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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.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • INDIA: Stalled Korean Mining Operations Face ...
    NEW DELHI, Jan 21 (IPS) - The Indian government’s grant of the final environmental clearance to a Korean giant firm, allowing it to acquire 3,000 acres of ‘forest lands’ in the eastern state of Orissa, has prompted a fresh spate of protests from more than 4,000 families that will be affected by ...
  • BANGLADESH: No End in Sight for Extrajudicia ...
    DHAKA, Jan 21 (IPS) - Despite appeals by human rights organisation to the Bangladesh government to end extrajudicial killings in the country, no steps have been taken to bring the perpetrators to justice.
  • BOLIVIA: More Women in Parliament, With Their Own ...
    LA PAZ, Jan 20 (IPS) - An unprecedented 28 percent of seats in Bolivia's new parliament will soon be occupied by women. Female lawmakers have already launched a battle for women to serve in half the posts in the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government.
  • POLITICS-US: By-election Seen as Rebuke to Obama
    WASHINGTON, Jan 20 (IPS) - Tuesday's loss by the Democrats of their 60th Senate seat has raised serious questions about the outlook for the White House's policy agenda and spurred a rash of finger-pointing among Democrats over who bears responsibility for the very public rebuke issued by Massach ...
  • RIGHTS: Defenders Under Sustained Attack Worldwi ...
    WASHINGTON, Jan 20 (IPS) - Abusive governments around the world escalated their attacks against local human rights defenders and other independent monitors during 2009, according to the 2010 edition of Human Rights Watch's annual 'World Report' released here Wednesday.

Scoop - NZ

  • Illinois foreclosures up 32% in 09
    The number of Illinois properties that got a foreclosure-related notice rose almost 32 percent last year, more than the increase for the country.A total of 131,132 properties in the state faced actions such as default notices, scheduled foreclosure auctions and bank repossessions in 2009, according ...
  • US Mortgages: walking away becomes mainstream.
    As many Americans begin to realize that it will be many years (if not decades) before their houses are worth what they owe on them, the idea of walking away from your mortgage is going mainstream.Not surprisingly, the mortgage industry is doing everything it can to prevent this, including telling ho ...
  • Obama's risky bet on Massachusetts race
    President Barack Obama will travel to Massachusetts on Sunday afternoon to campaign for Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley - a risky bet that puts Obama's own credibility on the line on behalf of a weak candidate in hopes of averting a loss that would shatter the party's 60-seat Senate super ...
  • California debt rating cut, cash crunch looms
    California's main debt rating was cut on Wednesday by Standard & Poor's, which said the government of the most populous U.S. state could nearly run out of cash in March -- and another rating cut might follow.The state government's budget gap of nearly $20 billion over the next year and a half leaves ...
  • The Militarization of Emergency Aid to Haiti: Is i ...
    Haiti has a longstanding history of US military intervention and occupation going back to the beginning of the 20th Century. US interventionism has contributed to the destruction of Haiti's national economy and the impoverishment of its population.  »  PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews

Independent ( London )

  • John Edwards says he fathered child in affair
    Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards finally came forward today to admit that he fathered a child with a woman that he hired before his second White House bid.
  • Rescue teams pull back as Haiti aid flows in
    The search for survivors of Haiti's killer earthquake has started to wind down as international rescue teams begin pulling back and aid, though more plentiful, is still not enough for the tens of thousands left homeless and injured.
  • Alive! Against all odds, survivors emerge into the ...
    He might have been greeting his mother after an exciting day at school, but the little boy with the shining eyes, the blazing grin and his arms outstretched towards his mother had just spent seven-and-a-half days buried in the ruins of his two-storey house in Port-au-Prince. His name is Kiki, he is ...
  • Triumph of a Republican populist in a pick-up
    When Cosmopolitan featured him nude in their June 1982 issue, they called Scott Brown, then a Boston law student, not just "America's Sexiest Man" but also "strong but huggable". It is a description that may still apply given the surge of support he received from Massachusetts voters.
  • Obama scrambles to salvage agenda after humiliatio ...
    Suddenly sapped of political confidence, the White House and Democrat leaders on Capitol Hill were last night pondering their options for keeping healthcare reform and other key policy priorities alive in the wake of the stunning, upset victory by Republican Scott Brown in the special senate electi ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • US Slams Iranian Response to Third-Party Enrichmen ...
    Summary: The Iranian government delivered a memo to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today clarifying its position on the draft third party enrichment proposal. The contents of the memo were not made public. But the United States was quick to condemn its contents, with State Departm ...
  • Bubble bursts on Iran nuclear options
    Summary: NEW YORK - A much-anticipated meeting of the "Iran Six" nations at the weekend to discuss the next steps for sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program ended without any progress. source: Asia Times read more
  • China urges flexibility on Iran, downplays sanctio ...
    Summary: BEIJING (Reuters) - China urged other powers on Tuesday to show more flexibility in dealing with Iran's disputed nuclear programme, playing down prospects of sanctions after six countries met to discuss the standoff. source: Reuters read more
  • Germany Pledges ‘Comprehensive Sanctions’ Against ...
    Summary: Even though it seems impossible that any significant sanctions against Iran can be pushed forward in the United Nations Security Council, German Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed today that they would implement ‘comprehensive sanctions’ against the nation for its civilian nuclear program. ...
  • No decision on new Iran sanctions
    Summary: Bushehr Nuclear Reactor NEW YORK: Six major powers considered new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear defiance here Saturday but reached no decision, a senior European Union official said. source: AFP read more

The Daily Galaxy

  • What's Keeping Earth Cooler Expected? New Report o ...
    The planet has warmed much less than expected during the industrial era based on current best estimates of Earth's "climate sensitivity" -- the amount of global temperature increase expected in response to a given rise in atmospheric concentrations of carbon...
  • Are the Laws of Physics Unique to Our Universe? (A ...
    Chris Knight, the finest fictional physicist of our time, once said "All science. No Philosophy. Wrong." It's true that an understanding of existence outside of equations is vital for scientists, both in terms of enjoying life and avoiding things like...
  • 2012: Will Robots Discover Life on Mars?
    While the "man" in mankind is lacking these days, with our boldest and bravest endeavours being criticized as costly or dangerous by people who can't even spell the words involved, we're still adventuring into outer space. If we can't go,...
  • Are Big Brains Predictors of Success?
    A new study conducted at the University of Illinois has found that nearly a quarter of the variability in achievement seen among men and women trained on a new video game could be predicted by measuring the volume of three...
  • Get Your Daily Dose of Awe @The New Daily Galaxy T ...
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Natural News

  • Johnson and Johnson engaged in elaborate drug prof ...
    (NaturalNews) Drug maker Johnson and Johnson paid tens of millions of dollars in kickbacks to nursing home pharmacies in order to boost the sale of its drugs, says a Justice Department lawsuit. The payments were often disguised as grants or "educational funding," says the lawsuit, and they were dire ...
  • Zero deaths caused by vitamins, minerals, amino ac ...
    (NaturalNews) To hear opponents of natural medicine say it, vitamins and herbs are extremely dangerous for your health. They should be regulated, we're told, because they're so dangerous! Statistics from the U.S. National Poison Data System prove otherwise. According to a 174-page report just publis ...
  • New study: mango prevents and halts growth of colo ...
    (NaturalNews) Take a bite of a juicy, sweet mango and you are experiencing a delicious taste enjoyed by countless people from ancient times until today. According to the Orlando-based National Mango Board (NMG), a mango industry-sponsored research, promotion and consumer information program, mangos ...
  • $10,000 reward offered for scientific proof of H1N ...
    (NaturalNews) In conjunction with NaturalNews, the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center (www.ConsumerWellness.org) has publicly offered a $10,000 reward for any person, company or institution who can provide trusted, scientific evidence proving that any of the FDA-approved H1N1 vaccines being offered ...
  • H1N1 swine flu hoax falls apart at the seams
    (NaturalNews) The great swine flu hoax of 2009 is now falling apart at the seams as one country after another unloads hundreds of millions of doses of unused swine flu vaccines. No informed person wants the injection anymore, and the entire fear-based campaign to promote the vaccines has now been ex ...

TheGallopingBeaver

  • 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 ...
  • Civil Rights and Wrongs
    THE INTERNATIONAL FREE PRESS SOCIETY is a spin-off of the Danish Free Press Society. They took their name from the Society that was established in 1835 when the adherents of free speech feared encroachment by the State. The old Society was dissolved in 1849 in recognition of Denmark’s first democrat ...
  • 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 ...
  • Elections and the LPC
    TGB Press - Despite a resounding 74% showing in recent polling, and a record surge in party donations and memberships, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff indicated today that his party would not vote to defeat the governing Conservatives through confidence motions for the forseeable future, if ever. ...
  • Prorogue Poll - CFRA radio
    Go. (h/t Dawg)

Media Matters for America

  • Van Susteren misuses "nuclear option," allows Greg ...
    Fox News' Greta Van Susteren falsely described the budget reconciliation process as the "nuclear option," and allowed Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) to refer to it as "arcane." In fact, the "nuclear option" actually refers to a procedure that would be used to change Senate rules, while reconciliation requi ...
  • Quick Fact: Beck reiterates misleading smears of S ...
    Glenn Beck claims that President Obama is "in danger" because his supporters include "violent radicals" like SEIU president Andy Stern, who Beck described as "leading White House visitor. 'Workers of the world Unite. It's not just a slogan anymore." In fact, Politifact has rated Beck's prior claim ...
  • Beck baselessly suggests "White House or Congress ...
    Glenn Beck questioned why the "White House or Congress" would schedule the testimony of the "gate-crashers" Michaele and Tareq Salahi for January 20, baselessly suggesting that they "had the story planted today ... to bury it in a busy news day while everyone else was distracted," presumably by ...
  • Luntz's Fox News focus group participants echo Fox ...
    During Fox News' January 19 coverage of Massachusetts' Senate race election returns, Fox News' Frank Luntz conducted a focus group with Bay State voters, many of whom were critical of Democratic actions on health care reform and other issues. The focus group participants' remarks echoed talking poi ...
  • Wash. Times tries in vain to link Obama t ...
    The Washington Times attacked the Obama White House in an editorial for supposedly interfering in a voter intimidation case against members of the New Black Panther Party. But the Times editorial relied on falsehoods and distortions, such as the false suggestion that the Justice Department complete ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Democrats Not Sad, Just Angry (at Democrats)
    Did you see what Josh Marshall posted today? "We're currently having our daily afternoon editorial meeting. And man, I don't think I've ever heard so much sarcasm, biting comments and just hilarity of a painful sort. Mainly coming from me."... Evan Bayh - United States - Republican - Politics ...
  • Scott Brown "Doesn't Know" Whether Obama Was Born ...
    Both Josh and Jonathan Chait have posted on the discovery that Mr. Tea Party with a Human Face, Scott Brown of Massachusetts, aligned himself with the wingnut conspiracy theory that Barack Obama was born out of wedlock. (Not that there... Barack Obama - Massachusetts - United States - Scott P. ...
  • How to Talk to Angry Populists
    "By the rude bridge that arched the flood, / their flag to April's breeze unfurled, / here once the embattled farmers stood / and fired the shot heard 'round the world." I was born and brought up in Massachusetts and... Barack Obama - United States - Politics - Massachusetts - Democratic
  • State of the Union Rewrite
    If there was one quote that summed up my feelings from this morning's post Massachusetts Senate election round-up, it was this. "I'm hoping that it gives a message to the country," said Marlene Connolly, 73, of North Andover, a lifelong... Massachusetts Senate - Politics - Massachusetts - Unite ...
  • Moving forward...
    At least Massachusetts means: focus on job creation. It may mean more than that, but it surely means that. There are at least five ways the government can create jobs: 1. Spend taxpayer dollars to buy goods (roads, fighter planes,... Government - Job creation program - Employment - Massachuset ...

TruthOut

  • Bill Moyers Journal | America's Energy Challenge
    Airtime: Friday, January 22, 2010, at 9:00 PM (EST) on PBS (check local listings ). read more
  • Jim Hightower | Reining in the Gods of the Fed
    Here's a story that reads like the script of an old B-grade monster movie -- and it would be comic, were it not so serious. The monster is named "The Fed," a hydra-headed creature with enormous and destructive power, which it exercises from within the misty confines of a marble cavern that is unappr ...
  • E.J. Dionne Jr. | The Contradictions of Obamaism
    Washington - It turns out there were core contradictions in the promises Barack Obama made to the country in 2008. They caught up with his party on Tuesday in Massachusetts. Things will not get easier. Republicans in Congress will be empowered to hold to their course of obstruction by Sen.-elect Sco ...
  • Ruth Marcus | Facing the Political Realities
    Washington - Since the start of his presidency, I've been wrestling with three questions about Barack Obama: Did he take on too much? Is he too hands-off in his dealings with Congress? And the biggest, which puzzled me throughout the campaign as well -- where is he, exactly, on the political spectru ...
  • GRITtv: Resisting the "Shock Doctrine" in Haiti
    read more

Planetsave

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

Water Quality - WordPress

Public Citizen in Texas

Press TV

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    We'll say it again - Brown is irrelevant to health care, as long as the House passes the bill the Senate already passed. "US President Barack Obama has warned Democrats not to "jam" healthcare reforms through the Senate after a Republican won a seat in Massachusetts. Mr Obama told ABC News any vote ...
  • The Problem with Government is the Problem
    If there is a single reason American politics is so irrational and dysfunctional it may be that we continue to have these ferocious fights over who gets to control a government we are never supposed to use. Look at health care.  Despite the torrent of words, just two have stopped reform in its track ...
  • Claire Never Fails to Disappoint, Does She?
    I'll give Claire McCaskill this...she never passes up an opportunity to stick it to the Liberals without whom she would have never been elected. Indeed, she seems to take great glee in telling us to get bent .Well guess what, toots? It goes both ways. Today was the final straw, and I will have sharp ...
  • Time to do a gut-check and man the hell up
    The putrid smell of burning hair must be filling the air in DC today as Democrats rush to set their locks alight and then cut hard to the right in an effort to outrun the fire. That is because they are idiots. There is no reason to panic. Not if they would just stop for a second, catch their breath ...
  • What Would Republicans Do
    In every campaign there are really two elections: The counting of votes and the explaining of what those votes mean. And in most cases it is the latter that matters more. When Republicans lose an election they do not sit around stirring the ashes trying to figure out what it all means so that they c ...

Care 2

  • US Activists: Clean Air Act Under Attack - Help WW ...
    A fierce battle is being waged by oil and coal lobbyists to undermine the Clean Air Act. The fossil fuel industry has been working with Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) to draft an amendment that would dismantle the Clean Air Act as a tool to fight climate chan Submitted by Daphna Yanez to Environment  | ...
  • Ring of fire: annular solar eclipse over Asia and ...
    A solar eclipse that reduced the sun to a blazing ring surrounding a sombre disk plunged millions of people in Africa and Asia into an eerie semi-darkness. The spectacle, visible in a 185-mile band running 8,062 miles across the globe, Submitted by Rosemary RYour CyberSis to Science & Tech  |   Not ...
  • German minister in favor of slashing solar tariffs
    Slashing feed-in tariffs for the solar industry by 16-17 percent is feasible, German Economy Minister Rainer Bruederle said on Tuesday, dealing a blow to the sector which is still hoping for smaller cuts. Submitted by Alexander Hampp to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Luminous 3-D Jungle Is a Biologist’s Dream
    When watching a Hollywood movie that has robed itself in the themes and paraphernalia of science, a scientist expects to feel anything from annoyance to infuriation at facts misconstrued or processes misrepresented. Submitted by Alisa Roberts to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Eclipse Photos: "Ring of Fire" Shines Over Africa, ...
    The first solar eclipse of the decade created this "ring of fire" over Jiangsu Province, China, on Friday. Such an event is known as an annular eclipse, because a bright annulus--or ring--of sunlight remains visible even when the moon is directly between Submitted by Daphna Yanez to Environment  |  ...

GreenBiz

  • Golden State Warriors Hook Up with The Solar Compa ...
    The Golden State Warriors and The Solar Company are cutting the ribbon today on a solar installation at the basketball team's practice facility — the first in the NBA to be powered with renewable energy.
  • How a Kindergarten Mentality Can Drive Widespread ...
    The CEO of OPower talks to GreenBiz.com senior writer Marc Gunther about how a simple smiley face can get energy hogs to become energy misers, and how utilities are seeing the light in using behavioral science to drive their quest for efficiency.
  • Cree, Dow, GE Get Millions in Tax Credits for Clea ...
    Cree Inc., Dow Chemical Company, GE, CalStar Products and Serious Materials are among the more than 100 firms receiving $2.3 billion in tax credits for cleantech manufacturing that's expected to create thousands of U.S. jobs while producing advanced technology and equipment to generate, efficiently ...
  • Six Key Lessons on Green and Energy Efficiency Ret ...
    While the real estate economy faltered between late 2008 and early 2009, I was writing a book about building retrofits, the sector of the property market that will likely bring us through and out of the downturn. Here are six important lessons learned in the process.
  • Certification Program Launched for Sustainable Win ...
    The California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance has created a third-party certification program for wineries and vineyards in the state that follow sustainable practices.

Reuters Global

  • Haiti’s plea: “We need help”
    Just outside of CARE's offices in Pétionville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, hundreds of newly homeless people are camped out in a public square. During the day, they wait patiently in the scorching sun. But at night, when hunger and thirst overtake them, groups of people can be heard clapping and cha ...
  • United Nations confronts life and death in Haiti
    Sadly, such survival stories were the exception. As many as 200,000 people are believed to have died in the earthquake and some of their bodies may never be recovered. A group of containers at the U.N. logistics base at the Port-au-Prince airport, which several U.N. officials insisted was not refrig ...
  • Driving carmakers to distraction over emissions
    Europe's candidate to be climate chief, Connie Hedegaard, talked tough during hearings for the European Commission last week, raising the hackles of Europe's auto industry. Hedegaard has shown herself to be a tough advocate of tigher CO2 emissions from cars. Could she be about to take on Big Auto ov ...
  • Pakistan: ditching “strategic depth”
    Does Pakistan's idea of seeking "strategic depth" in Afghanistan need to be redefined, or ditched altogether?
  • Euro zone ministers puzzle over how to pick ECB vi ...
    Euro zone finance ministers have failed to pick the next vice president of the European Central Bank, the person above almost all others who will shape the monetary policy to help the euro zone out of the financial crisis. They haven't picked the president because they are not sure how to do it unde ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Delusional At the White House
    * bumped up * Obama and his advisors are living in an alternate universe and are still insisting that the election result in Massachusetts yesterday is not a rejection of Obamacare. Here’s the video evidence: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy So Scott Brow ...
  • House Option
    > seamlesstabbing=”false” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” swliveconnect=”true” pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash”> Graveyard Whistle.    Spoke professionals [on my syndicated radio show] following the Massachusetts special ...
  • Glenn Beck Wins the Olbermann Colostomy Bag Award
    So we heard Olbermann make a complete ass of himself last night. Guess what? Glenn Beck must of have had penis envy. Beck launched on both his radio and TV show today slamming Scott Brown for making a crack about his “daughters being available.” Then Glenn went on to draw [...]
  • Do You Hear Us Now?? *Updated*
    Well, it’s official: Scott Brown won the US Senate seat in Massachusetts, easily one of the most liberal states in the Union. Brown’s win is the first by a Republican in that state since 1972. Holy moley. Time and time again, people claimed the Healthcare Bill the Democrats are trying to ram through ...
  • Delusional At the White House
    Obama and his advisors are living in an alternate universe and are still insisting that the election result in Massachusetts yesterday is not a rejection of Obamacare. Here’s the video evidence: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy So Scott Brown did not run a ...

