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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Saturday, January 23, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • HAITI: 'Adoption Not the Best Choice for Quake Or ...
    PARIS, Jan 23 (IPS) - Thirty-three children from Haiti arrived in France to adoptive parents Friday evening, as charities and international organisations differed on whether adoptions should be speeded up or halted while the search for relatives continues.
  • WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Brazil - Another Power Is Pos ...
    RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 22 (IPS) - The birthplace of the World Social Forum (WSF), conceived as an alternative to international meetings pursuing free-market economics, Brazil is on its way to becoming a major economic power, analysts say. The question is, what kind of model will it adopt to avoid t ...
  • RIGHTS: Expulsions From EU Rise Sharply
    BRUSSELS, Jan 22 (IPS) - The number of asylum-seekers and other migrants expelled from the European Union in joint operations between its governments has grown three times in as many years, IPS has learned.
  • MEDIA: Slovakia Tightens the Gag
    BRATISLAVA, Jan 22 (IPS) - Fears are growing for media freedom in Slovakia amid warnings that the country's public television station has become a propaganda tool for the government ahead of elections this year.
  • MIGRATION-US: Haitians Welcome TPS Status
    NEW YORK, Jan 22 (IPS) - Throughout the New York region, but especially in Brooklyn and Queens, there is measured relief that the U.S. is finally addressing a longstanding issue: that of thousands of Haitians who have been living and – in so many cases – working and paying taxes, but are undocum ...

Scoop - NZ

  • Tuvalu tells it how it is on Climate Change
    Climate Change negotiator for Tuvalu,Ian Fry tells about the whys and wherefores and the tactics and the problems  »  PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • Six Million in the US With no Income but Food Stam ...
    Some six million Americans-one in 50 people in the US-are living on no income other than $100 or $200 a month in food stamps, according to an analysis of state data by the New York Times. The number of people who reported that they are unemployed and receive no cash aid-neither welfare, nor unemploy ...
  • Illinois foreclosures up 32% in 09
    The number of Illinois properties that got a foreclosure-related notice rose almost 32 percent last year, more than the increase for the country.A total of 131,132 properties in the state faced actions such as default notices, scheduled foreclosure auctions and bank repossessions in 2009, according ...
  • US Mortgages: walking away becomes mainstream.
    As many Americans begin to realize that it will be many years (if not decades) before their houses are worth what they owe on them, the idea of walking away from your mortgage is going mainstream.Not surprisingly, the mortgage industry is doing everything it can to prevent this, including telling ho ...
  • Obama's risky bet on Massachusetts race
    President Barack Obama will travel to Massachusetts on Sunday afternoon to campaign for Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley - a risky bet that puts Obama's own credibility on the line on behalf of a weak candidate in hopes of averting a loss that would shatter the party's 60-seat Senate super ...

Independent ( London )

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Russia warns against rushing to Iran sanctions
    Summary: Lavrov MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia on Friday cautioned world powers against rushing toward sanctions to punish Iran for spurning a U.N.-brokered proposal to send its uranium abroad for processing. source: Reuters read more
  • Engineer's arrest exposes US pursuit of Iranians
    Summary: The Iranian engineer flew to Paris with his wife, intending to see the Eiffel Tower and other tourist sites. Instead, he was arrested at the airport under a U.S. warrant — suspected of evading export controls to buy U.S. technology for Iran's military. source: AP read more
  • Iran sets condition for attending Afghan confab
    Summary: Iran said Thursday it would take part in a conference on Afghanistan in London providing its viewpoints are fully taken into consideration. source: Press TV read more
  • Iran denies rejecting UN offer
    Summary: Mottaki TEHRAN: Iran has not rejected a UN-brokered offer to exchange enriched nuclear fuel but it wants a staged swap rather than a wholesale handover of most of its stockpile, foreign ministry officials said in comments published Thursday. source: The News read more
  • US Slams Iranian Response to Third-Party Enrichmen ...
    Summary: The Iranian government delivered a memo to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today clarifying its position on the draft third party enrichment proposal. The contents of the memo were not made public. But the United States was quick to condemn its contents, with State Departm ...

The Daily Galaxy

Natural News

  • Shorty Awards exposed as rigged contest; legitimat ...
    (NaturalNews) NaturalNews has learned that the Shorty Awards are being operated fraudulently and that the voting results are fixed to exclude candidates who the editors at the Shorty Awards don't want to win. In addition, the Shorty Awards, by refusing to police its own contests, actually encourages ...
  • Health Ranger invites product companies to be inte ...
    (NaturalNews) This March 12 - 14, I'll be in Anaheim, California covering the Expo West show. I'll be there specifically looking for new products to cover and new companies to interview. My findings will be reported on NaturalNews.com, which is now reaching roughly two million unique readers each mo ...
  • "House of Numbers" AIDS / HIV documentary opens in ...
    (NaturalNews) The House of Numbers documentary by Brent Leung, which explores myths about AIDS, HIV and AIDS tests, is currently touring across U.S. universities. It opens today (January 22) at the Regal Fox Tower Stadium 10 in Portland, Oregon and runs there through January 28: 846 SW Park Ave, Por ...
  • Product review: Raw organic "Yoga Bar" from Everyt ...
    (NaturalNews) As a natural health journalist, I've tried hundreds of different raw food products and food bars. No raw food bar has impressed me more than the Yoga Bar from EverythingRaw, a company founded by Paul Mamakos, a dedicated raw foodie (and an all-around cool guy, too). EverythingRaw has n ...
  • Natural form of vitamin E protects the brain after ...
    (NaturalNews) A stroke occurs when the blood supply to part of the brain is suddenly blocked by a blood clot or when a blood vessel in the brain bursts, driving blood into the spaces surrounding brain cells, or neurons. The result can be brain damage that leaves stroke survivors with disabilities ra ...

TheGallopingBeaver

  • Bamboo Bikes
    DER SPIEGEL has an interesting article on bicycles that are greener than average, because their frames are fabricated from bamboo and hemp fibers and resin. Originally big-buck high-tech enthusiast items, they are moving to the third world as a cost-effective method of manufacture. Carbon fiber and ...
  • 'No Prorogue' Rally For Canada Tomorrow!
    Meet up on Georgia St. and march to Victory Square Bring a Canadian flag ! And cookies - I quite like cookies. Rallies at 63 other locations across Canada each one with its own wee facebook page of info .. Boots in the streets, people.
  • Your Tax Dollars at Work
    OH, HOW I LOVE THE NFB. Stevie probably hates it, but what the hell does he know? Anyway, the good folks at the NFB have posted The Cat Came Back ! Cordell Barker is so brilliant. Enjoy!
  • Vancouver police beat up a guy; media coverage blo ...
    Vancouver's finest responded to a domestic dispute call by going to the wrong suite at 2am and beating the crap out of the guy who answered the door. They were in plain clothes. Yao Wei Wu does not speak English. He said he did not resist because the men had guns. "Mr. Wu was taken to hospital wher ...
  • Freedom of Speech
    A MODEST CONSTRUCT is an interesting blog I just found. Created by Ben Gunnink [a.k.a. Heliologue] who proclaims that he lives out the phrase “specialization is for insects,” with interests ranging from literature to computer science, linguistics to physics, music to philosophy.  Anyway, he has a ve ...

Media Matters for America

  • Hannity falsely claims Abdulmutallab was not inter ...
    Sean Hannity falsely claimed that alleged Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was not interrogated, stating, "we have an underwear bomber that has information, that wanted to kill 300 Americans and we don't interrogate the guy and we let him lawyer-up." In fact, FBI Director Robert Muell ...
  • Hopeless: Fox News stands virtually alone ...
    On January 22, a wide variety of broadcast, cable, radio, and internet outlets, including CNN and MSNBC, preempted their regularly scheduled prime-time programming and aired Hope for Haiti Now , a benefit concert and telethon to raise funds for Haiti earthquake relief. But even after receiving crit ...
  • WSJ latest to spread falsehoods about Ab ...
    Accusing President Obama of "dangerous folly," The Wall Street Journal falsely claimed that Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair, "told the Senate that by immediately handing [alleged Christmas Day attacker Umar Farouk] Abdulmutallab to the civilian justice system, the government all ...
  • Media conservatives accuse Obama of "raping," dec ...
    After President Obama proposed regulatory reform over the financial services industry in order to avoid "operating under the same rules that led to its near collapse," media conservatives have stated that Obama is "bash[ing]" or engaged in a "war" on banks. Rush Limbaugh stated that Obama was " ...
  • News Corp.'s support for combating climate change ...
    News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch has stated that News Corp. "can set an example" and "reach our audiences" when it comes to fighting climate change, promising in 2007 to make all of News Corp.'s operations carbon neutral by 2010 and most recently commissioning pollster Frank Luntz to conduct a survey ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Haiti, Hope, and Cynicism
    It really is great to see the outpouring of sympathy and support for the earthquake victims. Tonight's telethon was a reminder of American generosity and empathy; this is one of the things we're good at. But I'm noticing another, less... Haiti - Earthquake - Caribbean - Organizations - Hope
  • Podhoretz: Limbaugh Can't Be An Anti-Semite, He's ...
    Well, at least there is some good news this week. Rush Limbaugh is clearly stung by the accusations that he is an anti-semite. This is after he employed the old National Socialist canard that Jews and bankers are one and... Antisemitism - Jew - Rush Limbaugh - Anti-Defamation League - Race-Ethn ...
  • Weekly Roundup: What We Missed
    A shockwave hit Washington, D.C. this week. It was summed up best by the headline that, though regrettably not ours, bears repeating: "Scott Brown Wins Mass. Race, Giving GOP 41-59 Majority in the Senate." While this was snarkily tongue-in-cheek, other... Scott Brown - Republican - Massachuset ...
  • Obama: Hawk, Dove, or Owl?
    As President Obama's State of the Union approaches next week, it's an appropriate time to assess his record during his first year in office. On national security, he has appeared to be part-hawk, part-dove, depending on the issue. On the... Barack Obama - President of the United States - State ...
  • An Orwellian Moment: NYT Editors Declare 60 Votes ...
    We're told on the front page of today's NYT that "Democrats lost a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate." We're told inside that Scott Brown's election "deprived Democrats of their 60-vote majority." Also inside, we're told that "Democrats lost their filibuster-proof... Democratic - United S ...

TruthOut

  • Guantanamo Is Still Open: Obama’s Unfinished Human ...
    One year ago today, President Barack Obama promised to close the Guantanamo detention camp, as soon as possible and in “no later than 1 year.” Guantanamo is still open. Why does this symbol of the betrayal of fundamental American values remain open and what does it say about Obama’s pledge to launch ...
  • Rubbing Salt in Guantanamo's Wounds: Task Force An ...
    With a stunning lack of sensitivity, President Barack Obama's Guantánamo Review Task Force chose the anniversary of the president's failed promise to close the prison to announce its conclusions regarding the eventual fate of 196 prisoners. read more
  • Defense Secretary Robert Gates Confirms Blackwater ...
    In an interview with the Pakistani TV station Express TV, Defense Secretary Robert Gates confirmed that the private security firms Blackwater and DynCorp are operating inside Pakistan. “They’re operating as individual companies here in Pakistan,” Gates said, according to a DoD transcript of the inte ...
  • Clinton Bluntly Condemns China on Internet Censors ...
    Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offered blunt condemnation of strict Internet censorship in China and pledged to help Chinese citizens jump the "Great Fire Wall." Beijing - Hillary Clinton’s fierce condemnation of Internet censorship in a speech Thursday, and her strong support for Google in its ...
  • Advertisers and Politicians Hunt for the "Buy-Butt ...
    Editor's Note: Truthout is joining with the World Business Academy in an effort to demonstrate popular opposition to the unethical practice of neuromarketing manipulation. Please visit the Stop Neuromarketing page to view a video and sign the petition. Guard your reptilian brain. Corporations and po ...

Planetsave

  • MN Solid Waste Reform Could Sharply Reduce Greenho ...
    A new Minnesota stakeholder report identifies 38 solid waste reform recommendations that could dramatically reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions. A report submitted December 31 to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) outlines 38 ways the state could achieve a 20-year reduction of 5 ...
  • 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 ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Portland General Electric plans to shut down its c ...
    Austin is not alone in preparing for clean and affordable energy. When good news like this comes across the internet like this, we have to share. From the cloudy northwest: Portland General Electric Co. would shut down the state’s only coal-fired power plant 20 years earlier than planned under a p ...
  • Tree Sitters Halt Blasting On Coal River Mountain
    Blasting on Coal River Mountain was halted due to a tree sit by three activists: Eric Blevins, 28, Amber Nitchman, 19, and David Aaron Smith, 23.  On standby at the trees’ base were the direct supporters Josh Graupera, 19, and Isabelle Rozendaal, 22. Associated with Climate Ground Zero and Mountain ...
  • Renewable Energy Opportunities for Rural Communiti ...
    Live anywhere close to Stephenville?  Next Tuesday, January 26th there will be a forum there titled “Renewable Energy Opportunities for Rural Communities and Agriculture.”  Speakers will present information on how rural communitities, agriculture, and landowners can benefit from partnering to deve ...
  • Protect Texas from Becoming Nation’s Radioactive W ...
    SEED Coalition opposes any radioactive waste dumping in Texas, but at minimum seeks to prevent our state from receiving waste from more than just the two Compact States and becoming the nation’s radioactive waste dump. With support from Public Citizen, Environment Texas and Nuclear Information and R ...
  • Coal Fight! Kennedy vs Blankenship
    Thursday evening at 6:30pm Robert F. Kennedy Jr will debate Don Blankenship, the CEO of Massey Energy – the largest coal producer in West Virginia. The subject of debate is the future of coal, Mountain Top Removal (MTR) mining, and economic opportunities for Appalachia. Kennedy is the chief litigat ...

Press TV

  • Train derailment kills 8 in northeastern Iran
    At least eight people have lost their lives and fifteen others sustained injuries after a passenger train en route from Mashhad to Tehran derailed.
  • Sarkozy urges UN to act up on Iran
    With the Western push for tougher sanctions on Iran failing to win support in China and Russia, French President Nicholas Sarkozy calls for UN action against the Tehran government
  • Report: US test aimed at Iran caused Haiti quake
    An unconfirmed report by the Russian Northern Fleets says the Haiti earthquake was caused by a flawed US Navy 'earthquake weapons' test before the weapons could be utilized against Iran.
  • UK raises terror threat level to severe
    Britain has raised its terror threat level to the second-highest level after intelligence reports suggest a possible rise in terror attacks.
  • US stocks shrink for second day
    US stocks have plunged for a second straight day on unease generated by Obama's bank revamp plans and renewed concerns about the economic outlook.

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Is a Tea Party Dynamic Growing on the Left?
    Martha Coakley's defeat was largely about the candidate and local issues, but a restless national environment should raise some troubling parallels to Democrats. For more on pruning back executive power see Pruning Shears . No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Most of ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Yellow Dog is still under the weather, so send some white light toward Kentucky, if you would please. Thanks. --BG 84-year-old woman pulled from the rubble alive after ten days "An 84-year-old woman has been rescued after spending 10 days under rubble following the Haiti quake. ... Doctors say the w ...
  • George Will's Corporate "Free Speech" Hypocrisy
    Like most conservatives, George F. Will thinks yesterday's Supreme Court decision allowing the hostile corporate takeover of American democracy was just dandy -- "gratifyingly radical" as Will characteristically put it. "For almost four decades now," says the Post's right wing columnist, "what has b ...
  • No, no, no, no, no. A thousand times, NO!
    One of the founding principles of this once-great nation is that we are a nation of laws and those who stand accused have a right to contest their imprisonment in a court of law and have the evidence against them presented. I don't give a fuck who you are, or where you come from, you have that right ...
  • With One Malevolent Decision On Campaign Finance, ...
    Forget about the Massachusetts Senate election. Republican Scott Brown's win in a special election there is a minor setback compared to the Roberts court's 5-4 decision Thursday on campaign finance. With the reaffirmation of the long-standing fiction of "a corporation is a legal person," the reactio ...

Care 2

  • Support Our Troops weekend at Windham Mountain
    GREENE COUNTY, N.Y. -- They call them wounded warriors. Men and women who risked their lives for our country and were injured on the battlefield. Submitted by Dee C. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Carbon Equation
    The Nature Conservancy and its partners are working to harness the power of photosynthesis to fight climate change. If they succeed, the venture could become a breakthrough for forest conservation and efforts to reduce the greenhouse-gas emissions ... Submitted by Chris Otahal to Environment  |   N ...
  • Scope of Haiti's need is overwhelming
    (CNN) -- It has become a commonplace that it is hard to comprehend the disaster in Haiti. If so, and if we hope to provide Haitians with anything like the help that they need, then we must understand where our minds fail us Submitted by Dee C. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • ACLU : Close Guantanamo
    One year ago, President Obama took decisive action to restore civil liberties--issuing an executive order to close GuantAnamo. Yet, one year later, we are still far away from ending one of the most shameful chapters of American history. Submitted by Daphna Yanez to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it! ...
  • Time is running out for Scottish seals - please ta ...
    The fate of seals in Scotland will be decided on Thursday 4 February when a new Marine Bill will be agreed by the Scottish Parliament. 90% of the UK’s globally important seal populations are in Scottish waters. With just a few simple clicks and 2 minute Submitted by Daphna Yanez to Animals  |   No ...

GreenBiz

Reuters Global

  • Haiti and “the bad dream of newspaper headli ...
    Many journalists may feel like the ghost of Graham Greene is looking over their shoulders as they seek to chronicle the suffering in a seemingly hopeless country.
  • The unnumbered dead
    A new report suggests only have as many people may have died in Congo's wars as previously estimated. How much faith can we put in such figures? How much use are they?
  • Will EU ever move on from “soft touch” ...
    The European Union may be home to 500 million people and the world's largest trading bloc, but when it comes to international diplomacy it bats far below its weight. Individual states want to pursue their own foreign policy agendas. But "soft power" diplomacy - projecting the EU's image through over ...
  • Haiti’s plea: “We need help”
    Just outside of CARE's offices in Pétionville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, hundreds of newly homeless people are camped out in a public square. During the day, they wait patiently in the scorching sun. But at night, when hunger and thirst overtake them, groups of people can be heard clapping and cha ...
  • United Nations confronts life and death in Haiti
    Sadly, such survival stories were the exception. As many as 200,000 people are believed to have died in the earthquake and some of their bodies may never be recovered. A group of containers at the U.N. logistics base at the Port-au-Prince airport, which several U.N. officials insisted was not refrig ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • New Rule: “One Corporation, Lots of Votes”
    Dear Democracy, We wish we could afford better flowers, but times are tough for most of us. Now that the Supreme Court has accorded corporations the status of “individuals with free speech,” they have the clout to determine who represents us, and we know that it is not “us” who will be heard. You ...
  • The End of Hope
    The tsunami effects of the Massachusetts election results Tuesday night are still being felt, not only throughout the United States but also throughout the world. In “The World Bids Farewell to Obama” (!), the esteemed German publication Der Spiegel notes: US President Barack Obama suffered a painf ...
  • “He’s Done Everything Wrong” – Hell Hath No Fury…
    Like a voter scorned. Many of us are reaping the sweet rewards of, “I Told You So” with many of our Obot friends, family, and acquaintances. We did, we tried, we hoped, we cried, and nothing would sway them from the One True Messiah of Obama. Well, those days seem to be [...]
  • If Wall Street Wants a Fight, Obama Should…
    Earthquakes always lead to after-shocks. With all due respect and sensitivity to the residents of Haiti, the earthquake felt in the Massachusetts Senate election on Tuesday has led to the after-shock dropped on Wall Street yesterday by President Obama. Obama’s call to limit the size and risk-taking ...
  • Obama Revealed!
    The intrepid sleuths at “The Heraclitan Fire” have made a truly astonishing find (dumpster-diving outside the offices of a well known image manipulation and PR firm). They have discovered an unfinished document which answers many questions we have all had about Obama and provides a peek into the inn ...

