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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.

Friday, January 29, 2010

29 Jan - RSS SnapShot!

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • HEALTH: 10-Billion-Dollar Vaccine Pledge by Gates ...
    WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (IPS) - The pledge by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to provide 10 billion dollars over 10 years on vaccines aimed at reducing child mortality in the world's poorest countries was hailed by global health organisations around the world Friday.
  • RIGHTS-UGANDA: Fugitives in Their Own Country
    KAMPALA, Jan 29 (IPS) - Every morning Pepe Julian Onziema wakes up not knowing if she will live to see another rising sun. Onziema is transgender and she lives in fear for her life because of a national campaign against gay people.
  • U.S.: Obama Losing Control of Iran Policy
    WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (IPS) - In a surprisingly swift move on Thursday night that could have wide-ranging implications, the U.S. Senate passed a bill containing broad unilateral sanctions to punish foreign companies that export gasoline to Iran or help expand its domestic refinery capabilities.
  • WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Sierra Leone Sees Opportunity ...
    FREETOWN, Jan 29 (IPS) - The World Social Forum held in Nairobi in 2007 inspired Sierra Leonean activists to organise themselves to demand things like housing, health care and greater accountability from their government. That inspiration was not sustained.
  • AFGHANISTAN: US Night Raids and Secret Prisons A ...
    WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (IPS) - An investigative report published on TomDispatch.com about U.S. forces' operations in Afghanistan paints a gruesome picture of surprise night raids, indiscriminate killing and random detention of civilians during those raids, as well as what appears to be widesprea ...

Scoop - NZ

  • Expert help just a click away
    Kiwis can now acess the expertise of Doctors, Computer Experts, Mechanics, Vets, Electricians and other experts from a click of their mouse. By visiting www.AskNow.co.nz questions can be asked directly to verified experts and answers received within an hour, sometimes even sooner. "Ask Now allows ...
  • The Billionaire Running Chile
    A right-wing businessman was elected president of Chile this week, flouting the region's recent shift to the left. Antonio Castillo analyses the victory of Sebastián Piñera If you are planning a holiday in Chile this year, it's likely you'll fly with an airline owned by the newly elected Chilean p ...
  • Rare warbler found in Afghanistan
    Scientists say they have for the first time discovered a breeding site for the world's least-known bird species. Little is known about the large-billed reed warbler, but researchers have found a thriving flock of the birds in a remote corner of Afghanistan. Robert Timmins from the US based Wildlif ...
  • The 3 Facebook Settings Every User Should Check No ...
    An expert warns about access to Facebook by strangers.  »  PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • A moving video from Copenhagen
    In this video below Tom Smith, a twenty-year old member of the UKYCC delegation that went to the climate summit, walks us through the final hours of the talks. He describes talking with a Bolivian delegate who came up to him at a protest outside the conference center and said while Copenhagen had no ...

Independent ( London )

  • With resilience and spirit, Haiti slowly returns t ...
    The performance takes place at night against the backdrop of a shattered hulk which used to be an office block. The actors, illuminated by the flickering light of burning debris, use broken pieces of furniture for props, The audience squat on the ground, some bandaged, some with makeshift crutches ...
  • Hopper's dramatic Hollywood ending
    Cut down by a 12-bore shotgun, Dennis Hopper was instantly turned from jobbing actor into a household name when his Harley Davidson chopper motorcycle exploded in a slow-motion ball of flames during the extravagant final scene of his 1969 film Easy Rider .
  • Villepin faces retrial over Sarkozy 'smear'
    The Paris public prosecutor was accused of "persecution" and "political bias" yesterday after he appealed against the acquittal of former prime minister Dominique de Villepin on charges of smearing President Nicolas Sarkozy.
  • Love life flagging? Then try pork, like the presid ...
    They won't be swapping their bottles of Chimichurri for jars of mustard and apple sauce quite yet, and they can still wash dinner down with a nice Malbec, but the people of Argentina are being asked to experiment with a new addition to the national diet: pork.
  • Taliban to decide soon on talks offer
    Taliban leaders will decide soon whether to join talks with the Afghan government, a militant spokesman said yesterday, after President Hamid Karzai invited them to a peace council aimed at ending the war.

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Senate OKs Sanctions on Iran's Fuel Suppliers
    Summary: US Senate In a vote which had been widely anticipated, the Senate today approved additional sanctions against companies that provide gasoline to Iran, as well as against some companies that provide communications technology to the nation. source: AntiWar.com read more
  • Turning Greens into Pawns through Marketing
    Author: Cyrus Safdari Date: January 21, 2010 - 1:00am Source: Iran Affairs Summary: Glassman Yesterday, the Egyptians reportedly claimed that the Mossad was fueling demonstrations in Iran, and today James Glassman writes in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that the US should t ...
  • Iran Sanctions, ‘Regime Change,’ Take Center Stage
    Summary: Jim Lobe With the Senate set to take up major sanctions legislation against Iran by mid-February, neo-conservative and other hawks are calling on the administration of President Barack Obama to pursue a more aggressive course of "regime change" in Tehran. source: IPS read more
  • Iran raps Obama's embrace of Bush's policies
    Summary: Mehmanparast Iran says the Obama administration has been pursuing his predecessor's foreign policy approaches, insisting the US policies have not "changed" whatsoever. source: Press TV read more
  • Obama Takes on the Muslim World
    Summary: Although President Obama also sought a “new beginning” with Iran, he never directed any of the policy changes that would make that possible. Crucially, the U.S. continues to spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually to bring about regime change in Iran, prompting Iran’s spiritual l ...

The Daily Galaxy

Natural News

  • How to Heal Yourself in 15 Days
    (NaturalNews) Can you really heal yourself in 15 days? Without using prescription drugs, vaccines, chemotherapy or surgery? Absolutely! Your body strives to heal itself automatically, every single day. The only thing that really needs to happen for your body to begin healing itself is for you to rem ...
  • Israeli Scientists Show DNA Evidence Can be Fabric ...
    (NaturalNews) Scientists from the Tel Aviv, Israel-based company Nucleix have demonstrated that it is possible to create fake DNA samples and plant them as evidence at a crime scene, in a paper published in the journal Forensic Science: International Genetics ."You can just engineer a crime scene," ...
  • Vitamin D Promotes Weight Loss
    (NaturalNews) A recent study conducted by researchers from the University of Minnesota found that overweight people have better success in losing weight when their vitamin D levels are increased. Dr. Shalamar Sibley, the researcher who headed the study, placed 38 obese men and women on a diet progra ...
  • Omega-3 fatty acids have anti-aging effect on cell ...
    (NaturalNews) As NaturalNews has previously reported, omega-3s, the fatty acids found primarily in cold water fish like salmon, have a host of health benefits, including alleviating depression (http://www.naturalnews.com/027285_omega-3_depression_fatty_acids.html), preventing age-related blindness ( ...
  • GHC's Dr. Ed Group joins Natural News Talk Hour
    (NaturalNews) This week's NaturalNews Talk Hour features Dr. Edward Group, D.C., ND discussing "The Green Body Cleanse , Organic Detoxification at its Best". Discover how to reduce and eliminate toxins from your home, workplace and especially your body. It runs this Thursday evening at 6pm Pacific / ...

    TheGallopingBeaver

  • You got it, Toyota
    OH, WHAT A FEELING . Sometimes, though, even the "best" drop the ball.  Some 25 years ago, an engineer friend of my dad's had the air-conditioning shut down in his Mercedes. Problem was, the car shifted to FULL HEAT. This was in July. It was a new model, and the parts dep't. didn't have a replacemen ...
  • Dear Supreme Court of Canada,
    What the effing hell is this supposed to mean? The Supreme Court of Canada has overturned lower-court orders that the federal government must try to repatriate Toronto-born Omar Khadr from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay. However, the top court agrees his human rights have been violated ...
  • For Edstock
    Hmmm, what about .577 Tyrannosaur?
  • More Bullshit from Rideau Hall
    While it may just be the latest shiny object to be dangled in front of the public to keep them distracted from Stephen Harper's prorogation shenanigans and the response from both the electorate and the opposition until the big Burning Stick Festival in Vancouver next month, I still think this is unf ...
  • Christopathic gunsights
    Biblical references on weapon sights . Coded references to biblical passages are inscribed on gunsights widely used by the US and British military in Iraq and Afghanistan, it has emerged. The markings include "2COR4:6" and "JN8:12", relating to verses in the books of Corinthians II and John. Trijic ...

Media Matters for America

  • Conservative media link bin Laden's remarks about ...
    Numerous conservative media figures responded to Osama bin Laden's reported comments blaming the United States and other industrialized nations for global warming by linking bin Laden with progressives and Democrats. Fox example, Rush Limbaugh likened bin Laden's remarks to "those of the averag ...
  • Beck "don't know much about history"... or econom ...
    On January 28, Fox News host Glenn Beck purported to explain the origins of the financial crisis but instead made several false claims. Beck misinformed his viewers on the difference between institutions that provide student loans and those that purchase existing hom ...
  • Quick Fact: Hannity falsely claims Obama "created ...
    On his radio show, Sean Hannity claimed that President Obama "seems to be concerned about a massive deficit," which Hannity said Obama "created," and asserted that the economic "stimulus is a failure." In fact, the 2009 increases in spending and the deficit include the impact of policies enacte ...
  • Fox Nation touts "hero" labeling of Obama photos, ...
    The Fox Nation highlighted a Mediaite post claiming that "the individual responsible for the naming convention of the presidential imagery on the official White House website has literally 'given' hero status to the photos" of President Obama because the file names of "all the Presidential imag ...
  • Media conservatives falsely claim Obama's Supreme ...
    Right-wing media are attacking President Obama for his criticism of the recent Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC during the State of the Union, calling it "unprecedented" and accusing the president of "intimidation." In fact, Obama's comments were not "unprecedented"; Presidents ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • GOP Media Mistake
    The Republican House members invited President Obama to their retreat. The White House suggested that the whole session including the Q & A be on camera. The Repubs agreed. But as Luke Russert tweets from Baltimore. GOP aides telling... Republican - Barack Obama - Baltimore - Luke Russert - Un ...
  • A Tribute To TPMtv and Ben Craw
    As Josh noted in the Editors Blog, today is longtime video editor Ben Craw's last day at TPM. He's been with us for nearly four years and has created some truly incredible video in the process. Josh paid tribute by... Non-linear editing system - Editing - Talking Points Memo - Video - Unit ...
  • Presented By:
  • Flashback: Detective Conan O'Brien And Detective ...
    United States Secretary of Labor - United States - Television - Programs - Arts
  • Are Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations Finished?
    President Obama's "State of the Union" left out the traditional call for the renewal of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations which, for years, has been boilerplate in Presidential addresses to Congress. I imagine Obama left it out because his previous calls fell on... Barack Obama - United Sta ...

TruthOut

  • Lawmakers, Veterans Groups Discuss Benefits Backlo ...
    Last week, Democratic and Republican members of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs met with Chairman Bob Filner to talk with 40 veterans' service organizations to discuss priorities for Congress' second session. The roundtable marked the second time during the 111th Congress that the committe ...
  • Zygmunt Bauman | Albert Camus: I Rebel, Therefore ...
    Half a century passed without Albert Camus' poignant, nagging and prodding, provoking and invigorating comments. All that time the library of books, studies and essays dedicated to the author of L'Étranger, La Peste, La Chute and Le Premier Homme swelled unstoppably: ' Questia' , the 'online librarie ...
  • California Senate Approves Single-Payer Health Car ...
    Despite a firm veto threat from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the California Senate on Thursday passed a measure along party lines to create a $200 billion state-run, single-payer health care system. The bill— SB 810 —now heads to the state Assembly for consideration. read more
  • Major Global Banks Split on Regulation Battle
    The world's top banking gurus aren’t sure how to fight back against a global push for tougher financial regulation, with commercial and investment banks struggling to reach common ground, according to a recent Reuters report. read more
  • James Perry's Run for Mayor of New Orleans
    Can a social justice candidate win an election in the new New Orleans? read more

Planetsave

  • China to Ban Eating Cats and Dogs
    Eating dogs and cats–which is an age-old delicacy in China–could soon be against the law. It’s the nation’s first law against such animal abuse. Currently, dog and cat meat is viewed as promoting bodily warmth. But if the law passes, people who eat either animal could face fines of up to $730 ...
  • Asian Carp Near Great Lakes: Are They So Bad?
    U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists with a bighead carp, one of two species whose entry into the Great Lakes is sparking widespread concern. Last week’s edition of Great Lakes Asian carp news brought both a U.S. Supreme Court decision and disclosure of the species’ environmental DNA in La ...
  • 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 o ...
  • 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 fou ...
  • 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 Con ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Nuclear Renaissance Dealt Blow by South Texas Proj ...
    A critical court ruling today rang the first chime in what could be the death knell of the so-called “nuclear renaissance,” starting with the failed expansion of the South Texas Project (STP). This afternoon’s ruling by 408th District Court Judge Larry Noll that CPS Energy can safely withdraw from ...
  • Obama announces new government goal for reducing g ...
    Also cross-posted at our Energy Blog: President Obama announced this morning he was putting the government on a low carbon diet. Through a series of initiatives, he hopes to decrease energy consumption through efficiency and switching to alternative energy that is less carbon intensive. As the sing ...
  • National Day of Action Against Coal Waste
    TODAY is our National Coal Ash Day of Action -  please ask the White House to allow the US EPA to finally regulate coal ash as the hazardous waste it is. Currently, coal ash is less regulated than household trash!  This toxic waste stream has never been regulated and that must change, now. 1.  Pleas ...
  • Help Stop Ozone Pollution, Show Support for Propos ...
    Right now the EPA is accepting public comments on proposed new ozone standards that will make the air we breathe cleaner and our communities healthier, but they are facing fierce opposition from the coal industry and its allies. The Houston EPA hearing on new ozone standards is one of only three acr ...
  • Climate Change Will Increase Storm Activity, Sever ...
    There’s new information out as to how Texans will be affected by future climate change impacts, and its not looking good.  According to new studies and modeling, the number of powerful Catergory 4 and 5 hurricanes will likely increase along with global temperatures, as will the overall frequency an ...

Press TV

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Only a Year Late
    So I'm surfing the liberal blogosphere a little gingerly, trying to find some good news amid the tearing of hair and ripping of clothes and heaping of ashes on heads, and I find Zandar, secular blessings be upon him forever. Obama goes into the House Republican retreat, Republicans figure they've go ...
  • GOP: Party of the Short Seller
    I don't know about you, but I am getting a little tired of hearing Republicans called the "Party of No," because I am not sure "Party of No" adequately captures the sheer mendacity of Republican obstruction.  I think we should call them the Party of Short Sellers, becuase that is what they are. Repu ...
  • Dr. George Tiller
    Jurors find Scott Roeder guilty of first-degree murder of George Tiller Old media is quite good at showing us the aftermath that wedge issue politics has wrought. They're not very good at illuminating the reality before: Vigil for Dr. George Tiller in Columbia - June 2, 2009 - part 3 Phillip Wood, ...
  • Tradecraft turned inward
    There is more to the story of James O'Keefe and his merry band of miscreants trying to access Mary Landrieu's office phones than a group of twenty-something activists doing something stupid. There is a sinister undercurrent that leaps off the page if a little bit of digging is done. One of the more ...
  • Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission: a ...
    President Obama, in his State of the Union address , on Wednesday night: ...With all due deference to separation of powers, last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests -- including foreign corporations -- to spend without limit ...

Care 2

  • Flight Restored to Injured Kestrel
    It's not often that you find a bird of prey in your back yard. Kestrels are falcons who are usually seen hovering in the air or sitting on a perch surveying their territory. So when a Florida woman found an injured kestrel lying helplessly in her garden Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it! ...
  • Mekong tiger population at 'crisis point': WWF
    Governments must act decisively to prevent the extinction of tigers in Southeast Asia's Greater Mekong region, where numbers have plunged more than 70 percent in 12 years, the WWF said Tuesday. Submitted by Ingrid Peeters to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • TEO: 10 days after rescue
    10 days after rescue the lovely Teo has made a remarkable recovery and is looking fantastic. What a handsome boy Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Spanish hunter threatens to bury these galgos aliv ...
    Threatened with being buried alive - nice hunters!!! What is wrong with these galgos? They were born in Spain and belonged to a galguero. These galgos were saved, a plea sent out on the Internet for help to find a safe place for them. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment ...
  • 'Tiger' countries salute Russia's idea to host wor ...
    Ministers from 13 countries still inhabited by wild tigers approved on Friday Russia's idea to host an international forum on tiger conservation in 2010, WWF Russia said. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

GreenBiz

Reuters Global

  • Renewing trans-Atlantic ties Finnish-style
    Given their shared history and values, close ties between Europe and the United States are often taken for granted. But relying on history and shared experience is not enough, according to Finland's foreign minister -- it's time for a renewed pact between the European Union and the United States
  • Top budget retirement destinations abroad
    Looking for a fabulous place to retire on a budget? GlobalPost picked 10 intriguing overseas locales where you can stretch every dollar.
  • EU, NATO officials call for gender equality
    European Union and NATO officials back efforts to involve women more in peacekeeping and conflict resolution, but there is no consensus on whether gender quotas are the solution.
  • Obama, Susan Rice and the U.N. — The right a ...
    When U.S. President Barack Obama came to power, he announced a "new era of engagement" at the United Nations. He appointed his longtime friend and foreign policy adviser Susan Rice to be his ambassador to the world body. He also raised her post to cabinet level, as previous Democratic presidents hav ...
  • Haiti: The journalists behind the story
    Haiti: The journalists behind the story

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • The Women Of The CIA
    Reprinted from The Daily Beast with the express permission of the author. The female CIA officers killed in December were a testament to the progress made in a historically paternalistic agency. Former CIA officer Valerie Wilson on the cracks in the spy world’s ceiling. The shocking massacre in Khos ...
  • Markets Fading the 4th Qtr GDP Report
    The 4th quarter GDP report came in this morning at a surprisingly strong 5.7%. However, like many other things in this Uncle Sam economy, not everything is as it appears. For that very reason, I wanted to wait to write about this report until I monitored the market’s reaction. Let’s navigate. The qu ...
  • What Would Lyndon Do?
    An “accidental” President, thrust into office following the shocking assassination of his young, vital predecessor, takes the reins of power. He has inherited a war that is rapidly turning into a quagmire. Landmark legislation lingers on the Hill. The country is struggling with the divisive issue o ...
  • The Blame Game, aka, The SOTU, and The Republican ...
    Bumped up with and Update at the bottom of the post. Yes, Obama laid blame at the feet of just about everyone but himself last night during his SOTU. “The Buck Stops Here” moment was very short-lived, was it not? It’s Bush’s fault about the banks, even though Senator Obama voted to bail them [...]
  • What’s Wrong with US Intel Agencies
    This piece reprinted from The Consortium News with the express permission of the author. It is time for serious soul-searching regarding the role of the CIA and the intelligence community. Last month’s operational and intelligence failures led to the deaths of seven CIA officers in Afghanistan and m ...