Environmental Graffiti

Foreign Policy in Focus

  • Coup in Honduras: D
    The administration condemned the coup but eventually acceded to the coup leaders' conditions.
  • China: The Prince of Denmark
    Like Hamlet, Shakespeare's conflicted Prince of Denmark, China was caught between conflicting currents in Copenhagen. Its failure to manage these challenges, argues columnist Walden Bello, led to its biggest diplomatic debacle in years.
  • Haiti Again?
    The U.S. treatment of the Haitian government is, unfortunately, nothing new.
  • Year One
    Given an impressive first-year record, why does Obama get a C- on foreign policy?
  • Trade Policy: B
    The administration hasn't concluded any new bilateral trade deals, but it hasn't reopened any of the old ones either.

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Pearl Harbor: Evidence of shady biz or just a lett ...
    Remember the Maine, while you're at it! :-D
  • Controlling 9/11 "crippled epistemology" via fake ...
    ".... we will suggest below that if the hard core arises for certain identifiable reasons, it can be broken up or at least muted by government action." .... " We suggest a role for government efforts, and agents, in introducing such diversity.  Government agents (and their allies) might enter chat ...
  • 'Civil support' apparatus appears, Oh noes: Obama ...
    Article I Section 10 Clause 3.... No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State , or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such immine ...
  • TSA goon loses notebook tracing blogger leaks; hon ...
    Next time at the airport: "resonant effects allow THz waves to unzip double-stranded DNA, creating bubbles in the double strand"..... But first, Crush the Bloggers with Fake Tweets!!! "Sent Blog Message to entice M... [?] to respond" --Randomly found TSA investigator notebook re manipulating Twitt ...
  • New TSA leak PDF; False Flag ops for Detroit Chris ...
    An interesting confluence of events as Obama suddenly grants INTERPOL diplomatic immunity of sorts, while an apparent airport false flag operation or at least 'shady biz as usual' unravels pretty quickly. Good times in the shadow state for 2010. We found some snippets on the case from two noted jo ...

Daily Censored

  • The Subprime Mortgage Crisis and San Francisco Nor ...
    The Subprime Mortgage Crisis and San Francisco North Bay Hispanics By Chris McManus The subprime mortgage crisis has affected every aspect of economic life in the United States. The financial meltdown in September of 2008 was triggered by defaulting subprime mortgages. There was a million foreclosur ...
  • Haiti – The State Apparatus Collapsed Too
    When the 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti a little over a week ago, a lot more than buildings and infrastructure collapsed. While the presidential palace crumbled, so did the state infrastructure. In a country as desperately poor as Haiti, and with such revolutionary traditions, first and foremost in imp ...
  • Unsurprising Poll Results from Massachusetts: Vote ...
    By Numerian An interesting observation was made today by the pollster for Martha Coakley, the hapless Democratic candidate for the Massachusetts senate seat held almost forever by Ted Kennedy. It appears polls are showing that the voters, especially independents who would normally vote Democratic ...
  • Yemen on the International Stage . . . and the Ame ...
    The most effective response to Yemen will likely come from regional powers with local knowledge, not distant ones without it.
  • Detroit Teachers Rebel against decades of degradat ...
    The Detroit Federation of Teachers (DFT) has not been much of a leader in working people’s organizations but this might be about to change. The main concern of the union over the years has been to basically protect the bloated salaries and privileges of the trade union executives, like Keith Johns ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

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Pine River World News

  • IBM buys spook-riddled DC services expert
    The following article is from The Register, U.K. IBM buys spook-riddled DC services expert ©   The Register By Timothy Prickett Morgan January 20, 2010 Spending on defence and security is probably the one sure growth market in the United States. It therefore comes as no surprise that IBM has acqui ...
  • Ramzy Baroud: Iran and Latin America
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Ramzy Baroud. Iran and Latin America ©  Ramzy Baroud January 20, 2009 Should the United States be concerned about Iran's determined efforts to reach out to Latin America? Or, as was suggestively described in the Economist, by the Ayatollahs' ...
  • Christianity vs. Islam: U.S. military in Iraq and ...
    [ Blogmaster note : Muslims throughout the Middle East and Central Asia have long accused the West of engaging in a religious war against Islam. In contrast, the West has explained the 'War on Terror' as 'Good vs Evil'. But is this really the case?] The following article is from the USA's ABC News ...
  • Under Barack Obama, U.S. is obsessed with race but ...
    The following article is from the Daily Telegraph, U.K. Under Barack Obama, U.S. is obsessed with race but can't talk about it ©   Telegraph Media Group Ltd By Toby Harnden January 16, 2010 Barack Obama's election did not usher in a post-racial America. Instead, speaking honesty about race is tabo ...
  • Why is the American press silent on the Israeli ro ...
    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from World Socialist Web Site. Why is the American press silent on the Israeli role in NW Flight 253? ©   World Socialist Web Site By Patrick Martin January 16, 2010 Nearly a week ago, on January 10, the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz carried a new ...

    PDA AMERICA

  • Satire: Top CEO Defends America’s Health Insuranc ...
    Satire: Top CEO Defends America’s Health Insurance Industry (press conference) By Carmen Yarrusso | PDA Blog Contributor Good morning. I’ll open with a brief comment and then take questions… America’s health insurance industry is being ...
  • Report: Protest at Harman Fundraiser
    By Tobi Daggert | PDA Blog Contributor About 15 or 20 protesters showed up at Saturday’s Jane Harman fundraiser in LA. Harman and Lynn Woolsey had to go right through the crowd to get to the ...
  • Bush Attorney Charged With Attempted Murder
    This just in. More Republican traditional family values… John Michael Farren, who served as deputy counsel to President George W. Bush, has been charged with strangulation and attempted murder after allegedly choking his wife and beating ...
  • Prog Caucus/CDP letter to Rep. Woosley
    The Progressive Caucus of the California Democratic Party writes a letter of disapproval to Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey & pledges support for PDA-endorsed Candidate Marcy Winograd. Says Winograd, “I am honored to have the support ...
  • Monopolies Control Health Insurance
    By Don Monkerud | PDA Blog Contributor Like pathetic knights of another era jousting at windmills, industry shrills attack health care reform, claiming it “tramples individual liberty” and stifles “free enterprise.” Far from protecting individual liberty ...

Marler Blog

  • Nestle had planned to go with Cooked Flour after E ...
    Last week within minutes of Nestle’s press release announcing E. coli O157:H7 positives in samples of finished cookie dough (that did not leave its plant), I posted “Nestle to use heat-treated flour – moves to become industry leader in product safety.” Today, Marion Nestle (no relationship) shot my ...
  • Children Seriously Sick with E. coli in Belgium Wi ...
    According to Fox 6 News in Milwuakee, an investigation is underway in the Village of Belgium in Ozaukee County. They're trying to find out what's making children in one area seriously sick. FOX 6 Reporter Myra Sanchick brings you the latest on an E. coli scare in Ozaukee County:
  • IF there was an USDA Undersecretary for Food Safet ...
    Marler's Baker’s Dozen 1. Tattoo on a body part that you use everyday FSIS’s Mission Statement: The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is the public health agency in the U.S. Department of Agriculture responsible for ensuring that the nation's commercial supply of meat, poultry, and egg produ ...
  • Another Holiday - Another FSIS E. coli O157:H7 Mea ...
    I need to hand it to the FSIS, I am beginning to loose track how often its recall notices go out on either a Friday night or on a holiday.  They sure have learned to get bad news out when no one is watching.  Kudos to press manipulation 101.  I used to know the FSIS press officer, my guess is that s ...
  • FSIS Steps-up to test ammoniated beef products for ...
    According to Meatingplace.com: The USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service has issued a new directive for inspection program personnel on how to do routine sampling of ammoniated beef products for E. coli O157:H7. The agency did so in the wake of a Dec. 30, 2009, story in The New York Times , exa ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 01.21.10
    Trexa platform lets you develop your own damn electric vehicle! Stop complaining and DIY is the message here. Bu$ vs. car? Public transit can save riders an average of $9,200 a year Chump cha ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 01.20.10
    Chevy Volt, cellulosic ethanol named two of the year's biggest losers Less hype, cheaper price would have helped. GM clarifies Volt's "low 30s" price is only possible after tax credit No surp ...
  • GM clarifies Volt's "low 30s" price is only possib ...
    Filed under: Hybrid , Sedan , Chevrolet , GM , Earnings/Financials , Electric 2011 Chevrolet Volt - Click above for high-res image gallery $40,000. That's the potential price we've heard for the first-gen Chevrolet Volt for ages , and it's the number we get again, now that the recent "low 30s" p ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 01.19.10
    Is the Obama Administration calling the shots in Detroit? Newsweek says yes But they don't make a convincing argument. Toyota's Koei Saga: "I think we will never abandon the internal-combustion engine" ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 01.18.10
    Official prediction: gas will hit $3 this summer in U.S. Still low compared to the rest of the world (and 2008), but higher than 2009. Mitsubishi says it will increase i-MiEV production this ...

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!

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

Farming Pathogens

  • Do Pathogens Time Travel?
    Evolution arises from a wealth of failure: 1) natural selection requires large and variable populations comprised largely of organisms that fail because their designs do not match their present problems and 2) chance destruction occurs at all spatiotemporal scales. So clearly strict optimization doe ...
  • We Are All Astronauts Now
    Five years ago I gave copies of this essay to a few friends and family as a year-end holiday gift. As a first stab I think it’s aged well, despite its ignorance of the work of Berger, Harvey, Reichenbach, among others. I offer it now to everyone else in a similar spirit–all in good fun, [...]
  • Pigs Do Fly! Implications for Influenza
    The influenza genome is segmented. Eight pieces of single-stranded RNA encode for 11 proteins: PB2, PB1, PB1-F2, PA, HA, NP, NA, M1, M2, NS1, and NS2. The segmentation allows influenza of different subtypes infecting the same host to trade segments like card players on a Friday night. Most of the re ...
  • Breeding Influenza: The Political Virology of Offs ...
    What better way to medicate against a holiday’s genocidal origins and the hunger now swelling worldwide in the wake of a related banker-brought recession than with a bellyful of turkey, stuffing, yams, and pumpkin pie? Despite its rotten ambiguities Thanksgiving remains my favorite American holiday. ...
  • A Visitation of the Influenza
    In seeping through the world’s every nook and cranny, pandemics have a way of forcing themselves into our lives as a lurking presence. Even the most insular of functionaries, who typically makes his living solving problems by ignoring them, straightens up and takes notice.    As an epidemic wave a ...

Digg Green

Invisible Opportunity

  • Mandatory Vaccination and Forced Microchipping

  • Swine flu was as elusive as WMD. The real threat i ...
    By Simon Jenkins Let me recap. Six months ago I reviewed the latest bit of terrorism to emerge from the government’s Cobra bunker, courtesy of Alan Johnson, home secretary. Swine flu was allegedly ravaging the nation. The BBC was intoning nightly statistics on what “could” happen as “the deadly viru ...
  • Europeans snub vaccine and states cancel orders
    By JEANNE WHALEN And DAVID GAUTHIER-VILLARS Just months after rushing to order enough swine-flu vaccine to protect their citizens, European governments are canceling orders and trying to sell or give away extra doses as they sit on a glut of the vaccine. The main reason: European health officials ...
  • Sir Liam’s Skeleton: the UK Department of Health F ...
    By John Stone Annual flu deaths in the UK averaged no more than 33 over the last 4 years despite an earlier statement by the Department of Health that 12,000 people die in the country from flu every year. Recent disclosures by out-going Chief Medical Officer Sir Liam Donaldson demonstrate that such ...
  • Blackwater/XE behind terrorist bombings in Asia an ...
    By Wayne Madsen WMR’s intelligence sources in Asia and Europe are reporting that the CIA contractor firm XE Services, formerly Blackwater, has been carrying out “false flag” terrorist attacks in Afghanistan, Somalia, the Sinkiang region of China, Pakistan, Iran, and Iraq, in some cases with the assi ...

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

  • Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Writing Ant-Environmental Le ...
    Today, the Senate will consider an outrageous proposal, written with fossil fuel lobbyists, that undermines the Clean Air Act’s ability to limit harmful carbon pollution. Related posts: Fuel Efficiency for Cars and Light Trucks to be Raised 40 Percent Fossil Free Automotive Oil Uses Animal Fats ...
  • Web Organization Teaches Kids How to Grow Algae
    In response to the growing interest in algae cultures on the part of teachers, educators and students, a website set up to promote algae has released an educational kit Related posts: Cultivate Some Green Life with a Homemade Algae Photobioreactor Algae to Oil – Cop15 Interview with Solazyme CTO H ...
  • Wendys Restaurant Chain Supports Mountaintop Remov ...
    While surfing Facebook today, I ran across "Boycott Mountaintop Removal Supporters," who state that Wendy's Supports Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining. Related posts: Ending Streamlined Mountaintop Coal Removal Permits Is Not Enough West Virginians Come to DC to Protest Mountaintop Removal at the EP ...
  • Monsanto News Roundup – A Frankenfood Extravaganza ...
    In it's efforts to place patents on life and control the global food market, Monsanto is not only feared by farmers, but by consumers as well. Related posts: Monsanto Bets on the Hungry to Double its Profits by 2012 The World According to Monsanto – Full Documentary Genetically Engineered Seed Com ...
  • Report: Monsanto Corn Causes Organ Damage in Mamma ...
    A report released by the International Journal of Biological Sciences states that three types of Monsanto corn, cause cancer and organ damage in mammals. Related posts: Monsanto Bets on the Hungry to Double its Profits by 2012 USDA: No Environmental Impact Study Needed to Deregulate Genetically Mo ...

Inhabitat

  • London’s Unpackaged Grocery Shop Eliminates Wastef ...
    What do you get when you combine clever marketing, a cute shop, delicious and beautiful food, and eliminate the packaging? A genius idea we wish we had thought of first! Unpackaged is a boutique grocery shop in London that works like the bulk food section of your local store, relying on you the cust ...
  • Habitat for Humanity and NYC Team Up for LEED Cert ...
    41 families in the Brownsville neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York are celebrating the first weeks of the new year in new green homes. On a lot on Atlantic Avenue that once held 12 townhouses, Habitat for Humanity volunteers built 41 new LEED Gold certified units under the direction of Dattner Archit ...
  • Architecture For Humanity and A Different Approach ...
    Red+Housing Emergency Housing by OBRA Architects Inhabitat recently wrote about Emergency Shelters and Disaster Relief For The People of Haiti and how Shipping Containers Could Provide Disaster Relief For Haiti, both which reflect the standard thinking among architects and designers for decades: “we ...
  • MIT’s Digital Food Printer Creates Nutritious Meal ...
    Here’s an interesting thought: What if eating greener and more sustainably meant printing your meals? Marcelo Coelho and Amit Zoran, a couple ingenious minds at MIT, have come up with a way to do just that. Hailed as ‘The Cornucopia’, this 3-D printer concept is a personal food factory that fuses th ...
  • Three-Layered Snail Shell Inspires Better Body Arm ...
    Biomimicry: is there anything it can’t do? The latest example of science imitating nature comes from researchers at MIT who have discovered that the shell of a tiny deep-sea snail could give way to tough, lightweight body armor. The snail in question — Crysomallon squamiferum, or the scaly-foot gast ...

Pogue's Posts

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • Man Dies After Tussling With County Police
    Sun Gazette – The Arlington County Police Department’s Homicide/Robbery Unit is investigating the death that occurred after the man allegedly struggled with county police on Jan. 17. According to police, shortly after 8 p.m., an officer responded to the Pentagon City Metro station, searching for a ...
  • IMF to increase Haiti loan by $100 million
    Reuters – The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday it will increase Haiti’s existing loan program by $100 million and disburse the funds quickly to help the government rebuild from the massive earthquake. Read article Ed – Important point to note: it’s an additional loan (to be repaid with i ...
  • Google: Keep user data safe by letting us hoard it ...
    The Register – Google has sought to turn its China crisis to its advantage by arguing it demonstrates why it should be allowed to hang onto search logs indefinitely. Privacy supremo Peter Fleischer told ComputerWorld in an interview that, “The unprecedented hacking… and the threat of similar such at ...
  • Jury Still Out on Climate Change: CSIRO
    The Canberra Times – Australia’s peak science agency, the CSIRO [Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization], has backed away from attributing a decade of drought in Tasmania to climate change, claiming ”the jury is still out” on the science. The comments follow the issuing of a C ...
  • Media and Political Hysteria Over Yemen Hides a De ...
    OilPrice.com – US and Western European political leaders have begun to focus on Yemen as a source of projected instability and as a haven for jihadist terrorism against the West. This simplistic and overly narrow view has largely been a reaction to media reporting of the links of alleged (and unsucc ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Movie Review: Daybreakers (Michael Spierig, 2010)
    Movie Review: Daybreakers (Michael Spierig, 2010) (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) “Capital is dead labour which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour.” “[The prolongation of the working day] only slightly quenches the vampire thirst for the living blood of labour.” “[The] vampire w ...
  • Παγκόσμια ανισότητα ή Σοσιαλιστική ισότητα
    Παγκόσμια ανισότητα ή Σοσιαλιστική ισότητα Από Prairie Fire (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Λέγεται ότι,η χρήση της ισοτιμίας ως αρχής που θα ρύθμιζε τη διανομή,έρχεται σε αντίθεση με προσεγγίσεις που επικεντρώνονται στο μηχανισμό της εκμετάλλευσης.Ιδιαίτερα λέγεται,ότι έρχεται σε αντίθεση με τ ...
  • Review of Patel and McMichael’s “Third Worldism an ...
    Review of Patel and McMichael’s “Third Worldism and the Lineages of global fascism” (jacobinternationalism.wordpress.com) The Internationalist Jacobin Club has taken an interest in the conversation started by a couple articles from RAIM late last year.  One was RAIM-Denver’s review of Arun Gupta an ...
  • Przybliżona ocena wartości pracy
    Przybliżona ocena wartości pracy (pierwotnie opublikowało 30 czerwca 2005) (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Spróbujmy obliczyć wartość przeciętnej średniej społecznie koniecznej praca. Przedstawi nam to jasny obraz tego, jak wielu ludzi produkuje i kto jest wyzyskiwany. Teraz, gdy praktycznie ca ...
  • Prachanda proposes the Dengist path for Nepal, typ ...
    Prachanda proposes the Dengist path for Nepal, typical (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) The Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) is a party that emerged out of the now defunct  revisionist cesspool known as the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM). The party waged a people’s war fo ...