Environmental Graffiti

Foreign Policy in Focus

  • Africa Policy Outlook 2010
    The Africa Policy Outlook is an annual publication released jointly by Africa Action and Foreign Policy In Focus that highlights key themes and trends in U.S. Africa policy.
  • Energy and Climate Change: C+
    Some significant actions but a failure to follow through.
  • Global Economy: C
    After one year, it's hard to point to new global economic policies that are better for people and the planet. But the Obama administration has helped bust open the debate over globalization policies.
  • Coup in Honduras: D
    The administration condemned the coup but eventually acceded to the coup leaders' conditions.
  • China: The Prince of Denmark
    Like Hamlet, Shakespeare's conflicted Prince of Denmark, China was caught between conflicting currents in Copenhagen. Its failure to manage these challenges, argues columnist Walden Bello, led to its biggest diplomatic debacle in years.

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

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

  • Demise of Stare Decisis under the Stewardship of C ...
    Regarding judicial power, more than 225 years ago the Virginian Patrick Henry famously stated that: Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances to prevent abuse of power. However, where is the check ...
  • US Corporate Media Propagandizes Haiti Tragedy
    The following analysis traces the long history of imperial domination and exploitation of Haiti by the United States. The US Corporate media covers the “humanitarian’ message of US military control and fails to include the historical context of over 100 years of imperialism. Haiti’s tragedy: A crime ...
  • Dozens Arrested in Washington Dc Protesting US Tor ...
    42 Arrested at U.S. Capitol in Day of Action to Denounce Obama’s Broken Promises on Guantanamo, America’s Broken Laws, and the Breaking of Lives by Torture Washington, DC: In a dramatic protest, 42 activists with Witness Against Torture were arrested this afternoon at the U.S. Capitol. Most of the a ...
  • Supreme Court Empowers the Transnational Corporate ...
    Supreme Court Empowers the Transnational Corporate Class to Buy US Congress Through Domestic Corporations. Manchurian Candidates: Supreme Court allows China and others unlimited spending in US elections By Greg Palast | Updated from the original report for AlterNet Thursday, January 21, 2010 In to ...
  • It’s the “New Haiti!”
    Michel Collins The appointment of former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush as key players in Haitian relief should cause the people of Haiti grave concern, if they weren’t otherwise preoccupied with survival. These former presidents’ records as pro-life advocates on the international scene ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

Institute for Policy Studies

Pine River World News

  • The age of the killer robot is no longer a sci-fi ...
    The following commentary is from The Independent, U.K. The age of the killer robot is no longer a sci-fi fantasy ©   The Independent By Johann Hari January 22, 2010 You can't appeal to robots for mercy or empathy - or punish them afterwards In the dark, in the silence, in a blink, the age of the ...
  • IBM buys spook-riddled DC services expert
    The following article is from The Register, U.K. IBM buys spook-riddled DC services expert ©   The Register By Timothy Prickett Morgan January 20, 2010 Spending on defence and security is probably the one sure growth market in the United States. It therefore comes as no surprise that IBM has acqui ...
  • Ramzy Baroud: Iran and Latin America
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Ramzy Baroud. Iran and Latin America ©  Ramzy Baroud January 20, 2009 Should the United States be concerned about Iran's determined efforts to reach out to Latin America? Or, as was suggestively described in the Economist, by the Ayatollahs' ...
  • Christianity vs. Islam: U.S. military in Iraq and ...
    [ Blogmaster note : Muslims throughout the Middle East and Central Asia have long accused the West of engaging in a religious war against Islam. In contrast, the West has explained the 'War on Terror' as 'Good vs Evil'. But is this really the case?] The following article is from the USA's ABC 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 ...

PDA AMERICA

  • IOT: Healthcare for All/Single Payer January Call
    A stellar group of guests spoke to over 80 callers, answering questions submitted in the PDA Chat Room. Minnesota Senator John Marty, Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidate for governor, spoke about single payer legislation in MN, with ...
  • Satire: Top CEO Defends America’s Health Insuranc ...
    Satire: Top CEO Defends America’s Health Insurance Industry (press conference) By Carmen Yarrusso | PDA Blog Contributor Good morning. I’ll open with a brief comment and then take questions… America’s health insurance industry is being ...
  • Report: Protest at Harman Fundraiser
    By Tobi Daggert | PDA Blog Contributor About 15 or 20 protesters showed up at Saturday’s Jane Harman fundraiser in LA. Harman and Lynn Woolsey had to go right through the crowd to get to the ...
  • Bush Attorney Charged With Attempted Murder
    This just in. More Republican traditional family values… John Michael Farren, who served as deputy counsel to President George W. Bush, has been charged with strangulation and attempted murder after allegedly choking his wife and beating ...
  • Prog Caucus/CDP letter to Rep. Woosley
    The Progressive Caucus of the California Democratic Party writes a letter of disapproval to Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey & pledges support for PDA-endorsed Candidate Marcy Winograd. Says Winograd, “I am honored to have the support ...

Marler Blog

  • Daniele, Inc. Voluntarily Recalls Pepper-Coated Sa ...
    From a company press release: Daniele, Inc. announced today it is initiating a voluntary recall of its Pepper-Coated Salame products because of possible concerns about salmonella. Preliminary results indicate that eleven ill individuals had consumed salame products from "Daniele Italian Brand Gourme ...
  • CDC Announces 38 State Salmonella Montevideo Outbr ...
    From a CDC post of a few moments ago: CDC is collaborating with public health officials in many states, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate a multistate outbreak of Salmonella serotype Montevid ...
  • BPI vs Iowa State University - the plot thickens, ...
    I wanted to make sure that I got my letter in support of Iowa State and its obligations under its Public Documents Laws out today.  I am glad to see that the University is in the corner of transparency.  As a former Regent at a state university, I too understand the need for an open public discourse ...
  • Salmonella Montevideo Outbreak in the Offing - Dan ...
    Salmonella Montevideo Since it is Friday, expect a recall tonight (or over the weekend) from FSIS on a meat-like product ( Daniele Salami ) contaminated with Salmonella Montevideo that has sickened over 200, with some 30 hospitalized in several states.  The outbreak has been ongoing for months. The ...
  • Salmonella Montevideo Outbreak in the Offing
    Salmonella Montevideo The term Salmonella refers to a group or family of bacteria that has been known to cause illness in humans for over 100 years. Salmonella bacteria are usually transmitted to humans by eating foods contaminated with animal feces or foods that have been handled by infected food w ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 01.22.10
    Volvo C30 electric vehicle uses ... ethanol for heat This is the first time we've heard this particular strategy. Report: GM to invest "hundreds of millions" into pickups with fuel-saving tech ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 01.21.10
    Trexa platform lets you develop your own damn electric vehicle! Stop complaining and DIY is the message here. Bu$ vs. car? Public transit can save riders an average of $9,200 a year Chump cha ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 01.20.10
    Chevy Volt, cellulosic ethanol named two of the year's biggest losers Less hype, cheaper price would have helped. GM clarifies Volt's "low 30s" price is only possible after tax credit No surp ...
  • GM clarifies Volt's "low 30s" price is only possib ...
    Filed under: Hybrid , Sedan , Chevrolet , GM , Earnings/Financials , Electric 2011 Chevrolet Volt - Click above for high-res image gallery $40,000. That's the potential price we've heard for the first-gen Chevrolet Volt for ages , and it's the number we get again, now that the recent "low 30s" p ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 01.19.10
    Is the Obama Administration calling the shots in Detroit? Newsweek says yes But they don't make a convincing argument. Toyota's Koei Saga: "I think we will never abandon the internal-combustion engine" ...

Rafe's Radar

  • Reporters Roundtable podcast: Charity 2.0
    This week: Charity in a Connected World. The January 12 earthquake and humanitarian disaster in Haiti had an important technological component: Through the text message giving program, the Red Cross raised $26 million in funds in just 9 days. That's not just a large amount of money to be raised ...
  • Amazon adds optional DRM for Kindle publishers
    Independent publishers learn that their Kindle books were already unprotected as Amazon adds option to enable DRM on upload.
  • Seesmic makes Twitter pretty, with Look
    Now you can consume Twitter without contributing, or even logging in.
  • BumpTop brings 3D, physics to Mac desktop
    Is this the desktop of the future, or just a toy?
  • 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 ...

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 _Riz Khan_: "The Role of Media in t ...
    Has the mainstream media in the US replaced serious coverage with “junk news” and tabloidism? Especially in foreign affairs, are Americans less informed than ever? Who is shaping their perceptions of the rest of the world? And who is policing US foreign policy? Riz Khan speaks with Amy Goodman a ...
  • The Poetic Justice of Dennis Brutus
    Dennis Brutus broke rocks next to Nelson Mandela when they were imprisoned together on notorious Robben Island. His crime, like Mandela’s, was fighting the injustice of racism, challenging South Africa’s apartheid regime. Brutus’ weapons were his words: soaring, searing, poetic. He was banned, he w ...
  • Dennis Brutus (1924-2009): South African Poet and ...
    World-renowned South African poet and activist Dennis Brutus died in his sleep on December 26th in Cape Town. He was 85 years old. Read more
  • NOAM CHOMSKY: "Gaza: One Year Later"
    On December 27, 2008, Israel began one of the bloodiest attacks on Gaza Since 1948. The three week assault killed some 1400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis. One year later, little to no rebuilding has taken place and the siege in Gaza continues. Speaking in Watertown, Massachusetts on December 6, 2 ...
  • CHRIS HEDGES: "Empire of Illusion: The End of Lite ...
    Journalist Chris Hedges discusses his recent book “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle” at the New School in New York. Chris Hedges is a senior fellow at the Nation Institute. His writing appears regularly in Foreign Affairs , Harper’s , the New York Review of B ...

Farming Pathogens

  • The Expulsion
    In 1845 a diplomat delivered a letter from Friedrich Wilhelm to Louis Philippe of France protesting the insults leveled at the Prussian king by expatriates living in Paris. King Louis had the radicals’ newspaper closed down and the group, along with one Karl Marx, deported. This was not the first ti ...
  • 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. ...

Digg Green

Invisible Opportunity

  • Tezcatlipoca, Hunger Porn and Corporate Obeah
    By Les Visible We’ve got a lot of smoking mirrors in operation at the moment. Where there’s smoke there’s fire and we’ve got lots of fire too; the fire of impure desire, as one or more tenants of various spiritual traditions might label it. Is Haiti the plural of ‘hater’? Is there a logical and comp ...
  • Gaspar Llamazares, Spaniard Used In Bin Laden Pict ...
    By Ciaran Giles A Spanish lawmaker on Tuesday angrily rejected the United States’ apology for the FBI’s using a photo of him to create a poster showing what Osama bin Laden might look like today. Gaspar Llamazares, of Spain’s communist-run United Left party, demanded the U.S. investigate the inciden ...
  • $10,000 reward offered for scientific proof of H1N ...
    By Mike Adams In conjunction with NaturalNews, the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center (www.ConsumerWellness.org) has publicly offered a $10,000 reward for any person, company or institution who can provide trusted, scientific evidence proving that any of the FDA-approved H1N1 vaccines being offered ...
  • Haiti – An Unwelcome Katrina Redux
    By Cynthia McKinney, former Georgia congresswoman and 2008 Green Party presidential candidate January 20, 2010 “Information Clearing House” — President Obama’s response to the tragedy in Haiti has been robust in military deployment and puny in what the Haitians need most: food; first responders an ...
  • Chavez says US ‘weapon’ caused Haiti q ...
    Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez Wednesday accused the United States of causing the destruction in Haiti by testing a ‘tectonic weapon’ to induce the catastrophic earthquake that hit the country last week. President Chavez said the US was “playing God” by testing devices capable of creating eco-type ca ...

    Insurgency Watch - Posts

  • InsurgencyWatch moving to True/Slant
    In the coming days, InsurgencyWatch will be moving to True/Slant, “an original content news network tailored to both the ‘Entrepreneurial Journalist’ and marketers who want a more effective way to engage with digital audiences.” (That’s what the official about page says.) It’s not a decision I’ve ma ...
  • Kerry-Lugar’s First Victim
    If true, this is total bullshit: After strong criticism on the Kerry-Lugar bill in Pakistan, the government has decided to replace Pakistan’s ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqani and the announcement in this respect is expected within the next two days. There’s nothing in the bill reasonable Pakist ...
  • Pakistan’s Civil War Heating Up
    In the aftermath of this weekend’s assault on the Pakistani General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, the Taliban hit again in Alpuri, in the Shangla district east of Mingora in Swat. According to military sources who asked to remain anonymous because they weren’t authorized to talk to the press, a 13- or ...
  • At Home with a Swat Lashkar
    I just finished up a few days in Swat and while I’m working on a story about it, I thought you might like to see a few pictures I took while there. Enjoy. Share/Save
  • FACTBOX: Uzbek militant leader killed in Pakistan ...
    Washington PostFACTBOX: Uzbek militant leader killed in PakistanReutersBy this time he is thought to have fled the region for the safe haven of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. * Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader ...Pakistan to Target Taliba...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • GreeningOfOil.Com – Big Oils Ultimate Greenwash?
    There is a new online magazine in town called Greening Of Oil and it's no Algae Bio-fuel, that's for sure! Related posts: Oil – The Cold Black Facts – A Special Report Solar Power from Outer Space: Microwaves and Frickin’ Lasers The Proof versus Belief Conundrum in Reference to Climate Change
  • Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Writing Ant-Environmental Le ...
    Today, the Senate will consider an outrageous proposal, written with fossil fuel lobbyists, that undermines the Clean Air Act’s ability to limit harmful carbon pollution. Related posts: Fuel Efficiency for Cars and Light Trucks to be Raised 40 Percent Fossil Free Automotive Oil Uses Animal Fats ...
  • Web Organization Teaches Kids How to Grow Algae
    In response to the growing interest in algae cultures on the part of teachers, educators and students, a website set up to promote algae has released an educational kit Related posts: Cultivate Some Green Life with a Homemade Algae Photobioreactor Algae to Oil – Cop15 Interview with Solazyme CTO H ...
  • 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 ...

Inhabitat

  • Jean Luc Cornec’s Re-purposed Rotary Phone Sheep
    Where do rotary phones sit within today’s more modern, more digitized world? Does our constant manipulation of these familiar and classic, yet obsolete, objects in art and design signify a desire for a more natural state of being? Jean Luc Cornec’s exhibit at the Museum of Communications i ...
  • Ironhorse: Sustainably-Built Affordable Housing in ...
    Affordable housing developments are all too often shoddily built, with little consideration given towards environmental impact. That’s why Ironhorse at Central Station, a planned development in Oakland, California, is so impressive. The development, built on abandoned former industrial land, will fe ...
  • DIY Meditation Temple Built from Salvaged Material ...
    We could all use a peaceful escape from the bustle and stress of our daily lives, but not many of us have the luxury or time to hop on a plane and jet off to a secluded beach or private mountain cabin. But what if we told you that a similar place existed in your [...]
  • Water Tanks Recycled into Kids’ Palaces at India’s ...
    When one sees a discarded water tank, images of miniature kids’ palaces don’t typically come to mind. But Katell Gelebart, a very clever, eco-minded designer saw the old water tanks being cleared during the construction of The Dune eco resort in Pondicherry, India, and decided they would make the pe ...
  • BOOK REVIEW: Confessions of a Radical Industrialis ...
    Is it possible for a business to go green and make green at the same time? Ray Anderson, founder of global carpeting company Interface and some say the grandfather of corporate sustainability, thinks so and reveals exactly how he did it in his new book Confessions of a Radical Industrialist. Want to ...

Pogue's Posts

  • Introducing Pogue (In)Direct
    How to subscribe to and follow all of David Pogue's activities online.
  • Bogus Tech Measurements
    Day in and day out, the electronics industry manipulates us. They publish "speeds and feeds" in big bold type - measurements that turn out to mean almost nothing.
  • 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.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Outreach Going Wrong?
    The scientist – When we talk nano to the public, we are leaving behind key audiences. Scholars, policy-makers, and outreach specialists in the nanotechnology community may be struggling with toxicological data and regulatory frameworks, but they seem to be able to agree on one thing: The public is u ...
  • MRSA superbug strains ‘tracked’ via genome
    BBC – Researchers have developed a technique for precisely tracking the spread of the superbug MRSA in hospitals. The team from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge looked at the genomes of MRSA strains from across the globe and at one hospital in Thailand. They were able to spot small c ...
  • NSA beats warrantless wiretap rap
    The Register – A Federal judge has dismissed a complaint against the National Security Agency’s (NSA) Bush-era warrantless wiretapping programme, prompting suggestions the US government is now able to mount mass surveillance operations unhindered by the courts or constitution. Five AT&T customers su ...
  • UN climate change expert: there could be more erro ...
    The Times – The Indian head of the UN climate change panel defended his position yesterday even as further errors were identified in the panel’s assessment of Himalayan glaciers. Dr Rajendra Pachauri dismissed calls for him to resign over the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change’s retraction ...
  • Speedy Spreading Mechanism of Viruses: Cell-surfin ...
    BBC – Some viruses may be able to accelerate around the body by helping each other find uninfected cells to attack, scientists say. The mechanism, caught on camera by experts at London’s Imperial College, may explain the improbable speed with which some viruses spread. The virus detects if a cell i ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Haiti, Beware Amerikkkans Bearing Gifts: “Ai ...
    Haiti, Beware Amerikkkans Bearing Gifts: “Aid” Becomes Pretext for U$ Colonial Occupation (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) (monkeysmashesheAmidst all the self-congratulatory noise about Amerikan “aid” to Haiti, the U$ has subjected the country to military occupation, with thousands of U$ soldier ...
  • Μερικές προκαταρκτικές σκέψεις πάνω στο «κοινωνικό ...
    Μερικές προκαταρκτικές σκέψεις πάνω στο «κοινωνικό εργοστάσιο» Αυθεντικός τίτλος: Some tentative thoughts on the “social factory” (1) Από Prairie Fire (monekysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Το κοινωνικό εργοστάσιο Σύμφωνα με τον Αντόνιο Νέγκρι (Antonio Negri) η καπιταλιστική ανάπτυξη, χωρίζεται σε τρε ...
  • The Real Avatar: Mine – story of a sacred mo ...
    The Real Avatar: Mine – story of a sacred mountain (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) (thanks to vrinternationalists.wordpress.com) Imperialist corporations exploit the people and resources of India. The story of London-based Vedanta mining’s attack on India’s tribal peoples is a real life ver ...
  • Movie Review: Daybreakers (Michael Spierig, 2010)
    Movie Review: Daybreakers (Michael Spierig, 2010) (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) “Capital is dead labour which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour.” “[The prolongation of the working day] only slightly quenches the vampire thirst for the living blood of labour.” “[The] vampire w ...
  • Παγκόσμια ανισότητα ή Σοσιαλιστική ισότητα
    Παγκόσμια ανισότητα ή Σοσιαλιστική ισότητα Από Prairie Fire (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Λέγεται ότι,η χρήση της ισοτιμίας ως αρχής που θα ρύθμιζε τη διανομή,έρχεται σε αντίθεση με προσεγγίσεις που επικεντρώνονται στο μηχανισμό της εκμετάλλευσης.Ιδιαίτερα λέγεται,ότι έρχεται σε αντίθεση με τ ...