Environmental Graffiti

Foreign Policy in Focus

  • Fujimori Faces Justice
    Peru's Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of former president Alberto Fujimori for crimes against humanity.
  • Gender: B
    The administration earns high marks for its global focus on women’s issues. But its overall approach to war and development still adversely affects women’s lives.
  • Multilateralism: B-
    The Obama administration is UN-friendly. So why hasn't it made more of a push to bring the United States into compliance with international conventions?
  • China and India Battle Over Thin Air
    The two most populous countries in the world have a great trade relationship. But, as columnist Conn Hallinan explains, they are also on the verge of war.
  • Tomgram: Nick Turse, The Forty-Year Drone War
    The wonder weapon of our present moment is the missile-armed unmanned aerial vehicle, or drone, now doing our dirty work, an endless series of targeted assassinations, in the Afghan-Pakistani borderlands.

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 ...

Daily Censored

  • Berekely School Board to vote on the proposed REAL ...
    The issue I am about to attempt to analyze is pressing and I call for all of you who wish to protect public education to please contact Yvette Felarca, yfelarca@gmail.com, National coordinator of the By Any Means Necessary coalition at www.bamn.com, (510) 502-9072 to oppose the privatization of Ber ...
  • The Supreme Court: Usurping of Seperation of Power
    Associate Justice Alito http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/27/alito-not-true_n_439672.html More than 225 years ago the Virginian Patrick Henry famously stated that, “”[p]ower is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected che ...
  • Wages, Prices and Profits
    (Note: This title is borrowed from Karl Marx, who wrote a brilliant piece of this same title. Likewise for much of the content. I don’t think old Karl would mind. As the postal worker told the poet in the film “Il Postino”: “Poems don’t belong to those who write them; they belong to those who [...]
  • A “Smart Power” Coup in Honduras
    By SAUL LANDAU and NELSON P. VALDÉS “If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine  will go far.” –President Theodore Roosevelt, 1903 “I am going to teach the South American republics to elect go ...
  • “Capitalist Tool”
    We are nothing to them. It doesn't take much to figure that out. We lose our jobs. The insiders have theirs forever. Our wages are flat while Wall Street fat cats get ever increasing bonuses. We lose our health coverage while Congress, the Judiciary, and the Executive branches enjoy the best in ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

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Pine River World News

  • To my RSS subscribers...
    OK, I see that I have "71 RSS subscribers" to Pine River World News - as per Feedburner today. And, I also realize, that RSS subscribers seldom visit my blog "in person" because the updates arrive on their computers directly via the newsfeeds. This message is specifically for you. A lot of what I ...
  • Saudi Arabia's Military Involvement in the Yemen C ...
    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Global Research. Saudi Arabia's Military Involvement in the Yemen Conflict ©   Global Research By Rannie Amiri January 29, 2010 It has been nearly three months since the Saudi military directly inserted itself in the conflict between Zaidi ...
  • Existing U.S. home sales fall at record rate
    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from World Socialist Web Site. Existing U.S. home sales fall at record rate ©   World Socialist Web Site By Andre Damon January 26, 2010 Sales of existing U.S. homes plunged in December, exposing the fragility of the housing recovery and its d ...
  • Another bin Laden tape? Even the mujahideen forums ...
    Pine River World News January 25, 2010 It's pretty sad when even the mujahideen forums are questioning the authenticity of the latest Osama bin Laden audio tape - that's the one where al Qaeda acknowledges the "Nigerian underwear bomber" as one of their agents. The fact that Al Jazeera was the medi ...
  • Pak editorial: Contradictions of Gates
    The following editorial is from The Frontier Post, Peshawar, Pakistan. Contradictions of Gates ©   The Frontier Post January 24, 2010 U.S. Secretary of Defence Robert Gates has come and gone, after making the noises so pet with American officials nowadays about Pakistan. But hadn't we heard of thi ...

    PDA AMERICA

  • Video: Doctors Flowers and Paris Arrested, Re: Oba ...
    On Jan. 29, 2010, Doctors Margaret Flowers and Carol Paris were arrested outside a hotel, at the Inner Harbor, in Baltimore, MD, where President Barack Obama was to give a speech. They were on a ...
  • An Underdog Who Isn’t Daunted by a New Try for the ...
    By N. R. KLEINFIELD | Cross-posted from the NYT The long shot ate breakfast with his mother. She asked for campaign buttons for her friends. He handed her a dozen. She got worried. That many? Weren’t ...
  • Connect the Dots with Lila Garrett
    Monday morning at 7 on CONNECT THE DOTS the one year anniversary of Obama’ election tune in or use this link http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive/index.php?shokey=ctd as we talk with: TIM CARPENTER Exec Dir. Of PDA, ...
  • Yes, we still need HealthCARE reform
    By Paulette Garin | PDA Blog Contributor and Cross-posted from Paula’s Blog As part of a recent medical exam, my doctor ordered blood work to evaluate my overall medical condition as well as follow up on ...
  • IOT: Stop Global Warming: Jan Call
    On this month’s Stop Global Warming/Environmental Issues Organizing Team call, the following topics were covered: Kathy Callan's meeting with Sen. Boxer's staff, results of the Copenhagen climate summit, updates on the Price Carbon Campaign and ...

Marler Blog

  • Salmonella Montevideo Outbreak linked to Black Pep ...
    The CDC reports that a total of 202 individuals infected with a matching strain of Salmonella Montevideo have been reported from 42 states and District of Columbia since July 1, 2009. The number of ill persons identified in each state with this strain is as follows: AK (1), AL (2), AZ (5), CA (30), ...
  • Chasing the Ambulance Away: Reshaping the Role of ...
    Date: February 8, 2010 Time: 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM Location: Great Hall - Memorial Union Sponsor: Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE), Distinguished Lecture Series (DLS), Office of Corporate Relations Overview: William Marler has built his firm, Marler Clark, into a nation ...
  • Salmonella Salami Suspect Named - Wholesome Spice ...
    Although officials from USDA, FSIS and FDA remain silent, as has Daniele Salami, both CIDRAP and Food Safety News reported Rhode Island Health Officials have named Wholesome Spice as the likely source of the Salmonella-tainted black pepper that has sickened 189 in 40 states. However, the country of ...
  • Will this be one of the first things that Dr. Hage ...
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  • Why do the US Government and US Business not belie ...
    Or, Why the Silence of the Steaks and Perjury of the Peppers? Everyone (in my world) has been following the two latest government and business food mishaps that have poisoned many of our fellow citizens over the last several months. The first mishap, linked (apparently, in part) to blade-tenderize ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 01.29.10
    IBM gets 24M hours of supercomputing time to work on lithium air batteries Yikes. DC 2010: Would a federal diesel tax rebate be in order? Diesel coalition thinks so Says it'd be a level playi ...
  • DC 2010: DOE Secretary Chu announces closing of Ni ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal , Nissan , Electric Department of Energy Secretary Chu announced the closing of Nissan 's $1.4 billion Advanced Technology Vehicle Loan Program loan ( originally , the amount was for $1.6 billion) today during the Washington Auto Show . As expected, this money will used ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 01.27.10
    DC 2010: Wheego unveils high-speed Whip, looks a lot like the LSV It's coming this summer for $35k - before tax credits. Washington D.C. to be the third retail market for Chevrolet Volt After ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 01.26.10
    Gas tax pop quiz: how long since it's been raised? Think you're smarter than 60% of Americans? Give us your best guess. Is the Nissan Leaf battery pack under-engineered? Is the s ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 01.25.10
    Toyota won't sell upcoming EV; lease or car-sharing options available instead Tiptoeing into the rEVolution. Done deal: Tesla, DOE complete $465 million loan paperwork You're an investor? Us, ...

Rafe's Radar

  • Reporters' Roundtable Podcast: What the iPad means ...
    The iPad . Perhaps you've heard of it. Now there are hundreds, maybe thousands of posts and podcasts up about this product, and whether it's worth buying, and what's with the stupid name. But for this podcast I have two smart guests with me with whom I want to step a bit beyond these immediate co ...
  • iPad will be to MacBook as Netbook is to PC
    There's work ahead for the iPad engineers, but make no mistake: This product is a direct attack on the Netbook category.
  • Twitter adds local trends to Web site
    New feature shows you what's hot on Twitter near you.
  • Hands-on with Google Voice for the iPhone
    iPhone users get somewhat better Google Voice access, still pine for a real app.
  • 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 ...

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 fre ...
  • 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, w ...

Democracy Now!

  • Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010)
    Howard Zinn, one of the country’s most celebrated historians and author of the seminal work A People’s History of the United States, died of a heart attack Wednesday in Santa Monica, California. He was 87. Over the years, Zinn was a frequent guest on Democracy Now! Click for more
  • Let the Haitians In
    Jean Montrevil was shackled, imprisoned, about to be sent to Haiti. It was Jan. 6, days before the earthquake that would devastate Haiti, the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. Montrevil came to the U.S. with a green card in 1986 at the age of 17. Twenty years ago, still a teenager, he was c ...
  • 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

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

  • Haiti in Desperate Need of Aid
    If you are looking to help the now desperate people of Haiti, here is an update from a group of people who have partnered to put together a way to do just that… Day 17 in Haiti Miami, FL-January 28, 2010 Members of Haiti-Life.org , a grass roots organization chartering ships to take aid into ...
  • Call to WRH radio show from mother whose college d ...
    Also see : Is global warming real?
  • Troops fire on starving crowds in Haiti
    By Patrick Martin January 28, 2010 Troops under United Nations command have opened fire on crowds of hungry Haitians seeking food, an ominous sign of impending confrontation between the people of the earthquake-wracked country and the armed forces dispatched there under the auspices of the imperiali ...
  • Haiti Army Occupation
  • The Kidnapping of Haiti
    By John Pilger January 27, 2010 “Information Clearing House” — The theft of Haiti has been swift and crude. On 22 January, the United States secured “formal approval” from the United Nations to take over all air and sea ports in Haiti, and to “secure” roads. No Haitian signed the agreement, ...

    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...

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Twilight Earth

  • Single Stream Recycling Video – What Is It – How D ...
    Single Stream Recycling, not everyone has it, but everyone should. What is it and how do you get it? Related posts: Could recycling really work? What If? AQUS: Innovative Greywater Recycling System Conserves Freshwater Resources Our Green Rant Video for Current.Com
  • Our Green Rant Video for Current.Com
    Our Green Rant Video for Current.Com Related posts: Cop15 Clip Real Video – Greening the Empire State Building Green Hell – What the Anti Environmentalists are Saying About Us (Video) Cop15 – On The Streets – Day One Video
  • Churches Filling Pews by -Gasp!- Preaching Environ ...
    Older, mainline churches approach to environmental issues are attracting younger Americans. Related posts: Pope Benedicts 2010 Message to the World: Environmentalism What is Environmentalism? Pope Says – Environmental Degradation Ends by Living Ethically
  • NEWS FLASH: Republicans Believe in Climate Legisla ...
    American people are eager for Congress to act on climate legislation. Related posts: Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Writing Ant-Environmental Legislation? You Betcha! White House Follow-up on Global Climate Change Impacts Health Care Practices and Climate Change – Dr Bertollini Explains the Connection ...
  • 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 Chan ...

Inhabitat

  • Amenity Home Sustainable Home Decor for Spring On ...
    As we begin to peel back the multiple layers of winter  (or are just starting to feel the chill, depending on what part of the world you’re in), Amenity Home launches their latest collection of nature-inspired bedding reflective of the emerging spring season. Taking their cue from ferns, their lat ...
  • SF’s Green Transbay Terminal Secures $171 Million ...
    We were excited to learn last year that the new Transbay Transit Center in downtown San Francisco would be built with green features in mind. We’re even more excited now that the $4 billion terminal has just received a $171 million loan from the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation ...
  • Rapid Re(f)use: New York City Rebuilt From Its Own ...
    New York City, much like any big city, disposes of a lot of trash — but what if that trash could be used in a constructive manner? NYC-based architects Terreform have proposed a new form of construction for the City that uses industrial sized robots to create buildings and islands from waste instead ...
  • Obama Announces Federal Government to Reduce emiss ...
    President Obama announced today in a prepared statement from the White House that the Federal Government will cut their emissions by 28% by 2020. The announcement comes on the heels of his State of the Union Address where he urged Congress to put aside it’s party bickering in order to pass important ...
  • Flat Pack Prefabs Could Provide Relief in Haiti
    The tragic earthquake in Haiti has provoked a number of architects to think about how they can help with disaster relief. One recent example we looked at was the SEED project, which uses shipping containers as temporary housing. Now architect Andres Duany has designed a fireproof, waterproof, and m ...

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Open Your Eyes News

  • Gingko Biloba Linked to Seizures, says Study
    Medguru — Patients with epilepsy; using gingko biloba, a commonly used herbal remedy, may face an increased risk of seizures, warns a novel German research. Seizure is defined as an abnormal movement or behavior due to unusual electrical activity in the brain, according to WebMD. Epilepsy is a grou ...
  • Ginkgo Biloba’s Epilepsy Seizures Warning
    BBC – People with epilepsy should be warned that using a popular herbal remedy may increase the risk of seizures, researchers say. German scientists, writing in the Journal of Natural Products, said they had found 10 written reports of seizures linked to ginkgo biloba. They said they were convinced ...
  • Brown accused of cover-up: PM under fire as key pa ...
    Daily Mail – Gordon Brown was accused of ‘gagging’ the Iraq inquiry last night as it emerged the Government is blocking the release of secret documents about the war. Senior MPs from all three main parties said the decision bore all the hallmarks of an official ‘cover-up’ and made a mockery of the P ...
  • Biofuel requirements for cars may help destroy the ...
    Daily Telegraph – Using biofuel in vehicles could be destructive to the rainforest as well as leading to higher green house gas emissions than using just petrol and diesel, a fuels watchdog has claimed. Fuel providers are compelled to add an increasing proportion of biofuel to diesel and petrol unde ...
  • The Kidnapping of Haiti
    ITV – In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes the “swift and crude” appropriation of earthquake-ravaged Haiti by the militarised Obama administration. With George W. Bush attending to the “relief effort” and Bill Clinton the UN’s man, The Comedians, Graham Greene’s dark nov ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Operation Condor thug heads for trial, puppet mast ...
    Operation Condor thug heads for trial, puppet masters remain free (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Manuel Cordero was extradited from Brazil to Argentina recently. The former Uruguayan military officer is set to stand trial in Argentina for the 1976 “disappearance” of an Argentine citizen as part ...
  • Irish Republican Socialist Flouts Science
    Irish Republican Socialist Flouts Science (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Recently (1) the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) posted an article attempting to refute a Maoist-Third Worldist perspective on Ireland. The IRSP “criticism” contains no substantial analysis, rather IRSP simply repe ...
  • Amerika “disappears” migrants into secret detentio ...
    Amerika “disappears” migrants into secret detention facilities (raimd.wordpress.com) Recently, journalist Jacqueline Stevens uncovered a list of 186 previously-secret Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sub-field offices. The list reveals the locations into which an unknown number of migrant w ...
  • Round 2: Fist Worldist Hoxhaists versus Maoist-Thi ...
    Round 2: Fist Worldist Hoxhaists versus Maoist-Third Worldists on  Counter Revolution (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Recently, a debate took place between First Worldist Hoxhaists and Maoist-Third Worldists. This debate touched on many areas. One of the main issues was the process of counter-r ...
  • Round 1:First Worldist Hoxhaism versus Maoism-Thir ...
    Round 1: First Worldist Hoxhaism versus Maoism-Third Worldism on Three Worlds Theory (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) There was a recent debate between First Worldist Hoxhaists and Maoist-Third Worldists. This debate covered many topics. One of the main topics was Mao’s Theory of Three Worlds fro ...

PakAlert

  • Zardari’s Sprititual War: Pakistani President Slau ...
    Swamped by court challenges and under pressure from a hostile opponents (PML-N), Pakistan’s president, Asif Ali Zardari, has found solace in an unusual form – the ritual slaughter of goats. Zardari has a black goat killed every day at his Islamabad house to ward off “evil eyes” and protect himsel ...
  • Video: How Mass Media Control You!
    This is how they control the masses of this world through media – Yes we all are brainwashed.. doesn’t matters if we are in USA, India, Pakistan or any other part of the world.. we are being fed on deceptions, lies and personal agendas just to rule us. The below amazing interview was don ...
  • Alert: U.S. Moves Missiles And Troops To Russian B ...
    Nuclear and Conventional Arms Pacts Stalled by Rick Rozoff 2010 is proceeding in a manner more befitting the third month of the year, named after the Roman god of war, than the first whose name is derived from a pacific deity. On January 13 the Associated Press reported that the White House ...
  • Death Of US Dollar: Secret Images of New Proposed ...
    The US Dollar is soon going to die and a new currency already planned by Federal Reserve. So if you are investing or saving in US dollars then you should be very concerned about what is coming next! AMERICA-CANADA-MEXICO will become NORTH AMERICAN UNION THE NEW “PROPOSED” BILL FOR NORTH AMERICAN ...
  • Video: US Army Takes Haiti – US Blocks Some Aid Fl ...
    Haiti Earthquake Aid, or Army Occupation – Al Jazeera TV Reports Every country that richer than Haiti is trying to help, but only American government is sending armed occupation forces to build more bases, and never pull out. Karachi-based charity worker, Abdul Sattar Edhi, pledged cash as former ...

ecogeek

  • Federal Government Will Cut Its GHG Emissions 28% ...
    Many of us were disappointed by the State of the Union address Wednesday night.  Sure the president stressed the importance of a climate bill and clean energy development, but he also committed to pursuing more nuclear energy, new offshore oil drilling and "clean" coal. That makes today's announce ...
  • Florida Getting First High-Speed Rail Funds
    Last year, the government promised $10.5 billion in funds for high-speed rail development and the first state to receive some of that money is Florida.  Tomorrow, President Obama will be awarding $2.5 billion to the state to jump-start the first phase of their train system that will run from Orland ...
  • 10 GW of Wind Power Installed in U.S. Last Year
    With all of the conflict over Cape Wind and the constant reduction in scope of T. Boone Pickens' wind projects , it's easy to feel discouraged, but here's something to lift your spirits.  Great news came from the American Wind Energy Association today.  During 2009, 10 GW of new wind power capacity ...
  • Study Says Algae Biofuel Has Dirty Life Cycle
    Algae has seemed like a great biofuel candidate because it's extremely efficent at creating energy from sunlight and it could potentially form closed loops for power plants - absorbing exhaust while creating new fuel - but a recent study has knocked algae off its pedestal. University of Virginia r ...
  • GM Will Design Their Own Electric Motors
    General Motors announced today that they will be expanding their capabilities for designing and manufacturing electric traction motors, the motors used to propel electric and hybrid-electric vehicles. GM plans to have the first GM-designed and -built electric motors installed in some 2013 vehicle ...