PakAlert

  • Video: More Evidence The Pentagon Is Fighting A Re ...
    Watch all videos. Watch all Phase 3 videos. Must See: Full Disclosure: Gog & Magog, 2012 and the Significance of Pakistan Imran Hosein: OBAMA’S AFGHAN SURGE, PAKISTAN’S MOMENT OF TRUTH AND DEATH OF THE US DOLLAR Obama’s War On Yemen: Another Last Day Prediction Coming True? Israel did 9/11, ALL ...
  • Cold Start: Indian Threat to Pakistan & China
    By Farzana Shah In 2005 India announced a new military doctrine called Start Cold mainly targeting Pakistan as its potential enemy. In November 2009, Indian army chief made a statement that there is a possibility of a limited war between Pakistan and India in a nuclear overhang. In December 2009, ...
  • Engineered Earthquake? US is Occupying Haiti as Tr ...
    by Aislinn Laing, and Tom Leonard in Port-au-Prince The French minister in charge of humanitarian relief called on the UN to “clarify” the American role amid claims the military build up was hampering aid efforts. U.S. Air Force troops patrol downtown Port-au-Prince Monday January 18, 2010. Thousa ...
  • Will Globalists Trigger Yet Another World War?
    By Giordano Bruno |  Neithercorp Press World War III is the most iconic event in American culture that never happened. Since the early 1950’s, generations have been preparing for it, writing books about it, producing films and fictional accounts on it, and even playing video games based on it. The ...
  • Deadly and Destructive: Haiti Earthquake Aftermath ...
    Haitians are piling bodies along the devastated streets of their capital after a powerful earthquake flattened the president’s palace and the main prison, the cathedral, hospitals, schools and thousands of homes. Untold numbers are still trapped. President Rene Preval says he believes thousands of p ...

ecogeek

  • Greenpeace Releases 2010 Green Electronics Ranking ...
    This year's annual Greenpeace "Guide to Greener Electronics" has been released, and it is a mixed bag. The lowest scores are higher than they were last year, but the highest scores are lower. Nokia is still at the top. In 2009, they were at 7.45, but in 2010 they are down to 7.3. Samsung, whi ...
  • Driving an American-Built Electric Car
    Advanced Mechanical Products (AMP) wasn't on the show floor in Detroit at this year's North American International Auto Show, but a few of the company's representatives brought the company's X Prize competition entry vehicle to Detroit. Initially, I was offered a chance to drive the car out on the ...
  • Offshore Wind Turbines Help Sustain Marine Life
    A study of offshore wind farms off Europe's coasts has revealed that the structures pose no threat to marine life, and in fact, they help sustain it. Scientists at Stockholm University's Zoology Department conducted the study and found that the turbine foundations acted as habitats for fish, crabs, ...
  • Solar Beam-Down Plants For Cheaper Solar Thermal
    Solar power towers have proven to be a fairly efficient way of converting solar energy into electricity. In a solar power tower, energy from a large array of mirrors focused onto a tower that captures the heat in some way, and then converts that heat to electricity using a boiler and turbine. It's a ...
  • Three Cool Concepts For Urban Biking
    We've seen several bike-related concepts in the past few weeks. If, in fact, alternative transportation is on the rise , bikes will become a larger part of our transportation mix. To be really effective and to find wide acceptance, these three may help make bikes more of an option. Copenhagen Whe ...

Times Online - Science

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Jury Finds Bill White Guilty on Four Counts
    A federal jury today agreed with some but not all of the government’s allegations that former neo-Nazi leader Bill White made threats against various people with whom he disagreed. White was found guilty of threatening a Citibank employee, intimidating tenants of a Virginia Beach, Va., apartment com ...
  • Haitian Catastrophe: For Racists, a Good Laugh
    In Haiti, tens of thousands of earthquake victims are dead, with at least one official estimating the number could reach half a million when the full, horrifying effects of Tuesday afternoon’s earthquake in the island nation are finally known. In Arkansas, Billy Roper figured that made for a pretty ...
  • Opening Arguments Held in Bill White Trial
    ROANOKE, VA. — Did white supremacist Bill White threaten people with whom he disagreed? Or were his outrageous comments protected speech under the First Amendment? The jury appeared to listen closely as lawyers for both sides presented opening arguments this morning in White’s trial, which began yes ...
  • Pennsylvania Police Officers Indicted in Cover-Up ...
    Indictments were unsealed today against three police officers in Shenandoah, Pa., including the chief, on obstruction of justice and other charges in connection with the beating death of an undocumented Mexican immigrant there in July 2008. A fourth officer was indicted on unrelated corruption charg ...
  • Turner Jury Reports Deadlock, But Sent Back to Rec ...
    BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Jurors were told to continue working today after they said they were divided on whether hate blogger Hal Turner is guilty of threatening judges. “We are hopelessly deadlocked,” the jury wrote in a note around 3:30 p.m. after deliberating for less than three hours. “Time will not cha ...

change: org.

  • Downed Pigs Deserve Better
    Gene Baur is part of Change.org's Changemakers network, comprised of leading voices for social change Across the U.S., millions of pigs and other animals too sick to stand (commonly referred to as "downed animals") suffer terribly at farms, stockyards and slaughterhouses. They are left for hours or ...
  • There Is Still Much Work to be Done
    Benjamin Jealous, President and CEO of the NAACP, is part of Change.org's Changemakers network, comprised of leading voices for social change. Since the struggles of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement, we as a country have celebrated significant breakthroughs. Last year's ina ...
  • Haitian Women Giving Birth: No Hospital, Just the ...
    As an extra reminder of just why, exactly, relief aid has to consider women's unique needs in the face of the disaster in Haiti: reports of women giving birth on the streets. Yep, on the street . Because labor and giving birth isn't a painful enough process in the best of circumstances, due to the h ...
  • Mitt Romney, Gay Rights, and the Mormon Church
    If there's one Republican already with an eye toward the 2012 Presidential race, it's Mitt Romney . The former Massachusetts governor, and runner-up for the 2008 GOP nomination, is getting ready to release a book, getting ready to launch a tour to promote that book, and making sure that the first tw ...
  • When Buying Sex, Men Know Women Are Often Forced t ...
    When it comes to the issue of selling sex, while trafficking is an enormous problem, most of us hope that the majority of the men who frequent prostitutes don't realize that they might be using somebody who is being forced into non-consensual sex. Sure, there are probably a number of bad apples who ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Coakley Loses – And So Does Obama
    by John Nichols Whoever scheduled the special election for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Edward Kennedy on January 19 did Barack Obama no favors. The president did not need the tension of a too-close-for comfort electoral test on the day before the one-year anniversary of his inaugura ...
  • Coakley Pollster Defends Campaign Against White Ho ...
    The blame game is fully underway . A top pollster to Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley told HuffPost on Tuesday that the White House, in attempting to blame the Coakley campaign for a potential defeat today in Massachusetts, underestimates the wave of populist fury among Massachusetts v ...
  • Marine Corps Concerned About 'Jesus Guns,' Will Me ...
    by Joseph Rhee and Mark Schone Following an ABC News report that thousands of gun sights used by the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan are inscribed with secret Bible references , a spokesperson for the Marine Corps said the Corps is 'concerned' and will discuss the matter with the weapons manuf ...
  • Blackwater Wants to Surge Its Armed Force in Afgha ...
    by Jeremy Scahill A just-released US State Department Inspector General's report [PDF] on Blackwater's work in Afghanistan reveals that Blackwater is proposing increasing its private armed forces in Afghanistan, particularly in Mazar-e-Sharif and Herat where the US is opening consulates. Blackwater ...
  • Paul Krugman on Obama: He Wasn’t The One We’ve Bee ...
    Writing on his blog tonight, Paul Krugman said: Health care reform - which is crucial for millions of Americans - hangs in the balance. Progressives are desperately in need of leadership; more specifically, House Democrats need to be told to pass the Senate bill, which isn't what they wanted but ...

Lifehacker

  • SlideScreen Renovates Your Android Home Screen wit ...
    Android: The default home screen in Android is fine and mostly functional. SlideScreen, a replacement utility, provides way more information on messages, weather, calendar events, Twitter or RSS streams, stocks, and whatever else you want, in a slick-looking black wrapper. Grab the free version of S ...
  • Grab Firefox 3.6 Ahead of the Pack [Firefox]
    The gHacks blog points out that Firefox 3.6, due for official release today, is already being pushed to Mozilla's mirror servers, and so a few lucky URL tweakers have found their copies. If you want to get the jump on getting set up, gHacks has uploaded the installer packages to MediaFire . Then aga ...
  • YouTube Offers No-Flash HTML5 Videos for Chrome an ...
    If you're running Chrome or Safari as your main browser, Google's now offering up YouTube videos without Flash. That's right—fewer system hangs, browser crashes, and other issues, and just straight-up video through HTML5 standards .Google has previously allowed Chrome, Safari, and Internet-Explorer- ...
  • Circle Dock Arranges Your Shortcuts in a Mouse-Cen ...
    Windows: Sure you could use the start menu or even install an application launcher like Launchy but you'd be missing out on the rotating eye candy and application management of Circle Dock. We first covered Circle Dock when it appeared out of of a Donation Coder contest two years ago. Since then it ...
  • Airline Fees Chart Highlights Charges for Checked ...
    Even if you secure an inexpensive plane ticket these days, you've still got plenty of pricey checked-bag and other a la carte fees to worry about. Travel site Orbitz offers a comprehensive chart rounding up these fees for 25+ airlines. Photo by lrargerich . Next time you're considering prices for a ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Surging To Haiti Instead Of Afghanistan
    By Steve Hynd Lat Thursday, in the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake, I wondered aloud how U.S. military deployments there would affect Obama and McChrystal's surge in Afghanistan. The initial units tasked for deployment to Haiti had been pulled off "dwell time" - the period they're meant to get for ...
  • Surging To Haiti Instead Of Afghanistan
    By Steve Hynd Lat Thursday, in the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake, I wondered aloud how U.S. military deployments there would affect Obama and McChrystal's surge in Afghanistan. The initial units tasked for deployment to Haiti had been pulled off "dwell time" - the period they're meant to get for ...
  • A Week Later, Afghan Government Agrees Pentagon Pl ...
    By Steve Hynd Last week, the Pentagon announced it had "authorized a substantial increase in the number of Afghan security forces it plans to train by next year". The Pentagon decided on Wednesday to [raise ANA numbers] to 171,600 by October 2011. Additionally, Afghan police forces, which now number ...
  • In Afghanistan War's Shadow, Government Corruption ...
    By Derrick Crowe Corruption is flowering in the shadow of the Afghanistan war. A new report published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime reveals that bribery consumes an amount equal to 23 percent of the GDP of Afghanistan. Afghans are forced by corrupt government culture to pay more th ...
  • A Week Later, Afghan Government Agrees Pentagon Pl ...
    By Steve Hynd Last week, the Pentagon announced it had "authorized a substantial increase in the number of Afghan security forces it plans to train by next year". The Pentagon decided on Wednesday to [raise ANA numbers] to 171,600 by October 2011. Additionally, Afghan police forces, which now number ...

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The Wonk Room

  • Why The Prospects For Immigration Reform Didn&#821 ...
    This morning, Politico published a story aptly pointing out that “all is not lost” for Democrats following the election of Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown to the U.S. Senate. However, one issue which Politico did identify as “toxic” is immigration reform. According to Politico, the issue’s de ...
  • Gregg: My Deficit Commission Would ‘Lead To ...
    This week, the Senate is expected to defeat a proposal by Sens. Judd Gregg (R-NH) and Kent Conrad (D-ND) to form a commission charged with crafting ways to reduce the country’s long-term deficits. But the commission idea is not dead! Instead, it looks like the Obama administration will create a com ...
  • Murky Democrat Revealed: Katrina-Ravaged Louisiana ...
    Yesterday, the Wonk Room profiled several candidates for the Democrat joining Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) in her campaign to prevent Clean Air Act regulation of greenhouse gas pollution. Today, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) has announced that she is the Murky Dem supporting the lobbyist-directed effort t ...
  • Kaplan: Obama Should Adopt Reagan’s Approach ...
    I actually agree with the approach to Iran that Robert Kaplan advocates in this article, it’s just a real shame that, in order to get to it, one has to wander through a farrago of bad history, question-begging and bald assertion of the benefits of regime change: It would have a positive, pivotal inf ...
  • Scott Brown’s Plan To Leave Health Care Refo ...
    During this morning’s press conference, Senator-elect Scott Brown (R-MA) downplayed the importance of health care reform in yesterday’s special election and reiterated his support for leaving reform to the states. “While the health care bill was certainly an issue, the issues that were just referenc ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Afghanistan, Patriotism and the Olympics
    I came in to Toronto on the daily turnip-truck from Hamilton a couple of days ago and I noticed all the subway station posters (sponsored at least in part by Coca-Cola) celebrating the Olympic torch and Canadian patriotism about same. The images are pretty inane, with a torch-bearer surrounded on e ...
  • For the Credulous
    Alison at Creekside handily deals with some lingering delusions.
  • Canadian Self-Satisfaction
    Generations of Canadians have sewn little Canadian flags onto their backpacks when travelling abroad, in order to avoid being taken for US-Americans. At its most vapid, this tradition is probably inspired by nothing more than a vague, self-satisfied notion that Canadians are great and US-Americans a ...
  • Inability to Connect the Dots
    That appears to be what makes our media so naturally able to filter uncomfortable facts from their day-to-day reporting. Certainly there's some conscious thinking going on in the total absence of coverage on Haiti between 2004 and right before this year's earthquake tragedy. But there's also this ...
  • Mandatory Minimum Sentences, War Crimes, and steph ...
    First of all, I've made a lot of hay about "the Rule of Law" with regards to stephen harper's war crimes in Afghanistan. I think I've also been careful to point out that I regard some crimes as worse than others, and that there's actually some leeway in law enforcement that's possible without smash ...

Financial Sense Editorials

  • Market Observation: Market Tops Are a Process, Not ...
    by Chris Puplava. "One financial axiom often quoted is “don’t fight the tape,” which goes hand in hand with another axiom, “the trend is your friend.” What the two phrases are essentially saying is to not be premature in anticipating market moves. The phrases advise staying long the market in a risi ...
  • Doug Casey: "Stock Market Set to Crash"
    by Louis James. "Well, it's nothing but a gut feeling, but I think the stock market is riding for a big fall this year. Everyone was afraid the world was going to come to an end a year ago, and it almost did. But governments all around the world stepped in and printed up trillions of their various c ...
  • Google--The Epitome of the American Way
    by Thomas Au. "Writers such as Shaun Rein, Managing Director of China Market Research Group, may have rightly characterized Google’s pullback from China as an “act of war.” But we do not view it in the “irresponsible” light in which he and others like him see it. Instead, we consider it as the ultim ...
  • Negative Reactions
    by Paul Nolte. "The economic data continues to disappoint, although may are looking at the bright side (at least it is not as bad as last year!). However, the bit of “news” that surprised investors was news from JP Morgan as they released earnings data that they will be stashing more reserves away t ...
  • Market Observation: In Banksters We Trust
    by Bill Fleckenstein. "Last night the People's Bank of China rattled cages once again as they allowed 1-year T-bill rates to rise 8 basis points for the second time in a couple weeks (that, in addition to announcing an increase in reserve requirements last week). So, at the margin, China's central b ...

on Government Oversight

  • Morning Smoke: Is the SEC Ignoring Whistleblowers?
    At SEC, the system can be deaf to whistleblowing by Zachary Goldfarb [The Washington Post] USAF Chief Downplays JSF Testing Delay by Amy Butler [Aviation Week] Obama to Propose Limits on Risks Taken by Banks by Jackie Calmes and Louis...
  • Obama to Federal Contractors: Tax Cheats Beware
    President Obama released a memorandum to federal agencies today, stating that he will hold accountable federal contractors that have been delinquent in paying taxes. The memo points out that a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) study found that government contractors...
  • Morning Smoke: Bernanke "Would Welcome a Full Revi ...
    Bernanke invites 'full review' by GAO of Fed's AIG bailout by Brady Dennis [Washington Post] Treasury Makes Banks Pay a TARP Premium by Michael Crittenden [The Wall Street Journal] Lockheed Martin F-35 Flew 10% of Planned 2009 Tests by Tony...
  • Will the Senate Close the Derivatives Loopholes?
    One of the statutory mandates for the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC)—the 10-member bipartisan investigative body modeled after the 1932 Pecora Commission—is to examine the role played by “derivatives and unregulated financial products and practices, including credit default swaps” leadin ...
  • Morning Smoke: GAO Recommends a New Arrangement fo ...
    GAO urges changes in budgeting for national security [Walter Pincus, The Washington Post] Wall St. Weighs a Challenge to a Proposed Tax [Eric Dash, The New York Times] FBI broke law for years in phone record searches [John Solomon and...

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

  • Flexible Or Paradoxical? Why The NY Times' Plan Is ...
    The New York Times has followed up on their initial coverage of the choice to go metered with a column by David Carr discussing the move . It's worth reading, and though there are a lot of points he makes that I can't really speak to, there's one section that I think highlights the flaw in the plan: ...
  • No, David Bowie Is Not Responsible For The Financi ...
    We've talked in the past about some of the many rather innovative efforts by David Bowie to come up with new business models. He's been a huge pioneer in embracing what new technologies allow -- and also new markets and financial opportunities. Of course, most famously, many years ago he "securiti ...
  • Wiggling Their Way To Musical Success Without A La ...
    Again, no one is saying that there's no place for music labels any more -- in fact, we think there's a huge place for them if they can help a band that doesn't want to build a business by itself. However, for bands that are willing to go entirely without a label, it's certainly possible to be a suc ...
  • Four More Inducted Into The Streisand Effect Hall ...
    It seems that my legacy is going to be the fact that I coined the term "The Streisand Effect" five years ago, and it's now become part of the culture . It's great to see the concept take off, though, and it's pretty exciting to see the EFF update the takedown hall of shame it announced last year, w ...
  • In A World Of Bottom Up Technology, Should IT Supp ...
    This post is part of the IT Innovation series, sponsored by Sun & Intel. Read more at ITInnovation.com . Of course, the content of this post consists entirely of the thoughts and opinions of the author. Back when the iPhone first came out, there were all sorts of stories about how it w ...

VacTruth

  • Kenya: Trial HIV Vaccine Leaves 46 Infected
    . . . Elias Mbao AllAfrica.com 12 January 2010 Lusaka — A failed clinical trial HIV vaccine that left 46 Zambian women infected with the virus has sparked controversy. The Microbicides Development Programme (MDP) 301 trial, which was testing if the gel PRO2000 would prevent HIV infection took place ...
  • Thousands of Americans died from H1N1 even after r ...
    . . . Mike Adams Natural News January 17th, 2010 (NaturalNews) The CDC is engaged in a very clever, statistically devious spin campaign, and nearly every journalist in the mainstream media has fallen for its ploy. No one has yet reported what I’m about to reveal here. It all started with the CDC’s ...
  • “Hostile Takeover” of American Medicine
    PHARMAGANDA: A STUDY OF CONFLICTING INTEREST by Leonard G. Horowitz and Sherri Kane Introduction In 2002, The Lancet1 declared the practice of medicine “heavily, and damagingly” tainted by conflicting interests. Alarmed by unethical practices in drug sales and science, the editors envisioned the c ...
  • Swine flu shambles: Drunken call centre staff run ...
    . . . Daniel Martin and Alison Smith Squire Daily Mail 11th January 2010 Temporary workers in swine flu call centres are diagnosing patients while high on cannabis or drunk on vodka, a whistleblower has claimed. The former worker, who said she was forced to leave the ’shambolic environment’ at one ...
  • Website Documents Over 300 Gardasil Horror Stories
    . . . Christina England vactruth.com 1/13/2010 The numbers of people who have suffered from Gardasil side effects mount daily, Medications.com – Gardasil side effects now has a total of 300 side effects posted for Gardasil. Over 300 children and parents tell their harrowing stories how their liv ...