PakAlert

  • Wake Up Project: Interview of Sheikh Imran Hosein ...
    Must See: The Wakeup Project: Phase 3, The Arrivals Series & The Divine Book Full Disclosure: Gog & Magog, 2012 and the Significance of Pakistan Imran Hosein: OBAMA’S AFGHAN SURGE, PAKISTAN’S MOMENT OF TRUTH AND DEATH OF THE US DOLLAR Video: More Evidence The Pentagon Is Fighting A Religious Crusade ...
  • Oil in Haiti – Economic Reasons for the UN/US Occu ...
    There is evidence that the United States found oil in Haiti decades ago and due to the geopolitical circumstances and big business interests of that era made the decision to keep Haitian oil in reserve for when Middle Eastern oil had dried up. by Marguerite Laurent Open Salon Engineered Earthq ...
  • Ron Paul: After ‘CIA Coup’ The Agency Runs The Mil ...
    By Raw Story US House Rep. Ron Paul says the CIA has in effect carried out a “coup” against the US government, and the intelligence agency needs to be “taken out.” Speaking to an audience of like-minded libertarians at a Campaign for Liberty regional conference in Atlanta this past weekend, the Tex ...
  • Video: More Evidence The Pentagon Is Fighting A Re ...
    Watch all videos. Watch all Phase 3 videos. Must See: Full Disclosure: Gog & Magog, 2012 and the Significance of Pakistan Imran Hosein: OBAMA’S AFGHAN SURGE, PAKISTAN’S MOMENT OF TRUTH AND DEATH OF THE US DOLLAR Obama’s War On Yemen: Another Last Day Prediction Coming True? Israel did 9/11, ALL ...
  • Cold Start: Indian Threat to Pakistan & China
    By Farzana Shah In 2005 India announced a new military doctrine called Start Cold mainly targeting Pakistan as its potential enemy. In November 2009, Indian army chief made a statement that there is a possibility of a limited war between Pakistan and India in a nuclear overhang. In December 2009, ...

ecogeek

  • Checking Up on 2009's Green Cars
    Last year, Hank attended the NAIAS auto show in Detroit, and gave us a rundown on the various green cars he saw there. I thought it would be good to take a look at last year's list and see how things have lined up for these companies. This was already a year when the majority of manufacturers att ...
  • Solar Power Playing Major Role in Haiti Relief
    The people of Haiti are facing a long and difficult road to recovery.  Their power infrastructure has been demolished and fuel for generators and cooking is scarce, but they do have one thing on their side:  abundant sunshine.  Many solar power companies and non-profits are focusing on that resourc ...
  • Greenpeace Releases 2010 Green Electronics Ranking ...
    This year's annual Greenpeace "Guide to Greener Electronics" has been released, and it is a mixed bag. The lowest scores are higher than they were last year, but the highest scores are lower. Nokia is still at the top. In 2009, they were at 7.45, but in 2010 they are down to 7.3. Samsung, whi ...
  • Driving an American-Built Electric Car
    Advanced Mechanical Products (AMP) wasn't on the show floor in Detroit at this year's North American International Auto Show, but a few of the company's representatives brought the company's X Prize competition entry vehicle to Detroit. Initially, I was offered a chance to drive the car out on the ...
  • Offshore Wind Turbines Help Sustain Marine Life
    A study of offshore wind farms off Europe's coasts has revealed that the structures pose no threat to marine life, and in fact, they help sustain it. Scientists at Stockholm University's Zoology Department conducted the study and found that the turbine foundations acted as habitats for fish, crabs, ...

Times Online - Science

  • Deep-sea snail’s triple-shell inspires new g ...
    An armoured deep-sea snail could inspire a new generation of military materials, according to a team of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  • Nick Clegg pledges to curb libel law's 'chilling e ...
    English libel law is a “legal farce” that needs urgent reform to stop it from gagging scientists and endangering public health, Nick Clegg said today.
  • 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.

Environment _ National Geographic

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

  • 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 ...
  • Oath Keepers Chief Denies Accused Rapist Was Membe ...
    Antigovernment “Patriots” are pledging support for a former Marine and self-described Oath Keeper who recently was charged with the rape of a child in Oklahoma and illegally having a grenade launcher. They say the man is being set up because of his own unorthodox and antigovernment views. Stewart Rh ...
  • Turner Case Ends in Mistrial
    Hal Turner’s case ended in a mistrial today after a jury was unable to decide whether the hate blogger was guilty of threatening three federal judges. A new trial is set for March 1 in Brooklyn, according to The Associated Press. The jury voted 9-3 for acquittal, according to the only juror who spok ...
  • Controversial Oregon Campus Group is Relocated
    Pacifica Forum, the once-left-wing Eugene, Ore., discussion group now notorious for its expressions of extreme-right bigotry, has been moved out of the student union at the University of Oregon following widespread protests. University officials announced at a student government meeting Wednesday ni ...
  • The Last Word: Hatewatch’s 3rd Annual Smackdown Aw ...
    It’s that time of the year again, and Hatewatch’s intrepid staff is just now climbing out of the protective moonsuits needed to trawl through the year’s worst from the filth-spewing hate-mongers and fellow travelers who populate the radical right in America. Once more, we’ve done our best to go beyo ...

change: org.

  • Junk Food Unwelcome in Canadian Schools, Eh?
    In the land where maple syrup pours from trees, a new law in Ontario will take junk food off the cafeteria menu. As Katherine reports on our Sustainable Food blog , Ontario noticed that the young 'uns were getting past cute pudgy -- after all, they need some buffer fat to keep warm against that Cana ...
  • Peacetime Air Strikes are Not Strategically Justif ...
    Feel like a tough debate? Take this one on. After working in ten war zones, losing several colleagues in terror bombings, and training stateside in the U.S. Marines, I've spent years examining whether air strikes and assassinations of suspected terror wielders and mass murderers can be justified as ...
  • Students Recruited to War on Poaching
    Wildlife officials in Scotland are bringing the war on poaching to the classroom. Programs about the crime will be offered to schools in an effort to raise awareness about the human threats faced by wildlife, particularly endangered species. The newest initiative to combat the illegal killing of ani ...
  • 100 Lashes for Being Raped in Saudi Arabia
    In Saudi Arabia, "victim-blaming" rises to particularly draconian heights: rape victims are flogged for engaging in "illicit sex." A Filipino woman who the media have dubbed "Camille" traveled to Saudi Arabia to work and send money home to her family. While there, a coworker raped her. Did she go to ...
  • Ain't No Such Thing as a Marginal Habitat
    A recent news report in the journal Science highlights an often overlooked edict of Mother Nature: In the long run, there is no such thing as a marginal habitat. The story of Alaska's long-debated Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay is a case in point. Scientists have traced the boom and bust cycles of salmo ...

Common Dreams -News

  • FDIC Chief Got Bank of America Loans While Working ...
    by Keith Epstein and David Heath Sheila Bair, one of the chief regulators overseeing Bank of America's federal rescue, took out two mortgages worth more than $1 million from the banking giant last summer during ongoing negotiations about the bank's bailout and its repayment. In the weeks between the ...
  • Ruling on Spending May Alter Political Terrain
    by Adam Liptak WASHINGTON - Overruling two important precedents about the First Amendment rights of corporations, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections. The 5-to-4 decision was a vindication, the m ...
  • Jack Straw Tells Iraq Inquiry He Could Have Stoppe ...
    In a lengthy submission to the official Iraq Inquiry, the former foreign secretary described his decision to back military action in March 2003 as ''the most difficult I have ever faced in my life''. But Mr Straw, who is now the Justice Secretary, said he had never ''backed away'' from the choice th ...
  • Haiti Elderly Suffer With Help Just a Mile Away
    by Alfred deMontesquiou PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - More than a week after their nursing home collapsed, dozens of elderly Haitians are still begging for food and medicine in a downtown Port-au-Prince slum barely a mile from the international airport where tons of aid are pouring in. "It's as if everybo ...
  • CIA Contractor Now Flying Spy Drone Over Haiti
    by Noah Shachtman A controversial CIA contractor has found new work in Haiti, flying drones on disaster recovery duty. When last we heard from Evergreen International Aviation, the Oregon-based firm was offering to post sentries at local voting centers during the 2008 election, " detaining troublema ...

Lifehacker

  • Use the Universal Edibility Test to Find Food in a ...
    While we hope you never find yourself in the kind of survival situation that has you foraging for wild plants to eat, if you should find yourself in such a situation the Universal Edibility Test can save your life. Photo by BarefootGardener . The Universal Edibility Test is a series of tests you can ...
  • Take a Breather in This Week's Open Thread [Open T ...
    Another Friday, another work week under your belt. Pat yourself on the back for a job well done in our weekly open thread. Photo by ~Twon~ . You can chat and ask questions with your fellow readers all week long at the #openthread hashtag page, but our weekly open thread post is your opportunity to r ...
  • Replace Your Lost Cellphone Charger for Free [Tric ...
    Ever forget your cellphone charger at a hotel? Turns out that's an extremely common mistake—one you can use to your advantage to replace your lost charger, whether you lost it there or not. Over at community news site Reddit, a user points out his clever trick: Next time you lose your phone charger ...
  • Firefox 3.6 Portable Available for Your Thumb Driv ...
    Windows: It's always exciting when a new release of your favorite browser comes out, but if you're a Firefox Portable user, you've always got to twiddle your thumbs a touch longer. Well twiddle no longer; Firefox 3.6 Portable is available for download. The quick-on-their-toes team at PortableApps.co ...
  • Humidify Your Home for Increased Winter Comfort [H ...
    If it seems like your skin is dryer, you get zapped with static shocks more often, and you wake up frequently with a stuffy nose, you're not just imagining things—you're experiencing the effects of low humidity. Photo by dolapo . Even if you live in an area that has hot and humid summers, the drop i ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Mr. President, Lead Us Out of the Afghanistan War
    By Derrick Crowe Next Wednesday, President Obama will give his first State of the Union address. It's a safe bet he'll discuss the Afghanistan war. You probably recall that the President recently committed to start drawing down troops in Afghanistan in July 2011. Setting a target date for the start ...
  • More On The State-ergy For Af/Pak
    By Steve Hynd I mentioned the new State Dept. "Afghanistan and Pakistan Regional Development Strategy" (PDF), in my last post and some more really should be said about it. AfPak Channel's daily brief today mentions it in passing: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced a new strategy for civili ...
  • Counter-Terror Fail Over So Much Fertilizer
    By Steve Hynd Ever had the feeling that most anti-terrorism measures are motivated more by PR efforts than actual effectiveness? This story won't make you rethink that. Afghanistan on Friday banned the use of a fertilizer chemical also used to make bombs, giving farmers and other holders a month to ...
  • Eikenberry Stalls Money For Militias On Afghan Off ...
    By Steve Hynd The US' Ambassador to Kabul, Gen. Karl Eikenberry, is witholding funding for the US military's program to create "Awakening" style militias in Afghanistan, according to the WaPo today, because he shares Afghan official fears that the program will just create new warlords or brigand gro ...
  • The AfPak Divorce
    By Steve Hynd Yesterday, Josh Rogin told us that Ambassador Holbrooke's favorite self-coined neologism, "AfPak", had been quietly dropped from the administration's lexicon because Pakistan's leaders and populace hated it. Josh quotes: "The Af-Pak terminology is disliked and has received strong criti ...

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Electronic Intifada

  • Gaza's thin red line one year later
    During last winter's invasion of Gaza, Israeli forces killed 16 medical rescuers, four in one day alone. Another 57 were injured. At least 16 ambulances were damaged with at least nine complete ...
  • "Palestinian journalists can't work freely or safe ...
    "Being a journalist is the most dangerous work in the world," says Palestinian photojournalist Nayef Hashlamoun, "especially being a photojournalist or a photographer. We work under risk every day, es ...
  • Lebanon activists launch campaign targeting Egypt' ...
    The Campaign to Stop the Wall of Shame, a newly-formed activist movement based in Beirut, Lebanon, held a press conference this morning to publicize the Arab Contractors construction company's ...
  • Israel threatening, arresting and deporting to cru ...
    RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) - Israel is lashing out at international criticism and attempting to crush local dissent in what appears to be growing sensitivity to reproach of its policies ...
  • "Jerusalem is in danger"
    Once again, Israel resorts to show trials. Sheikh Raed Salah, a prominent political and religious leader of the Palestinian minority, was sentenced on 13 January by an Israeli court to nine mon ...

CS Monitor - News

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    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

  • GOP Criticizes Obama Plan Because It Would ‘ ...
    n the wake of the Obama administration’s announcement yesterday that it will seek new bank regulations “in the spirit of Glass-Steagall,” one line of thought posited that Republicans had been placed into a box, as they wouldn’t want to give the administration a victory on regulatory reform, but they ...
  • Did President Obama Rule Out Scaling Back Health C ...
    The White House hasn’t ruled out paring down the health care bill into smaller pieces, but during his jobs even in Ohio today, President Obama emphasized that the health care reform provisions are interconnected and suggested that they could not effectively reduce costs or increase access as separat ...
  • Climate Outlaw Lisa Murkowski Defends Her Dirty Ai ...
    Speaking on the Senate floor, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) defended the “Dirty Air Act,” her attempt to overturn the EPA’s greenhouse gas endangerment finding. Murkowski introduced her resolution to overturn the Supreme Court-mandated decision yesterday, with three Democratic and thirty-five Republica ...
  • Democrats Need To Pass A Cleaned Up Health Care Bi ...
    In the Battle of Waterloo, Democrats are prepared to surrender. After Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) issued his battle cry to the Democrats in August, President Obama aptly responded by noting “this isn’t about me,” but rather, it’s about “a health care system that is breaking America’s families.” “We can’t ...
  • Ben Nelson Joins The Global Warming Denial Caucus
    Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) is the third Democrat to co-sponsor a resolution to overturn the scientific finding that greenhouse gases endanger the American public. Yesterday, Nelson joined Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) and Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) in supporting Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s (R-AK) lobbyist-design ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • So stephen harper is Above the Law is he?
    In response to my stated desire to see stephen harper and all the relevant cabinet ministers in the harpercon government put behind bars for their complicity in war crimes, many, many, many people are convinced that it'll never happen. Given the fact that ignorance is no defence against war crimes, ...
  • Prorogation and the Culture of Impunity
    Note: The following is a response to Todd, who critiqued my last post from a Marxist perspective. Todd, I've been in transit, seeing family members, and now, drinking heavily due to my numerous psychological problems. I have been wrestling with some of your comments on and off over the last few da ...
  • Dear General Natynczyk, ... You've confused me.
    Hunh. No sooner do I post the results of a morning's work and I find out that it's old news . 11:50 a,m. And here we go! The CDS is up -- and, as predicted by Colleague Fitz-Mo, he begins by citing his May 2007 statement on that whole prisoner-who-wasn't-a-prisoner transfer-that-wasn't-a-transfer ...
  • harper Prorogues Parliament (Again)
    Well, he did it . Together with our shit-for-brains Governor General, harper has prorogued parliament again. His insulting rationalization is that he can concentrate on the economy (which, you'll remember, harper has been insisting has been recovering nicely thanks to his steady hand on the tiller ...
  • If harper Prorogues
    Others in the blogosphere point to the even stronger rumours that harper is planning to cowardly prorogue parliament until after the fascist spectacle of the Olympics in order to avoid public accountability for his possible complicity in war crimes in Afghanistan. This is unacceptable. If harper d ...

Financial Sense Editorials

  • Market Observation: Yesterday Once More
    by Brian Pretti. "As you know, the mainstream financial media has been literally falling all over themselves quoting equity market performance since the March lows of last year. And of course the numbers are virtually magical. Once in a lifetime. Every investors dream, right? Of course this occurred ...
  • Dude, Is That Gold Bar for Real?
    by Doug Hornig. "As the 10-year gold bull continues its stunning run, rumors of fakery seem to be cropping up as fast as new Eagles can be minted. Should you be worried? Do you need to run to the coin shop for a home test kit?"
  • Anti-Capitalists and Capitalists
    by J. R. Nyquist. "f you haven't scanned the cable news channels since the crash of 2008, you could be in for a shock. Except for FOX NEWS, you are going to hear an anti-capitalist message percolating up through your television. "
  • Time the Market Using These Market Strength and Vo ...
    by Lorimer Wilson. "Trading without indicators is like running blind and it encourages emotional trading that is the bane of successful investment and speculation and given the ups and downs of the market it is hard to know what to buy or sell let alone just when to do so."
  • Scared of falling Gold prices?
    by Peter Forth. "Looks like we are having another downdraft in the precious metals sector. In light of the carnage that happened last year it seems that over every little correction looms the spectre of a repeat washout."

on Government Oversight

  • Grayson Gets Busy in the New Year
    It’s only been a few weeks since the Christmas recess, but Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL) is already rattling cages. For starters, he has introduced two contractor accountability bills that will likely generate plenty of attention. Anticipating Thursday’s landmark U.S. Supreme...
  • Contractor Specializes in Building Temporary Housi ...
    Washington Technology reported this week that Fluor Corporation, the government contractor hired to perform over $1.5 billion in engineering, construction, and maintenance services in 2008, has hired Deidre Lee to serve as head of compliance. The article noted that Lee...
  • Making Sure Advisory Committees Don't Go To Waste
    One of the virtues of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) is that it requires the membership of advisory committees to be fairly balanced in terms of the points of view represented and the functions to be performed by the...
  • Morning Smoke: Supreme Court Upends a Century's Wo ...
    Campaign finance ruling reflects Supreme Court's growing audacity Michael Waldman [The Washington Post] FDIC Chief Got Bank of America Loans While Working On Its Rescue Keith Epstein and David Heath [The Huffington Post Investigative Fund] Exclusive: Draft Pentagon review calls...
  • POGO Weighs in on How NRC Can Improve Allegations ...
    On Tuesday, POGO Investigator Ingrid Drake presented to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on revisions to the Enforcement and Allegations programs, which handles allegations that come in about safety issues or security concerns at nuclear power plants. POGO made recommendations...

Science Express

  • Study uncovers key to how 'triggering event' in ca ...
    Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered what leads to two genes fusing together, a phenomenon that has been shown to cause prostate cancer to develop.
  • Rapid supernova could be new class of exploding st ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- An unusual supernova rediscovered in seven-year-old data may be the first example of a new type of exploding star, possibly from a binary star system where helium flows from one white dwarf onto another and detonates in a thermonuclear explosion.
  • Map of Human Bacterial Diversity Shows Wide Interp ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Colorado at Boulder team has developed the first atlas of bacterial diversity across the human body, charting wide variations in microbe populations that live in different regions of the human body and which aid us in physiological functions that contribute to our he ...
  • Researchers discover key to vital DNA, protein int ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- A researcher at Iowa State University has discovered how a group of proteins from plant pathogenic bacteria interact with DNA in the plant cell, opening up the possibility for what the scientist calls a "cascade of advances."
  • UCSB physicists move one step closer to quantum co ...
    Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have made an important advance in electrically controlling quantum states of electrons, a step that could help in the development of quantum computing. The work is published online today on the Science Express Web site.

TechDirt

  • Give A Man A Fish... And Make It Illegal To Teach ...
    We've talked in the past about how intellectual property rules seem to directly conflict with the purpose of educational institutions -- and yet, many of those institutions are now starting to try to enforce those rules. Taking that a step further, in response to Bono's recent confusion over ISP fi ...
  • Parked Car Gets Multiple Speed Camera Tickets
    We've seen all sorts of problems with speed cameras -- like the time one clocked a brick wall traveling 58 MPH (watch out!). It seems that they've got a problem with stationary objects. Reader Marshall points us to a story of a guy who parks his car on a road equipped with a speed camera and has r ...
  • 'Public' Consultation Over ACTA In Mexico Almost R ...
    Geraldine Juarez writes in to let us know of her experience attending what was billed as a "public hearing" about the ACTA treaty in Mexico (link in Spanish, Google translation here ), which sounded really messed up. First, despite it being a public hearing, originally those putting on the event wa ...
  • If Data Centers Are Understaffed, What Does That M ...
    This post is part of the IT Innovation series, sponsored by Sun & Intel. Read more at ITInnovation.com . Of course, the content of this post consists entirely of the thoughts and opinions of the author. While I'm always a little skeptical of the numbers found in vendor surveys, it woul ...
  • Amazon Quietly Lets Publishers Remove DRM
    While everyone was focused on the new Kindle app store or the new royalty rates, perhaps a more interesting new thing slipped quietly by: without telling anyone, Amazon is now giving publishers the option to remove DRM from ebooks . It's odd that Amazon wouldn't publicly announce this, but I'm sure ...