Times Online - Science

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Judge Orders Breitbart Brat Home to Mommy and Dadd ...
    Co-conspirators Stan Dai and James O'Keefe seen leaving the courthouse in a photo that O'Keefe did not have a chance to tamper with before I could: After getting caught messing with the phone lines in Senator Landrieu's Louisiana office , even videoing his and his co-conspirators with their pant ...
  • 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 ...

SPL Center

  • Student Activists Confront Anti-Semitic California ...
    Students at Cal State Long Beach are launching a campaign against a faculty member known for his anti-Semitic writings and, most recently, for his leadership of a white supremacist political party. Aiming to force Kevin MacDonald’s departure from the university, student activists this week began urg ...
  • 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 ...
  • Target of Neo-Nazi Threatmaker Bill White Tells of ...
    ROANOKE, Va. — A Citibank employee told jurors this afternoon that she couldn’t concentrate at work but was too frightened to go home after receiving an E-mail with her personal information from white supremacist Bill White. “I was very scared, not only for myself but for my family,” said Jennifer ...
  • Fort Hood Report Calls for Change in Pentagon Hate ...
    An independent fact-finding report made public last week by the Pentagon in the wake of the November shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, concluded that the Pentagon was not well prepared to defend itself from many internal threats. The report, “Protecting the Force: Lessons From Fort Hood,” focused ...

change: org.

  • Are Public Universities Out of Your Price Range?
    Students are supposed to be able to turn to public universities to get a good education at a reasonable price. But, as Josie points out on the U.S. Poverty blog, many qualified students are denied the chance to even attend a public institution due to the expense. A new study out of the Education Tru ...
  • Beckham vs. Boomers
    Kangaroos are the iconic images of Australia, yet kangaroo leather is used for handbags, baseball  mitts, and soccer cleats — including the aptly named  Adidas Predator line endorsed by David Beckham. Beckham's own custom Predators aren't made with kangaroo leather because the soccer star made t ...
  • Tiller's Killer Found Guilty of Murder, Cites Pat ...
    And, that's a wrap. After 37 minutes of deliberation, jurors returned a guilty verdict for first-degree murder in the trial of Scott Roeder, who shot and killed Dr. George Tiller in his church last year. The verdict was hardly surprising -- once the judge had ruled that Roeder could not, after all, ...
  • CBS Crunches on ManCrunch
    CBS' handling of the advertising portion of this year's Super Bowl is turning into a bigger fiasco than Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction. For weeks, CBS has taken heat from activists for arbitrarily changing their advertising policy to accept a Super Bowl advertisement from Focus on the Family . ...
  • Mental Health Gets Equal Insurance Coverage
    The Obama administration issued rules today that require parity in the treatment of mental health and substance abuse disorders . The regulations, officially called the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008, could affect the 150 million Americans in g ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Economic Growth 'Cannot Continue'
    Continuing global economic growth "is not possible" if nations are to tackle climate change, a report by an environmental think-tank has warned. The New Economics Foundation (NEF) said "unprecedented and probably impossible" carbon reductions would be needed to hold temperature rises below 2C (3.6F) ...
  • I Have No Regrets says Defiant Blair
    by Gavin Cordon, Sam Marsden and Mark Bulstrode, Press Association A defiant Tony Blair today mounted a vigorous defence of the invasion of Iraq, insisting he had no regrets over removing Saddam Hussein and would do the same again. In his long-awaited appearance before the Iraq Inquiry, ...
  • US Abortion Doctor's Killer Found Guilty of Murder
    by Chris McGreal A jury in Kansas has rejected a plea by a man who admitted killing an abortion doctor that he acted in defence of the unborn and found him guilty of murder . The jury took just 37 minutes to convict born-again Christian Scott Roeder for shooting George Tiller, 67, in the forehead as ...
  • Obama Fails to Rally Progressive Base in 'Tepid' A ...
    by John Nichols Say what you will about Barack Obama. But don't accuse the president of veering from the course he charted at a point when his term was new, his popularity ratings were high and Americans took seriously all that talk of "hope" and "change." read more
  • Single Payer Docs Arrested Outside Baltimore Hotel ...
    by Russell Mokhiber Two single payer doctors were arrested this morning outside the Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel where President Obama was scheduled to speak to a retreat of House Republicans. Dr. Margaret Flowers and Dr. Carol Paris were carrying a sign that said: Just Letting You Kno ...

Lifehacker

  • From the Tips Box: Trial Subscriptions, Distractio ...
    Readers offer their best tips for avoiding trial subscriptions that automatically charge your credit card, browsing the web without distractions, and cleaning dish towels overnight. Don't like the gallery layout? Click here to view everything on one page. About the Tips Box: Every day we receive b ...
  • This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights]
    This week we saw a fancy new tablet from Apple, took a look at the best email clients around, and put the most popular browsers on the market through the paces in a performance face off. The Problem with the Apple iPad Yesterday, Steve Jobs worked his charm, attempting to wow the world with the Ap ...
  • Google Apps Drops Support for IE6 [Bad Browser]
    More bad news for the browser that just won't die: Google will phase out support for Internet Explorer 6 over the course of 2010, starting with Google Docs and ending by dropping support for Google Calendar and Gmail. From the support email that just landed in my inbox: In order to continue to impr ...
  • Crack a Wi-Fi Network's WEP Password with BackTrac ...
    Last summer we detailed how to crack a Wi-Fi network's WEP password using BackTrack . Now video blog Tinkernut revisits the subject with a great video step-by-step of the process. Before you go calling the cops or putting on your bank robber mask, a helpful reminder from our original post: Kn ...
  • Download Over 150 Free Advanced PowerPoint Slides ...
    If you're tired of your PowerPoint presentations being a bit tame, Microsoft has released a collection of PowerPoint slide sets that show how you can push the envelope in slide design and get away from boring slides. They've collected dozens of slide sets that are not only interesting for their colo ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Afghan Conference Gives Us Nothing New
    By Steve Hynd Here's the official communique from the London conference on Afghanistan today. And here's the best commentary on it you'll find, one written in advance with total accuracy: As ever in the noble art of diplomatic summitry, it is all about upside down news. Let me explain. This is the A ...
  • Keeping the Spotlight on Afghanistan Tonight: Reth ...
    By Derrick Crowe The State of the Union talking points distributed by the White House this morning seem to indicate that the president will only briefly discuss Afghanistan tonight, but we are working hard to keep the spotlight on the Afghanistan war. Tonight, join us for a State of the Union watch ...
  • Operation "60% Short" In Afghanistan - NATO For Th ...
    By Steve Hynd The Washington Post's Craig Whitlock writes today that NATO is coming up far short of the hoped for 10,000 extra troops to back Obama and McChrystal's surge of 30,000 Americans in Afghanistan. France has refused to send any more of its soldiers and Germany has pledged 500 instead of th ...
  • Hey Babe, Your Warlord's Back!
    By Steve Hynd The AP (sorry) has the news that mass murdering fuckhead General Dostum is back in Karzai's government despite protestations from Western leaders. Karzai this month restored Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum as chief of staff to the commander in chief of the Afghan army - a job he lost in 2008 ...
  • Rethink the State of the Union
    By Derrick Crowe President Obama will give his first State of the Union address on Wednesday night at 9 p.m. Eastern. Brave New Foundation's Rethink Afghanistan campaign wants to make sure this isn't just a time to sit and watch, but a time to get together with our friends and push back against the ...

Water Wars

  • Water leaders set for Colusa Farm Show (Colusa Cou ...
    With California's historic water wars on center state at the state Capitol, Family Water Alliance will host the second annual Water Forum during the Colusa Farm Show. The event will feature a panel of California's leading water experts and will be...
  • Star Valley, Payson poised to end water wars (Pays ...
    Payson and Star Valley this week turned the water war into a support group, with a “monumental” agreement to give Star Valley access to a deep water well and an existing water main that could support commercial development and fire hydrants along the highway.
  • Fish wrap: Big rains stir up sturgeon bite; Delta ...
    UNTIL floodwaters deposit the Marin IJ offices high and dry atop Mount Tamalpais I will refrain from describing the recent rains as biblical.
  • Things to do: Documentary to be screened at NCC (T ...
    North Central College 's Cultural Events and Office of International Programs will co-host a free screening of the documentary "Blue Gold: World Water Wars" at 7 p.m. in Meiley-Swallow Hall, 31 S. Ellsworth St., Naperville.
  • Water Wars (New Haven Advocate)
    For years, Waterbury was piping water from the Shepaug River into the city's reservoir and selling the excess water to other towns. In the summer months, Waterbury took so much water that the river was too shallow and too hot for aquatic life. Towns downstream, like Roxbury and Washington, worried.. ...

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Electronic Intifada

CS Monitor - News

  • podcast091204
    Fewer US jobs lost in November and impact on economy.
  • October 16, 2009
    The UN Human Rights Council votes to adopt the Goldstone Report on Israel's military incursion into Gaza.
  • October 19, 2009
    Saudi Arabia is wary of terrorists, especially from neighboring states.
  • October 20, 2009
    How some TV insiders view parents and children on reality television.
  • October 21, 2009
    How African Anglicans might respond to the Vatican's offer.

The Wonk Room

  • JSOC-ing Al Qaeda Around The World
    Our guest blogger is Brian Katulis, a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. As indicated by a Washington Post story earlier in the week on the U.S. military’s clandestine involvement in operations in Yemen and the news that more special forces are headed there, the Joint Spe ...
  • Why Obama Choose To Ignore Most Republican Health ...
    At today’s House Republican retreat, President Obama emphasized the Republican ideas in the House and Senate health care bills and called on the party to abandon their harsh rhetoric and work on reform in a bipartisan manner. “[F]rom the start I sought out and supported ideas from Republicans, I eve ...
  • Biden Throws Down The Gauntlet And Sets Stage For ...
    Vice President Biden has an important op-ed today in the Wall Street Journal. In it, Biden firmly addresses one of the main arguments used by conservatives to oppose arms-control efforts, namely that the US nuclear stockpile is too unreliable to make further reductions. In response, Biden says the A ...
  • Obama Commits Government To Major Cuts In Global W ...
    Today, President Barack Obama announced that “the federal government will reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution by 28 percent by 2020.” These cuts are long overdue, and promise a sea change in government procurement and practices, with the promise of major savings from energy efficiency. In a st ...
  • Obama Reprimands GOP: Stop Saying ‘This Guy’s Doin ...
    This afternoon, during a conciliatory visit with the House Republicans, President Obama suggested that the party’s bitter political attacks prevented any possibility of negotiation or compromise on health care reform. “If you were to listen to the debate, and frankly how some of you went after this ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • What's Next?
    I think the Anti-Prorogation rallies were successful in that they gave harper a major public-relations black-eye. But as someone wrote on some other blog's comments section somewhere, back in the day, various parliaments blithely ignored hand-written petitions with over ONE MILLION signatures, so t ...
  • Too Busy 2 Write
    So I'm linking to KITH: Hope you liked it. (I didn't have much to do with it though, did i?)
  • Canadian Newsmedia Rediscovers Haiti
    I gotta say that it puts a bad taste in my mouth to see all these fucking newspaper headlines about the earthquake in Haiti and how "Canada is doing this" and "Canadians are doing that" for Haiti. I've mentioned several times on this blog how curious it is that Canadian news media say Jack Shit abo ...
  • harpercon bleat: "B-B-B-ut Prorogation is 'Constit ...
    That's one of the things that I've been reading on the "Blogging Tories" response to the Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament movement. Duh. The proposed Liberal-NDP coalition was constitutional too. But they called it a "coup." Anyway, CAPP isn't against proroguing parliament so much as we'r ...
  • Childish Pranks
    PMO spokesperson Dimitri Soudas on the "Yes Men" stunt : "Time would be better used by supporting Canada's efforts to reach an agreement instead of sending out hoax press releases," Soudas wrote in an email to CBC News. "More time should be dedicated to playing a constructive role instead of childis ...

Financial Sense Editorials

  • Market Observation: Emerging Markets, Copper, Tumb ...
    by Gary Dorsch. "A trend in motion, will stay in motion, until some outside force, knocks it off its course." So far in January, a whirlwind of events have suddenly knocked the global commodity and stock markets off their 10-month upward trajectory. Beijing is clamping down on Chinese bank loans and ...
  • The Other Oil Play You Simply Can't Ignore
    by Marin Katusa. "The biggest economic shift of our time is under way. Cheap and easy oil is gone for good. And given our addiction to low-cost oil, the results are about to put the squeeze on your pocket book."
  • Bernanke's Burn Notice -- Why Now?
    by Robert Prechter. "Like a spy who gets a burn notice, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has suddenly lost his support. Bernanke has gone from being Time magazine's Man of the Year in 2009 to … what? A Fed chairman embroiled in a controversial reconfirmation process before U.S. Congress. Why th ...
  • Where Will US Job Growth Come From?
    by James Quinn. "Employment in the U.S. peaked in November, 2007 at 146.6 million people. As of December 2009, only 137.8 million Americans were employed -- a loss of 8.8 million jobs in 25 months. Using the official (U3) measurement, the unemployment rate is 10%. Using the broader, more realistic ( ...
  • Why I Hope Gold Falls to $1,000
    by Jeff Clark. "As a self-professed gold bug, why would I possibly want my favorite investment to fall in value? Have the long hours finally caught up with me? Au contraire; my near-constant devotion to all things gold has only served to crystallize one of the things I really want out of this. Here’ ...

on Government Oversight

  • Former SEC Attorney Responsible for Diming Out Whi ...
    Yesterday POGO published an article in Politics Daily which revealed that George Demos, a former Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) attorney who is now running for Congress, was previously cited in an SEC Inspector General (IG) report for improperly disclosing...
  • If You're Looking for Another $80 Billion in Savin ...
    Key quote from Wednesday's State of the Union address: "Starting in 2011, we are prepared to freeze government spending for three years. Spending related to our national security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security will not be affected." [Emphasis POGO's] As...
  • Morning Smoke: Post-Confirmation Bernanke May Have ...
    Bernanke May Have Harder Fight Defending Fed After Confirmation by Scott Lanman [Bloomberg] Jury Convicts Former SEC Lawyer by Kara Scannell [The Wall Street Journal] DoD's '11 Budget: $10.7B for F-35, $4B for New Bomber, More for SpecOps by John...
  • Morning Smoke: Defense Spending Freeze Exemption U ...
    Defense Analysts Blast Military Exemption to Spending Freeze by Spencer Ackerman [Washington Independent] Obama's 2010 State of the Union address fact-checked [Washington Post] Will Sen. Dorgan Disclose His Potential New Employers? by Kate Sheppard [Mother Jones] QDR Kills Two MTW...
  • Five Areas of Government In Need of Reform
    Before you sit down to watch the State of the Union address tonight, make sure to take a look at our latest recommendations to President Obama. While the administration has implemented many important reforms in their first year, there's still...

Science Express

  • Study offers evidence that spongiform brain diseas ...
    Scientists have determined how a normal protein can be converted into a prion, an infectious agent that causes fatal brain diseases in humans and mammals.
  • Research may hold key to maintaining embryonic ste ...
    In a new study that could transform embryonic stem cell (ES cell) research, scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered why mouse ES cells can be easily grown in a laboratory while other mammalian ES cells are difficult, if not impossible, to maintain.
  • Physical reality of string theory demonstrated
    String theory has come under fire in recent years. Promises have been made that have not been lived up to. Leiden (The Netherlands) theoretical physicists have now for the first time used string theory to describe a physical phenomenon. Their discovery has been reported in Science Express.
  • Bcl6 gene sculpts helper T cell to boost antibody ...
    Expression of a single gene programs an immune system helper T cell that fuels rapid growth and diversification of antibodies in a cellular structure implicated in autoimmune diseases and development of B cell lymphoma, scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center reported toda ...
  • Scientists discover gene mutation responsible for ...
    University of Utah researchers and their colleagues have identified the gene that is mutated in a hereditary form of a rare neuroendocrine tumor called paraganglioma (PGL). The gene, called hSDH5, is required for activation of an enzyme complex that plays a critical role in the chemical reactions th ...

TechDirt

  • Retail Giant Tesco Gets Into The Movie Business
    Even as the movie business has had yet another record breaking year at the box office, we still hear claims from Hollywood that online downloading of unauthorized movies is going to kill the movie business. And yet, where there's demand, new business models will be created. ethorad points us to t ...
  • Publishers Beginning To Recongize The Value Of Fre ...
    We've seen how various book publishers have freaked out about the growing popularity of ebooks, often with a price capped at $10 -- arguing that it's cannibalizing the higher margins found on hardcover books. And yet, at the same time, some of those very same publishers are perfectly happy to offer ...
  • ACTA One Step Closer To Being Done; Concerns About ...
    Despite widespread demands from politicians around the globe, combined with promises from the USTR to be more open and transparent (despite unsubstantiated and totally ridiculous claims that countries would leave the negotiations if details were made public) and even entertainment industry lobbyists ...
  • Newsday Exec: We Didn't Put Up A Paywall To Get Pe ...
    With lots of people finding it rather amusing that a grand total of 35 people have subscribed to Newsday's paywall, a Newsday exec has responded by saying the purpose of the paywall was never about getting people to pay in the first place . It's all about reducing churn from cable subscribers. Whi ...
  • Can You Fairly Distinguish Commercial vs. Non-Comm ...
    One issue that comes up in discussions of copyright quite often is the idea of whether or not you could change copyright law to distinguish between commercial and non-commercial use . In some ways this is quite appealing, and Cory Doctorow's latest column makes the case for at least exploring those ...

VacTruth

  • Over 250 Studies and Case Reports Your Pediatricia ...
    Jeffry John Aufderheide 1/29/10 There is a massive body of vaccine literature waiting to be discovered for the budding researcher. I have pared down a list of interesting studies and case reports on the topic of vaccines. Many, as you can see, are not in the native English language. Most of the l ...
  • Novartis chief warns states over cancelled vaccine ...
    Source: AFP BASEL, Switzerland — The head of Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis on Tuesday warned that governments now trying to cancel swine flu vaccine contracts might not be dealt with so swiftly in the next pandemic. Chairman and chief executive Daniel Vasella said those that had been reliab ...
  • Are mothers natural protectors or baby killers? Sh ...
    . . . Christina England American Chronicle 1/25/2010 For many years around the world, doctors, scientists and professors of medicine have been debating as to whether ‘Shaken Baby Syndrome’ or SBS as it is known, actually exists. For a diagnoses of SBS a baby will need to display a serious acquired ...
  • Video: Symptoms of Vaccine Injury mislabeled as AD ...
  • Doctors Vaccinate for Profit
    . . . Christina England vactruth.com 1/25/2010 (vactruth.com) Years ago children were sent up chimneys or sold as servants to earn their parents extra money. Now they are being vaccinated by doctors, to boost their takings. Doctors, Governments and Pharma see our children as their property and a ...

