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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.

Saturday, February 13, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • CULTURE: Asia Lets the Year of the Tiger Roar
    SINGAPORE, Feb 13 (IPS) - The impact of the global recession may still be around, but Chinese communities all over Asia are bent on letting the Year of the Tiger come in with a festive, prosperous roar on Sunday.
  • URUGUAY: Making the Secret Shame of Illiteracy a ...
    MONTEVIDEO, Feb 12 (IPS) - "Excuse me, I forgot my glasses, could you tell me what that sign says?" This was one of the ruses commonly used by Juan Gómez, who was too embarrassed to admit that at the age of 77, he had never learned to read or write.
  • RIGHTS: The Seven Paragraphs that Shook US-UK Tie ...
    NEW YORK, Feb 12 (IPS) - A British court has ordered the publication of previously secret information that appears to reveal the UK government's complicity with the U.S. in the torture of Binyam Mohamed, a British resident who was imprisoned by the U.S. at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
  • US-HAITI: The Loan that Wasn't – Part 1
    NEW YORK, Feb 12 (IPS) - On the one-month anniversary of the devastating earthquake of Jan. 12, Haitians continue to perish from a variety of causes, including death by red tape: they fall between the cracks of a still poorly-coordinated aid effort.
  • ENERGY: Nuclear Does Not Make Economic Sense Say ...
    BERLIN, Feb 12 (IPS) - The enormous technical and financial risks involved in the construction and operation of new nuclear power plants make them prohibitive for private investors, rebutting the thesis of a renaissance in nuclear energy, say several independent European studies.

Scoop - NZ

  • USA: becoming a third-world nation
    In the course of writing last week's Archdruid Report post, I belatedly realized that there's a very simple way to talk about the scope of the brutal economic contraction now sweeping through American society - a way, furthermore, that might just be able to sidestep both the obsessive belief in prog ...
  • Kedgley: Wgtn won't fall for Dunne's Super city pl ...
    Wellingtonians are far too intelligent to fall for Peter Dunne's a4˜we must follow Auckland and become a super-city' line. The main (in fact only) reason Mr Dunne gives for his plea that Wellington fast-tracks into a super-city is that we must follow Auckland. If Auckland is becoming one, then we m ...
  • UN Says Japanese Authorities Breached Human Rights ...
    When I moved to Greenpeace I assumed I would spend less time talking about defending human rights and more time talking about protecting our environment. Of course a healthy environment is a basic human right, but the increasing intimidation of those striving to achieve a green and peaceful planet, ...
  • 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

Independent ( London )

  • Obama says new budget rules will rein in spending
    President Barack Obama said today that new budget rules that say spending increases must be matched by spending cuts will force Congress to "pay for what it spends, just like everybody else."
  • Alabama professor charged over shooting deaths of ...
    A biology professor at a southern US university was charged with murder over the shooting deaths of three fellow biology professors at the campus.
  • UK troops engaged in Operation Moshtarak
    British troops were today engaged in fierce fighting with the Taliban in southern Afghanistan as Operation Moshtarak got under way.
  • 'I never liked the name,' said Frisbee inventor wh ...
    The man who invented the Frisbee – the simple plastic disc that became a billion-dollar craze and a symbol of misspent youth on beaches, parks, and university campuses all over the world – has died, at the age of ninety.
  • North Korea may join nuclear talks
    North Korea is "not eager" to return to six-party talks on relinquishing its nuclear weapons ambitions, but has not rejected the idea, a United Nations envoy said yesterday as fresh diplomatic activity raised hopes for progress on the issue.

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Ahmadinejad calls for worldwide nuclear disarmamen ...
    Summary: In an interview with Russian channel NTV, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for a worldwide nuclear disarmament, declaring that the era of nuclear weapons is over. source: antiwar.com read more
  • Iranian Nukes? Not So Fast
    Summary: Broad raises alarms about the Iranian decision to go from 4 to 20 percent, calling it an "act of brinkmanship in a standoff with the West" and suggesting that, paradoxically, enriching uranium to 20 percent gets Iran "almost to the finish line" in producing material for a bomb. sour ...
  • More Nuclear Scaremongering about Iran from Clinto ...
    Summary: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton engaged in some fearmongering on Iran on Sunday on Candy Crowley's CNN magazine show, State of the Union. source: Informed Comment read more
  • Just which country Is “Playing for time” in nuclea ...
    Summary: Until today, the Obama Administration and much of the foreign policy punditocracy in Washington have been overflowing with observations that recent statements by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki reiterating the Islamic Republic’s interest i ...
  • New York Times Spins Ahmadinejad Speech as Claim A ...
    Summary: An article in today’s New York Times spins a speech given today by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the anniversary of the nation’s revolution anniversary as a “pugnacious” declaration of “capacity to make weapons-grade nuclear fuel,” even though Ahmadinejad never made any such ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • The Once-Green Sahara Slowly Transformed into Plan ...
    The world’s largest hot desert (seeing as technically Antarctica is the largest desert, though cold), the Sahara measures in at over 9 million square kilometers, and covers the majority of northern Africa. With an intermittent history that some believe may go back as far as 3 million years, recent r ...
  • The Death Star? Not Quite. It's the Massive Impact ...
    On Feb. 13, 2010, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be returning the highest-resolution images yet of Saturn's battered moon Mimas. Mimas eye-ball-like crater is the scar of a violent, giant impact from the past - the 140-kilometer-wide (88-mile-wide) Herschel Crater. The diameter of the crater is abo ...
  • Is Jupiter Undergoing Massive Climate Change? A We ...
    The Hubble Space Telescope and Keck Observatory images may support the idea that Jupiter is in the midst of violent global climate change. This theory was first proposed in 2004 by Phil Marcus, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. The planet's temperatures ...
  • Image of the Day: The Ghostly "Skull Nebula"
    The haunting "Skull Nebula", planetary nebula (NGC 246) surrounds a dying star some 1,600 light-years away in the constellation Cetus. Expanding over a period of thousands of years, nebula is the outer atmosphere of a once sun-like star. The expanding outer atmosphere is interacting with the gas ...
  • Is an Imminent "Little Ice Age" Possible? -Some Ex ...
    Evidence has mounted that global warming began in the last century and that humans are, at least in part, responsible. The concern is that the warming of our climate will greatly affect its habitability for many species, including humans. Both the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) a ...

Natural News

  • Heal yourself in 15 days: Stop making disease by e ...
    (NaturalNews) It also seems too simple: In order to achieve lasting health, simply stop making disease . But the concept is foreign to most people: Making disease? Why would I be making disease? Mainstream consumers, you see, have been trained by the medical industry to believe that disease strikes ...
  • Don't forget to eat blueberries: Scientists find t ...
    (NaturalNews) Although several studies involving laboratory animals have provided tantalizing clues that eating blueberries improves memory, could the delicious fruit actually help people retain their mental sharpness as they age? The good new appears to be "yes". In fact, blueberries might even boo ...
  • Aspartame has been renamed and is now being market ...
    (NaturalNews) In response to growing awareness about the dangers of artificial sweeteners, what does the manufacturer of one of the world's most notable artificial sweeteners do? Why, rename it and begin marketing it as natural, of course. This is precisely the strategy of Ajinomoto, maker of aspart ...
  • Nutiva founder John Roulac joins NaturalNews Talk ...
    (NaturalNews) This week's NaturalNews Talk Hour presents John Roulac, Founder of Nutiva discussing "Superfood Nutrition: The NEWest Trends". Find out how to optimize your health with nutrient-dense, powerful foods. Our show starts this Thursday evening at 6pm Pacific / 9pm Eastern, and registration ...
  • Over Half a Million U.S. Kids Per Year Suffer Heal ...
    (NaturalNews) More than half a million children suffer adverse reactions every year in the United States from prescription drugs, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Children's Hospital in Boston and published in the journal Pediatrics .The researchers examined data on emergency r ...

TheGallopingBeaver

  • Perspectives
    VERYDEMOTIVATIONAL.COM is a demotivational site that has an oblique sense of humour. As far as I know, the original wry format was developed by Despair, Inc.  Hours of fun and entertainment.
  • The horror, the horror
    THE NY TIMES has a disturbing article by Nicholas Kristoff, titled " Orphaned, Raped and Ignored ", about the current state of things in the Congo. It's a horror-show, a 21st century Heart of Darkness, and it's ignored by just about everybody. How bad is it? A peer-reviewed study found that 5.4 mill ...
  • Seabus bomb scare
    RCMP detonated a fishing rod in a tube mistakenly left behind at the Seabus Terminal in North Vancouver yesterday, so that's one less Olympic terrorist incident to worry about. The suspicious package was discovered at 2:30pm and detonated at 5pm after city blocks were evacuated and buses, all CNR t ...
  • 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 ...

Media Matters for America

  • Right-wing media use Clinton's heart procedure to ...
    Following former President Bill Clinton's hospitalization to undergo a procedure on his heart, several conservative media figures used the incident to attack Democratic health care reform efforts. For example, Rush Limbaugh said he was "thankful we don't yet have Obamacare," or "the death panel ...
  • They decide: Fox calls for firing of Obama admini ...
    Fox News personalities have suggested that at least 19 Obama administration officials and nominees should resign, be fired, or have their nominations blocked. They have also called for both Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to step down. Beck and Hannity ...
  • Fox News, Hoft distort Summers' comments on tax po ...
    Fox News and Gateway Pundit's Jim Hoft have seized on comments made by National Economic Council director Larry Summers to claim that he said higher taxes on the rich would lead to job growth. In fact, Summers said that President Obama's economic proposals, such as "rewarding people directly for hi ...
  • Perino falsely claims Obama administration admitte ...
    On Fox & Friends, Fox News contributor Dana Perino falsely claimed that the Obama administration admitted that it "bungled" the interrogation and Mirandizing of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab following his arrest because "they had to do a review." In fact, the "review" the administration conducted follo ...
  • Beck -- who endorsed Palin in 2008 -- falsely cla ...
    On February 11, Glenn Beck stated, "I don't ever endorse anybody" and "I don't lend my credibility to anybody." However, just prior to the 2008 presidential election, Beck stated, "I'm endorsing Sarah Palin." Beck falsely claimed that he doesn't ever endorse anyone Beck: "I don't lend my c ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • If You Could See America Through China's Eyes
    Several years ago, I met with the Deputy Director of the Policy Planning staff of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and I asked him what he was working on -- and what China's grand strategy was. His reply: "We are trying to figure out how to keep you Americans distracted in small Middle East ...
  • Schumer-Hatch: Money for Nothing
    It's great that the Senate is prepared to do something to help create jobs. Unfortunately, its most likely course of action, the Schumer-Hatch tax credit will probably create almost no jobs. The basic deal with Schumer-Hatch is provide a tax credit equal to the 6.2 percent employer side of the S ...
  • Obama's Victory Strategy
    A couple of months ago , I went out on a limb and predicted that a 2010 Republican election victory was a mirage. The New York Times/CBS News Poll this morning reinforces my confidence that President Obama and the Democrats can keep their majorities in November. Americans blame former President Ge ...
  • Google Plays Politics
    Google's announcement yesterday that it was going to finance some ultra-High Speed Broadband test markets only highlights the dizzying ascent of video online. The average broadband user spends about 760 minutes a month watching online video. Clearly the world of IP TV is almost here, but Google's mo ...
  • One Free Market System For Wall Street, Another Fr ...
    Washington is paralyzed by snow and partisanship. Nothing is getting done - even as the Great Recession pulls more Americans into its maw. In the midst of this paralysis, the President was asked about the giant pay packages of Jamie... Wall Street - Jamie Dimon - Lloyd Blankfein - United ...

TruthOut

  • Former US Regulators Helped Quash Toyota Investiga ...
    Two former regulators at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration took a spin through the revolving door and landed at Toyota, where they helped quash at least four NHTSA investigations into unintended acceleration, Bloomberg News reports . read more
  • Democrats Push to Tax Wall Street Bonuses
    Joining the push for new legislation in response to lavish bonuses paid in the financial industry, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) has introduced legislation that would tax bonuses paid to executives by banks that received government bailout funds. The bill would tax cash and stock bonuses of more than ...
  • Is Liberal, Intellectual Condescension Really the ...
    A conservative professor of politics at the University of Virginia recently wrote a column in the Washington Post asking the question: Why are liberals so condescending? read more
  • Report: Silicon Valley's Innovation Engine at Risk
    A new report warns that Silicon Valley's status as a center of economic growth and innovation is in danger. Silicon Valley has lost 90,000 jobs since 2008, and venture capital funding has plunged. San Francisco - Silicon Valley has long been one California’s great economic engines. It produced Inte ...
  • The Stink of Corruption in Phnom Penh
    A lake development project is fueling thousands of forced evictions in the Cambodian capital. Phnom Penh, Cambodia -There are plenty of guns in Cambodia, but I cannot get used to them being pointed at me, even in jest. After all, I'm just picking at my lunch, staring lazily at Phnom Penh's biggest ...

Planetsave

  • 7 Myths about Climate Change Science [& FUN VIDEOS ...
    The science of climate change is not really the question at hand anymore. Of course, there is always more to learn, but that highly accelerated climate change is real and that humans are the main cause of that are no longer questionable facts to the large majority of the scientific community. What ...
  • 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 ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Public Citizen in Texas

  • No worries my duckies, “San Antonio resolution bac ...
    I got at least one worried phone call this morning about an article in the Bay City Tribune claiming that A resolution backing STP Units 3 & 4, possibly within the next few days, may be at least partly the outcome of a meeting Matagorda County Judge Nate McDonald and Bay City Mayor Richard Knapik ha ...
  • Rice Farmers in Matagorda County United over Water ...
    Rice farmers in Matagorda County, Texas have united to stop the development of the White Stallion “clean” coal plant in Bay City. As Heather Menzies reported in the Bay City Tribune, local farmers have formed action groups with Public Citizen Texas’ Ryan Rittenhouse and Tom “Smitty” Smith to rally p ...
  • Voters steamed at Supreme Court over Citizens Unit ...
    Where are the torches and pitchforks when we need them? (Or the tar and feathers?)  According to a new poll released today, voters by a margin of 2 to 1 disagree with the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v FEC. Other big results? Asked if special interests have too much influence, 74 per ...
  • 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 ...

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Promoting Pay-Go
    This week, President Obama discusses the pay-go budget principle, recently rejected by republicans in Congress. Read the full transcript here.
  • Goldman Sachs Brings Down Another national Economy ...
    According to an article at Spiegle Online, Greece's problems stem... at least in part... from the same sources that most our own do... Goldman fucking Sachs. �Tell me one more time why every person above the rank of third executive washroom attendant in this nest of fricking split tongued snakes and ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Major troop offensive doesn't meet our definition of counter-insurgency. "Thousands of Nato-led troops have launched the biggest offensive in Afghanistan since the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001, the US military says. US marines and Afghan troops are attacking the Taliban-held town of Marjah in Na ...
  • Third verse, same as the first: THIS SHIT NEEDS TO ...
    I have been something of a broken record over the last month or so, insisting that the rest of the country should be so lucky as to have the government take over their health care, and I speak from experience. Yesterday I had surgery on your dime. One week after being seen by the specialist and sur ...
  • How It Works
    Via Rumproast, the real explanation of why President Obama seemingly can't get anything done, and who's really to blame, in clear, simple language. Go read the whole thing right now, but here's the conclusion: And then, quietly, the bill that James and I and the majority of the House, Senate, and Am ...

