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• FRANCE: Time to Pay Back Haiti
  As thousands of people filled Notre Dame Cathedral here Saturday evening in a special mass for victims of the earthquake in Haiti, the solidarity and sadness reflected the historical ties that bind France to the Caribbean nation.
  
• CLIMATE CHANGE: Wanted - Methane-Free Livestock
  At first glance, the Riswick farm is just another modern agricultural facility: in the middle of broad cultivated fields stand recently built barns, similar to so many other farms across Europe.
  
• CLIMATE CHANGE: Wanted - Methane-Free Livestock
  BERLIN, Jan 17 (Tierramérica) - At first glance, the Riswick farm is just another modern agricultural facility: in the middle of broad cultivated fields stand recently built barns, similar to so many other farms across Europe.
  
• MALAYSIA: Sarawak Dams: Boon or Bane to Develop ...
  KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 17 (IPS) - "I don’t know what's going to happen to our people … what our future will be?"
  
• MALI: Small Farmers in the Carbon Market
  BAMAKO, Jan 16 (IPS) - Mohamed Abd Khibé is a caretaker at the acacia nursery in Dialoubé village, part of a project to sequester carbon in trees while simultaneously improving farmers' livelihoods.
  

Scoop - NZ

• Haiti Photo Galleries & Updates
  Collapsed buildings, impassable streets, survivors trying to free loved ones from the rubble with their bare hands -- the impoverished Caribbean state of Haiti is in chaos following Tuesday's deadly earthquake. The world is scrambling to organize an enormous relief effort amid fears that thousands h ...
  
• Op-Ed: An Invitation to Disaster
  We didn't pay attention to the housing bubble. We closed our eyes to warnings that the levees in New Orleans were inadequate. We gave short shrift to reports that bin Laden was determined to attack the U.S. And now we're all but ignoring the fiscal train wreck that is coming from states with budget ...
  
• Alliance: New trains should be built in NZ worksho ...
  The Alliance Party says the Government and State Owned Enterprise Kiwirail should produce the new electric trains promised to Auckland in New Zealand workshops.Alliance Party co-leader Kay Murray says international tendering cannot be justified when Kiwirail's own workshops could do the work.Kiwirai ...
  
• Phone Calls from the 9/11 Airliners - Response to ...
  Given the cell phone technology available in 2001, cell phone calls from airliners at altitudes of more than a few thousand feet, especially calls lasting more than a few seconds, were virtually - and perhaps completely - impossible. And yet many of the reported cell phone calls occurred when the pl ...
  
• Dubai Crisis Casts Shadow On 2010
  Surrounded by oil-rich nations Jordan has been able to make do with its modest resources over the years. In 2010, however, the country will have to face challenges associated with global economic slowdown and the crisis in Dubai."The economic situation, both in Jordan and globally, is a difficult on ...
  

Independent ( London )

• Prince William begins first official overseas trip
  Prince William arrived in New Zealand to begin his first official overseas trip on behalf of the Queen.
  
• New death sentence for 'Chemical Ali'
  Saddam Hussein's notorious cousin "Chemical Ali" has been convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death for involvement in a poison gas attack on Halabja.
  
• FBI turned Spanish MP into Bin Laden
  The former leader of the Spanish Communist Party is threatening to take the FBI to court after it used his photograph to compose its latest mugshot of Osama bin Laden.
  
• Haiti: Desperate for the world to deliver on its p ...
  The wretched became the desperate in Haiti yesterday as, despite an extraordinary response from a world queuing up to deliver aid, emergency supplies were still not reaching those in greatest need. In this devastated nation, that category includes all the citizens who are not among the estimated 2 ...
  
• On the streets: 'We need aid now, today. Yesterday ...
  Wrapped in filthy bandages, Paule Wadeline uses a tiny voice to describe the moment she lost her home, all of her possessions and her entire family. Like those in several entire blocks in the Del Mar neighbourhood of Haiti's capital, her concrete dwelling collapsed within seconds of Tuesday's quake ...
  

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• No decision on new Iran sanctions
  Summary: Bushehr Nuclear Reactor NEW YORK: Six major powers considered new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear defiance here Saturday but reached no decision, a senior European Union official said. source: AFP read more
  
• Nuclear Deceit: The Times And Iran
  Summary: On December 14, The Times announced that it had obtained documents about Iran’s nuclear programme that revealed “a four-year plan to test a neutron initiator. This is the component of a nuclear weapon that triggers the explosion”. source: Media Lens read more
  
• Iran Not Committed to Building Nuclear Bomb, Penta ...
  Summary: Tehran Reactor The conclusion -- originally reached in a comprehensive 2007 intelligence assessment of Iran's nuclear program -- remains valid despite uncertainties about the goals and stability of the nation's government, U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency Chief Lt. Gen. Ronald Burgess s ...
  
• China sending lower level rep to six-power meet on ...
  Summary: "We are aware that the representation will be below the level of political director," State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said. "It will be a useful meeting to have regardless of the Chinese representation." US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced Monday that the six power ...
  
• Iran Six gears up for meeting in New York
  Summary: A meeting of the Iran Six - Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States - was scheduled for December 22, but was canceled by request of China. Russia will be represented at the talks by Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov. The Iran Six have been trying to persuade ...
  

The Daily Galaxy

• The Biggest Black Hole in the Universe (It's BIG!) ...
  Scientists have determined the mass of the largest things that could possibly exist in our universe. New results have placed an upper limit on the current size of black holes - and at fifty billion suns it's pretty damn big....
  
• Is Pandora Emerging as the Poster Boy for the NexG ...
  Pandora, the next-generation online music streaming service, is looking at life beyond the web, embracing what's emerging as the "device-agnostic" Internet. “We became profitable for the fourth quarter of 2009, and now we’re shooting for profits for the entire 2010...
  
• Hubble Looks Back 13 Billion Years - In 3D! (A Wee ...
  In late 2003 the Hubble telescope assembled an image that represents the deepest look into space every created, capturing an estimated 10,000 galaxies, some as old as 13 billion years (just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang,...
  
• "Are Black Holes Actually White?" Stephen Hawking' ...
  Stephen Hawkings great discovery was that the mysterious regions in space we call black holes radiate heat through quantum effects. Hawking has said that "black holes are not really black after all: they glow like a hot body, and the...
  
• Faster Than the Speed of Light? Pulsars Point to " ...
  We learned in our intro to science courses that information cannot be transmitted faster than the speed of light. Yet laboratory experiments done over the last 30 years clearly show that some things appear to break this speed limit without...
  

Natural News

• Thousands of Americans died from H1N1 even after r ...
  (NaturalNews) The CDC is engaged in a very clever, statistically devious spin campaign, and every single journalist in the mainstream media has fallen for its ploy. No one has yet reported what I'm about to reveal here. It all started with the CDC's recent release of new statistics about swine flu f ...
  
• Nutrient-rich, low-calorie diets actually reprogra ...
  (NaturalNews) A study appearing in the American Chemical Society's Journal of Proteome Research has given further insight into the correlation between calorie restriction and weight loss. While it is known that calorie-restricted diets are effective at helping people to lose weight, it has now been ...
  
• Nutrients stimulate brain connections, could treat ...
  (NaturalNews) The earliest stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD) are marked by a major loss of the brain connections needed to process information and to retain memory. While there are drug therapies used to help delay progression of AD, those medications are loaded with side effects and, if they work ...
  
• Food security collapses in Haiti as machete-wieldi ...
  (NaturalNews) Overnight, Haiti has gone from an organized, civil nation to a scenario of total chaos with gangs running wild through the streets, ransacking shops and fighting over food with machetes. Learning this, many an ignorant westerner might naively say, "That could only happen in Haiti. It's ...
  
• Pomegranates may prevent estrogen-driven breast ca ...
  (NaturalNews) Many breast cancers are estrogen-dependent. So a class of drugs called aromatase inhibitors (AI) that block the synthesis of estrogen are used by mainstream medical doctors to attempt to slow the growth of estrogen sensitive breast tumors. Unfortunately, as the Mayo Clinic web site poi ...
  

  TheGallopingBeaver

• At the going down of the sun, and in the morning.. ...
  With condolences and respect to the family and friends of Sergeant John Faught, the 1st Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. Killed due to enemy action. Ric-A-Dam-Doo
  
• Default dictatorships...
  OK, aside from the fact Canadian tax dollars apparently went to former members of the Bush administration, I initially thought this was too funny . A former spokesman for George W. Bush received a second sole-source contract from the Prime Minister's Office for American communications advice, accor ...
  
• Facebook group FOR prorogue
  Goering wannabe, Adam Yoshida , has one up. They have 103 members . The first discussion thread is titled "Adam Toshida(sic) is Full of Shit" where a commenter pulls Yoshida quotes favouring prorogue and fascistic executive power, and then blows giant holes in them with large bore QWERTY rounds. Yep ...
  
• driftglass and blue gal podcast
  South o' th' bord'r bloggers Blue Gal and Driftglass have a...podcast?
  
• Rick Mercer drives one home
  From 22 Days of Snow Days : "It is ironic that while our parliament has been suspended we are a nation at war. On New Year's Eve we greeted the news that five Canadians were killed in a single day with sadness but not surprise. We are at war because ostensibly we are helping bring democracy to Afgh ...
  

Media Matters for America

• On Fox, Forbes' Barret falsely claimed "C ...
  On the January 16 edition of Fox News' Forbes on Fox , while arguing that the health care plan is an example of Washington "play[ing] favorites," Forbes associate editor Victoria Barret falsely claimed that it "sounds like" the "tax [on] expensive health insurance plans" is "not going to affect the ...
  
• Fox News' Bulls & Bears makes dubious ...
  On Fox News' Bull & Bears , while discussing President Obama's plan to tax the nation's largest banks, host Brenda Buttner claimed that it's "going to be the consumers who get hit, ultimately"; Fox Business Network host Eric Bolling agreed, responding that the tax would be passed "right down to the ...
  
• Bolling stuffs "Obama's Checkbook" with Bush bailo ...
  Eric Bolling presented a chart titled "Obama's Checkbook" which purported to show the Obama administration's "new spending," but in fact included a variety of spending that was actually initiated during the Bush administration. Bolling also claimed that Obama has generated "$0" in revenue, despite ...
  
• Quick Fact: Fox News again allows Donatelli to att ...
  Fox News' Special Report with Bret Baier aired a comment from Frank Donatelli attacking health care reform. He was identified only as a "GOP operative" and "GOPAC chairman," not as executive vice president of McGuireWoods Consulting, a public affairs consulting firm whose clients include firms in t ...
  
• Quick Fact: Beck guest host revives debunked clim ...
  Glenn Beck guest host Eric Bolling and guest Tom Borelli, senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR), used a grant awarded under the stimulus bill to climate scientist Michael Mann to revive the debunked claim that emails stolen from the Climatic Research Unit at ...
  

Global Research.ca

• Cuban Medical Help in the Middle of Destruction an ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
  
• When Does It Become Genocide?
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
  
• Egypt Proceeds With Underground Barrier on Border ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
  
• Yemen: Toward Another US Quagmire
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
  
• Moving Your Money Can Have a Real Effect on Big Ba ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
  

TPM Cafe

• Israelis Punish Turks for Gaza Criticism by Making ...
  Entry Revised Tuesday AM The original post dealt with a column by Gideon Levy about Israel's seeming lapse into sheer nuttiness. (It's still below). This latest shows that Levy's theory is no exaggeration. The Deputy Foreign Minister of Israel, Danny... Israel - Gideon Levy - Middle East - Uni ...
  
• 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 ...
  
• Weekly Roundup: What We Missed
  The week began with a 'game-changer,' so to speak, and a PR disaster for the Senate Majority Leader. This story, thankfully, fizzled out, but for the worst possible reason. The unspeakable tragedy in Haiti has, understandably, been the primary focus... Majority leader - United States Senate - S ...
  
• Rep. Van Hollen to President Obama: We can create ...
  Yesterday Congressman Chris Van Hollen wrote President Obama asking that he put the Green Bank in the State of the Union and in the jobs bill. This move by the head of the DCCC signifies a shift in the politics... Chris Van Hollen - Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Politics - Van ...
  
• Whose Voodoo?
  David Brooks is doing his "culture" dance again this week, spinning profound truths about culture's real importance to economic success. But he's doing it in a slippery way that dooms him and his fans to another big fall. On Tuesday... David Brooks - Haiti - Jew - New York Times - Jewish
  

TruthOut

• Trade Policy: B
  The Obama administration is earning a B on trade policy so far, mostly on the grounds that no news is good news in this area. Some analysts might feel it is more accurate to give the administration an "incomplete." read more
  
• Non-Christians Need Not Apply
  World vision hires only Christians under its $250 million in government foreign aid grants. Obama promised to change that. So why hasn't he? Bamako, Mali - For a year and a half, Bara Kassambara kept his mouth shut. Every day, all of his coworkers paused for prayer time. There were frequent Bible st ...
  
• Community in Crisis Looks to Its Agricultural Root ...
  Taos, New Mexico - Renowned for its historic Native American pueblo, cultural ties to Spain, bohemian artists, and world-class ski resort, Taos is also one of the many communities in the U.S. facing food insecurity. But the region was once the breadbasket of northern New Mexico, and a grassroots mov ...
  
• Keeping Same-Sex Marriage in the Dark
  On Wednesday, a conservative majority of the Supreme Court overturned a ruling made by a federal trial judge that would have allowed limited television coverage of a trial that will decide the fate of California’s Proposition 8. The trial, which is currently proceeding in San Francisco, is one of th ...
  
• Too Little Too Late for Haiti? Six Sobering Point ...
  Point One. $100 Million - Are You Kidding Me? President Obama promised $100 million in aid to Haiti on January 14, 2010. A Kentucky couple won $128 million in a Powerball lottery on December 24, 2010. The richest nation in the history of the world read more
  

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

• Studi Ekologi Hutan Mangrove di Pantai Timur Sumat ...
  B I O D I V E R S I T A S. ISSN: 1412-033X. Volume 9, Nomor 1 Januari 2008 Halaman: 25-29  Studi Eko
  
• What We Dont Know
  http://www.propublica.org/feature/natural-gas-drilling-what-we-dont-know-1231 End of the year story
  
• Nigeria: Dutch court to try Shell for oil spills
  A Dutch court has said it has jurisdiction over a case of alleged oil spills brought against Royal D
  
• Back from Vacation
  We are back from visiting family for the holidays and the fish room survived. Nothing like a few hun
  
• A High Impact Ordinance
  The L.A. Board of Public Works' LID ordinance is a giant step in the fight to reduce runoff poll
  

Public Citizen in Texas

• Denied a substantial rate increase to fund their c ...
  Two proposed nuclear reactors in Florida were put on hold this week after the Florida Public Service Commission denied the lion’s share of a rate increase necessary to fund the project’s construction. The utility Florida Power and Light (FPL) requested a record rate hike of $1.27 Billion, but was on ...
  
• Lisa Murkowski: The price to pollute
  Original post can be found at our sister blog, Citizen Vox. How much does a pro-pollution amendment cost? From the looks of recent reports about the relationship between Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and a big energy lobbyist, at least about $35,000. That’s how much Duke Energy, Southern Co. and th ...
  
• Public Citizen Welcomes Opportunity for Senate to ...
  Statement of Tom “Smitty” Smith, Director of Public Citizen’s Texas Office The latest interim charge of the state Senate Business and Commerce Committee provides a welcome opportunity for Texas to rein in rogue utilities like CPS Energy of San Antonio. Now tasked with studying the costs of municipal ...
  
• Attention: Green businesses and Austinites!
  If you were as frustrated as I was watching world leaders dither in Copenhagen while the Earth heats up and island nations continue making evacuation plans, there is good news on the horizon for Austin. Austin Energy has developed a consensus plan that would establish our own CO2 cap and reduction p ...
  
• Baby It’s Cold Outside
  So put on a sweater and crank up the thermostat! That was the major trend late last week and over the weekend, when arctic weather led Texas to set another winter power usage record.  According to the Abilene Reporter News, The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the grid operator for mos ...
  

Press TV

• Study says morphine can prevent PTSD
  Treating wounded soldiers with morphine halves their risk of suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a new study finds.
  
• Obese need more antibiotics to fight infection
  Despite the general belief, higher doses of antibiotics are needed to effectively fight infection in obese individuals, a new study finds.
  
• Israeli cabinet minister to visit Abu Dhabi
  An Israeli cabinet minister is to visit the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the first time, despite no diplomatic ties between the two governments.
  
• Iraq hand 'Chemical Ali' 4th death sentence
  An Iraqi court has sentenced Saddam Hussein's cousin, widely known as 'Chemical Ali,' to death on genocide charges for the fourth time.
  
• Darfur rebels claim raid by Sudan
  Rebels in the volatile Sudanese region of Darfur have accused the government of carrying out air raids in western Sudan ahead of scheduled peace talks.
  

Axis of Logic

• Before the Earthquake
  
  
• Afghanistan and the U.S. Withdrawal
  
  
• U.S. Mourns the Loss of Lebanon
  
  
• How do you spell success? Venezuelan President Chá ...
  
  
• Earth’s Oceans: Our Largest Plastic Landfills
  
  

They Gave Us a Republic

• The Nightowl Newswrap
  More deaths, more rescues, more promises. "US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has become the first senior Western official to arrive in Haiti after the earthquake that flattened the capital. Mrs Clinton told the Haitian people that the US would be "here today, tomorrow and for the time ahead". Te ...
  
• What Now?
  Earlier today I was hard on the U.N. medical staff for vacating their post - and with it their professional ethics - and I will never, if I live a million years, be okay with abandoning critical patients. Those doctors and nurses are a blight on medical professionals everywhere and have no business ...
  
• PenroseOnPolitics: Rudy, Dick & Liz
  
  
• Let them have their little hissy-fit. It's sound a ...
  For my entire life I have heard non-stop chatter that competition is good and serves the public well, far better than regulations do, and indeed that is the meme that the right and their constituents in the business community prefer to push most of the time. Except for those times that it isn't. Th ...
  
• "We're not going to let Wall Street take the money ...
  President Obama's Weekly Address: Full transcript here.
  

Care 2

• Sarah Palin Flubs Fox Debut and Takes Grief from . ...
  She seemed nervous with Papa Bear, who was rather snappish. Opening with a video mash-up of TV personalities calling her an "ignorant rightwinger" who "doesn't know anything" -- meant to outrage her fans, but demeaning nonetheless -- O'Reilly then .... Submitted by Kit B. to US Politics & Gov't  |  ...
  
• Firm axed after Army dogs forced to live in squalo ...
  The Ministry of Defence has axed an £11million contract with a company that forced more than 100 dogs to live in squalor. Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  
• My life as a wolf, by British naturalist who dared ...
  The huge wolf's fangs hovered over my neck. I was frozen to the spot, waiting for his jaw to clamp around my throat - and bring instant death. It didn't happen. Instead, the young male with him gave me a gentler nip on my knee while the older male Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!   ...
  
• Why Haven't Fruit & Vegetable Eaters Been Told Abo ...
  The U.S. government is encouraging farmers to spread a chalky waste from coal-fired power plants on their fields to loosen and fertilize soil. Dr. Mercola's comments round out the story. Submitted by Roseann D. to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  
• Sierra Club Supports Mustang Roundup in NV
  Two environmental groups are joining ranchers in an unusual coalition supporting the government's contentious removal of about 2,500 wild horses from the range north of Reno. Submitted by Simone D. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  

GreenBiz

• Certification Program Launched for Sustainable Win ...
  The California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance has created a third-party certification program for wineries and vineyards in the state that follow sustainable practices.
  
• Sustainable Forestry Initiative Releases New Stand ...
  After an 18-month review process, the Sustainable Forestry Initiative has released its new standard, with expanded and updated principles, objectives and performance indicators.
  
• A Blueprint for Greening New York City's Buildings
  New York City's buildings are responsible for 66 percent of energy use and 77 percent of the metropolis' greenhouse gas emissions. This report looks at the challenge posed by green buildings and strategies to address it.
  
• California's Building Code Turns a Deeper Shade of ...
  California's Green Building Standards Code, the first of its kind when placed on the books 18 months ago, moved toward a new phase this week with the adoption of mandatory measures that are aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions, energy consumption, water use and other environmental impacts of n ...
  
• Strong Forecasts for Green Business and Building i ...
  What's in store for green business, building and sustainable sites in 2010? Here are my predictions for the year's emerging trends in retrofits, energy efficiency, alternative energy and more.
  

Reuters Global

• Haiti’s forgotten bodies
  Looters squeezed in to steal all the office computers and cell phone stocks well before anybody tried to free the victims.
  
• Haiti – shutting out the cries
  Journalists become immune to the pain and death left by Haiti's earthquake.
  
• Clinton says Haiti’s development prospects c ...
  Former President Bill Clinton, who is helping to coordinate global relief for Haiti with former President George W. Bush, says the quake-stricken country could bounce back much more quickly than people might think.
  
• Helping Haiti: the nightmare scenario
  Tuesday's earthquake disaster could not have happened to a more vulnerable nation.
  
• EU Commission nominee inspired by Rumsfeld
  EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner-designate Rehn of Finland talks to reporters after addressing the European Parliament Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee in Brussels
  

Paul Krugman

• Blip
  Curb your enthusiasm.
  
• Charlie Cook responds
  Would "focusing" on the economy have helped?
  
• More on Jon Gruber
  Yes, Gruber has been commenting on health care while doing technical consulting for the administration. But there is nothing wrong with that.
  
• Talk Is Cheap - And Irrelevant
  I guarantee you, more speeches on the economy would not have produced more job growth.
  
