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Thomas Paine

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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • RIGHTS: Mideast and North Africa Cited for Press ...
    WASHINGTON, Feb 16 (IPS) - A report by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on press freedom around the world in 2009 depicts an especially gloomy situation in the Middle East and North Africa, where authorities continue to use repressive measures to muzzle journalists.
  • NIGERIA: HIV-positive Youth Still Stigmatised
    KANO, northern Nigeria, Feb 16 (IPS) - "I will never have anything to do with women since I have been diagnosed to have a killer disease." It is not clear how Muhammad Jungudo (17) contracted HIV, but he suspects it happened at a local barber shop where the implements used for shaving are ...
  • COTE D'IVOIRE: Policy Changes Revive Poultry Ind ...
    ABATTA, Côte d'Ivoire, Feb 16 (IPS) - Ivorian poultry producers are enjoying strong growth thanks to the imposition of a tax on imports of poultry products from the European Union and South America.
  • CENTRAL AMERICA: Women Eke Out a Living in Inform ...
    GUATEMALA CITY, Feb 16 (IPS) - "I've been working in the streets since I was a girl. My parents didn't send me to school, so it's really hard for me to find a job," says Carol Orozco, 31, who forms part of the veritable army of vendors hawking their wares on the streets of Central America.
  • RELIGION-TURKEY: Alevi Future Bleak Despite Equa ...
    ANKARA, Feb 16 (IPS) - A political initiative to eliminate discrimination against the Alevi, Turkey’s main religious minority, risks being stymied by the Diyanet, the country’s powerful religious body that does not recognise anything but Sunni Islam.

Scoop - NZ

  • McCarten: are we still in love with Key ?
    It's Valentine's Day and most of us still love John Key, apparently. His Tuesday speech was promoted as a watershed moment in which we would finally get a better sense of his real motives. There was never any surprise Key would bump up GST and use that extra money to cut income taxes. When sellin ...
  • China orders retreat from risky assets
    A Communist Party directive leaked to the Chinese-language edition of the Asia Times said dollar reserves should be limited to US Treasuries or agency mortgage debt such as Freddie Mac that enjoys Washington's implicit backing. BNP Paribas said the move has major implications for global risk assets ...
  • Cuba: Copenhagen has no legitimacy
    The letter published below was sent by Cuban first deputy environment minister Fernando Gonzalez to Yvo de Boer, who is the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, The December UN climate summit in Copenhagen ended in a farce with an "agreement" drawn up beh ...
  • Dubai puts QE2 on the block
    The disposals are part of an effort to pay down some of Dubai World's $22bn (£14bn) of debts. Last week Istithmar, the investment arm of Dubai World, started the process by selling a 13pc stake in Indian domestic airline SpiceJet. It has also entered into talks to sell Inchcape Shipping Services, ...
  • US: 8 Mil jobs lost, deeper changes coming
    The recession that started in December of 2007 is still causing jobs losses even after 25 long and agonizing months. Most Americans still feel that the economy is deep in the midst of a serious correction. Since the recession started non-farm employment has shrunk from 138.152 million to 130.91 mi ...

Independent ( London )

  • Europe's eel stocks 'under threat' from export fis ...
    A campaign to save the eel, the continent's most threatened common freshwater fish, may be breaking down because French fishermen are exporting too many baby eels to China, British conservationists fear.
  • Nato has struck a blow, but the war isn't yet won
    The capture of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban's top strategist, deals a psychological blow to the insurgents currently fighting British troops in southern Afghanistan.
  • Uganda's oil deal fuels concerns
    The gas flares that have blighted the Niger Delta are set to arrive in Uganda in the next year under the terms of a secret deal between the East African government and a British oil company.
  • Eurozone contagion fears spread to Spain
    Even as the 27 finance minsters of the European Union gathered in Brussels yesterday and ordered Greece, again, to impose yet more hardship on its people in order to slash the national deficit, some may have been eyeing their colleagues around the Brussels meeting room warily.
  • Pope's anger at child abuse
    Pope Benedict told Irish bishops at crisis talks over a paedophilia scandal that sexual abuse of children by priests is a "heinous crime" that they must address with resolve, the Vatican said yesterday.

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • U.S Army Chief: “Iran attack option on the table”
    Summary: Admiral Michael Mullen [US army chief] attended a press conference after his arrival to Israel and made it clear that all options are on the table. “We would operate all our forces for Israel” source: IDF read more
  • Ignoble Recruits: Nobel laureates sign on to "har ...
    Summary: Nobel Peace Prize Is there nothing that is safe from debasement by the propaganda machine of the U.S. and Israel? A full-page ad in the Sunday New York Times of Feb. 7 provides the answer. Sponsored by Elie Wiesel’s modestly named Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity and signed by 44 Nob ...
  • The people's brakes on war
    Summary: Historic protests couldn't stop the invasion of Iraq, but the legacy will be felt if conflict grows with Iran source: The Guardian read more
  • Netanyahu Heads to Russia to Press for Sanctions o ...
    Summary: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is heading to Russia this week on a state visit which he says will be aimed at convincing Moscow to support “crippling sanctions” against Iran. source: antiwar.com read more
  • Vicious hysteria proposed over Iran’s nuclear prog ...
    Summary: Iran’s announcement that it is to start enriching uranium to close to 20 percent, under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency, to produce radioisotopes for its medical reactor in Tehran has triggered a fresh outbreak of hysteria. There have been renewed calls for san ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • SETI Invites Citizens of the World Join in the Sea ...
      SETI has just invited the citizens of the world to join the search for extraterrestrial life. All you need to do is log on to the new SETIQuest.org site.  SETIQuest is the result of astronomer Jill Tarter's TED Prize wish. Tarter wished that they would "empower Earthlings everywhere to become act ...
  • "Restaurant at the End of the Universe" - NASAs Ro ...
    "I know this great Restaurant at the End of the Universe." Ford Prefect, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. If we live in a physical universe versus a biological universe, where the ultimate product of cosmic evolution is planets, stars, and galaxies, Steven Dick, NASA's chief historian, suggest ...
  • Is Social Trumping Search - Will Facebook Become B ...
    Yuri Milner is a 48-year-old Muscovite, post-Glastnost billionaire, and Putin clone has become one of the largest investors in digital media in the U.S. this past year, investing a huge sum in the social platform we all know as Facebook. Milner is one very smart cookie: he has an advanced degree in ...
  • Image of the Day: The Phantom Ninjas of the Eagle ...
    The ninja-like pillars or columns shown in the central portion of open star cluster Messier 16, embedded in the Eagle Nebula, are less prominent than on the Hubble visible-light image of this region - because near-infrared light penetrates the thinner parts of the gas and dust clouds and only the h ...
  • Seoul Re-engineers a Freeway Into an Urban River o ...
      In 2003, South Korea's capital city demolished a downtown freeway to restore an ancient stream , that once flowed beneath the thoroughfare.  Known as the Cheonggyecheon, the $900-million-dollar, six kilometer long public recreation space sets a high benchmark for green urban renewal More than 75% ...

Natural News

  • Vitacost extends exclusive 10% discount to Natural ...
    (NaturalNews) It's good news time once again for NaturalNews readers: Vitacost.com, which was recently voted the #1 online retailer of health products by NaturalNews readers, is offering 10% discount on all its NSI-branded products. This discount is only good for a few days: It expires at midnight, ...
  • ADHD symptoms caused by lead exposure, new study c ...
    (NaturalNews) What causes the frequently diagnosed behavioral problem in children known as attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) that leads to countless youngsters being given side-effect laden stimulant drugs? Research has focused on genes and, more recently, on the idea that multiple ...
  • Nurture Assists Low Income Families with $1000 Gra ...
    (NaturalNews) Nurture , a non-profit organization based in the Chicago area, has been selected as one of this year's Consumer Wellness Center (CWC) Nutritional Grant Program recipients. Operated entirely by volunteers, Nurture provides cooking classes and nutrition education for low-income families, ...
  • Thirty-six predictions for the world: 2010 - 2012
    (NaturalNews) Ask around and you'll hear this over and over again: People are concerned about what might be coming. They're concerned about a global financial collapse, an ecological crisis and potential disruptions in the food supply. The radical weather patterns now being witnessed across the worl ...
  • Prostate Cancer Screening: 50 Percent False Positi ...
    (NaturalNews) As many as 50 percent of all prostate cancer diagnoses may be cases of over-diagnosis, according to a study published in the British Medical Journal .Over-diagnosis refers to the detection of a cancer that, if left untreated, would never have any negative effects on a person's life. Th ...

Webhosts

The Galloping Beaver

  • Humbug
    SO FAR THIS WEEK, I remain completely ignorant about the Olympics, and, as far as I am concerned, this is indeed, blissful ignorance. On the other hand, there's WRC — but that's my own narrow interest; it appears that Ford is off to a fine start, taking the season opener, the Swedish rally from the ...
  • FYI for VANOC, IOC, Canadians*, et al
    Australians, generally, do not like be told what to do or how to behave. They like fun. Especially the sort of fun that amounts to a giant middle finger to bullshit regulations telling them what to do and how to behave. So when their athletes hang a giant boxing kangaroo flag from their Vancouver c ...
  • Fb Fragging
    NERVE IS A BLOG that proclaims its focus on "love • sex • culture". Well, one of their contributors, Brian Fairbanks, found this hearty piece of brouhaha: apparently this young teenager got grounded for three months, because his sister snitched on him, and told their parents that he had a 12-pack of ...
  • At the going down of the sun, and in the morning
    With condolences and respect to the family and friends of Corporal Joshua Caleb Baker, The Loyal Edmonton Regiment (4th Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry), from Edmonton, Alberta, serving with the Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team. .Killed in a training accident. ." Fears ...
  • Burning stick meets burning stupid
    Burning stick! Burning stick! U.S. citizen Wayne Gretzky lit the torch and we television viewers were treated to a couple of hours of modern dance and extremely impressive stage effects to mark the opening of the Vancouver games. Nicely done, though neither of my kids would believe kd Lange is a wo ...

Media Matters for America

  • Stanek's selection exposes the credentials requir ...
    Both Andrew Breitbart's Big Journalism and the Media Research Center's NewsBusters have recently added anti-abortion activist Jill Stanek as a blogger. Stanek has a history of inflammatory and dubious claims; in her inaugural NewsBusters post, however, she admits that she's "not a student of" m ...
  • Right-wing blogs campaign to get Dem candidate on ...
    Following the announcement yesterday that Evan Bayh (D-IN) would retire his Senate seat, several right-wing bloggers attempted to corrupt the political process by calling on their readers in Indiana to gather signatures for Democratic candidate Tamyra D'Ippolito for the avowed purpose of supposedly ...
  • Fox News claims Palin "slammed ... Limbaugh for ...
    In an article about Sarah Palin's critical response to the Fox comedy, Family Guy , "after the show appeared to mock Palin's Down syndrome son," FoxNews.com claimed that Palin also "recently slammed ... radio talk host Rush Limbaugh for using the word 'retard.' " ...
  • Fox News twists words of climate scientist Phil J ...
    Following a February 13 BBC Q&A with Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, Fox News' Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Stuart Varney and Fox & Friends have distorted Jones' comments to suggest that they undermine the consensus that human activities are con ...
  • Bolling falsely claims only 595,000 jobs have bee ...
    On the February 16 edition of Fox News' Fox and Friends, guest host Eric Bolling claimed of stimulus money: "$272 billion has been spent," but only "595,000 jobs [have been] created," adding, "that's $450,000 per job." In fact, the Recovery.gov employment numbers Bolling cited only represents jo ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • A Thought On Evan Bayh And Partisan America
    Not long ago I was debating someone on television. I thought the discussion was going well until the commercial break when a producer said into my earpiece "be angrier." "Why should I be angrier?" I asked him, irritated that he hadn't appreciated the thoughtfulness of debate. "That's how we ge ...
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  • Tea Party Hucksters
    There is a supreme irony buried in the heart of the comprehensive investigation of the Tea Party Movement in this morning's New York Times. The governing principle of the movement is described as a, Patriot ideology, which holds that governments and economies are controlled by networks of elites w ...
  • Bayh Bayh, Bayh
    As a Democrat, am I supposed to be sad or depressed that Evan Bayh is packing it in? Well, I'm not. There has never been a real purpose to Evan Bayh. He ran for office because it was an obvious thing for Birch Bayh's son to do. His sole goal was exceeding his father's accomplishment by ach ...
  • 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 ...

TruthOut

  • Frida Berrigan | America’s Global Weapons Monopoly ...
    On the relatively rare occasions when the media turns its attention to U.S. weapons sales abroad and shines its not-so-bright spotlight on the latest set of facts and figures, it invariably speaks of “the global arms trade.” Let’s consider that label for a moment, word by word: read more
  • David Swanson: Don't Expect an Election to Change ...
    When Barack Obama was swept into the White House last year on a mandate of hope and change, many progressives believed his arrival meant they could finally roll down their sleeves and wash their hands. But David Swanson was not one of them. Although he voted for Obama, Swanson, author of the recen ...
  • Anti-Mine Activists Encouraged by Canadian Ruling
    Guatamala City - Ecologists in Guatemala see a recent ruling by Canada's Supreme Court, which ordered Canadian mining companies to carry out rigorous environmental assessments, as a positive precedent that could help improve environmental controls over the mining industry in this Central American co ...
  • Blood Simple: Columbia University's Ten-Year Cover ...
    On September 15, 2006, Patricia Sachs Catapano, Esq., an associate general counsel of Columbia University in the City of New York and in-house lawyer for its Medical Center, wrote a surprising letter to Doctors Marc Dickstein and Mark Heath, staff anesthesiologists who had doggedly criticized the un ...
  • Robert Reich | A Thought on Evan Bayh and Partisan ...
    Not long ago I was debating someone on television. I thought the discussion was going well until the commercial break when a producer said into my earpiece “be angrier.” “Why should I be angrier?” I asked him, irritated that he hadn’t appreciated the thoughtfulness of debate. “That’s how we get ch ...

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

  • Public Citizen and Sierra Club Issue Citation to G ...
    Perry Flaunts State, Federal Law in EPA Lawsuit Statement from Tom “Smitty” Smith, director of Public Citizen’s Texas Office and Ken Kramer, director of the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club This morning Governor Perry attempted to show Texas voters that he is bigger than both Texas and feder ...
  • Early Voting Starts Today!
    …so get to it Filed under: Good Government Tagged: early voting, primary
  • What’s Missing from Austin’s Energy Generation Pla ...
    The Austin American Statesman’s article this morning about Austin’s 2020 energy plan leaves a few things out that are crucial to understanding the costs and benefits of adding more energy efficiency and renewable power to Austin’s generation portfolio. Judging from the rather depressing comments sec ...
  • Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up
    The Texas Progressive Alliance wishes you all a happy Lunar New Year, and brings you the first Year of the Tiger blog roundup. Justin at Asian American Action Fund Blog notes that Houston is the first locale President Obama named in his Lunar New Year Greeting. Could there be a political meaning beh ...
  • Austin Mayor to Host Town Hall Meeting on Energy G ...
    I sure hope you don’t have any plans for the evening of Monday, February 22nd, because it is going to be the social event of the season (and by season, I mean this 6-week period of rain and cold we’re getting due to that pesky groundhog’s shadow prediction — curse you Punxsutawny Phil!). From 6-8pm ...