Care 2

  • Madonna's school forces 200 villagers to move
    About 200 residents of a village in Malawi have been told to leave their homes to make way for the construction of Madonna's $15-million US Raising Malawi Girls Academy. "The district commissioner for Lilongwe told the villagers to move off the land Submitted by Rosemary RYour CyberSis to Off ...
  • One Out of Every Three Women ! TAKE ACTION !
    Approximately one out of every three women globally has been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused in her lifetime but imagine a world without violence against women. Finally, after decades of silence and inaction, there is one bill that will Submitted by Cher C. to Society & Culture �|� �N ...
  • Can Chocolate Lower Your Risk of Stroke?
    Eating chocolate may lower your risk of having a stroke, according to an analysis of available research that was released February 11 and will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 62nd Annual Meeting in Toronto April 10 to April 17, 2010. Submitted by Alisa Roberts to Health & Wellnes ...
  • Former US President Bill Clinton has heart procedu ...
    Former US President Bill Clinton has undergone a heart procedure in New York City after complaining of discomfort in his chest, a spokesman has said. Submitted by Alisa Roberts to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • A home from home: saving species from climate chan ...
    How can we save some of our most charismatic animals from extinction due to climate change? One US biologist, Camille Parmesan, has a radical suggestion: just pick them up and move them Submitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

GreenBiz

  • Lack of Awareness About Water Risks Threatens to S ...
    The vast majority of large publicly companies are failing to adequately manage and disclose risks they face from water stress and scarcity, an issue that will likely become more acute as the world's population increases and the future impacts of climate change come to pass, according to new Ceres r ...
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 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.

Reuters Global

  • Did I hear ‘freedom fries’? – Fr ...
    February 2003. Anti-French sentiment sweeps across the United States. President George W. Bush and his top aides can barely contain their irritation at the French government for undermining U.S.-led efforts to get the U.N. Security Council to authorize the impending invasion of Iraq. With the aid of ...
  • 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 ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • How Much Transparency Do We Want?
    Yeah, my title is a joke. But does our privacy matter more than security? I can imagine a gaggle of third graders giggling and pointing, but as an adult — and given that the face is obscured — I don’t care if the TSA wants this photo of me and other air travelers [...]
  • Heart Is Lonely
    From the blog for my syndicated radio show (podcasts). � Angioplasty and Stents. � Bill Clinton suffers chronic heart disease. His condition was treated in 2004 with a quadruple bypass operation using arteries from his legs. The incident this news cycle in which the patient experienced chest ...
  • Reflections in a Dark Room – Part 2
    Note: I wrote this before the SOTU and waited to see if I needed to change anything – I didn’t. Obama is not the problem – we are. OK, what does that mean? It means that Obama is just a symptom of whatever the disease is. It means that he was obvious, even elementary, and why did [...]
  • Elizabeth Warren Calls for New Bank Stress Tests
    The initial Bank Stress Tests run by Treasury Secretary Geithner were largely a sham. I questioned as much last April in writing, “Bank Stress Tests: Major Sham?”: As with any test, the results are only meaningful if the process and proctor have unquestioned integrity. The proctors for the Bank Stre ...
  • Savvy Bankers? Free-Markets? Populist Presidents?
    Here is what Americans in 1933 heard from their populist President: FDR’s Fireside Chat on the Banking System Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment… Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and mi ...

Environmental Graffiti

Foreign Policy in Focus

  • 'Decoding the New Taliban: Insights from the Afgha ...
    Understanding the strength of the Taliban and its supporters could provide needed insight on how to overcome the Taliban using other tools than just the military.
  • Latin America: C-
    The Obama administration has made a few steps in the right direction. But U.S.-Latin American relations are far from mended, and skepticism is growing.
  • HAITI: U.S. Lawmakers, NGOs Call for Debt Cancell ...
    Three weeks after Haiti's devastating earthquake, nearly 100 U.S. lawmakers joined with key civil society groups here Thursday to urge the Group of Seven (G7) leading western nations to commit to cancelling all of the Caribbean country's multilateral debt.
  • The 700 Military Bases of Afghanistan
    After nearly a decade of war, close to 700 U.S., allied, and Afghan military bases dot Afghanistan.
  • Obama Boosts Nukes
    Despite his pledge to seek nuclear disarmament, Obama is investing big in the nuclear complex.

Global Elite

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Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Gerald Posner quits over plagiarism! Olympics Indy ...
    Here's a good one: Gerald Posner was a convenient weathervane for conspiracy coverups, much as Howard Fineman is a convenient weathervane for Safe Establishment Thinking. You can just look for Fineman and Posner for the exact line the mockingbirds are supposed to push. Everyone else seems to water t ...
  • 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 ...

Daily Censored

  • EMPIRE, POWER, AND PROPAGANDA LECTURE SERIES
    STARTS FEBRUARY 18, 2010 FOCUS ON PALESTINE/GAZA PANEL: CYNTHIA McKINNEY, “The People’s Secretary of State”, former Congresswoman BARBARA LUBIN and ZIAD ABBAS, Middle East Children’s Alliance NUHA MASRI, UC Berkeley student activist NORA BARROWS-FRIEDMAN, award-winning Flashpoints producer February ...
  • Iran is not the Former Soviet Union
    Gerald Seib is the Washington bureau chief for the Wall St. Journal. As such, he is one of the foremost political analysts for American finance capital. In the Feb. 12 edition of the paper, he has an article entitled “Iran Revolution’s End Will be Heard Around the World.”  In it, he explains that al ...
  • LAW BREAKING BRINGS BLOWBACK
    “In a striking admission from the Obama Administration’s top intelligence officer, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair announced Wednesday that the United States may target its own citizens abroad for death if it believes they are associated with terrorist groups.”(Feb 4, 2010) We fac ...
  • Where are the Populists?
    Where are the Populists? Michael Collins “There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that if you just legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, that their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea has been that if you legislate to make the masses prospe ...
  • Taking a school field trip: Philly schools and ‘Im ...
    Taking a School Field trip: visiting Philadelphia to try to imagine, ‘Imagine 2014’ The tragedy that is becoming public education is metastasizing all over the nation. Hear anything on national news? Of course not, they are bought and paid for by the corporations that own them like GE, Disney, Fox, ...

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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

  • The Agitator: Voices of PDA
    Feb 12th 2010 Episode 001 PDA is proud to introduce “The Agitator: Voices of PDA” a series of kitchen table conversations with members of the PDA community led by Tim Carpenter, PDA National Director. We ...
  • 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. ...

Marler Blog

  • Huntington Meat Packing Inc., Expands Recall by 4, ...
    Recall Release CLASS I RECALL FSIS-RC-004-2010 HEALTH RISK: HIGH Editor's Note: This recall release is being reissued to expand the January 18 recall to include approximately 4.9 million additional pounds of beef and veal products, and to correct net weights from 40 lbs. to 50 lbs. in five instan ...
  • Lawsuit Friday - Salmonella in Black Pepper Salami ...
    AP Chicago and AP Portland have been as busy as we have been.  Today, AP Chicago reported on one of our lawsuits – “Man Sues Claiming Salami Made Him Sick,” and AP Portland reported on the other – “Maine woman files suit over E. coli poisoning from tainted beef produced by NY-based Company.” In Chi ...
  • FSIS Responds to our Petition for an Interpretive ...
    Yesterday Safe Tables Our Priority (STOP) published a Press Release urging FSIS to declare "disease-causing E. coli's other than O157:H7 as adulterants in beef and begin testing for them."� In October we filed with FSIS, "Petition for an Interpretive Rule Declaring all enterohemorrhagic Shiga Toxi ...
  • Salmonella Senftenberg and Salmonella Montevideo L ...
    The CDC reports tonight that a total of 225 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Montevideo, which displays either of two closely related PFGE patterns, have been reported from 44 states and District of Columbia since July 1, 2009. The number of ill persons identified in each ...
  • 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 ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 02.12.10
    This one's just fine, thanks; car owners putting 50,000 more miles on their cars The economy, we think, means repairs > new car. Chicago 2010: The greenest vehicles at the auto show? Vroom. ...
  • 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 ...

Rafe's Radar

  • Reporters' Roundtable Podcast: HTML 5 vs. Flash
    One of the biggest criticisms of Apple's new iPad, and of the iPhone, is that it does not support Adobe's Flash, a system that lets Web developers code streaming videos and interactivity into Web pages. Steve Jobs is reported to be a big booster for HTML 5, a new extension of the HTML standard ...
  • Divvyshot launches refreshingly simple photo shari ...
    Photo site has bonus feature for iPhone users: shake to share
  • Rafe and Josh debate Google's Buzz
    Is Google Buzz effective competition to Twitter? Or is it just FriendFeed light? Webware writers Rafe Needleman and Josh Lowensohn debate. Originally posted at Webware ...
  • How CoverItLive failed users during iPad unveiling
    When you're covering tech's Super Bowl equivalent live, you really don't want your broadcasting platform to collapse.
  • Reporters' Roundtable Podcast: What the iPad means ...
    The iPad . Perhaps you've heard of it. Now there are hundreds, maybe thousands of posts and podcasts up about this product, and whether it's worth buying, and what's with the stupid name. But for this podcast I have two smart guests with me with whom I want to step a bit beyond these immediate co ...

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!

  • VIDEO: Juan Gonzalez Receives 2010 Justice in Acti ...
    On Thursday the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) awarded Juan Gonzalez, Co-Host of Democracy Now! and Staff Columnist at the New York Daily News with the 2010 Justice in Action Award. Amy Goodman presented the Award at AALDEF’s Annual Lunar New Year Gala.
  • 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

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

  • Inexpensive Home Built With Recycled Containers
    The entire house is built with 15 recycled shipping containers. After it is finished, you would never notice that it is built from containers and it has...
  • Climate Fight Is Heating Up in Deep Freeze
    As millions of people along the East Coast hole up in their snowbound homes, the two sides in the climate-change debate are seizing on the mounting drifts to bolster their arguments.
  • The Comeback of Nuclear Power
    It's climate-friendly and creates jobs, but as the U.S. reconsiders atom smashing, old worries about nuclear waste, meltdowns and price tags persist. After a nearly 30-year lull in building new nuclear reactors, due to the 1979 Three Mile Island accident, U.S. energy companies are now applying to bu ...
  • Biofuel expansion would send cattle into the rain ...
    Biofuel expansion in Brazil may drive cattle ranches into the Amazon, offsetting many of the benefits that come from diminished fossil fuel use. It would also take as many as 250 years to become a carbon-neutral venture.
  • Hackers Steal $4 Million in Carbon Credits
    Cyber-thieves used a classic phishing scheme to gain access to $4 million in carbon emissions credits last week, sending out emails to businesses asking them to log in to a fraudulent website posing as that of the German Emissions Trading Authority (DEHSt).

Invisible Opportunity

  • Investigators declare, “Obama never attended Colum ...
    1) Columbia University will not divulge whether the “alleged” diploma issued was in the name of Barry Soetoro or Barack Hussein Obama. No public record exists regarding the diploma. 2) Obama alleges he attended Columbia in 1982, 1983. But, the investigators have been UNABLE to turn up a single shred ...
  • Breast cancer virtually “eradicated” w ...
    By Mike Adams In a gathering of vitamin D researchers recently held in Toronto, Dr. Cedric Garland delivered a blockbuster announcement: Breast cancer can be virtually “eradicated” by raising vitamin D levels. Vitamin D is “the cure” for breast cancer that the cancer industry ridiculously claims to ...
  • New research into greenhouse effect challenges the ...
    By Kirk Myers A former NASA contractor whose theory demonstrating that the greenhouse effect is constant and self-regulating and that increases in human CO2 emissions are not the source of global warming is fighting an uphill battle to publish his controversial work. Developed by prominent atmospher ...
  • The global warming guerrillas
    By Matt Ridley Journalists are wont to moan that the slow death of newspapers will mean a disastrous loss of investigative reporting. The web is all very well, they say, but who will pay for the tenacious sniffing newshounds to flush out the real story? ‘Climategate’ proves the opposite to be true. ...
  • Climategate spreads like an ozone hole

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

  • I Love Mountains Day – Kentuckians Rally to Save t ...
    Kentuckians gather to push The Stream Saver Bill (Senate Bill 139) at the 2010 “I Love Mountains Day” march and rally. Related posts: Wendys Restaurant Chain Supports Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Senior Citizens March 25 Miles Against Mountaintop Removal Verizon Apologizes for Sponsorin ...
  • 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 ...

Inhabitat

  • Heredity Pour Art featuring Work by Felicity Nove ...
    If you’re in the greater Los Angeles area , we invite you to check out artist Felicity Nove’s striking eco-art created by pouring paint on sustainably farmed wood panels. Her latest solo show, Heredity Pour, opens tomorrow, Saturday, February 13th at the Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825. Re ...
  • LA LIVE: LA’s New Ritz Carlton JW Marriott Tower G ...
    The Los Angeles skyline is changing, and its going for gold – LEED Gold, that is. Opening next week, the Gensler designed Ritz-Carlton Hotel & Residences and JW Mariott at the L.A. LIVE development mark the first time LA has strived to reach such heights in more than two decades. Sitting nearly adja ...
  • The 5 Gyres Project Searches the Oceans for New Ga ...
    You may be familiar with the dreaded Great Pacific Garbage Patch — a massive soup of plastic debris, flotsam and junk floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Scientists say that ocean currents determine the precise gathering of the junk: the patch lies in the middle of a giant ocean gyre, or vo ...
  • “Living Goods” Barcode App Makes Buying Local a Br ...
    How many miles did your lunch travel to get to your plate? Even if we eat organic and fresh, most of us don’t know the origin of our produce, meats and dairy, and we often fail to realize that our food probably spends more hours in transit than we do getting to work. One of [...]
  • PREFAB FRIDAY: Archipod’s Spherical Garden Office ...
    Read the rest of PREFAB FRIDAY: Archipod’s Spherical Garden Office PodPermalink | Add to del.icio.us | diggPost tags: archipod, fsc timber, office pod, pod, Prefab, Prefab friday, prefab office, prefab office space

Pogue's Posts

  • A Reader's Ode to the iPad
    As longtime Pogophiles know, I'm fond of writing new lyrics (about the tech industry) to old melodies. But today, I've got some competition. Here's a clever song parody by reader Peter Weisz...
  • Why We Make Home Videos
    As you may be aware, we're about to enter a whole new era of data rot, one of the biggest and most personal of all: consumer videotape is going away.
  • A New Way to Comment on Pogue's Posts
    Pogue's Posts has a new, updated comment system that is better for everyone.
  • The Apple iPad: First Impressions
    Some wild speculations of a guy who's never even tried the iPad. Believe me, I'll review it when I get one. But I like what I'm seeing.
  • Google Voice Is Back on the iPhone, Mostly
    Have an iPhone? Tired of waiting for a Google Voice app? There's a workaround from the folks in Mountainview.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Internet Freedom Under Attack – France – Governmen ...
    The Inquirer – THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT has apparently decided that it doesn’t much like being democratic, and that it would rather like to censor the Internet instead. Not content with simply limiting itself to blocking despicable child sex abuse, a move three major ISPs in the US also agreed to tod ...
  • 10,000 City bankers hit £1m jackpot 10,000 City ba ...
    Daily Mail – Up to 10,000 City bankers are in line for pay packages of more than £1million, thanks to super-size bonuses, experts said yesterday. This is more than double the number recently predicted by the City minister Lord Myners, who has slammed the pay bonanza as ‘grotesque’. Detailed forecas ...
  • Cut Working Week to 21 Hours, Urges Think Tank
    BBC – The working week should be cut to 21 hours to help boost the economy and improve quality of life, a left-wing think tank has said. The New Economics Foundation claimed in a report the reduction in hours would help to ease unemployment and overwork. The think tank said people were working long ...
  • Whitewash Alert – Climategate inquiry stumbles on ...
    New Scientist – One day in, and already one of the five reviews into “climategate” has been hit by its own controversy. Former civil servant Muir Russell will head an independent inquiry into the professional behaviour of climate scientists at University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich, UK, relating ...
  • FLASHBACK 9 July 2009: Internet Freedom Under Atta ...
    ABC _ Save the Children has urged the Federal Government to abandon its plans to censor the internet, saying it will not be effective in protecting kids from online dangers. The child protection group is one of several organisations including Civil Liberties Australia, and the National Children’s an ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Again: Are there any groups in the First World wit ...
    Again: Are there any groups in the First World with revolutionary potential at all? (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) “Dear Maoist-Third Worldist, Are there any groups in the First World with revolutionary potential at all? I understand that most first world workers possess none. I read the articl ...
  • Ang mataas na gastusin sa pamumuhay sa Ikatlong Da ...
    Ang mataas na gastusin sa pamumuhay sa Ikatlong Daigdig ni Serve the People ng irtr.info (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) (English) (Polish) (French) Ang sumusunod na teksto na bahagyang inayos ay inihayag sa irtr.info ni Serve the People noong Disyembre 2, 2005: O siya, tignan natin ang mataas ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Street Lamps Powered by Garbage
    A cool new design concept marries composting with clean energy:  garbage-powered street lamps .  The Gaon Street Light from designer Haneum Lee keeps food waste out of landfills while keeping streets illuminated. The street lamp features a garbage bin at its base where food products can be deposit ...
  • Ford Unveils All-Electric Truck for Late 2010
    Ford Motor Company has taken another step forward in adding electric vehicles to their fleet by announcing an all-electric version of their Transit Connect van . The conventional version of the Transit Connect was named Truck of the Year at the Detroit Auto Show earlier this year. A small number ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Suspect in Two Canadian Hate Bombings Arrested
    After a two-hour standoff at a home in Winnipeg, police arrested a notorious Canadian neo-Nazi who’d been on the lam for weeks after two bombing attempts in Calgary. Kyle Robert Mckee, 24, was taken into custody early yesterday and faces two counts of attempted murder, along with weapons charges. Po ...
  • Neo-Nazi Stage Mom Seeks a New Line of Work
    It’s been a while since April Gaede’s teenage daughters appeared as the racist pop-singing duo Prussian Blue , but the former neo-Nazi stage mom is planning to keep busy with a new vocation: white-power matchmaker. Eager to see white folks reproduce, Gaede is touting her services on Stormfront.org, ...
  • Dropping Academic Veneer, Cal State Prof Starts Hi ...
    It’s official. Cal State Long Beach psychology professor Kevin MacDonald has made the leap from academia to racist activism, signing on with the American Third Position (ATP), a white supremacist political party established in October “to represent the unique political interests of White America ...
  • Florida Church Triggers Protests With Anti-Islam M ...
    Westboro Baptist Church , the Kansas-based group that pickets the funerals of fallen service members with “God Hates Fags” signs, is notorious nationwide for preaching a gospel of hate. But another small church is using similar tactics to attack Muslims, causing an uproar in the university town of G ...
  • Anti-Racists Work to Kill American Renaissance Con ...
    Activists have persuaded two Washington D.C.-area hotels to cancel their bookings for a conference of the racist American Renaissance magazine, raising the ire of the gathering’s white nationalist organizer, Jared Taylor . So displeased is Taylor that he’s been publicly sparring with the leader of R ...

change: org.