VacTruth

  • “INNOCENT TILL PROVEN GUILTY:” A CASE STUDY IN AL ...
    Shaken Baby Syndrome and Lethal Minor Falls: Analysis of Causes of Death of Amanda M. Sadowshy Harold E. Buttram and Alan Yurko Medical Veritas
  • Patient Administered Vaccination Without Doctor Ap ...
    . . . S. Humphries, MD Medical Voices January 22, 2010 H1N1 and seasonal influenza vaccines are now being given to sick hospital patients with or without their doctor’s consent.  This is being done despite there being no data on the safety of doing so. I am a licensed, board-certified nephrologist, ...
  • Swiss warn on flu vaccine with autoimmune disease
    . . . Sam Cage Reuters ZURICH (Reuters) – Switzerland’s medical regulator recommended patients with serious autoimmune diseases should not use an H1N1 flu vaccine from Novartis, saying there were no studies assessing the innoculation in that population. Swissmedic said on Wednesday it could not be ...
  • Stillbirth heartbreak after swine flu jab
    Staff Reporter The Standard Thursday, January 21, 2010 A 37-year-old woman’s child was stillborn on Tuesday – just weeks after she received a vaccination against human swine flu (H1N1). The woman was 28 weeks’ pregnant when she was admitted to Tuen Mun Hospital after she reported decreased fetal mo ...
  • Kenya: Trial HIV Vaccine Leaves 46 Infected
    . . . Elias Mbao AllAfrica.com 12 January 2010 Lusaka — A failed clinical trial HIV vaccine that left 46 Zambian women infected with the virus has sparked controversy. The Microbicides Development Programme (MDP) 301 trial, which was testing if the gel PRO2000 would prevent HIV infection took place ...

BroadSnark

  • Are Cynic and Optimist Mutually Exclusive?
    People often complain that I’m cynical and pessimistic.  I’m always looking for the catch, the ulterior motive, the dark side.  Every new plan, from health care to tax reform, I am immediately poking holes in.  Many of my friends are liberal, nonprofit types who are very attached to these plans. ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I know there are some people who really believe that enforcing anti-prostitution laws will help women, but it is really hard to have patience for those people when I read things like this. On a more inspiring note, these women in South Korea are bad asses. Howard Zinn recently spoke about the myths ...
  • Preparing for Peace
    Many people believe that some injustices are so heinous that violence is not only necessary, it is obligatory.  But they rarely take the next step.  They rarely imagine what would happen after the violence stops, assuming it can be stopped.  Who among them is going to create a better, more just worl ...
  • 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 [...]

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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

  • Twitter Updates for 2010-01-23
    Local banks share values up 2day after #Obamas idea on splitting up 2big2fails. Help the bankers on their way 2 the dole queue move ur money # Lisa Murkowski fights the #EPA over greenhouse gases watch her challenge their #CO2 ruling here http://strurl.com/aj #climate #AGW #green # #Obama's ...
  • Ron Paul Interview
    By Matt Hawes Tonight, Dr. Paul will be interviewed about Bernanke and the Fed on Fox Business’ America’s Nightly Scoreboard with David Asman.  I don’t know the exact hit time, but the show begins at 7pm eastern.  David Asman is always great with Dr. Paul, so be sure to check it out! View the origin ...
  • Obama pledges to continue fighting
    By Matt Hawes Via CNN: Offering his most extensive public comments about the election debacle in Massachusetts, President Obama acknowledged that he’s taking some lumps but also trying to cast himself as a populist who will “never stop fighting” to bring health care reform and jobs to commu ...
  • Have you received a phone call about CPAC yet?
    By Matt Holdridge Many of you are non-enthusiastically nodding yes right now. I want to tell you why the C4L staff has been “smiling and dialing” almost non-stop for the last month.  On February 18-20, Campaign for Liberty will build on our success at last year’s Conservative Political Action Confer ...
  • NASA Global Warming Alarmist Endorses Book That Ca ...
    Dr James Hansen: Eco-fascist author who wrote that industrial civilization should be destroyed “has it right” Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Friday, January 22, 2010 Prominent NASA global warming alarmist Dr. James Hansen has endorsed an eco-fascist book that calls for cities to be razed to ...

food and water watch

  • Big Ag Squeezes Value While Farmers and Consumers ...
    The government is finally wising up to Monsanto's industry bullying. The Justice Department's current investigation of the stranglehold agribusinesses have on the food system reveals the confidential commercial licensing agreements at the heart of Monsanto's market monopolization.
  • In Search of the Truth About Ocean Fish Farming: A ...
    On December 3, Yale Environment 360, a publication of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, published a disappointingly inaccurate and shortsighted piece on the development of offshore aquaculture.
  • 53 Groups Join Food & Water Watch in Asking Rep. C ...
    Food & Water Watch, along with 53 other consumer, fishing and environmental groups and businesses, today submitted a letter to Representative Lois Capps (D-CA 23rd) requesting that she reconsider her plan to introduce legislation that would allow ocean fish farming in U.S. federal waters.
  • Kona Blue: Planning Tropical Adventure to Get Away ...
    Kona Blue Water Farms, producer of farmed yellowtail known as “Kona kampachi,” has announced that it is opening a second offshore fish farming operation—this time, in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez. The company, which operates its current facility in where humpback whales have been observed, has faced oppo ...
  • Indiana seeks to take control of CAFO pollution
    Evidence is building up on the harmful environmental effects of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), which includes a growing number of cases of local water contamination by manure depositing. Now the state of Indiana, which has suffered substantial damage from such pollution, is doing s ...

treehugger

  • Oil Spill in Istanbul as Cargo Ship Runs Aground
    Cleaning up an oil spill in the Kilyos area of Istanbul. Photo via Hürriyet . From my window, I can inevitably see -- at least when it's not snowing out -- a flotilla of cargo ships waiting their turn to pass through the Bosphorus Strait as they make their way from the Mediterranean to the Black S ...
  • Tons Of Unwanted Mercury Will Make 40-Year Visit T ...
    Broken mercury thermometer. Image credit: MI Dept of Public Health. The USDOE prepared a full Environmental Impact Statement as the basis for selecting a site for story tons of mercury which no longer can be legally exported. Now we know what happens to all those old mercury thermometers - off ...
  • Fast, Sustainable, Organic, and Now Humane: Frozen ...
    Photo courtesy of EVOL Burrito. Guest blogger Cara Smusiak is a journalist and regular contributor to NaturallySavvy.com 's Naturally Green section. How can an organic frozen burrito get more eco-friendly? Simple: Its meat can be sourced from a sustainable ranch where the animals are humanely ra ...
  • Clean Energy Reform Still Has Huge Bipartisan Supp ...
    Ever since Scott Brown won Ted Kennedy's senate seat in Massachusetts, the mood has been darkening on clean energy reform (my own misguided optimism aside). Some of the bill's staunch supporters, like Sen. Diane Fienstein, have come out and said that a climate bill won't happen this year. But they ...
  • Bread & Butter Berlin: Recycling Shirts From Ameri ...
    Bag from Hell's Kitchen's Fall 2010 collection. Photo copyright Mairi Beautyman Oh snap! It's the kick-to-the-(flabby)-stomach truth: Americans are fatter, and Europeans know it. You can't hide the tub: According to USA Today , 65 percent of adults in the U.S. are overweight or obese -- compared t ...

Biosingularity

  • Genes Linked to Aggressive Brain Cancer
    Two newly discovered genes may act as master control switches in the progression of the most aggressive form of brain cancer, glioblastoma.Researchers say the two genes are active in about 60% of all glioblastoma patients and identifying these genes could help identify those with this type of aggres ...
  • Artificial Red Blood Cells for Drug Delivery
    Since the 1950s, researchers have been trying to mimic the abilities of red blood cells. These flexible discs carry oxygen throughout the body, squeezing through the smallest capillaries to do so. But the physical characteristics of red blood cells, including their doubly concave shape, have made th ...
  • Coffee, Tea May Stall Diabetes
    Every cup of coffee a person drinks per day may lower the risk of diabetes by 7%. A new review of research on the link between lifestyle factors, like coffee and tea consumption, and diabetes risk suggests that drinking regular or decaffeinated coffee and tea all lower the risk of type 2 diabetes. v ...
  • Testosterone link to aggression all in the mind
    Giving women more of the male hormone testosterone can turn them into fairer and more amiable game players, according to tests.A single dose of testosterone was enough to have this effect, European scientists found, but only if the woman was oblivious to the treatment.If she realised she had receive ...
  • Antidepressant Paxil Also May Affect Personality T ...
    Besides treating depression, the antidepressant Paxil may affect personality traits in positive ways, a new study suggests. Researchers say Paxil and likely other antidepressants in the class of drugs called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) may improve higher levels of neuroticism and ...

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Pruning Shears

  • Is a Tea Party Dynamic Growing on the Left?
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Most of the blame in Martha Coakley’s defeat Tuesday is on her. She had a series of blunders, some of which were such a ridiculous caricature of liberal elitism it makes me wonder if she was a GOP double agent. So: That point, fir ...
  • 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 ...

Natural Health News

  • New Study Confirms Electrical Pollution from Cell ...
    An increasingly alarmed army of international scientists have to a controversial conclusion: The "electrosmog" that first began developing with the rollout of the electrical grid a century ago and now envelops every inhabitant of Earth is responsible for many of the diseases that impair or kill them ...
  • After Awful Swine Flu Fiasco How Can You EVER Beli ...
    The UK Government is trying to get rid of a billion pounds worth of unwanted swine flu vaccine -- because the deadly epidemic never materialized. Major drug companies may have pushed the World Health Organization (WHO) to warn that swine flu could be a worldwide 'pandemic' killing tens of millions. ...
  • The Dangers of QuickTrim
    Weight-loss product QuickTrim purports to burn calories by day and cleanse by night. But what is it? The morning and afternoon supplements contain a "thermogenic complex," two doses of which provide a total of 400 milligrams of caffeine -- the equivalent of four cups of coffee. The supplements also ...
  • 5 Ways to Make Kids' Media Use Safe and Healthy
    American children spend 7 and a half hours a day plugged in to their phones and iPods and MP3 players, gaming, or otherwise engaged with electronic media. But heavy media-use behaviors are associated with health and social problems, including teenage depression, obesity, poor grades, and struggles w ...
  • This Will be MUCH Better than the New Apple iTable ...
    Magazines have articles you can curl up with and lose yourself in, and luscious photography that draws the eye. Can what’s best about magazines be combined with the always connected, portable tablet e-readers sure to arrive in 2010? This video prototype shows the Mag+ project.

Antemedius

  • Haiti: US Profiting From Disaster With Conditional ...
    As aid trickles into Haiti and news trickles out, and as the extent of the horror unfolding there following the earthquake becomes more widely known, decisions are already being made that will affect the kind of country surviving Haitians will live in that emerges from the disaster. In this video fr ...
  • HCR - A Crap Sandwich On Wonder Bread
    The Dog, like a lot (most?) of the liberals on in the blogosphere is really not happy about the shape that Health Care Reform has taken. One of the hardest things about being an activist is how often you ask for policy that is like a pastrami on rye, and get handed a crap sandwich on Wonder Bread. S ...
  • Haiti: "The world is coming to an end..."
    Channel 4 News via The Real News Network - January 14, 2010 Haiti earthquake: '100,000 may be dead' Haiti's President warns the scale of suffering is "unimaginable" Haiti and her people have not only been treated to catastrophe by nature, but have also suffered unimaginably at the hands of other c ...
  • Doctors Without Borders Teleconference on Emergenc ...
    Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders Teleconference on Emergency Response to Haiti Earthquake January 13, 2010 Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams already working on medical projects Haiti have treated hundreds of people injured in the quake and have been s ...
  • Prop 8 Defense Says I Should Not Be Able To Be Mar ...
    Things are looking moderately good at the Prop 8 trial. Right now, the plaintiffs (the gay couples who want to be able to marry) are presenting their case so it is expected. We have had the very emotional testimony from the plaintiffs about what being denied this right that every heterosexual citize ...

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

  • Pachauri: “I know a lot of climate sceptics are af ...
    Dr Rajendra Pachauri: “I know a lot of climate sceptics are after my blood, but I’m in no mood to oblige them. It was a collective failure by a number of people,” he said. “I need to consider what action to take, but that will take several weeks. It’s best to think with a cool head, rather ...
  • The shit hits the fan: UK Parliament to investigat ...
    The UK Parliment has just announced that the Science and Technology Committee will be investigating the shenanigans of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at East Anglia. Related posts: Climategate: U.S. Lawyers to the rescue! Is the NOAA, not CRU, is ground zero for exaggerated warming data? East A ...
  • Godfrey Bloom on the Alex Jones show
    Alex Jones welcomes Godfrey Bloom, a member of the European Parliament for Yorkshire and the Humber for the United Kingdom Independence Party, back to his show. Mr. Bloom believes that the global warming controversy is a scam and has accused the UK parliament giving away legal powers to the Europea ...
  • New York Times: last decade warmest on record
    The New York Times has just released the latest litany of lies from James E. Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Surprise, surprise NASA says, the decade ending in 2009 was the warmest on record. Related posts: Is the NOAA, not CRU, is ground zero for exaggerated warmi ...
  • Glaciergate: Errant little sister of Climategate
    Glaciergate, that lying little sister to Climategate, finally walked into the light of truth and fessed up this week, unlike her more sinister and petulant big brother, as reported in Wednesday’s UK Guardian. Related posts: BBC to investigate itself on climate change bias IPCC apologizes for Himal ...

Opinio Juris

  • The Emerging Law of Detentions: The Guantanamo Hab ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Anyone doing serious work on detention, Guantanamo, war on terror, any of these areas, will want to read an extraordinary new study just out from the Brookings Institution by Benjamin Wittes, Robert Chesney, and Rabea Benhalim, The Emerging Law of Detention ...
  • More soft statehood…
    by JanKlabbers by JanKlabbers Over the last few days I learned a valuable lesson: irony and satire do not work. I thought my contribution on soft statehood was written with my tongue so far in my cheek that it risked coming out of my ear; I thought I had piled on the layers of irony so richly [.. ...
  • Reflections on the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford The proposed anti-homosexuality legislation introduced by Ugandan parliament back-bencher David Bahati is creating an international outcry. The bill–introduced as a private member’s bill without government support–would impose the death penalty for “aggravated hom ...
  • International Law Weekend 2010: Call for Panels
    by Peggy McGuinness The American Branch of the International Law Association has posted a call for panels for the 2010 International Law Weekend, which will take place in New York October 21-23. This year's theme is "International Law and Institutions: Advancing Justice, Security and Prosperity." ...
  • Event: Human Rights and Law of Armed Conflict
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson If you are in the DC area on Monday, January 25, you might want to check out this event at ASIL Tillar House, 2:30-5:00 pm.  This looks to be a terrific discussion with great people on the program.  ”Mind the Gap: International Human Rights Law and the La ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • NZ’s top climate scientists oversaw IPCC’s most em ...
    New Zealand's top climate scientists appear to have failed to spot what glaciologists now admit was an "obvious" and "ridiculous" error on Himalayan glacier melt, even though it was in the 2007 IPCC report they worked on. IPCC chairman Rajendra...
  • Twitter test
    I think I've pushed a button to allow cross-tweets...which should appear at http://twitter.com/investigatemag
  • Climate Depot mauls IPCC report over new error
    Climate Depot's Marc Morano is delivering another mauling to the UN IPCC tonight over a new error, the claim that up to 30% of species are at grave risk of extinction if temperature rises a couple of degrees. The claim...
  • Possibly one of the most amusing blog threads
    Regular readers will know I have a certain paternalistic affection for Punxatawney Phil over at Hot Topic and the seven or so intellectual dwarfs who co-habit with him (Dappy, Mackie, Johnnie, Dougie, Dopey (that's you Rob), Mick & Snitch). They...
  • More top 10 global warming myths debunked
    If you didn't like mine here, you might not enjoy Andrew Bolt's either…

Public News Service

  • Good News! Research Shows Many AZ Health Resolutio ...
    Good News! Research Shows Many AZ Health Resolutions Will Stick Phoenix, AZ - Arizonans who made resolutions this year to improve their health have a great shot at following through, according to research from the American Heart Association. Their surveying shows 73 percent will keep health goals th ...
  • 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 ...

My Care2 Picks

  • Canadian trio helps deliver clean water to despera ...
    Dave Putt sets out each day for the poorest parts of the Haitian capital with a tanker weighed down with water and purification filters."All day long, heavy helicopters whack-whack-whack across the skies. They never land," said Putt. Submitted by John Farnham to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comme ...
  • The worst tragedy is not being able to do more
    With the Cuban doctors in Haiti Cuban doctors are intent on writing large the word LIFE, while news agencies are minimizing that effort or even refuting it Haitians are coming to the hospitals in an endless stream : injuries are extremely grave Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   N ...
  • Putting a 'happy face' on war crimes
    updated Canadian diplomats in Afghanistan were ordered in 2007 to hold back information in their reports to Ottawa about the handling of the prisoners The instruction was aimed at defusing the explosive human-rights controversy All prisoners tortured Submitted by John Farnham to World  |   Note-it! ...
  • Journalist Kim Ives on How Western Domination Has ...
    How centuries of Western domination of Haiti has worsened the impact of the devastating earthquakeWe see throughout Haiti the population themselves organizing themselves into popular committees to clean up, to pull out the bodies from the rubble, to build Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & G ...
  • Babies fed porridge before they reach five months ...
    Babies fed porridge from an early age may be protected against asthma, according to new research. Submitted by Leslie Y. to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • O'Reilly's Lament: We Can't Make Fun of Arabs Anym ...
    FAIR Blog: On the January 15 edition of his show, while chatting with Ray Stevens, who recorded the song "Ahab the Arab" nearly 50 years ago, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly seemed to become nostalgic... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • A Brief Assessment of the Hidden Interests and Whi ...
    Special Report by IIN Investigative Blog-correspondent John John: Conscious Being Alliance: The western media is suddenly awash with reports claiming that the human mortality figures for the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Did God Made Only Adam and Eve - an Insight Into t ...
    Image via WikipediaSubmitted by Gender Discrimination Issues correspondent Stephe Feldman -via- NewsForNatives.com, India:... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Malema: Don't be afraid to confront issues of race ...
    Mail & Guardian Online:: "'It is a most sensitive issue; while you speak against it you are declared a racist. If you are not strong, you will retreat,' he said in Bloemfontein. Malema was speaking... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Israel pays U.N. $10.5 million over Gaza damage
    washingtonpost.com: "UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Israel has paid the United Nations $10.5 million for property damage and injuries the world body suffered during Israel's attack on Gaza a year ago, a... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

    Blacklisted News

  • Insult to Injury: Why We Must Oppose the WHO Globa ...
    Fresh on the heels of a Dutch investigation into the conflicts of interest of their chief influenza advisor and the bombshell announcement that the Council of Europe will be probing their role in creating and sustaining panic over the recent H1N1 outbreak in order to sell vaccines for Big Pharma, th ...
  • The age of the killer robot is no longer a sci-fi ...
    When the US invaded Iraq in 2003, they had no robots as part of their force. By the end of 2005, they had 2,400. Today, they have 12,000, carrying out 33,000 missions a year. A report by the US Joint Forces Command says autonomous robots will be the norm on the battlefield within 20 years.
  • One quarter of US grain crops fed to cars - not pe ...
    New analysis of 2009 US Department of Agriculture figures suggests biofuel revolution is impacting on world food supplies
  • The United States of Corporate America: From Democ ...
    “The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.” - Noam Chomsky, M.I.T. emeritus Professor of Linguistics
  • Video catches NYC cops punching handcuffed man in ...
    Two New York City police officers have been suspended without pay after video surfaced of them punching a suspect who was handcuffed and lying on the ground.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

Rogue Government.com

  • Russia's space agency helps drug police spot cann ...
    Drug police in Russia's Far East have joined hands with the Federal Space Agency in spotting cannabis fields in the Primorye Territory, a senior drugs control official said on Thursday.
  • Haiti homeless reach 2 million
    Long backlogs of patients injured in the Haiti earthquake are building at medical clinics as aid workers warn of more deaths from untreated injuries and disease in overcrowded makeshift camps.
  • The age of the killer robot is no longer a sci-fi ...
    When the US invaded Iraq in 2003, they had no robots as part of their force. By the end of 2005, they had 2,400. Today, they have 12,000, carrying out 33,000 missions a year. A report by the US Joint Forces Command says autonomous robots will be the norm on the battlefield within 20 years.
  • Irish Minister Backs Full Body Scanners
    Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern today told a Council of Ministers meeting in Toledo, Spain, he supported the introduction of full-body scanners to Irish airports.
  • US military build-up on Guam worries islanders
    Residents of the US territory of Guam fear the planned influx of thousands of American troops and their families will leave their Pacific island home swamped.

