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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, February 11, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • JAPAN: Calls Rising for Stop to Discriminatory Wo ...
    TOKYO, Feb 11 (IPS) - A chorus of calls for changes in discriminatory work laws is spreading across Japan in the aftermath of a landmark lawsuit filed by short-contract workers.
  • CLIMATE CHANGE: Amidst Global Warming Coldest Win ...
    BERLIN, Feb 11 (IPS) - It was probably an irony that Europe's coldest winter in 50 years coincided with the U.N. climate change summit in Copenhagen last December, which failed to deliver a treaty to reduce global warming emissions.
  • VIETNAM: Hard Times Put Lunar New Year on Hold fo ...
    HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam, Feb 11 (IPS) - There will be no Tet (Lunar New Year) for Doan Hung this year. As festivities heat up for the Year of the Tiger, which starts on Feb. 14, the 12-year-old boy is busy selling lottery tickets on the streets.
  • IRAQ: Govt Expels Former Blackwater Contractors
    WASHINGTON, Feb 10 (IPS) - The Iraqi government has ordered hundreds of private security contractors who previously worked for Blackwater Worldwide or its subsidiaries to leave the country within seven days or risk arrest for visa violations, Iraq's interior minister said Wednesday.
  • U.S.: Gas Prices, Economy Raise Stakes for Cleane ...
    NEW YORK, Feb 10 (IPS) - The Chinese auto industry surpassed the U.S. in car sales last year, according to a recent report, raising the question of whether this represents a bump in the road for the U.S. auto industry or a long-term shift to other means of transportation.

Scoop - NZ

  • The annotated Rodney Hide: treating parliament wit ...
    How far can a Minister of the Crown go in misrepresenting the facts of a matter before he is guilty of misleading the House? That's not an easy question to answer, but any sensible reading of Rodney Hide's speech in response to prime minister John Key's statement to the House yesterday would suggest ...
  • No Scandal behind these gates | Sign On
    Since December there has been a glut of stories challenging the science of climate change as represented by the IPCC. Should we be concerned? Only about climate change. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • 2010: A second wave of defaults/foreclosures
    As we have been forecasting for the last two years, the second wave of mortgage defaults and foreclosures will hit the economy this year. Not only will we have failure in prime loans and option-arm loans, but we are faced with a new crop of subprime and ALT-A loans put into motion by Fannie Mae, Fre ...
  • Goff: Joint Special Operations Command
    The Joint Special Operations Command, known by the acronym JSOC, pronounced jay-sock by members of the US armed forces, carries with it a mystique. The press, JSOC's promoters and its critics, as well as the entertainment media, have all contributed to its mystique; and that mystique is promoted my ...
  • Fisk: Why the blind eye to Israeli bulldozers ?
    "Palestine" is no more. Call it a "peace process" or a "road map"; blame it on Barack Obama's weakness, his pathetic, childish admission - like an optimistic doctor returning a sick child to its parents without hope of recovery - that a Middle East peace was "more difficult" to reach than he imagine ...

Independent ( London )

  • EU leaders reach EU deal on Greece bail-out
    European Union President Herman Van Rompuy says countries that use the euro are ready to take "coordinated measures" if necessary to help Greece out of its debt crisis.
  • Iran makes first batch of higher enriched uranium
    Iran has produced its first consignment of 20 per cent enriched uranium, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today, two days after the Islamic state announced it had started making higher-grade atomic fuel.
  • White House warns UK ruling could 'complicate' int ...
    The White House said it was "deeply disappointed" at a UK Appeal Court ruling that revealed intelligence relating to torture allegations in the case of a former Guantanamo detainee.
  • EU leaders discuss bailout for Greece
    EU leaders will consider bailing out Greece today in a move to restore global confidence in the single currency.
  • Congressman Charlie Wilson dies
    Charlie Wilson, the flamboyant former Congressman whose support for the mujahedin resistance to the Soviet occupiers of Afghanistan in the 1980s inspired the 2007 film Charlie Wilson's War, died in hospital yesterday in his native Texas. He was 76.

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • China hopes early resumption of negotiation on Ir ...
    Summary: BEIJING, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- China said Thursday it hoped negotiations on Iran nuclear issue would be resumed at an early date and it would continue its efforts for this end. source: China View read more
  • IAEA: Iran’s New Enrichment Effort Modest
    Summary: Reports coming out of the IAEA indicate that only a tiny fraction of the nation’s uranium enrichment program has been converted to producing 20 percent enriched uranium. The international nuclear watchdog described the effort as modest in nature. source: antiwar.com read more
  • Court Rebukes Dutch Policy on Iranian Scientists
    Summary: The Netherlands A court in The Hague has dealt a blow to the Dutch government's controversial attempts to keep sensitive nuclear technology out of the hands of Iran. Its policy to ban Iranian-born students and scientists from certain master's degrees and from nuclear research facilities ...
  • Obama Vows Haste in New Iran Sanctions
    Summary: Western officials, and the United States in particular, have vowed to rapidly move forward with new sanctions against Iran in the United Nations Security Council. President Barack Obama said the effort is moving quickly and that new sanctions will be in place soon. source: Antiwar.com ...
  • Iran says it will stop higher uranium enrichment i ...
    Summary: Salehi The head of Iran's atomic agency said the Islamic Republic would not enrich uranium to a higher level if the West provides the fuel it needs for the Tehran research reactor. source: AP read more

The Daily Galaxy

  • "The Secret Galaxy" of Centaurus A
    Deep inside Centaurus A, the closest active galaxy to Earth, about 1,000 light-years across, is a twisted cosmic dust cloud shaped like a parallelogram -likely the result of a smaller spiral galaxy falling into the giant Centaurus A. The Spitzer...
  • World's Mega-Monster Telescopes Now Operational in ...
    Two new and powerful telescopes — the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) and the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) — are starting their work at ESO’s Paranal observatory in northern Chile, where the nightsky is so dark the...
  • Scale of Life from Bacteria to Blue Whale Occured ...
    All life on Earth all sprang from the same single-celled organisms that first populated the planet, so how did life grow in size from bacteria to the blue whale? "It happened primarily in two great leaps, and each time, the...
  • Climate's Tipping Points Arrive Suddenly -New Fore ...
    "Climate scientists worry about 'tipping points' ... thresholds beyond which a small additional increase in average temperature or some associated climate variable results in major changes to the affected system. Among the tipping points we face in the near future...
  • A Deadly Orbit? -The Solar System's Journey Throug ...
    Is there a genocidal countdown built into the motion of our solar system? Recent work at Cardiff University suggests that our system's orbit through the Milky Way encounters regular speedbumps - and by "speedbumps" we mean "potentially extinction-causing asteroids". Professor...

Natural News

  • Mumps outbreak spreads among people who got vaccin ...
    (NaturalNews) To hear the vaccine pushers say it, all the recent outbreaks of mumps and measles are caused by too few people seeking out vaccinations. It's all those "non-vaccinated people" who are a danger to society, they say, because they can spread disease. Reality tells a different story, howev ...
  • Parasites in Your Gut Actually Help Protect You Fr ...
    (NaturalNews) Humans and gastrointestinal parasites might have co-evolved in such a way that the parasites actually help regulate to human immune system to prevent against allergies, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Nottingham. Researchers believe that over the co ...
  • Heart transplants lead to skin cancer
    (NaturalNews) A new study published by the Mayo Clinic in the journal Archives of Dermatology has revealed that roughly half of all patients who undergo a heart transplant end up getting skin cancer within 15 years of the surgery. Among the 312 people evaluated in the study, 1,395 different skin can ...
  • Heal yourself in 15 days by rejecting the crowd (p ...
    (NaturalNews) This article continues with part seven of our 15-day "Heal Yourself" series. It begins with the idea of observing the poor health of the mainstream crowd: Do you want to be as diseased as they are? If so, simply do what they do! Let's face it: The "mainstream consumer" isn't very healt ...
  • Mediterranean Diet Prevents Depression
    (NaturalNews) The Mediterranean diet may improve not just heart health but also mental health, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Universities of La Palma and Navarra in Spain, and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association .The Mediterranean diet is high in fru ...

    TheGallopingBeaver

  • Don't let the bastard sleep: CAPP Flash Rally at B ...
    (h/t Woman at Mile 0 )
  • Prorogation vs Canada's Pro-Democracy Movement
    From The Real News Network : an excellent summary of the issues behind Steve's latest prorogation of democracy and how Canadians are pushing back. Meanwhile, south of the 'longest undefended border in the world', Chris Hedges discusses 'inverted totalitarianism' in Democracy in America Is a Useful ...
  • The $10-million Olympic Storage Shed
    aka the Canada Pavillion for the 2010 Games The pre-fab tent was built by a company from Chicago for $10-million. .Vancouver architect Bing Thom : "We listened to too much advice from the Americans. There was all this talk about not being worried about the architecture." .Out here this style of arc ...
  • Re-match
    THE GLOBE HAS AN INTERESTING TAKE on the Supreme Court's decision, and Stevie isn't gonna like it . . . according to Kirk Makin, In an 9-0 ruling this morning, the Court said that Canada violated Mr. Khadr's Charter rights by participating in illegal interrogation methods which included sleep depriv ...
  • Security vs Security. VANOC fuck ups. Vol 1
    So, I'm flying home. No big deal. It's just that the "company" picked the wrong date to return me to the world. 29 January, 2010. Olympic security kicks into full court press. "Picture ID please, Sir." "Don't have any which I haven't paid for. I'm a Canadian, in Canada flying between Canadian poin ...

Media Matters for America

  • Hannity falsely claims that "global temperatures ...
    Continuing his attacks on the scientific consensus about global warming, Sean Hannity falsely claimed that "global temperatures continue to plummet year after year." In fact, several scientific organizations have concluded that 2009 was one of the warmest years on record and that the decade of ...
  • Hill devotes article to baseless global w ...
    The Hill devoted an article to forwarding claims that snowstorms in the Washington, D.C., area casts doubt on the existence of global warming and quoted Republicans bashing former Vice President Al Gore for his advocacy on climate change. In fact, short-term local weather phenomena do not disprove ...
  • Limbaugh falsely claimed Obama, Reich were never p ...
    Rush Limbaugh falsely claimed on his radio show that President Obama and former Labor Secretary Robert Reich were never professors. Limbaugh's claim about Obama echoed a claim previously made by Karl Rove. Limbaugh falsely claimed Obama was never a professor Limbaugh: "One of the reasons I don't c ...
  • Garrett ignores GOP influence in current health ca ...
    On Fox News'� America's Newsroom , Major Garrett said�President�Obama indicated during a press conference he "will start talking to Republicans and incorporating their ideas in the health care debate." In fact,�as Obama recently indicated during his January 29 question and answer session with House ...
  • WND pushes dubious claim that 25 percent of milit ...
    WorldNetDaily columnist Mychal Massie advanced the dubious claim that if Don't Ask, Don't Tell were repealed, 25 percent of the military would decline to re-enlist, based on an unnamed poll of "military folks." But Massie's claim is refuted by the experiences of several other countries that l ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Pentagon Quietly Explores De-Citizenship of US Cit ...
    At the highest levels of the US military, a quiet discussion is going on about putting in place a legal framework that would permit the US government to strip American citizenship from terrorists. The case of Las Cruces, New Mexico... United States - New Mexico - United States nationality ...
  • Dershowitz Under Siege
    Alan Dershowitz is feeling the heat. Last week, the Harvard Law professor agreed that Judge Richard Goldstone, author of the report on war crimes in Gaza, is a "moser," Hebrew term for a snitch. Historically (i.e., in the case of... Gaza - Alan Dershowitz - Israel - Middle East - Richard G ...
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  • The National Anthem -- And Why We Need Health Care ...
    My health insurer here in California is Anthem Blue Cross. When I first opted for it, it was just called Blue Cross. Then, a year or so back, I was notified that an entity called "Anthem" would now be running... California - WellPoint - Anthem Blue Cross - Health insurance - Health care
  • What Tea Partiers See-- and What They Don't
    I don't see why Tea Party Patriots in Nashville paid Sarah Palin $100,000 for a keynote last week when, for no more than the love of country, they could have honored me, a living witness to the Boston Tea Party... Sarah Palin - Boston Tea Party - Tea - United States - Tea Partiers

TruthOut

  • Former Texas Rep. Charlie Wilson Dies at 76
    Dallas - Charlie Wilson, the former U.S. congressman from Texas whose funding of Afghanistan's resistance to the Soviet Union was chronicled in the movie "Charlie Wilson's War," has died. He was 76. Wilson died Wednesday at Memorial Medical Center-Lufkin after he started having difficulty breathing ...
  • The National Anthem - and Why We Need Health Care ...
    My health insurer here in California is Anthem Blue Cross. When I first opted for it, it was just called Blue Cross. Then, a year or so back, I was notified that an entity called “Anthem” would now be running my insurance policy. I didn’t think much about it at the time. I’ve had the usual problems ...
  • If Michael Moore Were to Run for President
    If Michael Moore were to run for president in 2012, it could be a game changer in American political life. For starters, it would likely shorten the war in Afghanistan by at least six months, and the American and Afghan lives that would be saved would alone justify the effort. If Moore announced hi ...
  • AIG-Gate: The World's Greatest Insurance Heist
    Rumor has it that Timothy Geithner is on his way out as Treasury Secretary due to his involvement in the AIG scandal that is now unraveling in hearings before the House Oversight and Reform Committee. Bob Chapman writes in The International Forecaster: read more
  • Jim Hightower | Corporate Welfare Roulette
    One thing that governors and mayors absolutely love to do is win a prize in the national game called "Corporate Welfare Roulette." It's a simple casino-style game in which politicos put down a big stack of taxpayers' money on an out-of-state corporation as an "incentive," hoping that their bet outbi ...

Planetsave

  • DE bottle refund law: Mend it, don’t end it, say ...
    A volunteer poses with the bottles and cans collected at a Massachusetts watershed cleanup. A month after the governor of Delaware proposed dumping the state’s beverage container refund law in favor of a new tax for community recycling, in-state and national environmental groups have come out a ...
  • Mann is Off the Hook, So Let’s Look at the Real Cr ...
    Michael Mann, the somewhat infamous climate scientist from Penn State, shouldn’t be so infamous after all, we find out yet another time! “An academic inquiry into the so-called ‘climategate’ email scandal has concluded that a well-known U.S. scientist [Mann] did not directly or indirectly falsify ...
  • Is A Pill Take-Back Law in Our Future?
    As the product stewardship movement gains steam, attention is turning to the issue of unsafe disposal of residue or unwanted consumer pharmaceuticals.  The widespread detection of pharmaceutical residues in public waters and fish has raised biologists’ concerns.  In Minnesota, the popularity o ...
  • Ocean Conservancy Holds US Responsible for Coastal ...
    This week we’re on the topic of saving endangered sea life , and now is the best time to take action with the Ocean Conservancy ! The Obama Administration has a newly formed Ocean Policy Task Force that’s accelerating a planning process for our glorious ocean and coasts. Since it’s up to us to ...
  • Saving BioGems : False Killer Whales Still in Dang ...
    Last season NRDC announced it’s mission to save the Hawaiian island’s Whales , and now that this decision is facing the president we’re asking the Obama Administration to protect Hawaii’s false killer whales under the Endangered Species Act because the loss of even a few whales could endanger the ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Houston’s Ozone Compliance Threatened by White Sta ...
    Public Citizen and Area Legislators Urge State to Deny Air Pollution Permit HOUSTON – Area legislators joined Public Citizen this week in urging environmental agencies to deny the White Stallion coal plant its air permit because if built, the facility would degrade air quality in Houston.  The ...
  • Texas Ag Commissioner Todd Staples says Agricultur ...
    Back in the movie/musical “Oklahoma”, we got a musical lesson that the farmer and the cowman should be friends.  They seem to have bridged that divide rather well in the intervening decades, but today the question remains whether the farmers and ranchers and the climate should be friends. Agricultu ...
  • San Antonio Public Forum on Proposed Rate Hikes
    Tonight San Antonio citizens will have a chance to weigh in on CPS Energy’s proposed rate hike. I have the following request from an activist in San Antonio: Monday night CPS will be taking comments from the public on the proposed rate increase. This is short notice but we need a strong showing. W ...
  • Texas Progressive Alliance
    The Texas Progressive Alliance congratulates the city of New Orleans for the Saints’ stirring Super Bowl victory, and reminds them that the “hair of the dog” trick doesn’t really help with the hangover. The Texas Cloverleaf highlights the sentencing of GOP Denton County Constable Ken Jannereth. Prob ...
  • Jim Hightower, Roger Duncan, Tom Smitty Smith, and ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:

Press TV

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Football versus Baseball
    Football season is over, baseball season is about to begin, so here's the classic explanation of how they are different. Courtesy Crooks and Liars.
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Greece's problem is corruption, not deficits, just as ours is corporate greed, not deficits. "Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has said he will "take any necessary measures" to reduce Greece's deficit. His comments came as thousands of Greeks demonstrated against cost-cutting measures during a ...
  • Lessons from the Saints
    Personally, I saw the Saints-Colts Super Bowl as politics: the scrappy, minority-dominated, take-all-comers, party-loving, chronic underdog liberal dems from the abandoned city vs. the dominating machine wingnut freakazoid repugs from all-white, KKK-founding rural Indiana. I couldn't bring myself to ...
  • Better late than never
    Finally - a mere decade after emergency contraception (EC), or the "morning after" pill became available and several years after it became available over the counter, it is finally becoming available to women in the United States military stationed overseas . The women who serve, and who go abroad ...
  • The South Will Rise Again!
    We should stop calling Republican abuse of the filibuster "obstructionism." Because it goes way beyond that. Obstruction is a negotiating tactic meant to create leverage so as to achieve a particular objective within an agreed upon set of rules. What Republicans are doing today constitutes rebellion ...

Care 2

  • China's Water Pollution Twice the Officially Liste ...
    A recent report from Reuters reveals some disturbing news about China: the water pollution levels recorded in the official reports were found to be merely half the actual levels. Submitted by Leslie Y. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Former Cherokee Deputy Principal Chief dies
    It is with regrets I inform everyone of the passing of Hastings Shade. He was the Deputy Principal Chief with me from 1999-2003. He foremost was a gentleman and a traditionalist who was fluent in Cherokee language and conversant in Cherokee thought Submitted by Lone Wolf to Society & Culture �|� � ...
  • Oakland Park barber accused of selling marijuana f ...
    Customers didn't go to VIP Barbershop just for haircuts. Detectives say a barber there also sold marijuana out of the shop at 904 NE 62nd St. — less than 200 feet away from James S. Rickards Middle School, according to a Broward Sheriff's Office report Submitted by Lone Wolf to Offbeat �|� � ...
  • Unlocking a medical mystery: Stuttering
    (CNN) -- A new study brings researchers one step closer to unraveling a medical mystery that has perplexed scientists for thousands of years: What causes people to stutter? Submitted by Lady Xanadu to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • FLOCK May Finally Go on Trial for the Tragedy in P ...
    Tell the District Attorney to prosecute this case fully. Read more about this egregious case of institutional hoarding and cruelty and how you can help make sure this organization is prosecuted fully. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

GreenBiz

  • From Oil to Gold, Top Companies Shunning 'Dirty' R ...
    Whole Foods and Bed, Bath and Beyond are working to phase out transportation fuel from the Canadian Tar Sands, while Cartier, Sears and more than 60 other retailers have committed to buying gold from environmentally responsible sources.
  • San Francisco Launches Nation's Largest PACE Progr ...
    San Francisco has established a $150 million green financing program to allow businesses and homeowners to pay for efficiency, water conservation and renewable energy improvements through future property taxes.
  • The Rise of Building Efficiency and Retrofits: Sta ...
    It's commonly believed that when it comes to energy efficiency and buildings there's some low-hanging fruit -- but going after the rest costs a lot of money. Actually, that's not true, says C. David Myers of Johnson Controls Inc.
  • The Age of Sustainability: Why 'Less' Should Be Mo ...
    Business has officially entered The Age of Sustainability, and businesses that don't figure in sustainability aren’t likely to survive. Here’s a look at the reasons why as well as pointers on how your company can adapt to the change.
  • KKR Extends Green Program to a Fifth of Global Por ...
    Global Equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. (KKR) has extended its money-saving environmental management program to 20 percent of its portfolio, including two companies located outside the U.S.

Reuters Global

  • The politics of bowing in Japan – How low do ...
    In Japan nothing says I'm sorry like a nice, deep bow, and lately there's been a whole lot to be sorry for. Ideally the depth of the bow should match the level of regret, allowing observers to make judgements about how sincere the apology really is.
  • “My Life with the Taliban” – on ...
    Abdul Salam Zaeef became best known as the Taliban ambassador to Islamabad at the time of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks -- he was then arrested and sent to Guantanamo -- and his memoirs provide a unique insight into the developments which led to the eight-year-old war in Afghanistan.
  • Afghanistan’s very public offensive : teasin ...
    U.S.-led NATO forces are planning one of the biggest offensives in Afghanistan since the ouster of the Taliban in 2001, an operation that has been widely flagged for months.
  • EU gets new Commission, but little to cheer yet
    The European Parliament voted overwhelmingly in favour of the next EU Commission on Tuesday, giving President Jose Manuel Barroso a strong mandate at the head of the EU executive. But rather than something to cheer about, the approval just clears the way for the Commission to start dealing with a we ...
  • Cometh the hour, cometh Van Rompuy?
    Three months ago, Herman Van Rompuy was named the inaugural president of the European Union. He's been a low-key and understated figure since, but on Thursday he has a chance to drive the agenda at a time of crisis for the EU.

Paul Krugman

  • Riga Mortis
    Meanwhile, things could be worse. And in Latvia, they are.
  • Wall Street Damage Control
    How hard is it for the White House to understand that it's a really, really bad idea to be saying nice things about bailed-out bankers, Goldman Sachs in particular?
  • Clueless
    At the very least, you would think that Obama would understand the importance of acknowledging public anger over what's happening.
  • Having It Both Ways on Medicare
    Republicans are denouncing Obama for proposing Medicare cuts, while themselves proposing deeper Medicare cuts.
  • Anatomy of a Euromess
    The troubles of the eurozone have turned out to be even worse than the skeptics imagined.