• Stein's Law, New Application
  Another thing that couldn't go on forever, and didn't.
  

No Quarter

• The Enthusiasm Gap Leads to Vicious Attack Campaig ...
  What does a candidate like Martha Coakley do when the enthusiasm for her U.S. Senate seat opponent Scott Brown far outweighs any excitement for her? She stoops to the lowest possible attacks in an ugly but sometimes effective tactic of dampening the support of her opponent’s backers. (I’ll describe ...
  
• Martha Coakley, Arrogant Moron? (UPDATED)
  * Bumped up * (Folks, please be sure to see the latest Coakley campaign ad posted at the end.) I have avoided commenting on the Massachusetts Senate race until now. The following is so stupid, so arrogant and so out of touch with reality that it calls into question this woman’s very competence to s ...
  
• What Should We Say to John Kerry?
  I just got another desperate missive from Sen. John Kerry. The Democrats are in complete panic mode over the prospects that Scott Brown may defeat Martha Coakley on Tuesday. Here’s John’s fear-riddled, excessively wordy e-mail to me (and probably all of you who were ever on anyone’s e-mail list*). ...
  
• Greenhouse Confidential
  Mars Next Time.   There is a folksy farce somewhere inside the fact that Al Gore and a handful of well-funded and trendy climatologists have convinced the G-8 and G-66 plus China that CO2 is an enemy, pollutant and planet-killer — so that we are headed in the direction of the Martian polar re ...
  
• First-Rate SEIU Ugly
  Win Ugly, Part 2.   The SEIU is the way to win ugly in Massachusetts, and the special ops are fully committed to drag down the vote with negative daggers at Scott Brown. The SEIU smear-Brown video is so first-rate ugly perfect, it does feel like a caricature. What is even better are the [ ...
  

Environmental Graffiti

• Drawing With Fire
• Insects Poke Fun at Photographers
• The Explosive Quest for Immortality
• The Blue City From Above
• Amazing Sparkler Portraits That Won’t Burn a Hole ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Obama's Surge and Pakistan
  U.S. military strategy in Afghanistan is built on two coups, one in Kabul and the other in Islamabad.
  
• Honduran Elections a Parody of Democracy
  The recent elections are the latest act in the Honduran theater of the absurd, reports columnist Laura Carlsen.
  
• Crapshoot in Copenhagen
  FPIF's weekly update.
  
• The AfPak Train Wreck
  The president's goals in escalating the war in Afghanistan are deeply flawed. Just ask the Russians.
  
• Africa and the Economic Crisis
  While the world focuses on Afghanistan, Africa is addressing the global economic crisis in new ways.
  

Global Elite

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

Al Jazeera

• Aid teams struggle to help Haitians
  Relief workers battle to get supplies from airport to people affected by earthquake.
  
• Afghan MPs take break amid standoff
  Parliament adjourns without allowing President Karzai to fill cabinet vacancies.
  
• Barak in Turkey to repair ties
  Israeli defence minister visits Ankara days after diplomatic feud between two nations.
  
• Chileans vote for new president
  Race too close to call between right-wing billionaire and left-wing ex-president.
  
• US drone kills dozen in Pakistan
  Pakistani officials say at least 12 suspected opposition fighters killed in US raid.
  

Green Inc. - NYT

• Fossil Fuel Use 2034? Not Much Different.
  A quarter century from now, the United States' reliance on fossil fuels will have declined only marginally, a consulting firm projected.
  
• Smart Water Meters Struggle for Foothold
  Though experts say they could help reduce water waste and find the location of leaks and other problems, few water districts have plans to implement smart water meters.
  
• To Curb Emissions, Port of Los Angeles Tests Hydro ...
  The port, along with the rest of the state, is under pressure from legislation to reduce greenhouse gases signed into law last year.
  
• California Adopts Green Building Codes
  The regulations, called Calgreen, will help the state meet its goal of trimming greenhouse gas emissions by 33 percent by 2020.
  
• 'Terminated' Reactor Projects May Be Revived
  The Tennessee Valley Authority had stopped work on two nuclear reactors in 1988, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission declared then "terminated" in 2006. That status has been changed to "deferred."
  

Dot Earth News

• Gaining a Minute in the Race Against Time
  The Doomsday Clock is adjusted -- positively.
  
• Is Pentagon's Haiti Mission a Model for a New Secu ...
  The Pentagon's missions in Haiti and after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami could be a model for much more to come.
  
• Whiplash in the Greenhouse
  Do the media, scientists and advocates have a tendency to distort science pointing to the impacts of global warming?
  
• Haiti's Agony
  A potent earthquake is the latest hard knock to hit one of the world's poorest countries.
  
• Lassoing Hawaii's Marine Trash
  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the state of Hawaii set out to battle marine trash.
  

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• Pearl Harbor: Evidence of shady biz or just a lett ...
  Remember the Maine, while you're at it! :-D
  
• Controlling 9/11 "crippled epistemology" via fake ...
  ".... we will suggest below that if the hard core arises for certain identifiable reasons, it can be broken up or at least muted by government action." .... " We suggest a role for government efforts, and agents, in introducing such diversity.  Government agents (and their allies) might enter chat ...
  
• '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 ...
  

Daily Censored

• The “Quiet Revolution”: Charter Schools flex their ...
  Uncritically accepting that standardized tests have anything to do with learning and teaching is of course the underlying assumption behind the story about charter schools in the Los Angeles Times. Reporters, Landsberg, Smith and Blume accept the premise that students need high-stakes standardized ...
  
• Magical Realism — A coup in Honduras, so Twentieth ...
  By Saul Landau and Nelson Valdes “I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go Communist because of the irresponsibility of its own people.” – Henry Kissinger, June 26, 1970 “I’ve heard many in this room say that they will not recognize the elections in Honduras. … What does that mean ...
  
• California Passes Legislation to Compete for the R ...
  It is clear from witnessing the California Assembly vote what the government role is not in ‘turning around’ schools; it is in ‘turning them over’ to profit driven economies, drawing a virtual chalk line on the public playground around the corpse of public schools.
  
• Scanners Aren’t the Solution
  There's been a push towards scanners since the attempted bombing of flight 253. We take a look at why they aren't the solution.
  
• Yemen, North Africa and the Spread of Islamic Fund ...
  General Stanley McChrystal, the top US commander in Afghanistan recently commented that “We’ve been at this for about seven months now and I believe we’ve made progress.” In fact, it is entirely possible that a further build-up of US troops in Afghanistan could militarily defeat the Taliban and al ...
  

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Institute for Policy Studies

• Trade Policy: B
• Eight Years of Guantanamo: What's Changed?
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Pine River World News

• Under Barack Obama, U.S. is obsessed with race but ...
  The following article is from the Daily Telegraph, U.K. Under Barack Obama, U.S. is obsessed with race but can't talk about it ©   Telegraph Media Group Ltd By Toby Harnden January 16, 2010 Barack Obama's election did not usher in a post-racial America. Instead, speaking honesty about race is tabo ...
  
• Why is the American press silent on the Israeli ro ...
  The following commentary is reprinted with permission from World Socialist Web Site. Why is the American press silent on the Israeli role in NW Flight 253? ©   World Socialist Web Site By Patrick Martin January 16, 2010 Nearly a week ago, on January 10, the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz carried a new ...
  
• While America Drowns, Obama and the Elites Party
  The following column is reprinted with permission from Stanislav Mishin, a frequent contributor to Russian newspaper Pravda. While America Drowns, Obama and the Elites Party ©  Stanislav Mishin Source:   Mat Rodina January 16, 2010 There is, yet again, something very Romanesque about the state of ...
  
• Europeans flock to buy Dutch novel about Israel's ...
  The following article is from Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Europeans flock to buy Dutch novel about Israel's dystopian future ©   Haaretz By Cnaan Liphshiz, Haaretz Correspondent January 15, 2010 Western European readers are snatching up copies of a novel that shows Israel's fiery destruction throug ...
  
• America's next security measure: 'Israelification' ...
  The following commentary is from The National, Abu Dhabi. America's next security measure:  'Israelification' of airports? ©   The National By Craig Nelson, Associate Editor January 14, 2010 The Obama administration's measures to toughen airport and airline security following last month's failed b ...
  

  PDA AMERICA

• IOT: Accountability and Justice
  "bmaz," a frequent and extremely knowledgeable blogger on Firedoglake and Emptywheel joined us on this call
  
• Waxman Attacks Winograd On Israel; Ignites A Polit ...
  By Linda Milazzo | PDA Blog Contributor At the behest of his congressional ally, Jane Harman (CA-36), Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman (CA-30) has launched a mean-spirited ideological assault on Harman’s Democratic primary challenger, Marcy Winograd, that ...
  
• 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 ...
  

Marler Blog

• Is it time to give the Meat Industry the treatment ...
  E. coli O157:H7 is blamed for 73,000 illnesses and 61 deaths in the United States annually (not all from red meat). In the last two years, about 44 million pounds of beef has been recalled for E. coli O157:H7 contamination.  Thousands of our friends and neighbors have been sickened and dozens have d ...
  
• It is great when you admire your kids
  My oldest daughter is a budding photographer.  Here is a story that ran in our local paper this AM - "Photography students giving back to inspirational BHS class" - email me if anyone who attends the show wants a print or two. "Bainbridge High School senior Morgan Marler has organized a photo show ...
  
• Meat Industry - It is in Your Economic Self-Intere ...
  Is “Made in US” safe? Or, is it a trade war? When I was a kid in the early 60’s, I recall that goods stamped “Made in Japan” meant cheap, and also sub-par in quality and "Made in US" meant the best.  Interesting how that has changed (compare Japanese made cars to those in US for quality and sales). ...
  
• Tweet me at @bmarler the amount of your donation t ...
  I will match up to $10,000 to the Red Cross for Haiti.  Please tweet me @bmarler the amount of your donation.  On Monday I will send in my match.  See video below:
  
• It is Time (past time) for the FSIS to deem both S ...
  As most might know (perhaps from a previous post ), the Food Safety and Inspection Service’s (FSIS) stated mission renders it “responsible for ensuring that the nation's commercial supply of meat, poultry, and egg products is safe, wholesome, and correctly labeled and packaged.” FSIS operates as par ...
  

AutoblogGreen

• Tata Nano makes North American debut in Detroit, b ...
  Tata Nano - Click above for high-res image gallery The Tata Nano has power windows for the driver and front passenger. Anyone sitting in the rear seats, though, will have to make do with manual controls. Of all the things we learned about the world's cheapest car during its official North America ...
  
• AutoblogGreen for 01.15.10
  Report: GM to build battery-only Volt, Lutz acknowledges range drops when cold Well, duh. Detroit 2010: Toyota's 2011 plug-in Prius release date is "aggressive" target So just hold on. ...
  
• AutoblogGreen for 01.14.10
  Detroit 2010: 1,000 Tesla Roadsters have been built, Model S still over two years away Let's look forward, not backward. Detroit 2010: Smart USA's Jill Lajdziak says lifestyle message can boost sales ...
  
• 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 ...
  

Rafe's Radar

• Reporters' Roundtable Podcast: 3D TV debunked
  CES overloaded the industry with 3D TV hype, and it's time to bust it. This week on the Roundtable, I interview CNET's own John Falcone and HDNation's Robert Heron on the practical realities, and likely future, of 3D TV. See also: CNET's FAQ on 3D TV , and TV industry turns blind eye to non-3D v ...
  
• TV industry turns blind eye to non-3D viewers
  A small but significant proportion of TV buyers can't see the sets' 3D effects. How is the industry addressing them?
  
• VigLink monetizes your pages quietly
  New service turns any link to a commerce site into an affiliate link.
  
• CES: Decipher your car's idiot light with CarMD
  Updated automobile diagnostic tool also gets a refreshed Web service
  
• Reporters' Roundtable podcast: Elements of tech de ...
  This week, the Roundtable is live from CES in Las Vegas. Topic: Design. My two guests, Gregor Berkowitz of MOTO Development (and author of the Design Review blog), and Max Burton of Frog Design, talk with me about design vs. engineering, why Apple's designs are so successful, and how companies ba ...
  

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!

• Amy Goodman on KCTS9: Is the Media Broken?
  Amy Goodman shares her thoughts on the important role of a truly independent media, the power of the first amendment, and why we should all question our political leaders and the so-called status quo. Watch the Video
  
• Climate Discord: From Hopenhagen to Nopenhagen
  Barack Obama said, minutes before racing out of the U.N. climate summit, “We will not be legally bound by anything that took place here today.” These were among his remarks made to his own small White House press corps, excluding the 3,500 credentialed journalists covering the talks. It was late on ...
  
• NOAM CHOMSKY: "The Unipolar Moment and the Culture ...
  Noam Chomsky delivers the 5th Annual Edward Said Memorial Lecture: The Unipolar Moment and the Culture of Imperialism at Columbia University School for International Affairs.
  
• Copenhagen Climate Summit: The Empire’s New ...
  Denmark is the home of renowned children’s author Hans Christian Andersen. Copenhagen is dotted with historical spots where Andersen lived and wrote. “The Little Mermaid” was one of his most famous tales, published in 1837, along with “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” As the United Nations’ climate sum ...
  
• Aminatou Haidar Under House Arrest: "They Are Sile ...
  Watch Democracy Now!’s coverage of the story of the Western Saharan human rights activist Aminatou Haidar here . She has been on a hunger strike for four weeks since being deported against her will by Moroccan authorities occupying her homeland. Haidar, known as the “Sahrawi Gandhi,” spent the mon ...
  

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

• Climate change: errors and lies thrive in cold wea ...
  Claims that a cold snap disproves climate change are dangerous nonsense.
  
• 42 Tons of Poison Dropped on Inhabited Island to K ...
  To protect local wildlife, entire populations of native birds will be caught and kept in cages for 100 days for their own protection. All cows and chickens will be slaughtered or shipped to the mainland, while dog owners will be offered muzzles for their pets, and parents will be advised to keep a c ...
  
• Reactive nitrogen identified as key global polluta ...
  It helps feed a hungry world, but it's worse than CO2 - too much of a good thing can have a downside for the environment. The world is awash in man-made “reactive” nitrogen (the chemically active form), and “The problem is how to maximize nitrogen’s benefits while diminishing its negatives – especia ...
  
• Design Fantasies for Obsolete Bay Bridge Span
  Graduate student David Dana envisions the old east span with gardens, housing and a nine-story hotel.
  
• How to Prepare for the Coming Tornado Season
  "There's no place that's immune from tornadoes, especially across Central Florida during an El NiM-qo timeframe," said Derrick Weitlich, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
  

Invisible Opportunity

• Video – H1N1 ‘false pandemic’ bi ...
  The Council of Europe will launch a probe into pharmaceutical companies accused of manipulating Swine Flu data. This follows a claim by a renowned German scientist that vaccine manufacturers pressured the World Health Organisation into declaring a Swine Flu pandemic seeking to increase profits. ...
  
• Insouciant Americans
  By Paul Craig Roberts The Underwear Bomber case indicates that whoever is behind these bomb scares is laughing at our gullibility. How realistic is it that al-Qaida, an organization that allegedly pulled off the most fantastic terror attack in world history, would in these days of heightened securit ...
  
• Swine flu taskforce’s links to vaccine giant ...
  By Fiona Macrae and Sophie Borland More than half the scientists on the swine flu taskforce advising the Government have ties to drug companies. Eleven of the 20 members of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) have done work for the pharmaceutical industry or are linked to it throug ...
  
• Help Haiti: The Unforgiven Country Cries Out
  By Chris Floyd The relentlessly maintained, deliberately inflicted political and economic ruin of Haiti has a direct bearing on the amount of death and devastation that the country is suffering today after the earthquake. It will also greatly cripple any recovery from this natural disaster. As detai ...
  
• Q: What’s the difference between ‘weat ...
  By James Delingpole A: Climate is when it’s warming and weather is when it’s not. Thanks, Beachmaster, over at Watts Up With That for explaining the difference. Otherwise, we scientific ignoramuses might have gone on asking silly, awkward questions like: “How come, when I went to urinate on my compo ...
  

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

• False Claims on Rockefeller Drug Law Reform Lead t ...
  New report takes down the claims that disaster will result from drug law reform, and that judges are incapable of making sound decisions.
  
• Sewage as a Measure of Society's Drug Use
  Testing municipal wastewater for drugs may be the next big thing in public health research. The methodology will likely confirm the universality of drug use.
  
• NJ Allows Medical Marijuana for a Fraction of the ...
  NJ restricts doctors from prescribing marijuana for anything less than a terminal illness or debilitating condition, such as cancer, AIDS or multiple sclerosis.
  
• Dorm Room Dealers: A Peek into the Drug World of t ...
  Fascinating new book explores why college kids on the path to success would peddle pot or pills. Answer: They're not much at risk -- they're rich and white.
  
• Fear Mongers Attack a NYC Harm Reduction Pamphlet ...
  Arguments by top level city and federal law enforcement agents against harm redution pamphlet have little scientific merit.
  

Twilight Earth

• Wendys Restaurant Chain Supports Mountaintop Remov ...
  While surfing Facebook today, I ran across "Boycott Mountaintop Removal Supporters," who state that Wendy's Supports Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining. Related posts: Ending Streamlined Mountaintop Coal Removal Permits Is Not Enough West Virginians Come to DC to Protest Mountaintop Removal at the EP ...
  
• Monsanto News Roundup – A Frankenfood Extravaganza ...
  In it's efforts to place patents on life and control the global food market, Monsanto is not only feared by farmers, but by consumers as well. Related posts: Monsanto Bets on the Hungry to Double its Profits by 2012 The World According to Monsanto – Full Documentary Genetically Engineered Seed Com ...
  
• 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 ...
  

Inhabitat

• A Kitchen Table That Does Double Duty as a Secret ...
  What kid couldn’t use a secret fort to hide away in when it’s brussel sprouts night at dinner (just kiddin’, we love brussel sprouts), or a safe refuge when a scary ghost visits? This unassuming kitchen table magically morphs into a clandestine lair perfect for kids to play in! Want to see how it t ...
  
• ECO ART: Greenhouse Britain Opens in San Francisco
  If you’re in the Bay Area right now, you have an extraordinary opportunity to take a glimpse into the work of two eco-art pioneers: Helen Mayer and Newton Harrison.  Since 1974, the Harrisons have focused their work on hot button environmental topics, addressing dire issues such as global warm ...
  
• San Francisco’s First Bike Box Gets Stenciled!
  San Franciscans, if you were wondering what that green painted box on Scott St. is for, wonder no more. San Francisco’s first green bike box now has a user-friendly picture of a bicycle stenciled on it. Bike boxes, or waiting areas for bikers to pull into at traffic intersections have been used in N ...
  
• Recycle Your Old Cell Phone to Help Quake Victims ...
  Have an old cell phone just sitting in your electronics drawer? Consider putting it to good use and donating it to ReCellular’s Phones for Haiti program, a cell phone recycling initiative to provide disaster relief for the recent Haiti earthquake. There are over one billion used phones sitting aroun ...
  
• Floating Mega Arcology for Boston’s Harbor
  Get ready Boston, someday you might just have this incredible floating city within a city located in your harbor. The BoA, short for Boston Arcology, is a sustainable mega structure designed by Kevin Schopfer, who also designed the amazing New Orleans Arcology Habitat (NOAH). The BoA will house 15,0 ...
  

Pogue's Posts

• Information on Haiti is Getting Siloed
  Christopher P. Csikszentmihalyi. director of the M.I.T. Center for Future Civic Media, urges Web sites to standardize on a Google widget to gather information on Haiti.
  
• The Fine Print Behind Google's Nexus One
  Google was not at all prepared for its moment to become a hardware company overnight. You call HTC for hardware questions, Google for software questions, T-Mobile for cell-service questions.
  
• From the Mailbag
  It doesn't seem to occur to electronics companies that C.E.S. is the absolute WORST time of year to make an announcement.
  
• Dragon Breathes Fire Into Touch
  A new version of Dragon Dictation works on the iPod Touch (over Wi-Fi).
  
• How About the Koob?
  Makers of e-readers are trying to come up with unique names to beat the Kindle.
  

Open Your Eyes News

• FBI admits Photofit of Osama Bin Laden had Spanish ...
  Times Online – A MOCKED-UP image of how Osama Bin Laden may look today has been withdrawn by the US State Department after the FBI admitted it was partly based on a photograph of a Spanish MP taken from the internet. Read article
  
• Arctic Polar Bears Imperilled By Man-Made Pollutio ...
  BBC – The long term survival of polar bears is being threatened by man-made pollution that is reaching the Arctic. This conclusion comes from a major review of research into how industrial chemicals such as mercury and organochlorines affect the bears. The review suggests that such chemicals have a ...
  
• German Government Warns Against Using MS Explorer
  BBC – The German government has warned web users to find an alternative browser to Internet Explorer to protect security. The warning from the Federal Office for Information Security comes after Microsoft admitted IE was the weak link in recent attacks on Google’s systems. Microsoft rejected the wa ...
  
• Japan ends refuelling mission for Afghanistan war
  AFP – Japan on Friday ended a naval refuelling mission that has supported the US-led military effort in Afghanistan since 2001 as the centre-left government flexes its muscles in its ties with Washington. The move fulfils a pledge by Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama’s government which ousted the long-r ...
  
• Security Experts Say Google Cyber-attack was Routi ...
  BBC – The cyber-attack that made Google consider pulling out of China was run of the mill, say security experts. Google revealed its move following attempts to hack Gmail accounts of human rights activists. The search giant said analysis showed that the series of attacks originated from inside Chin ...
  

