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Thomas Paine

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

Monday, January 11, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • RIGHTS-PAKISTAN: Vestiges of War, Hopes for Peace
    PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jan 11 (IPS) - "We aren’t going to be browbeaten by acts of cowardice and would continue exposing Taliban and (other) militants," said an angry Shamim Shahid, president of the Peshawar Press Club (PPC).
  • Q&A: ''Copenhagen Was Great for Citizen Mobilisa ...
    BUCHAREST, Jan 11 (IPS) - "It is important that we all come together, the Green Party, NGOs and citizens, on major issues such as pollution in big cities or deforestation," says Remus Cernea, the new executive president of the Romanian Green Party. "And we have to use all means, from public prot ...
  • BURMA: Junta Turns to Draconian Electronics Law t ...
    BANGKOK, Jan 11 (IPS) - A court ruling in military-ruled Burma has brought into sharp focus a law the junta widely uses to go after civilians it wants to silence.
  • POLITICS: Iran Uses Fear of Covert Nuclear Sites ...
    WASHINGTON, Jan 10 (IPS) - The New York Times reported Tuesday that Iran had "quietly hidden an increasingly large part of its atomic complex" in a vast network of tunnels and bunkers buried in mountainsides.
  • MALAYSIA: Religious Intolerance Threatens Se ...
    KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 10 (IPS) - Days of simmering religious tension over a New Year’s Eve court ruling allowing Catholics to use the Arabic word ‘Allah’ to denote the Christian God have boiled over after unknown individuals tried to burn down three churches in the capital.

Scoop - NZ

  • Freak Current Takes Gulf Stream to Greenland
    An unprecedented extreme in the northern hemisphere atmospheric circulation has driven a strong direct connecting current between the Gulf Stream and the West Greenland current. The unprecedented negativity of the "Arctic Oscillation" and the strong connection of the Gulf Stream with the Greenland c ...
  • Iceland President tells UK where to go
    Iceland was plunged back into crisis after its president refused to sign a bill promising to repay more than a4‚¬3.8bn (£3.4bn) to Britain and the Netherlands after the collapse of the country's Icesave bank in 2008.Olafur Grimsson said he would force a referendum on the deeply unpopular legislatio ...
  • 100K shadow properties overhang LA housing market
    One resolution I had coming into 2010 was getting a better number for the shadow inventory in Southern California. It is rather clear that shadow inventory is a real factor in the current market but how big is this inventory? Can we really get an accurate figure for a large area like Los Angeles C ...
  • WSJ: The US is now a renters market
    Apartment vacancies hit a 30-year high in the fourth quarter, and rents fell as landlords scrambled to retain existing tenants and attract new ones.The vacancy rate ended the year at 8%, the highest level since Reis Inc., a New York research firm that tracks vacancies and rents in the top 79 U.S. ma ...
  • CRE: Partners Near Default on Stuyvesant Town
    The owners of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, the sprawling sister complexes overlooking the East River in Manhattan, will miss a $16 million loan payment on Friday, which would put them in technical default on their mortgages, and the 20,000 residents in limbo.The $5.4 billion purchase of ...

Independent ( London )

  • China's online game revenues hits £2.46 billion
    The pace of growth of China's online gaming industry slowed in 2009, growing 30.2 per cent to 27.1 billion yuan (£2.46 billion) over the previous year, according to data from research firm iResearch.
  • Shady Lady seeks male escorts with staying power
    The job has its perks. Pay is excellent. Hours are sociable. The surroundings are clean and comfortable, if a tiny bit chintzy, and you're guaranteed to meet lots of fascinating women. The catch? You are required to have sex with them.
  • Basra in 2006: The height of the insurgency
    Three years after British soldiers had been welcomed as the saviours of Basra, the city was in the grip of a violent insurgency and relations between the 8,000-odd garrison and dominant Shia population had sunk to an all-time low.
  • Freud fires opening shot in battle for soul of Fox ...
    Rupert Murdoch's son-in-law says family members are "ashamed and sickened" of the mogul's right-wing channel Fox News, in what Murdochologists said could be the opening salvo in a public battle for the soul of America's most-watched news channel.
  • Doubt cast over Karzai's new cabinet selections
    Afghan president Hamid Karzai has submitted a new list of prospective cabinet members to parliament a week after MPs dealt him an awkward blow by rejecting many of his first choices.

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran Uses Fear of Covert Nuclear Sites to Deter At ...
    Summary: Porter The New York Times reported Tuesday that Iran had "quietly hidden an increasingly large part of its atomic complex" in a vast network of tunnels and bunkers buried in mountainsides. source: AntiWar.com read more
  • The Mushroom Effect
    Summary: One could be forgiven for thinking that the neoconservatives who nudge us towards war with Iran are under the effect of the magic mushroom. Obsessed with Iran, their trips take on the shape of a 'mushroom cloud'. source: CASMII read more
  • China blocks Iran sanctions over its nuclear plans
    Summary: CHINA HAS blocked western efforts to impose a fresh round of UN sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme, saying diplomatic efforts to stop Tehran building atomic weapons are ongoing. source: Irish Times read more
  • UN Sanctions Hit Hospitals: Iran Running Out of Li ...
    Summary: Tehran's Shariati Hospital Trade sanctions imposed on Iran over its nuclear program are affecting treatment of people suffering from heart and kidney disease and various cancers. Some 850,000 patients are at risk because the country is running out of radioactive isotopes essential to ra ...
  • 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 ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • The Daily Flash -Eco, Space, Tech (1/11)
    Military Is Deluged in Intelligence From Drones As the military rushes to place more spy drones over Afghanistan, the remote-controlled planes are producing so much video intelligence that military analysts are finding it more and more difficult to keep up....
  • Hyper Speed: Mutation Rate of Evolution Discovered
    Everything you need to know about the evolution debate in a single sentence: while one side shouts about how it hasn't happened, the scientists have already measured its speed. It turns out that when you're interested in things like "proof"...
  • Voice-Powered Internet Dashboard to Revolutionize ...
    Mobile apps for Pandora and Stitcher, specially developed for in-car use, will be among the first to be supplied to users of Ford's all-new MyFord Touch system, Ford announced at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Ford says...
  • Avatar's Success Spurs 3D-TV Network from Discover ...
    A joint venture has been established to develop the first 24/7 dedicated 3D television network in the U.S. Hoping to move the technology out of theaters and into the living room, three of the world’s leading media, technology and entertainment...
  • Flying Cars Coming Soon? (DARPA Thinks So...)
    Flying cars soon may not only be a figment of an imaginative mind now that the U.S. military has announced a program it's calling "Transformer." The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) research group is brainstorming ideas for vehicles...

Natural News

  • Full-body scanners used on air passengers may dama ...
    (NaturalNews) In researching the biological effects of the millimeter wave scanners used for whole body imaging at airports, NaturalNews has learned that the energy emitted by the machines may damage human DNA. Millimeter wave machines represent one of two primary technologies currently being used f ...
  • New study: omega-3s may treat schizophrenia, ADD, ...
    (NaturalNews) Research just published in the journal Behavioral Neuroscience provides evidence that adequate omega-3 fatty acids are needed for healthy nervous systems. That could explain why low levels of omega-3s are associated with the information processing difficulties experienced by people wit ...
  • The Data Behind the New Mammogram Recommendations ...
    (NaturalNews) Several years ago, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (PSTF) issued an updated set of recommendations about mammogram screenings, suggesting which and how often women should get them. Since the last time the group issued its recommendations in 2002, new study data emerged that has ...
  • Airport shut down by incompetent TSA authorities a ...
    (NaturalNews) At the Bakersfield airport in California, TSA authorities recently shut down the entire airport after finding what they thought was a container of liquid explosives .Luggage screeners discovered five Gatorade bottles full of an "amber" liquid. TSA agents then opened the bottles and com ...
  • Baked Fish Far Healthier Than Fried Fish
    (NaturalNews) The American Heart Association (AHA) recently reported the results of a study conducted on cooked fish and how various cooking methods affect omega-3 fatty acid content. The study team found that baked or boiled fish is far healthier than fried, salted or dried fish. The study consiste ...

TheGallopingBeaver

  • Iggy gone inside 90 days?
    But Harper still gets a majority...according to a numerologist. Still, disregarding the source, it is an interesting scenario to ponder: Bob Rae for all his faults would at least have the Liberals acting like an Opposition. But to get there, the Liberals would at least have to join the present.
  • Change for the New Year . . . .
    It's time for WEB to make some changes for the New Year. You probably won't see much activity from me here for awhile on "The Beav" site - as far as posting goes, anyway. Who knows? That, too, may change. We'll see. (I'll definitely still be reading and commenting!) In the meantime, you ...
  • Refreshing
    IN A WORLD OF STEVIE, OCTO-MOM AND THE BALLOON BOY, Jessica Watson is delightfully refreshing. She's an adventurous sixteen year-old who is sailing round the world solo, to set a record for the youngest to do so. Roger Sandall is a Sydney writer, with a perspective on her attempt, following the effo ...
  • Wish you were here
    Via Impolitical , who suggests a companion pic of the opposition parties showing up on Jan 25th as originally scheduled to fill the opposition benches would make a very strong statement against the rogue PM. Travers, today : "Last year ministers threatened to go over the head of the de facto head ...
  • True Believers
    The two thousand member Baptist church was filled to overflowing capacity one Sunday morning. The preacher was ready to start the sermon when two men, dressed in long black coats and black hats entered thru the rear of the church.   One of the two men walked to the middle of the church while the ...

Media Matters for America

  • Monica Crowley revives dubious claim that waterbo ...
    On the January 10 edition of The McLaughin Group , Monica Crowley revived the dubious claim that "[w]aterboarding extracted a lot of very critical, actionable intelligence from Khalid Shaikh Mohammed," echoing the oft-repeated conservative claims that 2004 CIA documents prove enhanced interrog ...
  • Cavuto's flawed "global warming alert": "It is f ...
    On his Fox News show, Neil Cavuto introduced a segment by saying, "This is our Fox News global warming alert for you," and falsely claimed that "[i]t is freezing across the entire globe"; guest Ben Stein later suggested that "maybe all this talk about global warming needs to be rethought" becau ...
  • NY Post misleads on Napolitano's remark ...
    In a January 9 editorial on the attempted Christmas Day airline bombing, the New York Post attacked Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano's "latest set of bizarro comments" to suggest that Napolitano is unfit for the position. But the editorial misrepresented both of the r ...
  • Giuliani still in denial about Bush-era terror at ...
    After falsely claiming on Good Morning America that "[w]e had no domestic attacks under Bush," Rudy Giuliani stated during CNN's The Situation Room , "I did omit the words 'since September 11th.' I apologize for that. I should have put it in." However, Giuliani continued to ignore several dome ...
  • Conservatives' fevered claims about extending cert ...
    Conservative media figures Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Newt Gingrich have recently attacked President Obama for issuing an executive order designating the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) as a public international organization; these conservatives asked "what special i ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Gideon Levy of Ha'aretz: Israel Is Mentally Ill
    This is a fascinating piece by one of Israel's top writers. Levy asks how it is possible for any country to behave as irrationally as Israel, over and over doing things that undermine its chances for survival, its friendship with... Israel - Gideon Levy - Middle East - United States - Warfare ...
  • Democrats Should Tax The Hell Out Of the Upcoming ...
    This is from today's New York Times. "Industry executives acknowledge that the numbers being tossed around -- six-, seven- and even eight-figure sums for some chief executives and top producers -- will probably stun the many Americans still hurting from... New York Times - Wall Street - United ...
  • Nod, nod. Wink, wink.
    I have been reading Adam LeBor's absorbing, chilling book about Bernard Madoff's fraud, The Believers: How America Fell For Bernard Madoff's $65 billion Investment Scam, published a few months ago in the UK, but not yet in the US. The... Bernard Madoff - Fraud - Wall Street - Adam LeBor - Busin ...
  • What We Missed -- The Top TPMCafe Posts Of 2009
    2009 was an exciting, thought-provoking year here at the Cafe. We're hoping to bring in a new slate of bloggers to ensure that 2010 is just a strong. But before we look at the top posts of the year, let's... Barack Obama - United States - Politics - TPMCafe - Jon Taplin
  • Republicans: Party Before Country
    It becomes more clear every day that the Republican opposition - in Congress and the media - is not interested in solving any of America's problems. Their only goal is to bring down the Democrats. Some might respond that this... United States - Republican - Democratic - George W. Bush - United ...

TruthOut

  • The Shadow War
    Making sense of the new CIA battlefield in Afghanistan. read more
  • Iran Uses Fear of Covert Nuclear Sites to Deter A ...
    Washington - The New York Times reported Tuesday that Iran had "quietly hidden an increasingly large part of its atomic complex" in a vast network of tunnels and bunkers buried in mountainsides. read more
  • "The Uh-Ohs": A Decade of Conservative Failure
    "Stuff happens." — Donald Rumsfeld on the looting of Iraq following the U.S. invasion. Forget about "the Aughts." Never mind "the Naughts." The decade just passed — and which promises to leave a lingering, bitter aftertaste — deserves a far better, more descriptive name. So for what it's worth, I ...
  • Lawmakers Press for Geithner AIG Testimony
    Washington - U.S. lawmakers on Friday pressed for Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to testify on whether the New York Federal Reserve Bank improperly pressured AIG to withhold information on payments it made to banks after its government bailout. The requests came even as the Obama administration ...
  • Can China Save General Motors?
    Seven thousand miles from Detroit, GM builds a great wall of Buicks. Boston - Can things get any worse for Detroit? First, a suspected Islamic terrorist tries to blow up an airplane over the city (with a bomb in his underwear, no less). Then this week General Motors — the company that helped put th ...

Planetsave

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

Water Quality - WordPress

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Year in Review: The Little Climate Bill That Could ...
    EDITOR’S NOTE: At this rate, we may actually finish reviewing the year in blog 2009 by the end of January 2010– just how we wanted to start the year!!  But… stuff keeps happening…. and we can’t blog! Or we have to blog about the important, breaking news stuff!  So, sorry for dragging this out, but ...
  • Austin Scores $4.8M in Stimulus Funds for Green Jo ...
    On Wednesday, Rep. Lloyd Doggett announced that the city of Austin will receive $4.8 Million in stimulus funds to train 1,000 workers in energy efficiency and clean energy jobs.  Workers will be trained for jobs at solar plants in Austin, San Antonio and surrounding cities and states, and but the tr ...
  • Perry, Shaw Blow Smoke About Proposed Ozone Rule
    In response to the EPA’s announcement today of a proposed rule for tougher ozone standards, Governor Perry and his appointee to the TCEQ, Bryan Shaw, have been blowing a lot of smoke and hot air about what the rule would mean for Texas.  Specifically, Perry and Shaw have stated incorrectly that the ...
  • EPA: They did it, they did it, they did it, yeah!
    Just following up on our post yesterday that the EPA was going to announce a new air quality standard limiting ozone pollution: they did it! The United States Environmental Protection Agency today proposed the strictest health standards to date for smog…The agency is proposing to set the “primaryâ ...
  • 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 ...

Press TV

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Pig Nation 2: Do 'Freegans' Have An Answer To Food ...
    The day after Thanksgiving, I put up a post that generally got good responses, but special vitriol from one person who questioned the science involved. The crux was that, according to one recent study, 40 percent of all food produced in the U.S. is wasted, enough to feed tens of millions of people a ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Something to remember about al Qaeda: Killing Americans is not their raison d'etre . Toppling Arab governments that they consider corrupt and beholden the the United States is. And if they get the United States to behave in ways that undermine those governments, it advances their goals and hinders o ...
  • "I didn't take part in the stampede! I just yelled ...
    If someone used that as a defense in a court of law, they would be convicted, and hopefully have a couple of years tacked on for being stupid, too. But that is what the religious whack-jobs who have "adopted" Uganda are essentially doing, now that the seeds of hatred and intolerance have taken root ...
  • "We will never hand them that victory."
    Because it apparently was not filmed and therefore there is no video of it, you may have missed President Obama's Thursday remarks on strengthening intelligence and aviation security. It's a shame it's not available on video, because it was the kind of statement liberals have been demanding for year ...
  • Taser Killers Win By Cheating
    When you have to cheat, when you have to lie, when you have to game the system to win, you've proven that you're wrong, you're guilty, and you deserve to lose. But it was just a black guy who died.  Just a guy with bipolar disorder wandering around naked, not harming anybody. Just a Marine veteran. ...

