policy on signing statements — opinions that the president attaches to bills he is signing into law — that could have us longing for the days when presidents would, to the outrage of...
  • Calendar for Defense Department Reports on Weapon ...
    I just wanted to extend the list of upcoming reports due in Washington that Michael Bruno at Ares posted (written by the Friends Committee on National Legislation) with a special focus on reports required by the Weapon Systems Acquisition Reform...
  • Morning Smoke: AIG Bailout Terms Could Stay Under ...
    SEC order helps maintain AIG bailout mystery [Reuters] What can Robert Gates achieve in extra year at Pentagon? [Christian Science Monitor] Good List of Upcoming Reports Due in Washington [Ares] Follow The Money [Oxfam America] Banks Brace for Bailout Fee...
  • On Appreciating Congress
    A comment we often hear from congressional staffers who attend our Congressional Oversight Training Series (COTS) seminars is that they would like to learn more history on the powers of Congress. We can now point them, and others interested in...

Science Express

  • Milky Way's super-efficient particle accelerators ...
    Thanks to a unique "ballistic study" that combines data from ESO's Very Large Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have now solved a long-standing mystery of the Milky Way's particle accelerators. They show in a paper published today on Science Express that cosmic rays from ou ...
  • New mechanisms of action found for drugs used to t ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- In the course of his or her life, every seventh German will develop an anxiety disorder that will require treatment. Standard anti-anxiety medications (anxiolytics) are based on the benzodiazepine class of drugs. These calm the patient and quickly diminish feelings of anxiety.
  • Research may hold key to maintaining embryonic ste ...
    In a new study that could transform embryonic stem cell (ES cell) research, scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered why mouse ES cells can be easily grown in a laboratory while other mammalian ES cells are difficult, if not impossible, to maintain.
  • Physical reality of string theory demonstrated
    String theory has come under fire in recent years. Promises have been made that have not been lived up to. Leiden (The Netherlands) theoretical physicists have now for the first time used string theory to describe a physical phenomenon. Their discovery has been reported in Science Express.
  • Bcl6 gene sculpts helper T cell to boost antibody ...
    Expression of a single gene programs an immune system helper T cell that fuels rapid growth and diversification of antibodies in a cellular structure implicated in autoimmune diseases and development of B cell lymphoma, scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center reported toda ...

TechDirt

  • Google Considers Leaving China If China Will Not A ...
    Did not see this one coming at all. Four years ago, there was tremendous attention paid to Google's announcement that it was offering a search engine in China, which would censor results in accordance with Chinese law. This resulted in a massive amount of criticism directed at Google, and Google's ...
  • As Warner Music Collapses, Its Two Top Execs Got P ...
    It's beginning to appear that some of the major labels' strategy for dealing with the changing structure of the music business -- in which overall money is up , but has shifted away from the record labels' bank accounts -- is to simply bleed the old market dry. How else to explain that as Warner Mu ...
  • As ISPs Look To Charge Per Byte... How Accurate Ar ...
    Various ISPs have been pushing for metered broadband for a while now, and we've wondered in the past who will monitor the broadband meters themselves to make sure they're accurate? After all, with things like energy meters, they're carefully regulated and audited to make sure they're accurate. But ...
  • Record Labels Demanding Cash From Pirate Bay Found ...
    While The Pirate Bay case is still on appeal, the major record labels would rather not wait for due process, and are now demanding that two of the site's founders pay up , since the site is still operating. You may recall that, separate from the original ruling against The Pirate Bay, the court lat ...
  • School District Considers 'Anti-Piracy' Education ...
    Forget "just say no," and say hello to "just say buy." Copycense points out that some Scottish schools seem to think that unauthorized sharing of music and movies is analogous to using drugs , and deserves a similar sort of education plan. Of course, the entertainment industry would be more than h ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Christianity and False Forgiveness
    By now you have probably heard about Brit Hume’s on air proselytizing directed at Tiger Woods. If not, you can watch the video below where Hume suggests that Christianity offers a forgiveness that Buddhism does not and recommends that Tiger Woods convert. Really Brit Hume? Christianity offers a sp ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Great post by Jason Laning In Defense of Anarchism.  In response to the idea that anarchists wouldn’t be able to “resist power-seekers who want to dominate and control others” he says, That is, his hypothetical scenario of an anarchist society doesn’t seem to have many anarchists in it. Instead, ...
  • Anarchism – What’s in a Name?
    With all the stigma attached to the world anarchism, why call yourself an anarchist? Anarchists are bound to ask themselves that question at some point.  Perhaps you run across another news report where anarchists are blamed for some random violence.  Maybe some pundit compares anarchists to terro ...
  • Happy New Year

  • What You Liked, 2009 Edition
    Breaking news isn’t really my thing, but it does bring the traffic.  The article I wrote after attending CATO/Glenn Greenwald’s release of the Portugal decriminalization study was the most popular post this year.  And the snowball war post came in at number three. White America’s Existential Crisi ...

Executive Intelligence Review

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 to ...
  • 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 ...
    اليمن تعقد صفقات متعددة الوجوه مع القاعدة كتبت: جين نوفاك – فبراير/ 2009 عبدالله عبدالوهاب ناجي- ترجمة خاصة بالمستقلة عقد الرئيس اليمني علي عبدا لله صالح مؤخرا صفقة مع ...
  • 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 ...

Dark Politricks

  • Converting 401k and IRA Funds Into “Steady Payment ...
    Washington’s Blog Wednesday , January 13th, 2010 Last May, I wrote about the rumor that the Obama administration might seize funds from American’s 401k and IRA accounts. Last week, Bloomberg pointed out:   The Obama administration is weighing how the government can encourage workers to turn th ...
  • New York Fed Faces House Subpoena Over AIG Bailout ...
    Hugh Son Bloomberg Wednesday , January 13th, 2010 The Federal Reserve Bank of New York may be forced to deliver documents related to American International Group Inc.’s government bailout after the chairman of a House oversight committee said he would issue a subpoena. Edolphus Towns, the New York ...
  • One dead, scores injured in China land brawl: witn ...
    AFP Wednesday , January 13th, 2010 One person was killed and scores injured last week as police clashed with villagers in eastern China over the forced eviction of farmers from rural lands, residents and a human rights group said Tuesday. The violence began last Thursday when about 100 hired thugs b ...
  • CNBC’s Kilduff: $100 Oil in Next Six Months
    Jeff Poor Business & Media Institute Wednesday , January 13th, 2010 It hasn’t been in the limelight recently, but it is coming. According to CNBC contributor John Kilduff of Round Earth Capital, we will soon see the price of reach $100 per barrel.   On CNBC’s Jan. 11 “The Kudlow Report,” host Larry ...
  • Swine flu: can we have our £1 billion back now, pl ...
    James Delingpole London Telegraph Wednesday , January 13th, 2010 Journalist dies, oinking horribly, after failing to take Swine Flu seriously. That was the title I gave one of my first Telegraph blogs – April 27th 2009 – well aware that I was offering up a tremendous hostage to fortune. My how they ...

food and water watch

  • Private Water Investments Awash in Controversy
    At the start of each new year, investment advisors are busy telling clients where to invest their money.  Despite the weak economy, this year is no different. Morgan Stanley just released it’s global investment “10 Investment Ideas for 2010”.  Number five on that list?  Water. For years we’ve been h ...
  • Melamine in Chinese milk…here we go again
    The recent revelation that China has once again hidden a major food safety incident involving melamine in dairy products for over a year clearly demonstrates that its food safety system cannot be trusted. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration maintains a staff in China to monitor the safety of food, ...
  • Briscoe vs. Environmentalists
    As an intern for Food and Water Watch, I attended a meeting in November titled  “Water and Agriculture: Developing Word Solutions” sponsored by Johns Hopkins University. The guest of honor was John Briscoe, a former World Bank Senior Water Advisor, and a current professor at Harvard. He discussed th ...
  • ‘Why we took to the streets’
    I would like to share this op-ed with you, co-written by our Board member Maude Barlow, about the situation in Copenhagen.  Thank you for reading and Happy New Year! –Wenonah Hauter Why we took to the streets Inaction from business interests and political leaders in Copenhagen has forced the rebirth ...
  • Day 1 in Rome
    Hello from Roma, viva Roma. I am Dave Andrews, Senior Representative for Food & Water Watch. I am in Rome for the World Food Summit which is taking up the issue of one billion hungry people in the world, most of them farmers and most of them women. The solution of the US is high [...]

treehugger

  • Just How Bad Are The Canadian Tar Sands? According ...
    The Tyee The Conference Board of Canada (not BoingBoing's favourite think tank ) has released a report that says, well, yes, there is a lot of CO2 that comes out of the oil sands, but: a) on a "wheel to wheel" basis it is not that much worse than any other kind of fuel (because the bulk of the CO ...
  • New Yorkers! Drop Off Your Old Electronics Free on ...
    Photo via Tekserve Tekserve is hosting a free e-waste drop off on Saturday, January 16th in New York City. The last event saw 23 tons of old electronics collected and kept out of landfill. Services like this are more important than ever now that NYC's "Build It Green" recycling drop-off program wa ...
  • 7 Creepy, Crawly, Endangered Reptiles With Weird G ...
    Photo Credit: Chris Mattison/ww.nhpa.co.uk via Arkive If snakes, lizards, skinks, and reptiles in general give you the creeps, then we've got seven reasons to give them another chance: From tiny turtles to massive dragons, these endangered reptiles have one-of-a-kind personalities, camouflage tec ...
  • Show Us Your Best DIY Electric Bicycle, Says Renew ...
    The print-based magazine, Renew , is running a competition to find the best DIY electric bicycle. For which they're offing bragging rights to the winner, in an upcoming issue of the magazine, as well a gift voucher at an online eco-store. (full details after the jump. We've covered DIY hybrid el ...
  • Best of Inhabitat: Reporting From CES 2010!
    Everyone was buzzing about CES 2010 this week and we were psyched to see even more eco-conscious gadgets on the tradeshow floor this year than ever before. And they weren't the dinky-looking, crayon-green colored specimens of yore either. From the sexy and powerful Sony Vaio W Series Eco Edition ...

Biosingularity

  • Pomegranates May Stall Breast Cancer
    Eating pomegranates or drinking pomegranate juice may help prevent and slow the growth of some types of breast cancer. A new study shows a group of phytochemicals called ellagitannins found in abundance in pomegranates inhibited the growth of estrogen-responsive breast cancer in laboratory tests. vi ...
  • Epigenetics research takes aim at cancer, Alzheime ...
    Two mice. One weighs 20 grams and has brown fur. The other is a hefty 60 grams with yellow fur and is prone to diabetes and cancer. They’re identical twins, with identical DNA So what accounts for the differences? It turns out that their varying traits are controlled by a mediator between nature and ...
  • New biosensors reveal workings of anti-psychotic d ...
    Scientists have resolved a question about how a popular class of drugs used to treat schizophrenia works using biosensors that reveal previously hidden components of chemical communication in the brain. Although delusions and hallucinations characterize the illness, people with schizophrenia also st ...
  • Stem cell transplants treat ‘incurable&#8217 ...
    A previously incurable blood disorder – sickle-cell disease – has been successfully treated in 9 of 10 adults who received stem cells transplanted from tissue-matched siblings. via Stem cell transplants treat ‘incurable’ blood disorder – health – 10 December 2009 – New Scientist.
  • Technology Review: Blogs: TR Editors blog: Magneti ...
    Researchers at Yale have demonstrated a device that uses a magnetic liquid to separate blood cells based on their size and shape in just minutes.The device applies a magnetic field to a liquid containing magnetic nanoparticles. The nanoparticles create waves that carry cells along depending on their ...

CFACT

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Pruning Shears

  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post I listen to a technology podcast from CNET called Buzz Out Loud, and on Friday’s show they reported that one Bob Burbach won the Consumer Electronics Association’s “Innovation Movement’s Apps for Innovation ” with a site called GovPu ...
  • The OLC Does Not Have a Head. Does It Need a Body?
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post According to its web site , the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) “provides authoritative legal advice to the President and all the Executive Branch agencies.” Its home page gives a brief, readable description of its functions, which ba ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The TSA subpoenaed a blogger who posted a new screening directive, then backed down . This doesn’t have as much to do with procedures at the TSA (though it has something to do with that) as the outsized sense of authority that feder ...
  • Best Music of 2009
    Introduction If you dig these songs please consider buying them. Most can be had for less than a buck. All these were downloaded freely and legally this year so I’m posting them in good faith. Links will be live for a week. If you hold the copyright on one and would like it removed, please let me ...
  • A Bold Prediction
    I’m going to go out on a limb here and say the Wall Street Journal will not have an article on December 30th, 2010 detailing the ways in which various stakeholders attempt to coordinate end-of-life decisions in order to take advantage of the nearly expired estate tax holiday.