Monkey Smashes Heaven

• Przybliżona ocena wartości pracy
  Przybliżona ocena wartości pracy (pierwotnie opublikowało 30 czerwca 2005) (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Spróbujmy obliczyć wartość przeciętnej średniej społecznie koniecznej praca. Przedstawi nam to jasny obraz tego, jak wielu ludzi produkuje i kto jest wyzyskiwany. Teraz, gdy praktycznie ca ...
  
• Prachanda proposes the Dengist path for Nepal, typ ...
  Prachanda proposes the Dengist path for Nepal, typical (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) The Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) is a party that emerged out of the now defunct  revisionist cesspool known as the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM). The party waged a people’s war fo ...
  
• Imperialism Kills Up To 100,000 in Haiti
  Imperialism Kills Up To 100,000 in Haiti (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Yesterday on 14 January, 2010, up to 100,000 Haitians died after homes and buildings collapsed on them during and after a massive 7.0 magnitude earthquake. The Maoist-Third Worldist movement wishes to extend its deepest sym ...
  
• 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 ...
  

PakAlert

• “Up in the Air” – Another Hollywood Mindf**k
  Clooney  “hooks up” with “Alex”, then falls for her, only to learn that she is married and has a family. That’s sacrosanct and he crossed the “no strings attached” line when he showed up at her door with flowers. But her infidelity, that’s not an issue. That doesn’t cross any line. The rules have t ...
  
• What You’re Not Hearing about Haiti (But Should Be ...
  by Carl Lindskoog In the hours following Haiti’s devastating earthquake, CNN, the New York Times and other major news sources adopted a common interpretation for the severe destruction: the 7.0 earthquake was so devastating because it struck an urban area that was extremely over-populated and ...
  
• The Intelligence Trap – You’re Next!
  The War on Terrorism is not mere war against Muslims but it is against all those who differ with Zionist way of living and their so called values, which they themselves do not follow. Once the Muslims are over, fundamentalist Jews, Christians and other divine believers are next in the cue. Five A ...
  
• Fake Gold Bars in Bank of England and Fort Knox
  It’s one thing to counterfeit a twenty or hundred dollar bill. The amount of financial damage is usually limited to a specific region and only affects dozens of people and thousands of dollars. Secret Service agents quickly notify the banks on how to recognize these phony bills and retail outlets us ...
  
• A Naturalist Looks at Avatar Movie
  Maybe you’ve seen the first billion dollar movie. Maybe you saw it in 3-D, at an IMAX theater, with Dolby Surround Sound. Maybe you saw that movie and wondered what James Cameron was trying to say, if anything, and whether it was just another popcorn matinee movie with little substance behind the sp ...
  

ecogeek

• Recycle Your Old Phones and Help Haiti Quake Victi ...
  Like me, you've probably been watching the coverage of the earthquake in Haiti with a big knot in your stomach and maybe you've already donated $10 by texting HAITI to 90999 , but if you want to do more (and help out the environment while you're at it), there's an easy way to do so. ReCellular has ...
  
• Fight Over Cape Wind's Fate Will End Soon
  The Cape Wind offshore wind power project has been the most contested renewable energy project in the country to date.  It seems every couple of weeks brings a new objection to the project which would install 130 turbines off the coast of Cape Cod in Nantucket Sound.  But Secretary of the Interior ...
  
• Ford Moves Battery Production to Michigan
  At the Detroit Auto Show on Monday, Ford Chairman William Clay Ford announced that the company was going to be investing an additional $450 million in facilities for the production of batteries and electric vehicles. Ford spoke of bringing battery technology back "in house," and returning resea ...
  
• Report Says NYC Will be Home to 70,000 EVs by 2015
  The Detroit Auto Show has showcased a slew of EVs this year.  When it comes time for automakers to start looking for potential markets for these new vehicles, may I suggest New York City?  According to Cleantech Group, New Yorkers will buy 70,000 EVs by 2015. Consulting firm McKinsey & Co. conducte ...
  
• Audi Scores Some Big Green Points
  Audi showed up at this year's North American International Auto Show with some impressive hardware. Not just the cars that they are showing, but also the award for the 2010 Green Car of the Year, which was awarded to the Audi A3 TDI at the LA Auto Show. And today, Audi unveiled their E-tron e ...
  

Times Online - Science

• Smarter than you think
  It was the sight of a diminutive Diana monkey attacking a giant crowned eagle in the treetops of the Tai forest in Ivory Coast, west Africa, that gave Klaus Zuberbühler his great insight into the language of monkeys.
  
• Hop over here, Flopsy Bunny, stroke victims need y ...
  SCIENTISTS are creating herds of dairy rabbits to exploit the medical benefits of their milk. The first commercial milking of rabbits, using specially adapted eight-teat machines, is already taking place at a farm in Holland.
  
• Sacked government adviser David Nutt gets £450,000 ...
  A hedge fund manager is providing financial backing to a new independent drugs committee set up by the former chief drugs adviser dismissed by Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary.
  
• Why the Y chromosome is a hotbed for evolution
  The Y chromosome is often seen as the rotten corner of the human genome — a place of evolutionary decline that is slowly decaying and threatening the end of man. Reports of its imminent demise, however, have been exaggerated.
  
• 50,000-mile round trip makes Arctic tern the ultim ...
  Cheetah, killer whale, Arctic tern. The latter may sound an unlikely contender for nature’s greatest athlete, yet the small but elegant seabird migrates more than 50,000 miles every year — the longest trek of any creature, according to research.
  

Environment _ National Geographic

• North America's Cooling Due to Natural Causes in 2 ...
  An unusually long cooling of the Pacific Ocean lowered temperatures across North America—but it's not proof that global warming has slowed down, scientists say.
  
• "Lost" Amazon Complex Found; Shapes Seen by Satell ...
  Hundreds of circles, squares, and other geometric shapes once hidden by forest hint at a previously unknown ancient society that flourished in the Amazon, a new study says.
  
• Melting Glaciers Nourishing Oceans With Ancient Ca ...
  Alaska's marine animals have an unexpected nutrient in their diets: ancient carbon from glacier melt, a new study says.
  
• Giant Salamanders Helped to Spawn
  A new program in Japan is helping giant salamanders get past dams built to control flooding so the rare amphibians can lay their eggs upstream. Video.
  
• PHOTOS: Dolphin "Drive Hunts" Continue in Japan, E ...
  Dolphin "drive" hunts, a bloody tradition denounced in the recent documentary The Cove, continue in Japan and Denmark's Faroe Islands.
  

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

• When it comes to Joe Lieberman...
  If Joe Lieberman... Originally uploaded by msgeek93 Nothing to add.
  
• Rep. Anthony Weiner Teaches Lieberman To Spell
  In his own special way : Sharp-eyed Ben was reading my story when he noticed something I had missed: Lieberman managed to misspell the name of Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), who, I swear, has uttered the phrase "As long as you spell my name right" in my presence. Wrote Lieberman: "I fear the people who ...
  
• After waiting 6 months for Franken to join the Sen ...
  Months and months of obstruction that the Democratic party had to sit through waiting for Norm Coleman to give up what he had lost in the elections, a reality of election law that the Dem party had to deal with in Minnesota and in the Senate waiting for a 60th vote. And Scotty Brown is out there mak ...
  
• Some things are worth crowing about:
  Via Tengrain at Mock, Paper, Scissors : Our own Cassie is now a published author! Read Cassie’s article in Mother Jones, and be sure to leave a comment for her there . Go Cassie! And the article is worth the read... The Parent Trap — Flickr/kapungo (Creative Commons) We love seeing bad parents ...
  
• Just a short note to Harold Ford:
  A short note to Harold Ford, who is brutally trying to flip-flop his way into New York's Senate race: "Fugghedaboudit" That is all...
  

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.

• Crowdsourcing News Inside Haiti
  In the immediate aftermath of a crisis, the tangible needs are the most obvious ones -- water, medical supplies, blankets, food -- and, above all for relief organizations, cash. But the need for information in the relief and reconstruction process can be equally urgent -- just ask anyone in Haiti wh ...
  
• Anti-Immigrant Group Attacks TPS for Haitian Immig ...
  Following the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti that resulted in the deaths of at least 50,000 people, the international community has responded with an outpouring of support -- though the suffering country still desperately needs further aid. While most of us are sympathizing with the disaster victi ...
  
• Does the Sexbot Encourage Rape?
  Did that sexbot just say "Stop that"? 2010 is apparently not only the year of the tiger, but also the year of the sex robot. Created by a company called " True Companion " (after all, why make a connection with a real woman when you can have a true, computer-programmed companion), Roxxxy made her sp ...
  
• BREAKING: Ushahidi Launches Free Short Code 4636 T ...
  Breaking News: Ushahidi, in cooperation with the Department of State and others has just announced a new short code that anyone in Haiti can use to report disaster information free of charge. Key Information: Ushahidi is collecting information about missing persons, emergencies and anything else rel ...
  
• Help Fund Real Justice Reporting
  If you've ever been frustrated with sensationalized crime coverage in the U.S., good news is on the way. Today's ever-changing media landscape is just the backdrop that's needed to shake up the way reporters cover crime, courts and prison. Change.org readers have played a role in this revolution -- ...
  

Common Dreams -News

• US Waves White Flag in Disastrous 'War on Drugs'
  by Hugh O'Shaughnessy After 40 years of defeat and failure, America's "war on drugs" is being buried in the same fashion as it was born - amid bloodshed, confusion, corruption and scandal. US agents are being pulled from South America; Washington is putting its narcotics policy under review, and a n ...
  
• Massachusetts Vote Could Threaten Health Reform
  by Ros Krasny BOSTON - Voter disenchantment in liberal Massachusetts with President Barack Obama's policies has turned a Senate election into a nail-biter that could imperil U.S. healthcare reform. Democrats envisioned a smooth passing of the baton in the January 19 special election to fill the sea ...
  
• Utah Argues Case to Ban Foreign Nuke Waste
  by Judy Fahys DENVER - In a dispute being watched around the world, a federal appeals court hosted a debate Thursday on who has final say over what goes into a Utah radioactive waste site. At issue is whether EnergySolutions Inc., which operates a radioactive waste landfill in Tooele County, can di ...
  
• Obama Aid to Yemen Could Risk Backlash in Arab Wor ...
  by Jonathan S. Landay WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's decision to boost U.S. aid to Yemen to help the small Arabian Peninsula country fight al Qaida risks tying the U.S. more closely to an autocratic ruler whose repression of economic and political grievances is strengthening the terrorists an ...
  
• Arctic Permafrost Leaking Methane at Record Levels ...
  by David Adam Scientists have recorded a massive spike in the amount of a powerful greenhouse gas seeping from Arctic permafrost, in a discovery that highlights the risks of a dangerous climate tipping point. Experts say methane emissions from the Arctic have risen by almost one-third in just five ...
  

Lifehacker

• Top 10 Clever Kitchen Repurposing Tricks [Lifehack ...
  It's all too easy to spend hard-earned money on unitasking kitchen gadgets that aren't all that helpful in the long run. Use the gear you already own, and some cheap household staples, to make your kitchen a better place. Photo by cybrgrl . 10. Hang onions and garlic with pantyhose Culinary stores s ...
  
• This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights]
  This week we rounded up the best DVD ripping tools, explained why your passwords aren't as secure as you may think (and helped you fix that), and showed you what your email address says about you. Five Best DVD-Ripping Tools You pay good money for your DVDs, but they're hardly the only format you ne ...
  
• Build an In-Counter Recycle Bin [Recycling]
  If you're looking for a way to keep your recycling bins handy and organized but out of the way, this clever recycling bin cabinet does the trick. Over at IKEAHacker, they highlight how one German reader hid his recycling bins by crafting a clever cabinet for his kitchen. He lives in an apartment and ...
  
• Hourly Rate Calculator Helps You Determine What to ...
  Whether you're branching out into freelancing or just taking on some side jobs for extra cash, make sure you get paid what you're worth with Freelance Switcher's hourly rate calculator. This web-based tool takes a really thorough approach to determine an hourly rate that's appropriate for your livin ...
  
• ShowMeWhatsWrong Helps You Troubleshoot Problems f ...
  Trying to diagnose computer issues remotely is really hard unless you can see what's actually going on. The next time someone needs your help with their computer, point them to ShowMeWhatsWrong and have them take a quick screencast. This genius little webapp is very simple to use. Head to the site ...
  

Newshoggers - AfPak

• President Obama to Request Another $33 Billion for ...
  By Derrick Crowe The Associated Press reports that President Obama "plans to ask Congress for an additional $33 billion" to fight the unpopular Iraq and Afghanistan wars, "on top of a record request for $708 billion for the Defense Department next year." This request comes in the middle of the worst ...
  
• Pentagon Decides To Increase Size Of Afghan Army
  By Steve Hynd I'm unsure why the Pentagon gets to decide this. I mean, one assumes that the Afghan government OK'd it but you never know. The Pentagon has authorized a substantial increase in the number of Afghan security forces it plans to train by next year, in time for President Obama’s deadline ...
  
• US Is Checking CIA Bomber's Drone Strike Intel
  By Steve Last week I wondered what the fallout would be from the revelation that Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, the spy-cum-suicide bomber who blew up himself and a bunch of CIA agents, had provided key intelligence for the CIA's program of drone strikes against Al Qaeda's leadership. It raised t ...
  
• Single Mom To Be Court Martialled For Putting Her ...
  By Steve Think Progress has an update on the case of Specialist Alexis Hutchinson, the women arrested by the U.S. Army for missing her deployment date to Afghanistan when her care plan for her 11 month old son fell through. Newshoggers originally broke the story back in November. Back then: The Army ...
  
• The NY Times Goes There
  By Steve Hynd Last week I wrote about the latest UN report on civilian casualties in Afghanistan, noting that "the good news" was that US and allied forces were only killing one kid a day there, as opposed to the Taliban's two. Overall, civilian deaths in 2009 are up 14% over 2008, and again the Tal ...
  

Water Wars

• Foothills were place of origin for California's wa ...
  Editor's note: This is the first in a four-part series. For roots of today's biggest statewide issue - the diversion of flowing water - look locally. California water was once a public resource. It was through the ungoverned California Gold Rush that water became divertable for private interests.
  
• Gwinnett water use continues to decline (AccessNor ...
  LAWRENCEVILLE - Gwinnett countians continued to do their part last year to keep more water in Lake Lanier even after the drought ended.
  
• Northeast Ohio 2010 enviro-news year: big changes, ...
  Plain Dealer File PhotoFast moving clouds blur overhead in a 30-second time exposure from Edgewater Park near Cleveland, Ohio, in this photo taken in February 2009. One of the big envirornmental stories for 2010 is likely to be following...
  
• WATER: Judge voids landmark California water agree ...
  A California judge has tentatively overturned a landmarkwater-use pact that was supposed to help the state make better useof its supply. The decision brings even more long-term uncertaintyabout California's water supply.
  
• Water Wars in Florida Panhandle (WMBB TV Panama Ci ...
  The Environmental Protection Agency and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection are in a battle regarding water quality in northwest Florida.
  

WordPress | Economics

• Clawbacks for 2009 Bonuses on Wall Street, NOW!!!
  C’mon.  It’s time to cut the crap.  Wall Street is gutting this country economically.  T
  
• Hershey Said to Be Closer to an Offer for Cadbury
  Hershey edged closer to a bid for Cadbury of Britain on Friday, people briefed on the matter said. T
  
• Vindication!
  From Bagehot in the Economist this week: In some ways, miraculous to report, the Liberal Democrats h
  
• New From Mattell--"Flip The Bird Barbie"...
  HELLO GENTLE READERS, Yes it’s finally here! That nasty little cutie, “Flip The Bird Bar
  
• Rising from the Ruins
  Kevin Rosario in WSJ: The earth shuddered. According to an American observer, “every Building
  

Electronic Intifada

• In Lebanon refugee camp, "hip-hop is a school"
  Hip-hop has got hold of the Burj al-Barajne camp in Beirut. As the music from a small but nascent rap-scene reverberates around the streets of this crowded community, its rappers are acutely aware of ...
  
• "This is life:" remembering earlier massacres in G ...
  "This is the first time I've returned here since my friends were killed," Ahmad Hammad says. He stands at the edge of a vacant plot and gestures to its far end which lies over 1 km from the border sep ...
  
• Human rights defenders Mohammad Othman and Jamal J ...
  On 13 January 2010, Mohammad Othman and Jamal Juma, Palestinian human rights defenders active in the campaign against the annexation wall unlawfully constructed by Israel in occupied Palestinian terri ...
  
• The United States, Israel and the retreat of freed ...
  A new report by Freedom House, a US-government funded think tank, suggests US interference around the world makes countries less free. Despite this, it calls for even more US intervention. The report' ...
  
• Israel ratcheting up the pressure on Gaza
  Even if the Iron Dome missile-defense system unveiled by Israel last week is little more than a new development in Israel's program of psychological warfare against Gaza, the pressure is most d ...
  

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

• Why Dodd Should Not Abandon An Independent Consume ...
  ultiple media outlets are reporting that Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) is considering dropping the proposal to create a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA) from his regulatory reform bill. The CFPA has been the target of intense lobbying on the part of the banking i ...
  
• Debunking The ‘Marriage Penalty Myth’: ...
  Since discovering the federal poverty guidelines, conservative lawmakers and commentators have accused the Democrat-sponsored health care bill — which pegs affordability credits to the federal poverty standards and offers higher credits to unmarried individuals — of discriminating against married c ...
  
• Conservatives’ ‘Team B’ Revision ...
  I think Yglesias did a good job knocking back David Frum’s bizarre claim the Team B hawks were right about the Soviet threat, but the fact that Frum thinks he can get away with such an assertion helps explain why some conservatives have been calling for a Team B revival, this time “to reassess the [ ...
  
• Steve King: Undocumented Haitians Should Be Deport ...
  Following the devastating earthquake in Haiti this week, many activists and politicians have heightened the cry for granting undocumented Haitians in the U.S. Temporary Protected Status (TPS). TPS is a longstanding cornerstone of U.S. immigration policy that is afforded to undocumented immigrants f ...
  
• Perry Denounces ‘Federal Takeover’ Of ...
  Back when the economic recovery act was first put into place, Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) rejected $555 million in extended unemployment benefits, saying “we do not need any more strings from Washington attached to programs.” Now, Perry has also decided that he won’t be applying for any of the Race to th ...
  

thwap's schoolyard

• David Brooks Weighs in on Haiti
  The NYT's David Brooks is not one of the towering intellects of our times. If you go to that link you'll find that Glenn Greenwald has assembled a cornucopia of David Brooks' errors, including such gems as: EITHER SADDAM HUSSEIN will remain in power or he will be deposed. President Bush has suggeste ...
  
• "Hearts and Minds" and Torturing Innocent Bystande ...
  There is a world where the scribblings of someone like Christie Belchforth Blatchford are meaningful. (It isn't my world. I haven't read her in like, forever. She's an idiot and a waste of my time.) That's probably the same world where sending Canadian soldiers to fight and die for a corrupt pup ...
  
• Torture Apologists Show Why the Mission Failed
  For all their bluster about how this is a partisan witch hunt about an issue that doesn't matter, the harpercons and their drooling nit-wit supporters are providing ample evidence for why "the mission" in Afghanistan failed . You see, if a sane, intelligent person had committed soldiers to a countr ...
  
• A Coalition Could Get Us a Public Inquiry on Tortu ...
  There are countries that pretty blatantly torture people and there are countries that at least make the effort to say that they do not torture people. And then, of course, there are countries that don't torture people period. Canada, thanks to the harpercons, is now in the first of those categories. ...
  
• Eric Margolis on Afghanistan's Torturers
  Eric Margolis isn't my cup of tea. There's a reason why he's carried by fecal-brained Toronto Sun. He was a strident anti-communist and was quick to condemn the Soviet Union or People's Republic of China for their violations of human rights, but also seemed to give the United States the benefit of t ...
  

Financial Sense Editorials

• Market Observation: Commodity Secular Bull Market ...
  by Chris Puplava. "From 2008 to 2009 it was a real gut check for commodity bulls in terms of reevaluating the secular bull market thesis, but from my vantage point the fundamentals behind commodities have not changed. What 2008 to early 2009 is likely to represent in hindsight is a bump along the ro ...
  
• What the Deflationists Are Missing
  by David Galland. "The Democrats’ reinvigorated focus on jobs – the single most important factor in this November’s elections – will soon translate into a flurry of new initiatives designed to put people back to work, most of it funded at taxpayer expense."
  
• Shipping Chokepoints of the Arabian Peninsula
  by Ghassan Abdallah, Ph.D. "The Arabian subcontinent located in Southwest Asia is, evidently, geopolitically very critical due to its vast oil and natural gas reserves. Three easily blocked straits, commonly known as "chokepoints," may hamper ships from entering or exiting this area or the Red Sea ...
  
• 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 ...
  

on Government Oversight

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• A Tracking Number for Every FOIA Request?
  As reported by Max Cacas over at Federal News Radio, the new Office of Government Information Services (OGIS) is implementing a system to provide a tracking number for each Freedom Of Information Act request under review by the office, allowing...
  
• Morning Smoke: Navy Ponders the Eject Button in JS ...
  JSF - Navy Ready To Abandon Ship? [Ares] Database used to track contractor fraud poorly managed, filled with inaccuracies [Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group] Lockheed says leaked F-35 study "not definitive" [The DEW Line] (link includes the Naval Air Systems Command...
  