Press TV

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Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Timing is everything
    One of the things that has been hanging around my in-box for the better part of a week while I took a few days to have surgery, recover and ease back into my routine was the outrageous premium increase - as much as 39% for some policyholders - �that Anthem-Blue Cross of California announced last wee ...
  • Time for a gut-check
    It is easy to get disgusted and demoralized by what is happening in Washington DC right now, and it is infuriating as all hell that the republicans can get away with their mean, petty obstructionism because the American people are woefully ignorant of the parliamentary maneuvers that they are using ...
  • Remember when "before it before I was against it" ...
    Karen Tumulty at Time has a link to a Julie Rovner piece on NPR that traces the genesis of the Individual Mandate in the healthcare reform legislation currently stalled in Congress. Before it before they were against it? That is an understatement. It is purely a republican notion. For Republicans, ...
  • Top Taliban commander captured in Pakistan
    I don't know how the republican malcontents will spin this as bad, but I do know they will try, because they can't help themselves. Taliban forces have been dealt a crippling blow with the capture of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar , their top military commander and second only in the hierarchy to Mullah ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    We are pretty sure this runs afoul of the constitution Hundreds of people have been jailed in Hamilton County, Ohio (Cincinnati) after being arrested on warrants issued by county clerks with no judicial or prosecutorial oversight. Prosecutors say that the current criminal complaint system that allow ...

Care 2

  • Nepal launches 'save tiger' campaign
    Kathmandu: Nepal Sunday pledged to increase its tiger population from current 300 to 600 by the beginning of the next decade with intensified conservation efforts and steps to control poaching. Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Romania: This Existing EU Member State is Now Tryi ...
    As many of you have heard – Romania, despite adopting laws to the contrary, is now trying to legalise mass killing campaigns of Strays again. This mail goes to the prefect Mihai Atansoaei, to all 33 Romanian EU-representatives, to the 6 mayors of Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-i ...
  • Setback for Amigo on road to recovery
    The Tennessee horse who suffered a horrific injury when impaled on a large branch has suffered a setback. There were fears on Sunday at the University of Tennessee's Large Animal Clinic that Amigo may have been coming down with laminitis. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Ad ...
  • Claim: Dogs Poisoned In Dispute With Neighbor
    The Lewis family believes that all three of their dogs were poisoned by a neighbor who tossed tainted meatballs over their fence. One dog died, another is still hospitalized, and a third has been released from treatment. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Daily care for Misty on her long road to recovery ...
    One arrow went right through her neck but the worst injury involved an arrow that entered through her wither and penetrated her spine. Another struck behind her right eye, smashing her sinus, and another struck a glancing blow to a leg. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a C ...

GreenBiz

  • TerraCycle Turns Pens Into Trash Cans
    TerraCycle is collecting used writing items made by Paper Mate, Sharpie and EXPO, and making trash cans out of them and other recycled waste, part of the company's foray into creating more non-branded products. �
  • Why eBay is a Green Giant
    Can a company dedicated to buying and selling goods thrive while trying to convince people to consume less? eBay and its dedicated green team are working to promote the benefits of buying used products as the only kind of green shopping.
  • 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.

Reuters Global

  • Afghanistan’s operation Marjah: taking on th ...
    U.S.-led NATO and Afghan forces are in the third day of their offensive to establish control over the town of Marjah and surrounding areas in southern Afghanistan. What's the strategic logic of the operation ?
  • Security: Never safer, or close to the civil liber ...
    Are we in danger of using threats to national security to sweep up almost every issue that might worry or threaten the citizen?
  • Pune bombing unlikely to derail India-Pakistan tal ...
    This weekend's bombing which killed nine people in the Indian city of Pune -- the first major attack since the 2008 assault on Mumbai -- is unlikely to derail plans for the foreign secretaries, or top diplomats, of India and Pakistan to hold talks on Feb. 25.
  • 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.

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Greece Facing “Titanic” Problem
    April 15, 1912. Early in the morning of this fateful day, the unsinkable Titanic went below the waters of the icy Atlantic and sank to its eventual berth on the ocean floor. In the process of hitting the iceberg that dealt the Titanic its fateful blow, the air of invincibility surrounding this great ...
  • Lost Narrative
      “Sucks.”   HRC directs her remarks against Iran. The question asked in Washington is, If POTUS declares war on Iran, will his polls improve? This is how the morale has collapsed at the White House. HRC speaks accurately about the Tehran Twelvers, but she represents an administration tha ...
  • Tune In To NoQuarter Radio’s Sins of Omission with ...
    Promo for February 15th show bumped down. Listen to the archived show via BlogTalkRadio.com. Join Sins of Omission Monday, February 15, 2010 at 9pm (ET) as host Paulie Abeles interviews Gordon L. Patzer, PhD. about his book, “Looks: Why They Matter More than You Ever Imagined.” Pundits look to r ...
  • Tune In To NoQuarter Radio’s Sins of Omission with ...
    Join Sins of Omission Monday, February 15, 2010 at 9pm (ET) as host Paulie Abeles interviews Gordon L. Patzer, PhD. about his book, “Looks: Why They Matter More than You Ever Imagined.” Pundits look to recent polls to take the country’s pulse on social issues—but what if the candidates we sup ...
  • hope floats
    What’s with all the Obama floats around Europe? And interestingly enough, they all seem to be negative… A carnival float representing U.S. President Barack Obama, with the words ‘Obama as liberator’ on his shirt, is pictured during the traditional Rose Monday carnival parade in the western German c ...

Environmental Graffiti

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Global Elite

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Green Inc. - NYT

  • Three Firms Quit Climate Lobby
    A trio of influential multinational corporations have decamped from the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, a 3-year-old lobby group, citing mounting concerns over the direction of climate change legislation.
  • Cellulosic Fuel Gets Cheaper, Companies Say
    Two of the world's leading companies in the enzyme business, Novozymes and Danisco, announced this week that they have each developed enzymes that can reliably -- and affordably -- convert agricultural waste into so-called "cellulosic ethanol."
  • San Francisco's Electric Cars Proliferate
    The San Francisco Bay Area is already a center of the nascent battery-charged economy, thanks to a concentration of electric car charging infrastructure start-ups.
  • Samsung Enters Solar Deal in California
    The South Korean conglomerate best known to Americans for its televisions and cellphones will provide solar photovoltaic panels to Pacific Gas and Electric.
  • Gains in Global Wind Capacity Reported
    China accounted for a third of the new capacity and the Chinese wind power market doubled in size in 2009, according to a trade group.

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

  • The Hoi Poloi v Goldman Sachs
    Numerian (Feb 15) Ask yourself who knows how much has really been borrowed by various governments around the world? Greece is turning into a battle royal between the global financial elites and the average worker in the industrial West. This started out as a more limited struggle, pitting the financ ...
  • Wal-Mart set to skim off free labor in Detroit Hig ...
    The students of Frederick Douglass Academy have been, and are the leaders of Detroit. We are now in the middle of the most important fight of our lives. This is the fight for our city. This is the fight for Public Education. Bobb knows and understands that the strongest leaders opposing his plan are ...
  • Detroit Teachers ffight obsequious politicians, un ...
    “Of all the civil rights for which the world has struggled and fought for 5,000 years, the right to learn is undoubtedly the most fundamental…The freedom to learn…has been bought by bitter sacrifice. And whatever we may think of the curtailment of other civil rights, we should fight to the last ditc ...
  • Detroit Teachers Fight Back against obsequious pol ...
    “Of all the civil rights for which the world has struggled and fought for 5,000 years, the right to learn is undoubtedly the most fundamental…The freedom to learn…has been bought by bitter sacrifice. And whatever we may think of the curtailment of other civil rights, we should fight to the last ditc ...
  • 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 ...

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Pine River World News

  • Pak editorial: The Marja adventure
    The following editorial is from The Frontier Post, a major daily newspaper in Peshawar, Pakistan. The Marja adventure � � The Frontier Post February 16, 2010 If Taliban's claims can be taken with a pinch of salt, the predominantly western media's reporting on the U.S.-led occupation coalition forc ...
  • Microsoft officer proposes requiring internet user ...
    [ Blogmaster note : I was alerted to this article a few minutes ago. Personally, I would rather give up my internet access and abandon my blogs ( and stop online shopping for goods and services from web merchants !) than submit to this. I know there are at least 4 professional journalists who read P ...
  • USA's Global Miliitary Dominance: Real Reason for ...
    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Pravda, Moscow. USA's Global Miliitary Dominance: �Real Reason for Sanctions Against Iran � �Eric Sommer Source: � Pravda.ru February 15, 2010 The U.S.-sponsored drive to impose new economic sanctions on Iran has nothing to do with the nob ...
  • Of Ukrainian Elections and Western Hypocrisy
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Stanislav Mishin, a frequent contributor to Russian newspaper Pravda. Of Ukrainian Elections and Western Hypocrisy � �Stanislav Mishin Source: � Mat Rodina February 13, 2010 The elections are in and the Western fascist barbie, Yulia Tymoshenko ...
  • 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 ...

MSM Blogging

PDA AMERICA

  • PDA Inside the Democratic Party Call
    The following locally endorsed candidates joined us to talk about their campaign: Marcy Winograd (CA-36) http://www.winogradforcongress.com/ Jonathan Tasini (US Senate NY) http://jonathantasini.com/ Tracy Emblem (CA-50) http://www.tracyemblemforcongress.com/ Robert Dobbs (SC-01) http://www.electdobb ...
  • IOT: Clean, Fair and Transparent Elections
    January Call: John Sebes, Executive Director and Chief Technology Officer from the Open Source Digital Voting foundation gave us a presentation on OSDV. We also did state reports.
  • Jon Karl & ABC Give Cheney A Sunday Valentine
    By Linda Milazzo | Alternet This Sunday morning (Valentine’s Day, 2010), Jonathan Karl auditioned to replace George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s Sunday morning show, This Week. Karl’s exclusive “get” for his host debut was former Vice ...
  • Your ideas for the climate movement – Bill M ...
    Our organizing team has been discussing what’s next for 350.org for the past couple weeks in Vermont, USA. We’ve taken a look at all of your ideas, and we’re honing in on a plan for ...
  • 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 ...

Marler Blog

  • E. coli, Salmonella and Hepatitis A Litigation Sit ...
    We at Marler Clark developed E. coli , Salmonella and Hepatitis A litigation sites to keep our clients up-to-date on current litigation being prosecuted by Marler Clark throughout the United States. The site is also a resource for Marler Clark co-counsel, print and broadcast media who are working on ...
  • Salmonella Montevideo Sickens 230 - Link is Black ...
    CDC reports 230 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 state with this strain is ...
  • Beef Products Inc (BPI) to go "transparent" - Real ...
    I missed (OK, I was not invited) the National Meat Association’s annual conference where Eldon Roth, Founder and Chairman of Beef Products Inc., announced that the company will post on its Web site 100 percent of its results from the processor's testing for E. coli O157:H7 and Salmonella. Accordin ...
  • 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 ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 02.16.10
    Tesla CEO Musk used private jet 12 times to lobby Washington for DOE loans Tonedeaf in the age of the driving CEO? Pretty much. "Opportunity charging" your electric car or stealing what isn't yours? ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 02.15.10
    Quick Spin: Ford Transit Connect Electric a good sign of things to come Urban delivery drivers have a lot to look forward to with this van. Class action lawsuit filed on behalf of Prius, Lexus hybrid owne ...
  • 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 ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • 2009 Polk Winners interviewed on _Democracy Now!_
    The 2009 George Polk Awards were announced on Monday. Two of the winners include reporters featured on Democracy Now!: * Environmental Reporting: Abrahm Lustgarten for documenting the deadly side effects of hydraulic fracturing * Military Reporting: Charlie Reed and others at Stars and Strip ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Report: EU Biofuels Harm Food Production in Develo ...
    An ActionAid report says EU companies growing biofuels for transport have taken millions of acres of land for food production in Africa, Asia and central America
  • Vancouver might be the most socially responsible O ...
    A carbon-neutral torch relay. A multimillion dollar partnership with Canada's aboriginals. Bouquets for medal winners made by former prostitutes and drug addicts. Even before the first event, organizers of the Winter Games claim to have set new Olympic standards for environmental and social responsi ...
  • Global Warming's Snowball Fight
    Were conservatives right to bash Al Gore during the blizzards that hit Washington?
  • 1200 Year-Old Tree Saved by King Henry II Succumbs ...
    The Great Oak had a circumference of 34 ft and dated from the 9th century. According to legend, in 1165 King Henry II, preparing to meet Owain Gwynedd in the Battle of Crogen, commanded his men to clear Ceiriog Woods but ordered the Great Oak to be spared. Unfortunately, the oak could not survive th ...
  • Engineering the Planet to Combat Climate Change
    Long a taboo subject, altering the planet as a solution to climate change is now being talked about openly these days by scientists, environmentalists and policy thinkers. Will it work, and how can we avoid unintended consequences?

Invisible Opportunity

  • Robin Williams on Obama, Bush
  • Conspiracy theories arise from underpants bomber s ...
    There are more questions and conspiracy theories about the underwear bomber arising. Webster Tarpley says that Mutalab was a patsy and wasnt taken off the flight because the government was trying to get more information from him later on. There was an objection from one government agency however, Ta ...
  • Brazilian Farmers Declare War on Monsanto
    War against Monsanto Marcondes Maciel and Tania Rauber Diario de Cuiaba [Brazil], 29 January 2010 http://www.diariodecuiaba.com.br • In Cuiaba, Aprosoja is preparing a court action against Monsanto, and in Sinop, steps are being taken to follow suit [English translation courtesy Cert ID Brazil and G ...
  • Monsanto ‘faked’ data for approvals cl ...
    By Dinesh Sharma The debate on genetically modified (GM) brinjal variety continues to generate heat. Former managing director of Monsanto India, Tiruvadi Jagadisan, is the latest to join the critics of Bt brinjal, perhaps the first industry insider to do so. Jagadisan, who worked with Monsanto for n ...
  • H1N1- Swine Flu: A Post Mortem
    By Mike Werbowski Rarely in the annals of history have we seen such as humongous hoax as the recent “H1N1-pandemic”. What reportedly began in Mexico last spring in Vera Cruz state, at an insalubrious industrial sized pork farm was then upgraded from to a global health crisis. Nine months later it ha ...