No Quarter

  • Core Chicago Team Sinking Obama Presidency
    * Bumped Up * From my blog, The Washington Note. ————————————————— (Obama’s Core Team at press conference on Obama administration’s 100th day; photo credit: Bill O’leary, Washington Post) Financial Times Washington Bureau Chief Edward Luce has written a granularly informed insider account about th ...
  • Walk This Way
    Date-Time: Tuesday, February 9, 2010. Obama, unannounced, took the mike away from gumbo at the daily presser, to the surprise of everyone. Here is what was happening just moments before. Fox was about to do a story, with full panel, about USA Today slamming Obama. CNN was about to [...]
  • The Icy Teeth of Washington
    I will let these latest photos speak for themselves. Although the ruler shows only 26 inches, the fact is we are over 30 inches and counting. Frosty the Snowman can kiss my ass. And one more.
  • Core Chicago Team Sinking Obama Presidency
    From my blog, The Washington Note. ————————————————— (Obama’s Core Team at press conference on Obama administration’s 100th day; photo credit: Bill O’leary, Washington Post) Financial Times Washington Bureau Chief Edward Luce has written a granularly informed insider account about those who hold t ...
  • China vs Russia
    � Bamboo Curtain Central Asia. � My information from best source is that the explanation for why Russia remains reluctant to cooperate on the UN Security Council with stern sanctions on the Tehran Twelvers is that Russia must now concern itself with the China threat in the energy neighborhood. ...

Environmental Graffiti

Foreign Policy in Focus

  • Democracy Thwarts U.S. Base Plans
    From Okinawa to Guam, citizens are making the best-laid Pentagon plans go awry.
  • Postcard From...Tripoli
    A press conference in Libya on human rights? It's only one of the astonishing changes happening in the country.
  • Iran's Fateful Choice
    Reformers and hardliners continue to face off in Iran. What can the United States do to encourage peaceful change?
  • Rugged Collectivism
    For some years now, the radio has been announcing a yellow alert. Will we fight over space in the bomb shelter of The Twilight Zone or work together in a spirit of rugged collectivism to avert the looming disasters?
  • Invite North Korea to the Global Nuclear Security ...
    Denuclearize North Korea or end the Korean War? Here's a proposal for doing both at the same time.

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Report Pits Perception Against Reality on Issue of ...
    Companies' climate efforts do not always line up with the public's impression of their "greenness."
  • Vestas Earnings Shy of Projections for 2009
    In financial results released Wednesday, the world's largest maker of wind turbines reported that earnings for the fourth quarter of 2009 exceeded expectations -- though its $8.8 billion in revenues for the full year fell short of the $9.9 billion projected.
  • Renewables Industry Touts Its Potential
    In a telephone conference with reporters, leaders of the solar, wind, biomass and geothermal industries said business is good -- but could be better with help from Congress.
  • The Rise of 'Green' Modular Homes
    "Green and energy efficient homes are here to stay," said a manager Clayton Homes, a maker of solar-ready modular homes.
  • K.K.R. Continues Greening Its Portfolio
    The private equity giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is expanding an initiative it started with the Environmental Defense Fund to improve the sustainability of its portfolio companies.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • The biggest scandal in world history; WANTAGATE, L ...
    Draft conspiracy post note - this rough draft story lacks links but I want to get it up anyways... Have fun everyone! This guy, Leo Wanta / Lee Wanta / Ambassador Leo Wanta, could be the key to the biggest financial conspiracy of all time. Or maybe it's a huge thing of hot air. It seems we can ...
  • New Video! Robert Erickson, Tea Party prankster, s ...
    This was a fun project to work on. TIP! Combine the old OSX Mp3 player Audion with the Wiretap outgoing-sound recorder by Ambrosia , and you can strip the vocals or VoiceOver off anything to make excellent Fair Use satire from pompous conservative videos!! I found that tip on a random forum, I thi ...
  • 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 ...

Daily Censored

  • Mugging public education in California: New initia ...
    Corporatists back voter initiative that would gut community college budgets. They hit the streets for signatures, so beware and do not swallow their rhetoric. March 4th let them know what we think of their budget cutting plans to privatize education!
  • Torture & the Case of Aafia Siddiqui
    The conviction of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui on Feb. 3 of this year for attempted murder raised widespread outrage in Pakistan, Siddiqui’s home country. Born in Karachi in 1972 and educated at MIT in the US, Aafia Siddiqui is not a likely candidate for being caught up in this web of terrorism counter terror ...
  • Is Arne Duncan clinically a paranoid schizophrenic ...
    Education Secretary, Arne Duncan called Hurricane Katrina: the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans because it forced the community to take steps to improve low-performing public schools, according to excerpts from the transcript of a television interview made public Frid ...
  • Cuomo Takes on The Money Party
    A trial will likely involve testimony by the current Bank of America CEO and President Brian Moynihan against defendants Kenneth Lewis, the bank's former CEO and board chairman, former chief financial officer (CFO) Joseph L. Price, and the bank itself. Price is currently in charge of BofA's credit c ...
  • Anti-privatizers victory against the REALM charter ...
    REALM Charter schools withdraws its petition to open both its proposed middle school and high school from the Berkeley Unified School Board (BUSD) In a tentative victory for opponents of the proposed REALM middle and high school charter schools proposed for Berkeley, California the proponents and ...

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Pine River World News

  • Haiti Debacle: Why Good Intentions Must be Probed
    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from The African Executive, Nairobi. Haiti Debacle: �Why Good Intentions Must be Probed � �James Shikwati The African Executive February 10-17, 2010 The attempted kidnap of 33 Haitian children by 10 missionaries from the United States raises se ...
  • Ramzy Baroud: The Useless Logic of Round Numbers: ...
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Ramzy Baroud. The Useless Logic of Round Numbers: �War is Criminal Any Day � �Ramzy Baroud February 9, 2010 The media's habit of revisiting certain issues at set intervals can be strange and even illogical at times. For example, many news outl ...
  • AFGHANISTAN: Operation Moshtarak: Mother of All Ba ...
    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Pravda, Moscow. Afghanistan: �Mother of All Battles Poised to Begin � � Pravda.ru By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey February 8, 2010 As NATO gets ready for a massive troop surge in Helmand Province, the local population flees ahead of what both ...
  • Operation Moshtarak: The upcoming U.S.-British-Afg ...
    [ Blogmaster note : �I posted the following analysis on my companion blog, IntelTrends . Readers of Pine River World News are encouraged to subscribe to IntelTrends as well - a RSS button appears in the right column. Additionally, IntelTrends is where you'll find the latest official Taliban statemen ...
  • New Patriotism: Restoring Our Real Freedoms
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Gordon Duff, staff writer and Senior Editor at Veterans Today . New Patriotism: �Restoring Our Real Freedoms � �Gordon Duff Source: �Veterans Today February 4, 2010 * � No More Corporate Run "Militia" Groups * � No More Controlled Press And " ...

    PDA AMERICA

  • Paulette Garin: Public financing of campaigns vita ...
    By Paulette Garin | The Cap Times Dear Editor: The Supreme Court’s decision to recognize a corporation’s free speech rights under the 1st Amendment is yet another step in our decline into becoming a corporatist propaganda ...
  • A Report From the Field
    A Report From the Field By Steve Carlson | PDA Member and Blog Contributor As one of Dave Obey’s constituents up here in north west Wisconsin, I have to say it was heartening to see my Congressman ...
  • Restore the Power to the People: Amend the Constit ...
    Restore the Power to the People: Amend the Constitution! William John Cox | PDA Blog Contributor ¿Plata o plomo? Colombian and Mexican drug gangs ask government officials, judges and police officers which they prefer, “silver or lead,” ...
  • Congressman Kucinich … Focus on the Economy
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich sent the following email to his supporters on February 4: We should pay careful attention to the message of the Massachusetts election. And that message is to focus on the economy. ...
  • Fade to White
    y ISHMAEL REED | NYT Op-Ed Contributor Oakland, Calif. JUDGING from the mail I’ve received, the conversations I’ve had and all that I’ve read, the responses to “Precious: Based on the Novel ...

Marler Blog

  • Marler on Hagen - Reprint from Meat and Poultry
    MeatPoultry.com , February 2, 2010 by Steve Bjerklie One of the meat industry’s most respected yet sharpest and, arguably, its most litigious, critics says he is “hopeful” about the nomination of Dr. Elisabeth Hagen to the crucial post of undersecretary of agriculture for food safety. “I am very h ...
  • Salmonella Montevideo Outbreak Linked to Black Pep ...
    According to the CDC, 217 individuals infected with a matching strain of Salmonella Montevideo have been reported from 44 states and District of Columbia since July 1, 2009. The number of ill persons identified in each state with this strain is as follows: AK (1), AL (2), AZ (5), CA (30), CO (4), CT ...
  • The Summer 2008 E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak linked to ...
    On June 30, 2008, Nebraska Beef, Ltd., an Omaha-area beef processor, recalled approximately 531,707 pounds of ground beef products because the meat was potentially contaminated by E. coli O157:H7 . On June 24, 2008, the CDC announced an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 illnesses among 24 residents of Mi ...
  • Linda Rivera's Deadly Dance with E. coli O157:H7
    For readers here, and those who saw the Washington Post article, who have followed Linda and her family's struggle with E. coli O157:H7, the report that I received late yesterday from her brother-in-law is heartbreaking.  It seemed only a few days ago that there was talk about her leaving the hospit ...
  • Daniele Recalls another 23,754 pounds of Salami
    Daniele International Inc., an establishment with operations in Pascoag and Mapleville, R.I., is now recalling approximately 1,263,754 pounds of ready-to-eat (RTE) varieties of Italian sausage products, including salami/salame, in commerce and potentially available to customers in retail locations b ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 02.11.10
    First downtowns, and now suburbs: how cars change American geography From 250 million to 246 million. It's not a big change, but the trend could continue. Chicago 2010: Ford Transit Connect Electric uses ...
  • Chicago 2010: Ford Transit Connect Taxi burns CNG, ...
    Filed under: Chicago Auto Show , Minivan/Van , Ford Ford Transit Connect Taxi - Click above for high-res image gallery Hot on the (w)heels of the Ford Transit Electric , the Transit Connect Taxi drove onto the stage at the Chicago Auto Show today running on compressed natural gas (CNG). The clean ...
  • Chicago 2010: Ford Transit Connect Electric uses t ...
    Filed under: Chicago Auto Show , Minivan/Van , Work , Ford Ford Transit Connect Electric - Click above for high-res image gallery As expected , Ford brought the latest (and greatest?) incarnations of the Transit Connect utility van to the Chicago Auto Show today. The battery-powered Transit Conne ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 02.10.10
    Next Toyota concept previewed in patent filing? Is this what we'll be seeing in Geneva? Seriously off oil: Better Place's first electric vehicle demonstration center in Israel Hehe. It's buil ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 02.09.10
    Toyota Prius braking issues may predate 2010 model; other problems reported Surprised? Audi Super Bowl ad: what trikes did the Green Police ride? The T3 Series Audi' ...

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

Democracy Now!

  • Haiti, Forgive Us
    The tragedy of the Haitian earthquake continues to unfold, with slow delivery of aid, the horrific number of amputations performed out of desperate medical necessity, more than a million homeless, perhaps 240,000 dead, hunger, dehydration, the emergence of infections and waterborne diseases, and th ...
  • Catch Amy Goodman with Naomi Klein and Raj Patel o ...
    Amy Goodman talks to Raj Patel, author of “The Value of Nothing” and Naomi Klein, author of “The Shock Doctrine,” about their books, the economy, the earthquake in Haiti, and other topics. On C-SPAN’s Book TV: Sunday, February 7th at 3pm (ET) Monday, February 8th at 5am (ET) About the Au ...
  • Democracy Now! Makes Lily Tomlin's Short List
    Lily Tomlin gave Democracy Now! a shout out in Time Magazine’s “Short List of Things To Do.” Here’s the excerpt from Tomlin’s short list: Radio days Stephanie Miller as commentator-comic Mama and her irreverent two-man band of merrymaking mischief monkeys get me laughing every morning. Then ...
  • Oscar Nominees Include Docs on China Earthquake, B ...
    Nominations have been announced for the 82nd annual Academy Awards. In the documentary category, three films featured on Democracy Now! in the past year received nods: * China’s Unnatural Disaster * The Most Dangerous Man in America * Burma VJ
  • Howard Zinn: The People’s Historian
    Howard Zinn, legendary historian, author and activist, died last week at the age of 87. His most famous book is “A People’s History of the United States.” Zinn told me last May, “The idea of ‘A People’s History’ is to go beyond what people have learned in school … history through the eyes of the pr ...

Farming Pathogens

  • The Expulsion
    In 1845 a diplomat delivered a letter from Friedrich Wilhelm to Louis Philippe of France protesting the insults leveled at the Prussian king by expatriates living in Paris. King Louis had the radicals’ newspaper closed down and the group, along with one Karl Marx, deported. This was not the first ti ...
  • Do Pathogens Time Travel?
    Evolution arises from a wealth of failure: 1) natural selection requires large and variable populations comprised largely of organisms that fail because their designs do not match their present problems and 2) chance destruction occurs at all spatiotemporal scales. So clearly strict optimization doe ...
  • We Are All Astronauts Now
    Five years ago I gave copies of this essay to a few friends and family as a year-end holiday gift. As a first stab I think it’s aged well, despite its ignorance of the work of Berger, Harvey, Reichenbach, among others. I offer it now to everyone else in a similar spirit–all in good fun, [...]
  • Pigs Do Fly! Implications for Influenza
    The influenza genome is segmented. Eight pieces of single-stranded RNA encode for 11 proteins: PB2, PB1, PB1-F2, PA, HA, NP, NA, M1, M2, NS1, and NS2. The segmentation allows influenza of different subtypes infecting the same host to trade segments like card players on a Friday night. Most of the re ...
  • Breeding Influenza: The Political Virology of Offs ...
    What better way to medicate against a holiday’s genocidal origins and the hunger now swelling worldwide in the wake of a related banker-brought recession than with a bellyful of turkey, stuffing, yams, and pumpkin pie? Despite its rotten ambiguities Thanksgiving remains my favorite American holiday. ...

Digg Green

  • Amazon River Water Being Stolen and Bottled Abroad
    A recently published report is exposing some shocking exploitation of the Amazon's natural resources--and this times it's water being stolen. Where is this water headed? According to the report, "tankers are quietly removing water" to be bottled and sold in Europe and the Middle East.
  • Insects Use Wind to Travel Efficiently at 60 MPH o ...
    Migrating insects have evolved to take advantage very efficiently of high speed winds (up to 60 MPH, possibly more) to travel hundreds of kilometers in relatively short periods of time, all that while correcting for crosswinds taking them off-course, and expanding as little energy as possible.
  • The Land Where Electric Bikes Rule
    China, the world's bicycle kingdom - one for every three inhabitants - is going electric. Workers weary of crammed public transport are upgrading to battery-powered bikes and scooters. Even some who can afford cars are ditching them to avoid traffic jams and expensive gasoline.
  • 6 Great Environmental Pranks
    Never underestimate the power of a good prank, especially when big business and government is the victim. In recent years environmental activists have taken advantage of that phenomenon to generate exposure for important issues by pranking some of the world's biggest businesses, organizations and go ...
  • Texas Rancher An Unlikely Environmentalist
    A vacuum salesman turned fried chicken magnate turned rancher has spent the last 40 years turning the worst land he could find into a model of habitat restoration.

Invisible Opportunity

  • “If My Nose Was Running Money” By Aaro ...
  • Christmas Day Crotch Bomber Tied to Israel, FBI | ...
    The Christmas Day “terrorist” is the latest in a series of staged incidents meant to make The Clash of Civilizations appear plausible and “the war on terrorism” rational. The storyline does not hold together. Not even a little bit. As usual, the source of this media-fueled fear campaign traces direc ...
  • Mossad murdered 530 Iraqi scientists
    Assassinations of Iraq academics in Iraq never existed prior to April 2003. Numerous reports for many months have stated that with collaboration from American occupation forces, Israel�s espionage apparatus, Mossad, slaughtered at least 530 Iraqi scientists and academic professors. Assassinations of ...
  • JFK Conspiracy? PROOF finally revealed! Sewer RATS ...
  • Majority of Americans Still in the Dark About Fede ...
    Yet about 75 percent said they are not aware of the impending federal requirement for greater energy efficiency that will lead to the phaseout of less efficient lighting. Osram Sylvania found that 74 percent of the people it surveyed had switched to an energy-saving light bulb in the past year and a

    Insurgency Watch - Posts

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

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Twilight Earth

  • 2010 East Coast Snowfall Blamed on Global Warming?
    Could warmer atmospheric temperatures be responsible for increased snowfall? Is Global Warming causing Snowpocolypse? Related posts: Photo Sunday: Winter Wonderland – East Coast Blizzard 09 -SnOMG! Caribou Herds Getting Smaller as a Result of Global Warming The Global Warming Debate is Over
  • China Blows Past the Rest of the World as Largest ...
    China blows past Denmark, Germany, Spain and the United States to become the world's largest maker of Wind Turbines. Related posts: Windspire Wind Turbine Generating Electricity at Michigan Governor’s House Mariah Power and Windspire Wind Turbine Featured on 20/20 Mariah Power Celebrates 400 ...
  • School Lunch Reform? I Dont Think So! (Cartoon)
    Follow Joe’s cartoonery at JoeMohrToons.com and on Twitter at @GreenCartoons. Related posts: Monsanto News Roundup – A Frankenfood Extravaganza of GMO News Articles There is This Duck that I Have Lunch With Dont Stop the Drilling to Save the Polar Bears
  • Alfalfa at the Eleventh Hour
    The USDA is getting closer to approving Monsanto's genetically engineered (GE) alfalfa, despite the fact that it's likely to contaminate other crops... Related posts: Monsanto News Roundup – A Frankenfood Extravaganza of GMO News Articles What is Genetic Pollution and How is it Affecting our F ...
  • TwilighTV Video – Duraflame Firelog – Is it Eco?
    Adam Shake from Simple Earth Media tests the Duraflame Firelog for Eco friendliness. Related posts: Twilight Earth Debuts TwilighTV – Sustainable Living Video News Cop15 – On The Streets – Day One Video

Inhabitat

  • Circular Pod-Shaped Tea House is Heated by Compost
    If you’ve ever experienced composting in action, you may know that things can get pretty hot when microbes meet organic material. So what if there was a way to capture all that heat and use it to warm up a cozy little space? Tokyo based architects Bakoko have come up with a circular pod-shaped teaho ...
  • San Francisco to Offer $150 Million in Loans for G ...
    Are you a San Francisco resident looking to add a solar hot water heater, photovoltaic panels, or other renewable energy measure to your home? Soon the city might help you pay for it through the new GreenFinanceSF program, which is offering $150 million in lending for water conservation, renewable e ...
  • Faltazi Envisions the Eco Kitchen of the Future
    This green Ekokook kitchen by Faltazi design is one of the most well-researched culinary concepts we have seen. Ekokook proposes that in the future, the general public will strive to become self-sufficient in their homes, and they will do so through conservation and reuse. Eco enthusiasts will drool ...
  • GREEN BUSINESS PROFILE: Unplugged on a Rug
    5 Lessons About Small Business You Can Learn From Your Kids If you own your own business and have small kids, you probably know that it ain’t easy to find a balance between the two. But for two moms in New York City who run a small company that organizes ‘Great Green Playdates’ for parents and [... ...
  • 13 Red Hot and Green Gifts for a Sustainable Valen ...
    Valentine’s Day is only 4 days away, so if you’re still shopping for the perfect present to please your eco-Romeo or Juliet, you’ll want to check out our green gift guide chock full of eco-friendly gift ideas. From exquisite sustainable jewelry to steamy lingerie to solar-powered unmentionables, bro ...

Pogue's Posts

Open Your Eyes News

  • Effort To Retroactively Approve Illegal Jerusalem ...
    IMEMC – A seven-story building constructed by right-wing Israeli settlers on Palestinian land, in East Jerusalem in 2004, is moving toward receiving ‘retroactive approval,’ with the unexpected support of Israel’s Interior Minister, Eli Yishai. This support adds an air of legitimacy to the settler’s ...
  • Croat scientist warns ice age could start in five ...
    Croatian Times – A top scientist in Croatia has warned Europe to prepare for an ice age instead of talking about global warming. Physician Vladimir Paar suggests one would not need to cross the sea when travelling from Ireland or UK to Croatia via the rest of Europe. “A majority of Europe will be un ...
  • Appeal by China dissident Liu Xiaobo rejected
    BBC – Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo has had his appeal against an 11-year prison sentence rejected by a court in Beijing, his lawyer has said. Mr Liu was convicted six weeks ago on charges of subversion, to widespread international condemnation. The United States and the European Union have called fo ...
  • Hello Botox, Bye-Bye Sadness—But Not for the Reaso ...
    Newsweek – Paralyzing the “frown” muscles also inhibits the ability to understand anger and sadness. And here I thought my Botoxed friends were happy, mellow, and sweet-tempered because a couple of injections of a neurotoxin had eliminated their frown lines, knocked years off their apparent age, an ...
  • Obama on CEO bonuses: He doesn’t ‘begrudge’ wealth
    AP — Less than a month after calling bank executives’ pay “obscene,” President Barack Obama is declining to criticize bonuses received by two top Wall Street chief executives, saying he doesn’t “begrudge people success or wealth.” In an interview with Bloomberg Business Week, the president compared ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Will Obomba bomb Iran to save his presidency? How ...
    Will Obomba bomb Iran to save his presidency? How do communists respond? (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Will Obama bomb Iran to save his presidency? That’s anti-communist, neo-con Daniel Pipes’ advice to the commander-in-chief: “This poor performance has caused an unprecedented collapse in the ...
  • Por IRTR: Un cálculo aproximado del valor de traba ...
    Un cálculo aproximado del valor de trabajo, por la compañera «Serve the People» de IRTR (publicado originalmente el 30 de junio de 2005) (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) (English) Intentemos calcular el valor del trabajo abstracto mediano socialmente necesario. Este cálculo nos dará una idea de ...
  • RAIM: Earthquake Strikes Haiti; Imperialism is a D ...
    Earthquake Strikes Haiti; Imperialism is a Disaster (www.raimd.wordpress.com) On Tuesday, January 12th, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake rocked the country of Haiti, its epicenter a mere fifteen miles from the country’s capital, Port-au-Prince. By that Thursday, 80,000 people were already buried in mass-g ...
  • Για το βίντεο με τίτλο: «Για τη Θεωρία των Παραγωγ ...
    Για το βίντεο με τίτλο: «Για τη Θεωρία των Παραγωγικών Δυνάμεων» μέρος 3ο Shubelmorgan.wordpress.com) Προτού δημοσιεύσουμε το βίντεο “On the Theory of the Productive Forces” , προτείναμε κάποια σχετικά αναγνώσματα, ώστε αυτό να γίνει πιο κατανοητό και ευχάριστο. Στη προτεινόμενη λίστα προσθέτουμε κά ...
  • COMRADE KAZIMIERZ MIJAL DIES AT 99
    COMRADE KAZIMIERZ MIJAL DIES AT 99 (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Comrade Kazimierz Mijal died in Poland on January 28. He would have celebrated his 100th birthday later this year. Comrade Mijal took a firm line against the revisionism that had subverted socialism in Poland by the 1950s. He co ...