• Morning Smoke: Is $740 Billion in Defense Funding ...
  Obama's promise for honest war budgeting not kept [The Cable] Obama to Announce Fee on Some Large Banks to Help Recoup Funds [Bloomberg] SEC Proposes Banning 'Naked Access' [The Wall Street Journal] Just What We Need: More Pentagon Spending [Huffington...
  
• Feds Convene at Open Government Workshop Event
  As part of an event in the Open Government Directive Workshop Series, agency employees from around the executive branch had a chance to convene Monday at the Department of Transportation and discuss their plans to implement the new Open Government...
  
• Morning Smoke: Did OMB Threaten an Inspector Gener ...
  Lawmakers offer warning to OMB [The Hill] JSF Jumping, but How High? [Defense Tech] Derivatives Exemption Helps Big Wall Street Banks, Gensler Says [Bloomberg] Obama to Announce TARP Fee on Banks on Thursday [Reuters] Obama wants additional $33B for wars...
  

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

• Wait, Someone Expects People To Pay To Let People ...
  We've pointed out in the past how unfortunate it is that so few browsers recognize the sarcasm markup tag in HTML, because sarcasm sometimes gets missed in text. Apparently some random company is trying to fix that by creating an explicit sarcasm punctuation mark, called the SarcMark , made up of a ...
  
• The Value Of Free As Analyzed By The Pizza Industr ...
  When discussing "free" and its use as a promotional marketing tool, we often point to the fact that it's hardly a new concept at all -- and the idea of "buy one, get one free" or "free coupons" has been used successfully in the restaurant business for ages. Yet, it appears that some in the food bus ...
  
• The Killer Feature I Would Design Into An Apple Ta ...
  To be clear, I've no influence in Cupertino, and the closest I've ever been to Steve Jobs was when I wore a black turtleneck skiing. But that said, there were a few developments at CES that got me thinking about a killer feature for a tablet. So here are the specific three developments from CES that ...
  
• Justice Department Finds No Problems With Text Mes ...
  Every so often an article pops up here or there talking about how ridiculous text message prices are on a per-byte basis. Eventually one of those stories got politicians involved, and the Justice Department began an investigation. Thankfully, the inquiry has ended, and the Justice Department found ...
  
• Prosecutors Still Want To Charge Girl Who Sent Nak ...
  You may recall last year that prosecutors in Pennsylvania wanted to charge some girls who had taken either nude or partially unclothed photos of themselves, and then sent them via their mobile phones, with "child porn" charges. This seems pretty ridiculous no matter how you look at it, and it was g ...
  

VacTruth

• Website Documents Over 300 Gardasil Horror Stories
  . . . Christina England vactruth.com 1/13/2010 The numbers of people who have suffered from Gardasil side effects mount daily, Medications.com – Gardasil side effects now has a total of 300 side effects posted for Gardasil. Over 300 children and parents tell their harrowing stories how their liv ...
  
• Will Dr. Tim O’Shea’s Prediction of th ...
  . . . Dr. Tim O’Shea The Doctor Within November 2009 Although the H1N1 panic is at a fever pitch at this time, it’s a safe bet that by summer 2010 the swine flu issue will have faded off into the boneyard of vaccine memorabilia. Remember you read that here. Policymakers have well discerned that t ...
  
• Drug firms made ‘false H1N1 claims’
  
  
• The British Government refuse to compensate health ...
  . . . Christina England American Chronicle 1/11/2010 Yesterday a story broke in Great Britain where hundreds of front line workers had had routine vaccines as a condition of employment and had become vaccine damaged as a result. These workers, which included doctors, nurses, firefighters, prison of ...
  
• Interview of Jeffry John Aufderheide on the Robert ...
  
  

BroadSnark

• Haiti Donations and How Nonprofits Work
  There has been a lot of internet chatter on what organizations to donate to in order to best help the Haitian people.  Naturally, you want the maximum amount of your dollars to go to the people who need it.  So you read articles like this one about Yele or you go to charity navigator and [...]
  
• Why Haiti?!
  Could things get any worse for Haiti?  Of all places in the world for something like this to happen.  It’s beyond words. I’m from Miami and so have had the privilege of getting to know many Haitian immigrants.  In fact, I had a peak at my ideal world while riding a bus in Miami with Haitian [...]
  
• 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 ...
  

Executive Intelligence Review

• Shut Down `Londonistan's' Terrorist Operations Now ...
  By Michele Steinberg Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 15, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 2
  
• Next Comes Hyperinflation
  By John Hoefle Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 15, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 2
  
• Russia Seeks To Develop Far East; Invites U.S. Rol ...
  By Rachel Douglas Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 15, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 2
  
• The Case for Impeachment of President Barack Obama
  By Nancy Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 15, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 2
  
• The Case of Obama: Tantamount to Treason
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 15, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 2
  

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

• A Lot To Say
  I have a lot to say, but am in the middle of a huge project at work, and so will be very light on posting this weekend. In the meantime, please read this essay by Glenn Greenwald. Print this post View the original article at Washingtons Blog
  
• Twitter Updates for 2010-01-17
  Let your foreign friends keep up with ur tweets wiv this cool online translator tool just link 2 it http://strurl.com/kf #twitter #tweets # The empty promises by #Obama to the ppl of #Haiti could lead 2 another New Orleans type response http://strurl.com/nf #earthquake #oxfam # My new artic ...
  
• Health Bill Can Pass Senate With 51 Votes, Van Hol ...
  Jonathan D. Salant Bloomberg Saturday, January 16th, 2010 Even if Democrats lose the Jan. 19 special election to pick a new Massachusetts senator, Congress may still pass a health-care overhaul by using a process called reconciliation, a top House Democrat said. That procedure requires 51 vo ...
  
• ‘Even Charles Manson could beat him now’
  Gary Younge London Guardian Saturday, January 16th, 2010 One year after his election, Barack Obama’s approval rating is lower at this stage than for any US president since Eisenhower. So why has the optimism surrounding his victory disappeared so suddenly? Every Wednesday at 4.30pm they come: a sma ...
  
• Paulson Asked to Testify at AIG Bailout Hearing Wi ...
  Hugh Son Bloomberg Saturday, January 16th, 2010 Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has been asked to join his successor Timothy Geithner in testifying before a House panel examining bailout payments to American International Group Inc.’s trading partners. Paulson was invited to a Jan. 27 hearin ...
  

food and water watch

• Contaminated Fountain Beverages
  My name is Daniel Cooper and I have recently joined the Food & Water Watch food team as an intern. I will be posting weekly blogs on pertinent food issues that affect us all. One such issue involves serious food safety concerns with fast food restaurants (as if you needed another reason to stay aw ...
  
• 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 ...
  

treehugger

• Permaculture on a Canadian Farm: Must We Be So Pes ...
  Image credit: The Healthy Footprint When I posted on a video tour of my friend Mike Feingold's permaculture allotment , many folks were inspired by his haphazard yet productive approach to urban gardening. But others just felt he looked like the Unabomber. And when Warren posted on the Greening th ...
  
• Making Millions from Going Green: The UK Green Ric ...
  Image credit: Times Online We missed this story over the holidays, but it is worth posting, even if we are a little late. And it's worth it because it flies in the face of those who claim that environmentalism is all about ruining the economy. The Times newspaper, which last year published a Green ...
  
• Winning the Genetic Diversity Race in Lost City
  Image: D. Kelley of University of Washington, IFE, URI‑IAO, UW, Lost City science party, NOAA Lost City of Atlantis The Lost City is so named because it juts from an Atlantic undersea mountain named Atlantis and was coincidentally discovered by the scientific expedition aboard the research vessel ...
  
• Monsanto Has Farmers Cornered
  photo: J.Novak I've written extensively about genetically modified organisms (GMOS). Farmers are essentially giving up the wheel to corporate entities that research, develop, and mass produce seeds. But a recent story on NPR brings to light how rigorous seed licensing is sticking it to the farmer, ...
  
• Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, ...
  Credit: Jonathan Day As more eco-conscious couples take their walk down the aisle, a growing green wedding industry has responded in kind. Enter " Something Green ," a new service introduced by The Ritz-Carlton, Charlotte . ... Read the full story on TreeHugger
  

Biosingularity

• Fat in Rear Is Good for You
  Pear trumps apple when it comes to body shape and your health.A new review suggests that having body fat stored in your thighs and backside may actually be good for you. Especially compared with the risks of storing excess fat around the mid-section.Researchers reviewed recent studies on the health ...
  
• 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 ...
  
• Nervy Repair Job
  In a lab at the University of Pennsylvania, a plastic dish holds two rows of tiny black dots, pairs of them connected by dozens of thin, hairlike filaments. Each dot is a cluster of thousands of neurons, explains Douglas Smith, who is a professor of neurosurgery and the director of Penns Center for ...
  
• Artificial Platelets Catalyze Clotting
  Platelets can quickly stanch the bleeding from a cut in your finger, but the hemorrhaging caused by a car crash or a battlefield injury might overwhelm the blood-clotting abilities of these cell fragments. Now, researchers report that they have designed a potential helper for such situations, a synt ...
  
• 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 ...
  

CFACT

• Taxpayer Robbery Gate
  Senator Boxer is compounding the Climategate scandal with cover-up and obstruction
  
• Economics, not pollution, greater minority concern
• Not a hair of truth to dioxin claims
• Cruising down the road on a paper mill sludge
• RFK, Jr. Looking to make bacon on hog lawsuits

Ria Novosti Online News

• Four Georgians detained in Donetsk as Ukraine elec ...
  Four Georgian nationals were detained in eastern Ukraine over violations on Sunday as the country is holding presidential elections, with the opposition warning of attempts to disrupt the poll, the local police reported.
  
• Yuschenko still confident of victory in Ukrainian ...
  Incumbent President Viktor Yushchenko is still confident of his victory in Sunday's presidential elections, despite low ratings, the Ukrainian news agency UNIAN reported.
  
• Presidential election campaign in Ukraine
  
  
• Moscow investigator arrested on charges of extorti ...
  
  
• Video cameras to track high-speed rail in northwes ...
  Police will use video cameras to monitor the entire high-speed rail route from Moscow to St. Petersburg in northwest Russia, following a recent bomb attack, which killed 27 passengers, a police official said on Sunday.
  

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• China orbits third navigation satellite
  China has successfully launched its third navigation satellite as part of a project to develop its own global satellite navigation system.
  
• Customer takes control of 3 new Glonass satellites
  The operator of the Glonass satellite navigation project has taken control of three newly orbited satellites, Russia's leading satellite manufacturer said on Tuesday.
  
• Contractor takes control of 3 new Glonass satellit ...
  The operator of the Glonass satellite navigation project has taken control of three newly orbited satellites, Russia's leading satellite manufacturer said on Tuesday.
  
• Scientist addresses global 'swine flu conspiracy'
  A British epidemiologist said on Tuesday he was worried by close links between World Health Organization (WHO) officials and pharmaceutical companies over swine flu.
  
• Russian scientists expect little tangible from cli ...
  Russian scientists believe that the ongoing UN climate change conference in Copenhagen will produce no tangible results, a leading Russian expert said on Tuesday.
  

Pruning Shears

• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Among the problems with torturing detainees is that your choices afterwards are 1) imprison them until they die 2) kill them 3) release them. If you can’t do #1 and you won’t do #2, #3 implies that all the horrific details will be a ...
  
• Deficit Chickenhawks
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Here is a one paragraph summary of our fiscal policy since 1980: A Republican president cheerfully dismisses probity when lobbying for increased defense spending and tax cuts, with the memorably irresponsible quip “I believe the def ...
  
• 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 ...
  

Natural Health News

• Nanosilver Migrates from Treated Fabric During Was ...
  Silver nanoparticles used as antimicrobials in fabric can leach out of clothes as they are being washed. One brand lost over half of its silver content from the fabric with just two washings. A group of scientists tested how well silver nanoparticles stayed in treated fabrics under conditions simila ...
  
• British 'GM Food Revolution' Comes Under Fire
  A vision of GM-heavy British farming outlined this week by the UK government's chief scientific adviser, Sir John Beddington, has been dismissed as unnecessary and potentially damaging by environmental groups and organic farmers. Beddington claimed there was a need for "a new and greener revolution" ...
  
• 40 Stunning High Resolution Photography Wallpapers
  The link below contains a collection of 40 striking high resolution photography wallpapers from National Geographic. Here’s a sample of a few of them; I think you’ll agree that they are truly striking images.
  
• Lost Sleep Can Never Be Made Up
  Staying in bed on the weekends won’t make up for a weeks' worth of sleep deprivation. A new study finds that going long periods without sleep can lead to a sort of "sleep debt" that cannot simply be undone with a extra sleep later. Such chronic sleep loss may eventually interfere with a person's pe ...
  
• Having Sex Twice A Week Reduces Chance of Heart At ...
  Men who have sex at least twice a week can almost halve their risk of heart disease, according to new research. It shows men who indulge in regular lovemaking are up to 45 percent less likely to develop life-threatening heart conditions. The study, of over 1,000 men, did not examine whether women b ...
  

Antemedius

• Torture Accountability Letter 1 - Until There Is A ...
  Happy Monday and welcome to the Dog’s letter writing series torture accountability. The point of this series it to keep the issue of accountability under the law for the state sponsored torture program of the Bush Administration alive and moving forward. This is a long fight, as any legal issue is l ...
  
• Health Care and Budgetary Spin Control
  One of the factors generating disgust and driving people away from the political process is excessive spin control, the art of telling the public one thing while initiating feints and doing something else. The current health care bill features an excise tax on so-called Cadillac health plans, convey ...
  
• Bring Back the Signing Statement
  By David Swanson Having denounced for years the presidential practice of altering laws with signing statements, I now want the practice restored, because the current president has created something even worse. When Bush and Cheney left the White House, they left in place five general ways to make la ...
  
• Iranian Demonstrators Turn and Pursue Government S ...
  What to do when the government shoots at you? by Diana Sweet, RawStory, January 02, 2010 An amateur video apparently taken with a cell phone has surfaced on YouTube that appears to contradict the Iranian government’s claim that its security forces didn't shoot at protesters last Sunday during demon ...
  
• Torture Accountability Letter 2 - Sen. Feinstein, ...
  Happy Monday and welcome to the Dog’s on-going letter writing campaign for torture accountability under the law. For those who have not seen this series before, the way it works is as follows; every Monday the Dog writes a letter to the decision makers urging them to follow through on accountability ...
  

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

• TheAntiTerrorist on global warming
  Youtube’s TheAntiTerrorist weighs in on global warming. Press the page numbers at bottom of article for parts 2 and 3. Related posts:Ilmastogate Science, politicians and ideologues Church of Global Warming — The Movie Related posts: Ilmastogate Science, politicians and ideologues Church of Glo ...
  
• Quote of the Day: NYT’s Andrew Revkin to NASA’s Ja ...
  NYT's Andrew Revkin to NASA's James Hansen: "i never, til today, visited http://www.surfacestations.org and found it quite amazing. if our stations are that shoddy, what's it like in Mongolia?" Related posts: Download the incredible Climategate Timeline poster A reader question regarding USHCN sit ...
  
• Act Now! EU’s 30% Off special offer extended
  The EU remained firm Saturday on its push to move to a 30 percent cut in carbon dioxide emissions by 2020 despite the failure of last month's UN climate summit to secure a legally-binding deal. Related posts: Uh Oh: Now China declares Copenhagen a failure Eyewitness: How China sabotaged climate ta ...
  
• Is the NOAA, not CRU, is ground zero for exaggerat ...
  Smith and D’Aleo accuse the NOAA, NCDC and GISS of manipulating temperature data to give the appearance of warmer temperatures than actually occurred by trimming the number and location of weather observation stations. Related posts: Greenhouse Gas Observatories Downwind from Erupting Volcanoes Re ...
  
• Climate change’s rose-colored glasses
  Thanks to cartoonist Josh Related posts:New Scientist: Oops, the glaciers won’t have melted by 2035 Related posts: New Scientist: Oops, the glaciers won’t have melted by 2035
  

Opinio Juris

• More Oral Histories of International Lawyers
  by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis Back in 2008, I flagged the great service being done by the Squire Law Library at the University of Cambridge in compiling oral histories from some of the more eminent figures in international law. At the time, I focused on the recorded interviews with Sir Elihu ...
  
• 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 ...
  
• Do “Lead” Articles, You Know… Lead?
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I have a scholarship question for our readers, particularly those who have been article editors on a law review.  On three separate occasions recently, I have seen CVs that identify a particular publication as a “lead article.”  I always assumed that the ...
  

Investigate - Breaking News

• Pachauri must resign: he’s too conflicted
  UN IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri must resign his post this week, or risk bringing the UN IPCC even further into disrepute, if that's still possible. Last week's revelations at Climate Depot and here at TBR.cc, followed by today's bombshell in...
  
• Chicken Littles becoming denialists as evidence tu ...
  Hot Topic is again (sigh) pushing the rapidly rising sea level meme, based on guesswork as one of the scientist involves confesses in the comments, suggesting a minimum sea level rise this century of more than a metre and probably...
  
• Report: runaway melt in the Arctic
  The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consul Ifft, at Bergen, Norway. Reports from fishermen,...
  
• New Scientist magazine eats Climategate humble pie
  New Scientist magazine is publicly questioning how a mistake it made in 1999 ended up as "official" climate change theory cited by the UN IPCC. The magazine has this weekend coughed to publishing the infamous "Himalayan glaciers gone by 2035"...
  
• More NIWA-style fudging creates doubt about global ...
  A hard hitting new report has found US agencies deliberately manipulated world temperature data so they could proclaim 2005 as the warmest year. The investigation, broadcast tonight in the US and now available online, alleges climate research centres are now...
  

Public News Service

• Saturday Immigration March Expected to Draw Thousa ...
  Saturday Immigration March Expected to Draw Thousands Phoenix, AZ – Organizers of tomorrow’s (Saturday’s) immigrant rights march in west Phoenix are expecting up to 20-thousand demonstrators. The marchers are voicing concerns about a federal policy that allows county jail officials to check the immi ...
  
• 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 ...
  

  Blacklisted News

• “Bush Was Responsible for Destroying Haitian Democ ...
  Randall Robinson on Obama Tapping Bush to Co-Chair US Relief Efforts
  
• Heritage Foundation wastes no time in seeing oppor ...
  While on the ground in Haiti, the U.S. military can also interrupt the nightly flights of cocaine to Haiti and the Dominican Republic from the Venezuelan coast and counter the ongoing efforts of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to destabilize the island of Hispaniola.
  
• U.N.’s World Health Organization Wants Tax on Inte ...
  The World Health Organization (WHO) is considering a plan to ask governments to impose a global consumer tax on such things as Internet activity or everyday financial transactions like paying bills online.
  
• Welcome To The Running Man: FBI seeks public’s hel ...
• UAE Royal Family Member Sheikh Issa Aquitted Of To ...
  He ordered the video be made because he "liked to watch the torture sessions later", "At one point, Issa tells the cameraman to get a close-up. "Get closer. Get closer. Get closer. Let his suffering show,"
  

The Intelligence Daily

• Obama Executive Order Seeks to “Synchronize and In ...
  (The Intelligence Daily) — In the wake of the Flight 253 provocation, over-hyped terrorism... For more details, please click on the link to read the article
  
• Israel: Global NATO’s 29th Member
  By Rick Rozoff (The Intelligence Daily) — As the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is... For more details, please click on the link to read the article
  
• Obama Fans Middle East War Flames
  By Sherwood Ross (The Intelligence Daily) — As President Obama steps up the war that is... For more details, please click on the link to read the article
  
• US Army to ‘protect’ Pakistan’s nuclear sites
  In face of a growing anti-Americanism among the Pakistan military, the US army moves to train a... For more details, please click on the link to read the article
  
• Lithuanian prisoners to pay for energy consumption
  On Friday the Lithuanian parliament changed its Code of Execution of Sentences. Now detainees will... For more details, please click on the link to read the article
  

My AntiWar

• No decision on new Iran sanctions
  Summary: Bushehr Nuclear ReactorNEW YORK: Six major powers considered new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear defiance here Saturday but reached no decision, a senior European Union official said. source: AFPread more
  
• Manufacturing Consent available on Hulu
• Chad Bombs Rebels Near Sudan Border: UFR
• Angolan Police Arrest Activist Priest in Cabinda
• Saturday: 6 Iraqis Killed, 7 Wounded

  Rogue Government.com

• UN's World Health Organization Wants Tax on Inter ...
  The World Health Organization (WHO) is considering a plan to ask governments to impose a global consumer tax on such things as Internet activity or everyday financial transactions like paying bills online.
  
• FEMA Drowns Millions of Homeowners in Flood Insur ...
  Many homeowners are getting notices they must purchase flood insurance for the first time, even though they may live in areas never known to flood....as in, never!
  
• Gangs Armed With Machetes Loot Port-Au-Prince
  The earthquake aftermath has brought out the best and worst of the people of Haiti.
  
• Britain apologizes to thalidomide victims - 50 Ye ...
  The British government has apologized and offered compensation to hundreds of people who suffered the effects of thalidomide, a drug once prescribed to pregnant women that later was linked to major birth defects.
  
• Israel Hints At New Invasion Of Lebanon
  “We know Hezbollah is growing stronger with Syria’s help, and occasionally with Iran’s assistance, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said during a tour of the northern border on Tuesday.
  

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

• Johnson & Johnson Accused of Drug Kickbacks
  Johnson & Johnson paid kickbacks to the nation's largest nursing home pharmacy to increase the number of elderly patients taking the antipsychotic Risperdal and several other medications, according to a complaint filed Friday by the office of the United States attorney in Boston. Risperdal is appro ...
  