Natural Health News

  • Beware of Toxic Metal in Children's Jewelry
    Now that they are barred from using lead in children's jewelry because of its toxicity, some Chinese manufacturers have been substituting the even more dangerous heavy metal cadmium in sparkling charm bracelets and shiny pendants being sold throughout the United States. The most contaminated piece a ...
  • Blueberries Boost Memory
    Supplemental blueberries for only 12 weeks may boost memory in older people with early memory problems. A daily drink of blueberry juice was associated with improved learning and word list recall, as well as a suggestion of reduced depressive symptoms. The study is said to be the first human trial ...
  • Grieving Mother Blames Gardasil
    Rhonda Renata is in no doubt about what caused the death of her 18 year old daughter Jasmine, who died last September, apparently in her sleep. It was six months since she had received the last of the three injections of the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil. Her grieving mother is still waiting for ...
  • Why We Kiss: The Science of Sex
    Philematologists, the scientists who study kissing, aren’t exactly sure why humans started the practice. The most likely theory is that it stems from primate mothers passing along chewed food to their toothless babies. It may have been passed on through evolution as a general way to promote social b ...
  • Is 'Smoke' Flavored Food Toxic?
    The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) says one of the flavorings used to give smoke flavor to meat, cheese and fish may be toxic to humans. The smoke flavorings are products which can be added to foods to give them a "smoked" flavor, as an alternative to traditional smoking. EFSA says it "canno ...

Antemedius

  • A Symbol of Resistance
    Miep looks like a pack mule. She goes out nearly everyday in search of vegetables, and then cycles back with her purchases in large shopping bags. She’s also the one who brings five library books with her every Saturday. -- Anne Frank July 11, 1943 Last week we read about the death of Freya Gräfin ...
  • Want To Make A Difference In the 2010 Elections? C ...
    There is a lot of despair about the state of the Democrats who are in control of the Congress these days. To be fair there is a lot to despair about given the performance of many of the old guard in the party. On the flip side, there is a realization that we are indeed better off with Democrats in c ...
  • What If The President Was Black?
    The Real News Network's Paul Jay talks with Glen Ford, Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report , "The Journal of African American Political Thought and Action" , who evaluates the first year of Barack Obama's presidency, and observes, for a variety of good reasons, that the first US black president ...
  • No, We're Not a Broken People
    By David Swanson In 2004 I began speaking at rallies and forums around the country on issues of peace and justice, something I've done off-and-on ever since. Up through 2008, it was extremely unusual for questions from the audience to consist of pure defeatism. In 2009, it was rare to get through ...
  • Crony Capitalism
    Dr. Robert A. Johnson currently serves on the United Nations Commission of Experts on International Monetary Reform under the Chairmanship of Joseph Stiglitz. He is also the Director of Economic Policy for the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (FERI) in New York. Dr. Johnson was previously a ...

Son of Alex Constantine's Blacklist

  • UnderpantsGate: Big Oil, the CIA and the Attempted ...
    Also see: American Sponsorship of Global Terrorism By Alex Constantine (Supplementary revisions, 12-30-09, 1:29 pm) It’s All, Once Again, About Big Oil and a Pipeline … Abdulmutallab’s exploding unmentionables “Why Was Umar AbdulMutallab in Houston in August 2008? Whom Did He Visit There? What Did H ...
  • Celebrities Lead Charge against Scientology
    Hollywood figures quit ‘rip-off’ church as Australian prime minister threatens parliamentary inquiry into its activities Peter Beaumont in London, Toni O’Loughlin in Sydney, and Paul Harris in New York The Observer | 22 November 2009 The security at the red-brick and glass-walled horseshoe of the Jo ...
  • Baltimore: Cultist Withdraws Guilty Plea in Baby&# ...
    BALTIMORE — A former member of a defunct religious cult has backed out of a plea deal and will face trial on charges he and others starved a toddler to death. Marcus Cobbs had agreed to plead guilty to a lesser charge of accessory after the fact. But his attorney abruptly withdrew the plea Friday mo ...
  • What’s Wrong with this RFID Chip?
    RFID chip brought to you by the Carlyle Group and Matrics, Inc.
  • Will Donor Scandals Doom Crist’s Senate bid?
    ” … Three of Crist’s top fund-raisers have been hamstrung by federal investigations in the past nine months, and a fourth, Jupiter sports agent and real estate investor Marc Roberts, is facing a federal lawsuit alleging he defrauded a business partner out of $100 million to support his own ‘lavish p ...

Climategate

  • Environmental Defense Fund’s 10 startling facts th ...
    The Environmental Defense Action Fund (EDF) shares their 10 startling facts on why the climate crisis is scarier than ever. Related posts: Another climate expert, President Obama, addresses Copenhagen: “the reality of climate change is not in doubt” Oregonians horrified Walmart takes advantage of ...
  • Allow me to correct you, UK Climate Minister Ruddo ...
    I wish to share with readers the ongoing correspondence I am having regarding climategate with the British Minister of State for Climate, Joan Ruddock. Related posts: Lord Monckton calls out Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Russian scientists’ say Climategate data rigged Greenhouse Gas Observa ...
  • Met Office staffer still says this will be “warmes ...
    “This will be the warmest winter in living memory, the data has already been recorded. For your information, we take the highest 15 readings between November and March and then produce an average. As November was a very seasonally warm month, then all the data will come from those readings.” R ...
  • Can Assemblyman Dan Logue suspend California’s cap ...
    Dan Logue is collecting signatures for the "The Global Warming Solutions Act" and initiative which would suspend California's cap-and-trade law that begins in 2012. Related posts: Palin: Schwarzenegger’s environmental policies wrecked the California economy Congressman Bill Shuster: Hold Your Brea ...
  • Solar geomagnetic activity is at an all time low – ...
    Solar geomagnetic activity is at an all time low – what does this mean for climate? Related posts: BBC to investigate itself on climate change bias 2009: The year Copenhagen cooled the world on global warming Climategate: McIntyre and the ‘Divergence Problem’

Opinio Juris

  • Who Decides and Why?
    by Rebecca Bratspies by Rebecca Bratspies I want to congratulate Mark Pollack and Gregory Shaffer for their recently published book When Cooperation Fails: The International Law and Politics of Genetically Modified Foods (Oxford 2009). Using the WTO proceeding  as a focal point, When Cooperation ...
  • Looking for Interpretive Consensus in Abbott
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford The transcript for the oral argument in Abbott v. Abbott is out, raising the difficult question of what constitutes a right of custody within the meaning of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. The treaty grants a parent the ...
  • National Journal on Predator Drone Strikes
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson The National Journal has a two part cover story, January 9, 2010, on Predator drone strikes — required reading for those following the targeted killing and Predator drone developments, and although it is behind a subscription wall, no question that this Nat ...
  • Looking for Interpretive Consensus in Abbott
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford The transcript for the oral argument in Abbott v. Abbott is out, raising the difficult question of what constitutes a right of custody within the meaning of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. The treaty grants a parent the ...
  • Who Decides and Why?
    by Rebecca Bratspies by Rebecca Bratspies I want to congratulate Mark Pollack and Gregory Shaffer for their recently published book When Cooperation Fails: The International Law and Politics of Genetically Modified Foods (Oxford 2009). Using the WTO proceeding  as a focal point, When Cooperation ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • UK Met Office getting ready to eat crow
    Just a wee while ago, the UK Met Office told the Copenhagen summit, in headlines repeated around the world, that 2010 was likely to be one of the warmest years ever, and that the Northern Hemisphere winter would be mild....
  • Faith-based global warming
    This did the rounds before Christmas, but I didn't get time to post it and on reflection it's a must-watch, simply so you can see blind faith in action.
  • Top 10 global warming myths exposed
    A local NZ monthly community newspaper published an opinion piece by one "Green blogger" Thomas Everth, known to frequent this blog, on global warming. He was kind enough to take a crack at me in dispatches and a reader brought...
  • Top climate scientist accused of more false report ...
    Climate scientist Michael Mann is facing fresh scrutiny over whether he falsified data in a report recommending a colleague for accreditation to a prestigious position. Mann had been asked by Phil Jones, the scientist at the centre of Climategate, to...
  • Newsflash: animals killed by climate change
    Ironic that while polar bear numbers have increased five fold in 40 years, and while scientists have yet to find a polar bear killed by heat exhaustion, further south the Big Chill of the past two winters is killing mermaids...

Public News Service

  • Kids Advocate: More Cuts Threaten Arizona’s ...
    Kids Advocate: More Cuts Threaten Arizona’s Recovery Phoenix, AZ – Governor Jan Brewer put a high priority on job creation in her State of the State speech, but a leading children’s advocate says further deep cuts to kids’ programs will damage the state’s chances for economic recovery. Comments from ...
  • Call for Closed Captioning on the Web Heard by Goo ...
    Call for Closed Captioning on the Web Heard by Google Phoenix, AZ – The explosion of video and audio on the Internet has left much of the deaf community behind, but that is starting to change. Groups that advocate for people who are deaf are cheering a recent decision by Google to add automatic capt ...
  • New Law Divides Arizona Education Advocates
    New Law Divides Arizona Education Advocates Phoenix, AZ – Arizona teachers vow to continue legal action against a new state law they say targets teachers rights. The state’s school boards, meanwhile, defend the reforms as ultimately improving education and benefiting students. Comments from Arizona ...
  • Report: Transit Stimulus Spending Gives More Bang ...
    Report: Transit Stimulus Spending Gives More Bang for Buck Phoenix, AZ – A new report shows federal stimulus spending on public transportation produces nearly twice as many jobs as highway projects. The analysis from the Arizona Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) calls for more transit funding in ...
  • Report: America’s Hottest Big City Needs Lot ...
    Report: America’s Hottest Big City Needs Lots More Trees Phoenix, AZ – A major tree-planting effort in metro Phoenix would pay off in energy savings and a more livable city, according to a new study from Western Resource Advocates. It calls for roughly doubling the number of trees over a period of y ...

    Blacklisted News

  • Welcome to Prison-Prone America
  • Obama Appoints “Mr. Slam Dunk” to Investigate Unde ...
    McLaughlin’s involvement with the CIA ranges from the Reagan administration, when he went along with the creative intelligence efforts of Director William Casey and Deputy Robert Gates, to the George W. Bush years.
  • NC port shut down after containers with explosive ...
    No injuries were reported and officials did not count how many people left town. The port remained closed late on Tuesday afternoon.
  • US think-tank hints at ISI hand in CIA attack
    The suicide strike on the key U.S. intelligence base in Afghanistan had hallmarks of an operation carried out by a national intelligence service, a leading U.S. think-tank has said, apparently hinting that it could be the handiwork of Pakistan’s ISI or its rogue elements
  • Army Terminating Army’s Future Combat Systems Prog ...
    The Army has informed Congress that it is terminating a robotic vehicle and an unmanned aircraft program that were once part of the Army’s largest modernization effort.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

Open ID

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • A Partnership of peoples
    (Courtesy of Frontier magazine, University of British Columbia) Forget what you may have heard about anthropology: it is not solely a science of lost cultures, dusty relics and ancient peoples. This widely misunderstood discipline provides a critical link to contemporary history, and its contributio ...
  • Decade in review
    The first decade of the 21st century will be remembered as a decade of breakthroughs in science and technology. “It’s well known that discoveries in science are often drivers for important technological developments; for example, fuel cells,” says Thomas Ellis, director of research at the Canadian L ...
  • i2eye with James Hesser
    Two years ago, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 2009 the International Year of Astronomy (IYA). From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, people around the globe have been marking the 400th anniversary of the first use of an astronomical telescope by Galileo Galilei. Laypeople, especially children ...
  • Model scientists
    When hurricane season officially blew to a close in the Atlantic basin at the end of November, two Quebec researchers did not exhale in relief. That’s because René Laprise and Louis-philippe Caron were still looking for hurricane data from the past to help create a tool to predict future storm patte ...
  • i2eye with Andrew Weaver
    As a child growing up in Victoria, if Andrew Weaver had to choose between watching a hockey game or a Jacques Cousteau program, the ocean explorer won out every time. Now a professor and Canada Research Chair in Climate Modelling and Analysis at the University of Victoria, Weaver has joined a crew o ...