Care 2

  • ACTION ALERT: Speak out for Fur Free Israel!!
    Israel creates a precedent by submitting the world’s first nationwide bill “Prohibiting the Industry of Fur”. Knesset member Nitzan Horowitz proposed on March, 18th 2009 a bill to prohibit the fur industry in its entirety, including all importation, Submitted by Simone D. to Animals  |   Note-it!   ...
  • Racial Violence Worsens in Italy - 4 Migrant Worke ...
    2 migrant workers shot, 2 more beaten with iron bars as racial unrest continues to grip S Italian town, after night of rioting & earlier shooting left 2 others wounded. 2,000 protest racist treatment by locals, who attack at squalid disused-factory squat Submitted by Alba Nuova to World  |   Note-i ...
  • Badger-baiters spared prison for offence
    TWO men have been spared jail after they were found guilty of a badger-baiting incident in which a dog was forced into a sett and attacked. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • HC rules keeping pets at home is not your right - ...
    All puppy mills, dogs breeding for profit be banned and closed down in India, animal rights be protected as well. Submitted by Kadyan Naresh to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Aust rodeo chops wild horse race
    Australia's Mt Isa Rodeo has withdrawn its Wild Horse race under the threat of legal action from the Royal Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA). Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

GreenBiz

  • Why the Triple Bottom Line Matters More Than Ever
    The concept of a triple bottom line, where social and environmental factors are considered along with economic ones, is also getting a lot of attention. Is this another business fad? I don't think so.
  • NYC's '1,000 Green Supers' Program Lands $2.8M Fed ...
    The U.S. Labor Department's release this week of $100 million in Recovery Act funds for green job training includes a nearly $3 million grant to New York City's innovative energy efficiency education program for building superintendents.
  • 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 boo ...
  • Why the Triple Bottom Line Matters More Than Ever
    The concept of a triple bottom line, where social and environmental factors are considered along with economic ones, is also getting a lot of attention. Is this another business fad? I don't think so.

Reuters Global

  • Kashmir gunbattle underscores India-Pakistan tensi ...
    A gunbattle this week between militants and security forces in the centre of Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, is a powerful reminder of the tensions in the region at the heart of enmity between India and Pakistan.
  • 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.

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Scott Brown vs. Harry Reid
    Impossible.   The special election in Massachusetts scheduled for January 19 is a donnybrook now after two contrasting likely voter polls in the last hours show the Republican State Senator Scott Brown leading the Democrat State Attorney General Martha Coakley by one point or trailing by fiftee ...
  • “Saint Elizabeth and the Ego Monster”
    Game Change LP: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime Are you looking for a fun, fascinating read? Well, it’s a read that may very well make you feel like taking a shower. However, do check out this excerpt from the new book, “Game Change,” with all the dirty [.. ...
  • Harry Reid Loves Him Some Knee-Grow
    Harry Reid knows a nice “Knee Grow” boy when he sees one. Yep. He do. Why be ‘doz Republicans up in arms? Just because Harry Reid: was wowed by Obama’s oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama [...]
  • In 15 Minutes, Join No Quarter Radio’s Sense on Ce ...
    Washington and Wall Street may think they can continue to play “business as usual,” but the times they are a-changin. Why are incumbents from both parties quitting? Why are select previously friendly members of the media starting to turn on the administration? Why are selected politicos even starti ...
  • And These Comments By Senator Reid Are Not Racist ...
    I just barely know where to start with this recent revelation about Senator Harry Reid. I will leave it to the headline to explain why Reid is in hot water now: Reid Apologizes For ‘Negro dialect’ Comment; Reid apologized Saturday for remarks he made about then-candidate Barack Obama. Washington (C ...

Environmental Graffiti

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • TSA goon loses notebook tracing blogger leaks; hon ...
    Next time at the airport: "resonant effects allow THz waves to unzip double-stranded DNA, creating bubbles in the double strand"..... But first, Crush the Bloggers with Fake Tweets!!! "Sent Blog Message to entice M... [?] to respond" --Randomly found TSA investigator notebook re manipulating Twitt ...
  • New TSA leak PDF; False Flag ops for Detroit Chris ...
    An interesting confluence of events as Obama suddenly grants INTERPOL diplomatic immunity of sorts, while an apparent airport false flag operation or at least 'shady biz as usual' unravels pretty quickly. Good times in the shadow state for 2010. We found some snippets on the case from two noted jo ...
  • First protest of 2010: Palestinian popular committ ...
    With a new year comes renewed awareness of the various interlocking scams and awful scenes continuing to unfold around the world. The activities in Gaza are also prompting more action in the West Bank - today's demonstration vs Israeli settler colonial operations near Bethlehem is the first protest ...
  • Corrupt Transportation Security Administration goo ...
    The Transportation Security Administration is a headless corrupt golem that threatens the safety of all Americans. No one is even in charge of this messed up agency, however like many of the federal security-oriented bureaucracies, its security divisions have become bloated and aggressive. Becaus ...
  • 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 ...

Daily Censored

  • Cancer Spreading In Iraq due to Depleted Uranium W ...
    Cancer is spreading like wildfire in Iraq. Thousands of infants are being born with deformities. Doctors say they are struggling to cope with the rise of cancer and birth defects, especially in cities subjected to heavy American and British bombardment. Dr Ahmad Hardan, who served as a special scien ...
  • Obama’s State of the Union– What he should say…
    We are broken.  I figured it out, even before reading Bob Herbert’s column today.  Regardless of the storm that is breaking the backs of state and local governments across the country, California is cutting social programs and salaries in an attempt to stay alive. Mr. Schwarzenegger has proposed eli ...
  • Petition to General Assembly of Virginia to Impeac ...
    Today, Saturday, January 9, 2010, I petitioned the Northern Virginia members of the General Assembly for an investigation of the obstruction of the rights of parents and the destruction of the independent’s of attorneys to serve the public by the Collusion of Government Attorneys and the Courts of V ...
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  • Transforming education right in front of your eyes ...
    What I will describe has been an ideological undertaking hatched in the back rooms of Wall Street in an effort to back hand the public. Schooling has now been transformed into a business plan and an ominous one at that, if one is interested in safeguarding anything public. The whole plan goes ...

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Pine River World News

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

    PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • "Transparency" - It is "time for change" at USDA/F ...
    When the USDA/FSIS and the Beef Industry are taking a hit for a Kansas Columnist, they need wake up and to take a hard look what’s on the grill (bad mixed metaphor). Last week I had a long talk with Ric Anderson of the Topeka-Capital Journal for his opinion piece – “Burger story shows need for more ...
  • CBS Poll - Where America Stands on Food Safety - 2 ...
    For my 2,500th post at Marler Blog , according to an CBS Poll , most Americans are at least somewhat confident that the food they buy to eat is safe, and while only one in four would give the country a grade of D or F on ensuring the safety of the food supply, few would give the country an A either. ...
  • "All the Food that's not Fit to Eat" - Pasta Salad ...
    Stephanie Gaskell of the New York Daily News reported last week that the “New York Times cafeteria food may be past its deadline.”  According to the Daily News, “[t]he Health Dept. is investigating cases of possible food poisoning at the New York Times cafeteria. …The dining room at the paper's hea ...
  • Newark Iberia Peninsula Restaurant Sickens Several ...
    According to Newark health officials, Salmonella contamination caused many people to suffer food poisoning at Iberia Peninsula restaurant in the Ironbound section of the city.  Dozens of patrons got sick and a few were even hospitalized after attending parties there around Christmas.  Health inspect ...
  • E. coli O157:H7, My Constant Companion for 17 Year ...
    Along with most of the country, I was introduced to E. coli O157:H7 suddenly in 1993, when hundreds of people became ill and four children died after eating Jack in the Box hamburgers. However, the then little-known strain of bacteria was first recognized as a new food-related threat more than a dec ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Auto Expo 2010: Chevrolet e-Spark, an electric car ...
    Chevrolet e-Spark - Click above for high-res image gallery The Reva NXG concept car looks aggressive, like it wants to hunt down anyone who says that all electric cars needs to look silly. The Chevrolet Spark concept , too, looks pretty darn good for a little car. The two companies are working t ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 01.08.10
    Greenlings: What's the point of concept cars? All those crazy ... things automakers bring to NAIAS and other shows have a purpose. Something Fishy: Suzuki to show scaley Alto at International Green Week i ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 01.07.10
    Think CEO Richard Canny talks about Indiana plant deal, electric car plans for the U.S. American-built Think vehicles will roll out in early 2011. Video: Former Earthrace biodiesel boat nearly sunk by Jap ...
  • 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 ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

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

Farming Pathogens

  • 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

  • CES 2010 -YoGen Makes a Splash in Pull-String Char ...
    The YoGen hand-held charger is one we talked about back in October, and I finally got to see it in action at CES. It was one of the more popular booths in the Sustainable Planet section, and ..........................
  • Oceans release DDT from decades ago : Nature News
    Nature - the world's best science and medicine on your desktop
  • Can Coral Recover from Climate Change Damage?
    A study by the University of Exeter provides the first evidence that coral reefs can recover from the devastating effects of climate change. Published Jan. 11, 2010 in the journal PLoS ONE, the research shows for the first time that coral reefs located in marine reserves can recover from the impacts ...
  • Obama Awards $2.3 Billion Clean Energy Tax Credits
    U.S. President Barack Obama unveiled a $2.3 billion tax credit on Friday to boost jobs by promoting clean energy, as new data showed the country's unemployment rate remained stuck in the double digits.
  • US owned eSolar strikes deal to build power plants ...
    A U.S. solar power company said Saturday it will help build a series of solar thermal power plants in China, as the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases tries to decrease its heavy reliance on coal, imported gas and oil.

Invisible Opportunity

  • Global Cooling in 2009 – 375 Headlines
    2009 was another year of global cooling, which saw numerous low temperature and high snowfall records smashed. The Dutch canals froze over for the first time in 12 years, record cold came to Al Gore’s home town and ironically a blizzard dumped snow on the Copenhagen convention where world leaders me ...
  • SNOW CHAOS: AND THEY STILL CLAIM IT’S GLOBAL ...
    By Martyn Brown AS one of the worst winters in 100 years grips the country, climate experts are still trying to claim the world is growing warmer. With millions of Britons battling through snow and ice to get to work today, scientists claim that the cold conditions should not be used as evidence a ...
  • Breaking: Dutch Authorities Claim No Accomplice in ...
    by Larry O’Connor According to Reuters, Dutch authorities have announced that Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, the terrorist who penetrated the Dutch security system on Christmas Day on Flight 253 to Detroit, acted alone with no accomplices at the Amsterdam airport. This directly contradicts the first-h ...
  • Revisiting the Swine Flu Lies and Hysteria
    By Karen DeCoster Along with the U.S. government’s numerous military entanglements, there are a series of “smaller” wars that the state carries out against the people who reside within its borders. These “wars” all bear the crisis logo, and they are always targeted at protecting you from something — ...
  • Germany, Holland, Switzerland, France desperately ...
    By Dominika Pszczółkowska (Gazeta Wyborcza) Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, France – European governments increasingly trying to sell influenza A/H1N1 vaccine, of which they bought too much. The case evokes heated controversy among others on the Seine River. Disproportion between the number ...

Insurgency Watch - Posts

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth
Broadway show billboards at the corner of 7th ...Image via Wikipedia

  • Fast Food Strikes (Out) Again
    A recent article in the Huffington Post has me completely infuriated. What did it say about soda? Are you sitting down? Related posts: Putting the Gross in Groceries – Food Inc. the Documentary The Beef Stops Here at Sacred Heart Hospital Good News Monday – Bloggers Donate 720 Cans of Food to Food ...
  • U.S. Department of Labor Rolls Out New Green Jobs ...
    Under the leadership of U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis, green jobs have become a priority at the U.S. Department of Labor. Related posts: 15,000 Green Jobs Coming to London Site Update for Twilight Earth: Change In the Air EPA Seeks Comments on Greener Site Cleanups
  • Senior Citizen Tells Youth – Dont Make the Mistake ...
    A heartfelt letter from Gene Steele to the next generation. Related posts: Global Youth Video to World Leaders: Youre Not Done Yet and Neither are We Twilight Earth Exclusive Cop15 Video – China Youth in Copenhagen Senior Citizens March 25 Miles Against Mountaintop Removal
  • 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 ...

Inhabitat

  • Whale-Shaped Floating Garden Cleans the World’s Ri ...
    Vincent Callebaut, visionary behind the Lilypad and Dragonfly, has created a whale-shaped floating garden designed to drift through the world’s rivers while purifying their waters. The Physalia is a self-sufficient ecosystem that generates all the power it needs from the sun and works to reduce wate ...
  • THE GREAT VEGAN SHOE SALE: Up to 50 Percent Off Ec ...
    If you’ve been on the hunt for an uber-comfy yet stylish pair of flats or a sassy new pair of patent heels, look no further, because we’ve got ‘em! You can find all this foot candy and more at the Great Vegan Shoe Sale going on right now in our Inhabitatshop. With prices slashed up to 50 [...]
  • Vespa Scooter Transformed into a Revved Up Rocking ...
    This ain’t your grandpa’s rocking horse! Well, okay, it actually is – sorta. This beautiful baby blue Vespa was recycled by one loving grandfather into a totally revved up “rocking horse” for his grandson. This DIY gift is so rad that we would love it even if it wasn’t green. but it is, which makes ...
  • Asus Unveils Waveface Ultra Flexible OLED Smartpho ...
    Smartphones have gotten progressively smaller, sleeker and more powerful in the past few years, but most of them don’t address one annoying problem – you have to hold them. Oh bother. If you’re looking for something with a little more superhero panache, check out what Asus just unveiled at the Consu ...
  • The Top 9 Ninja Characteristics of Awesome Archite ...
    We have to give a shout out to Sydney-based architecture student/blogger Linda Bennett over at Archi-Ninja for her cool and clever comic: Top 9 Ninja Characteristics of Awesome Architecture Blogs, in which she gives an animated nod to us! We’re honored that Linda cartoonized us amongst great com ...

Pogue's Posts

Open Your Eyes News

  • China’s First Gay Pageant Gives Glimpse Of New Acc ...
    The Guardian – There’s a swimwear round and a talent section where contestants can show off their singing and dancing. But organisers insist the contest to be held this Friday is a serious business. It is China’s first gay pageant. The event is a striking sign of how far attitudes in China have cha ...
  • Iran can be bombed says General Petraeus
    Telegraph – The US military commander for the Middle East and the Gulf region has confirmed that the United States has developed contingency plans to deal with Iran’s nuclear facilities. Gen David Petraeus, head of Central Command or Centcom, did not elaborate on the plans, but said the military has ...
  • Artificial leaf could make green hydrogen
    New Scientist – HIDDEN detail in the natural world could hold the key to future sources of clean energy. So say materials scientists who have created an artificial leaf that can harness light to split water and generate hydrogen. Plant leaves have evolved over millions of years to catch the energy i ...
  • Paper Strips Can Quickly Detect Toxin in Drinking ...
    ScienceDaily (Jan. 11, 2010) — A strip of paper infused with carbon nanotubes can quickly and inexpensively detect a toxin produced by algae in drinking water. Engineers at the University of Michigan led the development of the new biosensor. The paper strips perform 28 times faster than the compli ...
  • UAE sheikh cleared in videoed torture case
    BBC – A member of the ruling family of the United Arab Emirates has been cleared of the torture of a business associate. Lawyers for Sheikh Issa bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the president’s brother, said the court ruled he had been drugged and so was “unaware of his actions”.  Read Article Ed – Rich enough ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Movie Review: Avatar (James Cameron, 2009)
    Movie Review: Avatar (James Cameron, 2009) by Prairie Fire (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Avatar (James Cameron, 2009) is part of a long tradition of “going native” movies. In this sense, Avatar has been correctly described as “Dances with Wolves in space.” Nonetheless, there is more to Avatar ...
  • United Snakes meddles in Middle East, Iran and Yem ...
    United Snakes meddles in Middle East, Iran and Yemen.. First Worldist “left” cheers (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) The Obama administration is increasing the US involvement in the affairs of both Iran and Yemen. This should be no surprise to anyone since the Obama administration is as fund ...
  • RAIM: Fuck the border
    Posted in ..Monkey and the Troublemakers, ..RAIM-Seattle, Communism, Latin America, Maoism, Maoism Third Worldism, Maoisme, Maoismo, Mexican Liberation, North America
  • Τζο ο «Μέσος Αμερικάνος»
    Τζο ο «Μέσος Αμερικάνος» Πηγή:monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com Αυθεντικός τίτλος: The average Joe Amerikan (in English) (in Polish) Ο «μέσος Τζο» κατέχει ειδική θέση στην αμερικάνικη συνείδηση.Ο εν λόγω λογοτεχνικής έμπνευσης ,δημοφιλής χαρακτήρας, «ήρωας της εργατικής τάξης», εμφανίζεται σε ταινί ...
  • 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 ...