• FDA says it's unable to regulate BPA
  As 'indirect food additive,' substance is exempt from scrutiny U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials say they are powerless to regulate BPA, although they have declared the chemical to be a safety concern for fetuses, babies and young children. A quirk in the rules allows BPA makers to skir ...
  
• Anger at US builds at Port-au-Prince airport
  Anger built Saturday at Haiti's US-controlled main airport, where aid flights were still being turned away and poor coordination continued to hamper the relief effort four days on. "Let's take over the runway," shouted one voice. "We need to send a message to (US President Barack) Obama," cried ano ...
  
• Pakistani Taliban leader says death greatly exager ...
  Pakistani Taliban militants issued an audio tape on Saturday which they said was of their leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, and proved he had not been killed in a U.S. strike two days ago. Pakistani security officials said on Thursday that a U.S. drone had targeted Mehsud in the South Waziristan region on ...
  
• Florida: Woman Sues Cemetery That Filled Plot Next ...
  Four years ago, Lucille Rembert brought flowers to her husband's grave at Royal Palm Cemetery. But as she looked down, she started to cry. Another woman had been buried next to him - in her spot. "I said, 'Oh no, not again,' " she recalled recently. In 1995, the cemetery buried a man in the plo ...
  

Threat Level

• Oink Admin Beats File Sharing Charges
  A British jury on Friday cleared former Oink admin Allan Ellis of conspiracy to defraud the music industry for running one of the world’s strangest music file-sharing services with some 200,000 members Operators of the so-called Pink Palace banned low-quality sound files, enforced strict usage rules ...
  
• Google Hack Attack Was Ultra Sophisticated, New De ...
  Hackers seeking source code from Google, Adobe and dozens of other high-profile companies used unprecedented tactics that combined encryption, stealth programming and an unknown hole in Internet Explorer, according to new details released by researchers at anti-virus firm McAfee. “We have never ever ...
  
• Hack of Adobe Conducted Via Zero-Day IE Flaw
  The recent hack attack on Adobe occurred through exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability that affects all versions of Internet Explorer, according to a security researcher with a leading anti-virus firm. Microsoft learned about the vulnerability only Wednesday evening and is planning to release an ...
  
• Eight-Year-Old on TSA Terrorist Watchlist Gets Fri ...
  The Transportation Security Administration, attempting to squelch nefarious rumors, has asserted on its web site under a “Mythbuster” feature that “No 8-year-old is on a T.S.A. watch list.” Unfortunately for the TSA, the New York Times found an 8-year-old on its list. Mikey Hicks, a Cub Scout in ...
  
• China Stands Firm in Response to Google Threat
  China has hit back at Google in its response to the search giant’s announcement this week that it may pull out of China if it can’t reach an agreement about censoring content. Two government officials said on Thursday that internet companies must obey the laws of China and help the government steer ...
  

PERRspectives : Blog

• Remembering Bush's Disaster Response Success - in ...
  Mindful of George W. Bush's record of catastrophic failure when it came to disaster response, some commenters (for example, here and here) are questioning President Obama's decision (one I support) to ask Bush to join Bill Clinton in heading up...
  
• Why Republicans Win in Massachusetts
  That the Massachusetts Senate race is now a toss up, with some polls now putting Republican Scott Brown in the lead, is rocking the American political landscape. After all, the campaign to replace Ted Kennedy takes place in a state...
  
• Obama Right to Ask Bush to Aid Haiti Effort
  Like a child who begrudgingly has to invite his weird cousin to his birthday party, there are some things a president simply must do. So it must have been when President Obama asked George W. Bush to join with U.N....
  
• GOP Defends Trent Lott, Calls for Reid to Resign
  While President Obama declared "the book is closed" on Harry Reid's past "negro dialect" comment, Republicans are using the imbroglio to reopen the book on the disgraced Trent Lott. On Sunday, RNC chairman Michael Steele and Arizona Senator Jon Kyl...
  
• Steele the Latest Republican Chosen by God
  The first Republican Abraham Lincoln famously proclaimed, "My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side." Sadly, as RNC Chairman Michael Steele confirmed again this week, his successors believe the...
  

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

• Lessons from America's Lost Decade
  For the first time since the Great Depression, a decade -- George W. Bush's -- saw zero job growth, notes Robert Parry. January 15, 2010
  
• How Not to Counter Terrorism
  From the Archive: Ex-FBI Agent Coleen Rowley warned of flooding the counter-terror analysts with too much data. January 14, 2010
  
• Haiti and America's Historic Debt
  As Haiti suffers another natural disaster, few Americans know their historic debt to the Caribbean nation, observes Robert Parry. January 13, 2010
  
• Cheney's Attack Shields Failures
  Rather than face the Bush administration's failures, ex-Vice President Cheney has stayed on the attack, writes Ivan Eland. January 12, 2010
  
• Asking Europe for American Answers
  Though many people live happier lives in Europe, Americans resist the idea of learning any of those lessons, writes David Swanson. January 12, 2010
  

CounterPunch

• Alexander Cockburn : Bum Rap for Harry, Not for Bu ...
• Anthony DiMaggio : Remaking an American Myth: Hait ...
• Tom Reeves : Haiti, Where America Never Learns
• Evan Knappenberger : Students, Not Soldiers, Makin ...
• Missy Beattie : War Dealer

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Building a different Middle East (Joel Beinin, Th ...
  Like every other woman in her village Umm Hasan wears a headscarf. Her husband and other male relatives are not on the scene. But this is not an obstacle to her animated interactions with the sixteen Israeli ...
  
• Hebron leaves us stunned, devastated, drowning in ...
  So what do we do with this shameful reality? Settlers receive support, protection and encouragement from the Israeli government and military, and this has not changed no matter who is in power. They have mad ...
  
• Hebron: a divided world (The Alternative Informat ...
• Nasrallah: Israel lost its power of intimidation ...
  "Israel lost their power to intimidate during the second war with Lebanon," Nasrallah said. "They are trying to regain their power of intimidation by threatening a new military offensive against Lebanon and ...
  
• Hamas urges Egypt to halt Gaza border wall (Yara ...
  Meshaal also called for a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of the rival Fatah party, to try to achieve reconciliation between the two groups. Egypt is constructing an underground barrier to s ...
  

Water - AlterNet

• 10 Million Tons of Chemical Fertilizer Discharged ...
  A new report finds that Chinese farmers used a stunning 40 percent more fertilizer than necessary.
  
• Water For Haiti, Now
  In any disaster like this, after search, rescue, and immediate medical care, clean and safe water becomes a critical need.
  
• Why Are Exxon Mobil and XTO Energy Meeting With Co ...
  As Congress reviews the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing, that could have big impacts on Exxon's acquisition of XTO Energy.
  
• Why Commonly Used Pesticides May Be To Blame for t ...
  We need to delve deeply into the potential link between a widely used chemical and the health of our food producers and their communities.
  
• How Alaska Should Help Fishermen and Women Survive ...
  There is an opportunity for this state to demonstrate that it will act fairly and responsibly to protect its residents from oil spill impacts when the law fails to do so.
  

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

• The Right Testicle of Hell: History of a Haitian H ...
  by Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com 17 January, 2010 Blackwater before
  
• Israel: Global NATO’s 29th Member by Rick Rozoff
  by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com 17 January,
  
• Cindy Sheehan and Bruce Gagnon at CIA Headquarters ...
  with Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soap
  
• Dr. Nafeez Ahmed: US military and intelligence pra ...
  with Peter B. Collins and Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad originally published by Boil
  
• Cindy Sheehan: CIA actions killing innocent people
  with Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soap
  

Unexplained Mysteries

• NASA puts $28m price tag on retiring shuttles
  NASA have lowered the price of the space shuttles for museums to obtain them once the fleet has been retired later this year. The vehicles that kept a...
  
• Dog alerts owner after sensing earthquake
  Amazing CCTV footage has been released showing a dog warning its owner after seemingly sensing an imminent earthquake. The footage has become a hit on...
  
• Did Alexander the Great wear kevlar-like armor ?
  A new study has shown that Alexander the Great may have worn a resilient type of kevlar-like armor known as linothorax. The armor was made through the...
  
• "El Chupacabra" blamed for chicken deaths
  The deaths of 30 chickens at the hands of a mysterious predator in El Paso have renewed interest in the legendary Chupacabra. Cesar Garcia and his bro...
  
• Lizards' camouflage reveals evolution
  Two species of lizard that have developed white scales for camouflage are giving scientists a chance to see evolution in action. This change in color ...
  

Grassroots

• Letter from Camille Chalmers, PAPDA
  trinidadandtobago200904-132.jpg Recently, Grassroots International received an email from our partner Camille Chalmers of the Haitian Platform to Advocate Alternative Development (PAPDA). It is translated below. read more
  
• Ten Things the United States Can and Should Do for ...
    Bill Quigley of our ally the Center for Constitutional Rights wrote recently on what he thought the US can and should do for Haiti in response to the devastating earthquake. read more
  
• A note from our colleagues at the Presbyterian Hun ...
  Presbyterian_logo.jpg   read more
  
• Answering the Call Even when the Phone Isn't Answe ...
  trinidadandtobago200904-132.jpg In the last 48 hours, my work to gather information from our partners in Haiti has become a puzzle game. As of Thursday morning, I have been unable to talk with our partners and allies in Haiti. The lack of elec ...
  
• Tell Congress to Urge Homeland Security to Grant T ...
  Repost - from TransAfrica Forum (Jan 13 2009) read more
  

Climate

• January 16-17, 2010
  Lobbyist Clients Gave Heavily to Murkowski Campaigns (Politico) Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski has received more than $124,500 in donations from clients of an energy lobbyist involved with drafting an amendment that would bar the EPA from regulating CO2 as a pollutant. Huge Ice Chunk Br ...
  
• January 16-17, 2010
  Lobbyist Clients Gave Heavily to Murkowski Campaigns (Politico) Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski has received more than $124,500 in donations from clients of an energy lobbyist involved with drafting an amendment that would bar the EPA from regulating CO2 as a pollutant. Huge Ice Chunk Br ...
  
• January 15, 2010
  Investors Urge Governments to Take Immediate Action on Climate Change (Guardian) Over 450 investors controlling $13 trillion of assets have urged governments to pre-empt a climate treaty and take immediate action on global warming, or risk losing the opportunity to establish a low-carbon economy ...
  
• January 14, 2010
  UN Should Be Sidelined in Future Climate Talks, Says Obama Official (Guardian) America sees a diminished role for the UN in trying to stop global warming after the "chaotic" Copenhagen summit, Jonathan Pershing, the U.S. deputy special climate change envoy, said. Britain Confident of Climate D ...
  
• January 13, 2010
  Greenpeace 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 block ...
  

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

• Lessons from America's Lost Decade
  As the United States takes the measure of Barack Obama’s first year in the White House and looks beyond to what could be a difficult new decade, it might be useful to first stop and extract some lessons from the 2000s, which proved to be a lost economic decade for many Americans. For the first t ...
  
• Red Mass?
  — from Truthout The nature of modern American politics has been off-the-wall weird for a dozen years now. We've seen a president impeached for lying about sex. We've seen another president who was selected instead of elected in an orgiastic festival of Florida and federal fraud. We saw an administra ...
  
• Global Cooling? Tell It to the Jellyfish
  There are certain newspaper headlines that catch your eye and stop you in your tracks. Like the New York Post's famous "Headless Body in Topless Bar." Or such tabloid greats as "Evil Cows Ate My Garden," "Double Decker Bus Found on Moon," and my personal favorite, "Proof of Reincarnation: Baby Born ...
  
• Keeping Same-Sex Marriage in the Dark
  On Wednesday, a conservative majority of the Supreme Court overturned a ruling made by a federal trial judge that would have allowed limited television coverage of a trial that will decide the fate of California's Proposition 8. The trial, which is currently proceeding in San Francisco, is one of th ...
  
• Misadventures of the 'worst president'
  Though the stone image of President Theodore Roosevelt stares resolutely from the heights of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, a new book strips Teddy bare and cracks the granite face of this nation's 26th president. "The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War," by James Bradley is a read ...
  

Ten Percent

• Stop New Labour Changing the Law To Protect War Cr ...
  Amnesty Int. UK The UK Government are planning imminent changes to the law, to avoid any future attempts to prosecute suspected war criminals, Israeli or otherwise. This would see the UK reneging on its international treaty obligations, particularly those under the Fourth Geneva Convention which com ...
  
• Friday! Pink Floyd- Careful With That Axe Eugene
  Ht2 Bird of Paradox & Earwicga
  
• Donate To Haiti Relief
  Lots of ways here or Disasters Emergency Committee Haiti Earthquake Appeal or Partners in Health
  
• This Is Rape Culture
  Absolutely disgusting -Men cleared as rape woman’s group sex fantasy revealed-(ht2 PennyRed) so if a woman has sexual fantasies that means she can’t be raped, which is what this seems to imply. That male prosecutor and judge think a woman having sexual fantasies destroys her credibility? Well we’re ...
  
• Guantanamo Guard & Former Detainees Meet
  I have put the Newsnight piece onto YouTube for a global audience, I think even Paxman was a little choked up by it. Humanity WIN, fascism FAIL! Guantanamo guard reunited with ex-inmates
  

Booman Tribune

• Serious Question
  Got any on-the-ground sources from Port-au-Prince? Any good articles on what's going on there?
  
• Weekly Address
  The rhetoric is tougher than the proposed fee, but at least Obama has discovered his inner FDR. Is is about time. Remarks of President Barack Obama As Prepared for Delivery Weekly Address January 16, 2010 Over the past two years, more than seven million Americans have lost their ...
  
• Owning Your Advocacy
  I can imagine a case where people would put themselves at risk of physical harm or harassment by signing a petition if their name were later publicly disclosed. For example, petitioning the government not to go to war at a time when the country was clamoring for blood. I think we can relate to tha ...
  
• Open Thread
  I can't recoil enough from the mind of the Republican.
  
• Let's Have That Debate
  I haven't weighed in on the special election in Massachusetts. I hope Martha Coakley wins, but I don't know if she will. I don't have any advice to offer, and I'm not interested in running her down as a candidate because I don't see how that will help. Frankly, I haven't been paying enough attent ...
  

European Tribune

• EU Citizens' Initiative Consultation
  Are we going to write a submission?As a refresher, Colman wrote a story on the...
  
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 17 ...
   A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:1948 – Birth of...
  
• Saturday Open Thread
  Pssst....it's Saturday!...
  
• Serious People say Direct democracy is bad for Eur ...
  Remember when Serious People (exemplified by the Economist's Charlemagne column) were mocking the EU as...
  
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 16 ...
   A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:1905 – Ernesto Halffter,...
  

Futurismic

• Mental illness: America’s biggest export?
  A fascinating (if slightly grim and worrying) article at the New York Times by Ethan Watters suggests that Western psychiatry may be successfully homogenising the mental illnesses of the entire planet, thanks to aggressive programs designed to export “psychiatric literacy”. The intent was good, but ...
  
• The Exhumation Factor: just when you thought reali ...
  … you find a story that says the UK’s Channel 4 is seeking terminally ill volunteers who are willing to undergo embalming and mummification, Ancient Egyptian style, after they’ve died. [image by broma] Granted, the piece is in the Daily Mail, whose knee-jerk revulsion toward such unpatriotic and li ...
  
• Gesturing toward tomorrow: gestural UIs, hardware ...
  Suddenly, touchscreen devices seem to be everywhere, changing the ways in which we interact with our phones, computers and tablet devices. But the next user interface revolution is already waiting in the wings – gestural interfaces will complete the user-interface paradigm shift that touchscreens ha ...
  
• Airnergy! Snake-oil gadget recharger debuts at CES ...
  Oops, looks like someone slipped up here. SlashDot points us to a Gizmodo report from the Consumer Electronics Show about a device called the RCA Airnergy, which purportedly soaks up wi-fi signals into an internal battery, which you can then use to recharge your iPod, phone, satnav or whatever. Read ...
  
• Lightspeed Magazine open to story submissions
  Hey, writer-types – remember when we plugged the soon-to-open Lightspeed Magazine, a new online science fiction magazine curated by the inestimable John Joseph Adams? Well, Lightspeed won’t be publishing anything until June 2010, but for the fictioneers among you (especially those who find Futurism ...
  

Therapy News

• Fighting Among US Girls Higher than Expected
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Though it is generally understood that adolescent girls sometimes participate in fighting and other potentially dangerous behaviors, common perceptions tend to suggest that rates of female aggression are relatively low. Not so, says a recent government report based on ...
  
• Morphine Therapy?
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary The effects of combat on the psychological health of soldiers deployed in wars have been show to cause serious detriment to well-being and mental health, with a number of veterans developing symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, after their return home. ...
  
• Getting Your Self-Esteem Back After Divorce
  By Tina Gilbertson, MA, Self-Esteem Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Tina and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile This article offers a few questions and answers on the topic of self-esteem and divorce. Is it selfish or frivolous to worry about your self-esteem in the middle of a divorc ...
  
• Debate over Types of Treatment Heats up at NYT
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline A recent article in The New York Times covered issues in the realm of types of mental health treatment, ranging from psychotherapy to psychiatric drugs and beyond, noting that different types of care may be more appropriate for different people and their respective co ...
  
• California Ordered to Slash Jail Populations to Im ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Throughout the country, jails have traditionally been condemned as some of the worst places for adequate health care, and mental health has played an especially important role in arguments encouraging lawmakers to take action and require greater services. Poor counseli ...
  

Mountaintop Removal

• Mountaintop guru digs in against king coal - Times ...
  Mountaintop guru digs in against king coal Times Herald-Record Before troublemakers like Louis-Rosenberg showed up, the rest of the country didn't much know about mountaintop-removal mining's toxic runoff and tons of ...
  
• Artist who usually helps others shows own work - L ...
  Lexington Herald Leader Artist who usually helps others shows own work Lexington Herald Leader He wants his art to promote activism and awareness of regional issues including poverty and mountaintop-removal coal mining. His art isn't intended as ...
  
• Tom Eblen: Artist who usually helps others shows o ...
  Lexington Herald Leader Tom Eblen: Artist who usually helps others shows own work Lexington Herald Leader He wants his art to promote activism and awareness of regional issues including poverty and mountaintop-removal coal mining. His art isn't intended as ...
  
• Mountaintop removal mining study will test Obama's ...
  West Virginia Public Broadcasting Mountaintop removal mining study will test Obama's commitment to science Facing South (blog) Just days after the Environmental Protection Agency approved the expansion of a massive mountaintop removal mine in West Virginia, a dozen prominent ... DEP secretary discu ...
  
• New Scientific Concerns Beg for End to Mountaintop ...
  Treehugger New Scientific Concerns Beg for End to Mountaintop-Removal Coal Mining Treehugger Special concern has arisen over the technique of mountaintop removal coal mining, which involves deforestation and the use of explosives to break up rocks ...
  

Memeorandum

• Latest Coakley Internal: Brown +2 (Steve Kornacki)
  Steve Kornacki : Latest Coakley Internal: Brown +2   —  I've been told reliably that Martha Coakley's internal poll for Friday night showed Republican Scott Brown leading by two points, 47 to 45 percent.  Her campaign's three-night average for Friday, Thursday and Wednesday is the same — a 47 to 45 ...
  
• Why Haiti Matters - In the tragic aftermath of Hai ...
  Barack Obama / Newsweek : Why Haiti Matters   —  In the tragic aftermath of Haiti's 7.0 earthquake, images of the disaster break our hearts and remind us of the fragility of life.  What America must do now—and why.  —  From the magazine issue dated Jan 25, 2010  —  In the last week, we have been de ...
  
• World misled over Himalayan glacier meltdown (Time ...
  Times of London : World misled over Himalayan glacier meltdown   —  A WARNING that climate change will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 is likely to be retracted after a series of scientific blunders by the United Nations body that issued it.  —  Two years ago the Intergovernmental Pane ...
  
• Enthusiasm gap in Mass. Senate race (Jonathan Mart ...
  Jonathan Martin / The Politico : Enthusiasm gap in Mass. Senate race   —  HYANNIS, Mass. - As the two candidates running in the special Senate election here barnstormed across the state Saturday, the enthusiasm gap between the two parties was on vivid display.  —  Democrat Martha Coakley, Massachu ...
  
• BREAKING: Tea Party Nation's Judson Phillips: "I W ...
  Dr. Melissa Clouthier : BREAKING: Tea Party Nation's Judson Phillips: “I Want To Make A Million From This Movement”   —  Embattled Tea Party Nation, Inc. owner Judson Phillips has been making the media rounds to defend his up-coming, February 4-6 conference at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tenne ...
  

Energy & Environment News

• Interior Chief Vows Scrutiny of Oil and Gas Leases
  The secretary, Ken Salazar, said the goal of the new review process was to reduce the number of court and public challenges to leasing decisions.
  
• For Cape Cod Wind Farm, New Hurdle Is Spiritual
  Two Indian tribes successfully argued that a wind-power project would impede their ritual greeting of the sunrise.
  
• Oil Feud Reflects Growing Rift Between Russia and ...
  The quarrel, over an oil subsidy that has helped prop up Belarus’s leader, appears to be an attempt by Russia’s prime minister, Vladimir V. Putin, to settle a political score.
  
• Novelties: A Clear Coating, With Green Application ...
  A chemical coating under development could make two groups happy: environmentalists and anyone who washes dishes.
  
• Regulator Imposes More Limits on Speculative Tradi ...
  The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said its move was intended to stave off a repeat of the 2008 surge in oil prices.
  