Signs of the times

  • The Last Big Question: Will Health Care Reform Be ...
    There's only one big remaining issue on health care reform: how to pay for it. The House wants a 5.4 percent surtax on couples earning at least $1 million in annual income. The Senate wants a 40 percent excise tax on employer-provided "Cadillac plans." The Senate will win on this unless the public d ...
  • More than 6 jobless workers chase 1 opening
    Economy has lowest number of jobs available since July 2009, report finds Washington - The competition for jobs is intensifying as companies are reluctant to hire new workers, leaving millions of unemployed Americans chasing fewer job openings. There were nearly 6.4 unemployed workers, on average, ...
  • Obama Is A Corporate Marketing Creation
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  • Monsanto's GMO Corn Linked To Organ Failure, Study ...
    In a study released by the International Journal of Biological Sciences, analyzing the effects of genetically modified foods on mammalian health, researchers found that agricultural giant Monsanto's GM corn is linked to organ damage in rats. According to the study, which was summarized by Adam Sha ...
  • SOTT FOCUS: Connecting the Dots: 2009 - The Year i ...
    Warm winter blessings to our readers this New Year! And midsummer's greetings to our readers in the southern hemisphere! We thought we'd begin this month's Connecting the Dots by welcoming in the new year with some reflection upon the old: 2009 was a truly smashing year in more ways than one. Clima ...

Threat Level

  • Google Hackers Targeted Source Code of More Than 3 ...
    A hack attack that targeted Google in December also hit 33 other companies, including financial institutions and defense contractors, and was aimed at stealing source code from the companies, say security researchers at iDefense. The hackers used a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader to deliver m ...
  • Google to Stop Censoring Search Results in China A ...
    Google has decided to stop censoring search results in China, after discovering that someone based in that country had attempted to hack into the e-mail accounts of human rights activists. The company disclosed the move in a startling announcement posted to its blog late Tuesday. Google said it was ...
  • U.S. Courts Split on Internet Bans
    A federal appeals court is reversing a lifetime internet ban imposed on a child sex offender also handed a 15-year prison term. The outcome highlights the appellate courts are all over the map when it comes to internet bans often imposed on defendants, especially sex deviants, once they have served ...
  • German ‘Fleshmob’ Protests Airport Scanners
    The underwear bomber’s Christmas Day attack has prompted calls for the increased use of full-body scanners at airports that would strip-search passengers down to their naked bodies. So to protest the use of the so-called Nacktscanner (naked scanner), members of the Pirate Party in Germany organized ...
  • Q+A: What’s Driving China’s Latest Web Crackdown
    SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China’s recent moves to tighten control of its online and mobile content industries have brought some uncertainty into the market but may not have a major immediate impact on the sector’s biggest players. Analysts say the crackdown, which appears to be aimed at pornography and o ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Father Knows Best for Tucker Carlson
    On Monday, Tucker Carlson to great fanfare launched The Daily Caller, a conservative alternative to The Huffington Post. But even as the first edition featured gay-bashing, rape jokes, mockery of leading Democrats and opinion pieces by Republican Congressmen, analysts wondered...
  • GOP's Madden Faults Obama for Being from Hawaii
    For some Republicans, among the sins of this President of the United States is being from one of them. That's the word from GOP strategist and Mitt Romney aide Kevin Madden, who on Wednesday declared that Hawaii "seems like a...
  • Targeting Reid, Republicans Forget Bush Forced Lot ...
    The preposterous Republican campaign to equate Harry Reid's off-the-record "dialect" comment with neo-Confederate Trent Lott's lavish public praise of Strom Thurmond has shifted into overdrive. But even as Michael Steele, Jon Kyl and other leading lights of the Party of...
  • Republicans Now the Party of Armageddon
    When the obscure evangelical radio host turned Biblical numerologist Harold Camping predicts the end of the world will arrive on May 21, 2011, it's not a cause for concern. But what about when many of the leading voices of a...
  • Rush Limbaugh Praises Blue State Health Care
    Last week, Republican strategist Kevin Madden chastised President Obama for choosing to vacation in a "foreign place" like Hawaii, concluding "it's much different than being in Texas." Rush Limbaugh, it turns out, couldn't disagree more. The right-wing radio host and...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Ridge Defends Napolitano From Right-Wing Attacks: ...
    Tom Ridge, who served under President Bush, defended Napolitano, explaining that blame for the incident does not rest solely on her shoulders.
  • Deported for a Tablet of Xanax? Immigrants Face Re ...
    Is being charged twice with possession enough to warrant deportation? Many U.S. courts think so.
  • Bechyovinka
    There is a secret town in Kamchatka. One can get here only by sea or a helicopter… Yet another amazing photo-essay at English Russia, this time depicting the abandoned "submariners’ town" of Bechyovinka: Pure post-civilisation artporn.
  • Obama Pushes Excise Tax, House Dems Fight It
    President Obama remains steadfastly committed to forcing the Senate's Chevy tax on health plans over the House's millionaire's surtax.
  • Links for 2010-01-07
    Plastic Logic aims QUE e-reader at business crowd"Plastic Logic on Thursday unveiled a long-anticipated QUE electronic reader aimed at giving business travelers a "paperless briefcase.""(tags:computing ) French panel: Tax Google to fund the arts"How to help prop up the ailing music industry? Tax Goo ...

Consortium News

  • Do Republicans Deserve a Reward?
    Republican prospects are surging, even in Massachusetts where a special election could give the GOP a reward, says Robert Parry. January 11, 2010
  • Obama Picks CIA Insider for Inquiry
    President Obama names CIA apologist John McLaughlin to probe Fort Hood and Christmas Day attacks, notes Melvin A. Goodman. January 11, 2010
  • Hard Lessons from Decades Past
    As the world enters a dangerous new decade, Robert Parry reflects on what the previous three decades have wrought. January 9, 2010
  • Answering Helen Thomas on Why
    Veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas broke through the terrorism boilerplate by asking why, Ray McGovern says. January 8, 2010
  • California's Dysfunctional Future Shock
    The Republican Party has made a dangerous calculation that obstruction works politically, as Michael Winship sees in California. January 8, 2010

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

TruthHugger

  • Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up Jan 4, ...
    The Texas Progressive Alliance is still somewhat amazed to be living in the year we make contact, and we hope we’re all still going strong when Odyssey Three rolls around. Texas has most drilling, worst regulation. Texas made national news this week in the ProPublica investigative report and they us ...
  • Weary Soldiers At Risk, They Know This
    A poignant editorial on Al Jazeera seems to have more in depth observations than America’s Corporate media.  Mainstream media must follow the money, toe the line for sponsors and political perks that promise ’scoops’. ‘The US military is exhausted” By Sarah Lazare The call for over 30,000 more tro ...
  • Darth Vader Strikes Again
    The botched terrorist attack on Christmas Day is NOT Obama's fault.
  • Try To Remember America
    Well, few public schools, and few private schools, will fill in the gaps between America the fantasy and America the reality.  The name of America has been invoked with reverence when describing its history of righteous endeavors.  What is seldom included in these filtered history lessons, is some o ...
  • Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up Dec 14, ...
    TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS helps you follow the money to see why Governor Perry and others want Texans to keep breathing toxic air. BossKitty at TruthHugger is proud to give a Hat Tip to Houston – Annise Parker inherits a City of Progress. The Stonewall Democrats of Denton Coun ...

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Last ever MoD UFO figures released
    The MoD has released its final UFO figures following the closure of their UFO department at the end of last year. The figures indicate that UFO report...
  • Jesus spotted on naan bread
    A man ordering a meal at an Indian diner was surprised to find what he believed to be the face of Jesus on a piece of naan bread. The image was formed...
  • Mystery object to pass by Earth
    A mystery object up to 50 feet in length that has stumped astronomers is due to pass by the Earth some time today. The object could be space junk, an ...
  • Terminally-ill volunteer for TV mummification
    Channel 4 in the UK is looking for a terminally-ill volunteer to be mummified in a new television documentary. The channel has been the subject of som...
  • Big freeze could signal global warming "pause"
    Scientists believe that the current freezing winter conditions in Britain and other parts of the world could signal a global warming "pause". The ramm...

Grassroots

  • Grassroots International Establishes Earthquaje Em ...
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  • Violence and Impunity Continue in Honduras
    Faluma_Bimetu.jpg Contrary to the idea that everything would get back to normal after the election, violence and impunity continue against local communities in Honduras. Last Wednesday, a community radio station was ransacked and set on fire ...
  • Gaza Freedom March -- No Token Delegation
    Nitin Sawhney, a friend of Grassroots International and long time activist for Palestinian rights, was one of the 100 delegates, from the over 1300 international delegate-members of the Gaza Freedom March, chosen to go into Gaza through a last minute intervention by Suzanne Mubarak, wife of Egyptian ...
  • Gaza Freedom Marchers await entry, keep vigil
    Hedy-sign.jpg   Starting on New Year’s Eve, the Gaza Freedom March (sponsored by Grassroots International and scores of other organizations) was set up to be an amazing international show of solidarity for the Palestinian people trapped in thi ...
  • Remembering Dennis Brutus
    dennisbrutus.jpg South African poet, anti-apartheid and human rights activist, climate change warrior, and Grassroots International founder, Dennis Brutus passed away in Cape Town, South Africa on Saturday, December 26, 2009. He was 85. Accord ...

Climate

  • January 13, 2010
    Green Group Seeks Ethics Probe of Murkowski-Lobbyist Ties on EPA Amendment (The Hill) Greenpeace has asked the Senate's Select Committee on Ethics to probe the "depth of the relationship" between Sen. Murkowski's (R-Alaska) staff and two industry lobbyists they consulted about a proposal to bloc ...
  • January 12, 2010
    Energy Lobbyists Guided Murkowski's Anti-EPA Bill (Washington Post) Two former Bush administration officials, both lobbying for clients with an interest in energy legislation, helped craft the amendment Sen. Lisa Murkowski planned to offer in attempt to bar the EPA from regulating carbon dioxide ...
  • January 11, 2010
    Largest U.S. Farm Group Rallies against Climate Bill (Reuters) The largest U.S. farm group will oppose aggressively "misguided" climate legislation pending in Congress, said Bob Stallman, president of the 6 million-member American Farm Bureau Federation. Rich Nations 'Ganged Up' in Copenhagen ( ...
  • January 9-10, 2010
    Venezuela Faces Risk of Devastating Power Collapse (AP) Venezuela is at risk of a devastating power collapse as drought pushes water levels precariously low in the country's biggest hydroelectric dam. Rep. Peterson Now Says He’ll Vote No on Climate Bill (Star-Tribune) Blue Dog Democrat Co ...
  • January 8, 2010
    U.S. EPA Plans to Tighten Bush-Era Smog Limits (Reuters) The EPA has proposed a new standard to limit smog between 60 and 70 parts per billion measured over eight hours — a move that would hit coal plants, ships and locomotives hardest. Study: Mountaintop Mining Damage 'Pervasive and Irrevers ...

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

  • Taking Tea with the Lizards
    Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico | The Republican Party will beat the living piss out of anybody for a buck. The Democrats will fly the flag of FDR, even as they pirate the public coffers on behalf of Wall Street. Don't think the American people have not noticed these things. After thirty years of pistol whi ...
  • An Invitation to the Tea Parties to Join the Fight
    The Wall Street Journal writes today about how the tea party movement might be turning on Wall Street. I don't really believe it, but I'm excited by the possibility. Could the tea party guys actually be legitimate? Well, there is one way they can prove it. I've made a lot of fun of the tea party peo ...
  • The Decade of Distrust: No Accountability, No Conf ...
    Okay, let's all play "name the decade." Trivial or profound, labels matter, even if absurdly minimizing infinitely convoluted webs. When discombobulated, we reach for handles to unpack jaw-dropping, mind-boggling real-life. Sweeping generalizations have their place, and one idiot savant among us w ...
  • Access and Stenographic Journalism in the Obama Er ...
    During the Bush years, progressives - rightly - criticized the Washington press corps for trading favorable coverage of the administration for access to the administration. Some reporters defended themselves by insisting that the administration created the necessity for such a quid pro quo, by effec ...
  • The Harry Reid story
    The leadership of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) moving a healthcare bill through the Senate under impossible circumstances was one of the great legislative achievements in modern history, equal to the majority leadership of Lyndon Baines Johnson at his best. The skill of Sen. Reid leadi ...