BroadSnark

  • Irrational Fears and the Status Quo
    It seems like I have spent my entire life trying to fight off the irrational fears that people have tried to instill in me. I was advised not to ride the bus in Ft. Lauderdale or I’d get robbed. I was told if I went to Liberty City, I would get beat up. Before [...]
  • Howard Zinn Will Be Missed
    I feel very lucky that I had the opportunity to see Howard Zinn at Busboys and Poets last year.  I wish I had a recording of his talk.  The gist of it was that no politician is going to bring us the change we need.  We have to make the change happen.  Here is an [...]
  • Women, Are You Up for a Gathering?
    You may have heard about a conference coming up in San Francisco called Libertopia. Its purpose is to create a worldwide movement of individuals who choose their own form of governance – a voluntary society based on mutual respect for each individual’s dignity and ownership of his/her own body and ...
  • 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 ...

Executive Intelligence Review

Armies of Liberation

  • US Sanctions Iran Based al Qaeda, Zawahiri Promise ...
    The US Treasury Department placed financial sanctions on Saad bin Laden, thought to be in Pakistan, and three alleged al Qaeda operatives in Iran including a Yemeni. The terrorist designation Friday froze their assets within US jurisdictions and prohibits Americans from financial dealings with the ...
  • Arabian Peninsula al Qaeda groups merge
    In the face of Saudi Arabia’s success against the al Qaeda organization, many Saudi operatives have fled to the more hospitable climate in Yemen, joining others who recently arrived from Iraq, Somalia, and Pakistan. Al Qaeda in Yemen announced its merger with Saudi Arabia’s al Qaeda organization to ...
  • Yemen strikes multi-faceted deals with al Qaeda
    Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh recently struck a deal with Ayman Zawahiri, and Yemen is in the process of emptying its jails of known jihadists. The Yemeni government is recruiting these established jihadists to attack its domestic enemies as it refrains from serious counter-terror measures aga ...
  • Yemen’s Multi Faceted Deals with Al Qaeda (A ...
    اليمن تعقد صفقات متعددة الوجوه مع القاعدة كتبت: جين نوفاك – فبراير/ 2009 عبدالله عبدالوهاب ناجي- ترجمة خاصة بالمستقلة عقد الرئيس اليمني علي عبدا لله صالح مؤخرا صفقة مع ...
  • Yemen’s three terror fronts
    By Jane Novak March 28, 2009 3:18 PM Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula took credit in an internet statement Friday for a pair of suicide attacks that targeted South Koreans in Yemen. A teen-aged suicide bomber killed four South Korean tourists in Shibam, Hadramout on March 15. A second terror att ...

Dark Politricks

  • Reason: Obama’s Jobs Program Success
    Job creation you can believe in
  • Broadband Speed Test Tool
    Use this tool to test your upload and download speeds. If you having issues regarding your network connection you should check out my article on improving performance which covers TCP/IP settings, Browser tweaks and PC settings.
  • Ron Paul talks to Ron Smith on 1090AM WBAL
    By LibertyMage Ron Paul speaks with Ron Smith on 1090AM WBAL, 1/25. View the original article at Campaign for Liberty
  • Twitter Updates for 2010-01-30
    Tony #Blair currently defending his action of illegally invading #Iraq at the #Chilcot inquiry today http://strurl.com/ck #war #justice #law # conservatives move against the upcoming #census in the US urging ppl 2 ignore most of the questions http://strurl.com/dk #liberty #GOP #DEM # Council of Eur ...
  • What’s next for Bin Laden?
    Did you know that Usama Bin Laden has recently joined the green lobby?. His latest tape reveals that he is firmly in the man made global warming camp and he condemns those fools who want to debate the science behind climate change as well as condemning big corporations for raising living costs and t ...

food and water watch

  • The Real Farmville
    Farmville, the virtual farming game on Facebook.com, has recently become an online phenomenon with millions of active players. The game portrays an idyllic farming community where players can create small, personalized farms with options to harvest anything from tomatoes to Clydesdales (for horse h ...
  • Turning Trash into More Trash
    The bottled water industry tries very hard to convince consumers that buying their product is fine, because all those empty bottles are recyclable. What they don’t address is exactly what plastic bottle recycling often entails. Check out this video from National Geographic for a closer look at the p ...
  • Jobs, Pipes, Water
    Last night the House of Representatives passed the Jobs for Main Street Act by a vote of 217-212. The Act would provide $2 billion for wastewater and drinking water infrastructure.  This could lead to about 50,000 people having good jobs repairing water mains, detecting leaks, and modernizing treatm ...
  • Target Hits the Mark with a Phase-out on Farmed Sa ...
    With an overload of sketchy news stories about corporations trying to control our food and water resources, pieces of good news on food safety can seem few and far between.  But today, there is great news – the ever-popular Target has eliminated farmed salmon from its more than 1,700 stores across t ...
  • 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.

treehugger

  • World Social Forum - Day 5: "The Fight Will Go On"
    Photo: Stephen Messenger After a week of meetings to discuss a wide range of global issues, the World Social Forum ended this afternoon with a commitment to move forward with their far-left agenda. Among the topics discussed, namely the various "crises of civilization and collective rights," an ...
  • Scientists Grow Cheap Biodegradable Solar Using To ...
    Researchers at UC Berkeley have hacked tobacco plants to grow synthetic photovoltaic cells which can then be extracted and sprayed onto any substrate to create solar cells. How? The scientists tweaked a few g... Read the full story on TreeHugger
  • Top Stories from Tonic: Volunteers Still Needed in ...
    More than two weeks have passed since the devastating earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, and millions of Americans have opened their wallets, their hearts, even their homes to help. But now, as the long, difficult struggle to rebuild a nation continues, more organizations are asking for volunteer ...
  • Casper the Commuting Cat: RIP
    Image from the Baltimore Sun Some people say that the British treat their animals better than people. Apparently one out of every two families in the country has an animal. Maybe that's why Casper the commuting cat has been tugging at the heartstrings of the nation over the past week. Casp ...
  • World Social Forum - Day 4: "We've Reached the Age ...
    Photos: Stephen Messenger After several days of meetings outlining the various threats posed by the current geopolitical and economic status quo, day four of the World Social Forum was largely dedicated to discussing the necessary solutions. Capitalism and the consumer culture it promotes were ...

Biosingularity

  • Surgical procedure urged for atrial fibrillation
    People with atrial fibrillation, a common type of irregular heartbeat, should be referred for a surgical treatment called catheter ablation if an oral medication is not effective, said the authors of a study released Tuesday. In a head-to-head comparison of the two forms of treatment, catheter ablat ...
  • Skin Cells Turned into Brain Cells
    Skin cells called fibroblasts can be transformed into neurons quickly and efficiently with just a few genetic tweaks, according to new research. The surprisingly simple conversion, which doesn’t require the cells to be returned to an embryonic state, suggests that differentiated adult cells are much ...
  • Magnesium May Improve Memory
    New research finds that an increase in brain magnesium improves learning and memory in young and old rats. The study, published by Cell Press in the January 28th issue of the journal Neuron, suggests that increasing magnesium intake may be a valid strategy to enhance cognitive abilities and supports ...
  • Scientists Discover a Controller of Brain Circuitr ...
    By combining a research technique that dates back 136 years with modern molecular genetics, a Johns Hopkins neuroscientist has been able to see how a mammal’s brain shrewdly revisits and reuses the same molecular cues to control the complex design of its circuits. Details of the observation in lab m ...
  • Human Growth Hormone: Not a Life Extender After Al ...
    People profoundly deficient in human growth hormone (HGH) due to a genetic mutation appear to live just as long as people who make normal amounts of the hormone, a new study shows. The findings suggest that HGH may not be the “fountain of youth” that some researchers have suggested. “Without HGH, th ...

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Pruning Shears

  • Thomas Hoenig Will Save Us All!
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post NOTE: Shortly before I finished this post Ben Bernanke was confirmed by the Senate for a second term as Fed chairman. I’m posting this anyway because I think it was a terrible decision that will only look worse with time, and maybe ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post I keep waiting for some official word on Scott Horton’s blockbuster exposé on detainee deaths in Guantánamo. In the mean time here are two observations on media coverage of this bombshell story. First, Yves Smith :Anyone familiar ...
  • 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 ...

Natural Health News

  • High Blood Pressure Linked to Dementia
    Controlling blood pressure just might be the best protection yet known against dementia. In a flurry of new research, scientists scanned people's brains to show hypertension fuels a kind of scarring linked to later development of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. Those scars can start buildi ...
  • Aluminum Lurks in Crystal Deodorants
    Some of the most popular natural deodorants in that aisle are the "crystal" deodorant stones and sprays. But most people don't know that these crystal deodorant products contain aluminum. The crystal deodorant stones are made from alum. The most widely used form of alum used in the personal car ...
  • Are You a Productive Person?
    During the course of the average working day, you probably make a number of promises to get back to people -- some of them verbally, some in writing, sometimes simply as a personal promise to yourself. Many of us are resigned to believing that there are not enough hours in the day to respond to eve ...
  • Mom Sues Botox Maker Over Death of Her Child
    The case of a mother who says her 7-year old daughter died from a fatal reaction to Botox treatments for cerebral palsy is believed to be the first case alleging a fatal reaction to the drug to reach trial. Kristen Spears died in November 2007 of respiratory failure and pneumonia. Her mother, Dee, ...
  • CDC Discloses that Recipients Received Blood Conta ...
    The CDC has reported today that in last year, several people accidentally received blood products with yellow fever vaccine in them. The investigation documents evidence for transmission of vaccine virus through infected blood products.   This raises a question frequently asked about live virus ...

Antemedius

  • New Reporting May Show How Compromised The DOJ Is
    The Dog knows that today will mostly be consumed with the Massachusetts Senate special election, but there are things going on in the realm of the Bush administrations war crimes that need to be discussed. Yesterday Scott Horton of Harper's magazine published some new reporting on the June 9th 2006 ...
  • The US Declares War... On Us
    Posse Comitatus : The Act prohibits most members of the federal uniformed services ( today the Army, Air Force, and State National Guard forces when such are called into federal service ) from exercising nominally state law enforcement , police, or peace officer powers that maintain "law and order" ...
  • New Orleans is not Haiti
    Ever since the Haiti earthquake happened, it has invited quite a few comparisons to the disaster brought about in New Orleans by the federal flood. There are even those in the mainstream media who have asked if this quake is going to turn out to be Obama's "Katrina." This is not surprising because t ...
  • Blair Offers Arrogant Stonewalling on Iraq War
    Former Prime Minister Tony Blair appeared before the official British inquiry into the Iraq War with the kind of stonewalling performance characteristic of George W. Bush after it was learned that the claim of alleged weapons of mass destruction manufactured by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had no b ...
  • Can't Vote With The Democratic Party? There Is The ...
    I am a life long Democrat and Liberal. There is nothing but pride in those appellations for me. I have been a supporter of the idea of the Big Tent since before I really understood that it did to refer to the Party and the Circus. However, there is a limit and that limit has been reached. It is not ...

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

  • WTF now? Greenpeacegate?
    Turns out the IPCC references literature generated by Greenpeace - an organization known more for headline-grabbing publicity stunts than sober-minded analysis in its Climate Change Report. Related posts: Glaciologist Syed Hasnain: “I was keeping quiet as I was working here…” UPDATE: so Parchouri’ ...
  • Thanks Dr. J.P. Costella: the climate floodgates a ...
    John Costella’s study has been accepted by all sides of the global warming debate as a faultless exposure of the trickery and deceit of public-funded climate scientists intent on bolstering the now discredited theory of man made global warming. Related posts: Now get John Costella’s climategate ...
  • Osama bin Laden: global warming activist
    We've been wondering where Al Gore has been hiding out these last few weeks, while his Church of Settled Science has been rapidly crumbling around the him. Unnamed sources have told us he's been spotted in a cave deep in the Pakistani mountains, having high level meetings with Osama bin Laden, prep ...
  • Climategate Professor Phil Jones could face ten ye ...
    Phil Jones Jones is liable as lead conspirator in the UK’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) and may face prosecution under the United Kingdom Fraud Act (2006). If convicted of the offense of fraud by either false representation, failing to disclose information or fraud by abuse of his position, he sta ...
  • Mainsteam media picking up on climate change skept ...
    You gotta love it. Tale a look at these two sets of stories we got when checking Google News for climate change news. The first lists 204 news stories on the false rainforest claims, and the second lists 47 stories on the Pew Poll that showed that of 21 concerns Americans have, global warming is dea ...

Opinio Juris

  • Thoughts on Glennon’s “Blank-Prose Crime of Aggres ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller I want to offer two thoughts on Glennon's article , which -- though I am generally skeptical of the ICC's attempts to define the crime -- I find anything but convincing.  The first has to do with his central thesis: that the Special Working Group on the Crime of Aggression' ...
  • U.S. Supreme Court Can’t Wait to Say More About th ...
    by Deborah Pearlstein by Deborah Pearlstein Cross-posted at Balkinization Ok, the headline is a bit misleading. It’s only two justices – Scalia and Thomas – who, in dissenting from a denial of certiorari by the Supreme Court this week, argued that the Court should settle once and for all whether ...
  • Contracting Around the Security Council
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson As we get closer to the review conference on the ICC, many of us have been watching, and perhaps commenting on, ways in which the US might or might not take part as an observer.  It seems certain that the US will be an observer at the review conference, and ...
  • U.S. Supreme Court Can’t Wait to Say More About th ...
    by Deborah Pearlstein by Deborah Pearlstein Cross-posted at Balkinization Ok, the headline is a bit misleading. It’s only two justices – Scalia and Thomas – who, in dissenting from a denial of certiorari by the Supreme Court this week, argued that the Court should settle once and for all whether ...
  • Contracting Around the Security Council
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson As we get closer to the review conference on the ICC, many of us have been watching, and perhaps commenting on, ways in which the US might or might not take part as an observer.  It seems certain that the US will be an observer at the review conference, and ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • IPCC was Greenpeace and WWF sock-puppet
    We've already seen this week how the IPCC's "peer reviewed" literature that it boasted about included great screeds of propaganda pamphlets produced by the World Wildlife Federation (WWF). Now we can add Greenpeace as a 'credible' source in several of...
  • Too good to pass up
    My mate Mark Gillar emailed this little gem through to me overnight, but my TGIF deadline committments got in the way of watching it. Until now. You have to, you really have to.
  • Hot Topic in denial
    Had to laugh. Hot Topic's Gareth Renowden has been eating crow, rather than truffle, over claims by Britain's Chief Scientist that climate skepticism has merit. In one comment this week he writes: "...you are talking nonsense. I have never claimed...
  • New peer-reviewed study suggests IPCC models overe ...
    Just as Chicken Little pontificates about the minutiae of a Monckton allegation about warming amplification being overstimated by six of seven times, along comes a new study in Nature that compared real data with the computer models and found CO2's...
  • Verdict in: Climategate scientists broke law
    I'll bet the climate science community was not expecting this. The university at the centre of the climate change row over stolen e-mails broke the law by refusing to hand over its raw data for public scrutiny. The University of...

Public News Service

  • AZ 2010 Homeless Count: A Sad but Significant Tall ...
    AZ 2010 Homeless Count: A Sad but Significant Tally Phoenix, AZ – The annual one-night homeless count takes place tonight in central Arizona. Last year's count showed a 20-percent increase in people without a place to live. Comments from Brande (Brandy) Mead, human services planner for the Maricopa ...
  • 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 ...

My Care2 Picks

  • “War on Terror” as a Cover for US Terrorism
    "The invasion and occupation of Iraq was an act of terrorism. Everyone now knows that the war was born of a fraud. The deception had no legitimate purpose except to terrorize countries that (a) produce oil, (b) harbour Al-Qaeda or (c) threaten Israel. . " Submitted by Dave C. to World  |   Note-it! ...
  • 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 ...

Angry Indian News

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

Rogue Government.com

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

  • Blair: truth and lies
    Did Tony Blair tell the truth about Iraq? Or did he deceive us? As the nation prepares for the former prime minister's testimony at the Iraq inquiry, one ex-adviser to Blair tells the New Statesman this week: "There is a little bit of rhetorical exaggeration in what Tony said at the time, though he ...
  • Israel Suspected of Expanding Illegal Colonies wit ...
    Nazareth, West Bank - The Israeli government is reported to have quietly approved the fast-track immigration of 7,000 members of a supposedly "lost Jewish" tribe, known as the Bnei Menashe, currently living in a remote area of India. Under the plan, the "lost Jews" would be brought to Israel over t ...
  • Blame the central bankers more than the private ba ...
    No doubt the flak directed at all those private bankers who "don't get it" about bank bonuses is well deserved. Yet I cannot help thinking that the central bankers are escaping very lightly in the post-crisis dust-up. For while incentive structures in banking exacerbated the credit bubble, they were ...
  • Scandal: Albert Edwards Alleges Central Banks Were ...
    We apologize in advance for the New York 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 as the perpetrators who are encouragin ...
  • Music in Speech Equals Empathy in Heart?
    Some people are annoyed by upspeak: the habit of making a sentence sound like a question? But actually, being able to change intonation in speech -- as in upspeak -- may be a sign of superior empathy? A new study in the journal PLoS ONE finds that people use the same brain regions to produce and u ...

Threat Level

  • Courts, Congress Shun Addressing Legality of Warra ...
    Heads spun four years ago this weekend, when AT&T was accused of funneling every one of its customers’ electronic communications to the National Security Agency — without warrants. A Jan. 31, 2006, lawsuit alleged major violations of the Fourth Amendment right to be free from warrantless searches an ...
  • Obama Speaks Transparency, Practices Subterfuge
    From healthcare to public debt, pundits are attacking President Barack Obama’s first State of the Union address from almost every conceivable angle. When it comes to Obama transparency, Electronic Frontier Foundation privacy attorney Kurt Opsahl points out that the chief executive told the American ...
  • Report: Critical Infrastructures Under Constant Cy ...
    Critical infrastructure systems around the world are the targets of repeated cyberattacks, according to a new global survey of technology executives in these industries. They believe some of the attacks are coming not just from individual cybercriminals but terrorists and foreign nation states. The ...
  • 250,000 White House Staffers, Visitors Affected by ...
    A data breach at the National Archives and Records Administration is more serious than previously believed and involved sensitive personal information of 250,000 Clinton administration staff members, job applicants and White House visitors, and included the Social Security number of at least one dau ...
  • Settlement Rejected in ‘Shocking’ RIAA File Sharin ...
    The recording industry is demanding Jammie Thomas-Rasset pay $25,000 to settle out of court the nation’s first file sharing case against an individual to have gone to trial –- a settlement offer the Minnesota mother of four is rejecting, lawyers in the case said Wednesday. The development came day ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Deficit Hawks, Peacocks and Virgins
    Shaking his head at the bad economics and worse politics of the White House's proposed spending freeze, Paul Krugman deemed President Obama not a deficit hawk, but a "deficit peacock." "You can identify deficit peacocks," he wrote, "by the way...
  • 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...
  • Deficit Hawks, Peacocks and Virgins
    Shaking his head at the bad economics and worse politics of the White House's proposed spending freeze, Paul Krugman deemed President Obama not a deficit hawk, but a "deficit peacock." "You can identify deficit peacocks," he wrote, "by the way...
  • After Threatening Judges, Republicans Rush to Alit ...
    While legal analysts like Glenn Greenwald and Jonathan Turley lamented Justice Samuel Alito's "serious and substantive breach of protocol" during last night's State of the Union address, conservatives are predictably apoplectic about President Obama's temerity in questioning the Supreme Court's...