  • The Reality of Killing Animals on TV
    Reality TV shows are far from actual reality ... unless you're one of the unlucky animals who is killed for shock/entertainment value. Then the suffering gets very real. Two contestants, chef Gino D'Acampo and actor Stuart Manning, on the British reality show I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here! ...
  • Let's Move Campaign Gets Busy on the Web
    Michelle Obama's Let's Move initiative, which she introduced on Tuesday , is more than just a clunky government program no one ever hears about again. Just as her husband learned to use the Web to successfully rally his supporters during the campaign, Mrs. Obama is using the power of the Internet to ...
  • Temple Grandin: Animal Friend or Foe?
    HBO recently aired a biopic on Temple Grandin. Grandin is an animal scientist, a professor, an author, and an autistic woman. She says her autism causes her to think in images instead of in words, which allows her to see the world from an animal's perspective. As a strictly visual thinker, she is a ...
  • Freeway to Food Forest: Reinventing Urban Life
    Earlier this week I posted an action alert that you can use to ask Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to make cyclist and pedestrian safety a priority . Americans love their cars, so it’s not lost on me that this would mark a significant shift in our transportation priorities. But I think it's wort ...
  • Family's Immigration Drama Ends in Suicide
    Nina Bernstein, pretty much our favorite New York Times journalist on immigration issues, yesterday published the story of one family destroyed by a broken system. Segundo Encalada, an undocumented immigrant shipped to the United States by his parents at 17, found love with Elizabeth Drummond, a des ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Former President Bill Clinton Gets Two Stents in C ...
    by Emily Friedman NEW YORK -- Former President Bill Clinton was taken to a Manhattan hospital late this afternoon and two stents were installed in one of his coronary arteries, his office said. The former president's counselor Douglas Band released a statement saying that Clinton, 63, is in "good s ...
  • The Lobbying-Media Complex
    by Sebastian Jones President Obama spent most of December 4 touring Allentown, Pennsylvania, meeting with local workers and discussing the economic crisis. A few hours later, the state's former governor, Tom Ridge, was on MSNBC's Hardball With Chris Matthews , offering up his own recovery plan. read ...
  • Hey Dems! Don't 'Sell Reconciliation' -- Just Push ...
    by Jon Walker In an interview with Roll Call, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made the case for reforming the Senate rules and using reconciliation . "A constitutional majority is 51 votes," Pelosi said in an interview Tuesday with Roll Call. "If in fact the Republicans are going to say nothing can be do ...
  • After Citizens United, is a Different Corporate In ...
    by Prof. Robert Fellmeth With the recent Supreme Court holding in Citizens United , corporations and unions have first amendment protection to spend directly on political campaigns - at unprecedented levels. read more
  • Right to Free Speech Collides With Fight Against T ...
    by Adam Liptak WASHINGTON - Ralph D. Fertig, a 79-year-old civil rights lawyer, says he would like to help a militant Kurdish group in Turkey find peaceful ways to achieve its goals. But he fears prosecution under a law banning even benign assistance to groups said to engage in terrorism. read more

Lifehacker

  • How Do You Overcome Creative Blocks? [Ask The Read ...
    Artist and blogger Scott Hansen deals with creative blocks all the time, like any of us do, whether we're in an artistic field or not. So he asked 25 of "today's most exciting creators what they do when the ideas aren't flowing." Photo by Rennett Stowe . The block breakers these creatives use vary ...
  • Fonolo Skips Automated Customer Service Phone Tree ...
    iPhone only: Fonolo is a clever webapp for bypassing automated calling trees when phoning corporate customer service lines. Now the service has an iPhone app with the same great features as the site, but with more in-your-pocket convenience. We've mentioned Fonolo before , and we love it for how eas ...
  • Full Screen Weather Is a Giant, No-Frills Weather ...
    We've always liked Weather Underground for its no-nonsense, real-time weather info. Today they've released a new service called Full Screen Weather that mashes up Google Maps with weather data for nothing but maps and up-to-the-minute weather info. (Click the image above for a closer look.) Just p ...
  • Panda USB Vaccine Protects Your PC from Autorun Vi ...
    Windows only: Panda USB Vaccine disables autorun on your PC to protect you from being infected, but also protects your USB drives from spreading viruses when you use them in another PC. Using the tool is a simple matter of installing and then launching it, and clicking the Vaccinate computer button ...
  • Despite Privacy Issues, People Are Willing to Give ...
    On Wednesday we asked you to share your first impressions with Google Buzz , and despite all the privacy issues and a whole lot of new inbox clutter , Lifehacker readers are willing to give Buzz a chance. 16% of respondents loved it off the bat, 10% hate it, 16% really didn't care one way or the oth ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Instahoglets Link-Dump, Feb 12th 2010
    By Steve Hynd I've had a head-cold for four days and last night it finally reached my chest and triggered an asthma attack. I'm exhausted and sleep-deprived to the extent where 140 characters at a time is all I'm capable of. So here's a link-dump based on my tweets of the last few days. Normal blogg ...
  • Blogging Funk and the New Evil Empire
    Commentary By Ron Beasley As I noted below my hope for change has morphed into a depressing funk. I have had a difficult time putting that funk into words but fortunately Randall Amster has done it for me. Like Randell I grew up in the US and remember when it was the beacon of hope and good. But tha ...
  • Blogging Funk and the New Evil Empire
    Commentary By Ron Beasley As I noted below my hope for change has morphed into a depressing funk. I have had a difficult time putting that funk into words but fortunately Randall Amster has done it for me. Like Randell I grew up in the US and remember when it was the beacon of hope and good. But tha ...
  • Bad boys, bad boys, what you going to do when they ...
    Yes, the Afghan police just have to be better than the Pashtun tribal fighters, Taliban insurgents and AQ affiliated fighters; most of whom are also coming from a cultural-economic context of hash consumption, but this is the force that is supposed to hold and build as the Western troops 'clear' are ...
  • 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 spen ...

Water Wars

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Electronic Intifada

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The Wonk Room

  • What To Make Of Anthem’s Rate Hikes
    HCAN has responded to Anthem Blue Cross’s rate hikes (the company is a subsidiary of WellPoint) in the California individual market by releasing a report demonstrating how premium increases have been feeding insurer profits, not paying for health care costs. “The report finds that the top five large ...
  • White House Summit Invitation Suggests Obama Will ...
    The White House has sent a letter to Congress formally inviting Republican and Democratic leaders to the February 25th health care summit. The letter lays out the rough framework for discussion and strongly implies that the President will unveil the final package of compromises between the Senate an ...
  • NC School Secretary Claims She Was Fired For Speak ...
    Latina Lista is reporting that Ana Mateo, a bilingual school secretary, has filed a lawsuit against her former employer, Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools, claiming that her civil rights were violated after she was allegedly fired for continuing to speak Spanish to parents. Charlotte’s WSOC broke the n ...
  • GOP Whines After Reid Scraps Jobs Bill That They S ...
    esterday, Senate Finance Committee members Max Baucus (D-MT) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) released what they were calling a jobs bill, an $85 billion piece of legislation composed of tax incentives for businesses to hire as well as a handful of extenders to expiring tax provisions (that had nothing to ...
  • Gillibrand: Dems Likely To Insert DADT Moratorium ...
    Last night, the Courage Campaign hosted a conference call about the pending repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Lt. Dan Choi. Gillibrand laid out a three options for repealing the policy, but said that she had yet to secure 60 votes for a repeal. “I think w ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • No Matter How Thin You Slice It, It's Still Balone ...
    If I really cared, I could just go over to Brian's stupid blog and get the pro-war spin on NATO plans to bribe "moderate Taliban" to stop fighting. Or, I could go to Terry Glavin's stupid blog , and get the same thing with a load of self-satisfied self-praise and idiotic trashing of anti-war types ...
  • "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 ...

Financial Sense Editorials

  • Market Observation: Manipulation
    by Tim Wood. "As I have stated all along, my research suggests to me that the rally out of the March 2009 low has been a bear market rally. Nothing has occurred to change that point of view. As a result of the weakness that began a few weeks ago, I have received a number of e-mails asking about mani ...
  • Do Unto Others
    by J. R. Nyquist. "Nearly 14 years ago U.S. officials became interested in a 1995 planning document from a Russian defense think tank. The so-called "Surikov document" was put together in October 1995, with the title "Conceptual Provisions of a Strategy for Countering the Main External Threats to Ru ...
  • Sooner or Later, You’ll Invest Abroad
    by Jeff Clark. "Many conventional U.S. brokers are relatively clueless when it comes to gold stocks. If you asked them to name one, chances are it would be a domestic producer, one with assets located primarily in North America. But that’s not where the big money will be made over the next decade." ...
  • Will Obama Destroy Any Hope of U.S. Energy Indepen ...
    by Charles Brant. "The U.S. consumes nearly three times the amount of oil that it produces domestically on a daily basis. How can this statistic get any worse, you might ask? Imagine in 2010 the Obama administration persuades Congress to pass a budget that results in a reduction of domestic oil prod ...
  • Robert Prechter on Herding and Markets' "Irony and ...
    by Elliott Wave Int. "ave you ever watched a dog interact with its owner? The dog repeatedly looks at the owner, taking cues constantly. The owner is the leader, and the dog is a pack animal alert for every cue of what the owner wants it to do. Participants in the stock market are doing something si ...

on Government Oversight

  • Professor in Louisiana Braves Another Kind of Stor ...
    We wanted to call your attention to a story in yesterday’s New York Times about Dr. Ivor van Heerden, researcher, author, and former deputy director of the Louisiana State University (LSU) Hurricane Center. Dr. van Heerden is one of those...
  • 13 Best Practices for Open Government Webpages
    In the last seven days, each agency in the executive branch launched an Open Government Webpages (OGW) as part of the Open Government Directive (OGD). But while the Open Government Dashboard — the White House's scorecard for agency execution of...
  • Morning Smoke: Ex-Blackwater Employees Say They Wi ...
    Former Blackwater employees accuse security contractor of defrauding government by Carol Leonnig and Nick Schwellenbach [The Washington Post] Dodd, Corker to work together on financial reform by Brady Dennis [The Washington Post] Gensler Turns Back on Wall Street to Push...
  • Time for a Different Kind of "Energetic Reaction" ...
    POGO has obtained a recent internal memo from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) demonstrating a steady lapse in enforcement of safety policies at the Los Alamos Site Office. The contents don't paint a pretty picture, noting a sense of...
  • Morning Smoke: Commercial Real Estate Loans Proble ...
    TARP Panel: Small Banks Are Facing Loan Woes by Carrick Mollenkamp and Maurice Tamman [The Wall Street Journal] Wall St.’s Biggest Bonuses Go to Not-So-Big Names by Eric Dash [The New York Times] Norm Dicks could be boon for Boeing...

Science Express

  • Dark matter or background noise? Results intriguin ...
    Physicists may have glimpsed a particle that is a leading candidate for mysterious dark matter but say conclusive evidence remains elusive.
  • 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 ...

TechDirt

  • Google Music Blog Mess Highlights Why Three Strike ...
    We already wrote about how the big mess with Google taking down some music blogs showed many of the serious problems with the DMCA , but it also highlights some other important points. It's also a perfect example of why asking third parties to stop infringement, or setting up a three strikes policy ...
  • Teen Remixes The Works Of Others Into Best Selling ...
    Here's a story that will get traditionalists up in arms about "stealing" and "laziness," but they'll all be missing the point. We've see for decades how remix culture works in music. The ability to take the works of someone else, mix them up with others, change them around and create something new ...
  • Entertainment Industry Get Their Own 'Piracy Polic ...
    Remember back in December when Vice President Joe Biden hosted a one-sided "piracy summit" , ridiculously declaring that "all of the stakeholders" were present (despite there not being a single representative from the technology industry, nor anyone representing consumer interests or ISPs). The "st ...
  • Australian Court Says You Can't Copyright Facts; P ...
    sinsi is the first of a few to alert us to another good copyright ruling in Australia (following the recent iiNet ruling -- though the Kookaburra ruling is still pretty bad), finding that (as in the US) a collection of facts alone is not copyrightable . The specific case involved a telephone book, ...
  • Olympics Using Bogus Copyright Claims To Take Down ...
    As you probably heard today, just as reports warning about the luge track at the Olympics were coming out, a Georgian luger crashed and died while on a training run. It's a horrible situation all around, but it looks like the International Olympic Committee is trying to stifle the whole thing by us ...

VacTruth

  • New York adds HPV to the list of vaccinations requ ...
    . . . . . National Coalition of Organized Women From Laboring Women to Labor Unions, We Move as One www.ProgressiveConvergence.com From the desk of the Director: February 10, 2010 S4479, A6702: Health care practitioner may diagnose, treat or prescribe treatment for a sexually transmissible ...
  • 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 ...

BroadSnark

  • Collaborating Across the Divide
    Here’s a hypothetical situation. You work in a town with one factory.  You need your job.  Moving to another town, starting your own business, or getting some other means of survival is not an option at the moment. One of your coworkers (let’s call him Bob) is a racist, sexist, homophobic SOB.  Y ...
  • 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 ...