Ten Percent

  • Woolas- Childsnatcher
    No one knows how many children have been snatched from their beds in this way in Britain in the past year. But the Immigration Minister Phil Woolas admitted in a letter to a concerned MP recently that more than 1,300 children were detained at three immigration removal centres in the UK during the 15 ...
  • European Court of Human Rights Protects UK Citizen ...
    Thank you Euro chums & Kevin Gillan and Pennie Quinton & Liberty who have persevered and achieved this victory- Police stop and search powers under UK terrorism laws have been declared illegal by human rights judges after two Londoners questioned their legality. The right to question people without ...
  • Short
    Campbell’s lies at a pantomime that does not require witnesses to massive crimes to be under oath is beneath contempt nor will I dignify it with many words, just this- failing a war crimes trial in a neutral court, I wish him ill.
  • Avatar From Someone Who Knows
    Interestingly Avatar is extremely popular outside the US, seems they are enjoying the film’s right-to-resist action which some US reviewers sort of ignore…oddly (a Tweet from Ali Abunimah today- Going west to east from Palestine to Afghanistan, every other country is occupied by US or Israel. All in ...
  • Blair & Campbell Were Bush & Cheney’s Stenographer ...
    Fucking scum- Fresh evidence has emerged that Tony Blair’s discredited Iraqi arms dossier was “sexed up” on the instructions of Alastair Campbell, his communications chief, to fit with claims from the US administration that were known to be false. The pre-invasion dossier’s worst-case estimate of ho ...

Booman Tribune

  • Lend a Hand
    There has been a terrible disaster in Haiti. A 7.0 earthquake with an epicenter only ten miles from the capital of Port-au-Prince has leveled the main hospital and destroyed much of the city, including the presidential palace. Now would be a good time to do a google search of Unicef or the Red Cro ...
  • Didn't She Watch M*A*S*H?
    Isn't Sarah Palin the right age to have seen a lot of M*A*S*H? The final episode of M*A*S*H is still the highest rated primetime telecast of all time. Maybe she didn't watch the show while it was on, but I know I learned everything I needed to know about why there are two Koreas from watching that ...
  • At Least One Knife Out for Harry Reid
    I think it is interesting to see Russ Feingold basically knee-capping Harry Reid. I don't know if it has any higher meaning than just one senator's personal opinion, but it could be an indication of something more. Could there be an effort on the left to dethrone Harry? Who would lead it? And ho ...
  • The Palinator -- In it to Win it
    From the "Who could have predicted this?" column comes totally unexpected news that Sarah Palin is joining (drum roll, please, Maestro) -- FOX NEWS! The conservative firebrand has signed a multi-year deal to serve as a Fox News contributor, the cable channel's executive vice president for program ...
  • Casual Observation
    If Harry Reid isn't reelected, the person most likely to replace him as Majority Leader is Minority Leader Dick Durbin of Illinois. Senator Durbin is pretty close to being the most progressive/liberal member of the upper body. But here's a question. How much does it matter what the Majority Leade ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Stoned neural networks, wet computers and audio Da ...
    Here’s a handful of links from the weird and wonderful world of computer science… First of all, Telepathic-critterdrug is described as “a controversial fork of the open source artificial-life sim Critterding, a physics sandbox where blocky creatures evolve neural nets in a survival contest. What we’ ...
  • Google threatens to pull out of China over hacking ...
    Well, this story’s everywhere this morning. After allegedly uncovering a “sophisticated and targeted” hacking attack, Google are now “reviewing the feasibility of their business operations in China”, which includes the controversial censorship systems they applied to Google.cn; here’s the official a ...
  • Mazes & Minotaurs: dice-and-paper RPGs go meta
    Thanks to Cheryl Morgan for spotting this one: it seems that even the humble roleplaying game has achieved sufficient cultural escape velocity to enter the penumbra of postmodernism. Enter Mazes & Minotaurs, a set of RPG rules that purports to be “what the first fantasy roleplaying game could have b ...
  • Manufacturing popularity: cultural groupthink and ...
    Wired’s Clive Thompson has an article about some intriguing research into the effects of the “self-fulfilling prophecy” on popularity in art. [image by vagawi] It’s been known since the 1940s that we base our opinions on the opinions of others at a subconscious level, but modern web applications and ...
  • Google as energy trader
    All the media fuss and furore over the Nexus 1 phone from Google has (whether deliberately or not) diverted attention from a more interesting development from everybody’s favourite nominal monopoly: they’ve started a new subsidiary company and applied to the FTC for Google Energy to become an energy ...

Therapy News

  • Canada Finds Depression Epidemic Among Public Serv ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Those who work in a public service capacity, such as with a fire or police department, might be expected to experience levels of stress in the workplace that climb higher than those found in other fields, but it has come as a surprise to many in Canada to find that pe ...
  • Changing Our Reality
    A GoodTherapy.org Featured Column written by Sarah Jenkins, MC, LPC Click here to contact Sarah and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Yesterday, I played the waiting game to get out of the airport parking lot. In the big picture, everyone had the same intention. But, even as drivers barked insults ...
  • Apologies and Forgiveness
    By Susan Heitler, Ph.D., Relationships & Marriage Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Susan and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Apologies remove the toxic sting from mistaken interactions. After upsets, which are conflicts that have happened in the past, effective apologies convert a r ...
  • Study Finds Modern Youth Five Times More Affected ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary The years of the Great Depression are frequently referenced when evoking feelings of turmoil, stress, and despair over economic conditions and the course of life in general. But in some ways, those who lived through the Great Depression may have enjoyed a higher qualit ...
  • Is AIDS Still with Us?
    By John Sovec, LMFT, LGBT Issues (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact John and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile As an educator and an advocate in the HIV/AIDS community I am often asked “Is AIDS still with us?” This question usually arises after the ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Coal Mining and Clean Water - American Rivers (blo ...
    Coal Mining and Clean Water American Rivers (blog) By damaging our natural resources, mountaintop removal also makes ecosystems less resilient to the impacts of climate change and decreases their ability to ... Seeing 'Avatar' in Appalachia GREENandSAVE (blog) all 2 news articles »
  • Religion shaping mountain-top removal debate in Ap ...
    Religion shaping mountain-top removal debate in Appalachia coal country Louisville Courier-Journal “ Mountaintop-removal mining blasts away our souls, blasts away our communities, the souls of the workers who are doing the work and our cultural and natural ... Fear of violence grows in mountaintop ...
  • Manchin on Coal: Updated for 2010 - Charleston Gaz ...
    Manchin on Coal: Updated for 2010 Charleston Gazette (blog) Manchin has to say about mountaintop removal coal mining, and about what his friends in the coal industry and over at the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce ... and more »
  • A Wendy's boycott - Mother Nature Network (blog)
    Mother Nature Network (blog) A Wendy's boycott Mother Nature Network (blog) When asked to make a public statement against mountain top removal , Wendy's “claimed that mountaintop removal is not a political issue but an economic ...
  • EPA, Army Corps address industry concerns about pe ...
    EPA, Army Corps address industry concerns about permitting process West Virginia Public Broadcasting January 12, 2010 · No decisions have been made on the mountaintop removal permits being reviewed by the Environmental Protection Agency, ...

Memeorandum

  • Unruly Passengers Disrupt Northwest Flight 243 (De ...
    Dennis Kraniak / MyFox Detroit : Unruly Passengers Disrupt Northwest Flight 243   —  ((Watch the video to get passenger reaction from Fox 2's Simon Shaykhet.))  —  The source says four men from Saudi Arabai were saying something in Arabic that alarmed four on-board Federal Air Marshals.  The Marsha ...
  • In Massachusetts, Republican Brown steps up campai ...
    Washington Post : In Massachusetts, Republican Brown steps up campaign for Kennedy's Senate seat   —  Fueled by the energy of conservative activists, a solid debate performance and a 24-hour, $1.3 million Internet fundraising haul, Massachusetts state Sen. Scott Brown (R) has thrown a major scare ...
  • Democrats Could Seek to Delay Seating Brown in Sen ...
    Real Clear Politics : Democrats Could Seek to Delay Seating Brown in Senate   —  Should Republican Scott Brown pull off an upset victory in next week's special election in Massachusetts, Senate Democrats may seek to use the chaos surrounding the appointment of Roland Burris last year as a precedent ...
  • House to vote on Obama's first veto (Ben Pershing/ ...
    Ben Pershing / Washington Post : House to vote on Obama's first veto   —  On Dec. 30, President Obama quietly issued his first veto.  On Wednesday, the House will vote on whether to override that veto.  Except Obama didn't really oppose the bill he vetoed, and the House doesn't really want to overr ...
  • Obama's Approval Splits Evenly For First Time, Qui ...
    Quinnipiac University : Obama's Approval Splits Evenly For First Time , Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Voters Split On Whether First Year Is Success Or Failure  —  American voters are split 45 - 45 percent on whether Barack Obama's first year in office is a success or failure and split ...

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    Wednesday, January 13, 2010 14:43:46 UTC Wednesday, January 13, 2010 09:43:46 AM at epicenter Depth : 33.00 km (20.51 mi)
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China Dialogue

  • Thinking the unthinkable
    A new book by Stewart Brand, one of the founders of the modern environmental movement, challenges green orthodoxy and considers some frightening scenarios, writes John Elkington. Imagine Karl Marx calling for capitalism, Gandhi advocating war or the Pope embracing atheism. That is the scale of the d ...
  • Saving water in America (2)
    In the second half of a two-part article on America’s dam-building legacy, Zhang Keijia finds a reverence for rivers among the people of the southern United States. In the attractive Atlantic coast city of Savannah , where the river of the same name meets the ocean, we visited the US Army Corps of E ...
  • Saving water in America (1)
    A dam-building fervour in the south-western United States nearly killed its rivers, before a concerned public started a campaign to nurture them back to health. Zhang Kejia explores the lessons for China. The Colorado River is one of the most dammed in the world. Over the last two hundred years, for ...
  • When China said “no”
    Some observers say that China wrecked the climate negotiations at Copenhagen. But the reality is more complex, argues Cao Haili. If climate change were only an environmental issue, there would be a far easier solution. However, the interplay of national interests that are involved – involving politi ...
  • The end of idealism
    The failure of climate talks in Copenhagen exposed some uncomfortable truths about the current global order, argues Tang Wei. UN-led climate talks drew to a close in Copenhagen on December 19. Although a weak outcome had been widely predicted, many were still shocked by just how little the conferenc ...

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Threat Level

  • Google Hackers Targeted Source Code of More Than 3 ...
    A hack attack that targeted Google in December also hit 33 other companies, including financial institutions and defense contractors, and was aimed at stealing source code from the companies, say security researchers at iDefense. The hackers used a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader to deliver m ...
  • Google to Stop Censoring Search Results in China A ...
    Google has decided to stop censoring search results in China, after discovering that someone based in that country had attempted to hack into the e-mail accounts of human rights activists. The company disclosed the move in a startling announcement posted to its blog late Tuesday. Google said it was ...
  • U.S. Courts Split on Internet Bans
    A federal appeals court is reversing a lifetime internet ban imposed on a child sex offender also handed a 15-year prison term. The outcome highlights the appellate courts are all over the map when it comes to internet bans often imposed on defendants, especially sex deviants, once they have served ...
  • German ‘Fleshmob’ Protests Airport Scanners
    The underwear bomber’s Christmas Day attack has prompted calls for the increased use of full-body scanners at airports that would strip-search passengers down to their naked bodies. So to protest the use of the so-called Nacktscanner (naked scanner), members of the Pirate Party in Germany organized ...
  • Q+A: What’s Driving China’s Latest Web Crackdown
    SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China’s recent moves to tighten control of its online and mobile content industries have brought some uncertainty into the market but may not have a major immediate impact on the sector’s biggest players. Analysts say the crackdown, which appears to be aimed at pornography and o ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Obama to announce TARP fee on banks on Thursday
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will announce plans on Thursday to raise up to $120 billion from major U.S. financial firms to cover expected losses from a taxpayer-funded bank bailout, a senior administration official said on Tuesday.
  • Iran knew Israel, U.S. planned "terrorist acts": s ...
    TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran received information days ago that Israeli and U.S. intelligence intended to carry out terrorist acts in Tehran, its parliament speaker said on Wednesday, after the killing of a university scientist.
  • Chinese Internet activists applaud Google, see no ...
    BEIJING (Reuters) - Google's announcement that it may quit China over censorship and hacking drew applause, warnings and bouquets from dissidents and Internet activists on Wednesday, with few seeing much chance of the wary government giving ground.
  • Adobe software may have been exploited in cyber at ...
    SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - An attack on Google and at least 20 other companies, that originated from China, seems to have exploited a vulnerability in the popular Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader software, possibly to steal proprietary codes.
  • Wall Street set to rise on Kraft outlook as Baidu ...
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street looked set for a modest rise on Wednesday as a positive outlook from Kraft Foods Inc revived hopes for a strong earnings season, and Chinese Internet search engine Baidu Inc surged on news rival Google Inc may pull out of China.