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I know there are some people who really believe that enforcing anti-prostitution laws will help women, but it is really hard to have patience for those people when I read things like this. On a more inspiring note, these women in South Korea are bad asses. Howard Zinn recently spoke about the myths ...
  • Preparing for Peace
    Many people believe that some injustices are so heinous that violence is not only necessary, it is obligatory.  But they rarely take the next step.  They rarely imagine what would happen after the violence stops, assuming it can be stopped.  Who among them is going to create a better, more just worl ...
  • Haiti Donations and How Nonprofits Work
    There has been a lot of internet chatter on what organizations to donate to in order to best help the Haitian people.  Naturally, you want the maximum amount of your dollars to go to the people who need it.  So you read articles like this one about Yele or you go to charity navigator and [...]
  • Why Haiti?!
    Could things get any worse for Haiti?  Of all places in the world for something like this to happen.  It’s beyond words. I’m from Miami and so have had the privilege of getting to know many Haitian immigrants.  In fact, I had a peak at my ideal world while riding a bus in Miami with Haitian [...]
  • Christianity and False Forgiveness
    By now you have probably heard about Brit Hume’s on air proselytizing directed at Tiger Woods. If not, you can watch the video below where Hume suggests that Christianity offers a forgiveness that Buddhism does not and recommends that Tiger Woods convert. Really Brit Hume? Christianity offers a sp ...

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

  • Dick Morris: Obama Will Never Get Another Major Pi ...
    But Brown victory could be another steam valve for populist anger Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Thursday, January 21, 2010 Former Clinton advisor Dick Morris told Fox News yesterday that the election of Scott Brown was such a momentous event that it has killed all prospects of Preside ...
  • Democrats’ talking points: We can’t pass legislati ...
    Democrats have conceded they can no longer pass healthcare on their own, ensuring that their key legislative reform either dies or accepts further compromises to gain approval from Republican members. What’s more, they’ve decided to outline their case to the public through a set of talking points i ...
  • Ron Paul: After ‘CIA coup,’ agency ‘runs military’
    US House Rep. Ron Paul says the CIA has has in effect carried out a “coup” against the US government, and the intelligence agency needs to be “taken out.” Speaking to an audience of like-minded libertarians at a Campaign for Liberty regional conference in Atlanta this past weekend, the Texas Republ ...
  • Alex Jones Tv: Glenn Beck, Come On Man!
    Alex calls out Glenn Beck!
  • UN abandons deadline for declaring emissions targe ...
    The timetable to reach a global deal to tackle climate change lay in tatters yesterday after the United Nations waived the first deadline of the process laid out at last month’s fractious Copenhagen summit. Nations agreed then to declare their emissions reduction targets by the end of this month. D ...

food and water watch

  • Why are Toxic Chemicals Innocent Until Proven Guil ...
    This week, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released findings from the “Fourth National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals.” The report identifies 212 environmental chemicals found in people’s blood and urine. Many of the chemicals, like mercury and atrazine, have been monito ...
  • COP 15 in Copenhagen: Time to question industrial ...
    As world leaders gather in Copenhagen to discuss climate change and strategies to prevent and alleviate effects on our planet, Food & Water Europe remains acutely aware of half-hearted solutions that such meetings typically bring. We are particularly concerned about the lack of willingness to addre ...
  • Climate Change Conference Goes Bottled Water Free, ...
    As part of a larger effort to go as green as possible, the 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen has been bottled water free! Forty water stations have been installed throughout the conference to provide water to the 19,000+ participating delegates. We’re delighted that the wor ...
  • Corporate Water Neutrality, Anything But
    According to the India Resource Center, on November 30, 2009, over 2000 villagers marched in protest of a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Mehdiganj, demanding its closure following the company’s decision to continue extracting groundwater during a drought. One week later at a corporate water conference ...
  • Choosing the Best and Safest Seafood: Yes, It&#821 ...
    An article printed Monday in the Boston Globe aptly describes the difficulty of determining which fish are best to eat. The contemporary politics of seafood consumption are intricate and frequently controversial, often pulling consumers in different directions. Some experts, like Dr. Lichenstein of ...

treehugger

  • Would You Pay $800 For a Bike Power Generator?
    Image via Convergence Tech That's what Pedal-A-Watt wants you to pay in order to generate 250 watts of pedaled energy. But unless you regularly hook up your bike to a stationary stand in order to get some exercise, this is not exactly an eco-friendly option for how to generate a little charge. ... ...
  • Helen Mirren Tests Chevy's Fuel-Cell Electric Equi ...
    Image credit: GM There was a time when hydrogen was everywhere in the green tech blogosphere. From Top Gear's rave reviews of the Honda FCX , through Will Ferrell's hydrogen BMW , to the Governator's hydrogen Hummer . But with
  • God is Green: 8 Ways Following Your Religion Means ...
    Believers march in Copenhagen for interfaith unity on climate change. Photo by Matthew McDermott . When the pope says, " respect creation ," people are going to listen. And over the past few years, groups representing all faiths have been increasingly spreading the same message to the 85 percent o ...
  • TreeHugger Asks: What Do You Want to See in Our Ne ...
    From photos of crisp carrots, juicy beets, and plump pumpkins in our fall harvest and farmers market slideshows to beautiful landscapes in our fall foliage and fall garden galleries , we have enjoyed viewing your photos! Now we want to know what you want to see in ... Read the full story on TreeHu ...
  • Get the Look Naturally: Glowing Alabaster Skin
    Courtesy of Coco Eco Magazine Alabaster skin accentuated with luscious red lips is a look that will never die--much like the vampires (Edward Cullen, here's to you) that have inspired its seasonal awakening. Model Hadar Bar rocks the look--while wearing a Linda Loudermilk blouse, no less--on the ...

Biosingularity

  • Prolonged Sitting Boosts Bad Health
    If you are reading this while sitting down, you might want to stand up for moment.A new editorial published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine suggests that people who sit still for prolonged periods of time — such as desk workers or coach potatoes — have a higher risk of disease than those w ...
  • Fat in Rear Is Good for You
    Pear trumps apple when it comes to body shape and your health.A new review suggests that having body fat stored in your thighs and backside may actually be good for you. Especially compared with the risks of storing excess fat around the mid-section.Researchers reviewed recent studies on the health ...
  • Pomegranates May Stall Breast Cancer
    Eating pomegranates or drinking pomegranate juice may help prevent and slow the growth of some types of breast cancer. A new study shows a group of phytochemicals called ellagitannins found in abundance in pomegranates inhibited the growth of estrogen-responsive breast cancer in laboratory tests. vi ...
  • Nervy Repair Job
    In a lab at the University of Pennsylvania, a plastic dish holds two rows of tiny black dots, pairs of them connected by dozens of thin, hairlike filaments. Each dot is a cluster of thousands of neurons, explains Douglas Smith, who is a professor of neurosurgery and the director of Penns Center for ...
  • Artificial Platelets Catalyze Clotting
    Platelets can quickly stanch the bleeding from a cut in your finger, but the hemorrhaging caused by a car crash or a battlefield injury might overwhelm the blood-clotting abilities of these cell fragments. Now, researchers report that they have designed a potential helper for such situations, a synt ...

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Pruning Shears

  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Among the problems with torturing detainees is that your choices afterwards are 1) imprison them until they die 2) kill them 3) release them. If you can’t do #1 and you won’t do #2, #3 implies that all the horrific details will be a ...
  • Deficit Chickenhawks
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Here is a one paragraph summary of our fiscal policy since 1980: A Republican president cheerfully dismisses probity when lobbying for increased defense spending and tax cuts, with the memorably irresponsible quip “I believe the def ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post I listen to a technology podcast from CNET called Buzz Out Loud, and on Friday’s show they reported that one Bob Burbach won the Consumer Electronics Association’s “Innovation Movement’s Apps for Innovation ” with a site called GovPu ...
  • The OLC Does Not Have a Head. Does It Need a Body?
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post According to its web site , the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) “provides authoritative legal advice to the President and all the Executive Branch agencies.” Its home page gives a brief, readable description of its functions, which ba ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The TSA subpoenaed a blogger who posted a new screening directive, then backed down . This doesn’t have as much to do with procedures at the TSA (though it has something to do with that) as the outsized sense of authority that feder ...

Natural Health News

  • The Single Most Important Thing to Preserve Your B ...
    Moderate physical activity performed in midlife or later appears to be associated with a reduced risk of mild cognitive impairment -- and a six-month high-intensity aerobic exercise program can improve cognitive function in individuals who already have the condition. Each year, 10 percent to 15 perc ...
  • 3 Ways to Help Teenagers Get More and Better Sleep
    Just 10 percent of adolescents are getting the optimal hours of sleep each night. Here’s how parents can help teens get the most possible sleep, despite the demands of school and work: Teenagers should stick to a consistent bedtime, preferably before 10 PM Keep sleep and wake times as consi ...
  • Breastfeeding Longer Reduces Obesity Risk
    Waiting longer to start infants on solid food could make for slimmer adults, new research shows. Researchers looked at a sample of more than 5,000 men and women born between 1959 and 1961. At that time, parents were instructed to start giving their infant solid foods between four to six months of ag ...
  • Sugar May Be Bad, But This Sweetener Is Far More D ...
    by Dr. Mercola Carbohydrate Biochemistry 101 I promised you a crash course in biochemistry -- so here we go. Much of the following information comes from the important work of Dr. Robert Lustig [i] Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology at the University of California, San Fran ...
  • Woman Takes Painkiller -- and Her Skin Falls Off
    Five years ago, Eva Uhlin became ill on a vacation trip to Sweden. When she returned home, she was told she had a fever and took acetaminophen to help relieve the symptoms. The next morning, her entire face and body were covered in severe, disfiguring blisters. She was diagnosed with a potentially ...

Antemedius

  • Haiti: "UN confronts 'worst ever disaster'"
    Latest video news about Haiti from English Al-Jazeera (3 very short videos posted at YouTube today January 17, 2010) The United Nations says Haiti's earthquake is the worst disaster it has ever had to deal with. Aid is now pouring in, with a steady flow of relief getting through the nation's only a ...
  • The MA Story: Did Progressives Decide They'd Had ...
    Remember that polls were out there before the voting began, both nationally and in Massachusetts, such as the Boston Globe poll indicating displeasure that Obama had not lived up to campaign promises. For all too long the Democratic hierarchy has concluded that progressives will vote predictably on ...
  • Bring Back the Signing Statement
    By David Swanson Having denounced for years the presidential practice of altering laws with signing statements, I now want the practice restored, because the current president has created something even worse. When Bush and Cheney left the White House, they left in place five general ways to make la ...
  • Lessons that should be learned from Coakley's defe ...
    Jon Walker over at Fire Dog Lake makes a very effective argument about why learning the wrong lesson from the defeat of Martha Coakley in yesterday's Massachusetts Senate race will lead to disaster. Not only will Democrats lose badly if they adopt this strategy, but they will be laughed at. Republic ...
  • Torture Accountability Letter 2 - Sen. Feinstein, ...
    Happy Monday and welcome to the Dog’s on-going letter writing campaign for torture accountability under the law. For those who have not seen this series before, the way it works is as follows; every Monday the Dog writes a letter to the decision makers urging them to follow through on accountability ...

Son of Alex Constantine's Blacklist

  • UnderpantsGate: Big Oil, the CIA and the Attempted ...
    Also see: American Sponsorship of Global Terrorism By Alex Constantine (Supplementary revisions, 12-30-09, 1:29 pm) It’s All, Once Again, About Big Oil and a Pipeline … Abdulmutallab’s exploding unmentionables “Why Was Umar AbdulMutallab in Houston in August 2008? Whom Did He Visit There? What Did H ...
  • Celebrities Lead Charge against Scientology
    Hollywood figures quit ‘rip-off’ church as Australian prime minister threatens parliamentary inquiry into its activities Peter Beaumont in London, Toni O’Loughlin in Sydney, and Paul Harris in New York The Observer | 22 November 2009 The security at the red-brick and glass-walled horseshoe of the Jo ...
  • Baltimore: Cultist Withdraws Guilty Plea in Baby&# ...
    BALTIMORE — A former member of a defunct religious cult has backed out of a plea deal and will face trial on charges he and others starved a toddler to death. Marcus Cobbs had agreed to plead guilty to a lesser charge of accessory after the fact. But his attorney abruptly withdrew the plea Friday mo ...
  • What’s Wrong with this RFID Chip?
    RFID chip brought to you by the Carlyle Group and Matrics, Inc.
  • Will Donor Scandals Doom Crist’s Senate bid?
    ” … Three of Crist’s top fund-raisers have been hamstrung by federal investigations in the past nine months, and a fourth, Jupiter sports agent and real estate investor Marc Roberts, is facing a federal lawsuit alleging he defrauded a business partner out of $100 million to support his own ‘lavish p ...

Climategate

  • The US must protect its economy from the Greens
    Instead of yielding to the siren calls of liberal climate alarmists, the U.S. government would be well advised to heed the clarion calls for a new focus on developing pragmatic policies capable of safeguarding American industries, its labor forces and yet retaining a concern for prudent environmenta ...
  • Al Gore, meet Senator Scott Brown
    What does Scott Brown bring to the table in regards to using the global warming hoax as an excuse to tax the hell out of us, or to allow the UN to exert any power over U.S. citizens? Related posts: Reader asks, “If global warming is a farce, why is the ice melting in the arctic?” Penn State’s pape ...
  • IPCC apologizes for Himalayan glacier meltdown exa ...
    IPPC was busted intheir "finding" that the Himalayan glaciers would melt away by 2035. Finally, with the media starting to pay attention to climate fraud, they were forced to issue an apology, well, sort of. We keep reading everywhere they have apologized, but it sounds more like a correction to us. ...
  • Journal of Climate study asks why CO2 has not warm ...
    In a study to be published in the Stephen Schwartz of Brookhaven National laboratory and colleagues examine why the planet has not warmed as much as many climatologists expected during the Industrial Era as atmospheric levels of CO2 have risen. The journal of Climate is a publication of the American ...
  • Penn State Daily Collegian keeps the focus on Mich ...
    Colleen Boyle at Penn State's The Daily Collegian is keeping Michael Mann on the hot seat. In yesterday's article, Group calls for Mann's external investigation, she reminds readers of the Commonwealth Foundation's 10-page policy statement urging the Pennsylvania General Assembly to commission an ex ...

Opinio Juris

  • Soft Statehood?
    by JanKlabbers by JanKlabbers It would be tempting to join Opinio Juris’ discussion on soft law of a few weeks ago, but having written quite a bit on the topic going back to the mid-1990s, I thought I’d pay some attention to a lovely little story that ran in the New York Times about a month or t ...
  • The Stickiest LawProf Blogs
    by Roger Alford Paul Caron at Tax Prof Blog has just published the annual rankings for law professor blogs. There is some very useful information, including overall traffic numbers and details on which blogs are growing and declining in numbers. (Opinio Juris is now ranked 16th overall and is am ...
  • 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 ...
  • Soft Statehood?
    by JanKlabbers by JanKlabbers It would be tempting to join Opinio Juris’ discussion on soft law of a few weeks ago, but having written quite a bit on the topic going back to the mid-1990s, I thought I’d pay some attention to a lovely little story that ran in the New York Times about a month or t ...
  • The Stickiest LawProf Blogs
    by Roger Alford Paul Caron at Tax Prof Blog has just published the annual rankings for law professor blogs. There is some very useful information, including overall traffic numbers and details on which blogs are growing and declining in numbers. (Opinio Juris is now ranked 16th overall and is am ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • Climate researchers admit, CO2 models are wrong
    A new peer reviewed study in the Journal of Climate suggests the computer models relied on by the now-discredited UN IPCC have performed miserably. As the argument goes, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere when plugged into the models...
  • Pachauri must resign: he’s too conflicted
    UN IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri must resign his post this week, or risk bringing the UN IPCC even further into disrepute, if that's still possible. Last week's revelations at Climate Depot and here at TBR.cc, followed by today's bombshell in...
  • Chicken Littles becoming denialists as evidence tu ...
    Hot Topic is again (sigh) pushing the rapidly rising sea level meme, based on guesswork as one of the scientist involves confesses in the comments, suggesting a minimum sea level rise this century of more than a metre and probably...
  • Report: runaway melt in the Arctic
    The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consul Ifft, at Bergen, Norway. Reports from fishermen,...
  • New Scientist magazine eats Climategate humble pie
    New Scientist magazine is publicly questioning how a mistake it made in 1999 ended up as "official" climate change theory cited by the UN IPCC. The magazine has this weekend coughed to publishing the infamous "Himalayan glaciers gone by 2035"...

Public News Service

  • AZ Utility Urged to Go Green to Save Green
    AZ Utility Urged to Go Green to Save Green Phoenix, AZ – Salt River Project is taking public comment this week on a proposal to hike electric rates by nearly 5-percent. Consumer groups like the Arizona Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) say the increase could be lower if SRP relied less on coal-f ...
  • Peanut Poisoning Victims Still Waiting to be Serve ...
    Peanut Poisoning Victims Still Waiting to be Served Food Safety Assurances Phoenix, AZ – One year ago this week, Americans were scouring their pantries to clear out peanut products after salmonella-tainted peanut butter was linked to nine deaths and more than 700 illnesses - at least 13 in Arizona. ...
  • Rural AZ Could Benefit from Health Care Reform
    Rural AZ Could Benefit from Health Care Reform Phoenix, AZ - While members of Congress debate the "public option," other parts of the House and Senate health care reform bills aren't so controversial. They address the lack of doctors and nurses in rural communities, and the shortage of teachers in t ...
  • Endangered Arizona Jaguars Will Get Federal Recove ...
    Endangered Arizona Jaguars Will Get Federal Recovery Plan Tucson, AZ – Endangered jaguars will get both a recovery plan and protection for critical habitat as the result of a policy change by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Jaguars were first given federal protection back in 1997. Comments from ...
  • New Deal-Type Jobs Program Proposed as Recession R ...
    New Deal-Type Jobs Program Proposed as Recession Remedy Phoenix, AZ – In the debate over the need for a second federal economic stimulus package, one side is calling for a New Deal-style direct government jobs program. Others say tax breaks will result in more hiring. Comments from Carol Stambaugh ( ...

My Care2 Picks

  • Journalist Kim Ives on How Western Domination Has ...
    How centuries of Western domination of Haiti has worsened the impact of the devastating earthquakeWe see throughout Haiti the population themselves organizing themselves into popular committees to clean up, to pull out the bodies from the rubble, to build Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & G ...
  • Babies fed porridge before they reach five months ...
    Babies fed porridge from an early age may be protected against asthma, according to new research. Submitted by Leslie Y. to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The people's dossier: if you could ask Tony Blair ...
    The Iraq Inquiry committee needs your help. Its weak, deferential questioning of witnesses has been widely criticised as inadequate for an inquiry into the most disastrous foreign policy decision of the past half century. Submitted by John Farnham to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Medical Aid for Haiti turned away 3X
    A Doctors Without Borders cargo plane carrying 12 tons of medical equipment, including drugs, surgical supplies and two dialysis machines, was turned away three times from Port-au-Prince airport since Sunday night despite repeated assurances of its abilit Submitted by Mike Cummins to World  |   Not ...
  • Supreme Court to Hear First Genetically Engineered ...
    HT Current.com Battle waged by the Center for Food Safety to protect from effects of genetically engineered (GE) crops.Monsanto intervened in a 2007 federal district court ruling approval of GE alfalfa illegal.(CFS) filed suit to retain non-GE choice. Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness ...