PakAlert

  • PTV Suspends Two Journalists For Attending US Emba ...
    PTV journalist Saghir Naqqash [Left] suspended for visiting a foreign embassy withou prior permission. His colleague Shakeel Awan [Right-in black suit] faces similar action. The state-run PTV has taken stern action against two of its journalists who appeared in pictures of a private party at the ...
  • This Ambassador Is A Sore For US-Pakistani Relatio ...
    “I have a challenge for Ms Patterson today. I challenge her to repeat every single word she said back then and swear it is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth … America’s reputation is lying in the lowest gutters in Pakistan at the moment and it can’t sink any lower.” By AHMED ...
  • Disinformation Tactics: The Methods Used To Keep Y ...
    By Giordano Bruno | Neithercorp Press There was a time, not too long ago (relatively speaking), that governments and the groups of elites that controlled them did not find it necessary to conscript themselves into wars of disinformation. Propaganda was relatively straightforward. The lies were ...
  • 10 Geopolitical Predictions for 2010 & Short Term ...
    A great – and still growing – divergence appeared in 2009 between public statements by leaders and their public performance. The politicized, romanticized theater of increasingly populist “democratic” leaders and media seemed to be of a different planet from activities taking place in the real w ...
  • The Planning of War Behind Closed Doors
    Brussels, London, Istanbul: A Week Of Western War Councils by Rick Rozoff The defense chiefs of all 28 NATO nations and an undisclosed number of counterparts from non-Alliance partners gathered in Istanbul, Turkey on February 4 to begin two days of meetings focused on the war in Afgha ...

ecogeek

  • IBM Creates High-Efficiency Natural Solar Cell
    IBM has created a high-efficiency solar cell made from abundant materials.  The cell achieves 9.6 percent efficiency, which is 40 percent higher than other attempts at natural solar cells. The cell is made from copper, tin zinc, sulfur and sellenium opposed.  Solar cells have been created with gre ...
  • North America's Greenest Building?
    The University of British Columbia is claiming the title of North America's greenest building for its impressive $37 million Center for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS ), currently under construction and to be completed in 2011.  What makes this building the greenest? According to UBC ...
  • Energy Star for Data Centers Launching in June
    Starting in June of this year, data cente r operators can apply for Energy Star status.  The new rating system will score data centers based on PUE, or power unit efficiency, on a scale of 1 - 100. The operators will use an online tool that allows them to enter information on energy use and operat ...
  • New Bill Would Create 10 Million Solar Roofs in 10 ...
    A really exciting new bill was introduced to Congress last week by Bernie Sanders of Vermont.  The bill lays out a plan to install 10 million solar roofs and 200,000 solar water heaters over the next 10 years through tax rebates and incentives.  The installations would equal 30 GW of clean energy o ...
  • Chicago Area Gets Wind-Powered EV Charging Station
    The Windy City area is capitalizing on its most famous attribute with a new wind-powered electric vehicle charging station.  Located in Highland Park, 30 miles outside of the city, the charging station uses electricity generated by Illinois wind farms for law firm Emalfarb Swan & Bain. The chargin ...

Times Online - Science

  • 4,000-year-old strands of hair unravel human trave ...
    All that is left of him are four tufts of hair and four fragments of bone, yet the DNA of an Eskimo who died 4,000 years ago in Greenland has shed new light on human history.
  • Government attempt to repair relations with scient ...
    A government move to repair its relations with scientists after the dismissal of Professor David Nutt as the chief drugs adviser risks having the opposite effect, 40 leading researchers say.
  • New test Counsyl focuses on classic genetic diseas ...
    With its focus on classic genetic diseases such as cystic fibrosis, the Counsyl “universal genetic test” has a distinctly “retro” feel to it. Many of the ethical issues raised by this new service are not new but rather present new challenges because of the scale and means of delivery.
  • How a community stamped out Tay-Sachs disease with ...
    When the Dor Yeshorim organisation was set up in New York and Israel in 1983, Tay-Sachs disease was rife in the Jewish community. Rabbi Joseph Ekstein, its founder, lost four children to the condition. The mutated gene that causes the disorder, which usually kills children before the age of 8, ...
  • UK couples offered Counsyl gene tests for 100 inhe ...
    British couples are to be offered a groundbreaking genetic test that would virtually eliminate their chances of having a baby with one of more than 100 inherited diseases.

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Is Little Green Footballs a Communist Blog now?
    "The American right wing has gone off the rails, into the bushes, and off the cliff. I won’t be going over the cliff with them." From LGF's Charles Johnson: Why I Parted Ways With The Right 1. Support for fascists, both in America (see: Pat Buchanan, Robert Stacy McCain, etc.) and in Europe (se ...
  • Will Teabagger anti-immigration agnst spill over t ...
    �Smells like Teabaggrrrr spirit... Peter Schiff is well known for his for far right wing way out there libertarian Ron Paul-like views . You have to wonder if some of Teaba grrrrr angst will spill over to the GOP primary battles and burn Peter Schiff here in Connecticut ? Jim Gilchrist, founder of ...
  • Valuable Lesson From Sarah Palin's Book
    TRex has extracted and documented the bulk of the knowledge that can be had from Sarah Palin's new book, Going Rogue. Trust me on this, there is a valuable lesson to be had from her book that every Blogger, journalist and pundit should be sharing with anyone that is truly interested in the politic ...
  • Would you drive this car?
    More importantly, would you buy and drive this car? Tata Motors May Launch Nano In America: Special Editions In The Works Efficient, light, and affordable. That is the philosophy behind the Tata Nano, the world’s cheapest car, and one of the smallest as well. Launched earlier this year in Tata’s ho ...
  • T-9 and Holding:
    About 8 minutes before the shuttle blasts off : At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Atlantis and crew are nearing liftoff at Launch Pad 39A, prepared to begin the STS-129 cargo-delivery mission to the International Space Station. The countdown clock is holding at T-9 minutes. ...

SPL Center

  • Survivor: Home Gardening Edition
    Paranoia is potentially profitable. Plenty of people are eager to sell you freeze-dried foods, medical kits and even weapons to help you survive the supposed social chaos on the horizon. Now, there’s the “Survival Seed Bank,” brought to you by an outfit called Solutions for Science. For a mere $297, ...
  • Gun Rights Advocates to March Against Phantom Thre ...
    Public support for gun control has been steadily declining, the U.S. Supreme Court has issued a ruling that strengthens an individual’s right to own firearms and President Obama has said nothing to suggest he will take on gun-rights enthusiasts. No matter. Gun rights advocates, including some in t ...
  • Federal Jury Convicts Missouri Extremist
    Whoever complained that the wheels of justice move slowly would have enjoyed this week’s trial of Robert Joos Jr. A federal jury in Springfield, Mo., needed nine minutes to convict the reputed antigovernment white supremacist on charges of being a felon in possession of firearms and a felon in posse ...
  • Haitian-Oriented Radio Station Has Surprising New ...
    How’s this for white supremacist irony? Derek Black, son of Stormfront.org founder Don Black and friend of ex-Klansman David Duke, began broadcasting a twice-weekly program on Tuesday on a South Florida news/talk radio station with a large Haitian audience. Derek Black, who turns 21 this month, is h ...
  • Indictments Detail Alleged Police Cover-up in Beat ...
    At about 11:30 on the night of July 12, 2008, six teenagers brutally assaulted a Latino man in a Shenandoah, Pa., park while yelling “Fucking spic, “Go back to Mexico” and “Tell your fucking Mexican friends to get the fuck out of Shenandoah.” As they gathered at one of their homes after the attack, ...

change: org.

  • Ugly Betty's Undocumented Dad Fights for Immigrati ...
    It's a Wednesday night, which means that I'll soon be watching Ugly Betty , my favorite story of a gold-hearted misfit on her way to making it big, losing some naivete and finding some fashion sense along the way. And my I'm really feeling the Betty love after coming across a 30-second ad featuring ...
  • Bedside Bad Manners
    "Wordlessly, I said to him, 'You fucking bastard," John McPhee writes in this week's New Yorker . His vitriol was directed at a young doctor with a staggering lack of bedside manner who had just informed McPhee that his father was on the verge of death. What the doctor was thinking, we don't know. B ...
  • Exit Charlie Wilson, Godfather of Afghan Mujahidee ...
    Charlie Wilson, U.S. Congressman, Democrat from Texas, Godfather of the Afghan Mujahideen, died today from cardio-pulmonary arrest at age 86. The 2007 film Charlie Wilson's War cemented Wilson's comic book hero status as armory builder for apparently defenseless Afghan villagers in their campaign to ...
  • Poverty Reaches the Suburbs
    Take a look at the picture on the left from a few years back. The perfectly manicured lawn is a luxurious green. Newly-built homes, uniform in architecture, look sturdy and clean, if not a bit drab. The neighborhood seems calm. Flash forward to April 2009, when, according to the photographer , a man ...
  • Vancouver Gets an "F" In Prepping for Olympic-Size ...
    This week, athletes from countries around the world are converging upon Vancouver, Canada, in the hope of bringing home a gold medal and Olympic glory for their country. Also this week, human traffickers in the form of pimps are flooding to the city hoping to bring home a very different kind of gold ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Dems Sign on to GOP Bill Preventing Funds for Civi ...
    by Susan Crabtree Two Democrats signed on to a Republican bill that would prevent any funds from being spent on prosecuting Guantánamo Bay suspects in U.S. federal court. Reps. Jason Altmire (D-Pa.) and Mike McMahon (D-N.Y.) last week joined Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.) and 16 other Republicans in sponso ...
  • US Climate Monitoring Information Service Gets Go- ...
    by Suzanne Goldenberg The Obama administration delivered a vote of confidence in climate science today by founding a service to study and report on global warming. It will put scientists and data from the national weather service and various departments of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admini ...
  • Language of Iran Sanctions Leads to Familiar 'Regi ...
    by Mohammed A. Salih WASHINGTON - If there were any doubts about what exactly U.S. President Barack Obama meant when he warned Iran of "growing consequences" during his State of the Union address last month, they seem to be dispelled by recent statements from top administration officials, who are be ...
  • NATO to Innocent Afghan Villagers: 'Keep Your Head ...
    by Peter Graff KABUL - Afghan villagers should stay inside and "keep their heads down" when thousands of U.S. Marines launch a massive assault on a densely-populated district in coming days, NATO's civilian representative to Afghanistan said Tuesday. U.S.-led NATO forces are planning one of the 8-ye ...
  • Pre-Emptive PR? Seeking A Kinder, Gentler Image Fo ...
    by Sheera Frenkel Israel submitted its formal response last month to a U.N.-commissioned probe that accused both Israel and Hamas of war crimes during last winter's war in the Gaza Strip. Israel defended its conduct and pledged to fully investigate the U.N. allegations, but stopped short of a U.N. d ...

Lifehacker

  • Stop Google Buzz From Showing the World Your Conta ...
    Whether you call it a huge privacy flaw or just an annoyance, Google Buzz can put the contacts you automatically follow—a.k.a. those you most frequently email or chat—on a public profile page. Here's how to undo that. Google Blogoscoped's Philipp Lenssen felt he had to avoid following certain Buzz c ...
  • AVI Joiner Combines Split Video Files into One [Do ...
    Windows: Ever download a movie from—oh, I don't know—some far-reaching nether-region of the internet, and when your download finishes realize the video is split into multiple parts? AVI Joiner quickly combines those split videos in just a few clicks. Using it could not be easier. Just run the app (A ...
  • Build a Clean, Wall-Mounted Charging Station [DIY]
    Ugly cords are the obvious villain in your gadget-charging clutter, but even if you put together a nice charging station, you've still got to sacrifice some counterspace to your charging station's footprint. This clean, wall-mounted charging station tackles both problems. Pam from home blog Bibbidi ...
  • Google Buzz: Love It or Hate It? [Snap Judgment]
    When Google launched Buzz yesterday, a lot of you were left wondering, What is Google Buzz ? Now that it's been rolled out more widely—and you've had a chance to give it a spin—we want to know what you think. How Do You Like Google Buzz So Far? (polls ) If you're all right with Buzz but you do ...
  • Desktop Eye Puts Webcam Surveillance Right in Your ...
    Windows: Desktop Eye is a small sidebar gadget that puts security camera monitoring in an unobtrusive widget and saves you from running a bulky separate application that may not always be in focus where you can see it. It's worth noting immediately that Desktop Eye is not an absolutely real-time mon ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Bad boys, bad boys, what you going to do when they ...
    By Dave Anderson: The Afghan Army and the Afghan police are supposed to stand up so the US, NATO and ISAF can stand down. It's somewhat hard to stand up when you're enjoying some high quality heroin or hash. Reuters reports: When British trainers administered random drugs tests to 25 Afghan police r ...
  • The Economics of Empire II
    Commentary By Ron Beasley As I noted here it's economics that bring an end to empires not military defeats. In Wars Sending US into Ruin Eric Margolis supplies some details. More empires have fallen because of reckless finances than invasion. The latest example was the Soviet Union, which spent itse ...
  • Endless Whack-A-Mole On The NorthWest Frontier
    By Steve Hynd Ahead of the well-publicised new massive offensive about to take place in Helmand province, Afghanistan, Afghan Taliban fighters are flocking to the region and digging in. Helman has already been declared "cleared" four times since 2001 so one has to wonder why this time the "clear, ho ...
  • Bacevich On Weaning America From The Folly Of Cons ...
    By Steve Hynd This weekend's "must read" essay is by Andrew Bacevich. In it he looks at the dynamic that has led America to begin one war after another since 1945 but with only three cleacut victories, against three pint-sized opponents, in the Dominican Republic, Granada and Panama. He writes: A se ...
  • Learning The Lessons We'd Rather They Didn't
    By Steve Hynd There are many, many problems with training the Afghan police which make it unbelievable that "they'll stand up so we can stand down" in any sense accept a paper-thin PR one. And just to add to those woes, it seems they're learning lessons by emulation as well as by formal training. Af ...

Water Wars

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Electronic Intifada

  • Rights group targeted over Goldstone report
    WASHINGTON (IPS) - A campaign of attacks against the New Israel Fund (NIF), a US-based progressive organization that supports human rights groups in Israel, has gained attention in ...
  • The end of sectarianism?
    Fifteen years of civil war followed by 20 years of civil strife have cemented the role of Lebanon's leaders as bulwarks of their communities. If any serious sectarian reform begins ...
  • 30 hours in Gaza
    One of my first glimpses of the Gaza Strip was a youth on a motorcycle who threw me his red kuffiyeh . "Remember me!" he shouted, before disappearing in a sea of flags. With a cert ...
  • The Netanyahu-Fayyad "economic peace" one year on
    The results of the first year of Netanyahu's economic peace are visible. While there has been no progress on the political front, security and economic cooperation with the PA has ...
  • The false sacredness of the 1967 border
    The Palestinian submission to US pressure that Israel's large West Bank settlement blocs be annexed to Israel against a fictitious land swap is another vindication of the Israeli b ...

CS Monitor - News

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

The Wonk Room

  • National Gay Military Group Rolls Out Plan To Repe ...
    Eager to capitalize on the recent momentum for repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) and weary of the military’s ability to derail the process with a year-long review, a national organization of gay and lesbian troops and veterans has proposed a plan that would lock in a date for full Congressional ...
  • Paul Ryan: Democrats Can Achieve Bipartisanship On ...
    Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) appeared on MSNBC this afternoon to argue that “the party in power has to be willing to legitimately collaborate with the minority party.” In other words, Democrats should “scrap” the existing “fiscal train wreck” of a bill and accept the GOP’s incoherent incremental approach t ...
  • Duncan Slams Lenders Blocking Loan Reform: ‘ ...
    Earlier this week, the New York Times detailed how student loan companies are “using sit-downs with lawmakers, town-hall-style meetings and petition drives” as part of a multi-million lobbying campaign aimed at torpedoing the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act (SAFRA), which would cut the com ...
  • Even Out Of Power, Bush Administration Has A Probl ...
    Our guest blogger is Ken Gude, Associate Director of the International Rights and Responsibility Program at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. We are in day 47 of the conservative exploitation of a failed terrorist attack for partisan political purposes. The good news is that the public d ...
  • Gates Shouldn’t Use Survey Of Troops As An E ...
    During an interview with Fox News, Defense Secretary Robert Gates implied that he would slow walk the military’s review of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT). “I think this has to be done very carefully and very deliberately,” he said. “The military culture is a very strong one… These people do not have c ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • "Dear John" - - - deleted scenes
    Jeeziz-H-Kee-Rice!!! So the number one movie in the USA last week is some sappy flick called "Dear John" in which a young woman falls in love with a young man but their romance is punctured by his constantly being sent overseas as a special-forces soldier in the post-9-11 era??? It's never reveale ...
  • It's Official: Canadians are as Ignorant & Ugly as ...
    We helped topple the elected president of Haiti and helped install an interim regime of murderers to destroy the deposed president's political party. Our media had reported jack-shit about this, and most Canadians appeared not to care anyway. We've spent 8 years in Afghanistan and the place is sti ...
  • A Post About Patrick "Asshole" Ross
    [ Edited to Add: Patrick, in this post I'm asking for an apology from you necessary to sustain your commenting privileges here. You can read all about it! But I'm here attaching one further condition. Since I've mentioned "Canadian Cynic" ("CC") and your obsessive stalking of him, you'll probably ...
  • Is Tom Flanagan Simple?
    Last night , on CBC's amusingly titled "Power Panel" Tom Flanagan tried to make himself out as something other than a "harper stooge" by trashing harper's inarguably ridiculous excuse for prorogation (to deal with the awesome task of winding down the response to the great recession) and wishing that ...
  • Dred Tory Speaks ...
    You really oughta read it : Canada has just lost its first war, after having dragged over a hundred of its bravest souls into futile slaughter, without having earned a single battle honour worthy of being affixed to any of our regimental colours, and without being able to promise those on whose beha ...

Financial Sense Editorials

  • Market Observation: A Sterling Account of Silver's ...
    by Rob Kirby. "From Mark Leibovit’s most recent VR Gold Letter: "In the news, we learned that demand for precious metals weakened substantially in January. The world's largest gold-backed exchange-traded fund, New York's SPDR Gold Trust (GLD), said its holdings fell 21.7 tons or 1.9 percent in Janua ...
  • The Devil is in the Details
    by Paul Nolte. "Sinister forces are at work in both the economy and financial markets. The devil is in the details of the just released employment report showing further job losses, yet an unemployment rate that fell to 9.7%. After all revisions to prior year data, it was noted that the US lost even ...
  • Th*nk*ng (Oracles)
    by Fred Cederholm. "I’ve been thinking about oracles. Actually I’ve been thinking about predictors, money, politics, the economy, and the "recovery." I remember back to Rochelle High School Latin classes when I TH*NK about Oracles --- most specifically the Oracle at Delphi. The ancients in particula ...
  • Market Observation: Cycle Logical Issues?
    by Brian Pretti. "One of the themes I’ve been discussing on our subscriber site has been our expectation for an increase in market volatility. Probably about three weeks back I wrote, “Unlike the consensus and big Street houses which have been predicting/expecting falling volatility in 2010 after an ...
  • Vintage Wine Turns Sour for Financiers
    by Alex Daley & Doug Hornig. "When the folks at a private equity firm gather at the holiday party refreshment table to talk about “vintage,” they aren’t commenting on the Château Pétrus. The world of private equity financing doesn’t have high visibility, but it is big business behind the scenes. Unl ...

on Government Oversight

  • D.C.'s Second Blizzard: An Avalanche of Open Gover ...
    In perfect tandem with the second major snowstorm to hit the District of Columbia this season, the White House and federal agencies on Friday steadily began to release the second deluge of open government materials as required by the Open...
  • Morning Snowke: Did the Deputy Secretary of Defens ...
    Taiwan’s $1 billion missile buy from Raytheon under review by watchdog group by Michael Richardson [The Examiner] If Rep. Dicks takes lead on Defense panel, Boeing may benefit by Roxana Tiron [The Hill] TARP Watchdog Launches Audit of Bailout Contracts...
  • Senate Committee Talks a lot of "Oversight," But L ...
    Today’s confirmation hearing of President Obama’s three nominees to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) did little to relieve POGO’s concerns about longtime nuclear power proponent William Magwood’s ability to serve as an independent NRC Commissioner and stringent overseer of the...
  • FAA Whistleblowers Speak Out About Uncorrected Saf ...
    Looks like the next round of winter weather isn't the only good reason to stay inside tonight -- at 9pm EST, PBS airs a new FRONTLINE investigation on regional airlines, featuring disturbing information about uncorrected safety violations provided by the...
  • Morning Smoke: A Quicker, more Nimble SEC?
    S.E.C. Enforcers Focus on Avoiding Madoff Repeat by Jenny Anderson and Zachery Kouwe [The New York Times] Agencies Open to the Public – Some Not So Much by Jennifer LaFleur [ProPublica] No Exit in Sight for U.S. As Fannie, Freddie...