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

  • The Supreme Court's Partisanship
    By opening the floodgates on corporate campaign money, the Supreme Court has advanced the GOP cause, says Robert Parry. January 27, 2010
  • Bush Silences a Dangerous Witness
    From the Archive: Iraq's hanging of "Chemical Ali" -- like Saddam Hussein in 2006 -- means one less witness on Bush Family crimes. By Robert Parry
  • Shiite Power Play Threatens Iraq Quiet
    Old neocon favorite Ahmed Chalabi is behind a purge of some political candidates from a key Iraqi election, notes Ivan Eland. January 26, 2010
  • First, Fire All the Financial Failures
    If President Obama wants to show he's on the people's side, he should fire officials tied to the bank failures, writes Mark Ames. January 24, 2010
  • US Democracy's End of the Road
    A Supreme Court ruling on corporate campaign cash and the Left's errors have put U.S. democracy in danger, says Robert Parry. January 23, 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

  • Howard Zinn – a remembrance
    zinn__1264635536_4226.jpg   Historian, activist, and Grassroots International friend Howard Zinn died January 27 at the age of 87. read more
  • Grassroots International Partners in Haiti receive ...
    haiti-fruit_nursery.JPG  Since a devastating earthquake shook Haiti more than two weeks ago, Grassroots International’s partners on the ground have been working to assess the situation and respond to the needs of the community – even as they t ...
  • From Honduran ally organization: "Solidarity with ...
    Trinidad-Central_America_site_visit_143.JPG The letter below comes from one of Grassroots International's allies in Honduras -- Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH)-- and expresses solidarity with their ne ...
  • Palestinians in Gaza Donate to Haiti
      An article I came across recently in the midst of much depressing news around Haiti, and a lot else, was: "Palestinians in Gaza donate to Haiti." It spoke of how Gazans were collecting something -- anything -- to donate to earthquake victims in Haiti. Dr. read more
  • 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 ...

Climate

  • January 29, 2010
    U.S. Formally Commits to Copenhagen Accord (Washington Post) The U.S. pledged Thursday to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 17% by 2020 from 2005 levels under the Copenhagen Accord, though it made its commitment contingent on passing legislation at home. Obama Said to Seek $54 Billion ...
  • January 28, 2010
    Obama Aims to Win Climate Bill with Nuclear (Reuters) Pres. Obama, trying to save the stalled U.S. climate bill, appeared to back away from creating a cap-and-trade scheme in his first state-of-the-union address, while reaching out for Republican votes by promoting nuclear and offshore drill ...
  • January 27, 2010
    Japan Sticks to 25 Percent Carbon Cut Target (Reuters) Japan has stuck to its offer to cut GHG emissions by 25% by 2020 for the UN "Copenhagen Accord" on condition major emitters agree on an ambitious climate deal, a statement from the foreign ministry showed. U.S. Advocates of Climate ...
  • January 26, 2010
    Kan. Utility, Federal Agencies Settle Lawsuit (AP) Kansas' largest electric company has agreed to spend at least $200 million to upgrade pollution controls at its biggest coal plant under a settlement announced by the utility and federal officials. Government officials say closer to $500 mil ...
  • January 25, 2010
    China to Rich Nations: Hand Out Climate Money Now (AP) Brazil, China, India and South Africa have called on rich countries to begin handing over the $10 billion pledged in Copenhagen to poor countries to help them deal with the effects of climate change. Bill Gates Worries Climate Money ...

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

  • Cowards
    Is it any wonder how George W. Bush was able to roll congressional Democrats for eight years? (No--not just six, all eight. Speaker Nancy Pelosi immediately taking impeachment off the table was the first sign that the Democrats took all the bullets out of the gun.) If the Democrats in the House of R ...
  • The Conservative War on Democracy: The Puppet Supr ...
    While the January 21st Supreme Court decision in the case of Citizens United vs. FEC can be viewed narrowly as granting corporations the right to spend unlimited funds in political contest, the 5-4 ruling is best understood as another victory by conservatives in their decades-long war on democracy. ...
  • President Obama's State of the Union Address Whopp ...
    President Obama gives a good speech. He's smooth, unruffled by audience response, good at a timely ad-lib remark, and knows how to win over a tough crowd--all skills that were in evidence at last night's State of the Union address. But he's also good at telling whoppers. Here are a few. read more
  • Tony Blair Forced to Testify on His War Crimes
    Former prime minister Tony Blair's testimony was streamed live at 4:30 a.m. ET at the Iraq Inquiry website and on other sites, such as the UK newspaper the Telegraph which allowed viewers to rank Blair's responses on a "Lie Meter". Telegraph readers' top desired questions pre-hearing were: What ...
  • If This Becomes the Face of the Democratic Party, ...
    Illinois' U.S. Senate Democratic primary is coming up in less than a week, and it poses a potentially enormous problem for the Democratic Party, in Illinois and therefore nationally. That "therefore" is important: Because President Obama is from Illinois, and because Republicans have invested so muc ...

Ten Percent

  • Art or Extinction
    Look! It’s evil me, channelling Dr. Mabuse & Professor X through the Happy Famous Artist’s Lichtenstein Device, there are some terrifying & reassuring Rules For A New Decade too. And in glorious big vision me, her, him.
  • Oldies But Goldies
    An almost evergreen hold on popularity that Cliff Richard would envy and as with many corporate pop stars the whys and wherefores of who actually performs the vocals and who wrote it really don’t matter, nor should we ponder too hard whether a fanbase is the the same thing as an effective military o ...
  • So, Murder Then
    Evidence relating to the death of Government weapons inspector David Kelly is to be kept secret for 70 years, it has been reported. A highly unusual ruling by Lord Hutton, who chaired the inquiry into Dr Kelly’s death, means medical records including the post-mortem report will remain classified un ...
  • 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.

Booman Tribune

  • Obama Dominates Republicans, Utterly
    Jeb Hensarling is a particularly bone-headed backbencher from suburban Dallas who has aspirations to join the Republican leadership. He was the last Republican congressperson to ask the president a question at the House Republican Retreat today in Baltimore. The president insisted on calling him ' ...
  • Professor Obama Schools GOP
    Having a rough day? Watch this: (via Think Progress) Update [2010-1-29 14:48:44 by Man Eegee]: CSPAN now has the entire Q&A session on its site
  • Serious Questions
    Tony Blair is being forced to answer questions before the British Inquiry into the Iraq War and you can watch his testimony live on CSPAN. What's amusing is that Blair is trying to argue that in the cabinet meeting where they decided to help invade Iraq, the question of its legality was just one par ...
  • Good News on the Economy
    Here is some very good news on the economy. Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States -- increased at an annual rate of 5.7 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009, (that is, from the third quarter to the fourth qua ...
  • Casual Observation
    It's probably silly, but this Sally Quinn piece by Jamison Foser is my favorite kind of blogging. Sally so deserves the mockery. I think it should be put in the party platform that members shalt not party with Sally Quinn. I'm not even really joking. Okay, I am.

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Econopocalypse scenario #3654: the Fat-finger Coll ...
    Ars Technica has an interesting article about a couple of recent stock-market glitches caused by high-frequency trading algorithms run amok. Long story short: a screw-up at Credit Suisse was caused by “a trader who accidentally double-clicked an icon in a trading program’s interface, when he should’ ...
  • A fistful of writing tips and tools
    It seems like ages since I last relinked any good writing advice here, so let’s take a look at a few items that got tangled up in my intertube trawler-nets this week. First of all Luke Reid points us toward the blog of the pseudonymous Doctor Grasshopper, a medical student and sf/f author who aims [ ...
  • UK police to deploy military UAV drones, snoop mor ...
    Futurismic readers resident outside the UK may wonder why exactly it is that I keep battering on about the omnipresent surveillance systems that are saturating this silly little island. After all, if I’m not doing anything wrong, I should have nothing to fear, right? Well, if believing that helps yo ...
  • The artwork that sells itself
    Consider, for a moment, the trials and tribulations of the plastic artist. You create your masterpiece, and – if you’re lucky – you sell it. And that’s your lot – not only is it beyond your control once it leaves your studio, but it can’t make you any further income. Or can it? Caleb Larsen thinks [ ...
  • Garage ribofunk redux – DIY biohacking gaining pop ...
    While we’re on the subject of garage industries, here’s a piece at pop-transhumanist organ H+ Magazine on the expanding field of garage biotech [via GlobalGuerrillas; image by mknowles]. We’ve covered DIY biohackers and ribofunkers here before, but the H+ writer has a cautious optimism about the sce ...

Therapy News

  • On Being A New Parent
    By Susan Martinez, MA, LMFT, Parenting Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Susan and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile I think most of us wish our kids came with an instruction manual. Wouldn’t that be nice? Whenever I have a concern about my minivan, I simply pop open the glove compartm ...
  • Children Facing Consequences of Mental Health Budg ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline As many states have announced sweeping budget cuts including the closing or significant downsizing of several institutions and treatment programs, advocates have warned that potentially severe consequences may arise for those in need of care. Recently, a family in Nor ...
  • Australian Couple Fights for Better Care After Son ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary The availability of mental health care, including therapy services, hospitalization, and other types of treatment has significantly risen in recent decades, yet many parts of the world experience programs and institutions that cannot keep up with the demand for treatme ...
  • Report: Zimbabweans Unaware of Therapy, Treatment ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Though various types of mental health treatments are becoming more widely available in many Western and developed nations, many parts of the world remain beset with delays in the establishment of care facilities and the training of professionals. Zimbabwe has seen a s ...
  • UK Program Connects Clients with Mental Health At ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary There are many places that can be relied upon to provide quality mental health care; from a private therapist’s office to a community clinic or institute and many venues in between, the settings for care are many. But the good old library probably does not immediately ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Latest, longest Massey tree-sit protest ends - Cha ...
    State Journal Latest, longest Massey tree-sit protest ends Charleston Gazette Mountaintop-removal mining opponent Eric Blevens waves from his treetop perch at a Massey Energy operation in Raleigh County earlier this ... Coal River Mountain Protestors Meet with Governor HNN Huntingtonnews.net Tree S ...
  • US sees best GDP growth in 6 years - Free Speech R ...
    US sees best GDP growth in 6 years Free Speech Radio News And finally, two tree sitters in West Virginia came down from their perches at a mountain top removal mining site today and were promptly arrested by state ... and more »
  • Latest Massey tree-sit ends after more than 8 days ...
    State Journal Latest Massey tree-sit ends after more than 8 days Charleston Gazette (blog) The latest anti- mountaintop removal tree sit protest has ended, according this statement just issued by Climate Ground Zero. ... Coal River Mountain Protestors Meet with Governor HNN Huntingtonnews.net Tree ...
  • Climate Ground Zero: Activists In West Virginia Ha ...
    Climate Ground Zero: Activists In West Virginia Halt Mountaintop Removal For ... AlterNet Coal River Mountain, WV Yesterday in Washington, DC, Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) exhorted citizens to “get angry about the fact that they're being killed and our ...
  • EPA fires back at coal's call for permit 'clarity' ...
    Environmental Leader EPA fires back at coal's call for permit 'clarity' Charleston Gazette Over the last year, West Virginia coal operators and political leaders have harshly criticized the Obama administration's crackdown on mountaintop removal ... EPA at center of coal controversy in W.Va. Daily ...

Memeorandum

  • U.S. Drops Plan for a 9/11 Trial in New York City ...
    New York Times : U.S. Drops Plan for a 9/11 Trial in New York City   —  The Obama administration on Friday gave up on its plan to try the Sept. 11 plotters in Lower Manhattan, bowing to almost unanimous pressure from New York officials and business leaders to move the terrorism trial elsewhere.
  • Cameras Roll As Obama Schools GOP (The Huffington ...
    The Huffington Post : Cameras Roll As Obama Schools GOP   —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  President Obama traveled to a House Republican retreat in Baltimore on Friday and delivered a performance that was at once defiant, substantive and engaging.  For roughly an hour and a half, Obama lectured GOP le ...
  • Hatch warns of possible partisan 'war' over health ...
    Matt Canham / Salt Lake Tribune : Hatch warns of possible partisan ‘war’ over health reform   —  Politics » Utah Republican senator says Democrats are all bluster on potential compromise.  —  Washington » Sen. Orrin Hatch threatened an all-out political “war” and promised a new high in partisan ten ...
  • Obama v. the Supremes (Wall Street Journal)
    Wall Street Journal : Obama v. the Supremes   —  Alito wins the oral, and factual, argument.  —  In the case of Barack Obama v. Supreme Court of the United States, that was some oral argument on Wednesday night.  With the Justices arrayed a few feet in front of him in the House chamber, President O ...
  • Obama's Question Time: An Amazing Moment (Marc Amb ...
    Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel : Obama's Question Time: An Amazing Moment   —  The moment President Obama began his address to Republicans in Baltimore today, I began to receive e-mails from Democrats: Here's an except from one of them: “I don't know whether to laugh or cry that it t ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

China Dialogue

  • Facing America’s demons (3)
    In the conclusion of a three-part article on American Indians, Judith Shapiro urges China to heed the grievous mistakes of the United States in the development of its lands. The history of the forced removal of the Lakota Sioux from their lands, while it seems to have happened long ago, is vibrantly ...
  • Facing America’s demons (2)
    White settlers in America uprooted indigenous people from their lands, causing untold environmental and cultural destruction. In the second segment of a three-part article, Judith Shapiro tells the story of one tribe. The Lakota , a division of other Sioux nations including Dakota and Nakota, were o ...
  • Facing America’s demons (1)
    The treatment of indigenous peoples in the United States has left a stain on the past that China should not ignore, argues Judith Shapiro. In its current phase of rapid development, China often looks to the experience of western countries for inspiration. The development and nature-conquest of the w ...
  • Restoring the grasslands?
    China has introduced a number of policies to protect the environment of the grasslands. But studies suggest the ecological and social benefits of such measures have been overstated, writes Emily Yeh. In 2003, China introduced a new programme, known as “retire livestock and restore grassland” ( tuimu ...
  • Policies for an eco-plateau
    Climate change poses new threats to life on the grasslands of the Tibetan plateau. Beth Walker introduces a week-long series about government responses to the challenge, their environmental and social effects. Tibetan grasslands constitute one of the most important grazing ecosystems in the world. S ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Courts, Congress Shun Addressing Legality of Warra ...
    Heads spun four years ago this weekend, when AT&T was accused of funneling every one of its customers’ electronic communications to the National Security Agency — without warrants. A Jan. 31, 2006, lawsuit alleged major violations of the Fourth Amendment right to be free from warrantless searches an ...
  • Obama Speaks Transparency, Practices Subterfuge
    From healthcare to public debt, pundits are attacking President Barack Obama’s first State of the Union address from almost every conceivable angle. When it comes to Obama transparency, Electronic Frontier Foundation privacy attorney Kurt Opsahl points out that the chief executive told the American ...
  • Report: Critical Infrastructures Under Constant Cy ...
    Critical infrastructure systems around the world are the targets of repeated cyberattacks, according to a new global survey of technology executives in these industries. They believe some of the attacks are coming not just from individual cybercriminals but terrorists and foreign nation states. The ...
  • 250,000 White House Staffers, Visitors Affected by ...
    A data breach at the National Archives and Records Administration is more serious than previously believed and involved sensitive personal information of 250,000 Clinton administration staff members, job applicants and White House visitors, and included the Social Security number of at least one dau ...
  • Settlement Rejected in ‘Shocking’ RIAA File Sharin ...
    The recording industry is demanding Jammie Thomas-Rasset pay $25,000 to settle out of court the nation’s first file sharing case against an individual to have gone to trial –- a settlement offer the Minnesota mother of four is rejecting, lawyers in the case said Wednesday. The development came day ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • UPDATE 2-Obama, Republicans clash in unusual sessi ...
    * Republicans say their ideas ignored (Adds background, details)
  • Obama, Republicans clash in unusual session
    BALTIMORE (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday engaged in a rare face-to-face showdown with Republican critics and testily accused them of trying to block his policies while urging them to "join with me" in creating jobs.
  • Activist convicted for slaying Kansas abortion doc ...
    KANSAS CITY (Reuters) - An anti-abortion activist who admitted he gunned down one of America's few late-term abortion providers was convicted of first-degree murder on Friday after he testified he had to stop the doctor from performing more abortions.
  • Bin Laden urges abandoning dollar: Al Jazeera tape
    DUBAI (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden urged an end to reliance on the U.S. dollar as one solution to the global financial crisis and blamed developed countries for climate change, in an audiotape said to be of the al Qaeda leader.
  • Instant View: Fourth-quarter GDP growth soars 5.7 ...
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. economy grew at a faster-than-expected 5.7 percent pace in the fourth quarter, the quickest pace in more than six years, as businesses reduced inventories less aggressively, the Commerce Department said on Friday.

Equality Trust

  • Comment Is Free: Inequality harms all of us
    Lesley Riddoch writes that it's not only the poorest who suffer from inequality – in an equal society, fulfilment and health improve for everyone. Read her article on Comment is Free
  • Unequal Britain
    Richest 10% now 100 times better off than the poorest. Read the Guardian report See the data behind the story Read other news coverage
  • 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 ...
  • 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

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  • Muslim Inventions That Shaped The Modern World
    Muslim inventions that shaped the modern world By Olivia Sterns | CNN Think of the origins of that staple of modern life, the cup of coffee, and Italy often springs to mind. But in fact, Yemen is where the ubiquitous brew has its true origins. Along with the first university, and even the toothbrus ...
  • Dylan Ratigan: Economic Warfare Erupts
    Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy Yesterday the Senate approved legislation to increase the national borrowing limit to $1.9 Trillion. The vote was along party lines, raising the debt ceiling to $14.3 Trillion dollars. Watch Dylan Ratigan explain the o ...
  • Murray Hill Incorporated Is Running for Congress
    Supreme Court Ruling Spurs Corporation Run for Congress | Press Release First Test of “Corporate Personhood” In Politics Following the recent Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission to allow unlimited corporate funding of federal campaigns, Murray Hill Inc. today ...
  • Pentagon Master Plan: Super-Size My Drone Fleet
    Pentagon Master Plan: Super-Size My Drone Fleet By Nathan Hodge | Wired The U.S. military already has plans in the works to grow its fleet of Predators and Reapers, the long-loitering, armed surveillance drones that have become a defining feature of the air war over Central Asia and the Middle Ea ...
  • UN Secret Detention Report Asks, “Where Are The CI ...
    UN Secret Detention Report Asks, “Where Are The CIA Ghost Prisoners?” By Andy Worthington | AndyWorthington.co.UK These sections contain valuable summaries, explaining how, in many cases, terrorism is used as a cover for secret detention policies of a political nature. However, the heart of the r ...