Executive Intelligence Review

Armies of Liberation

  • US Sanctions Iran Based al Qaeda, Zawahiri Promise ...
    The US Treasury Department placed financial sanctions on Saad bin Laden, thought to be in Pakistan, and three alleged al Qaeda operatives in Iran including a Yemeni. The terrorist designation Friday froze their assets within US jurisdictions and prohibits Americans from financial dealings with the ...
  • Arabian Peninsula al Qaeda groups merge
    In the face of Saudi Arabia’s success against the al Qaeda organization, many Saudi operatives have fled to the more hospitable climate in Yemen, joining others who recently arrived from Iraq, Somalia, and Pakistan. Al Qaeda in Yemen announced its merger with Saudi Arabia’s al Qaeda organization to ...
  • Yemen strikes multi-faceted deals with al Qaeda
    Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh recently struck a deal with Ayman Zawahiri, and Yemen is in the process of emptying its jails of known jihadists. The Yemeni government is recruiting these established jihadists to attack its domestic enemies as it refrains from serious counter-terror measures aga ...
  • Yemen’s Multi Faceted Deals with Al Qaeda (A ...
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  • 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

  • Medina strikes back after 9/11 comments
    Ted Oberg ABC News KTRK Saturday, February 13th, 2010 One day after Republican candidate for governor Debra Medina’s insurgent campaign hit a speed bump, she’s striking back. After comments on Glenn Beck’s radio show Thursday that seemed to support 9/11 conspiracy theories, she says she was ...
  • Caller Angus Calls Out Glenn Beck On His BailOut H ...
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    Andrew Steele America 20xy Saturday, February 13th, 2010 Today, in a move that illustrates exactly why Glenn Beck has painstakingly tried to portray himself over the past year as some kind of man of the people while hosting a show on the infamous Fox News Channel that cheered the War in Iraq,  he tu ...
  • Fort Worth 912 President Comes Out In Support Of M ...
    Adrian Murray, Fort Worth 912 Saturday, February 13th, 2010 I was born in Dublin, Ireland 38 years after the 1916 Easter Rising in which a band of Irish patriots rose up against oppressive British rule of their country. After an initial success in taking over the Dublin General Post Office, the reb ...
  • Perry Supporters Caught Posting Fake Pro-Medina Co ...
     Michael Landauer Dallas Morning News Saturday, February 13th, 2010 Perhaps you saw this comment posted on a few Monday blog posts: Medina all the way!!! She will speak the truth about 9/11. Namely, that Bush knew and that it was step one to boosting his bank account and his buddies’ war machine ec ...

food and water watch

  • Gates Foundation, Great Frustration
    The Gates Foundation’s new pick for the head of the foundation’s agricultural development program, Sam Dryden – the gene-slinging, globe-trotting biotechnology pioneer – is nothing less than a public declaration of what many of us long suspected: the Gates Foundation’s billion-dollar agricultural de ...
  • Contaminated Fountain Beverages
    My name is Daniel Cooper and I have recently joined the Food & Water Watch food team as an intern. I will be posting weekly blogs on pertinent food issues that affect us all. One such issue involves serious food safety concerns with fast food restaurants (as if you needed another reason to stay aw ...
  • Private Water Investments Awash in Controversy
    At the start of each new year, investment advisors are busy telling clients where to invest their money.  Despite the weak economy, this year is no different. Morgan Stanley just released it’s global investment “10 Investment Ideas for 2010”.  Number five on that list?  Water. For years we’ve been h ...
  • Melamine in Chinese milk…here we go again
    The recent revelation that China has once again hidden a major food safety incident involving melamine in dairy products for over a year clearly demonstrates that its food safety system cannot be trusted. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration maintains a staff in China to monitor the safety of food, ...
  • Briscoe vs. Environmentalists
    As an intern for Food and Water Watch, I attended a meeting in November titled  “Water and Agriculture: Developing Word Solutions” sponsored by Johns Hopkins University. The guest of honor was John Briscoe, a former World Bank Senior Water Advisor, and a current professor at Harvard. He discussed th ...

treehugger

  • Diane Burko Puts Climate Change on a Canvas with ' ...
    Credit: Locks Gallery/Diane Burko . You've seen the before and after climate change pictures. What about before and after climate change paintings? An artist named Diane Burko has captured the Earth's rapidly changing landscape with "Politics of Snow," an exhibition at Locks Gallery in Philadelph ...
  • Why Other Countries Are Scared of GMOs and We're N ...
    photo: J. Novak After reports last week that India halted plans to introduce a genetically modified eggplant to the market because of an outcry from environmental groups and the general public, it begs to question why in the US genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are so common. In fact, more ...
  • New York Fashion Week: John Patrick Organic, Fall/ ...
    John Patrick Organic Fall/Winter 2010. Image courtesy of Ecouterre The fashion week storm has hit New York City -- along with a blizzard -- and while Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Bryant Park is carbon neutral , we are looking outside the tents for the latest in green fashion. Enter John Patric ...
  • Brompton Folding Bike Championships Come to the US ...
    Image credit: The Cycling Gentleman If this video of the 3rd annual Brompton World Championships got US folding bike enthusiasts excited, then they'll be delighted that for the first time ever, a national US Brompton championship is to be held in March in Philadelphia. And what's not to like ab ...
  • Mating For Life, Other Species Are Better At It
    photo: J. Novak On this the day before Valentine's Day, it can be a bit disconcerting to hear that nearly 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. While many problems lead to this frightening average, infidelity is a big one. But according to Mother Nature Network, you'd have a l ...

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 turn stem cells into pork
    Call it pork in a petri dish — a technique to turn pig stem cells into strips of meat that scientists say could one day offer a green alternative to raising livestock, help alleviate world hunger, and save some pigs their bacon. Dutch scientists have been growing pork in the laboratory since 2006, a ...
  • Mind reading, brain fingerprinting and the law
    What if a jury could decide a man’s guilt through mind reading? What if reading a defendant’s memory could betray their guilt? And what constitutes ‘intent’ to commit murder? These are just some of the issues debated and reviewed in the inaugural issue of WIREs Cognitive Science, the latest interdis ...

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Pruning Shears

  • Under The Weather
    I’m on day 3 of some nasty bug, so I’ve only been skimming the headlines (and wouldn’t have the energy even if inspiration struck).  Bleh.
  • 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 ...

Natural Health News

  • The Secret to Helping Your Child Excel in School a ...
    Is your child struggling in school?  There is a little secret that you need to know in order to change this. The traditional notion of intelligence, based on I.Q. testing, is far too limited. There are eight different intelligences that account for a broader range of human potential in children and ...
  • FDA Only Government Agency to Get Budget INCREASE
    The Food and Drug Administration is a major exception to the Obama administration’s freeze on discretionary spending in the 2011 budget.  Overall, the FDA budget could grow by as much as 23 percent, to just over $4 billion. But this will require Congress to authorize more than a quarter-billion ...
  • Obese People Lose Weight at High Altitudes
    In a recent study, obese individuals who spent time at a mountain facility at high altitudes lost weight without going on a diet. And they kept the weight off for at least four weeks once they returned to normal altitudes. The researchers suspect part of the weight loss can be attributed to the th ...
  • Beers Rich in Hops and Barley Malts Linked to Bett ...
    A new study suggests that beers containing plenty of hops or pale barley malts could promote better bone health thanks to their dietary silicon content. Previous studies have established that beer is an important source of bioavailable silicon, but little research has been done to find out which b ...
  • Being Bored is Bad for Your Health
    Experts say there's a possibility that the more bored you are, the more likely you are to die early. Researchers analyzed questionnaires completed between 1985 and 1988 by more than 7,500 London civil servants. The civil servants were asked if they had felt bored at work during the previous month. ...

Antemedius

  • An American Defeat: The 100 Day War Against the Pl ...
    This is an update of a summary and economic prediction I originally published July 20, 2009 During the Great Depression, following the stock market crash of 1929, the American public sought a scapegoat for their economic plight. Some held President Hoover responsible, others targeted the three B's ...
  • Torture Accountability Letter 6 - AG Holder, Aren' ...
    Happy Monday and welcome to the Dog’s on-going campaign for torture accountability. The purpose of this series is to keep the issue of accountability under the law for torture alive. To do this every Monday the Dog writes a letter to one of the decision to makers who could move the issue of torture ...
  • Just How Good At Assessing Risk Are You?
    One of the things which is often frustrating about working in politics is the ability of the public to be sure of “facts” that are just flatly wrong. The rise of Fox News and its all spun-facts or fact free reporting has exacerbated this trend on the Right. The level of real knowledge that the folks ...
  • Deeper Politics: For Profit Government, Intelligen ...
    Last week we heard Peter Dale Scott , former Canadian diplomat and University of California at Berkeley Professor, and author of Drugs, Oil, and War (2005), The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America (2007), The War Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11 and the Deep Politics of War (2008), talk wit ...
  • Liberal Corporation Announces Congressional Run In ...
    Following quickly on the heels of the January 21 Supreme Court decision in the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission case implicitly granting corporations the right to free speech with their ruling lifting bans on corporate spending for campaign finance, a liberal PR firm specializing in go ...

Son of Alex Constantine's Blacklist

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

Climategate

  • The Climategate Inquiry Team
    The Climategate Inquiry Team cartoon Related posts: Criminal Behavior IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri declares climate change unsinkable Climate change’s rose-colored glasses
  • Let’s build a climategate wiki together!
    Good news. Climategate.com will very soon embark on building the most comprehensive wiki for information on climategate, and truth in climate change data. Related posts: Founder of Wikipedia lectures you on your online manners Sneaky bastards at Wikipedia to delete “climategate” page? Wikipediaâ ...
  • Follow the money: BBC exposed in biggest climate r ...
    The world is learning fast that climate pseudo-science is fraught with fraud. The best way to go to the heart of any moneymaking scam is to follow the money. Let's go on a journey from the toilet of the United Nations to the BBC’s top floor. Related posts: Church of Global Warming — The Movie B ...
  • IPCC co-chair Chris Field loses his cool with Roge ...
    On this BBC television show, co-chair of the IPPC Working Group Chris Field expresses regret for errors in the AR4 Report, and gets a bit upset during his interchange with professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado Roger Pielkie, Jr. Pielkie sets the record straight on how the ...
  • BBC Radio now admits it’s time to talk to skeptics
    On the BBC iplayer, it is a recording of Thursday’s ‘The Gabby Logan Show’, a UK lunch time national talk radio show, (at 11:42 through 34:00) with Mike Hulme, Professor of Climate Change in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA), Richard North, journalist and sk ...

Opinio Juris

  • President Obama (and 37 States) Agree To Let Canad ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Last week, the U.S. and Canada reached an agreement to permit Canadian firms to bid on projects funded by U.S. stimulus money based on the legislation enacted last year. The confusing part is just how exactly this will occur.  According to CTV, Canadian firms will be ex ...
  • Criminal Libel for Publishing a Critical Book Revi ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller That's the allegation made by Dr. Karin N. Calvo-Goller , a senior lecturer at the Academic Center of Law & Business in Israel, against Joseph H.H. Weiler , a professor at NYU who is the Editor-in-Chief of the marvelous European Journal of International Law .  In 2007, glob ...
  • A Response to C. Ford Runge by Mairon G. Bastos Li ...
    by MJIL by MJIL I thank Professor C. Ford Runge for his comment on my article and agree with his analysis that places biofuels within a larger picture. From the Brazilian perspective, such heavy subsidies used by the United States and the European Union constitute the very “Gordian knot” of the n ...
  • A Response to Mairon G. Bastos Lima by C. Ford Run ...
    by MJIL by MJIL [C. Ford Runge is the Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Applied Economics and Law at the University of Minnesota.] Mairon G. Bastos Lima is to be congratulated for his coherent and ambitious proposal to rationalize the governance of biofuels through multilateral appli ...
  • ‘Biofuel Governance and International Legal Princi ...
    by MJIL by MJIL [Mairon G. Bastos Lima is a PhD researcher at the Institute for Environmental Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.] I thank the moderators of Opinio Juris for giving me this opportunity to reflect upon my article, entitled ‘Biofuel Governance and Interational Legal Princip ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • Greens 'hoist on their own petard'
    The Washington Post has joined the growing media chorus giving climate change believers a hard time over their simplistic climate sloganeering: In Washington's blizzards, the greens were hoisted by their own petard. For years, climate-change activists have argued by anecdote...
  • BREAKING NEWS: CRU's Jones admits climate data pro ...
    The scientist who gave us Climategate has admitted to the BBC that much of the certainty about global warming turns out to be uncertain behind the scenes. His admission is a bitter blow to the credibility of websites like RealClimate,...
  • More scandal in Climategate review - another panel ...
    A second member of the Climategate inquiry may be forced to resign over claims that he is not impartial. Earlier today a member of the British government's "independent" review of Climategate was forced to resign after an old interview transcript...
  • Railway engineer tag catches on
    When I wrote the words on page 118 of Air Con about the locomotive background of one Rajendra Pachauri, few people knew the head climate honcho was a railway engineer by trade. I wasn't the first to raise it, but...
  • NZX makes loss as gloss goes from carbon market
    This from NZPA tonight: NZX SIGNALS BALANCE SHEET REDUCTION FROM CARBON MARKET Feb 12th 2010 6:17pm Finance/Other New Zealand sharemarket operator NZX is signalling a $19.9m hit to its balance sheet from a carbon trading business it has sold, blaming...

Public News Service

  • Health Reform Report: Too Long in the Waiting Room ...
    Health Reform Report: Too Long in the Waiting Room For AZ Phoenix, AZ - Congress continues to shape and debate health reform legislation...and a new report reveals those in rural Arizona just can’t wait much longer. The Center for Rural Affairs research shows that if the status quo on health care go ...
  • Troubling Drop in AZ and NM Gray Wolf Population
    Troubling Drop in AZ and NM Gray Wolf Population Phoenix, AZ – Conservationists and wildlife biologists are expressing concern over a one-year, 20-percent drop in Mexican gray wolf numbers in the Southwest. A reintroduction program started in 1998 had envisioned a self-sustaining population by now. ...
  • A Call to Preserve AZ Juvenile Justice System
    A Call to Preserve AZ Juvenile Justice System Phoenix, AZ – Governor Jan Brewer is proposing to eliminate the state’s juvenile corrections department to help with the massive budget deficit. A leading juvenile justice advocate says it would be a tragedy if that resulted in more young people sentence ...
  • Study: AZ Emergency Food Aid up 85 Percent Since 2 ...
    Study: AZ Emergency Food Aid up 85 Percent Since 2006 Phoenix, AZ – A new study shows the need for emergency food in Arizona continues to grow. Feeding America reports that 85 percent more Arizonans received emergency food compared to four years ago. That’s nearly double the nationwide increase. Com ...
  • AZ Winter: "Expect the Unexpected" from Global War ...
    AZ Winter: "Expect the Unexpected" from Global Warming Phoenix, AZ - Arizona's deserts have seen flood-producing rains so far this winter, while the mountains have had some of the heaviest snowfall ever. Nationwide, NASA says 2009 is tied as the warmest winter on record. A new National Wildlife Fede ...