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 6.3, Drake Passage
  Sunday, January 17, 2010 12:00:02 UTC Sunday, January 17, 2010 08:00:02 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  
• M 5.3, Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
  Saturday, January 16, 2010 20:08:20 UTC Saturday, January 16, 2010 10:08:20 AM at epicenter Depth : 82.00 km (50.95 mi)
  
• M 5.3, Ryukyu Islands, Japan
  Friday, January 15, 2010 11:08:37 UTC Friday, January 15, 2010 08:08:37 PM at epicenter Depth : 127.00 km (78.91 mi)
  
• M 5.0, Kermadec Islands region
  Friday, January 15, 2010 10:38:26 UTC Friday, January 15, 2010 10:38:26 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  
• M 5.4, Kermadec Islands region
  Friday, January 15, 2010 10:14:02 UTC Friday, January 15, 2010 10:14:02 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  

China Dialogue

• The Mekong under threat
  South-east Asia’s longest river has been transformed in the past three decades. Now, the food security of the Lower Mekong Basin hangs in the balance, writes Milton Osborne. Until the 1980s the Mekong River flowed freely for 4,900 kilometres from its 5,100-metre-high source in Tibet to the coast of ...
  
• A fight for life in the Andes
  Peruvian villagers already on the edge of survival are enduring bitter cold linked to climate change. Now, reports Annie Kelly, they are having to choose whether to save their livelihoods or their children. For alpaca farmer Ignacio Beneto Huamani and his young family, life in the Peruvian Andes , a ...
  
• What to watch for in Washington
  The global recession, US mid-term elections and a weak Copenhagen deal all play a part in the future of cap-and-trade legislation. Suzanne Goldenberg explains what lies ahead in 2010. What is the state of play for climate-change legislation in America? Barack Obama put his reputation on the line ...
  
• 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 ...
  

AlterNet Top Stories

• Judge in Trial of Man Accused of Killing Dr. Tille ...
  This still raises questions about whether this trial won't really be about abortion, despite the judge's promises.
  
• GM Corn Causes Problems in Rats?
  The research is out ... if you can understand it.
  
• The Press Grills Gibbs: What Happened to Obama's P ...
  Transparency was all the rage in the election -- one year in, it's gotten very quiet.
  
• Poll: Majority Of Voters Support Total Repeal Of D ...
  Only 11 percent believe that DADT makes the military stronger.
  
• 10 Million Tons of Chemical Fertilizer Discharged ...
  A new report finds that Chinese farmers used a stunning 40 percent more fertilizer than necessary.
  

Threat Level

• Oink Admin Beats File Sharing Charges
  A British jury on Friday cleared former Oink admin Allan Ellis of conspiracy to defraud the music industry for running one of the world’s strangest music file-sharing services with some 200,000 members Operators of the so-called Pink Palace banned low-quality sound files, enforced strict usage rules ...
  
• Google Hack Attack Was Ultra Sophisticated, New De ...
  Hackers seeking source code from Google, Adobe and dozens of other high-profile companies used unprecedented tactics that combined encryption, stealth programming and an unknown hole in Internet Explorer, according to new details released by researchers at anti-virus firm McAfee. “We have never ever ...
  
• Hack of Adobe Conducted Via Zero-Day IE Flaw
  The recent hack attack on Adobe occurred through exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability that affects all versions of Internet Explorer, according to a security researcher with a leading anti-virus firm. Microsoft learned about the vulnerability only Wednesday evening and is planning to release an ...
  
• Eight-Year-Old on TSA Terrorist Watchlist Gets Fri ...
  The Transportation Security Administration, attempting to squelch nefarious rumors, has asserted on its web site under a “Mythbuster” feature that “No 8-year-old is on a T.S.A. watch list.” Unfortunately for the TSA, the New York Times found an 8-year-old on its list. Mikey Hicks, a Cub Scout in ...
  
• China Stands Firm in Response to Google Threat
  China has hit back at Google in its response to the search giant’s announcement this week that it may pull out of China if it can’t reach an agreement about censoring content. Two government officials said on Thursday that internet companies must obey the laws of China and help the government steer ...
  

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Google denies leaving China, seeks negotiations
  SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Google Inc enters a second week of high stakes brinkmanship with China's government, amid speculation the firm has decided to pull out of the world's biggest Internet market over cyber-spying concerns.
  
• U.N. confirms death of Haiti mission chief Annabi
  UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. mission chief in Haiti, Hedi Annabi, died in Tuesday's earthquake that devastated the country's capital, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced on Saturday.
  
• Yahoo pulled into Google fracas, Alibaba reacts
  SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Yahoo got pulled into a growing row between China and Google on Saturday, as its Chinese partner slammed Yahoo's statements supporting Google while a source revealed the search giant had stayed silent about cyber-attacks.
  
• Japan threatens action on China gas project: repor ...
  TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan warned China on Sunday that it would take action if Beijing starts gas production in a disputed field in the East China Sea, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported.
  
• UPDATE 1-JFK air terminal evacuated after security ...
  NEW YORK, Jan 16 (Reuters) - A security breach prompted the evacuation of an American Airlines terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Saturday, the airline said.
  

Equality Trust

• Caroline Lucas: Where now for Social Democracy in ...
  ...according to the groundbreaking work by British authors Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, the key to reducing the cultural pressure to consume is greater equality. In their book The Spirit Level they set out how greater equality makes growth much less necessary, revealing research which shows t ...
  
• The ills inequality brings
  It is possible to improve the lives of the poor, the middle class and the well off, by addressing one big problem. It turns out that reducing economic inequality can reduce a whole range of social problems, from teenage pregnancy and youth violence, to heart disease and depression. The authors of ...
  
• 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 ...
  

IntelNews

• News you may have missed #0256
  Descendant of Richard Sorge’s accomplice receives Soviet-era award. Analysis: Alleged US spy's arrest in Cuba affects bilateral relations. CIA, DoD drone attacks in Afghanistan intensify under McChrystal.
  
• Analysis: Should US spy agencies learn from France ...
  What precisely is wrong with the US intelligence system? I have read several good analyses lately, all sparked by the disastrous Christmas holiday week, which included the Christmas Day bomber fiasco and the killing of seven CIA personnel in Afghanistan. One is written by ex-CIA operations officer C ...
  
• News you may have missed #0255 (espionage edition)
  South Korea jails alleged spy for 10 years. New details in Nozette spy case. "I didn't kill Islamic Jihad members because I was busy spying for Israel".
  
• Jordanian opposition seeks to end Jordan’s CIA lin ...
  Earlier this month we reported on the excellent analysis by Jordanian blogger Naseem Tarawnah about the view from Jordan on the December 30 suicide bombing in Afghanistan. He suggested that the immediate impact of the bombing, which killed at least seven CIA agents and a senior Jordanian intelligenc ...
  
• News you may have missed #0254 (activism edition)
  US activists file lawsuit over domestic spying. Antiwar activist to stage sit-in at CIA HQ. Is there legal basis for CIA drone strikes in Pakistan?
  

After Downing Street.org

• Who is Marcy Winograd?
  Blue America is very proud to be endorsing Marcy Winograd for Congress today. She's our first challenger for the election cycle-- and our first endorsement in 2010. We didn't play eeny meeny miny mo to decide she would be our first candidate. For us she's a model candidate-- the kind of leader w ...
  
• Obama Spreading War Flames To Engulf the Middle Ea ...
  OBAMA SPREADING WAR FLAMES TO ENGULF THE MIDDLE EAST By Sherwood Ross As President Obama steps up the war that is inflaming ever wider sectors of the Middle East, USA continues its rapid slide toward Third World status. The two developments are not unrelated. Spending on war does not boost an econo ...
  
• Cindy Sheehan: CIA Actions Killing Innocent People
  
  
• Movement Music
  By David Swanson "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution," said Emma Goldman, who might also have said "If we don't dance, not enough people will work long and hard enough in our revolution." This is one of the two most useful quotes for Americans right now, the other being an ...
  
• Despite Prevention Efforts, U.S. Military Suicides ...
  Despite prevention efforts, U.S. military suicides rise By Halimah Abdullah | McClatchy Newspapers Eight years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq have etched indelible scars on the psyches of many of the nation's servicemen and women, and the U.S. military is losing a battle to stem an epidemic of suic ...
  

Grist - News

• Scientists cautiously optimistic as Doomsday Clock ...
  by Agence France-Presse NEW YORK -- The minute hand of the Doomsday Clock was moved back slightly Thursday, indicating the world has inched away from nuclear or environmental catastrophe, but still is not out of danger. "It is six minutes to midnight," the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, which creat ...
  
• Small cars make it big at Detroit Auto Show [slide ...
  by Grist   DETROIT—Small, hybrid, and electric cars took center stage at the Detroit Auto Show this week, as automakers adapt to the changing demands of a market ravaged by recession and soaring fuel costs. A clutch of manufacturers also displayed fuel-efficient cars with designs inspired by Europe ...
  
• 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 ...
  

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Washington Independent

• Scott Brown: Hey, Maybe Barack Obama Was Born Out ...
  Democratic candidate Martha Coakley’s Senate campaign in Massachusetts has given up every news cycle this week to a self-inflicted blunder — a fact the National Republican Senatorial Committee happily pointed out to reporters on Friday. But the liberal BlueMassGroup blog has found a video that refle ...
  
• Did Firedoglake Take Out Vic Snyder?
  Rep. Vic Snyder (D-Ark.) announced his retirement today, mixed–but mostly dire–news for Democrats, who were hopeful that he could hold on and defeat his likely, scandal-tainted GOP opponent Tim Griffin. One of the possible reasons for the retirement? A poll conducted by SurveyUSA, paid for by the pr ...
  
• SEIU, Tea Partiers Flood Massachusetts With Cash
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  This is getting ridiculous. No one seriously defends the military’s exclusion of gay servicemembers. But look what happens when Defense Secretary Robert Gates gets asked about it at today’s Pentagon press conference: Q     Can I still do a follow, though, on another topic, on “don’t ask, don’t t ...
  
• ‘No More NY-23s’
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CowBoss' Brain Food

• Snail pie is tastier, more nutritious than beef
  Malnutrition and iron deficiency among schoolchildren in developing countries could be reduced by serving up generous portions of delicious, bargain-priced snail pie and other handy beef alternatives. Submitted by cowboss Left CareII to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  
• CO2, Methane Ousted as Worst Global Climate Change ...
  Move over CO2—you’ve been ousted, along with methane, as the biggest offenders of global climate change. The majority of “greenhouse gases” are created by humans. Submitted by cowboss Left CareII to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  
• Skeptics claim global warming is fake after top sc ...
  Hackers recently broke into thousands of emails and internal documents from a leading climate research center and dumped them onto an anonymous Russian server. The hacked emails (160 MB worth, unzipped) came from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic R Submitted by cowboss Left CareII to Environm ...
  
• Will Whole Foods’ new mobile slaughterhouses squee ...
  Massachusetts poultry farmer Jennifer Hashley has a problem. From the moment she started raising pastured chickens outside Concord, Mass. in 2002, there was, as she put it “nowhere to go to get them processed.” While she had the option of slaughtering her Submitted by cowboss Left CareII to Society ...
  
• Cow beaten to death with plank
  A farmer has condemned an attack in which a cow died after being repeatedly beaten around the head with a 4ft plank of wood. Submitted by cowboss Left CareII to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  

Suzie-Q

• Phone Calls from the 9/11 Airliners
  Response to Questions Evoked by My Fifth Estate Interview by Prof David Ray Griffin Global Research, January 12, 2010 On November 27, 2009, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Fifth Estate program aired a show entitled “9/11: The Unofficial Story,”1 for which I, along with a few other members o ...
  
• Jon Stewart: Palin Like A “Moose In Headligh ...
  
  
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• Olbermann Slams Pat Robertson & Rush Limbaugh For ...
  
  
• President Obama wants record $708 billion for mili ...
  Yahoo! News Associated Press By ANNE GEARAN and ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press Writers Anne Gearan And Anne Flaherty, Associated Press Writers – Wed Jan 13, 2010 WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama will ask Congress for an additional $33 billion to fight unpopular wars in Afghanis ...
  

Solari

• Catherine on Black Budget Mortgage Fraud in 2004
  Catherine Austin Fitts talks about it in 2004. As President of Solari, Inc., Catherine is currently spearheading the Solari Circles Campaign to help make healthy local living economies the best investment worldwide. Catherine previously served as Managing Director and Member of the Board of Director ...
  
• Big Bank CEOs Spin
  Yesterday morning,  executives from the banks which control the NY Fed and, in that capacity, serve as the depositories and agent for the US government, testified before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. This is the first day of hearings by the commission. This video, while long, is a relativ ...
  
• Money & Markets ~ Charts 1.14.10
  View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report on Thursday, January 7, 2010. Click here to view all charts as a pdf file. See previous Money & Markets Charts blog posts here. Currency charts a ...
  
• Community Call to Prayer
  Photo by David Liechty (Trip to Jerusalem 2009) O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles. Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God [...]
  
• GM Corn Causes Liver and Kidney Damage
  Genetically modified maize can damage the liver and other internal organs in mammals, according to a new study published in the International Journal of Biological Science. In the study, rats were fed three GM maize products (NK 603, MON 810, MON 863) found in food and feed around the world, for fo ...
  

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 . ...
  

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• If MLK Were Around, He Wouldn't Care About Racial ...
  It’s the personal and dramatic aspects of race that obsess us, not the deeply rooted and currently active, political inequalities.
  
• Iraq War Vet Jailed For Writing Song Protesting St ...
  The military is claiming that Marc Hall "communicated a threat" through a rap song that angrily denounces the policy that has barred him from exiting the army.
  
• Muckraking AlterNet Coverage Exposes Wrongful Inca ...
  After 23 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit, Michael Tillman, a victim of police torture, is finally free.
  
• One Man's Struggle Against America's Broken Immigr ...
  Meet Jean Montrevil: A Haitian immigrant whose troubled past may be enough to get him kicked out of the U.S.
  
• We Love Seeing Bad Parents Punished, But Why Don't ...
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Sideways News

• Edible crops to replace flower displays?
  Climate change and food shortages are prompting one Lancashire town to consider turning flower beds into edible gardens. Under the proposed scheme, local residents of Clitheroe would be able to pick the vegetables growing in floral display boxes and hanging baskets around the town.
  
• Straw praises drug court's work
  A court has received praise from the Justice Secretary for its work in tackling reoffending. Jack Straw met members of the team involved with the dedicated drugs court at  Leeds Magistrates' Court in West Yorkshire. The drugs court sees the same magistrates or district judges preside over a case inv ...
  
• Winner of the week: Keeping fit at 100
  A refusal to eat junk food is the secret to the long life of Georgina Easter, who at 100 emerged as perhaps Britain's oldest keep-fit enthusiast. Miss Easter rarely fails to miss one of her Keep-Fit for Mature Movers lessons in Derby. Her secret to her youthful exuberance is a healthy diet, but even ...
  
• Eye tests for Alzheimer's?
  Alzheimer's disease could be detected by an eye test available on the high street within five years, according to a new study. Researchers at University College London have developed a technique which enables them to track the progression of the condition by studying dying cells in the retina, meani ...
  
• Doomsday Clock moved back by a minute
  A symbolic Doomsday Clock has been shifted back a minute to represent the world's progress in lessening the threat of nuclear destruction.
  

Fabius Maximus

• FM newswire for 17 January, hot articles for your ...
  Today’s links to interesting news and analysis — with a new feature, daily good news! Provocative commentary:  “The COINdinistas: Last Year’s News“, Kelley B. Vlahos, AntiWar, 12 January 2010 Dumbest post of the week, even among right-wing propaganda:  “The High Cost of No Price“, Veronique ...
  
• Stratfor’s strategic analysis – &#8220 ...
  Stratfor is one of the best public sources in the public strategic analysis and forecasting field, so these reports deserve attention.  However its necessary to remember that they reflect the views and interests of American’s corporate and government elites.  So the detailed material here needs a ...
  
• FM newswire for 16 January, hot articles for your ...
  Today’s links to interesting news and analysis — with a new feature, daily good news! “When Did the Word Negro Become Taboo? In 1966 or soon thereafter“, Brian Palmer, Slate, 11 January 2010 Good news!  “Coral can recover from climate change damage, press release about this article:  “Marine R ...
  
• Q&A on the FM website
  Here are questions asked on the FM website this week (some of these were assertions, which I’ve rephrased at questions).  Click on the question to go directly to the answer. Did FNMA and the other Government Sponsored Enterprises cause the sub-prime morgage crisis? Did the Community Reinvestment A ...
  
• FM newswire for 15 January, hot articles for your ...
  Contents – some updates to previous posts on the FM website, and 3 Quotes of the Day About our shameful prisons, a stain on America About the “mancession” Can the European Union survive the recession? About Japan, slowly sinking Quotes of the Day about our response to jihadists’ terrorism (1)  A ...
  

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WIRED Magazine | Science

• Scientists Scramble to Analyze Haiti’s Seismic Ris ...
  Since the ground shook Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, on January 12 and sent the densely populated city into chaos, scientists have been harnessing every possible tool to quickly assemble a detailed picture of a region in which scientific research had already been difficult to conduct. “The question we are ...
  
• Despite iPods and Walkmen, Rates of Hearing Loss D ...
  Despite all the Walkmen, boomboxes, 8-tracks, iPods and Bluetooth headsets that have delivered raucous noise to the ears of Baby Boomers, hearing loss appears to be declining among adults. This counterintuitive finding from the first study of long-term changes in hearing loss is that for every five ...
  
• NASA Listens for Sign Mars Phoenix Survived Winter
  NASA will attempt to reestablish contact with the Mars Phoenix Lander on Monday. The Mars Odyssey orbiter will pass over the lander’s position (highlighted in the image above) 10 times a day for three straight days, listening for any sign that the craft survived the Martian winter’s freezing temper ...
  
• Satellite Photos of Haiti Before and After the Ear ...
  > The pictures and video from on-the-ground reports in Haiti following the magnitude 7 earthquake Tuesday are truly heartbreaking. But it is difficult to imagine the full extent of the damage to that country and its capital, Port-au-Prince, in particular. These new sate ...
  
• Bizarre Sea Sponge Compound Finally Synthesized by ...
  A 17-year long intense competition to synthesize a fascinatingly weird and complex compound has finally ended. The first 25-step process for building the compound, Palau’amine, out of molecular components was published in Angewandte Chemie last week. You might think that the substance causing all t ...
  

The Progressive Realist

• McChrystal's Afghanistan "Confidence Tour" for Vis ...
  Senator Carl Levin , just back from a trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan which he took with Senator Al Franken , sees significant gains in America's position in Afghanistan. But how can that be? The only substantive differences between the highly bleak assessments of the Afghan scene in leaked ...
  
• On How Neocons Feed Off One Another...
  American neoconservatives tend to get hostile when you make the point that every country has its neocons. The response typically runs something like this: How can you possibly compare me with those Russians/Chinese/Iranians? Don't you understand that I cloak my hawkish right wing nationalism behi ...
  
• Terrorism and the Rule of Law
  While the “war on terror” frame is counterproductive, since the Obama administration seems to be conceding to its inevitability, this excerpt from Phil Bobbitt, via Charli Carpenter (the newest Lawyer with Guns and Money), suggests a way to corral the concept to saner ground: It is often asked, “H ...
  
• China and Google: What We Know
  1) Sky Canaves of the WSJ in Beijing has saved me a lot of time (and done readers a favor) by producing a catalogue of the biggest " misstatements and misunderstandings " people have promulgated about this situation. She starts with the most preposterous: that Google deliberately picked an extremely ...
  
• Conservatives’ ‘Team B’ Revisionism
  I think Yglesias did a good job knocking back David Frum’s bizarre claim the Team B hawks were right about the Soviet threat , but the fact that Frum thinks he can get away with such an assertion helps explain why some conservatives have been calling for a Team B revival , this time “ to reassess th ...
  

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Lightning Round: Learning to Love the Dark Side.
  If conservatives axiomatically believe that the conservative movement represents the interests of the American public, then the converse must also be true: that the public rejects liberal policy. You can see this on full display as Jon Chait introduces his Wehner Fallacy award for outstanding achie ...
  
• Rudy!
  Faced with an electorate that is generally dissatisfied yet still overwhelmingly Democratic, Massachusetts Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown decided to call in renowned ferret opponent and terrorism ignoramus Rudy Giuliani . This could actually be quite a mistake on Brown's part. After the 20 ...
  
• The Little Picture: U.S. Citizens Evacuating Port- ...
  Flickr/ AirForce U.S. citizens evacuate from Toussaint Louveture International Airport, Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Jan. 15, 2010. The evacuees were flown out on a C-17 Globemaster III from Dover Air Force Base, Del. Haiti was struck by an earthquake that leveled much of the country's infrastructure ...
  
• Prop. 8 Trial Roundup.
  This week, plaintiffs in the Perry v. Schwarzenegger trial began presenting their case before Northern California District Judge Vaughn Walker . Unfortunately, the Supreme Court has barred cameras from the courtroom, so most of the information available is coming from reporters or those liveblogging ...
  
• Hans von Spakovsky Urges Felony Disenfranchisement ...
  Hans von Spakovsky again demonstrates his commitment to ensuring every American has the right to vote by... penning an op-ed urging Gov. Tim Kaine of Virginia not to re-enfranchise ex-felons before he leaves office: Virginia felons who want their civil rights restored must show that they have paid ...
  

Andy Worthington

• BBC Interviews Matthew J. Olsen, the Head of Obama ...
  On a car journey to one of the “secure locations” where a Review Panel meets on a weekly basis to examine recommendations made by the Guantánamo Review Task Force — charged with deciding what to do with the remaining prisoners at Guantánamo — the BBC’s Jon Manel spoke to Matthew G. Olsen, th ...
  