    Blacklisted News

  • Pentagon Disaster Relief Exercise For Haiti Went L ...
    As personnel representing hundreds of government and nongovernment agencies from around the world rush to the aid of earthquake-devastated Haiti, the Defense Information Systems Agency has launched a Web portal with multiple social networking tools to aid in coordinating their efforts.
  • FBI Sting Nets 22 Executives Charged with Paying B ...
    The FBI undercover operation was the largest-ever effort to enforce the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The 22 executives ran companies that supplied militaries and law-enforcement agencies.
  • World Vision Takes Billion Dollars in Government F ...
    World Vision, an international Christian humanitarian organization, does not hide its employment policy. To work for the billion-dollar charity, except on a temporary basis, one must be a Christian. This religious-based hiring preference has drawn complaints in light of the fact that World Vision re ...
  • Obama confidant’s spine-chilling proposal
    Sunstein advocates that the Government’s stealth infiltration should be accomplished by sending covert agents into “chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups.”
  • Video: NAACP Director Defends Ron Paul Against Acc ...
    A 20 year friend of Ron Paul, Austin Texas’ NAACP Director Nelson Linder is interviewed by Scott Horton of Anti War radio concerning the accusations of racism against the congressman

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Lightning strikes two planes near California airpo ...
    Burbank - Two Southwest Airlines airplanes have been struck by lighting while landing at Burbank's Bob Hope Airport. Southwest spokeswoman Marilee McInnis says the flights to Burbank from Sacramento and Oakland landed safely Wednesday morning after being struck while approaching the airport amid ...
  • Almost-close encounter: Meteorite hits Lorton doct ...
    Much later, after the hole in the roof had been fixed and the debris cleaned up, after the cause of the damage finally had become clear, Frank Ciampi wondered: What are the odds? He is a doctor. He has worked for 18 years in the two-story building in Lorton that houses the Williamsburg Square Famil ...
  • Monday's meteor fell on Lorton, Va. dental office
    A Washington DC television station is reporting an apparent meteorite fall in Lorton, Va. The space rock, which has been taken to the Smithsonian Institution, crashed through the roof of a dentist's office at around 5:45 p.m. on Monday, narrowly missing patients and staff. The reported time of the ...
  • Lorton Meteorite, The Fourth Observed To Fall In V ...
    Lorton -- A meteorite, the size of a mango, punched through the ceiling of the Williamsburg Square Family Practice Office in Lorton. Dr. Marc Gullani says, "Literally an explosion went off." Dr. Frank Ciampi tells 9NEWS NOW he thought the book shelves fell down. He says, "It came from the roof, ...
  • SOTT FOCUS: Arun Gandhi And The Jews
    Arun Gandhi is the fifth grandson of the famous Mahatma Gandhi, a public figure and an established and true man of peace. So what was he doing spreading nefarious 'conspiracy theories' about the Jews back in January 2008?

Threat Level

  • Verizon Terminating Copyright Infringers’ Internet ...
    Verizon is terminating internet service to an unknown number of repeat copyright scofflaws, a year after suggesting it was not adopting a so-called graduated-response policy. While it was not immediately clear whether other internet service providers were following suit, the move comes as the Record ...
  • Obama Supports $675,000 File Sharing Verdict
    The Obama administration is backing $675,000 in damages a Massachusetts student must pay the Recording Industry Association of America for file sharing 30 songs. The Justice Department, where President Barack Obama has tapped five former RIAA lawyers to serve, said copyright infringement “creates a ...
  • FBI Broke Law Spying on Americans’ Phone Records, ...
    An internal audit found the FBI broke the law thousands of times when requesting Americans’ phone records using fake emergency letters that were never followed up on with true subpoenas — even though top officials knew the practice was illegal, according to The Washington Post. The inspector general ...
  • Oink Admin Beats File Sharing Charges
    A British jury on Friday cleared former Oink admin Allan Ellis of conspiracy to defraud the music industry for running one of the world’s strangest music file-sharing services with some 200,000 members Operators of the so-called Pink Palace banned low-quality sound files, enforced strict usage rules ...
  • Google Hack Attack Was Ultra Sophisticated, New De ...
    Hackers seeking source code from Google, Adobe and dozens of other high-profile companies used unprecedented tactics that combined encryption, stealth programming and an unknown hole in Internet Explorer, according to new details released by researchers at anti-virus firm McAfee. “We have never ever ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Cheney's Advice, Krugman's Law and Obama's First Y ...
    If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, then Barack Obama has been in the fast lane when it comes to bipartisanship. Now one year into his presidency, his near-pathological obsession with consensus has only served to resurrect...
  • For GOP and Media, Obstructionism is the New Norma ...
    As Massachusetts residents vote in large numbers for a new Senator, 538.com, Pollster.com and other analysts are predicting an upset victory for Republican Scott Brown. If so, the GOP's victory will be double. The Republicans will not only have succeeded...
  • MA Voters Balk at Funding Red State Health Care
    One day before voters head to the polls, several factors seem to be fueling Republican Scott Brown's surprising lead over Martha Coakley in the Massachusetts Senate race. Voter anger over the economy, Coakley's weak candidacy and Brown's strength among independents...
  • Tim Tebow Turns Super Anti-Abortion Crusader
    Heisman trophy winner Tim Tebow hasn't played a down in the National Football League, but he will nonetheless be a star during the Super Bowl on February 7. That's because the University of Florida quarterback will join his mother in...
  • Remembering Bush's Disaster Response Success - in ...
    Mindful of George W. Bush's record of catastrophic failure when it came to disaster response, some commenters (for example, here and here) are questioning President Obama's decision (one I support) to ask Bush to join Bill Clinton in heading up...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

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

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

TruthHugger

  • 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

  • Humanitarian Crises: What is a Progressive to do?
      Tim Wise, former Executive Director of Grassroots International elaborated on this based on Grassroots' principles back in 2005 shortly after the Asian tsunami. Those pointers are just as relevant today.   Progressive-minded people who want to contribute to humanitarian aid efforts too often aband ...
  • Breaking the Chains of Dependence in Haiti
    Outside Author Bio:  Rob Baril is a Board Member of Grassroots International. Outside Author:  Rob Baril As news of the earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince trickled ou ...
  • Via Campesina calls for Solidarity with Haiti incl ...
      La Via Campesina International peasant movement Jln. read more
  • Letter from Camille Chalmers, PAPDA
    trinidadandtobago200904-132.jpg Recently, Grassroots International received an email from our partner Camille Chalmers of the Haitian Platform to Advocate Alternative Development (PAPDA). It is translated below. read more
  • Ten Things the United States Can and Should Do for ...
      Bill Quigley of our ally the Center for Constitutional Rights wrote recently on what he thought the US can and should do for Haiti in response to the devastating earthquake. read more

Climate

  • January 21, 2010
    Landrieu, Murkowski Collaborate on Plan to Block EPA Climate Rules (The Hill) Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) told reporters that she is working with Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) on Murkowski's efforts to block the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. U.S. Carbon Plan to ...
  • January 20, 2010
    Massachusetts Vote Hurts U.S. Climate Bill (Reuters) Republican Scott Brown's upset victory on Tuesday in the special U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts has dealt a further blow to Democrats' drive to pass a climate control bill in 2010. Sen. Dorgan Calls Climate Bill Unlikely in 2010 (The Hill ...
  • January 19, 2010
    German Minister: 16%-17% Solar Subsidy Cut Realistic (Dow Jones) Economics Minister Rainer Bruederle stressed today that Germany must position itself as a leader in renewable energy. Solar, he said, is only one facet of a broader program to encourage investment in renewable energy. World Lead ...
  • January 18, 2010
    EU Nations Spar Over Climate Policy After UN Summit Deadlock (Bloomberg) Europe is struggling to hold a common line on climate policy after last month's failed UN summit in Copenhagen, with the UK, Germany and France defending deeper emission cuts in the face of Italian and Polish resistance. U ...
  • January 19, 2010
    German Minister: 16%-17% Solar Subsidy Cut Realistic (Dow Jones) Economics Minister Rainer Bruederle stressed today that Germany must position itself as a leader in renewable energy. Solar, he said, is only one facet of a broader program to encourage investment in renewable energy. World Lead ...

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

  • David Dinkins Redux: Obama Will Drag Down Democrat ...
    I'm a bit late, but this is the time of year when pundits issue their predictions for the coming year. Normally I stay out of the political prognostication racket. It's as thankless as writing for Arianna Huffington. Like when I predicted that Howard Dean had the Democratic nomination all sewn up. N ...
  • Should Tim Kaine be Fired?
    For months people have been talking about whether Michael Steele, the head of the RNC, should be fired. He says ridiculous things, gets himself and his party in needless trouble, has nearly run out of money and caused dissension within the ranks. But he has also won three important elections. Tim Ka ...
  • Come back, Bob Woodward. Save us from Game Change ...
    Dear Bob Woodward, all is forgiven. Well, not all of it. But as someone who's been highly critical of Woodward's work in recent years and who thought he'd become romanced by his Bush White House sources and had played dumb about the Valerie Plame leak story, I'm here to say that viewed against the ...
  • What Massachusetts Got Right
    — from Truthdig The president got creamed in Massachusetts. No amount of blaming this disastrous outcome on the weaknesses of the local Democratic candidate or her Republican opponent's strengths can gainsay that fact. Obama's opportunistic search for win-win solutions to our health care concerns an ...
  • 'Hardball' and Dumbed-Down US Politics
    This past week, grappling with the twin top stories of Haiti’s earthquake tragedy and the Massachusetts Senate race, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews personified the strange mix of puffed-up self-importance and total lack of self-awareness that has come to define America’s media punditocracy. During “Hardba ...

Ten Percent

  • Support A Single Mother
    The US Army had Alexis Hutchinson thrown in jail and took her child from her because she took her role as a mother seriously, they have now filed four separate court martial charges against her. She was meant to deploy to Afghanistan but when her childcare arrangements fell through, she made the dec ...
  • A Work of Art
    This transcends its purpose and becomes a testimony to the intelligence, honesty, humanity and integrity of people and the failure for those qualities to be made essential in our elites. I’m going back to read some more, have a look yourself.
  • The Real News- Haiti: Guns or food?

  • Need Or Nationality?
    U.S. military rescuers searching through the rubble of Haiti’s earthquake-crushed buildings have found no American survivors in the last two days and are now contemplating moving their efforts from seeking the living to recovering the dead. This raise the inevitable questions, if US survivors were p ...
  • Petition Against Mercenary Employing Shell’s Corri ...
    Via News of the Restless, the mercenaries also were would be assassins of Evo Morales. The Corrib force have also abused Irish citizens At the end of 2007 I-RMS ‘security operatives’ replaced the majority of security guards employed by Shell. A substantial number of these ‘operatives’ have military ...

Booman Tribune

  • The Real Failure
    Congressional Democrats and the White House are getting a lot of advice today. Almost all of it is self-serving. I might have some advice, but I mainly have a few observations. As someone who spent 2005-2009 documenting the behavior of the Bush administration and the Republicans in Congress, ...
  • Quote of the Day
    “We have to outthink the terrorists,” Senator DeMint said last month in a televised interview. “And when we formed the airport security system, we realized we could not use collective bargaining and unionization because of that need to be flexible.” If we're relying on Senator DeMint to outthink ...
  • Casual Suggestion
    For all you so-called 'moderate' Democrats who can't read poll results, I suggest you take a look at the Research 2000 poll results of the Massachusetts electorate. Take as long as you need to decipher the meaning in those numbers. And, when you're done, stop dicking around and do the obvious.
  • The Rocky Path Forward
    The danger of using the budget reconciliation process to pass health care reform all along was that it wouldn't work. The administration was careful to include language in the budget that would allow for this procedure, but they neglected to do the same for climate change after Senate Budget leader ...
  • Froggy Bottom Cafe

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Amazon, ebooks and piracy – tipping points ahoy?
    Sticking with the piracy theme for a moment (yeah, I know, so out of character, right?), here’s an article at TechRadar that features an interview with one George Walkley, head of digital developments for publishers Hachette UK, talking about ways in which the publishing industry has tried to learn ...
  • The Product Bay – piracy goes 3D
    Well, it was bound to happen – hell, Sven’s been writing columns that skirt around the idea for ages. Here’s the lowdown: 3D printing is maturing quickly, and 3D scanning isn’t far behind, meaning that material objects can be stored and transmitted as digital data. Digital data can be shared in many ...
  • The Free Freeways
    Excerpts from “Asphalt Veins – The Freeway States” Published in NEWStream and syndicated to all ReutAssoc membersites (retrieved December 21 2012 @ 13:34). photo credit: mallix It was no great surprise when the highways seceded. A decade of inadequate funding, a Federal system collapsed in all but ...
  • The uncanny evolution of Moscow’s stray dogs
    Staying in the Russian capital for another post, here’s a fascinating article at the Financial Times about Moscow’s legendary population of stray dogs, and about the man who has been studying them [via MetaFilter; image by Adam Baker]. Muscovites have a close relationship with dogs, and the city is ...
  • Billboard hacking hits Moscow
    Back in the final gasps of last year, I mentioned that I fully expected to see the new breed of digital billboards become a target for hackers and adbusters, much as they are in Lauren Beukes’ gritty Cape Town post-cyberpunk novel Moxyland. However, I didn’t expect to see it quite so soon as this; t ...

Therapy News

  • Psychiatry Play Showing Audiences Professionals ha ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Professional therapy and other mental health services for those who work in the field and treat clients has been continually pinpointed as an important part of any professional’s career, yet some practitioners are bound to take the suggestion less seriously than other ...
  • Terminology in Therapist, Doctor Attitudes Towards ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline The specific way in which clients are described might not seem like a significant factor in how they’re treated, but a study published by the Massachusetts General Hospital recently showed that words can play an important part in how health care professionals consider ...
  • Scared Stiff
    By Lynn Somerstein, PhD, RYT, Object Relations Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Lynn and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile As David Frawley wrote in Yoga: the Greater Tradition, “Breath and Mind are connected like the two wings of a bird. The breath reflects our thoughts and emotion ...
  • Shutting Out A Family Member
    By Lynne Silva-Breen, MDiv, MA, LMFT, Family Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Lynne and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Family harmony is a dream we all share. Wouldn’t it be great if we could function day to day like our favorite families on television? Sure, life would com ...
  • Inner Child Work: What Needs Went Unmet?
    By Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT, Family of Origin Issues Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Lisa and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile We are shaped by our primary relationships not only by experience but how our brains are wired as a result. The exciting latest research in the field of inte ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Mountaintop Removal Mining Has Obliterated 700 Mil ...
    West Virginia Public Broadcasting Mountaintop Removal Mining Has Obliterated 700 Miles of US Streams AlterNet And that's the length of the nation's streams that have been filled in with debris--utterly ruined by the devastating practice known as mountaintop removal ... Mountaintop removal mining st ...
  • Coast Lines: Waycross presentation to show woes fr ...
    Coast Lines: Waycross presentation to show woes from mining Florida Times-Union The Mountaintop Removal Roadshow will make a stop in Waycross at 7 pm Monday at the Okefenokee Technical College auditorium. Presented by Kentucky engineer ...
  • Coal Baron Debates Kennedy Over Mountaintop Mining ...
    unEARTHED, from Earthjustice (blog) Coal Baron Debates Kennedy Over Mountaintop Mining ABC News ... and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are certain they could win over the world if only the public could see mountaintop removal mining through their eyes. ... Blankenship, Kennedy set to debate coal, climate Ch ...
  • Blankenship, Kennedy set to debate coal, climate - ...
    unEARTHED, from Earthjustice (blog) Blankenship, Kennedy set to debate coal, climate Charleston Gazette Massey Energy President Don Blankenship and environmental lawyer and activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will debate mountaintop removal , climate change and the ... Pro-coal rally set for Blankenship ...
  • Shake Up at the Sierra Club? Group Names New Execu ...
    Shake Up at the Sierra Club? Group Names New Executive Director AlterNet ... a San Francisco-based group that runs corporate accountability campaigns to halt clearcut logging, mountaintop removal coal mining, industrial palm ... and more »

Memeorandum

  • TSA Nominee Withdraws Amid 'Political Agenda' (Jul ...
    Julie Pace / Associated Press : TSA Nominee Withdraws Amid ‘Political Agenda’   —  Obama administration's TSA nominee withdraws amid ‘political agenda’  —  The Obama administration's choice to lead the Transportation Security Administration withdrew his name Wednesday.  —  In a statement, Erroll S ...
  • The Times to Charge for Frequent Access to Its Web ...
    Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times : The Times to Charge for Frequent Access to Its Web Site   —  Taking a step that has tempted and terrified much of the newspaper industry, The New York Times announced on Wednesday that it would charge some frequent readers for access to its Web site — news that ...
  • Frank: Health Care Compromise "Dead" (Reid Wilson/ ...
    Reid Wilson / Hotline On Call : Frank: Health Care Compromise “Dead”   —  Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) said any hope for a compromise between House and Senate health care reform legislation is dead following his state's election of a GOP senator last night.  —  “I think the measure that would have pass ...
  • He's Done Everything Wrong (Art Beast/The Daily Be ...
    Art Beast / The Daily Beast : He's Done Everything Wrong   — Home - Cheat sheet - Buzz board - Big Fat Story - Blogs & stories - Videos - Galleries - Crossword  —  Blogs and Stories  —  Obama punted on the economy and reversed the fortunes of the Democrats in 365 days.  —  He's misjudged the charac ...
  • Let's Play the Blame Game! (Nate Silver/FiveThirty ...
    Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight : Let's Play the Blame Game!   —  When a Democrat loses a federal race in Massachusetts, the default assumption ought to be that several factors are to blame.  —  Clearly the national environment has gotten worse for the Democrats since Barack Obama's inauguration one ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.7, east central Pacific Ocean
    Thursday, January 21, 2010 08:03:23 UTC Thursday, January 21, 2010 01:03:23 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 5.1, Santa Cruz Islands
    Wednesday, January 20, 2010 12:56:50 UTC Wednesday, January 20, 2010 11:56:50 PM at epicenter Depth : 29.00 km (18.02 mi)
  • M 5.2, Tucuman, Argentina
    Tuesday, January 19, 2010 17:28:15 UTC Tuesday, January 19, 2010 02:28:15 PM at epicenter Depth : 26.80 km (16.65 mi)
  • M 5.1, Solomon Islands
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China Dialogue

  • In Africa, a need for balance
    If the continent’s wildlife is to be preserved, more income from the tourists who flock to its safari parks must find its way to local people, argues Julian Glover. Something shaming often happens when you clatter up a dusty track and enter any of Africa’s famous national parks, or even some quieter ...
  • Beware the GM giants
    Biotech firms are rapidly gaining ground in global agriculture. China must take a stand or else face risks to food security, argues Jiang Gaoming. Greenpeace recently discovered genetically modified (GM) ingredient Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) in Nestlé-branded baby cereal in China. According to the ...
  • The Mekong under threat
    South-east Asia’s longest river has been transformed in the past three decades. Now, the food security of the Lower Mekong Basin hangs in the balance, writes Milton Osborne. Until the 1980s the Mekong River flowed freely for 4,900 kilometres from its 5,100-metre-high source in Tibet to the coast of ...
  • A fight for life in the Andes
    Peruvian villagers already on the edge of survival are enduring bitter cold linked to climate change. Now, reports Annie Kelly, they are having to choose whether to save their livelihoods or their children. For alpaca farmer Ignacio Beneto Huamani and his young family, life in the Peruvian Andes , a ...
  • What to watch for in Washington
    The global recession, US mid-term elections and a weak Copenhagen deal all play a part in the future of cap-and-trade legislation. Suzanne Goldenberg explains what lies ahead in 2010. What is the state of play for climate-change legislation in America? Barack Obama put his reputation on the line ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Verizon Terminating Copyright Infringers’ Internet ...
    Verizon is terminating internet service to an unknown number of repeat copyright scofflaws, a year after suggesting it was not adopting a so-called graduated-response policy. While it was not immediately clear whether other internet service providers were following suit, the move comes as the Record ...
  • Obama Supports $675,000 File Sharing Verdict
    The Obama administration is backing $675,000 in damages a Massachusetts student must pay the Recording Industry Association of America for file sharing 30 songs. The Justice Department, where President Barack Obama has tapped five former RIAA lawyers to serve, said copyright infringement “creates a ...
  • FBI Broke Law Spying on Americans’ Phone Records, ...
    An internal audit found the FBI broke the law thousands of times when requesting Americans’ phone records using fake emergency letters that were never followed up on with true subpoenas — even though top officials knew the practice was illegal, according to The Washington Post. The inspector general ...
  • Oink Admin Beats File Sharing Charges
    A British jury on Friday cleared former Oink admin Allan Ellis of conspiracy to defraud the music industry for running one of the world’s strangest music file-sharing services with some 200,000 members Operators of the so-called Pink Palace banned low-quality sound files, enforced strict usage rules ...
  • Google Hack Attack Was Ultra Sophisticated, New De ...
    Hackers seeking source code from Google, Adobe and dozens of other high-profile companies used unprecedented tactics that combined encryption, stealth programming and an unknown hole in Internet Explorer, according to new details released by researchers at anti-virus firm McAfee. “We have never ever ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • An Obama Reboot? President Proposes Volcker's Glas ...
    Sure to dominate the media cycle today is the Obama administration’s surprise announcement of what some observers are already calling Glass-Steagall II, after the late, oft-lamented law that separated investment and commercial banking activity, whose repeal under President Clinton has been blamed i ...
  • China downplays Internet feud with United States
    BEIJING (Reuters) - China sought to contain tension with the United States over online censorship and hacking, saying Google's dispute with Beijing should not be over-stated, ahead of a possible challenge from Washington on Internet freedom.
  • UK Stocks -- Factors to watch on Jan 21
    LONDON, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 index is seen opening 34-35 points or 0.6 percent higher on Thursday, according to financial bookmakers, rallying following sharp falls on Wednesday after Wall Street ended weaker but off session lows and some Asian markets recovered as well.
  • UPDATE 5-Nokia to offer free navigation, TomTom sh ...
    * Sees free navigation supporting smartphone sales, prices
  • Stocks set for flat open after jobless claims data
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks were set for a flat open on Thursday as a rise in initial weekly jobless claims offset better-than-expected earnings from several banks, including Goldman Sachs Group.