My Care2 Picks

  • Banned hyperlinks could cost you 11,000 dollars a ...
    The Australian communications regulator says it will fine people who hyperlink to sites on its blacklist, which has been further expanded to include several pages on the anonymous whistleblower site Wikileaks Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 30 Scary Food facts you need to Know
    There are hundreds of little known facts about food out there, but we have picked the ones we think are both a bit intriguing and undoubtedly scary at the same time. Either way, we think that these facts are absolutely worth knowing about. Submitted by Sophie Smith to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it ...
  • Iraqi Holocaust : 2.3 Million Iraqi Excess Deaths ...
    Iraqi Holocaust : 2.3 Million Iraqi Excess Deaths By Gideon Polya 21 March, 2009 Mwcnews.net March 20, 2009 marks the 6th anniversary of the illegal, utterly unjustified, war criminal invasion of Iraq by US, UK and Australian forces. Post-invas Submitted by Uhoud Abdulmajeed to World �|� ...
  • Meet the new Prime Minister of Honduras
    You are Honduran and didn't know that you had a prime minister? Who Dat? US Ambassador/Honduran Prime Minister Hugo Llorens Don't feel too bad. Honduras did not have a prime minister until US Ambassador Hugo Llorens unofficially assumed that position. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • Haiti - Reflection on Humanity's Response
    Blogwhoring again. A quip to Kim on an article reminded me of a seminal post - and spurred a recap of events Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Under plan, intelligence agencies would be consult ...
    washingtonpost.com: "By Walter Pincus-Washington Post Staff Writer-Saturday, February 13, 2010-The Justice Department and the FBI will consult with the intelligence community on information about... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Dallaire slams rights loss
    Special Report by IIN Investigative Blog-correspondent John John: montrealgazette.com: Canada's treatment of Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr reflects this country's move away from its traditional... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Haitian-Oriented Radio Station Has Surprising New ...
    Image by Getty Images via DaylifeSouthern Poverty Law Center: How’s this for white supremacist irony? Derek Black, son of Stormfront.org founder Don Black and friend of ex-Klansman David Duke,... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Binyam Mohamed storm widens as Johnson defends MI5 ...
    guardian.co.uk: "The political storm over allegations of MI5 complicity in torture escalated tonight after Alan Johnson, the home secretary, accused the media of publishing 'groundless accusations'... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • The beautiful ghost of big government
    The Guardian: "People say they feel powerless. Wars are an area where the state remains vigorous, and on the left (though not just on the left) the Iraq invasion did more than any other event to... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Introducing Aggie – The Traveling Agrobacterium™
    This site is dedicated to providing educational material regarding the risks of GMOs in a simple, easy to understand format. You don't have to be a molecular biologist to understand the process.
  • 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:

    Blacklisted News

  • Credit Suisse Declares the U.S. a Riskier Investme ...
  • Surveillance Drones To Zap Protesters Into Submiss ...
    Police forces all over the UK will soon be able to draw on unmanned aircraft from a national fleet, according to Home Office plans. Last month it was revealed that modified military aircraft drones will carry out surveillance on everyone from protesters and antisocial motorists to fly-tippers, and w ...
  • ‘US to expand military centers in Pakistan’
    A senior US official says the American military plans to expand new training centers inside Pakistan in a bid to boost its so-called war on terror.
  • Franco-German bailout of Athens expected to avert ...
    Germany and France are tomorrow expected to move to guarantee Greek solvency and to shore up the euro against assault from gamblers on the financial markets.
  • Citi plans crisis derivatives
    Credit specialists at Citi are considering launching the first derivatives intended to pay out in the event of a financial crisis. The firm has drawn up plans for a tradable liquidity index, known as the CLX, on which products could be structured that allow buyers to hedge a spike in funding costs.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

Innovation Canada

  • An accidental soft landing
    In February 2005, Aaron Coret was a third-year engineering student at the University of British Columbia (UBC) with a passion for snowboarding. His goal was to turn pro some day, but that dream changed instantly when he crashed while snowboarding in a Whistler Blackcomb terrain park, a playground of ...
  • 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 ...

Signs of the times

  • Greece to ban cash transactions over 1,500 euros, ...
    Greece outlined on Tuesday its public sector incomes policy and a tax reform bill, as part of an EU-endorsed plan to increase state revenues and reduce its huge deficit. The following are comments by Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou at a press conference:
  • Airlines cancel flights as winter storm hits South
    Atlanta -- Airlines canceled nearly 1,900 flights Friday as snow pounded parts of the South and dumped several inches of white on Atlanta, home to the world's busiest airport. Light to moderate snow fell steadily throughout the afternoon in Atlanta and its northern suburbs. It wasn't expected to ta ...
  • Rare snowfall in Rome as cold snap grips Italy
    Tourists took rare pictures of snow falling on the Colosseum and the Trevi fountain on Friday, and the Pope reportedly appeared at a Vatican window to watch Rome's heaviest snowfall in nearly a quarter century. In scenes usually only glimpsed in souvenir "snow domes" Italy's capital was blanketed i ...
  • French Government Queries U.S. State Department ab ...
    Prompted by a new book release, the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research has received a confidential inquiry from the office of Erard Corbin de Mangoux, head of the French intelligence agency, Directorate General for External Security (DGSE), concerning a recent account of American ...
  • Brain Blood Vessels Clue to Multiple Sclerosis
    More than 55% of multiple sclerosis patients have been found to have constricted blood vessels in their brains, a US study says. The preliminary results are from the first 500 patients enrolled in a trial at the University of Buffalo. The abnormality was found in 56.4% of MS patients and also in 2 ...

Threat Level

  • ‘Obscene’ U.S. Manga Collector Jailed 6 Months
    A U.S. comic book collector is being sentenced to six months in prison after pleading guilty to importing and possessing Japanese manga books depicting illustrations of child sex and bestiality. Christopher Handley was sentenced in Iowa on Thursday, (.pdf) almost a year after pleading guilty to char ...
  • Record 13-Year Sentence for Hacker Max Vision
    PITTSBURGH — A skilled San Francisco-based computer intruder was sentenced here Friday to 13 years in federal prison for stealing nearly two million credit card numbers from banks, businesses and other hackers — in what is the longest hacking sentence in U.S. history. Max Ray Vision, 37, was also o ...
  • Facebook Denies ‘All Wrongdoing’ in ‘Beacon’ Data ...
    Facebook is denying it illegally breached the privacy of its users in a proposed $9.5 million settlement to a class action challenging its program that monitored and published what users of the social-networking site were buying or renting from Blockbuster, Overstock and other locations. To settle a ...
  • 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Republicans Trying to Kill Medicare. Again.
    Back in October, Republicans leaders slammed party chief Michael Steele for his "Seniors' Bill of Rights" which promised "no cuts to Medicare." Not because they weren't issuing dire - and mythical - warnings that Democrats were "sticking it to seniors with cuts to Medicare." No, the GOP brain trus ...
  • Broder's Palin Worship Revives Stupid Candidate Th ...
    Back in 1999 , the New Republic displayed then Governor George W. Bush in a dunce cap to tout its cover story, "Why America Loves Stupid Candidates." Judging by David Broder's fawning paean to Sarah Palin today in the Washington Post, it may be time to debate the stupid candidate thesis again. Iro ...
  • 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...

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

  • Rebuilding Haiti, with A Rwandan Twist
    leave.jpg Today marks the first of many anniversaries in this new phase of Haiti’s history.�It has been a month. The earthquake—known simply as “the incident” to Haitians—changed everything, instantly dividing their experience into a before an ...
  • Fault Lines—Haiti: The Politics of Rebuilding
    In what’s left of Port-au-Prince, Haitians have self-organized into 450 camps administered by neighborhood committees. These newly formed communities not only provide temporary shelter, but are also launching points for local organizers to promote Haitian voices in their society’s new structure. rea ...
  • Aldo Gonzalez of UNOSJO interviewed in San Francis ...
    2010_01_27_0034.jpg Grassroots International partner Aldo Gonzalez from the Union of Organizations of the Sierra Juarez of Oaxaca (UNOSJO) joined us in the San Francisco Bay Area at the end of January for a week of meetings, conferences an ...
  • 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 ...

Climate

  • February 12, 2010
    Arizona Quits Western Cap-and-Trade Program (New York Times) Citing financial worries, the State of Arizona has backed out of a broad regional effort to limit greenhouse gas emissions in the West through a cap-and-trade system. Drive to Delay Calif. Climate Law May Be Stuck in Neutral (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 Major U.S. ...
  • February 12, 2010
    Arizona Quits Western Cap-and-Trade Program (New York Times) Citing financial worries, the State of Arizona has backed out of a broad regional effort to limit greenhouse gas emissions in the West through a cap-and-trade system. Drive to Delay Calif. Climate Law May Be Stuck in Neutral ( ...
  • 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) ...

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

  • Repowering America (And Congress For That Matter)
    The Alliance for Climate Protection Action Fund's Repower America Project, run by a guy named Al Gore (and for whom I happily consult), has decided to remind both Republicans and Democrats in IN, ME, AR, and MO that they were elected by the people to do THEIR bidding, and not certain companies that ...
  • Fundraising Friday: Can we hit $5,000 by the end o ...
    If we can reach $5,000 by the end of today, that would bring us to the halfway point and would put us on course to end this cycle of begging before the end of the month. I hate it when that big stupid box sits up on the top of every page for weeks on end. I'll bet you do, too. As of this writing, we ...
  • Republicans at Highest Levels Really Want to Do Aw ...
    While Tea Party movement followers ran around Nashville last week dressed up in their Paul Revere period costumes, blathering about their heroic struggle against Obama's Islamosocialist tyranny, the right-wing elite that nurtures them, and their paid libertarian ideologues, have been openly advocati ...
  • I cut my hair but I am not a terrorist: TSA in Phi ...
    I guess I may as well get out front of things here. I'm about to fly to Switzerland to lead a panel on how to change pro-capital punishment attitudes in a country at the Fourth Congress Against the Death Penalty, being sponsored by the United Nations in Geneva. And judging from the stories I've been ...
  • Why Did the Obama Agenda Stall?
    In 2009, President Obama had an ambitious legislative agenda but Congress passed little of it. Whose fault was this? The conventional wisdom blames the Democratic majority in the Senate . From the July 7th swearing in of Democratic Senator Al Franken, to the February 4th installation of Republican ...

Ten Percent

  • Friday! Soft Cell- Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
    My favourite Soft Cell song (although a close run thing, a tie really with ‘Where The Heart Is’) and a shout out to Otto, keepin’ it real for the Soft Cell Massive (Attack) in Peru. Where will these dedications go next…?
  • Stop Deportation To DRC, Where Rape Is Endemic
    Personally I would consider anyone involved in trying to deport Mireille Mbimbo to the DRC as conspiring to commit rape. Sanctuary for Mireille Mbimbo (Very urgent support needed) Mireille Mbimbo a national of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and a resident of Bradford, is currently being held ...
  • T. Blair- PeaceMonger!
    WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is going to play a bigger role in efforts to get Israel and the Palestinians back to peace talks by intensifying his partnership with special U.S. Mideast envoy George Mitchell. In a wr ...
  • Spoilt Cowardly Bigots
    Professional footballers have refused to appear in a campaign video against homophobia because they fear being ridiculed for taking a stand against one of the sport’s most stubborn taboos,The Independent has learnt. Both players and agents declined a request by the Professional Footballers’ Associat ...
  • Evil Terrorist Still At Large
    Margaret Thatcher- Nelson Mandela was a terrorist. She would have nothing to do with him or his African National Congress, a “typical terrorist organisation”. US president Ronald Reagan opposed a 1986 congressional resolution calling on South Africa’s apartheid regime to release Mandela and recogni ...

Booman Tribune

  • Olympics Thread
    I like the Winter Olympics a lot better than the Summer Olympics. I actually watch the Winter Olympics. I was very sad to see the Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili die during his training run today. Now I will be very nervous watching a contest I usually enjoy a lot. They say the track is too ...
  • Tea Bagger Planned for "Armageddon"
    What sort of people are attracted to the Tea Party Movement? Booman has already shown that a plurality of them are prone to the belief that Obama has raised their taxes when he hasn't. But what else do such people believe about Obama? Well we know for a fact that at least one of them in Massach ...
  • Casual Observation
    Saying that you are going to cut taxes for 95% of Americans is a good strategy on the campaign trail. Actually doing it? Not so much (.pdf). People are stupid.
  • Weird Polls
    The weekly Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll is out and it continues a disturbing trend. While the poll shows Obama with strong favorability numbers, the Democratic Party as much less unpopular than the Republican Party, and Reid and (especially) Pelosi as much less unpopular than their counterparts, th ...
  • Quote of the Day
    Flags, not crosses: "If you take 1,000 so-called tea partiers and ask them what this movement is, you'll get 1,000 different interpretations," Mark Williams, a talk-radio host and chairman of the Tea Party, told the Post. "But they're all waving American flags and speaking out against the gallopi ...

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Futurismic

  • Ideological cyberwarfare and the marketing of inta ...
    Ars Technica points us to a BBC report that claims botnets are increasingly being deployed by ideological and political activist groups as well as the more traditional spammers ‘n’ scammers. There’s undoubtedly a kernel of truth here, but given that the data that informs this conclusion comes from P ...
  • Teens don’t read and can hardly write, right?
    Wrong… unless those 40,000 words they text out over a month don’t count [via LifeHacker; image by nate steiner]. Sure, a lot of those texts will be rote replies and simple questions, but the point stands: teenagers communicate heavily using a form of the written word. When I was a teenager in the ni ...
  • Attention, futurist gamblers: long odds on Artific ...
    Pop-transhumanist organ H+ Magazine assigned a handful of writers to quiz AI experts at last year’s Artificial General Intelligence Conference, in order to discover how long they expect we’ll have to wait before we achieve human-equivalent intelligence in machines, what sort of level AGI will peak o ...
  • 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 [.. ...

Therapy News

  • Pre-natal Anemia May Increase Risk of Schizophreni ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline One of the most crucial aspects of modern efforts to understand and eradicate schizophrenia focuses on discovering why the concern develops, and how. Researchers have suspected that issues involving iron deficiency –which can be responsible for a lowered production ...
  • Suicide Rates among Young Children Low, yet Troubl ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline When suicide is connected with youths, it is often thought of in regards to teenagers and young adults, for whom the issue is among the top five leading causes of death in the United States. Younger children, especially those under ten, are typically not associated wi ...
  • Antenatal Depression: Increased Study Brings Incre ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Psychological issues that encourage people to seek professional help can affect clients of any age and situation, but women who have recently given birth are often indicated as being at a somewhat high risk of developing post-partum depression. This concern has been sh ...
  • Link Established between Dental Behavior, Psychoso ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Many children may be adverse to visiting the dentist, especially when such visits involve loud machines or potentially embarrassing braces. But some children exhibit an intense fear of dental care, coupled with poor dental management behavior, an issue recently invest ...
  • Changing Curses to Blessings
    By Susan Heitler, Ph.D., Conflict Resolution Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Susan and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Horror of horrors—you’ve just caught your spouse listing his name on internet sites for meeting sexual partners. What now!! You are furious, and you let ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Colbert on Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining - GOOD
    Colbert on Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining GOOD ... in the show to talk about—as only Colbert can—a recent study published in Science that highlights the human impacts of mountaintop removal coal mining. ... Colbert Report Takes Down Big Coal: Save the Endangered Hillbilly The Indypendent When Scie ...
  • West Virginia's Coal Civil War? - RedState (blog)
    West Virginia's Coal Civil War? RedState (blog) ... meet its current energy needs without coal, but there is strong bi-partisan opposition in Congress to the mountaintop removal method of mining it. ... and more��
  • Mountaintop Removal Road Show - Washington and Lee ...
    Mountaintop Removal Road Show Washington and Lee University News Office Background on Mountain Top Removal : In Virginia, West Virginia and eastern Kentucky, coal companies blast as much as 600 feet off the top of the mountains, ...
  • A Class- Conscious Strategy For Ending Mountain To ...
    A Class- Conscious Strategy For Ending Mountain Top Removal Mining? OpEdNews By Tom Over (about the author) Page 1 of 2 page(s) need to get a life. They need to get a job. Ask yourself how many of them are gainfully employed. ... and more��
  • Readers' voice: Feb. 13, 2010 - Charleston Gazette
    Readers' voice: Feb. 13, 2010 Charleston Gazette Anyone who allows mountaintop removal to continue is a coward. Is there anyone who has prettier eyes than Meredith Wood on News Channel 8? ...

Memeorandum

  • Professor Said to Be Charged After 3 Are Killed in ...
    New York Times : Professor Said to Be Charged After 3 Are Killed in Alabama   —  Three faculty members at the University of Alabama in Huntsville were shot to death, and three other people were seriously wounded at a biology faculty meeting on Friday afternoon, university officials said.
  • What I Saw at the Tea Party Convention (Glenn Harl ...
    Glenn Harlan Reynolds / Wall Street Journal : What I Saw at the Tea Party Convention   —  The attendees want politicians who will deliver on Obama's promise of clean and open government.  —  There were promises of transparency and of a new kind of collaborative politics where establishment figures ...
  • Police: female faculty member kills three on UA-Hu ...
    WAFF-TV : Police: female faculty member kills three on UA-Huntsville campus   —  HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) - Police said a female member of the UA-Huntsville faculty shot and killed three co-workers on campus.  —  Huntsville Police, Madison County Sheriff's department and HEMSI responded to a shooting ...
  • Republicans and Medicare (Paul Krugman/New York Ti ...
    Paul Krugman / New York Times : Republicans and Medicare   —  “Don't cut Medicare.  The reform bills passed by the House and Senate cut Medicare by approximately $500 billion.  This is wrong.”  So declared Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House, in a recent op-ed article written with John G ...
  • A RUTHLESS BILL MAHER RETURNS (Patrick Gavin/The P ...
    Patrick Gavin / The Politico : A RUTHLESS BILL MAHER RETURNS   —  They once said, if you lose Walter Cronkite, you lose the nation.  —  But what happens if you lose Bill Maher?  —  The liberal comedian has surprised friends and foes alike by adding President Barack Obama to his list of usual targe ...