• “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” – at th ...
  On Saturday February 6, 2010, Polly Nash and Andy Worthington, the directors of the new Guantánamo documentary, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” will attend a screening of the film at the Human Rights, Human Wrongs Film Festival, at the Parkteatret, Oslo, and will take part in a Q&A sessi ...
  
• On YouTube: Guantánamo Guard and Ex-Prisoners Meet ...
  On Monday and Tuesday evenings, the BBC’s Newsnight ran an extraordinary two-part feature on Guantánamo, bringing former guard Brandon Neely over from the United States to meet — and apologize to — former prisoners Shafiq Rasul and Ruhal Ahmed, two of “The Tipton Three,” from the West Midland ...
  
• 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 ...
  

Buzzflash

• Devastating Earthquakes, Disaster Capitalism, Crea ...
  BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG By Mark Karlin So many hearts in America have been horrified and galvanized to support relief action in Haiti that it reawakens the common bond of being human -- and reaching out to support those in such devastating need. But as Naomi Klein points out,  Haiti is the poster ch ...
  
• John Cornyn Wins BuzzFlash's GOP Hypocrite of the ...
  John Cornyn Welcome back to BuzzFlash's GOP Hypocrite of the Week. Seems like bringing up a time when your leader resigned in utter disgrace for being exposed as an unrelenting bigot is a strange way to show one's moral superiority. But Republicans will take any chance they get to call for the resig ...
  
• Stop the Chamber; I Want to Get Off! Group to Expo ...
  BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Meg White It's 2010. Do you know which corporate pocket your representative is in? There is no better analogy for the outsize influence of corporations upon government than the behavior of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce of late. The "world's largest business federation" has ...
  
• Glenn Beck Unwittingly Shows Sarah Palin As Evasiv ...
  BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT by Jeffrey Joseph Though everyone involved perceived FOX's hiring of Sarah Palin as a gift to the former governor, the few softball interviews she has endured from obvious fans at the network such as the fawning Glenn Beck already portray her as unintelligent and transparently h ...
  
• Those who "see the whole earth is sacred, refusing ...
  BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY Translated by Stephen Mitchell Psalm 24 Who is fit to hold power and worthy to act in God's place? Those with a passion for the truth, who are horrified by injustice, who act with mercy to the poor and take up the cause of the helpless who have let go of selfish concerns a ...
  

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• Krugman, Gruber and non-disclosure issues
  In the midst of my lengthy discussion yesterday of Cass Sunstein's proposal to "cognitively inflitrate extremist groups" by employing covert agents and secretly paying so-called "independent" analysts to tout the government line, I noted the recent controversy surrounding MIT Professor Jonathan Gru ...
  
• The creepy mindset behind Cass Sunstein's creepy p ...
  Cass Sunstein has long been one of Barack Obama's closest confidants.  Often mentioned as a likely Obama nominee to the Supreme Court, Sunstein is currently Obama's head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs where, among other things, he "is in charge of "overseeing policies relating ...
  
• 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 ...
  

The BiPartisan Report

• Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate floo ...
• Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
• Those holier than thou Conservatives
• Dennis Kucinich: Enemy of the good, pursuer of the ...
• Betsy’s Bullshit, Round 2

Sciencebase

• Alcoholic drug discovery truths
  As with much of medical science, the appearance of a fascinating research paper and an accompanying press release do not usually mean that a new pharmaceutical intervention, a medicine, is ready to be prescribed to patients on the very day that the paper appears. The drug discovery, research, and t ...
  
• 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 ...
  

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• Rights Groups Urge Respect for Human Rights in Del ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 14, 2010 Rights Groups In the wake of the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti, six prominent rights groups issued a statement today calling for relief efforts to be grounded in human rights principles, transparency, and respect for the human dignity of all Haitians. The gr ...
  
• Saudi Arabia: Criminal Justice Strengthened
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 14, 2010 Human Rights Watch (HRW) Saudi Arabia's appointed Shura Council has approved establishing a public defender program, a step that will strengthen the criminal justice system, Human Rights Watch said today. read more
  
• More than 13,000 Americans File Comments Asking th ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 14, 2010 Free Press With the approach of a midnight deadline tonight for comments on the Federal Communications Commission's proposed rules to safeguard the open Internet, thousands of individuals from all walks of life, as well as small businesses, civil rights groups ...
  
• Haiti: Access to Water and Sanitation Urgently Nee ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 14, 2010 Action Against Hunger (ACF) Less than 48 hours after a massive quake devastated parts of western Haiti, Action Against Hunger's teams already on the ground have fully mobilized to meet humanitarian needs. External emergency personnel from Action Against Hunger ...
  
• 'Crisis Fee' Good First Step, But Banks Owe Much M ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 14, 2010 US PIRG The "Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee" announced by President Barack Obama earlier today is a good first step toward paying taxpayers back for the money lent out under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).  read more
  

Common Dreams-Views

• 'Easier to Build Monuments than to Make a Better W ...
  by Rebecca Burns This year, Americans will celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as researchers report that up to one in four black and Hispanic workers is under-employed and that approximately 90 percent of black children will use food stamps at least once before turning twenty. In this context, it ...
  
• 'Even Charles Manson Could Beat Him Now'
  by Gary Younge Every Wednesday at 4.30pm they come: a small steady human trickle rolling down a ravine in Prestonsburg, western Kentucky ­towards the Town Branch church. They come in pick-ups, on foot, alone and with families. Some stop for just a few minutes. Others linger. They come for food and w ...
  
• Israel and Egypt continue to Squeeze the Lifeblood ...
  by Ann Wright Two weeks ago, almost 2,000 internationals came to Egypt and Gaza in a massive show of civil society support for the people of Gaza.  1,362 persons representing 44 countries in the Gaza Freedom March and over 500 persons with the Viva Palestina Convoy let the people of Gaza know of the ...
  
• Haiti Devastation: A Survivor Reports
  by Jesse Hagopian I have been in Haiti since Sunday with my one-year-old son and my wife whose job centers on curbing HIV in the country. For some reason - some incredible stroke of luck, as she almost always works late - my wife came home early on Tuesday. Not 10 minutes after her arrival in our ...
  
• Why Obama’s Economic Plan Will Not Work—And a Bett ...
  by Robert Freeman Obama's economic recovery plan will not work.  It does not begin to address the profound structural problems that hobble the U.S. economy and that amount to a slow-motion death sentence for the American middle class.  His policies are the equivalent of trying to re-float a sunk ...
  

Karl Burkart

• Is 3/50 the new 350?
  Will the local economy movement replace the 'climate movement'?
  
• Homeowners: sell your own carbon credits
  My Emissions Exchange just sold its first carbon credit on behalf of the Wilsons, a family in Harrisburg, PA.
  
• Phosphorescing TV's to save 75% on electricity
  LPD is the new OMG in energy-efficient TV technology, using as much energy as a single light bulb.
  
• Pope emerges as new climate leader
  Pope Benedict XVI is turning out to be one of the greatest advocates for climate regulation.
  
• Santa Monica revels in 1st electric Ranger
  G2E (Gas to Electric) converts first Ford Ranger for the City of Santa Monica, proving that conversions are a viable alternative.
  

Water Privatization

• Wary donors to demand economic reforms from Yemen ...
  Western and Gulf Arab donors want to help Yemen escape the poverty on which al Qaeda thrives, but new aid will not flow unless President Ali Abdullah Saleh enacts reforms and tackles corruption, diplomats and analysts say.
  
• Unraveling community fabric (Fernandina Beach News ...
  There's an old Bob Dylan song called, "The Times, They Are A-Changin'" and indeed they are: if we're lost, our cars will tell us where we are, my students are texting wizards - fingers moving across their cells at warp speed, my friend, with his iPhone, keeps me informed of the Georgia and Alabama s ...
  
• Saudi Arabia seeks tenders for water projects (Zaw ...
  17 January 2010 JEDDAH - The National Water Company (NWC), a Saudi joint stock company fully owned by the government (namely the Public Investment Fund), has set a date for companies to submit their proposals for the tender of the implementation of management, operation and maintenance of the water ...
  
• Crisis of water is Saturday film focus in Mendham ...
  MENDHAM TWP. - A film and discussion on the world water crisis is the subject of a free community program planned for 5 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 16, at the Brookside Community Church, 8 E. Main St.
  
• Crisis of water is Saturday film focus in Mendham ...
  MENDHAM TWP. - A film and discussion on the world water crisis is the subject of a free community program planned for 5 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 16, at the Brookside Community Church, 8 E. Main St.
  

Guardian

• 'Chemical Ali' sentenced to death
  Saddam Hussein's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid convicted of crimes against humanity for poisonous gas atttack in Iraq Saddam Hussein's notorious cousin "Chemical Ali" was convicted today of crimes against humanity, receiving a death sentence for his involvement in a poison gas attack on Halabja, Iraq. ...
  
• Ukraine goes to the polls
  Gap narrowing between Ukraine's prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko and oppposition leader Viktor Yanukovich Ukrainians go the polls today in the first election since the Orange Revolution five years ago amid signs that the gap between the two leading presidential contenders is narrowing. Private polls ...
  
• Single, sexy and 63
  Playing a glamorous granny may not top the wish-list of every leading lady. But Susan Sarandon, newly single at 63, is unfazed by getting older. On the eve of her new film, The Lovely Bones, she tells Chrissy Iley why marriage was not for her, why she's getting into tattoos and how laughter keeps he ...
  
• 24 hours in pictures
  16 January 2010: A selection of the best images from around the world
  
• Books podcast: Looking ahead in sci-fi
  Science fiction is the marmite of literature – people tend to love it or hate it. Yet no one could deny that it has produced many of the great myths of our age, from Frankenstein's monster to William Gibson's cyber-reality. SF blogger Damien Walter joins our panellists to discuss where it is now, an ...
  

McClatchey

• It isn't going to get easier for Obama in the seco ...
  WASHINGTON — There'll be no parade this time for President Barack Obama. No grand speech from the west front of the Capitol, no fireworks, no glittery balls to kick off the second year of his presidency on Wednesday, as there were for the first.
  
• Commentary: A 'broad shield' for journalists
  The case for a federal media "shield" law is simple: Reporters must be protected so they can give citizens the information they need, particularly information that powerful interests would rather keep secret. Whistle-blowers and other insiders — without a meaningful promise of confidentiality from j ...
  
• Commentary: Why Hugo Chavez's stock has dropped
  Alot has been written in recent days about the economic impact of the maxi-devaluation announced Friday by Venezuela's authoritarian-populist President Hugo Chavez.
  
• No Medicare change, no health bill, Democratic law ...
  WASHINGTON — Lawmakers have told congressional leaders they won't support a health care bill unless it overhauls a complex Medicare reimbursement formula that for years has shortchanged doctors and hospitals in Washington state, which provide medical care to more than 780,000 seniors.
  
• Despite prevention efforts, U.S. military suicides ...
  WASHINGTON — Eight years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq have etched indelible scars on the psyches of many of the nation's servicemen and women, and the U.S. military is losing a battle to stem an epidemic of suicides in its ranks.
  

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

• Back to school on biodiversity
  I'm spending part of this week at biodiversity school. Not any ordinary school, mind, but Britain's Royal Society . This week it hosts a conference with the somewhat arcane title Integrating Ecosystem Services into Biodiversity Management - which doubles as the triennial conference of the InterAca ...
  
• 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 ...
  

Afghanistan Sun

• Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran join hands to prepare ...
  Islamabad, Jan.17 : Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran have signed an accord to prepare a joint framework to address the ever-expanding threat of terrorism and extremism.
  
• Wives of deployed soldiers more likely to be depre ...
  London, Jan 17 : A new study has revealed that wives of soldiers deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan are more likely to be diagnosed with depression, anxiety, sleep disorders and other mental health conditions than women whose husbands are not deployed.
  
• US missile strike kills 15 militants in Pakistan
  Islamabad, Jan 17 (DPA) A suspected US missile strike killed at least 15 Taliban fighters in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal district near Afghanistan Sunday, security officials said.
  
• Afghan parliament rejects over half of cabinet nom ...
  Kabul, Jan 16 (DPA) Afghanistan's parliament rejected more than half of President Hamid Karzai's cabinet nominees Saturday, after 70 per cent of his choices had been denied in a previous round.
  
• Gunmen kill Afghan district chief, 5 other people
  KABUL — Police say six people, including a district chief, have been killed in a militant ambush in western Afghanistan. Regional police spokesman Raouf Ahmedi says gunmen opened fire from ...
  

Futurismic

• Mental illness: America’s biggest export?
  A fascinating (if slightly grim and worrying) article at the New York Times by Ethan Watters suggests that Western psychiatry may be successfully homogenising the mental illnesses of the entire planet, thanks to aggressive programs designed to export “psychiatric literacy”. The intent was good, but ...
  
• The Exhumation Factor: just when you thought reali ...
  … you find a story that says the UK’s Channel 4 is seeking terminally ill volunteers who are willing to undergo embalming and mummification, Ancient Egyptian style, after they’ve died. [image by broma] Granted, the piece is in the Daily Mail, whose knee-jerk revulsion toward such unpatriotic and li ...
  
• Gesturing toward tomorrow: gestural UIs, hardware ...
  Suddenly, touchscreen devices seem to be everywhere, changing the ways in which we interact with our phones, computers and tablet devices. But the next user interface revolution is already waiting in the wings – gestural interfaces will complete the user-interface paradigm shift that touchscreens ha ...
  
• Airnergy! Snake-oil gadget recharger debuts at CES ...
  Oops, looks like someone slipped up here. SlashDot points us to a Gizmodo report from the Consumer Electronics Show about a device called the RCA Airnergy, which purportedly soaks up wi-fi signals into an internal battery, which you can then use to recharge your iPod, phone, satnav or whatever. Read ...
  
• Lightspeed Magazine open to story submissions
  Hey, writer-types – remember when we plugged the soon-to-open Lightspeed Magazine, a new online science fiction magazine curated by the inestimable John Joseph Adams? Well, Lightspeed won’t be publishing anything until June 2010, but for the fictioneers among you (especially those who find Futurism ...
  

geopolitics | geoeconomics

• Geithner's Dirty Little Secret
• Swine Flu
• Putin and the Geopolitics of the New Cold War: Or ...
• The Fake Oil Crisis of 1973
• Fossiles Erdöl
  
  

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• Groups ask President Obama to pardon Birkenfeld
  Leading national and international anti-corruption groups have joined the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) in a clemency campaign on behalf of UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld . In an open letter President Barack Obama, the groups request a presidential pardon for Mr. Birkenfeld, or commuta ...
  
• Whistleblower murdered in India
  Satish Shetty — who exposed many land scams in Maharashtra, India — was stabbed to death with swords on Wednesday during is morning walk.  Shetty, age 38, was a "Right to Information" (RTI) activist who began exposing corrupt land deals ten years ago. “This has become a trend and social activists ar ...
  
• EEOC whistleblower Ricardo Jones faces termination
  Last September, EEOC Investigator Ricardo Jones told The Black Star News that, “The EEOC is not investigating African-American complaints from New York to North Carolina.” At the time, Black Star News writer Donald Winfield predicted that the EEOC would fire Jones.  Now that prediction is coming tru ...
  
• Renner to keynote King Day event in Dover, Ohio
  I am pleased to announce here that I will be delivering the keynote address of the commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Day in Tuscarawas County, Ohio.  The event will begin at 7:00 p.m., this Monday, January 18, 2010, at the First Baptist Church, 140 Regent St., Dover, Ohio.  The local Tim ...
  
• California Court of Appeals reinstates whistleblow ...
  The California Court of Appeals for the Fourth Appellate District has ruled this week that a lower court erred, for the second time, in dismissing a lawsuit brought by David Ohton, a strength and conditioning coach at San Diego State University (SDSU). In 2003, Ohton had filed an official report det ...
  

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

• Top three U.N. men dead in Haiti including RCMP Su ...
  One of Canada's internationally respected RCMP officers, Supt. Doug Coates, has been found dead in the rubble of the U.N. mission building in Haiti. Also killed were the top U.N. man in Haiti, Hedi Annabi and his deputy Luiz Carlos da Costa.
  
• Israeli body found in suitcase in Montreal
  An Israeli man's body was discovered inside a suitcase Thursday in Montreal, Canada. A passerby noticed that a foot was sticking out of the baggage in the snow.
  
• Mysterious flu kills 940 in Ukraine, 22 dead in la ...
  Since the unknown flu epidemic began at the end of October in Ukraine, at least 940 people have died and more than 4 million have contracted the flu or flu-like infections.
  
• Sears Cancer Clinic at SickKids Hospital in Toront ...
  Having cancer as a kid is hard enough without having to wait for treatment in a boring waiting room. That was the reality for patients at the cancer clinic at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children. Starting Monday the Sears Cancer Clinic will change that.
  
• Jim Rogers: Food shortages coming, commodities to ...
  Co-founder of the Quantum Fund and Chairman of Rogers Holdings, Jim Rogers, spoke with CNBC to discuss the financial state of commodities. What's his view? Well, agricultural commodities will go through the roof and food shortages are coming.
  

End Homelessness | Change.org

• What Conservatives Get Wrong About Homelessness
  It's very easy to think that a discussion concerning homelessness should be apolitical. It's easy to argue that those of us who fight for the homeless are above the fray: we're for whoever is for the homeless. Why waste time arguing, one colleague writes , when fighting homelessness helps everyone? ...
  
• Join the Fight For Change in S.F. on January 20
  Over the next week, Street Roots , the Portland, Oregon grassroots newspaper of which I am the director, and Change.org will be highlighting the adventures of community organizations from up and down the West Coast as we prepare to come together in San Francisco on January 20 with one message: housi ...
  
• Shelters Enter the 21st Century
  Behold the next generation of homeless shelter: The Bridge Homeless Assistance Center in Dallas has been helping that city's 6,000-person homeless population -- and racking up architecture awards -- since it opened in May 2008. Most recently, The Bridge was awarded the American Architecture Award , ...
  
• Homelessness in Suburbia
  Mental health, addiction and poverty are not city issues. They are not rural issues. In fact, they are not geographic issues at all. Still, homelessness is often associated with urban areas, simply because this is where most social services are concentrated. Many people refuse to believe that this i ...
  
• Housing the Homeless, Pissing Off the Government
  San Luis Obispo County, California has an estimated 3,500 homeless people. Its shelters have 125 beds. This is simple math. So why would a senior citizen named Dan de Vaul be sent to jail for housing 30 homeless people in a farmhouse and some trailers on his ranch? Well, that's not so simple. The st ...
  

Ceasefire.ca

• Canadians support humanitarian aid/peacekeeping
  The earthquake in Haiti this week has created a humanitarian disaster, with ten of thousands of people killed or injured and millions requiring assistance. Canada and other countries around the world are scrambling to provide emergency aid. The federal government has already donated $5 million to em ...
  
• Civilian deaths increase in Afghanistan
  According to the United Nations, 2009 was the deadliest year for civilians in Afghanistan since the ouster of the Taliban government in 2001. The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan’s Annual Report on Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict, 2009 reports that at least 2412 Afghan civi ...
  
• 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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Kevin Trudeau Show

• Tylenol Recalled by Johnson & Johnson
  January 16, 2010 By Marley Seaman Johnson & Johnson issued a massive recall Friday of over-the-counter drugs including Tylenol, Motrin and St. Joseph’s aspirin because of a moldy smell that has made people sick. It was the second such recall in less than a month because of the smell, which regulator ...
  
• This Week On The Kevin Trudeau Show
  
  
• Animals Fed Genetically Modified Foods are Differe ...
  January 15, 2010 GM Watch In a landmark ruling, the NZ Commerce Commission has accepted evidence from Prof Jack Heinemann, from an exhaustive review of the literature and on the basis of his own extensive professional experience, that animals fed on GM components ARE different from those which are r ...
  
• Benefits of Green Tea block Cancer
  January 15, 2010 BBC News The latest work in more than 500 people adds to growing evidence suggesting the beverage has anti-cancer powers. In the study, smokers and non-smokers who drank at least a cup a day cut their lung cancer risk significantly, a US cancer research conference heard. The protect ...
  
• School Cafeterias in San Francisco Removing Corn S ...
  January 15, 2010 San Fransisco Chronicle The cartons of chocolate milk served in San Francisco Unified School District cafeterias will no longer contain the highly debated sweetener high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). A product containing sucrose will be offered to students beginning the first week in ...
  

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

• Obama confidant’s spine-chilling proposal
  Obama confidant’s spine-chilling proposal By Glenn Greenwald, Salon, January 15, 2010 Cass Sunstein has long been one of Barack Obama’s closest confidants. Often mentioned as a likely Obama nominee to the Supreme Court, Sunstein is currently Obama’s head of the Office of Information and Regulatory ...
  
• Welcome to Hebron
  Leila Sarsour, who is 17 years old, lives in Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in Palestine. She has a dream that everyone can live in peace, but she and her schoolmates are exposed daily to harassment, violence and intimidation from Israeli settlers. For the Palestinian school girls in the ...
  
• Obama pledges aid to Haiti
  Obama pledges aid to Haiti By Helene Cooper, New York Times, January 15, 2010 President Obama on Thursday promised $100 million along with more American troops for the relief effort in Haiti, vowing that the United States would stand with the impoverished nation as it grappled with the devastation o ...
  