Equality Trust

  • Harriet Harman puts class at the heart of election ...
    Labour deputy leader to make inequality a key dividing line with Conservatives. Harriet Harman will reopen the politically explosive debate over class tomorrowby insisting that it remains the single biggest factor in determining individual achievement. In a speech designed to put the fight against ...
  • Memo to the mainstream: where's the vision, where' ...
    Bill Kerry's guest blog at Left Foot Forward
  • Economics is the real divide
    Daily Mail comment piece
  • Caroline Lucas: Where now for Social Democracy in ...
    ...according to the groundbreaking work by British authors Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, the key to reducing the cultural pressure to consume is greater equality. In their book The Spirit Level they set out how greater equality makes growth much less necessary, revealing research which shows t ...
  • The ills inequality brings
    It is possible to improve the lives of the poor, the middle class and the well off, by addressing one big problem. It turns out that reducing economic inequality can reduce a whole range of social problems, from teenage pregnancy and youth violence, to heart disease and depression. The authors of ...

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #0261
    Analysis: CIA has long struggled with ensuring safe interrogations. Germany to probe CIA murder and rendition plots on its soil.
  • US mosque says FBI informant responsible for shoot ...
    Community relations between the FBI and American Muslim groups took a turn for the worse yesterday, after an African-American Muslim congregation in Detroit accused a Bureau informant of luring a Mosque member to his death.
  • News you may have missed #0260
    Protest organized near CIA headquarters. Senior Iran military official says foreign correspondents "clearly spying".
  • Georgian paramilitaries posed as election observer ...
    Ukraine’s largest political party has accused the nearby nation of Georgia of sending to Ukraine a team of paramilitary operatives disguised as international election monitors.
  • Who tried to burn down the US embassy in Skopje in ...
    On March 25, 1999, approximately 200 people broke off from a much larger crowd of pro-Serbian demonstrators in downtown Skopje, Macedonia, and, in a military-style operation, tore down the security perimeter around the US embassy and occupied its courtyard for several hours. With the US ambassador, ...

After Downing Street.org

  • US Security Company Offers to Perform "High Threat ...
    Monday 18 January 2010 by: Jeremy Scahill | Rebel Reports We saw this type of Iraq-style disaster profiteering in New Orleans and you can expect to see a lot more of this in Haiti over the coming days, weeks and months. Private security companies are seeing big dollar signs in Haiti thanks in no ...
  • Naomi Wolf: The End of America
    If you haven't read the book, this will give you an overview. read more
  • List And Rank Your Health Care Priorities in New P ...
    Democrats.com is running a poll now about health care legislation preferences. You can choose and rank your priorities: Change absolutely nothing Give Americans under 65 the option to buy into Medicare Create a "public option" separate from Medicare Make private insurers compete by eliminating the ...
  • Accepting Various Truths
    Accepting various truths By Helen Thomas | Times Union | Submitted by Michael Munk | www.MichaelMunk.com If the U.S. defense spending bubble were ever to deflate, domestic job losses would be catastrophic, a stunning fact that raises the question of whether we can ever afford peace. No one in the ...
  • Massachusetts Exit Polls For 2010 Senate Race: The ...
    Massachusetts Exit Polls For 2010 Senate Race: There Are None | Huffington Post Those seeking exit polls for the 2010 Massachusetts Senate Race will be disappointed to know there aren't any. Mike Allen of Politico reports about the lack of exit polls: The consortium scrambled to put something to ...

Grist - News

  • New Sierra Club chief brings confrontational style ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes Michael BrunePhoto courtesy Sierra ClubThe Sierra Club ’s new leader will come to the job with a record of “environmental agitation” against big industrial polluters.  The group announced on Wednesday that Michael Brune , 38, currently head of Rainforest Action Network (RAN), wil ...
  • Copenhagen Accord is the priority, says U.S. clima ...
    by Amanda Little U.S. Climate Envoy Todd Stern.A month after he rode herd at Copenhagen's COP15 climate talks ,Todd Stern is exhorting participants to make the outcome of the conference meaningful. "Life needs to be breathed into the Copenhagen Accord," the State Department's special envoy for clim ...
  • No guarantee of climate treaty this year, says UNF ...
    by Agence France-Presse PARIS -- World talks on climate change may not yield a legally binding pact by year's end, U.N. climate pointman Yvo de Boer said on Wednesday, in his first public assessment after last month's turbulent Copenhagen summit. De Boer, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework C ...
  • U.N. climate panel admits Himalayan glacier data & ...
    by Agence France-Presse GENEVA - An estimate on the fate of Himalayan glaciers that featured a benchmark report on global warming has been "poorly substantiated" and represents a lapse in standards, U.N.'s climate scientists said on Wednesday. Charges that the reference was highly inaccurate or ove ...
  • British engineers slam home wind turbines as &#821 ...
    by Agence France-Presse LONDON -- Installing wind turbines and solar panels in people's homes is "eco-bling" that will not help meet Britain's targets on cutting carbon emissions, engineers warned Wednesday. In a new report by the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE), Professor Doug King said it was ...

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Washington Independent

  • Intel Chief Presents Obama With Another Headache
    The Christmas-time apprehension after Flight 253 landed in Detroit was more ad hoc and chaotic than the administration has portrayed, according to Dennis Blair.
  • What It Means for House Democrats to Adopt the Sen ...
    First of all, take all the weeks of merger negotiations and throw them out the window: It’s looking more and more like the only way the Democrats can pass health care reform — and they must pass health care reform — in the wake of yesterday’s election in Massachusetts is to have the House take [...]
  • Intel Chief Dennis Blair’s Embarrassing Walk ...
    Hours after Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence, told a Senate panel that he thought the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG) should have interrogated would-be Northwest 253 bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab — which suggested that the FBI didn’t get valuable intelligence out ...
  • FBI Director Mueller Thinks You Can Get Good Intel ...
    Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence, may think the interrogation of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab went haywire when the would-be bomber was Mirandized instead of being subject to the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group. But FBI Director Robert Mueller had a different take about the v ...
  • National Organization for Marriage, Taking Credit ...
    Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage has perfected the art of the salt-in-the-wound press release. His message to supporters on Scott Brown: NOM, like every conservative group, is taking credit for the win. While in the Massachusetts legislature, Scott Brown was one of the courageo ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

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

Suzie-Q

  • Scott Brown Poses With Daughters In Bikinis- PHOTO
    Scott Brown Daughter Bikini PHOTO: Picture Of Ayla & Arianna Huffington Post First Posted: 01-20-10 03:18 PM   |   Updated: 01-20-10 04:21 PM After announcing that his daughters were “available” during Tuesday night’s victory speech, an Animal New York tipster unearthed this Massachusetts’ n ...
  • The Democrats Need To Find Some Spine And Quick
    In the 1998 midterms, Democrats actually gained seats. A rare thing for the president’s party to pick up congressional seats in a second midterm election. Nevertheless, the Democrats won the day and Republicans lost a net five seats. Take a guess how the Republicans responded. Naturally, they freake ...
  • US Sending 4,000 More Troops To Haiti
    US sending 4,000 more troops to Haiti Via Raw Story Published: Wednesday January 20, 2010 The United States is sending more than 4,000 additional [...]
  • What Massachusetts Got Right
    Robert Scheer | TruthDig | Jan 20, 2010 The president got creamed in Massachusetts. No amount of blaming this disastrous outcome on the weaknesses of the local Democratic candidate or her Republican opponent’s strengths can gainsay that fact. Obama’s opportunistic search for win-win solutions to our ...
  • The Night When The Naked Man Tried To Sell His Dau ...
    Remembering This Historic Night, When The Naked Man Tried To Sell His Daughters Wonkette January 19, 2010 We assume that guest editor Josh Fruhlinger knew all along, ever since he wrote this post about some mean and very very naked state senator three years ago, that this same asshole would soon ...

Solari

  • An Introduction to Solari Circles
    A Solari Circle is a small (twelve or fewer members is recommended) financial action club formed by people who know and trust each other and who choose to “conspire” to help each other use Solari tools and strategies (See Positioning Your Assets for Growth in Uncertain Times, as well as other Solari ...
  • Solari Report - Singapore Banking
    By Carolyn A. Betts, Esq. Banks and finance companies licensed in Singapore are supervised by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (“MAS”). MAS is charged with ensuring the stability of the banking system in Singapore and requiring financial institutions to have sound risk management systems and ade ...
  • 1950s Sandwich Menu from Woolworth’s
    Note the complete lack of any mention of hamburger!!! Our Generation’s Fast Food. If any of you have doubt about what we kids paid for a coke and a sandwich at Woolworth’s (how many kids now days don’t know what Woolworth’s was?) in the 1950’s, here’s proof of the era we lived in. . . And [...]
  • Community Call to Prayer
    “Morning” By Maxfield Parrish To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees. ~ Billy Graham Everyone is welcome to join this weekly fifteen-minute Thursday gathering, live on the conference line or from wherever you are. 10 a.m. Pacific / 11 a.m. Mountain / 12 noon Central ...
  • Republican Brown Wins Senate Seat
    Republican Scott Brown has won the Massachusetts Senate seat held for nearly a half-century by Democrat Edward Kennedy. Brown’s victory in the special election gives Senate Republicans the 41st vote they need to block legislation favored by majority Democrats and President Barack Obama. Striving fo ...

Global Insights

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

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

  • Breastfeeding 'not key to clever kids'
    Breastfeeding does not make children more intelligent, according to new research funded by the Food Standards Agency (FSA).
  • Online visitors to explore Stonehenge
    Historical landmarks such as Stonehenge can now be explored from the comfort of a living room chair, as Google's Street View mapping service adds the UK's most famous sites to its database. More than 20 castles, country houses and landscapes were scanned with a panoramic camera on the back of an 18 ...
  • Coca-Cola powered mobile phones?
    Central St Martin’s graduate, Daizi Zheng, came up with a unique concept in her final year project: a mobile phone powered by Coca-Cola.
  • Weird & Wonderful: Tiny tiger, big price
    The bible proclaims, “It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.” The world’s tiniest sculpted tiger would pop through the head of a needle with no problem, yet costing £58,000, it would take a rich man to buy it.
  • NHS Constitution becomes law
    All NHS organisations are now legally obliged to take account of the rights and pledges outlined in the NHS Constitution , which came into force on the 19th of January.

Fabius Maximus

  • FM newswire for 21 January, articles for your morn ...
    Today’s links to interesting news and analysis… An important comment about our psychology, explaining in part the increased fear of terrorism since 9/11:  “Recency Effects in Geology & Financial Markets“, Paul Kedrosky, Infectious Greed, 1 October 2009 — The studies to which he links are also ...
  • Where is the outer boundary of our military operat ...
    A major theme of this website is that we are destroying ourselves though hubris.   We see so many of the world’s problems as calls for US military intervention.  Inevitably either this will bankrupt us, or we’ll buy into a conflict with ruinous consequences.  This open-ended lust to play globa ...
  • FM newswire for 20 January, articles for your morn ...
    Today’s links to interesting news and analysis… At last some Americans get smart:  “Walk Away From Your Mortgage!“, Roger Lowenstein, NY Times Magazine, 10 January 2010 Important not just for China, but for us as well:  “Is Inflation Stalking China? — or Crouching Stimulus, Hidden Inflatio ...
  • Iran will have the bomb in 5 years (again)
    Summary:  We see another round of news about Iran getting the bomb.  Just as they would have the bomb in a few years — ever since 1992.  Of course, all these threats to bomb Iran probably only increase their interest in getting the bomb.  A perfect example of American geopolitical strategy, ensu ...
  • FM newswire for 19 January, hot articles for your ...
    Today’s links to interesting news and analysis… Disturbing news:  “The Guantánamo ‘Suicides’: A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle“, Scott Horton, Harpers, January 2010 New Scientist’s Editors ask IPCC for explanation of their egregious error about melting of the Himalayan glaciers: ”Si ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Air Traffic Delays Cost U.S. More Than Hurricanes
    ATLANTA — Air traffic delays are more than just annoying: On average, they probably cost the U.S. economy more than hurricanes do. Most media reports focus on extended delays that leave passengers stranded in airports for days or trapped on the tarmac for hours, said Bob Maxson, director of the Nat ...
  • Google Releases New High-Res Satellite Images of H ...
    Join Reddit’s Haiti relief fundraising drive with Direct Relief International. Google has released new, higher-resolution satellite images of the  Port-au-Prince area of Haiti that was devastated by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake on Jan. 12. The new impressively detailed photos were taken on Sunday, ...
  • Glowing Hydrogen Highlights Cat’s Paw Nebula
    Glowing hydrogen lights up this new portrait of the Cat’s Paw Nebula captured by the Wide Field Imager at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. The space photo combines images taken with standard red, green and blue filters with those taken through a special filter designed to capture the red light of ...
  • Stereo Speakers Can Levitate Dust for Mars Colonis ...
    Using the vibration from a stereo speaker to levitate dust off of surfaces may one day help keep colonies up and running on Mars and the Moon. Blasting a high-pitched noise from a tweeter into a pipe that focuses the sound waves can create enough pressure to lift troublesome alien dust off surfaces ...
  • Deep-Sea Snail Shell Could Inspire Better Body Arm ...
    A deep-sea snail wears a multi-layered suit of armor, complete with iron, new research shows. Dissecting details of the shell’s structure could inspire tough new materials for use in everything from body armor to scratch-free paint. “If you look at the individual properties of the bits and pieces t ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Torture and the Un-American Treatment of Detainees
    Adam Serwer’s recounting of Scott Horton’s must-read article on the suspicious case of the Gitmo “suicides” touches on some subjects worth exploring further: According to Horton, who secures the on-the-record observations of Guantanamo prison guard Joe Hickman, the three men may have been killed at ...
  • What to Worry About in 2010
    With 2009 and its year-end Top 10 lists comfortably packed away, the Carnegie Council held an event last week to usher in the New Year with a list of what to worry about in 2010. Panelists included Eurasia Group president -- and WPR contributor -- Ian Bremmer; the executive director of the U.N. Glob ...
  • Crisis in Iran Transforms Student Life in Universi ...
    TEHRAN —The June 12, 2009, election in Iran allowed students to participate in another social and political event and show their presence. Twelve years earlier, students had been able to persuade the masses to elect the anti-establishment candidate, the reformist Mohammad Khatami. But the students s ...
  • Four Horsemen Rebuff Senator Kyl on Arms Control
    The “four horsemen” were back today. Former Secretaries of State George Schultz (Reagan) and Henry Kissinger (Nixon and Ford), former Secretary of Defense Bill Perry (Clinton), and former Senator Sam Nunn (Sen. D-GA) have an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal reaffirming their past calls to eliminate ...
  • Haiti and Foreign Aid Critics
    Apparently there’s a strand of rightwinger out there ideological enough to actually oppose efforts at helping Haiti. Personally, that just sounds bizarre. But apparently they’re in touch with Tyler Cowen and he has an excellent reply : Imagine U.S. troops liberating Buchenwald. Would any commentator ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: Ungovernable America Now Has a Po ...
    The dust had barely settled in Massachusetts before the cowards of the U.S. Senate announced their legislative plan for 2010: do absolutely nothing. Evan Bayh is worried that the Democratic party has moved too far to the left. Jim Webb wants the health care debate to be suspended until Scott Brown ...
  • Haiti Should Just Stop Being Poor.
    Jonah Golberg has a great idea for how best to help Haiti. So stop your measly text donations now and give Haiti some "tough love." Golberg doesn't spell out a tough love prescription, but it must have something to do with correcting the lack of work ethic he sees in Haiti's "poverty culture." Even ...
  • Gude: Military Commissions Are "Soft On Terrorism" ...
    Via Spencer Ackerman , Ken Gude has an excellent new piece pushing back on conservative myths surrounding the use of military commissions, in particular the notion that trying terrorists by military commission magically results in better evidence collection. As I've written before, while civilian co ...
  • The Consumer Financial Protection Agency, After Br ...
    Ever since last week's Wall Street Journal story on Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd's willingness to compromise on the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, reformers have been up in arms warning Democrats that the CFPA shouldn't be dropped. This is perhaps best exemplified by a lette ...
  • 60 Was the Loneliest Number.
    Mark Schmitt on why the "filibuster-proof majority" was always an illusion : Sixty votes not only put Lieberman and Nelson in charge, it meant that every little twist and turn in political life became the difference between total policy deadlock and historically breathtaking progress. A butterfly f ...