PakAlert

  • The World’s Worst Terrorists Based In Washington
    AMERICANS MUST ASK; WHO IS BREEDING TERRORISM? The above-captioned article was written by John Pilger in the daily The Yumiuri Shimbun, of Japan, dated 30th August, 1998. He says “In recent years Muslims have been the greatest sufferers from state terrorism.” The excerpts of his above-mentioned arti ...
  • 10 Sci-Fi Weapons That Actually Exist
    Sure, the gear may look like it came straight out of Avatar or Battlestar Galactica. But all of the laser weapons, robots, sonic blasters and puke rays pictured here are real. Some of these weapons have already found their way onto the battlefield. If the rest of this sci-fi arsenal follows, war may ...
  • Earth ‘to be wiped out’ By Supernova Explosion
    The Earth could soon be wiped out by the explosion of a star more than 3,000 light years away, according to American scientists. By Ben Leach | telegraph.co.uk T Pyxidis Photo: NASA The star, called T Pyxidis, is set to self-destruct in an explosion called a supernova with the force of 20 ...
  • Ukraine Swine Flu Fatalities Jump to 827 – 100,000 ...
    3,905,542 Infected 225,925 Hospitalized 827 Dead The above update is from the Ukraine Ministry of Health.  The 24h increases included 22 more deaths and over100,000 new cases.  Much of the activity is in the eastern half of the country, with the biggest increases in cases, 6,563 to 343,583, and deat ...
  • Norway Time Hole “Leak” Plunges Northern Hemispher ...
    Russian scientists are reporting to Prime Minister Putin today that the high-energy beam [photo top left] fired into the upper heavens from the United States High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HHARP) radar facility in Ramfjordmoen, Norway this past month has resulted in a “catastrophic ...

ecogeek

  • Starfish: Carbon Storage Heroes
    According to a new study by British researchers, starfish and their fellow echinoderms (sea urchins, sea lilies, etc) act as a significant sink for CO2.  The ocean bottom-dwellers store about 2 percent of annual human CO2 emissions. Researchers knew echinoderms store large amounts of calcium carbon ...
  • Why Antarctica Isn't Melting Like the Arctic...Yet
    You've probably noticed that you read a lot of stories on Arctic melt , how quickly it's progressing, opening up shipping lanes and hurriedly moving towards ice-free summers.  But what you don't read much about is melting of Antarctica's ice sheets.  If global warming is causing polar ice melt - wh ...
  • 4 Great Moves by the EPA, and 1 Step Backwards
    In most respects, this adminstration's EPA is getting things done.  They're regularly throwing out bad policies and implementing better ones .  Here are four things the agency has announced recently that made us cheer and one that made us boo - loudly. The Good 1.  They're overhauling the Toxic Sub ...
  • 2 Signs the Time has Come for Alternative Transpor ...
    Two interesting pieces of news came out this week showing that Americans are becoming more open to car-less travel:  (1) the Earth Policy Institute released a study showing that car ownership dropped by 4,000,000 vehicles in 2009 and (2) the Upper West Side of New York City will be converting 240 p ...
  • 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 ...

Times Online - Science

  • Post-election budget squeeze may bring about cuts ...
    Entire fields of health research are likely to be shut down if the next government cuts spending on medical science to reduce Britain’s £178 billion budget deficit, The Times has learnt.
  • Baroness Greenfield: populist scientist or talente ...
    Baroness Greenfield is one of the most colourful and divisive figures in British science. To her friends and fans she is an inspirational communicator of science, a role model for women in research and a tireless campaigner against sexism in the laboratory. Her detractors contend that she is a more ...
  • Royal Institution ‘risks future by making Ba ...
    The Royal Institution of Great Britain has put its future at risk by abolishing the job of its director, Baroness Greenfield, two former trustees of the venerable scientific body said.
  • Baroness Greenfield loses her job in Royal Institu ...
    Baroness Greenfield has lost her job as the director of one of Britain’s oldest and most venerable scientific institutions, The Times has learnt.
  • Fear and the unknown
    "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • KWIN-uh-pe-ack Poll is up - And so am I...
    It is way too early in the morning but I figured I'd check for the latest Quinnipiac poll results for the Connecticut Governor's race : In an early look at the 2010 election for Connecticut Governor, Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz runs best among possible Democratic challengers, trailing Republi ...
  • Note to Simmons and McMahon: Crystal Balls and Tea ...
    Smash mouth political commentary from Linda McMahon and Rob Simmons : "Isn't it sad that after 30 years in Washington, Chris Dodd is still writing letters and putting out press releases after the fact,'' Ed Patru, spokesman for Linda McMahon, said in a press release. "The H1N1 shortage didn't just o ...
  • Single Payer Activists Arrested at Lieberman's DC ...
    They came, they sat, they chanted : 8 Protesters backing a universal health care system briefly occupied Sen. Joe Lieberman's office this morning. Protesters were arrested, one by one, and dragged out of his office amid chants of "Everyone in and noone out, universal healthcare now!" and "Represe ...
  • Lamont In - Rell Out There Somewhere?
    Still waiting on word from Rell on whether or not she will be running - presumably she is having trouble forming an opinion on whether or not to run without Dautrich first poll testing the ideas - but, via Paul Bass, it looks like Lamont is getting ready to run for Governor : Ned Lamont, who took o ...
  • Banks - Breaking up is hard to do:
    Via the LA Times: Britain is forcing breakups of bailed-out major banks The British government -- spurred on by European regulators -- is forcing Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Banking Group and Northern Rock to sell off parts of their operations. The Europeans are calling for more and smaller ba ...

SPL Center

  • Indictments Detail Alleged Police Cover-up in Beat ...
    At about 11:30 on the night of July 12, 2008, six teenagers brutally assaulted a Latino man in a Shenandoah, Pa., park while yelling “Fucking spic, “Go back to Mexico” and “Tell your fucking Mexican friends to get the fuck out of Shenandoah.” As they gathered at one of their homes after the attack, ...
  • Racist Skinhead’s Wife Behind European &#821 ...
    The online news site European Union Times (EUT) — which recently “broke” a story about President Obama preparing for an imminent civil war — is being cited as a credible source by several libertarian bloggers who are hyping the story. It turns out the EUT was created in October and is registered t ...
  • Witness Testimony Details Hal Turner’s FBI R ...
    BROOKLYN, N.Y. — With the FBI paying for his plane ticket, white supremacist Hal Turner flew to Brazil on behalf of the National Alliance because a Brazilian had offered to donate money to the neo-Nazi group, a government witness testified today. As the government began presenting its case during th ...
  • Turner Case Ends in Mistrial
    Hal Turner’s case ended in a mistrial today after a jury was unable to decide whether the hate blogger was guilty of threatening three federal judges. A new trial is set for March 1 in Brooklyn, according to The Associated Press. The jury voted 9-3 for acquittal, according to the only juror who spok ...
  • Opening Arguments: Turner’s FBI Role to be Central
    BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Domestic terrorist who encouraged fellow white supremacists to kill federal judges? Or shock jock who provided valuable information to the FBI? Government prosecutors and defense lawyers offered strikingly different portraits of Hal Turner (for a short 2003 profile, go here), the Ne ...

change: org.

  • Nelson Mandela and the Elders Say God Doesn't Hate ...
    When the world's a mess, what do you do? Nelson Mandela says: look to your Elders. The Elders was formed as a small, independent group of committed -- well, changemakers -- who would take advantage of the fact that the world is shrinking to work together "to resolve global problems and ease human su ...
  • Social Entrepreneur Crib Notes for "The Essential ...
    A couple weeks ago, Om Malik put together maybe my favorite list of "essential startup reads" I've ever seen. The list ranges from pieces to help you understand the emotional wallop of starting a new organization to how to think about constant improvement. Of course, the list is mostly focused on be ...
  • Yet Another Catch-22: The Wealthiest Students Have ...
    North Carolina might have the very best teachers in the nation -- so far, a nation-leading 15,700 of them have earned National Board Certification. The problem, according to an analysis by the Charlotte Observer , is that these motivated teachers aren't instructing the students who need them the mos ...
  • The Homeless As Ad Space
    Is paying a homeless man $100 to hold a movie poster a way to provide him with an honest day's work or a way to exploit him as little more than ad space? According to entertainment journalist Nikki Finke, movie producer David Permut paid a veteran named Ronald to hold a poster for Youth in Revolt , ...
  • Why Aren't There More Organic Wines?
    California is home to all kinds of eco-friendly and just outright new-agey diets. It's also home to the United States' most significant vineyards. So why don't you see more organic wines for sale? It's a little thing called sulfites . Sulfites, to which some people are allergic, occur naturally in ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Popular Kids’ Trinkets Loaded with Toxic Metal
    by Justin Pritchard LOS ANGELES - Barred from using lead in children's jewelry because of its toxicity, some Chinese manufacturers have been substituting the more dangerous heavy metal cadmium in sparkling charm bracelets and shiny pendants being sold throughout the United States, an Associated Pres ...
  • Climate Reform’s Good, Bad, and Ugly
    by Sarah Laskow The next United Nations climate change conference is almost a year away, and health care is still dominating the legislative agenda in Washington. That means climate reform opponents, from the coal industry to the global warming skeptics, have plenty of time to work, out of the spotl ...
  • Chernobyl Nuclear Accident: Figures for Deaths and ...
    by John Vidal At the children's cancer hospital in Minsk, Belarus, and at the Vilne hospital for radiological protection in the east of Ukraine, specialist doctors are in no doubt they are seeing highly unusual rates of cancers, mutations and blood diseases linked to the Chernobyl nuclear accident 2 ...
  • Israel Vows 'Powerful Response' to Gaza Attacks
    GAZA/JERUSALEM - Three Palestinian militants were killed in an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed a "powerful response" to any attacks from the territory. An Israeli army spokesman said an Israeli aircraft carried out an air strike aga ...
  • 30 Iranian Mothers Arrested at Peaceful Gathering, ...
    Thirty members of a women's group were arrested by Iranian security forces during a peaceful protest in a Tehran park on Saturday, a human rights organization reported. The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, citing an eyewitness account, said more than 100 police and plainclothes offic ...

Lifehacker

  • Five Best DVD-Ripping Tools [Hive Five]
    You pay good money for your DVDs, but they're hardly the only format you need these days. These five ripping tools ensure you can back them up, keep them on your media server, and load them on your favorite portable player. Photo by jonasj . Earlier this week we asked you to share your favorite DVD- ...
  • Make Your Own Twinkies (Without the 100-Year Shel ...
    For some (me), Twinkies are one of life's best indulgences—but the idea of ingesting something that could theoretically survive a nuclear winter is a little unnerving. Here's a preservative-free recipe for the yummy snack cakes you can feel good about. To whip these bad boys together, food web site ...
  • FreeDocumentaries Catalogs Free Documentaries for ...
    FreeDocumentaries is a large repository of documentary films that have been released by their respective copyright owners for public display. You won't be stuck watching dated old films however—the offerings at FreeDocumentaries are recent and intriguing. One of the problems with many of the free of ...
  • Clean Out Your Closet, Make Extra Cash by Selling ...
    Next time you're cleaning out your closets, keep in mind that some of what you're getting rid of might fetch a few bucks at your local clothing consignment shop. Here are some tips for getting the most from your old threads. Photo by kthread . Unlike charitable foundations and resale shops that take ...
  • Top 10 Winter Survival Tools and Tactics [Lifehac ...
    No matter how many times we go through it, winter always seems to catch us by surprise—a chilly, costly, inconvenient surprise. Prepare yourself for the rest of this season with helpful and healthy projects, clever tricks, and energy savers. Photo by Roby Ferrari . 10. Make your own lip balm Sure, B ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

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

Water Wars

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Electronic Intifada

  • Will Egypt's underground wall end the Gaza tunnel ...
    A subterranean wall being built by Egypt along its border with Gaza is meant to hack the tunnel structures, which extend from the Egyptian side of the border to the Gaza's side for distances that rang ...
  • Imprisonment as political pressure: Addameer's Sah ...
    The Palestinian nongovernmental organization Addameer was founded in 1992 to promote and protect the rights of political prisoners. The Electronic Intifada interviewed Sahar Francis, a human rights la ...
  • Miss Palestine's mistaken rebellion
    One of the travesties of living in a colonized environment is that the inferior, or oppressed, aspire to win admittance to the Western world. There seems to be an emerging trend of this type of appeas ...
  • "No army, no prison and no wall can stop us"
    I mark the beginning of the new decade imprisoned in a military detention camp. Nevertheless, from within the occupation′s holding cell I meet the New Year with determination and hope. I know that Isr ...
  • My husband: jailed for protesting Israel's wall
    On International Human Rights Day in 2008, my husband Abdallah Abu Rahmah was in Berlin receiving a medal from the World Association for Human Rights. Last year on the same day, 10 December, Abdallah ...

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

  • Cool Graphic Reminder: U.S. Still Spending Far Mor ...
    On Tuesday, the Center For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a report indicating that the recession has slowed the growth of health care spending. U.S. health spending grew 4.4 percent in 2008, its slowest rate in nearly 50 years. Overall health spending reached $2.3 trillion in 2008 or ...
  • Kyl Blocking Treasury Nominees Because He Doesn&#8 ...
    Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) evidently doesn’t like online gambling very much, and in 2006, he helped craft a law banning the processing of online wagers. The law and its corresponding regulations were supposed to go into effect last month, but the Obama administration and the Federal Reserve pushed back the ...
  • REPORT: Health Care Reform Could Create 250,000 &# ...
    On Tuesday, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) characterized the administration’s efforts to pass health care reform as a “mistake” and argued that the nation would have been better served if Congress spent more time strengthening the economy and creating jobs. Well today, a new report by David Cutler and Neera ...
  • A Self-Described ‘Wiser Lou Dobbs’ Sup ...
    Former CNN anchor and anti-immigration reform crusader Lou Dobbs appeared on the O’Reilly Factor last night with an interesting announcement. Dobbs told host O’Reilly that he supports immigration reform with a path to citizenship and also lamented his “combative nature” during the 2007 immigration ...
  • Despite California’s Example, Gov. Perry Pro ...
    Last month, Rep. Dan Lungren (R-CA) took to the House floor to proclaim that California’s Proposition 13 — which requires that a two-thirds majority of the state legislature approve any tax increase — should be a “guiding light” for the nation. And Lungren is evidently not the only one who believes ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Please Read
    I first posted this excerpt from this recent post . But I think it got lost in the shuffle of the reporting on General Natynczyk's about face on whether we'd actually detained and transferred that one suspect over to his Afghan abusers. The thing is, this account of CF actions in the field [dating ...
  • Online Petition For Public Inquiry Into Torture
    Pursuant to the goal of bringing accountability and the rule of law to Canada, and starting the process of getting the harpercons into the prison cells they're inevitably going to be thrown into, Alison at Creekside has a link to an online petition for a public inquiry into torture . Please sign it ...
  • 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, ...