Cognitive Research - Sciences

Insurgency Watch | True/Slant

  • 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

  • Gas Drilling Causes Mud Volcano – Kills 14 and Dis ...
    A report released on Friday accuses energy firm PT Lapindo Brantas with inadvertently creating a mud volcano that killed 14 and displaced 60,000 people. Related posts: Dont Stop the Drilling to Save the Polar Bears Pollution Kills 40 Percent of Us – Artisanal Gold Mining Pollution Kills 40 Pe ...
  • 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

Inhabitat

  • Climate Change is Causing San Francisco to Lose it ...
    Residents of San Francisco’s oceanside neighborhoods may complain about it, but the city’s legendary fog does more than just provide character — it also protects nearby redwood forests. Now researchers from the University of California, Berkeley are claiming that the fog has lessened by 33% over the ...
  • IS IT GREEN?: Rethink Hanger Repurposes Plastic Bo ...
    Chinese designer Xuan Yu’s Rethink hanger caught our attention as a clever concept for storing your threads, but we’re not casting our vote just yet for this “eco” product. Touted as a green solution, this plastic bit requires empty bottles screwed into either side in order to function. There’s no ...
  • Bio Glass is a Gorgeous, Translucent, 100% Recycle ...
    Isn’t it great when you don’t have to sacrifice beauty for sustainability? Case in point: Bio-Glass, a striking material made from 100% post consumer recycled materials. Reader Jacostarubio just tipped us off about it saying: “Bio-Glass offers a clean technology hard surface material without compro ...
  • Casio Unveils Solar Powered G-Shock Watches
    Apparently, manufacturing of one of the most durable wristwatches in the world was just not enough for electronics maker Casio. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, the company decided to flex their clock-making prowess by taking their popular G-Shock series to the next level – making the ...
  • EMPOWER: The Energy Generating Rocking Chair
    We love gadgets that glean energy from everyday actions, so we were thrilled to find this energy-generating rocking chair among this year’s 18 Greener Gadgets Design Competition finalists. Perfect for on-the-go travelers at airports or cafes, the Empower chair harnesses kinetic energy from its swing ...

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

  • A glimpse of the future cash-less world? Greece St ...
    Reuters – 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. ‘From 1. Jan. 2011, every transaction above 1,500 euros between natural persons and businesses, or between businesses, w ...
  • How you can be part of the Open Your Eyes News tea ...
    Send us links to pertinent mainstream news articles that you spot ( send to thehistorian@openyoureyesnews.com ) Follow us via Twitter and Facebook pages and encourage your friends to do the same Join our mailing list and receive our weekly comprehensive weekly news review e-mail Post comments on th ...
  • Medical Isotope Supplies Dwindle
    Nature – Nuclear-reactor shutdowns will cripple global isotope production next month. The world’s shaky supply of a crucial medical isotope is about to dry up. Next week, one of the main nuclear reactors used to make molybdenum-99 (99Mo) will be shut down for repairs — and for several days next m ...
  • Biden to Pressure Israel to Hold Off on Iran Strik ...
    Israel National News – U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will visit Israel next week. During the visit he is expected to discuss with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu the peace talks with the PA and the Iranian issue. Biden is expected to pressure Israel not to go forward with a pre-emptive strike on I ...
  • Burma rights abuses ‘go from bad to worse’
    ABC – Amnesty International has released a major report on Burma and says violence against activists and ethnic minorities is getting worse. The 56-page report documents torture, rape and extra-judicial killings inflicted against minorities and opponents of the military regime. Benjamin Zawacki from ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Thoughts on Palestinian Na’vi and the reality of r ...
    Thoughts on Palestinian Na’vi and the reality of reality by Prairie Fire (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) It is being reported that Palestinians protesters are posing as the fictional Na’vi from James Cameron’s 2009 blockbuster Avatar to confront the Israeli security forces. The protesters  pain ...
  • Sina Stalin, Mao, at Lin Biao ay isinilang sa Disy ...
    Sina Stalin, Mao, at Lin Biao ay isinilang sa Disyembre (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Tatlong dakilang rebolusyonaryo ay isinilang sa Disyembre. Si Stalin ay isinilang noong ika-21 ng Disyembre, taong 1879. Si Stalin ay naaalala dahil sa kanyang dakilang pamumuno sa Unyong Sobyet sa kabuuan n ...
  • “Salamat po, Tita Cory”
    “Salamat po, Tita Cory” (amihanmalaya.wordpress.com) Tigilan na ang ilusyon! matagal nang napanis ang “demokrasyang” inilalako ng mga buwitreng nakasuot ng damit pang-madre. Walang naibalik kundi ang burges na demokrasya, kung saan pinaghatian ng ilang reaksyunaryo na paksyong anti-Marcos ang poder ...
  • Par IRTR: Approximation de la valeur du travail
    Approximation de la valeur du travail par Serve the People de IRTR (première publication le 30 juin 2005) (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) (English) (Spanish) (Tagalog) Essayons de calculer la valeur du travail abstrait moyen socialement nécessaire à la production. Cela nous donnera une id ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Flexible Silicon Solar Cells Use 99% Less Material
    Researchers have found a way to make flexible silicon solar cells using only 1 percent of the material used in conventional solar cells. The cells are made of micron-sized silicon wires that are encased in a flexible polymer that can be rolled or bent.  The researchers at Cal Tech who developed th ...
  • Highly-Efficient CO2-Capturing Crystals
    Scientists at UCLA have developed synthetic crystals that trap gasses like a smart sponge.  The crystals are highly selective, allowing them to achieve a 400% improvement in CO2 capture over current technologies. The crystals are three-dimensional and code information in the same manner as DNA.  W ...
  • New Material Could Act as Both Battery and Body of ...
    A new nanoscale material developed by researchers at Imperial College London could eventually act as both the battery and body of electric cars.  The mix of carbon fiber and polymer resin can charge and release electricity like a battery and is hard as steel too. The advantages of the material are ...
  • Norway Building World's Largest Wind Turbine
    Norway has announced plans to build the world's largest wind turbine.  The turbine will measure 533 feet high with a rotor diameter of 475 feet.  With that big size will also come big power - the turbine is expected to have a capacity of 10 MW, or enough to power 2,000 homes. The $67.5 million rec ...
  • EV Makers and Battery Suppliers Swapping Partners
    The saga of startup electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers and their battery partners has its own twists and turns. Batteries are a significant component for EVs. So it should not be surprising that the marriage between vehicle manufacturer and battery supplier can take on the characteristics of a ...

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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

  • Fort Hood Report Calls for Change in Pentagon Hate ...
    An independent fact-finding report made public last week by the Pentagon in the wake of the November shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, concluded that the Pentagon was not well prepared to defend itself from many internal threats. The report, “Protecting the Force: Lessons From Fort Hood,” focused ...
  • Canada’s Aryan Guard Muddied Again
    Yet another associate of Canada’s beleaguered Aryan Guard has landed in jail. John Richard Marleau — a white supremacist who has attended most of the neo-Nazi group’s events, though he claims not to be an official member — faces multiple charges in connection with an attempted stabbing this week on ...
  • Jury Finds Bill White Guilty on Four Counts
    A federal jury today agreed with some but not all of the government’s allegations that former neo-Nazi leader Bill White made threats against various people with whom he disagreed. White was found guilty of threatening a Citibank employee, intimidating tenants of a Virginia Beach, Va., apartment com ...
  • Monochromatic Basketball: A League of Their Own
    To many fans, the National Basketball Association (NBA) features exciting games played by gifted athletes. But most of the players are just so darned, well, black . Now an Atlanta sports entrepreneur named Don “Moose” Lewis has a potential antidote: an all-white professional basketball league. Lewis ...
  • Haitian Catastrophe: For Racists, a Good Laugh
    In Haiti, tens of thousands of earthquake victims are dead, with at least one official estimating the number could reach half a million when the full, horrifying effects of Tuesday afternoon’s earthquake in the island nation are finally known. In Arkansas, Billy Roper figured that made for a pretty ...

change: org.

  • More Sex in Church, Please
    We need more sex in church, says a report from the Religious Institute . Sex talk , that is. The multifaith organization's new report , Sexuality and Religion 2020 has an optimistic futuristic vision: that "all faith communities will be sexually healthy, just and prophetic" by 2020. It criticizes re ...
  • The "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Shrug
    Appearing at a town hall for troops in Amman, Jordan, Navy Admiral Mike Mullen spent nearly a half hour taking questions from troops about any and everything related to U.S. military policy. Finally, at the end of the session, the issue of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" came up. Because Mullen himself rais ...
  • Food Safety Recalls Invade My Inbox
    I recently went on an email subscription spree, as I occasionally do, and submitted my address to a number of lists that sounded remotely interesting. Usually this results in large numbers of weekly e-bulletins in my inbox that are never read. But what happened with the FoodSafety.gov Recalls & Aler ...
  • In Kenya, Sanitary Pads Could Help Girls Succeed i ...
    Getting ready for school ... pencils, pens, notepads, lunch bag, pads. Yeah, the other kind of pads. In the United States, having your period might be good for getting out of gym class (although it's generally only the squeamish hyper-masculine profs who buy that one these days). But in Kenya, where ...
  • Low-Wage Workers Get the Flu, Too
    This year has just begun, but so far the budget news coming out of most states seems as depressing as last year with regards to cutting services for the poor. That's why it's so refreshing to read a proposal out of Iowa that would actually benefit many of the state's poorest residents who are lucky ...

Common Dreams -News

  • French Soldiers Used as 'Nuclear Guinea Pigs'
    PARIS  - France used soldiers as guinea pigs in nuclear tests in the 1960s, deliberately exposing them to radiation from atomic blasts to test the effects, according to a report revealed on Tuesday. The secret military report, obtained by AFP, said that between 1960 and 1966 France sent troops onto ...
  • Senate Quartet Urges Reid To Pass Public Plan Via ...
    by Sam Stein and Ryan Grim Four senators have signed a letter urging Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to pass a public option for insurance coverage through the use of reconciliation. The list of signatories includes both usual and somewhat unusual suspects, from the progressive wing of t ...
  • No Rights Charge Against NY Police in 50-Shot Deat ...
    NEW YORK - Several New York City police officers who killed an unarmed black man in a hail of 50 bullets on his wedding day will not face criminal civil rights charges, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday. Sean Bell, 23, was killed and two friends injured outside a strip club after his bache ...
  • Joya Condemns 'Ridiculous' Military Strategy
    by Glyn Strong Afghanistan's "most famous woman" has voiced deep scepticism about Operation Moshtarak's aims and its impact on Afghan civilians. read more
  • Civilians Die in Afghan Offensive
    by Golnar Motevalli MARJAH - NATO rockets killed 12 Afghan civilians on Sunday, missing Taliban militants attacking NATO and Afghan troops as they press ahead with a major offensive that must win over the local population to succeed. "It's regrettable that in the course of our joint efforts, innoc ...

Lifehacker

  • Air Video Streams Your Videos to Your iPhone with ...
    Windows/Mac + iPhone/iPod touch: Not only do videos take up a ton of space on space-constrained devices, but converting videos for the iPhone gets painful quickly. Air Video streams videos straight to your iPhone, converting them on-the-fly if they're incompatible. The app is actually an iPhone app ...
  • Remains of the Day: Malicious PDFs to Blame for 80 ...
    Skype is on its way to Verizon, we take a look at what magazines may look like when they transition to tablets, and a study shows that 80% of successful malware exploits found their way to computers via Adobe Reader/Acrobat flaws. Report: Malicious PDF files comprised 80 percent of ...
  • Find the Right Color Palette for Your Next Present ...
    Many of us spend hours floundering around looking for just the right colors while designing a web site, presentation, or flier. Design blog Before & After put together a great booklet detailing a little beginner's color theory for complimenting your next effort. According to Before & After, colors a ...
  • Best Netbook Operating System: Windows 7 [Hive Fiv ...
    Earlier last week we asked you to share your favorite netbook operating system , then we rounded up the five most popular candidates for a vote. Now we're back to highlight the winner and runners up. At the front with a nearly 10% lead was Windows 7 , the newest offering in the Hive, with 36% of the ...
  • From the Tips Box: External Drives, Userscript Org ...
    Readers offer their best tips for saving desk space with external drives, keeping your browser from overflowing with userscripts, and adding separators to the Windows 7 taskbar. Don't like the gallery layout? Click here to view everything on one page. About the Tips Box: Every day we receive boatl ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Baradur's Arrest and the Quid Pro Quo
    By Steve Hynd Gregg gave us some excellent "first thoughts" last night about the possible consequences of the arrest of Mullah Baradur, the Quetta Shura Taliban's military chief and "number two". But I want to focus today on what the arrest might mean for Pakistan's role in the War on (Some) Terror, ...
  • Taliban military commander captured; will it impac ...
    By Gregg Carlstrom Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban's military commander and one of the group's "founding fathers," was captured recently by U.S. and Pakistani intelligence in a raid in Karachi. ... Baradar, is an Afghan described by American officials as the most significant Taliban figure t ...
  • Poodle No More?
    By Steve Hynd The head of the UK's Royal Air Force has questioned the military's focus on Afghanistan, just as the public debate over the forthcoming Strategic Defense Review kicks in to high gear. (Bold is mine - SH.) Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Dalton told the International Institute of Strategi ...
  • Interests and Minimalism
    It is only a universe in which the United States has global and all pervasive interests and no other nation is allowed to have local and near-abroad interests does it make sense for Georgia to be a vital American interest where the US government debates using military force to defend.   We are e ...
  • 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 ...

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Electronic Intifada

CS Monitor - News

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

The Wonk Room

  • Boehner Requests, Receives, Then Criticizes Health ...
    Our guest blogger is Emma Sandoe, a Health Care Researcher at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Last week, House Minority leader John Boehner (R-OH) sent a letter to the White House with a list of requests for the February 25th bipartisan health care reform summit. In it, he asked the Wh ...
  • Shell Provides Evidence That ‘Say On Pay&#82 ...
    Last week, in the same interview that produced his cringe-worthy assessment of Wall Street executives as “savvy businessmen,” President Obama responded to outsized bank bonuses by pushing for “say on pay,” which would institutionalize shareholder votes on compensation packages. “I guess the main pri ...
  • Senate Republicans Oppose Increasing Capital Requi ...
    Publicly, Republicans are hinging their opposition to financial regulatory reform on their adamant refusal to create a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA) or to implement a tax on the biggest banks, aimed at recouping money lost on the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). But the Financ ...
  • Citing Heritage, Dana Milbank Attacks Valid Climat ...
    In “Global warming’s snowball fight,” Dana Milbank, the Washington Post’s premier Capitol Hill reporter-turned-columnist, applied his trademark snark to the political debate over climate change. His George Will-style column is based on the premise that “the greens” have been “hoist by their own peta ...
  • Gas Sanctions Would Hurt Goal Of Targeting Iran&#8 ...
    Given David Frum’s role as a key ideological architect of the Bush administration’s “global war on terror,” it’s great that he recognizes that air strikes on Iran are a bad idea with lots of unforeseeable consequences. It’s unfortunate, however, that he seems to have bought the hype on gas sanction ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • What's Next?
    I think the Anti-Prorogation rallies were successful in that they gave harper a major public-relations black-eye. But as someone wrote on some other blog's comments section somewhere, back in the day, various parliaments blithely ignored hand-written petitions with over ONE MILLION signatures, so t ...
  • Too Busy 2 Write
    So I'm linking to KITH: Hope you liked it. (I didn't have much to do with it though, did i?)
  • Canadian Newsmedia Rediscovers Haiti
    I gotta say that it puts a bad taste in my mouth to see all these fucking newspaper headlines about the earthquake in Haiti and how "Canada is doing this" and "Canadians are doing that" for Haiti. I've mentioned several times on this blog how curious it is that Canadian news media say Jack Shit abo ...
  • harpercon bleat: "B-B-B-ut Prorogation is 'Constit ...
    That's one of the things that I've been reading on the "Blogging Tories" response to the Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament movement. Duh. The proposed Liberal-NDP coalition was constitutional too. But they called it a "coup." Anyway, CAPP isn't against proroguing parliament so much as we'r ...
  • We Won't Stop Them ...
    There's no real reason to get excited. Even if harper is sent packing, it'll be a Liberal minority. Just watch Michael "Internationalist" Ignatieff turn into harper-lite. Even if the NDP hold the balance of power, it'll be meaningless. Who could truly believe that the NDP wouldn't suddenly becom ...

