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IPS - Inter Press Services

• ZIMBABWE: Economy Crippled By Political Uncerta ...
  
  
  
  HARARE, Jan 7 (IPS) - The Zimbabwean government has been working hard to attract international investors to revive the country’s failing economy. Success on this front in 2010 may hinge on the coalition government convincing investors their capital will be secure.
  
  
  
  
  
• SOUTH AFRICA: HIV Stigma Persists
  
  
  
  LOUWVILLE, South Africa, Jan 6 (IPS) - HIV-related stigma and discrimination remain a key concern in South Africa, despite the multitude of HIV awareness campaigns that have been launched by government and civil society organisations throughout the years, health experts say.
  
  
  
  
  
• UGANDA: Bond Issue Could Mean New Homes
  
  
  
  KAMPALA, Jan 6 (IPS) - Few Ugandans are able to find a bank willing to loan them money to buy a house; in a culture where every man is expected to own his house, moves by Stanbic Bank to provide financing for home and auto purchases are welcome.
  
  
  
  
  
• DEVELOPMENT: Clinton Lays Out U.S. Strategy
  
  
  
  WASHINGTON, Jan 6 (IPS) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Wednesday pledged to make development, along with defence and diplomacy, "a central pillar" of U.S. foreign policy and results, rather than ideology, a guiding principle in devising development policy.
  
  
  
  
  
• PARAGUAY: Public Health Care Free of Charge
  
  
  
  ASUNCIÓN, Jan 6 (IPS) - "Did you have to pay for anything?" is the obligatory question these days in the waiting room at the Mother and Child Hospital in Fernando de la Mora, on the outskirts of the Paraguayan capital, where people still have doubts that the public health services are free of c ...
  
  
  
  
  

Scoop - NZ

• US economy: The Year for Plan B
  
  
  
  The major difference between Tim Geithner and me, apart from my obviously superior looks, is that he is willing to gamble double or nothing with your money and your lives, and I would not be. Or, as one might also put it, he thinks the risk of misery for millions of American people is less important ...
  
  
  
  
  
• AfPak: Matthew Hoh resignation letter
  
  
  
  It is with great regret and disappointment I submit my resignation from my appointment as a Political Officer in the Foreign Service and my post as the Senior Civilian Representative for the U.S. Government in Zabul Province. I have served six of the previous ten years in service to our country over ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Economic 'experts' who stopped making sense
  
  
  
  After a night at the orgy, the ancient Romans would cure their hangovers by stuffing themselves with deep-fried canaries. The Greeks favoured frying up sheep's lungs. For decades, we Britons have relied on bacon sandwiches to soak away the headache and nausea after a night out. But it was not until ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Kunstler: Forecast 2010
  
  
  
  Introduction There are always disagreements in a society, differences of opinion, and contested ideas, but I don't remember any period in my own longish life, even the Vietnam uproar, when the collective sense of purpose, intent, and self-confidence was so muddled in this country, so detached f ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Eurozone Credit Contraction Accelerates
  
  
  
  The European Central Bank said that loans to companies fell by a record 1.9pc from a year earlier. The broad M3 money supply - watched closely as a leading indicator for the economy a year ahead - fell by 0.2pc and has now been shrinking for several months.Julian Callow from Barclays Capital said th ...
  
  
  
  
  

Independent ( London )

• An island in the age of austerity
  
  
  
  Until President Grimsson dropped his bombshell this week, Iceland's recovery from its disastrous descent into economic catastrophe had been going pretty well. A bill that would finalise the island nation's repayment of the £3.2bn it owes to the British and Dutch governments after the collapse of Ic ...
  
  
  
  
  
• I've had an affair, says Ireland's Mrs Robinson
  
  
  
  The wife of Northern Ireland's most senior politician last night sensationally revealed that she had attempted to take her life while depressed after having an affair.
  
  
  
  
  
• Egyptian guard killed in clashes on Gaza border
  
  
  
  Egyptian security forces at the Gaza border crossing clashed with Palestinians who were angry that an international aid convoy had been delayed. One border guard was killed and 15 Palestinians wounded.
  
  
  
  
  
• The Big Question: What does US intelligence consis ...
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Obama under pressure to sack intelligence chiefs
  
  
  
  Pressure was growing on President Barack Obama to shake up the US intelligence community with dismissals in the wake of not one but two humiliating and highly damaging debacles – the thwarted Christmas Day bombing and the slaughter in Afghanistan of seven CIA officers by an informant who was in fac ...
  
  
  
  
  

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• New Revelations Tear Holes in Nuclear Trigger Stor ...
  
  
  
  Summary: Porter New revelations about two documents leaked to the Times of London to show that Iran is working on a "nuclear trigger" mechanism have further undermined the credibility of the document the newspaper had presented as evidence of a continuing Iranian nuclear weapons program. sourc ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Clinton says US still open to talks with Iran
  
  
  
  Summary: Hillary Clinton Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the Obama administration is not closing the door on possible negotiations with Iran over its nuclear programme, despite intransigence from Tehran. Speaking to reporters at the State Department today, Clinton said it is clear ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Chinese firms evade U.S. Iran sanctions: report
  
  
  
  Summary: One Chinese firm, a unit of state-owned China Precision Machinery Import-Export Corp., has made nearly 300 illegal shipments to U.S. firms since a ban was imposed on CPMIEC and its affiliates in mid-2006, the newspaper said, citing an analysis of shipping records by the Wisconsin Projec ...
  
  
  
  
  
• New Iran sanctions within a month: Israeli ministe ...
  
  
  
  Summary: "There is agreement in Washington, Moscow and Beijing that a nuclear Iran would destroy the current world order," he said. Ayalon's comments came as the New York Times reported that the President Barack Obama administration believes domestic unrest and signs of unexpected trouble in Ir ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Moscow says no need for new Iran sanctions
  
  
  
  Summary: Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday. Andrei Nesterenko said the issue of new international sanctions against Tehran "has not been considered in the framework of the Group of Six [Iran Six]." "It is our position that... sanctions alone cannot solve the problem, and there is a need ...
  
  
  
  
  

The Daily Galaxy

• Stephen Hawking: "The Human Species Has Entered a ...
  
  
  
  Although It has taken homo sapiens several million years to evolve from the apes, the useful information in our DNA, has probably changed by only a few million bits. So the rate of biological evolution in humans, Stephen Hawking points...
  
  
  
  
  
• Mars Climate Supported Warm Lakes 3 Billion Years ...
  
  
  
  "Most of the research on Mars has focused on its early history and the recent past. Scientists had largely overlooked the Hesperian Epoch as it was thought that Mars was then a frozen wasteland. Excitingly, our study now shows that...
  
  
  
  
  
• Search for Earth's Twin Turbo Charged: Kepler Spa ...
  
  
  
  "The Kepler observations will tell us whether there are many stars with planets that could harbor life, or whether we might be alone in our galaxy." William Borucki of NASA's Ames Research Center NASA's Kepler space telescope, designed to find...
  
  
  
  
  
• Discovery of 33 Pairs of Black Holes Show Supermas ...
  
  
  
  Astronomers announced yesterday that they have discovered 33 pairs of waltzing black holes in distant galaxies located at distances 4 to 7 billion light-years away from Earth (corresponding to look-back times of 4 to 7 billion years; when the Universe...
  
  
  
  
  
• Image of the Day: A White Dwarf Swallowed by a Su ...
  
  
  
  "We think these unusual signatures can be explained by a white dwarf that strayed too close to a black hole and was torn apart by the extreme tidal forces." Joel Bregman of the University of Michigan. New results from NASA's...
  
  
  
  
  

Natural News

• Are AIDS / HIV tests a hoax? Documentary footage f ...
  
  
  
  (NaturalNews) Brent Leung's myth-shattering AIDS documentary, House of Numbers continues to roil conventional AIDS propagandists who cannot tolerate anyone questioning their "scientific" theories. (They're not exactly "scientific" if they can't stand up to a little questioning, are they?) Adding to ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Carotenoids in veggies and fruits improve eyesight ...
  
  
  
  (NaturalNews) Countless moms have told their children to eat their veggies -- especially carrots -- in order to help their eyesight. It turns out that "old wives' tale" is actually sound science. According to a study just published in the Journal of Food Science , a publication of the Institute of ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Common Pain Medication Accelerates Growth of Cance ...
  
  
  
  (NaturalNews) Two recent studies analyzing the side effects of morphine have revealed that the chronic pain drug and other opiate-based pain medications contribute to the growth and spread of cancer cells. Dr. Patrick Singleton, Ph.D., author of the studies and assistant professor of medicine at the ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Clarification on the New Year's Product Discount G ...
  
  
  
  (NaturalNews) There has been some chatter about our 2010 New Year's Product Discount Guide (http://www.naturalnews.com/Report_Health_Products_Discounts_0.html) that deserves clarification. Some readers have inadvertently leaped to the incorrect conclusion that products or companies listed in the gui ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Dr. Len Horowitz joins NaturalNews Talk Hour for a ...
  
  
  
  (NaturalNews) This week's NaturalNews Talk Hour features the "King David of Natural Healing" - Dr. Lenoard Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H., D.N.M, D.M.M., discussing "The Real Da Vinci Code". Discover the secrets to optimal health, longevity and your human potential. The show runs this Thursday eveni ...
  
  
  
  
  

TheGallopingBeaver

• Default dictatorships...
  
  
  
  OK, aside from the fact Canadian tax dollars apparently went to former members of the Bush administration, I initially thought this was too funny . A former spokesman for George W. Bush received a second sole-source contract from the Prime Minister's Office for American communications advice, accor ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Facebook group FOR prorogue
  
  
  
  Goering wannabe, Adam Yoshida , has one up. They have 103 members . The first discussion thread is titled "Adam Toshida(sic) is Full of Shit" where a commenter pulls Yoshida quotes favouring prorogue and fascistic executive power, and then blows giant holes in them with large bore QWERTY rounds. Yep ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Rick Mercer drives one home
  
  
  
  From 22 Days of Snow Days : "It is ironic that while our parliament has been suspended we are a nation at war. On New Year's Eve we greeted the news that five Canadians were killed in a single day with sadness but not surprise. We are at war because ostensibly we are helping bring democracy to Afgh ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Stephen Taylor - Harper's house-elf
  
  
  
  Stephen Taylor . This Bud's for you. You want constitutional you miserable little failure? No problem. You can be the first one dragged out to the wall.
  
  
  
  
  
• They might as well praise the Taliban
  
  
  
  Their strategic and tactical theory, I mean. Reading the responses of a few Conservative supporters to the 2nd Prorogue (look them up at their blogs and comments on news articles), there are a few references to the apparent tactical brilliance of the current Prime Minister. By that standard then, t ...
  
  
  
  
  

Media Matters for America

• Crowley falsely claims Bush, Cheney had "100 perc ...
  
  
  
  On The O'Reilly Factor , Fox News contributor Monica Crowley asserted that "[a]fter 9-11, President Bush and Vice President Cheney had a 100 percent perfect track record in keeping the homeland safe from an Islamic terrorist attack." In fact, while Crowley and other conservative media figures h ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Quick Fact:  On Fox News, return of dubious c ...
  
  
  
  On Fox News' Live Desk , co-host Trace Gallagher allowed Fordham University professor and former Republican candidate Annemarie McAvoy to assert that the Bush administration's interrogation of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (KSM) "thwart[ed] the bombings, or the attack in L.A." But the Bush administration ...
  
  
  
  
  
• LV Review-Journal publisher falsely cla ...
  
  
  
  In his January 3 column, Las Vegas Review-Journal publisher Sherman Frederick falsely claimed that "the two cases of domestic terrorism since 9/11" happened "on Obama's watch." In fact, while Frederick and other conservative media figures have recently downplayed the number of attacks on the Uni ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Media report on Dodd's "sweetheart deal" without ...
  
  
  
  Following reports that Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) would not seek re-election this year, several media figures -- including Fox News' Stuart Varney and Steve Doocy and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough -- have claimed Dodd received a "sweetheart" mortgage deal from Countrywide. However, in their reports, thes ...
  
  
  
  
  
• In WSJ, du Pont misuses scientific data t ...
  
  
  
  In his January 5 Wall Street Journal column, Pete du Pont used data from the U.K.'s Met Office Hadley Centre, which he misidentified as the "Hadley Climatic Research Unit," to suggest that climate change is not human-caused. In fact, according to the Met Office, "human activities like burning c ...
  
  
  
  
  

Global Research.ca

• German Soldiers 'Trained to Kill' in Afghanistan: ...
  
  
  
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• Bolivia Refuses to be U.S. Slave
  
  
  
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• Hundreds of Afghans Rally Against NATO Forces
  
  
  
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• VIDEO: The United Nations' Role in Peace and War
  
  
  
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• Bomb Plot with a Yemeni Connection: A Christmas Gi ...
  
  
  
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TPM Cafe

• Neos Krauthammer, Kristol Start Year With Anti-Ob ...
  
  
  
  Always remember, when you find the stomach to read Charles Krauthammer, that he views every issue through the lens of "is it good to help Israel withstand American pressure?" He's a Canadian who came down here because some ambitious Canadians... Charles Krauthammer - United States - Iran - War ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Sheikh Jarrah: It's Happening
  
  
  
  For a protest to turn into a serious happening, you need two things. First, an injustice so obvious, and so emblematic, that to redress it is to play a kind of historical jujitsu: the force of the grievance pushes more... East Jerusalem - Middle East - Israel - Sheikh Jarrah - Warfare and Confl ...
  
  
  
  
  
• (Nuclear) War, What Is It Good For?
  
  
  
  When the question of building a new generation of nuclear weapons came up at a fundraiser for Al Franken in mid-2007, his former Saturday Night Live colleague Jane Curtin quipped, "but we never used the old ones," reacting as if... United States - Saturday Night Live - Al Franken - Jane Curtin ...
  
  
  
  
  
• C-SPAN Features Israel Hating, Terrorist Apologist ...
  
  
  
  Former CIA analyst Michael Scheuer really, really hates Israel. No, he is not opposed to its policies. He seems to hate the whole idea of Israel and, as in days of yore, blames Israelis and pro-Israel Jews for his, and... Central Intelligence Agency - Michael Scheuer - Antisemitism - Jew - Race ...
  
  
  
  
  
• New America Foundation Banned Organization In Iran ...
  
  
  
  Now, this has to be one of the strangest round-ups of organizations I have seen in a long time -- organizations considered by Iran's Ministry of Intelligence to be trouble-makers inside Iran and thus "blacklisted." Here is the Iranian source... Iran - New America Foundation - Middle East - Min ...
  
  
  
  
  

TruthOut

• If Health Care Bill Passes, Some Changes Would Sta ...
  
  
  
  More money for community health centers. Immediate help for the uninsured. No more lifetime limits on coverage. Under the health care legislation that's moving through Congress, these and other benefits would take effect quickly and should produce a noticeable impact on consumers, according to many ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Bill Moyers Journal | The Stranglehold of Money on ...
  
  
  
  PBS Airtime : Friday, January 8, 2010, at 9 PM EST on PBS (check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/about/airdates.html ). read more
  
  
  
  
  
• Meltdown, USA: Nuclear Drive Trumps Safety Risks a ...
  
  
  
  The pro-nuclear Department of Energy is set to offer this month the first of nearly $20 billion in loan guarantees to a nuclear industry that hasn't built a plant since the 1970s or raised any money to do so in years. But although the industry is seeking to cash in on global warming concerns w ...
  
  
  
  
  
• U.S. Convoy's Driving Questioned in Wreck That Kil ...
  
  
  
  Hillah, Iraq - Dazed and blood-spattered, an Iraqi woman stumbled among the bodies of her relatives Wednesday on a strip of highway south of Baghdad where a U.S. military convoy had struck a passenger van in a deadly accident. Badriya Hussein whispered prayers over the blanket-covered bodies and the ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Insider: Palin Failed to Lead on Oil and Gas Safet ...
  
  
  
  There have been several recent oil spills and other environmental problems linked to the oil/gas production industry in Alaska. On December 23, a tugboat hit the Bligh Reef , the same reef struck by the Exxon Valdez 20 years ago. The recent grounding may have caused as much as 33,500 gallons of dies ...
  
  
  
  
  

Planetsave

• Japanese Whalers Strike, Sink Sea Shepherd’s $2 Mi ...
  
  
  
  All five crew aboard the Ady Gil, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s new intercepting vessel are safe, but the fate of the prized new boat is in doubt after a collision with a Japanese harpoon vessel left it disabled off the coast of Antarctica. Anti-whaling activists, the Sea Shepherd Conser ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Barn Owl’s Wisconsin Appearance A Rare Event
  
  
  
  The Common Barn Owl is not so common in Midwestern states where it’s considered vulnerable. A recent surprise appearance in Wisconsin highlighted the species’ fragile status in the region. A raptor listed as an endangered or threatened species in seven Midwestern states made a rare appearance in W ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Michigan Offshore Wind Proposal Stirs Waves
  
  
  
  A map prepared for Michigan’s Great  Lakes Offshore Wind Council shows areas of high wind power production potential in the state’s offshore waters. One of the first proposals for a major offshore wind project in America’s freshwater has surprised Michigan regulators and begun to stir oppositi ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Friendship between LION, TIGER and BEAR
  
  
  
  This post contains additional media. Click here to view the full post . . If we could all just get along like these three unusual friends, we would live in a much different world. In human society, people often do not like others simply because they are different. Humans kill over this matter. In ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Coalition Says MN Climate Solution Includes Nukes
  
  
  
  The Prairie Island nuclear plant at Red Wing, Minnesota, on the Mississippi River.  Nuclear power advocates want to repeal the state’s 15-year-old ban on new nuclear plants. The state that enacted one of the nation’s most farsighted clean energy laws in 2007 may be a battleground over nuclear p ...
  
  
  
  
  

Water Quality - WordPress

• News and Events - 6 January 2010
  
  
  
  SOME RECENT CREEK FREAK NEWS: >Heal the Bay executive director Mark Gold’s Spouting Off blo
  
  
  
  
  
• Draft National Lakes Assessment Report
  
  
  
  US EPA http://www.epa.gov/lakessurvey/ [Press release] The draft study, which rated the condition of
  
  
  
  
  
• Boulder Neighborhoods
  
  
  
  In the next month I will be writing about different Boulder Neighborhoods.  Is there anything you wo
  
  
  
  
  
• Risk management: WRI, General Electric and Goldman ...
  
  
  
  The World Resources Institute (WRI), in partnership with General Electric and Goldman Sachs, has lau
  
  
  
  
  
• OELC's Top 10 of 2009 . . . No.9 Ohio at the botto ...
  
  
  
  No. 9 — New York Times Series on Clean Water Act Enforcement by the States, Shows Ohio Barely
  
  
  
  
  

Public Citizen in Texas

• Year in Review: Solar Power
  
  
  
  Part 4. Sunny With a Chance of Economic Development: Solar Potential, the Solar Session that wasn’t, and City of Austin Solar Plant Last spring, our minds were budding with thoughts of birds, bees, and… Texas’ solar potential (didn’t you know, a robust solar program would put Texans back to work and ...
  
  
  
  
  
• EPA to Announce New Air Quality Standard Limiting ...
  
  
  
  Today Texas environmentalists, legislators, and medical practitioners wait with bated breath for an announcement from the EPA about a new air quality standard for ozone pollution.  The proposed rule would strengthen the Bush administration’s ozone standard, which did not meet scientific scrutiny or ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Jim Hightower, Roger Duncan, Tom Smitty Smith, and ...
  
  
  
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• Russel Smith, Executive Director of TREIA, at Pub ...
  
  
  
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• Carol Geiger, Public Citizen's Office Manager, at ...
  
  
  
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Press TV

• 7 killed in drive-by shooting outside Egypt church
  
  
  
  At least 7 people were killed in a drive-by shooting Wednesday outside a church in Egypt as a group of worshippers were leaving a midnight mass for Coptic Christmas.
  
  
  
  
  
• Somali lawmakers demand speaker resignation
  
  
  
  Somali lawmakers have demanded that the Parliament speaker resign, amid dispute over the extension of the presidential term.
  
  
  
  
  
• UN envoy sees failure in current Afghan strategy
  
  
  
  The UN envoy to Afghanistan, Kai Eide, said Wednesday that if the war strategy in the country is not changed, the international mission will fail.
  
  
  
  
  
• Six Karachi blast suspects identified
  
  
  
  Witnesses have identified at least six suspects in connection with deadly bombings during an Ashura ceremony in Pakistan's financial hub of Karachi last Monday.
  
  
  
  
  
• 'Yemen to let US setup air base on its soil'
  
  
  
  Yemen's government is to allow the US to set up a military base on its territory, a political analyst says.
  
  
  
  
  

Axis of Logic

• The Mafia Is Running the Giant World Casino
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• How the United States Lost the Wars in Iraq and Af ...
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• How Western anti-Muslim bigotry became respectable ...
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• U.S. Venezuelan Relations: Imperialism and Revolu ...
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Another DC Area Stand Down - As Radioactive Ground ...
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

They Gave Us a Republic

• The Nightowl Newswrap
  
  
  
  U.S. Criminal Justice System 1, Underpants Bomber 0. "A US grand jury has indicted Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on six counts over an alleged plot to bomb a plane over Detroit on Christmas Day. The charges against the 23-year-old include attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and attemp ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Losing the Last Praire Populist
  
  
  
  Somebody stop Byron Dorgan from retiring. I don't care how you do it, I don't care what it takes.  Just make him change his mind. From The Nation: Few senators in either party have more steadily challenged the entrenched powers that be than Byron Dorgan, the North Dakota Democrat who traced his poli ...
  
  
  
  
  
• How to Lose the War on Terror in One Policy
  
  
  
  Via Zandar , Spencer Ackerman gives Obama well-deserved hell for endangering the nation with a self-destructive policy of anti-muslim racial profiling. We need to call this what it is: a security risk. If you are one of the world's 1.6 billion Muslims, a president who spent part of his childhood in ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Excellent Idea!
  
  
  
  Representative Patrick McHenry, the diminutive North Carolina republican who before now was best known for calling a Soldier a "two-bit security guard" when he was denied access to the gym on a congressional junket to Iraq because he wasn't carrying his credentials is back in the news. Let me just s ...
  
  
  
  
  
• That's one way to get out of standing trial
  
  
  
  James von Brunn, the neo-Nazi white supremacist who murdered a guard at the Holocaust museum last year has died in the hospital ward of the federal prison complex in Butner, North Carolina where he was being held, awaiting trial for the murder of Stephen T. Johns. The suspect, an avowed white separa ...
  
  
  
  
  

Care 2

• Record number of manatee, Florida panther deaths i ...
  
  
  
  2009 was the deadliest year on record for Florida panthers (Felis concolor coryi) and manatees (Trichechus manatus), two endangered species that most often lose their lives when their habitats collide with that of humans. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  
  
  
  
  
• Wild Tigers Disappearing
  
  
  
  With only an estimated 3,200 tigers living in the wild, it now seems that tigers, along with polar bears and blue fin tuna, are now among the most threatened species in the world. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  
  
  
  
  
• Washing Laundry in Cold Water Saves Money and Ener ...
  
  
  
  One of the easiest ways to live more efficiently and reduce greenhouse gas emissions is by washing clothes in cold water. Learn why cold water laundry is environmentally friendly and how you can save money by washing laundry in cold water. Submitted by Alexander Hampp to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-i ...
  
  
  
  
  
• The metabolism miracle diet part three: How eating ...
  
  
  
  Struggling to shed those pounds? You could be suffering from Metabolism B, which prevents you controlling your appetite and weight. But there's a solution - the revolutionary Metabolism Miracle diet, which is being serialised in the Mail this week. Submitted by Alisa Roberts to Health & Wellness ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Business as Usual is History: Corporations Won't S ...
  
  
  
  As economic hardship threatens communities, there is one bright light in the fog -- cooperatives -- which already employ 4 in 10 Americans and are growing strong. Submitted by Roseann D. to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  
  
  
  
  

GreenBiz

• 2010: The Year for a Surge in Energy Efficiency
  
  
  
  With a new-found awareness of the potential of energy efficiency, 2010 promises to be a year of action to green buildings. There are three key factors that get people to act: incentives, funding and solutions that are proven to work.
  
  
  
  
  
• Why Stewart Brand's New Book is a Must-Read
  
  
  
  Praise for the book Whole Earth Discipline is remarkable since the book argues that we need nuclear power to combat global warming, we need biotechnology to feed the world and that we need to take geo-engineering seriously — ideas that are anathema to much of the environmental movement that the book ...
  
  
  
  
  
• What Are You Excited Most About in 2010?
  
  
  
  As the sun began to set on 2009, we asked some of our readers and partners to share their innovations, commitments, and passions for the coming year.
  
  
  
  
  
• What Are You Excited Most About in 2010?
  
  
  
  As the sun began to set on 2009, we asked some of our readers and partners to share their innovations, commitments, and passions for the coming year.
  
  
  
  
  
• The Advent of a New 'Oil War' after Copenhagen
  
  
  
  Critics of George Bush say he has led us into a quagmire in Iraq during the last decade from which we will never emerge. They say his way of doing business led to all the disagreements visible in the Copenhagen climate talks. They're wrong.
  
  
  
  
  

Reuters Global

• Interview with North Korea border crosser Robert P ...
  