Innovation Canada

  • Rethinking the pine beetle
    When he talks about the fight against the mountain pine beetle, Joerg Bohlmann likes to use a medical analogy. “Imagine we’re trying to combat malaria,” says the genome biologist based at the University of British Columbia, “but we don’t know the makeup of the disease-causing parasite, so we leave i ...
  • 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 ...

Signs of the times

  • U.S. prepares Guantanamo Bay for possible influx o ...
    The U.S. military is gearing up for a possible influx of Haitians fleeing their earthquake-stricken country at an Army facility not widely known for its humanitarian missions: Guantanamo Bay. Soldiers at the base have set up tents, beds and toilets, awaiting possible orders from the secretary of de ...
  • Asteroid Detection, Deflection Needs More Money, R ...
    Are we ready to act if an asteroid or comet were to pose a threat to our planet? No, says a new report from the National Research Council. Plus, we don't have the resources in place to detect all the possible dangerous objects out there. The report lays out options NASA could follow to detect more n ...
  • United States doing little about asteroids -report
    Washington - The United States is doing little to defend the planet against potentially devastating asteroids and is not doing the basic searches that Congress has ordered, according to a report released on Friday. While most of the really big and obvious threats are being found, almost nothing is ...
  • BEST OF WEB: Corporate States of America: Keith Ol ...
    Part 1
  • BEST OF WEB: US Supreme Court Decision Completes C ...
    Washington - Sweeping aside a century-old understanding and overruling two important precedents, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections. The ruling was a vindication, the majority said, of the Fir ...

Threat Level

  • Judge Reduces ‘Shocking’ File Sharing Award
    A federal judge on Friday reduced a $1.92 million file sharing verdict to $54,000 after concluding the award for infringing 24 songs was “shocking.” A federal jury in June found Jammie Thomas-Rasset liable in what at the time was the nation’s only Recording Industry Association of America file-sha ...
  • Judge Tosses NSA Spy Cases
    A federal judge dismisses lawsuits accusing the government of teaming with the nation’s telcos to funnel Americans’ electronic communications to the National Security Agency without warrants. U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision was a major blow to the two suits testing warrantless eavesdrop ...
  • Microsoft Learned of IE Zero-Day Flaw Last Septemb ...
    A critical security vulnerability that hackers used to breach Google, Adobe and other large U.S. companies was disclosed to Microsoft last September, not last week as previously believed. The software giant had intended to release a patch for the flaw in February, five months after learning about i ...
  • DarkMarket Ringleader Pleads Guilty in London
    A former ringleader of a top internet carding site run secretly by the FBI has pleaded guilty in the United Kingdom. Renukanth Subramaniam, aka “JiLsi,” was a former Pizza Hut delivery guy who helped run one of the leading English-language criminal sites, DarkMarket. The site operated as an interna ...
  • FBI, Telecoms Teamed to Breach Wiretap Laws
    The FBI and telecom companies collaborated to routinely violate federal wiretapping laws for four years, as agents got access to reporters’ and citizens’ phone records using fake emergency declarations or by simply asking for them. The Justice Department’s Inspector General’s internal audit released ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Scott Brown, Fred Thompson and the Authenticity of ...
    In the wake of Scott Brown's landscape changing win in Massachusetts, the clear message to Republicans is "keep on truckin'." As the Boston Globe reports, the green GMC Canyon truck - what the paper deemed Brown's "regular-guy-mobile" featured so prominently...
  • Democrats Waver on Ending Bush Tax Cuts for Wealth ...
    Last year, President Obama kept his campaign promise to cut taxes for 95% of American households. But facing tough reelection prospects in November, a group of House Democrats is getting weak in the knees when its comes to Obama's pledge...
  • Conservatives Put the Hate in Haiti
    On Monday, January 11, PBS Newshour aired what may have been the most upbeat assessment of the progress in and future prospects for long-suffering Haiti offered in years. That 10 minute segment ("Despite Years of Crushing Poverty, Hope Grows in...
  • McCain Honored by Country He Put First - Georgia
    Throughout his failed 2008 presidential run, Republican John McCain campaigned on a theme of "Country First." As it turns out, that country was Georgia. After his bellicose August 2008 declaration to Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili that "today we are all...
  • Father Knows Best for Tucker Carlson
    On Monday, Tucker Carlson to great fanfare launched The Daily Caller, a conservative alternative to The Huffington Post. But even as the first edition featured gay-bashing, rape jokes, mockery of leading Democrats and opinion pieces by Republican Congressmen, analysts wondered...

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

  • How Obama Lost His Way
    In his first year, President Obama comforted a shaken Establishment but neglected the hard-hit public, writes Robert Parry. January 20, 2010
  • George W. Bush's Sci-Fi Disaster
    From the Archive: At the first anniversary of the Obama presidency, a look-back at the scene of George W. Bush's departure. By Robert Parry
  • 'Hardball' and Dumbed-Down US Politics
    "Hardball" host Chris Matthews was clueless in his comments on Haiti and the Massachusetts Senate race, writes Robert Parry. January 19, 2010
  • What Bush Did to Haiti
    Six years ago, President George W. Bush engineered the ouster of Haiti's elected president, recalls David Swanson. January 18, 2010
  • Global Cooling? The Jellyfish Answer
    The Right's media twists complex scientific arguments to advance its global warming denial, writes Michael Winship. January 16, 2010

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

TruthHugger

  • American Theocracy divorces the US Constitution, p ...
    America wants to be ruled by TV Evangelist Bankers who are always holier than everyone else until they're caught! This is where Religion has buddied up with weapons manufacturers to promote killing in the name of Jesus.
  • 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 ...

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • From Gaza to Haiti and Back Again
    IMG_4910.JPG   GAZA CITY—I dreamt of Haiti last night. Something about the scene felt eerily familiar. The visions of people trapped under folded sheets of concrete, children crying out to family members they would never see again, and incapac ...
  • Honduras: Unsolved matters
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  • Haiti: Roots of Liberty -- Roots of Disaster
    Grassroots International ally Food First's executive director Eric Holt-Jimenez wrote recently -- on HuffPost -- on the long roots of the disaster in Haiti. His point about the "historic bleeding of Haiti's economy and the systematic undermining of its political institutions" being at the root of th ...
  • Boston Haitian community mobilizes support for the ...
    The Haitian-American community all over the United states is mobilizing to support their loved ones back in Haiti in the aftermath of the disastrous earthquake that hit last week. Boston's Haitian community has likewise risen to the occasion through forming among other things the Boston-Haiti Health ...
  • Boston-area Kids Raise Funds to Help Haiti
    kids_raising_money.JPG Over the weekend proceeding Martin Luther King Day, kids from Jamaica Plain, MA took to the sidewalks to raise funds for earthquake relief in Haiti. They set up tables in front of local shops, including JP Licks ice crea ...

Climate

  • January 22, 2010
    Past Decade Warmest Ever, NASA Data Shows (New York Times) The decade ending in 2009 was the warmest on record, figures released by NASA show. The agency also found that 2009 was the second warmest year since 1880, when modern temperature measurement began. Blankenship, Kennedy Debate Coal's F ...
  • January 21, 2010
    Landrieu, Murkowski Collaborate on Plan to Block EPA Climate Rules (The Hill) Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) told reporters that she is working with Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) on Murkowski's efforts to block the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. U.S. Carbon Plan to ...
  • January 20, 2010
    Sierra Club Gets a New Director: RAN's Mike Brune (Earth Island Journal) The choice of Mike Brune hints at a coming shakeup at the 700,000-member-strong Sierra Club, possibly toward more in-your-face tactics as the green movement struggles to translate growing mainstream interest in the environm ...
  • January 22, 2010
    Past Decade Warmest Ever, NASA Data Shows (New York Times) The decade ending in 2009 was the warmest on record, figures released by NASA show. The agency also found that 2009 was the second warmest year since 1880, when modern temperature measurement began. Blankenship, Kennedy Debate Coal's F ...
  • January 21, 2010
    Landrieu, Murkowski Collaborate on Plan to Block EPA Climate Rules (The Hill) Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) told reporters that she is working with Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) on Murkowski's efforts to block the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. U.S. Carbon Plan to ...

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

  • The Audacity of Nope Rewards the Party of No
    Following GOP wins in NJ and VA, the Mass. senate surprise completes a trifecta, enshrined with full-throated chorus by the fickle Audacity of Nope crowd. Nope, nope, and nope - that's one lesson learned when, in Mass. alone, two million Democrats stayed home. What! - a voting minority from Main ...
  • Hey, Conan Obama: How About Now? Can You Hear U ...
    There's only one political party in the entire world that is so inept, cowardly and bungling that it could manage to simultaneously lick the boots of Wall Street bankers and then get blamed by the voters for being flaming revolutionary socialists. It's the same party that has allowed the opposition ...
  • Why Are Republicans Better Storytellers?
    Democrats make lousy narrators. If you're a movement conservative -- the only kind of Republican in the media, which means the only kind of Republican who exists -- then everything that happens can be explained by the same simple story: Once upon a time, there was a free market. Businesses were l ...
  • Supreme Court legalizes everything America hates a ...
    Chief Justice John Roberts did not tell the truth in his confirmation hearings when he claimed he would respect stare decisis, the idea of legal precedent. The Supreme Court decision allowing unlimited corporate cash to buy unlimited political power through unlimited political spending is one of the ...
  • How to Get Bipartisanship and Crush with 59 Senato ...
    You don't get bipartisanship by asking politely. Obama made the mistake of asking Republicans over for tea in his first year in office and thought he could charm them into voting his way. You don't swing votes by asking politely, you swing them by implicit political threats. You do it with political ...

Ten Percent

  • In Iran, Labour Activists Face Repression
    (ht2 Naj) Interview by Bill Balderston, Oakland Education Association and U.S. Labor Against the War- Iran has seen incredible tumult in the last few months, with massive street protests challenging the government, even as the U.S. and allied nations continue to threaten the Iranian government under ...
  • Friday! Four Lions
    Well done to Chris Morris for overcoming the obstacles and achieving the film. Warp Films Four Lions site.
  • Help Haiti- Drop The Debt
    An international petition has been circulated for the dropping of Haiti’s foreign debt. For an explanation of why this is a crucial move at this time, and why the debt is illegitimate and part of the exploitation of Haiti for decades, read this article by Eric Toussaint and Sophie Perchellet entitle ...
  • Support A Single Mother
    The US Army had Alexis Hutchinson thrown in jail and took her child from her because she took her role as a mother seriously, they have now filed four separate court martial charges against her. She was meant to deploy to Afghanistan but when her childcare arrangements fell through, she made the dec ...
  • A Work of Art
    This transcends its purpose and becomes a testimony to the intelligence, honesty, humanity and integrity of people and the failure for those qualities to be made essential in our elites. I’m going back to read some more, have a look yourself.

Booman Tribune

  • Mice Not Men
    I like Chris Van Hollen. I like him a lot, actually. I'm glad he's honest and that he can articulate a strategy. But his strategy is a strategy for scared little wimps. I don't give a rat's ass if the Ben Nelson medicaid deal makes the Senate bill's 'brand' look tarnished with independents. That' ...
  • Frivolous Friday Open Thread

  • Casual Observation
    In answer to Nate, I haven't given up hope but I definitely need to do a few laps around the casino. The SCOTUS ruling on corporate funding of campaigns has put me in a deep funk, and I'm feeling like I'm surrounded by morons and weaklings on all sides..especially in DC. At some point, you get the ...
  • Are Your Ears Broken?
    Everyone and their brother is telling Democratic House members to pass the Senate version of the health care bill, and progressives like Jerry Nadler are whining about the excise tax. The labor unions and the White House hammered out a deal on the excise tax last week that can be included in a reco ...
  • Ho Hum
    Another warmest decade on record has been reported by those mad scientist nutballs at NASA. Those people sure know how to lie and get everyone alarumed about nothing, don't they? Damn con artists. The decade ending in 2009 was the warmest on record, new surface temperature figures released Thur ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Will Gillis on sf’s changing face
    I don’t know whether William Gillis wrote this little screed about the changing face of science fiction as a response or reaction to Jo Walton’s piece about the reading protocols of the genre, but it certainly serves as an interesting counterpoint to it. I like to read the viewpoints of smart reader ...
  • The auroch revival: bringing back the big beef
    It’s not often that we get to hear about people working on a scientific project previously instigated by Hitler and the Nazi Party of Germany… though this is thankfully a far more benign application of eugenic theory than the atrocities of the Second World War. Italian scientists are trying to recre ...
  • Interpreting facts as failure: the neuroscience of ...
    There’s a fascinating essay at Wired UK about a guy called Kevin Dunbar, who studies the science of science. The philosophy and theory of science – the seven-step method you had drilled into you at school, for instance – is very elegant, but it doesn’t reflect the way that real science gets done, an ...
  • Amazon, ebooks and piracy – tipping points ahoy?
    Sticking with the piracy theme for a moment (yeah, I know, so out of character, right?), here’s an article at TechRadar that features an interview with one George Walkley, head of digital developments for publishers Hachette UK, talking about ways in which the publishing industry has tried to learn ...
  • The Product Bay – piracy goes 3D
    Well, it was bound to happen – hell, Sven’s been writing columns that skirt around the idea for ages. Here’s the lowdown: 3D printing is maturing quickly, and 3D scanning isn’t far behind, meaning that material objects can be stored and transmitted as digital data. Digital data can be shared in many ...

Therapy News

  • Mental Health Issues Hidden Among Co-Workers
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Facing the daily challenges of mental health concerns is something that many people attempt to work through on their own, but the degree to which some hide their concerns from others may be especially damaging. The mental health association Ahead has released a report ...
  • Seen, Heard, Felt, Hidden: Putting a Name to the S ...
    By Leslie Larson, LPC-S, Domestic Violence Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Leslie and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile I had been seeing “Nicole” for almost a year. She had made remarkable progress in her efforts to overcome the abuse and neglect of her childhood and wanted to draw ...
  • New Year’s Resolution: Lose Weight. Not!
    By Deborah Klinger, MA, Eating & Food Issues Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Deborah and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile It’s January, the time of year when we’ve rung out the old and are ringing in the new, making resolutions for the coming year. New Year’s resolutions usually inv ...
  • Risks for Social Rejection among Children Identifi ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Helping children enjoy a more fruitful and enjoyable childhood is a central goal of many in the field of child therapy, and a study recently carried out at the Rush University Medical Center has made a considerable effort towards this end. The study showed that an ina ...
  • Finnish Study Warns of Stress’ Contagious Nature
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Stress is something from which many people can benefit in small, occasional doses, revving up their motivation or helping them to be more alert. But scores of people are unable to regulate the amount of stress in their daily lives, and an excess can lead to serious com ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Book Review | 'Coal Country: Rising Up Against Mou ...
    Book Review | 'Coal Country: Rising Up Against Mountaintop Removal Mining' Louisville Courier-Journal As Burns, author of Bringing Down the Mountains: The Impact of Mountaintop Removal on Southern West Virginia Communities, states: “The consequences of this ... Pittsburgh activist leads mountaintop ...
  • Friday roundup, Jan. 22, 2010 - Charleston Gazette ...
    Charleston Gazette (blog) Friday roundup, Jan. 22, 2010 Charleston Gazette (blog) Somehow, I missed this piece about the end of Roland Micklem's fast against mountaintop removal coal mining, posted on the Climate Ground Zero blog. ... and more »
  • Don won. - Huffington Post (blog)
    Don won. Huffington Post (blog) And while his arguments were more centered on the illegality of mountaintop removal and its toll on the health and welfare of the communities in which it's ...
  • RFK Jr., Massey CEO Debate Mountaintop Mining Befo ...
    Boston Globe RFK Jr., Massey CEO Debate Mountaintop Mining Before W.Va. Audience New York Times Environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Massey Coal CEO Don Blankenship sparred here last night over mountaintop-removal mining, coal's future and the ... Kennedy V. Blankenship in Mountaintop Removal ...
  • Pittsburgh activist leads mountaintop removal tour ...
    Pittsburgh activist leads mountaintop removal tours West Virginia Public Broadcasting January 22, 2010 · Mountaintop removal mining is one of the most controversial industrial practices of our time ...