Energy & Environment News

  • Japan Calls Hummer H3 Fuel-Efficient
    Starting this week, Japan’s new, looser fuel-efficiency standards for imported cars will provide a subsidy to buyers of the hulking power machines.
  • U.S. to Back Loans for Reactors
    The Southern Company hopes to build two reactors in Burke County, near Augusta, in what would be the first such construction since the 1970s.
  • President Touts His Alternative Fuels Plan
    President Obama ordered the rapid development of technology to capture carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of coal.
  • A European Row Over Biofuels
    Studies by the European Commission are intended to determine the emissions created when forest or land is cleared to replace food production lost to biofuel crops.
  • Europe Leans Toward Bluefin Trade Ban
    European officials are increasing pressure for an international ban on bluefin tuna, a threatened fish whose fatty belly is prized for sushi.

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China Dialogue

  • Treading into a recycling success
    Worn tyres have long been turned into cheap, durable footwear in Ethiopia. Now, writes Xan Rice, an enterprising woman’s shoe workshop offers inspiration to Africans by thriving in a global market. Old truck tyres never die, they just turn into sandals. For decades, that has been the tradition in Et ...
  • Security in a drier age (3)
    China’s catastrophic drought of 2008 required a massive martial response. In the conclusion of a three-part article, Scott Moore deems it a sign of things to come. The north China winter drought of 2008 and 2009, which China’s National Me­teorological Centre classified as an “extreme weather event” ...
  • 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, ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • ‘Obscene’ U.S. Manga Collector Jailed 6 Months
    A U.S. comic book collector is being sentenced to six months in prison after pleading guilty to importing and possessing Japanese manga books depicting illustrations of child sex and bestiality. Christopher Handley was sentenced in Iowa on Thursday, (.pdf) almost a year after pleading guilty to char ...
  • Record 13-Year Sentence for Hacker Max Vision
    PITTSBURGH — A skilled San Francisco-based computer intruder was sentenced here Friday to 13 years in federal prison for stealing nearly two million credit card numbers from banks, businesses and other hackers — in what is the longest hacking sentence in U.S. history. Max Ray Vision, 37, was also o ...
  • Facebook Denies ‘All Wrongdoing’ in ‘Beacon’ Data ...
    Facebook is denying it illegally breached the privacy of its users in a proposed $9.5 million settlement to a class action challenging its program that monitored and published what users of the social-networking site were buying or renting from Blockbuster, Overstock and other locations. To settle a ...
  • 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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • NATO launches major Afghanistan offensive
    MARJAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S.-led NATO troops launched a crucial offensive on Saturday against the Taliban's last big stronghold in Afghanistan's most violent province and were quickly thrown into a firefight with the militants.
  • Games open in Canada's wintry indoor paradise
    VANCOUVER (Reuters) - A snowboarder soared through the Olympic rings and skiers schussed down mountains in the unlikely confines of a stadium as Canada whipped up a wintry wilderness for Friday's opening of the 2010 Winter Games.
  • Luge death darkens mood as Winter Games open
    VANCOUVER (Reuters) - A Georgian luger died in a horrific crash on a training run on Friday, casting a shadow as Vancouver opened the Winter Games with a daredevil snowboarder, an aboriginal welcome, and Wayne Gretzky lighting the cauldron.
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  • US gold drops on Greek woes, China's tightening
    NEW YORK, Feb 12 (Reuters) - U.S. gold futures ended lower on Friday as the dollar rallied against the euro on fiscal worries about Greece, and as China's raising bank reserve requirements took a toll on investor sentiment.

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

  • Did missing Polish intel officer defect to Russia?
    We have been keeping an eye on the mysterious case of Stefan Zielonka, a senior SIGINT officer with Poland’s Military Intelligence Services (SWW), who disappeared without trace in early May of 2009.
  • News you may have missed #0284
    Real IRA faction killed MI5 informant, says Irish police. NATO spy station up for sale. Analysis on the Binyam Mohamed disclosures and UK-US spy cooperation.
  • Israeli minister in handshake debacle with Saudi s ...
    By IAN ALLEN | intelNews.org | Much has been made of an episode in the recent Munich Security Conference, in which Israel’s deputy foreign minister shook hands with Saudi Arabia’s former intelligence director. As is often the case in international conferences involving high-level participants from I ...
  • Three women among al-Mabhouh assassins, says journ ...
    Three women were among ten members of a Mossad assassination team that killed a top Hamas official earlier this month in Dubai, according to Intelligence Online. The Paris-based, subscription-only website also said that all members of the Israeli assassination squad that killed Mahmoud al-Mabhouh us ...
  • News you may have missed #0283
    Romanian spy chief in rare interview. Trial of Hawaii resident accused of spying for China postponed. Bizarre suicide streak in Turkish military continues.

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  • Toward A Progressive Tea Party Movement
    Toward A Progressive Tea Party Movement By Stephen Crockett | Host of Democratic Talk Radio | Editor of Mid-Atlantic Labor.com The American government is not the enemy if it is actually controlled by the American public instead of by the rich and powerful elite who make up the corporatists power st ...
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  • U.S. Afghanistan Offensive Violates Olympic Truce
    By Sam Husseini � The target is any system that might question the prerogative of the U.S. empire to use deadly force whenever it wants. � � Earlier today I sent a note to several friends, writing that it "would be interesting if the U.S. started the offensive in Afghanistan tonight, since the anc ...
  • Notice to Class and Proof of Claim Form Released f ...
    The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund is pleased to announce that the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has granted preliminary approval to the class action settlement in Becker, et al. v. District of Columbia, et al. , relating to the April 15, 2000 mass arrest of nearly 700 people ...

Grist - News

  • Norway plans the world’s most powerful wind ...
    by Agence France-Presse OSLO -- Norway plans to build the world's most powerful wind turbine, hoping the new technology will increase the profitability of costly offshore wind farms, partners behind the project said Friday. With a rotor diameter of 475 feet and a height of 533 feet, the 10-mega ...
  • U.K.‘s Gordon Brown will help lead U.N. advi ...
    by Agence France-Presse UNITED NATIONS -- U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon set up a high-level advisory panel Friday to mobilize funding to help developing nations battle climate change. The panel, to be led by Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Ethiopian counterpart Meles Zenawi, aimed "to mo ...
  • Obama administration celebrates clean energy inves ...
    by David Roberts On Thursday the Obama administration released its annual Economic Report of the President , which assesses the nation's economic progress, the challenges ahead, and the administration's domestic and international priorities. There is a meaty chapter on " Transforming the Energy ...
  • 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 ...

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Washington Independent

  • Dems’ Tax Credit Would Create 200,000 Jobs & ...
    The Economic Policy Institute, a liberal policy shop, has some discouraging news for those hoping the Senate’s jobs bill will put a dent in the nation’s 9.7 percent unemployment rate: The business tax break at the heart of the bill will lead to the creation of only 200,000 new jobs this year, EPI es ...
  • Corker: Forget the Consumer Financial Protection A ...
    Bad news for consumer advocates who experienced a flutter of hope this week when Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) swapped Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) — an opponent of creating a consumer financial protection agency — for Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) at the finance reform negotiation table: Corker today told ...
  • Subprime Movies to Replace Subprime Mortgages as W ...
    Nick Baumann of Mother Jones reports that the latest vehicle to try to soak American investors — after Citi’s plans to develop derivatives (a type of insurance product) to allow investors to make money betting on future financial crises — is a movie derivatives market developed by the financial firm ...
  • Poll: Everyone Hates Congress
    Some shocking numbers from a new CBS News/New York Times poll, revealing that just 8 percent of Americans think the sitting members of Congress deserve re-election. That figure is a bit misleading, if only because voters tend to have a much stronger affection for their own representatives than they ...
  • Doubting the Powers of Tax Credits to Create Jobs
    While Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has stripped out most provisions of the $85 billion jobs bill proposed yesterday by Finance Committee leaders, the majority leader is reportedly interested in keeping the 2010 Social Security tax exemption for businesses that hire unemployed workers this year. That pro ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

  • Ulema protests torture against racing cows
    A number of ulemas in Madura have been urging the regional administration to issue bylaws against the use of torture on cows used in the traditional karapan sapi (cow race). Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 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 for the farm animals 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 for the farm animals 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 for the farm animals to ...
  • 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 for the farm animals to ...

Suzie-Q

  • Tea Party Leader Slams Palin As ‘Wolf In She ...
    ‘Warning: Tea Party In Danger’: Leader Slams Palin As ‘Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing’ TPM Muckraker Zachary Roth | February 12, 2010, 9:59AM A prominent Tea Party leader from Texas is warning that the movement “is becoming nothing more than a wholly owned subsidiary of the Republican Party,” and slam ...
  • Those Pathetic Republicans Who Want To Do Away Wit ...
    Republicans at Highest Levels Really Want to Do Away with Democracy for All There’s a dangerous right-wing alignment in the making; race-baiters proposing ‘civics literacy tests’ and elite free market ideologues who see democracy as inefficient. Mark Ames / AlterNet February 12, 2010 | While Tea ...
  • Did Blackwater Bill US Tax Payers For Prostitutes?
    Claim: Blackwater Billed US for ‘Morale Welfare Recreation’ Provided by Prostitute Raw Story / By Ron Brynaert Two former employees have accused Blackwater Worldwide of defrauding the government for years with phony billing, including charging for a prostitute, alcohol and spa trips. Februa ...
  • What Happens When Other Countries Have America&#82 ...
    The End of Influence: What Happens When Other Countries Have America’s Money America finds itself cash poor, and to a great extent, power follows money. A new book explores the grave consequences this loss will have for America’s place in the world. February 11, 2010 | Editor’s Note: America’s l ...
  • 71% Of Americans Say Palin Unqualified To Be Presi ...
    Palin Unqualified To Be President, Says Vast Majority Of America HuffPo– First Posted: 02-11-10 12:27 AM   |   Updated: 02-11-10 01:40 AM The spotlight has been bright, not necessarily kind to former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. According to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, 7 ...

Solari

  • Is George Soros Having a Bad Week?
    The dirt is flying on Soros and his investments: Good news: Obama Backs Off-shore Drilling! Update: A Soros Connection? Hot Air (18 Aug 09) Obama Underwrites Offshore Drilling The Wall Street Journal (18 Aug 09) You Won’t Believe The Sweetheart Deal That The Indymac Boys Were Given By The FDIC Thin ...
  • G.K. Chesterton on Community
    It is not fashionable to say much nowadays of the advantages of the small community. We are told that we must go in for large empires and large ideas. There is one advantage, however, in the small state, the city, or the village, which only the wilfully blind can overlook. The man who lives in a ...
  • Happy Valentine’s Day & Chinese New Year - F ...
    This is the year when Valentine’s Day and Chinese New Year fall on the same day. And for you sports fans, February 14 is also opening day of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada! And it’s a new moon!
  • The Year Of The Tiger
    Chinese New Year is the longest and most important festivity in the Lunar Calendar. The origin of Chinese New Year is itself centuries old and gains significance because of several myths and traditions. Ancient Chinese New Year is a reflection on how the people behaved and what they believed in the ...
  • EU Lawmakers Reject Bank Data Deal With US
    By Aoife White The European Parliament on Thursday strongly rejected a deal that would have allowed U.S. authorities access to European bank transfers — a vote the United States said disrupted an important source of information for anti-terror investigators. EU lawmakers in Strasbourg, France, vo ...

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

  • Eating baked rhubarb could fight cancer
    The discovery that eating baked rhubarb could fight cancer has prompted a search for the best combination of anti-cancerous chemicals found in the food and chemotherapy agents needed to fight leukaemia. Academics now hope to discover the best combination to kill leukaemia cells.
  • "Fifth taste" to be sold in supermarkets
    An elusive cooking ingredient favoured by the Japanese which claims to encompass a "fifth taste" is to go on sale in supermarkets. Tubes of umami , whose Japanese name roughly translates as "deliciousness", will hit UK shelves next week. The product pretty much sells itself as distilled perfection a ...
  • Top trouble spots for tigers revealed
    As people across the globe prepare to usher in the Chinese Year of the Tiger this weekend, a map of the top 10 trouble spots for the big cats has been released by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
  • First viewing of dark matter?
    Physicists in the US may have glimpsed a particle of dark matter – however they so far have not got conclusive evidence of the sighting. The team, who were based 2,000ft underground in an old iron mine have reported two possible detections of weakly interacting massive particles, and claim that ther ...
  • Flexible working 'should be' the norm
    A new cross-government strategy to encourage more highly-skilled, quality part-time jobs for women has been launched this week. In the Working Towards Equality: A Framework for Action report, the government said it will tackle the gender pay gap by ensuring that being a parent or carer is not a bar ...

Fabius Maximus

  • FM newswire for 13 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. “Why Not the Gold Standard? – Talking Points on the Likely Consequences of Re-Establishment of a Gold Standard“, Brad DeLong (Prof Economics, Berkeley), 10 August 1996 Watch your libertie ...
  • News from the front lines of the economic wars
    A brilliant and provocative but pessimistic analysis by Albert Edwards of Société Générale:  excerpt from “To cut or not to cut? Actually it doesn’t really matter. We’re stuffed anyway!”, 12 February 2010.  With links to even better analysis by Richard Koo.  Must-reading for anyone seekin ...
  • Quote of the day – hidden history to people ...
    Comment submitted to by Andrew A. Lacis for the First-Order Draft of Chapter 9,  The Physical Science Basis of Climate Change, of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report: There is no scientific merit to be found in the Executive Summary. The presentation sounds like something put together by Greenpeace ac ...
  • FM newswire for 12 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.  First, the regular news: A conservative visits the Tea Party Convention:  “Black Helicopters Over Nashville“, Jonathan Kay (Editor at Canada’s National Post), Newsweek, 9 February 2010 ...
  • 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 ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Massive Star Blows Fancy Hourglass Nebula
    The beautiful hourglass-shaped nebula Sharpless 2-106 shines with brilliant colors in this new image from the Gemini North telescope. Giant star S106IR lies near the waist of the hourglass. Astronomers estimate the star could be up to 15 times more massive than our sun. The winds the star sends rip ...
  • Searching for Network Laws in Slime
    Of all science’s model organisms, none is as weird as Dictyostelium discoideum, a single-celled amoeba better known as slime mold. When they run out of food, millions coalesce into a single, slug-like creature that wanders in search of nutrients, then forms a mushroom-like stalk, scatters as spore ...
  • Mud Volcano Was Man-Made, New Evidence Confirms
    A new analysis shows that a deadly mud volcano in Indonesia may not have been a natural disaster after all. The research lends weight to the controversial theory that the volcano was caused by humans.  Villagers near Sidoarjo noticed a mud volcano beginning to erupt at 5 a.m. local time May 29, 200 ...
  • Antibiotics Breed Superbugs Faster Than Expected
    A newly discovered mechanism of antibiotic resistance helps explain how bacteria have so quickly undermined medicine’s front-line defenses, turning miracle drugs into duds in just a few decades. Scientists have long known that exposing bacteria to the right antibiotics will kill most of them, but l ...
  • New 3-D Map of Interstellar Gas Around the Sun
    Space is a pretty empty place. But it’s not completely empty, as a new map of the interstellar space in the 1,000 light-years around the sun shows. Using the light from 1,857 stars, a team of French and American astronomers were able to measure the density of the gas surrounding our sun by examinin ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Washington Post Dishonesty on Iran Gas Sanctions
    A Washington Post editorial today calling on President Obama to implement gas sanctions against Iran contains this falsehood : [F]or every expert who argues that a shortage of gasoline would somehow help Mr. Ahmadinejad, there is one who believes it will deepen popular rejection of the regime . Tha ...
  • Iranian State Declares Victory Against Greens
    Reporting on the events that marked the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, the pro-government and state-run news outlets claimed that up to 50 million people turned out to show their support for the Islamic Republic. This was interpreted by these news organizations as a show of support for Iran’ ...
  • Rockets, and Rodents, and Uranium! Oh, My!
    During the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, Ahmadinejad boasted of Iran’s enrichment program and nuclear capability. From the NY Times : In the address in Azadi Square in Tehran, Mr. Ahmadinejad relied on familiar nationalist and anti-Western themes, accusing the United States and Europe ...
  • A Retractionist-Retentionist Discourse in Israel
    In his keynote address at last week's Herzliya Conference, Ehud Barak summoned up the most dramatic case for changing the status quo: If, and as long as between the Jordan and the sea, there is only one political entity, named Israel, it will end up being either non-Jewish or non-democratic...If ...
  • What Next In Iran?
    I recommend Juan Cole’s analysis of yesterday’s Revolution Day demonstrations in Iran, which the government seems to have had well in hand . Internet access was shut down , preventing pro-reform demonstrators from employing the real-time protest strategies they’d developed over the past months, and ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Losing the Appointment War.
    Yesterday I argued that Obama should be aggressive about using his constitutional power to make recess appointments in the wake of Republican obstructionism. Perhaps in response to Obama's threats, the Senate confirmed 27 nominations that have been delayed for no reason other than obstructionism for ...
  • The Little Picture: Satchmo.
    Jazz Great Louis Armstrong , 1953. (Flickr/ pingnews /LibraryofCongress)
  • Lightning Round: Happiness is a Warm Recess Appoin ...
    Ezra Klein says all that needs to be said on Obama 's "victory" over Senate Republicans in getting them to release holds on 29 administration nominees. Clearly, the threat of a recess appointment was credible, because Republicans knew Obama could, and probably would, issue recess appointments. But ...
  • Torture Apologist Marc Thiessen Joins The Liberal ...
    Scott Lemieux notices a new addition to influential liberal Fred Hiatt 's editorial page at the Washington Post : former speechwriter Marc Thiessen , who has spent the entirety of his post- Bush administration career attempting to defend the use of torture by his former boss. I'd have to say the hig ...
  • Who You Gonna Believe?
    You have two choices. National Journal Desk Jockey Stuart Taylor Jr .: The Holder -Obama policy of promptly reading terrorist suspects their Miranda rights comes close to guaranteeing that no timely intelligence will ever be extracted from any of them. Or experienced FBI Interrogator Ali Souf ...