Andy Worthington

  • Dark Revelations in the Bagram Prisoner List
    On Friday, the ACLU secured a significant victory in its campaign to secure information about the prisoners held in the US prison at Bagram airbase, Afghanistan (known as the Bagram Theater Internment Facility), when the Pentagon released a list of the names of the 645 prisoners who were held on Sep ...
  • In the Guardian: Compensation for control orders i ...
    For the Guardian’s Comment is free, “Compensation for control orders is a distraction” is an article I wrote examining yesterday’s High Court ruling, in which a judge quashed two control orders — a form of house arrest in operation since March 2005 — and indicated that the men affected, who ...
  • Obama’s Countdown to Failure on Guantánamo
    Barring some frankly unattainable miracle, this will be the week that President Obama’s international credibility, regarding his promises to undo the Bush administration’s “War on Terror” detention policies, takes a nosedive. The President began well, freezing the much-criticized Military Commission ...
  • Murders at Guantánamo: Scott Horton of Harper’s Ex ...
    It’s hard to know where to begin with this profoundly important story by Scott Horton, for next month’s Harper’s Magazine (available on the web here), but let’s try this: The three “suicides” at Guantánamo in June 2006 were not suicides at all. The men in question were killed during interrogations i ...
  • BBC Interviews Matthew J. Olsen, the Head of Obama ...
    On a car journey to one of the “secure locations” where a Review Panel meets on a weekly basis to examine recommendations made by the Guantánamo Review Task Force — charged with deciding what to do with the remaining prisoners at Guantánamo — the BBC’s Jon Manel spoke to Matthew G. Olsen, th ...

Buzzflash

  • The Occam’s razor of blunt Democratic politics
    Body Alarms, bells, sirens, whistles and buzzers are going off in every “D” Congressional office this week, accompanied by frenzied aggregations of political consultants and palsied pollsters and media gurus and crystal ballers and tea leaf-readers of the decidedly non-Tea Partying speci ...
  • Guantánamo Becomes Obama's Prison as He Carries th ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Meg White Much like the war in Afghanistan became "Obama's war" after he decided upon a surge strategy, so too has the detention center at Guantánamo Bay become a part of President Obama's legacy. The reasoning behind that has little or nothing to do with the fact that he ...
  • BuzzFlash Mailbag for January 19, 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: Scott Brown Suggests Obama ...
  • Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for January 19, 2 ...
    BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZFLASH MINUTE "Your Dose of Naked Senate Candidate: The Scott Brown Spread" A Repuglican can be forgiven all things including public nudity and exhibitionism if he proclaims to one and all, "I believe, I believe, I do believe"! The Repuglican masses will be forgiving of all things ...
  • Coming Sooner Than Many Thought To Republicans Acr ...
    The GOP party Will be replaced by The Tea Party.

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • It's the fault of the all-powerful Left
    (updated below) I have a contribution this morning to the New York Times examining the Scott Brown victory, and I'll post the link to it once it's up.  But for the moment, I want to address two equally moronic themes emerging over the last couple of days which seek to blame the omnipotent, do ...
  • The crime of not "Looking Backward"
    In early December, a report from Seton Hall University cast serious doubt on the government's claims regarding the alleged simultaneous "suicides" of three Guantanamo detainees in June, 2006.  I wrote about that report here .  Yesterday, Harper 's Scott Horton published an extraordinary new article ...
  • Public opinion merits "the profoundest respect"
    In his New York Times column today , David Brooks (as he so often does) recites emerging conventional Washington wisdom, demanding that Democrats abandon health care reform if the Republicans today win the Massachusetts Senate seat: Many Democrats, as always, are caught in their insular liberal ...
  • Congress takes a bold stand against surveillance a ...
    Fixating on and condemning abuses of other countries is one of the greatest weapons the U.S. Government wields for distracting attention away from its own transgressions:  like those gossip-obsessed individuals endlessly mucking around in and passing judgment on the personal lives of others as a me ...
  • Krugman, Gruber and non-disclosure issues
    In the midst of my lengthy discussion yesterday of Cass Sunstein's proposal to "cognitively inflitrate extremist groups" by employing covert agents and secretly paying so-called "independent" analysts to tout the government line, I noted the recent controversy surrounding MIT Professor Jonathan Gru ...

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Indian urban wetland heavy metal
    A study of heavy metal contaminants in the urban lakes of India, particularly around Bangalore have revealed that attempts at mitigation meant to remove these pollutants have not so far worked and may not be a long-term remedy for the problem. I’ve provided more detail on the analysis in the Atomic ...
  • Alcoholic drug discovery truths
    As with much of medical science, the appearance of a fascinating research paper and an accompanying press release do not usually mean that a new pharmaceutical intervention, a medicine, is ready to be prescribed to patients on the very day that the paper appears. The drug discovery, research, and t ...
  • Chemophobia and risk
    As a chemist by training, I’ve always been loath to give credence to unfounded criticism of synthetic chemicals that might stoke up chemophobia. Indeed, on several occasions I have written about how our bodies have evolved to cope with all kinds of chemicals regardless of whether they are synthetic ...
  • Intute Hot Topics
    My latest news round up on the Intute website is now live: Getting a grip on catalytic troublemakers, detecting toxic compounds in chlorinated water, and a trip to the Martian lake district. Related Posts:Moon, Earthquakes, Chemical WeaponsBasic Chemistry ResourcesIntute hot topics in physical ...
  • Scientists torn between cash and kudos
    With ailing banks propped up by billions in taxpayers’ money and nations rolling through the mud of economic recession is it any surprise that we get mightily frustrated to hear of their enormous bonuses and golden pension pots? Of course not… But, here’s a thought… As the lines drawn between com ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • New Global Education Fund Needed for 72 Million Ch ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 19, 2010 Oxfam International International efforts to provide universal basic education in the poorest countries are now failing because of poor governance of the world’s education financing body and lack of investment by donors. read more
  • As Congress Debates Abortion Coverage in Health-Ca ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 19, 2010 NARAL Pro-Choice America NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation today released the 19th edition of Who Decides? The Status of Women's Reproductive Rights in the United States, the nation's most comprehensive report on choice-related legislation and court decisions ...
  • Health Practitioners Mobilize to Provide Urgent Se ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 19, 2010 MADRE Nearly a week after the massive earthquake struck Haiti, the need for life-saving medical services is overwhelming.  Casualty estimates have risen, now reflecting a death toll of 200,000, and the number of injured and homeless is in the millions. read mor ...
  • Center for Biological Diversity Report Card Gives ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 19, 2010 Center for Biological Diversity The Center for Biological Diversity today gave the Obama administration a grade of "C" for its handling of endangered species, climate, energy, public lands and oceans during its first year in office.  While the Obama administrat ...
  • Factcheck: Contrarians Attack IPCC Over Glacier Fi ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 19, 2010 Union of Concerned Scientists Climate contrarians are inflating the importance of an erroneous reference to Himalayan glaciers in a 2007 U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report to attack the scientific body and its chairman, Rajendra Pachau ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • The Guantánamo ‘Suicides': The Official Response B ...
    by Scott Horton When a cover-up is exposed, nothing is more telling than the first reactions from those who are involved. Do they maintain their stories and face potentially aggravated consequences? Or do they simply remain silent? In making this choice, they often telegraph the depth of their anxie ...
  • Tough Minds and Tender Hearts
    by Kathy Kelly I spent Martin Luther King, Jr's birthday in Washington, D.C. as part of the Witness Against Torture fast, which campaigns to end all forms of torture and has worked steadily for an end to indefinite detention of people imprisoned in Guantanamo, Bagram, and other secret sites where th ...
  • Copenhangover: Rallying for Next Steps
    by Bill McKibben Depending on how you look at it, the Copenhagen climate talks ended either in ignominious failure, or vanilla failure, or just-about-but-not-quite-that-bad failure. The Swedes: a "disaster." UK leader Gordon Brown : "at best flawed, at worst chaotic." The financial markets, when the ...
  • Dear President Obama: Time to Stop Letting Corpora ...
    by Jane Hamsher When Max Baucus unveiled an early version of the Senate bill in September, an ex-WellPoint VP named Liz Fowler was listed as the author . Only a few weeks earlier, the Huffington Post exposed the sweetheart deal negotiated between the White House and PhRMA in exchange for $150 milli ...
  • Prosecutor Should Investigate Questionable Gitmo S ...
    St. Louis Post-Dispatch Top national security and intelligence officials from President Barack Obama on down are examining closely the communications lapses that contributed to the shootings at Fort Hood by U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Hasan last November and the near catastrophe aboard a Detroit-bound airl ...

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Labour accused of secret plan to shut embassies
    Tories say Foreign Office memo shows officials have been ordered to work up plans for cuts due to falling value of pound The government is said to be drawing up a secret hit list of embassies to be closed as the effects of the sharp fall in the pound on Britain's spending plans abroad are felt. Davi ...
  • Jack Straw at the Iraq inquiry – live
    Follow the action as the former foreign secretary - and current justice secretary - becomes the first serving cabinet minister to give evidence to the Chilcot panel 2.26pm: In the hearing, Straw has criticised George Bush's decision to link Iran, Iraq and North Korea in the axis of evil speech. That ...
  • Goldman Sachs bonuses cut to $16bn
    Average bonus at Goldman Sachs cut from $600,000 to $500,000 The Wall Street bank Goldman Sachs has set aside $16.19bn (£10bn) to pay its employees for the year, amounting to an average of $498,000 per person, in a ­payout significantly lower than expected yet still likely to be sufficient to inflam ...
  • Crime drops 8% despite recession
    Murder rate in England and Wales at 20-year low with falls in burglary, robbery and violence in the 12 months to September There was an unexpected 8% drop in crime recorded by the police in the 12 months to September with falls in burglary, robbery and violence despite the recession, according to th ...
  • Sky ordered to sell down ITV stake
    Satellite broadcaster BSkyB must sell down its stake in ITV from 17.9% to less than 7.5%, court of appeal rules Timeline: Sky's ITV stake The court of appeal today ordered BSkyB to sell down its 17.9% stake in ITV. Today the three court of appeal judges, Lord Justice Rix, Lord Justice Lloyd and Mr ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • The attack of the killer everything
    About two decades ago, the world's frog experts realised they were characters in the opening chapter of a detective novel. It wasn't so much a whodunnit as a wotisdoinit - killing, that is, frogs and salamanders in different parts of the world at a rate that merited the description "dramatic" . Th ...
  • Back to school on biodiversity
    I'm spending part of this week at biodiversity school. Not any ordinary school, mind, but Britain's Royal Society . This week it hosts a conference with the somewhat arcane title Integrating Ecosystem Services into Biodiversity Management - which doubles as the triennial conference of the InterAca ...
  • Conservation contemplates the pre-emptive strike
    Among those who work on and care about the preservation of nature's plants and animals, the word "endangered" is an absolute touchstone. Endangered species will in general have more conservation resources devoted to them. There may be political or community or scientific action aimed at saving them ...
  • Arctic roots of 'upside-down' weather
    It's cold in Kirkcaldy , freezing in Frankfurt and brass monkeys in Bryn Mawr... a winter spell with weather that's unusually - well - wintry. But not everywhere; in fact, other places in the Northern Hemisphere are seeing weather that's unseasonably warm. In Goose Bay in Newfoundland, it's barely ...
  • 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 ...

Afghanistan Sun

  • Gates in Pakistan to discuss US Afghan strategy
    Islamabad, Jan 21 (DPA) US Defence Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Pakistan Thursday for talks likely to focus on the new US strategy in neighbouring Afghanistan.
  • Pak likely to walk out of Afghan summit over India ...
    Islamabad, Jan.21 : Pakistan is likely to walk out from the forthcoming summit on Afghanistan, scheduled to be held in London on January 28, in protest against India being touted to play a greater role in Afghanistan by the West.
  • Gates in Pakistan seeking action on Afghan Taliban
    ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates made an unannounced trip to Pakistan on Thursday hoping to deepen ties and persuade the nuclear-armed U.S. ally to root out all militants, inc...
  • Gates to discuss Afghanistan war with Pakistanis
    U.S. Marine Captain Eric Meador from Laurel, Mississippi of the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, RCT 2nd Battalion 8th Marines Echo Co. takes up a fighting position during the start of Operation Khan...
  • NATO planning civilian boss in Afghan
    London , where Afghan and international officials will map plans to shore up the Afghan government as the U.S. and its allies rush 37,000 more troops here to confront the

Futurismic

  • Amazon, ebooks and piracy – tipping points ahoy?
    Sticking with the piracy theme for a moment (yeah, I know, so out of character, right?), here’s an article at TechRadar that features an interview with one George Walkley, head of digital developments for publishers Hachette UK, talking about ways in which the publishing industry has tried to learn ...
  • The Product Bay – piracy goes 3D
    Well, it was bound to happen – hell, Sven’s been writing columns that skirt around the idea for ages. Here’s the lowdown: 3D printing is maturing quickly, and 3D scanning isn’t far behind, meaning that material objects can be stored and transmitted as digital data. Digital data can be shared in many ...
  • The Free Freeways
    Excerpts from “Asphalt Veins – The Freeway States” Published in NEWStream and syndicated to all ReutAssoc membersites (retrieved December 21 2012 @ 13:34). photo credit: mallix It was no great surprise when the highways seceded. A decade of inadequate funding, a Federal system collapsed in all but ...
  • The uncanny evolution of Moscow’s stray dogs
    Staying in the Russian capital for another post, here’s a fascinating article at the Financial Times about Moscow’s legendary population of stray dogs, and about the man who has been studying them [via MetaFilter; image by Adam Baker]. Muscovites have a close relationship with dogs, and the city is ...
  • Billboard hacking hits Moscow
    Back in the final gasps of last year, I mentioned that I fully expected to see the new breed of digital billboards become a target for hackers and adbusters, much as they are in Lauren Beukes’ gritty Cape Town post-cyberpunk novel Moxyland. However, I didn’t expect to see it quite so soon as this; t ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Defense and the National Interest

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

Digital Journal

  • NBA 76er's Samuel Dalembert Visited Earthquake-tor ...
    Haitian-Canadian NBA 76ers basketball star Samuel Dalembert visited his home country with former NBA player Alonso Mourning to see for himself the extent of devastation in the capital city and pledged to give $100,000 to the earthquake victims
  • U.S. condemns two arson attacks on historic synago ...
    An ancient, but very small community of Jews living on the Greek Island of Crete were working hard to restore damage done by an arsonist on January 5 to the historic synagogue known as Etz-Hayyim. Now, a second attack has destroyed 2,000 precious books.
  • Taiwan man dies from brain haemorrhage after watch ...
    A 42-year-old Taiwanese man has died from over-excitement after watching the blockbuster epic motion picture "Avatar." This is the first death linked to the 3D movie as many audience members have reported symptoms of depression and suicidal thoughts.
  • Rwanda's 1994 genocide and 2010 election
    The memory, consequence, and disputed histories of the 1994 Rwanda Genocide, loom large in Rwanda's memory. Whether openly discussed or not, they will hugely influence the nation's 2010 national election.
  • Fatal four-vehicle crash on Alex Fraser Bridge in ...
    A stalled car on the high-traffic Alex Fraser Bridge started a chain reaction accident that left two vehicles in flames and killed the driver of one. In all, four vehicles were involved creating traffic chaos for motorists heading home from work.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Boulder City Council Heeds Call for No-Camping Mor ...
    Yesterday, End Homelessness blogger Noah Jennings asked for your help in defeating a Boulder, Colorado ordinance that fines homeless people for sleeping outdoors in a city without enough shelter beds. You delivered. Boulder Mayor Susan Osborne told Change.org yesterday -- just hours after the call t ...
  • Panhandling in Chicago
    There was so much noise on Chicago's Michigan Avenue Bridge that I didn't notice Reggie was asleep. I felt bad. I should have remembered when I was homeless. Sleep came when I felt safe, or when I was so exhausted I collapsed. Rarely did sleep happen at night. Rarely did I rest when I was alone and ...
  • Don't Let Boulder Criminalize the Homeless Any Lon ...
    Terri Sternburg is a whiz at poker, loves a good novel and has a soft spot for every cat and dog she comes across. Once a concert violinist, she's someone I'd love to have as godmother to my children, a wise woman in her 50s that I'm happy to call a friend and an ally. She's also homeless and strugg ...
  • The Volunteer You Turned Away
    I honestly believe that today more than ever, people genuinely want to get involved in the fight to end homelessness. After CNN profiled me and my work , I received lots of e-mails from people wanting to help. As always, I suggested they support their local homeless services. I also gave the disclai ...
  • Marching to Protect Homeless Women
    Contributor Israel Bayer is reporting all week about the homeless advocacy protest in San Francisco on January 20. Bayer is the director of Street Roots , a street newspaper in Portland, and a member of the board of the Western Regional Advocacy Project . What makes the action in San Francisco on J ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Military budget facing more “adjustments”
    David Pugliese reports that the Department of National Defence is facing another $233 million in budget “adjustments” by the end of March.  However, like the $190 million in “adjustments” reported earlier, the money DND plans to save will not be removed from the overall military budget. Instead, it ...
  • U.S. sights carry New Testament Jesus references
    From the Shooting-Ourselves-in-the-Foot Department: U.S. Military Weapons Inscribed With Secret ‘Jesus’ Bible Codes Pentagon Supplier for Rifle Sights Says It Has ‘Always’ Added New Testament References By JOSEPH RHEE, TAHMAN BRADLEY and BRIAN ROSS Coded references to New Testament Bible passages ab ...
  • Canadians support humanitarian aid/peacekeeping
    The earthquake in Haiti this week has created a humanitarian disaster, with ten of thousands of people killed or injured and millions requiring assistance. Canada and other countries around the world are scrambling to provide emergency aid. The federal government has already donated $5 million to em ...
  • Civilian deaths increase in Afghanistan
    According to the United Nations, 2009 was the deadliest year for civilians in Afghanistan since the ouster of the Taliban government in 2001. The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan’s Annual Report on Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict, 2009 reports that at least 2412 Afghan civi ...
  • Canadians see climate change as greater threat tha ...
    According to a recent poll, Canadians are much more likely to view climate change as a “critical threat” to Canada’s “vital interests” than international terrorism. Commissioned by the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI) and conducted by the Innovative Research Group Inc., t ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Paul Nison - Raw Foods Chef & Author
    Click the picture or link below to hear Kevin’s interview with raw foods chef and author, Paul Nison and click here to purchase his new book, The Daylight Diet: Divine Eating for Superior Health and Digestion.    Paul Nison 01/20/10
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 1-20-10
    Today, Kevin delves deep into the healthcare bill and shows you how the government is trying to control every aspect of your life. And get the stories you aren’t hearing anywhere else!! Fecal Matter Found In Fast-Food Soda Fountains Artificial Food Dye Causes Cancer Window Cleaning Chemical Injecte ...
  • “Smoked” Flavor Food Concerns
    January 8, 2010 BBC News The authority looked at 11 smoke flavourings commonly used in the European Union. It says several of the flavourings are dangerously close to levels which may cause harm to humans. The European Commission will now establish a list of smoke-flavouring products that are safe f ...
  • Window Cleaning Chemical Injected Into Fast Food M ...
    January 5, 2010 Natural News By Mike Adams If you’re in the beef business, what do you do with all the extra cow parts and trimmings that have traditionally been sold off for use in pet food? You scrape them together into a pink mass, inject them with a chemical to kill the e.coli, and sell them to ...
  • Johnson & Johnson Skim Cream Ad Banned After Makeu ...
    January 6, 2010 The Guardian By Mark Sweney A TV campaign for a face cream that promised to make skin look blemish-free has been banned by the advertising watchdog because the “after” shots were achieved using makeup. The television campaign, for Johnson & Johnson, promoted the company’s Clean and C ...