Financial Sense Editorials

  • Why You Should Care About DJIA Priced in Gold
    by Elliott Wave Int. "Of the many forward looking market indicators we at EWI employ, one of the most interesting tools (and least discussed in the financial media) is the DJIA priced in gold -- "the real money," as EWI's president Robert Prechter calls it."
  • Get Your Gold the Hell Outta Here!
    by Doug Hornig. "It seems that everyone these days wants gold. Real, physical gold coins that they can hold in their hands, or bars that they’re assured are resting safely in a well-guarded vault. HSBC’s New York vault, for example, buried deep below its 5th Avenue tower, where it has stored people’ ...
  • Learning From Mistakes
    by J. R. Nyquist. "As Northwest Airlines Flight 253 approached Detriot, passengers heard what sounded like a firecracker. Then someone shouted "fire!" Passengers then noticed smoke coming from the crotch of a Nigerian man holding a device."
  • Market Observation: Beyond the Headline Data
    by Michael Panzner. "Economists cheered today’s report from the U.S. Department of Labor, which showed that weekly initial and continuing jobless claims continue to work their way lower from the peaks hit in March and June of 2009, respectively. But for some reason, the “experts” keep ignoring the o ...
  • 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 ...

on Government Oversight

  • Salazar Has Reforms; We Still Want More
    On Wednesday, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced another round of reforms to improve how the Department of the Interior (DOI) manages oil and gas leasing. The new policy increases environmental review and public participation prior to the Bureau of Land...
  • Morning Smoke: Geithner's New York Fed Pressured A ...
    The Fed’s culture of secrecy [Felix Salmon]; Geithner's dubious AIG cover up [Naked Capitalism]; Tim Geithner "Protects America From Itself" By Forcing Elimination Of Material AIG Disclosure [Zero Hedge]; Frank: Fed's Role in AIG 'Troubling' [Bloomberg] Gates to stay at...
  • DOE Gives Nuclear Labs One Heck of a Long Winter V ...
    If your kid accidentally blew apart a building, would you give them less supervision? This hands-off approach is exactly what the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is doing by giving the contractors who manage the nation’s eight...
  • Morning Smoke: Gates Orders a Delay in F-35 Progra ...
    Gates Calls for Delay in Pentagon Purchases of Lockheed F-35s [Bloomberg] Gates Acts on F-35 Delays [Aviation Week] Geithner's New York Fed Told AIG to Limit Swaps Disclosure [Bloomberg] Stricter Rules for Oil and Gas Leasing on Federal Land [ProPublica]...
  • 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...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Can The US Continue To Innovate At A Necessary Rat ...
    Chris Tolles points us to what I have to say is an absolute must read piece by Jim Manzi (who I haven't always agreed with in the past), exploring the biggest challenge the US faces in going forward . It's difficult to express how important and worthwhile analysis this is. I don't agree with every ...
  • Man Sues Neighbor For Not Turning Off WiFi And Cel ...
    For years, we've heard of people freaking out about WiFi or mobile phones, claiming they have "electromagnetic sensitivity" to those things. The only problem is that in double-blind tests, there is no evidence that any sensitivity is due to electromagnetic waves. And yet, people keep insisting it ...
  • Fox News Sued For Copyright Infringement; Complain ...
    It's always funny how those organizations that seem to be against the concept of fair use have it come back to bite them. You may remember, a few months ago, as part of his campaign against "aggregator" sites that "steal" from him, Murdoch commented that fair use would likely be barred in the cour ...
  • BMI Sues T-Mobile, Claims It Needs To Pay Up Over ...
    I'm still in the camp of folks who doesn't quite understand "ringback tones" -- the ugly stepchild of ringtones, where it's not what music your phone plays, but what music a caller hears when they call you and are waiting for you to pick up. While ringbacks have been a big deal in Asia, they're stil ...
  • Viacom: Court Should Grant Summary Judgment Over Y ...
    The Viacom vs. Google/YouTube lawsuit has become something of a running joke in legal circles over the amount of time it's taken to run through the discovery process and actually get the lawsuit moving. However, people are now expecting the case to finally move forward. Both Google and Viacom have ...

VacTruth

  • A view on vaccination you never see in the pharmac ...
    . . . Robert Scott Bell, D.A. Hom. Doctors Prescription for Health Living January 2010 As a homeopath, the healthiest kids that I see are unvaccinated. The principle of vaccination rests on the concept of artificially stimulating antibodies in the hopes of preventing specific infectious disease in ...
  • Big Pharma Planning to Fund Hollywood Production
    Diet Drug Maker Glaxo to Pay for a Film on Eating By BROOKS BARNES NYTimes.com January 7, 2010 LOS ANGELES — GlaxoSmithKline is getting into the movie business, pursuing an unusual and most likely controversial strategy to increase interest in a weight-loss drug. Glaxo, the pharmaceutical giant b ...
  • Autism cluster found in Santa Clara County linked ...
    . . . By Lisa M. Krieger Mercury News 01/06/2010 Silicon Valley’s concentration of autism cases has triggered a spate of theories, from neighborhood contamination to a “geek gene.” But a team of researchers from the University of California-Davis has found one factor that unites this and nine other ...
  • 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 ...

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

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Torture Is Continuing Under the Obama Administrati ...
    As I pointed out in May 2008: The U.S. has imprisoned 2,500 children since 9/11 as “enemy combatants”, in violation of the Geneva Convention against classifying children as POWs … Pulitzer-prize winning reporter Seymour Hersh says that the U.S. Government has videotapes of boys being raped at ...
  • Twitter Updates for 2010-01-11
    Powerful #earthquake hits northern #California measuring 6.5 on richter scale http://strurl.com/tb #quake #redorbit # Full Body #Scanners are basically safe or are they? A report says they may not be http://strurl.com/ub #BodyScanner #Xray #Cancer #Radiation # #Privacy activists score victo ...
  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-10
    Gordon #Browns crackdown on #Yemen #Terror is exposed as just more spin http://bit.ly/8GFxeh #waronterror #253 #Flight253 #Detroit # Proposed legislation: #IRS to make sure Americans are buying #Health #Insurance http://bit.ly/4toaIm #Obamacare #HealthCare #GOP #DEM # Will #Virginia nullify Federal ...
  • What are we doing about the introduction of body s ...
    In my recent article entitled "Where is the outrage people, does freedom matter that little" I looked at the rush to implement full body scanners as the governments response to the recent Christmas day bombing attempt on flight 253. We know that the scanners wouldn't have prevented the attack an ...
  • A video response to the claims of 32,000 scientist ...
    Lest anyone claim that I am not balanced or fair in my reporting of both sides of any story here is a video that looks into the claims that 32,000 leading scientists are against man made global warming. You will have probably heard this claim on TV or on the Internet, and I have even put a link ...

food and water watch

  • Melamine in Chinese milk…here we go again
    The recent revelation that China has once again hidden a major food safety incident involving melamine in dairy products for over a year clearly demonstrates that its food safety system cannot be trusted. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration maintains a staff in China to monitor the safety of food, ...
  • Briscoe vs. Environmentalists
    As an intern for Food and Water Watch, I attended a meeting in November titled  “Water and Agriculture: Developing Word Solutions” sponsored by Johns Hopkins University. The guest of honor was John Briscoe, a former World Bank Senior Water Advisor, and a current professor at Harvard. He discussed th ...
  • ‘Why we took to the streets’
    I would like to share this op-ed with you, co-written by our Board member Maude Barlow, about the situation in Copenhagen.  Thank you for reading and Happy New Year! –Wenonah Hauter Why we took to the streets Inaction from business interests and political leaders in Copenhagen has forced the rebirth ...
  • Day 1 in Rome
    Hello from Roma, viva Roma. I am Dave Andrews, Senior Representative for Food & Water Watch. I am in Rome for the World Food Summit which is taking up the issue of one billion hungry people in the world, most of them farmers and most of them women. The solution of the US is high [...]
  • 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 ...

treehugger

  • More Ways to Recycle Plastic: Make a Quilt Square
    Image from Leave No Plastic Behind: Amy Chovnick and 4H Quilts are as American as apple pie. Pioneer women made them out of scraps of leftover and unwanted bits of fabric out of necessity, but they are also an art form with wonderful patterns. Lately they have become huge communal projects, wi ...
  • CES 2010 - Sungen Making Portable Solar Power Easy
    Sungen International Limited is a company putting solar power in all sorts of places that make it easy to access solar wherever you are. Pictured above is one of their foldable gadget chargers, which charges to full in about 18-25 hours of sunlight. But it's just a tiny taste of what the company h ...
  • CES 2010 - Nokia's New Mobile Game and Improved Tr ...
    Nokia earned the top spot on Greenpeace's latest Green Electronics Guide , earning props for their systematic elimination of hazardous materials from their products, reducing the size of their packaging, selecting recycled and recyclable materials for their products and so on. But it's not all abo ...
  • The TH Interview: Chitra K. Vishwanath, Earth Arch ...
    Photo: The grey water storage and lily tank all lit up on Diwali night at Our Native Village, an eco-resort outside of Bangalore (Chitra K. Vishwanath) More often than not, I am greeted with blank looks whenever I mention the words 'earth architecture'. But forget mud huts and even the Great Mosque ...
  • The Downsides of the Modern, Flexible Workplace
    Image credit: RemoveBlackberryPolicy Yesterday I was rambling about the environmental (and social) benefits of flextime , and we already know that there are many good reasons to telecommute . But I wonder if there might also be some downsides to society's newer ways of working?... Read the full st ...

Biosingularity

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

CFACT

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Pruning Shears

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

Natural Health News

  • How to Avoid Common Cause of Killing Yourself With ...
    When pouring out doses of medicine, use an exact measuring device rather than a common kitchen spoon.  A new study suggests that depending on the spoon’s size, people tend to pour too little or too much. The study involved nearly 200 university students who were asked to pour a teaspoon of liquid m ...
  • Wrong Spoon Size Common Cause of Medicine Mistakes
    When pouring out doses of medicine, use an exact measuring device rather than a common kitchen spoon.  A new study suggests that depending on the spoon’s size, people tend to pour too little or too much. The study involved nearly 200 university students who were asked to pour a teaspoon of liquid m ...
  • Hazards of Obesity Now Rival Smoking in U.S.
    Obesity now poses as great a threat to Americans' quality of life as smoking, a new study shows. Researchers analyzed 1993-2008 data that included interviews with more than 3.5 million adults. The results showed that the quality-adjusted life years lost to obesity are equal to, or greater than, thos ...
  • Are You Using Your Fireplace Safely?
    Cold winter nights lead many to light a fire for heat and comfort. But an outmoded fireplace or wood stove not only pollutes the outdoors, but the indoors as well. Old fireplaces and stoves can emit eight times as much dangerous microparticulate matter per hour as new ones that meet the EPA's standa ...
  • The Hidden Benefits of Exercise
    Regular workouts may help fight off colds and flu, reduce the risk of certain cancers and chronic diseases, and slow the process of aging. A growing body of research is showing that regular exercise can boost your body's immune system, increasing the circulation of natural killer cells that fight o ...

Antemedius

  • Shooting Handcuffed Children
    By David Swanson The occupied government of Afghanistan and the United Nations have both concluded that U.S.-led troops recently dragged eight sleeping children out of their beds, handcuffed some of them, and shot them all dead. While this apparently constitutes an everyday act of kindness, far les ...
  • Crony Capitalism, Part 4
    In Part 4 of his continuing series about the causes of and possible fixes for the ongoing economic and banking crisis with Paul Jay of The Real News, Dr. Robert Johnson , Director of Financial Reform for the Roosevelt Institute, and Executive Director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET ...
  • The United States of Amnesia
    " It is nowhere written that the American empire goes on forever. " --Eugene Jarecki Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to ...
  • Toward a method of activism
    "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings." -- Shakespeare The overall state of dialogue on the left is incredibly banal. It is narrow. It is ahistorical. Our current condition comes at the tail-end of a long deterioration. At its best, left politics ...
  • Rep. Cantor - "Lets Do It Like El Al"
    This morning Minority Whip Eric Cantor (the Mini-Me to Minority Leader Boehner’s Dr. Evil) was on Faux News spouting off about how American airport security is too lax. He is of course ignoring the fact that he and his party where in power when the TSA was created and the current rules were implemen ...

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

  • Can’t Hide the Decline of Google “Climategate” sea ...
    At one point, there were over 50 million Google search results for for the term "climategate." Now there are less than two million. Related posts: Hide the Decline Explained Barbara Boxer: “You call it ‘Climategate’; I call it ‘E-mail-theft-gate.’” We hope you don’t like to eat meat
  • Met Office says we aren’t going all going to drown ...
    Britain's Met Office has denounced research from the Copenhagen summit that suggested global warming could raise sea levels by more than 1.8m by 2100. Related posts: European media on climate summit Copenhagen climate summit: Barack Obama given power to cut greenhouse gases Uh Oh: Now China declar ...
  • Australian farmer in hunger strike against ecofasc ...
    An Australian farmer has taken a page out of Ghandi's book, when he began a hunger strike to combat his country's climate change policies that have stolen his livelihood. Related posts: Food prices to rise (even more): Obama wants to turn farms into forests ClimateGate Denial Nature magazine frets ...
  • How ‘Climategate’ Marks the Maturing of a New Scie ...
    How the tiny blog Air Vent and a collective of climate enthusiasts broke the biggest story in the history of global warming science - climategate – but not without a gatekeeper of the climate establishment trying to halt its proliferation. Related posts: Russian scientists’ say Climategate data ...
  • UK Parliment’s Nick Griffin tells it like it is
    UK Parliment's Nick Griffin tells it like it is Related posts: Burt Rutan’s presentation against Anthropogenic Global Warming Church of Global Warming — The Movie Ilmastogate

Opinio Juris

  • Carl Schmitt’s Nuremberg Near-Miss
    by Kevin Jon Heller I've been writing Chapter 3 of my book on the Nuremberg Military Tribunals, which traces the evolution of the Office of the Chief of Counsel's trial program -- how it selected the twelve cases, why it abandoned others, which suspects it included and which it excluded.  It's a f ...
  • Call for Papers: Women in International Criminal L ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller My friend and IntLawGrrl contributor Beth van Schaack has asked me to post the following call for papers: Call for Papers: Women & International Criminal Law Special Issue of the International Criminal Law Review Dedicated to Judge Patricia M. Wald The International Criminal ...
  • Libyan Terrorist Victims Argue for Retention of U. ...
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford My former Pepperdine colleague, Kathryn Lee Boyd, has just filed a fascinating complaint relating to the distribution of funds secured by a treaty between the United States and Libya on behalf of U.S. victims of Libyan-sponsored terrorism. The facts as alleged in t ...
  • Carl Schmitt’s Nuremberg Near-Miss
    by Kevin Jon Heller I've been writing Chapter 3 of my book on the Nuremberg Military Tribunals, which traces the evolution of the Office of the Chief of Counsel's trial program -- how it selected the twelve cases, why it abandoned others, which suspects it included and which it excluded.  It's a f ...
  • When Cooperation Fails
    by Kal Raustiala by Kal Raustiala At Greg Shaffer’s invitation I’m joining the discussion to make a couple of small points about some of the concepts used in Greg and Mark’s very interesting and carefully researched book. The first concerns the GMO case as an example of a “regime complex.” When D ...

    Blacklisted News

  • Iran demands UK accountability for Afghan drug pro ...
    Iran’s foreign minister says Britain must be held accountable for the way it has managed the drug problem in Afghanistan which has led to a tenfold growth in narcotics production.
  • Privacy activists score victories against more det ...
    "We don't need to look at naked 8-year-olds and grandmothers to secure airplanes," Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R- Utah , said Friday. "Are we really going to subject 2 million people per day to that? I think it's a false argument to say we have to give up all of our personal privacy in order to have secur ...
  • Flight 253: Anatomy of a Cover-Up
    New revelations about the failed Christmas Day attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 continue to emerge as does evidence of a systematic cover-up.
  • Robot border guards to patrol future frontiers
    Welcome to the European border of the not-too-distant future.
  • Roxxxy the sex robot makes her world debut
    Billed as a world first, Roxxxy the sex robot made here debut in front of adoring fans at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Ignatious O'Reilly: Connecting the Farce
    The war on people who are working harder than us. That's right folks, the U.S. is officially peeved at China. Why? Because they work harder than us. At the core of the issue is all of the jobs going to China, the U.S. is essentially whining because...They're making us look like bums. Never mind, o ...
  • The Shadow War: Making Sense of the New CIA Battle ...
    It was a Christmas and New Year's from hell for American intelligence, that $75 billion labyrinth of at least 16 major agencies and a handful of minor ones. As the old year was preparing to be rung out, so were our intelligence agencies, which managed not to connect every obvious clue to a (literal ...
  • Brain Activity Levels Affect Self-Perception: 'Ros ...
    The less you use your brain's frontal lobes, the more you see yourself through rose-colored glasses, a University of Texas at Austin researcher says. Those findings are being published in the February edition of the journal NeuroImage. "In healthy people, the more you activate a portion of your fr ...
  • New Study: Omega-3s May Treat Schizophrenia, ADD, ...
    Research just published in the journal Behavioral Neuroscience provides evidence that adequate omega-3 fatty acids are needed for healthy nervous systems. That could explain why low levels of omega-3s are associated with the information processing difficulties experienced by people with bipolar, obs ...
  • The Data Behind the New Mammogram Recommendations ...
    Several years ago, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (PSTF) issued an updated set of recommendations about mammogram screenings, suggesting which and how often women should get them. Since the last time the group issued its recommendations in 2002, new study data emerged that has led to a few ...