  
  
  North Korea said on Tuesday it had detained a U.S. citizen who entered its territory, apparently confirming a report that an American activist crossed into the tate to raise awareness about Pyongyang's human rights abuses. Robert Park, 28, walked over the frozen Tumen river from China and into the ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Allah, Antarctica and Ancient Inca-The best reads ...
  
  
  
  A great read should tell readers something they don't already know, enlighten them about the world and its people, inform them about the human condition. Readers should be moved to laughter, tears, anger, action through superb writing and extraordinary reporting.
  
  
  
  
  
• Failed airline attack raises fresh questions about ...
  
  
  
  The failed Christmas Day attack on a flight to Detroit has renewed a debate on how best to tackle al Qaeda and its Islamist allies.
  
  
  
  
  
• Was Nigerian bomber a one-off?
  
  
  
  Although Nigeria is the world's sixth biggest Muslim country by population, there are reasons why it is not likely to produce a rash of bombers like the London-educated Nigerian who tried to blow up a plane.
  
  
  
  
  
• Lessons for coup makers?
  
  
  
  African coup makers may be better off holding quick elections than leaving confusion about what their plans are, but should the international community support any of them?
  
  
  
  
  

Paul Krugman

• Desert bubbles
  
  
  
  Even when cities are surrounded by a lot of empty space, that doesn't mean that development can sprawl as easily as in Atlanta or Houston.
  
  
  
  
  
• Bernanke and the bubble
  
  
  
  Bernanke's presentation suggests that the Fed is still using some of the flawed methodology that helped it miss the bubble.
  
  
  
  
  
• Down is up
  
  
  
  Getting modern English right.
  
  
  
  
  
• Bernanke in Atlanta
  
  
  
  Where regulation really needs to focus is on making the financial system less fragile.
  
  
  
  
  
• Atlanta is ours, and cheaply won
  
  
  
  Stingy economists, unite.
  
  
  
  
  

No Quarter

• Yemenizing Jordanizing
  
  
  
  Playing Defense Inside the Red Zone. Humam Khalil al-Balawi, the “triple agent” (more on him below) The dutifully opaque Robert Gibbs preps the helpless White House media with a report on Flight 253 that is due within hours and that will blame everyone and no one, will fault every agenc ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Dodd Flees
  
  
  
    Topsy-Turvy.   Nancy Pelosi’s creative performance to call the closed door, backroom, secret and paraboid healthcare negotiation an open process is the latest signal that the Democrats cannot manage one-party majorities on the Hill. Everyone is aware of the POTUS poll troubles. Yet the Democr ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Are you a Tea Party convert?
  
  
  
  ABC’sJake Tapper wishes to speak with people who were independents or Democrats who are now into the Tea Party movement. If you fit that profile, please e-mail me. And, as long as the question is being asked, how in the hell do you define yourself politically these days? I am having a true struggle ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Barney Frank Wants to Roll the Dice Back on Sub-Pr ...
  
  
  
  If you wonder why America is broke, look no further than the individual who wanted to roll the dice on sub-prime lending, that is the Democrat from The People’s Republic of Massachusetts, Barney Frank. In an interview on CNBC, Frank as much admits that maybe sub-prime lending should have been more r ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Obama’s C-SPAN promise video and the “Let the Came ...
  
  
  
  Breitbart has a priceless clip from Naked Emperor News with 8 different BO promises to air healthcare debate on C-SPAN. Ah. I feel a chorus of “Memories” coming on. . . Want to sign the “Let the Cameras In” petition? Here you go: letthecamerasin.com As of my writing this, 5425 people have signe ...
  
  
  
  
  

Environmental Graffiti

• Bridges Devoured by Cloud
• Birds Vs Birds
• Living in Sin City’s Underground Tunnels
• The Vast Lightshows of the Aurora
• The Turquoise Waters of the Middle East’s Largest ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

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

Global Elite

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

Al Jazeera

• Fatal attack outside Egypt church
  
  
  
  Seven killed at Coptic Christmas shooting suspected to be revenge for Muslim girl's rape.
  
  
  
  
  
• US urged to bring suspects home
  
  
  
  Lawyer says Washington should bring home the US citizens immediately.
  
  
  
  
  
• Honduran generals face coup charges
  
  
  
  Move by military-backed government dismissed by ousted leader Zelaya as "superficial".
  
  
  
  
  
• US indicts bomb plot suspect
  
  
  
  Jury charges Abdulmutallab with attempted murder in failed attempt to blow up US plane.
  
  
  
  
  
• Guinean army mulls transition deal
  
  
  
  Guinea's army considers civilian transition agreement as leader fails to recover.
  
  
  
  
  

Green Inc. - NYT

• Clean Technology Investing Slips, But Could Be Wor ...
  
  
  
  The global recession drove clean-tech investments down 33 percent over last year, but investors still spent $5.6 billion in the space.
  
  
  
  
  
• New Life for Solar-Updraft Technology?
  
  
  
  The technology relies on an elementary principle of physics: heat rises. An Australian company seeks to take that principle to utility scale.
  
  
  
  
  
• Efficient Lighting, With Fewer Wires
  
  
  
  A Fremont, Calif. company aims to bring down the cost of LED lighting systems by transmitting both power and data using the same wires.
  
  
  
  
  
• A New Hurdle for Cape Wind?
  
  
  
  Listing Nantucket Sound on the National Register of Historic Places could force developers to re-locate a long-disputed offshore wind farm.
  
  
  
  
  
• B.L.M. Expedites Review of Energy Projects
  
  
  
  Thirty-one proposed renewable energy projects could potentially be cleared for approval by December 2010.
  
  
  
  
  

Dot Earth News

• Anti-Whaling Speedboat Wrecked in Collision With W ...
  
  
  
  A collision wrecks an anti-whaling speedboat, and the whale wars heat up once again.
  
  
  
  
  
• Cold Arctic Pressure Pattern Nearly Off Chart
  
  
  
  Forecasters say cold and snow are largely the result of a rare pressure pattern in and around the Arctic.
  
  
  
  
  
• Pioneering Greenhouse Analyst Appraised
  
  
  
  A fresh view of a pioneer in studies of the climate impact of human-generated greenhouse gases.
  
  
  
  
  
• The Greatest Story Rarely Told
  
  
  
  Despite "Climategate" and Copenhagen, global warming remains a blip on the media landscape.
  
  
  
  
  
• Passing Time
  
  
  
  The human awareness of time's passage is amplified as we mark the end of a year and decade.
  
  
  
  
  

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• New TSA leak PDF; False Flag ops for Detroit Chris ...
  
  
  
  An interesting confluence of events as Obama suddenly grants INTERPOL diplomatic immunity of sorts, while an apparent airport false flag operation or at least 'shady biz as usual' unravels pretty quickly. Good times in the shadow state for 2010. We found some snippets on the case from two noted jo ...
  
  
  
  
  
• First protest of 2010: Palestinian popular committ ...
  
  
  
  With a new year comes renewed awareness of the various interlocking scams and awful scenes continuing to unfold around the world. The activities in Gaza are also prompting more action in the West Bank - today's demonstration vs Israeli settler colonial operations near Bethlehem is the first protest ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Corrupt Transportation Security Administration goo ...
  
  
  
  The Transportation Security Administration is a headless corrupt golem that threatens the safety of all Americans. No one is even in charge of this messed up agency, however like many of the federal security-oriented bureaucracies, its security divisions have become bloated and aggressive. Becaus ...
  
  
  
  
  
• ORBIES DOWN UNDER: Mysterious orbs or dust on the ...
  
  
  
  I got a message from YouTube user Stanley0306173 of Perth Australia , who has posted a ton of videos of what he claims are "orbies" or spirits or aliens or something, whizzing around his apartment. He has posted lots of these videos, and invited people to come check it out. Unlike other ghost hunt ...
  
  
  
  
  
• The Monckton climate battle rap; I want to specula ...
  
  
  
  What could possibly go wrong?! Analysis: Climate summit showcases new world order - thestar.com Tripod operations block coal train - tripods are super funny: Copenhagen failure sparks coal terminal blockade | Rising Tide Australia . Earlier: Indymedia Danmark - If you're in, you're in, if you're ...
  
  
  
  
  

Daily Censored

• The Oakland School Borg?
  
  
  
  Does a return to more conservative values in school – dress codes, strict discipline, and absolute obedience to authority – ensure that we can educate students better? Does turning students into respectful Borg mean they will be more likely to succeed? Will it make for a better economy? A stronger ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Poverty and Unemployment Equal Misery In America
  
  
  
  The following is an outstanding review of the current ecomonic conditions in the US from the World Socialist Web Site. The information is accurate and distrubing.  Peter Phillips New Year in America: A portrait of social misery By Tom Eley 5 January 2010 The new decade finds the US working clas ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Slovakian authorities plant explosives on man to t ...
  
  
  
  An unnamed 49-year old man was detained for several hours in Dublin after returning from his Christmas vacation. He had unknowingly brought explosives into Ireland after having them planted in his luggage by Slovakian authorities. The explosive was one of eight pieces of contraband placed with unsu ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Karzai “Passes Test”; Fails in Real World
  
  
  
  “President Karzai has passed the first test set for him by the Western governments by cobbling together a cabinet containing acceptable figures.” So wrote Rahimullah Yusufzai, an alleged expert on Pakistan-Afghanistan tribal affairs and the Taliban and a senior editor for the Pakistani daily The Ne ...
  
  
  
  
  
• What’s new in the British police state?
  
  
  
  Stories from the last two months of British news.
  
  
  
  
  

AlterNet's Breaking News

• Apartheid lawsuit goes forward against Ford, GM, I ...
• GOP operative accused of gay-baiting now target of ...
• PETA used Michelle Obama image without consent: Wh ...
• Samsung unveils e-reader, partnering with Google
• Polanski lawyers seek sentence in absentia

Institute for Policy Studies

• The New New Anti-Communism
• Somehow Tenderness Survives: Remembering Dennis Br ...
• Calling Greedy Wall Street Bankers Fat Cats Is an ...
• Bye-bye, Dubai
• In 2010, Let's Treat our Domestic Workers Better

Pine River World News

• F. William Engdahl: The Yemen Hidden Agenda: Behin ...
  
  
  
  The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Global Research. The Yemen Hidden Agenda:  Behind the Al-Qaeda Scenarios, A Strategic Oil Transit Chokepoint ©  F. William Engdahl Source:   Global Research January 5, 2010 On December 25 U.S. authorities arrested a Nigerian named Abdulmut ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Israel editorial: Name the enemy
  
  
  
  The following editorial is from The Jerusalem Post. Name the enemy ©   The Jerusalem Post January 4, 2009   updated The clear, present and continuing danger posed to Western civilization by the worldwide Islamist terror network cannot be overcome while the American, European and other freedom-lovi ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Is the Fed Juicing the Stock Market?
  
  
  
  The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Global Research. Is the Fed Juicing the Stock Market? ©   Global Research By Mike Whitney January 2, 2010 Is the Fed manipulating the stock market? TrimTabs CEO Charles Biderman seems to think so, and he makes a strong case for his theory ...
  
  
  
  
  
• CIA swears revenge for Afghan attack
  
  
  
  The following article is from The Times of India. CIA swears revenge for Afghan attack ©   The Times of India By Chidanand Rajghatta January 2, 2010 WASHINGTON (TNN): The CIA has sworn to avenge the killing of seven of its operatives by a suicide bomber at a forward operating base (FOB) close to t ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Alex Lantier: Thirty years since the Soviet invasi ...
  
  
  
  The following commentary is reprinted with permission from World Socialist Web Site. Thirty years since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan ©   World Socialist Web Site By Alex Lantier December 30, 2009 In the press coverage of President Barack Obama's recent decision to deploy more US troops to Af ...
  

  PDA AMERICA

  
  
  
  
• Tax on Health Care Will Erode Coverage for Middle ...
  
  
  
  Cross-posted from the ALF-CIO Blog A new year brings with it lots of hope. Let’s hope 2010 brings a health care reform bill that does not penalize working families with a tax on their coverage. Because right ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Tim Carpenter on the Nicole Sandlers Show, Air Ame ...
  
  
  
  Tim Carpenter discusses the recent developments in the Health Care debate in Washington.
  
  
  
  
  
• There They Went Again & Again & Again…
  
  
  
  Cross-posted from Docudharma In another arrogant collusion to once again deny us any possibility of what we want — real health care reform, single payer, public option — those who do what they want, but not ...
  
  
  
  
  
• IOT: End War and Occupations, Redirect Funding Ja ...
  
  
  
  January 5th’s call had a rich array of speakers. The Brown Bag Lunch Vigils are kicking off on January 20, and Steve Carlson as well as PDA leadership discussed the logistics for holding the vigils, ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Timothy P. Carney’s Obamanomics and Progressive Ac ...
  
  
  
  From Fire Dog Lake Progressive activists are all that stand between what President Obama is actually doing and what self-identified liberals incorrectly assume to be his agenda. If they are to move Obama to the left, ...
  
  
  
  
  

Marler Blog

• Olive Garden, Applebees, Moe's Southwest Grill, Ca ...
  
  
  
  According to Alan Liddle of Nation’s Restaurant News “at least five restaurant chains are now included in a list of those affected by the late December recall of 124 tons of beef including,” Olive Garden, Applebees, Moe’s Southwest Grill, Carino’s Italian and 54th Street Grill & Bar. "The Owasso, Ok ...
  
  
  
  
  
• CDC tells which states have the 21 ill due to E. c ...
  
  
  
  As of Monday, January 4, 2010, 21 persons infected with the outbreak strain of E. coli O157:H7 had been reported from 16 states. The number of ill persons who were identified resides in each state as follows: California (1), Colorado (1), Florida (1), Hawaii (1), Iowa (1), Indiana (1), Kansas (1), M ...
  
  
  
  
  
• So, what is going to happen with food safety legis ...
  
  
  
  Frankly, I am not quite sure Congress even knows. As you might recall from last year the House passed, H.R. 2749 : Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009. Then the Senate HELP Committee passed, S. 510 : FDA Food Safety Modernization Act. When it will get to the floor for a vote, then to a Conference ...
  
  
  
  
  
• New Years Day CNN - Status of Food Safety in Ameri ...
  
  
  
  I was having a leisurely New Years Day when food safety, like is seems to do every day, again becomes the focus:
  
  
  
  
  
• The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) Step ...
  
  
  
  I must be in a good mood today.  In my last post I give Kudos to Cargill and now I am saying something nice about my friends at USDA/FSIS.  Perhaps it is the afterglow of the holidays.  Or, perhaps Cargill and FSIS have been reading my blog. The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has develope ...
  
  
  
  
  

AutoblogGreen

• Detroit Preview: HP2g Revenge Verde Super Car
  
  
  
  Filed under: Detroit Auto Show , Coupe , Performance Last year, the HP2g E85-powered Mustang was at the Detroit Auto Show , and things were looking pretty good for Doug Pelmear and his 110 miles-per-gallon equivalent plan. He was participating in the Automotive X Prize and was confident he would a ...
  
  
  
  
  
• AutoblogGreen for 01.06.10
  
  
  
  Eco Boost: Ford gains hybrid share, sales up 147% over 2008 Something legitimate to crow about. Officially, official: Think will build City electric car in Elkhart, Indiana Hoosiers get a boo ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Review: 2010 Lexus RX450h is the pinnacle of auton ...
  
  
  
  Filed under: Hybrid , Crossover , Lexus , Reviews 2010 Lexus RX 450h - Click above for high-res image gallery With a slew of sensors and CPUs, the 2010 Lexus RX450h can pretty much drive itself. Want to go somewhere? Sit down in the driver's seat, use the Remote Touch device (a.k.a. "mouse") to te ...
  
  
  
  
  
• AutoblogGreen for 01.05.10
  
  
  
  Report: Number of cars in the U.S. dropped by four million in 2009 From 250 million to 246 million. It's not a big change, but the trend could continue. Venture Beat: Chevy Volt will fail We ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Report: Number of cars in the U.S. dropped by four ...
  
  
  
  Filed under: Car Buying 2009 was not a good year for car sales. No surprises there. An interesting side effect of lowered sales last year, though, is that the total number of vehicles in the overall U.S. car fleet dropped. There were 250 million cars here in 2008, and only 246 million at the end ...
  
  
  
  
  

Rafe's Radar

• TechCrunch 50, Demo collide again in 2010
  
  
  
  The three-year rivalry between the competing start-up conferences continues to entertain, with the shows running on the same dates in 2010. ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Nexus One is way cheaper than iPhone
  
  
  
  Money isn't everything. But $600 a year isn't pocket change.
  
  
  
  
  
• Nexus One: Smartphone revolution still on hold
  
  
  
  Apple paved the way, and with its new Nexus One, Google is following. But there is a way that Google could really lead.
  
  
  
  
  
• Facebook cuts off Suicide Machine access
  
  
  
  There are cleaner ways to terminate your social-networking accounts than to use this script-based site, which Facebook says it has blocked. ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Seesmic buying Ping.fm social update service
  
  
  
  Twitter and Facebook client company Seesmic acquiring write-once, post-anywhere service Ping.fm. But why?
  
  
  
  
  

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

• Sick With Terror
  
  
  
  The media have been swamped with reports about the attempt to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day. When Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, now dubbed the “underwear bomber,” failed in his alleged attack, close to 300 people were spared what would have been, most likely, a horrible, viole ...
  
  
  
  
  
• The Fight Against Hydraulic Fracturing, or "Fracki ...
  
  
  
  Dozens of New York State and City legislators and environmental activists gathered on the steps of City Hall on Monday to urge Governor Paterson to step back from the Department of Environmental Conservation’s “Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement” (SGEIS), otherwise known as t ...
  
  
  
  
  
• CHRIS HEDGES: "Empire of Illusion: The End of Lite ...
  
  
  
  Journalist Chris Hedges discusses his recent book “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle” at the New School in New York. Chris Hedges is a senior fellow at the Nation Institute. His writing appears regularly in Foreign Affairs , Harper’s , the New York Review of B ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Coming Up: Dr. Atul Gawande
  
  
  
  Dr. Atul Gawande, a practicing surgeon, associate professor at Harvard Medical School and staff writer for the New Yorker magazine joins us to discuss health care reform and his new book, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right.
  
  
  
  
  
• The Poetic Justice of Dennis Brutus
  
  
  
  Dennis Brutus broke rocks next to Nelson Mandela when they were imprisoned together on notorious Robben Island. His crime, like Mandela’s, was fighting the injustice of racism, challenging South Africa’s apartheid regime. Brutus’ weapons were his words: soaring, searing, poetic. He was banned, he w ...
  
  
  
  
  

Farming Pathogens

• We Are All Astronauts Now
  
  
  
  Five years ago I gave copies of this essay to a few friends and family as a year-end holiday gift. As a first stab I think it’s aged well, despite its ignorance of the work of Berger, Harvey, Reichenbach, among others. I offer it now to everyone else in a similar spirit–all in good fun, [...]
  
  
  
  
  
• Pigs Do Fly! Implications for Influenza
  
  
  
  The influenza genome is segmented. Eight pieces of single-stranded RNA encode for 11 proteins: PB2, PB1, PB1-F2, PA, HA, NP, NA, M1, M2, NS1, and NS2. The segmentation allows influenza of different subtypes infecting the same host to trade segments like card players on a Friday night. Most of the re ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Breeding Influenza: The Political Virology of Offs ...
  
  
  
  What better way to medicate against a holiday’s genocidal origins and the hunger now swelling worldwide in the wake of a related banker-brought recession than with a bellyful of turkey, stuffing, yams, and pumpkin pie? Despite its rotten ambiguities Thanksgiving remains my favorite American holiday. ...
  
  
  
  
  
• A Visitation of the Influenza
  
  
  
  In seeping through the world’s every nook and cranny, pandemics have a way of forcing themselves into our lives as a lurking presence. Even the most insular of functionaries, who typically makes his living solving problems by ignoring them, straightens up and takes notice.    As an epidemic wave a ...
  
  
  
  
  
• I Do Like Green Eggs and Ham
  
  
  
  Much of what we’ve addressed on this blog has focused on the epidemiological failures of industrial farming. But what of the alternatives? Can we farm in another way? Is another world possible?    It’s only since I’ve moved to the Midwest that I’ve learned that not only is that world possible, it’ ...
  
  
  
  
  

Digg Green

• Space-age powerboat 'sliced in two' by Japan whale ...
  
  
  
  A space-age powerboat (the futuristic "Ady Gil" trimaran) sent by Sea Shepherd activists to harass Japanese whalers was rammed and sliced in two in its very first clash on Wednesday, dramatically escalating hostilities in icy Antarctic seas.
  
  
  
  
  
• Bathroom Mirror Shows Water Consumption in LEDs As ...
  
  
  
  This intriguing - and somewhat complex - concept design for a bathroom mirror brings the water crisis right in front of your face. The mirror is lit with LEDs powered by the flow of water in the pipes. As you use the mirror throughout the year, the patterns of water use and supply create a frame, an ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Japanese ship sinks whale protest boat
  
  
  
  Anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd's stealth boat Ady Gil has been cut in half by a Japanese security vessel in the Antarctic today, the group's leader Paul Watson said.The $1.5 million high-tech vessel's remains were sinking, but its six-man crew had been rescued and was uninjured, Captain Watson told ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Cape Cod's Billion Dollar Wastewater Problem
  
  
  
  Bournes Pond, like many of the Cape's saltwater bays, is choking to death. Nitrogen, largely from septic systems, fuels explosive growth in algae, which create "death zones" with little or no oxygen. Hundreds of bushels of shellfish can die in a single day and those living near know the unbearable s ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Are the Polar Caps Threatened?
  
  
  
  A new analysis of the geological record of the Earth's sea level, carried out by scientists at Princeton and Harvard universities used a novel statistical approach that reveals the planet's polar ice sheets are vulnerable to large-scale melting even under moderate global warming scenarios. Such melt ...
  
  
  
  
  

Invisible Opportunity

• Spiritless Humans
  
  
  
  By Tom (Montalk.net) Empty people. Puppet people. Cardboard cutouts. Drones. Organic Portals. Background characters. Why do these terms even exist? Because out of necessity they had to be invented by those who independently noticed the same puzzling phenomenon, one for which there is no official nam ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Leading Global Warming Crusader: Cap and Trade May ...
  
  
  
  By Washington’s Blog James Hansen – the world’s leading climate scientist fighting against global warming – told Amy Goodman this morning that cap and trade not only won’t reduce emissions, it may actually increase them: The problem is that the emissions just go someplace else. That’s what happen ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Ar ...
  
  
  
  By Steve Silberman His plan hinged on the success of an experimental antidepressant codenamed MK-869. Still in clinical trials, it looked like every pharma executive’s dream: a new kind of medication that exploited brain chemistry in innovative ways to promote feelings of well-being. The drug tested ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Obamacare To Cost Middle Class Families $15,000 A ...
  
  
  
  Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Wednesday, December 23, 2009 Families struggling in the midst of a deep recession who earn a combined total greater than $88,200 and don’t have their health care covered by their employer will be hit with a mandatory annual fee of about $15,000 according to the C ...
  
  
  
  
  
• As an American, I refuse to buy mandatory health i ...
  
  
  
  By Mike Adams Even if Obama’s health care reform bill becomes law, mandating that all Americans buy health insurance policies for a failed system of “sick care”, I will refuse to comply. I’ve read the U.S. Constitution and its Bill of Rights, and nowhere in that document do I find that the federal g ...
  

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

• Fear Mongers Attack a NYC Harm Reduction Pamphlet ...
  
  
  
  Arguments by top level city and federal law enforcement agents against harm redution pamphlet have little scientific merit.
  
  
  
  
  
• Exile Nation: Drugs, Prisons, Politics & Spiri ...
  
  
  
  Entering the world of "Dead Time," the period a convict spends in the county jail awaiting shipment to the penitentiary system which doesn't count towards the overall sentence.
  
  
  
  
  
• The Best Chance Yet for Legalizing Marijuana
  
  
  
  Tax Cannabis 2010 faces hurdles as it prepares for its test on the California ballot next November.
  
  
  
  
  
• The Year In Pot: Top 10 Events That Will Change th ...
  
  
  
  There has been a tidal shift in politics and on Marijuana laws in America, from Obama lightening up on pot prosecutions to the recognition of cancer prevention properties.
  
  
  
  
  
• AlterNet's Most Popular Sex and Drugs Stories of 2 ...
  
  
  
  From "Big Booty Beauty and the New Sexual Aesthetic" to "5 Things the Corporate Media Don't Want You to Know About Cannabis."
  
  
  
  
  

Twilight Earth

• Senior Citizen Tells Youth – Dont Make the Mistake ...
  
  
  
  A heartfelt letter from Gene Steele to the next generation. Related posts: Global Youth Video to World Leaders: Youre Not Done Yet and Neither are We Twilight Earth Exclusive Cop15 Video – China Youth in Copenhagen Senior Citizens March 25 Miles Against Mountaintop Removal
  
  
  
  
  
• Report: 31 Million Pounds of Toxins Released Into ...
  