Financial Sense Editorials

  • Market Observation: A Greek Crisis Is Coming to Am ...
    by Bill Fleckenstein. "World equity markets were mixed and rather uneventful during our holiday, with the focus continuing on Greece. Nothing much happened on that front, though nothing was supposed to happen, either. In any case, the early going today saw the indices about 0.5% higher, with most ev ...
  • Colombia Is Open for Business
    by David Galland. "The Colombian economy, with its free-market approach, has fared better than its Latin American neighbors, and foreign investment is starting to flow in. In 2009, President Uribe attracted US$8.6 billion gross foreign direct investment (FDI)."
  • Th*nk*ng (Incentives)
    by Fred Cederholm. "I’ve been thinking about incentives. Actually I’ve been thinking about our troubled economy, real politics, budgets, sticks and carrots, jobs, and the debt/deficits. The political/ economic and comic/ tragedy epic that is unfolding before our eyes right now is something I never e ...
  • Bring on more snow!
    by Paul Nolte. "Washington is closed for four days due to fierce winter storms and piles of snow --- and the Dow rallies nearly 200 points. The evening news was much “nicer” as talk about the snow and removal efforts supplanted partisan bickering about healthcare, tax cuts or the budget. Bring on mo ...
  • 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 ...

on Government Oversight

  • Twelve Ways Congress Can Improve Our Government
    Just this morning, POGO recommended 12 nonpartisan good-government fixes that Congress should implement in 2010. Coming in at #1 is enacting increased whistleblower protections — a reform that we feel is both most urgent and achievable. Whistleblowers play an invaluable...
  • Non-competitive Contract to Be Awarded to Shady Co ...
    Back before the winter skies unleashed their fury upon the District, a pair of Ohio Congressman highlighted another win for Kuwait & Gulf Link Transport Company (KGL), the government contractor noted on this blog for owning a truck involved in...
  • Morning Smoke: Lynn Says F-35 Faces 12-Month Delay
    Bill Lynn: F-35 is 1 year behind schedule by Stephen Trimble [The DEW Line] Success of President Obama's crackdown on lobbying questioned by Dan Eggen [The Washington Post] Future Bailouts of America by Gretchen Morgenson [The New York Times] WH...
  • 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...

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

  • Redbox Caves To Warner Bros., Will Delay New Movie ...
    Some of the movie studios (admittedly, not all of them) have been on a braindead fight against Redbox -- despite the fact that Redbox had created a service that people liked and were paying for and that generated revenue for the movie industry. There are still ongoing lawsuits , but today came the ...
  • Australian Politician Claims Video Gamers Are A Bi ...
    South Australian Attorney General Michael Atkinson, last seen around these parts supporting a law that banned anonymous political commentary during election season (though he later said he'd repeal it after the election), is apparently now taking on video gamers. Slashdot points us to the news that ...
  • University Of Texas Claims Trademark Over 'Texas'; ...
    Trademark law, when used properly, serves an important purpose in making sure that consumers are not made worse off by being tricked into buying lower quality products and services under the belief that they're actually coming from someone else who is trusted. But in the age of the "ownership cultu ...
  • Ridiculous Arguments: Net Neutrality Would Mean No ...
    I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I'm very much against enforcing net neutrality through legislation (too many unintended consequences) but I'm stunned at the ridiculous and totally bogus reasons given by those fighting against those regulations in support of their claims. The latest on t ...
  • My Comments To The USTR On Special 301 Report On F ...
    As you may or may not have heard, the USTR has been accepting public comments for its Special 301 report, which comes out every year in an attempt to name and shame countries that the USTR does not believe does enough to protect US copyrights abroad. Typically, this process is driven very much by t ...

VacTruth

  • Who Really Owns Your Child When It Comes to Vaccin ...
    . . . Christina England vactruth.com 02/15/10 Drug companies foster many techniques when it comes to vaccinating our children. These range from taking away full parental rights, to dangling nice ‘juicy carrots’ in front of our unsuspecting and trusting children. This is done in the way of gift ...
  • Multigenerational Vaccine Indoctrination
    . . . Posted on Dr. Sherri Tenpenny’s Facebook Page I have frequently spoken about the multigenerational indoctrination about the belief in vaccines. Where did that come from? We need to unwind it. The book, State of Immunity, by James Colgrove, is absolutely amazing and lays out in detail how th ...
  • 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 ...

BroadSnark

  • Issue by Issue
    Political parties and broad categorizations have warped the way we think about issues and problem solving. We may think that we cannot work with a conservative on anything.  But which conservative do we mean – the Christian conservative from Focus on the Family or the follower of Buckley?  We may ...
  • 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 ...

Executive Intelligence Review

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Twitter Updates for 2010-02-17
    More trouble for the #IPCC as claims of increase in hurricanes due to #AGW don't hold up under A level #science review http://bit.ly/a4M5Uf # It seems every day there is a new story about false climate data or dodgy #IPCC study. How many nails in the coffin until #AGW is dead? # quality ...
  • Governments ADMIT That They Carry Out False Flag T ...
    Forget the many excellent essays proving that false flag terror – a government attacking people and then blaming others in order to create animosity towards those blamed – has been used throughout history. See this, this, this and this. This essay will solely discuss government admissions of the u ...
  • Ron Paul Interview
    By Matt Hawes Tonight, Congressman Paul will appear (along with his son Rand) on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 around 10:15 pm eastern. Tune in and check it out! View the original article at Campaign for Liberty
  • UPDATE: The Virginia Firearms Freedom Act Passes H ...
    By dljholt Dear Friends of Liberty, Congratulations Patriots! You clearly made your voices heard in the Virginia House of Delegates when you asked that they support HB69, the Virginia Firearms Freedom Act. Moments ago, HB69 passed on the floor with a bi-partisan vote of 70 - 29. The bill wi ...
  • Cheney Pleads Guilty To War Crimes
    As I have pointed out periodically since 2005: The War Crimes Act of 1996, a federal statute set forth at 18 U.S.C. § 2441, makes it a federal crime for any U.S. national, whether military or civilian, to violate the Geneva Convention by engaging in murder, torture, or inhuman treatment. The s ...

food and water watch

  • Food & Water Watch Partners With University of New ...
    Today, Food & Water Watch and the University of New Hampshire’s Office of Sustainability kickoff  “Tap In,” a series of films and lectures about water privatization, access, and quality. An initiative of our Take Back the Tap campaign, the series will commence with a showing of, and discussion abou ...
  • USDA Admits Lack of Food Safety Follow-Through
    The USDA finally admitted to a small group of consumer group representatives last week that its official policy is to take very little action when it finds ground beef contaminated with E. coli in commerce. That is, unless several human illnesses have already been identified with the product. I pre ...
  • Why are Toxic Chemicals Innocent Until Proven Guil ...
    This week, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released findings from the “Fourth National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals.” The report identifies 212 environmental chemicals found in people’s blood and urine. Many of the chemicals, like mercury and atrazine, have been monito ...
  • Climate Change Conference Goes Bottled Water Free, ...
    As part of a larger effort to go as green as possible, the 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen has been bottled water free! Forty water stations have been installed throughout the conference to provide water to the 19,000+ participating delegates. We’re delighted that the wor ...
  • COP 15 in Copenhagen: Time to question industrial ...
    As world leaders gather in Copenhagen to discuss climate change and strategies to prevent and alleviate effects on our planet, Food & Water Europe remains acutely aware of half-hearted solutions that such meetings typically bring. We are particularly concerned about the lack of willingness to addre ...

treehugger

  • Will Transparency Curb Carbon Emissions if Cap and ...
    Photo via FreeFoto Is it a possibility that transparency could all but make up for the lack of a mandated cap on carbon emissions? Grist wonders if that could be the case, and takes a closer look at the EPA's newly instated Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule , which requires companies polluting over ...
  • Y'Know the Flying Dragons in Avatar? Tiny Real-Lif ...
    Photo: Reddit user Biophilia_curiosus Can't Wait Until They Find the Full-Sized Species... A Reddit.com user by the name of Biophilia_curiosus posted a few photos that he took in Indonesia. They show an amazing species of gliding lizard which basically looks like a miniature dragon. Fans of th ...
  • Cost-Competitive Algae Jet Fuel Just Months Away: ...
    Image credit: US Department of Defense I'm not sure whether the Pentagon's clean energy projects count toward the idea that environmentalism is socialist , or whether they get a free pass because, well, they are the Pentagon and they know a thing or two about the importance of energy independen ...
  • Globally Flared Gas Could Meet 1/4 Of The US' Need ...
    Read the full story on TreeHugger
  • Horny Toad Activewear: Every Spring Collection is ...
    All photos: Horny Toad (Sully jacket) Horny Toad is a Californian based outdoor lifestyle clothing company, with an often whimsical edge to their marketing. Check out the video (after the fold) of a typical day at work for the Toadsters. The company buys wind energy supports work opportunities ...

Biosingularity

  • Further doubt cast on virus link to chronic fatigu ...
    Researchers investigating UK samples have found no association between the controversial xenotropic murine leukaemia virus-related virus (XMRV) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Their study, published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Retrovirology, calls into question a potential link descr ...
  • Child Obesity Risks Death at Early Age, Study Find ...
    A rare study that tracked thousands of children through adulthood found the heaviest youngsters were more than twice as likely as the thinnest to die prematurely, before age 55, of illness or a self-inflicted injury. Youngsters with a condition called pre-diabetes were at almost double the risk of d ...
  • How to Change A Skin Cell Into A Nerve Cell or Cel ...
    Eyeballs just don’t become toenails — even though the same genome sits in the nucleus of every cell. The difference is in the parts of the genome that are expressed — a cell’s identity is determined by the specific genes that are active within that cell. The differentiation of a cell, and a cell’s c ...
  • Think Twice: How the Gut’s “Second Bra ...
    As Olympians go for the gold in Vancouver, even the steeliest are likely to experience that familiar feeling of “butterflies” in the stomach. Underlying this sensation is an often-overlooked network of neurons lining our guts that is so extensive some scientists have nicknamed it our “second brain”. ...
  • Brain surgery boosts spirituality
    Removing part of the brain can induce inner peace, according to researchers from Italy. Their study provides the strongest evidence to date that spiritual thinking arises in, or is limited by, specific brain areas. To investigate the neural basis of spirituality, Cosimo Urgesi, a cognitive neurosc ...

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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

  • Earth Guide for Aliens
    Have you ever wondered what you would include if you had to sum up the total human experience in one videotape? That was the charge of Carl Sagan, famous astronomer and astrophysicist. Toward the end of the summer of '77, NASA launched two spacecraft as part of the Voyager Interstellar Mission. On b ...
  • How to Win the Food Battle with Your Child
    First lady Michelle Obama launched her “Let’s Move” campaign this week to highlight, and hopefully help remedy, the current childhood obesity epidemic. If you think epidemic sounds a little too dramatic, then consider this: It is estimated that one out of every three children in the United States is ...
  • Diabetes Alert: Your Gut Microflora May Be Out of ...
    Bacterial populations in the gut of diabetics differ from non-diabetics, says a new study from Denmark that may open up a potential role for modifying gut microflora with probiotics and prebiotics to improve health. The study, published in the open-access peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE , builds on e ...
  • Vitamin D Reduces Falls in Elderly
    Vitamin D supplementation and pharmacist review of medications may help reduce falls in elderly nursing home residents, according to the results of a systematic review reported online January 20 in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews . "There is evidence that multifactorial interventions red ...
  • Links to Spirituality Found in the Brain
    Scientists have identified areas of the brain that, when damaged, lead to “greater spirituality.” The findings hint at the roots of spiritual and religious attitudes, the researchers say. The study, published in the Feb. 11 issue of the journal Neuron, involves a personality trait called self-transc ...

Antemedius

  • British Torture Summary Released - Binyam Mohamed
    One of the reasons the Dog has always argued for a full investigation of the treatment of prisoners by the U.S. government is that the truths is going to come out sooner rather than later. For those who want to hide from accountability under the law later is always the better goal. The longer it ta ...
  • "Birther" Orly Taitz's Hail Mary Pass Attempt
    Everyone knows the analogy of “like a dog with a bone”. It is short hand comparison of someone who will not let go of an issue or action regardless of other consequences. This is a great comparison to everyone’s favorite “Birther” Dr. Orly Taitz, esquire. She is the dentist and lawyer who has been a ...
  • Fire In The Belly - Progressives & The Democratic ...
    Journalism professor Jeff Cohen of FAIR and the Park Center for Independent Media on the struggle within the Democratic Party, starting from the Viet Nam War: There's no doubt that there's an awakening . What concerns me is that the liberal base, the Democratic Party base, has never been more educa ...
  • Brownbaggers not Teabaggers
    Brownbaggers Not Teabaggers VIGILS AGAINST WAR FUNDING SPREAD ACROSS NATION Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) organized "brownbag" lunch vigils against war funding at noon on Wednesday, January 20th, at the district offices of 22 members of the U.S. House of Representatives. On February 17th ...
  • Hate Crimes Act Challenged. Religious Bigotry At W ...
    Where the Religious Right in this country is concerned there is no such thing as equal rights for gay citizens. Even something as innocuous as adding sexuality and gender to the Hate Crimes act is under challenge from these “divinely” inspired bigots. The Thomas More Law Center, which prides itself ...