Equality Trust

  • Should Wall Street execs be required to donate to ...
    You know things are out of whack when an investment bank is considering forcing its employees to donate to charity. That plan is reportedly in the works at Goldman Sachs, with bonuses, some as high as eight figures, being paid to bankers this week. Read the full article in The Seattle Times
  • The importance of economic equality - Time.com
    Read the Time.com Q&A with ichard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett.
  • Call for fundamental rethink of the value of work
    Hospital cleaners are worth more to society than city bankers, according to a new method of calculating the value of different jobs published today. The new economics foundation (nef) called for a "fundamental rethink" of how the value of work was recognised and rewarded. The think tank said its s ...
  • The Spirit Level - New Statesman book of the decad ...
    Wilkinson and Pickett's study gave scientific weight to a long-held claim of the left: that people are happier and healthier when they live in societies where wealth is distributed more equally. But the book's influence stretches across party lines and its findings are likely to shape political deba ...
  • Levelling the bankers' bonuses
    Read a letter by Malcolm Clark, Director of the One Society Campaign in today's Guardian, about the positives for bankers of losing their bonuses. Peter Preston (The rewards of banking, 7 December) has a point: bankers are human too. Most of them want exactly the same as us: a decent quality of life ...

IntelNews

  • More on Iranian physicist’s assassination
    More on Iranian physicist’s assassination
  • News you may have missed #0251 (analysis edition)
    Bomber's betrayal shows spy challenge for West. Christmas Day bomber affair was intel failure of the highest order. Endemic failures in US intelligence gathering, analysis.
  • News you may have missed #0250
    Pakistanis ask US to quit drone strikes. Bush, Obama administrations guilty for neglecting info sharing. China ends probe into Rio Tinto espionage case.
  • BREAKING NEWS: Bomb blast kills Iranian physicist
    Iran’s state broadcaster has said a government physicist was “martyred” earlier this morning in a suspicious blast outside his home. The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) news agency reports that police forces have sealed off the area around the Tehran residence of Masoud Ali Mohammadi, w ...
  • Too much intelligence collection overwhelms US age ...
    The broad debate about America’s recent intelligence setbacks has centered on the view that US spy agencies do not share enough information with each other. Several days ago, however, Politico’s Laura Rozen noticed an important remark by an anonymous former intelligence official, buried in a longer ...

After Downing Street.org

  • Obama Received $20 Million From Healthcare Industr ...
    Obama received $20 million from healthcare industry in 2008 campaign By Brad Jacobson | Raw Story Almost three times the amount given to McCain While some sunlight has been shed on the hefty sums shoveled into congressional campaign coffers in an effort to influence the Democrats' massive healthcar ...
  • A Plan? Of Course The Obama Administration Folks H ...
    A plan? Of course the Obama administration folks had a plan! By Ken | Down With Tyranny Since the Obama administration came into being, it has seemed unthinkable to me that the people in charge went into this monumental undertaking without a plan, as keeps appearing to be the case. So we've had t ...
  • Vermont Health Care Debate Expected To Draw 'Singl ...
    Vermont Health Care Debate Expected To Draw 'Single Payer' Advocates By Bob Kinzel | Vermont Public Radio Health care reform will be debated in a public hearing tomorrow night at the Statehouse. Advocates for a ‘single payer' system are expected to turn out in big numbers - and demand a vote this y ...
  • Air Force Seeks Better Space Technology: Are Star ...
    Air Force Seeks Better Space Technology: Are Star Wars Upon Us? By Clay Dillow | PopSci Just last week, the Chinese air force chief officer called military competition in space " inevitable ." For those who thought this was just idle saber-rattling, take a look at what the American Air Force is coo ...
  • Kucinich to Introduce “Responsible Bankers Act”
    Kucinich to Introduce “Responsible Bankers Act” | Press Release Washington D.C. (January 12, 2010) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today introduced legislation to impose a 75% tax on the extraordinary bonuses that bankers are planning to pay themselves using windfall profits earned from mass ...

Grist - News

  • Grist exclusive: A fiery battle over land in Braz ...
    by Brenda Baletti On the Arapiuns River, barges of illegally taken timber smolder after being set aflame to protest logging in Gleba Nova Olinda, Amazon Rainforest. All photos: Brenda Baletti While world leaders were meeting in Copenhagen to address the challenge of climate change last month, indig ...
  • Break with consumerism to save the world, Worldwat ...
    by Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON -- The world faces environmental havoc unless people shift from a culture where success is measured by the accumulation of goods to one where people are admired for living sustainably, experts warned in a report published Tuesday. "It's no longer enough to change ...
  • Ford Fusion Hybrid wins 2010 Car of the Year, no g ...
    by Ashley Braun The Ford Fusion Hybrid. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company via FlickrNo green spin necessary, the Ford Fusion Hybrid sedan was soundly voted the 2010 Car of the Year . While not the first-ever hybrid vehicle to win this award (even for Ford), it is notable that the 2010 North America ...
  • The policy and politics of Obama’s $2.3 bill ...
    by David Roberts Today the Obama administration unveiled $2.3 billion in new tax credits to clean energy manufacturing companies. There were 183 projects selected out of some 500 applications; one-third were from small businesses; around 30% are expected to be completed this year. The winners are ...
  • EPA gets tough on smog
    by Agence France-Presse The EPA sees the light.Photo: jordansmall via FlickrWASHINGTON -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed tougher standards for how much smog can be in the air, a move the agency said would save money and protect health, especially in children. "EPA is ...

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Washington Independent

  • House Dems: No Progress in Health Reform Negotiati ...
    Via Roll Call, some key House Democrats indicated last night that there’s been no progress as House and Senate leaders try to iron out the differences between their health reform bills. As a result of the stalemate, they’re predicting that the final bill likely won’t emerge until next month — a setb ...
  • Coakley Stock, Still Selling
    I don’t know if it’s a vote of confidence in Massachusetts Democratic turnout or lagging indicator of Coakley’s fumbled campaign–for example, her mystifying decision to go ahead with a Washington, D.C. fundraiser last night, which is producing multiple negative stories–but conservative star Scott Br ...
  • ‘We Have To Be Here With Them In Their Hour ...
    President Obama, in his first remarks on Haiti, said that his national-security team worked overnight to prepare to assist the Caribbean neighbor recover from yesterday’s earthquake. U.S. disaster rescue teams are on the way, an indication of the  “forward leaning” stance Obama said he wants the go ...
  • Glenn Beck to Speak at CPAC
    Last year, the Conservative Political Action Conference closed with a speech from Rush Limbaugh. This year, according to CPAC director Lisa De Pasquale, it will close with a speech from Glenn Beck–who really became a national leader of some importance last year, if you talk to Tea Party activists. A ...
  • Haiti, In Between The Crises
    Mark Leon Goldberg has a wonderful Daily Beast piece about the Haiti that the U.S. rarely sees: the functioning society that arduously got built in the 1990s and 2000s, only to be ravaged by manmade and now natural disaster. This is Haiti’s tragedy: Just as the trend lines shift in the right directi ...

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-i ...
  • Teacher breaks 4th grader’s arm for ‘forgetting Iq ...
    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 ...
    The food and farming sector is not pulling its weight when it comes to tacking climate change and food shortages could be the consequence if we fail to make fundamental changes to the way we farm, process, distribute and eat our food over the next 20 year Submitted by cowboss Left CareII to Society ...
  • 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

  • Guantanamo guard reunited with ex-inmates
    By Gavin Lee | BBC News | Tuesday, 12 January 2010 Why would a former Guantanamo Bay prison guard track down two of his former captives – two British men – and agree to fly to London to meet them? “You look different without a cap.” “You look different without the jump suits.” With those words, an e ...
  • Tea Partier’s Racist Sign Was Photoshopped
    Tea Partier’s Site Shows Photoshopped Image Of Racist Sign TPM Muckraker Zachary Roth | January 11, 2010, 12:05PM When you’re a Tea Party activist and you’ve been caught holding a racist sign that refers to taxpayers as the “n” word, maybe it’s better to just leave the whole subject alone. Dale Rob ...
  • Evening Jukebox- Under Pressure
    Queen – Under Pressure
  • Secret Afghan War: Mercenaries, Robot Planes And C ...
    Mercenaries, Robot Planes and the CIA Produce Lethal Mix for Secret Afghan War By Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse, Tomdispatch.com. Posted January 11, 2010. In Afghanistan, a militarized mix of CIA operatives and ex-military mercenaries as well as native recruits and robot aircraft is fighting a w ...
  • Abdulmutallab, Alleged Christmas Day Bomber, Plead ...
    Alleged Christmas day bomber pleads not guilty RAW STORY By Agence France-Presse Saturday, January 9th, 2010 — 10:48 am Hobbled by leg irons, a young Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a US plane on Christmas Day pleaded not guilty during his first court appearance amid heightened security. Umar ...

Solari

  • Is the US Love Affair With The Auto Ending?
    By Lester Brown America’s century-old love affair with the automobile may be coming to an end. The U.S. fleet has apparently peaked and started to decline. In 2009, the 14 million cars scrapped exceeded the 10 million new cars sold, shrinking the U.S. fleet by 4 million, or nearly 2 percent in one ...
  • Gates Foundation Frankenfood
    By Tom Philpott The Gates Foundation has emerged as a kind of de facto USDA for Africa: a deep-pocketed funder with a focus on agriculture, in a continent that has seen ag-research funding plunge over the past several decades. For a while, the Gates Foundation sought to avoid a reputation as a cheer ...
  • Obama Signs Executive Order Establishing Council o ...
    Executive Order will Strengthen Further Partnership Between the Federal and State and Local Governments to Better Protect Our Nation The President today signed an Executive Order establishing a Council of Governors to strengthen further the partnership between the Federal Government and State Gover ...
  • State Revenues Falling
    By Joe Weisenthal Continue reading Chart of The Day:Cash-Strapped States Hope Salvation Is Right Around The Corner
  • Obama Administration Wants to Annuitize 401k&#8217 ...
    by Jesse As a rule of thumb, the worst possible time to convert lump sum savings into a fixed income annuity would be when interest rates are historically low. Although products may vary, this is roughly equivalent to buying long term bonds at a time when interest rates are likely to increase, subst ...

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

  • Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
    Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan , Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban . ... and more »
  • 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 . ...

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Sideways News

  • US celebs climb Kilimanjaro
    A host of US celebs have reached the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro after climbing 19,340ft to raise cash for a water charity. Actors Jessica Biel, Emile Hirsch and Isabel Lucas, musician Lupe Fiasco, photographer Michael Muller and Grammy-award winning artist Kenna are among the famous faces who took ...
  • Schoolchildren overcome racial barriers
    Children in an area seen as a powerbase for far-right activists are building bridges with British Muslims as part of a school exchange programme aimed at overcoming racial barriers, reports the Guardian.
  • Search on for most useless product
    A motorised fork, the Nintendo Wii Fit and the Toyota Prius were among the winners (or should that be losers?) of last year's Landfill Prize, an award that honours Britain's most useless consumer products. With a new year at hand, nominations are now open for the Landfill Prize 2010, the brainchild ...
  • Parkinson urges dignity in care homes
    Sir Michael Parkinson has called for elderly people in care homes to be treated with dignity and not as if they are "unworthy of our time and consideration".
  • Contestants aim to spot rare species
    A contest is challenging visitors to visit the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in California to spot endangered species.