  
  
  A study released in 2009 lists the Ohio River as leading the nation in total toxic discharges. Related posts: 2009 Global Climate Change Impact Report Released Coleman “Natural” Beef recalls 1 Million Pounds of Hamburger U.S. Petroleum Industry Responsible for 25% of Toxic Pollutants in North Am ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Flow – For the Love of Water: Full Documentary
  
  
  
  The full documentary film "Flow - For the Love of Water." This award winning documentary is a must see film about what is becoming one of the most important issues of our time. Related posts: Food Inc. – Full Documentary The World According to Monsanto – Full Documentary WaterCheck Clean Water Gi ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Food Inc. – Full Documentary
  
  
  
  In this full online Food Inc. documentary, filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry. You'll never eat the same. Related posts: Putting the Gross in Groceries – Food Inc. the Documentary The World According to Monsanto – Full Documentary Good News Monday – Bloggers Dona ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Make a Video – Win $2,500.00: Reduce-ReUse-Recycle ...
  
  
  
  The U.S. EPA is sponsoring a video contest that challenges people to produce short, creative videos that highlight the “Three Rs� of individual consumption. Related posts: Do You Want to Do More Than Recycle? How to Precycle. Reuse-day Tuesday, 3 Ring Binders, Plastic-ware and Coffee Grounds ...
  
  
  
  
  

Inhabitat

• Bessie Carmichael School Awarded $100,000 For LEED ...
  
  
  
  Recently the Bessie Carmichael School in the South of Market (SOMA) area of San Francisco received a grant from software manufacturer Adobe Systems, in conjunction with the US Green Building Council (USGBC) to green its campus, and the results uncover an inspiring renovation to a tight urban site. ...
  
  
  
  
  
• SOLAR EAR: Affordable Sun-Powered Hearing Aids
  
  
  
  For anyone unfamiliar with hearing aids, know that they require a great deal of two things: money and batteries. Luckily, one humanitarian project aims to make the medical devices much cheaper and more eco-friendly. Solar Ear, a Brazil-based company, creates low-cost hearing aids that get their juic ...
  
  
  
  
  
• SOLAR EAR: Affordable Sun-Powered Hearing Aids
  
  
  
  For anyone unfamiliar with hearing aids, know that they require a great deal of two things: money and batteries. Luckily, one humanitarian project aims to make the medical devices much cheaper and more eco-friendly. Solar Ear, a Brazil-based company, creates low-cost hearing aids that get their juic ...
  
  
  
  
  
• EnviroMission Plans Massive Solar Updraft Towers f ...
  
  
  
  Australia-based EnviroMission Ltd recently announced plans to build two solar updraft towers that span hundreds of acres in La Paz County, Arizona. Solar updraft technology sounds promising enough: generate hot air with a giant greenhouse, channel the air into a chimney-like device, and let the warm ...
  
  
  
  
  
• AECOM’s Giant Amusement Park in Seoul Wins Interna ...
  
  
  
  Seoul, Korea’s existing Grand Park is a basic big city park with trails, playgrounds, an art museum and a zoo. But major plans by design and engineering firm AECOM to transform the area into a mammoth theme park have just been released, snagging them the big win in an international competition for a ...
  
  
  
  
  

Pogue's Posts

• Check-in Done Right
  
  
  
  How one hotel uses already-collected information to help streamline your arrival.
  
  
  
  
  
• Verizon's New Motto: Why Not Be Evil?
  
  
  
  Verizon Wireless continues in its efforts to be the least-liked mobile carrier in America.
  
  
  
  
  
• Verizon Responds to Consumer Complaints
  
  
  
  The wireless carrier addresses two issues raised by consumers and this blog.
  
  
  
  
  
• Should e-Books Be Copy Protected?
  
  
  
  The issues involved with copy protection haven't changed. They're the same on e-books as they are with everything else.
  
  
  
  
  
• Free Speech (Recognition)
  
  
  
  This week, I tried out Dragon Dictation, a new, free, very real app for the iPhone from Nuance.
  
  
  
  
  

Open Your Eyes News

• Brown ‘crackdown’ on Yemen terror is exposed as ju ...
  
  
  
  Mail Online – Gordon Brown was accused of ‘playing politics with terrorism’ yesterday as the British Embassy in Yemen was evacuated after ‘credible’ threats of an attack by the Al Qaeda cell behind the syringe bomb plot. The Prime Minister was forced into an embarrassing climbdown after Downing Str ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Jail for UK soldier who told the truth about Afgha ...
  
  
  
  The Independent – Politicians and newspapers love to revere a war hero from Afghanistan, so it’s strange that they haven’t got round to Lance-Corporal Joe Glenton. When Joe went out there he must have been warned he could end up being held in captivity, but he can’t have expected that would mean get ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Airport scanners ‘violates human dignity,’ say civ ...
  
  
  
  Calgary Herald – Critics say the “naked” body scanners coming soon to the Vancouver airport are a “shocking” invasion of privacy introduced without debate — or even proof that they work.”Certainly the privacy concerns with these body-scan machines are very, very serious and they are being introduc ...
  
  
  
  
  
• ‘Junk’ DNA linked to aggressive cancers
  
  
  
  New Scientist – Rogue genetic elements previously dismissed as “junk” DNA may play a role in the development of some cancers or at least act as a marker of the disease’s progression. That’s the conclusion of a study that found that some recurrent DNA sequences previously thought to be nothing more ...
  
  
  
  
  
• China again rejects UN sanctions against Iran
  
  
  
  BBC – China’s ambassador to the United Nations, Zhang Yesui, has said the time is not right to consider more sanctions against Iran. The UN Security Council, including China, has previously called for Iran to stop enriching uranium and has issued three sets of sanctions. Read article
  
  
  
  
  

Monkey Smashes Heaven

• Αληθινός εναντίον ψεύτικου Μαρξισμού όσον αφορά τη ...
  
  
  
  Αληθινός εναντίον ψεύτικου Μαρξισμού όσον αφορά τη Σοσιαλιστική διανομή Πηγή:monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com Αυθεντικός τίτλος: Real versus fake Marxism on Socialist distribution. (English) (French) Μια παγκόσμια, σοσιαλιστική διανομή του παγκόσμιου πλούτου,σίγουρα θα πλησιάζει μία ισότιμη διανομ ...
  
  
  
  
  
• India reactionaries wage war against the masses
  
  
  
  India’s reactionaries wage war against the masses (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Typically, we don’t reproduce materials from other groups. We are reproducing this document from the Campaign Against Operation Green Hunt because it contains good information on the struggle in India. The India ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Revolutionary classics: Shubel Morgan’s On t ...
  
  
  
  Shubel Morgan on the Theory of Productive Forces: LLVPW part 1: LLVPW part 2: Posted in ..Monkey and the Troublemakers, ..Shubel Morgan, Communism, Economics, Maoism, Maoism Third Worldism, Maoisme, Maoismo, Movies, Theory
  
  
  
  
  
• Happy new year to all Maoist-Third Worldists and o ...
  
  
  
  Happy new year to all Maoist-Third Worldists and our allies! (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Our movement has made impressive gains in the past year. Maoist-Third Worldist cells aligned with Monkey Smashes Heaven (MSH) have increased in North America and in the rest of the world. The Revolution ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Amerikkkans reactionary as hell on the Iran issue
  
  
  
  Amerikkkans reactionary as hell on the Iran issue (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) A new poll confirms that Amerikans are still thirsty for Iranian blood.  A surprising 84 percent of the US population says that it has been following news reports about Iran’s nuclear program. Nearly half, 48 perc ...
  
  
  
  
  

PakAlert

• India’s Cold Start Strategy: Limited Strikes Again ...
  
  
  
  by Moin Ansari | Rupee News Much of this so called “Cold Start Strategy” is based on the Israeli strategy which it tried to implement in Lebanon. Israel was unable to implement its objectives in Lebanon and had to withdraw even from the Litani River. Israel failed to achieve its goals in Lebanon. I ...
  
  
  
  
  
• India Readying Arms To Destroy Satellites
  
  
  
  Indian defence scientists are readying a weapons system to neutralise enemy satellites operating in low-earth orbit, a top defence scientist said. India is putting together building blocks of technology that could be used to neutralise enemy satellites,” Defence Research and Development Organisation ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Video: Phase 3 – Part 7 to 14
  
  
  
  Another groundbreaking and riveting series from the creators of The Arrivals and The Divine Book. Phase 3 aims to set a new standard in online films. This production will (inshallah) wake up the world, and unite the people from every country, religion, culture or creed against injustice. A film by t ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Obama’s War On Yemen
  
  
  
  By Stephen Lendman Besides waging direct or proxy wars on multiple fronts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, the Philippines, Sudan, Eastern Congo, elsewhere in Africa, and likely to erupt almost anywhere at any time, Yemen is now a new front in America’s “war on terror” under a president, w ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Americans Are Cowards And Want To Be Slaves
  
  
  
  By freemeninstitute.com Are Americans willing to trade their freedoms for a false sense of security? This is the crucial question that must be answered before a successful struggle for liberty can be fought and won. If it is shown that the majority of Americans will readily trade their freedoms for ...
  
  
  
  
  

ecogeek

• GM to Open Michigan Battery Pack Plant Tomorrow
  
  
  
  Tomorrow morning, General Motors will take a significant step in furthering the country's EV industry.  It will start operations at the nation's first battery pack plant run by a U.S. automaker.  The plant in Brownstown Township, MI will assemble the battery packs for the Chevy Volt. GM chose Janua ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Spying on the Environment, C.I.A. Style
  
  
  
  Environment spy.  Now that sounds like an amazing job.  Spending your days examining images from spy satellites, holding clandestine meetings with scientists.  What's the Arctic up to now?  We're watching you, rainforests. What I just described isn't an idea for a new "green" James Bond, it's actua ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Fossil Fuel Free Cargo Ship
  
  
  
  Cargo ships are a very efficient means of shipping cargo in terms of cost and energy per ton of freight moved. But the ships use some of the dirtiest fuel, and global shipping is responsible for 3-4% of all greenhouse gas emissions. So, while cleaning up ocean freight isn't the sole solution t ...
  
  
  
  
  
• 2009 Saw Less Media Coverage of Environment
  
  
  
  Yes, you read that headline correctly.  Last year saw less media coverage of climate change and the environment than the two previous years. Really?  Even with continued scientific evidence of climate change being published, the lead-up to an international conference on the subject and the feeling ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Are Dolphins People?
  
  
  
  The line between species is pretty clear. Dolphins most recent common ancestor with us is a long way down the line. But the question of whether Dolphins are, in a rather philosophically scientific way, people is a lot more complicated. Now, of course, the ethics are confusing. What do we value abou ...
  
  
  
  
  

Times Online - Science

• Live snow blog: we bring the latest on travel and ...
  
  
  
  Snow and ice continue to cause travel chaos across the country. The Times UK snow blog will continue to bring you weather and travel updates from across the UK. Times Mobile users, please go to http://bit.ly/snowlatest
  
  
  
  
  
• New York hotels on sale in January
  
  
  
  Now is the time to visit New York: hotel rooms are plentiful and hoteliers are discounting heavily.
  
  
  
  
  
• Tuesday: the latest airport and flights news
  
  
  
  Travel advice: what to do if your flight is disrupted
  
  
  
  
  
• Overnight blizzards bring travel chaos
  
  
  
  A fresh deluge of snow overnight has brought travel chaos across Britain, paralysing roads, trains and airports.
  
  
  
  
  
• Passengers facing airport delays with start of new ...
  
  
  
  Air passengers face body scans and more frequent searches under security guidelines unveiled yesterday in response to the Christmas Day bomb plot.
  
  
  
  
  

Environment _ National Geographic

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

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

• Be Careful What You Bargain For...
  
  
  
  “We need to stop looking at the tea parties as separate from the Republican party, If we do that, we can stand up and create the biggest tent of all.” - Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) Via BarbinMD , we catch a glimpse into the mind of a "Man of Faith" and Tea Party leader: But that's not just your typic ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Do they know it's Christmas time?
  
  
  
  We grabbed a card off of one of those Christmas "Wish Trees" for a local homeless shelter when I took the boys out to get their hair cuts the other day. It was from a 10 year old girl living in the shelter. What was she asking for? "Home Essentials" Ya know: Tooth brush, toothpaste, soap, shampoo ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Who the heck is Barry Cafero?
  
  
  
  Via ctblogger : I know it's early to be making this call but I'm almost certain no one topping this comment today: It's ok that Larry Cafero doesn't know my name. Over the course of the next year, he'll quickly realize that Connecticut voters don't know his, either. -Connecticut Democratic Party C ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Monday Morning Peak
  
  
  
  Image Taken From National Geographic Forget about Wednesday being hump day this week. The peak was already hit this morning, if you are among today's sleepy heads that stayed up to watch the Gemenids meteor showers : Coming fast on the heels of its more famous cousin the Leonid meteor shower —which ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Jon Stewart on Healthcare
  
  
  
  The Daily Show's Jon Stewart takes a look at the healthcare successes of the Democrats: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Democratic Super Majority www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Ron Paul Interview (h/t GottaLaff :)
  
  
  
  
  

SPL Center

• String of Racially-Motivated Attacks Hits Denver, ...
  
  
  
  All but one of 35 suspects has been arrested by Denver police in connection with a string of racially motivated beatings and robberies in the Mile-High City. Those arrested are all black males, including some juveniles. Their alleged victims were white or Latino males. Most of the suspects told pol ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Radicals React: Holocaust Museum Killer Was a Hero ...
  
  
  
  White supremacists reacted swiftly to the death of Holocaust Museum shooter and long-time neo-Nazi James von Brunn by lauding his actions and promoting conspiracy theories about his demise. Von Brunn, who had been in poor health and was recovering from gunshot wounds, died early this afternoon at a ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Nativist Leader Starts Website to Attack ‘Subversi ...
  
  
  
  A new website purports to expose the machinations of “extremist” organizations that supposedly are trying to stifle debate about immigration. These groups represent “the well-funded far-left anti-enforcement mob that is ‘the other side’ of the majority of Americans,” states the website, Center for I ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Suspect in Two Canadian Hate Bombings Arrested
  
  
  
  After a two-hour standoff at a home in Winnipeg, police arrested a notorious Canadian neo-Nazi who’d been on the lam for weeks after two bombing attempts in Calgary. Kyle Robert Mckee, 24, was taken into custody early yesterday and faces two counts of attempted murder, along with weapons charges. Po ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Lew Rockwell’s Website Warns of Coming U.S. Civil ...
  
  
  
  You thought President Obama had his hands full sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan? That’s small potatoes compared to the other big military plan on his agenda: returning 200,000 troops from other countries to the U. S. Northern Command in preparation for an imminent civil war at home. At leas ...
  
  
  
  
  

change: org.

• Under No Circumstances Is Forced Sterilization Oka ...
  
  
  
  Forced sterilization is wrong. Period. And Kate Harding at Salon's Broadsheet believes that's why a disabled mother of nine who lives on public assistance makes the right plaintiff for the issue. Harding says that Tessa Savicki is perfect in how unsympathetic she is. "Even many of those who recoil ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Bringing Hunger Relief on the Road
  
  
  
  As the demand for food assistance has continued to outpace the capacity of hunger relief organizations across the country, many food banks and soup kitchens have been forced to come up with innovative new approaches to meet the needs of a growing group of hungry Americans. For example, a food bank i ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Is the TSA Worried About Hijab Bombers, Too?
  
  
  
  Could wearing an Islamic headscarf get you treated like an underwear bomber at your local airport? That's what may have already happened to one Muslim traveler at Washington Dulles International Airport, who was heading for her flight from Dulles to Los Angeles before being told by Transportation Se ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Hispanic Caucus Deals on Immigration and Health Re ...
  
  
  
  Update: Deal or No Deal? The Caucus has gone on record saying not to listen to gossip and denying any secret behind-the-scenes agreements are being made. Word via the grapevine is that the Congressional Hispanic Caucus is ready to back down on opposition to health reform that keeps out undocumented ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Recruit Teachers With True Grit to Significantly I ...
  
  
  
  Perseverance matters most in finding great teachers. Perseverance with teaching methods and routines, perseverance in maintaining students' focus in class, and perseverance demonstrated through exhaustive lesson plans that are well communicated to students. Perseverance and grit as a natural habit. ...
  
  
  
  
  

Common Dreams -News

• Egypt Police, Activists Clash Over Gaza
  
  
  
  At least three people were injured on Tuesday in clashes between Egyptian police and pro-Palestinian activists trying to get a relief convoy into the Gaza Strip, witnesses said. Some 500 activists belonging to the convoy - led by charismatic and outspoken British MP George Galloway - broke down the ...
  
  
  
  
  
• CIA Agents in Afghanistan Are 'Menace to Themselve ...
  
  
  
  by Ewen MacAskill and Daniel Nasaw in Washington Jon Boone in Kabul Long-term weaknesses in US intelligence-gathering have been ruthlessly exposed over the last fortnight by the Christmas Day airline plot and the Afghanistan suicide bombing that killed seven CIA officers, according to former and ser ...
  
  
  
  
  
• New Revelations Tear Holes in Nuclear Trigger Stor ...
  
  
  
  by Gareth Porter WASHINGTON - New revelations about two documents leaked to The Times of London to show that Iran is working on a "nuclear trigger" mechanism have further undermined the credibility of the document the newspaper had presented as evidence of a continuing Iranian nuclear weapons progra ...
  
  
  
  
  
• US Considering Debt Relief for Poor Countries
  
  
  
  by Brittany Schell WASHINGTON - Leaders in the United States Congress recently proposed a bill expanding debt relief for impoverished countries, a move hailed by development groups as progress in the fight against global poverty and unfair lending practices to poor nations. What's ...
  
  
  
  
  
• C-SPAN's Lamb to Congress: Open Health Care Debate
  
  
  
  by Michael Calderone C-SPAN chief executive Brian Lamb, who has long fought for more television access in Congress, is now asking House and Senate leadership to allow cameras inside while members hammer out differences between the two health care bills. Lamb, in a letter dated Dec. 30 and made avail ...
  
  
  
  
  

Lifehacker

• From the Tips Box: Holiday Lights, Toy Packaging, ...
  
  
  
  Readers offer their best tips for repurposing holiday lights year-round, clever uses for annoying toy packaging, and smart methods for getting gum and other gooey things out of your carpet. Don't like the gallery layout? Click here to view everything on one page. About the Tips Box: Every day we rec ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Remains of the Day: Netflix to Delay New Release ...
  
  
  
  The latest Firefox update aims to get more users upgrading when major releases roll around, AT&T starts testing nice speed increases on their 3G networks, and Netflix caves to studio wishes, delays new releases four weeks before offering them to users. Netflix Bends To Warner Bros., Won't Rent DVDs ...
  
  
  
  
  
• What's the Best Way to Share Files Across Multipl ...
  
  
  
  Dear Lifehacker, We're a large family with several computers in our home. What's the best way to share files across our home network rather than putting them on thumb drives and running from PC to PC? With much love, Out of Touch with My Family Photo by Marshall Astor . Hi Out of Touch, The number o ...
  
  
  
  
  
• TextPlus for Android Sends Group SMS for Free [Do ...
  
  
  
  iPhone/Android: Want to send a text message when you're out of messages for the month, out of cellular range, or writing multiple recipients? TextPlus, a free app for Android, handles all those situations, and sends text messages entirely free. TextPlus' recently arrived Android app works much the s ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Drill, Glue, and Plug a Swiffer to Make It Re-Fil ...
  
  
  
  The Swiffer wet sweeper and its not-so-cheap refill bottles come straight from the "Give 'em the razor, sell 'em the blades" marketing scheme. This truly simple tweak makes any wet sweep bottle re-fillable with a cleaning liquid of your choice. If you're handy with tools and not afraid to poke holes ...
  
  
  
  
  

Newshoggers - AfPak

• CIA Bomber Provided Drone Strike Intel
  
  
  
  By Steve Hynd The more information surfaces about Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, the spy-cum-suicide bomber who blew himself, three guards (at least two of whom were Blackwater mercs), his Jordanian handler and four CIA operatives to bits at a CIA base in Afghanistan last week, the more bizarre t ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Sustainability and Afghanistan
  
  
  
  By Dave Anderson: The basic US strategy in Afghanistan is to use a surge of forces to create temporarily more favorable facts on the ground against the Taliban, Pashtun tribal militias and other armed groups that are not favorably disposed to the current Kabul government while the Kabul goverment gr ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Revisiting Defensive Legalization
  
  
  
  By Dave Anderson: In August 2008, I argued that drug prohibition is counter-productive and stupid as well as expensive, especially as it applies to marijuana because it creates and sustains a massive black market. The black market has norm enforcement through violence instead of lawyers, and the fun ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Revisiting Defensive Legalization
  
  
  
  By Dave Anderson: In August 2008, I argued that drug prohibition is counter-productive and stupid as well as expensive, especially as it applies to marijuana because it creates and sustains a massive black market. The black market has norm enforcement through violence instead of lawyers, and the fun ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Yet Another Picture of the Week Plus A Rant
  
  
  
  Commentary By Ron Beasley Blue Monday - Click on Picture for larger image. My partner here at Hoggers, John Ballard, sent me this link to a piece by Robert Parry: Why Obama Is Failing. Faced with a dire financial crisis and two foreign wars – not to mention a host of long-festering problems like hea ...
  
  
  
  
  

Water Wars

• States in water wars ask for confidentiality (NBC ...
  
  
  
  Georgia, Alabama and Florida have asked a judge to keep their negotiations in the long-running regional legal fight over water rights confidential.
  
  
  
  
  
• Alabama, Georgia, and Florida Ask Water Wars Talks ...
  
  
  
  States filed a motion this week making the request.
  
  
  
  
  
• 3 states in water wars ask for confidentiality (Ro ...
  
  
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia, Alabama and Florida have asked a judge to keep their negotiations in the long-running regional legal fight over water rights confidential. The states said in a motion fil...
  
  
  
  
  
• Latest Georgia news, sports, business and entertai ...
  
  
  
  Latest Georgia news, sports, business and entertainment
  
  
  
  
  
• Water Wars Update (WCTV Tallahassee)
  
  
  
  3 states in water wars ask for confidentiality
  
  
  
  
  

WordPress | Economics

• January Effect, Jetro's Effect, Korn's Effect: And ...
  
  
  
  Bullets save the Thai economy, not Korn By Pooky, this blog economics journalist Korn, Thailand
  
  
  
  
  
• Banker's Letter, November, 1932
  
  
  
  This is worth visiting again: Banker’s letter, November, 1932 “If I draw illustrations from th
  
  
  
  
  
• Will Japan Be the First To Default? Eurozone Faces ...
  
  
  
  The entire industrialized first world is in deep crap! Apart from America, both the EU and Japan are
  
  
  
  
  
• Progressivize Everything
  
  
  
  Introduction: It’s been a hard thirty years for those who believe in progressive taxation. Sin
  
  
  
  
  
• Someday You Will Find Me
  
  
  
  My internship gives me a lot to think about. I’m constantly researching films, filmmakers, hot
  
  
  
  
  

Electronic Intifada

• Gaza Freedom March marches in Cairo against blocka ...
  
  
  
  The international delegation of the Gaza Freedom March originally planned to arrive in Gaza on 29 December 2009 to join a march against the Israeli blockade together with residents of Gaza two ...
  
  
  
  
  
• A year after losing a father and sons, a Gaza fami ...
  
  
  
  Fathiya Abu Jbara lost her husband and two sons in an Israeli air strike on the family home during Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip last winter. The Electronic Intifada correspondent Rami Alm ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Photostory: Commemorating the assault on Gaza
  
  
  
  Approximately one year ago, Israel unleashed its assault on the Gaza Strip -- amidst its ongoing siege and occupation -- killing more than 1,400 Palestinians, the majority of them civilians. Thirteen ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Gaza and the path to accountability
  
  
  
  The US, UK and Canadian governments are all embroiled in attempts to immunize themselves from accountability under international law for their own actions in the so-called War on Terror. Protec ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Gaza Freedom Marchers issue the "Cairo Declaration ...
  
  
  
  Gaza Freedom Marchers have approved a declaration aimed at accelerating the global campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israeli apartheid, calling for a global mass, dem ...
  
  
  
  
  

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

• Nebraska Governor, Senate Democrats Pressure Nelso ...
  
  
  
  On December 22, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) defended the Nebraska Medicaid deal by arguing that he was protecting the state from unfunded mandates at the Governor’s request. Nelson quoted Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman’s concerns about rising costs and stressed that he was “prepared to ask that this pro ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Iran’s Tunnels Make Bombing Pointless
  
  
  
  Neoconservatives have consistently portrayed bombing Iran as the solution to the problem of its nuclear program. While this was always fantasy, the inanity of such an attack has become even clearer. In an extensive piece today, the New York Times details the Iranian regime’s construction of a vast n ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Dodd’s Retirement Injects Urgency Into The R ...
  
  
  
  One question bouncing around news outlets today is what Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd’s (D-CT) retirement means for the regulatory reform effort. Does it make him more or less likely to compromise on key parts of the bill, including the Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA)? I ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Nativist Ringleader Behind New Website Parodying L ...
  
  
  
  Last year, a new website entitled “Center for Immigration Truth” was launched with the goal of “present[ing] the truth behind the agenda and tactics of the radical open borders network.” The parody site, which is designed to look just like the National Council of La Raza’s (NCLR) We Can Stop The Ha ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Difficulties In Surging The Right People To Afghan ...
  
  
  
  Our guest blogger is Brian Katulis, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. This morning’s New York Times provides this update on a Pentagon effort to get qualified personnel for what’s been called the “Afghanistan-Pakistan Hands” program, which I look at in this post last Nov ...
  