Threat Level

  • China Blocks Wired.com With ‘Great Firewall’
    Chinese authorities have begun blocking Chinese internet users from reading Wired.com, according to a report from the Examiner. Internet users from Beijing to Shanghai found the site inaccessible starting Friday, reports Glenn Loveland, the Examiner’s Beijing correspondent. The block adds Wired.com ...
  • Online Gambling Boss Gets 33-Year Sentence
    The chief executive of an overseas, online gambling operation was sentenced by a U.S. judge to 33 months imprisonment after pleading guilty plea to racketeering, the government announced Friday. David Carruthers, 52, the former executive of BetonSports, was handed the sentence Friday in a St. Louis, ...
  • Court to FCC: You Don’t Have Power to Enforce Net ...
    A federal appeals court gave notice Friday it likely would reject the Federal Communications Commission’s authority to sanction Comcast for throttling peer-to-peer applications. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit suggested as much during oral arguments from the FCC and Co ...
  • Senator Demands IP Treaty Details
    That a U.S. senator must ask a federal agency to share information regarding a proposed and “classified” international anti-counterfeiting accord the government has already disclosed is alarming. Especially when the info has been given to Hollywood, the recording industry, software makers and even s ...
  • Bank Thieves Foiled by GPS-Spiked Cash
    Forget exploding dye packs. Three thieves who made off with about $9,000 in cash from an Illinois bank were thwarted by a GPS device inserted in the cash that led authorities straight to their door, according to the Chicago Tribune. Timothy Rucker, 33, Phillip Griffen, 31, and Brandon Barnes, 25, e ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • For GOP, Short Memories on Terror Plots and Presid ...
    That Republicans would try to politicize the failed Christmas terror attack was about as predictable as the sun rising in the east and setting in the west. Even less surprising is the utter falsehood and sheer hypocrisy of their ham-handed...
  • GOP Defends Trent Lott, Calls for Reid to Resign
    While President Obama declared "the book is closed" on Harry Reid's past "negro dialect" comment, Republicans are using the imbroglio to reopen the book on the disgraced Trent Lott. On Sunday, RNC chairman Michael Steele and Arizona Senator Jon Kyl...
  • Steele the Latest Republican Chosen by God
    The first Republican Abraham Lincoln famously proclaimed, "My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side." Sadly, as RNC Chairman Michael Steele confirmed again this week, his successors believe the...
  • On Terror, GOP Goes from Oprah to Donald Trump
    Witnessing the Republican reaction to the Obama administration's handling of the failed Christmas bombing is like watching reruns of The Apprentice. Like Donald Trump, each conservative talking head proclaims "You're Fired!" to members of the Obama team. Of course, when...
  • For Redemption, Tiger Woods Should Become a Republ ...
    Fox News anchor Brit Hume is rightly being mocked for suggesting that the road to redemption for a philandering Tiger Woods begins with his conversion to Christianity. But Hume's on-air evangelical fervor doesn't merely show his religious bigotry in general...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

  • Answering Helen Thomas on Why
    Veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas broke through the terrorism boilerplate by asking why, Ray McGovern says. January 8, 2010
  • California's Dysfunctional Future Shock
    The Republican Party has made a dangerous calculation that obstruction works politically, as Michael Winship sees in California. January 8, 2010
  • The Botched 9/11 Intell 'Reforms'
    The 9/11 Commission's intelligence "reforms" added bureaucratic layers that made matters worse, writes Melvin A. Goodman. January 7, 2010
  • Endless Double Standards on Cuba
    Cuba's arrest of a U.S. contractor is condemned by the U.S. news media which never sees its own hypocrisy, says William Blum. January 7, 2010
  • 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

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

TruthHugger

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

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Unexplained Mysteries

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 11, 2010
    Largest U.S. Farm Group Rallies against Climate Bill (Reuters) The largest U.S. farm group will oppose aggressively "misguided" climate legislation pending in Congress, said Bob Stallman, president of the 6 million-member American Farm Bureau Federation. Rich Nations 'Ganged Up' in Copenhagen ( ...
  • January 9-10, 2010
    Venezuela Faces Risk of Devastating Power Collapse (AP) Venezuela is at risk of a devastating power collapse as drought pushes water levels precariously low in the country's biggest hydroelectric dam. Rep. Peterson Now Says He’ll Vote No on Climate Bill (Star-Tribune) Blue Dog Democrat Co ...
  • January 8, 2010
    U.S. EPA Plans to Tighten Bush-Era Smog Limits (Reuters) The EPA has proposed a new standard to limit smog between 60 and 70 parts per billion measured over eight hours — a move that would hit coal plants, ships and locomotives hardest. Study: Mountaintop Mining Damage 'Pervasive and Irrevers ...
  • January 7, 2010
    Experts: Cold Snap Doesn't Disprove Global Warming (AP) Scientists say the current cold snap worldwide doesn't disprove global warming at all — it's just part of natural variability and will weaken in a week or two. FTSE 100 Firms on Track For CO2 Target (Reuters) Companies in the FTSE 100 ...
  • 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 ...

TomDispatch

  • Tomgram: 'This Administration Ended, Rather Than ...
    [ Note for TomDispatch Readers: On Friday evening, TomDispatch will be switching to an updated version of this site. It's possible that you might not be able to reach TD for some hours. If so, we expect to be back up on Saturday morning. Tom ] The Afghan Speech Obama Should Give (But Won't) ...
  • Tomgram: Pratap Chatterjee, Afghanistan as a Patr ...
    It's now a commonplace of the Afghan War. Western leaders in London , Berlin, Amsterdam , and Washington , as well as on flying visits to Kabul or even Kandahar , excoriate Afghan President Hamid Karzai for the "corruption" of his government. In return for their ongoing support, they repeatedly ...
  • Tomgram: Max Blumenthal, How Palin Became a Rogue
    It can't get better than this, can it? A first printing of 1.5 million copies sent out into an otherwise dead book market. Possibly as much as $7 million dollars going to the author, who already has interviews lined up with Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Walters. A bus tour of the "real America" tha ...
  • Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Surveillance State, U.S.A.
    Wars come home in strange, unnerving ways -- as Americans have just discovered at Fort Hood. Even before Major Nidal Malik Hasan went on his killing spree, that base, a major military embarkation point for our war zones, was already experiencing the after-effects of eight years of war and repeate ...
  • Tomgram: Droning On
    [ Note for TomDispatch Readers : A number of you have recently written in for clarification on contributing to this site through your purchases at Amazon.com. Here's my best shot at a useful explanation: If you click on any book image at this site -- like the book-cover image of The End of Vict ...

Smirking Chimp

  • The Implosion Of The American Political Consciousn ...
    If you're looking for a decent indicator of the political health of the nation, consider the following excerpt from a Christian Science Monitor article this week: "The decision by the White House Friday to not preempt the season premiere of the psychedelic crash-drama "Lost" for the State of the Un ...
  • The Craziest Tax: Lost Your Job? The IRS Thinks Yo ...
    NEW YORK--My friend was a survivor. Until she wasn't. She'd made it through 14 rounds of layoffs at her accounting firm. Then came number 15: "I was a telecommuter. When my boss told me to come into the office for a meeting, I knew I was done for. I told her to cut the crap, save me the trip, and fi ...
  • Marriage vs. civil unions: Separate is never equal
    The New Jersey State Senate recently rejected a bill that would have legalized same-sex marriage in the Garden State. Some people try to justify this state-sponsored discrimination by saying that same-sex marriage isn't necessary in New Jersey because that state offers civil unions for gay couples w ...
  • Old threat rings true today: How bin Laden lured U ...
    The year: 1986. I went to the grandly titled "Afghan Information Centre", a drab little office in Peshawar, Pakistan filled with pamphlets and dusty books. The director was a short, thin man in a torn sweater named Abdullah Azzam. We spoke at length of the anti-Soviet jihad (struggle) in Afghanistan ...
  • Hard Lessons from Decades Past
    Decades, more than years or even election cycles, mark a nation’s course, just as 10-year spans become personal milestones, the big-3-0 or, in my case, the big 6-0. And having been born in 1949 at the end of one decade and at the start of another, my personal journey, decade by decade, often has ali ...

Ten Percent

  • The War On Grandmothers
    Allegations that a 62-year-old Iraqi grandmother was tortured and executed by British soldiers after her family home was raided three years ago are being investigated by the Royal Military Police. The Army’s involvement in the death and abuse of Sabiha Khudur Talib is one of the most serious charges ...
  • Peace & Arms Deals- ‘the IDF’s qualitative edge’
    While Clinton creates another piece of theatre in the ongoing fictitious peace process… what are these self declared peace seeking Nobeled saints actually talking about- The Bush administration violated security related agreements with Israel in which the U.S. promised to preserve the IDF’s qualitat ...
  • Another Colombian Death Squad Gets Away With It
    Via IKN, Colombia is the nation the US and UK ally with in Latin America, now some may put that all down to geopolitics of capital, sphere of influence or whatever but just as with Pinochet I think in some measure it is because they are doing what some of out elite wish they could [...]
  • Spot The Class War
    Can you spot it? Bonus time as banks pay out £40bn Alistair Darling warns of toughest spending cuts for 20 years
  • Friday! Portishead- Mysterons
    Sublime!

Booman Tribune

  • Funny Misprint
    I just had to share this screen capture from a Hill article before someone fixes it. I think that's a pretty funny misprint. It kind of captures the insanity involved in the whole Palin saga which spread like a melanoma to the broader political world this year.
  • Daily Drivel
    Can the New York Times please put Maureen Dowd back behind the firewall? No Drama Obama is reticent about displays of emotion. The Spock in him needs to exert mental and emotional control. That is why he stubbornly insists on staying aloof and setting his own deliberate pace for responding — whe ...
  • Obama More Effective Than LBJ?
    Okay, this surprised me: President Obama set a new record last year for getting Congress to vote his way, clinching 96.7 percent of the votes on which he had clearly staked a position. That was a bit less than 4 percentage points higher than the previous record, set by President Lyndon B. John ...
  • Casual Observation
    Once again, you can take the charitable view if you choose to do so. If Obama had said it about Hillary, we'd surely know what he meant. Maybe Bill just meant that Barack is a young pup and not a latter-day Pullman conductor. We'll never know. But there was a pattern, was there not?
  • Not Palin
    The only candidate that scares me is John Thune. But I disagree with Nate, in that I don't think Palin will win any primaries, let alone the Republican nomination. She doesn't have the kind of discipline you need to be a winning candidate. Imagine her trying to plant herself in Iowa for six month ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Fiction’s Forgotten Villains #2
    Does Not Equal is a webcomic by Sarah Ennals – check out the pre-Futurismic archives, and the strips that have been published here previously. [ Be sure to check out the Does Not Equal Cafepress store for webcomic merchandise featuring Canadians with geometrically-shaped heads! ] Project Wonderful ...
  • Science fiction, religion and rationality
    As if to mirror the wider (and louder) debate of science versus religion (which I remain convinced is a false dichotomy in some respects), the science fiction scene seems to be turning its attention to the deeper philosophical underpinnings of the genre. Here are a couple of stimulating viewpoints: ...
  • America’s decline, and how to prevent it
    Internet serendipity strikes again! Hot on the heels of my questions about the political fragmentation and polarisation of the United States comes a long but lucid article from one James Fallows at The Atlantic, in which he discusses the nation’s seemingly perpetual worries about its own decline, an ...
  • Why we reject stories
    I’ve been reading and responding to Futurismic fiction submissions for going on five years now, and hundreds and hundreds of stories have passed through our slushpile. If you do something long enough, you start to see patterns, and I thought I’d write up a list of common reasons for rejection that ...
  • North Dakota vs Minnesota: interstate economic war ...
    To a nominal Brit like myself, reading about the American governmental system is a constant stream of surprises. It’s one thing to understand that a country comprised of fifty-odd states (which are themselves the size of some sovereign countries) will have baked a certain degree of local independenc ...

Therapy News

  • Canadian University Opens Center to Study Issues i ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline In universities around the world, scores of students are introduced each year to the concepts of psychology and other fields essential to the pursuit of professional work within mental health. Yet critical examinations of modern practices, access to care, related gend ...
  • Issue of Race-Based Mis-diagnosis Still Troubling ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Mental health as a professional and academic field has been riddled with controversial issues in human nature, gender differences, income disparities, and other major social divides throughout its history in the United States, though most modern practitioners and advoc ...
  • Canada Reconsiders Mandatory Mental Health Laws
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Though there are many people both within the mental health professions and within the general public who are adverse to the idea of involuntary mental health treatment, there are scores of legislators, professionals, and concerned people in favor of requiring that some ...
  • How Your Brain Interferes with Managing Conflict
    By Jim Hutt, Ph.D., Family Problems Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jim and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile Your partner isn’t the problem, your BRAIN is! Imagine that. And the irony is that your brain is just doing its job! Alright, so here’s the deal: We have not just one, but ...
  • Therapy Advocates Continue Fight Against Chinese I ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Though the man accused of attempting to smuggle several kilograms of heroin into China has been executed by the state despite the pleas of his family and British political leaders, some people in the mental health communities worldwide are continuing their calls for r ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Hobet 45 deal: Mountaintop removal questions for a ...
    WTRF Hobet 45 deal: Mountaintop removal questions for all Charleston Gazette (blog) But the agreement raises lots of questions — enough to go around and for all sides of the mountaintop removal issue. First, for environmental groups: Will ... EPA Approves One New Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine, Find ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Sollee, Moore on the same page, same stage - Lexin ...
    Lexington Herald Leader Sollee, Moore on the same page, same stage Lexington Herald Leader Ben Sollee, left, and Daniel Martin Moore recorded Dear Companion, an album due out in February that calls attention to mountaintop-removal mining. ... and more »
  • It's Only Appalachia - Daily Kos (blog)
    It's Only Appalachia Daily Kos (blog) Mountaintop removal mining takes fewer workers than the underground mining it replaces. MTR doesn't compete with surface mining in the west, ...

Memeorandum

  • The 60th Senate Vote (Wall Street Journal)
    Wall Street Journal : The 60th Senate Vote   —  The special election in Massachusetts and the Democratic agenda.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  When Ted Kennedy died last August, Democrats said they'd honor him by finally passing the national health care he had long campaigned for.
  • Palin derided by top McCain aide, book (Eric Zimme ...
    Eric Zimmermann / The Hill : Palin derided by top McCain aide, book   —  Sarah Palin was an unprepared, uninformed vice presidential candidate who repeatedly made false statements in public, according to a top McCain campaign aide.  —  In a “60 Minutes” segment based on John Heilemann and Mark Halp ...
  • Same-sex marriage set for big day in federal court ...
    Karl Vick / Washington Post : Same-sex marriage set for big day in federal court   —  LOS ANGELES — After a run of setbacks at the state level, gay rights advocates will take the campaign for same-sex marriage into a federal courtroom on Monday, starting down a treacherous avenue that ends at a U. ...
  • 'Game Change': New Book Reveals 2008 Campaigns' Me ...
    ABCNEWS : ‘Game Change’: New Book Reveals 2008 Campaigns' Messy Moments   —  From Obama to Palin, a New Book Raises Candidates' Moments to Forget  —  While “Game Change” has yet to hit store shelves, the book about the 2008 presidential campaign is already creating a stir over its revelations …
  • The mini ice age starts here (David Rose/Daily Mai ...
    David Rose / Daily Mail : The mini ice age starts here   —  The bitter winter afflicting much of the Northern Hemisphere is only the start of a global trend towards cooler weather that is likely to last for 20 or 30 years, say some of the world's most eminent climate scientists.  —  Their predicti ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.2, Sulawesi, Indonesia
    Sunday, January 10, 2010 08:09:45 UTC Sunday, January 10, 2010 04:09:45 PM at epicenter Depth : 171.80 km (106.75 mi)
  • M 5.0, Solomon Islands
    Saturday, January 9, 2010 11:59:16 UTC Saturday, January 9, 2010 10:59:16 PM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
  • M 5.0, Mariana Islands region
    Saturday, January 9, 2010 04:00:50 UTC Saturday, January 9, 2010 02:00:50 PM at epicenter Depth : 63.90 km (39.71 mi)
  • M 5.1, Solomon Islands
    Friday, January 8, 2010 13:00:05 UTC Saturday, January 9, 2010 12:00:05 AM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
  • M 5.2, Solomon Islands
    Friday, January 8, 2010 04:29:11 UTC Friday, January 8, 2010 03:29:11 PM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Saving water in America (1)
    A dam-building fervour in the south-western United States nearly killed its rivers, before a concerned public started a campaign to nurture them back to health. Zhang Kejia explores the lessons for China. The Colorado River is one of the most dammed in the world. Over the last two hundred years, for ...
  • When China said “no”
    Some observers say that China wrecked the climate negotiations at Copenhagen. But the reality is more complex, argues Cao Haili. If climate change were only an environmental issue, there would be a far easier solution. However, the interplay of national interests that are involved – involving politi ...
  • The end of idealism
    The failure of climate talks in Copenhagen exposed some uncomfortable truths about the current global order, argues Tang Wei. UN-led climate talks drew to a close in Copenhagen on December 19. Although a weak outcome had been widely predicted, many were still shocked by just how little the conferenc ...
  • 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 ...