Fabius Maximus

  • Some good advice from Zbigniew Brzezinski
    The late American strategist John Boyd (Colonel, USAF) said that a grand strategy focused our nation’s actions — political, economic, and military — so as to: Increase our solidarity, our internal cohesion. Weaken our opponents’ resolve and internal cohesion. Strengthen our allies’ relationships to ...
  • Is global food production peaking?
    Summary:  Peak food would be bad news, since the world’s population will increase for a few more generations, until falling fertility sends it crashing down.   But there is little evidence of this, and much suggesting that food production can greatly increase. Notes: This is just a sketch, not ...
  • FM newswire for 12 January, hot articles for your ...
    Today’s links to interesting news and analysis… “World will ‘cool for the next decade’“, New Scientist, 9 September 2009 — Summary of forecasts about decadal cooling (e.g., “Advancing decadal-scale climate prediction in the North Atlantic sector“, Mojib Latif et al, Nature, 1 May 2008) — More ...
  • A look at the engines of Amercan job creation
    For almost two centuries Americans have wondered how their children will find jobs.  First, agricultural jobs disappeared.  Then manufacturing jobs disappeared.  Now many skilled technical jobs disappear, moving to nations with lower wages but good educational systems.  Here’s an optimistic look ...
  • FM newswire for 11 January, hot articles for your ...
    Today’s links to interesting news and analysis… The UK government’s frame continues to unravel:  “‘Flaws’ in key Lockerbie evidence“, BBC, 6 January 2010 “The mini ice age starts here“, Daily Mail, 10 January 2010 “The Shadow War – Making Sense of the New CIA Battlefield in Afghanistan“, Tom ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Earth to Get Close Shave Wednesday From Newly Disc ...
    An asteroid 30 to 50 feet across will pass by the Earth at just more than one-third the distance between the Earth and the Moon on Wednesday. That’s the closest near-Earth object approach currently known between now and the flyby in 2024 of a similar-size object known as 2007 XB23. digg_url ="http ...
  • Hawaiian Moon Rocks Found, Most Others Still Missi ...
    A set of rare moon rocks turned up in a cabinet in the Hawaii governor’s office last Friday, a small but significant victory for the lunar enthusiasts who’d like to know where Apollo’s legacy resides on this planet. The rocks weren’t technically lost, the Honolulu Advertiser reported, in that they ...
  • Giant Spider Species Discovered in Middle Eastern ...
    Scientists have unearthed a completely new species of spider hiding in sand dunes on the Israel-Jordan border. With legs that stretch 14 centimeters, the new spider, called Cerbalus aravensis, is the biggest of its type in the Middle East. “It is rare to find a new species of spider — at least ar ...
  • Classified Recordings of First Fusion Bomb Test Fo ...
    The long-distance scientific recordings of the blast wave from the first hydrogen bomb test have been rediscovered in a formerly classified safe at Columbia University. On November 1, 1952, physicists created the second fusion explosion the solar system has ever known. The first occurred around 4.5 ...
  • Green Sea Slug Is Part Animal, Part Plant
    SEATTLE — It’s easy being green for a sea slug that has stolen enough genes to become the first animal shown to make chlorophyll like a plant. Shaped like a leaf itself, the slug Elysia chlorotica already has a reputation for kidnapping the photosynthesizing organelles and some genes from algae. No ...

The Progressive Realist

  • It's 2010 - Must be Time for a Team B
    Josh Marshall rightfully throws water on Frank Gaffney and Fox News' idea that we need what's known as a 'Team B' to analyze the threat posed by Islamic extremism, in order to challenge the soft views held by the Obama administration.  For those of you who don't speak neocon, a Team B, put charitabl ...
  • Positive Movement On Iran’s Two Clocks
    One of the key challenges for President Obama’s Iran engagement policy has been to calibrate an approach that addresses Iran’s nuclear program but that doesn’t serve to strengthen a regime that a significant number of Iranians clearly see as illegitimate. As others have noted , the administration is ...
  • Global Freedoms Decline for Fourth Straight Year
    The global economy wasn't the only thing that contracted in 2009. Intensified repression against human rights defenders and civic activists around the world helped make 2009 a "rights recession," watchdog group Freedom House says in its "Freedom of the World 2010" report .2009 was the fourth consecu ...
  • Charges Dropped Against Russian Blogger
    The opposition Web site Other Russia reports that the case against Russian blogger Dmitri Solovyov has been closed due to a lack of evidence. Solovyov is a blogger with the opposition youth movement Oborona. According to Radio Free Europe Solovyov was charged under Article 282 of the Russian Crimi ...
  • Chas Freeman on The China Factor
    Chas Freeman has a piece on “ The China Factor on Iran’s Nuclear Strategy ” as part of the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ (CSIS) Critical Questions series. Freeman argues that China’s reluctance to impose further sanctions on Iran is a result both of its growing economic relation ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • The NY Times On Harold Ford.
    Former Tennessee Representative Harold Ford , known more for centrist posturing than progressive advocacy, has been mulling a run for Kirsten Gillibrand 's senate seat, so the New York Times decided to profile him. Reading the result feels like you're watching an episode of Dexter : Speaking from ...
  • Remembering Haiti After the Disaster.
    While natural disasters are pretty unpredictable no matter how good our detection systems get, the damage they do to a country like Haiti is not. Destruction from a barrage of hurricanes in the last decade was exacerbated by deforestation, in part because the population relies on wood for fuel. Ther ...
  • Lightning Round: Tea Parties, Now Sponsored by Amw ...
    The big moment in last night's debate between Martha Coakley and Scott Brown for the Massachusetts special election was when Brown proclaimed that the open Senate seat is "not the Kennedy seat and it’s not the Democrat’s seat -- it’s the people’s seat." Well, sure. But it's worth looking at what th ...
  • The Justices Learn a New Word.
    Language is a many-splendored thing, and we should applaud those who explore its farther reaches in search of the most descriptive, interesting, or ear-pleasing variations to use in their speaking and writing. But sometimes, esoteric language is used to obscure and exclude rather that to enlighten a ...
  • The Little Picture: The Supreme Court.
    The Supreme Court, ca. 1943 (Flickr/ Library of Congress )

Andy Worthington

  • Fear and Paranoia as Guantánamo Marks its Eighth A ...
    On the eighth anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo, the fate of the 198 prisoners still held is, in many ways, no clearer than it was a year ago. President Obama has released 42 men since taking office on January 20, 2009, but has already admitted that he will miss his self-imposed deadline for ...
  • An interview with Andy Worthington about Guantánam ...
    The following interview, with Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files, was conducted by email by Elizabeth Ferrari, and was originally published on Democratic Underground. Elizabeth Ferrari: Andy, last week was a terrible week for lies and misinformation regarding Guantánamo, particularly c ...
  • Guantánamo: Shaker Aamer’s Daughter Delivers Lette ...
    On Monday January 11, as part of activities in London to highlight the eighth anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo, and to demand justice for the 198 men still held, Johina Aamer, daughter of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident held at the prison, delivered a letter to Gordon Brown at 10 Dow ...
  • On Eighth Anniversary, Guantánamo Allows Little Ho ...
    One year ago, as George W. Bush prepared to leave office, there were high hopes that Barack Obama would move swiftly to undo his ruinous legacy of torture, “extraordinary rendition” and indefinite detention without charge or trial. The most potent icon of the Bush administration’s overreaction to th ...
  • Appeals Court Extends President’s Wartime Powers, ...
    On the eighth anniversary of the opening of the “War on Terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the implications of a ruling last week in the Court of Appeals (PDF) have added another layer of uncertainty to the prisoners’ future, in a week that was notorious for a barrage of lies and misinformation ...

Buzzflash

  • Palinology 101, 100, 099 ...
    Body As a new Fox News employee, her first words were a devilishly playful Fox News lie: "It’s wonderful," said Sarah Palin in announcing her done deal and upcoming gig, "to be part of a place that so values fair and balanced news." The easy deconstruction of that calculated disdain is t ...
  • The Taco Bell Drive-Thru Diet: Why Are We Taking D ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Margaret Smith Move over Jared Fogle, there's a new fast-food diet icon in town. Her name's Christine, and she lost 54 pounds over two years with the help of diet, exercise and... Taco Bell? That's the latest ad campaign the famous "Mexican" fast-food chain has gone with f ...
  • Dave Lindorff: Soldier Marc Hall's Freedom Rap Son ...
    In the ironically named Liberty County Jail since December 11 sits Army Specialist and Iraq War veteran Marc Hall, a rap musician who had the audacity to write a song attacking the Pentagon for subjecting him to a so-called stop-loss order after he had finished his Army tour and had returned from a ...
  • Palling with Palin: FOX News to Hire Sarah Palin
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT by Jeffrey Joseph Creating possibly the least surprising news from FOX in some time, former Governor Sarah Palin has reportedly signed on to the unabashed media arm of the GOP. Observers long speculated that Palin would attempt to gain further media exposure after her abrupt dec ...
  • From Brit Hume to Mike Huckabee, FOX's Foibles wit ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT by Jeffrey Joseph Media evaluators and blogs around the nation have spent much ink discussing Brit Hume's on-air attempt to convert Tiger Woods to Christianity, BuzzFlash included . Astonishing as Hume's display was, it only further evidences the peculiar relationship FOX has wi ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • Harold Ford's warped understanding of "capitalism"
    (updated below) The incomparably horrific Harold Ford -- who sounds ready to challenge incumbent New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in a primary -- contradicted himself so egregiously in his cringe-inducing New York Times interview yesterday that it's hard to know whether one should ...
  • The fundamental unreliability of America's media
    Consider the record of the American media over the last two weeks alone.  Justin Elliott of TPM documents how an absolute falsehood about the attempted Christmas Day airline bombing -- that Abdulmutallab purchased a "one-way ticket" to the U.S., when it was actually a round-trip ticket -- has been ...
  • An Iranian nuclear physicist is murdered
    Back in February, 2007, a controversy erupted when University of Tennessee Law Professor Glenn "Instapundit" Reynolds advocated that, in response to Iran's nuclear activities, the U.S. should be "killing radical mullahs and iranian [sic] atomic scientists" -- in other words, have the U.S. Governmen ...
  • "Political reporting" means "royal court gossip"
    No event in recent memory has stimulated the excitment and interest of Washington political reporters like the release of Mark Halperin and John Heilemann's new book, Game Change , and that reaction tells you all you need to know about our press corps.  By all accounts (including a long, miserable ...
  • Helen Thomas deviates from the terrorism script
    (updated below) Following up on Thursday's post concerning our collective refusal to discuss how American actions and policies fuel Terrorism:   at a White House press conference yesterday with Janet Napolitano and John Brennan, Helen Thomas shows -- yet again -- that she's one of the very fe ...

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Chemophobia and risk
    As a chemist by training, I’ve always been loath to give credence to unfounded criticism of synthetic chemicals that might stoke up chemophobia. Indeed, on several occasions I have written about how our bodies have evolved to cope with all kinds of chemicals regardless of whether they are synthetic ...
  • Intute Hot Topics
    My latest news round up on the Intute website is now live: Getting a grip on catalytic troublemakers, detecting toxic compounds in chlorinated water, and a trip to the Martian lake district. Related Posts:Moon, Earthquakes, Chemical WeaponsBasic Chemistry ResourcesIntute hot topics in physical ...
  • Scientists torn between cash and kudos
    With ailing banks propped up by billions in taxpayers’ money and nations rolling through the mud of economic recession is it any surprise that we get mightily frustrated to hear of their enormous bonuses and golden pension pots? Of course not… But, here’s a thought… As the lines drawn between com ...
  • Cancer, pneumonia, regulations, theranostics
    The 1st of January issue of SpectroscopyNOW is live: MRI nanoparticles seek and destroy cancer cells – A single nanoparticle can be tracked using real-time MRI as it homes in on cancer cells. A fluorescent dye used to tag the nanoparticle couples with heat therapy to kill the targeted cells. Naomi ...
  • Classic musical science and Stradivarnish
    It won’t necessarily be music to the classical purist’s ear, but chemists have been instrumental in revealing the secret beneath the varnish on a Stradivari violins, and the secret is: there is no secret. Antonio Stradivari is perhaps the most famous instrument maker of all time. He is especially c ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Largest RN Union Issues Urgent Call for Nurse Volu ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 13, 2010 National Nurses United The nation’s largest organization of registered nurses tonight activated its nationwide disaster relief program to recruit nurse volunteers to provide assistance to residents of earthquake devastated Haiti, the National Nurses United anno ...
  • ACLU Sues Library Of Congress On Behalf Of Former ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 8, 2010 ACLU The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a lawsuit against the Library of Congress on behalf of Col. Morris Davis, the former chief prosecutor for the Guantánamo military commissions, who was terminated from his job at the Library's Congressional Rese ...
  • Tallies Cost of War through September 30, 2010: $7 ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 11, 2010 National Priorities Project Congress has appropriated an additional $136.8 billion for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for the 2010 fiscal year.  National Priorities Project estimates that for this fiscal year, $64.5 billion is directed to Iraq and $72.3 billion t ...
  • Constitution Project Marks Guantanamo Bay Detentio ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 11, 2010 Constitution Project  Today marks the eight-year anniversary of the establishment of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. During his presidential campaign, President Obama often pledged to close the facility and end the military commissions taki ...
  • Public Hearing to Focus on Massive Nuclear Water-r ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 11, 2010 Center for Biological Diversity On Tuesday the Utah Division of Water Rights will hold public hearings on applications by both the Kane County and the San Juan County water conservancy districts to change the diversion points of 53,600 acre-feet of water from t ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Street Heat and Foreign Policy: Can Progressives Y ...
    by John Feffer Without sufficient street-heat, according to the new conventional wisdom, President Obama is not going to implement progressive policies. His health care package reeks of insurance company influence. His bailouts favor Wall Street. read more
  • After Eight Years, Guantánamo Allows Little Hope
    by Andy Worthington One year ago, as George W. Bush prepared to leave office, there were high hopes that Barack Obama would move swiftly to undo his ruinous legacy of torture, "extraordinary rendition" and indefinite detention without charge or trial. The most potent icon of the Bush administration' ...
  • Who Will Pay for Health Care?
    by Robert Reich There's only one big remaining issue on health care reform: how to pay for it. The House wants a 5.4 percent surtax on couples earning at least $1 million in annual income. The Senate wants a 40 percent excise tax on employer-provided "Cadillac plans." The Senate will win on this unl ...
  • Bring Back Glass-Steagall
    by Thomas Frank Last month, Sens. Maria Cantwell and John McCain proposed a measure that would revive parts of the old Glass-Steagall Act, the 1933 law that separated investment from commercial banking. After having been diluted many times over the years, Glass-Steagall was largely repealed in 1999, ...
  • Holding Corporations Accountable for Apartheid Cri ...
    by Amy Goodman A landmark class action case is under way in a New York federal court, with victims of apartheid in South Africa suing corporations that they say helped the pre-1994 regime. Among the multinational corporations are IBM, Fujitsu, Ford, GM and banking giants UBS and Barclays. The lawsui ...