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

Opinio Juris

  • Bush = Obama on International Law
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku John Bellinger makes a solid observation in the NYT on the Obama Administration’s general approach to international law.  The bottom line: Obama is basically the same as Bush (at least during the second term) on international law. Last month marked the one-year anniver ...
  • A Lucid Statement of the Greek-Eurozone Conundrum
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Not everyone in international law is quite so fascinated as I with CDS spreads on Greek sovereign debt.  However, the issues raised by the Greek debt difficulties and the urgent discussions in the Eurozone over a possible bailout, attendant moral hazard, an ...
  • ‘Climate Reparations’ by Maxine Burkett
    by MJIL by MJIL [Associate Professor Maxine Burkett is the Director of the Center for Island Climate Adaption and Policy at the William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai'i at Manoa.] With the uncertain — and deeply disappointing — conclusion of the COP15, one thing has become cryst ...
  • Bush = Obama on International Law
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku John Bellinger makes a solid observation in the NYT on the Obama Administration’s general approach to international law.  The bottom line: Obama is basically the same as Bush (at least during the second term) on international law. Last month marked the one-year anniver ...
  • A Lucid Statement of the Greek-Eurozone Conundrum
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Not everyone in international law is quite so fascinated as I with CDS spreads on Greek sovereign debt.  However, the issues raised by the Greek debt difficulties and the urgent discussions in the Eurozone over a possible bailout, attendant moral hazard, an ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • ADMISSION: No statistically significant warming si ...
    I meant to highlight this on Saturday when I posted on Phil Jones' revelatory interview with the BBC. Now that it's made the front page of some newspapers around the world, I realise I was remiss. QUESTION - Do you...
  • STUDY: Antarctic ice collapse linked to newly-disc ...
    Press release from Scripps follows. Self explanatory really: Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapse Possibly Triggered by Ocean Waves, Scripps-led Study Finds Extremely long waves could have initiated 2008 collapse events Scripps Institution of Oceanography / University of California, San Diego Depicting...
  • SCANDAL: Climate activists secretly on public payr ...
    They pop up everywhere on blogs, spouting their absolute belief in global warming and humanity's central role in it, but now the London Telegraph has found taxpayer cash is being funnelled to pay for this seemingly citizen-driven propaganda 'debate': "More...
  • 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,...

Public News Service

  • Labor Leader: AZ Job Slump Not Over Yet
    Labor Leader: AZ Job Slump Not Over Yet Phoenix, AZ – Tomorrow marks the first anniversary of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The national jobless rate and new claims for unemployment benefits are down slightly, suggesting some hope for job growth. But Arizona is still shedding j ...
  • 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 ...

My Care2 Picks

  • Using Social Media to Find a Job
    Forget contributing your paper resume to a tower of similar reading samples on some corporate recruiter’s desk, with a smart social media strategy you can place your name and credentials right in front of the people that make the hiring decisions. Submitted by Brian Reilly to Science & Tech �|� �No ...
  • Obama's Secret Prisons in Afghanistan Endanger Us ...
    The day George W Bush was elected, Omar says, "my father was so happy. This is the kind of president he needs - one who will attack and spend money and break [his own] country". Osama wanted the US and Europe to make his story about the world ring true. Submitted by Luisa F. to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • Portraits of America’s Endangered Species
    They say the true measure of a person, or of society, is how we treat the least among us. Can you imagine a planet without wolves? Without frogs? Without pollinating insects? Of course, the elephant in the room is human overpopulation. We’re nearing ... Submitted by Caree C. to Animals �|� �Note-i ...
  • Linux users, get your Windows refund today
    When you purchase a new PC with Windows, you will see the instructions come up when you first turn on your computer, stating that you can request a refund for Windows, from the vendor where you purchased the PC. Submitted by John Farnham to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Why Other Countries Are Scared of GMOs and We're N ...
    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 s Submitted by Daphna Yanez to Health & Wellne ...

Angry Indian News

  • Irony in Geneva: Israel defends Arab rights
    Elder of Ziyon: : "The UNHRC has an interesting mechanism where, once every four years, every nation in the UN gets reviewed as to its human rights record.The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Incarceration As Social Control
    Against the Grain:: Download  program audio (mp3, 49.02 Mbytes)-While racial justice advocates focus on affirmative action, millions of African Americans have lost their basic civil rights -- the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Stephen Elliott-Buckley: Protesting the Corporate- ...
    Politics, Re-Spun: Friday’s Olympics opening day march was a significant success. Elders led the procession. Dancing was prevalent. Agents provocateurs were noted, whispered about, marginalized and... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Sean Bell Shooting: Justice Department Won't Pursu ...
    huffingtonpost.com/: "NEW YORK � Three New York police officers who killed an unarmed man in a 50-shot barrage outside a seedy strip club hours before his wedding will not face civil rights charges,... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • The 2010 Olympics and Repression of Independent Me ...
    Vancouver Media Co-op: "The 21st Winter Olympics are being held from February 12th–28th, 2010, in Vancouver and Whistler, in the Canadian province of British Columbia.  Host cities use the Olympic... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Aggie Subscribers – Link is Active
    For everyone who signed up for Farm Wars updates and received the password to see the Aggie presentation in full, the tab is now up on the Farm Wars site, and is active. I apologize for any confusion.
  • Former Managing Director of Monsanto India Blows t ...
    India is leading the way in exposing Monsanto for what it is - corrupt to the core. The following two articles show how Monsanto regularly faked data to get its transgenic crop varieties approved in India.
  • Conflicts of interest: Revoking the corporate char ...
    The PPJ Gazette  theppj.info by: Marti Oakley (c)copyright 2010  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED One issue seemingly untouched by the all the legal eagles out there who claim to be defending independent and family ranchers and farmers is, the conflict of interest with intent to benefit between the state corpo ...
  • 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

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

  • Israel’s new strategy: “sabotage&#8221 ...
    rr r r r rr r rr r rr r rr rr rrr rIsrael’s influential Reut Institute has identified the global movement for justice and peace as an “existential threat” and called on the Israeli government to “attack” and possibly engage in criminal “sabotage” of this movement in what Reut believes are its variou ...
  • Thomas Geoghegan on the Case for Busting the Filib ...
    Senate Republicans are currently using the filibuster to paralyze the Senate and derail Democratic initiatives, according a McClatchy Newspapers investigation. Since President Obama took office, Republican senators have used the filibuster to stall legislation on healthcare reform, global warming, a ...
  • “Haiti – The Politics of Rebuilding&#8 ...
    Much of Port-au-Prince remains under mountains of rubble, and Haitian officials say it would take years to clear out the rubble and begin the process of rebuilding the destroyed city. As pledges of billions of dollars of international aid and investment are made, debates over the vision of a new Hai ...
  • Civilian Casualties Mount During US Offensive in A ...
    In Afghanistan, thousands of US and NATO forces have entered the fourth day of a major offensive in Marjah in southern Helmand province. At least nineteen civilians have been killed so far, including six children who died when a missile struck their house on the outskirts of the city. Meanwhile, the ...
  • Headlines for February 16, 2010
    Report: Taliban’s Top Military Commander Captured, Civilian Casualties Mount During US Offensive in Afghanistan, 11 Face Arrest for Assassination of Hamas Commander in Dubai, Four Haitian Children Die in School Collapse, Haitian President: It Will Take Three Years to Remove Rubble, Regulators: Toyot ...

Open ID

Rogue Government.com

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

  • Controversial Israeli Drones Bound For Turkey
    A controversial order of Israeli-made Heron unmanned aerial vehicles passed critical performance tests in Israel and will soon be delivered, Turkey's top procurement official says. "Six of the aircraft have successfully passed the tests inspected by a delegation of Turkish officials," Murad Bayar, ...
  • McCarthyism in Canada: Gaza Photo Expo Threatened ...
    Montreal - On Monday, Feb. 15th, the critically acclaimed Human Drama in Gaza Photo Exposition in Montreal was threatened with closure by Gestion Redbourne PDP Inc., the real estate management firm owning the property housing the Exposition. A legal representative of Redbourne, Lieba Shell, sent an ...
  • German army given green light to kill civilians in ...
    The German government has now reclassified its military mission in Afghanistan as intervening in a civil war or, as they say in legal jargon, a "non-international armed conflict." This was announced by Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle (Free Democratic Party - FDP) on Wednesday in a government stat ...
  • America's Global Weapons Monopoly: Don't Call It " ...
    On the relatively rare occasions when the media turns its attention to U.S. weapons sales abroad and shines its not-so-bright spotlight on the latest set of facts and figures, it invariably speaks of "the global arms trade." Let's consider that label for a moment, word by word: *It is ...
  • King Tut likely had club foot, killed by malaria
    Washington - The celebrated pharaoh Tutankhamun had a club foot, walked with a cane and was killed by malaria, a study that harnessed modern genetic testing and computer technology to lift a veil on the secrets of ancient Egypt showed Tuesday. Researchers from Egypt, Italy and Germany used DNA ...

Threat Level

  • Student’s Facebook Tirade Against Teacher Is Prote ...
    The score is 2-1 in favor of the First Amendment when it comes to three federal rulings this month on the limits of students’ online, off-campus speech. The latest ruling, which supports the student, concerned a former Florida high senior who was reprimanded for “cyberbullying” a teacher on Faceboo ...
  • ‘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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Capture of Taliban Leader Destroys Latest GOP Talk ...
    Last week, former Bush speechwriter and full-time torture apologist Marc Thiessen introduced perhaps the most comically hypocritical talking point in the perpetual Republican jihad against the Obama administration's war policies. In " Dead Terrorists Tell No Tales ," Thiessen fretted that under Pre ...
  • God Talks to Joe the Plumber. Again.
    If Joe Lieberman was the biggest ingrate in American politics, Samuel " Joe the Plumber " Wurzelbacher is surely now the first. While Lieberman betrayed Barack Obama only months after Obama campaigned for him in Connecticut, the Plumber turned Tea Bagger has now turned his back on John McCain and S ...
  • The Tea Party's Taxing Logic
    Back in September, " 10 Lessons for Tea Baggers " documented a set of inescapable truths which the frothing-at-the-mouth followers of the Tea Party movement nevertheless manage to deny. Number one on that list then and now is "President Obama cut your taxes." As Steve Benen related today, the Tea ...
  • Not Good and Pawlenty
    Three months after the launch of his Freedom First PAC , Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty with his interview in Esquire took another step towards a bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. But while the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza lauded Pawlenty's "stinging critique of GOP," in ...
  • 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 ...

Blackspot News Feed

Consortium News

  • On Health Care, Dems Lack GOP Grit
    Unlike Democrats playing nice on health care, Republicans used hardball tactics to pass their priorities, Bruce P. Cameron says. February 15, 2010
  • Duty to Warn: Lessons for Americans
    Three young Germans who challenged Hitler's war machine still inspire those who oppose militarism, writes Gary G. Kohls. February 16, 2010
  • Free Speech v. Truth in Medals
    In a show of "patriotism," Congress criminalized wearing fake medals, setting up a First Amendment fight, says Ivan Eland. February 16, 2010
  • NYT Sees UN-Syria Conspiracy Theory
    To explain the failed Rafik Hariri murder probe, a New York Times article conjures up a UN-Syrian conspiracy, says Robert Parry. February 15, 2010
  • Can a Jewish Tradition Help Christians?
    Rev. Howard Bess says Christians might learn from the Jewish tradition of midrash, in applying Jesus's message to modern life. February 15, 2010

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

TruthHugger

  • Military Sexual Offenses, Nothing New – Don’t Ask, ...
    How American’s deal with their sexual drives has a long twisted history of abuse and disinformation
  • Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up Feb 8, ...
    The Texas Progressive Alliance congratulates the city of New Orleans for the Saints’ stirring Super Bowl victory, and reminds them that the “hair of the dog” trick doesn’t really help with the hangover. The Texas Cloverleaf highlights the sentencing of GOP Denton County Constable Ken Jannereth. P ...
  • 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 ...

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 16, 2010
    Obama to Announce Loan Help for Nuclear Power (Reuters) The Obama administration will announce today an $8.3 billion loan guarantee to help Southern Co build two new nuclear power reactors, a government official said. Bayh's Retirement Adds to U.S. Senate Democrats' List of Woes (Bloomberg) ...
  • February 15, 2010
    UN Panel Approves 32 China Wind Farms, Blocks Six (Reuters) A UN climate panel approved 32 Chinese wind farms for carbon financing under the Kyoto Protocol late last week, but blocked another six after rejecting eight similar projects in December. Greenland's Glaciers Disappearing from the Bo ...
  • February 16, 2010
    Obama to Announce Loan Help for Nuclear Power (Reuters) The Obama administration will announce today an $8.3 billion loan guarantee to help Southern Co build two new nuclear power reactors, a government official said. Bayh's Retirement Adds to U.S. Senate Democrats' List of Woes (Bloomb ...
  • February 15, 2010
    UN Panel Approves 32 China Wind Farms, Blocks Six (Reuters) A UN climate panel approved 32 Chinese wind farms for carbon financing under the Kyoto Protocol late last week, but blocked another six after rejecting eight similar projects in December. Greenland's Glaciers Disappearing from ...
  • February 14, 2010
    U.S. Chamber of Commerce Asks Court to Review EPA Carbon Ruling (Bloomberg) The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the country's largest business lobbying group, is asking a federal court to review the Obama administration's decision to declare greenhouse gases a health risk under the Clean Air Act. So ...

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

  • Silver-tongued Palin Perfect Third-Party Spoiler - ...
    Move over Ross Perot, Ralph Nader, Pat Buchanan, Pat Robertson, George Wallace, Strom Thurmond, and Teddy Roosevelt of the Bull Moose Party. Every one led a third-party that failed to win the White House, even endure. Coming on fast is a "hell, yes" pit bull with lipstick, majoring in bull and bel ...
  • Veil experiment reveals invisibility
    Jamil Khader is known around Stetson University as a professor who pushes his students harder than most. He teaches literature, gender and women's studies, among other boundary-testing disciplines. For the university's Town Meeting on Diversity last week, Khader suggested testing boundaries beyond t ...
  • NYT Sees UN-Syria Conspiracy Theory
    The New York Times simply refuses to deal with “enemy” Muslim states with any sense of objectivity or fairness, reaffirming its deep-seated bias again on Sunday with the publication of a one-sided article about the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on its fifth anniv ...
  • Is "We Are The World" What's Needed Now? The Chall ...
    Twenty five years later, "We Are The World" is back, this time with 80 artists and a corporate sponsor, VISA, the credit card company to which so many Americans are in hock. No one can quibble with the intent of this feel-good act of musical solidarity, or the obvious need it addresses. This is the ...
  • FOUND: U.S. Constitution
    Sarah Palin stood before an audience of 600 at the first Tea Party convention and in her twinkly home-spun rhetoric declared we don't need a professor of law but a commander-in-chief. As expected, she received roaring applause. And, as expected, she was wrong. After Dick Cheney and George W. Bush, a ...