Grist - News

  • Bin Laden blames industrial nations for global war ...
    by Agence France-Presse DUBAI -- Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden blamed industrial nations for global warming and urged a boycott of the U.S. dollar to end "slavery" in an audio tape aired by Al-Jazeera television on Friday. "All industrial nations, mainly the big ones, are responsible for the c ...
  • U.S. government to cut greenhouse emissions by 28 ...
    by Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON -- The White House announced Friday that President Obama would order the federal government to reduce its greenhouse-gas pollution by 28 percent by 2020. "As the largest energy consumer in the United States, we have a responsibility to American citizens to red ...
  • Obama and Kerry continue to push for climate bill
    by Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama and his congressional allies Wednesday insisted they would move ahead on fighting climate change despite a toughening political climate. Obama appealed for action in his first State of the Union address to the two chambers of Congress ...
  • Apple’s new iPad is deep green, but a planet ...
    by Matthew Wheeland The iPad.Photo: Apple This post is reprinted courtesy of GreenerComputing.com .The day that gadget-lovers have been waiting for with bated breath for months if not years has finally arrived. On Wednesday, just after 10 a.m., Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad -- something along ...
  • THINK plans to charge into U.S. electric-car marke ...
    by Agence France-Presse The THINK City.WASHINGTON -- With a jump-start from a new quick charging system, Norwegian electric carmaker THINK is taking aim at the U.S. market with a new assembly facility set to begin operations later this year. The maker of quirky plug-in electric minicars, which ...

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Washington Independent

  • The Hillary 2012 Meme
    Peter Roff, an influential, under-the-radar conservative pundit, has made the most put-together argument I’ve seen for something you’ll hear more conservatives talk about: a 2012 primary challenge to President Obama from Hillary Clinton. The sourcing is ingeniously specious: “The ongoing decline in ...
  • RNC ‘Purity Test’ Withdrawn
    The butt of many jokes since Indiana RNC committeeman James Bopp introduced it last year, the RNC 10-point test for candidates has been scrapped. That’s according to CNN’s Peter Hamby, reporting from the RNC meeting in Hawaii.
  • New York Terror Trial ‘Unraveling’
    For a one-stop compendium of how the prospects for trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York City for his role in 9/11 have deteriorated, ProPublica’s Dafna Linzer has you covered. What remains interesting: There has yet to be any effort by any New Yorker skeptical of holding the trial in Manhattan ...
  • Boehner to GOP: Embrace the Tea Parties
    This nugget from Jake Sherman and Patrick O’Connor’s preview of the House GOP retreat deserves more attention. [House Minority Leader John] Boehner has told his rank and file to embrace the so-called tea party movement “because it will be critical as we proceed,” according to excerpts from his r ...
  • Pentagon Planning Document Eyes Navy, Air Force Pr ...
    "This QDR focuses on the wars we are actually fighting, not the wars we sometimes wished we were fighting," a Defense Department official said.

CowBoss' Brain Food

  • Tax those carbon gluttons
    LEMME TELL YOU about a carbon tax you’re gonna love. Two such taxes, actually. I tell you, kid, Stephane Dion had the right idea, but the wrong sales pitch. The fun starts with the government giving you maybe $2,000 as a carbon dividend. Submitted by cowboss Left CareII to Society & Culture   ...
  • Why do we hate? Academics seek answer in new field
    Hate is everywhere, but the fundamental question of why one person can hate another has never been adequately studied, contends Jim Mohr of Gonzaga University, who is developing a new academic field of hate studies. Submitted by cowboss Left CareII to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comm ...
  • 'Fat for cosmetics' murder suspects arrested in Pe ...
    Four people have been arrested in Peru on suspicion of killing dozens of people in order to sell their fat and tissue for cosmetic uses in Europe. Submitted by cowboss Left CareII to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • 6 Ways Agriculture Impacts Global Warming
    Sure, agriculture provides us with the food we all eat every day. But do you know how those agricultural practices impact global warming? Turns out there's some pretty big impacts, on both the sustainable and industrial sides of the equation; employing su Submitted by cowboss Left CareII to Society ...
  • We love Butchers
    Former chef Josh Applestone and his wife, Jessica Applestone, are typical of the new butcher breed. He was a vegan, she was a one-time vegetarian when they founded Fleisher’s Grass-fed and Organic Meats in Kingston, N.Y., in 2004 Submitted by cowboss Left CareII to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!   ...

Suzie-Q

  • Blair Unrepentant Over Iraq War
    Associated Press, 29 January 2010 Former prime minister Tony Blair defended his decision to take Britain into war with Iraq, telling an investigation panel that he would do the same again if he had to. Iraq Inquiry: In the end,Tony Blair will be judged by history Daily Telegraph, 29 Jan 2010 Telegr ...
  • Climate Activists Block Bulldozers At West Virgini ...
    For eighth day, climate activists block bulldozers at WV’s Coal River Mountain. Think Progress- By Brad Johnson on Jan 28th, 2010 at 7:50 pm Yesterday [Wednesday] in Washington, DC, Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) exhorted citizens to “get angry about the fact that they’re being killed and our planet is b ...
  • Kucinich Urged Obama To Be ‘Bolder’ Or ...
    Kucinich to Obama: Be ‘bolder’ or ‘we could lose our country’ Raw Story- By Sahil Kapur Thursday, January 28th, 2010 — 4:05 pm ‘Democratic Party must demonstrate it has the ability to govern’ WASHINGTON — Deeply disillusioned last week by his party’s insufficient response to the recession, ...
  • Evening Jukebox- Sweet Child O’ Mine
    Guns N’ Roses- Sweet Child O’ Mine
  • Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo, ...
    By Mark Feeney and Bryan Marquard, The Boston Globe, Jan 27, 2010 Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and whose books, such as “A People’s History of the United States,” inspired young and old to rethink the way ...

Solari

  • Meditations on Volatility and Our Financial Tapewo ...
    We are in a period in which volatility is rising and is going to keep rising. Markets are centrally managed. Economic warfare has overridden the capital raising and allocation functions of currency and capital markets. An investor wants to put money in things with utility or values expected to hold ...
  • The Solari Report Digest - New Podcast Available!
    Solari has produced a new free podcast—The Solari Report Digest #8. Listen to Solari Report Digest #8 The Solari Report Digest is a podcast featuring highlights from the live one-hour Solari Report briefings. In the rapidly changing political and economic landscape the Solari Report Digest provi ...
  • Wolf Moon of 2010
    By Robert Britt Tonight’s full moon — called the wolf moon — will be the biggest and brightest full moon of the year. It offers anyone with clear skies an opportunity to identify easy-to-see features on the moon. This being the first full moon of 2010, it is also known as the wolf moon, a moniker d ...
  • Home Condemned - Solar Batteries Insufficient
    By Eddi Trevizo An Avondale woman who spent 11 days sleeping in her car said the city treated her unfairly when her home was condemned in December for lack of electricity. But city officials said Christine Stevens violated building codes, a health and safety concern because Avondale homes are requi ...
  • Project Censored - Top 25 Censored Stories for 201 ...
    1. US Congress Sells Out to Wall Street 2. US Schools are More Segregated Today than in the 1950s 3. Toxic Waste Behind Somali Pirates 4. Nuclear Waste Pools in North Carolina 5. Europe Blocks US Toxic Products 6. Lobbyists Buy Congress 7. Obama’s Military Appointments Have Corrupt Past 8. Bailed ou ...

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware. George Green will be a featured speaker. September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CA Click here for Tickets & Reservations  
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the Ame ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to put an ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catas ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-openin ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to focus ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
    Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan , Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban . ... and more »
  • Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afg ...
    BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency ? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in Afghanistan Sri Lanka ...
  • Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United Press ...
    Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan , Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more »
  • Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA new ...
    Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more »
  • An Evolving Afghan Policy - American Chronicle
    An Evolving Afghan Policy American Chronicle ... triumph for the forces of Islamic extremism, al-Qaeda would once again gain a foothold, and the return of the Taliban would likely destabilize Pakistan . ...

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

  • Astronomers prepare for Mars showcase
    Amateur astronomy buffs have been preparing for a celestial showcase as Mars gets ready to dazzle star-gazers on Friday evening. The red planet is due to live up to its name late on Friday night as it moves within 62 million miles of Earth directly opposite the Sun. The effect promises to be stunnin ...
  • Official: Women need more sleep than men
    Sleep scientists have found that woman need, on average, around 20 minutes more sleep than men due to their tendency to multitask. "Women tend to do lots at once and so they use more of their actual brain than men do," said Professor Jim Horne, the director of Loughborough University's Sleep Researc ...
  • Zero carbon schools to be built in UK
    Zero carbon schools are to be built in the UK, while older educational buildings will become more energy efficient, schools secretary Ed Balls announced yesterday (28th January). His comments came as the Zero Carbon Task Force (ZCTF) set out its recommendations on what needs to be done to cut the ...
  • Restful mind strengthens memories
    Making time for regular, relaxing breaks throughout the day can help strengthen people's memories , according to a new study.
  • Schools 'should' consider trauma of move
    Little is being done to ease the transition from primary to secondary school, new studies from the University of Bristol and the Quartet Community Foundation for the West of England have revealed.

Fabius Maximus

  • “Night Raids, Hidden Detention Centers, the ...
    The recent news has not not been kind to those of us retaining illusions about America.  Executive orders to assassinate Americans.  Rumors of mysterious deaths in American-run prisons.  And, as described here, reports that our special operations forces have become more like assassins than elite ...
  • FM newswire for 29 January, articles for your morn ...
    Today’s links to interesting news and analysis.  If you find this useful, pass it to a friend or colleague.  “A Commedia for our times“, Spengler, Asia Times, 5 January 2010 Briefing on “Training the Afghan army“, Lawrence Sellin (Colonel, US Army Reserve, retired), UPI, 5 January 2010 A brief ...
  • FM newswire for 28 January, articles for your morn ...
    Today’s links to interesting news and analysis.  If you find this useful, pass it to a friend or colleague. Forgetting our history means forgetting who we are:  “Ulysses Grant: Our Greatest President?“, Nathan Newman (bio), at his blog, 4 July 2006 Important material from our man in Kabul, s ...
  • Does the Tea Party movement remind you of the movi ...
    Today’s topic for discussion:  what is the Tea Party movement?  Unlike the usual post on the FM website, we have too little data to do anything but speculate. Contents My guess Historical background Origin of the Tea Party Movement Articles about the Tea Parties For more information from the FM ...
  • FM newswire for 27 January, articles for your morn ...
    Today’s links to interesting news and analysis.  If you find this useful, pass it to a friend or colleague.  Esp note #2 and #3, investigative reporting done by “an army of Davids” (Glen Reynold’s description of the Internet). Big implications from this, all bad:  “Majority of Union Members N ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Chemistry Creates Self-Stirring Liquids
    In a tail wagging the dog reversal, researchers have found that simple chemical reactions can mix a solution. Usually, chemicals are stirred to enhance a reaction, but a new study finds that the reverse is also true: Simple chemical reactions can trigger fluid flows, reports a paper in the January ...
  • NASA Releases First Free E-Book, on History of X-1 ...
    NASA continues to stay ahead of the government pack when it comes to public outreach. In addition to its many popular Twitter streams, iPhone apps and opportunities for citizens to participate in scientific programs, the agency is jumping into the e-book space. For space geeks looking for a little ...
  • Cigarettes May Cause Infections
    The tobacco in cigarettes hosts a bacterial bonanza — literally hundreds of different germs, including those responsible for many human illnesses, a new study finds. “Nearly every paper that you pick up discussing the health effects of cigarettes starts out with something to the effect that smokers ...
  • Come to Wired.com’s Biometric Super Bowl Party
    You’ve seen your fair share of sad Super Bowl parties: the guacamole, the cheap beer, the bored significant others. Well, forget all that! Wired Science has a distinctly different, nerdier kind of Super Bowl party planned. We want you to come to the Wired office in San Francisco’s SoMA neighborho ...
  • Bill Gates Funds Research Into Climate Hacking
    Bill Gates has sunk at least $4.5 million of his personal wealth into geoengineering research. While it’s a small chunk of Gates’ vast personal fortune, it’s a sign that the founder of Microsoft thinks we should at least be looking into the controversial practice of intentionally altering the E ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Biden Throws Down the Gauntlet and Sets Stage For ...
    Vice President Biden has an important op-ed today in the Wall Street Journal . In it, Biden firmly addresses one of the main arguments used by conservatives to oppose arms-control efforts, namely that the US nuclear stockpile is too unreliable to make further reductions. In response, Biden says the ...
  • What NYC Terror Trial Uproar Changes: Nothing
    Speculation that the White House is taking up Mayor Bloomberg's request to re-locate the trial of the 9/11 conspirators somewhere outside NYC will probably find supporters of military commissions sharpening their knives.   But why should that be? Leaving aside that the request for a relocation is l ...
  • Moscow’s New Rules for Newspapers
    Adam Federman has an excellent piece in the Columbia Journalism Review on the state of the Russian press, and the informal set of rules journalists must navigate to avoid the wrath of the Kremlin and their wealthy friends. As the Times recently noted , the atmosphere for political dissent on Russia ...
  • Obama’s Modest Export Promise
    I was a bit taken aback by Barack Obama’s bold declaration about the future course of US exports in the State of the Union. Daniel Drezner felt the same way : “We will double our exports over the next five years…” Well, the President said this would happen, so it must be so!! I would humbly reques ...
  • Can We Win Hearts and Minds while Night Raids Cont ...
    In case you haven't seen it yet, Anand Gopal, who has reported from Afghanistan for the Wall Street Journal and the Christian Science Monitor , has just written a disturbing and important piece for Tom Dispatch on night raids and "black" prison sites in Afghanistan. The piece also appears on The Na ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: The First Rule About Televizing P ...
    It's probably a fool's hope that the public will ever care about the details of public policy, but perhaps all that's needed is to demonstrate that in our current political moment only one of the two major political parties cares at all about crafting sensible public policy. It seems to me that Bar ...
  • James Rucker's Making Sense.
    Color of Change's James Rucker has an important post on his efforts thus far to make sense of the Congressional Black Caucus' entrenched opposition to net neutrality. The arguments Rucker been hearing on his visits to Capitol Hill repeat themselves, running along the lines that if telecom companies ...
  • Big Government, Big Lasers
    (The interior of the NIF target chamber. Credit is given to Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the Department of Energy under whose auspices this work was performed.) At a time when we're arguing vehemently about what government should and should ...
  • The Little Picture: Remember George Tiller.
    A candlelight vigil is held for Dr. George Tiller on June 6, 2009, in Austin, Texas. Today, a Kansas jury found Scott Roeder guilty of his murder. (Flickr/ Heather Busby )
  • Human Rights First Goes After Keep America Safe.
    Via Ben Smith comes a video from Human Rights First, parodying the State of the Union response ad from the Cheneys ' Keep America Safe group. I blogged about the Cheneys' ad yesterday here . "Paid for by Keep America Afraid, a place where Liz Cheney defends her dad's policies." -- A. Serwer

Andy Worthington

  • UN Secret Detention Report Asks, “Where Are The CI ...
    A major new report on secret detention policies around the world, conducted by four independent UN human rights experts, concludes that, “On a global scale, secret detention in connection with counter-terrorist policies remains a serious problem,” and that, “If resorted to in a widespread and system ...
  • The Guantánamo Files: An Archive of Articles &#821 ...
    Please support my work! For four years, I have been providing detailed information about the prisoners in Guantánamo, first through my book The Guantánamo Files, which tells the story of the prison and around 450 of the prisoners held, and then through 12 online chapters, which provide inform ...
  • “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” – ...
    On Saturday February 27, 2010, at 2 pm, the BFI (the British Film Institute) is screening the new Guantánamo documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” in NFT2 (the National Film Theatre). Tickets are £5 and can be booked here. A map and directions are here. The screening will be ...
  • The Guantánamo Files: An Archive of Articles &#821 ...
    Please support my work! For four years, I have been providing detailed information about the prisoners in Guantánamo, first through my book The Guantánamo Files, which tells the story of the prison and around 450 of the prisoners held, and then through 12 online chapters, which provide inform ...
  • The Guantánamo Files: An Archive of Articles &#821 ...
    Please support my work! For four years, I have been providing detailed information about the prisoners in Guantánamo, first through my book The Guantánamo Files, which tells the story of the prison and around 450 of the prisoners held, and then through 12 online chapters, which provide inform ...

Buzzflash

  • Gayle Haggard tells the world that her husband Ted ...
    BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY   Her memoir, ‘Why I Stayed: The Choices I Made In My Darkest Hour,’ takes readers on a three-year odyssey from the depths of despair, to the former mega-pastor’s being ‘cured’ of his homosexual ‘compulsions.’   By Bill Berkowitz The mega-takeaways from Gayle Haggard’s ne ...
  • There's a Ford in the DLC's Future
    BUZZFLASH COMMENTARY By Steven Jonas, MD, MPH    Dr. J.'s BF Commentary No. 131: There's a Ford in the DLC's Future  As I pointed out in my Commentary No. 128, “President Obama and the Democratic Leadership Council," although I was taken in by the rhetoric as of last spring, I was right the first t ...
  • Alito & McDonnell Rebuttals Were Mere Stagecraft; ...
    BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZFLASH MINUTE Oh, oh, oh, Alito, you may be wearing the black robes of the Supreme Court judiciary, you may think yourself noble and wise, BUT, and I make no apology, nor do I offer any respect, your decision, along with the rest of the Repuglicans sitting on the highest bench ...
  • A Political Disaster Visits A Real One -- Verse-Ca ...
    John Edwards’ latest news Is doing something weighty: Helping out however he can While spending time in Haiti . I pity the people down there What’s left of life must be hell But John only went because Of an upcoming book on Rielle .read more
  • Why Obama’s Plans for NY Terror Trials Appear to B ...
    BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by  Dafna Linzer , ProPublica  For anyone wondering how one of President Obama’s signature pledges seemed to unravel between Monday and Friday, here’s a look at the week that was. Savvy readers of The New York Times may have noticed a  letter to the editor  in Tuesday’s ed ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • Remember the illegal destruction of Iraq?
    British political news has been consumed for the last several weeks by a formal inquiry into the illegality and deceit behind Tony Blair's decision to join the U.S. in invading Iraq.  Today, Blair himself is publicly testifying before the investigative commission and is being grilled about numerou ...
  • Comment section -- Alito
    In the comment section on this morning's post regarding Justice Alito , I accidentally clicked the "close comments" button.  Apparently, this is an act with grave consequences, as the Salon system does not permit its reversal, no matter how compelling the plea.  Feel free to use the comment sectio ...
  • Justice Alito's conduct and the Court's credibilit ...
    (updated below) As I wrote at the time , I thought the condemnations of Rep. Joe Wilson's heckling of Barack Obama during his September health care speech were histrionic and excessive.  Wilson and Obama are both political actors, it occurred in the middle of a political speech about a hi ...
  • Presidential assassinations of U.S. citizens
    The Washington Post 's Dana Priest today reports that "U.S. military teams and intelligence agencies are deeply involved in secret joint operations with Yemeni troops who in the past six weeks have killed scores of people."  That's no surprise, of course, as Yemen is now another predominantly Musl ...
  • The sanctity of military spending
    (updated below - Update II) Administration officials announced last night that the President, in tomorrow's State of the Union address, will propose a multi-year freeze on certain domestic discretionary spending programs.  This is an "initiative intended to signal his seriousness about cu ...