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Threat Level

  • China Blocks Wired.com With ‘Great Firewall’
    Chinese authorities have begun blocking Chinese internet users from reading Wired.com, according to a report from the Examiner. Internet users from Beijing to Shanghai found the site inaccessible starting Friday, reports Glenn Loveland, the Examiner’s Beijing correspondent. The block adds Wired.com ...
  • Online Gambling Boss Gets 33-Year Sentence
    The chief executive of an overseas, online gambling operation was sentenced by a U.S. judge to 33 months imprisonment after pleading guilty plea to racketeering, the government announced Friday. David Carruthers, 52, the former executive of BetonSports, was handed the sentence Friday in a St. Louis, ...
  • Court to FCC: You Don’t Have Power to Enforce Net ...
    A federal appeals court gave notice Friday it likely would reject the Federal Communications Commission’s authority to sanction Comcast for throttling peer-to-peer applications. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit suggested as much during oral arguments from the FCC and Co ...
  • Senator Demands IP Treaty Details
    That a U.S. senator must ask a federal agency to share information regarding a proposed and “classified” international anti-counterfeiting accord the government has already disclosed is alarming. Especially when the info has been given to Hollywood, the recording industry, software makers and even s ...
  • Bank Thieves Foiled by GPS-Spiked Cash
    Forget exploding dye packs. Three thieves who made off with about $9,000 in cash from an Illinois bank were thwarted by a GPS device inserted in the cash that led authorities straight to their door, according to the Chicago Tribune. Timothy Rucker, 33, Phillip Griffen, 31, and Brandon Barnes, 25, e ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Gay marriage ban goes on trial in California
    OAKLAND, California (Reuters) - California's ban on gay marriage goes to trial on Monday in a federal case that plaintiffs hope to take all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and overturn bans throughout the nation.
  • Italy in racism debate as migrants quit riot town
    * Immigrants evacuated from town after race riots * Interior minister praises police, tears down camps * Pope appeals for tolerance By Gavin Jones ROME, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Hundreds of African immigrants have been evacuated from a southern Italian town, authorities said on Sunday, following some of ...
  • GM confirms plans to build Volt-based Cadillac
    DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co will build a Cadillac version of its highly anticipated battery-powered Chevy Volt sometime in 2013 or later.
  • Republicans call on Senator Reid to quit post
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican Party chief called on Senator Harry Reid on Sunday to step down as Senate majority leader over racial comments about President Barack Obama, while Democrats tried to put the issue behind them.
  • It takes a crisis to raise a mortgage program
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - April Fools' Day will have a special meaning for the Federal Reserve this year: it will be the first day the central bank allows a ravaged U.S. mortgage market to stand on its own two feet.

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

  • Comment: CIA Deaths a Failure of Intelligence, Not ...
    Early on Thursday, rumors began spreading among intelligence observers that the December 30 suicide blast in Khost, Afghanistan, which killed seven and seriously injured six CIA personnel, went off in the open air, and not inside a gym on the base, as had previously been reported. Soon afterwards, a ...
  • News you may have missed #0248
    Cuba insists jailed US contractor is secret service agent. Analysis: Spying in Eastern Europe heats up again. Obama designates new list of secrecy gatekeepers.
  • Analysis: Germany’s spies struggle to adapt to pos ...
    Nearly everyone in Germany recognizes that the global intelligence landscape has changed, almost beyond recognition, in the years since the end of the Cold War. Current challenges are far more underground in nature, far more flexible, far more unpredictable. The question is, has Germany's primary in ...
  • News you may have missed #0247
    US government lowers threshold for inclusion on no-fly lists. CIA starts sharing data with climate scientists. How the KGB tried to recruit an NBC News reporter.
  • News you may have missed #0246
    No immediate firings expected over US intel failures.Tajikistan sentences alleged Uzbek spy. Nozette first came to FBI attention in 2002.

After Downing Street.org

  • Torture Is Continuing Under the Obama Administrati ...
    Torture Is Continuing Under the Obama Administration, Creating More Terrorists and Further Destabilizing the Economy | Washington's Blog As I pointed out in May 2008: The U.S. has imprisoned 2,500 children since 9/11 as "enemy combatants", in violation of the Geneva Convention against classifyin ...
  • Iran Uses Fear of Covert Nuclear Sites to Deter At ...
    Iran Uses Fear of Covert Nuclear Sites to Deter Attack Analysis by Gareth Porter | IPS WASHINGTON, Jan 10 (IPS) - The New York Times reported Tuesday that Iran had "quietly hidden an increasingly large part of its atomic complex" in a vast network of tunnels and bunkers buried in mountainsides. The ...
  • Kucinich, Winograd, Garamendi Are Guests on Connec ...
    Lila Garrett of Connect the Dots writes: MONDAY at 7AM on KPFK 90.7 FM. I'm back on CONNECT THE DOTS with Congress people Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, John Garamendi of Ca. and Ca. Cong. candidate Marcy Winograd. All three will discuss their top priorities for 2010. Tune in and/or use this link ...
  • Lessons from the Gaza Freedom March
    Lessons from the Gaza Freedom March By Joshua Brollier When I traveled to Cairo to participate in the Gaza Freedom March, I hoped to enter Gaza to contribute toward ending the siege and preventing future air assaults and invasions, such as the 22-day Operation Cast Lead that Israel launched again ...
  • Fast For Justice Kicks Off Today; Here's How You C ...
      "I have said repeatedly that I intend to close Guantanamo, and I will follow through on that. I have said repeatedly that America doesn't torture, and I'm going to make sure that we don't torture." — President-elect Barack Obama, November 16, 2008 FAST FOR JUSTICE - Witness Against Torture On ...

Grist - News

  • The policy and politics of Obama’s $2.3 bill ...
    by David Roberts Today the Obama administration unveiled $2.3 billion in new tax credits to clean energy manufacturing companies. There were 183 projects selected out of some 500 applications; one-third were from small businesses; around 30% are expected to be completed this year. The winners are ...
  • EPA gets tough on smog
    by Agence France-Presse The EPA sees the light.Photo: jordansmall via FlickrWASHINGTON -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed tougher standards for how much smog can be in the air, a move the agency said would save money and protect health, especially in children. "EPA is ...
  • U.S. breaks with ‘drill anywhere’ ener ...
    by Agence France-Presse Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.Mike Disharoon via FlickrWASHINGTON -- The United States is moving away from the "drill anywhere, whatever the cost" energy policy of the previous administration, officials said Wednesday as they announced reforms in the way oil and gas leases ...
  • U.S. car fleet shrank by four million in 2009
    by Lester Brown America’s century-old love affair with the automobile may be coming to an end. The U.S. fleet has apparently peaked and started to decline. In 2009, the 14 million cars scrapped exceeded the 10 million new cars sold, shrinking the U.S. fleet by 4 million, or nearly 2 percent in one ...
  • Richard “Dick” Pombo running for Congr ...
    by Lisa Hymas Pombo and an old pal.Enviros were thrilled when Richard Pombo, a Republican who represented California's 11th congressional district for seven terms, was ousted from his seat by a renewable-energy geek in 2006.  Pombo had been deemed Public Enemy No. 1 by the environmental community, ...

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Washington Independent

  • Looking for Lott’s Revenge, GOP Aims at Reid ...
    Though research supports thrust of Reid's politically incorrect comment, Republicans stay on message.
  • Steele Couldn’t Have Finished His Book Befor ...
    Eric Kleefeld has the goods on Michael Steele’s really absurd fib that he “wrote this book before” he took over the RNC on January 29, 2009. On Tuesday, I noted that Steele makes an early, score-settling reference in the book to the special election in NY-23 and the gubernatorial races in New Jersey ...
  • More Inconsistencies in the AIG Email Scandal
    Here’s the New York Fed telling Bloomberg News yesterday that the agency didn’t force the 2008 decision to delay disclosure of AIG payments to other Wall Street firms using taxpayer money. “Our position has always been that if AIG’s securities lawyers determine that AIG is legally obligated to ma ...
  • Scott Brown on Hannity
    The GOP candidate in the Massachusetts special election for Senate will be on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show tonight, according to David Bernstein of the Boston Phoenix. This is all becoming extremely reminiscent of the conservative push for Doug Hoffman in NY-23: After flying under the radar for week ...
  • Gibbs: AIG Bailout ‘Did Not Rise to [Geithne ...
    Here’s White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, responding today to questions about Tim Geithner’s role in the New York Fed’s 2008 decision to censor AIG payments to other Wall Street firms: Secretary Geithner was not involved in any of these e-mails. These decisions did not rise to his level at the Fed. ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

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

Suzie-Q

  • Abdulmutallab, Alleged Christmas Day Bomber, Plead ...
    Alleged Christmas day bomber pleads not guilty RAW STORY By Agence France-Presse Saturday, January 9th, 2010 — 10:48 am Hobbled by leg irons, a young Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a US plane on Christmas Day pleaded not guilty during his first court appearance amid heightened security. Umar ...
  • 60 Minutes: Steve Schmidt Reveals Palin Was Not F ...
    Steve Schmidt: Palin Debate Was Nearly ‘Debacle,’ Kept Calling Rival ‘O’Biden’ (VIDEO) The Huffington Post |  Rachel Weiner First Posted: 01- 7-10 05:25 PM   |   Updated: 01- 7-10 06:26 PM On CBS’s “60 Minutes” Thursday night, Republican strategist Steve Schmidt revealed some of the behind- ...
  • National Tea Party Convention
    Guess Who’s Headlining The First ‘National Tea Party Convention’? WONKETTE 10:41 AM on Thu January 7 2010 By Juli Weiner No one guessed anyone besides Sarah Palin, right? This thing is taking place next month in Tennessee and also features Michele Bachmann plus Others. And, uh, it is the “first eve ...
  • Olbermann: LA Times Reports Extremist Links Uncove ...

  • Terror is the price of support for despots and dic ...
    Egypt’s complicity in the Gaza’s siege underlines the role of western support for such regimes in the spread of war Seumas Milne, The Guardian/UK, Jan 7, 2010 An an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor had gone on hunger strike in support of a besieged people in another part of the world, and hundreds of ...

Solari

  • 2010: The Outlook for Silver and Gold
    It’s our first Precious Metals Market Report of the new year and the new decade. This is the perfect time to recap what happened in 2009 and assess the outlook for silver and gold in 2010. I am headed over this Thursday to see Franklin Sanders of The Moneychanger at Top of the World Farm in [...]
  • Knockout - Doctors Who are Curing Cancer
    I read Suzanne Summers new book this weekend, Knockout: Interviews with Doctors Who are Curing Cancer and How to Prevent Getting It in the First Place. I could not put it down. Summers was inspired to write Knockout after being assured by six doctors that she was terminally ill with full body cance ...
  • 401k/IRA’s: Is Confiscation in the Wind?
    Now this is a guaranteed rape job. In a short conversation this noontime that CNBC apparently has omitted from their archives (Why’s that folks?) Rick Santelli was talking about a potential to effectively force money into the Treasury market. Where would they get this? From your 401k and IRA accoun ...
  • A Jobless Recovery? Not For The Financial World
    By Joe Weisenthal and Kamelia Angelova Continue reading Chart Of The Day: A Jobless Recovery? Not For The Financial World
  • Sir James Goldsmith’s 1994 Globalization War ...

Global Insights

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

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

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Sideways News

  • Week in pictures: 4th January 2010
    A picture for every day, taking a snapshot view of what is happening in the world around us. Come and browse through our gallery of this week's most inspiring images.
  • Shoe thieves go international
    When thieves in Sweden stole a series of left shoes out of the display windows of Stockholm’s designer footwear stores, the police were confused. Why steal one shoe - not a pair? Was there really a flourishing shoe market fuelled by one-footed Scandinavians? Neighbouring Denmark provided the answer. ...
  • Teachers experience career 'second wind'
    A study exploring the ambitions of graduate professionals in the UK has found that a growing number of people have a "second career wind" in their mid-40s, with teachers more likely to pursue top jobs in the latter stages of their careers. According to the National College for Leadership of Schools ...
  • Winner of the Week: Thom Yorke sings for Tibet
    Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has penned three new songs for upcoming film documentary, When the Dragon Swallowed the Sun, which follows the Free Tibet movement’s ongoing struggle with China. Directed by Dirk Simon, of Between the Line fame, the film gives an insider’s view of the Tibetian movement ...
  • Shorty Awards open for votes
    Voting has opened for the second annual Shorty Awards, which aim to recognise the authors of the best 140-character Twitter updates. Known as the "Twitter Oscars", the awards cover a variety of categories including News, Politics, Science, Journalist, Innovation, Humour, Celebrity and Advertising. I ...

Fabius Maximus

  • The Flynn report, itself a symptom of deep problem ...
    I lack the time to write an analysis of the Flynn report:  “Fixing Intel: A Blueprint for Making Intelligence Relevant in Afghanistan“, by Michael T. Flynn (Major General, USA), Matt Pottinger (Captain, USMC), and Paul D. Batchelor (DIA).  In brief, I believe… It’s important. Nagel’s grossly und ...
  • FM newswire for 10 January, hot articles for your ...
    Today’s links to interesting news and analysis… “No exit“, Andrew Bacevich (Colonel, US Army, retired), American Conservative, 1 February 2010 — “America has an impressive record of starting wars but a dismal one of ending them well.” “Get ready for China’s domination of science“, Jonathan Ada ...
  • A discussion about advanced education of military ...
    Summary:  It’s sad to read long articles about our military, so often grossly inferior to an analysis by Martin van Creveld written decades ago.  Our difficulty  learning (our broken OODA loop  is perhaps America’s greatest ill.  Links to other posts about our broken OODA loops are at the end ...
  • FM newswire for 9 January, hot articles for your m ...
    Today’s links to interesting news and analysis… We are slow learners:  “New Research on Mortgage Modifications and Principal Reduction“, Calculated Risk, 6 January 2010 –  Two years of futile policy measures lead to research that shows what was already known before the mortgage crisis began in ...
  • A real “loaves to fishes” miracle, tak ...
    Today’s quote of the day: What has become of the American nation? Conceived with the vision of liberty and justice for all, we have descended in the clutches of corporate and other special interests to a second world state defined by K Street instead of Independence Square. Our government doesn’t ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Hominids Went Out of Africa on Rafts
    ANAHEIM, Calif. — Human ancestors that left Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago to see the rest of the world were no landlubbers. Stone hand axes unearthed on the Mediterranean island of Crete indicate that an ancient Homo species — perhaps Homo erectus — had used rafts or other seagoing vess ...
  • Bee Colony Collapse May Have Several Causes
    When suspiciously large numbers of honeybee colonies started collapsing in late 2006, the search began to find the culprit behind the mysterious deaths. Now it seems a whole web of problems may be causing what’s known as colony collapse disorder. It’s becoming clear that there is no single parasit ...
  • Human Genome Is Part Bornavirus
    People may not be quite the humans they think they are. Or so suggests new research showing that the human genome is part bornavirus. Bornaviruses, a type of RNA virus that causes disease in horses and sheep, can insert their genetic material into human DNA and first did so at least 40 million year ...
  • TigerCam: First-Ever Video of Sumatran Tigress and ...
    A Sumatran tigress and her cubs took a special interest in a World Wildlife Federation camera, sniffing and possibly licking it during a brief sequence released in late December. The video was released as a prelude to the WWF’s Tx2: Double or Nothing campaign to call attention to plight of the tige ...
  • Chinese Coal Formed During Earth’s Greatest Extinc ...
    A seam of coal formed 250 million years ago during the worst extinction event on record appears to be responsible for the anomalously high lung cancer death rates among women in the rural Chinese county of Xuan Wei in Yunnan Province. It’s long been known that the lung cancer mortality rates in the ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Sunday Book Review: The Great Gamble
    As conditions have deteriorated in Afghanistan in the past several years, academic and military specialists have paid greater attention to the Soviet experience in Afghanistan. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in December 1979, in an effort to support one faction of the People's Democratic Part ...
  • Smoke & Mirrors from the Pentagon on Gitmo Recidiv ...
    According to the Department of Defense, many of the captives released from the U.S. prison on Guantánamo Bay "return" to extremist activity -- and the rate is increasing. This is from the LA Times story of January 7 : A new report estimates that one-fifth of the detainees who have been released fro ...
  • It's Not Personal, It's Business
    Kevin Drum likes the idea of not getting hysterical over every terrorist incident, but he's got practical and theoretical objections to an approach that emphasizes the risk from terrorism is statistically negligible: This line of argument — that terrorism is statistically harmless compared to lots o ...
  • The Conservative Terror Timeline
    The basic story, as I understand it, is that when terrorists killed thousands of people on in September 2001 that proved that the policies of the Clinton administration failed. Then the anthrax attacks were a collective feature of our imagination. Then Richard Reid’s effort to blow up a plane with ...
  • Paul Campos: "Stop Playing Terrorball"
    Paul Campos of Lawyers, Guns and Money has an op-ed in the Washington Post that everyone should read on how the US government, media and citizenry can stop handing political victories to even the most incompetent of transnational criminals by over-reacting to the supposed "threat" posed by global "t ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: It Takes a Nation of Millions to ...
    In today's segment of the Michael Steele /RNC train wreck, we learn that Steele a) "didn’t seek this job. I didn’t ask for it," instead merely following God's calling , b) wrote a book on Republican strategy that no one in the Republican party knew about, and c) could face a challenge (again) from ...
  • ACLU Files Lawsuit Against Library Of Congress Ove ...
    A former military commissions prosecutor turned prominent military commissions critic, Col. Morris Davis claims he was fired from his position at the Congressional Research Service for criticizing the Obama administration's revival of military commissions for suspected terrorists. In December, the ...
  • McCain and His Motives.
    Remember when we all thought John McCain was a steadfastly principled man who didn't play that nasty political game? Yeah, I know – it seems like so long ago. But let's take a gander at what he's saying in a new radio ad. " President Obama is leading an extreme left-wing crusade to bankrupt America, ...
  • The Internet is Falling! The Internet is Falling!
    There's just really very little in the way of actual evidence in Larry Downes' CNET op-ed today that claims that the Obama administration is "clearly backtracking" on a commitment to turning the principle of net neutrality into enforceable policy. Downes' column is of a piece with a new ta ...
  • The Battle for Voting Rights.
    Adam Serwer asks if the reassignment of the Bush-era head of the Justice Department section could mean real change on voting rights: Sometime during Christmas week, Christopher Coates , the chief of the Voting Rights Section of the Justice Department, was quietly reassigned to an 18-month detail in ...