Ten Percent

  • Moazzam Begg On Pulling Out of Amnesty Event
    Earlier today I was made aware that the Outside the Law: stories from Guantanamo event while fully booked out, Moazzam Begg was not going to participate, now Sunny @ Pickled Politics has this statement (and promising more tomorrow) by Begg which I think credibly raises the question why this campaign ...
  • 200,000 Dead, But Haiti Is A Business Opportunity
    Haiti’s misery: good news for big business Raul Connolly There has been much ink spilled in the corporate press about the number of dollars and soldiers being committed to Haiti by “the international community”, but as a January 20 US ABC News headline bluntly put it: “In rebuilding Haiti, opportuni ...
  • The Faces Change, Imperial Foreign Policy Remains ...
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Vice President Joe Biden said on Sunday the United States expects to gain China’s support for imposing sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program. US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has told an international conference that Iran has left the world little choice but t ...
  • ISC As Useful As The IPCC
    The senior Labour MP who led the revolt against Tony Blair’s 90-day detention bill yesterday intensified the political storm over Britain’s alleged complicity in torture by attacking the parliamentary intelligence and security committee (ISC) for failing in its remit as overseer of the security serv ...
  • Power of Abuse
    Naj:- The most newsworthy item of Friday’s 22 Bahman celebrations was Ahmadinejad’s speech (that is before evidence of torturing Karoubi’s 37 year old son were broadcast by his brave mother; who in a public letter to the supreme leader exposed the bruises of his naked son to the world; declaring wit ...

Booman Tribune

  • Serious Question
    When was the last time DSCC Chairman Bob Menendez produced encouraging news?
  • Tea Party to Meet with Mr. Steele
    What a scam the "Tea Party" movement is. Already this populist movement that supposedly opposes official Washington, bailouts (especially the bailout of Wall Street), government interference in their lives (i.e., the fear the guns might be taken away from them), and a re-birth of traditional Am ...
  • Casual Observation
    I am so tired of conservatives advising us not to emulate Europe. Yeah, maybe we do some things in a smarter way, but anyone who's traveled to Europe has been impressed by countless ways in which the Europeans do things smarter and enjoy a higher quality of life. Whether it is the exceptional beau ...
  • Unlearning Bad Habits
    Before the advent of the shot-clock in college basketball, it was possible to use the Four-Corners Offense to run out the clock when your team had the lead. Essentially, the point guard would bring the ball up the middle and the other four players would form a spread-out square. Then they would pl ...
  • Froggy Bottom Cafe

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Stealth mode
    Folks, I hope you’ll excuse the next couple of days being pretty quiet around these parts, but I’ve a whole raft of non-Futurismic work to get sorted this week, plus a few bits of housekeeping here as well… and dropping a few days worth of blogging will mean I can get everything done without the [.. ...
  • eBoot
    Does Not Equal is a webcomic by Sarah Ennals – check out the pre-Futurismic archives, and the strips that have been published here previously. [ Be sure to check out the Does Not Equal Cafepress store for webcomic merchandise featuring Canadians with geometrically-shaped heads! ] Project Wonderfu ...
  • 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 ...

Therapy News

  • In the Wake of Alabama Shooting, Princeton Calls f ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary As a recent editorial at Princeton University’s newspaper notes, the environment of academia can be extraordinarily difficult on one’s sense of well-being, and the strain and pressure aren’t limited to students. Faculty and staff may find themselves suffering from the ...
  • Childhood Trauma and the Mind-Body Connection for ...
    By Joyce A. Thompson, MS, LMFT, Abuse / Survivors of Abuse Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Joyce and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Trauma survivors often hear, “Just forget about it. It was in the past. You need to move on.” Unfortunately, this is not accurate for many and unt ...
  • Women’s Self-Esteem – The Key to Reducing Stress a ...
    By Darlene Lancer, MFT, Women’s Issues Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Darlene and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile In working with women for decades, I’ve found that self-esteem is the common denominator of many women’s issues. With better self-esteem, women are more able to fi ...
  • Self-Esteem and Assertiveness
    By Tina Gilbertson, MA, Self-Esteem Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Tina and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Does healthy self-esteem help with being assertive? You bet it does! To understand the reason for this, we need to know what we mean when we talk about being assertive. For ...
  • Why Should I See a Therapist? I’m Not Crazy – We J ...
    By Jennifer Harned Adams, Ph.D., Fertility Issues Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jennifer and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile When you and your partner decide to start a family, or to have another baby, it is an exciting time….until things don’t go as planned and it takes longer t ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Report: Mountaintop-removal damage outlives 'recla ...
    WVNS-TV Report: Mountaintop-removal damage outlives 'reclamation' Charleston Gazette Mountaintop-removal mining continues to damage the environment long after regulators sign off that mine sites have been properly reclaimed, according to a ... New GAO Report Examines Valley Fills State Journal all ...
  • W.Va. coal lobby airs EPA complaints to lawmakers ...
    W.Va. coal lobby airs EPA complaints to lawmakers BusinessWeek 1 mountaintop removal mine in Logan County. But association lobbyists told a special House committee that the ongoing "enhanced review" of 20 other permits ... and more��
  • Save Winter - Stop the Oil Sands - Huffington Post ...
    Save Winter - Stop the Oil Sands Huffington Post (blog) ... which creates lakes of toxic waste so large they can be seen from space (sounds like Canada's own version of mountaintop removal coal mining!). ... and more��
  • IU's ArtsWeek 2010 to present 'Standing Up for the ...
    Indiana University IU's ArtsWeek 2010 to present 'Standing Up for the Mountains,' 'Miami Made' Indiana University Howard was a co-author of Something's Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal and the editor of We All Live Downstream: Writings About Mountaintop ...
  • New releases - Cincinnati.com
    New releases Cincinnati.com A portion of the proceeds from the album, in stores today, benefits Appalachian Voices, which is devoted to ending mountaintop-removal coal mining. ... and more��

Memeorandum

  • What Will Bayh Do With $13 Million War Chest? No ...
    Greg Sargent / The Plum Line : What Will Bayh Do With $13 Million War Chest?  No Decision Yet, Spox Says   —  With national Dems scrambling to figure out a way forward in the wake of Evan Bayh's announced retirement, Dem party strategists are quietly beginning to ask a key question:  —  What will B ...
  • Winners and losers from Evan Bayh's retirement (Ch ...
    Chris Cillizza / The Fix : Winners and losers from Evan Bayh's retirement   —  Indiana Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh's decision not to run for re-election is a massive shock to the political system, the full ramifications of which won't be fully known for weeks or months.  —  But, Bayh's retirement di ...
  • Democrats Accused of "Empty Words" on Immigration ...
    Frank Sharry / The Huffington Post : Democrats Accused of “Empty Words” on Immigration   —  There's a very strong editorial today in La Opinion on the issue of immigration reform.  Translated, the title reads, “No More Empty Words.”  It lays responsibility for any inaction on immigration this Congr ...
  • Milbank writing Beck book: 'Tears of a Clown' (Mic ...
    Michael Calderone / Michael Calderone's Blog : Milbank writing Beck book: ‘Tears of a Clown’   —  Dana Milbank recently wrote how a Fox News star has really “captured the moment,” before posing the question: “Is Glenn Beck America?”  —  Milbank, who only had about 750 words to tackle that question ...
  • In Bid to Revive Nuclear Power, U.S. Is Backing Ne ...
    Matthew L. Wald / New York Times : In Bid to Revive Nuclear Power, U.S. Is Backing New Reactors   —  WASHINGTON — President Obama told an enthusiastic audience of union officials on Tuesday that the Energy Department had approved a loan guarantee intended to underwrite construction of two nuclear ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Strength in numbers
    Faith in international cooperation was severely dented at Copenhagen – but it is still our best bet for tackling global warming, argues Tan Copsey. The January 31 deadline set in Copenhagen for nations to submit national plans to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions to the United Nations under the newly ...
  • Copenhagen discord
    Eight weeks on from the climate summit, the agreement it produced – and the United Nations process itself – are under fire. Anna da Costa reports. A key deadline for countries to submit emission-reduction goals to the United Nations as part of the recently negotiated Copenhagen Accord passed on Sund ...
  • 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 ...

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Threat Level

  • Student’s Facebook Tirade Against Teacher Is Prote ...
    The score is 2-1 in favor of the First Amendment when it comes to three federal rulings this month on the limits of students’ online, off-campus speech. The latest ruling, which supports the student, concerned a former Florida high senior who was reprimanded for “cyberbullying” a teacher on Faceboo ...
  • ‘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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • UPDATE 1-Texas to challenge US greenhouse gas rule ...
    * EPA pursuing CO2 rules if Congress does not act (Adds byline, American Petroleum Institute petition, others)
  • Tests show King Tut died from malaria, study says
    CHICAGO (Reuters) - King Tutankhamen, the teen-aged pharaoh whose Egyptian tomb yielded dazzling treasures, limped around on tender bones and a club foot and probably died from malaria, researchers said on Tuesday.
  • "Love" hormone may help autism symptoms: study
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A hormone thought to encourage bonding between mothers and their babies may foster social behavior in some adults with autism, French researchers said on Monday.
  • Ahmadinejad not taking Clinton comments "seriously ...
    TEHRAN, Feb 16 (Reuters) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismissed on Tuesday U.S. accusations that Iran was moving toward a military dictatorship, saying the U.S. military budget was 80 times larger than that of the Islamic Republic.
  • Obama unveils plan to build nuclear plant
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama announced $8.3 billion in loan guarantees on Tuesday to build the first U.S. nuclear power plant in nearly three decades in a move designed to help advance climate legislation in Congress.

Equality Trust

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

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #0287
    India still trying to get access to Headley. Spanish double agent sentenced to 12 years.
  • CIA declassifies controversial submarine recovery ...
    I have written before about the CIA’s controversial 1974 project to recover a Soviet submarine that had sunk in 1968, in 17,000 feet of water, about 750 miles northwest of Hawaii. The project involved the infamous ship Hughes Glomar Explorer and was led by CIA agent Christopher Fitzgerald, who died ...
  • UK special forces chief trying to prevent book pub ...
    The director of Britain’s Special Forces is actively trying to stop the publication of a new book that sheds unprecedented light on the elite combat group’s operations in Iraq.
  • News you may have missed #0286 (Internet edition)
    Email trojan targeted at US .gov, .mil accounts. ACLU concerned about Google-NSA partnership. Analysis: Smuggling secret information through VOIP.
  • How many government informants are there in China?
    The interest of intelligence observers was stirred earlier this week by a rare revelation made by a Chinese regional police official, who said that his bureau employs one in every 33 local residents as an informant.

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Grist - News

  • ConocoPhillips, BP America, and Caterpillar quit c ...
    by Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON -- Three major U.S. companies said Tuesday they were leaving a coalition pushing for action on climate change, dealing a potential fresh blow to landmark legislation to cut carbon emissions. The companies -- oil groups ConocoPhillips and BP America and equipme ...
  • Is the Copenhagen Accord already dead?
    by Agence France-Presse PARIS -- Less than two months after it was hastily drafted to stave off a fiasco, the Copenhagen Accord on climate change is floundering, and some are already saying it has no future. The deal was crafted amid chaos by a small group of countries, led by the United States ...
  • What might Sen. Evan Bayh’s retirement mean ...
    by Joseph Romm Sen. Evan Bayh Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh will not seek re-election this year, a decision that hands Republicans a prime pickup opportunity in the middle of the country. “After all these years, my passion for service to my fellow citizens is undiminished, but my desire to do so by se ...
  • Bill Gates talks climate change and high-tech nucl ...
    by Agence France-Presse Bill GatesPhoto: magnifynet LONG BEACH, Calif. - Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates on Friday strayed from his philanthropic focus on fighting poverty and disease to address another threat to the world's poor -- climate change. "Energy and climate are extremely important to ...
  • 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 ...

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Washington Independent

  • The CPAC Presidential Straw Poll
    Matt Lewis has the latest edition of the presidential straw poll to be distributed later this week to paying attendees of the annual CPAC conference. In presidential years, candidates often buy tickets for supporters in order to help them win these polls. Not coincidentally, the 2007, 2008, and 2009 ...
  • What Happens Now in Indiana’s Senate Race?
    Today’s noon filing deadline to run for U.S. Senate in Indiana came and went. And thanks to Sen. Evan Bayh’s (D-Ind.) last-minute retirement announcement, no Democrat appears to have qualified to run in his absence. So what happens now? Bayh gave would-be successors virtually no time to gather the n ...
  • Pentagon Hires Public-Diplomacy Veteran
    Forgive me if this reads like I’m greasing a source, but as part of the holds on administration appointees released by Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) last week, Douglas Wilson became the Pentagon’s new assistant secretary for public affairs. Why’s that significant? Because at a time when global skepti ...
  • China Dumped U.S. Treasuries Long Before Taiwan Ar ...
    Stop worrying about a massive Treasury sell-off by China. They already did that, and you didn't even notice.
  • The Power of Sarah Palin’s Hand
    There’s a little humor here, but overall I’d say this ad by Tennessee congressional candidate Donn Janes (”I will vehemently oppose any measure giving another country, the United Nations or any other entity power over U.S. citizens”) demonstrates how, among conservative activists, Sarah Palin can do ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

  • Change, They Say, Is Good. But Is It?
    It's said that Alexander the Great wept when he realised there were no more lands left for him to conquer. In other words, there was nothing new to challenge him; there was no raison d'être. It's a laughable thought today, isn't it? Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture ...
  • Teacher breaks 4th grader’s arm for ‘forgetting Iq ...
    LAHORE: A female teacher of a private school thrashed Muhammad Jahanzeb, a fourth grade student when he was unable to explain a poem by Allama Iqbal, causing multiple fractures in his arm. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Will Whole Foods’ new mobile slaughterhouses squee ...
    Massachusetts poultry farmer Jennifer Hashley has a problem. From the moment she started raising pastured chickens outside Concord, Mass. in 2002, there was, as she put it “nowhere to go to get them processed.” While she had the option of slaughtering her Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to ...
  • Cow beaten to death with plank
    A farmer has condemned an attack in which a cow died after being repeatedly beaten around the head with a 4ft plank of wood. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • ND food pantries reach halfway goal of 700 deer
    A North Dakota program that distributes venison to the needy is halfway to its goal of collecting 700 deer carcasses despite a hunting season that barely got off with a bang. "I was a little worried about the hunting season," said Ann Pollert, Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society ...