Science Express

  • Bcl6 gene sculpts helper T cell to boost antibody ...
    Expression of a single gene programs an immune system helper T cell that fuels rapid growth and diversification of antibodies in a cellular structure implicated in autoimmune diseases and development of B cell lymphoma, scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center reported toda ...
  • Scientists discover gene mutation responsible for ...
    University of Utah researchers and their colleagues have identified the gene that is mutated in a hereditary form of a rare neuroendocrine tumor called paraganglioma (PGL). The gene, called hSDH5, is required for activation of an enzyme complex that plays a critical role in the chemical reactions th ...
  • Researchers identify itch-specific neurons in mice ...
    Historically, many scientists have regarded itching as just a less intense version of pain. They have spent decades searching for itch-specific nerve cells to explain how the brain perceives itch differently from pain, but none have been found.
  • Sustained quantum information processing demonstra ...
    Raising prospects for building a practical quantum computer, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated sustained, reliable information processing operations on electrically charged atoms (ions). The new work, described in the August 6 issue of Science Express ...
  • Dark Matter May be Easier to Detect than Previousl ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- The Milky Way, like many other galaxies, is thought to be embedded in massive, lumpy amounts of dark matter that release gamma rays and other emissions. Although at first these emissions seem too faint to detect, recent observations have shown that they may be stronger than previous ...

TechDirt

  • Indie Filmmaker Hits It Big With Free Film Online
    Tom sends over the story of an independent filmmaker, Stevie Long, who wrote and acted in the low-budget indie film Strictly Sexual that has found tremendous success by being online where people can watch it for free. Apparently, Long had a deal with some sort of online distributor, who got the fil ...
  • Norwegian Appeals Court Dismisses Entertainment In ...
    Back in November, a district court in Norway ruled that ISP Telenor did not have to block The Pirate Bay, since the ISP itself was not contributing to any copyright infringement. Not surprisingly, the entertainment industry appealed, but Kristian Bysheim alerts us to the news that the appeals court ...
  • Missed Use Case? Google Buzz Reveals Who You Chat ...
    There's certainly been a lot of "buzz" (har har) about Google Buzz, which, frankly, is a bit baffling (hence us not writing about it earlier). It looks like Google's latest attempt to be Facebook/Twitter. Sorta. That said, Nicholas Carlson found a rather scary privacy flaw in the way it's set up ...
  • Iran Says No To Gmail; Yes To 'We Spy On You' Emai ...
    Given reports that Iran is potentially handing out death sentences to bloggers whose content the Iranian gov't dislikes, you would think that a secure and private means of communication is important for many people in that country. And apparently the Iranian government realizes this and doesn't lik ...
  • Google's Latest Music Blog Kerfuffle Highlights Pr ...
    You may recall that almost exactly a year ago there were all sorts of reports of music blogs using Google's Blogger service finding their blog posts silently disappearing . The issue, it turned out, was the way Google dealt with DMCA takedown notices from copyright holders. The way the DMCA is set ...

VacTruth

  • Mumps outbreak spreads among people who got vaccin ...
    . . . by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor NaturalNews (NaturalNews) To hear the vaccine pushers say it, all the recent outbreaks of mumps and measles are caused by too few people seeking out vaccinations. It’s all those “non-vaccinated people” who are a danger to society, they say, ...
  • Health Doesn’t Come Through a Needle
    . . . Dr. Sherri Tenpenny DrTenpenny.com 02/08/2010 From Maine to Maui, Vancouver to Miami, autism rates across North America are soaring. As of February, 2010, there are an estimated 300,000 severely autistic children in this country — requiring nearly $9billion per year in services. Then number ...
  • John Erb Report Reveals Toxic Nature of MSG
    . . . Don’t forget folks, MSG is an ingredient in your vaccines! Link to the CDC’s vaccine ingredient webpage. Check out the MSG Truth website here. Revised Erb Report on MSG to the WHO
  • Cervarix HPV vaccine adverts are untrue and should ...
    . . . Christina England vactruth.com 2/2/2010 Cervical cancer kills around 940 women in the UK every year and the majority of these women are over the age of 45 years. Although shocking, this is a comparatively low figure,compared to those dying from other cancers, the highest rate of death bei ...
  • Scientific Link to Autism Identified
    The Center For Modeling Optimal Outcomes PRNewswire 11/18/2009 JACKSON, N.J., Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ — During its research into the application of neuroscience in business, a New Jersey based think tank, The Center for Modeling Optimal Outcomes®, LLC (The Center) made an inadvertent and amazing disc ...

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    If you ever wondered how to confront the racism, sexism, and homophobia of your family and friends, Model Minority shows us how it is done. Tech Dirt covers the creative ways music artists are getting it done outside the traditional system. Alternet has an amazing article highlighting the stories of ...
  • Over-Reliance on the Law
    Over the weekend, a friend of mine posted a video (below) about a Fox news report that was squashed. Several years ago, Fox reporters were working on a story about Monsanto and rBGH.  Monsanto, upon getting wind of the story, had their attorneys send Fox a letter threatening to sue.  Fox wanted to s ...
  • The Art of Non-War
    Let’s set aside for just a moment the horrors of war.  Ignore the cost in human lives, the suffering, the destruction.  Ignore the repercussions that are felt for generations.  And let’s ignore any debates about what it means to declare “victory” in a place like Iraq, where people continue to fig ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I am so tired of hearing about kids being beat up and criminalized.  Are you prepping them for life or prison?  (That was a rhetorical question.) Racialicious has a really beautiful and brave post by A. Rahman Ford called Race, Disability and Denial. Far be it for me to tell Americans that they shou ...
  • Media and Anarchists Violent Reputation
    Picture an anarchist in your head.  What do you see? For most people the image is of a black clad, pubescent boy throwing rocks through a store window or spray painting an anarchist symbol.  People with a better sense of history might picture a slightly older, wild-bearded man making assassination p ...

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Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Revising The Economic Problems Wont Make Them Go A ...
    Bob Chapman International Forecaster Thursday, February 11th, 2010 The threat of an inflationary depression around the world, metals will survive, currencies will not, Banks holding most of US deposits are broke, Paul Volcker would be a better chairman of the Fed, we need Glass-Steagall ba ...
  • MSNBC’s Brewer ‘Not Sure’ Heavy Snowfall Refutes E ...
    Youtube Thursday, February 11th, 2010 “We’re taking about climate change here and more severe weather so I’m not sure a lot of snow refutes all the evidence to the contrary.”
  • Press room laughter dies down
    PATRICK GAVIN Politico Thursday, February 11th, 2010 The White House press room was a jovial place to be in the early days of President Barack Obama’s presidency. But times have changed. Back in May, POLITICO analyzed the press briefings and found that the instances of laughter — as indicated by “ ...
  • Great news: the people responsible for Amazongate, ...
    James Delingpole London Telegraph Thursday, February 11th, 2010 Our old friend Jo Abbess BSc is back. And she’s got some searching, pertinent questions which could put paid to my AGW-denying antics once and for all! Dear James, I am researching a short article on the possible relationships between f ...
  • Gordon Brown’s plan for global bank tax ‘a step cl ...
    UK Daily Mail Thursday, February 11th, 2010 The world’s economic powers appear to be moving closer to a global bank tax in response to last year’s crisis, Gordon Brown suggested today. The Prime Minister has been a strong advocate of some form of co-ordinated levy on the banks, which could bring in ...

food and water watch

  • “Fragrance” or Foe?
    The cosmetics industry is a lightly-regulated, moneymaking machine. It encourages women to buy products to look better, thinner, tanner, softer, and generally more “attractive”. Unfortunately, these products are filled-to-the-brim with chemicals.  We know some of these chemicals are harmful.   That’ ...
  • Farmed Blue fin tuna awash in San Diego
    Ironically, as blue fin tuna populations have dropped dramatically around the world, Imperial Beach in San Diego was unexpectedly awash with them last week as “disoriented” fish struggled in the surf and some were beached on the shore. Blue fin tuna are prized by sport fishermen and high-end sushi r ...
  • The Real Farmville
    Farmville, the virtual farming game on Facebook.com, has recently become an online phenomenon with millions of active players. The game portrays an idyllic farming community where players can create small, personalized farms with options to harvest anything from tomatoes to Clydesdales (for horse h ...
  • Turning Trash into More Trash
    The bottled water industry tries very hard to convince consumers that buying their product is fine, because all those empty bottles are recyclable. What they don’t address is exactly what plastic bottle recycling often entails. Check out this video from National Geographic for a closer look at the p ...
  • Jobs, Pipes, Water
    Last night the House of Representatives passed the Jobs for Main Street Act by a vote of 217-212. The Act would provide $2 billion for wastewater and drinking water infrastructure.  This could lead to about 50,000 people having good jobs repairing water mains, detecting leaks, and modernizing treatm ...

treehugger

  • Firth Stuns in Bamboo Suit at "A Single Man" Premi ...
    We have been following Livia Firth's Green Carpet Challenge on Vogue since inception, and we were delighted with her latest look: a tailored bamboo suit by TreeHugger favorite, Linda Loudermilk . As the wife of English Actor Colin Firth , Livia is making m... Read the full story on TreeHugger ...
  • Icebreaker Earn a LEED Gold Stamp for Their North ...
    Photos: Innovation Textiles and Cresa Partners Icebreaker, the New Zealand outdoor apparel company, who started the Merino wool clothing renaissance in 1994, announced just the other day that their North American headquarters , in Portland, Oregon, had received the U.S. Green Building Council's ...
  • Old Keyboards Find New Life As Upcycled Keyboard P ...
    Image via Neatorama There seems to be no end to the clever things you can create from old computer parts or peripheral components. And that goes for fashion accessories. We've seen rings and earrings made from computer keyboard keys, but...a whole purse? This bag is made of recycled keyboard pi ...
  • Arc'teryx Unwiling to Use Recycled Materials
    Photos: Arc'teryx In traipsing around outdoor clothing and equipment websites the past few months it's been heartwarming to see so many companies striving to reduce their impact on the environment which ultimately is their customer's playground. So it was a bit of jolt to find the following sta ...
  • Don't Oversimplify Glacier Retreating (and Advanci ...
    photo: Joe via flickr. With all the recent brouhaha over inaccurate and since retracted statements in the 2007 IPCC climate change report about the speed with which Himalayan glaciers are melting, a recent series of posts over at China Dialogue is particularly poignant. In it Professor Kenneth ...

Biosingularity

  • Re-Engineering the Human Immune System
    Swine Flu. Spanish Flu. SARS. Almost every year, it seems, there is a new virus to watch out for. Roughly thirty thousand Americans die annually from a new flu strain — meaning roughly one flu fatality for every two victims of car accidents — and there is always the possibility that we will do battl ...
  • New class of brain-protecting drugs emerging
    Researchers have identified a compound that mimics one of the brains own growth factors and can protect brain cells against damage in several animal models of neurological disease. 7,8-dihydroxyflavone is a member of the flavonoid family of chemicals, which are abundant in fruits and vegetables. T ...
  • ‘Starving’ fat suppresses appetite
    Peptides that target blood vessels in fat and cause them to go into programmed cell death (termed apoptosis) could become a model for future weight-loss therapies, say University of Cincinnati (UC) researchers. A research team led by Randy Seeley, PhD, of UC’s Metabolic Diseases Institute, has fou ...
  • Scientists achieve first rewire of genetic switche ...
    Researchers in Manchester have successfully carried out the first rewire of genetic switches, creating what could be a vital tool for the development of new drugs and even future gene therapies. A team of scientists from the School of Chemistry and the Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre (MIB) at ...
  • Why humans outlive apes
    Genetic adaption to meat-rich diets may also lead to high rates of Alzheimer’s and heart disease The same evolutionary genetic advantages that have helped increase human lifespans also make us uniquely susceptible to diseases of aging such as cancer, heart disease and dementia, reveals a study to be ...

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Pruning Shears

  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Declan McCullagh reported on the efforts to give law enforcement agencies direct access to ISP traffic. At the end of the article the Cato Institute throws in the towel and admits it doesn’t give a damn about individual liberty. I ...
  • Living In The Age Of The Exploit
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post One of my favorite blog posts is L33T Justice by Kung Fu Monkey. Aside from being very funny and concisely getting at an important truth, it seems to represent a tipping point - one that mirrored my own. Prior to that things had be ...
  • BlogRoll Amnesty Day
    Today is Blogroll Amnesty Day , the day where bloggers promote their lesser trafficked bretheren (and sisteren(?)). Pruning Shears isn’t exactly an A-List blog and therefore not in a position to drive a whole lot of hits to anyone, but it’s the spirit of the thing that counts. Here are some of my ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Bruce Schneier writes , “In order to comply with government search warrants on user data, Google created a backdoor access system into Gmail accounts.” The bargaining away of our civil liberties in the name of keeping us Safe From T ...
  • Thomas Hoenig Will Save Us All!
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post NOTE: Shortly before I finished this post Ben Bernanke was confirmed by the Senate for a second term as Fed chairman. I’m posting this anyway because I think it was a terrible decision that will only look worse with time, and maybe ...

Natural Health News

  • Even Drugs Thrown in the Trash Can End Up in Your ...
    The federal government advises throwing most unused or expired medications into the trash instead of down the drain, but they can end up in the water anyway, a study from Maine suggests. Tiny amounts of discarded drugs have been found in water at three landfills in the state, confirming suspicions ...
  • Is the U.S. Swine Flu Epidemic Over?
    If the U.S. swine flu epidemic isn't over, it certainly looks as if it's on its last legs. While federal health officials are not ready to declare the threat has passed and the outbreak has run its course, they did report that for the fourth week in a row, no states had widespread flu activity. U.S. ...
  • Six Websites to Help You Find Something Fun to Do
    Have you just moved to a new town? Are you a couch potato? Or have your friends decided they don’t want to do anything this weekend? These six websites will get you out of the house in no time! Craigslist . The grand daddy of all websites to help you get out of the house. � Classes? Check ...
  • When do Memory Lapses Signal Alzheimer’s?
    Where did I park my car? What is that lady's name? Where are my glasses? Some call these "senior moments" or "tip-of-the-tongue" experiences. They're mundane for many elderly (and not-so-elderly) adults, but when do they become something more serious? How does one know when it's time to get screene ...
  • FDA May Require Safer CT Scans to Reduce Radiation ...
    The Food and Drug Administration is considering new safeguards for CT scanners and other imaging machines to prevent patients from receiving unnecessary radiation exposure. Doctors and patients have become increasingly concerned about the risks of medical radiation, which research shows could cause ...

Antemedius

  • Tea Bag Movement: Harbinger of Fascism?
    Anybody inclined to laugh off the current Tea Bag Movement as just a passing fancy involving a few isolated kooks had better guess again. Analyze what was said at the group’s recent convention where Sarah Palin regaled her audience along with the series of preceding rallies cheer led by Sean Hannity ...
  • British Torture Summary Released - Binyam Mohamed
    One of the reasons the Dog has always argued for a full investigation of the treatment of prisoners by the U.S. government is that the truths is going to come out sooner rather than later. For those who want to hide from accountability under the law later is always the better goal. The longer it ta ...
  • Where Does It End? Fight Club For Jesus
    The Dog is not a fan of anger. While it can motivate in the short-term, it can very easily become like a fire, which has to consume more and more fuel to keep burning hotly. This makes it a dangerous tool to use to motivated people. Not that this stops anyone from taking the plunge and lighting fir ...
  • Fire In The Belly - Progressives & The Democratic ...
    Journalism professor Jeff Cohen of FAIR and the Park Center for Independent Media on the struggle within the Democratic Party, starting from the Viet Nam War: There's no doubt that there's an awakening . What concerns me is that the liberal base, the Democratic Party base, has never been more educa ...
  • Obama's Base Pact With Columbia Accelerates 'Dange ...
    The Obama administration’s pact to use seven Colombian military bases accelerates “a dangerous trend in U.S. hemispheric policy,” an article in The Nation magazine warns. The White House claims the deal merely formalizes existing military cooperation but the Pentagon’s 2009 budget request said it ne ...

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

  • Minnesotans for Global Warming parody The Who
    The amzing Minnesotans for Global Warming are at it again. This time with a parody of The Who's "Teenage Wasteland." Related posts: Al Gore is an idiot and global warming is fake Inconvenient truth for Al Gore as his North Pole sums don’t add up Two Academy members demand Al Gore’s Oscar be revoke ...
  • Accuweather’s Joe Bastardi warns of US government ...
    AccuWeather.com's chief long-range and hurricane forecaster Joe Bastardi warned viewers on yesterday's Fox Business Network of propaganda issues associated with the government expanding their role in climate forecasting. He said it could lead to an effort to shut out other opinions. Related posts: ...
  • Australiagate: Now NASA caught in trick over Aussi ...
    I can report that NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), the American version of the UK’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) is now caught up in its own Climategate-style data fraud. We now bring you "Australiagate." Without any rational or scientific justification GISS has altered record ...
  • Time magazine says global warming still going stro ...
    Time magazine takes time out to write a "Health" article to let us know that depite freezing temperatures and record snowstorms, global warming is still intact. Related posts: 2009: The year Copenhagen cooled the world on global warming Telegraph: Cold weather “doesn’t undermine global warming sci ...
  • God certainly does have a sense of humor
    Are we the only ones that can’t help think that God has a terrific sense of humor? From the frigid temperatures at the Copenhagen Climate Summit to the worst ever recorded snowstorm in Washington, DC this week as the U.S. government announced their global warming propaganda office and website, it’s ...

Opinio Juris

  • Welcome to the U.N.’s “Bantanamo”
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The UN’s new temporary quarters, during renovations, are not too popular with the staff. For the next four years, the United Nations’ nerve center, including Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s office, will be situated in a squat, three-story, corrugated steel building on ...
  • Welcome to the U.N.’s “Bantanamo&#8221 ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The UN’s new temporary quarters, during renovations, are not too popular with the staff. For the next four years, the United Nations’ nerve center, including Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s office, will be situated in a squat, three-story, corrugated steel building on ...
  • ASIL Lieber Society Event on IHLRI Air and Missile ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Last Thursday, February 4, the Lieber Society of the ASIL (the laws of war interest section) sponsored a program at ASIL’s Tillar House in DC to discuss the draft model manual on air and missile warfare that has been slowly evolving through the “Alabama pro ...
  • Melbourne Journal of International Law, Vol. 10-2: ...
    by MJIL by MJIL We are delighted to introduce the inaugural online symposium issue of the Melbourne Journal of International Law (’MJIL‘) hosted by Opinio Juris. We would like to thank Opinio Juris, and Kevin Jon Heller in particular, for inviting us to participate in this partnership. We hope th ...
  • ASIL Lieber Society Event on IHLRI Air and Missile ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Last Thursday, February 4, the Lieber Society of the ASIL (the laws of war interest section) sponsored a program at ASIL’s Tillar House in DC to discuss the draft model manual on air and missile warfare that has been slowly evolving through the “Alabama pro ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • Look how much money Green groups are making from c ...
    Look how much money WWF has made, trading on the back of climate change hysteria: WWF, for example, took this much money in recent years: Year Income ($US) 2003 370,245,000 2004 468,889,000 2005 499,629,000 2006 549,827,000 2007 663,193,000 TOTAL 2,551,783,000...
  • The Green Police
    Audi, which has sneered at BMW's ongoing suck-up to the climate change movement, has hit back with a brilliantly satirical plug for its own diesel, in the Superbowl ad they're all talking about. At the stage when the climate movement...
  • Did Pachauri's institute bribe Green corporate don ...
    This from the Telegraph: * It has also emerged that the research institute run by the head of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, has given a series of awards to companies that have provided it...
  • Alaskan glacier melt overestimated by nearly 50%
    More embarrassment for the boffins. Estimates of Alaskan glacier melt over the past 40 years "of global warming" haveturned out to be wildly inaccurate. Glaciologists at the Laboratory for Space Studies in Geophysics and Oceanography (LEGOS – CNRS/CNES/IRD/Université Toulouse 3)...
  • A cornered Wratt: NIWA needs to apologise for temp ...
    Not just NIWA, but its paid propagandist, PR hack Peter Griffin, and the artist formerly known as Ken Perrott, and truffle grower Gareth Renowden. So loudly they brayed in support of NIWA's temperature research, and yet, their local climate science...

Public News Service

  • Valentine L.O.V.E Rally for Public Schools at Stat ...
    Valentine L.O.V.E Rally for Public Schools at State Capitol Phoenix, AZ – Hundreds of educators, students, parents and concerned citizens will hold a Valentine-themed noon rally Saturday at the State Capitol. The message to lawmakers and the Governor will be to avoid decimating education while balan ...
  • High-Speed Rail Touted as Phoenix-Tucson Congestio ...
    High-Speed Rail Touted as Phoenix-Tucson Congestion Cure Phoenix, AZ – Supporters of high-speed passenger trains between Phoenix and Tucson are encouraged by increased federal funding for rail projects. A new report proposes other rail links to Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Comments from Jesse Victor, ...
  • Looking For Job Creation in AZ
    Looking For Job Creation in AZ Phoenix, AZ – According to the AFL-CIO, the country is ten million jobs behind where it should be, starting from when the recession began more than two years ago. The labor federation is hoping for more government effort dedicated to creating jobs. Comments from Nick U ...
  • Vets Take National Security Message on the Road in ...
    Vets Take National Security Message on the Road in AZ Flagstaff - It's a different kind of military operation - the "Operation Free" bus tour heads for northern Arizona this week, manned by military veterans with a message on national security and energy policy. Comments from Matt Victoriano, a form ...
  • Colorado Congressman Puts Public Option Back on Ta ...
    Colorado Congressman Puts Public Option Back on Table Washington, D.C. - A Colorado Congressman says the public option should be back on the table in the health care reform debate, and he says there are enough votes to pass a bill that includes it - through a process called reconciliation. Comments ...