• To be Israeli today
  To be Israeli today By Larry Derfner, Jerusalem Post, January 13, 2010 To be Israeli today is to organize your thinking around the enemy. Without the enemy, you can’t understand the world or your place in it. Without the enemy, you don’t know what you want - except more money, which is the default g ...
  
• Turkish human rights group: Arrest Barak when he a ...
  Turkish human rights group: Arrest Barak when he arrives here By Daniel Edelson, Ynet, January 14, 2010 espite the intensifying crisis between Israel and Turkey, Defense Minister Ehud Barak is insisting to follow through with his scheduled plans to visit Turkey next week. However, on Thursday it bec ...
  

Watts Up With That?

• The BBC may drop the Met Office for forecasts
  From the London Times, signs that the Met Office might need a refresher course in basic forecasting skills and bonuses revoked. While I’m often critical of NOAA’s climate issues, the forecasts from NOAA put The Met Office to shame in terms of accuracy and detail. And, NOAA staffers don’t get bonuses ...
  
• NCAR’s dirty little secret
  WUWT readers of course have heard about the Met Office and their giant new supercomputer called “deep black” that they use for climate simulation and short term forecasts. Not to be outdone, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO has commissioned a new supercomputer proje ...
  
• Recently discovered space ribbon: a solar wind ref ...
  From NASA Science News January 15, 2010: Last year, when NASA’s IBEX (Interstellar [...]
  
• History in a hurry: the first book about Climatega ...
  Electronic publishing has revolutionized the art of writing, now less than two months since it happened, we have the very first book about Climategate. My first story on Climategate appeared on November 19th, 2009: Breaking News Story: CRU has apparently been hacked – hundreds of files released I ...
  
• Forecasting The Arctic Oscillation
  Recently the Cheif of the met office went on UK TV to say: “OUR SHORT TERM FORECASTS ARE AMONG THE BEST IN THE WORLD.” (see video here) Yesterday, the UK Met Office had to make a rare mea culpa, saying they had botched their own recent snow forecast, it is useful to point out that they aren’t [. ...
  

Dandelion Salad

• It’s Cold, so there is no Global Warming 2 + ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ greenman3610 January 16, 2010 We’ve heard a lot of talk lately from deniers that cold temperatures are proof that there is no such thing as global warming. It looks like it will be an annual event for me to remind people that winter still follows summer. Since ...
  
• Obama Executive Order Seeks to “Synchronize and In ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Tom Burghardt Dissident Voice Antifascist Calling… January 16th, 2010 In the wake of the Flight 253 provocation, over-hyped terrorism panics, and last year’s Big Pharma and media-engineered hysteria over the H1N1 flu pandemic, President Barack Obama signed ...
  
• Disputes emerge over Haiti aid control – Gun ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ AlJazeeraEnglish January 17, 2010 It is five days since a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, spreading fear and misery across an already fragile nation. After a relatively slow start, US forces appear to be taking the lead in organising international aid effo ...
  
• The Right Testicle of Hell: History of a Haitian H ...
  by Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com 17 January, 2010 Blackwater before drinking water by Greg Palast for The Huffington Post 1. Bless the President for having rescue teams in the air almost immediately. That was President Olafur Grimsson of Iceland. On Wednesday, th ...
  
• Israel: Global NATO’s 29th Member by Rick Rozoff
  by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com 17 January, 2010 As the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is pressuring its 28 member states and dozens of partnership affiliates on five continents to contribute more troops for the war in Afghanistan, the ...
  

Your New Reality

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  2010, According To The BBC A summary of the stories BBC World correspondents believe will be the big headline grabbers of 2010 : * World Cup, South Africa. * Iran, and the fall of President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad. * Israel's reluctance to make peace with Palestinians, Syria, and what they will do ab ...
  
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  Google Suggest self-censors "Islam is...." . But look what comes up for "Christianity is..." :
  
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  Film critic Roger Ebert has a fantastic collection of the Best Movie Posters Of The Decade . I can't go past this one from 2002 : The Rest Are Here
  
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  FaceBook Commits Suicide? Founder Declares Privacy Is History Facebook undergoes a radical shift in its views on how much privacy its hundreds of millions of users are entitled to. Sign them up with the impression that what they decide to share with friends and family through Facebook will be priv ...
  

Wired - Science

• Scientists Scramble to Analyze Haiti’s Seismic Ris ...
  Since the ground shook Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, on January 12 and sent the densely populated city into chaos, scientists have been harnessing every possible tool to quickly assemble a detailed picture of a region in which scientific research had already been difficult to conduct. “The question we are ...
  
• Despite iPods and Walkmen, Rates of Hearing Loss D ...
  Despite all the Walkmen, boomboxes, 8-tracks, iPods and Bluetooth headsets that have delivered raucous noise to the ears of Baby Boomers, hearing loss appears to be declining among adults. This counterintuitive finding from the first study of long-term changes in hearing loss is that for every five ...
  
• NASA Listens for Sign Mars Phoenix Survived Winter
  NASA will attempt to reestablish contact with the Mars Phoenix Lander on Monday. The Mars Odyssey orbiter will pass over the lander’s position (highlighted in the image above) 10 times a day for three straight days, listening for any sign that the craft survived the Martian winter’s freezing temper ...
  
• Satellite Photos of Haiti Before and After the Ear ...
  > The pictures and video from on-the-ground reports in Haiti following the magnitude 7 earthquake Tuesday are truly heartbreaking. But it is difficult to imagine the full extent of the damage to that country and its capital, Port-au-Prince, in particular. These new sate ...
  
• Bizarre Sea Sponge Compound Finally Synthesized by ...
  A 17-year long intense competition to synthesize a fascinatingly weird and complex compound has finally ended. The first 25-step process for building the compound, Palau’amine, out of molecular components was published in Angewandte Chemie last week. You might think that the substance causing all t ...
  

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Diskin to Abbas: Defer UN vote on Goldstone or fac ...
  Akiva Eldar: Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin told Abbas [in October 2009] that if he did not ask for a deferral of the vote on the critical report on last year's military operation, Israel would turn the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  
• UK MPs, Legal Scholars, Lawyers: We must not reneg ...
  The power to arrest individuals reasonably suspected of war crimes anywhere in the world should they set foot on UK soil is an efficient and necessary resource in the struggle against war crimes, and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  
• Ayalon: If Israel is attacked, we’ll consider expe ...
  Ayalon praised Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's policies. "His policy is proving to be effective. We will not allow a situation where every country will kick us. If there will be an attack on... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  
• Gideon Levy: Waltz in Batir
  "The Palestinians don't have a real organization fighting for their rights and they can't expect others to fight for them... No revolution in history was ever led by a government or a bureaucracy.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
  
• Occupation tourism: A new trend at West Bank fence ...
  "There is a large variety of international activists here," he says. "There are those who spend weeks and months in the village and take the political issue seriously, and there are others who, as... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
  

Ria Novosti - Military

• Russia suspends flights of Su-27 fighters after cr ...
  Russia has suspended SU-27 Flanker fighter jet flights until the cause of a deadly crash earlier in the week is determined, a Defense Ministry official told RIA Novosti on Saturday.
  
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• CIA chief confirms deaths of 7 agents in Afghanist ...
  CIA chief Leon Panetta has confirmed in an official statement that seven CIA operatives were killed and six others wounded in a recent terrorist attack in eastern Afghanistan.
  
• N. Korea urges dialogue on nuclear-free Korean Pen ...
  North Korea stressed dialogue in improving relations with the United States as a key step toward a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula in a New Year's message on Friday
  
• Russia's Nerpa sub passes final trials
  Russia's Nerpa nuclear attack submarine, damaged in a fatal accident during tests in November last year, has successfully passed final trials.
  

NewsWise

• Ryan Report Researcher Honored Thursday
  Irish University Publishes Irish American Professor's book on the history of childhood in ireland, research that figured in the Ryan Report.
  
• Llama Proteins Could Play a Vital Role in the War ...
  Scientists at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research (SFBR) in San Antonio have for the first time developed a highly sensitive means of detecting the seven types of botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) simultaneously. The finding may lead to improved techniques for testing water and food suppli ...
  
• Association for Dressings & Sauces Announces "10 i ...
  Share your favorite recipes and win $500! The Association for Dressings & Sauces is proud to announce 10-Ingredient Salads for 2010 Recipe Contest available now on www.saladaday.org.
  
• Experts Available to Discuss Earthquake in Haiti
  Experts at The University of Texas at Austin's College of Liberal Arts are available to discuss a host of earthquake-related topics, from disaster response and relief to social and political conflicts to the causes and effects of large-scale natural disasters.
  
• Engineering Firm Awards $100,000 Contract To Rowan ...
  Mission Solutions Engineering (MSE), of Arlington, Va., and Moorestown, has awarded a $100,000 one-year contract to Rowan University to help the firm improve the capabilities of a software system called Advanced Display Infrastructure (ADI).
  

Intel Trends

• IntelTrends 16-JAN-2010
  North Caucasus saw over 230 Interior Ministry deaths in 2009 RIA, 16 Jan More than 230 Interior Ministry police officers and interior troops died in Russia's volatile North Caucasus in 2009, the ministry's deputy chief said. Despite SOFA, U.S. will deploy 21,000 troops in northern Iraq Press TV, 16 ...
  
• Statement: Response of the Islamic Emirate of Afgh ...
  The following statement is reprinted with permission from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Response of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Concerning the Desecration of the Holy Quran and Martyrdom of Innocent Afghans Source:  Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan January 15, 2010   14:59   administra ...
  
• Text of N. Korean National Defence Commission stat ...
  The National Defence Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) issued Friday the following statement. DPRK Warns S. Korean Authorities of Anti-DPRK Operation Source:  Korean News Service (KNS), Tokyo. January 15, 2010 TEXT: It was reported by foreign press that the south Kor ...
  
• Indonesian police to deport ex-CIA agent Bob Marsh ...
  The following article is from The Jakarta Post. Police to deport ex-CIA agent ©   The Jakarta Post January 15, 2010 The National Police is preparing deportation of a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent who is also wanted by the U.S. spy organization. Detective chief Comr. Gen. Ito Suma ...
  
• Statement: Response of the Islamic Emirate of Afgh ...
  The following statement is reprinted with permission from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Response of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan to UN Report on Civilian Casualties Source:  Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan January 15, 2010   01:56   administrator The United Nations Assistance Mission f ...
  

Organic Consumers.org

• OCA Files Legal Complaint with USDA Re: Organic Bo ...
  The Organic Consumers Association (OCA), along with certified organic personal care brands Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps, Intelligent Nutrients, and Organic Essence, today filed a complaint with the USDA National Organic Program (NOP), requesting an investigation into the widespread and blatantly decep ...
  
• Are Anti-Immigration Groups Hijacking the Environm ...
  Are politically extreme organizations that purport to care about environmental preservation/conservation using this alarming issue to promote their anti-immigrant agendas? Click here to read this article
  
• Shah Sworn In As USAID Administrator
  On Thursday, Rajiv Shah was sworn in as USAID administrator at an official ceremony in Washington, D.C., Foreign Policy's blog, "The Cable," reports. "Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed overwhelming praise and relief before swearing in Shah," according to the blog, which noted that Clinton ...
  
• Teamsters Urge United Natural Foods, Inc, to Uphol ...
  Today the Teamsters delivered a letter to the board of directors of United Natural Foods, Inc. urging the board to work with stakeholders to produce an enforceable and transparent code of conduct that upholds workers' fundamental rights at the company and throughout its supply chain. Click here to r ...
  
• Anti-Terrorism Officials Are Regulating Us, Not Te ...
  You didn't get a virgin when you drew me as one of your political commentators, for I've been through the fires of Texas politics, including having been elected state agriculture commissioner. Among other duties, this office made me the regulator of such matters as pesticide use, the accuracy of gas ...
  

fotoFrontera

• 55 ejemplos de foto manipulación by tspot.pl
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. La foto manipulación o creación de efectos especiales sobre las imágenes, siempre ha sido para muchos algo muy interesante. En gran parte, se debe a que es justamente ahí donde se encuentra la fusión de la imaginación co ...
  
• 33 obras majestuosas de Christian Hecker
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Si alguien desconoce por completo los límites de la imaginación, es el artista Christian Hecker , quien al igual que Raphael Lacoste y Dylan Cole , nos permiten transportarnos a un mundo paralelo donde la fantasía se fun ...
  
• 32 artworks de Dylan Cole en Presidia Creative
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Hace algunos días, les recomendaba las excelentes obras artísticas de Raphael Lacoste a través del sitio PresidiaCreative. Continuando con esta saga de artistas, me permito traerles el día de hoy la magia y creatividad d ...
  
• ScrapBook en Blogspot
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. ScrapBook , es un blog alojado en blogspot que tiene un buen de fotos bien bonitas. Al principio, creí que era un sitio parecido a The Sartorialist , pero no es así porque este blog no sólo se dedica al universo de la mo ...
  
• Foto Reportajes: Fotografías de Montreal
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Durante una de las tantas caminatas que hace con frecuencia el Reportero sin Fronteras , hoy tiene la oportunidad de compartir con ustedes una serie de imágenes de Montreal, Canadá . La nieve cubre las casas y los autos ...
  

Executive Intelligence Review

• Shut Down `Londonistan's' Terrorist Operations Now ...
  By Michele Steinberg Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 15, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 2
  
• Next Comes Hyperinflation
  By John Hoefle Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 15, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 2
  
• Russia Seeks To Develop Far East; Invites U.S. Rol ...
  By Rachel Douglas Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 15, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 2
  
• The Case for Impeachment of President Barack Obama
  By Nancy Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 15, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 2
  
• The Case of Obama: Tantamount to Treason
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 15, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 2
  

Center for a Livable Future

• Fish and Health: More to the Story
  I’d like to expand a little on my recent interview for a CNN piece by Elizabeth Landau entitled “Farmed or wild fish: Which is healthier?” At face value, this question can partialy be answered by comparing the nutritional content in farmed and wild fish and weighing the health benefits of fish consu ...
  
• My Response to Caitlin Flanagan’s Article “Cultiva ...
  This post is in response to the recently published article in the Atlantic Magazine by Caitlin Flanagan titled, “Cultivating Failure.” Ms. Flanagan makes the argument that the school garden movement presently building in California and nationwide is somehow stripping students of valuable time to bec ...
  
• The Ethanol Policy Trap
  Mention the biofuel ethanol from corn in anything but glowing terms in Iowa five years ago and one had probably best apply for witness protection. Created by political pressure from the corn and the high  fructose corn syrup industry with the lobbying from ADM and later other corn related lobby grou ...
  
• Meatless Monday Begins Week of Volunteer Events in ...
  Charm City government leaders are following the lead of the Baltimore City Public Schools (BCPS) and fully embracing the Meatless Monday campaign. Members of the the Mayor’s office, city employees and BCPS officials visited Hampstead Hill Academy this Monday to serve students meat-free meals. Accord ...
  
• Is the UK Abandoning the Precautionary Principle o ...
  The latest posting by FoodforeThought summarizes recent debate in the United Kingdom about the role of genetically modified (GM) crops in planning for future food security. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) report, Food 2030 was released at the Oxford Farming Conference. ...
  

Norwegianity

• None dare call it bigotry
  Your weekly hate list wrapped around a brick: African-Americans harassment Swastikas scrawled on churches religious books burned Homes defaced people hounded from their jobs Ku Klux Klan neo-Nazis fundamentalist right-wing hate groups bullying brown-shirt intimidation and harassment fear bullying b ...
  
• They end up in blood
  iTunes just played this and I thought you might find it as moving as I did. [seems to have trouble playing here at least it works at YouTube] Erykah Badu from her 2008 album, New Amerykah Part One (4th World War). They don’t know their language They don’t know their God They take what their give ...
  
• Spartacular
  Chomsky on Haiti. Bob Herbert on Haiti. - TBogg has some perspective on the Coakley election. I wasn’t sweating it until I learned that most of the voting machines will be Diebolds. Now I understand why Scott Brown thinks he can get away with shit like this. - Because if they didn’t say and do these ...
  
• What do you wrap a dead newspaper in?
  The Strib: dying by inches but mostly just dying. - Hey Dayen! Think you might mention Jonathan Tasini even if Marist and the NYTimes don’t? I’m acutely sensitive to this kind of stuff. One of the big reasons why Amy Klobuchar is Minnesota’s senior U.S. Senator is because her campaign did their damn ...
  
• Quotes
  Everyone’s linking to Christopher Hayes’ System Failure in The Nation. Here’s part of the reason why. There’s a word for a governing philosophy that fuses the power of government and large corporations as a means of providing services and keeping the wheels of industry greased, and it’s a word that ...
  

The Seferm Post

• Happy Birthday Michelle Obama
  US President Barack Obama has treated first lady Michelle Obama to a surprise birthday party at a tony Washington restaurant known for its commitment to organically grown food.
  
• 'Phenomenon' Tops The 20 Most Mispronounced Word I ...
  'Phenomenon' is the most mispronounced word, research shows, with its succession of 'm' and 'n' sounds presenting the greatest difficulty.
  
• Scientists Bury Pigs Alive In Snow And Left To Die
  Activists called the experiment cruel and pointless.
  
• Sick Toddler Kyra Davies Dies After Doctors Refuse ...
  Mr Davies said: ‘I’m so angry. I feel like I’ve been ripped in half.’
  
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The World We Live In

• Indian army doesn’t posses ability to fight in nig ...
  NEW DELHI: While the Indians celebrate 62nd Army Day, country’s Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor, just after a couple of weeks of announcing a new war doctrine of Indian army to eliminate Pakistan and China in matter of hours even if it has to fight on simultaneous fronts, outrageously admitted I ...
  
• Pakistan ahead of India in literacy rate: UN
  UNITED NATIONS: A United Nations agency UNFPA has said in its report that India lags behind Pakistan in literacy rate as the literacy rate here in Pakistan is much more higher than that of its rival neighbor. According to report, total 32.3 percent male while 60.4 percent female aged above 15 years ...
  
• US Not To Interfere If Zardari Goes | The News
  WASHINGTON: The United States further distanced itself from the beleaguered Zardari government on Wednesday when the State Department stated clearly that if there was a legal judgment that changes the status of the government, “it is really an internal matter for Pakistan.” State Department spo ...
  
• US spies: Israel or UK forged nukes report on Iran
  Philip M. Giraldi, PhD, is a former CIA counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer. He was also foreign policy advisor to Ron Paul during his last presidential run. US intelligence sources have confirmed Iran’s assertions that a document published by a British daily about Tehran’ ...
  
  Detained Americans had nuclear power site map | Th ...
  
    Police are trying to determine whether five Americans detained in Pakistan had planned to attack a complex that houses nuclear power facilities. The young Muslim men, who are from the Washington DC area, were arrested in Pakistan earlier this month. Pakistani police and government officials have ma ..
  
  
  
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  Israeli minister visits Abu Dhabi for first time

  Washington Post

  - Jan 17, 2010

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  IRENA was established a year ago with a mission to promote sustainable use of al forms of renewable energy. In June, Abu Dhabi was selected as the agency's ...

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  Slack US power prices slow renewable energy funds-bankers

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  - Jan 13, 2010

  - Jan 13, 2010

  By Matt Daily NEW ORLEANS, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Sluggish US electricity prices are crimping a resurgence in financing for new renewable energy projects, ...

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  Colo. Dems Want to Raise Renewable Energy Standard

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  - Jan 13, 2010

  - Jan 13, 2010

  AP Colorado Democratic state lawmakers want to increase the amount of electricity coming from renewable sources, saying the move will help the environment ...

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  Amid state's push for solar power, water-supply worries arise

  Arizona Republic

  - Jan 16, 2010

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  As the state vies for a place among the renewable-energy leaders, seeking the jobs and tax revenue a vibrant solar industry would create, officials face a ...

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  Even Plants May Not Like a Warmer World

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  - Jan 17, 2010

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  "There's a big range of very powerful interactions in nature," says Chris Field, director of Global Ecology at the Carnegie Institution at Stanford ...

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  American Ecology to Present at Needham and Company Growth Stock Conference on ...

  CNNMoney.com (press release)

  - Jan 06, 2010

  - Jan 06, 2010

  American Ecology Corporation (NASDAQ: ECOL) today announced that Jim Baumgardner, President and Chief Executive Officer; Steve Welling, ...

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  UC Davis Ecology Student Reportedly Found Following Haiti Quake

  Fox40

  - Jan 14, 2010

  - Jan 14, 2010

  DAVIS - A local graduate student who was considered missing following the massive earthquake in Haiti has been heard from and is reportedly safe and sound. ...

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  Wilder Weather Exerts a Stronger Influence on Biodiversity Than Steadily ...

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  - Jan 15, 2010

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  But lakes with the greatest temperature variations harbored a greater variety of zooplankton, they report in the journal Ecology Letters January 21. ...

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  Food, water coming to earthquake-ravaged Haiti

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  - Jan 16, 2010

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  Callaghan told reporters on a conference call Saturday that water purification units arrived Friday night, and officials hope they will produce up to 300000 ...

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  US hastens food, water delivery to Haitian quake victims

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  - Jan 17, 2010

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  The five days since the magnitude-7.0 quake have turned into an aching wait for the food, water and medical care slowly making their way from an overwhelmed ...

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  Haiti earthquake: Survivors desperate for clean water as disease takes hold

  The Guardian

  - Jan 17, 2010

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  Dehydration is now the biggest enemy, as unless people were trapped with water at hand they are unlikely to live much longer. "We are still pulling people ...

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  Toast to water rescue, 1 year later

  Chicago Tribune

  - Jan 16, 2010

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  Hollering, they raised their glasses at 3:31 pm, the moment of impact, on one of the ferries that plucked them from the water just after they splashed down. ...

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