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Tenth of schools miss GCSE targets
    Secondary school league tables: 247 schools face threat of closure over poor performance One in 10 secondary schools in England failed to meet basic targets for GCSEs last summer and academies were disproportionately represented among the failing institutions, government statistics published today r ...
  • Drugs adviser succeeds sacked Nutt
    Retired pharmacology professor Les Iversen succeeds David Nutt, who was sacked for criticising government policy A retired Oxford pharmacology professor, Les Iversen, has been appointed interim chairman of the government's advisory committee on the misuse of drugs. The appointment for a period of 12 ...
  • Sky News chief attacks Mandelson
    Business secretary's claim that Sky News might follow an agenda set by parent company News Corp disputed by John Ryley The war of words between the government and Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation escalated tonight when the head of Sky News, which is part-owned by News Corp, attacked Lord Mandelson ...
  • Sixteen-year-old has sex change
    • Teenager required court ruling for operation in Barcelona • Judge granted permission after request by parents A Spanish clinic today revealed it had performed a sex-change operation on a 16-year-old boy, making him the youngest patient to undergo the operation in the country's history. The unnamed ...
  • MoD to slash orders of jet fighters
    • Defence chiefs decide UK cannot afford current plan • Cost of 140 US-built planes has risen by £25m each Defence chiefs are preparing drastic cuts to the number of American stealth aircraft planned for the RAF and the Royal Navy's proposed new carriers, the Guardian has learned. They will be among ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Conservation contemplates the pre-emptive strike
    Among those who work on and care about the preservation of nature's plants and animals, the word "endangered" is an absolute touchstone. Endangered species will in general have more conservation resources devoted to them. There may be political or community or scientific action aimed at saving them ...
  • Arctic roots of 'upside-down' weather
    It's cold in Kirkcaldy , freezing in Frankfurt and brass monkeys in Bryn Mawr... a winter spell with weather that's unusually - well - wintry. But not everywhere; in fact, other places in the Northern Hemisphere are seeing weather that's unseasonably warm. In Goose Bay in Newfoundland, it's barely ...
  • 2010: Intruders on a biodiverse year?
    In a somewhat dank and dreary London back garden, I've just been watching grey squirrels carrying off and eating bits of stale Christmas cake that we'd left out for them and the birds. If we'd been quick enough with the camera, it would have made a fantastic picture, with the bushy-tailed squirrel ...
  • Best wishes from a white land
    Just a quick note, today, to say "best wishes" to everyone about to celebrate Christmas or some other winter festival. Here in London, it's been refreshing (in more ways than one!) to see snow on the ground and kids out playing in it - a reminder of childhood days. For me, it's time to put the lap ...
  • COP15: (No) Hopenhagen?
    Everywhere you go in Copenhagen, you're met with two kinds of advertising poster. One sells lingerie, the morning walk to the railway station bringing a sequence of scarcely clad models smiling unfeasibly in the freezing morning air. The other sells hope. "Hopenhagen" has been the city's alterna ...

Afghanistan Sun

  • Qureshi says war on terror could spill over to Pak ...
    Karachi, Jan. 13 : Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that the war on terror being fought in the neighbouring Afghanistan could spill over into Pakistan.
  • 139,000 arms licences issued in Pakistan in 21 mon ...
    Karachi, Jan 13 (IANS) Even as Pakistan is engaged in battling the Taliban in the restive northwest, it emerges that a staggering 139,000 arms licences have been issued in the country in the 21 months since the present government came to power, generating a whopping Rs.20 billion for arms merchants.
  • Taliban cause Afghan civilian deaths to soar
    U.S. goal for winning over the Afghan people.Unrelenting violence, which has defied a usual lull in the winter, has highlighted concern that casualties will rise as the U.S. and
  • 2 US troops, 4 Afghan soldiers killed
    NATO said the two American troops died in a bomb blast, but disclosed no other information. Their deaths bring to 12 the number of American troops killed in Afghanistan so far this month; 16 other sol...
  • Two US soldiers, Afghan police officer killed in e ...
    Kabul - Two US soldiers were killed Wednesday in a roadside bomb blast in eastern Afghanistan while an Afghan police officer died in a similar attack in the country's south, officials said. The NATO-l...

Futurismic

  • Stoned neural networks, wet computers and audio Da ...
    Here’s a handful of links from the weird and wonderful world of computer science… First of all, Telepathic-critterdrug is described as “a controversial fork of the open source artificial-life sim Critterding, a physics sandbox where blocky creatures evolve neural nets in a survival contest. What we’ ...
  • Google threatens to pull out of China over hacking ...
    Well, this story’s everywhere this morning. After allegedly uncovering a “sophisticated and targeted” hacking attack, Google are now “reviewing the feasibility of their business operations in China”, which includes the controversial censorship systems they applied to Google.cn; here’s the official a ...
  • Mazes & Minotaurs: dice-and-paper RPGs go meta
    Thanks to Cheryl Morgan for spotting this one: it seems that even the humble roleplaying game has achieved sufficient cultural escape velocity to enter the penumbra of postmodernism. Enter Mazes & Minotaurs, a set of RPG rules that purports to be “what the first fantasy roleplaying game could have b ...
  • Manufacturing popularity: cultural groupthink and ...
    Wired’s Clive Thompson has an article about some intriguing research into the effects of the “self-fulfilling prophecy” on popularity in art. [image by vagawi] It’s been known since the 1940s that we base our opinions on the opinions of others at a subconscious level, but modern web applications and ...
  • Google as energy trader
    All the media fuss and furore over the Nexus 1 phone from Google has (whether deliberately or not) diverted attention from a more interesting development from everybody’s favourite nominal monopoly: they’ve started a new subsidiary company and applied to the FTC for Google Energy to become an energy ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Truck safety public hearings scheduled
    My friends at the Truck Safety Coalition provide the following information about public hearings on proposed new Hours-of-Service (HOS) rules. As part of the process of preparing for the new Hours of Service proposed rulemaking, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is holding thre ...
  • Study documents federal court bias against employe ...
    Professors Kevin Clermont and Stewart Schwab have published a study of how employees fare when they bring employment law claims in federal court. In Employment Discrimination Plaintiffs in Federal Court: From Bad to Worse? which is to be published in the Harvard Law & Policy Review, they summarize t ...
  • Dennis Brutus remembered
    Friends and admirers of South African poet Dennis Brutus gathered yesterday afternoon to remember him at Busboys and Poets in Washington, DC. Follow the Continue Reading link below to see my photos of the event.  Michael Kohn, President of the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) , remembered Denni ...
  • IRS Commission: UBS program brought in "billions"
    Speaking on the Diane Rehm Show today, IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman said that the agency's amnesty program for US citizens who hid their assets in off-shore accounts brought in "billions" of dollars. That program, of course, was prompted by the disclosures of former UBS employee Bradley Birkenfeld. ...
  • As Birkenfeld reports to jail, Swiss court toughen ...
    On the same day that UBS tax whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld had to report to federal prison, a Swiss court issued an order saying that FINMA, a Swiss regulatory agency, erred in ordering UBS to turn over information about 300 clients. The court concluded, according to Reuters , that FINMA's unilat ...

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 having mo ...
  • 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 same subjec ...
  • 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 “Political Corr ...
  • 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, the ...

Digital Journal

  • Haiti: Thousands feared dead in catastrophic earth ...
    Haiti earthquake: A five storey U.N. building has collapsed, the presidential palace has crumbled and thousands are feared dead following a catastrophic magnitude 7 earthquake that has littered streets with wounded and dead people.
  • Heroes of Hamilton: Former soldier and fiancee fo ...
    It was a Hamilton bank robber's misfortune that he ran into former Canadian soldier Jason Bennett. The 13-year veteran of Canadian forces tackled a robber as he left a TD Canada Trust branch in Hamilton. Cops arrived to find the robber in an arm lock.
  • Faith Healing Trial Gets Underway in Portland, Ore ...
    From time to time there are stories of parents rejecting medical services for their children based on religious views. But when a whole family, separate members, repeat this, it becomes big news in an area.
  • Mark McGwire, and the Magic of 1998
    I've always wanted to believe in Mark McGwire, and the magic of 1998. Because the magic of 1998 rekindled my love of baseball. Disenchanted by the strike of 1994, a part of me soured on the beautiful game.
  • Human evolution a factor in the rise of disorders
    Pressures from evolution may explain the rise of autism, cancer and autoimmune disease. Researchers believe that taking a broader evolutionary perspective to health can reduce suffering and the risk of death.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • One Million Acts of Extraordinary Compassion
    Neil Donovan is part of Change.org's Changemakers network, comprised of leading voices for social change. Change.org asked Neil Donovan to respond to questions to provide context for his work and the causes he supports. Change.org: What cause or causes would you most like to promote as a Changemaker ...
  • Crooner Jimmy Wayne Walks For Homeless Teens
    Country singer Jimmy Wayne's boots were certainly made for walking -- to raise awareness about homeless youth. On January 1, Wayne set out for the 1,660-mile solo journey from Nashville to Phoenix he's calling the "Meet Me Halfway " campaign. Walking about 25 miles a day, with just a 50-lb. backpack ...
  • Homeless Charities Struggling in Hard Times
    During tough times, charities need more but get less. A new survey from London-based Homeless Link reports that 51% of the umbrella organization's 480 member groups have been affected significantly or very significantly by the economic downturn. Not surprisingly, The Impact of the ‘Credit Crunch’ su ...
  • Homeless Politely Asked To Leave Town Before Olymp ...
    There's a migration going on in British Columbia -- and it's not Canadian geese. In preparation of the Winter Olympics , which start Feb. 12, Vancouver has taken over parking lots and garages where its homeless population lives. Out of sight, out of mind, now get your Vancouver 2010 souvenir shirts ...
  • Meet L.A.'s Only Homeless Politician
    Jeff Page is L.A.'s only homeless elected official . He has served for the past two years on the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council . People who live with him on "Skid Row," a dangerous and neglected area that many homeless call home, have nicknamed him "General." Page, a charismatic former r ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Canadians see climate change as greater threat tha ...
    According to a recent poll, Canadians are much more likely to view climate change as a “critical threat” to Canada’s “vital interests” than international terrorism. Commissioned by the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI) and conducted by the Innovative Research Group Inc., t ...
  • Canada and UN peacekeeping
    A new fact-sheet published by the Peace Operations Working Group documents the collapse in Canadian government support for UN peacekeeping since the early 1990s. As recently as 1992, Canada was the single largest contributor of personnel to UN peacekeeping missions. We have since fallen to 56th pla ...
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  • Bill Robinson joins us as Ceasefire.ca Editor
    Ceasefire.ca is very happy to welcome Bill Robinson to our team. Bill has been writing about Canadian defence and security policy issues since 1983. He was on the staff of Project Ploughshares, and has done research and writing for Canadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, the Polaris Institute, ...
  • Jargon watch: Weapons of mass destruction
    When most people talk about “weapons of mass destruction“, they’re thinking of nuclear weapons, or maybe chemical and biological weapons—not exploding underpants. But as this Tom Tomorrow cartoon suggests, accused “underwear bomber” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has been charged with using a weapon of ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 1-12-10
    Today, Kevin explains the consquences of disagreeing with President Obama and how the mainstream media is brainwashing you!!  Get the headlines they don’t want you to know about… Big Pharma Spends Millions to Influence Politicians. Toxins are Lurking in Your Water JAMA Threatens Big Pharma Whist ...
  • My Personal Doctor!
    Today, I wanted to give you my personal physician’s contact information here in Chicago. If you are not in the Chicago area, I recommend you find a reputable doctor specializing in alternative medicine at NaturalCures.com. But if you are in the Chicago area, stop in and see my friend, Dr. Drost. Oak ...
  • For Sale on Internet - Ukraine’s Election Vo ...
    January 12,2010 Reuters By Richard Balmforth KIEV, Jan 12 (Reuters) - For sale: my vote in Ukraine’s election on Sunday. From 300 to 500 hryvnias ($37-$63). Can gather others who want to sell. Several offers have appeared on the Internet from disenchanted citizens in the ex-Soviet republic who say t ...
  • Israel Deploys Unmanned Military Vehicles to Battl ...
    January 12,2009 Wall Street Journal By Charles Levinson Sixty years of near-constant war, a low tolerance for enduring casualties in conflict, and its high-tech industry have long made Israel one of the world’s leading innovators of military robotics. WSJ’s Charles Levinson reports from Jerusalem to ...
  • ACLU Official Says It Is Not Realistic to Screen A ...
    January 12,2010 CNS News By Matt Cover Former FBI agent Mike German, now a terrorism expert with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), said that using the Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB) of 400,000-plus names to screen airline passengers was not realistic, and added that it was “fundamental ...