My Care2 Picks

  • The 700 Military Bases of Afghanistan
    The signature American way of war in our time is coming into focus.Starting in 2008 base building ramped up in Afghanistan, another monster embassy and huge ring of supporting bases in the Persian Gulf, South and Central Asia, Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Ad ...
  • Are 'Carbon Cowboys' Running Amok With Cap and Tra ...
    On Jan. 4, 2010, Eco2 announced a deal with CarbonX Trade, which it described as a subsidiary of Lakewood, Colo.-based Green Ventures Future Fund. According to the press release from Eco2, which was carried on several news sites, including CNN/Money.com/ Submitted by Kit B. to Environment �|� �Note ...
  • China says water pollution double official figure
    A new Chinese government survey of the country's environmental problems has shown water pollution levels in 2007 were more than twice the government's official estimate, largely because agricultural waste was ignored. Submitted by Shaktiva Irahs to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Trial Begins for Activist Who Fought to Protect Fe ...
    Tim DeChristopher is facing 10 years in jail for a profound gesture made on behalf of all of us and our future. It's time to show our solidarity with him. Submitted by Roseann D. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 'Removal Process' For Immigrants in the U.S. Is Ri ...
    A new study by the American Bar Association confirms what many advocates already feared: Our country's removal process fails to offer even a glimmer of due process. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Venezuelan Government Closes Illegal Gold Trading ...
    venezuelanalysis.com: "Caracas, 10 February 2010, (venezuelanalysis.com) – The Venezuelan government has moved to close and expropriate the historic La Francia building, alleged to be a centre for... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Labour, Maori Parties Biggest Losers If Prison Vot ...
    Guide2.co.nz: "Wellington, Feb 11 NZPA - A huge proportion of votes lost prisoners are stopped from voting in elections will be in Labour and Maori Party strongholds, a prison reform group says.Under... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Amnesty says Fiji lies about human rights record
    Coup Four And A Half:: "The Fiji Government has misrepresented its human rights record in a report to the United Nations, Amnesty International said today.The government has submitted a report to the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • When Snow Melts: Vancouver’s Olympic Crackdown
    The Nation: News Flash: Winter Olympic officials in tropical Vancouver have been forced to import snow - on the public dime - to make sure that the 2010 games proceed as planned. This use of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Mongolia: The Disaster You Haven’t Heard Of
    Shambhala SunSpace »The human toll is just as devastating. Scattered across a country as big as Western Europe, some 750,000 Mongolians’ livelihoods derive almost entirely from herd animals. A... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Our Children Will Accuse Us
    A must-see short film about the connection between traditional agriculture methods and disease. nos_enfants_nous_accuseront by beloutte
  • It happened! HELL FROZE OVER!
    The PPJ Gazette By Marti Oakley (c)copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved The District of Criminals was brought to a standstill and congress rendered unable to meet as a result of three blizzards converging over a three day period.  The snow which collected at about 2 feet, along with winds and seve ...
  • The Patriot Act Is Up For Revote In Congress: An O ...
    According to an email from the ACLU dated on February 4th, 2010, the Patriot Act is now up for renewal in Congress as certain provisions are set to expire this February. And as is typical, Congress is once again being fear-mongered into voting for it, along with what the ACLU says is even more freed ...
  • USDA Dropping NAIS?
    A USDA press release put out yesterday, February 5, 2009, states that implementation of NAIS has been ceased, and instead, Agriculture Secretary Vilsack will opt for a state and tribal-run system. Read this brochure from APHIS:
  • Animals Fed GMO Are Different!
    In a landmark ruling, the NZ Commerce Commission has accepted evidence from Prof Jack Heinemann, from an exhaustive review of the literature and on the basis of his own extensive professional experience, that animals fed on GM components ARE different from those which are reared using non-GM feed. ...

    Blacklisted News

  • Sat-nav devices face big errors as solar activity ...
    Researchers say the Sun is awakening after a period of low activity, which does not bode well for a world ever more dependent on satellite navigation.
  • The Dumping Begins: Chinese Reserve Managers Notif ...
    Dollar-denominated risk assets, including asset-backed securities and corporates, are no longer wanted at the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), nor at China’s large commercial banks.
  • A New Generation of North American Citizens
    The ideology of globalization is deeply embedded in the corporate structure, mass media, government, as well as in the whole educational system.
  • Goldman Sachs Wants You to Pay-by-the-Mile to Driv ...
    According to an independent British newspaper editor, in the not-so-distant future, English drivers will be charged based upon the number of miles they drive, as is being done step-by-step in America.
  • “The CIA Is Welcoming Itself Back onto American Un ...

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

Open ID

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • Biology in motion
    InnovationCanada.ca sits down with Queen’s University psychology professor and biological motion expert, Nikolaus Troje. In his Biomotion Lab, Troje and his colleagues study the cognitive processes that occur in the mind to help us recognize emotional and mental health through human movement.
  • Rethinking the pine beetle
    When he talks about the fight against the mountain pine beetle, Joerg Bohlmann likes to use a medical analogy. “Imagine we’re trying to combat malaria,” says the genome biologist based at the University of British Columbia, “but we don’t know the makeup of the disease-causing parasite, so we leave i ...
  • A Partnership of peoples
    (Courtesy of Frontier magazine, University of British Columbia) Forget what you may have heard about anthropology: it is not solely a science of lost cultures, dusty relics and ancient peoples. This widely misunderstood discipline provides a critical link to contemporary history, and its contributio ...
  • Decade in review
    The first decade of the 21st century will be remembered as a decade of breakthroughs in science and technology. “It’s well known that discoveries in science are often drivers for important technological developments; for example, fuel cells,” says Thomas Ellis, director of research at the Canadian L ...
  • i2eye with James Hesser
    Two years ago, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 2009 the International Year of Astronomy (IYA). From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, people around the globe have been marking the 400th anniversary of the first use of an astronomical telescope by Galileo Galilei. Laypeople, especially children ...

Signs of the times

  • Report: Hundreds Forced Into Labor, Sex in Ohio
    Columbus, Ohio -- About 1,000 American-born children are forced into the sex trade in Ohio every year and about 800 immigrants are sexually exploited and pushed into sweatshop-type jobs, a new report on human trafficking in the state said Wednesday. Ohio's weak laws on human trafficking, its growi ...
  • BEST OF WEB: Here There Be Monsters
    They say everything can be replaced, Yet every distance is not near. So I remember every face Of every man who put me here. - Bob Dylan, "I Shall Be Released" I have a livid scar in the center of the back of my right hand. It is clearly visible, so I see it every day, and every time I see ...
  • BEST OF WEB: Cynthia McKinney Munich Peace Rally s ...
    Cynthia McKinney speaks at Munich Germany NATO Peace Rally during her visit to receive the 'Peace through Conscience' award from the Munich American Peace Committee.
  • Masta Obama Brings the Plantation to Palestine
    Abu Abdullah has never been charged with a crime, but he has been arrested by Palestinian security forces so many times in the past two years that he has lost count. He has been arrested at work, in the market, on the street, and, more than once, during violent raids by masked men who burst into hi ...
  • More than 1,000 get mumps in New York, New Jersey ...
    More than 1,000 people in New Jersey and New York, many of them adolescent Orthodox Jews, have been sickened with mumps since August, health authorities said Monday. Orange County, New York, has confirmed 494 cases since early November, county spokesman Richard Mayfield told CNN. Almost all of thos ...

Threat Level

  • Anonymous Unfurls ‘Operation Titstorm’
    Several Australian government websites were slowly recovering Wednesday hours after the online prankster group, Anonymous, unleashed a massive distributed denial-of-service attack to protest the country’s evolution toward internet censorship. The group, which has brought down Scientology’s websites ...
  • Feds Bust Cookie-Stuffing Code Seller
    Federal authorities are charging a Las Vegas man with marketing a so-called “cookie-stuffing” operation, enriching himself and others while defrauding eBay along the way. The felony conspiracy to commit wire fraud charge levied Tuesday against Christopher Kennedy, who faces a maximum 5-year prison t ...
  • Court Keeps White House Spy Docs Secret
    A federal appellate panel on Tuesday blocked a court order requiring disclosure of e-mail between the White House, Justice Department, National Security Agency and Office of the Director of National Intelligence — communications that paved the way for new spy legislation. The 2008 messages were a pr ...
  • Sweden Probing Cisco, NASA Hacks
    Swedish investigators are probing a hacker U.S. authorities accuse of unlawfully intruding into Cisco Systems, NASA’s Ames Research Center and NASA’s Advanced Supercomputing Division, the authorities said Monday. Philip Gabriel Pettersson, known in the hacking world as “Stakkato,” allegedly seized c ...
  • Jurors: Stop Twittering
    A federal court policy making body is belatedly entering the internet age by proposing that judges clearly inform jurors they must not electronically discuss cases they are hearing. It’s standard procedure to inform jurors to remain mum and not conduct any research about the case until a verdict. B ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • White House Press Corps Slams Gibbs' Palin Joke
    In case you missed the reaction to Robert Gibbs' lighthearted mockery of Sarah Palin's "telepalmter", the White House press corps has a new rule. NBC's Chuck Todd, who previously defended Palin by declaring, "We've all done notes," protested Wednesday "I...
  • Thiessen Laments Dead Terrorists Can't Be Tortured
    In the wake of the September 11 attacks, President Bush famously announced his plans for Osama Bin Laden, "There's an old poster out west, as I recall, that said, 'Wanted: Dead or Alive.'" Bush, of course, failed to deliver Bin...
  • For Republicans, No Means No
    If nothing else, Barack Obama is a glutton for punishment. Apparently confident in his ability to manhandle the Republican leadership in the wake of his televised beat-down of the House GOP caucus two weeks ago, Obama has invited McConnell, Boehner...
  • Republican Sexism Meets Palin's Sex Appeal
    As conservatives rush to defend Sarah Palin in the wake of her Tea Party "Telepalmter" episode, no reaction has been as comically hypocritical as that offered by the right-wing blog, Legal Insurrection. There, William Jacobsen bemoans the rash of adolescent...
  • Palin's America Dependent on Divine Intervention
    Over the past 10 days, President Obama and Sarah Palin made clear everything you need to know about their dueling visions of America's character and its future. In his State of the Union address, the President rejected the notion that...

Blackspot News Feed

Consortium News

  • Palin, Psy-Ops and 'Condescending' Libs
    The neocon Washington Post slams "condescending" liberals while Sarah Palin mocks them condescendingly, says Robert Parry. February 8, 2010
  • Shunning Howard Zinn's History
    The mainstream U.S. media ignores or denigrates progressive viewpoints, like those of Howard Zinn, notes William Blum. February 7, 2010
  • Lobbyists Ply GOP, Dem Retreats
    Big business lobbyists lurked on the sidelines of "retreats" by Republican and Democratic lawmakers, writes Michael Winship. February 5, 2010
  • Why Obama Dodges CIA Reform
    In recent years, politicians, including President Obama, have shied away from tough criticism of the CIA, says Melvin A. Goodman. February 4, 2010
  • An Edgy 'Edge of Darkness'
    Mel Gibson's first on-screen performance in years mixes a murder mystery with layers of government secrecy, writes Lisa Pease. February 4, 2010

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

TruthHugger

  • American Theocracy divorces the US Constitution, p ...
    America wants to be ruled by TV Evangelist Bankers who are always holier than everyone else until they're caught! This is where Religion has buddied up with weapons manufacturers to promote killing in the name of Jesus.
  • Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up Jan 4, ...
    The Texas Progressive Alliance is still somewhat amazed to be living in the year we make contact, and we hope we’re all still going strong when Odyssey Three rolls around. Texas has most drilling, worst regulation. Texas made national news this week in the ProPublica investigative report and they us ...
  • Weary Soldiers At Risk, They Know This
    A poignant editorial on Al Jazeera seems to have more in depth observations than America’s Corporate media.  Mainstream media must follow the money, toe the line for sponsors and political perks that promise ’scoops’. ‘The US military is exhausted” By Sarah Lazare The call for over 30,000 more tro ...
  • Darth Vader Strikes Again
    The botched terrorist attack on Christmas Day is NOT Obama's fault.
  • Try To Remember America
    Well, few public schools, and few private schools, will fill in the gaps between America the fantasy and America the reality.  The name of America has been invoked with reverence when describing its history of righteous endeavors.  What is seldom included in these filtered history lessons, is some o ...

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • In Haiti, Support Local Communities, Not Microcred ...
    The Chicago-based Goldin Institute has been in the forefront of providing research and consultative support to grassroots organizations around the world. They parther with local organizations such as Nijera Kori in Bangladesh -- that have long-established connections to grassroots organizations and ...
  • After the Catastrophe: Our Country Can Rise Again
    After.jpg Many of Grassroots International’s partners in Haiti recently released the following statement in the wake of the earthquake in Haiti.  Our partners have used this devastating and unstable time to bond together and to work to rebuild ...
  • Troubled Waters
    � Harmony Foundation releases new educational presentation, Troubled Waters � Harmony Foundation of Canada recently released a new educational presentation, entitled Troubled Waters .read more
  • Howard Zinn – a remembrance
    zinn__1264635536_4226.jpg � Historian, activist, and Grassroots International friend Howard Zinn died January 27 at the age of 87. read more
  • Grassroots International Partners in Haiti receive ...
    haiti-fruit_nursery.JPG �Since a devastating earthquake shook Haiti more than two weeks ago, Grassroots International’s partners on the ground have been working to assess the situation and respond to the needs of the community – even as they t ...

Climate

  • February 11, 2010
    Japan, Australia Beat EU With Carbon Targets, Point Carbon Says (Bloomberg) Climate targets for 2020 in Japan and Australia are more ambitious compared with current levels than what the EU proposed, Point Carbon said, citing analysis of pledges under the 2009 Copenhagen Accord. Two Majo ...
  • February 10, 2010
    Obama: Energy Policy Must Have Some Old, Some New (AP) Speaking to reporters at the White House, Pres. Obama said the country must develop cleaner energy technologies while at the same time still relying upon nuclear and coal. China Plans for National Renewable Energy Center (China Daily) ...
  • February 9, 2010
    Merkel's Party May Delay Solar Subsidy Cut (Bloomberg)  Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats and their allies will propose a cut in subsidies for solar power from rooftop panels by 16% from June 1, instead of April 1, the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung newspaper said. A Federal Climate Servic ...
  • February 10, 2010
    Obama: Energy Policy Must Have Some Old, Some New (AP) Speaking to reporters at the White House, Pres. Obama said the country must develop cleaner energy technologies while at the same time still relying upon nuclear and coal. China Plans for National Renewable Energy Center (China Dail ...
  • February 9, 2010
    Merkel's Party May Delay Solar Subsidy Cut (Bloomberg)  Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats and their allies will propose a cut in subsidies for solar power from rooftop panels by 16% from June 1, instead of April 1, the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung newspaper said. A Federal Climate ...

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

  • What Air America Tells Us About the Difference Bet ...
    Former Air America CEO Danny Goldberg has a must-read on the demise of the radio network and what he believes it tells us about the difference between conservative movement funders and their (supposed) progressive counterparts. Here's the key excerpt: Conservatives believe in doing whatever it takes ...
  • Fox News Gives Palin's Hand Job
    NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) - The Fox News Channel, which has already signed Sarah Palin to a deal as an on-air commentator, today deepened their commitment to the former Alaska governor by signing her hand as well. "We were very impressed with the job her hand did at the Tea Party Convention," F ...
  • The Do-It-Yourself Bailout
    Hey, where's our bailout? Wall Street got hundreds of billions in bailout help. The banks got hundreds of billions in bailout help. And what did average American homeowners get? Hot air. Change we could believe in. Assurances that, if we bailed out the banks and Wall Street they'd bail the rest of ...
  • Wall Street Wants a Refund
    � from Truthdig "Buyer's remorse" is the way Sen. John Cornyn, the Senate Republicans' fundraiser, gleefully refers to Wall Street moguls' current disenchantment with the U.S. president they thought they had bought. They didn't like it when Barack Obama, after a year of throwing trillions of America ...
  • Palin, Psy-Ops and 'Condescending' Libs
    In the 1980s, while a reporter for the Associated Press, I had the opportunity to chat over the phone with legendary CIA psy-war specialist Edward Lansdale. A mutual friend had set up the contact, which I hoped might lead to a more formal interview. Though that hope didn’t pan out – and Lansdale ...

Ten Percent

  • White House Maintain Their Side Of The Cover Up
    A spokesman for President Barack Obama acknowledged that the UK remained a key partner in the fight against terrorism. He added: “We shared this information in confidence and with certain expectations. “As we warned, the court’s judgment will complicate the confidentiality of our intelligence-sharin ...
  • 22 Bahman (11th of February 2010)
    Amnesty International is calling on the Iranian authorities to allow peaceful demonstrations, including by those opposed to the current government, on 11 February, the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Various officials from the police and the judiciary have warned in recent days t ...
  • Operation Moshtarak Propaganda
    Back in Afghanistan, McClatchy’s Saeed Shah reports that only about 1200 residents have fled the Afghan city of Marjah in Nad Ali district, ahead of a major NATO/ Afghan invasion planned for later this week. The city of 80,000 is controlled by some 2000 Taliban fighters and there are many heroin lab ...
  • Andy Worthington On Amnesty, Gita Sahgal & Moazzam ...
    I think this can reasonably be called expert opinion and is required reading to anyone interested in this issue (and not just because he references one of my previous posts, although clearly he displays consummate good taste there!). He very perceptively notes how this is being used as a vehicle by ...
  • Binyam Mohamed Torture Cover Up Defeated
    This is great news, seemingly the govt tried up until the last minute to fiddle the courts -Legal principle established in 1637 banned secret talks between lawyers and courts. It was broken by the government-  and more is to come, and -a lawyer’s letter detailing how the Master of the Rolls condemn ...

Booman Tribune

  • Froggy Bottom Cafe
    Posting one of Andi's, since I can't bear to post one of our 3 feet of snow quite yet...
  • Palin Would Never Make It
    Nate Silver is awesome. I love him for doing first-rate progressive analysis. His piece on Palin's chances of winning the Republican nomination is very impressive and convincing on the merits. But I just don't think Palin has the work ethic to run a successful presidential campaign. Set aside wh ...
  • Attention Iglooramuses
    You know that GOP Senator Inhofe, global warming denialist, had his family build an igloo after the recent storms out East to mock global warming. If you didn't know, here's the story: Members of Inhofe's family braved the historic snow storms crippling the nation's capital and other northeastern ...
  • The Record for Stupid
    To me, the term 'climate change' should mean things like 'we just broke the frigging record for snowfall,' not 'gee, it's snowing outside, the Earth must be cooling.' I guess that's why people stopped using the term 'global warming,' since it obviously mystifies conservatives. I keep waiting to se ...
  • Serious Question
    If I cry uncle, will it stop snowing? I mean, WTF? And this ain't the fluffy stuff we got last week.

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Modular armoured wall system
    File under “inventions that I’m rather surprised to find didn’t exist already”: modular military encampment armour [via BLDGBLOG; image borrowed from linked article]. … an armored wall system known as McCurdy’s Armor could have Marines rapidly erecting 6.5-foot-tall mortar-, RPG- and bullet proof ...
  • Playing Our Way To the Future: Consumer Science an ...
    Last month, I spoke at a United States Army Training and Doctrine Command event billed as a mad scientist conference. That was actually quite an honor, and I enjoyed it more than I expected to, even though it was hard to spend three days thinking about threats based on new technology. I’ve got [.. ...
  • Neurocinematics
    Spare a thought for poor old Hollywood; it seems that no matter how much they spuff away on CGI budgets and celebrity actor’s fees, they just can’t keep us as at a perpetual peak of emotional engagement. They could spend more money on better writers, of course… but what do they know about audience e ...
  • “We have a moral obligation to seed the universe w ...
    That’s the opinion of Michael Mautner, Research Professor of Chemistry at Virginia Commonwealth University: As members of this planet’s menagerie, and a consequence of nearly 4 billion years of evolution, humans have a purpose to propagate life. After all, whatever else life is, it necessarily pos ...
  • Want to see the city of the future?
    Start looking for machines to replace. [via Tim Maly] Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Want to see the city of the future? Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Want to see the city of the fu ...