  
  
  
  

thwap's schoolyard

• Online Petition For Public Inquiry Into Torture
  
  
  
  Pursuant to the goal of bringing accountability and the rule of law to Canada, and starting the process of getting the harpercons into the prison cells they're inevitably going to be thrown into, Alison at Creekside has a link to an online petition for a public inquiry into torture . Please sign it ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Parallels
  
  
  
  I've just finished reading Antony Beevor's The Fall of Berlin 1945 . There was one passage that struck me. Now, before I get to it, I want to assure everyone that I'm well aware of Godwin's silly law about internet discussions and the Nazis. I also want to assure everyone that I'm not going to pu ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Harper Fucks It Up Again ...
  
  
  
  In the CBC report about General Natynczyk changing his story , stephen harper madly attempts to spin the significance of this incident into something completely irrelevant: But Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the facts confirm what the government has been saying, that when the Canadian Forces see ...
  
  
  
  
  
• So stephen harper is Above the Law is he?
  
  
  
  In response to my stated desire to see stephen harper and all the relevant cabinet ministers in the harpercon government put behind bars for their complicity in war crimes, many, many, many people are convinced that it'll never happen. Given the fact that ignorance is no defence against war crimes, ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Prorogation and the Culture of Impunity
  
  
  
  Note: The following is a response to Todd, who critiqued my last post from a Marxist perspective. Todd, I've been in transit, seeing family members, and now, drinking heavily due to my numerous psychological problems. I have been wrestling with some of your comments on and off over the last few da ...
  
  
  
  
  

Financial Sense Editorials

• Market Observation: Stocks Start the New Decade St ...
  
  
  
  by Robert McHugh, Ph.D.. "The S&P 500 rose decisively above previous resistance at 1,120 Monday, January 4th, 2010, which means there is a good chance it will rise sharply toward its 1,200 upside targets from two different Bullish patterns we have been showing for weeks, the Bullish Head & Shoulders ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Gold Thoughts
  
  
  
  by Ned Schmidt. "We must applaud the leadership of the Federal Reserve. That group is certainly attempting to be more efficient. Why wait till later in the year? Do it early, and get it done. Make a speech filled with what may go down as the height of economic drivel on the 2nd day of January, rathe ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Yemen: Behind Al-Qaeda Scenarios, a Geopolitical O ...
  
  
  
  by F. William Engdahl. "On December 25 US authorities arrested a Nigerian named Abdulmutallab aboard a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on charges of having tried to blow up the plane with smuggled explosives."
  
  
  
  
  
• The Gates of Hell Have Opened
  
  
  
  by Bob Clark. "The abyss is widening, many have already fallen in. The Fat Boys at Goldman say they are doing God's work, do they really believe that. Maybe they know dark secrets we are not privy to. What does God's work entail? Stopping fear and panic? "
  
  
  
  
  
• Current status of gold and dollar Trades
  
  
  
  by Mike Endres. "Gold and the US$ usually move in opposite directions. In recent months, however, gold has done a good job of breaking out in the positive direction in almost all currencies around the world. Right now we are in a position that is very hard to analyze without some tools and that's wh ...
  
  
  
  
  

on Government Oversight

• Morning Smoke: UBS Whistleblower Asks DOJ to Inves ...
  
  
  
  Ex-UBS Banker Asks Review of the Handling of His Case [The New York Times] Senate panel nears agreement on role of Fed [Reuters] Audit Faults Interior Office's Oversight of Appraisals [The New York Times] GMAC May Post $10 Billion Annual...
  
  
  
  
  
• Contractors Join the Fight Against Contractor Misc ...
  
  
  
  In November, POGO blogged about the legal predicament of Agility, a Kuwaiti company that supplies food and materials to U.S. troops in Iraq, Kuwait and Jordan. A federal grand jury had indicted Agility on charges of fraudulently overbilling the Department...
  
  
  
  
  
• Morning Smoke: New Offshore Patrol Cutters in the ...
  
  
  
  Coast Guard Eyes New Cutter [War Is Boring] Northrop Grumman HQ to D.C. area [Politico] Looking at the federal contracting landscape in 2010 [Federal News Radio] DeRegistered Lobbyists Start New Firm [National Journal] Iraqi government plans to file suit against...
  
  
  
  
  
• Morning Smoke: What's Next for the Joint Strike Fi ...
  
  
  
  The End is Near for JSF (at least the end of 2009) [Ares] What to Watch in 2010 [DoD Buzz] Obama directs agencies to classify less, share more [Federal Times] Colo. firm employs the most retired officers as mentors [Federal...
  
  
  
  
  
• LANL Researchers Blow Up Building with Civil War-l ...
  
  
  
  Nope, that's not a headline from The Onion. POGO has just learned that researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory accidentally blew a building apart a few weeks ago with a massive gun that acts like a Civil War cannon....
  
  
  
  
  

Science Express

• New study predicts future consequences of a global ...
  
  
  
  A report examining the impact of a global biofuels program on greenhouse gas emissions during the 21st century has found that carbon loss stemming from the displacement of food crops and pastures for biofuels crops may be twice as much as the CO2 emissions from land dedicated to biofuels production. ...
  
  
  
  
  
• A solution to Darwin's 'mystery of the mysteries' ...
  
  
  
  Biological species are often defined on the basis of reproductive isolation. Ever since Darwin pointed out his difficulty in explaining why crosses between two species often yield sterile or inviable progeny (for instance, mules emerging from a cross between a horse and a donkey), biologists have st ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Study uncovers key to how 'triggering event' in ca ...
  
  
  
  Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered what leads to two genes fusing together, a phenomenon that has been shown to cause prostate cancer to develop.
  
  
  
  
  
• Rapid supernova could be new class of exploding st ...
  
  
  
  (PhysOrg.com) -- An unusual supernova rediscovered in seven-year-old data may be the first example of a new type of exploding star, possibly from a binary star system where helium flows from one white dwarf onto another and detonates in a thermonuclear explosion.
  
  
  
  
  
• Map of Human Bacterial Diversity Shows Wide Interp ...
  
  
  
  (PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Colorado at Boulder team has developed the first atlas of bacterial diversity across the human body, charting wide variations in microbe populations that live in different regions of the human body and which aid us in physiological functions that contribute to our he ...
  
  
  
  
  

TechDirt

• Copyright Sillyness: Can't Take Photos Of Artwork ...
  
  
  
  Clive Thompson has a blog post about how he took a photo at a Canadian art gallery of his son staring at a painting, after noticing how similar some paintings from a hundred years ago were to some modern paintings done by a friend -- and recognizing that both were actually inspired by a third school ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Music Publishers Force Another Lyric Site Offline
  
  
  
  Back in August we wrote about the ridiculous situation with the National Music Publishers Association suing a bunch of lyrics sites for not paying up to help promote songs. This action helped push at least one of the sites, LyricWiki -- which was user generated lyrics -- to shut down (though, Wiki ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Submit A Webinar Proposal On IT Productivity Metri ...
  
  
  
  This post is part of the IT Innovation series, sponsored by Sun & Intel. Read more at ITInnovation.com . Of course, the content of this post consists entirely of the thoughts and opinions of the author. Sun and Intel are interested in holding a webinar around the topic of IT productivi ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Google's Communication Problems Continue: Blogger ...
  
  
  
  For the last few months, we've been seeing more and more stories about Google's communication problems with users. This has always been something of an issue with Google -- which seems to prefer algorithms to humans whenever possible -- but we're seeing it so often, that I'm really beginning to won ...
  
  
  
  
  
• CyberSitter Sues The Chinese Government (In Los An ...
  
  
  
  Last summer, of course, there was a lot of attention paid to China's announced plans that every PC sold in China needed to include the new "Green Dam Youth Escort" software, which was a client-side filtering program. After international outrage over the plan actually had some sort of impact, the go ...
  
  
  
  
  

VacTruth

• Governments don’t lie, do they?
  
  
  
  . . . Christina England vactruth.com 01/06/2010 How many damaged children does the world have to see before the answer to this question becomes obvious? Yes, Governments do lie! They lie every time a child is vaccinated by assuring parents vaccines are completely safe. We have a world of the unheal ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Red Bluff man loses his driver’s license aft ...
  
  
  
  . . . Tang Lor Contra Costa Times 01/04/10 With a number of people getting flu shots all sorts of side effects and reactions have been reported, but most people don’t end up losing their driver’s license because of a flu shot. Red Bluff resident Robert Roof claims the shot is what triggered a serie ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Nemeroff & The First House That Glaxo Built?
  
  
  
  . . . Ed Silverman Pharmalot 01/05/09 Yesterday, we wrote that Charles Nemeroff, the controversial psychiatry professor at Emory University in Atlanta, had just purchased a $1.9 million, six-bedroom, seven-bath home in the Coconut Grove section of Miami, as he prepares for his new job at the Univer ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Julie Gerberding Primed Big Pharma’s Pump wi ...
  
  
  
  . . . Robert Scott Bell vactruth.com 01/04/2010 (vactruth.com) The most recent in a long list of government bureaucrats to leave the public dole and take up the high-paying cause of Big Pharma is none other than former head of the CDC Julie Gerberding. One year and one day from the date of departur ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Are Vaccinations Good Parenting?
  
  
  
  . . . LoseTheBackPain.com 1/04/2010 While shopping near the kids section of a clothing store last week, a brochure caught my eye. The front was adorned with a very large picture of a baby caught in wide-eyed surprise. The title read, “Whooping cough sounds scary. Promise me you’ll get vaccinated.” ...
  
  
  
  
  

BroadSnark

• Things You Might Have Missed
  
  
  
  Great post by Jason Laning In Defense of Anarchism.  In response to the idea that anarchists wouldn’t be able to “resist power-seekers who want to dominate and control others” he says, That is, his hypothetical scenario of an anarchist society doesn’t seem to have many anarchists in it. Instead, ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Anarchism – What’s in a Name?
  
  
  
  With all the stigma attached to the world anarchism, why call yourself an anarchist? Anarchists are bound to ask themselves that question at some point.  Perhaps you run across another news report where anarchists are blamed for some random violence.  Maybe some pundit compares anarchists to terro ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Happy New Year
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• What You Liked, 2009 Edition
  
  
  
  Breaking news isn’t really my thing, but it does bring the traffic.  The article I wrote after attending CATO/Glenn Greenwald’s release of the Portugal decriminalization study was the most popular post this year.  And the snowball war post came in at number three. White America’s Existential Crisi ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Poor Man Can’t Eat, Rich Man Can’t Sle ...
  
  
  
  I used to shoplift as a kid.  When I was about fourteen, I was busted with a purse full of makeup and banned from Rite Aid for life. My father was unusually rational about the whole incident.  Clearly, all the crap I had in my room could not have been purchased with my babysitting money.  And [...]
  
  
  
  
  

Executive Intelligence Review

• To What Are You Loyal?
  
  
  
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 8, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 1
  
  
  
  
  
• What Leibniz Intended
  
  
  
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 8, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 1
  
  
  
  
  
• Unconstitutional `Perpetuity Clauses' Inserted: Ob ...
  
  
  
  By Edward Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 8, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 1
  
  
  
  
  
• Germany Needs 21st-Century Technology, Not a New M ...
  
  
  
  By Helga Zepp-LaRouche Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 8, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 1
  
  
  
  
  
• Four Power Plan Can Defuse ME War Threat
  
  
  
  By Jeffrey Steinberg Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 8, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 1
  
  
  
  
  

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 صÙ�قات متعددة الوجوه مع القاعدة كتبت: جين نوÙ�اك – Ù�براير/ 2009 عبدالله عبدالوهاب ناجي- ترجمة خاصة بالمستقلة عقد الرئيس اليمني علي عبدا لله صالح مؤخرا صÙ�قة 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

• Obama Repeatedly Promises Open Meetings on Health ...
  
  
  
  Further proving (as if there was any doubt left) that for all his rhetoric, Obama should have campaigned on "Status Quo with Better Pronunciation" rather than "Change You Can Believe In."
  
  
  
  
  
• Ron Paul Interview
  
  
  
  By Matt Hawes Tonight, Dr. Paul will be interviewed on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show.  The show starts at 9 pm eastern. View the original article at Campaign for Liberty
  
  
  
  
  
• CPAC 2010
  
  
  
  By Matt Holdridge On February 18-20, Campaign for Liberty will build on our success at last year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) by bringing dedicated, liberty-minded activists and a tremendous roster of speakers to CPAC 2010in Washington, D.C. Thousands of conservative/libertari ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Obamacare Will Cost the Democrats Politically
  
  
  
  By Anthony Gregory Jane Hamsher lists 20 Democrats who are most vulnerable to losing their seats over their health care vote. The threat comes not just from conservative opposition to Obamacare, but from independents and liberals who for some reason resent Obama’s plan to force them to patronize the ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Jack Hunter on Global Warming and the Wannabe Mast ...
  
  
  
  Watch Jack Hunter discuss global warming and the wannabe masters of the universe
  
  
  
  
  

food and water watch

• Day 1 in Rome
  
  
  
  Hello from Roma, viva Roma. I am Dave Andrews, Senior Representative for Food & Water Watch. I am in Rome for the World Food Summit which is taking up the issue of one billion hungry people in the world, most of them farmers and most of them women. The solution of the US is high [...]
  
  
  
  
  
• Day 4 in Rome
  
  
  
  The official FAO meeting began on the 16th of November with the Pope followed by Libya’s Gaddafi, an interesting pairing! The Kings and Presidents (but not Obama) had the roads of Rome closed off for them, getting near the FAO was a big challenge so I waited until things calmed down later in the day ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Pangasius Pandemonium
  
  
  
  Last week, the state of Alabama instituted a stop sale order on imported catfish and pangasius, a catfish-like fish (pangasius is frequently mislabeled as catfish) after discovering that high numbers of the samples that had been inspected were contaminated with illegal antibiotics called flouroquino ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Day 3 in Rome
  
  
  
  Today, a group of us from Agribusiness Action Initiative and other NGOs went to the Civil Society Forum early in the morning and visited the farmers market that was set up there. We visited other NGO representatives from Via Campesina, International Federation of Agriculture Producers, Greenpeace, P ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Day 2 in Rome
  
  
  
  Today, we began the official Civil Society Forum on the Peoples’ Food Sovereignty. The morning started with an opening by the Mayor of Rome and by Jacques Diouf, the Secretary General of FAO (the Food and Agriculture Organization).  He encouraged us to insist on our rights and told of how he has wo ...
  
  
  
  
  

treehugger

• Hannity, Ever Wrong, Says CIA Is Diverting Resourc ...
  
  
  
  photo via flickr Did you know that the CIA is distracted by climate change and is diverting resources on global warming that should be spent on counter terrorism? It's true. Ask Sean Hannity and ExxonMobil. Said Hannity last night on his TV program: "The CIA director redirects manpower to monitor ...
  
  
  
  
  
• EPA Approves One New Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine ...
  
  
  
  Six days into 2010 and the battle over mountaintop removal coal mining is set to start up again. Yesterday afternoon the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it had found "a path forward on two coal mining operations in West Virginia." The two operations are both mountaintop mines, one in ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Green Box Biking and Safety: It's All in Our Heads
  
  
  
  Photo of a PDX bike box via itdp @ flickr. Share Portland, disputedly still American's premier cycling city, has been experimenting with 14 bike boxes - road markings that designate exactly where cyclists and motorists should place their vehicles when stopped at an intersection with a red light. ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Fish Factory Converted Into Residence
  
  
  
  We love showing the recycling and repurposing of existing buildings; The spaces that result are often dramatic. But this one is a bit fishy; Zaigas Gailes birojs have converted this pumping station from an abandoned fish plant in Latvia into a residence, complete with a big central hall, a coupl ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Consumer Electronics Show 2010 - A Steaming Pile o ...
  
  
  
  Photo via Robert Nelson The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2010 is, as in years past, working to be greener than ever . They're crowing about all the green things they're doing, such as purchasing carbon offsets in the form of renewable energy certificates, donating $50k to the Las Vegas police f ...
  
  
  
  
  

Biosingularity

• Pomegranates May Stall Breast Cancer
  
  
  
  Eating pomegranates or drinking pomegranate juice may help prevent and slow the growth of some types of breast cancer. A new study shows a group of phytochemicals called ellagitannins found in abundance in pomegranates inhibited the growth of estrogen-responsive breast cancer in laboratory tests. vi ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Epigenetics research takes aim at cancer, Alzheime ...
  
  
  
  Two mice. One weighs 20 grams and has brown fur. The other is a hefty 60 grams with yellow fur and is prone to diabetes and cancer. They’re identical twins, with identical DNA So what accounts for the differences? It turns out that their varying traits are controlled by a mediator between nature and ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Alcohol Ups Risk of Breast Cancer Recurrence
  
  
  
  If youve been diagnosed with breast cancer, you may want to cut down on alcoholic beverages.Thats the suggestion of researchers who found that cancer is 34% more likely to come back in breast cancer survivors who drink more than three drinks a week, compared with those who abstain or drink less.Drin ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Drug-Free Method of Blocking Fear Memories
  
  
  
  Scientists at New York University report they have developed a drug-free, noninvasive way to temporarily block the return of fearful memories in people. The technique, the researchers contend, could eventually change the way scientists view how the brain’s memory storage process works and perhaps ev ...
  
  
  
  
  
• New skin stem cells surprisingly similar to those ...
  
  
  
  Scientists have discovered a new type of stem cell in the skin that acts surprisingly like certain stem cells found in embryos: both can generate fat, bone, cartilage, and even nerve cells. These newly-described dermal stem cells may one day prove useful for treating neurological disorders and persi ...
  
  
  
  
  

CFACT

• Illegal aliens: An environmental boon?
• Peta's thrust into classrooms
• Drilling for straight facts on ANWR development
• Greens change tune on hydrogen tech
• Fruitful Dominion: A new environmental ethic?
  
  
  
  Responsible stewardship can bring prosperity to all of the earth's inhabitants
  
  
  
  
  

Ria Novosti Online News

• Russia, Belarus to reach deal on oil supplies soon ...
  
  
  
  Moscow and Minsk will soon reach an agreement resolving differences over the supply and transit of Russian oil in 2010.
  
  
  
  
  
• Russia, Belarus to reach deal on oil supplies soon ...
  
  
  
  Moscow and Minsk will soon reach an agreement resolving differences over the supply and transit of Russian oil in 2010.
  
  
  
  
  
• Russia-Belarus oil dispute
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• U.S. airliner returns after take-off over disturbi ...
  
  
  
  A U.S. passenger airliner with 231 people on board bound for Hawaii was turned around and escorted back by two F-15 fighters to the Portland International Airport after one of the passengers become disruptive.
  
  
  
  
  
• Havana slams U.S. decision to enlist Cuba as terro ...
  
  
  
  Cuba has slammed Washington's decision to enlist it as a state sponsoring terrorism and to subject Cuban citizens bound to the U.S. for additional security examinations.
  
  
  
  
  

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Russia to start research into spacecraft nuclear e ...
  
  
  
  Russia will launch research into nuclear engines for spaceships from 2010, the head of the Federal Space Agency said on Sunday.
  
  
  
  
  
• Russia, Japan to draft space cooperation agreement
  
  
  
  Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will draft an agreement on space cooperation, the Roscosmos chief said Sunday.
  
  
  
  
  
• Soyuz spaceship crew ready for blastoff to space s ...
  
  
  
  The crew of a Russian Soyuz spaceship is ready for early Monday's blastoff to the International Space Station (ISS), the spaceship commander said Sunday.
  
  
  
  
  
• Soyuz spacecraft blasts off to space station
  
  
  
  The Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft which is to carry three astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) was launched in the early hours of Monday, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.
  
  
  
  
  
• Russia's Soyuz TMA-17 docks with space station
  
  
  
  Russia's Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft carrying a crew of three has docked with the International Space Station (ISS), Mission Control said Wednesday.
  
  
  
  
  

Pruning Shears

• This Week In Tyranny
  
  
  
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The TSA subpoenaed a blogger who posted a new screening directive, then backed down . This doesn’t have as much to do with procedures at the TSA (though it has something to do with that) as the outsized sense of authority that feder ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Best Music of 2009
  
  
  
  Introduction If you dig these songs please consider buying them. Most can be had for less than a buck. All these were downloaded freely and legally this year so I’m posting them in good faith. Links will be live for a week. If you hold the copyright on one and would like it removed, please let me ...
  
  
  
  
  
• A Bold Prediction
  
  
  
  I’m going to go out on a limb here and say the Wall Street Journal will not have an article on December 30th, 2010 detailing the ways in which various stakeholders attempt to coordinate end-of-life decisions in order to take advantage of the nearly expired estate tax holiday.
  
  
  
  
  
• Through the Looking Glass With the DOJ
  
  
  
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The case of Guatánamo detainee Abdul Hamid Al-Ghizzawi took a bizarre turn last week. He is represented by habeas lawyer H. Candace Gorman and is, as Andy Worthington pointed out , overwhelmingly likely to be innocent. He has neve ...
  
  
  
  
  
• This Week In Tyranny
  
  
  
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post David Obey Bluster Watch. On Afghanistan :“There ain’t going to be no money for nothing if we pour it all into Afghanistan,” House Appropriations Chairman David Obey told ABC News in an exclusive interview. “If they ask for an incre ...
  
  
  
  
  

Natural Health News

• Why Did the FDA Implement Tanning Tax?
  
  
  
  Dermatologists were able to remove the so-called Botax from the Senate's health-care overhaul bill and replace it with a 10 percent tax on tanning services. The American Medical Association had also opposed the proposed 5 percent tax on cosmetic procedures, dubbed the Botax after the antiwrinkle pro ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Shocking U.S. Senate Hearing Confirms Dangers of C ...
  
  
  
  Witnesses before a Senate Committee testified about research into cell phones use and its potential impact on human health, as well as the potential side effects such as brain and salivary gland tumors.   In 2008, cell phones were identifies as a contributor to salivary gland tumors. Dr. Siegal Sa ...
  
  
  
  
  
• New Health Bill Will Also Expand IRS Role
  
  
  
  Internal Revenue Service agents already try to catch tax cheats. Under the proposed health care legislation, they would get another assignment: checking to see whether Americans have health insurance. The legislation would require most Americans to have health insurance and to prove it on their fede ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Should Pregnant Women Eat More Pork and Eggs?
  
  
  
  A new research study shows that choline plays a critical role in helping fetal brains develop regions associated with memory. Choline is found in meats, including pork, as well as chicken eggs. The diet of a pregnant mother, especially choline, can change the epigenetic switches that control brain ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Use of Potentially Harmful Chemicals Kept Secret U ...
  
  
  
  Of the 84,000 chemicals in commercial use in the United States, nearly 20 percent are secret, according to the Environmental Protection Agency -- their names and physical properties guarded from consumers and virtually all public officials under a little-known federal provision. The policy was desi ...
  
  
  
  
  

Antemedius

• Tomgram: Michael Klare, The Blowback Effect, 2020
  
  
  
  Originally published at TomDispatch.com You can already see a new style of writing about China emerging in our American world.  The New York Times set it off recently by publishing a front-page piece on a $3.4 billion Chinese investment in one of the planet’s last great copper reserves -- in Afghani ...
  
  
  
  
  
• DC Court Of Appeals Up Holds Sweeping Detention Po ...
  
  
  
  Yesterday the DC Court of Appeals upheld the Bush era assertion of presidential detention policies, even in the face of the Boumediene decision. For those who don’t obsessively follow the law like the Dog Boumediene was the case where the Supreme Court ruled that Guantanamo Bay prisoners had to be a ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Resolutions, Not Hopes
  
  
  
  By David Swanson I resolve to do everything in my ability, while preserving my power to continue in future years, to reverse the destruction of the environment, the proliferation of weapons and wars, and the concentration of wealth. I resolve neither to panic nor to behave as if we have a moment to ...
  
  
  
  
  
• "Block This Bill": No Public Option, No Bill
  
  
  
  David Swanson , Washington Director of Democrats.com, talks with Paul Jay of The Real News, dissecting the politics of health care reform and the roadblocks in the way of getting to a real reform that serves peoples needs rather than politicians needs and the fact that politicians, even democrats an ...
  
  
  
  
  
• The Individual Mandate: An Unconstitutional Exerci ...
  
  
  
  It is generally agreed, by both proponents and opponents of the Administration’s health reform bill, that the lynchpin of the legislation is the individual mandate requiring uninsured Americans to obtain health insurance, or pay a tax penalty for failing to do so. Without the mandate, even the Adm ...
  
  
  
  
  

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

• BBC to investigate itself on climate change bias
  
  
  
  The BBC's governing body, BBC Trust, has launched a major review of its science coverage after complaints of bias, most notably in its treatment of climate change.
  
  
  
  
  
• U.K. citizens wish global warming was true
  
  
  
  Video of U.K. Snowfall
  
  
  
  
  
• Climate Change killing Peru’s mountain people with ...
  
  
  
  Peru's mountain people are freezing, to the point of a coming extinction , and it is the failure of Copenhagen that has signed the death warrant.
  
  
  
  
  
• UK Met Office’s enormously wrong weather predictio ...
  
  
  
  It seems like everywhere you look, people involved in climate change propaganda is making some bucks. John Hirst, chief of the UK’s Met Office (national weather service), and his crew has done such a fantastic job of convincing Brits that they are, in fact, actually feeling the heat of global warmin ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Crooked climatologists drop 806 “cold” weather sta ...
  