Memeorandum

  • J.D. Hayworth says he'll run against John McCain ( ...
    Amanda Lee Myers / Arizona Daily Star : J.D. Hayworth says he'll run against John McCain   —  Former Arizona Congressman J.D. Hayworth says he is planning to run against John McCain for his U.S. Senate seat.  —  Hayworth, a Republican, told The Associated Press late Friday he stepped down as host o ...
  • Jon Stewart Mocks Keith Olbermann Over Scott Brown ...
    RealClearPolitics Video Log : Jon Stewart Mocks Keith Olbermann Over Scott Brown Attacks   —  Jon Stewart mocks Keith Olbermann for his attacks on Scott Brown and other conservatives, including Rush Limbaugh and Michelle Malkin.  —  To comment on this video or click the “Comments” link below.
  • Van Hollen: Senate Bill's Brand May Be Irrevocably ...
    Greg Sargent / The Plum Line : Van Hollen: Senate Bill's Brand May Be Irrevocably Tarnished, So We May Go Reconciliation Instead   —  In a candid assessment of the politics of health care, DCCC chief Chris Van Hollen said in an interview that the Senate bill's brand may be irrevocably tarnished, pa ...
  • NOW: 'Kill the Senate health bill entirely' (Sahil ...
    Sahil Kapur / The Raw Story : NOW: ‘Kill the Senate health bill entirely’   —  Share on Facebook Stumble This!  —  Group laments ‘fierce anti-abortion language,’ cites ‘male-dominated’ Democratic Party in Coakley loss  —  WASHINGTON — As Democrats weigh options for health reform following a majo ...
  • No Love Lost - At 9:45 this morning, George H.W. B ...
    Elise Hu / The Texas Tribune : No Love Lost   —  At 9:45 this morning, George H.W. Bush will open up his West Houston home to the press to make what is, for the octogenarian former president, a rare overtly political announcement: In the intra-Republican party fight for Texas governor, 41 has chos ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.2, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
    Saturday, January 23, 2010 09:40:34 UTC Saturday, January 23, 2010 05:40:34 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
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  • M 5.5, Philippine Islands region
    Thursday, January 21, 2010 02:02:07 UTC Thursday, January 21, 2010 10:02:07 AM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
  • M 5.2, offshore Bio-Bio, Chile
    Thursday, January 21, 2010 00:15:14 UTC Wednesday, January 20, 2010 09:15:14 PM at epicenter Depth : 4.00 km (2.49 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Confronting the cost of dams (2)
    In the second half of a two-part article on reservoir-induced disasters, Masano Atsuko looks at a catalogue of government failures and asks what it will take to stir Japan’s politicians. In Japan, the government has only recently reached the point where it is finally willing to recognise the causal ...
  • Confronting the cost of dams (1)
    Reservoir-induced disasters in Japan are draining the public purse and ruining the countryside. It is time for wiser planning, argues Masano Atsuko. Three months after the Iwate-Miyagi Nairiku Earthquake struck the northern part of Honshu, Japan’s main island, on June 14, 2008, triggering a huge lan ...
  • In Africa, a need for balance
    If the continent’s wildlife is to be preserved, more income from the tourists who flock to its safari parks must find its way to local people, argues Julian Glover. Something shaming often happens when you clatter up a dusty track and enter any of Africa’s famous national parks, or even some quieter ...
  • Beware the GM giants
    Biotech firms are rapidly gaining ground in global agriculture. China must take a stand or else face risks to food security, argues Jiang Gaoming. Greenpeace recently discovered genetically modified (GM) ingredient Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) in Nestlé-branded baby cereal in China. According to the ...
  • 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Judge Reduces ‘Shocking’ File Sharing Award
    A federal judge on Friday reduced a $1.92 million file sharing verdict to $54,000 after concluding the award for infringing 24 songs was “shocking.” A federal jury in June found Jammie Thomas-Rasset liable in what at the time was the nation’s only Recording Industry Association of America file-sha ...
  • Judge Tosses NSA Spy Cases
    A federal judge dismisses lawsuits accusing the government of teaming with the nation’s telcos to funnel Americans’ electronic communications to the National Security Agency without warrants. U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision was a major blow to the two suits testing warrantless eavesdrop ...
  • Microsoft Learned of IE Zero-Day Flaw Last Septemb ...
    A critical security vulnerability that hackers used to breach Google, Adobe and other large U.S. companies was disclosed to Microsoft last September, not last week as previously believed. The software giant had intended to release a patch for the flaw in February, five months after learning about i ...
  • DarkMarket Ringleader Pleads Guilty in London
    A former ringleader of a top internet carding site run secretly by the FBI has pleaded guilty in the United Kingdom. Renukanth Subramaniam, aka “JiLsi,” was a former Pizza Hut delivery guy who helped run one of the leading English-language criminal sites, DarkMarket. The site operated as an interna ...
  • FBI, Telecoms Teamed to Breach Wiretap Laws
    The FBI and telecom companies collaborated to routinely violate federal wiretapping laws for four years, as agents got access to reporters’ and citizens’ phone records using fake emergency declarations or by simply asking for them. The Justice Department’s Inspector General’s internal audit released ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Conan O'Brien thanks fans in "Tonight" farewell
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Conan O'Brien ended his brief stint as host of the "The Tonight Show" on Friday, taking shots at NBC but ultimately taking the high road and thanking his former employer for a chance at "the best job in the world."
  • UPDATE 1-O'Brien thanks fans, NBC, in 'Tonight' fa ...
    * He takes shots at, as well as thank, NBC (Adds details, quotes)
  • China says it needs no Internet lessons from U.S.
    BEIJING (Reuters) - China needs no lessons about its Internet from the United States, the head of an online media association said through official media on Saturday after the United States rapped Beijing over information freedom.
  • Wall Street faces pain from buyout cutback
    NEW YORK/BOSTON (Reuters) - If major banks give up their private equity and hedge fund investments, their bottom lines could take a real hit because these investments also are a key source of underwriting and advisory fees.
  • Stars perform, plead for help at telethon for Hait ...
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dozens of the biggest names in film and music sang in somber tones and urged the world to donate to earthquake-stricken Haiti on Friday at a benefit led by actor George Clooney and Haiti-born rapper Wyclef Jean.

Equality Trust

  • How economic democracy would have prevented the Ca ...
    A letter in today's Guardian points out that employee ownership would have prevented the Cadbury sell-off. Had the Cadbury family followed the examples of the families behind John Lewis, Ove Arup, Tullis Russell, Scott Bader, the Baxi Group and others in selling their shareholdings into employee own ...
  • Harriet Harman puts class at the heart of election ...
    Labour deputy leader to make inequality a key dividing line with Conservatives. Harriet Harman will reopen the politically explosive debate over class tomorrowby insisting that it remains the single biggest factor in determining individual achievement. In a speech designed to put the fight against ...
  • Memo to the mainstream: where's the vision, where' ...
    Bill Kerry's guest blog at Left Foot Forward
  • Economics is the real divide
    Daily Mail comment piece
  • 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 ...

IntelNews

  • Venezuela silent as Colombia expels two alleged sp ...
    On Tuesday, the Colombian government announced the expulsion of two alleged Venezuelan intelligence agents, reportedly for conducting espionage operations on Colombian soil.
  • News you may have missed #0264
    India jails two Pakistanis on spying charges. US Pentagon re-examines PsyOp doctrine.
  • Analysis: US spy turf-war flares up on Capitol Hil ...
    Wednesday’s testimony by US Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair, before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, received plenty of media coverage. But few have examined the ongoing public hearings by three separate Senate committees on the Christmas Day bomb pl ...
  • News you may have missed #0263
    Up to 30,000 Chinese spies in Germany, say newspapers. Israeli agencies see Turkey moving toward radicalization.
  • China not top priority for US spy agencies under n ...
    American intelligence agencies have been directed by the US National Security Council (NSC) to downgrade intelligence collection on China. Under the directive, which was first proposed last October, Chinese intelligence targets will be coded “Priority 2” (Pri-2), from their current “Priority 1” (Pri ...

After Downing Street.org

  • Powerful Video Response to SCOTUS Inc.
    By David Swanson Jamin Raskin, professor of constitutional law and the First Amendment at American University, has spoken out powerfully on behalf of a new campaign at FreeSpeechForPeople.org that aims to undo the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to remove limitations on corporations' election spendin ...
  • South Korean Villagers Continue Resistance to Aegi ...
    Activists from Gangjeong village on JeJu Island, Korea, are struggling to prevent construction of a naval base which will damage the coral reefs and the residents' local agricultural lifestyle. The base will also be used for deployment of naval Aegis destroyers. They will be outfitted with missile ...
  • Jim Hightower: 'A Black-Robed' Coup d'Etat'
    Jim Hightower: 'A Black-Robed' Coup d'Etat' By Jim Hightower | Existentialist Cowboy Last September, I wrote The Hightower Lowdown about how the Roberts' Court could throw out over 100 years of campaign finance law. Remember their names: Alito, Kennedy, Roberts, Scalia, and Thomas. Yesterday, from ...
  • Gaza In The Eyes Of Israelis
    Gaza In The Eyes Of Israelis - WARNING: This video contains graphic footage. read more
  • 42 Arrested at U.S. Capitol Denouncing Obama's Bro ...
    42 Arrested at U.S. Capitol in Day of Action to Denounce Obama's Broken Promises on Guantanamo, America's Broken Laws, and the Breaking of Lives by Torture | Press Release | January 21, 2010 Washington, DC -- In a dramatic protest, 42 U.S. citizens associated with Witness Against Torture were arre ...

Grist - News

  • Last decade was the warmest ever, says NASA
    by Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON -- The past decade was the warmest ever, according to a new analysis of global surface temperatures released by NASA. The U.S. space agency also found that 2009 was the second-warmest year on record since modern temperature measurements began in 1880. Last year wa ...
  • New Sierra Club chief brings confrontational style ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes Michael BrunePhoto courtesy Sierra ClubThe Sierra Club ’s new leader will come to the job with a record of “environmental agitation” against big industrial polluters.  The group announced on Wednesday that Michael Brune , 38, currently head of Rainforest Action Network (RAN), wil ...
  • Copenhagen Accord is the priority, says U.S. clima ...
    by Amanda Little U.S. Climate Envoy Todd Stern.A month after he rode herd at Copenhagen's COP15 climate talks ,Todd Stern is exhorting participants to make the outcome of the conference meaningful. "Life needs to be breathed into the Copenhagen Accord," the State Department's special envoy for clim ...
  • No guarantee of climate treaty this year, says UNF ...
    by Agence France-Presse PARIS -- World talks on climate change may not yield a legally binding pact by year's end, U.N. climate pointman Yvo de Boer said on Wednesday, in his first public assessment after last month's turbulent Copenhagen summit. De Boer, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework C ...
  • U.N. climate panel admits Himalayan glacier data & ...
    by Agence France-Presse GENEVA - An estimate on the fate of Himalayan glaciers that featured a benchmark report on global warming has been "poorly substantiated" and represents a lapse in standards, U.N.'s climate scientists said on Wednesday. Charges that the reference was highly inaccurate or ove ...

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Washington Independent

  • GOP Rep. Holding State of the Union Tea Parties
    This is the most interesting State of the Union run-up event I’ve seen so far, although I’m still waiting on details from Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.). U.S. Rep. Jeff Miller (R-FL-01) today announced that he will be hosting “Tea Parties” in his Washington D.C. and Pensacola offices on Wednesd ...
  • How to Get Out of Being Held Indefinitely Without ...
    So the Obama administration’s Guantanamo task force has decided that about 50 people ought to be held indefinitely without charge. What’s the remedy to for that? Basically, there’s habeas corpus, the procedure by which a detainee requests that a court determine the validity of the government’s claim ...
  • Former FEC Chairman: ‘Citizens United’ ...
    Mike Lillis speculated earlier on whether the far-reaching implications of Citizens United v. the Federal Election Commission could open the door for foreign companies to intervene in American elections. Former FEC Chairman Bradley Smith tells me that, indeed, the decision seems to let foreign corpo ...
  • Senate Dems Urge 10-Month Extension of Unemploymen ...
    With unemployment still hovering in double digits and no real relief in sight, a group of 30 Senate Democrats today is urging party leaders to extend emergency unemployment benefits through the end of 2010 — 10 months longer than current law dictates. In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ...
  • Supreme Court Empowers Foreign Governments to Sway ...
    That’s the warning coming today from the folks at the Center for Public Integrity, who caution that the recent High Court decision empowering corporations to spend unlimited sums on federal election ads could also have the unintended consequence of ending the ban on foreigners buying influence over ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

  • Change, They Say, Is Good. But Is It?
    It's said that Alexander the Great wept when he realised there were no more lands left for him to conquer. In other words, there was nothing new to challenge him; there was no raison d'être. It's a laughable thought today, isn't it? Submitted by cowboss Left CareII to Society & Culture  |   Note-i ...
  • Teacher breaks 4th grader’s arm for ‘forgetting Iq ...
    LAHORE: A female teacher of a private school thrashed Muhammad Jahanzeb, a fourth grade student when he was unable to explain a poem by Allama Iqbal, causing multiple fractures in his arm. Submitted by cowboss Left CareII to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • We're expanding, while economy shrinks
    Americans now have another excuse for hitting the fast food establishments and getting farther out of shape by adding unwanted weight, and it's allegedly not their fault. The latest health discovery is called "recession pounds," and some researchers Submitted by cowboss Left CareII to Society & Cul ...
  • Reports call for radical rethink on food policy to ...
    The food and farming sector is not pulling its weight when it comes to tacking climate change and food shortages could be the consequence if we fail to make fundamental changes to the way we farm, process, distribute and eat our food over the next 20 year Submitted by cowboss Left CareII to Society ...
  • TV host curious about attacks on animal ag (audio)
    “Anybody from a city, in my opinion, who spends a day, a week, maybe even just a few hours on a working farm is going to be quickly disabused of a lot of what they believe,” Rowe told AgriTalk radio host Mike Adams last week. Submitted by cowboss Left CareII to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |  ...

Suzie-Q

  • U.S. policy in Gaza remains unchanged
    by Charles Fromm and Ellen Massey, Inter Press Service News WASHINGTON, Jan 22, 2010 (IPS) – One year ago Thursday, the last Israeli tanks were lumbering out of the Gaza Strip, ending the 22-day Gaza War and leaving in their wake a decimated landscape and population. A year later, the humanitaria ...
  • Paul Volcker: the ‘big man’ behind Bar ...
    Until this week, Paul Adolph Volcker, the 82-year-old architect of President Barack Obama’s latest assault on Wall Street, was not so much yesterday’s man as the man of a couple of decades ago. Tracy Corrigan | Daily Telegraph | 22 Jan 2010 After all, the pinnacle of his career was being chairman of ...
  • “Hope For Haiti”: Telethon Tonight
    “Hope for Haiti” Telethon Tonight! Hollywood News- By: Staff Fri, Jan 22 2010 | Published in FEATURED The “Hope For Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief,” kicks off tonight for a two hour special that includes performances by some of the biggest names in Hollywood. “Hope for Haiti Now” ...
  • Bye-Bye Bernanke: Time For Change?
    Bye-Bye Ben Bernanke – Thanks for Burning the House Down Daily Kos- by Badabing Fri Jan 22, 2010 at 08:12:35 AM PST Friday, January 22nd, 2010 was supposed to have been the full Senate vote on the confirmation of Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke. A few months ago, his confirmation see ...
  • Banks Checking Twitter And Facebook To See If You& ...
    Banks now checking your Twitter and Facebook activity to see if you’re worthy of getting a loan AMERICAblog- by John Aravosis (DC) on 1/22/2010 10:29:00 AM Please write financially secure comments to this post: Your social networking chit-chat could have an impact on your credit – specifically ...

Solari

  • Answering Your Questions - Mortgages
    We have received several comments from listeners and readers questioning whether or not mortgage companies or banks are required to provide homeowners specific proof of customers’ individual notes. In response, please see these previous blog posts: Ruling Could Undo Thousands of Foreclosures 17 Oc ...
  • Ron Paul:”We Need To Take Out The CIA”
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  • United States District Court
    The 94 United States district courts are the general trial courts of the United States federal court system. Both civil and criminal cases are filed in the district court, which is a court of law, equity, and admiralty. There is a United States bankruptcy court associated with each United States di ...
  • Welcome to Linden, Tennessee
    One of the greatest pleasures in life is to have visitors. That is why we are so glad to see you. We hope your stay with us is relaxing, refreshing and most of all fun. Linden and Perry County is one of the most scenic places in our state and we invite you to enjoy it [...]

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 ...
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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

Sideways News

  • Agency workers to get equal pay rights
    More than a million UK agency workers are set to get the new rights to pay, holidays and working conditions after the Government announced new regulations. From October 2011, the 1.3 million employees who spend more than 12 weeks in one job will be entitled to many of the same benefits as permanent ...
  • Gardeners can cooperate to save wildlife
    Gardeners should aim to create a network of interlinking wildlife habitats to protect vulnerable British wildlife, it has been suggested. Urban green spaces such as gardens and parks are an increasingly important refuge for wildlife as towns and cities encroach further into the countryside. The good ...
  • How did animals make it to Madagascar?
    It may sound surprisingly similar to the plot of a Disney movie, but new research has suggested that ancestors of Madagascar's current inhabitants may have floated to the island from Africa. A team of researchers have been investigating how some of the isolated island's mammals, including lemurs and ...
  • Irish island twinned with Mars
    Island Roy in Donegal is to be twinned with Mars in a bid to highlight the effects of climate change. The move is part of Donegal County Council's Lovely Weather Project , which is offering artists the chance to explore creative means of addressing global warming.
  • ‘Winner takes all’ politics outdated?

Fabius Maximus

  • FM newswire for 23 January, articles for your morn ...
    Today’s links to interesting news and analysis… More propaganda, easily refuted:  “Reality Check On Science Magazine’s Claim That 2009 Was The Hottest Year on Record in Southern Hemisphere“, Roger Pielke Sr, posted at his website, 20 January 2010 Iran begins to collect its winnings in Iraq ...
  • 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. Is US manufacturing prospering or dying? (3) Does the US still manufacture anything? Maclaren writes about the decline of US ...
  • FM newswire for 22 January, articles for your morn ...
    Today’s links to interesting news and analysis… Powerful article:  “In the absence of guns“, Mark Steyn, The American Spectator, June 2000 A reminder of our real past (not the myth):  “On Native Grounds“, Daniel Lazare, The Nation, 22 May 2006 — A people who lose their past (warts and all) l ...
  • FM newswire for 21 January, articles for your morn ...
    Today’s links to interesting news and analysis… An important comment about our psychology, explaining in part the increased fear of terrorism since 9/11:  “Recency Effects in Geology & Financial Markets“, Paul Kedrosky, Infectious Greed, 1 October 2009 — The studies to which he links are also ...
  • Where is the outer boundary of our military operat ...
    A major theme of this website is that we are destroying ourselves though hubris.   We see so many of the world’s problems as calls for US military intervention.  Inevitably either this will bankrupt us, or we’ll buy into a conflict with ruinous consequences.  This open-ended lust to play globa ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Bigger, Better Telescopes Needed to Find Near-Eart ...
    If we’re going to protect the Earth from an asteroid, we need to find the dangerous ones whizzing about in the emptiness of space. Unfortunately, the United States will not complete the survey of large near-Earth objects by 2020 as mandated, but not funded, by Congress in 2005. That’s the conclusio ...
  • Removing Part of the Skull Makes for Better Brain ...
    Removing a chunk of the skull can make way for stronger, clearer signals from a common method for monitoring brainwaves.The skull-free electroencephalography (EEG) could make neural prostheses like bionic arms or eyes less invasive. “It’s notoriously hard to have a long-term electrode implanted in ...
  • New Hi-Res Flyover of Haiti Will Aid Recovery and ...
    New three-dimensional radar and hi-resolution aerial images of Port-au-Prince and the surrounding areas to be released starting Friday could boost both recovery and research efforts in Haiti in the wake of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck on Jan. 12. Satellite images and aerial photos have ...
  • Slime Mold Grows Network Just Like Tokyo Rail Syst ...
    Talented and dedicated engineers spent countless hours designing Japan’s rail system to be one of the world’s most efficient. Could have just asked a slime mold. When presented with oat flakes arranged in the pattern of Japanese cities around Tokyo, brainless, single-celled slime molds construct ne ...
  • Haiti Aftershocks Will Continue for Months, Maybe ...
    A preliminary U.S. Geological Survey assessment has found that the sequence of aftershocks following the magnitude 7 earthquake that struck near Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Jan. 12 is likely to continue for months, possibly years. Though the frequency of aftershocks will decrease over time, there is s ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Foreign Policy "Solvency": Don't Write Checks Your ...
    Last week I attended an in-house foreign policy discussion with New America Foundation Schwartz Senior Fellow Peter Beinart , who provided a tour of 20th century American foreign policy and introduced me to Walter Lippmann's concept of "solvency." The solvency concept - which implies that a country ...
  • America's Global Fatigue
    The 9.2 magnitude earthquake that triggered the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami claimed some 230,000 lives in 13 countries. But the Port-au-Prince 7.0 quake may exceed that toll in one small country. Haiti's capital will have to be rebuilt from the ground up, like German and Japanese cities after World W ...
  • Arabs Turning Against Obama?
    There's no doubt that there's been growing Arab disappointment over Obama, but I'm beginning to sense the dissapointment - both understandable and expected - turning into something altogether more worrying. Part of the problem is that many Arabs, including even some of my Islamist contacts, believed ...
  • EU Energy Security May Depend on Ukraine Election ...
    This winter may not see a natural-gas crisis in Ukraine, but then again, the country's presidential election isn’t over. The outcome of the February 7 second round runoff may well determine whether the gas crises continue, and by extension, shape the future of European energy consumption. Preside ...
  • Indefinite Detention Comes to American Soil
    Spencer Ackerman rounds up the latest on constitutional rights for human beings : The Obama administration’s Guantanamo task force has concluded that there are approximately 50 detainees held at the facility in Cuba that the government should continue to detain, indefinitely, without trial . Either ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: Less Compromise, More Confrontati ...
    I'm aware that it's not his style, but Barack Obama needs to move past the unity rhetoric and start playing some hardball politics. At a town hall in Ohio today, the president sounded a bit harsher and more defiant than usual but failed to specify what he feels Congress should do on health care, an ...
  • Scott Brown: I Hope to Be As Ineffectual As John M ...
    This is encouraging news from our newest senator: Sen.-elect Brown navigated the Russell Senate Office Building on Thursday for his first appointment with Sen. John McCain . A National Guardsman, Brown said in the interview that McCain was his senatorial model. "I have great respect for Senator Mc ...
  • Justice Department Hits Back On Legal Rights For A ...
    On the heels of Republican criticism of the Obama administration following Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair 's testimony in the Senate, the Justice Department released a statement defending the way alleged underwear bomber Umar Abdulmutallab was handled. The following statement was a ...
  • Poverty on the Rise in Suburbs.
    The Brookings Institution released a new report this week finding that poverty rose fastest in 2008 in suburbs, particularly in suburban and urban areas in the midwest. It also found that more Americans are now low-income, hovering just above the poverty line. Over the course of this decade, two ec ...
  • On Haiti's "Culture."
    As with Yemen after the failed underwear bombing, it's been astonishing to watch one Haiti expert after another emerge to explain all that ails Haiti in the aftermath of its earthquake. The explanations from these righteous dilettantes have been astonishingly similar. David Brooks writes that Hait ...