Pambazuka News

  • USA: Black coalition to protest expanding U.S. war ...
    A newly-formed Black coalition has announced a rally and march on the White House to take place November 7, 2009 beginning in Washington, D.C.’s historic Malcolm X Park. The rally and march are to protest the expanding U.S. wars and other policy ini...
  • Brazil: Bloggers on why there is still racism in t ...
    Two weeks ago, Global Voices Online reported the story of Januário Alves de Santana, a black man who had been beaten and punched by security guards of one of the largest international retailers in Brazil. He was waiting for his family in the car park...
  • Global: It takes a Villager
    Owino Odhiambo left his tiny Kenyan village less than a decade ago to immerse himself completely in American culture. Equipped with American citizenship, two degrees, and five years experience working as a dedicated graphic designer in New York City,...
  • Honduras: Implications of coup for Afro-descendant ...
    Currently, the country of Honduras in Central America is experiencing its worst political crisis in decades. In the aftermath of the military coup that forcibly removed President Manuel Zelaya Rosales, there have been various developments that have r...
  • 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...

War in Context

  • Iranian scientist killed by bomb had opposition li ...
    Iranian scientist killed by bomb had opposition links By Richard Spencer, The Telegraph, January 12, 2010 An Iranian nuclear physicist with ties to the reformist movement led by the opposition leader, Mir Hossein Moussavi, has been killed by a bomb near his home. Dr Moussad Ali-Mohammadi was leaving ...
  • Report: Iran slows down nuclear program in gesture ...
    Report: Iran slows down nuclear program in gesture to West By Yossi Melman, Haaretz, January 11, 2010 Iran has suspended its uranium enrichment program for two months, Iranian media sources reported on Monday, saying the move was meant as a gesture of good will toward Western powers. The report has ...
  • Israeli robots remake battlefield
    Israeli robots remake battlefield By Charles Levinson, Wall Street Journal, January 12, 2010 Israel is developing an army of robotic fighting machines that offers a window onto the potential future of warfare. Sixty years of near-constant war, a low tolerance for enduring casualties in conflict, and ...
  • How I fought the intelligence turf wars — and lost
    How I fought the intelligence turf wars — and lost By Ron Capps, Foreign Policy, January 11, 2010 In recent weeks, following the shocks of the Christmas Day bomber and the Dec. 30 attack on a U.S. base in Afghanistan, observers have tried to understand why U.S. intelligence failed so badly. Presiden ...
  • War’s fury no longer pauses for Afghan winter
    War’s fury no longer pauses for Afghan winter By Rod Nordland, New York Times, January 12, 2010 Afghanistan’s high mountains and harsh weather once meant that winter was a respite from much of the war’s violence, but as the deaths of six Western soldiers in three separate attacks on Monday show, thi ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Climategate: The Mosher Timeline
    Now that we all have time to take a breath from the whirlwind of Climategate, Copenhagen, and the Christmas/New Year holiday, Steve McIntyre has written up a timeline on how the Climategate emails came to be public knowledge on the climate blogs. Titled The Mosher Timeline, for our well known and fr ...
  • How the UAH Global Temperatures Are Produced
    by Dr. Roy Spencer, PhD. I am still receiving questions about the method by which the satellite microwave measurements are calibrated to get atmospheric temperatures. The confusion seems to have arisen because Christopher Monckton has claimed that our satellite data must be tied to the surface th ...
  • AIP and AAU call for free public access to the res ...
    This is a breath of fresh air for me, because as we’ve seen time and again, often we get the press release on a paper, but not the paper itself, as it is often hidden behind journal membership rules or a paywall. From an AIP and  AAU press release: Expert panel calls on US research agencies to [. ...
  • CNN’s Jack Cafferty asks for climate feedbac ...
    Happy to help Jack. WUWT readers you have less than 30 minutes h/t to John Goetz FROM CNN’s Jack Cafferty: As the debate continues about global warming, the month of December was the 14th coldest in 115 years in the United States… and some scientists insist the earth is entering a cooling trend. W ...
  • New study argues climate change was not responsibl ...
    From Springerlink: Stable climate and plant domestication linked New study argues climate change was not responsible for the Agricultural Revolution Sustainable farming and the introduction of new crops relies on a relatively stable climate, not dramatic conditions attributable to climate ch ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Rio: Olympic City
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ AlJazeeraEnglish Jan 12, 2010 An explosion of joy on the streets of Rio greeted the announcement that the city would be hosting the 2016 Olympic Games. Two weeks later, Rio saw an explosion of violence when a police helicopter was shot down by drug traffickers. ...
  • The Death of Liberalism in the United States by Sh ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Shamus Cooke www.globalresearch.ca/, January 12, 2010 It’s no exaggeration to say that President Obama was the Democrats’ last chance to maintain some level of political legitimacy in the eyes of working class Americans.  Now, after a year of solid pro-corpo ...
  • President Obama to Request Another $33 Billion for ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ rethinkafghanistan January 12, 2010 Learn more at http://rethinkafghanistan. The Associated Press reports that President Obama “plans to ask Congress for an additional $33 billion to fight unpopular wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, on top of a record request for $ ...
  • ‘Catastrophic quake’ rocks Haiti + 100 ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Prayers to the people of Haiti. Send donations immediately: 1-800-RED-CROSS;  http://www.unicefusa.org/; text ‘HAITI’ to 90999 and $10 goes to relief efforts. Al Jazeera English January 13, 2010 The Caribbean nation of Haiti has been hit by its strongest ear ...
  • Eight Years of Guantánamo: A Call for Europe to He ...
    by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 11 January 2010 Today, on the eighth anniversary of the first transfers to the US prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, human rights groups and lawyers — Amnesty International, Cageprisoners, the Center for Constitutional Rig ...

Your New Reality

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    So Many Holocausts.... George Monbiot has a read of David Stannard's American Holocaust : (the book) ­documents the greatest acts of genocide the world has ever experienced . In 1492, some 100 million native people lived in the Americas. By the end of the 19th century almost all of them had been e ...
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    From Life Magazine archive . In 1937, American Nazis hailed, praised George Washington as the "First Fascist":
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    The Reading List This is not so much a story as a list of the blog posts, news stories and features I've got open in other windows but haven't yet got around to reading properly. This seems an easier, handier way of reminding myself of what stories had caught my interest at this time than bookmarki ...
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    The Pyramid Of People Power Bono : A lot of us have seen or lived the organizational chart of the last century, in which power and influence (whether possessed by church, state or corporation) are concentrated in the uppermost point of the pyramid and pressure is exerted downward. But in this new c ...
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    Hold The Presses! We Haven't Mentioned The Nazis Today! Rupert Murdoch's The Sun scrapes the absolute bottom of the 'Nazi Outrage!' barrel with this story of some idiotic British tourist seeing swastikas in a pane of glass in a German hotel, and kicking up a shitstorm over it. The pane of glass : ...

Wired - Science

  • Earth to Get Close Shave Wednesday From Newly Disc ...
    An asteroid 30 to 50 feet across will pass by the Earth at just more than one-third the distance between the Earth and the Moon on Wednesday. That’s the closest near-Earth object approach currently known between now and the flyby in 2024 of a similar-size object known as 2007 XB23. digg_url ="http ...
  • Hawaiian Moon Rocks Found, Most Others Still Missi ...
    A set of rare moon rocks turned up in a cabinet in the Hawaii governor’s office last Friday, a small but significant victory for the lunar enthusiasts who’d like to know where Apollo’s legacy resides on this planet. The rocks weren’t technically lost, the Honolulu Advertiser reported, in that they ...
  • Giant Spider Species Discovered in Middle Eastern ...
    Scientists have unearthed a completely new species of spider hiding in sand dunes on the Israel-Jordan border. With legs that stretch 14 centimeters, the new spider, called Cerbalus aravensis, is the biggest of its type in the Middle East. “It is rare to find a new species of spider — at least ar ...
  • Classified Recordings of First Fusion Bomb Test Fo ...
    The long-distance scientific recordings of the blast wave from the first hydrogen bomb test have been rediscovered in a formerly classified safe at Columbia University. On November 1, 1952, physicists created the second fusion explosion the solar system has ever known. The first occurred around 4.5 ...
  • Green Sea Slug Is Part Animal, Part Plant
    SEATTLE — It’s easy being green for a sea slug that has stolen enough genes to become the first animal shown to make chlorophyll like a plant. Shaped like a leaf itself, the slug Elysia chlorotica already has a reputation for kidnapping the photosynthesizing organelles and some genes from algae. No ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Avirama Golan: No entry for Arabs
    This new arrangement makes an already problematic situation even worse. Those same lands that the state expropriated from Arabs in the past for "public use," and which were then added to the vast... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  • Israeli Robots Remake Battlefield
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    The following article is from the Daily Times, Lahore, Pakistan. Taliban can target media offices:  intel ©   Daily Times Aaj Kal Report January 11, 2010 LAHORE: The National Crisis Management Cell (NCMC) of the Interior Ministry has warned that Tehreek-e-Taliban has decided to attack newspaper off ...
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    The following article is reprinted with permission from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Self-same surrogates in the Service of the Masters Once More Source:  Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan January 10, 2010   04:22   administrator The puppet Head of the Kabul Administration nominated some well-k ...

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    At clandestine farms across Pennsylvania, thousands of roosters and hens have been toiling away for months in confidential conditions normally reserved for important government ops. Their mission: Fertilize enough eggs to keep supplies of swine-flu vaccine flowing. Click here to read this article
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    Buildings consume more than 50% of our nation's energy. Climate change and diminishing fossil fuel resources are forcing the U.S. building industry to deeply cut building energy use. Unfortunately, the "green building" movement has had minimal impact on reducing buildings' energy consumption. Click ...
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fotoFrontera

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    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Hace algunos días, tuvimos la oportunidad de ofrecerte una excelente colección de wallpapers sobre el año nuevo 2010 . Creemos que no fue suficiente y el día de hoy, te ofrecemos a través de Foto Frontera, 10 nuevas imág ...
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    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Steve Carter, tiene el honor de presentarnos su excelente colección de imágenes basadas en Paisajes Naturales . De verdad que te recomiendo mucho la visita a este sitio porque al igual que yo, quedarás impresionado. [ver ...

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Center for a Livable Future

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    The New York Times’ Mark Bittman poses the interesting question in yesterday’s column, “Could Industrially Raised Meat Be Illegal?” Bittman pontificates that if the EPA has classified greenhouse gases as a human health hazard “as the EPA has declared, and the 1976 Toxic Substances Control A ...

Norwegianity

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    Hey kids, you know what time it is? It’s time for a new Clusterfuck Nation, that’s what fucking time it is. - - Scott Horton reviews the NYTimes editorial on mercs. Funny, I could have sworn Markos Moulitsas spelled out all the reasons why mercenaries suck years ago. Just before the knuckledraggers ...
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    Krugman: The real lesson from Europe is actually the opposite of what conservatives claim: Europe is an economic success, and that success shows that social democracy works. Actually, Europe’s economic success should be obvious even without statistics. For those Americans who have visited Paris: ...
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The Seferm Post

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O'Malley to push renewable energy
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