  
  
  Chiefio reports that 806 weather stations were dropped from the total of 6000 worldwide temperature stations in a single year with no explanation from the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) data.
  

  Blacklisted News

  
  
  
  
• Ann Coulter says she’s afraid of anal, foreskin bo ...
• Public Pensions Face $2 Trillion Deficit
  
  
  
  Even in a world of massive deficits and rising national debt, not many problems come in packages that are in the trillions of dollars. The deficit facing U.S. public pension funds will grow to $2 trillion
  
  
  
  
  
• In Order To Make The Ponzi Market Keep Going Ever ...
• Military Blogger Michael Yon Detained, Handcuffed ...
• US general urges strip search of Muslim men
  
  
  
  A retired US general and member of Iran Policy Committee (IPC) says all 18 to 28 years old Muslim men should be strip searched at airports as "one of these bombers" will explode an airliner in the coming days.
  
  
  
  
  

The Intelligence Daily

• Mothers, don’t let your children grow up to be Nob ...
  
  
  
  By William Blum The American elite Lincoln Gordon died a few weeks ago at the age of 96. He had... For more details, please click on the link to read the article
  
  
  
  
  
• West’s Afghan War: From Conquest To Bloodbath
  
  
  
  By Rick Rozoff When the commander in Kabul asked Obama for the extra troops, he knew the USA would... For more details, please click on the link to read the article
  
  
  
  
  
• Reagan’s ghost: Starwars stops START
  
  
  
  By Eric Walberg Hopes are fading that the historical treaty between the US and the Soviet Union... For more details, please click on the link to read the article
  
  
  
  
  
• New Revelations Tear Holes in Iran Nuclear Trigger ...
  
  
  
  By Gareth Porter New revelations about two documents leaked to The Times of London to show that... For more details, please click on the link to read the article
  
  
  
  
  
• Wars “R” Us: Making the World Safe for American Do ...
  
  
  
  By Emily Spence In destructive economic systems, there is a feedback loop wherein it becomes... For more details, please click on the link to read the article
  
  
  
  
  

My AntiWar

• Gunmen Kill 7 Coptic Christians After Christmas Ma ...
• Five Coptic Christians Shot Dead Outside Church in ...
• US Learned Intelligence on Airline Bomb Suspect Wh ...
• Judge Dismisses All Charges Against Blackwater Gua ...
• Northern Ireland’s Largest Protestant Militi ...

Rogue Government.com

• Ann Coulter says she's afraid of anal, foreskin b ...
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• National security adviser: Airline bomber report ...
  
  
  
  White House national security adviser James Jones says Americans will feel "a certain shock" when they read an account being released Thursday of the missed clues that could have prevented the alleged Christmas Day bomber from ever boarding the plane.
  
  
  
  
  
• Stimulus Money Buying Body Scanners
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Ottawa ordered airline scanners months ago: Baird ...
  
  
  
  Transport Minister John Baird says Canada must improve its airline security in the wake of a failed U.S. terror attack -- but he insists that Ottawa is not following the lead of Washington on security issues.
  
  
  
  
  
• Nigeria says U.S. air rule threatens bilateral ti ...
  
  
  
  Bilateral relations between Nigeria and the United States could be at risk if Washington keeps its requirement for tighter security for Nigerian travellers, a federal minister said on Wednesday.
  
  
  
  
  

Innovation Canada

• i2eye with James Hesser
  
  
  
  Two years ago, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 2009 the International Year of Astronomy (IYA). From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, people around the globe have been marking the 400th anniversary of the first use of an astronomical telescope by Galileo Galilei. Laypeople, especially children ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Model scientists
  
  
  
  When hurricane season officially blew to a close in the Atlantic basin at the end of November, two Quebec researchers did not exhale in relief. That’s because René Laprise and Louis-philippe Caron were still looking for hurricane data from the past to help create a tool to predict future storm patte ...
  
  
  
  
  
• i2eye with Andrew Weaver
  
  
  
  As a child growing up in Victoria, if Andrew Weaver had to choose between watching a hockey game or a Jacques Cousteau program, the ocean explorer won out every time. Now a professor and Canada Research Chair in Climate Modelling and Analysis at the University of Victoria, Weaver has joined a crew o ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Extreme exposure
  
  
  
  It’s about 5°C in the chamber, and Geoff Hartley, wearing a burlap tunic and sandals, is trying with numb fingers to put small pegs in small holes. It’s just another day of chillin’ out at the Brock University lab of Stephen Cheung, a world-renowned scientist who studies the impacts of extreme tempe ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Green Growers
  
  
  
  Deborah Henderson likes to think about the Cuban capital of Havana when she goes in to work. Not the music or the beaches, per se, but the vegetables and the gardens. “Over 75 percent or more of the vegetables consumed in Havana are produced within the city,” claims Henderson. As the director of the ...
  
  
  
  
  

Signs of the times

• Costa Rican volcano erupts after long silence
  
  
  
  San Jose - Costa Rica's Turrialba volcano, last active in the 19th century, erupted on Tuesday, spewing ash and steam and prompting authorities to evacuate a small number of people from its slopes. The 11,000-foot (3,340-meter) volcano is situated east of the capital San Jose in the remote, lushly ...
  
  
  
  
  
• France 'to criminalise shouting at your spouse'
  
  
  
  Married couples could be arrested and charged for insulting each other under a new law in France banning 'psychological violence'. The proposed legislation would punish partners who 'overstep the mark' during verbal spats in the home. The law would apply to husbands and wives, as well as cohabitin ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Overreacting! U.S. fighter jets scrambled due to u ...
  
  
  
  Portland, Oregon - An unruly passenger aboard a Hawaii-bound airliner on Wednesday prompted the pilot to return the plane to Portland, Oregon, escorted by two military fighter jets, in the latest of several U.S. aviation security scares this week. The Hawaiian Airlines jet en route to Maui's Kahu ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Death threats ups security for Israeli minister
  
  
  
  Jerusalem - Jewish extremists angry over limits on West Bank construction have threatened to kill the defense minister, prompting the government to beef up security around him, officials said Wednesday. They said the internal security service, or Shin Bet, was investigating the threats and that E ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Gunmen kill 7 at Egypt church after Christmas Mass
  
  
  
  Cairo - Three men in a car sprayed automatic gunfire into a crowd of churchgoers in southern Egypt as they left a midnight Mass for Coptic Christmas, killing at least seven people in a drive-by shooting, the church bishop and security officials said. Egypt's Interior Ministry said the attack Wedn ...
  
  
  
  
  

Threat Level

• Threshold for Getting Onto No-Fly List Lowered
  
  
  
  The government has lowered the criteria for putting someone on a watch list or no-fly list and has so far revoked several U.S. visas as a result of the reduced threshold, according to CNN. The action will result in more people being grounded from flights or undergoing secondary screening at airports ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Alleged Ponzi Mastermind Stanford Pwned in Antigua
  
  
  
  In early 2008, while federal investigators were busy investigating disgraced financier Robert Allen Stanford for his part in an alleged $8 billion fraudulent investment scheme, Eastern European hackers were quietly hoovering up tens of thousands customer financial records from the Bank of Antigua, a ...
  
  
  
  
  
• $675,000 RIAA File Sharing Verdict Is ‘Unreasonabl ...
  
  
  
  The nation’s second file sharing defendant to challenge the Recording Industry Association of America at trial is asking the court for a retrial, or to reduce the $675,000 verdict the jury levied for infringing 30 songs. Among other claims, lawyers for defendant Joel Tenenbaum asserted Monday this s ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Body Scanners Might Violate U.K. Child-Protection ...
  
  
  
  The deployment of body-scanning X-ray machines could violate child-protection laws in Britain and prevent their implementation, according to The Guardian. British officials were forced to exempt the scanning of anyone under 18 during a yearlong test of the machines at Manchester airport until legal ...
  
  
  
  
  
• TSA Agent Posed as Blogger in Bid to Identify Agen ...
  
  
  
  A TSA agent who served a civil subpoena on blogger Steven Frischling last week also posed as the blogger in order to trick the blogger’s anonymous source into revealing his identity, according to someone familiar with the incident. The agent, while in possession of Frischling’s BlackBerry, typed a m ...
  
  
  
  
  

PERRspectives : Blog

• 10 Moments in GOP Terrorism Accountability
  
  
  
  On Tuesday, President Obama described the failed Christmas airliner attack as a "potentially disastrous" failure of the system, one "that's not acceptable, and I will not tolerate it." Unsurprisingly, the usual mouthpieces of the right like Peter King and Ron...
  
  
  
  
  
• Ohio State Makes Oregonian Columnist Eat Rose Bowl ...
  
  
  
  The University of Oregon has a great football team. And with 18 returning starters on both sides of the ball, next season the Ducks will be one of the pre-season favorites to win the national championship. But for all of...
  
  
  
  
  
• GOP to Wealthy: Die Here, Die Now, Pay Less!
  
  
  
  In its December 30 article "Rich Cling to Life to Beat Tax Man," the Wall Street Journal reminded the wealthiest of its readers that 2010 will be an excellent year to die. The estate tax, which in 2009 impacted only...
  
  
  
  
  
• The Hate That Dare Not Speak Its Name
  
  
  
  Conservatives this morning are apoplectic about some of the vile, hate-filled comments generated online in response to the hospitalization of Rush Limbaugh. And rightly so, as a quick glance at Twitter reveals. But before the right-wing faithful rush to condemn...
  
  
  
  
  
• Lumps of Coal for Time and the New York Times
  
  
  
  Judging by two articles which appeared in their publications this holiday week, Time and the New York Times won't be getting a visit from Santa. Time's Amy Sullivan predictably stirred up right-wing rage with her just-in-time for the holidays, "No...
  
  
  
  
  

Blackspot News Feed

• Thanks to Dems' Pussyfooting, Health Industry Stoc ...
  
  
  
  The bump does not appear to be indicative of broader economic improvement.
  
  
  
  
  
• How to Trap a President in a Losing War: Petraeus, ...
  
  
  
  Excuse the gloom in the holiday season, but I feel like we’re all locked inside a malign version of the movie Groundhog Day.  You remember, the one in which the characters are forced to relive the same 24 hours endlessly.  Put more personally, TomDispatch started in November 2001 as an email to frie ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Reid Schedules Final Vote on Health Care Bill for ...
  
  
  
  The Hill reported this afternoon that a final vote on the Senate health care bill will take place at 8 am Christmas Eve, about 11 hours earlier than originally expected. read more
  
  
  
  
  
• House Blue Dog Switches Party, Stiffing Democrats ...
  
  
  
  Rep. Parker Griffith enjoyed campaign support of $1 million from the Democratic Party. But that was a year ago, and this is now.
  
  
  
  
  
• Touchdowns and Lockdowns: Transcending Racial Poli ...
  
  
  
  I spent a decade organizing sports leagues amongst those who failed in their struggle against violence and oppression: in prison.
  
  
  
  
  

Consortium News

• Why Counter-Terrorism Is in Shambles
  
  
  
  The debate over who's to blame for missing the Christmas Day bomb plot misses the point, say Ray McGovern and Coleen Rowley. January 5, 2010
  
  
  
  
  
• How Government Worsens Terror Risk
  
  
  
  Politicians who scramble to show they're doing something about terrorism often make matters worse, notes Ivan Eland. January 5, 2010
  
  
  
  
  
• The Myth of the Three Wise Men
  
  
  
  The gospel story of "three wise men" following a star to Jesus's birthplace had a political significance, writes Rev. Howard Bess. January 5, 2010
  
  
  
  
  
• Afghan 'Dirty War' Escalates
  
  
  
  A U.S. commando raid killing10 Afghanis and a bomb attack on a CIA base camp mark a worsening dirty war, says Douglas Valentine. January 4, 2010
  
  
  
  
  
• Ellsberg on Vanunu's Re-Arrest
  
  
  
  Israel's re-arrest of nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu should have prompted widespread outrage, writes Daniel Ellsberg. January 4, 2010
  
  
  
  
  

CounterPunch

• Gareth Porter : The Iran Nuclear Trigger Forgeries
• Mike Whitney : The Stimulus Killer: Rubin Rides Ag ...
• Dean Baker : The Undignified Death of the Washingt ...
• Adam Federman : Swimming in Natural Gas: the Green ...
• Tariq Ali : From Reconquista to Recolonization

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• A letter from Abdallah Abu Rahmah (Abdallah Abu R ...
  
  
  
  I know that Israel's military campaign to imprison the leadership of the Palestinian popular struggle shows that our non-violent struggle is effective. The occupation is threatened by our growing movement an ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Aid convoy breaks Gaza siege (Al Jazeera)
  
  
  
  A humanitarian aid convoy carrying food and medical supplies has arrived in the Gaza Strip nearly a month after it embarked from the UK. Members of the much-delayed Viva Palestina convoy began passing throug ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Holocaust survivor explains why she became Palesti ...
  
  
  
  Hedy Epstein is what some might see as a contradiction in terms: a survivor of the Holocaust and also a staunch advocate for the Palestinian people. Born in 1924 in Freiburg, Germany, Epstein was 14 when she ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Protests mark start of Orthodox Christmas in Bethl ...
  
  
  
  Two columns of Palestinian riot police escorted the top Orthodox cleric in the Holy Land to the Church of the Nativity, built on the site where Christians believe Mary gave birth to Jesus after she and Josep ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Viva Palestina convoy arrives in Gaza (Al Jazeera ...

Water - AlterNet

• Our Tap Water Is Not As Safe as it Should Be -- Bu ...
  
  
  
  The Safe Drinking Water Act regulates 91 chemicals. Yet there are tens of thousands of chemicals that can contaminate our waters and that haven't been assessed for their risks.
  
  
  
  
  
• '60 Minutes' Flubs California Water Story
  
  
  
  Their story is demonstrably false on at least two different levels.
  
  
  
  
  
• New York City Calls for Drilling Ban in Watershed, ...
  
  
  
  New York City officials have called for a ban on natural gas drilling within the city’s 2,000-square-mile upstate watershed.
  
  
  
  
  
• Ric O'Barry: The Man Behind the Crusade to Save Do ...
  
  
  
  Ric O'Barry would love to be at home watering his bamboo and playing with his five-year-old daughter. Instead, he spends most of his time with people who hate him.
  
  
  
  
  
• The Toilet That Can Help Solve Our Water and Energ ...
  
  
  
  There is a 'toilet revolution' taking shape -- and it may be coming just in time.
  
  
  
  
  

TruthHugger

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

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• The Mafia Is Running the Giant World Casino By Siv ...
  
  
  
  By Siv O’Neall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad axisoflogic.com January 6, 2010 A breathtakingly powe
  
  
  
  
  
• Clouding the Issues By Timothy V. Gatto
  
  
  
  By Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad liberalpro.blogspot.com January 6, 2010 Listenin
  
  
  
  
  
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• Cindy Sheehan on Antiwar Radio: Peace of the Actio ...
  
  
  
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• Sibel Edmonds on Antiwar Radio: Dennis Hastert, Cr ...
  
  
  
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Unexplained Mysteries

• Real life Frankenstein to create life by 2018
  
  
  
  Doctor turned engineer Professor Henry Markram has announced plans to create an artificial consciousness by 2018. In what can only be likened to Mary ...
  
  
  
  
  
• New image reveals entire lifecycle of stars
  
  
  
  The whole lifecycle of a star has been captured in a new image taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The new image gives astronomers a fantastic ne...
  
  
  
  
  
• Trainee hypnotist places himself in a trance
  
  
  
  A trainee hypnotists managed to accidentally place himself in a trance after practicing the technique in a mirror. 27 year-old Circus of Horrors perfo...
  
  
  
  
  
• Relic reveals Noah's ark was circular
  
  
  
  Newly translated instructions found on an ancient tablet over 3700 years old have revealed that Noah's ark was circular in shape. The ancient tablet w...
  
  
  
  
  
• Historian identifies "man who never was"
  
  
  
  A historian has claimed to have proved the identity of the "Man Who Never Was" who was used as a deception during World War 2. In 1943 the allies plan...
  
  
  
  
  

Grassroots

• Gaza Freedom March -- No Token Delegation
  
  
  
  Nitin Sawhney, a friend of Grassroots International and long time activist for Palestinian rights, was one of the 100 delegates, from the over 1300 international delegate-members of the Gaza Freedom March, chosen to go into Gaza through a last minute intervention by Suzanne Mubarak, wife of Egyptian ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Gaza Freedom Marchers await entry, keep vigil
  
  
  
  Hedy-sign.jpg   Starting on New Year’s Eve, the Gaza Freedom March (sponsored by Grassroots International and scores of other organizations) was set up to be an amazing international show of solidarity for the Palestinian people trapped in thi ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Remembering Dennis Brutus
  
  
  
  dennisbrutus.jpg South African poet, anti-apartheid and human rights activist, climate change warrior, and Grassroots International founder, Dennis Brutus passed away in Cape Town, South Africa on Saturday, December 26, 2009. He was 85. Accord ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Money’s Coming to Cool the Planet
  
  
  
  Subheadline:  What’s the Winning Spending Plan? Outside Author:  Daniel Moss Previous publication:  Foreign Policy in Focus ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Cooling the Earth with Food Sovereignty
  
  
  
  Outside Author:  Loie Hayes Previous publication:  Insights, Vol. 23 #2 (Fall 2009) brazil200907-332.jpg   read mor ...
  
  
  
  
  

Climate

• January 6, 2010
  
  
  
  Salazar to Toughen US Drilling Rules (Wall Street Journal) Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is expected to announce today that the government will require oil and natural gas companies to clear more regulatory hurdles before they can drill on federal land. Energy Bills Likely, But Cap-and-Trade ...
  
  
  
  
  
• January 5, 2010
  
  
  
  New BLM Rules to Limit Wind Power in Wyoming (Reuters) Wind energy development is "functionally precluded" in about 20 percent of Wyoming under new Bureau of Land Management guidelines laid out to protect a threatened bird, the governor's office said. New French Carbon Tax Draft Will Exempt E ...
  
  
  
  
  
• January 4, 2010
  
  
  
  UK Prime Minister: Climate Change Deal Still Possible (Reuters) British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says he has an idea for moving forward with a global agreement to combat climate change in spite of the limited results of last month's Copenhagen meeting. Sun, Wind, Wave: EU Unites on Renewab ...
  
  
  
  
  
• January 2-3, 2010
  
  
  
  Nations Made Limited Progress at Copenhagen Summit, India Says (Bloomberg) Indian PM Manmohan Singh said nations made "limited progress" at the Copenhagen climate change summit, and no one was satisfied with the outcome. Australian Ruling Party Has Solid Lead (Reuters) Australia's Labor gov ...
  
  
  
  
  
• January 1, 2010
  
  
  
  US Agencies May Have to Consider Climate Before They Act (Los Angeles Times) The White House is poised to order all federal agencies to evaluate any major actions they take, such as building highways or logging national forests, to determine how they would contribute to and be affected by clima ...
  
  
  
  
  

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

• Justice May be Blind, But Her Scales are Rigged
  
  
  
  When it comes to justice in America, the scales definitely badly need a visit by an inspector from the Department of Weights and Standards. Consider the recent decision by Federal Judge Ricardo Urbina tossing out the federal indictment of five Blackwater (Now Xe) mercenaries for the 2007 slaughter ...
  
  
  
  
  
• McCain Gets It, Obama Doesn't
  
  
  
  — from Truthout Maybe I got it wrong. During the presidential campaign I wrote columns blasting Sen. John McCain for siding with the big bankers on deregulation, citing his choosing ex-Sen. Phil Gramm, currently a vice chairman of the Swiss-owned banking giant UBS, as his presidential campaign chair ...
  
  
  
  
  
• A manifesto for progressives
  
  
  
  The Progressive Caucus in Congress can save Democrats from a disaster in the 2010 elections that could destroy any semblance of a governing majority and erase any hope for the mandate for change that voters gave Democrats in 2008. Nothing has changed. Lobbyists dominate the town. Money dominates the ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Aughts for naught: Looking back on a squandered de ...
  
  
  
  "I sit in one of the dives/ On Fifty-second Street/ Uncertain and afraid/ As the clever hopes expire/ Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear/ Circulate over the bright/ And darkened lands of the earth,/ Obsessing our private lives." --W.H. Auden Nothing like calling on one of the world' ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Tomgram: Michael Klare, The Blowback Effect, 2020
  
  
  
  — from TomDispatch You can already see a new style of writing about China emerging in our American world. The New York Times set it off recently by publishing a front-page piece on a $3.4 billion Chinese investment in one of the planet’s last great copper reserves -- in Afghanistan. In passing, repo ...
  
  
  
  
  

Ten Percent

• New Old Times
  
  
  
  Oh and they got a new acronym (AQAP) al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Are people seriously still falling for this shit?
  
  
  
  
  
• Sir Howard Newby Does Not Have Carnal Relations Wi ...
  
  
  
  Just to make it abundantly clear to legal action averse WordPress.com and ‘Sir’ Howard I wish to state categorically that he does not in any way have carnal relations with badgers. And nor does his fragrant wife Lady Sheila Newby. If, for example, one were to leave him (or her) alone with several n ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Aid Convoy Enters Gaza
  
  
  
  VIVA! VIVA! PALESTINA! 17.30 GMT Wednesday 6th January One month, thousands of miles, ten countries, one ship and a four flights later, Viva Palestina has begun to enter the besieged Gaza Strip. “We are all emotional to see that all of Gaza are out to greet us! Our Viva Palestina convoy is symbolic! ...
  
  
  
  
  
• 2009 Deadliest Year For Afghan Children
  
  
  
  RAWA- KABUL (PAN): The outgoing year was the deadliest year for Afghan children since the ouster of the Taliban regime in late 2001, a human rights watchdog said here on Wednesday. More than 1,050 children under 18 years of age were killed in suicide attacks, air strikes, improvised explosive device ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Permanent Memorial To Jean Charles deMenezes Unvei ...
  
  
  
  UPDATE: For any of you who were planning to come to the unveiling of the mosaic tomorrow morning, the time has now changed to 10am due to the snow. We hope you can still make it if you live nearby – it will be a short and sweet ceremony. Please come and show your support if [...]
  
  
  
  
  

Booman Tribune

• What's in a Blogger?
  
  
  
  Yesterday, Jed Lewison had a piece over at Daily Kos that was a rebuttal of sorts to a piece by Hendrick Hertzberg in The New Yorker. Lewison was mainly concerned to defend Markos Moulitsas' honor, as Hertzberg had criticized him for excessive purity on the health care bill. I don't care about tha ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Quote of the Day
  
  
  
  Truer words... "I'm very proud of the job I've done and the results delivered," Dodd said. "But none of us is irreplaceable. None of us are indispensable. And those who think otherwise are dangerous." I'll miss Chris Dodd. He is one of the good guys. For the most part.
  
  
  
  
  
• Least Worthy of Reelection
  
  
  
  I nominate David Vitter as the politician least worthy of reelection in 2010. We've all heard about his diaper-wearing visits to cathouses, but that's only a tiny fraction of the problem. The truth is, without George Allen and Rick Santorum in the Senate, Vitter is unarguably to stupidest and leas ...
  
  
  
  
  
• The Warning Signs
  
  
  
  There were four big announcements over the last two days. U.S. Senators Byron Dorgan and Chris Dodd both announced that they will not be seeking reelection. Bill Ritter, the governor of Colorado, did the same. And John Cherry, the Lieutenant Governor of Michigan, announced that he is dropping his ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Sleeping In - Open Thread
  
  
  
  What's happening in the world today?
  
  
  
  
  

European Tribune

• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 7 ...
  
  
  
   A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:1871 – Émile Borel,...
  
  
  
  
  
• Wednesday Open Thread
  
  
  
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• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 6 ...
  
  
  
   A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:1915 – Birth of...
  
  
  
  
  
• Tuesday Open Thread
  
  
  
  It's Tuesday. It's January...
  
  
  
  
  
• Time for a "Russian energy weapon" scare?
  
  
  
  Britain facing gas shortages as freezing weather continues Britain is braced for the prospect of...
  
  
  
  
  

Futurismic

• Redefining friendship: Facebook, MMORPGs and Drago ...
  
  
  
  ### “The Antiques Roadshow” – For an entire generation of people who grew up [in the UK - Ed.] in the 1980s, those three little words herald a wave of unease and bitterness.  Like a Renaissance magus, they conjure forth memories of Sunday evenings dominated by the looming return of school [.. ...
  
  
  
  
  
• What will publishing look like a decade from now?
  
  
  
  Via a whole bunch of sources comes this piece by former publisher Richard Nash at Galleycat – an eight-point bullet list of the changes he expects to see in the publishing industry over the next ten years. [image by adactio] There’s nothing in there that you’ll not have heard from various prophets o ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Known space
  
  
  
  First hump-day of the year… sheesh. I don’t know about you, but I’ve a hankering for some sensawunda. And for me, nothing throws that switch quite like being reminded of how tiny and insignificant we are in the greater scheme of things. This video [via Lou Anders] will do exactly that. Enjoy! Proj ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Protective workwear supplied: cleaning the Burj Du ...
  
  
  
  File under science fictional employment opportunities: the Burj Dubai (that ludicrously huge tower in Dubai which we’ve mentioned here before) is finally open for business (if there’s any business left, natch), which means they need to keep the thing clean for tourists and visiting dignitaries – qui ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Cheer up, emo writer – maybe positive sf really co ...
  