Andy Worthington

  • Andy Worthington Discusses the Yemenis Trapped in ...
    On Wednesday I was delighted to talk once more to veteran progressive radio host Peter B. Collins, for another of his mercifully ad-free podcasts, which allow interviewer and interviewee the breathing space to discuss important stories in detail. In his introduction to the one-hour interview, availa ...
  • Guantánamo 8th anniversary: Demo at US embassy, Pa ...
    On January 11, 2010, the 8th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo, the following events will be taking place in London: 12.30 to 2 pm: The London Guantánamo Campaign will hold a demonstration outside the US embassy in Grosvenor Square, Mayfair, London, W1 The demonstration will call on the US ad ...
  • Screening of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantá ...
    On Tuesday January 12, at 7.30pm, at the Friends Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh, SACC (Scotland Against Criminalising Communities) presents an open meeting and screening of the new documentary film “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (co-directed by Polly Nash and Andy Worthingt ...
  • On Democracy Now! Andy Worthington Discusses Guant ...
    Today, I made my way to a TV studio in central London to hook up with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez in New York to discuss the recent uproar over the release of Yemeni prisoners from Guantánamo, and the Pentagon’s most recent claims that 1 in 5 released prisoners have engaged in terrorist activities ...
  • Guantánamo Recidivism: Mainstream Media Parrot Pen ...
    Last May, the New York Times uncritically published a front-page story entitled, “1 In 7 Detainees Rejoined Jihad, Pentagon Finds,” in which Elisabeth Bumiller, relying on an unpublished Pentagon report, stated that “74 prisoners released from Guantánamo have returned to terrorism, making for a reci ...

Buzzflash

  • The GOP, barking in your defense
    Body After eight years of G.W. Bush's brutal arrogance as the beacon of the Republican Party, I see Michael Steele as a kind of political methadone -- a bridge to probably nowhere, yet while his arrogance is undeniable, the brutality has been substituted by a kind of harmless goofiness. ...
  • Michael Steele Wins BuzzFlash Award For His Book T ...
    Michael Steele Welcome back to BuzzFlash's GOP Hypocrite of the Week. There's something about book tours that bring out the hypocrisy in the GOP. Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele's new screed is apparently a self-help book for the party he pretends to lead, including some sort of ...
  • Forgetting and Deflecting on Terror: Unsupported A ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT by Jeffrey Joseph BuzzFlash readers know better than to expect FOX News personalities to approach issues such as the Christmas Day attack with logic or truth. The main differentiation among them, rather, may be whether the individual's hubris is enough to boldly state obvious li ...
  • National Day of Smite: Teabaggers Announce Step On ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Meg White As President Barack Obama approaches the one-year mark of his term, many are reflecting upon the last tumultuous year with relief. Some things do get better with age, and perhaps "hope" will join fine wine on that list. While some beverages improve over time, tea ...
  • BuzzFlash Mailbag for January 7, 2010
    BUZZFLASH MAILBAG Want to join the conversation? Share your thoughts with other Mailbag readers by clicking here . You also may comment below; post articles yourself at BuzzFlash.net ; or send urls for BuzzFlash to post to: www.buzzflash.com/contact/newstip.html . Subject: The easy way to keep up on ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • Helen Thomas deviates from the terrorism script
    (updated below) Following up on Thursday's post concerning our collective refusal to discuss how American actions and policies fuel Terrorism:   at a White House press conference yesterday with Janet Napolitano and John Brennan, Helen Thomas shows -- yet again -- that she's one of the very fe ...
  • More cause and effect in our ever-expanding "war"
    If it is taboo to discuss how America's actions in the Middle East cause Terrorism -- and it generally is -- that taboo is far stronger still when it comes to specifically discussing how our blind, endless enabling of Israeli actions fuels Terrorism directed at the U.S.  An article in yesterday's N ...
  • 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 BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Scientists torn between cash and kudos
    With ailing banks propped up by billions in taxpayers’ money and nations rolling through the mud of economic recession is it any surprise that we get mightily frustrated to hear of their enormous bonuses and golden pension pots? Of course not… But, here’s a thought… As the lines drawn between com ...
  • Cancer, pneumonia, regulations, theranostics
    The 1st of January issue of SpectroscopyNOW is live: MRI nanoparticles seek and destroy cancer cells – A single nanoparticle can be tracked using real-time MRI as it homes in on cancer cells. A fluorescent dye used to tag the nanoparticle couples with heat therapy to kill the targeted cells. Naomi ...
  • Classic musical science and Stradivarnish
    It won’t necessarily be music to the classical purist’s ear, but chemists have been instrumental in revealing the secret beneath the varnish on a Stradivari violins, and the secret is: there is no secret. Antonio Stradivari is perhaps the most famous instrument maker of all time. He is especially c ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Everglades Coalition Releases Its 2020 Vision for ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 8, 2010 NPCA At its 25th Annual Conference, the Everglades Coalition today released its 2020 vision for Everglades restoration. Elected officials, environmental groups, and community leaders gathered to discuss the Changing Face of Everglades Restoration, and develop so ...
  • Proposed Amnesty Serves to Whitewash Honduran Coup ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 8, 2010 CEPR The international community should offer no support for planned amnesty for the perpetrators of the Honduran coup, Mark Weisbrot , Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, said today. Noting that both ousted President Manuel Zelaya and co ...
  • New Poll Finds Continued Public Support for Compre ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 8, 2010 Americas Voice Updated public opinion research shows that, despite conventional wisdom in Washington, voters around the country continue to support comprehensive immigration reform by strong margins. read more
  • World Needs to Act Now to Prevent New Sudan War, T ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 7, 2010 Oxfam International Major conflict could return to southern Sudan unless there is urgent international action to save the peace agreement that ended one of Africa's longest and deadliest wars, ten aid agencies warned today. read more
  • Eight Years After Guantanamo, Lawyers and Activist ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 8, 2010 Witness Against Torture Eight years ago next Monday, the Guantanamo prison opened for "war on terror" detainees. On January 11 , activists and Guantanamo lawyers will mark the anniversary by demanding that President Obama make good on his pledge to close the pri ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • The Implosion of the American Political Consciousn ...
    by David Michael Green If you're looking for a decent indicator of the political health of the nation, consider the following excerpt from a Christian Science Monitor article this week: "The decision by the White House Friday to not preempt the season premiere of the psychedelic crash-drama "Lost" ...
  • Old Threat Rings True Today
    by Eric Margolis The year: 1986. I went to the grandly titled "Afghan Information Centre", a drab little office in Peshawar, Pakistan filled with pamphlets and dusty books. The director was a short, thin man in a torn sweater named Abdullah Azzam. We spoke at length of the anti-Soviet jihad (struggl ...
  • My Husband: Jailed for Protesting Israel's Wall
    by Majida Abu Rahmah On International Human Rights Day in 2008, my husband Abdallah Abu Rahmah was in Berlin receiving a medal from the World Association for Human Rights. Last year on the same day, 10 December, Abdallah was taken away at 2am by Israeli soldiers who broke into our West Bank home. Ab ...
  • My Grandson and Saying What's Real
    by Robert Shetterly My Grandson & Saying What's Real Having looked the beast in the eye, Having asked & received forgiveness, Let us shut the door on the past, Not to forget it, But to allow it not to imprison us.  - Archbishop Desmond Tutu We have slain innocence let history begin - Alicia Ostriker ...
  • The Other Plot to Wreck America
    by Frank Rich THERE may not be a person in America without a strong opinion about what coulda, shoulda been done to prevent the underwear bomber from boarding that Christmas flight to Detroit. In the years since 9/11, we've all become counterterrorists. But in the 16 months since that other calamity ...

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • N Korea seeks peace treaty with US
    Pyongyang wants nuclear talks in exchange for treaty as US envoy describes North Korea's human rights record as appalling North Korea today called for a formal peace treaty with the US as a precondition for its return to international talks about the country's nuclear programme. However, in an appar ...
  • Iris Robinson in Belfast hospital
    Democratic Unionist spokesman denies reports that wife of Northern Ireland first minister is in French ski resort Iris Robinson is in a Belfast hospital receiving psychiatric treatment, her husband, the Northern Ireland first minister, Peter Robinson, said today. A Democratic Unionist party (DUP) sp ...
  • First trial without jury for 400 years
    John Twomey and associates face criminal trial without jury after lawyers' legal challenges exhausted The first criminal trial without a jury to take place in England and Wales in more than 400 years begins on Tuesday after lawyers' legal challenges were exhausted. John Twomey, 62, and three other d ...
  • Schools reopen as cold snap eases
    Councils in areas badly hit by snow say most schools will be open again as thaw begins Thousands of schools around Britain were open again today as temperatures above zero brought respite from the snow and ice, although forecasters warned of the possibility of more snow to come. Councils in some of ...
  • Guardian Daily: Robinson urged to resign
    As fresh detail and speculation emerges about Iris Robinson's affair and financial dealings, Henry McDonald in Belfast says he expects her husband and first minister, Peter Robinson, to resign within the week. After the death of a British newspaper correspondent in Afghanistan, the Guardian's Jon Bo ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

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

Afghanistan Sun

  • Chemical analysis links ISI to CIA killings in Kho ...
    Washington, Jan 11: The chemical fingerprint of the bomb used by the Jordanian double agent that killed seven Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officers at a US base in Khost Province of Afghanistan last week reportedly matches the kind produced by Pakistan's Directorate for Inter-Services Intellige ...
  • Analysts unable to digest flood of video intellige ...
    Hampton (Virginia), Jan 11: United States spy drones and other sources from Afghanistan and Iraq have produced so much video intelligence that analysts are reportedly finding it difficult to keep up.
  • Imran Khan asks Taliban to hold peace dialogue wit ...
    Rawalpindi, Jan 11: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has urged the Taliban to stop suicide bombings and take the initiative of holding peace talks with the Government.
  • Analysts unable to digest flood of video intellige ...
    Hampton (Virginia), Jan 11 : United States spy drones and other sources from Afghanistan and Iraq have produced so much video intelligence that analysts are reportedly finding it difficult to keep up.
  • US service member killed in southern Afghanistan
    KABUL (AP) - NATO says an American service member was killed in a bomb explosion in southern Afghanistan. NATO says in a statement that the death occurred Sunday. Lt. Nico Melendez, a U.S. spokesman ...

Futurismic

  • Fiction’s Forgotten Villains #2
    Does Not Equal is a webcomic by Sarah Ennals – check out the pre-Futurismic archives, and the strips that have been published here previously. [ Be sure to check out the Does Not Equal Cafepress store for webcomic merchandise featuring Canadians with geometrically-shaped heads! ] Project Wonderful ...
  • Science fiction, religion and rationality
    As if to mirror the wider (and louder) debate of science versus religion (which I remain convinced is a false dichotomy in some respects), the science fiction scene seems to be turning its attention to the deeper philosophical underpinnings of the genre. Here are a couple of stimulating viewpoints: ...
  • America’s decline, and how to prevent it
    Internet serendipity strikes again! Hot on the heels of my questions about the political fragmentation and polarisation of the United States comes a long but lucid article from one James Fallows at The Atlantic, in which he discusses the nation’s seemingly perpetual worries about its own decline, an ...
  • Why we reject stories
    I’ve been reading and responding to Futurismic fiction submissions for going on five years now, and hundreds and hundreds of stories have passed through our slushpile. If you do something long enough, you start to see patterns, and I thought I’d write up a list of common reasons for rejection that ...
  • North Dakota vs Minnesota: interstate economic war ...
    To a nominal Brit like myself, reading about the American governmental system is a constant stream of surprises. It’s one thing to understand that a country comprised of fifty-odd states (which are themselves the size of some sovereign countries) will have baked a certain degree of local independenc ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Birkenfeld enters jail after initiating disclosure ...
    At 2 pm today UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld surrendered to U.S. authorities and commenced serving a three-year and four-month sentence at the Schuylkill County Federal Correctional Institution in Minersville, Pennsylvania. Stephen M. Kohn, the Executive Director of the National Whistleblo ...
  • Stephen Kohn appears on Democracy Now about Birken ...
    Attorney Stephen Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center, and an attorney for UBS whistleblower Brad Birkenfeld, appeared on Democracy Now this morning. TAKE ACTION by sending a letter to Attorney General Holder
  • 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 ...

Defense and the National Interest

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

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • The Homeless As Ad Space
    Is paying a homeless man $100 to hold a movie poster a way to provide him with an honest day's work or a way to exploit him as little more than ad space? According to entertainment journalist Nikki Finke, movie producer David Permut paid a veteran named Ronald to hold a poster for Youth in Revolt , ...
  • Philadelphia Welcomes Its First Street Newspaper
    Philadelphia has quite the publishing history. It's where Ben Franklin established his printing press, where the first political cartoons and the first almanac were published, where the first paper mill began and where the first daily newspaper took off. It's surprising then, that the City of Brothe ...
  • Homeless "Check Runners" Arrested
    Two men were arrested outside Savannah, Georgia on New Year's Eve for attempting to commit check fraud. What's interesting for us is that two accomplices who have not been punished committed a worse crime -- exploiting the homeless. The arrested men, Rodmon Taylor, 44, and James Bass, 28, are both h ...
  • They're Not Camping; They're Homeless
    Homeless people who choose to live in tents present a complex set of issues: they refuse to enter shelters for a variety of reasons, they face unique health risks and they're rarely seen by the public. One of them, profiled in the Washington Post today , is Gala Crum, 21 and pregnant, who moved out ...
  • Feeding Frenzies and Pecking Orders at the Bottom
    On Christmas morning, a man showed up where homeless people usually gather to hand out $20 bills. He said he used to be out there, but is doing better now and wanted to share. He just didn't expect to share with so many. So he gathered people into groups of four, asked who was the "most responsible ...