Andy Worthington

  • Binyam Mohamed: Evidence of Torture by US Agents R ...
    Three senior UK judges on Wednesday ordered the British government to publicly disclose previously classified information that reveals how Binyam Mohamed, a British resident, was tortured by the CIA while in Pakistani custody in April and May 2002. In one short session, the Court of Appeal brought a ...
  • Torture in Afghanistan and Guantánamo: Shaker Aame ...
    In December, lawyers for Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo, won an important court case in which judges ordered the British government to release information in its possession regarding claims that MI5 agents were present in the US prison in Kandahar, Afghanistan, when Shaker Aam ...
  • Shaker Aamer’s Wife Speaks: “Since he has been awa ...
    In the Wandsworth Guardian, Paul Cahalan has regularly covered the story of local resident Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo. In December, he wrote a detailed article about Shaker’s court case, in which his lawyers were seeking access to evidence in the possession of the British ...
  • A letter to the Times regarding Moazzam Begg and A ...
    In response to the hysteria regarding Amnesty International’s association with former Guantánamo prisoner Moazzam Begg and Cageprisoners (which I reported in detail here), another former prisoner, Bisher al-Rawi, has written the following letter to the Times, which I found to be eloquent, understate ...
  • 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 ...

Buzzflash

  • The Experiment of "Civilization" Has Reached Its ...
    BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY By Robert C. Koehler Tribune Media Services The recent death of a woman in her mid-80s named Boa Sr, the last speaker of a language said to date back 65,000 years, represents the breaking of an extraordinary link to the beginning of human speech, to a time when words were ...
  • Remember Nelson Mandela's Release From Jail & Who ...
    BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Danny Schechter, editor of MediaChannel.org It was 20 years ago this Thursday, February 11th when Nelson Mandela’s Liberation Band began to play.� While tens of millions looked on, a great drama was building steam in South Africa. Nelson Mandela had been incarcerated in ...
  • Abraham Lincoln: "The money powers prey upon the n ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT "The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace, and conspire against it in times of adversity. The banking powers are more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. They denounce as public enemies, all who question their met ...
  • Liz Cheney Leads the Second Inquisition as Republi ...
    BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZFLASH MINUTE The second "Inquisition" has arrived , or maybe for some the first one never really went away: The arrest of an Army sergeant (and Iraq veteran) who allegedly waterboarded his 4-year-old daughter for failing to recite the alphabet is sickening. Yet it may be the ...
  • Vermont's Radioactive Nightmare
    BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Harvey Wasserman Like a decayed flotilla of rickety steamers, at least 27 of America's 104 aging atomic reactors are known to be leaking radioactive tritium, which is linked to cancer if inhaled or ingested through the throat or skin. The fallout has been fiercest at Ve ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • Religious faith in government accusations
    The Washington Post , today : The case against Saeed Mohammed Saleh Hatim seemed ironclad. The Justice Department alleged that Hatim, a detainee at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, trained at an al-Qaeda military camp in Afghanistan, stayed at terrorist guesthouses and even ...
  • Michael Mukasey: Then and now
    Former Bush Attorney General Michael Mukasey has become the leading spokesman for a Cheneyite national security attack, which relies on scaring Americans into believing that Obama is endangering their lives in those rare instances when he deviates from Bush's Terrorism approach.� Toward that end, ...
  • 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 ...

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Summer born lucky are born rich
    If you want to feel lucky in life, make sure you are born to well-off parents and don’t worry about whether you’re birthday is in the summer or winter. In 2005, well-known psychologist Richard Wiseman and his colleagues surveyed 30,000 people via the internet to see if there is a relationship betwe ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Equality California Calls for Impeachment of Calif ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 11, 2010 Equality California (EQCA) Equality California will ask the governor and state legislature to begin impeachment proceedings against Ronald Rotunda, a member of the California Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC), which regulates campaign finance. ...
  • Speaker Pelosi Reaffirms Commitment to Passing Com ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 11, 2010 America s Voice In an interview published today in the nation's largest Spanish-language newspaper, La Opinión , and other ImpreMedia publications, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reasserted her commitment to advancing comprehensive immigration reform i ...
  • POGO Requests White House Intervention for Los Ala ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 11, 2010 Project On Government Oversight (POGO) The Project On Government Oversight sent a letter today to President Obama citing an internal memo  obtained from sources that outlines a systemic and massive failure of the Department of Energy (DOE) and Los Alamos manag ...
  • So Much for Global Warming
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 11, 2010 Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) MICHAEL DORSEY Professor of global environmental policy at Dartmouth College, Dorsey said today: "We live on a planet. ... While snow falls in footloads in D.C., on the other side of the planet, Rio was hotter than Sahar ...
  • More Than 25,000 Americans So Far Agree: No 'Room ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 11, 2010 Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence A Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence petition drive with CREDO Mobile Company to urge the Starbucks Coffee Company to prohibit guns in its retail outlets is attracting substantial support, with more than 25,000 people ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • The Mirror of Our Discontent
    by Sally Kohn It is impossible to turn on the television or open a newspaper today without apocalyptic speculation on the status of Obama’s presidency. The opinion media, pack animals that they are, have latched on to the storyline that stalled health care reform plus Massachusetts election results ...
  • No Nukes
    by Ralph Nader A generation of Americans has grown up without a single nuclear power plant being brought on line since before the near meltdown of the Three Mile Island structure in 1979. They have not been exposed to the enormous costs, risks and national security dangers associated with their oper ...
  • Fighting Like Hell
    by Beverly Bell The pioneering labor organizer Mother Jones said, "Pray for the dead, and fight like hell for the living."   That pretty much sums up the priorities for Haiti today.   read more
  • The New Deal in Reverse
    by Steve Fraser On March 4, 1933, the day he took office, Franklin Roosevelt excoriated the "money changers" who "have fled from their high seats in the temples of our civilization [because...] they know only the rules of a generation of self-seekers.  They have no vision and where there is no visio ...
  • Moving On Up and Hitting a Wall: Social Mobility i ...
    by Michelle Chen America: land of opportunity... if you're lucky enough to be born into one. The crumbling of the American Dream is in plain view across the country, especially in the urban centers and desolate ghost towns that have long been hollowed of their economic promise. A new comparative stu ...

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Allied forces launch huge push on Taliban strongho ...
    Military says Operation Moshtarak launched 'without a hitch' as skirmishes erupt and citizens flee Helmand stronghold Thousands of British, US and Afghan soldiers are engaged in the biggest military offensive against the Taliban since the war in Afghanistan began nine years ago. Skirmishes erupted a ...
  • Storm grows over MI5 allegations
    Home secretary blasts Lib Dems and media after Guardian revealed how government suppressed scathing court ruling The political storm over allegations of MI5 complicity in torture escalated tonight after Alan Johnson, the home secretary, accused the media of publishing "groundless accusations" and co ...
  • Baby P stepfather attacked in prison
    Stephen Barker, jailed over the infant's death, has suffered serious burns after being attacked by another prisoner One of three people jailed over the death of Baby Peter has been scalded in an attack in prison. Steven Barker, the boyfriend of the abused infant's mother, was reported to have suffer ...
  • Follow Six Nations and FA Cup action
    Press refresh for the latest action, then email scott.murray@guardian.co.uk to complain about it 3.01pm Jimmy Kebe has given Reading a flying start against West Brom at the Madejski. Reading 1-0 WBA. And within seconds of the restart at the Millennium, Dan Parks chips Scotland into a 12-point lead w ...
  • Luge to go ahead despite death
    • Event scheduled for 5pm local time • Coroners conclude track not to blame for death International Luge Federation (FIL) officials say their Olympic competition will go ahead as planned after local coroners completed their on-track investigations into the death of Nodar Kumaritashvili .The governin ...

McClatchey

  • Commentary: Getting past 'Don't ask, don't tell'
    In an appearance before Congress last week, the Pentagon's top two officials called for an end to the "don't ask, don't tell" policy barring gays and lesbians from serving openly.
  • Commentary: Obama's foreign aid budget cuts send w ...
    If President Barack Obama's foreign aid budget request for 2011 is a reflection of his priorities in world affairs, it looks like the president is saying "adios" to Latin America.
  • Washington state lawmaker ascends to powerful fund ...
    WASHINGTON — Over the past 30 years, Rep. Norm Dicks has been in the middle of virtually every of the nation's major defense funding controversies — from increasing military pay after the Vietnam War to the B-2 stealth bomber, and from the MX missile to replacing the Air Force's C-5 cargo plane with ...
  • Commentary: Taiwan comes between the U.S. and Chin ...
    Not surprisingly, China is responding badly to the Pentagon's $6 billion arms sale to Taiwan. The Beijing government has suspended security exchanges with the Pentagon and promised to sanction American defense companies. Chinese scholars and other commentators see nefarious motives in the U.S. actio ...
  • Commentary: The late, great global warming scare
    Global-warming skeptics had been hit with numerous setbacks over the last few years — from a major 2007 U.N. report that seemingly confirmed the warming crisis, to Al Gore's popularization of this gloomy message through his book (and Oscar-winning documentary) "An Inconvenient Truth." And let's not ...

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

  • Three US soldiers killed in Afghanistan blast
    Kandahar, Feb 13 (DPA) Three US soldiers were killed when a homemade bomb exploded Saturday in southern Afghanistan, the same day thousands of US, British and Afghan forces began the biggest-ever operation in the country.
  • Taliban claim they retain control of Marjah
    U.S. Marines from 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment walk past a wall they blew open as they enter Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
  • Afghanistan offensive on Taleban in Marjah starts ...
    END: Module - M24 Article Headline with landscape image (d) --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> The biggest military offensive in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taleban in 2001 i...
  • Afghanistan qualify for T20 World Cup
    Afghanistan's fairytale story in the world of cricket continued on Saturday as they defeated hosts United Arab Emirates to reach their first major tournament, the World Twenty20 finals in the West Ind...
  • U.S., Afghan Forces Launch Assault On Taliban
    February 13, 2010 A Taliban spokesman says the Afghan insurgents are still in control of the southern town of Marjah amid ongoing fighting with NATO and Afghan forces.Spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi told...

Futurismic

  • Ideological cyberwarfare and the marketing of inta ...
    Ars Technica points us to a BBC report that claims botnets are increasingly being deployed by ideological and political activist groups as well as the more traditional spammers ‘n’ scammers. There’s undoubtedly a kernel of truth here, but given that the data that informs this conclusion comes from P ...
  • Teens don’t read and can hardly write, right?
    Wrong… unless those 40,000 words they text out over a month don’t count [via LifeHacker; image by nate steiner]. Sure, a lot of those texts will be rote replies and simple questions, but the point stands: teenagers communicate heavily using a form of the written word. When I was a teenager in the ni ...
  • Attention, futurist gamblers: long odds on Artific ...
    Pop-transhumanist organ H+ Magazine assigned a handful of writers to quiz AI experts at last year’s Artificial General Intelligence Conference, in order to discover how long they expect we’ll have to wait before we achieve human-equivalent intelligence in machines, what sort of level AGI will peak o ...
  • 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 [.. ...