  
  
  Well, it turns out my mother may have been right after all* – listening to music with positive messages in the lyrics encourages consideration and empathetic behaviour in teenagers, according to research at the University of Sussex here in the UK. Apparently, people who listen Michael Jackson’s “Hea ...
  
  
  
  
  

Therapy News

• How to Use Mindfulness Meditation to Improve your ...
  
  
  
  By Pamela Lipe, MS, LP, Relationships & Marriage Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Pam and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Last year, 2009 was difficult. National Public Radio asked listeners to suggest one word to describe last year. Their most popular word was: “ugh.” I agree. B ...
  
  
  
  
  
• An Introduction to Holistic Psychotherapy
  
  
  
  By Nicole S. Urdang, M.S., NCC, DHM, Holistic Psychotherapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Nicole and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile. Holistic psychotherapists use techniques from many disciplines, not just psychology, to mobilize people’s innate abilities to heal themselves. C ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Therapy, Resource Programs in New York Help Encour ...
  
  
  
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Though depression and other mental health challenges may seem to some like minor difficulties that have little to no effect on life in general, some people experience considerably debilitating symptoms that negatively influence family and working relationships. Such w ...
  
  
  
  
  
• How the Brain Develops Underscores the Value of So ...
  
  
  
  By Chris Tickner, MA, MFT, Somatic Psychotherapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Chris and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile It is an exciting time in the world of Somatic Psychology! Over the past 15 years or so, our field has grown to find itself positioned on the cutting edge of m ...
  
  
  
  
  
• What’s Forgiving Got to do With Chronic Low Back P ...
  
  
  
  By Jeanette Raymond, Ph.D., Body-Mind Psychotherapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jeanette and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Road rage nearly causes Garret a heart attack. Just as he was about to turn right and head for home, a driver on his left zoomed in front of 35 year old ...
  
  
  
  
  

Mountaintop Removal

• WVDEP fill policy: Game changer or more of the sam ...
  
  
  
  Charleston Gazette (blog) WVDEP fill policy: Game changer or more of the same? Charleston Gazette (blog) ... filling of valleys with mining waste at operations that were already permitted in response to one of Judge Haden's mountaintop removal rulings in 1999. ... DEP to stop processing fill permit ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Jeff Biggers: New Year's Resolution: Mountaintop R ...
  
  
  
  Jeff Biggers: New Year's Resolution: Mountaintop Removal Ends in 2010 AlterNet This is what we know: Mountaintop removal provides less than 8-10 percent of all national coal production, while utilities coal stockpiles have increased ... and more »
  
  
  
  
  
• Obama makes the wrong move on mountaintop removal ...
  
  
  
  Obama makes the wrong move on mountaintop removal C-Ville Weekly Many of us got excited last year when Obama's EPA appeared to be tightening the reins on mountaintop removal mining ...
  
  
  
  
  
• EPA Supports Mountaintop Removal in West Virginia ...
  
  
  
  EPA Supports Mountaintop Removal in West Virginia Clean Skies Margaret Ryan discusses the Environmental Protection Agency's recent decision to support one West Virginia mountain top removal mine permit and potential ...
  
  
  
  
  
• EPA Approves One New Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine ...
  
  
  
  Treehugger EPA Approves One New Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine, Finds 'Path Forward' for ... Treehugger 6.10 Six days into 2010 and the battle over mountaintop removal coal mining is set to start up again. Yesterday afternoon the Environmental Protection ... Hobet 45 deal: Mountaintop removal questi ...
  
  
  
  
  

Memeorandum

• White House: We will NOT discuss broken C-Span pro ...
  
  
  
  Byron York / Washington Examiner : White House: We will NOT discuss broken C-Span promise   —  On Tuesday, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs declined to answer questions about the president's campaign commitment to hold health-care negotiations on C-Span.  Gibbs said he had not seen a letter ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Obama 'Frustrated' By 'Slow' Confirmation For Nomi ...
  
  
  
  Reuters : Obama ‘Frustrated’ By ‘Slow’ Confirmation For Nominees, Expected To Re-Nominate   —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  President Obama is increasingly frustrated with the slow pace of confirmation for his judicial and executive appointees, according to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.
  
  
  
  
  
• Ford Jr. weighs longshot bid for NY-Senate (Chris ...
  
  
  
  Chris Cillizza / The Fix : Ford Jr. weighs longshot bid for NY-Senate   —  Former Tennessee Rep. Harold Ford Jr. is weighing the possibility of challenging appointed Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand later this year, a longshot candidacy for the one-time rising star in Democratic politics.  —  Ford, accordin ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Election 2010: Arkansas Senate Race (Rasmussen Rep ...
  
  
  
  Rasmussen Reports : Election 2010: Arkansas Senate Race   —  2010 Arkansas Senate Race Still A Referendum on Lincoln  —  As 2010 begins, the numbers for Senator Blanche Lambert Lincoln are pretty much the same as last year's while she prepares to face Arkansas voters in November.
  
  
  
  
  
• An opening for Arnold? - Here's the best rumor I'v ...
  
  
  
  Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog : An opening for Arnold?   —  Here's the best rumor I've heard today, inspired in part by the fact that Arnold Schwarzenegger has, of late, been saying nice things about the president at every turn and by the announcement that Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter is retiring.
  
  
  
  
  

Energy & Environment News

• Interior Chief Vows Scrutiny of Oil and Gas Leases
  
  
  
  Ken Salazar said Wednesday that the agency would no longer be a “candy store” for the petroleum industry as he said it was during the Bush administration.
  
  
  
  
  
• For Controversial Wind Farm Off Cape Cod, Latest H ...
  
  
  
  The National Park Service ruled for two Massachusetts Indian tribes, who argued that an offshore wind-power project would impede their ritual greeting of the sunrise.
  
  
  
  
  
• Oil Feud Reflects Growing Rift Between Russia and ...
  
  
  
  The quarrel, over an oil subsidy that has helped prop up Belarus’s leader, appears to be an attempt by Russia’s prime minister, Vladimir V. Putin, to settle a political score.
  
  
  
  
  
• Where There’s Smoke ... There’s a Tr ...
  
  
  
  As temperatures drop, efforts to curb pollution from burning wood are clashing with tradition.
  
  
  
  
  
• Environmental Refugees Unable to Return Home
  
  
  
  Experts say millions in developing countries could be on the move because of worsening climate change.
  
  
  
  
  

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.0, Auckland Islands, New Zealand region
  
  
  
  Wednesday, January 6, 2010 09:48:44 UTC Wednesday, January 6, 2010 08:48:44 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  
  
  
  
  
• M 5.0, Sulawesi, Indonesia
  
  
  
  Tuesday, January 5, 2010 14:36:26 UTC Tuesday, January 5, 2010 10:36:26 PM at epicenter Depth : 36.00 km (22.37 mi)
  
  
  
  
  
• M 5.3, Solomon Islands
  
  
  
  Tuesday, January 5, 2010 13:56:56 UTC Wednesday, January 6, 2010 12:56:56 AM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
  
  
  
  
  
• M 6.0, Solomon Islands
  
  
  
  Tuesday, January 5, 2010 13:11:43 UTC Wednesday, January 6, 2010 12:11:43 AM at epicenter Depth : 37.30 km (23.18 mi)
  
  
  
  
  
• M 5.4, Solomon Islands
  
  
  
  Tuesday, January 5, 2010 13:10:02 UTC Wednesday, January 6, 2010 12:10:02 AM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
  
  
  
  
  

China Dialogue

• The end of idealism
  
  
  
  The failure of climate talks in Copenhagen exposed some uncomfortable truths about the current global order, argues Tang Wei. UN-led climate talks drew to a close in Copenhagen on December 19. Although a weak outcome had been widely predicted, many were still shocked by just how little the conferenc ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Seeing the future in Yunnan
  
  
  
  The inadequacy of efforts to address water pollution in south-west China exposes failures of imagination and foresight among policy-makers, argues Zhou Lei. China’s National Audit Office (NAO) recently published a report on the last seven years of efforts to deal with pollution in the Liao, Hai and ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Can consumers save our climate?
  
  
  
  After Copenhagen, can market forces – and consumers in particular – help address global warming? John Elkington looks at the promises and pitfalls of “green” consumption. Many of the business and government leaders who gathered in Copenhagen for the United Nations climate talks believe that market f ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Dubai: a modern parable
  
  
  
  With its debt, excess and exploitation, the glitzy emirate is not alone in a world living on credit. But, writes Jonathan Freedland, its riches could have been spent so much better. When future generations sit their children down to tell the story of the great crash of the early 21st century, they w ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Slideshow: eye on Mozambique (2)
  
  
  
  In the second segment of a two-part slideshow, Daniel Ribeiro looks at the problem of handling solid waste in the country’s capital, Maputo. .
  
  
  
  
  

AlterNet Top Stories

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• This Is Awesome
  
  
  
  Help us win a Shorty Award!
  
  
  
  
  
• Climate Deniers Hope to Lure Gore to Debate in Ala ...
  
  
  
  Maybe Palin will pose in front of this one, like she did last time.
  
  
  
  
  
• Dodd Headed to Treasury?
  
  
  
  "Dodd's cozy relations with Countrywide and A.I.G. could subject his nomination to a messy confirmation battle."
  
  
  
  
  
• The 15 Most Heinous Climate Villains
  
  
  
  The worst and most vile of the corporate-funded climate science deniers responsible for subverting public understanding of climate change, and risking civilization.
  
  
  
  
  

Threat Level

• Threshold for Getting Onto No-Fly List Lowered
  
  
  
  The government has lowered the criteria for putting someone on a watch list or no-fly list and has so far revoked several U.S. visas as a result of the reduced threshold, according to CNN. The action will result in more people being grounded from flights or undergoing secondary screening at airports ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Alleged Ponzi Mastermind Stanford Pwned in Antigua
  
  
  
  In early 2008, while federal investigators were busy investigating disgraced financier Robert Allen Stanford for his part in an alleged $8 billion fraudulent investment scheme, Eastern European hackers were quietly hoovering up tens of thousands customer financial records from the Bank of Antigua, a ...
  
  
  
  
  
• $675,000 RIAA File Sharing Verdict Is ‘Unreasonabl ...
  
  
  
  The nation’s second file sharing defendant to challenge the Recording Industry Association of America at trial is asking the court for a retrial, or to reduce the $675,000 verdict the jury levied for infringing 30 songs. Among other claims, lawyers for defendant Joel Tenenbaum asserted Monday this s ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Body Scanners Might Violate U.K. Child-Protection ...
  
  
  
  The deployment of body-scanning X-ray machines could violate child-protection laws in Britain and prevent their implementation, according to The Guardian. British officials were forced to exempt the scanning of anyone under 18 during a yearlong test of the machines at Manchester airport until legal ...
  
  
  
  
  
• TSA Agent Posed as Blogger in Bid to Identify Agen ...
  
  
  
  A TSA agent who served a civil subpoena on blogger Steven Frischling last week also posed as the blogger in order to trick the blogger’s anonymous source into revealing his identity, according to someone familiar with the incident. The agent, while in possession of Frischling’s BlackBerry, typed a m ...
  
  
  
  
  

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• U.S. fighter jets scrambled due to unruly passenge ...
  
  
  
  PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - An unruly passenger aboard a Hawaii-bound airliner on Wednesday prompted the pilot to return the plane to Portland, Oregon, escorted by two military fighter jets, in the latest of several U.S. aviation security scares this week.
  
  
  
  
  
• Schwarzenegger wants more federal money for Califo ...
  
  
  
  SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday vowed to pry more dollars from the federal government, which he said took more than it gave, but left details on how to close a $19.9 billion state budget gap until later this week.
  
  
  
  
  
• CES-UPDATE 2-Microsoft, HP to unveil new tablet - ...
  
  
  
  * Microsoft, HP slate may go on sale mid-2010 (Recasts, adds analysts' comment)
  
  
  
  
  
• Nigeria says U.S. air rule threatens bilateral tie ...
  
  
  
  ABUJA, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Bilateral relations between Nigeria and the United States could be at risk if Washington keeps its requirement for tighter security for Nigerian travellers, a federal minister said on Wednesday.
  
  
  
  
  
• Japanese whalers accused of sinking protest boat
  
  
  
  CANBERRA (Reuters) - Anti-whaling activists accused Japanese whalers of ramming and sinking a high-tech protest boat in the frigid Southern Ocean on Wednesday, but Japan said that its ship could not avoid the collision.
  
  
  
  
  

Equality Trust

• The importance of economic equality - Time.com
  
  
  
  Read the Time.com Q&A with ichard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett.
  
  
  
  
  
• Call for fundamental rethink of the value of work
  
  
  
  Hospital cleaners are worth more to society than city bankers, according to a new method of calculating the value of different jobs published today. The new economics foundation (nef) called for a "fundamental rethink" of how the value of work was recognised and rewarded. The think tank said its s ...
  
  
  
  
  
• The Spirit Level - New Statesman book of the decad ...
  
  
  
  Wilkinson and Pickett's study gave scientific weight to a long-held claim of the left: that people are happier and healthier when they live in societies where wealth is distributed more equally. But the book's influence stretches across party lines and its findings are likely to shape political deba ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Levelling the bankers' bonuses
  
  
  
  Read a letter by Malcolm Clark, Director of the One Society Campaign in today's Guardian, about the positives for bankers of losing their bonuses. Peter Preston (The rewards of banking, 7 December) has a point: bankers are human too. Most of them want exactly the same as us: a decent quality of life ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Dr Lynne Friedli on the impact of inequality on me ...
  
  
  
  Dr Lynne Friedli talks about the impact of inequality on mental health, in a discussion with John Humphrys on the Today Programme - scroll down to 07.33 Listen to the discussion
  
  
  
  
  

IntelNews

• News of CIA/Blackwater hit squad upset German gove ...
  
  
  
  German politicians have finally caught up with the startling revelations of Blackwater founder and CEO, Erik Prince, who last month told Vanity Fair that he worked as a CIA spy, carrying out secret missions with the help of a Blackwater hit squad. The Vanity Fair article revealed that, among other t ...
  
  
  
  
  
• News you may have missed #0244
  
  
  
  Former S. African spy chief dies. Kiwi spies get augmented cyber-surveillance powers.
  
  
  
  
  
• News you may have missed #0243
  
  
  
  US releases video of Iranian arms dealer in Georgia. Numbers of ex-KGB agents in Russian government falling.
  
  
  
  
  
• Comment: Is there a ‘DNA problem’ in US spying?
  
  
  
  The controversy of the apparent ineffectiveness of US intelligence agencies to uncover the so-called Christmas Day bomb plot has reignited the discussion about the operational shortcomings of the US intelligence community. Sam Tanenhaus, editor of of The New York Times Book Review, has authored an i ...
  
  
  
  
  
• News you may have missed #0242
  
  
  
  US signs record US military aid to Israel. Which group perpetrated suicide attack on CIA?
  
  
  
  
  

After Downing Street.org

• Why Is Paul Minor Still Behind Bars?
  
  
  
  Why Is Paul Minor Still Behind Bars? By Brendan DeMelle | Huffington Post In a recent unanimous decision, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned federal bribery charges against prominent Mississippi trial attorney Paul Minor, offering a ray of hope that Minor will soon be a free man. Minor h ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Israeli Officers Cancel UK Trip For Fear Of Arrest ...
  
  
  
  Israeli Officers Cancel UK Trip For Fear Of Arrest For War Crimes By Mark Lavie | Huffington Post An Israeli military delegation has canceled an official visit to Britain, officials said Tuesday, the latest in a string of politicians and army officials to put off travel to the U.K. because of fears ...
  
  
  
  
  
• 9/11 and Christmas 2009: Two Examples of a Failure ...
  
  
  
  Michael Munk of www.MichaelMunk.com offered these comments about the Truthout article below, " 9/11 and Christmas 2009: Two Examples of a Failure of Intelligence ." The political/media complex has framed the Detroit incident as a intelligence failure that requires bureaucratic and technological fixe ...
  
  
  
  
  
• CCR Denounces Blanket Decision Not to Release Gua ...
  
  
  
  CCR Denounces Blanket Decision Not to Release Guantánamo Detainees to Yemen | Press Release Dozens of Yemenis Cleared for Release By Review Task Force in Limbo January 5, 2010, New York – In response to news that President Obama has decided to suspend all transfers of detainees from Guantánamo to ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Appeals Court Ruling Limits Guantanamo Detainees' ...
  
  
  
  Appeals court ruling limits Guantanamo detainees' rights, gives president wide detention power By Mark Sherman, Associated Press Writer | LA Times A federal appeals court ruling Tuesday could make it harder for Guantanamo detainees to challenge their confinement and endorsed the government's broad ...
  
  
  
  
  

Grist - News

• Electric car Think to be assembled in U.S. in 2011
  
  
  
  by Agence France-Presse OSLO -- Think, an electric car maker based in Norway, will assemble its vehicles in the United States next year and hopes to roll out more than 20,000 units a year, the Wall Street Journal said on Tuesday, quoting the group's chief executive. The Think City. Photo courtesy T ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Sarkozy wants French carbon tax to take effect in ...
  
  
  
  by Agence France-Presse PARIS -- The French government decided Tuesday that a new carbon tax to fight global warming will go into force in July, a week after the constitutional court struck down a previous version of the measure. President Nicolas Sarkozy told the council of ministers that the reva ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Britain embraces the new faux gras
  
  
  
  by Agence France-Presse LONDON -- From foie gras produced without making birds suffer to "sustainable" fish, British retailers and restaurants are fast embracing politically correct food, helped by celebrity-fueled pressure. Faux (false) gras is the ethical answer to the foodstuff which has been th ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax
  
  
  
  by Agence France-Presse PARIS -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy faced an embarrassing setback Wednesday after the high court struck down a planned carbon tax to fight global warming, just days before it was to kick in. The constitutional court ruled that too many exemptions to the tax on carbon d ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Brazil’s Lula signs law cutting CO2 emission ...
  
  
  
  by Agence France-Presse BRAZIL -- President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva signed a law Tuesday requiring that Brazil cut greenhouse gas emissions by 39 percent by 2020, meeting a commitment made at the Copenhagen climate talks. Brazil announced at the summit a "voluntary commitment" to reduce CO2 emiss ...
  
  
  
  
  

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• Security Officials Shut Down California Airport
  
  
  
  Security scare comes as jitters grip the U.S. travel industry in the aftermath of an unsuccessful Christmas Day terrorist attempt
  
  
  
  
  
• How Will CSR Shake Out in 2010?
  
  
  
  Interview with leading cause marketing expert about how the space will unfold in the coming year
  
  
  
  
  
• Rumor: AOL Looking to Buy Mashable
  
  
  
  Reports are floating around the interwebs that AOL is closing in on acquiring Mashable, “the Social Media guide”
  
  
  
  
  
• Social Bullying in Middle School
  
  
  
  Middle school years are hard socially; social safety can be a concern for some
  
  
  
  
  
• Is There Too Much Content on The Internet?
  
  
  
  In the internet echo chamber can anyone hear you laugh?
  
  
  
  
  

Time - Top Stories

• Reducing Nukes: Russia and the U.S. Resume an Intr ...
  
  
  
  Obama wants to abolish all nuclear weapons eventually but getting on with just the first step (START) is proving difficult
  
  
  
  
  
• Denmark's Somali Community: Breeding Ground For Ex ...
  
  
  
  Danish authorities warn that the alleged attack by a Somali man on a Danishcartoonist may not be an isolated incident. Disaffected Somali refugees,they say, are increasingly being drawn to radical groups in the country
  
  
  
  
  
• Census Bureau to Hire 1.2 Million, Boost Employmen ...
  
  
  
  In a once-a-decade effort, the Census Bureau is about to count every person in the U.S. To do so, it will hire more than a million part-timers, providing a big though temporary boost to employment
  
  
  
  
  
• Airport Security: Overseas Travelers Report More D ...
  
  
  
  A sampling of passengers arriving at Dulles International Airport in Washington reveals both acceptance of the new security measures and skepticism about them
  
  
  
  
  
• Threat of Homegrown Islamic Terrorism May Be Exagg ...
  
  
  
  Though homegrown terrorism is not a widespread problem, a report warns that policies alienating Muslim-American communities may increase the threat
  
  
  
  
  

Washington Independent

• Bingaman: A Tough Road for Cap-and-Trade This Year
  
  
  
  This morning we ran a piece anticipating the difficulties facing Democratic leaders as they try to make good on their progressive campaign promises during a tough election year, when rallying the support of party moderates is certain to be a chore. And no bill will be tougher to pass in 2010 than th ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Schwarzenegger Wants A Sweetheart Medicaid Deal, T ...
  
  
  
  Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman (R) might be balking at the deal Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb) secured to have Washington pick up Nebraska’s entire tab for a proposed Medicaid expansion, but California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) said today that he’d gladly accept the same arrangement for his beleaguered s ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Steele: Hey, Maybe Harry Reid Will Resign
  
  
  
  This part of RNC Chairman Michael Steele’s press release “On Democrat Withdrawals From 2010 Elections” has all the hallmarks of news cycle giddiness. The successes in Virginia and New Jersey combined with the last month of Democrat withdrawals, retirements, and switches, show that the Republican Par ...
  
  
  
  
  
• In Connecticut, Blumenthal Up by 30 Points, Poll S ...
  
  
  
  Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal (D) just announced his candidacy to replace outgoing Sen. Chris Dodd (D) — and already, a new poll by Public Policy Polling, a Democratic firm, has him up by at least 30 points on his potential Republican challengers. Blumenthal leads Rob Simmons 59-28 ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Rep. Nathan Deal (R-Ga.) Joins the Birthers
  
  
  
  The conservative Post & Email reports that Rep. Nathan Deal (R-Ga.), who’s running for governor in Georgia, has asked the White House for proof that Barack Obama is an American citizen. Todd Smith, Chief of Staff for Representative Nathan Deal of the United States House of Representatives serving Ge ...
  
  
  
  
  

CowBoss' Brain Food

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

Suzie-Q

• Republicans Record On Terrorism Is Twisted And Dan ...
  
  
  
  The Republican record on terrorism is pretty damn terrible. Naturally, this hasn’t stopped them from milking whatever remains of their purely cosmetic tough-guy reputation in order to fear-monger the failed Underpants Bomber incident irrespective of their lengthy history of failure, cowardice and st ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Liberty Has Been Lost
  
  
  
  By Paul Craig Roberts | OpEdNews | January 5, 2010 I had just finished reading the uncensored edition of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s book, In The First Circle (Harper Perennial, 2009), when I came across Chris Hedges article, “One Day We’ll All Be Terrorists” (Truthdig, Dec. 28, 2009). In Hedges’ descr ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Ann Coulter: Afraid Of Anal & Foreskin Bombings
  
  
  
  Ann Coulter says she’s afraid of anal, foreskin bombings RAW STORY By David Edwards and John Byrne Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 — 11:09 am If [you] didn’t lose your lunch over comments conservative doyenne Ann Coulter made about abortion doctors (“I’m not opposed to shooting abortionists”) or abo ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Afternoon Jukebox- You Dropped A Bomb On Me
  
  
  
  The Gap Band – You Dropped A Bomb On Me
  
  
  
  
  
• Republican counter attack on Alan Grayson
  
  
  
  Well there is certainly no doubt that we are looking at a disgruntled republican, and in spite of being somewhat attractive, she is obviously involved with the corporate crooks that would like to unseat Grayson. She won’t have the effect that she and Faux News is dreaming about because Grayson has ...
  
  
  
  
  

Solari

• Community Call to Prayer
  
  
  
  Still Life with a Peacock Pie By Pieter Claesz For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. [...]
  
  
  
  
  
• Unemployed Americans = 14MM
  
  
  
  Continue reading Is The Government Misrepresenting Unemployment By 32%?
  
  
  
  
  
• Senate Food Safety Bill - Take Action
  
  
  
  The Weston A. Price Foundation has produced an action alert regarding the Senate Food Safety Bill. From their newsletter (available only to subscribers): Start the New Year off right, by talking with your Senators about safe and healthy food! Big Ag and Big Food have distributed melamine-contamina ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Shunning the Banksters
  
  
  
  Continue reading Shunning the Banksters - Catherine Austin Fitts on Economics 101
  
  
  
  
  
• Quote du Jour
  
  
  
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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

• Note to Neocons: Universities Don't Create Extremi ...
  
  
  
  In blaming universities for radicalized students, we risk serious damage to freedom of speech and civil liberties
  
  
  
  
  
• Who's Getting Rich From the Naked Full-Body Scanne ...
  
  
  
  The TSA has a dismal record of enriching private corporations with failed technologies. Will the "digital strip search" device just bring more of the same?
  
  
  
  
  
• 12 Innovations From the '00s That Could Save Us
  
  
  
  With climate disruption, war, and a faltering economy, the '00s were tough. Still, seeds were sewn for a more green and egalitarian 2010s.
  
  
  
  
  
• Christmas Bomb Plot May Mean No Release For Yemeni ...
  
  
  
  Legal experts and human rights advocates are pushing back against calls from politicians to halt the planned release of prisoners from Guantanamo to their home country.
  
  
  
  
  
• Right-Wing 'Experts' Justify Profiling, Body Scann ...
  
  
  
  A retired general makes egregious claims that that "in the next 30-100 days," there is "very high probability a US airliner will come down."
  