Andy Worthington

  • The Guardian interviews Omar Deghayes: “The spirit ...
    Omar Deghayes, the former Guantánamo prisoner whose story is at the very heart of the new documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (co-directed by Polly Nash and Andy Worthington), was interviewed for the main feature in the Guardian’s G2 supplement on January 21, 2010 (available ...
  • Andy Worthington Discusses Murders at Guantánamo a ...
    Over the last few years, Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio and I have had some hard-hitting interviews, covering many of the most unpalatable aspects of the Bush administration’s “War on Terror,” and, in the last year, the inadequacy of Barack Obama’s response to this toxic and corrosive legacy. On Tues ...
  • Dark Revelations in the Bagram Prisoner List
    On Friday, the ACLU secured a significant victory in its campaign to secure information about the prisoners held in the US prison at Bagram airbase, Afghanistan (known as the Bagram Theater Internment Facility), when the Pentagon released a list of the names of the 645 prisoners who were held on Sep ...
  • In the Guardian: Compensation for control orders i ...
    For the Guardian’s Comment is free, “Compensation for control orders is a distraction” is an article I wrote examining yesterday’s High Court ruling, in which a judge quashed two control orders — a form of house arrest in operation since March 2005 — and indicated that the men affected, who ...
  • Obama’s Countdown to Failure on Guantánamo
    Barring some frankly unattainable miracle, this will be the week that President Obama’s international credibility, regarding his promises to undo the Bush administration’s “War on Terror” detention policies, takes a nosedive. The President began well, freezing the much-criticized Military Commission ...

Buzzflash

  • Time for Obama’s Churchill Moment
    Last Chance Democracy Cafe by Steven C. Day 4 June, 1940: The Phony War was over. Germany, having easily occupied much of France, was on the march. As Winston Churchill rose to speak, the situation seemed hopeless. Yet, with just this one speech, often referred to as Churchill’s finest hour, he rall ...
  • Mr. President: "Yes we can -- stay home!"
    By Hugh Conrad in Pennsylvania On Nov. 4, 2008, I, along with so many Democratic Americans, was thrilled with your election to the presidency, enjoying the vision that night of all of those Americans who packed Grant Park in Chicago to listen to your words  of inspiration. I really believed in your ...
  • Scott Brown Victory Apparently Makes It Tough for ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT by Meg White The upset in the senatorial special election to fill the late Sen. Ted Kennedy's seat in Massachusetts was clearly on the minds of more than one rambunctious congressman today. The victory of Republican candidate Scott Brown clearly made it hard for some to concentr ...
  • No More Senate Super Majority Illusion
    By Stephen Crockett DemLabor There is very little upside to the election of a Republican Far Right Senator to replace the late Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) for Democrats, progressives and reformers. read more
  • Hydraulic Fracturing Update: Fight Against 'Fracki ...
    GREEN IS GOOD by Margaret Smith New York's most notable feature may be the city that never sleeps, but a new trend that's been sweeping the nation over the past couple of years has finally made ground. And when we say "made ground" we're talking literally here, because it plans on drilling its way t ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • What the Supreme Court got right
    (updated below - Update II) The Supreme Court yesterday, in a 5-4 decision, declared unconstitutional (on First Amendment grounds) campaign finance regulations which restrict the ability of corporations and unions to use funds from their general treasury for "electioneering" purposes.  The ca ...
  • Obama to indefinitely imprison detainees without c ...
    One of the most intense controversies of the Bush years was the administration's indefinite imprisoning of "War on Terror" detainees without charges of any kind.  So absolute was the consensus among progressives and Democrats against this policy that a well-worn slogan was invented to object:   a " ...
  • It's the fault of the all-powerful Left
    (updated below) I have a contribution this morning to the New York Times examining the Scott Brown victory, and I'll post the link to it once it's up.  But for the moment, I want to address two equally moronic themes emerging over the last couple of days which seek to blame the omnipotent, do ...
  • The crime of not "Looking Backward"
    In early December, a report from Seton Hall University cast serious doubt on the government's claims regarding the alleged simultaneous "suicides" of three Guantanamo detainees in June, 2006.  I wrote about that report here .  Yesterday, Harper 's Scott Horton published an extraordinary new article ...
  • Public opinion merits "the profoundest respect"
    In his New York Times column today , David Brooks (as he so often does) recites emerging conventional Washington wisdom, demanding that Democrats abandon health care reform if the Republicans today win the Massachusetts Senate seat: Many Democrats, as always, are caught in their insular liberal ...

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Indian urban wetland heavy metal
    A study of heavy metal contaminants in the urban lakes of India, particularly around Bangalore have revealed that attempts at mitigation meant to remove these pollutants have not so far worked and may not be a long-term remedy for the problem. I’ve provided more detail on the analysis in the Atomic ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Obama Should Seize Moment to Push for Medicare for ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 22, 2010 Physicians for a National Health Program A spokesman for a national physicians' group says it would be a mistake for President Obama to conclude from Tuesday's vote in Massachusetts that he needs to "tack more toward the right," as some pundits have advised, or ...
  • Obama in Ohio
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 22, 2010 Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) AMY HANAUER read more
  • Business Leaders Speak Out on Citizens United
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 22, 2010 Common Cause Forty-one business leaders from a diverse cross-section of industries sent a letter to Congressional leadership in response to the Roberts' Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC. According to the distinguished group, the Fair Elections Now Act i ...
  • Planned Parenthood Federation of America President ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 22, 2010 Planned Parenthood "Thirty-seven years ago today, the Roe v. Wade decision solidified the right to choose for American women.  Today, as we celebrate and reflect on the landmark ruling, we are reminded that deciding whether and when to become a parent is one of ...
  • On Eve of Missed Guantánamo Deadline President Ann ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 22, 2010 Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) In response to the announcement that President Obama has decided he will detain 50 of the approximately 200 remaining men at Guantánamo without trial indefinitely, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Progressives: Don't Mourn, Organize
    by Michael Winship Tragic events continuing out of Haiti make all the bad news for progressives this week wither in comparison. Nonetheless, over these last few days, for liberals in particular, there has been no joy in Mudville -- aka American politics. read more
  • Record Bank Profits - American Dream Foreclosed
    by Mike Prokosch Last week, JP Morgan Chase launched the 2010 Wall Street Bonus Sweepstakes. The bank is still losing money on consumer services, but well-heeled investors and financial traders more than made up the difference. The bank announced $11.7 billion in profits and $26.9 billion in compens ...
  • A Tale of a Non-Diplomatic Diplomat
    by Christopher Brauchli An ambassador is an honest man set to lie abroad for the commonwealth. —Sir Henry Wotton, Reliquiae Wottoniamae [1651]   read more
  • Personal Corporatehood: Coping With the Reason Div ...
    by Randall Amster There's great consternation brewing over the recent Supreme Court decision that cements and extends the misbegotten logic of "corporate personhood," and rightly so. Surely one of the most farcical and tortuous doctrines ever established in our system of jurisprudence, this conflate ...
  • Time to Reign in Out-of-Control Corporate Influenc ...
    by Ralph Nader Thursday's 5-4 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission shreds the fabric of our already weakened democracy by allowing corporations to more completely dominate our corrupted electoral process. It is outrageous that corporations already att ...

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

  • Upfront: Witness for the prosecution? (Pacific Sun ...
    It didn't take long. Just days after the lone opposition candidate to win a spot on the Novato Sanitary District took his seat, the first confrontation erupted in a district that has been wracked with dissension. by Peter Seidman
  • Canada-E.U. Talks an Attack on Democracy: Environm ...
    OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Jan. 22, 2010) - As a second round of Canada-European Union free trade talks wraps up in Brussels, Belgium today, Canadian civil society organizations are demanding full transparency from the Harper government, and a halt to negotiations while countrywide public consul ...
  • 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.
  • Background Note: Kenya (Scoop.co.nz)
    Geography Area: 580,367 sq. km. (224,080 sq mi.); slightly smaller than Texas. Cities: Capital --Nairobi (pop. 2.9 million; 2007 est.). Other cities --Mombasa (828,500; 2006 est.), Kisumu (650,846; 2005-6), Nakuru (1.3 million; 2005-6), Eldoret (193,830; 1999).
  • NDP health critic Judy Wasylycia-Leis mulling runn ...
    WINNIPEG - The federal NDP's health critic is considering triggering a Manitoba by-election by trading in her long-held Winnipeg seat to run for mayor of the city.

Guardian

  • Edlington parents may face charges
    Police to examine whether home life of pair jailed for torture of two boys could lead to charges of child abuse or neglect The estranged parents of two young brothers detained indefinitely for beating and torturing another pair of boys could themselves face prosecution. Detectives will study evidenc ...
  • Rod Liddle defends Auschwitz quip
    Controversial columnist's offensive online messages raise questions over potential Independent editorship It began as a series of tasteless, vulgar conversations about race, religion and sex on a football fan website, but it could end with Rod Liddle, the former Today editor turned controversial col ...
  • Anti-abortion group buys Super Bowl ad spot
    Christian conservative group Focus on the Family buys costly 30-second spot during American football final Next month's Super Bowl broadcast, which garners an enormous TV audience, will feature an advert paid for by an anti-abortion evangelical Christian group. A former college football star known f ...
  • CPS refuses to release Griffin trial papers
    Prosecutors claim releasing information about 1998 case would breach BNP leader's data protection rights The Crown Prosecution Service is ­blocking attempts to disclose details about the prosecution of Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National party, for race hate crimes, claiming that to do ...
  • Paul Morley's Showing Off: Next Big Things
    Paul Morley discusses the phenomenon of the 'next big thing' with rising stars Ellie Goulding, Lonelady and These New Puritans Chris Fenn

McClatchey

  • Facing frustrated voters, more senators oppose Ber ...
    WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke's prospects for a second term became shakier Friday as two Senate Democrats, furious at his stewardship during the nation's economic crisis, said they'd oppose him.
  • Stealthy effort helped GOP's unlikely Massachusett ...
    WASHINGTON _The stunning Republican come-from-behind victory in Massachusetts' special U.S. Senate election wasn't entirely a shock to Sen. John Cornyn, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
  • Goldman under investigation for its securities dea ...
    WASHINGTON — One of Congress' premier watchdog panels is investigating Goldman Sachs' role in the subprime mortgage meltdown, including how the firm sold securities backed by risky home loans while it simultaneously bet that those bonds would lose value, people familiar with the inquiry said F ...
  • Marines to mark official end of their Anbar missio ...
    WASHINGTON — U.S. Marines formally end their presence in Iraq's Anbar province Saturday, marking the conclusion of a bloody seven-year battle that claimed hundreds of Marine lives and featured some of the war's fiercest fighting.
  • Pentagon drops charges against 9/11 plotters, clea ...
    WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Friday officially dropped military charges against the accused mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and four other alleged conspirators, a development that likely foreshadows their transfer to New York City to face charges in a civilian federal court.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Reflections on a hugely changed climate
    It's hard to overstate how much the events of the last two months have altered the global picture of climate politics. Picture the scene you'd have found on any day towards the end of last year: more prime ministers and presidents talking publicly about climate change than ever before; the vast maj ...
  • The attack of the killer everything
    About two decades ago, the world's frog experts realised they were characters in the opening chapter of a detective novel. It wasn't so much a whodunnit as a wotisdoinit - killing, that is, frogs and salamanders in different parts of the world at a rate that merited the description "dramatic" . Th ...
  • 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 ...

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

  • Will Gillis on sf’s changing face
    I don’t know whether William Gillis wrote this little screed about the changing face of science fiction as a response or reaction to Jo Walton’s piece about the reading protocols of the genre, but it certainly serves as an interesting counterpoint to it. I like to read the viewpoints of smart reader ...
  • The auroch revival: bringing back the big beef
    It’s not often that we get to hear about people working on a scientific project previously instigated by Hitler and the Nazi Party of Germany… though this is thankfully a far more benign application of eugenic theory than the atrocities of the Second World War. Italian scientists are trying to recre ...
  • Interpreting facts as failure: the neuroscience of ...
    There’s a fascinating essay at Wired UK about a guy called Kevin Dunbar, who studies the science of science. The philosophy and theory of science – the seven-step method you had drilled into you at school, for instance – is very elegant, but it doesn’t reflect the way that real science gets done, an ...
  • Amazon, ebooks and piracy – tipping points ahoy?
    Sticking with the piracy theme for a moment (yeah, I know, so out of character, right?), here’s an article at TechRadar that features an interview with one George Walkley, head of digital developments for publishers Hachette UK, talking about ways in which the publishing industry has tried to learn ...
  • The Product Bay – piracy goes 3D
    Well, it was bound to happen – hell, Sven’s been writing columns that skirt around the idea for ages. Here’s the lowdown: 3D printing is maturing quickly, and 3D scanning isn’t far behind, meaning that material objects can be stored and transmitted as digital data. Digital data can be shared in many ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Attorneys Issue Response to Inspector General Repo ...
    Key FBI Whistleblower Urges Strong Corrective Action Washington, D.C.  January 20, 2010. Today at 10 a.m. the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General released a report that confirms the allegations regarding an illegal FBI domestic surveillance program, which were reported on the ...
  • FBI Whistleblower Instrumental in Exposing Constit ...
    In a front-page article today, the Washington Post reported that between 2002 and 2006 the FBI illegally collected “more than 2,000 U.S. telephone call records between 2002 and 2006 by invoking terrorism emergencies that did not exist or simply persuading phone companies to provide records, accordin ...
  • Cooper Brown joins Department of Labor's ARB
    Today was the first day on a new job for E. Cooper Brown as he begins his service as Vice-Chair of the Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB). Brown had served on the ARB in the 1990's, until the Bush Administration swept out the old Board members in 2001.  I particularly appreciate ...
  • Ohio Governor and public servant disagree on the " ...
    The governor of Ohio and an attorney working for Ohio's Bureau of Workers Compensation are disagreeing about what is a "typical whistleblower situation." According to the Columbus Dispatch , attorney Joseph Sommer sent an email to the Governor last May. He asked for an official state investigation o ...
  • Renner speaks at King Day event in Ohio
    I had the privilege of speaking at the Tuscarawas County, Ohio, commemoration of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday. It has been 22 years since Rev. Christopher Lowery and I started these local commemorations. Here I am with my friend, Rev. Archie Jackson. The event gave me an opportunity to s ...

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

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Wishing He Could Turn Back the Hands of Time
    Before winter hit in St. Paul, Minnesota, I met Darryl. He's been without a home since October, and he's recently run into a new round of problems as his son needs assistance as well and he goes through a divorce from his wife. He's tried to return to live with his family a few times, but it has nev ...
  • Homeless Activists Converge on San Francisco
    Yesterday marked a coming together of housing advocates up and down the West Coast as grassroots organizations converged on San Francisco to ask the federal government to adequately fund affordable housing and ensure that city governments around the U.S. uphold the basic civil rights of individuals ...
  • Mocking the Homeless is So Chic!
    It used to be so much easier to make fun of the homeless, y'all. When big-time spikes in joblessness, foreclosures and even hunger were still only a twinkle in a banker's eye, it was a breeze to mock families too poor for the privilege of shelter. True, it was harder to laugh at the homeless kids (n ...
  • Boulder City Council Heeds Call for No-Camping Mor ...
    Yesterday, End Homelessness blogger Noah Jennings asked for your help in defeating a Boulder, Colorado ordinance that fines homeless people for sleeping outdoors in a city without enough shelter beds. You delivered. Boulder Mayor Susan Osborne told Change.org yesterday -- just hours after the call t ...
  • Panhandling in Chicago
    There was so much noise on Chicago's Michigan Avenue Bridge that I didn't notice Reggie was asleep. I felt bad. I should have remembered when I was homeless. Sleep came when I felt safe, or when I was so exhausted I collapsed. Rarely did sleep happen at night. Rarely did I rest when I was alone and ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Canadian Auto Workers support Ceasefire.ca
    The Canadian Auto Workers’ Social Justice Fund has made a $15,000 donation to the Rideau Institute’s Ceasefire program. The CAW and the Rideau Institute “have worked together on important issues and expect to do so in the future,” said Annie Labaj, the Director of the CAW’s International Department, ...
  • Anti-prorogation group should not be ignored: stud ...
    A study released today by the Rideau Institute finds that Facebook has been adopted by older, politically engaged voters to express frustration over the government’s decision to prorogue Parliament. A survey conducted by online public engagement strategist Pierre Killeen suggests that a majorit ...
  • Army shelves Close Combat Vehicle purchase
    The Ottawa Citizen reports (David Pugliese, Combat vehicles for army on hold, document shows, Ottawa Citizen, 21 January 2010) that the purchase of a new fleet of Close Combat Vehicles (CCVs) for the army has been postponed by the Harper government. Although the CCV purchase had been promised as a t ...
  • Military budget facing more “adjustments”
    David Pugliese reports that the Department of National Defence is facing another $233 million in budget “adjustments” by the end of March.  However, like the $190 million in “adjustments” reported earlier, the money DND plans to save will not be removed from the overall military budget. Instead, it ...
  • U.S. sights carry New Testament Jesus references
    From the Shooting-Ourselves-in-the-Foot Department: U.S. Military Weapons Inscribed With Secret ‘Jesus’ Bible Codes Pentagon Supplier for Rifle Sights Says It Has ‘Always’ Added New Testament References By JOSEPH RHEE, TAHMAN BRADLEY and BRIAN ROSS Coded references to New Testament Bible passages ab ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Central Banks Involved With Robbing Middle Classes
    January 22, 2010 Zero Hedge By Tyler Durden We apologize in advance for the NY Magazine-style headline, but this is a report that has to be read by all Senators who are preparing to reconfirm Bernanke for a second term. When voting for the Chairman, be aware that all of America will now look at you ...
  • Government Asks To Raise Debt Limit to $14.3 Trill ...
    January 22, 2010 Bloomberg By Alison Fitzgerald and James Rowley The U.S. debt limit would be raised by $1.9 trillion to $14.29 trillion under an amendment proposed in the Senate. The chamber began debate yesterday on raising the debt ceiling for the fifth time in two years after lower tax revenue f ...
  • Congress Curbs on Fed Undermining U.S. Economy in ...
    January 22, 2010 Bloomberg By Rebecca Christie Investors say Congress would undermine the U.S. economy by clamping down on the Federal Reserve and predict that taxes on bank bonuses would persuade companies to move to friendlier jurisdictions. More than half the respondents in a quarterly poll of in ...
  • Girl Becomes Blind After Taking TamiFlu
    January 22, 2010 Mail Online By Cher Thornhill A teenage girl left disabled by the swine flu treatment Tamiflu did not even have the virus, it was revealed today. Samantha Millard, 19, became critically ill after suffering a severe allergic reaction to the tablets, which she took on the advice of th ...
  • School Staffers Received Insulin Instead of Swine ...
    January 22, 2010 ABC News By Joseph Brownstein When staff members at a Wellesley, Mass., school went to the nurse last Friday, they expected to be injected with a vaccine for theH1N1 flu. What they received instead was a shot of insulin resulting in a bout with low blood sugar. While the staffers se ...