Suzie-Q

  • Glenn Beck Loses 103 Sponsors On His UK TV Broadca ...
    Beck loses 103 sponsors as his UK television broadcast runs for five days straight without any ads. Think Progress– By Amanda Terkel at 5:01 pm Today, Color of Change and StopBeck.com announced that the United Kingdom has forcefully rejected Fox News host Glenn Beck. In fact, the UK broadcast of h ...
  • First Nuclear Plant In U.S. In Nearly Three Decade ...
    Obama Nuclear Plant: President To Announce Loan Guarantee For More Than $8 Billion JULIE PACE | 02/16/10 11:57 AM | LANHAM, Md. — Promising “this is only the beginning,” President Barack Obama announced more than $8 billion in federal loan guarantees Tuesday for the construction of ...
  • Maddow Calls Out Schock’s Spending Hypocrisy ...
    Rachel Maddow Stuns Rep. Aaron Schock By Calling Out His Spending Hypocrisy (VIDEO) Huff Po– Sam Stein-  First Posted: 02-14-10 12:33 PM   |   Updated: 02-15-10 10:36 AM A heated exchange took place during NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday when MSNBC host Rachel Maddow accused Rep. Aaron Sch ...
  • Greenspan And Paulson: Pure Hypocrites On Bush Tax ...
    Calling out Greenspan and Paulson for Pure Hypocrisy on Bush Tax Cuts vs. Deficits Crooks & Liars– By bluegal Monday Feb 15, 2010 8:00am I still can’t understand why David Gregory has a job, when it takes another reporter from another network to show the hypocrisy Gregory’s own guests are display ...
  • Biden Slams Cheney On ‘Meet The Press’ ...
    Joe Biden Tears Into Dick Cheney On ‘Meet The Press’ (VIDEO) Huff Po– First Posted: 02-14-10 02:05 AM   |   Updated: 02-14-10 10:32 AM UPDATE, 10:15 AM ET: See details from Cheney’s interview below. In a much-anticipated Sunday showdown between Vice President Joe Biden and his predecessor Di ...

Solari

  • Algae to Solve Pentagon’s Jet Fuel Problem
    By Suzanne Goldenberg The brains trust of the Pentagon says it is just months away from producing a jet fuel from algae for the same cost as its fossil-fuel equivalent. The claim, which comes from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) that helped to develop the internet and satellit ...
  • Quote du Jour
  • FDA Invades Non-Commercial Amish
    Kinzers, PA – At 9:40 a.m. Thursday, February 4, only a few miles from the scene of the Nickel Mines Amish massacre of 2006, another drama against the Amish began as agents of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) came onto the property of Amish farmer Dan Allgyer, without permission, claimin ...
  • The Financial Crisis in Greece
    Greece is the Word FOFA (12 Feb 2010) What is John Paulson Doing in Greece? LittleSys Blog (15 Feb 10) EU Seeks Greek Swaps Disclosure After Ministry Probe Bloomberg.com (15 Feb 10) Markets Give Greece Respite On Aid Hopes Reuters (10 Feb 10) Germany Backs Bailout For Greece As EU Seeks Expanded Po ...
  • Permaculture School Garden in Jordan’s Dead ...
    With Geoff Lawton Also see previous blog post: Greening the Desert

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

  • Boiler Scrappage Scheme proves popular
    The government's Boiler Scrappage Scheme has proved popular, with people across the UK snapping up 54,758 of the campaign's vouchers, it has been announced.
  • Prime Minister’s tears: a sign of the times?
    Gordon Brown, often appearing impassive, gave a rare show of emotion on monday night in an interview with Piers Morgan. The PM, asked about the death of his daughter Jennifer, welled up. A normal reaction, one would think, but the media instantly debated the public tears from an otherwise taciturn B ...
  • Saliva DNA could show genetic diseases
    A saliva-based DNA test may be the key to pinpointing whether a patient is likely to develop life-threatening inherited diseases, according to researchers. Scientists at the University of Edinburgh are developing a quick, cheap test using saliva to identify tiny variations at critical points in the ...
  • Giving it 10%
    From organising a charitable direct debit in a matter of minutes to surfing via www.everyclick.com , the free-to-use search engine that hands over half its proceeds to charity, in many ways it’s never been easier to give.
  • Two 'extinct' species found
    Two species which were previously thought to be extinct have been spotted at a former shooting estate in Scotland. A rare mining bee which has not been seen since 1949 and the golden horsefly, which has only been spotted once in the past 87 years, have both been sighted at the Dundreggan Estate , al ...

Fabius Maximus

  • About condition of the US economy. Where we are, ...
    As I have said since the beginning, this downturn is a journey beyond the limits of conventional economic theory.  Beyond the known space of modern economic history.  This marks the end of the post-WWII era, and the global financial regime which one of its supporting pillars.   To see this, obscured ...
  • Where to go to learn the basics about economics
    Current events have increased the already severe politicization economics.  Both right and left deploy economists to win support for political policies by indoctrinating partisans in bastardized faux-economics.  Behind there are serious debates among different schools of economics, but the differenc ...
  • Our government does torture, but it is just like t ...
    Summary:  one measure of the magnitude of our governments’ deeds is the size of the lies necessary for their apologists to justify them.  Just as our assassination programs are described as “killing on the battlefield”, they describe our torture programs as no big deal.   How would the Nure ...
  • FM newswire for 15 February, articles for your mor ...
    Today’s links to interesting news and analysis, collected from around the Internet.  If you find this useful, pass it to a friend or colleague. Wasn’t this obvious during the election?  “Barack Obama and The Parallel to Jimmy Carter“, Jim Merriner, Chicago Daily Observer, 24 March 2009 Provoca ...
  • No significant warming since 1995
    More fruits from ClimateGate, the glasnost in climate science following the liberation of many emails and documents from the UK’s Climate Research Unit. “Q&A: Professor Phil Jones“, BBC, 13 February 2010 –BBC’s environment analyst Roger Harrabin intereviews Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Resea ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Driving Distracts Cellphone Users
    Cellphone conversations don’t just interfere with driving. Driving dents the capacity to describe and remember cellphone messages, at least for some of the youngest and oldest drivers, a new study finds. Routine driving impedes a person’s ability to relay information from a cellphone call accuratel ...
  • New Lasers Fight Crime, Martians
    A new technique that uses a laser to vaporize materials like rocks and steel to analyze their chemical composition is finding new applications from Mars to forensics. digg_url ="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/02/lasers-fight-crime/"; Thanks to its relatively small size and low cost, laser-i ...
  • New Chemical Diversity Discovered in Old Meteorite
    A new analysis of an ancient meteorite that fell to Earth in 1969 reveals millions of complex compounds, underscoring the richness of our galaxy’s primordial soup. More than 200 pounds of the meteorite were recovered from its crash site in Murchison, Australia in 1969. Subsequent analysis classifie ...
  • $100 DIY Shelter Could Help Homeless Haitians
    With just $100 worth of plywood and screws, almost anyone can build a shelter known as a Hexayurt that can last three years and possibly even withstand a hurricane. The simple DIY structure could be a critical temporary solution for some of the estimated 1 million or more people left homeless in qu ...
  • New Close-Ups of Saturn’s Moons Mimas and Calypso
    > NASA’s Cassini spacecraft took a swing by Saturn’s moons Mimas and Calypso over the weekend and sent back some fantastic shots released today. Mimas is the 20th in size of Saturn’s 62 moons with a diameter of about 246 miles, and it may be the smallest body in the solar [... ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Off-the-Radar News Roundup
    - Pakistan's foreign minister will visit China next week in the run-up to scheduled talks at the foreign secretary level with India. Meanwhile, Pakistan's prime minister offered to step up intelligence cooperation with India, after a meeting with Sen. John Kerry. - China announced plans to invest $1 ...
  • On the Relevance of the State of Mind of Antiwar A ...
    While Andrew Sullivan  laments that Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett might be correct in their analysis of the strength and resilience of the Iranian regime vis-a-vis the Green movement, Sullivan nevertheless accuses the pair of being ”gleeful” in tone while mustering evidence of the soundness of the ...
  • Pride: In the Name of Love
    While Andrew Sullivan  laments that Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett might be correct in their analysis of the strength and resilience of the Iranian regime vis-a-vis the Green movement, Sullivan nevertheless accuses the pair of being ”gleeful” in tone while mustering evidence of the soundness of the ...
  • Sea Changes Don't Just Happen Overnight
    Or at least in the case of Mullah Baradar they don't. So far, analysis I’ve seen on the stunning capture of Taliban commander Mullah Baradar ( here , here and here ) has largely focused on the implications for U.S. operations in Afghanistan.  But the capture is potentially just as significant beca ...
  • Gas Sanctions Would Hurt Goal of Targeting Iran’s ...
    Given David Frum’s role as a key ideological architect of the Bush administration’s “global war on terror,” it’s great that he recognizes that air strikes on Iran are a bad idea with lots of unforeseeable consequences . It’s unfortunate, however, that he seems to have bought the hype on gas sanctio ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: Is Our Senators Governing?
    I'm of the opinion that while Evan Bayh provided a crucial vote on the two biggest accomplishments of the 111th Congress extant (the stimulus and health care -- pending completion of a lengthy game of 11-dimensional chess), he was only a crucial vote because the game is now "majority rule = 60 perc ...
  • Evan Bulworth?
    Tim already� brought up James Fallows ' take on Evan Bayh , but I just want to highlight the point that Bayh should just let it all hang out: Unlike everyone else up for election this year, you don't have to worry how this or that bout of truth-telling will look on Election Day. Let 'em bitch! You ...
  • Maybe It's Better Beau Didn't Run ...
    Chris Cilizza observes that Sen. Evan Bayh's petulant retreat cost the country another senator whose father also served in the upper chamber. With Chris Dodd's decision to retire, only Lisa Murkoswki , Bob Bennett and Mark Pryor remain as legacy legislators. Given that of the five, only Dodd has dis ...
  • The Little Picture: Pastime.
    The Morris Brown College baseball team stands in front of a door in Atlanta, Georgia, some time between 1899 and 1900. (Flickr/ Library of Congress )
  • Liberals Didn't Get Much In 2009.
    Matthew Yglesias makes a list of things progressives wanted and didn't get last year, pointing out that the agenda has been set by finicky centrists, not raging liberals: — A $1.2 trillion stimulus. — The forcible breakup of large banks. — Universal health care with a public option linked to Medi ...

Andy Worthington

  • Sunday Times misrepresents views of Amnesty’s Sam ...
    As part of the Times’ and Sunday Times’ ongoing witch-hunt of former Guantánamo prisoner Moazzam Begg and Cageprisoners (the organization of which he is the director), Margarette Driscoll wrote an uncritical article on Sunday about Gita Sahgal, the head of Amnesty’s Gender Unit, who started the ball ...
  • Binyam Mohamed on Omar Khadr: A Scapegoat for a Fa ...
    Last week, while the UK Court of Appeal was shining a spotlight on the case of Binyam Mohamed, ordering details of his torture by US agents to be revealed to the public, Binyam himself — a British resident, subjected to “extraordinary rendition” and torture, who was released from Guantánamo las ...
  • Moazzam Begg’s dignified explanation of why he is ...
    This evening, Amnesty International is screening “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” the new documentary, directed by Polly Nash and myself, which tells the story of the Bush administration’s despicable post-9/11 flight from the law through interviews with former prisoners Omar Deghayes and ...
  • “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”: UK tou ...
    Throughout 2010, former Guantánamo prisoner Omar Deghayes and Andy Worthington, journalist and author of The Guantánamo Files, will be touring the UK, showing the new Guantánamo documentary “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” and attending post-screening Q&A sessions. On some dates, Omar, wh ...
  • Andy Worthington Discusses Torture on BBC1’s “The ...
    Yesterday, I took part in “The Big Questions” with Nicky Campbell on BBC1 (available on iPlayer here for the next week). The bi-weekly discussion show, which tours the country and covers three topics each fortnight, alighted on a Christian school in York on Sunday, and featured around a dozen “exper ...

Buzzflash

  • Let's Cut to the Chase: Dick Cheney is an S.O.B. a ...
    BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY A reader sent this e-mail�regarding Cheney's Valentine's Day appearance on ABC. BuzzFlash is reposting it unedited, as we will do from time to time: BuzzFlash, when dick cheney is out there saying obama is putting our country at risk and doesn't know what he is doing..... ...
  • Obama is no Caesar, but Brutuses abound
    Body One can always tell when a national election is looming: the circumference of Democrats' circular firing squad suddenly balloons, and anonymous sources -- pure as the politically driven snow, each and every infallible one of them -- start blasting away. Or perhaps this metaphor i ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • FOX’s Aversion to Education: Tucker Carlson Fears ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT by Jeffrey Joseph Certain FOX hosts like to preach to their audience that each viewer should look for the facts to dispute their presentation of the news, but the obvious bias on FOX long suggested that the network used the call as means of fooling its audiences. Now that they h ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • Dick Cheney's taunting
    (updated below) Dick Cheney went on ABC�News this weekend and boasted of the role he played in ordering the waterboarding of detainees. �Andrew Sullivan has written several posts accurately describing this statement as a "confession of committing a war crime on national television."� Harp ...
  • The Joys of Pragmatism
    The New Yorker , February 23, 2009 : "It’s possible but hard to imagine Barack Obama as the first President of the United States to introduce a preventive-detention law ," [White House counsel Greg] Craig said. "Our presumption is that there is no need to create a whole new system." The ...
  • A profile in cowardice
    From The Associated Press, today :  " Spain said Monday it was willing to take in five inmates from the American prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, three more than it had announced last month."   Previously :  similar agreements to accept our Guantanamo prisoners were entered into by the EU , Italy , ...
  • The all-powerful Lindsey Graham must not be disple ...
    (updated below) Two weeks ago, The New Yorker 's Jane Mayer, citing anonymous sources, reported that Rahm Emanuel vehemently opposed Eric Holder's decision to try the accused 9/11 defendants in a civilian court.  Mayer quoted her source explaining that Emanuel was particularly worried abo ...
  • Our human rights v. The Others
    Ten � American�Baptists were arrested two weeks ago in Haiti on charges that they exploited the chaos in that country by attempting to smuggle 33 young Haitian children across the border without permission -- either to bring them to a life of Christianity or (as some evidence suggests )�to filter ...