  
  
  
  

Sideways News

• ESPN to film 3D South Africa World Cup
  
  
  
  Sports broadcasting will enter a new dimension this year as ESPN gears up to film and show 25 of the 2010 Fifa World Cup games, taking place in South Africa, in 3D. The move, announced as companies prepare to unveil their latest 3D sets at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, means t ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Happy Days star fronts dyslexia campaign
  
  
  
  US actor Henry Winkler, better known for his role as Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli in hit sitcom Happy Days , has spoken of his struggle with dyslexia ahead of the launch in the UK of a new campaign aimed at boosting the confidence of children with special educational needs.
  
  
  
  
  
• Empty spaces to help promote the arts?
  
  
  
  A London-based group The Oubliette is calling on the owners of large unused commercial buildings to turn the properties over to arts groups.
  
  
  
  
  
• CGI: Spelling the end for actors?
  
  
  
  Do films like Avatar signal the end of acting as we know it? Will film studios soon purchase a credit-crunching Sean Connery kit? As Avatar - James Cameron’s latest sci-fi film - hits the cinemas, bursting into new territory in digital animation, does it signal the end of acting as we know it? In t ...
  
  
  
  
  
• E.ON introduces eco-LED streetlights
  
  
  
  A low-carbon streetlight, which consumes up to 70% less energy than standard lamps, has been unveiled by electricity and gas company E.ON . Called Marlin, the new LED streetlight aims to reduce the impact which lighting our streets and roads has on the environment. According to the company, traditio ...
  
  
  
  
  

Fabius Maximus

• My movie recommendation for 2010: Vitual JFK (th ...
  
  
  
  I strongly recommend seeing the movie “Virtual JFK“.  It’s not just about history, it’s about our present.  And our future. Among the wealth of insights this provides, I draw your attention to two points. The press conferences.  By comparison with Kennedy and the journalists, today’s conference loo ...
  
  
  
  
  
• China moves to the center of the world. America mo ...
  
  
  
  American tend to see ourselves as white knights.  Selflessly defending nations like the EU and Japan that will not defend themselves.  A force for morality — banning bribery, pushing feminism and other western values (which we call “human rights).  Meanwhile we beg for lower oil prices and borrow ...
  
  
  
  
  
• The CIA’s forecast about the Iranian Revolut ...
  
  
  
  This is valuable material not just for students of history, but for those seeking useful tools to understand today’s rapidly changing world. (a)  “The Dionysian Rites of Henry Kissinger’s CIA and the Iranian Revolution of 2010“, Marla Singer and Geoffrey Batt, The Journal of Irreverent Attacks on C ...
  
  
  
  
  
• FM newswire for 5 January, hot articles for your m ...
  
  
  
  It’s astonishing how often folks say in comments that they use only information sources that match their preconceptions.  “I don’t read him, he’s a lefty/right/evildoer.”  This is a recipe for ignorance.  The FM newswire cites sources from a wide range of viewpoints.  Esp from the fringes, wher ...
  
  
  
  
  
• A parable of America today – subways here an ...
  
  
  
  One of the great oddities of 21st century America:  our inability to learn from other nations.  Our health care system stands as the definitive proof of this.  Our system costs twice that of other nations, yet returns equivalent results in aggregate (and vastly inferior results for those without ...
  
  
  
  
  

sibeledmonds - tweets

• sibeledmonds: Antiwar's Scott Horton Interviews me ...
  
  
  
  sibeledmonds: Antiwar's Scott Horton Interviews me on Dennis Hastert, Political Termite, listen here: http://bit.ly/8BkJ5u
  
  
  
  
  
• sibeledmonds: Boiling Frogs Post: Minot-Barksdale ...
  
  
  
  sibeledmonds: Boiling Frogs Post: Minot-Barksdale Nuclear Bent Spear Incident-Part II: Analysis by Richard ‘Ishmael’ Scott http://boilingfrogspost.com
  
  
  
  
  
• sibeledmonds: The Makings of a Police State Part 5 ...
  
  
  
  sibeledmonds: The Makings of a Police State Part 5: The Nation of Cleared & Not Cleared. Read here at Boiling Frogs Post: http://boilingfrogspost.com
  
  
  
  
  
• sibeledmonds: The Makings of a Police State Part 5 ...
  
  
  
  sibeledmonds: The Makings of a Police State Part 5: The New Scarlet Letters ‘NC’ Read it at Boiling Frogs Post: http://boilingfrogspost.com
  
  
  
  
  
• sibeledmonds: Boiling Frogs Post Updates: Lithuani ...
  
  
  
  sibeledmonds: Boiling Frogs Post Updates: Lithuania & CIA Black Sites, the Case of Mysterious Helicopters in Afghanistan &More http://boilingfrogspost.com
  
  
  
  
  

WIRED Magazine | Science

• NASA’s Contest to Design the Last Shuttle Patch
  
  
  
    > The space shuttle program is on its way out, but the core of people who built and maintained it will live on. To honor them, NASA gave its employees the chance to design the patch that will commemorate the shuttle program, which is slated to end in September, after [...]
  
  
  
  
  
• Galactic Dwarf’s Stardust Shines in Infrared
  
  
  
  The Small Magellanic Cloud isn’t much to look at with the naked eye, even for visitors to the International Space Station. Former astronaut John Grunsfeld told reporters Tuesday about a stargazing experience he had on the station. “At one point, I complained about a small greasy smudge on the windo ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Hubble Finds Farthest, Oldest Galaxies Ever Seen
  
  
  
  By pushing the refurbished Hubble Space Telescope to its very limits as a cosmic time machine, astronomers have identified three galaxies that may hail from an era only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. The faint galaxies may be the most distant starlit bodies known, each lying some 1 ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Elusive Supermassive-Black-Hole Mergers Finally Fo ...
  
  
  
  WASHINGTON — The universe is one big dance party for black holes. New observations from the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii and the Hubble Space Telescope found 33 merged galaxies in which pairs of supermassive black holes are “waltzing” around the galactic centers. “Our result shows that such walt ...
  
  
  
  
  
• New Exoplanet Hunter Makes First 5 Discoveries
  
  
  
  The Kepler Space Telescope, a designated planet-hunting satellite, has found its first five planets, among them an odd, massive world only as dense as styrofoam. The number of planets now known outside the solar system has risen to over 400, but none is yet Earth-like enough to harbor life. Right n ...
  
  
  
  
  

The Progressive Realist

• Strong Opinions on Yemen from the Left and the Rig ...
  
  
  
  This post is not about Yemen, at least not directly.  It is about the various reactions which Yemen’s sudden (or not so sudden) relevance has provoked, and particularly what the reactions from some members of the left reveal about What I find most striking about the commentary is the degree to whic ...
  
  
  
  
  
• The IMF in Iceland
  
  
  
  Reykjavik, Iceland (photo by me, available under cc license) Felix Salmon on the UK’s shameful bullying of Iceland : I’m quite ashamed of the bullying tactics being used here by the UK government. What happened was that an Icelandic bank, Landsbanki, started attracting UK depositors through its Ic ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Leading Indicators: Off the Radar News Roundup
  
  
  
  - During a visit to Turkey, Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada called "deepening the Japan-U.S. alliance" the top priority for Japanese diplomacy , and said that the "heated exchanges" over the Futenma air base relocation are "premised on this position." Okada said strengthening regional ties t ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Difficulties In Surging the Right People to Afghan ...
  
  
  
  This morning’s New York Times provides this update on a Pentagon effort to get qualified personnel for what’s been called the “Afghanistan-Pakistan Hands” program, which I look at in this post last November. It seems that the effort, deemed by chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael M ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Strategic Incompetence: The Greater Threat?
  
  
  
  To most Americans, with deference to climate change and Iran, the major national security threat to the nation emanates from al-Qaida. Yet strategic incompetence on our part may be a greater danger. This characteristic is not new. During World War II Winston Churchill and his generals frequently ...
  
  
  
  
  

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Lightning Round: Maybe We Ought to Have a National ...
  
  
  
  One regrettable side effect of the mainstreaming of political blogging is that it has amplified the worst tendencies of political journalism, such as writing attention/link-grabbing headlines like "Democrats are dropping like flies" that provide zero contextual analysis and aren't even factually ac ...
  
  
  
  
  
• The Little Picture: Sen. Byron Dorgan.
  
  
  
  Sen. Byron Dorgan also announced today that he would be retiring from the Senate. Read our 2008 look at his crusade against contracting fraud in Iraq . (Flickr/ Boman Library )
  
  
  
  
  
• Annotating the Issue: Deficits and Debt.
  
  
  
  My column today on the progressive argument over deficits and the national debt doesn't include a good chunk of wonky background research that might be of interest to nerds on the Internet (and really, is there anyone else out there?). Here are some good primary sources for learning more about this ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Insidious Hippie Values, Now in 3-D.
  
  
  
  (Twentieth Century Fox) Via Kevin Drum , Patrick Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times offers an interesting exploration of conservative enmity toward Avatar . On the surface, the criticism was pretty predictable – after all, the bad guys in the film are military contractors, and the noble Na’vi, inste ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Lowering The Bar For "Radical Pacifism".
  
  
  
  Genius argument from Marc Thiessen : A reader points out that Andrew Sullivan and Joe Carter are applying pacifist principles in opposing enhanced interrogation, but that does not make them pacifists per se (in the sense that they oppose all violence under any circumstances). It’s a fair point — in ...
  
  
  
  
  

Andy Worthington

• Screening of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantá ...
  
  
  
  On Monday January 11 — the eighth anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo — the campaigning group Witness Against Torture, with the support of numerous other organizations, including the Center for Constitutional Rights, After Downing Street, No More Guantánamos and The World Can’t Wait, will h ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Guantánamo: The Definitive Prisoner List (Updated ...
  
  
  
  Please support my work! Back in March, I published a four-part list identifying all 779 prisoners held at Guantánamo since the prison opened on January 11, 2002, as “the culmination of a three-year project to record the stories of all the prisoners held at the US prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cub ...
  
  
  
  
  
• On Antiwar Radio, Andy Worthington Discusses Guant ...
  
  
  
  In the dying days of the decade, I was delighted to talk once more to Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio about the latest news regarding Guantánamo. The show — my 12th appearance with Scott — is available here, and in it Scott and I focused initially on the ABC News story linking the failed Christmas [. ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Why Obama Must Continue Releasing Yemenis From Gua ...
  
  
  
  The weekend before Christmas, 12 prisoners were released from Guantánamo. In two previous articles, I told the stories of six of these men — two Somalis and four Afghans — and in this final article I look at the stories of the six Yemenis who were also released. These releases were enormously impor ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo with Brad Fr ...
  
  
  
  On Tuesday, I was delighted to talk once more with Brad Friedman, muckraking citizen journalist and host of The Brad Blog, standing in for Mike Malloy on the progressive talk show out of Dallas, Texas. This was a 2 am start for me, but it’s always a pleasure to talk to Brad, and I’m happy that [...]
  
  
  
  
  

Buzzflash

• Peter Phillips: American Mantra -- Free Market Cap ...
  
  
  
  BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Peter Phillips Free Market Capitalism remains the dominant American ideological truth. The decline of communism opened the door for unrepentant free marketers to boldly espouse market competition as the final solution for global harmony. According to the American mantra ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Bush and Madoff Back in the News -- Verse-Case Sce ...
  
  
  
  Asked About Gifts, Bush Library Spokesman Says, 'When You're The President, You Don't Get Cubic Zirconia.' Because Dubya was an utter phony , a Comparison is apt with cubic zirconia .Madoff Back In Cell After Stay In Prison Hospital read more
  
  
  
  
  
• Tribune Company Dumbs Down Politics on TV to Win B ...
  
  
  
  BUZZFLASH MEDIA PUTZ OF THE WEEK Tribune Company For reporting that is an embarrassment to the profession of journalism, and for being beholden to corporate paymasters rather than the citizens of America. Are these the new faces of political discourse ?So what happens when you put a shock jock in c ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Ben Pavone Takes on Credit Card Customer Abuse to ...
  
  
  
  WINGS OF JUSTICE Ben Pavone For those who have been upset over reduction in credit card limits or increases in interest rates, meet Ben Pavone. Ben Pavone is a lawyer in San Diego who got hit with both by Bank of America, a bank that has been under a significant cloud for some time now. Pavone's int ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Beck-oning for a Depression: Glenn Beck Hopes for ...
  
  
  
  BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT by Jeffrey Joseph Hosts and guests at FOX News regularly try to manipulate tragedies or near tragedies for political gain , but Glenn Beck's wishing on his shows for the nation to experience peril underscores how dangerous he is as an "entertainer." On his radio program, Beck ex ...
  
  
  
  
  

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• The backfiring of the Surveillance State
  
  
  
  Every debate over expanded government surveillance power is invariably framed as one of "security v. privacy and civil liberties" -- as though it's a given that increasing the Government's surveillance authorities will "make us safer."  But it has long been clear that the opposite is true.  As nume ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Cheney's stenographers fight back
  
  
  
  Throughout the year, Politico has repeatedly published as "news articles"  comments from Dick Cheney , which its "reporters" faithfully write down and print with virtually no challenge, skepticism or contradiction .  So extreme has this behavior become that even Beltway TV personalities such as Chr ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Civilian trials and the so-called rule of law
  
  
  
  I was wondering if someone could reconcile these three things: From Obama terrorism adviser John Brennan, on this weekend's Meet the Press :   MR. GREGORY: Why isn't [Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab] being treated as an enemy combatant instead of a criminal? MR. BRENNAN: Well, because, first of all, w ...
  
  
  
  
  
• The degrading effects of Terrorism fears
  
  
  
  I never thought I'd hear myself say this, but David Brooks actually had an excellent column in yesterday's New York Times that makes several insightful and important points.  Brooks documents how "childish, contemptuous and hysterical" the national reaction has been to this latest terrorist episode ...
  
  
  
  
  
• They hate us for our freedoms
  
  
  
  National Review 's Cliff May, yesterday : A Bipartisan Proposal Step (1): Return all Gitmo detainees to Yemen. Step (2): Use Predator missiles to strike the baggage-claim area 20 minutes after they arrive. Just an idea. Virtually all of the 90 Yemeni detainees currently at Guantanamo have bee ...
  
  
  
  
  

The BiPartisan Report

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

Sciencebase

• Cancer, pneumonia, regulations, theranostics
  
  
  
  The 1st of January issue of SpectroscopyNOW is live: MRI nanoparticles seek and destroy cancer cells – A single nanoparticle can be tracked using real-time MRI as it homes in on cancer cells. A fluorescent dye used to tag the nanoparticle couples with heat therapy to kill the targeted cells. Naomi ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Classic musical science and Stradivarnish
  
  
  
  It won’t necessarily be music to the classical purist’s ear, but chemists have been instrumental in revealing the secret beneath the varnish on a Stradivari violins, and the secret is: there is no secret. Antonio Stradivari is perhaps the most famous instrument maker of all time. He is especially c ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Most useless machine ever
  
  
  
  The most useless machine ever has rapidly become the internet’s first viral hit of the New Year. Essentially, it’s a little wooden box with a switch, but you’ve got to watch the video to see it in action: But, of course, it’s anything but a useless machine, it’s the embodiment of at least one prin ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Intute hot topics in physical science
  
  
  
  Over on the Intute site in the physical sciences section you will find the December science news round up from yours truly: What’s the buzz at the LHC? – After a frustrating false start, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) finally got it up and running in its underground home at CERN on the Swiss-Frenc ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Five-step plan for green design
  
  
  
  I recently saw a research paper discussing the lack of tools for designers hoping to make their products greener, more environmentally benign, sustainable even. The paper focused more on the likes of coming up with a green espresso machine and offered a five-step scheme for getting the green creden ...
  
  
  
  
  

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• New Jersey State Assembly to take Final Vote on Bi ...
  
  
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 5, 2010 Drug Policy Alliance Assembly Bill 2762, which would give judges discretion to waive mandatory minimum sentences for some nonviolent drug offenses, will be given a final vote by the full Assembly on Thursday, Jan 7th.    The bill originally passed the Assembly b ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Activists and Lawyers Rally, March and Offer Press ...
  
  
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 5, 2010 Witness Against Torture Eight years ago next Monday, the Guantanamo prison opened for “war on terror” detainees. Activists and detainee lawyers will mark the anniversary, Monday, January 11 , by demanding that President Obama make good on his pledge to close the ...
  
  
  
  
  
• 70,000 Square Miles of Habitat Proposed for Protec ...
  
  
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 5, 2010 Conservation Groups Today the National Oceanographic Atmospheric Administration issued a proposed rule to designate more than 70,000 square miles of critical habitat for endangered Pacific leatherback sea turtles in the waters off California, Oregon, and Washing ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Ahead of the Curve on Yemen
  
  
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 5, 2010 Senator Russ Feingold In the year's following 9/11, U.S. read more
  
  
  
  
  
• Forest Service to Revise Cattle Grazing to Help En ...
  
  
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 5, 2010 Conservation Groups The Forest Service withdrew one grazing decision and reversed a second on appeal because of problems related to cattle grazing in habitat for the endangered Peninsular bighorn sheep and the Quino checkerspot butterfly . These actions follow ...
  
  
  
  
  

Common Dreams-Views

• Dem Leaders Scheme to Scrap Health-Reform Conferen ...
  
  
  
  by John Nichols Progressive activists have put a good deal of energy into preparing for an anticipated House-Senate conference committee, in which the distinct health-care reform bills enacted by the two chambers would be reconciled. The theory has been that, in the conference process, it might be p ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Dubai's Tower of Debt
  
  
  
  by Laura Flanders New year, new symbol? Dubai's new tower fits. The $1.5 billion building unveiled in downtown Dubai Monday is the world's new tallest tower. More than half a mile high, more than two Empire State buildings tall, the Dubai tower boasts 169 stories, the world's highest swimming pool, ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Judge Health Reform on Care it Delivers to People, ...
  
  
  
  by Marcy Wheeler There's a lot I object to in Hendrik Hertzberg's judgment of those opposed to the Senate health bill as "pathetic." His entire piece revolves around the claim that bill critics are committing a pathetic fallacy: attributing to an inanimate object-Congress-animate actions-passing the ...
  
  
  
  
  
• True Sustainability Needs an Ethical Revolution
  
  
  
  by Michael Nelson & John Vucetich Across college campuses students are beginning to sense that something has gone seriously wrong with our preoccupation over sustainability. read more
  
  
  
  
  
• After this 60-year Feeding Frenzy, Earth Itself ha ...
  
  
  
  by George Monbiot Who said this? "All the evidence shows that beyond the sort of standard of living which Britain has now achieved, extra growth does not automatically translate into human welfare and happiness." Was it a) the boss of Greenpeace, b) the director of the New Economics Foundation, or c ...
  
  
  
  
  

Karl Burkart

• Top 6 rumors about the Apple tablet
  
  
  
  Is the great mobile-computing convergence finally happening, or will it be just another pretty tablet?
  
  
  
  
  
• CIA to spy on the environment
  
  
  
  CIA revives MEDEA.. a partnership between the nation’s top spies and environmental scientists.
  
  
  
  
  
• 1973: the year environmental filmmaking was born
  
  
  
  Two of the best films of all time explored the sinister underbelly of environmental politics -- Chinatown & Soylent Green.
  
  
  
  
  
• Is Avatar radical environmental propaganda?
  
  
  
  Environmentalist and producer Harold Linde weighs in on the Hollywood-izing of the environmental movement.
  
  
  
  
  
• 11th Hour: How one film saved an ancient forest
  
  
  
  On the heels of a failed COP15, one story reminds me of the importance of media in the fight to save our planet.
  
  
  
  
  

Water Privatization

• Background Note: Lithuania (Scoop.co.nz)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Top Scoops (Scoop.co.nz)
  
  
  
  Excuse me while I wipe a tear from my eye. In his final State of the State address, the CA Governor has just delivered a heartfelt plea for us to feel sorry for the 144k Californians who contribute 50 percent of the state’s taxes for the benefit of the other 37 million of us.
  
  
  
  
  
• State Lawmakers Say They Hope to Ease Burden on Lo ...
  
  
  
  OLYMPIA —The governor and state legislators said they will work to help cities and counties save money this year by delaying some costly tasks required by state law and by giving local governments more autonomy over spending.Gov. Chris Gregoire and legislative leaders also promised Wednesday to try ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Top stories of 2009: Killings, 901 Sherman, sewage ...
  
  
  
  January The Novato City Council began consideration of the Marin Energy Authority, a joint powers authority created by county supervisors in November 2008. The council must decide whether to join MEA as part of the Marin Clean Energy initiative.
  
  
  
  
  
• Mayor doesn't support proposal to hear customers' ...
  
  
  
  Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta and some council members aren't backing a plan by the Hazleton City Authority to ask customers their views about his proposal to sell the water division of the authority. In Barletta's opinion, customers aren't the same as sha
  
  
  
  
  

Guardian

• US Democrats face midterm exodus
  
  
  
  Democratic senator and governor say they will not seek re-election, and two more set to follow, amid fears of backlash Democratic fears of a mauling in the next big electoral test in November grew today with a sudden flurry of surprise announcements from party veterans and rising stars that they w ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Witnesses confirm all UDA arms destroyed
  
  
  
  Largest Northern Ireland loyalist paramilitary organisation says violence 'no longer a viable option' The ex-head of the Anglican church in Ireland and a former senior British civil servant today confirmed that the Ulster Defence Association had put all of its illegal weapons beyond use. Lord Eames ...
  
  
  
  
  
• America's long love affair with the car stalls
  
  
  
  More cars scrapped than sold in US for first time since second world war America's love affair with the automobile could be sputtering to an end. Some 14m cars were taken out of action in 2009, 4m more than rolled off the assembly lines and onto the roads, a report from the Earth Policy Institute sa ...
  
  
  
  
  
• 24 hours in pictures
  
  
  
  A selection of the best images from around the world
  
  
  
  
  
• News quiz: Wacky Wednesday
  
  
  
  In the wider wacky world there's more going on than being stranded in a snowdrift Maev Kennedy
  
  
  
  
  

McClatchey

• Riding high a year ago, Democrats now fear disaste ...
  
  
  
  WASHINGTON — What a difference a year makes.
  
  
  
  
  
• Suspect in bombing attempt indicted, faces life in ...
  
  
  
  WASHINGTON — A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted the suspect in the foiled Christmas Day airline bombing on six criminal counts that could bring a life sentence if he's convicted.
  
  
  
  
  
• Horse racing takes $1.3 billion hit in 2009
  
  
  
  Thoroughbred racing took a huge financial hit in 2009, falling almost 10 percent, according to the latest economic indicators released Wednesday.
  
  
  
  
  
• New U.S. push for Mideast peace faces old obstacle ...
  
  
  
  JERUSALEM — A new U.S.-led initiative to revive Middle East peace talks faces steep hurdles even before it's launched, with Israelis and Palestinians resisting new concessions despite a fresh application of American diplomacy.
  
  
  
  
  
• After setbacks, Pakistani president may have weath ...
  
  
  
  ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's U.S.-backed president, Asif Ali Zardari, appears to have survived a campaign to oust him, a storm that had threatened to sidetrack the country from its battle with Islamic extremists.
  
  
  
  
  

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

• Arctic roots of 'upside-down' weather
  
  
  
  It's cold in Kirkcaldy , freezing in Frankfurt and brass monkeys in Bryn Mawr... a winter spell with weather that's unusually - well - wintry. But not everywhere; in fact, other places in the Northern Hemisphere are seeing weather that's unseasonably warm. In Goose Bay in Newfoundland, it's barely ...
  
  
  
  
  
• 2010: Intruders on a biodiverse year?
  
  
  
  In a somewhat dank and dreary London back garden, I've just been watching grey squirrels carrying off and eating bits of stale Christmas cake that we'd left out for them and the birds. If we'd been quick enough with the camera, it would have made a fantastic picture, with the bushy-tailed squirrel ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Best wishes from a white land
  
  
  
  Just a quick note, today, to say "best wishes" to everyone about to celebrate Christmas or some other winter festival. Here in London, it's been refreshing (in more ways than one!) to see snow on the ground and kids out playing in it - a reminder of childhood days. For me, it's time to put the lap ...
  
  
  
  
  
• COP15: (No) Hopenhagen?
  
  
  
  Everywhere you go in Copenhagen, you're met with two kinds of advertising poster. One sells lingerie, the morning walk to the railway station bringing a sequence of scarcely clad models smiling unfeasibly in the freezing morning air. The other sells hope. "Hopenhagen" has been the city's alterna ...
  
  
  
  
  
• COP15: Deal or no deal?
  
  
  
  0043 CET Saturday: Now, we are totally - totally - into uncharted territory. A US president has reached an climate change agreement with leaders of just four countries - although a few more clearly had a inkling of what was going on. The White House announced the deal - this is supposed to be a UN ...
  
  
  
  
  

Afghanistan Sun

• Civilians and foreign troops hit by Afghan roadsid ...
  
  
  
  Two Afghan civilians have been killed in an explosion that also wounded foreign troops.
  
  
  
  
  
• Afghan war 'kills three kids a day'
  
  
  
  Children are the biggest victims of the war in Afghanistan, with more than 1,050 people under 18 years old killed last year alone, according to an Afghan human rights watchdog.Taliban-linked militants...
  
  
  
  
  
• Portland native among killed in Afghanistan suicid ...
  