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • How to teach physics to your dog
    There have been rough guides, books for dummies, even howtos for idiots, but Chad Orzel is probably the first to take explain an important corner of human endeavour solely to his dog in How to teach physics to your dog. Ironically, the subject on which he focuses, physics, is a realm usually the pr ...
  • Research Blogging
    If you blog about peer-reviewed research, then you’ve probably heard about ResearchBlogging.org by now. It’s an aggregator that pulls together posts from around the world that have added a snippet of code to identify themselves as blogging about peer-reviewed research. The keen-eyed regulars among ...
  • Melamine’s on sale again
    The Associated Press and others are reporting that milk products tainted with the toxic chemical melamine are on sale again in China. Melamine-tainted milk products have been pulled from convenience store shelves in southern China more than a year after hundreds of thousands of children were sicken ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Action Alert: NPR Finds Right-Wing Crank to Spit o ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 29, 2010 FAIR When progressive historian Howard Zinn died on January 27, NPR 's All Things Considered (1/28/10) marked his passing with something you don't often see in an obituary: a rebuttal. read more
  • Constitution Project Applauds Obama Administration ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 29, 2010 Constitution Project The Constitution Project applauds the Obama administration for standing firm in its commitment to conduct the previously-announced September 11th trials in federal court. In recent days, there has been extensive media buzz about the planned ...
  • Canadian Supreme Court Finds Guantánamo Detainee's ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 29, 2010 ACLU The Canadian Supreme Court today found that the rights of Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen who was captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan in 2002 when he was 15, were violated during his interrogation and detention in Guantánamo Bay. The American Civil Liber ...
  • Amnesty International USA Commends Google’s Stand ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 29, 2010 Amnesty International - USA Amnesty International USA's (AIUSA) Board of Directors commended Google, Inc., for its decision to openly oppose censorship and expose the cyber attacks directed at human rights activists in China. In a letter sent on January 29, 201 ...
  • NOW Applauds Guilty Verdict in Roeder Trial
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 29, 2010 National Organization for Women The National Organization for Women commends the jury in the Scott Roeder trial for its swift guilty verdict and for not being fooled by the outrageous defense claim of justifiable terrorism. Roeder sat on the stand this week and ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Blackwater's Youngest Victim
    by Jeremy Scahill Every detail of September 16, 2007, is burned in Mohammed Kinani's memory. Shortly after 9 am he was preparing to leave his house for work at his family's auto parts business in Baghdad when he got a call from his sister, Jenan, who asked him to pick her and her children up across ...
  • Dr. Flowers Answers Obama's Request for 'Better Ap ...
    by Russell Mokhiber Last night, President Obama said he wanted ideas on health care reform. Obama put it this way: read more
  • List of 51 Senate Democrats Who Support a Public O ...
    by Jane Hamsher Some day, just for kicks, I’m going to collect quotes from every scold who called upon their volumes of wisdom about Senate procedure to decree that Joe Lieberman must be the ultimate decider on any health care bill, because after all it took 60 votes to pass anything. Because now, ...
  • Obama’s Secret Prisons
    by Anand Gopal [The research for this story was supported by  the Fund for Investigative Journalism .] read more
  • Obama Appeals for Bipartisanship, as Republicans S ...
    by Ruth Conniff "Change has not come fast enough," President Obama acknowledged in his State of the Union address--especially for Americans who are losing their jobs and struggling through the long recession. Then, in a speech aimed more at Congress than the American people, he began a long plea to ...

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

  • Auditor to look into prison food contract (Louisvi ...
    Kentucky State Auditor Crit Luallen said she will audit the $12 million contract between Aramark Correctional Services and the Kentucky Department of Corrections to determine if the company that provides meals in state prisons is fulfilling its responsibilities.
  • Auditor to look into prison food contract (Louisvi ...
    Kentucky State Auditor Crit Luallen said she will audit the $12 million contract between Aramark Correctional Services and the Kentucky Department of Corrections to determine if the company that provides meals in state prisons is fulfilling its responsibilities.
  • Lebanon can drill for oil once legislation is in p ...
    The Daily Star.He added that after adopting this law, "we will be entering a new phase of legislative.
  • Nine O'Clock (Nine O'Clock)
    A spirit of celebration was in the air Wednesday evening at the Intercontinental Hotel, where the Nine O’Clock daily gave its Awards for 2009. Former Romanian President Emil Constantinescu, heads of diplomatic missions to Bucharest as well as the Papal Nuncio Francisco Javier Lozano, bank presidents ...
  • Governor's budget seeks 3 percent boost in spendin ...
    Gov. Deval Patrick's $28.2 billion fiscal 2011 budget includes close to $800 million in spending reductions, imposes new taxes on non-alcoholic drinks and candy, and preserves state aid to cities and towns.

Guardian

  • 'Capitalism is evil'
    After guns and the Iraq war, Michael Moore is now taking on an entire political and economic system in his latest documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story. So what message does the man who once planned to become a priest have? Michael Moore has been accused of many things. Mendacity. Manipulation. Ramp ...
  • News quiz: Week in review
    Test your knowledge of the stories behind this week's headlines Sam Jones
  • 24 hours in pictures
    A selection of the best images from around the world
  • Media Talk: iPad, therefore I am
    Apple launched its eagerly awaited new digital product this week, the iPad . We ask if it can be considered as the saviour of digital news online, or whether it's just an oversized iPhone. Matt Kelly, digital boss at the Mirror, expresses scepticism. Our panelists, Janine Gibson and John Plunkett , ...
  • Classic Arsenal v United battles
    Manchester United and Arsenal will go head-to-head in the Premier League on Sunday. We look back at images of the best games between the sides

McClatchey

  • Bipartisanship? Well, at least Obama and House GOP ...
    BALTIMORE — In a session that was intended to foster bipartisanship with Republicans in the House of Representatives, President Barack Obama blasted them Friday for distorting his health care plan to the point that "you'd think that this thing was some Bolshevik plot."
  • Moving 9-11 trial could have wide repercussions fo ...
    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's willingness to consider moving the trial of self-professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed out of New York reflects the trouble that Obama's facing in Congress, not just from Republicans but also from Democrats in this tough midterm election year.
  • Rival auto dealers try to make best of Toyota's pr ...
    Toyota dealers are circling the wagons as the automaker recalls millions of vehicles worldwide — but other dealers hope to capitalize on the damage to Toyota's reputation for reliability.
  • How Edwards used wealthy heiress to fund love-chil ...
    RALEIGH, N.C. — Payments from a wealthy heiress to the Mellon fortune through a Monroe, N.C., interior decorator helped subsidize the cover-up of John Edwards' affair with Rielle Hunter.
  • African-American family sues over nightclub dress ...
    Members of an African-American family have filed a lawsuit alleging discrimination and unfair enforcement of the dress code at a downtown Kansas City, Mo., entertainment district.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Crunch time for the cosy cousin?
    You'd think that conserving the world's biodiversity would be a pretty uncontroversial aim - wouldn't you? Who wouldn't think it a good idea that the giant panda survives for our children's children to marvel at, that the intricate dependencies of coral reef ecosystems remain un-ruptured by dynamit ...
  • 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 ...

Afghanistan Sun

  • Pakistan is the real hub of terrorism says German ...
    New Delhi, Jan 29: Calling Pakistan and Afghanistan as two sides of the same coin, German Ambassador to India Thomas Matussek on Friday said that Pakistan is the real hub of terrorism.
  • Pakistan tried to scuttle anti-terror pledge at Af ...
    London, Jan 29 (IANS) The Pakistani delegation to a global conference on Afghanistan Thursday tried - but failed - to scotch a pledge by the international community to work at destroying the lifeline of logistical and financial support for terrorist networks.
  • US military deaths in Afghan region at 893
    As of Friday, Jan. 29, 2010, at least 893 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an As...
  • 'I Always Favored Taliban Talks'
    (RFE/RL) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai tells RFE/RL that he has long advocated talking to moderate elements within the Taliban but that the international community is only now endorsing and support...
  • US military deaths in Afghan region at 893
    As of Friday, Jan. 29, 2010, at least 893 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an As...

Futurismic

  • Econopocalypse scenario #3654: the Fat-finger Coll ...
    Ars Technica has an interesting article about a couple of recent stock-market glitches caused by high-frequency trading algorithms run amok. Long story short: a screw-up at Credit Suisse was caused by “a trader who accidentally double-clicked an icon in a trading program’s interface, when he should’ ...
  • A fistful of writing tips and tools
    It seems like ages since I last relinked any good writing advice here, so let’s take a look at a few items that got tangled up in my intertube trawler-nets this week. First of all Luke Reid points us toward the blog of the pseudonymous Doctor Grasshopper, a medical student and sf/f author who aims [ ...
  • UK police to deploy military UAV drones, snoop mor ...
    Futurismic readers resident outside the UK may wonder why exactly it is that I keep battering on about the omnipresent surveillance systems that are saturating this silly little island. After all, if I’m not doing anything wrong, I should have nothing to fear, right? Well, if believing that helps yo ...
  • The artwork that sells itself
    Consider, for a moment, the trials and tribulations of the plastic artist. You create your masterpiece, and – if you’re lucky – you sell it. And that’s your lot – not only is it beyond your control once it leaves your studio, but it can’t make you any further income. Or can it? Caleb Larsen thinks [ ...
  • Garage ribofunk redux – DIY biohacking gaining pop ...
    While we’re on the subject of garage industries, here’s a piece at pop-transhumanist organ H+ Magazine on the expanding field of garage biotech [via GlobalGuerrillas; image by mknowles]. We’ve covered DIY biohackers and ribofunkers here before, but the H+ writer has a cautious optimism about the sce ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • While The Whistleblower Sits in Prison, More Peopl ...
    Yesterday, the Washington Post announced that the Swiss government has suspended the disclosure of information about tax cheats to the United States under a February 2009 “deferred prosecution” agreement and may seek to renegotiate the deal.  Under the agreement the Swiss government was supposed to ...
  • Camp Delta Sergeant Joe Hickman blows the whistle ...
    In its March issue, Harpers Magazine challenges the official and widely reported story that three prisoners being held in Guantánamo Bay committed suicide in an act of “asymmetrical warfare.”  The article, written by Scott Horton, is based largely on observations of whistleblower Joe Hickman, the hi ...
  • On February 10, OSHA will listen
    The federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) has announced that it will conduct an "OSHA listens" meeting on Wednesday, February 10, 2010, at the Department of Labor headquarters auditorium in Washington, DC.  To speak at the "OSHA listens" meeting, participants must register by ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Homeless Advocate Miss Florida Competes for the Cr ...
    Grab your body glitter and evening gown and get ready to watch the Miss America pageant on Saturday night (8 p.m. EST on TLC). Why on earth would you do that, you ask? Why, to root with all your might for Miss Florida, Rachael Todd . Like all Miss America contestants, Todd has chosen a platform on w ...
  • Parasites vs. Homeless People
    As a social worker , I get head lice a lot. Usually I catch lice working on the streets because it's not uncommon for me to hug homeless friends hello (plus I have long hair). But I can afford the treatment and getting rid of them is no big deal for me. For my homeless friends who live on the street ...
  • The Push to End Homelessness Among Returning War V ...
    Neil J. Donovan is part of Change.org's Changemakers network, comprised of leading voices for social change. Neil is the executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless. The Butler family has honored this country for generations, at first while enslaved and now free, though persistentl ...
  • Pajamas Have Nothing To Do With Homelessness
    Talk about out of touch. Tomorrow is the fifth annual PJ Day in Denver, when Mayor John Hickenlooper will be sporting fuzzy slippers and pajamas in an attempt to raise awareness about the city's homeless problem. Only this time, instead of parading around his office in silk jammies, he's also deckin ...
  • Jessica's Law Blamed for Steep Rise in Homeless Se ...
    In just three years, the number of homeless sex offenders in California has increased a whopping 2400 percent. Who or what is to blame for this skyrocketing figure? Believe it or not, it's Jessica's Law, passed by voters in November 2006 and designed to protect children from paroled sex offenders. W ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Support treaty banning nuclear weapons: Experts
    Prime Minister Harper should actively support new calls for a global treaty to ban all nuclear weapons, experts said today. “The Canadian government needs to step up its efforts to stop the dangerous spread of nuclear weapons” said former Senator Douglas Roche following a two-day conference in Otta ...
  • NATO to seek negotiated end to Afghan war?
    The NATO-led coalition in Afghanistan “is considering a plan to end the war by entering power-sharing negotiations with Taliban leaders and former fighters,” the Globe and Mail reports (Doug Saunders, NATO weighs Taliban truce in plans for Afghan peace, 25 January 2010). The paper says that “the sc ...
  • 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 majori ...
  • 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 ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Corporate Branding Attacks Teen Charity
    January 29, 2010 Wallet Pop By Lou Carlozo You couldn’t blame Lauren McClusky of Chicago if she were a bit squeamish about using her last name in this story without fear of reprisal from Ronald McDonald and his legal posse. For McClusky, 19, finds herself at the center of a thorny dispute that invol ...
  • Scientists: DNA Can be Fabricated
    January 29, 2010 Natural News By David Gutierrez Scientists from the Tel Aviv, Israel-based company Nucleix have demonstrated that it is possible to create fake DNA samples and plant them as evidence at a crime scene, in a paper published in the journal Forensic Science: International Genetics. “You ...
  • Bin Laden Urges Abandoning Dollar & Rebukes US on ...
    January 29, 2010 Reuters By Cynthia Johnston The authenticity of the tape, aired on Friday and the second by bin Laden to air on Arab satellite channel Al Jazeera this week, could not be immediately confirmed. “It is necessary for us to avoid doing business in the dollar, and to finish with it in th ...
  • Senate Permits Government To Borrow an Additional ...
    January 29, 2010 Breitbart By Andrew Taylor The Democratic-controlled Senate has muscled through a plan to allow the government to go a whopping $1.9 trillion deeper in debt. The party-line 60-40 vote was successful only because Republican Sen.-elect Scott Brown has yet to be seated. Sixty votes wer ...
  • FDA Tells Drug Companies to be Aware of Abuse
    January 29, 2010 Los Angeles Times By Andrew Zajac The Food and Drug Administration is calling on pharmaceutical firms to give more attention to the potential for abuse of new drugs when subjecting them to pre-market testing. The agency this week released a draft of voluntary guidelines to assist dr ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • Obama’s secret prisons
    Obama’s secret prisons By Anand Gopal, TomDispatch, January 28, 2010 One quiet, wintry night last year in the eastern Afghan town of Khost, a young government employee named Ismatullah simply vanished. He had last been seen in the town’s bazaar with a group of friends. Family members scoured Khos ...
  • Segregation blues
    Segregation blues By Larry Derfner, Jerusalem Post, January 27, 2010 I spent the day in Nazareth recently, doing a story about Israeli Arabs in hi-tech, and when I got in the car with the (Jewish) photographer to leave, I said to him, “Isn’t it a relief to talk to Arabs as regular people?” He smil ...
  • Haiti’s children adrift in world of chaos
    Haiti’s children adrift in world of chaos By Deborah Sontag, New York Times, January 27, 2010 Haiti’s children, 45 percent of the population, are among the most disoriented and vulnerable of the survivors of the earthquake. By the many tens of thousands, they have lost their parents, their homes, ...
  • Remember the illegal destruction of Iraq?
    Remember the illegal destruction of Iraq? By Glenn Greenwald, Salon, January 29, 2010 British political news has been consumed for the last several weeks by a formal inquiry into the illegality and deceit behind Tony Blair’s decision to join the U.S. in invading Iraq. Today, Blair himself is publ ...
  • Goodbye Howard Zinn
    Goodbye Howard Zinn By Peter Rothberg, The Nation, January 27, 2010 Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and the author of the seminal A People’s History of the United States, died today at the age of 87 of a hea ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Uh Oh – Pachuri caught out in IPCC 2035 glac ...
    The London Times is reporting: “The chairman of the leading climate change watchdog was informed that claims about melting Himalayan glaciers were false before the Copenhagen summit, The Times has learnt. Rajendra Pachauri was told that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment tha ...
  • Ice in Chinese ports “exceeding anything exp ...
    From the “weather is not climate department” another report of ice further south than has been recently experienced. Here’s a picture from this China Daily news story: From Maritime Global.net CHINA PORTS FREAK WEATHER ALERT By David Hughes Published: Tue, 26 January 2010 Freak weather conditions a ...
  • Diverging views
    The GISS Temperature Record Divergence Problem Guest post by Tilo Reber In connection with James Hansen’s explanation of why his GISS temperature record diverges from that of HadCRUT, I decided to check on the legitimacy of what GISS was doing. Dr. Hansen’s article is here at RealClimate. This ...
  • Strange but true – Bin Laden on Global Warmi ...
    From My Way News The world of climate change alarmism just got a new ally. No I’m not kidding. CAIRO (AP) – Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has called in a new audiotape for the world to boycott American goods and the U.S. dollar, blaming the United States and other industrialized countries for gl ...
  • Gate du Jour – Now it’s Greenpeace rep ...
    Donna Laframboise, who gave us the list of World Wildlife Fund non peer reviewed studies cited in the IPCC AR4 continues to make lists. Here’s her latest list. Those calm, rational, thoughtful folks at Greenpeace seem to have had a significant hand in the IPCC climate bible. She writes: Considered t ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Ralph Nader On the State of the Union
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Ralph Nader The Nader Page Friday, January 29. 2010 The President’s State of the Union Speech is the Big Speech of the year. Yet there is never an opportunity either for the press or the citizenry to promptly follow up with any questions or requests for cla ...
  • President Obama at House Republican Conference + Q ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ President Obama’s Speech at the House Republican retreat in Baltimore CSPAN January 29, 2010 more about “President Obama’s Speech at the House…“, posted with vodpod *** President Obama Full Q&A more about “President Obama Full Q&A“, posted with vodpod ...
  • Corporations (Are People) by Ed Ciaccio
    by Helen Cox, used with permission larger view by Ed Ciaccio Dandelion Salad Featured Writer January 29, 2010 (to the tune of “People” by Merrill & Styne) People, Corporations are people. They’re the luckiest people in the world. They’re monsters, Immortal monsters, Using sociopathic power ...
  • Inflatable hospital means better conditions for pa ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Donate: http://doctorswithoutborders.org/news/allcontent.cfm?id=31 msfuk January 28, 2010 The MSF inflatable hospitals are providing patients in Haiti with a safe, clean and comfortable place to receive treatment from MSF teams. The hospital includes two full ...
  • Keiser Report №12: Tim Geithner’s lies + Fre ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ RussiaToday January 28, 2010 Every week Max Keiser looks at all the scandal behind the financial news headlines. This time Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert look at the scandal behind the headlines about the Volcker plan, the Supreme Court ruling and about C ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    An impressive series of ads promoting Russia Today , banned in American airports, but turning heads in the UK : More Of The Ads Can Be Seen Here
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    Mass Graves For The Victims Of Nature's Fury The above photo, by Olivier Laban Mattei , is from 'Haiti : Six Days Later' at The Boston Globe's The Big Picture . Do you really think it would be any different in your city if 200,000 people died an earthquake? They'd be digging mass graves in New ...
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    Osama Bin Laden Jumps The Shark By Darryl Mason Bin Laden, or whoever is making those tapes, reinvents himself as anti-capitalist, anti-global warming warrior . Or as it will probably be soon known : Greenhadism. The War On Terror is dying in a flurry of exposed forgeries and outright frauds. The ...
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    No wonder they hate President Obama so much. He's got a very, very big mouth : "The Government Accountability Office, the GAO, has looked into 96 major defense projects from the last year, and found cost overruns that totaled $296 billion....indefensible, no-bid contracts that cost taxpayers billion ...
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    Demi Moore, the same photo shoot, before and after the digital retouching : I don't get it. She clearly is far more beautiful in the 'before' shot. Who are the advertisers trying to appeal to with such a plastic-face makeover? Robots? More Here