Pambazuka News

  • US: System owes Troy Davis another day in court
    It is wrong to execute an innocent man. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit will now consider whether it is constitutional. Troy Anthony Davis, convicted of murder, is asking the courts to hear evidence that key government witnesses have r...
  • Caribbean: Civil society demands Haiti debt cancel ...
    Organizations representing Caribbean civil society organizations and social movements have written to G8 finance ministers, the World Bank, and the IMF, to demand an immediate and unconditional cancellation of Haiti's external debt....
  • USA: Uhuru movement endorses McKinney/Clemente tic ...
    The International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) has endorsed the McKinney/Clemente ticket in the U.S. presidential race. The endorsement was based on the support that Green Party V.P. candidate Rosa Clemente’s expressed for InPDUM’s “Re...
  • Haiti: Women and girls require life-saving assista ...
    More than 800,000 people are in dire need of humanitarian assistance in Haiti in the wake of hurricanes Fay and Gustav and tropical storm Hanna. Houses, medical facilities, main roads and bridges have been destroyed, and an estimated 100,000 people h...
  • Haiti: Lula visit prompts protests in Brazil, Mex ...
    Demonstrators in many Brazilian cities and San Francisco denounced Brazil's brutal 4-year military occupation of Haiti -- on the occasion of the May 28th visit to Haiti by Brazilian President Luiz Lula da Silva, marking the 4th anniversary of the arr...

War in Context

  • Obama’s lost senate seat is a victory for Netanyah ...
    Obama’s lost senate seat is a victory for Netanyahu By Aluf Benn, Haaretz, January 20, 2010 The Republican upset in the race for the U.S. Senate seat held for nearly half a century by liberal Edward M. Kennedy reflects a huge victory for opponents of U.S. President Barack Obama - and also for Prime ...
  • Aftershock hits Haiti; U.S. troops guard convoys i ...
    Aftershock hits Haiti; U.S. troops guard convoys in Port-au-Prince By William Booth and Scott Wilson, Washington Post, January 20, 2010 A massive aftershock jolted awake thousands of earthquake victims and relief workers in this ravaged capital early Wednesday, sparking new cries of fear and sorrow ...
  • The crime of not “looking backward”
    The crime of not “looking backward” By Glenn Greenwald, Salon, January 19, 2010 The single biggest lie in War on Terror revisionist history is that our torture was confined only to a handful of “high-value” prisoners. New credible reports of torture continuously emerge. That’s because America impl ...
  • Israel’s effort to silence political protest
    Israel deports US journalist By Rory McCarthy, The Guardian, January 20, 2010 Israeli authorities today deported an American journalist who was working as an editor for a Palestinian news agency. Jared Malsin, who is Jewish and in his late 20s, was detained at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport eight day ...
  • New wave of warlords bedevils U.S.
    New wave of warlords bedevils U.S. By Matthew Rosenberg, Wall Street Journal, January 18, 2010 In his teen years, Sirajuddin Haqqani was known among friends as a dandy. He cared more about the look of his thick black hair than the battles his father, a mujahideen warlord in the 1980s, was waging wit ...

Watts Up With That?

  • U.N. abandons Copenhagen deadline – countrie ...
    The COP15 balloon appears to have lost all it’s air. Nobody’s signing up. Excerpts from reports in the Guardian and the Financial Times From the Guardian Copenhagen deal falters as just 20 countries of 192 sign up to declare their global warming strategies The UN has dropped the 31 January deadline ...
  • NASA GISS a temperature outlier again – this ...
    Bob Tisdale shows us that GISS is once again, “way out there” in 2009 compared to other global temperature data sets. It is not surprising, we’ve come to expect it. Was 2009 The Warmest Year On Record In The Southern Hemisphere? Guest Post by Bob Tisdale After reading Roger Pielke Sr’s post Reali ...
  • IPCC admits error on Himalayan glacier melt fiasco
    But…there’s that word again, “robust” used in the context of error admission. Now all we need is an apology from Chairman Dr. Rajenda Pachauri for statements that claims that this error existed were “arrogant” and “voodoo science“. Will he give one? His track record suggests it is doubtful. UPDATE: ...
  • NASA to hold live web briefing on the SDO mission ...
    WUWT readers may want to watch this webcast. From a media advisory – NASA to Hold Briefing on Advanced Mission to Study Our Sun WASHINGTON — NASA is scheduled to host a briefing at 1 p.m. EST, on Thursday, Jan. 21, to discuss the upcoming launch and science of an unprecedented mission to study the ...
  • Scripps Institution of Oceanography cheapens itsel ...
    Well, now there will never be any question about whether Scripps is political or not. They even made up a graphic to go with the story here. When a prominent scientific organization allows a member to resort to name calling on an issue in an official communications on their website, it cheapens the ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Is a Run on the Dollar Starting Soon? by Richard C ...
    by Richard C. Cook Featured Writer Dandelion Salad richardccook.com January 19, 2010 In response to a question from a reader I sent this out today: Yes, I think a run on the dollar is coming. A lot of people are saying this, including a man named Dmitri Orlov who recently came out with a book en ...
  • And on the Eighth Day… By William Bowles
    By William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Creative-i 19 January, 2010 The Americans have landed, or as they used to say of the GIs in the UK during WWII, ‘they’re overfed, over sexed and over here’. So now, in spite of protestations that air-dropping supplies would cause a riot, on the ...
  • Turning ‘Combat Casualties’ into ‘Victims’ & Vice ...
    by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad originally published by Boiling Frogs Post 19 January 2010 Curious Terminology Game in the US Media Last Friday as I was searching the headlines for noteworthy and interesting news articles I came across a fairly lengthy and detailed story on Huma ...
  • Amy Goodman: Haiti is Shaken to the Core
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Democracy Now! Jan. 19, 2010 MP3 Download Real Video Stream Doctor: Misinformation and Racism Have Frozen Recovery Effort at General Hospital in Port Au Prince “There are no security issues,” says Dr. Evan Lyon of Partners in Health reports from the General Ho ...
  • Haiti: MSF taking care of patients in Pacot Hospit ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ msfuk January 19, 2010 On January 12th a major earthquake, measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale, struck Haiti. Despite two MSF hospitals collapsed and many local staff missing, MSF teams are already working in Port au Prince, providing immediate medical assistanc ...

Your New Reality

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    2009 : The Your New Reality Year In Review Here's a roundup of the more unusual and/or less known stories I've written about or linked to on this blog through 2009, with a couple of essays thrown in. The 'Best Of' January/February 2009 (in no particular order) : "I'm A Missile, I'm Here To Kill Y ...
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    Afghanistan : "International Forces" Handcuffed Then Executed Children An extraordinary series of claims leveled at western military forces in Afghanistan that have received a suspiciously thin amount of mainstream media coverage. News of the massacre was no doubt overshadowed by the priority of c ...
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    Paywalls Will Dry Out The News Junkies By Darryl Mason Here are 16 stories I've now got open in various windows and tabs. I intend to read them all, but there doesn't seem to be enough time to soak it all up, so much fresh news and information flooding in, constantly, sometimes feel stressed when ...
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    So Many Holocausts.... George Monbiot has a read of David Stannard's American Holocaust : (the book) ­documents the greatest acts of genocide the world has ever experienced . In 1492, some 100 million native people lived in the Americas. By the end of the 19th century almost all of them had been e ...

Wired - Science

  • Air Traffic Delays Cost U.S. More Than Hurricanes
    ATLANTA — Air traffic delays are more than just annoying: On average, they probably cost the U.S. economy more than hurricanes do. Most media reports focus on extended delays that leave passengers stranded in airports for days or trapped on the tarmac for hours, said Bob Maxson, director of the Nat ...
  • Google Releases New High-Res Satellite Images of H ...
    Join Reddit’s Haiti relief fundraising drive with Direct Relief International. Google has released new, higher-resolution satellite images of the  Port-au-Prince area of Haiti that was devastated by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake on Jan. 12. The new impressively detailed photos were taken on Sunday, ...
  • Glowing Hydrogen Highlights Cat’s Paw Nebula
    Glowing hydrogen lights up this new portrait of the Cat’s Paw Nebula captured by the Wide Field Imager at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. The space photo combines images taken with standard red, green and blue filters with those taken through a special filter designed to capture the red light of ...
  • Stereo Speakers Can Levitate Dust for Mars Colonis ...
    Using the vibration from a stereo speaker to levitate dust off of surfaces may one day help keep colonies up and running on Mars and the Moon. Blasting a high-pitched noise from a tweeter into a pipe that focuses the sound waves can create enough pressure to lift troublesome alien dust off surfaces ...
  • Deep-Sea Snail Shell Could Inspire Better Body Arm ...
    A deep-sea snail wears a multi-layered suit of armor, complete with iron, new research shows. Dissecting details of the shell’s structure could inspire tough new materials for use in everything from body armor to scratch-free paint. “If you look at the individual properties of the bits and pieces t ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Netanyahu: Israel to remain on eastern border of P ...
    Israel will maintain a security presence along the eastern border of a future Palestinian state in order to prevent weapons smuggling, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday. IOA... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  • Sari Nusseibeh: A Palestinian State Has Become Imp ...
    [I]n 1948, the Israelis wanted to create a state without Palestinians, and they almost succeeded in driving them out. In 1967, their victory reunited the refugees with those who had remained in... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  • Swimming Through Sewers In Search Of Freedom
    Keeping culture alive in a conflict zone is a daunting challenge. The Israeli Occupation involves not only the destruction of Palestine as a political entity, but the dissolution of its social and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
  • Muslim cemetery in West Bank vandalized hours afte ...
    The discovery was made hours after Israel Defense Forces soldiers, ultra-Orthodox Jews, and Israeli settlers were seen entering the cemetery... Israelis are forbidden from entering Awarta, although... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
  • Left warns of global boycott over Ariel U
    MK Ahmad Tibi: "Barak continues to permit the infestation of settlements and surrender to Lieberman and Yisrael Beiteinu. Barak's decision will only spur the academic boycott of Israel in the world.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

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NewsWise

  • Simple Steps Prevent Life-Threatening Bloodstream ...
    Pediatric hospitals can significantly decrease the number of bloodstream infections from central venous catheters by following some low-tech rules: Insert the catheter correctly and, above all, keep everything squeaky clean after that.
  • National Leaders in Heart Transplantation and Hear ...
    The California Heart Center, the cardiology group that developed the nation's largest heart transplant program, has joined the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute and Cedars-Sinai Medical Care Foundation.
  • Leading Index for Indiana Continues "Unenergetic C ...
    While the Leading Index for Indiana (LII) for December continues "its unenergetic climb," for the first time since its release in October of last year, the state economic indicator was higher than it was a year earlier.
  • Stain Repellent Chemical Linked to Thyroid Disease ...
    A study published 21 January 2010 ahead of print in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) for the first time links thyroid disease with human exposure to perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), a persistent organic chemical used in industrial and consumer goods, including nonstick ...
  • Unwanted Guests: How Herpes Simplex Virus Gets Rid ...
    A viral infection is like an uninvited, tenacious houseguest in the cell, using a range of tricks to prevent its eviction. Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have identified one of the key proteins allowing herpes simplex virus (HSV) DNA to fly under the radar of their hosts' i ...

Intel Trends

  • AFGHANISTAN: U.S. Troop Surge Likely To Fuel Finan ...
    The following article is from EurasiaNet. The author is a Bishkek-based reporter specializing in Central Asian affairs. AFGHANISTAN:  U.S. Troop Surge Likely To Fuel Financial Bonanza For Central Asian States ©   EurasiaNet By Deirdre Tynan January 20, 2010 The U.S. troop surge for Afghanistan s ...
  • Rebellion more dangerous for Yemen than al Qaeda: ...
    The following article is from Yemen News Agency (SABA), Sana'a. Rebellion more dangerous for Yemen than al Qaeda: Mustafa ©   SABA January 20, 2010 SANA'A - Al Qaeda can't pose a threat to Yemen and its regime but the Houthi rebellion can because the insurgency expands to a whole province in the ...
  • IntelTrends - 20-JAN-2010
    India urges Burma to hunt for rebels DVB, 20 Jan The focus will be the recent revelations that the rebels, notably the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA), are taking shelter in Burma, particularly in its northwestern Kachin state that straddles China. There are also claims that the ULFA has ti ...
  • What is the future of Islam in Russia?
    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Prague Watchdog. What is the future of Islam in Russia? ©   Prague Watchdog By Abdullah Rinat Mukhametov, deputy editor of Islam.Ru . Special to Prague Watchdog MOSCOW - The briefest and plainest answer to the question of whether Islam ha ...
  • Terrorists dispatched to Punjab: police intel
    The following article is from Daily Times, Lahore, Pakistan. Eight terrorists could target Punjab ©   Daily Times Staff Report January 19, 2010 LAHORE: Terrorists can target the province at any time in the coming days, police sources informed Daily Times on Monday. The sources said that the Tehr ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Drugs like Tylenol Can Be Contaminated with Mold a ...
    Now there's another reason to worry about pills you put in your body. A recent recall of the OTC pain reliever TYLENOL Arthritis Pain Caplets has revealed that drugs can be contaminated with mold and chemicals when they are transported and stored on "engineered wood" pallets. Click here to read this ...
  • Why the Pseudo-Populist Right Wing is Defeating Ob ...
    Six months ago, the vocal factions of the Tea Party revolt organized among anti-Obama right wingers were mostly an annoyance to the Democratic Party. Today, the Congressional Democrats are scared for their political lives after Scott Brown, with the help of a Tea Party-organized online "money bomb" ...
  • $10,000 Reward Offered for Scientific Proof of H1N ...
    In conjunction with NaturalNews, the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center (www.ConsumerWellness.org) has publicly offered a $10,000 reward for any person, company or institution who can provide trusted, scientific evidence proving that any of the FDA-approved H1N1 vaccines being offered to Americans ...
  • The Earthquake That Triggered A Global Empathic Re ...
    Frantic tweets and videos have been seeping out of Haiti, pleading for help from the rest of the human race in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake that leveled one of the poorest countries on the planet, spreading destruction and death. Click here to read this article
  • Maine May Require Cell Phones to Carry Cancer Warn ...
    Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

  • Todas las fotografías del terremoto en Haiti
    | PARTE UNO |PARTE DOS |PARTE TRES |Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Continuando con esta labor de difusión sobre el trágico suceso que ha ocurrido en Haiti, me permito compartir la tercera parte de estos foto reportajes propiedad de "The Big Picture" q ...
  • Más de 20 animales exóticos de la nieve
    | PARTE UNO | PARTE DOS | Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Los animales que viven en zonas con mucha nieve, son fascinantes, hermosos y exóticos. Para que usted se pueda dar una idea más clara sobre estos bellísimos seres, me permito compartir dos galer ...
  • Archivo de imágenes del buscador Bing
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Una de las cosas que más me llaman la atención del buscador Bing propiedad de Microsoft , es que sin darnos cuenta, ha creado un excelente Banco de Imágenes que todos podemos disfrutar y compartir. Me refiero a las fotog ...
  • Fotografías increíbles de la vida salvaje
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Así como intentando detener el tiempo, PeachyGreen nos ofrece una maravillosa colección de imágenes donde la creatividad se escapa a los límites de nuestra imaginación. Descubra todo el potencial de estos artistas que no ...
  • Fotografías de ciclistas y bicicletas
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Por alguna razón que aún no acabo de comprender, me fascina tomar fotografías a las bicicletas que veo en las calles. De hecho, tengo una gran colección que algún día compartiré con ustedes. Mientras tanto, les recomiend ...

Executive Intelligence Review

Center for a Livable Future

  • Study Finds Menu Labels Including Daily Caloric Re ...
    Last week I discussed why obesity experts, such as Drs. Kelly Brownell and David Kessler, believe highly processed foods are leading to excessive overeating. Until healthier unprocessed foods are more readily available and affordable, today I want to focus on one way we can thwart the cravings belie ...
  • Fish and Health: More to the Story
    I’d like to expand a little on my recent interview for a CNN piece by Elizabeth Landau entitled “Farmed or wild fish: Which is healthier?” At face value, this question can partialy be answered by comparing the nutritional content in farmed and wild fish and weighing the health benefits of fish consu ...
  • My Response to Caitlin Flanagan’s Article “Cultiva ...
    This post is in response to the recently published article in the Atlantic Magazine by Caitlin Flanagan titled, “Cultivating Failure.” Ms. Flanagan makes the argument that the school garden movement presently building in California and nationwide is somehow stripping students of valuable time to bec ...
  • The Ethanol Policy Trap
    Mention the biofuel ethanol from corn in anything but glowing terms in Iowa five years ago and one had probably best apply for witness protection. Created by political pressure from the corn and the high  fructose corn syrup industry with the lobbying from ADM and later other corn related lobby grou ...
  • Meatless Monday Begins Week of Volunteer Events in ...
    Charm City government leaders are following the lead of the Baltimore City Public Schools (BCPS) and fully embracing the Meatless Monday campaign. Members of the the Mayor’s office, city employees and BCPS officials visited Hampstead Hill Academy this Monday to serve students meat-free meals. Accord ...

Norwegianity

  • More salt please
    I’ve brought in at considerable expense a motivational speaker to remind readers why you tend to vote for Democrats, however disappointed you may be in them later. From the comments I give you Thomas J. Swift: Yeah, I’ve read all the lefty excuses…”Wall Street!”….”Not progressive enough!”….”The insu ...
  • Inherit the wind
    Now I’m really fucking angry. Yes, let’s reward the bedwetting right for obstructionism. Lets. But don’t count on my vote. Not ever again. Not even if Obama comes out swinging during the State of the Union speech next week (and we all know he won’t). - I mean, it’s not like these assholes are flying ...
  • The steaming turd on Obama’s plate
    [T]he success of the conservative narrative ought to trouble liberals and the Obama administration. Most Americans understand that the mess we are in started before Obama got to the White House. Yet many, especially political independents, are upset that the government has had to spend so much m ...
  • More like gloatse, I guess
    Shit damn howdy, that sure didn’t take long. I’m ready to concede but if it would make this all more painful for Coakley, maybe the feds should audit all the Diebold machines just to make sure the results matched the actual votes. Egg on my face? You betcha. Now lets check out those Diebolds. [.. ...
  • Er,
    Can’t say as this is looking good for the O team. I have a new mast at the ready.

The Seferm Post

  • Steve Harvey To Referee U.S. TV Game Show 'Family ...
    Harvey's TV credits include "Me and the Boys" and "The Steve Harvey Show," and he was part of the "Kings of Comedy" standup tour and DVD. He hosts a nationally syndicated radio program.
  • Sitting For Prolonged Periods Bad For Your Health: ...
    "After four hours of sitting, the body starts to send harmful signals," Elin Ekblom-Bak of the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences said.
  • Americans More Bias To Muslims Than Other Faiths: ...
    The analysis is from the Gallup World Religion Survey and is part of a project on finding ways to increase understanding between Americans and Muslims.
  • Links for 2010-01-20 [del.icio.us]
    Angela Sullivan 36, Had 200 Sexual Encounters With Boy 12 Her jail sentence is huge... Apple Safer To Eat But Carries Pesticide Residue: Researchers More than two decades after parents dumped apples from children's lunch boxes because of concerns about a chemical applied to the fruit, most resear ...
  • Nigeria Sectarian Violence: Many Dead, Many Injure ...
    More than 13,500 Nigerians have died in sectarian violence in the last decade, and at least 2,500 people had been killed in Plateau state alone since 2001, according to Human Rights Watch. Dufka said no one has been held accountable, leading to a climate of impunity.

The World We Live In

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

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