Therapy News

  • Australians Look for Pornography Addiction Answers
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline There are many psychological concerns which can be difficult to recognize, accept, and bring forward for treatment, and feelings of addiction to pornography can often be among them. Recently, researchers in Australia have begun investigating how this type of addiction ...
  • Study Links Depression with Gray, not Blue, Hue
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline “Feeling blue” is often associated with the experience of depression, but a recent study from collaborating health professionals in Manchester in the UK has found that the description may be inaccurate. After developing a color wheel, the research team asked both depr ...
  • Ten Important Concepts in Dyadic Developmental Psy ...
    By Arthur Becker-Weidman, Ph.D., Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Arthur and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile In the previous articles about Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy I described the ten take-away points that I want therapists to take away ...
  • What is a Healthy Body Image?
    By Ondina Nandine Hatvany, MFT, Eating & Food Issues Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Ondina and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile First of all what is body image? Body image is how I look- right? No! Body image is a mental idea about your physical body and how you look. Body image is ...
  • Positive Parenting
    By Jackie Pearson, LMFT, Parenting Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jackie and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Parenting is not a role we play, it is a relationship process. If we can get our heads and hearts around that idea, the more we can decide how we want to treat our children ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • AMAZING VIDEO: Coal Miners Join Historic Feb. 11th ...
    AMAZING VIDEO: Coal Miners Join Historic Feb. 11th KY/VA Rallies to End ... Huffington Post (blog) Home of Massey Energy, a mountaintop removal company that has racked up thousands of regulatory violations, Richmond, Virginia is no stranger to the dark ... and more��
  • Obama's Rope-Line Debate on Coal - Huffington Post ...
    Obama's Rope-Line Debate on Coal Huffington Post (blog) After the flyover, he should land long enough to talk to some of the Appalachian people most affected by mountain top removal . These visits may change his ... and more��
  • Put sponsor decals on lawmakers like NASCAR - Knox ...
    Put sponsor decals on lawmakers like NASCAR Knoxville News Sentinel Mitch McConnell boasts that, “ mountaintop removal (mining) is good for America,” we can pan back, investigate the logos and know that, “the preceding has ... and more��
  • British Columbia Bans Mining, Drilling in Flathead ...
    Environment News Service British Columbia Bans Mining, Drilling in Flathead River Valley Environment News Service Until today's announcement, the Sierra Club explains, the Flathead's wildness was under siege by mountaintop removal coal mining and coalbed methane ... British Columbia declares Canadi ...
  • Upset with fed mining permit scrutiny, W.Va. House ...
    Upset with fed mining permit scrutiny, W.Va. House forms oversight committee CanadianBusiness.com Most involve the mountaintop removal method of mining, which accounts for a fourth of the state's coal production. That has the industry in an uproar, ... and more��

Memeorandum

  • Sarah Palin displays her pitch-perfect populism (D ...
    David S. Broder / Washington Post : Sarah Palin displays her pitch-perfect populism   —  The snows that obliterated Washington in the past week interfered with many scheduled meetings, but they did not prevent the delivery of one important political message: Take Sarah Palin seriously.  —  Her len ...
  • Iran to Suspend Google's Email (Wall Street Journa ...
    Wall Street Journal : Iran to Suspend Google's Email   —  Iran's telecommunications agency announced what it described as a permanent suspension of Google Inc.'s email services, saying a national email service for Iranian citizens would soon be rolled out.  —  It wasn't clear late Wednesday what e ...
  • What Obama could learn from Bush (Ezra Klein)
    Ezra Klein : What Obama could learn from Bush   —  Last night, Craig Becker's nomination to the National Labor Relations Board was approved, with 52 senators voting in favor of Becker and 33 voting against him.  —  Wait, sorry, I got that wrong.  It was rejected with 52 senators voting in favor of ...
  • The Obama Obesity Proposals: The Good, The Bad, Th ...
    Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel : The Obama Obesity Proposals: The Good, The Bad, The Missing   —  With a flourish of his pen, President Obama signed an executive order this morning creating yet another national anti-obesity strategy.  He was flanked by gaggle of usual suspects — and ...
  • A Mountain of a Problem Rises in Nation's Capital ...
    Thomas Catan / Wall Street Journal : A Mountain of a Problem Rises in Nation's Capital   —  WASHINGTON—All plows can do here is push snow from one spot to another, displacing it into shoulder-high escarpments, walling off parked cars, confounding pedestrians and blocking drivers' lines of sight.  ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.3, Mid-Indian Ridge
    Thursday, February 11, 2010 09:18:22 UTC Thursday, February 11, 2010 02:18:22 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 5.3, south of the Fiji Islands
    Sunday, February 7, 2010 23:22:55 UTC Monday, February 8, 2010 11:22:55 AM at epicenter Depth : 549.80 km (341.63 mi)
  • M 5.9, south of the Fiji Islands
    Sunday, February 7, 2010 22:28:18 UTC Monday, February 8, 2010 10:28:18 AM at epicenter Depth : 513.00 km (318.76 mi)
  • M 5.2, Fiji region
    Thursday, February 4, 2010 13:02:35 UTC Friday, February 5, 2010 01:02:35 AM at epicenter Depth : 489.90 km (304.41 mi)
  • M 5.0, South Sandwich Islands region
    Thursday, February 11, 2010 01:18:52 UTC Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:18:52 PM at epicenter Depth : 66.40 km (41.26 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Security in a drier age (2)
    In the second segment of a three-part article on water in China, Scott Moore argues that new levels of diplomacy will be needed to stave off regional tension. It is clear that water-related climate impacts spill over China’s borders, increasing the importance of water issues in China’s foreign and r ...
  • Security in a drier age (1)
    Climate change poses new – and serious – barriers to China’s plans for stable development. In the first segment of a three-part article, Scott Moore says water will top the agenda. Outside analysts have long stressed that climate change threatens China’s basic national interests. The Chinese governm ...
  • Asian water wrangles
    Pollution and water scarcity threaten livelihoods in central-south Asia. But, argues Michael Renner, international efforts could help to forge a solution. The quantity and quality of available water play a crucial role in the politics of central-south Asia. Access to clean drinking water is a major, ...
  • Charting unknown waters
    The behaviour of Himalayan glaciers is beset with uncertainty but the region’s water availability remains a critical issue. Navin Singh Khadka reports. In the wake of the recent controversy over the retreat of Himalayan glaciers, in which the United Nations' climate-science body admitted that it was ...
  • Time for a plan
    Months of friendly discussion between China and the west went up in smoke at Copenhagen. Qin Xuan argues that a new diplomacy is needed to avoid a repeat performance. The most valuable lesson to be learned from the climate change conference in Copenhagen is this: the aims of global governance are un ...

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Threat Level

  • Anonymous Unfurls ‘Operation Titstorm’
    Several Australian government websites were slowly recovering Wednesday hours after the online prankster group, Anonymous, unleashed a massive distributed denial-of-service attack to protest the country’s evolution toward internet censorship. The group, which has brought down Scientology’s websites ...
  • Feds Bust Cookie-Stuffing Code Seller
    Federal authorities are charging a Las Vegas man with marketing a so-called “cookie-stuffing” operation, enriching himself and others while defrauding eBay along the way. The felony conspiracy to commit wire fraud charge levied Tuesday against Christopher Kennedy, who faces a maximum 5-year prison t ...
  • Court Keeps White House Spy Docs Secret
    A federal appellate panel on Tuesday blocked a court order requiring disclosure of e-mail between the White House, Justice Department, National Security Agency and Office of the Director of National Intelligence — communications that paved the way for new spy legislation. The 2008 messages were a pr ...
  • Sweden Probing Cisco, NASA Hacks
    Swedish investigators are probing a hacker U.S. authorities accuse of unlawfully intruding into Cisco Systems, NASA’s Ames Research Center and NASA’s Advanced Supercomputing Division, the authorities said Monday. Philip Gabriel Pettersson, known in the hacking world as “Stakkato,” allegedly seized c ...
  • Jurors: Stop Twittering
    A federal court policy making body is belatedly entering the internet age by proposing that judges clearly inform jurors they must not electronically discuss cases they are hearing. It’s standard procedure to inform jurors to remain mum and not conduct any research about the case until a verdict. B ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Clashes reported as Iran marks Revolution Day
    TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian opposition websites said security forces clashed with protesters and arrested at least 30 as huge crowds flocked to central Tehran on Thursday to mark the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution.
  • EU leaders reach deal to rescue Greece
    BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European leaders have reached a deal to provide aid to Greece, EU president Herman Van Rompuy said on Thursday, in an unprecedented move to stave off a broader crisis in the 16-nation bloc that shares the euro.
  • Ahmadinejad warns Israel against any military move
    TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Israel should be resisted and finished off if it launched military action in the region, state broadcaster IRIB reported on Thursday.
  • UK govt forced to publish U.S. torture allegations
    LONDON (Reuters) - The British government lost a legal battle Wednesday to prevent the disclosure of secret U.S. intelligence material relating to allegations of "cruel and inhuman" treatment involving the CIA.
  • US foreclosures drop in Jan but more loom-RealtyTr ...
    NEW YORK, Feb 11 (Reuters) - U.S. mortgage foreclosure filings dropped in January but the decline may prove only temporary as housing-rescue efforts fall short of addressing current drivers, a report released on Thursday showed.

Equality Trust

  • Labour is running up a down escalator to tackle in ...
    Tackling society's inequalities is what Labour governments are supposed to be about, and this one has quietly redistributed billions worth of tax since 1997, much of it paid by those fatcat bankers, to alleviate the plight of the poorest. How much has it got to show for it? Read Michael White's ...
  • The five-star lifestyle: "horrible, soulless and w ...
    Austrian millionaire Karl Rabeder is giving away every penny of his £3 million fortune after realising his riches were making him unhappy. Read more here...
  • Lynda Gratton: The business case for greater incom ...
    Read Lynda Gratton in the Financial Times [Wilkinson and Pickett's] argument is that societies which are very unequal have all sorts of problems, and I have a feeling that the same is true for companies,” she says. “I think one has to be very careful about what you pay people ... We’ve put far t ...
  • Broken Britain due to Broken Families?
    Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson on Comment is Free
  • Comment Is Free: Inequality harms all of us
    Lesley Riddoch writes that it's not only the poorest who suffer from inequality – in an equal society, fulfilment and health improve for everyone. Read her article on Comment is Free

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #0282
    Iran summons Canadian ambassador over CIA links. Charlie Wilson dead at 76. Analysis: Is Colombia turning into a nation of informants?
  • Civil war continues in South African spy agency
    In July of last year, South Africa’s ministerial Review Commission on Intelligence warned that a steadily declining culture of accountability in South Africa’s spy services threatened the country’s constitutional order. In October, the government’s minster for state security, Siyabonga Cwele, cited ...
  • Iran arrests seven with alleged CIA ties
    The Iranian government has announced the arrests of seven people linked to a US government-funded radio station, some of whom it says were working for the CIA.
  • News you may have missed #0281
    US intel director confirms CIA can kill US citizens abroad. Funny sign at CIA gift shop. Gordon Thomas' Secret Wars out in paperback.
  • US admits ‘200 troops’ on the ground i ...
    It took the deaths of three of these American soldiers, in a suicide attack by Pakistani Taliban, last week, for American officials to begin to admit that US troops are indeed operating inside Pakistan.

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Grist - News

  • U.N. climate panel needs overhaul, top scientists ...
    by Agence France-Presse PARIS -- The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Nobel-winning U.N. panel that serves as the scientific bedrock for global climate negotiations, needs a serious makeover, five of its most senior members said Wednesday. Writing in the journal Nature, the ...
  • U.S. warns China against ‘stillborn’ c ...
    by Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON -- The United States on Tuesday pressed China, India, and other emerging powers to make clearer commitments to fighting climate change, warning that last year's Copenhagen Accord risked being "stillborn." The 194-nation U.N.-led summit in the Danish capital re ...
  • Obama admin launches new Climate Service and clima ...
    by Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration announced plans Monday for a new office handling climate change, aiming to help businesses chart future plans as the nation shifts to a greener economy. The first practical effect was the creation of a website, www.climate.gov , whi ...
  • U.N. climate chief raises the temperature with rac ...
    by Agence France-Presse Rajendra Pachauri.NEW DELHI -- The U.N.'s top climate official, who is at the heart of a controversy over a few instances of incorrect global warming data, has penned a racy novel that dishes up sex, reincarnation, and a real-life Hollywood actress. The debut fiction wor ...
  • New E.U. organic logo set for Europe’s super ...
    by Agence France-Presse The Euro-leaf logo. BRUSSELS -- The European Union on Monday unveiled a new Green logo that will have to be shown on all pre-packaged organic products produced in Europe from July. "I'm delighted that we now have a fresh E.U. organic food logo," said E.U. Agriculture Com ...

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Washington Independent

  • Intel Chief ‘Deeply Regrets’ U.K.&#821 ...
    After a British court ruled that the U.K. government has to disclose sensitive information about how the United States tortured a British citizen named Binyam Mohamed whom the U.S. held as a terrorist for years, Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence, released this statement: The protec ...
  • Gingrich, Fresh From Playing Himself, Leads With H ...
    On Twitter, Newt insists that he misspoke: It wasn’t would-be-shoebomber Richard Reid (nationality: British) who was an American citizen; he meant Jose Padilla. This is supposed to inspire confidence in his sagacity as a terrorism expert. Not that this makes any more sense. Jon Stewart asked Gingri ...
  • China Threatens to Dump U.S. Treasury Bonds Over T ...
    China threatens to dump U.S. Treasuries over arms sales to Taiwan. One day it will probably realize that always crying "Wolf!" means eventually people stop paying attention.
  • In Search of Bipartisanship the Meaning of Words
    spon-sor, n. 1. one who vouches or is responsible for a person or thing. Forget policy for a second. Democrats and Republicans can’t even agree on the meaning of English words. We’ve seen the evidence in recent weeks as the sides have jousted over the definition of bipartisanship (see here and here ...
  • Is the Greco-European Financial Crisis Goldman&#82 ...
    Every time some economy is screwed up these days, it's a safe bet Goldman Sachs is involved.

CowBoss' Brain Food

  • Snail pie is tastier, more nutritious than beef
    Malnutrition and iron deficiency among schoolchildren in developing countries could be reduced by serving up generous portions of delicious, bargain-priced snail pie and other handy beef alternatives. Submitted by cowboss Left CareII to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • CO2, Methane Ousted as Worst Global Climate Change ...
    Move over CO2—you’ve been ousted, along with methane, as the biggest offenders of global climate change. The majority of “greenhouse gases” are created by humans. Submitted by cowboss Left CareII to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Skeptics claim global warming is fake after top sc ...
    Hackers recently broke into thousands of emails and internal documents from a leading climate research center and dumped them onto an anonymous Russian server. The hacked emails (160 MB worth, unzipped) came from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic R Submitted by cowboss Left CareII to Environm ...
  • 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

  • Democrats: Time To Get Loud And Fearless
    Here’s a major reason why the Republicans are still a viable party: they don’t mind getting loud. They’re willing to flagrantly lie out loud, while also making a huge production out of insignificant and contradictory nonsense that heretofore was never even considered to be a political trespass — sha ...
  • Rachel Maddow: Taking Names On GOP Hypocrisy (VIDE ...
    Rachel Maddow: They’re Not Embarrassed — Taking Names on GOP Hypocrisy Crooks and Liars- By Heather Wednesday Feb 10, 2010 8:00am Rachel runs down the list of GOP hypocrites who have been willing to go against everything that the Obama administration and the Democrats have proposed but are willin ...
  • Miliband loses torture claim appeal
    Virgin Media |10 February 2010 10:12am Foreign Secretary David Miliband has lost his appeal court bid to prevent senior judges disclosing secret information relating to torture allegations in the case of Binyam Mohamed. The former Guantanamo Bay detainee says he was tortured in Pakistan while held ...
  • Sarah Palin: Crib Notes On The Palm
    Sarah Palin: Faux Populist Alec Baldwin Actor Huffington Post– Posted: February 9, 2010 01:13 PM So, you think Sarah Palin is embarrassed by the crib-notes-on-the-palm incident? You’re kidding, right? This woman, like national candidates of both parties, doesn’t draw a breath without a team of pol ...
  • Afternoon Jukebox- Do I Love You
    The Ronettes- Do I Love You

Solari

  • New Mexico House Votes to Move It’s Money
    New Mexico’s House of Representatives voted Monday to pass a bill that allows the state to move $2 billion - $5 billion of state funds to credit unions and small banks. The municipal funds bill was approved 65-0 (roll call - PDF), and is subject to a vote by New Mexico’s Senate. Governor Bill Richa ...
  • Obama Says Free Enterprise = Predatory Lending, Ma ...
    By Julianna Goldman and Ian Katz President Barack Obama said he doesn’t “begrudge” the $17 million bonus awarded to JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon or the $9 million issued to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. CEO Lloyd Blankfein, noting that some athletes take home more pay. The pr ...
  • Community Call to Prayer
    Sunset In Venice By Claude Monet Earth’s crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God, But only he who sees takes off his shoes; The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning Everyone is welcome to join this weekly fifteen-minute Thursday gathering, live o ...
  • Precious Metals: Who Will Own Real Things?
    Gold is down 10+% from the December high. More than a few people are scratching their head and asking “What just happened?” It is a good time to look at both the fundamentals and intrigue in the global financial and commodities markets. I am headed over this Thursday to see Franklin Sanders of The ...
  • Great Seed Companies
    By Karan Davis Cutler A decade ago, heirloom and open-pollinated, or OP, varieties of vegetables and flowers as well as certified organic seeds were the domain of small, regional seed houses. Today, most mainstream seed companies, such as Johnny’s, Stokes, Burpee, Park’s, Vessey’s, Harris, Thompson ...

Global Insights

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

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

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Sideways News

  • Bill Nighy and the Robin Hood Tax
    A tiny tax on bankers that would give billions to tackle poverty and climate change, here and abroad. Watch the video
  • Pensioners' playground gets go-ahead
    Plans for the first "pensioners' playground" in London have been given the green light. The outdoor gym facility will be based in Hyde Park and feature equipment including a cross-trainer, body-flexer, free runner, sit-up bench, flex wheel and exercise bike, all of which will be free of charge to us ...
  • Lion pride swaps Romania for Doncaster
    Thirteen neglected lions have left their cramped, dilapidated cages in Romania behind and set out for a new life in the wilds of South Yorkshire. The big cats were rescued by the Yorkshire Wildlife Park at Doncaster, after a successful £150,000 appeal last summer to save them from the cash-strapped ...
  • 'Say it with trees' this Valentine's Day
    Flowers are old news for Valentine's Day. This year, one environmental charity is calling on romantics everywhere to think bigger on 14th February and "Say it with Trees".
  • Happiness breeds adventure
    A negative mood causes people to cling to the familiar - while happiness, on the other hand, makes novelty attractive, a new study by the University of California, San Diego and Leiden University Medical Center has shown.

Fabius Maximus

  • Anatomy of a rumor, showing how the Internet can m ...
    To understand the Internet, watch how rumors spread.  Too many people evaluate stories by how well they match their preconceptions.  Since few “nodes” on the Internet bother to check sources — or even care about sources — the Internet often makes us dumber.   Today we examine a rumor spreading ...
  • FM newswire for 11 February, articles for your mor ...
    Today’s links to interesting news and analysis.  If you find this useful, pass it to a friend or colleague.  At last the bare bones of a political platform for the Tea Party:  “Convention Is Trying to Harness Tea Party Spirit“, New York Times, 6 February 2010 — TP’s want smaller government.  ...
  • A lesson from the Weimar Republic about balancing ...
    Introduction:  This is another in a series of dashed off speculative opinions.  Normal procedure on the FM website for these topics would be 3 thousand word posts, supported by dozens of links.  I dont’ have the time to finish them, and too many of these outlines have accumulated in my drafts file.  ...
  • FM newswire for 10 February, articles for your mor ...
    Today’s links to interesting news and analysis.  If you find this useful, pass it to a friend or colleague.  A look at one of the flaws in our dysfunctional Congress:  “‘Holds’ in the Senate” Walter J. Oleszek, Congressional Research Service, 19 May 2008 “The ‘Devastating’ Decision“, Ronald D ...
  • FM newswire for 9 February, articles for your morn ...
    Today’s links to interesting news and analysis.  If you find this useful, pass it to a friend or colleague.  The elephant was powerful, but preferred to be blind:  “National Insecurity“, Philip Giraldi, 29 January 2010 — About the CIA’s lost intelligence capabilities.  Note Giraldi’s bio. Ge ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Martian Dune Mystery Solved by Bouncing Sand Grain ...
    Once Martian sand grains hop, they don’t stop. That’s the conclusion of a new study that finds sand can move on Mars without much windy encouragement. Mars’ sandy surface has clearly been shaped by wind. Its characteristic dunes and ripples are the kind formed by sand particles taking short wind-bo ...
  • Saturn’s Most Habitable Moon Offers Ice, Water, Ki ...
      > Enceladus has to be one of the most intriguing objects in the solar system. It’s definitely our favorite of Saturn’s 62 moons here at Wired Science, and it’s among the most likely places to find the necessary ingredients for extraterrestrial life in the solar system. Encel ...
  • Early Galaxies Formed Stars Fast Because They Had ...
    The mystery of why galaxies formed early in the history of the universe give birth to more stars than modern ones has been solved. An abundance of dense, cold gas fueled rapid star formation in these early galaxies, according to a new study. Astronomers collected signals from 19 eight to 10 billion ...
  • First Ancient Human Genome Sequence Answers Anthro ...
    Meet Inuk, a 4,000 year old man known from a tuft of hair found in Greenland permafrost. In those frozen strands, enough DNA was preserved to sequence the first ancient human genome and confirm an unexpected ancient migration from Siberia to the New World, plus a few of Inuk’s own traits. Along wit ...
  • New Telescope Captures Dazzling Image of Orion Neb ...
    You’ve undoubtedly seen the smudge of the Orion Nebula hanging just below his belt thousands of times, but the most beautiful image yet of the celestial body was just released Wednesday. The European Southern Observatory’s new VISTA telescope’s enormous field of view allows it to image the entire n ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Opposition Clashes Reported as Iran Commemorates R ...
    It's past midnight in the United States, but tens of thousands of Iranians are in the streets today to commemorate what the BBC called "most important day in Iran's political calendar": the anniversary of the revolution. Mainstream reports from the New York Times , Al-Jazeera, the BBC and the AP all ...
  • Iran@gmail.com = FAIL
    Seen around the Twitterverse (HT for Evgeny Morozov’s RT @csoghoian): How do I sign up for the Iranian Govt’s new free email service? At least they’re not in bed with the NSA. As reported just about everywhere , the Iranian government announced it’s banning Gmail, a day before the anniversary of th ...
  • Is Iran All Talk?
    One irritating aspect of Iran adopting a diplomatic style marked by the alternating use of concessions\provocations is that it does little to tamp down alarmism about its nuclear program. Take yesterday’s reports that Iran will move to enrich its LEU stockpile (enriched to 3.5%) to medical levels (e ...
  • Use Data when Attempting to Defend "Don't Ask Don' ...
    With due respect, this doesn't cut it: In the first, we are told that there are other fine militaries around the world in which gays are allowed to serve openly. In this latest edition of this line of thinking , the Australian, British, Canadian and Israeli Armed Services are put forward as exampl ...
  • Stripping US Citizenship from Terrorists?
    At the highest levels of the US military, a quiet discussion is going on about putting in place a legal framework that would permit the US government to strip American citizenship from terrorists. The case of Las Cruces, New Mexico born al Qaeda commander Anwar al-Aulaqi , who has been a key organiz ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: The News Does Not Have the Tenaci ...
    It's astonishing and very indicative of what drives Republicans these days that until Dick Cheney 's crew issued marching orders, congressional Republicans were perfectly content with the handling of Umar Abdulmutallab after his arrest. The result, predictably, has been incoherence and lies about ...
  • When Thomas Sounds Like Sotomayor.
    Via Brian Tamanaha , Justice Clarence Thomas makes an important point here, and I hope conservatives listen: "There are different approaches, because we start with different assumptions. Or we look at things differently," he reportedly said. "And I think law school should encourage you that these d ...
  • The Little Picture: The News In Harlem.
    A newsboy in Harlem, 1943. Photograph taken by legendary photographer Gordon Parks . (Flickr/ pingnews /Library of Congress)
  • Time for a Job Guarantee Program.
    Today, TAPPED will feature a series of guest posts on progressive solutions to the unemployment problem. Marshall Auerback is a Roosevelt Institute Braintruster. The U.S. government can proceed directly to zero unemployment by offering a universal job guarantee available to anybody through the thic ...
  • Make It Work.
    Dean Baker suggests four creative programs that would help the economy now: In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama made it clear that he intends to devote considerable energy to solving the unemployment problem. The following excerpt from Dean Baker's False Profits: Recovering fr ...