Wired - Science

  • Chemistry Creates Self-Stirring Liquids
    In a tail wagging the dog reversal, researchers have found that simple chemical reactions can mix a solution. Usually, chemicals are stirred to enhance a reaction, but a new study finds that the reverse is also true: Simple chemical reactions can trigger fluid flows, reports a paper in the January ...
  • NASA Releases First Free E-Book, on History of X-1 ...
    NASA continues to stay ahead of the government pack when it comes to public outreach. In addition to its many popular Twitter streams, iPhone apps and opportunities for citizens to participate in scientific programs, the agency is jumping into the e-book space. For space geeks looking for a little ...
  • Cigarettes May Cause Infections
    The tobacco in cigarettes hosts a bacterial bonanza — literally hundreds of different germs, including those responsible for many human illnesses, a new study finds. “Nearly every paper that you pick up discussing the health effects of cigarettes starts out with something to the effect that smokers ...
  • Come to Wired.com’s Biometric Super Bowl Party
    You’ve seen your fair share of sad Super Bowl parties: the guacamole, the cheap beer, the bored significant others. Well, forget all that! Wired Science has a distinctly different, nerdier kind of Super Bowl party planned. We want you to come to the Wired office in San Francisco’s SoMA neighborho ...
  • Bill Gates Funds Research Into Climate Hacking
    Bill Gates has sunk at least $4.5 million of his personal wealth into geoengineering research. While it’s a small chunk of Gates’ vast personal fortune, it’s a sign that the founder of Microsoft thinks we should at least be looking into the controversial practice of intentionally altering the E ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • 2010 Video Selections – updated 29 Jan 2010
    A selection of video clips: 2010 – news, history, and more. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
  • JNF: 240 million trees planted since 1901
    In addition to its plating activities, JNF also holds studies on forestation and ecology and hosts delegations from around the world interested in learning plating methods in dry conditions and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  • Female soldiers break their silence
    "A female combat soldier needs to prove more…a female soldier who beats up others is a serious fighter…when I arrived there was another female there with me, she was there before me…everyone spoke of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Howard Zinn: Finishing School for Pickets (1960)
    Spelman College girls are still "nice" but not enough to keep them from walking up and down, carrying picket signs, in front of two supermarkets in the heart of Atlanta. They are well-mannered, but... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Israeli Press Reports – updated: 28 Jan 2010
    A selection of news stories from the Israeli Media (Hebrew) Not Machover - Globes, 28 Jan 2010 The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Kentucky Research Looks at Respiratory Weakness in ...
    A University of Kentucky researcher is investigating respiratory weakness as a factor in the morbidity of intensive-care patients and will soon be testing new treatments that could improve long-term patient outcomes while reducing costs of care.
  • Super Bowl Stock Market Predictor Still a Winner, ...
    A Washington and Lee University finance professor has updated a study demonstrating that over the course of the event's 43-year history, the Super Bowl winner has correctly predicted whether the market will go up or down 77 percent of the time.
  • Stony Brook University-BNL Research Team Receives ...
    Institute of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery will collaborate with Brookhaven National Laboratory on Multidisciplinary Research Project.
  • Emo-Journalism: Should Reporters be the News?
    Though professional journalists are taught to remain removed from and objective about the subject of their story, sometimes the events are so tragic it is impossible to maintain that distance. But a recent trend in news reporting, known as "emo-journalism," has taken understandably human responses t ...
  • Spinal Cord Injuries to Hockey Players Have Decrea ...
    The past decade has seen a significant reduction in the number and severity of spinal cord injuries in Canadian ice hockey, reports a study in the Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine.

Intel Trends

  • USA to correct Uzbek cooperation plans
    The following article is from UzNews.net. USA to correct Uzbek cooperation plans ©   UzNews January 29, 2010   23:42 The U.S. ambassador to Uzbekistan, Richard Norland, told journalists on 28 January that Uzbekistan's plan of action to expand cooperation with the USA will be corrected by the ...
  • Press Release: Eritrea Requests the AU to Respect ...
    The following statement is issued by the Eritrea Ministry of Foreign Affairs. State of Eritrea Ministry of Foreign Affairs January 29, 2010 PRESS RELEASE Eritrea Requests the AU to Respect its Membership Rights The Government of Eritrea has urged the African Union to respect its membership ...
  • CAUCASUS: Terrorism comes to Abkhazia
    [ Blogmaster note :  The following article is from the Government of Abkhazia website and blames terrorism for a bloody police encounter in the newly independent republic, formerly part of Georgia. Click here for mujahideen version.]  ONE POLICE OFFICER, TWO CIVILIANS KILLED IN ACT OF TERRORISM ...
  • BURMA: Mongla still searching for Min Ein's assass ...
    UPDATE January 29, 2010 Northern Thailand's S.H.A.N. news agency reports that the assassin of Min Ein, Mongla's #6 leader in Burma, still alludes capture. Min Ein, general secretary of the Mongla-based National Democratic Alliance Army-Eastern Shan State (NDAA-ESS), was shot to death by an uni ...
  • IntelTrends 29-JAN-2010
    AZERBAIJAN: Armed incident in military unit: 6 dead, 2 injured: Defense Ministry (UPDATED) Trend.az, 29 Jan The soldiers killed officers by submachine gun entering the room where they were, a military source told Trend News. U.S. citizens detained in Iraq Al Jazeera, 29 Jan Governor of Mosul, ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Canadians Battle the Sludge Industry
    The Québec Superior Court has upheld the right of a municipality to ban the spreading of sewage sludge on agricultural land. In Ferme l'Evasion c. Elgin, the farmer wished to use sewage sludge to supply the missing phosphorus and other essential elements for its crops. The proposed application was a ...
  • Help Amend the Food Safety Modernization Act
    Food Safety legislation headed for the Senate floor would considerably ramp up regulation on farms that even minimally process their crops and sell them to restaurants, food coops, groceries, schools and wholesalers. Click here to read this article
  • EPA Requests Feedback on Plan Analyzing Impact of ...
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is requesting public input on a precedent-setting effort to evaluate environmental justice concerns raised by a Bush-era loophole that stripped federal oversight of companies that handle 1.5 million tons of hazardous waste each year. Click here to read this a ...
  • Top GMO News of the Week (Jan 24, 2010)
    'Regulators' like the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the UK's FSA must no longer try to pull the wool over consumers' eyes by claiming that GM-fed animals are no different from non-GM fed animals. A definitive review of the scientific literature from Prof Jack Heinemann (GM ANIMAL FEED) c ...
  • Media Investigation Finds Contaminated Organic Cot ...
    Major fashion retailer H&M is under fire after media reports said that it has been selling organic cotton clothing tainted with genetically modified (GM) cotton imported from India. Consumer groups and environmental organizations are calling for an investigation into the matter, but the retailer ins ...

fotoFrontera

  • Archivo de imágenes del buscador Bing
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Una de las cosas que más me llaman la atención del buscador Bing propiedad de Microsoft , es que sin darnos cuenta, ha creado un excelente Banco de Imágenes que todos podemos disfrutar y compartir. Me refiero a las fotog ...
  • Fotografías increíbles de la vida salvaje
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Así como intentando detener el tiempo, PeachyGreen nos ofrece una maravillosa colección de imágenes donde la creatividad se escapa a los límites de nuestra imaginación. Descubra todo el potencial de estos artistas que no ...
  • Fotografías de ciclistas y bicicletas
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Por alguna razón que aún no acabo de comprender, me fascina tomar fotografías a las bicicletas que veo en las calles. De hecho, tengo una gran colección que algún día compartiré con ustedes. Mientras tanto, les recomiend ...
  • Miradas de Haiti (recopilación)
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Miradas de Haití , es la cuarta parte de la colección de imágenes dedicadas a crear conciencia sobre la magnitud de este desastre natural que ha cobrado la vida de miles de personas en Puerto Príncipe y sus alrededores. ...
  • 50 hermosas imágenes HDR de 50 ciudades del mundo
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Quienes se dedican a la fotografía, saben que para obtener un efecto HDR sobre las imágenes , se deben realizar una serie de procesos usando para ello software de edición de imágenes como Photoshop , filtros, un caudal d ...

Executive Intelligence Review

Center for a Livable Future

  • New analysis claims Monsanto skewed GM corn findin ...
    Monsanto conducted studies to evaluate the toxicity of genetically modified (GM) corn on rats as part of European regulatory registry of GM food and feed, prior to commercialization. To our knowledge, only a summary of the findings were made available to the public (for examples see European Food Sa ...
  • Baltimore Food Makers potluck
    On the recommendation of a friend, I had to good fortune to attended the Baltimore Food Makers monthly potluck this Saturday to share home-grown, home-preserved and home-made food with a group of ~30 “food makers.”  Before eating we all gathered around the spread of food and each maker discussed w ...
  • Antibiotics in Farming: Has Tyson Foods Shot Itsel ...
    -From the Animal Welfare Approved web site Tyson Foods’ recent agreement to settle a lawsuit for falsely advertising its “raised without antibiotics” chicken brand has received limited media coverage – no doubt to the relief of the company’s boardroom. And with an annual turnover of nearly $27 bill ...
  • 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 ...

Norwegianity

  • Give NYC some rubber sheets and get that trial sta ...
    This is an abomination: The White House ordered the Justice Department Thursday night to consider other places to try the 9/11 terror suspects after a wave of opposition to holding the trial in lower Manhattan. The dramatic turnabout came hours after Mayor Bloomberg said he would “prefer that the ...
  • AKlo cool with Bernanke
    What does Amy Klobuchar have in common with Max Baucus, Saxby Chambliss, Lindsey Graham, Orinn Hatch, Mike Johanns, Joe Lieberman, Mitch McConnell, and Richard Shelby? They and 61 other U.S. Senators think Ben fucking Bernanke is the best gol’darn Fed Chairman ever. We coulda had Stiglitz. Minnesota ...
  • O’Keefe, cont.
    A few more links: Salt Lake GOoPers sheepishly cancel O’Keefe emptywheel James who? O’Keefe’s special psychic ability to make his own predictions come true Misogyna Monologues Pelican Institute Pelican Institute The Leadership Institute (aka the By Any Means Necessary Institute) Schmelzer Josh Mars ...
  • SOTU: Same Old Tired Uninspired tripe
    I didn’t watch the State of the Union speech last night. The Wolves were only down 19 against the Cavs early in the 4th quarter, and I decided to keep watching the game rather than put myself at risk of becoming truly depressed. (If our economy was only down 19 points to the Cavs in [...]
  • And the truth will get you 10 years
    The Strib lets Amy Klobuchar and John Kline expound on what the President should say in his State of the Union speech tonight. Klobuchar goes with ninth-grade science fairs, 2000-man drumming routines, lofty goals and generic fixes. Kline wants the American people to come first and believes that the ...

The Seferm Post

  • Links for 2010-01-26 [del.icio.us]
    Does this still happen in United States? In 2010? Photo released shows her son hospitalized after being hit by plainclothes officers with stun gun because they thought a bottle of soda in his coat was a gun
  • Links for 2010-01-20 [del.icio.us]
    Angela Sullivan 36, Had 200 Sexual Encounters With Boy 12 Her jail sentence is huge... Apple Safer To Eat But Carries Pesticide Residue: Researchers More than two decades after parents dumped apples from children's lunch boxes because of concerns about a chemical applied to the fruit, most re ...
  • 'There's G-Spot! Stop Disrespecting Women': French ...
    Leading French surgeon Pierre Foldes said: 'The King's College study shows a lack of respect for what women say. The conclusions were completely erroneous because they were based solely on genetic observations. It is clear that in female sexuality there is a variability. It cannot be reduced to a ye ...
  • Sharing Love Is Priceless
    'Not only has Tinkerbell accepted them, she cleans and snuggles the kittens and gets frantic if I pick one up,' Ms Reynolds said.
  • Al-Qaida Bin Laden Shows Interest In Climate Chang ...
    Al-Qaida Bin Laden targeted the U.S. economy in the recording, calling for a boycott of American products and an end to the dollar's domination as a world currency.

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 ...
  • Supreme Court to Hear First Genetically Engineered ...
    Monsanto Takes Center for Food Safety Legal Victory to Highest Court Today, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to hear a first-time case about the risks of genetically engineered crops. Named Monsanto v. Geertson Seed Farms, No. 09-475, the case before the high court will be yet another step in an ongoi ...
  • Tell USDA That You Care About GE Contamination of ...
    In 2006, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) sued the Department of Agriculture (USDA) for its illegal approval of Monsanto’s genetically engineered (GE) Roundup Ready alfalfa. The federal courts sided with CFS and banned GE alfalfa until the USDA fully analyzed the impacts of the plant on the environm ...
  • USDA AGAIN AIMS TO ALLOW UNLIMITED PLANTING OF GEN ...
    Center for Food Safety to lead coalition to protect public, farmers and environment from GE crop hazards The Center for Food Safety today announced that it will lead a coalition of concerned farmers, consumers and environmentalists to hold USDA accountable in its responsibility to protect all farme ...
  • Center for Food Safety and Institute for Agricultu ...
    Groups Urge Government Ban of Common Additives Used in Feed for Chicken, Turkeys and Hogs Today, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), filed a petition with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) calling for the immediate withdrawal of approvals ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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Foreign direct investment buzz grows in renewable energy
Daily News & Analysis
- Jan 29, 2010
- 7 hours ago
An Indian delegation is currently on a visit to Japan to explore further cooperation in the renewable energy sector. *Governments of, and private sector ...
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Natural Gas is a Buy: Exxon (NYSE: XOM) purchase of XTO Energy Has Set the ...
Motley Fool (blog)
- Jan 29, 2010
- 4 hours ago
And finally, the more renewable energy assets we put on the ground, primarily wind and solar, the more natural gas power plants we need to construct to ...
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FOR WEEKEND USEWind Power Capacity Grows at Record Pace, but Industry Jobs ...
Baltimore Sun
- Jan 29, 2010
- 5 hours ago
Renewable energy companies, faced with limited demand, often drew down inventory or imported renewable technology instead of building new turbines or solar ...
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DIY Solar Panels - Making Your Own Electricity Through Renewable Power
Before It's News
- Jan 29, 2010
- 14 hours ago
These non-polluting options are known as green or renewable energy because their “fuel†is practically limitless and nothing is burned in the process. ...
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Human Habitat

ecology water energy
Russian police raid Lake Baikal ecology group
BBC News
- Jan 29, 2010
- 12 hours ago
Russian police have raided the offices of an environmental group after it criticised a plan to reopen a paper mill next to Lake Baikal in Siberia. ...
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E-Cycle Washington enjoys healthy returns in 2009
Seattle Times
- Jan 29, 2010
- 6 hours ago
The state Department of Ecology reports more than 38.5 million pounds of TVs, computers and monitors were recycled free of charge in 2009. ...
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Ecology proposes change to pesticide
Ritzville Adams County Journal
- Jan 29, 2010
- 3 hours ago
The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) invites the public to comment on a proposed modification to the Aquatic Pesticide Irrigation District General ...
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King County fined $24000 for December sewage spill at West Point
Access Washington
- Jan 28, 2010
- Jan 28, 2010
Ecology investigators determined that after the electrical malfunction occurred, operators failed to implement the facility's standard operating procedures, ...
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Water Power

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Why has global warming paused? Water vapor may be in the answer.
Christian Science Monitor
- Jan 29, 2010
- 5 hours ago
A decline in stratospheric water vapor between 2000 and 2009 followed an apparent increase between 1980 and 2000, a team of scientists has found. ...
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Big California snowpack no panacea for water users
San Jose Mercury News
- Jan 29, 2010
- 7 hours ago
By Samantha Young AP MEYERS, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 29: California Department of Water Resources (DWR) Chief of Cooperative Snow Survey Frank Gehrke skis out ...
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Snake Valley water
Salt Lake Tribune
- Jan 29, 2010
- 3 hours ago
He did that because a Nevada Supreme Court ruling this week probably will cause that state's chief water rights official to reopen hearings to those ...
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Downtown water main break leaves buildings without service
Baltimore Sun
- Jan 29, 2010
- 1 hour ago
A 12-inch water main at Eutaw and Franklin streets broke Friday evening, causing buildings to lose water service and icing streets, according to a spokesman ...
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