Pambazuka News

  • Katrina victims face eviction
    Following reports of federal government plans to repossess temporary housing from Katrina victims, the US Human Rights Network - http://www.ushrnetwork.org has called for the Obama administration to reverse this decision and provide those affected with substantive directive support.
  • Extradition threat for Black Liberation activist
    As the US opens up political channels with Cuba, Black Liberation Army - http://www.thetalkingdrum.com/freedomfighters.html activist Assata Shakur faces extradition from the country where she has lived under political asylum since 1984, writes Paul Scott. While the mainstream media portrays Shakur h ...
  • Stop senate renege on black farmer compensation
    ColorOfChange.org - http://www.colorofchange.org/farmers/?id=1842-429864 is campaigning to ensure that a US senate bill to compensate black farmers in the South for discrimination gives them the money they deserve, rather than capping the total amount available at $100 million, which would only cove ...
  • Ekiti must hold free, fair elections
    The North America-based Ekiti Focus Group has strongly condemned election violence and intimidation in Nigeria’s Ekiti State, describing reported cases of ‘arson, maiming, ballot stuffing, ballot hijacking, and shooting’ as ‘barbaric acts’. In a statement the group called for ‘the release of true an ...
  • Global: Why Haiti can't forget its past
    Thank you for the attention you have brought to the country of Haiti. In response to your New York Times op ed piece I wanted to widen your perspective a bit. I don't pretend to represent anyone. I've been living in Haiti since 1985. I grew up in New...

War in Context

  • Turkey: Newly exposed military coup planned to tur ...
    Turkey: Newly exposed military coup planned to turn the clock back to 1923 Today’s Zaman, January 22, 2010 The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) hoped to take Turkey back to 1923, the time when the republic was proclaimed, after the staging of a coup d’état against the Justice and Development Party (AK ...
  • Helping the Haitians over there so that we don’t h ...
    Haiti relocating homeless, port repairs needed AP, January 22, 2010 Haitians are fleeing their quake-ravaged capital by the hundreds of thousands, aid officials said Friday, as their government promised to help nearly a half-million more move from squalid camps on curbsides and vacant lots into safe ...
  • Gates says Taliban must take legitimate Afghan rol ...
    Gates says Taliban must take legitimate Afghan role By Elisabeth Bumiller, New York Times, January 22, 2010 The United States recognizes that the Taliban are now part of the political fabric of Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said here on Friday, but the group must be prepared to play ...
  • Interview: Joe Sacco
    Interview: Joe Sacco By Laila El-Haddad, Al Jazeera, January 18, 2010 When it comes to the world of cartooning, Joe Sacco is considered a luminary. Sacco, who is hailed as the creator of war-reportage comics, is the author of such award-winning books as Palestine and Safe Area Gorazde. His latest w ...
  • Detainees will still be held, but not tried, offic ...
    Detainees will still be held, but not tried, official says By Charlie Savage, New York Times, January 22, 2010 The Obama administration has decided to continue to imprison without trials nearly 50 detainees at the Guantánamo Bay military prison in Cuba because a high-level task force has concluded t ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Sanity check: 2008 & 2009 Were The Coolest Years S ...
    While the press is hyperventilating over NASA GISS recent announcement of the “Hottest Decade Ever“, it pays to keep in mind what happened the last two years of the past decade. According to NCDC, 2009 temperatures in the US (53.13F) were the 33rd warmest and very close to the long term mean of 52.8 ...
  • Arctic temperatures above 80°N are the lowest in s ...
    According to the Danish Meteorological Institute, Arctic temperatures are currently below 238K (-35.15 degrees Celsius or -31.27 degrees Fahrenheit) That is more than five degrees below normal (the green line) and the lowest reading since 2004. The slope of decline has also recently been quite sharp ...
  • New tool for solar flare prediction
    From NOAA news: NOAA Scientist Finds Clue to Predicting Solar Flares Forecasters at NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado. High resolution (Credit: NOAA) For decades, experts have searched for signs in the sun that could lead to more accurate forecasts of solar flar ...
  • American Thinker on CRU, GISS, and Climategate
    Climategate: CRU Was But the Tip of the Iceberg By Marc Sheppard Not surprisingly, the blatant corruption exposed at Britain’s premiere climate institute was not contained within the nation’s borders. Just months after the Climategate scandal broke, a new study has uncovered compelling evidence tha ...
  • Statistics expert Briggs: Actually, Weather Is Cli ...
    Guest post by William M. Briggs professional  statistician It is statistically appropriate to point to this year’s frigidity as evidence that the theory of man-made global warming is suspect. Sure is cold out there, unusually so. By “unusual,” I mean the temperature is on the low end of the ob ...

Dandelion Salad

  • US says it will stay in Haiti for long term
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ PressTV Jan 22, 2010 Despite criticism for the US military presence in quake-stricken Haiti, Washington says it has a long-term plan to stay in the country. “We are there for the long term, this is not something that will be resolved quickly and easily,” US Am ...
  • The Jeff Farias Show: Jeff Milchen + Francis A. Bo ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Posted with permission from Jeff Farias The Jeff Farias Show Jan. 21, 2010 Thought of the Day: Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission The People vs. Corporations: US Supreme Court overturns campaign spending limit Just hours ago, the Supreme Court gave ...
  • Dennis Kucinich Denounces Supreme Court Decision + ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Congressman Dennis Kucinich Washington, Jan 21, 2010 Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement following the 5-4 Supreme Court ruling in the case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission: “Today’s decision will allow cor ...
  • Pledge of Allegiance, 2010 by Ed Ciaccio
    by Ed Ciaccio Dandelion Salad Featured Writer January 21, 2010 I pledge allegiance to the flag of the Corporate State of America, and to the plutocracy for which it stands, one nation, under greed, with penury and injustice for all but the ruling class. *** Action Alert: Save Democracy see Manch ...
  • Michael Doyle: Court green-lights corporate electi ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ TheRealNews January 22, 2010 Supreme Court ruling could magnify corporate role in US politics more about “Court green-lights corporate election…“, posted with vodpod Action Alert: Save Democracy see Supreme Court ends limits on corporate campaign spending By ...

Your New Reality

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    Haiti. The earthquake : The aftermath : The prime minister of Haiti worries that "hundreds of thousands may have been killed."
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    Hey Now, Don't Go Forgetting Who Made All Those Pretty Trees.... The Vatican reviews Avatar, with some hard-to-hide nervousness about how religiously influential the movie, and its sequels and prequels and vidgames and TV series and books, its eco-theology, will become, or what they might inspire : ...
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    Tarantino : 'In general cinema, violence is the biggest attraction. I'm a big fan of action and violence in cinema. That's why Thomas Edison created the motion picture camera — because violence is so good." This is somebody who has seen little real-life violence.
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    Just A Coincidence, Surely? January 19 : Tony Blair To Testify At Iraq War Inquiry Over Pre-War Lies January 22 : Britain Raises Terror Alert Level, Attack "Highly Likely" .
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    Preparing Americans for the reality of war in the homeland :

Wired - Science

  • Bigger, Better Telescopes Needed to Find Near-Eart ...
    If we’re going to protect the Earth from an asteroid, we need to find the dangerous ones whizzing about in the emptiness of space. Unfortunately, the United States will not complete the survey of large near-Earth objects by 2020 as mandated, but not funded, by Congress in 2005. That’s the conclusio ...
  • Removing Part of the Skull Makes for Better Brain ...
    Removing a chunk of the skull can make way for stronger, clearer signals from a common method for monitoring brainwaves.The skull-free electroencephalography (EEG) could make neural prostheses like bionic arms or eyes less invasive. “It’s notoriously hard to have a long-term electrode implanted in ...
  • New Hi-Res Flyover of Haiti Will Aid Recovery and ...
    New three-dimensional radar and hi-resolution aerial images of Port-au-Prince and the surrounding areas to be released starting Friday could boost both recovery and research efforts in Haiti in the wake of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck on Jan. 12. Satellite images and aerial photos have ...
  • Slime Mold Grows Network Just Like Tokyo Rail Syst ...
    Talented and dedicated engineers spent countless hours designing Japan’s rail system to be one of the world’s most efficient. Could have just asked a slime mold. When presented with oat flakes arranged in the pattern of Japanese cities around Tokyo, brainless, single-celled slime molds construct ne ...
  • Haiti Aftershocks Will Continue for Months, Maybe ...
    A preliminary U.S. Geological Survey assessment has found that the sequence of aftershocks following the magnitude 7 earthquake that struck near Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Jan. 12 is likely to continue for months, possibly years. Though the frequency of aftershocks will decrease over time, there is s ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Naomi Chazan: Critical Currents – Silencing dissen ...
    The Sheikh Jarrah vigils started as an avowedly political act - an outcry against a system which allows Jews to reclaim property held in east Jerusalem prior to 1948, but prohibits Palestinians from... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Twenty arrested at Sheikh Jarrah protest
    [T]he move to "purge" east Jerusalem of its Arab residents saddens [MK Mohammed Barakeh] not only on a personal level but also because he feels "there is no peace process, no two-state solution... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now i ...
  • 15 left-wing activists arrested in East Jerusalem ...
    Hundreds of left-wing activists, including several prominent politicians, protested in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem on Friday. The protest has become a weekly event in the Sheikh... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Jordan: Prosecutor agrees to look into complaint a ...
    The Amman prosecutor general on Wednesday agreed to open an investigation into a complaint against Israeli politicians over statements suggesting that Jordan become an alternative homeland for... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in ...
  • Palestinian farmers are being treated like crimina ...
    Amira Hass: Under the cover of the incessant noise from the roads in the Hebron district, an anonymous Arab is perpetrating a serious crime: With a small hammer, he is digging a cistern so he can... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Top Toronto Cardiovascular Specialists and Family ...
    World-leading cardiovascular specialists, researchers, family physicians and the public will learn what's new in cardiovascular treatment, patient care and research at the second annual Peter Munk Cardiovascular Symposium, Partnerships in Integrative Patient Care, on January 29 and 30 at the Toronto ...
  • Heart Month: Heart Highlights from NYU Cardiac & V ...
    1) Heart Fair by NYU Cardiac & Vascular Institute; 2) Women Versus Men When It Comes to Heart Attack; 3) Know Your Numbers; 4) Cutting Down on Salt Can Prevent Heart Disease; 5) Breakthrough Imaging Technology is Helping Cardiologists and Surgeons Better Treat Heart Disease...
  • New Plan Puts Heart Attacks on Fast Track
    The University of Kentucky is hoping to add precious time to heart attack patients' lives by shaving off minutes between the ambulance and treatment at the hospital.
  • Take Heart: UH Offers Many Experts for February
    Matters of the heart dominate in February with Valentine's Day and the American Heart Association's 'Heart Month' topping the list. The University of Houston offers resources that range from heart disease research to the analysis of relationships.
  • Research Supports Sustained Exercise as Key to Hea ...
    How excercise affects heart health.

Intel Trends

  • Uproar in Pakistan Senate over Blackwater presence
    The following article is from Geo TV, Pakistan. Uproar in Senate over Blackwater row ©   Geo TV January 22, 2010   19:16 ISLAMABAD:  The situation took a chaotic turn in the Upper House on Friday when the issue of presence of Blackwater in Pakistan was raised. State Minister on Interior Affairs e ...
  • IntelTrends 22-JAN-2010
    Al-Qaida may use Sudanese refugee influx to infiltrate Israel J'Post, 22 Jan Al-Qaida may use Sudanese refugees making their way into the country as cover to infiltrate and set up terrorist cells in Israel, senior IDF officials told Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Somali rebels deny threatening ...
  • LeT paragliders may attack India: Intelligence inp ...
    The following article is from Press Trust of India (PTI). LeT paragliders may attack India:  Intelligence input ©   Press Trust of India January 22, 2010   16:26 IST New Delhi Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) has acquired more than 50 para-gliding equipment from Europe, setting off alarm bell ...
  • Statement of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF): Tra ...
    Download now or preview on posterous Oromo_20100119.pdf (158 KB) Permalink
  • SUDAN: SPLA downplays possible rebellion within it ...
    The following article is from SouthSudan.Net. SPLA downplays possible rebellion within its forces Source:   SouthSudan.Net January 20, 2010  16:11 The Chief of Staff of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), James Houth, confirmed stability within the army. In an exclusive interview with Mira ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Book Review: Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domest ...
    Mother Nature has shown her hand. Faced with climate change, dwindling resources, and species extinctions, most Americans understand the fundamental steps necessary to solve our global crises-drive less, consume less, increase self-reliance, buy locally, eat locally, rebuild our local communities. ...
  • Swine Flu and Agribusiness of Meat
    In the midst of the stir and alarm caused by the H1N1 (Swine Flu) virus, it appears that the pandemic's place of origin has been forgotten: a Mexican community located near pig farms owned by the Granjas Carroll corporation. Click here to read this article
  • Bats Dying from White Nose Syndrome; Means Trouble ...
    White nose syndrome threatens to wipe out five of Pennsylvania's six bat species, according to bat biologist DeeAnn M. Reeder of Bucknell University, Lewisburg. Click here to read this article
  • Whose Rights? Challenging Corporate Power
    A new Supreme Court decision promotes corporate rights at the expense of the rights of citizens. What happens when the legal structure itself stands in the way of democracy? Click here to read this article
  • Fears Grow as Study Shows Genetically Modified Cro ...
    Fresh fears were raised over GM crops yesterday after a study showed they can cause liver and kidney damage. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

  • Tales from a San Francisco shutter-bug
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Tales from a San Francisco shutter-bug , es un hermoso fotoblog que recientemente fue nombrado como Blog of Note por Blogger en base a la gran cantidad de fotografías que su autor ha ido colocando al paso de los días. Re ...
  • 35 fotos realmente lindas en SmashingMagazine
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. SmashingMagazine , es uno de los mejores sitios que conozco sobre la difusión de contenidos selectos en la red . Esta vez no será la excepción y conoceremos a través de este medio, una hermosa colección de 35 fotografías ...
  • Bonita colección de fotos en Art.Transindex.Ro
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Art.Transindex.Ro , es un sitio que me ha dejado muy satisfecho por la enorme cantidad de fotografías que tiene. Además, debo enfatizar que las fotografías tienen una calidad muy aceptable por lo que resulta fácil apreci ...
  • Más de 1,000 imágenes en NeverHappen
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. NeverHappen , es uno de los pocos sitios que han sido seleccionados por 9Rules en base a la gran cantidad y calidad de su contenido. En esta ocasión, me permito invitarlos a conocer este sitio extraordinario con más de 1 ...
  • Imágenes de Amor para el Día de San Valentín
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. En varios lugares, el 14 de Febrero se celebra el Día del Amor y la Amistad o también conocido como el día de San Valentín . Es común regalar flores, chocolates, ropa, joyas y perfumes, pero sobre todas las cosas, lo mej ...

Executive Intelligence Review

Center for a Livable Future

  • Vegetarian and low-carbon diets emerging in China?
    Yesterday I spotted a segment on the China Central Television (CCTV) web site describing the vegetarian restaurant scene in China and the emergence of a low-carbon diet trend. Meat consumption has risen dramatically in China in the last few decades; research by Barry Popkin at the University of Nort ...
  • Study Finds Menu Labels Including Daily Caloric Re ...
    Last week I discussed why obesity experts, such as Drs. Kelly Brownell and David Kessler, believe highly processed foods are leading to excessive overeating. Until healthier unprocessed foods are more readily available and affordable, today I want to focus on one way we can thwart the cravings belie ...
  • 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 ...

Norwegianity

  • Left divided over healthcare
    An industrious blogger (i.e., not me) would be checking out all the A-list lefty bloggers to compile a list of who’s saying what about how to wrap up healthcare reform. Jane Hamsher’s got a petition for you to sign telling House members to hold their ground and not pass the Senate bill. This post fr ...
  • Putting a bullshit veneer on the horseshit
    Eric Roper: Bachmann shot back at Specter, a Republican-turned-Democrat who has a tough election ahead of him in Pennsylvania. “I was treated, really, like a little girl,” Bachmann said. “I was patronized and basically told to go sit down and shut up in a corner. And I thought, ‘This is how yo ...
  • The price of freedom is about to go up
    Mark Silva at The Swamp has made a point about the Scalia 5’s ruling that corporations have a constitutional right to buy elections. Stevens and the dissenters said the majority was ignoring the long-understood rule that the government could limit election money from corporations, unions and other ...
  • Take a deep breath, now hurl
    Some timely words from Robert Parry: Now, eight years later, a fuller measure can be taken of what Bush’s power grab meant for the United States – the federal debt ballooning, the economy in freefall, unemployment skyrocketing (along with bankruptcies and foreclosures), environmental degrada ...
  • More salt please
    I’ve brought in at considerable expense a motivational speaker to remind readers why you tend to vote for Democrats, however disappointed you may be in them later. From the comments I give you Thomas J. Swift: Yeah, I’ve read all the lefty excuses…”Wall Street!”….”Not progressive enough!”….”The insu ...

The Seferm Post

The World We Live In

  • War Begets War, Don’t Call it Terrorism
    Slate | By William Saletan | 11 January 2010 Traitor, Bomber, Soldier, Spy Stop crying “terrorism” every time we’re attacked. Afghan police officers inspect the site of a blast in Khost province Photo: REUTERS Two weeks ago, a Jordanian suicide bomber blew up seven CIA employees at a U.S. m ...
  • 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 ...
  • Freedom of Speech for a Fiction
    By CHRISTOPHER KETCHAM I often correspond with a long-time Washington DC operator named Leigh Ratiner, who spent 40 years in government, serving under Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Reagan, with cabinet-level posts in the Defense Department, under the Secretary of the Interior, in the ...
  • War Begets War, Don’t Call it Terrorism
    Slate | By William Saletan | 11 January 2010 Traitor, Bomber, Soldier, Spy Stop crying “terrorism” every time we’re attacked. Afghan police officers inspect the site of a blast in Khost province Photo: REUTERS Two weeks ago, a Jordanian suicide bomber blew up seven CIA employees at a U.S. m ...
  • 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 ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Farmers and Conservation Groups Seek to Halt Plant ...
    Earlier Court Decision Found Federal Approval of GE Sugar Beets to Be Unlawful Earthjustice and Center for Food Safety announced today that they filed court papers seeking a ban on genetically engineered (GE) sugar beets and sugar beet seeds. The motion was filed in Federal Court on behalf of a coal ...
  • A Message from Anna Lappé: Help Us Fight for a New ...
    Bestselling author of Grub and Hope’s Edge, television host, and public speaker, Anna Lappé has devoted herself to ensuring a safe and sustainable food supply for both farmers and consumers, for this and future generations. Like you, Anna knows the value of an organic and truly sustainable food syst ...
  • New Report Reveals Dramatic Rise in Pesticide Use ...
    GE crops increase herbicide use by 383 million pounds from 1996 to 2008, with 46 percent of the total increase occurring in 2007 and 2008 Genetically engineered (GE) corn, soybeans and cotton have increased use of weed-killing herbicides — a type of pesticide — by 383 million pounds in the U.S. from ...
  • A Message from Michael Pollan: Help Protect Our Fa ...
    Please help us reach our goal of $100,000 by donating to our special Fall Fund Drive today! If you saw the film Food Inc., you heard Michael Pollan talking about the prosecution of farmers across the country by Monsanto for patent infringement. Starting several years ago, CFS discovered that Monsan ...
  • Groups Deliver the Concerns of 90,000+ Citizens to ...
    Siddiqui would represent industry, not best interests of the American people A broad coalition of groups delivered a petition today to the White House and Senate leaders opposing the nomination of Islam Siddiqui for Chief Agriculture Negotiator with the U.S. Trade Representative’s office. More than ...

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