Ceasefire.ca

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    Ceasefire.ca is very happy to welcome Bill Robinson to our team. Bill has been writing about Canadian defence and security policy issues since 1983. He was on the staff of Project Ploughshares, and has done research and writing for Canadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, the Polaris Institute, ...
  • Jargon watch: Weapons of mass destruction
    When most people talk about “weapons of mass destruction“, they’re thinking of nuclear weapons, or maybe chemical and biological weapons—not exploding underpants. But as this Tom Tomorrow cartoon suggests, accused “underwear bomber” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has been charged with using a weapon of ...
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    Most Ceasefire.ca members feel “It’s Just Right” We are really pleased with the high level of satisfaction Ceasefire.ca members have with the nature and frequency of our e-mail communications. In the case of articles and petitions, three out of four members say the frequency of mailings is “just rig ...
  • Budget “adjustments” miss obvious defence spending ...
    As noted in an earlier post, all three branches of the Canadian Forces (Army, Navy, Air Force) are currently conducting budget “adjustments”, amounting to $190 million, that have to be made by the end of March. As part of this process, the Army is “adjusting” its budget by $80 million, and the Res ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Obama Orders $1 Billion To Be Spent On Airport Bod ...
    January 08, 2o1o Toledo Blade President Obama yesterday ordered intelligence agencies to streamline how terrorism threats are pursued and analyzed, saying the government has to respond aggressively to the failures that allowed a Nigerian man to ignite an explosive on a jetliner on Christmas Day. Mr. ...
  • Asian Airline Association Warns Against Use of Ful ...
    January 08, 2010 Flight Global By Leithen Francis The Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) has warned against regulators over reacting in the wake of the recent terrorist attempt on a Delta Air Lines passenger aircraft bound for the USA. “It takes real political maturity to remain calm and no ...
  • Pomegranate Reduces Risks of Breast Cancer
    January 8, 2010 Reuters By Xavier Briand An acid found in pomegranates appears to block aromatase, an enzyme that converts androgen to estrogen, a hormone that plays a role in the development of breast cancer, the researchers wrote in the journal Cancer Prevention Research.   “We identified some of ...
  • Goldman Sachs Bonuses Larger Than Earnings
    January 08, 2010 Raw Story By Daniel Tencer A lawsuit filed against investment bank Goldman Sachs by a shareholder alleges that the company spent more money on corporate bonuses than it earned in 2008. Shareholder Ken Brown’s lawsuit is one of two suits filed against the company this week over its c ...
  • Inverted Body Scanners Show Naked Body in Full Liv ...
    January 08, 2010 Info Wars By Paul Joseph Watson The full body scanners that President Obama last night authorized to be rolled out in airports across the country at a cost of over $1 billion dollars not only produce detailed pictures of your genitals, but once inverted some of those images also dis ...

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

  • The other plot to wreck America
    The other plot to wreck America By Frank Rich, New York Times, January 10, 2010 There may not be a person in America without a strong opinion about what coulda, shoulda been done to prevent the underwear bomber from boarding that Christmas flight to Detroit. In the years since 9/11, we’ve all become ...
  • How this suicide bomber opened a new front in Al-Q ...
    How this suicide bomber opened a new front in Al-Qaeda’s war By Christina Lamb and Miles Amoore, The Sunday Times, January 10, 2010 According to the guard, Balawi had been to the base before. He claimed that before the doctor reached the first gate, the Afghan security guards in charge of the perime ...
  • We’re keeping detainees in the camp because we’re ...
    We’re keeping detainees in the camp because we’re afraid of things they haven’t done yet? By Dahlia Lithwick, Slate, January 6, 2010 When it comes to being detained indefinitely at Guantanamo Bay, it’s not so much what you know as whom you know. Or whom you are alleged to know. Or whom you may know. ...
  • Elite Revolutionary Guard’s expanding role in Iran ...
    Elite Revolutionary Guard’s expanding role in Iran may limit U.S. options By Thomas Erdbrink, Washington Post, January 10, 2010 A major expansion in the role played by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps is giving the elite force new economic and political clout, but it could also complicate efforts by ...
  • Israeli general Brigadier-General Uzi Eilam denies ...
    Israeli general Brigadier-General Uzi Eilam denies Iran is nuclear threat By Uzi Mahnaimi, The Sunday Times, January 10, 2010 A general who was once in charge of Israel’s nuclear weapons has claimed that Iran is a “very, very, very long way from building a nuclear capability”. Brigadier-General Uzi ...

Watts Up With That?

  • December 2009: Second Snowiest on Record in the No ...
    England Buried In Snow – image from The Times According to the Rutgers University Global Snow Lab, last month had the second greatest December Northern Hemisphere snow cover since records were started in 1966.  Snow extent was measured at 45.86 million sq. km, topped only by 1985 at 45.99 million ...
  • UN IPCC chief Pachauri under fire in India for con ...
    From the “follow the money” department, this story has been building momentum ever since the story was made public by Christopher Booker and Dr. Richard North of the EU Referendum who three weeks ago co-wrote a major piece in the Sunday Telegraph. WUWT initially covered the story here on December 2 ...
  • More carbon is sequestered by echinoderms than pre ...
    Much more carbon is sequestered by echinoderms than previously thought. From Nature News Published online 7 January 2010 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.1041 Matt Kaplan Echinoderms are responsible for storing a significant amount of carbon each year.Lebrato, M. et al. Animals such as sea stars, ...
  • Mann-erisms: Where did we get that idea?
    Guest post by John A It’s always a difficult place for me to deal with interviews with Michael Mann, because on previous occasions Mann gets to say ridiculous things and get praised for them by fawning interviewers. One of the great mysteries of climate science is why Mann never gets interviewed by ...
  • Wacky Geo-ingineering Ideas to Save Our Planet
    Reprinted from totallytopten.com Top 10: Wacky Geo-ingineering Ideas to Save Our Planet On 12.29.09,  by wmmattler The solution to climate change lies not in the hands of politicians, but some seriously nutty scientists. For the uninitiated, Geo-engineering is easiest explained as the plan B i ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Wall Street Will Be Back For More by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig Jan. 11, 2010 Corporations, which control the levers of power in government and finance, promote and empower the psychologically maimed. Those who lack the capacity for empathy and who embrace the goals of the corporation—personal power and ...
  • On Democracy Now! Andy Worthington Discusses Guant ...
    by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 8 January 2010 Today, I made my way to a TV studio in central London to hook up with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez in New York to discuss the recent uproar over the release of Yemeni prisoners from Guantánamo, and the P ...
  • Howard Zinn: Myths of the Good Wars (Three ‘ ...
    by Howard Zinn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad PHubb September 15, 2009 Historian, Author, Playwright: Howard Zinn Sponsored by Cape Codders for Peace and Justice Filmed by Paul Hubbard at the Wellfleet Public Library on 9-13-09. more about “Howard Zinn: Myths of the Good Wars (…“, posted with ...
  • In time of crisis, barter works and may have saved ...
    by Richard C. Cook Featured Writer Dandelion Salad richardccook.com January 10, 2010 After the collapse of the Soviet Union caused it to split up into its components, the newly-established nations each faced an economic crisis. In Russia the crisis lasted for a decade. Inflation had destroyed the ...
  • Viva Palestina Convoy Members Threatened With Arre ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ readingpsc January 08, 2010 Fri 8 Jan 2010 @ 0800GMT: Press TV’s Hassan Ghani reports from Gaza on the Convoy being threatened with arrest by Egyptian Police. more about “Viva Palestina Convoy Members Threate…“, posted with vodpod *** Thanks and h/t to Irish4 ...

Your New Reality

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    Wow, Glenn Beck finds some subliminal image-laden propaganda he, wow, really likes. Wow : "WOW! I don't know who produced this but again WOW! MUST SEE." The United States, where major national elections every two years means the re-election campaigns never end.
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    Assassinator Robot Wasp No Longer Drug-Induced Hallucination The future is now....that super-weird science fiction future where flying killer robot insects can undertake missions that humans with a steady hand and a sniper rifle once had to take care of : The Air Force Research Laboratory set out in ...
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    Don't Get Them Started On '33% Off '' If this seems to you a sad and depressing thing to see in a Walmart store, December, 2009 : Wait till You See The Whole Sign. (via Reddit )
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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 ...

Wired - Science

  • Hominids Went Out of Africa on Rafts
    ANAHEIM, Calif. — Human ancestors that left Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago to see the rest of the world were no landlubbers. Stone hand axes unearthed on the Mediterranean island of Crete indicate that an ancient Homo species — perhaps Homo erectus — had used rafts or other seagoing vess ...
  • Bee Colony Collapse May Have Several Causes
    When suspiciously large numbers of honeybee colonies started collapsing in late 2006, the search began to find the culprit behind the mysterious deaths. Now it seems a whole web of problems may be causing what’s known as colony collapse disorder. It’s becoming clear that there is no single parasit ...
  • Human Genome Is Part Bornavirus
    People may not be quite the humans they think they are. Or so suggests new research showing that the human genome is part bornavirus. Bornaviruses, a type of RNA virus that causes disease in horses and sheep, can insert their genetic material into human DNA and first did so at least 40 million year ...
  • TigerCam: First-Ever Video of Sumatran Tigress and ...
    A Sumatran tigress and her cubs took a special interest in a World Wildlife Federation camera, sniffing and possibly licking it during a brief sequence released in late December. The video was released as a prelude to the WWF’s Tx2: Double or Nothing campaign to call attention to plight of the tige ...
  • Chinese Coal Formed During Earth’s Greatest Extinc ...
    A seam of coal formed 250 million years ago during the worst extinction event on record appears to be responsible for the anomalously high lung cancer death rates among women in the rural Chinese county of Xuan Wei in Yunnan Province. It’s long been known that the lung cancer mortality rates in the ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • US to store $800m in military gear in Israel
    The U.S. Army will double the value of emergency military equipment it stockpiles on Israeli soil, and Israel will be allowed to use the U.S. ordnance in the event of a military emergency, according... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Israeli firm blasted for letting would-be plane bo ...
    The failure was a twin flop: An intelligence failure, which U.S. President Barack Obama has already stated, in the poor handling of information that arrived at the State Department and probably also... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Abdallah Abu Rahmah: “No army, no prison and no wa ...
    I mark the beginning of the new decade imprisoned in a military detention camp. Nevertheless, from within the occupation′s holding cell I meet the New Year with determination and hope... The price I... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Majida Abu Rahmah: My husband – jailed for protest ...
    My husband is a school teacher and farmer from the Palestinian village of Bilin. When Israel built its apartheid wall here, it separated Bilin from more than half of its land, in order to facilitate... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Amnesty International: Israeli detention of Palest ...
    The Israeli authorities must immediately release, or bring before a fair trial, three Palestinian human rights activists detained in Israel following their protests against the construction of the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Childhood Vaccine Schedule Updated; UAB Infectious ...
    New schedule includes formal recommendations that children older than 6 months get the H1N1 influenza vaccine to guard against swine flu, and that combination vaccines are generally preferred over separate injections, says UAB's David Kimberlin, a member of the AAP's infectious disease committee.
  • Top Innovators Practice 5 Skills the Rest of Us Do ...
    The most innovative CEOs spend 50 percent more time practicing five specific innovation skills than do their less creative counterparts, according to a six-year study by three prominent business scholars.
  • Combining Components of Marijuana Enhances Inhibit ...
    Combining the two most common cannabinoid compounds in Cannabis may boost the effectiveness of treatments to inhibit the growth of brain cancer cells and increase the number of brain cancer cells that die off. That's the finding of a new study published in the latest issue of the journal Molecular C ...
  • Obama, American Idol, & Young Voters
    Civil rights lawyer and University of Maryland law professor Sherrilyn Ifill argues that "elections" on shows like American Idol influenced young people who entered the electorate during Barack Obama's presidential campaign, and offer lessons for improving the political election process.
  • NSU Receives $15 Million in Federal Stimulus Money ...
    The facility will create 372 new jobs and help sustain a $6 billion industry in South Florida.

Intel Trends

  • Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: Self-same surrogat ...
    The following article is reprinted with permission from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Self-same surrogates in the Service of the Masters Once More Source:  Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan January 10, 2010   04:22   administrator The puppet Head of the Kabul Administration nominated some well-k ...
  • IntelTrends - 10-JAN-2010
    Spy services offered millions to CIA attacker Press TV, 10 Jan "The Jordanian and the American intelligence services offered me millions of dollars to work with them and to spy on the mujahedin," says CIA suicide bomber Humam Khalil al-Balawi in a video released by private television station AAJ on ...
  • AFGHANISTAN: Jama'at al-Da'wa ila al-Sunnah moveme ...
    The following article is reprinted with permission from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Jama'at al-Da'wa ila al-Sunnah Officially Pledge Allegiance to his highness Amir-ul-Momineen Source:  Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Reported by Zabihullah Mujahid January 9, 2010   13:38 The movement, Jama' ...
  • IntelTrends 09-JAN-2010
    Is Osama Bin Laden dead or alive? BBC, 09 Jan Conspiracy theory. Why some believe Bin Laden has been dead for years. PHILIPPINES: MILF deploys force to stop looting in Maguindanao towns MILF/Luwaran, 09 Jan The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has redeployed its politico-military task force, "T ...
  • U.S.-Baath party vs. Al-Qaeda in Yemen
    The following post is from Roads to Iraq, intel blog. U.S.-Baath party vs. Al-Qaeda in Yemen Source:   Roads to Iraq January 8, 2010 Panic and chaos in Maliki government (and Iran) after the news of U.S. works with Ba'ath members to fight Al-Qaeda in Yemen. Removing Salih Al-Mutlaq is to block the ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Every Year 25 Percent of Americans, 33 Percent of ...
    The U.S. has one of the safest food supplies in the world, but the report card is mixed, reports CBS News Correspondent Bill Whitaker. Every year 33 percent of Canadians get sick from what they eat. In the U.S., it's 25 percent. But in England it's only 2 percent and in France just 1 percent. In bot ...
  • Thinking Outside the Box
    Helena Norberg-Hodge is a native of Sweden, a leading critic of conventional notions of growth and development, and the recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize. She is also the founder and director of the International Society for Ecology and Culture and th ...
  • Roots of Distrust
    Just like eating organic food, using toxin-free toiletries is a good way to keep our bodies – and the environment – healthy, and more of us are choosing products that are labelled “natural”, or better still “organic”, believing that they will be good for us. But can we trust these claims? Click here ...
  • White House, EPA at Odds Over Coal-Waste Rules
    The Obama administration is engaged in an unusual internal spat as the White House and Environmental Protection Agency tussle over how to handle millions of tons of waste from coal-fired power plants. Click here to read this article
  • Outside the Inside Classroom
    Since 1965, the far-reaching hand of the U.S. Department of Education 'Elementary and Secondary Education Act' [ESEA], better known today as 'No Child Left Behind' [NCLB], has pledged to provide "all children with a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality education" in the ...

fotoFrontera

  • Así recibieron el año nuevo 2010 en el mundo...
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Supongo que la mayoría de mis lectores conocen el verdadero potencial de la serie " The Big Picture " propiedad del sitio Boston.Com . En esta ocasión, hago réplica de su colección " Welcoming 2010 ". Descubra de qué man ...
  • El talento y la creatividad de Eugenio Recuenco
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Para mi, es difícil describir la creatividad cuando sobrepasa los límites de mi propia imaginación. Este es el caso de Eugenio Recuenco , un verdadero artista capaz de satisfacer al más exigente espectador o conocedor de ...
  • Increíbles fotografías de acantilados alrededor de ...
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Esta es una bellísima colección de fotografías basadas en acantilados o clifftop en Inglés. Descubra interesantes lugares al borde del precipicio. Viaje hasta Ronda España , Bonifacio Corsica, Castellfolit de la Roca tam ...
  • Fotografías tomadas con una cámara HP Photosmart M ...
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Toca el turno presentar a Photo PT , un blog muy interesante donde su autor coloca las fotografías que ha tomado con su cámara HP Photosmart M22 . Descubra que muchas veces, no es necesario poseer una cámara profesional ...
  • Darker my love en blogspot
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Darker my love , se presenta como un interesante blog donde su autor va colocando las fotografías que toma en sus viajes cotidianos. Por lo tanto, será común encontrar fotos de diversos países acompañadas de breves desc ...

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Center for a Livable Future

  • 10 in 10: Consider Heating Your Home with Biomass
    A new decade brings new opportunities and challenges. The interaction between diet and health received significant attention during “The Aughts.” What will we do during this next decade to respond to the call for action for a healthier and more sustainable lifestyle? This is the first in a continuin ...
  • 10 in 10: Create Consumer Demand for Local, Organi ...
    A new decade brings new opportunities and challenges. The interaction between diet and health received significant attention during “The Aughts.” What will we do during this next decade to respond to the call for action for a healthier and more sustainable lifestyle? This is the second in a continui ...
  • 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 ...
  • Oyster restoration and aquaculture: Follow up fro ...
    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 ...
  • Pew to Brief Congress of CAFO Impacts on Workers, ...
    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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