Andy Worthington

  • Defending Moazzam Begg and Amnesty International
    Just when it seemed that Republicans in America had a monopoly on Islamophobic hysteria, the Sunday Times prompted a torrent of similar hysteria in the UK by running an article in which an employee of Amnesty International — Gita Sahgal, head of the gender unit at the International Secretariat — cri ...
  • Taking Guantánamo to Norway: “Human Rights, Human ...
    Over the weekend, Polly Nash and I, co-directors of the new Guantánamo documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” travelled to Oslo, where our film had been chosen as part of the Human Rights, Human Wrongs Film Festival. Organized by Oslo Dokumentarkino and the Human Rights House ...
  • White House Repeats Pentagon Lies About Guantánamo ...
    What is to be done about the idiocy that has spread, like a poisonous but imperceptible gas, from the Pentagon to Congress, and is now wafting through the White House, deranging all it touches? As it travels, this dismal infection transforms statistical impossibilities into magic numbers, which appe ...
  • Andy Worthington Discusses Bagram and Guantánamo w ...
    Last week, I was delighted to be invited by Jeff Farias to take part in his radio show, just a week after my previous visit. The show is available here (it starts just over two hours in), and Jeff wanted to talk in particular about my article on the recent appeal in the Military Commissions, [...]
  • Bagram: Graveyard of the Geneva Conventions
    On January 15, 2010, the Pentagon released the first ever list of prisoners held in the Bagram Theater Internment Facility, the main US prison in Afghanistan for the last eight years (PDF). An annotated version of the list is available here. In a previous article, “Dark Revelations in the Bagram Pri ...

Buzzflash

  • Where in the World Is Obama’s Missing Millions (pe ...
    BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY While the Tea Partiers were on the move and the Republicans patented ‘just say no,’ Obama’s aides and advisors sent his grassroots army packing. � � By Bill Berkowitz � If you’re anything like me, it’s likely that sometime over the past fifteen-+ months since the election ...
  • Obama's vastly improved and excellent adventure
    Body In its first year virtually every administration operates as a shakedown cruise; it recruits new personnel, lays exploratory lines of communication with the Hill and the media, experiments with promised strategies, that sort of thing -- and then, when all the best-laid plans go k ...
  • Populists J.D. Hayworth, Marco Rubio, and the Tea ...
    Body I recall watching Harvard's Alan Dershowitz on one of the cable talk shows during, as I also seem to recall, the almost endless Clinton-impeachment saga, and I'll paraphrase a few of his words from that memorable appearance as best as I can: "Oh, brother, if this guy is what the ...
  • Steve Doocy, Gretchen Carlson, and Republican Rero ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT by Jeffrey Joseph As President Obama prepared to watch the Super Bowl over the weekend, he presented a challenge to GOP leadership� to meet with him on the subject of healthcare reform . Hoping that he was just posturing, FOX's Gretchen Carlson and Steve Doocy responded by malig ...
  • FOX's Gretchen Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Dick Mor ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT by Jeffrey Joseph Almost as if on cue, the conservative-dominated pundits of FOX News responded to Sarah Palin's� telepalmer gaffe �by doing the only thing a "balanced" network could do -- defending her inept actions with implausible rationales. The damage control began early on ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • Today in The Liberal Media
    I was fairly certain that Washington Press Corps Dean David�Broder's career would end with his last memorably humiliating moment (of many)�being this February, 2007, column , when he giddily announced that "President Bush is poised for a political comeback," that "Bush now shows signs of renewed e ...
  • TNR's ugly and reckless anti-semitism games
    Even by that magazine's lowly standards, The New Republic yesterday published an amazingly ugly, reckless, and at-times-deranged screed from its Literary Editor, Leon Wieseltier, devoting 4,300 words to accusing Andrew Sullivan of being an anti-semite, largely due to his critical ( i.e. , forbidde ...
  • The mythical potency of Terrorism fear-mongering
    The New York Times Editorial Page today asserts a commonly held belief among the political and media class:  An election is coming, so the Republicans are trying to scare Americans by making it appear as if the Democrats don’t care about catching or punishing terrorists. It’s nonsense, of co ...
  • Rich Lowry's brain
    (updated below - Update II) Markos Moulitsas is writing a book, The American Taliban , which compares various aspects of the American Right to radical Islam ( e.g. , their obsessions with judging and controlling other people's sex lives , their religious fanaticism, their views of gender ...
  • Wall Street owners angry with their purchase
    Political science professors could require students to read this article from today's New York Times and little else would be needed to convey the essence of the American political system.  The article describes how Wall Street -- which poured massive amounts of money into the Obama campaign and t ...

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • A chiefly natural interview with David Newman (Pt. ...
    David Newman is Chief at the Natural Products Branch, Developmental Therapeutics Program, DCTD, at the National Cancer Institutes in Frederick, Maryland, USA. I interviewed him for Issue 1 of a new quarterly newsletter called Chemistry Matters in Pharma. This is Part I of the unabridged transcript ...
  • Correct your chemical spelling mistakes
    Chemist Adam Azman contacted me more than two years ago to ask if I knew of a free or open source chemistry spellchecker custom dictionary for Word or OpenOffice. Searches had revealed only paid-for dictionaries. We both agreed that a free chemical spellchecker would be very useful to all scientist ...
  • Nerdy passwords, secure and memorable
    Coming up with a secure password that cannot be bruteforce or dictionary attacked but that is easy to remember is quite troubling. So, here’s the nerdiest approach yet. Think of a compound, any compound, but preferably one with which you are familiar. If you’re in science, then you could pick a com ...
  • Getting your fill of Sciencebase
    Do you lie at wake at night worrying that you might have missed the latest words of wisdom on Sciencebase? Are you concerned that a new post might have published that you desperately wanted to comment on and now it’s too late? Well…fear not. There are so many ways to connect with Sciencebase and si ...
  • Making carbon dioxide useful
    My SpectroscopyNOW column is now live. This week self-perception, trapping and using carbon dioxide, cosmic coronene, mopping up radioactive caesium, photosynthesis and magic spectral lines: Red lenses – US scientists have used MRI to show that apparently the less you use your brain’s frontal lobes ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • ACLU Challenges Illegal Disfranchisement of Americ ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 8, 2010 ACLU The American Civil Liberties Union filed an amended class action lawsuit in federal court today to restore the voting rights of American Indians who were illegally disfranchised in the 2008 presidential election. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District ...
  • New Jersey Downplays Disturbing Air Toxics Study
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 8, 2010 Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) A groundbreaking but long-delayed study of toxic air pollution in Paterson, New Jersey is finally being released this week with an elaborate state public relations roll-out designed to convince people tha ...
  • Survey Shows Few Haitians Willing to Move Far to C ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 8, 2010 Oxfam International Less than a third of people living in one of the largest camps in Port au Prince say that they are willing to move to camps sited outside the city according to a snap-shot survey carried out by international agency Oxfam. If the new improved ...
  • Israel: Attacks on New Israel Fund, Critical Group ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 8, 2010 Human Rights Watch (HRW) The growing harshness of attacks by Israeli government officials on nongovernmental organizations poses a real threat to civil society in Israel, Human Rights Watch said today.   The most recent attacks center on the New Israel Fund ( ...
  • Denny’s Acknowledges Suffering of Egg-laying Hens ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 10, 2010 Farm Sanctuary It was meant to be a humorous promotion for a free breakfast, but the dark undercurrent of truth running through the trio of Denny's "Chicken Warning" Super Bowl ads did not go unnoticed by those familiar with the lifelong suffering of egg-layin ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Soldier Faces Iraq Court Martial for Writing Angry ...
    by Sarah Lazare Any day now, Marc Hall -- a Fort Stewart soldier and Hip Hop artist -- will be whisked off to Iraq for a military Court Martial, out of reach of the public eye and his own civilian defense lawyers. His crime: writing an angry hip hop song about stop-loss. President Obama has publicl ...
  • Justice Thomas' Reasoning -- Dangerous for Democra ...
    by Frances Moore Lappé The normally closed Supreme Court opened a crack last week, as Clarence Thomas defended the 5-4 decision clearing away limits on corporate spending to influence elections. "If 10 of you got together and decided to speak, just as a group," he said, "you'd say you have First A ...
  • Haiti Needs Sunlight and Accountability on Relief ...
    by Mark Weisbrot Last month actors and human rights advocates Danny Glover and Harry Belafonte, along with the Reverend Jesse Jackson sent a letter to Congress and the Obama administration calling attention to "serious mistakes that have unnecessarily delayed the delivery of medical supplies ...
  • Taking a Bullet on Wall St.
    by Derrick Z. Jackson Superintendent Carol Johnson of the Boston Public Schools last week officially lined up at the soup kitchen of American education by announcing nearly $60 million in budget cuts. Her pared-down $810 million budget comes after she announced in November new initiatives intended t ...
  • NY Times: No Conflict of Interest - With the Conve ...
    by Robert Jensen The New York Times' public editor wrestled this week with conflict-of-interest charges sparked by the revelation that Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner's son had joined the Israeli army .read more

Karl Burkart

  • Matchmaking for polluters
    Is it a sign of defeat that progressive groups are resorting to sarcasm to make their point about corruption on Capitol Hill?
  • There are '6 Americas' when it comes to global war ...
    Yale researcher finally pins down the 6 different US population segments and how they relate to issues of climate change.
  • A tale of two climate polls, part 2
    Two new studies on how Americans perceive climate change is a testament to public confusion and an urgent call for better messaging from the scientific community.
  • A tale of two climate polls
    Two new studies on how Americans perceive climate change is a testament to public confusion and an urgent call for better messaging from the scientific community.
  • Domestic Transformer: the home of the future
    Half home, half machine this Hong Kong apartment paints the picture of a sustainable future when buildings transform for their owners, saving on resources and money.

Water Privatization

  • PO to water down anti-smoking bill (Warsaw Busines ...
    The bill proposing a complete ban on smoking in public places is very unlikely to be accepted in its current form, said Joanna Mucha, a Civic Platform (PO) member of the Health Commission.
  • Cumberland commissioners face budget squeeze (The ...
    Cumberland County commissioners might have to locate an extra $9 million or more to fund their fiscal 2011 budget. In an election year, they weren't happy to hear that during a special meeting last week.
  • Madison School District appears to be softening st ...
    When teachers Bryan Grau and Debora Gil R. Casado pitched an idea in 2002 to start a charter school in Madison that would teach classes in both English and Spanish, they ran into resistance from school administrators and their own union. Grau and his cohorts were asked to come up with a detailed bud ...
  • Kudos to work by A&N linemen (Eastern Shore News)
    Let us all take time to say thank you to all of the A & N Electric Cooperative linemen who spent many, many hours in cold, snow and sleet to provide us with fast return of our electricity after the recent storm.
  • PSALM slates investors’ forum to clarify issues on ...
    With the El Niño phenomenon foretelling of a water crisis that may hit the country especially at the peak of summer months, the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corporation (PSALM) is scheduling an investors’ forum Friday to clarify issues compounding the privatization of the 246-megaw ...

Guardian

  • Greek deal reached at EU summit
    • Summit of EU leaders reportedly reaches agreement • Alistair Darling rules out contributing to any rescue A deal has reportedly been reached to help Greece tackles its debt crisis, after negotiations between Europe's leaders this morning. The European Union's president, Herman Van Rompuy, told rep ...
  • MI5 complicit in torture – top judge
    Legal defeat plunges Security Service into crisis over torture evidence, and it is revealed that judge removed damning verdict after Foreign Office QC's plea • Breakdown of David Miliband's Commons statement • Read the letter that reveals the draft ruling MI5 faced an unprecedented and damaging cr ...
  • Facebook removes 30 inmates' pages
    Jack Straw, the justice secretary, says the 30 offending pages brought to the attention of Facebook had been removed within 48 hours Thirty Facebook pages have been taken down because prisoners were using them to taunt their victims, Jack Straw, the justice secretary, has revealed. Straw was speakin ...
  • 'He didn't know what awaited him'
    Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, admitted that the optimism of the day her then husband walked free has been clouded by political failures The woman at Nelson Mandela's side after his long imprisonment has spoken of the moment he stepped outside to face an expectant world. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, seen ...
  • Drugs fuelling mahjong marathons
    • Ketamine and cocaine used for all-night card games • Middle-aged victims unemployed and not 'well educated' Middle-aged Shanghai residents are turning to ketamine, cocaine and methamphetamine to sustain them through marathon sessions of mahjong and cards, a state newspaper has warned. Until now, a ...

McClatchey

  • White House predicts weak job growth for rest of y ...
    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's top economic advisers offered a cautious forecast on Thursday that U.S. job gains for 2010 will average 95,000 a month, with analysts expecting hiring to expand by spring.
  • Blizzard paralyzes Washington, but is that really ...
    WASHINGTON — Back-to back storms have turned snow day in the nation's capital to snow week. Federal agencies have been closed since Friday afternoon, the House of Representatives and the Senate have canceled all votes and the endless stream of luncheons, congressional hearings, press conferences and ...
  • Federal stimulus package a failure, says Florida S ...
    U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio reveled in support from conservatives looking for a voice Wednesday in a part-fundraiser, part-pep rally that brought full circle one of the most stunning reversals in Florida politics.
  • California Democrats target GOP gubernatorial cand ...
    Democrats are poised to launch an unprecedented three-pronged spending effort aimed mainly at Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, a billionaire former CEO who's already invested $39 million of her own money in her campaign.
  • Valentine's gifts get practical during recession
    If your sweetie buys you a sweater for Valentine's Day, just take it as a sign of his good sense in a tough economy that has left thousands out of work and underpaid.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Climate panel: Time for a refit?
    In the past few weeks, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has received a vast amount of advice on how it should be reformed, ranging from minor structural tinkering to immediate self-immolation. So it must inevitably be when powerful political interests come to blows over what is ...
  • Rising scepticism - a chill wind?
    Over the last few months, a number of British commentators have been trumpeting an increase in scepticism about climate change. The cold weather (often claimed - incorrectly - to be a hemisphere-wide phenomenon), the University of East Anglia e-mail hack , the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Cha ...
  • Distorted view through the climate gates
    Much has been written - not least on this website - and much more surely will be written over the coming months about supposed inconsistencies, errors, misjudgements and poor practice among climate scientists. How many "scandals" do we now have with the suffix "-gate" attached to them? At least fiv ...
  • Copenhagen - striking accord?
    Arguably, it's a deadline that isn't a deadline for an accord that isn't an accord. "It" is - or was - the 31 January target date by which governments were supposed to tell the UN climate convention (UNFCCC) secretariat what pledges they are prepared to make on curbing greenhouse gas emissions. Th ...
  • Crunch time for the cosy cousin?
    You'd think that conserving the world's biodiversity would be a pretty uncontroversial aim - wouldn't you? Who wouldn't think it a good idea that the giant panda survives for our children's children to marvel at, that the intricate dependencies of coral reef ecosystems remain un-ruptured by dynamit ...

Afghanistan Sun

  • Brit Special Air Service, US Navy SEAL units tak ...
    London, Feb 11: British Special Air Service (SAS) men and US Navy SEAL teams have killed up to 50 Taliban commanders in a series of daring raids deep inside southern Afghanistan's Helmand badlands
  • More survivors, bodies found in Afghan avalanches
    Afghan emergency teams have recovered more than 150 bodies from a northern mountain pass hit by a series of avalanches, an official said on Wednesday. Days of heavy snow triggered the avalanches that ...
  • Marines test Taliban defences
    Last Updated: February 11. 2010 2:47PM UAE / February 11. 2010 10:47AM GMT NEAR MARJAH, AFGHANISTAN // The US Marines fired smoke rounds and armoured vehicles manoeuvred close to Taliban positions to ...
  • Iran Leading Jailer Of Journalists In 2009
    (RFE/RL) -- According to the International Press Institute's (IPI) annual review of world press freedom, Iran has become the leading jailer of journalists in the world.In its report, the IPI says that...
  • Taliban, Marines exchange fire as battle looms
    By ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU and CHRISTOPHER TORCHIAAssociated Press Writers NEAR MARJAH, Afghanistan (AP) - U.S. Marines and Taliban insurgents exchanged gunfire Thursday on the outskirts of Marjah, a s...

Futurismic

  • Modular armoured wall system
    File under “inventions that I’m rather surprised to find didn’t exist already”: modular military encampment armour [via BLDGBLOG; image borrowed from linked article]. … an armored wall system known as McCurdy’s Armor could have Marines rapidly erecting 6.5-foot-tall mortar-, RPG- and bullet proof ...
  • Playing Our Way To the Future: Consumer Science an ...
    Last month, I spoke at a United States Army Training and Doctrine Command event billed as a mad scientist conference. That was actually quite an honor, and I enjoyed it more than I expected to, even though it was hard to spend three days thinking about threats based on new technology. I’ve got [.. ...
  • Neurocinematics
    Spare a thought for poor old Hollywood; it seems that no matter how much they spuff away on CGI budgets and celebrity actor’s fees, they just can’t keep us as at a perpetual peak of emotional engagement. They could spend more money on better writers, of course… but what do they know about audience e ...
  • “We have a moral obligation to seed the universe w ...
    That’s the opinion of Michael Mautner, Research Professor of Chemistry at Virginia Commonwealth University: As members of this planet’s menagerie, and a consequence of nearly 4 billion years of evolution, humans have a purpose to propagate life. After all, whatever else life is, it necessarily pos ...
  • Want to see the city of the future?
    Start looking for machines to replace. [via Tim Maly] Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Want to see the city of the future? Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Want to see the city of the fu ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • OSHA will listen, but not on February 10
    The federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) has announced that it will conduct an "OSHA listens" meeting. The meeting was originally scheduled for Wednesday, February 10, 2010, but has now been postponed due to the weather here. To speak at the "OSHA listens" meeting, participan ...
  • While The Whistleblower Sits in Prison, More Peopl ...
    On January 28, 2010, the Washington Post announced that the Swiss government has suspended the disclosure of information about tax cheats to the United States under a February 2009 “deferred prosecution” agreement and may seek to renegotiate the deal.  Under the agreement the Swiss government was su ...
  • New interns advance whistleblower cause
    We are pleased to have the talents and energy of a new group of interns for this winter semester.� Here they are: Top row: Michelle, Jacquie, Jamie. Next row: Quinn, Caitlin. Penultimate row: Ryan, Kevin, Tom. Bottom row: Amanda, Amy, Kylie, Lauren. Not pictured: Kevin, Megan, Phil. We remain inde ...
  • In memoriam: Howard Zinn (1922-2010)
    With sadness we report the death of Howard Zinn, historian, author, activist, and founding Board member of the National Whistleblowers Center . Other sources have already reported Zinn's remarkable biography. I recall how the time flew by thirty years ago when I read A People's History of the United ...
  • Transparency International Releases Report on Prev ...
    Yesterday, Transparency International (TI) released a practical guide for combating corruption in relief and reconstruction efforts. “Disasters like the catastrophe in Haiti highlight the absolute necessity of ensuring that the funds and supplies allocated actually reach those in need. Corrupti ...

Defense and the National Interest

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

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Want to Support the Homeless? Get a Library Card
    Nerds rejoice! A new article by the London Guardian 's Ben Meyers adds support to the popular argument that libraries are the most enduring institution of public support for the homeless. As one of the last truly public spaces in many communities, libraries offer a unique opportunity for connecting ...
  • Number of Homeless Kids in NYC Up 50 Percent
    The number of homeless families with kids in New York City shelters has not just increased in the past two years -- it has skyrocketed. Today, the city has 51 percent more families with kids seeking shelter than it did in 2008, including 16,000 homeless children. To say that Mayor Bloomberg's 2004 g ...
  • Awww Alert: Homeless Man Reunited with Cat
    It's enough to make even a dog-lover tear up. This morning the San Francisco Chronicle published a story about Daniel Harlan, a 58-year-old homeless man, and Samantha, his missing pug-nosed Himalayan cat. He says he bought her in Oklahoma for more than $2,000 four years ago, "back when I had money." ...
  • Homelessness Cannot Happen to Just Anyone
    As homeless advocates, we have to be driven by facts. It is a fact that an estimated 3.5 million Americans experience homelessness every year. It is a fact that military veterans account for an estimated 26 percent of the homeless population while comprising only 11 percent of the general population ...
  • "Poverty Olympics" Spotlight Cost of Vancouver Gam ...
    Yesterday athletes took to the picturesque surroundings of Vancouver. But wait, the Olympics start next weekend. It was the "Poverty Olympics," a protest led by people who feel that the city's leaders haven't delivered on promises that hosting the Games would benefit all residents, even the homeless ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Karzai considers conscription
    With international partners growing impatient, Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced at a conference of high-level defence officials on Sunday that he is considering the introduction of conscription.  Karzai told the delegates at the Munich Security Conference that conscription may be necessary in ...
  • Army “readjusts” reserve budget
    The Canadian Army has reallocated $5 million to pay for Reserve training that it cancelled earlier this year as a cost-cutting measure. In a press release last week (”Class A Reserves receive $5 million for training,” 3 February 2010), Army commander Lieutenant-General Andrew Leslie acknowledged tha ...
  • Situation in Afghanistan improves; Taliban despera ...
    2010 “‘After a difficult year in 2009, we now see a new momentum in 2010 and it has already started,’ [NATO Secretary-General Anders] Fogh Rasmussen said Friday.” (Slobodan Lekic, “NATO Chief: Situation improving in Afghanistan after tough year,” Canadian Press, 5 February 2010) 2009 “The insur ...
  • Pentagon requests record $708 billion budget
    The Obama administration on Monday requested Congressional approval for a record $708 billion in military spending for fiscal year 2011. Defense Secretary Robert Gates stressed the need for the Pentagon to prepare for a broader range of approaching security challenges while continuing to fund two on ...
  • Loon watch: CDAI “promotes informed public debate”
    The mandate of the Conference of Defence Associations Institute is to “provide research support to the Conference of Defence Associations (CDA) and promote informed public debate on national security and defence issues.” And as a contribution to that informed public debate, the latest edition of its ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Sioux Rose – Astrologer & Author
    Click the picture or link below to hear Kevin’s interview with professional astrologer and author, Sioux Rose. Then click here for more information on how to purchase her books and how to get your personal astrology reading today! Sioux Rose 02/10/10
  • FDA Aims to Rein in Radiation-Based Medical Scans
    February 9th, 2010 Reuters By Susan Heavey The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday it planned to issue requirements for manufacturers to use when designing their equipment and would hold a public meeting on the matter March 30-31. The agency said possible examples could include changes ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 2-10-10
    Today, Kevin passes on the wisdom of a member of Bilderberg. Find out what is in store for 2010 and when the economic version of hurricane Katrina will hit America. Kevin also investigates how hard federal employees really work for your well-being and how much of your money is being thrown away. The ...
  • Milk for Mom May Lower Baby’s MS Risk
    February 10th, 2010 All Headline News By David Goodhue A recent study suggests women who drink milk while pregnant reduce the chances of their children being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis as an adult. Harvard researchers gave 35,794 mothers of nurses a questionnaire in 2001 about their experienc ...
  • Researchers Claim Weight Loss Surgery Better than ...
    February 9th, 2010 Reuters They said 21 of 25 severely obese teens aged 14 to 18 who underwent a form of gastric banding lost more than half of their excess weight compared with just 3 out of 25 who did a diet, exercise and behavior modification program. “In this study, gastric banding proved to be ...