  
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. - A highly decorated soldier was among those killed in last week’s bombing at a CIA base in Afghanistan. Master Sgt. Dane Paresi, 46, grew up on Mount Scott and spent almost 30...
  
  
  
  
  
• U.N. Envoy to Afghanistan Warns of Peril of Emphas ...
  
  
  
  Afghanistan , warned the Security Council on Wednesday that an emphasis on security matters over social issues would doom international efforts to stabilize the country. “The political strategy ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Deadly Explosion Arouses New Afghan Anger at U.S.
  
  
  
  The blast turned a common gesture of friendship by American forces into what for Afghans has become an all too common tragedy, setting off angry recriminations and protests.Five people were killed: tw...
  
  
  
  
  

Futurismic

• Redefining friendship: Facebook, MMORPGs and Drago ...
  
  
  
  ### “The Antiques Roadshow” – For an entire generation of people who grew up [in the UK - Ed.] in the 1980s, those three little words herald a wave of unease and bitterness.  Like a Renaissance magus, they conjure forth memories of Sunday evenings dominated by the looming return of school [.. ...
  
  
  
  
  
• What will publishing look like a decade from now?
  
  
  
  Via a whole bunch of sources comes this piece by former publisher Richard Nash at Galleycat – an eight-point bullet list of the changes he expects to see in the publishing industry over the next ten years. [image by adactio] There’s nothing in there that you’ll not have heard from various prophets o ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Known space
  
  
  
  First hump-day of the year… sheesh. I don’t know about you, but I’ve a hankering for some sensawunda. And for me, nothing throws that switch quite like being reminded of how tiny and insignificant we are in the greater scheme of things. This video [via Lou Anders] will do exactly that. Enjoy! Proj ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Protective workwear supplied: cleaning the Burj Du ...
  
  
  
  File under science fictional employment opportunities: the Burj Dubai (that ludicrously huge tower in Dubai which we’ve mentioned here before) is finally open for business (if there’s any business left, natch), which means they need to keep the thing clean for tourists and visiting dignitaries – qui ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Cheer up, emo writer – maybe positive sf really co ...
  
  
  
  Well, it turns out my mother may have been right after all* – listening to music with positive messages in the lyrics encourages consideration and empathetic behaviour in teenagers, according to research at the University of Sussex here in the UK. Apparently, people who listen Michael Jackson’s “Hea ...
  
  
  
  
  

geopolitics | geoeconomics

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• University of Phoenix settles whistleblowers' frau ...
  
  
  
  The U.S. Department of Justice has announced a settlement with the University of Phoenix over its abuses in student recruitment.  The university will pay $67.5 million, of which $19 million will go to two whistleblowers, Mary Hendow and Julie Behn.  Hendrow and Behn were University of Phoenix employ ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Franken Amendment passes both houses of Congress
  
  
  
  Sen. Al Franken's amendment to bar use of mandatory arbitration agreements by defense contractors has now passed both houses of Congress.  Franken introduced his amendment in response to Halliburton/KBR's treatment of Jamie Leigh Jones. When Jones was 19, she began working for a Halliburton subsidia ...
  
  
  
  
  
• DC Council improves whistleblower protection law
  
  
  
  On Monday, the District of Columbia Council approved the Whistleblower Protection Amendment Act of 2009 , which strengthens the DC Whistleblower Protection Act (DC Code § 1-615.51 et seq.) and The Employees of District Contractors and Instrumentality Whistleblower Protection Act of 1998 (DC Code § 2 ...
  
  
  
  
  
• IRS rule to clarify taxation of personal injury co ...
  
  
  
  The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is now considering a proposed regulation that would expand the types of personal injury compensations that are exempt from income tax.  The proposed rule would eliminate the requirement that compensation be paid as part of a tort remedy.  However, the proposed rule ...
  
  
  
  
  
• 60 Minutes featured Birkenfeld case
  
  
  
  The CBS news magazine 60 Minutes featured a story about UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld this Sunday. In the story, Birkenfeld says he is the first Swiss banker ever to speak publicly about the famously secretive industry. He provided inside information that helped uncover thousands of untaxed S ...
  
  
  
  
  

Defense and the National Interest

• On War #323: Milestone
  
  
  
  William S. Lind 23 November 2009 One of the ongoing themes of this column has been gangs and the role they play in a Fourth Generation world. Here in the United States they already serve as an alternative primary loyalty (alternative to the state) for many urban young men. Gangs will likely be a m ...
  
  
  
  
  
• DNI to close — update
  
  
  
  23 November 2009 Many thanks to everyone who wrote in.  My wife and I are deeply touched. We’ll try to find someone to at least take over the site as it is and keep the links intact.  Several people have contacted me with ideas.  In the meantime, I’ll leave everything up unless we start having mo ...
  
  
  
  
  
• DNI to close
  
  
  
  Probably on Monday, November 23, depending on how my travels work out. Please go ahead and download any thing you’d like to keep — I’d particularly recommend Boyd’s briefings and the 4GW manuals. I have great faith in the growing number of bloggers and commentators who cover many of the same subjec ...
  
  
  
  
  
• On War #322: What Is “Political Correctness?”
  
  
  
  William S. Lind 18 November 2009 In response to the killing of 13 American soldiers at Ft. Hood by an Islamic U. S. Army major, a number of senior officials have expressed their fear, not of Islam, but of a possible threat to “diversity.” “Diversity” is one of the many false gods of “Political Corr ...
  
  
  
  
  
• What should we do with terrorists?
  
  
  
  Security guru Bruce Schneier has the right idea: We should treat terrorists like common criminals and give them all the benefits of true and open justice — not merely because it demonstrates our indomitability, but because it makes us all safer. Once a society starts circumventing its own laws, the ...
  
  
  
  
  

Digital Journal

• Report: 2009 deadliest year for Afghan children, 3 ...
  
  
  
  A new report released by the Afghanistan Rights Monitor shows that more than 1,050 children were killed in the United States-led invasion of Afghanistan, which is the worst year since the war began in 2001.
  
  
  
  
  
• America Waits For Leadership
  
  
  
  How can history be an accurate record when the elusive present is being recorded as wild distortions of reality by those entrusted with investigating and reporting it?
  
  
  
  
  
• Nine-year-old Vancouver girl sexually assaulted af ...
  
  
  
  A nine-year-old girl seated on a bench near the entrance to a mall in Vancouver was approached and lured to a park where she was sexually attacked. Cops have issued a composite picture of the suspect and a public warning.
  
  
  
  
  
• Alberta man visiting family in B.C. is brutally mu ...
  
  
  
  An Alberta man who went to Kelowna to spend New Year's Day with his family was deliberately run down with a van and murdered. Police have issued a Canada-wide warrant for a man they allege is extemely violent.
  
  
  
  
  
• Surrey, B.C. mom of two young kids murdered, husb ...
  
  
  
  A 32-year-old Surrey, B.C. mom of two pre-school children was originally reported missing. But when cops went to her house, she was found dead inside. Now, cops have charged her husband with second degree murder.
  
  
  
  
  

End Homelessness | Change.org

• Homeless Children, In Their Own Words
  
  
  
  Each year, one in 50 kids experiences homelessness, according to the National Center on Family Homelessness. This disturbingly high number proves that youth homelessness is more common than many know or see. But it is important to remember that the prevalence of youth homelessness does not diminish ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Homeless at Risk in Unusually Cold Temperatures
  
  
  
  If we highlighted every small town newspaper story about freezing temperatures and the deadly threat they pose to homeless populations that's published between December and February, we'd hardly get to anything else. But right now -- step outside -- the cold is even colder . USA Today reports that f ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Replacing the Revolving Door with the Front Door
  
  
  
  It's known as the "revolving door": when former inmates are released from prison or when patients are discharged from the hospital with no home to return to. So where do they typically go? The streets, in the worst cases, or emergency shelters, if they're lucky. There, they might receive a bed and w ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Kanye West Feeds the Homeless, Blogs About It
  
  
  
  Question: If a celebrity does something nice for humanity and doesn't distribute photographic proof to the press, did it really happen? Answer: We don't know, because it has never happened! Kidding, kind of. Kudos to Kanye West for volunteering at the LA Mission with his cousin and his girlfriend. T ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Don't Let Vegas Homeless Tunnels Become a Zoo
  
  
  
  By now you might have seen the story about the 300 homeless (mostly men, mostly addicted) that live in the flood tunnels under Las Vegas. Countless news outlets, including NPR, the Miami Herald and the Huffington Post, picked up the story from the Associated Press yesterday. Many also ran the AP's s ...
  
  
  
  
  

Ceasefire.ca

• Canadians unhappy with Harper on climate change
  
  
  
  A new Angus Reid poll shows that Canadians are generally unhappy with the results of last month’s Climate Change Summit (press release; full report). According to the poll, 48% of Canadians are dissatisfied with Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s performance at the conference (including 33% who are v ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Tsutomu Yamaguchi dead at 93
  
  
  
  Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the only official survivor of both the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, died Monday at the age of 93. Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on business on August 6th, 1945 when the first atomic bomb was dropped. He returned to his home in Nagasaki the following ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Air Force Association pushes CF-18 replacement
  
  
  
  The Air Force Association of Canada is pressing the government to proceed as soon as possible on a replacement for the CF-18 fighter, David Pugliese reports. The Next Generation Fighter program, expected to cost as much as $10 billion, is intended to procure about 65 aircraft to replace the CF-18 in ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Happy nuke year?
  
  
  
  The world’s nuclear arsenal has declined significantly from its Cold War peak, but the number of nuclear weapons still in existence remains absurdly high, as a recent overview produced by the Federation of American Scientists and the Natural Resources Defense Council shows. Worldwide deployments of ...
  
  
  
  
  
• PM prorogues Parliament
  
  
  
  Prime Minister Stephen Harper went ahead with his much-anticipated plan to prorogue Parliament on Wednesday, shutting down the operations of the House of Commons and Senate until March 3rd. The prorogation will have the effect of preventing parliamentary discussion of the detainee torture scandal fo ...
  
  
  
  
  

Kevin Trudeau Show

• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 1-6-10
  
  
  
  Today, Kevin Trudeau talks about the topics they don’t want you to hear!! And the publisher of the One Minute Cure, Maria Veloso, stopped by to give you the inside story on how to cure virtually ALL diseases for only a penny a day! Big Pharma Scandal Cell Phones Cause Brain Tumors Blackwater Parti ...
  
  
  
  
  
• France Cancels Order for Flu Vaccine
  
  
  
  January 06, 2010 Reuters By Anna Willard France has canceled over half the flu vaccines it ordered to combat the H1N1 flu virus, Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot said on Monday, in an effort to head off criticism after reserving too many shots. France ordered the vaccinations from Sanofi-Pasteur, a ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Britain’s Huge DNA Database Solves Only One ...
  
  
  
  January 6, 2010 DailyMail.co.uk Britain’s huge database of DNA solves only one in every 150 crimes despite it being the largest in the world. Police admitted yesterday that having more than 5.5million individuals registered on the database is not solving large numbers of cases. Of 4.9million offence ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Anti-Depression Drugs Found Mostly Useless in Stud ...
  
  
  
  January 06, 2010 Los Angeles Times By Shari Roan Antidepressant medications probably provide little or no benefit to people with mild or moderate depression, a new study has found. Rather, the mere act of seeing a doctor, discussing symptoms and learning about depression probably triggers the improv ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Security Industries To Profit From Airport Scanner ...
  
  
  
  January 6, 2010 SpaceWar.com Airport security buildups geared toward installing more body scanners at departure points have heartened investors who poured money into safety and security industries with the clear aim of profiting from current trends. Amid low interest rates, investors moved large sum ...
  
  
  
  
  

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

• Viva Palestina convoy’s arrival in Gaza
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Viva Palestina convoy entering Gaza
  
  
  
  Viva Palestina convoy entering Gaza By Paul Woodward, War in Context, January 6, 2010 Although it’s very slow moving, vehicles in the Viva Palestina aid convoy have finally started entering Gaza: The Viva Palestina aid convoy entered Gaza Wednesday, after it received the approval of Egyptian authori ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Viva Palestina convoy heading to Rafah
  
  
  
  Viva Palestina convoy heading to Rafah By Paul Woodward, War in Context, January 6, 2010 After a battle between Egyptian riot police and convoy members in Al-Arish last night, the convoy finally started out on the last leg of its journey a couple of hours ago: “Vehicles very slowly exiting port gate ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Viva Palestina convoy attacked in El-Arish - Press ...
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Twitter roundup from the Egyptian port of Al-Arish where the Viva Palestina convoy has been attacked By Paul Woodward, War in Context, January 5, 2010 The following tweets cover key moments from the last two hours in Al-Arish where Joti says: “All quiet for now. Six arrested, lots of head wounds as ...
  
  
  
  
  

Watts Up With That?

• Cold Killing Iguanas
  
  
  
  Extended cold could kill invasive iguanas Dropping temperatures slow down lizards Photo credit Bjørn Christian Tørrissen This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Official license From Sunsentinel.com With this week’s evening temperatures falling toward the upper 30s, strange ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Climategate: Michael Mann’s very unhappy New ...
  
  
  
  By James Delingpole Read original story here with comments. As I said yesterday, one of our jobs this year is to wipe the complacent smiles off the smug faces of the lobbyists, “experts”, “scientists”, politicians and activists pushing AGW. This is why I am so glad to report that Michael Mann – c ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Stat Model Predicts Flat Temperatures Through 2050
  
  
  
  Doug L. Hoffman The Resilient Earth Friday, Dec 18th, 2009 While climate skeptics have gleefully pointed to the past decade’s lack of temperature rise as proof that global warming is not happening as predicted, climate change activists have claimed that this is just “cherry picking” the data. They p ...
  
  
  
  
  
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  ‘Frozen Gore’ sculpture returns in Fairbanks to fuel climate change debate Fairbanks Daily Miner  | January 5, 2010 | Jeff Richardson FAIRBANKS – In what might become an annual tradition, an ice sculpture of former Vice President Al Gore has taken its place in front of Thrifty Liquor along Air ...
  
  
  
  
  
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  Socioeconomic Impacts of Global Warming are Systematically Overestimated Part II:  How Large Might be the Overestimation? Indur M. Goklany A major argument advanced for drastic GHG emission reductions is that, otherwise, we are told, global warming will exacerbate the problems that developing countr ...
  
  
  
  
  

Dandelion Salad

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  By Siv O’Neall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad axisoflogic.com January 6, 2010 A breathtakingly powerful Mafia is running away with the world as we knew it. We now have indiscriminate killings, torture and deprivation of civil rights. We have unbound aggression on countries that present an obstac ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Clouding the Issues By Timothy V. Gatto
  
  
  
  By Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad liberalpro.blogspot.com January 6, 2010 Listening to the commentators and political analysts on the lamesream media can quickly become infuriating. I’m not talking about Glenn “Crybaby” Beck or Sean  Hannity or even Bill O’Reilly, I’m talking ...
  
  
  
  
  
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  by William Blum Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.killinghope.org 6 January, 2010 The Anti-Empire Report The American elite Lincoln Gordon died a few weeks ago at the age of 96. He had graduated summa cum laude from Harvard at the age of 19, received a doctorate from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar ...
  
  
  
  
  
• 2009: The Year that “Perpetual Motion” Ended By St ...
  
  
  
  By Steve Windisch (jibbguy) Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Jibbguy’s Blog January 5, 2010 Looking back over the year 2009, we can see many important changes. Interestingly enough, the major changes soon to be related here were mostly not publicized in the Mainstream… Yet they certainly happene ...
  
  
  
  
  
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  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ RussiaToday January 05, 2010 Many American and British soldiers who have returned from Iraq are complaining about Depleted Uranium-related illnesses. They accuse both the Pentagon and the UK Ministry of Defense of covering up the problem. Poison Bullets follows ...
  
  
  
  
  

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  In Louisiana, a mother and son went to jail for growing this : More at The Boston Daily Enterprise. That's all. That pathetic little plant. How could the arresting police officers feel anything but humiliation that they are ordered to arrest people for such a 'crime'? Perhaps they enjoy their w ...
  
  
  
  
  
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  Dylan Moran : I didn't have a whole lot of religious belief to begin with: we were the only family on the street who didn't go to church. But it was a big part of Irish society. When I was born, something like 96% of Ireland went to mass every week. It's not like that now, partially because the chur ...
  
  
  
  
  
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  The Christmas Incident By Darryl Mason All I got for you is this series of twoots collected from Twitter last night , about a shocking gun-related early Christmas morning incident. Heard something on the roof. Sounds like hooves or something. I'm loading the shotgun. I'm going to have a look. Sho ...
  
  
  
  
  
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  Where Social Skills Are Valued More Highly Than Propensity For Violence American biologist George B Schaller : "Baboons live in a peaceful society in which not aggression but friendship achieves the desired result. "Baboons are individuals; each has its own temperament and idiosyncrasies, each h ...
  
  
  
  
  
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  Al Qaeda Agents Of The CIA A solid piece of War On Terror hard news by Kurt Nimmo. He lists known or suspected Al Qaeda terrorists who've worked for, or been trained by, the CIA : - Vinnell bombing leader Khaled Jehani (worked for the CIA in Bosnia, Chechnya, and Afghanistan) - USS Cole bomber Ja ...
  
  
  
  
  

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    > The space shuttle program is on its way out, but the core of people who built and maintained it will live on. To honor them, NASA gave its employees the chance to design the patch that will commemorate the shuttle program, which is slated to end in September, after [...]
  
  
  
  
  
• Galactic Dwarf’s Stardust Shines in Infrared
  
  
  
  The Small Magellanic Cloud isn’t much to look at with the naked eye, even for visitors to the International Space Station. Former astronaut John Grunsfeld told reporters Tuesday about a stargazing experience he had on the station. “At one point, I complained about a small greasy smudge on the windo ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Hubble Finds Farthest, Oldest Galaxies Ever Seen
  
  
  
  By pushing the refurbished Hubble Space Telescope to its very limits as a cosmic time machine, astronomers have identified three galaxies that may hail from an era only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. The faint galaxies may be the most distant starlit bodies known, each lying some 1 ...
  
  
  
  
  
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  WASHINGTON — The universe is one big dance party for black holes. New observations from the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii and the Hubble Space Telescope found 33 merged galaxies in which pairs of supermassive black holes are “waltzing” around the galactic centers. “Our result shows that such walt ...
  
  
  
  
  
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  The Kepler Space Telescope, a designated planet-hunting satellite, has found its first five planets, among them an odd, massive world only as dense as styrofoam. The number of planets now known outside the solar system has risen to over 400, but none is yet Earth-like enough to harbor life. Right n ...
  
  
  
  
  

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  I'm an inveterate optimist, so someday there will be peace, but a lot of things have to change before that happens. If the occupation were to stop overnight, it would make all the difference in the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
  
  
  
  
  
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  MK Ahmed Tibi: "Since the foundation of the state, the Israel Lands Administration is solely used as Jewish land administration. The director of the Israel Lands Administration has used all the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now i ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Nurit Peled-Elhanan: A year after the Gaza War
  
  
  
  It seems that the only value which we still have the power and means to instill is the value of refusal. To learn to say no. To teach our children who have not been poisoned yet to resist the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Antony Lowenstein: Gaza’s suffering is Israel’s sh ...
  
  
  
  The Egyptian regime blocked access for the mission, citing "security" concerns, and refused to grant entry visas to the assembled group. Cairo's position, undoubtedly backed by its masters the US and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  
  
  
  
  
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  A country that believes in the morality of its actions and those of its soldiers should not behave like a permanent suspect and boycott institutions of international law. On the contrary: It must... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  
  
  
  
  

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  CIA chief Leon Panetta has confirmed in an official statement that seven CIA operatives were killed and six others wounded in a recent terrorist attack in eastern Afghanistan.
  
  
  
  
  
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  North Korea stressed dialogue in improving relations with the United States as a key step toward a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula in a New Year's message on Friday
  
  
  
  
  
• Russia's Nerpa sub passes final trials
  
  
  
  Russia's Nerpa nuclear attack submarine, damaged in a fatal accident during tests in November last year, has successfully passed final trials.
  
  
  
  
  
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  Russia is planning to strengthen its positions as a key supplier of weaponry in the Asia-Pacific region by seeking new customers at a major arms show in Malaysia, state arms exporter Rosoboronexport has said.
  
  
  
  
  
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  Using laboratory mice that had been bred to have brain changes similar to Alzheimer's disease, scientists were able to reduce two characteristic features of the disease by modifying the mice's immune systems with a special peptide (MOG45D) related to the myelin sheath that insulates nerve cells and ...
  
  
  
  
  
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  The current health care reform bills approved by the House and the Senate seek to expand health insurance coverage while containing costs; however, the proposed policy changes are not guaranteed to improve health for individuals or society, according to a "Perspective" article by faculty of Weill Co ...
  
  
  
  
  
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  Crystal L. Haynes, CEO at Saint Louis University Hospital, will be honored as a recipient of a Patriot Award from the Employee Support of the Guard and Reserve and sign the official "Statement of Support."
  
  
  
  
  
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  Physicists who do research at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at The Florida State University got a brand new, high-tech toy for the holidays -- a world-record magnet.
  
  
  
  
  

Intel Trends

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  The following article is from Press TV, Tehran. Lawmaker: al-Qaeda running key Yemeni ministries ©   Press TV January 6, 2010 A Yemeni Parliamentarian says al-Qaeda enjoys strong support from the government of President Ali Abdullah Salih and runs key ministries in his cabinet. Exiled Yemeni lawmak ...
  
  
  
  
  
• IntelTrends 06-JAN-2010
  
  
  
  'Afghanistan bomber not necessarily a Jordanian' Jordan Times, 06 Jan There was no proof that the suicide bomber who killed eight people at a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) base in Afghanistan was a Jordanian, an official told The Jordan Times, referring to contradictory reports, including ...
  
  
  
  
  
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  The following statement is issued by the Eritrea Ministry of Information. State of Eritrea Ministry of Information January 5, 2010 PRESS RELEASE In the course of the interview President Isaias Afwerki was conducting with the national media outlets regarding the objective situation and future prospe ...
  
  
  
  
  
• The Yemen Hidden Agenda: Behind the Al-Qaeda Scena ...
  
  
  
  The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Global Research. The Yemen Hidden Agenda:  Behind the Al-Qaeda Scenarios, A Strategic Oil Transit Chokepoint ©  F. William Engdahl Source:   Global Research January 5, 2010 On December 25 U.S. authorities arrested a Nigerian named Abdulmuta ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Roads To Iraq.com: Full circle with Al-Qaeda
  
  
  
  [ Blogmaster note :  The following post is from 'Roads to Iraq' which, if I recall correctly, used to be on Blogger - then it became a private "members only" blog, and now it has its own web URL. Either way, it's a rather mysterious website whose author(s) are fluent in Arabic and frequently cite n ...
  
  
  
  
  

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• True Sustainability Needs an Ethical Revolution
  
  
  
  Obsessed with technology, we have overlooked something critical that lurks in our institutionalised notion of sustainability. Click here to read this article
  
  
  
  
  
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  On a frigid February day last year, Michele Hays filed into Evanston Township High School with other concerned parents to talk with district administrators about school lunches. Click here to read this article
  
  
  
  
  
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  With hundreds of thousands of seasonal flu-related complications, more than 35,000 deaths from the flu, and countless more from the H1N1 flu expected this season, ANH-USA asks the obvious question: What are the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National I ...
  
  
  
  
  
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  From the Industrial revolution and onward, the world has become an environment that is overflowing with dangerous toxins. Mass manufacturing has resulted in thousands of chemical pollutants being released in the atmosphere, water, and soil. As well, there has been a widespread increase of chemicals ...
  
  
  
  
  
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  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Durante la última década, hemos sido testigos de múltiples sucesos en el mundo. Acontecimientos que de alguna manera han cambiado nuestra forma de ver las cosas. Silenciosamente, hemos sido espectadores de una serie de ...
  
  
  
  
  
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Executive Intelligence Review

• To What Are You Loyal?
  
  
  
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 8, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 1
  
  
  
  
  
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  By Helga Zepp-LaRouche Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 8, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 1
  
  
  
  
  
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  Center for a Livable Future

  • Is CAFO Meat Legal?
    The New York Times’ Mark Bittman poses the interesting question in yesterday’s column, “Could Industrially Raised Meat Be Illegal?” Bittman pontificates that if the EPA has classified greenhouse gases as a human health hazard “as the EPA has declared, and the 1976 Toxic Substances Control A ...
    
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    After the December 7, 2009 post about the Eastern oyster’s (Crassostrea virginica) decline in the Chesapeake Bay, Dr. Kelly Goodwin, a scientist at NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC), informed me of a parallel story for California abalone species. Dr. Goodwin says: The peak decades for ...
    
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    On the heels of CLF’s Congressional Briefing Dec. 2, the Pew Environmental Group will be holding a Capitol Hill briefing tomorrow to discuss the impact on workers and communities of CAFO’s. The briefing, Industrial Animal Farms and Worker Health and Safety, is being held in collaboration with Rep. ...
    
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    As we give thanks for sustenance this holiday season, we might tip our hats to the life-supporting organisms living beneath our feet.  Virtually all that we eat, from tofurkey to turkey, originates on fertile soil.  From a consumer’s point of view, the story of a roasted bird begins at the super ...
    

  
  
  
  
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