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

  • The Dangers of Homeless Shelters
    A homeless shelter may never be as safe or accommodating as the Ritz-Carlton, but there is a reasonable expectation that it will serve as a refuge that is a step up from the dangers of the streets. Every now and then, however, that security is compromised, forcing us to ask the question: how safe ar ...
  • Why Homeless Services Shouldn't Work Themselves Ou ...
    There is a mantra in homeless services that we should "work ourselves out of business." We have been trying to work ourselves out of business for decades, yet business is booming . Those of us who dedicate our lives to the issue of homelessness face perverse incentives. Obviously, we get into the wo ...
  • Does Media Exposure Help the Homeless?
    I'm no George Clooney or anything, but some days I get several calls from eager journalists wanting to interview me. For the past fifteen years I've been commenting in the media on social justice issues affecting young people and the homeless in Australia. And I'm usually happy to do the interviews ...
  • 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 ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Public eyes defence spending for cuts?
    A new poll by EKOS Research shows that the most popular option for reducing the federal deficit is cutting government spending. According to the poll, 46% of Canadians favour spending cuts, compared to 14% who favour raising taxes, 10% who want to continue to run deficits, and 30% who don’t know. ...
  • 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 ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Judge Finds Me In Criminal Contempt of Court!
    On Thursday, February 11th, Judge Gettleman held me in criminal contempt of court for something I said on my radio program. My lawyers have requested that I not comment until the legal proceedings are final. I am back in court Wednesday, February 17th. I will be live on the radio on Tuesday, Februar ...
  • Top 5 Health Insurers Post 57% Profit Gain
    February 12, 2010 The Raw Story By John Byrne If no health care overhaul passes Congress, health insurers may be in for a windfall — and one far larger that most Americans probably realize. According to a study by a pro-health reform group published Thursday, the nation’s largest five health insuran ...
  • Rat Out Your Boss, Get Paid By The IRS
    February 12, 2010 MSN There’s a new sheriff in town, and his name is John Doe. He may be sitting in the cubicle next to you. Under a 2006 congressional mandate to the Internal Revenue Service, ordinary citizens can help the tax man cometh — or at least collect. The Whistleblower Office is the IRS’ a ...
  • Body Scanners Pose Privacy and Health Risks
    February 12, 2010 ZD Net By AAP Following in the footsteps of the US, the UK, The Netherlands and Canada, the Federal Government has announced that it will spend $28 million on full body scanners to be introduced at eight Australian airports next year. The scanners, which look through a passenger’s ...
  • TSA Grills Student Over 9/11
    February 12, 2010 Philly.com By Daniel Rubin A federal agent sizing up Nick George might peg him as Most Likely To Be Recruited By The CIA. He’s a physics major at a top college, he minors in Middle Eastern studies, speaks Arabic, has lived in Jordan and is adventurous enough to have backpacked thro ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • Obama’s secret prisons in Afghanistan endanger us ...
    Johann Hari writes: Osama Bin Laden’s favourite son, Omar, recently abandoned his father’s cave in favor of spending his time dancing and drooling in the nightclubs of Damascus. The tang of freedom almost always trumps Islamist fanaticism in the end: three million people abandoned the Puritan hell ...
  • New light cast on the recent murder of an Iranian ...
    The Economist reports: When a motorcycle was blown up by remote control in Tehran last month, killing Masoud Alimohammadi, a professor of physics, the regime blamed “the triangle of wickedness”—Israel, America and their “hired agents”. It is no secret that America, Israel and European countries ar ...
  • Atomic agency views Iran’s stepped-up enrichment o ...
    The New York Times reported: Iran’s surprise move this week to begin enriching its uranium to a level closer to weapons-grade violated an agreement with atomic inspectors in Vienna, diplomats said, very likely providing the United States with another piece of evidence that Iran is not living up to ...
  • How the Obama administration ended up where Frankl ...
    At TomDispatch, Steve Fraser writes: On March 4, 1933, the day he took office, Franklin Roosevelt excoriated the “money changers” who “have fled from their high seats in the temples of our civilization [because...] they know only the rules of a generation of self-seekers. They have no vision and w ...
  • Former boy soldier, youngest Guantanamo detainee, ...
    The Washington Post reported: Omar Khadr, the youngest detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was 15 when he allegedly threw a grenade that killed a U.S. Special Forces medic in Afghanistan. Now, more than seven years later, Khadr is drawing the Obama administration into a fierce debate over the proprie ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Congenital Climate Abnormalities
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Science is what we use to explain anomalies, to elucidate mysteries, to shed light on unexplained occurrences. For example, there is no great need for a scientific explanation of the sun rising in the morning. If one day the sun were to rise in the afternoon, however, ...
  • Are Scientists Always Smart?
    Guest post by Steven Goddard There is no question that some of the greatest minds have been scientists.  Da Vinci, Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Edison, Einstein, Fermi, Feynman are a few names that come to mind. But how about the consensus?  One of the most famous cases of consensus science gone rid ...
  • CRU’s Jones: Climate data ‘not well or ...
    From the BBC By Roger Harrabin, Environment analyst, BBC News Phil Jones, the professor behind the “Climategate” affair, has admitted some of his decades-old weather data was not well enough organised. He said this contributed to his refusal to share raw data with critics – a decision he says he ...
  • Breaking News: Shooting at UAH
    UPDATE: I just got word from Dr. Christy, see below This just happened late today and details are still sketchy and I know many are concerned about Dr. John Christy and Dr. Roy Spencer at the University of Alabama in Hunstville and whether they were victims of the shooting that has left three dead. ...
  • NOAA langoliers eat another 1/3 of stations from G ...
    Dallas Fort Worth airport is one of hundreds of GHCN reporting stations gone missing. GHCN stations are becoming an endangered species. 2010 Thermometer Langoliers Hit List Guest post by E.M.Smith Well, They Are At It Again Don’t know what to make of this list yet, other than it directly ‘gives th ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Walid Al-Saqaf on Yemen, the real conflict
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ http://therealnews.com Poverty, dictatorship & suppression of socialist movement till soil for extremist forces Yemen, the real conflict on vodpod *** Yemen, the real conflict Pt.2 Walid Al-Saqaf: Yemen gov and US use fight against al Qaeda to target opposi ...
  • American Empire, Part III By Timothy V. Gatto
    By Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad liberalpro.blogspot.com February 11, 2010 It seems that most Americans will continue to support whatever war du jour is served up by their government. As long as most Americans remain silent as to what American media chooses to cover, we w ...
  • Goldstone Facts: The Real Story Behind Israel&#821 ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ sanjeevsemail February 06, 2010 In this video, we distill out the findings of the Chapter 11 (“Deliberate Attacks against the Civilian Population”) of the Goldstone Report to make it accessible to the lay public. The factual and legal findings are narrated by N ...
  • Dennis Kucinich: Medicare for All, the Idea Whose ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Congressman Dennis Kucinich Washington, Feb 8, 2010 Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today sent a letter to President Obama commending him for calling for new ideas and a renewed discussion about health care reform. Kucinich requested that supporters of ...
  • Dennis Kucinich and Glenn Greenwald: Assassinating ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Democracy Now! Feb. 9, 2010 Obama Administration: US Forces Can Assassinate Americans Believed to Be Involved in Terrorist Activity The Obama administration has acknowledged it’s continuing a Bush-era policy authorizing the killing of US citizens abroad. The c ...

Your New Reality

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    IOC Move Fast To Censor Video Of Luger's Death Crash Why is the IOC demanding the Nodar Crash Video be censored on YouTube and elsewhere online? This is the sometimes deadly reality of an extremely fast Winter Olympics event like the luge, and what happens when the IOC sign off on having great huge ...
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    Goodbye Testicles I've changed my mind. I will pay to read Rupert Murdoch newspapers online, but only if they consistently come up with stories of such a high quality as this one : From The Sun : The lad hallucinated for 18 hours and mutilated himself because he believed centipedes were crawling ...
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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 ...

Wired - Science

  • Massive Star Blows Fancy Hourglass Nebula
    The beautiful hourglass-shaped nebula Sharpless 2-106 shines with brilliant colors in this new image from the Gemini North telescope. Giant star S106IR lies near the waist of the hourglass. Astronomers estimate the star could be up to 15 times more massive than our sun. The winds the star sends rip ...
  • Searching for Network Laws in Slime
    Of all science’s model organisms, none is as weird as Dictyostelium discoideum, a single-celled amoeba better known as slime mold. When they run out of food, millions coalesce into a single, slug-like creature that wanders in search of nutrients, then forms a mushroom-like stalk, scatters as spore ...
  • Mud Volcano Was Man-Made, New Evidence Confirms
    A new analysis shows that a deadly mud volcano in Indonesia may not have been a natural disaster after all. The research lends weight to the controversial theory that the volcano was caused by humans.  Villagers near Sidoarjo noticed a mud volcano beginning to erupt at 5 a.m. local time May 29, 200 ...
  • Antibiotics Breed Superbugs Faster Than Expected
    A newly discovered mechanism of antibiotic resistance helps explain how bacteria have so quickly undermined medicine’s front-line defenses, turning miracle drugs into duds in just a few decades. Scientists have long known that exposing bacteria to the right antibiotics will kill most of them, but l ...
  • New 3-D Map of Interstellar Gas Around the Sun
    Space is a pretty empty place. But it’s not completely empty, as a new map of the interstellar space in the 1,000 light-years around the sun shows. Using the light from 1,857 stars, a team of French and American astronomers were able to measure the density of the gas surrounding our sun by examinin ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Think tank: Israel faces global delegitimization c ...
    Reut says the campaign is the work of a worldwide network of private individuals and organizations. They have no hierarchy or overall commander, but work together based on a joint ideology -... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Israeli court frees non-violent pro ...
    “Israel knows that the non-violence struggle is spreading and that it’s a powerful weapon against the occupation,” said Neta Golan, an Israeli activist based in Ramallah. “Israel has no answer to it,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Israel upholds legality of Jews-only housing compl ...
    The Tel Aviv District Court rejected a petition this week against a decision to lease land in Jaffa's Ajami neighborhood for the exclusive use of members of the religious Zionist community. The... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
  • Mamilla Jerusalem Cemetery
    A fact sheet prepared by the Center for Constitutional Rights The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
  • Haaretz: An unacceptable fight against protest
    It could be expected that a country that has ruled another nation for many years would show tolerance toward manifestations of unarmed protest against the occupation and its ills... The suppression... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Highlights of Major Physics Conference in Washingt ...
    Secret military projects, powerful collisions at the LHC, future international physics projects, and lots of new data from around the universe will be featured in talks at this year's spring meeting of The American Physical Society (APS), the largest professional society of physicists in the world. ...
  • Physics for the Nation's Future; Science Education ...
    Recent international studies of math and science education suggest that students in the United States are falling further behind their foreign counterparts.
  • Analysis Shows Minorities Less Likely to Receive " ...
    Ethnic and racial minorities bear a disproportionate share of America's diabetes epidemic but are significantly less likely than whites to receive a commonly used test to monitor control of blood glucose, according to Washington State University researchers.
  • McGovern Institute Honors Pioneers in Neurogenetic ...
    The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT announced today that Lily Jan and Yuh-Nung Jan of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the University of California San Francisco will be the joint winners of the 2010 Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience.
  • Obesity and Diabetes Study Weighs Influence of Gen ...
    A team of Northern Arizona University-led researchers is using nearly $1.3 million in new funding from the National Institutes of Health to continue with the world's longest-running study on obesity and Type 2 diabetes.

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 ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Who Do We Believe?
    We need to listen to ourselves. We know that our communities and our kids are being poisoned, and we are the ones that should be able to do something about it. If we all could convince our municipal and county governments to take action to protect us from these corrupt and polluting industries, the ...
  • Organic Flowers for Valentine's Day? Why Some Shop ...
    According to the Society of American Florists, 187 million roses are produced for Valentine's Day alone, but only a fraction are sustainably or organically grown. As the base of eco-conscious consumers grows, flowers are joining paints, cabinets, floors and cleaning products in the realm of green sh ...
  • New Standards for Natural Home Care Products to be ...
    A growing number of home-cleaning products that call their ingredients "natural" are hitting store shelves. Now, an industry group is trying to clarify what the term means and whether manufacturers are using it appropriately. Click here to read this article
  • GM Wheat Rejected by 233 Consumer, Farmer Groups i ...
    233 consumer and farmer groups in 26 countries have joined the "Definitive Global Rejection of GM Wheat" statement to stop the commercialization of genetically modified (GM) wheat and remind the biotechnology corporation Monsanto that genetically modifying this major crop is not acceptable to farmer ...
  • Environmental Exposure to Hairspray, Lipstick and ...
    The links between autoimmune diseases, infections and the environment are complex and mysterious. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

  • Imágenes de Amor para el 14 de febrero
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. A sólo dos días del 14 de febrero Día del Amor y la Amistad , ponemos a su disposición nuestra recopilación de Imágenes de Amor . En total, hemos logrado coleccionar más de 100 imágenes, postales, dibujos, ilustaciones, ...
  • Coloca tus fotografías en estas imágenes .PNG
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre el collage para entrar y descargar todas las imágenes. Con frecuencia, he visto a muchas personas buscando imágenes para utilizarlas como fondo o frames donde puedan colocar sus propias fotografías a través de Photoshop. Por ello mismo, les presento el día de hoy la segu ...
  • Fotografías del Amor en blanco y negro
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. 'Ámame sin límites' decía una canción que cantaba mi abuelita mientras se bañaba en el río de agua clara. No puedo negar que la llegada del día del amor y la amistad me pone romántico y un poco loco. Por ello mismo, el d ...
  • Imágenes de Geishas y Kimonos by NonSoloKawaii
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Desde hace mucho, pero mucho tiempo me han gustado las Geishas . Su manera de vestirse tan elegante y exótica, provoca en mi reacciones inesperadas por descubrir la magia que encierran más allá de sus miradas. Por eso mi ...
  • Galería de imágenes bonitas by Impostors
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Muy bonita colección de imágenes para disfrutar despacio. Se trata de una gran variedad de fotografías que sin duda alguna nos darán nuevas ideas. No olvides compartir nuestros recursos.

Executive Intelligence Review

Center for a Livable Future

  • CBS Evening News Investigative Report Highlights U ...
    I hope every lawmaker on Capitol Hill had a chance to watch CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric’s two-part investigative series on the risks of using antibiotics as growth promoters in food animals. After viewing both pieces it would be difficult for most people to question the immediate need to pa ...
  • 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 ...

Norwegianity

  • Mnrants
    OK, am I the only person who finds today’s Google’s Winter Olympics art to be a bit creepy given the death of Nodar Kumaritashvili? - I don’t have to drive during rush hour so I rarely do, but on those rare occasions when I do have to be out and about, nothing infuriates me more than selfish [...]
  • Cap’n Amerika & Patriotic Correctness
    Al Franken Paul Krugman on the lying liars: Even as Republicans denounce modest proposals to rein in Medicare’s rising costs, they are, themselves, seeking to dismantle the whole program. And the process of dismantling would begin with spending cuts of about $650 billion over the next decade. Mat ...
  • The State of Our Bridges speech
    Gov. BridgeFail’s final State of the State speech (freely translated from the original Hardon): This state of the state address is not the most important thing on my plate this afternoon, my stuck in the mud presidential campaign is, so let me tell you instead about our Minnesota National Guard and ...
  • Toyota’s accelerator problem put a man in pr ...
    WTFs: We can’t repeal DADT because Osama bin Laden might be offended? Another Fox Congressman wants to privatize SS and Medicare (because that’s worked so well for healthcare) Paying for ignorant behavior to promote greater ignorance in general Snow jobs Allen Stanford gave over $1.2 million to the ...
  • Price fixing and blank stares
    Publishers are determined to sell ebooks for $14.99. “There are people who don’t always understand what goes into an author writing and an editor editing and a publishing house with hundreds of men and women working on these books,” said Mark Gompertz, executive vice president of digital publishi ...

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

  • Hopi and Navajo Residents Stop Peabody Coal on Bla ...
    Wahleah Johns, Black Mesa Water Coalition 928-637-5281, Wahleah@gmail.com David Graham-Caso, Sierra Club 213-387-6528 x214 david.grahamcaso@sierraclub.org Amy Atwood, Center for Biological Diversity, 541-914-8372, atwood@biologicaldiversity.org Photo: Hopi and Navajo protest in Denver by Mano Cockr ...
  • Lipan Apache Targeted for More Abuse at Border
    By Brenda Norrell Narcosphere Photo courtesy Margo Tamez The US made new threats about the condemnation and seizure of Lipan Apache lands in Texas for the US/Mexico border wall, as the abuses of Indigenous Peoples in the borderzone continues unabated. President Obama continues the genocidal border ...
  • Kevin Annett: Eye Witnesses, Torture and Murder in ...
    Kevin Annett, beaten in Vancouver on Wed., Jan. 6, 2010, released this article today: By Kevin Annett Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com From the Files of the Community Task Force on the Disappeared - Downtown Eastside of Vancouver Memorandum on Eyewitness Evidence of the Organized Ab ...
  • Kevin Annett Assaulted
    Kevin Annett, who exposed the murder of Indian children in church-operated residential schools in Canada, was beaten in Vancouver UPDATE January 11, 2010 Vancouver Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Rev. Kevin Annett was assaulted by two men in Vancouver's downtown eastside last Wedn ...
  • Babylon by Bus -Sina Brown Davis
    The following is a Special Report by Aboriginal News Group senior editor Sina Brown Davis for the Aotearoa Independent Media Centre : -- Representing Te Ata Tino Toa , I took part in the Trade to Climate Caravan , which took 60 Activists from the global south from the WTO meeting in Geneva to C ...

Pensieve

  • Chavez Shuts Down RCTV…Again
    Not content to shut down RCTV on the public airwaves when their broadcasting license expired, by quietly ignoring their repeated attempts at renewing it, Chavez has forced cable TV companies to stop carrying the channel as well. The following CNN report talks about it, in a balanced tone they denied ...
  • Generals Absolved, Big Surprise?
    The President of the Honduran Supreme Court has freed the five commanders of the armed forces of penal responsibility about an hour ago. They were guilty of violating the constitutional protection of Honduran citizens from exile or extradition when they forced Manuel Zelaya to Costa Rica. I was nerv ...
  • A Big Day For Honduras
    The day has finally come, Porfirio Lobo’s inauguration day. Tension is at its peak. Manuel Zelaya has called for protests at the airport where he is expected to board a plane for the Dominican Republic, and then Mexico City. Two students are dead in Venezuela during protests against the shutd ...
  • Lobo Inaugurated as Honduran President
    After a religious service, President Porfirio Lobo took the oath of office in the National stadium, under strict security, in a ceremony attended by the President of Taiwan and dignitaries from various countries, including the US. Deposed president Manuel Zelaya was transported to the airport, and h ...
  • Amnesty International’s Recommendations for Lobo
    Much as I resent Amnesty International for defending the vandals who defaced and burnt down buildings and set buses and cars alight only to get media attention, I agree with them that President Lobo must begin investigating the police who were responsible for excessive force in repressing them. I ha ...
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