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

  • Iran plans to get one small step away from produci ...
    Iran’s formal notification on Monday to the IAEA that it is going to start producing 20 percent enriched uranium in order to supply its research reactor that produces medical isotopes, means that it will be taking a major stride towards producing weapons-grade fuel. The Washington Post reports: …e ...
  • Why the Rahm administration betrayed the Obama cam ...
    Zack Exley on why the Rahm administration betrayed the Obama campaign: Policy and political strategy in American politics have been completely divorced from one another. The political strategists who ran Obama’s campaign allowed him — or maybe it was just that kid Jon Favreau? — to run on a big, cl ...
  • The anti-Semitism card is turning worthless
    Glenn Greenwald writes: What’s most striking about this attack [by literary editor of The New Republic, Leon Wieseltier, against Andrew Sullivan] is how inconsequential it is. It was once the case, not all that long ago, that an accusation of “anti-semitism” was the nuclear weapon of political deb ...
  • Daylight robbery
    Bloomberg: President Barack Obama said he doesn’t “begrudge” the $17 million bonus awarded to JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon or the $9 million issued to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. CEO Lloyd Blankfein, noting that some athletes take home more pay. The president, speaking in ...
  • Real Zionists live in Israel
    Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to submit a bill in the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, that would allow Israeli citizens to vote from outside the country. The Media Line reports: Currently only Israeli envoys and diplomats can vote from overseas. Israel’s Absorption Ministry estimat ...

Watts Up With That?

  • GISS adjustments in Australia
    Ken Stewart shows how GISS adjusts temperature records in two adjacent sites in Australia This issue was also recently covered on the Climategate blog here Introduction Despite its assurances, GISS has adjusted the temperature records of two sites at Mackay to reverse a cooling trend in one and inc ...
  • Use your PC to help map the Milky Way
    From a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute press release PCs around the world unite to map the Milky Way Combined computing power of the MilkyWay@Home project recently surpassed the world’s second fastest supercomputer Troy, N.Y. – At this very moment, tens of thousands of home computers around the wo ...
  • All time seasonal snowfall records broken in Balti ...
    It’s almost as if the planet is trying to send a message to Washington. I find the choice of words from NOAA/NWS (see below the read more line) interesting when they say” AS WITH ANY MAJOR CLIMATE RECORD ACHIEVEMENT… Perhaps in this one case, weather is climate. From NWS: The seasonal snowfall total ...
  • Nature suggests IPCC get an overhaul
    Meanwhile NASA GISS scientist Lacis, who was highly critical of the chapter 9 executive summary draft says that: I am actually encouraged by the all criticisms that the IPCC AR4 report is receiving. He makes some valid points and provides insight into the review process. More in comments at Andrew ...
  • Climate “Twilight of the Gods”
    From National Review online, the story a modern opera, though not by Wagner. Climate Götterdämmerung Image from Wikimedia Exaggeration and alarmism have been a chronic weakness of environmentalism since it became an organized movement in the 1960s. Every ecological problem was instantly transfor ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Top judge: Binyam Mohamed case shows MI5 to be dev ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ The Guardian Wednesday 10 February 2010 21.40 GMT MI5 faced an unprecedented and damaging crisis tonight after one of the country’s most senior judges found that the Security Service had failed to respect human rights, deliberately misled parliament, and had a ...
  • Civilian Casualties “Inevitable” in La ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ rethinkafghanistan February 10, 2010 Tired of feeling like you don’t know what to do about the Afghanistan war? Visit http://www.facebook.com/rethinkafghan… and http://rethinkafghanistan.com . Military officials say that civilian casualties are “inevitable” as ...
  • The Myth of the Good War: America in World War II ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Jacques R. Pauwels Global Research, February 9, 2010 60 Years Ago, February 13-14, 1945: Why was Dresden Destroyed In the night of February 13-14, 1945, the ancient and beautiful capital of Saxony, Dresden, was attacked three times, twice by the RAF and on ...
  • NATO’s Role In The Military Encirclement Of Iran b ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO -Opposition to global militarism February 10, 2010 Following on the heels of identifying himself as the “Commander-in-Chief of a nation in the midst of two wars” and moreover the head of state of no less than “the worl ...
  • Why the Oscars are a Con by John Pilger
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by John Pilger Global Research, February 10, 2010 John Pilger Why are so many films so bad? This year’s Oscar nominations are a parade of propaganda, stereotypes and downright dishonesty. The dominant theme is as old as Hollywood: America’s divine right to ...

Your New Reality

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    War On Terror Reality Seeded 30 Years Ago In Nostradamus Documentary By Darryl Mason In 1980, a documentary on Nostradamus, screened all over the west to hundreds of millions of people, and repeated for years after, laid out the rise of political Islam through the 80s and 90s, leading to a terrori ...
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    Obama Takes On Roomful Of Republicans In Q & A, Carves Them All Up The Transcript Is Here
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    11,000 Haitians are being paid 60 cents an hour by the UN to clear away the rubble of their capital city , and begin rebuilding. The UN plan to employ 90,000 more : This devastated capital showed increasing signs of stirring back to life on Wednesday as Haitians restarted factory assembly lines, vi ...
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    The majestically beautiful apex of a total solar eclipse The Full Image Is Here (via Reddit )
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    We Had To Borrow The Costume, So Go Easy On It It's called The Worst Fight Scene ever. And yes, that may be so. But consider this, it's a clip from a 40 year old, very low budget TV series, that has been watched almost 7 million times in just over 700 days at YouTube, let alone the hundreds of othe ...

Wired - Science

  • Martian Dune Mystery Solved by Bouncing Sand Grain ...
    Once Martian sand grains hop, they don’t stop. That’s the conclusion of a new study that finds sand can move on Mars without much windy encouragement. Mars’ sandy surface has clearly been shaped by wind. Its characteristic dunes and ripples are the kind formed by sand particles taking short wind-bo ...
  • Saturn’s Most Habitable Moon Offers Ice, Water, Ki ...
      > Enceladus has to be one of the most intriguing objects in the solar system. It’s definitely our favorite of Saturn’s 62 moons here at Wired Science, and it’s among the most likely places to find the necessary ingredients for extraterrestrial life in the solar system. Encel ...
  • Early Galaxies Formed Stars Fast Because They Had ...
    The mystery of why galaxies formed early in the history of the universe give birth to more stars than modern ones has been solved. An abundance of dense, cold gas fueled rapid star formation in these early galaxies, according to a new study. Astronomers collected signals from 19 eight to 10 billion ...
  • First Ancient Human Genome Sequence Answers Anthro ...
    Meet Inuk, a 4,000 year old man known from a tuft of hair found in Greenland permafrost. In those frozen strands, enough DNA was preserved to sequence the first ancient human genome and confirm an unexpected ancient migration from Siberia to the New World, plus a few of Inuk’s own traits. Along wit ...
  • New Telescope Captures Dazzling Image of Orion Neb ...
    You’ve undoubtedly seen the smudge of the Orion Nebula hanging just below his belt thousands of times, but the most beautiful image yet of the celestial body was just released Wednesday. The European Southern Observatory’s new VISTA telescope’s enormous field of view allows it to image the entire n ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Knesset to Assad: Get Lost
    The Israeli parliament passed on first reading... a bill that would grant tax breaks to residents of the Golan Heights, a move likely to anger Syria from which Israel seized the territory. The bill,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Israel: Gaza crossing to stay shut as long as Hama ...
    "The Karni crossing won't resume operating," said one. "At least not as long as Hamas controls the Strip." Until June 2007, Karni was the principal cargo crossing into Gaza, despite a series of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  • Amira Hass: Expulsion without trucks
    It is a matter of regional planning policy that expropriates vacant lands and restricts Palestinian development, and of the denial of the indigenous people's natural rights: the right of inheritance... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Robert Jensen: NY Times – No Conflict of Interest, ...
    U.S. news coverage of the conflict relentlessly presents the news within this Israeli narrative, primarily because powerful forces in this country find that narrative useful for U.S. strategic... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  • Jonathan Cook: The height of Israeli intransigence
    Jerusalem’s mayor threatened last week to demolish 200 homes in Palestinian neighbourhoods of the city in an act even he conceded would probably bring long-simmering tensions over housing in East... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...

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NewsWise

  • Safety Expert: Toyota Problems Could Distract from ...
    Toyota's recall problems may cause government and the public to steer away from more effective safety-improvement strategies, says auto safety expert John Graham at Indiana University.
  • American Institute of Physics Announces The winne ...
    The American Institute of Physics (AIP) announced the three winning entries in the 2009 Science Communication Awards today.
  • 2010 Social Entrepreneurship Forum
    Annual keynote event of the Los Angeles Chapter of the USC Marshall School of Business Alumni Association includes three panels covering Social Entrepreneurship, Branding and Finance.
  • Predicting Prognosis and Treatment Response in Sub ...
    Specific chemical modifications to proteins called histones, which are found in the nucleus of cells and act as spools around which DNA is wound, can be used to predict prognosis and response to treatment in subsets patients with pancreatic cancer, a study by researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehens ...
  • 'Painting the Past Alive' Video: Mural Depicts Und ...
    The video "Painting the Past Alive" follows University of Arkansas art professor John Newman as he paints a mural depicting African American slaves who crossed the river to the Underground Railroad stop in Quindaro, Kan.

Intel Trends

  • NOTICE: IntelTrends is moving to Blogger
    * * Effective 10-FEB-2010 this blog is moving to Blogger. * * The new URL is: http://inteltrends.blogspot.com RSS subscribers need to "re-subscribe" to the updated newsfeed URL. http://feeds.feedburner.com/inteltrends Thank you for your patience during the transition. Steve Permalin ...
  • Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: Peace Campaign Hyp ...
    The following comment is from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Reprinted with permission. Peace Campaign Hypes and the Rogue War-mongering Source: �Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan February 10, 2010 �17:46 �administrator Of Late, the invading forces led by America and their surrogates have l ...
  • Sahara Becomes Desert of Terrorism
    The following article is reprinted with permission from Pravda, Moscow. Sahara Becomes Desert of Terrorism ©   Pravda By Sergey Balmasov February 10, 2010 Senegal's president Abdoulaye Wade urged African leaders and the West to join forces in the fight against al-Qaeda's North African branch ...
  • IntelTrends 10-FEB-2010
    Military hospitals under pressure in advance of new offensive Telegraph, 10 Feb Military hospitals in Afghanistan and the U.K. are operating close to capacity as British forces prepare to launch a major offensive against the Taliban. Arab diplomat annuls wedding with hairy bride Al Arabiya, 10 ...
  • Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: On the So-called R ...
    The following opinion is reprinted with permission from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. On the So-called Re-integration Source: �Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan February 9, 2010 �08:56 �S.H. The recent American tactic to lure away members of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan under the nam ...

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  • Climate Catastrophe: Surviving the 21st Century
    Climate Stabilization requires a Cultural and Political Revolution. Click here to read this article
  • Soda Consumption vs. Diabetes
    Click here to read this article
  • San Francisco's Toxic Sludge - It's Good for You!
    Fifteen years ago, CMD's book Toxic Sludge Is Good for You! first exposed the hidden government and industry PR campaign greenwashing toxic sewage sludge as "biosolids," an invented PR euphemism used to cynically re-brand toxic waste as "fertilizer" given free to farmers. Today, unfortunately, the b ...
  • India to Rule on Future of Aubergine as Country's ...
    A fierce row over the future of the humble aubergine, staple ingredient of fiery brinjal curries for tens of millions of Indians, will reach a climax on Wednesday with a key government decision on the possible future commercial cultivation of genetically-modified strains of the plant. If permission ...
  • Brazilian Farmers Declare War on Monsanto
    Growers in [the Brazilian State of] Mato Grosso have declared war against Monsanto, the multinational corporate owner of the GMO soya technology known as RR (Roundup Ready). After exhausting all attempts to engage the company in dialogue, the growers are now considering legal action. In Cuiaba, Apro ...

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  • 24 imágenes de amor para personalizar
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. El mes de los enamorados ha llegado y con él nuestra tercera colección de imágenes para quienes desean expresar sus sentimientos este próximo 14 de febrero día del amor y la amistad . En esta ocasión, te ofrecemos 24 imá ...
  • 57 paisajes naturales de Marian Matta
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías.
  • 18 ilustraciones para el Día de San Valentín
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. El día del Amor y la Amistad está a la vuelta de la esquina y nosotros continuamos ofreciéndote las mejores imágenes para que disfrutes al máximo esta fecha tan especial. En esta ocasión, compartimos contigo 18 dibujos o ...
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  • CBS Airs First Segment, “Animal Antibiotic Overuse ...
    In the first installment of a two-part series, CBS Evening News Anchor Katie Couric investigates the connection between the use of antibiotics in factory farms and the incidence of MRSA in humans. Couric talks to a worker at an Arkansas poultry processing facility who developed MRSA; discusses the u ...
  • Green Lecture Series at National Building Museums ...
    I recently attended the lecture series at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.  The topic of the talk was urban agriculture.  What I found most interesting was that the lecture series was targeted at architects, planners and builders; even though the ¬¬topic seemed to be directed at the ...
  • New analysis claims Monsanto skewed GM corn findin ...
    Monsanto conducted studies to evaluate the toxicity of genetically modified (GM) corn on rats as part of European regulatory registry of GM food and feed, prior to commercialization. To our knowledge, only a summary of the findings were made available to the public (for examples see European Food Sa ...
  • Baltimore Food Makers potluck
    On the recommendation of a friend, I had to good fortune to attended the Baltimore Food Makers monthly potluck this Saturday to share home-grown, home-preserved and home-made food with a group of ~30 “food makers.”  Before eating we all gathered around the spread of food and each maker discussed w ...
  • Antibiotics in Farming: Has Tyson Foods Shot Itsel ...
    -From the Animal Welfare Approved web site Tyson Foods’ recent agreement to settle a lawsuit for falsely advertising its “raised without antibiotics” chicken brand has received limited media coverage – no doubt to the relief of the company’s boardroom. And with an annual turnover of nearly $27 bill ...

Norwegianity

  • Partying down at the Home & Patio show
    Well, this is exciting. I have a VIP pass to the Home & Patio Show. My inner pirate just had to share: If the kids get their own pot table, I’m pretty sure this VIP pass will get you at least two free drinks at the bar. They do have bars at Home & Patio shows, don’t they? - A [...]
  • Asked and answered
    Via bluegal. - Republican insider lays out how Palin could become their nominee: Run against the Republican establishment. Contrary to the delusional hopes of some party strategists—who combine the strategic sense of General Motors with the PR savvy of Jay Leno—voters this year haven’t fallen in ...
  • Back to the angry header
    Worst foreclosure story I’ve read in almost two days. See also Dave Johnson on how tax cuts for big businesses put small and medium-sized outfits out of business. Not to mention Goldman Fucking Sachs. - FUCK BEN NELSON. Seriously. In the ass. And not in a good way. (Becker’s nomination was defeated ...
  • Waiting for ad.doubleclick.net
    Bob Herbert on why my open letter to bin Laden was not as outrageous as it may have first appeared to be: When it comes to employment, there are roughly three broad categories in the United States. The folks in the upper-income group are not suffering much, if at all, from the profound reversals [ ...
  • Why does Wall Street hate America so much?
    No jobs bill today thanks to snow and Republicans. No link because that’s the whole story. Instead I would refer you to Pam Martens’ Wall Street’s Killer Instinct Spells Death Knell for Jobs and Isaiah J. Poole’s Wall Street Whores. That, and I wrote a letter: Dear Mr. bin Laden: Here is a map of Ne ...

The Seferm Post

The World We Live In

  • MQM Caught Spying On Pakistan
    Guest post sent in by Truth Seeker MQM caught spying red-handed for foreign nationals and smuggling classified state material outside Pakistan and violated Official Secret Act.  According to a report published in the press Waseem Akthar (MNA) and former advisor to the Chief Minister on poli ...
  • US drones killed 123 civilians, three al-Qaeda men ...
    Monday, February 01, 2010 By Amir Mir LAHORE: Afghanistan-based US predators carried out a record number of 12 deadly missile strikes in the tribal areas of Pakistan in January 2010, of which 10 went wrong and failed to hit their targets, killing 123 innocent Pakistanis. The remaining two successfu ...
  • War Begets War, Don’t Call it Terrorism
    Slate | By William Saletan | 11 January 2010 Traitor, Bomber, Soldier, Spy Stop crying “terrorism” every time we’re attacked. Afghan police officers inspect the site of a blast in Khost province Photo: REUTERS Two weeks ago, a Jordanian suicide bomber blew up seven CIA employees at a U.S. m ...
  • Indian army doesn’t posses ability to fight in nig ...
    NEW DELHI: While the Indians celebrate 62nd Army Day, country’s Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor, just after a couple of weeks of announcing a new war doctrine of Indian army to eliminate Pakistan and China in matter of hours even if it has to fight on simultaneous fronts, outrageously admitted I ...
  • Freedom of Speech for a Fiction
    By CHRISTOPHER KETCHAM I often correspond with a long-time Washington DC operator named Leigh Ratiner, who spent 40 years in government, serving under Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Reagan, with cabinet-level posts in the Defense Department, under the Secretary of the Interior, in the ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • "LA UNICA LUCHA QUE SE PIERDE, ES LA QUE SE ABANDO ...
    trincheradelaimagen.blogspot.com : Editor del informativo Werken Kvrruf e integrante del Programa Radial Mapuche wixageanai y miembro de la Red de Comunicadores Mapuche, Richard Curinao, es víctima de una persecución por parte de agentes del estado chileno. Trascendió según el programa Wixage Anai q ...
  • Somalia's Piracy Produce Abundance for Kenya's Fis ...
  • Evo Morales Peoples Climate Summit: Restoring the ...
    By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ Photo: Bolivian President Evo Morales at Copenhagen Climate Summit/Photo by Earl Tulley, Navajo from Blue Gap, Ariz. COCHABAMBA, Bolivia -- Bolivian President Evo Morales, announcing the objectives of the upcoming Peoples Climate ...
  • Celebrate Freedom with Me
    Today, marks the 34th year of imprisonment for Indigenous Rights activist Leonard Peltier. An innocent man, Peltier was arrested in Canada on February 6, 1976, in connection with the shooting deaths of two agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota t ...
  • LISTEN: Big Mountain Message to Copenhagen
    Louise Benally on global warming and apartheid at Black Mesa By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Photos: Dan Harrison/Clan Dyken Thanksgiving Black Mesa BIG MOUNTAIN -- As snow covers the land, Louise Benally sends a message to Indigenous Peoples and world leaders gath ...


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Renewables Industry Touts Its Potential
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- Feb 10, 2010
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By JOHN COLLINS RUDOLF Brian Harkin for The New York Times Renewables industry leaders want Congress to pass rules requiring utilities to produce or procure ...
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- Feb 11, 2010
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(SPWRA, SPWRB) said it has agreed to acquire European solar-plant developer SunRay Renewable Energy Ltd. for about $277 million. SunPower will pay SunRay ...
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Former University of Iowa football player and NFL player Tim Dwight returned to Iowa Wednesday to promote renewable-energy bills. ...
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US company Homeland Security Capital says its Safety and Ecology Corp. environmental remediation unit announced the start of the radiological and hazardous ...
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DOE talks to Port Angeles about new Rayonier pact
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The state Department of Ecology held the public open house on its latest agree order between DOE and Rayonier. And while more information may have been ...
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THE STATE DEPARTMENT of Ecology staff will present its new draft cleanup agreement with Rayonier Inc. during an open house from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm today at ...
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Ecology Minister: Azerbaijan will develop air and extreme sports
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Azerbaijan has favorable climate to develop air and extreme sports, Huseyngulu Bagirov, Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources and Azerbaijan Air and ...
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- Feb 10, 2010
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AP A federal judge in California has turned down an emergency request by farmers to lift water pumping restrictions aimed at protecting threatened smelt. ...
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Water fountains removed from Cleveland arena
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Update 2/10 7:58 pm The water will be flowing again soon. Starting tomorrow night there will be water stations in Quicken Loans Arena -- manned tables where ...
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(AP) — A car hit a water main in a parking garage at the FedExForum in Memphis, Tenn. and the arena was evacuated before the Central Florida-Memphis game. ...
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