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Prostate problem probed
    Pinpointing prostate problems – The chemical cousin of magnetic resonance imaging, MR spectroscopy, could be used to pinpoint the exact location of prostate cancers and to determine the aggressiveness of a tumour without major surgical intervention, according to research published in the journal Sc ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • A Dozen Nonpartisan Good Government Fixes Congress ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 16, 2010 POGO The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is submitting to Congress a number of actions it should take that would fix many of the systemic problems that have long plagued the federal government and that spurred POGO's creation 29 years ago. POGO submitte ...
  • The Recovery Act at One Year: New Jobs Data Show G ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 16, 2010 US PIRG Through the end of 2010, stimulus investments in public transportation have created almost twice as many jobs per dollar as highway spending - and the advantage is growing. read more
  • ACLU To Discuss Protecting Whistleblowers At Anyon ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 16, 2010 ACLU Michael German, American Civil Liberties Union Policy Counsel and former FBI Special Agent, will join elected officials, policy experts, celebrities and former whistleblowers in Anyone Can Whistle, an evening focusing on the role whistleblowers play in Am ...
  • Brownbagger Vigils Against War Funding in 60 Congr ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 16, 2010 Progress Democrats of America (PDA) Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) organized "brown bag" lunch vigils against war funding at noon on Wednesday, January 20th, at the 
district offices of 22 members of the U.S. House of Representatives. read more
  • Beyond Nuclear Denounces President Obama’s Decisio ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 16, 2010 Beyond Nuclear Beyond Nuclear today denounced President Obama’s granting of a conditional loan guarantee to Southern Nuclear Operating Company for the construction of new atomic reactors at its Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant site in Waynesboro, Georgia. Two new We ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Corporate Death Squads Come Back to Haunt U.S. Com ...
    by Charlie Cray A federal judge recently refused to dismiss a civil suit filed against Chiquita which charges that the company paid leftist (FARC) guerrillas operating near its plantations in Columbia -- during a period when the FARC killed four American missionaries, according to CNN . read more
  • Obama and the 'Savvy' Bankers
    by Dean Baker Last week, when President Obama was asked about the $9m dollar bonus for Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, he described Blankfein as a savvy businessman , adding that Americans don't begrudge people being rewarded for success. read more
  • Does the President's 'Clean Coal' Glibness Turn Am ...
    by Jeff Biggers No American leader has done more to advance a clean energy future than President Obama. Nor has any American president done more to invoke a mandate for stricter workplace safety and environmental regulations. And yet, ever since President Obama first visited my native southern Illin ...
  • Nukes Aren’t the Answer
    by Robert Alvarez When President Obama rolled out his proposed budget to Congress for the coming year, he said it would build “on the largest investment in clean energy in history.” But Obama’s definition of “clean energy” includes a commitment to help companies garner billions of dollars in loans f ...
  • The Information Super-Sewer
    by Chris Hedges The Internet has become one more tool hijacked by corporate interests to accelerate our cultural, political and economic decline. The great promise of the Internet, to open up dialogue, break down cultural barriers, promote democracy and unleash innovation and creativity, has been ex ...

Karl Burkart

  • 2nd step to save the world: Wear condoms
    EndangeredSpeciesCondoms.com is hoping to encourage birth control as a means to slow extinction rates of thousands of animal species.
  • Nuclear power, strike 2
    Even Wall Street won't touch nuclear because it is too financially risky. At least 1 out of 2 nuclear plants will fail, leaving taxpayers with the burden of debt.
  • Nuclear power, strike 3
    Nuclear power demands huge quantities of water (43,000 gallons per megawatt-hour) making it an unlikely candidate for our water-constrained future.
  • Nuclear power, strike 1
    Two recent nuclear leaks expose the dangers of overhyping a technology that is still not ready for prime time.
  • Bill Gates unleashes fireflies on audience
    After years of putting climate change on the back burner, the world's richest philanthropist announces that climate is our #1 issue.

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Dubai killers stole identities of UK citizens
    Real British nationals named among suspects deny role in murder of Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh A hit squad that murdered a senior Hamas official in Dubai used the stolen identities of six British citizens and faked at least five other European passports, it emerged today. The international inv ...
  • First nine months shape child's life
    Study of 15,000 children finds significant correlation between performance at nine months and five years Children who do not reach key developmental milestones at just nine months old are far more likely to struggle at school, according to an important study published today. The Millennium Cohort St ...
  • 'Extreme distress' felt in Yarl's Wood
    Children's commissioner highlights concerns over a failure to assess psychological wellbeing of the 1,000 children held in the Yarl's Wood centre each year Children held at an immigration detention centre face "extremely distressing" arrest and transportation procedures, and are subjected to prolong ...
  • Friendly fire probe into soldier death
    Kingsman Sean Dawson, who died from a gunshot on Sunday in Helmand, may have been hit by mistake by an Afghan soldier An investigation is being conducted into whether a British soldier killed by a gunshot in southern Afghanistan died as a result of friendly fire, the Ministry of Defence said today. ...
  • Lady Gaga scoops hat-trick of prizes
    • In pictures: this year's winners • Brit awards 2010: as it happened Three Brits for flamboyant singer Lady Gaga to Lily Allen's one while Oasis and the Spice Girls also win in eclectic awards show For three decades, the Brit awards have entertained the masses with fluffs, gaffes, pranks and waggl ...

McClatchey

  • Mullen finds little resistance among soldiers to g ...
    AMMAN, Jordan — Navy Adm. Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was nearing the end of a 25-minute question and answer session with troops serving here when he raised a topic of his own: "No one's asked me about 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,'" he said.
  • Obama grants loan guarantee to build new nuclear r ...
    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced his administration's first nuclear energy loan guarantee — $8.33 billion to build the first new U.S. reactors in nearly 30 years.
  • Obama sidesteps Congress to create bipartisan debt ...
    WASHINGTON — University of North Carolina President Erskine Bowles, a Democrat, and former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson, a Republican, will lead a bipartisan commission to recommend ways to rein in the nation's escalating federal debt under an executive order that President Barack Obama plans to sign o ...
  • Arrest of No. 2 may throw Taliban, peace talks int ...
    KABUL — The arrest of the second-ranking Taliban leader last week in Pakistan is likely to throw the Islamist movement into disarray and disrupt the Taliban military campaign, and it could mark a strategic U-turn for the government in Islamabad, former Taliban and Western analysts said Tuesday.
  • Will health savings go to reduce deficit rather th ...
    WASHINGTON — In their effort to overhaul the health care system, President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats pressed hospitals, drug makers and other providers to accept billions of dollars in government payment cuts and new fees to help finance the legislation.

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

Futurismic

  • Stealth mode
    Folks, I hope you’ll excuse the next couple of days being pretty quiet around these parts, but I’ve a whole raft of non-Futurismic work to get sorted this week, plus a few bits of housekeeping here as well… and dropping a few days worth of blogging will mean I can get everything done without the [.. ...
  • eBoot
    Does Not Equal is a webcomic by Sarah Ennals – check out the pre-Futurismic archives, and the strips that have been published here previously. [ Be sure to check out the Does Not Equal Cafepress store for webcomic merchandise featuring Canadians with geometrically-shaped heads! ] Project Wonderfu ...
  • 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 ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Business ethics class asks about whistleblowing
    I had the pleasure this evening of speaking to Prof. Jane Uebelhoer's business ethics class at Marymount University in Ballston, Virginia, this evening.� The class was inquisitive, and we had a wide ranging discussion about the history of whistleblower protections, current controversies and the need ...
  • Whistleblower faces tax penalty for misreporting q ...
    Albert D. Campbell worked for Lockheed Martin from 1981 to 1995. He worked as a financial analyst, and was promoted in 1989 to chief of cost control for the $3.5 billion LANTIRN project. The LANTIRN project built navigation and targeting pods for fighter jets. Between 1993 and 1995, Campbell used so ...
  • Whistleblowing nurse Anne Mitchell acquitted in Te ...
    A jury in Andrews, Texas, has acquitted an experienced nurse of charges that she misused official information when she sent an anonymous letter to a state medical board to complain about a doctor's malpractice.  Anne Mitchell had been a nurse at the Winkler County Memorial Hospital for 25 years. In ...
  • Sen. Grassley proposes FCA fixes
    Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) has introduced a bill that will make changes to the False Claims Act (FCA) in response to court decisions that limited the rights of whistleblowers.� The main features of S. 2964 (introduced January 28, 2010) would add administrative procedures designed to make it more ...
  • Fraud up; SEC enforcement up; need for whistleblow ...
    The LA Times reported last week on a series of trends in securities fraud. The $65 billion lost in the Madoff scandal highlights the huge losses millions of investors suffer as a result of corporate fraud.� Meanwhile, the new enforcement chief at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reports ...

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

  • Toronto budget hands over $1.3 billion to social s ...
    The 2010 budget was announced on Tuesday. Some media in the city are upset with the amount that is going to the city's homeless. With the growing cost to Toronto's population due to the recession these funds are needed.
  • Canada announces new mortgage rules
    The Canadian government has introduced new rules governing mortgages in an effort to keep home-buyers from being harmed when mortgage rates increase.
  • Where have all the Haitian donations gone?
    The devastating earthquake that killed an estimated 250,000, and displaced at least 1 million people in Haiti prompted an outpouring of generosity from people and businesses around the world.
  • Quantum computing: breakthrough in electron altera ...
    Princeton University -- A researcher has discovered a method in altering a single electron without disturbing the trillions of electrons surrounding it. This discovery is a quantum leap forward in the future of computing.
  • Nova Scotia to raise minimum wage
    Nova Scotians currently being paid minimum wage will get a raise on April 1. The move is in line with Nova Scotia's ongoing Poverty Reduction Strategy that was put in place in 2009. Nova Scotia is an eastern province in Canada.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Nearly Half of Street Homeless At Risk of Death
    Just as we are not all equally at risk of homelessness , those experiencing homelessness are not all equally at risk of death. A New York non-profit organization, Common Ground , has pioneered the use of a survey instrument called the Vulnerability Index to help communities identify who amongst thei ...
  • It's Illegal to Be Homeless on Venice Beach After ...
    "Police on horseback and in sport utility vehicles swept across Venice Beach in the darkness Friday morning, arresting nearly 50 people," the Los Angeles Times reports . Were the police closing in on some of America's most wanted? A traveling band of marauders? A human trafficking ring? No, just a g ...
  • Keeping the Faith for Recovery When No One Else Wi ...
    Up to 25 percent of those suffering homelessness are also suffering a severe and persistent mental illness. Mental illness alone is the third leading cause of homelessness in the United States. Half of the homeless who are suffering from mental illnesses also suffer from co-occurring drug and/or al ...
  • Keeping the Faith When No One Else Will
    20 to 25 percent of those suffering homelessness are also suffering a severe and persistent mental illness. This is the third leading cause of homelessness in the United States. Half of the homeless who are suffering from mental illnesses also suffer from co-occurring drug and/or alcohol addictions ...
  • Ft. Lauderdale Officials Want to Stop Public Feedi ...
    Ft. Lauderdale may be known as a prime spring break destination, but many locals fear that if something isn't done to quell (or at least hide) a swelling homeless population, the beachside city will get a bad reputation. The consensus among downtown business owners is that meal distribution by non-p ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • 850 additional German troops to be deployed to Afg ...
    As promised by German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the recent London Conference on Afghanistan, the German cabinet has approved the deployment 850 additional German soldiers to Afghanistan (”The German cabinet approves deployment of an extra 850 soldiers to Afghanistan,” Deutsche-Welle, 9 February ...
  • Stable opium cultivation predicted in Afghanistan
    The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) predicts that the number of hectares used for opium cultivation in Afghanistan will remain stable in 2010, but that the number of tonnes produced may decline. The prediction was made in Afghanistan Opium Survey 2010: Winter Rapid Assessment, released on 10 Fe ...
  • 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 ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Attorney Jacob Hafter
    Click the picture or link below to hear Kevin’s interview with Jacob Hafter, the attorney in the case to get HCG legalized in the State of Nevada and click here for more information on Mr. Hafter’s run for Nevada’s Attorney General.     Jacob Hafter 02/16/10
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 2-16-10
    Today, Kevin explains why the government and media are tuning in specifically for this broadcast! Plus, get out a pen and paper! Kevin exposes top secret predictions that will help you get ready for the worst! And Jacob Hafter, the attorney in the case to get HCG legalized in the State of Nevada, st ...
  • Can Healthy Eating Be a Disorder?
    February 15, 2010 Time By Bonnie Rochman Kristie Rutzel was in high school when she began adhering precisely to the government food pyramids. As the Virginia native learned more about healthy eating, she stopped ingesting anything processed, then restricted herself to whole foods and eventually to 1 ...
  • Breast Cancer Fears Grow Around Household Cleaners
    February 15, 2010 Daily Finance By Alex Selkever That fresh clean smell that American’s love may be boosting cases of breast cancer in the U.S.– and possibly even causing breast cancer in young children, let alone their moms. Doctors and environmental scientists are growing more concerned that chemi ...
  • Foreclosures Reach 315,000 in January
    February 15, 2010 Google By Adrain Sainz The number of U.S. households facing foreclosure in January increased 15 percent from the same month last year, and a surge in cash-strapped homeowners who’ve fallen behind on mortgages could be on the way. More than 315,000 households received a foreclosure- ...

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

  • British officials say Mossad murdered Hamas comman ...
    If the investigation into the murder of the Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai on January 20, establishes that it was carried out by the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad, Dubai police have said they will issue an arrest warrant for the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. While t ...
  • Is Obama’s national security adviser out of the lo ...
    It could simply be Gen James Jones’ unassuming manner, but President Obama’s national security adviser certainly sounds and looks disengaged. He’s like a retired executive who got called up to fill-in during a protracted search for a permanent replacement. A week ago, Peter Feaver noted that a Fina ...
  • Dubai murder increasingly looks like intel operati ...
    Dubai police have released the passport photographs of 11 suspects linked to the murder of Mahmoud al Mabhouh, a Hamas leader who was found dead in his hotel room in Dubai on January 20. All the suspects carried European passports. There’s no conclusive proof yet that this was a Mossad operation but ...
  • Goldman Sachs poses a threat to the world’s financ ...
    A couple of weeks ago I noted that Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs, seems to meet the CIA’s requirements when it selects targets for drone attacks. If it is determined on the basis of current intelligence that such an individual poses “a continuing threat to US persons or interests” th ...
  • This is not a national emergency
    Tom Engelhardt writes: Let me put American life in the Age of Terror into some kind of context, and then tell me you’re not ready to get on the nearest plane heading anywhere, even toward Yemen. In 2008, 14,180 Americans were murdered, according to the FBI. In that year, there were 34,017 fatal v ...

Watts Up With That?

  • One more thing to worry about – fog shortage
    From the University of California – Berkeley via Eurekalert: Fog has declined in past century along California’s redwood coast Analysis of hourly airport cloud cover reports leads to surprising finding California’s coastal fog has decreased significantly over the past 100 years, potentially endang ...
  • Jones may submit a correction to his 1990 paper &# ...
    Excerpt from the Nature article here Central to the Russell investigation is the issue of whether he or his CRU colleagues ever published data that they knew were potentially flawed, in order to bolster the evidence for man-made global warming. The claim specifically relates to one of Jones’s res ...
  • Global Warming in Texas
    Guest post by Steven Goddard http://www.dontmesswithtexas.org/ Dallas, Texas broke their all time record snowfall record this week.  How does this compare with earlier Februaries in Texas?  February can be a very warm month in Texas.  San Antonio hit 100 degrees on February 21, 1996. December and ...
  • IPCC Gate Du Jour – now IPCC hurricane data ...
    Now IPCC hurricane data is questioned Open science: Got Excel? Debunk this By Andrew Orlowski The Register Above: Hurricane ACE data from Ryan Maue. Note where 2009 is in the scheme of things. More here. More trouble looms for the IPCC. The body may need to revise statements made in its Fourth Ass ...
  • Paleo tagging past climate sensitivity
    I find this paper (PDF) interesting, but it still does not address the temperature/CO2 800 year time lag seen in ice core records. h/t to Leif Svalgaard – Anthony Fossil soils constrain ancient climate sensitivity Dana L. Royer 1 Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Wesleyan University, M ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Joe Sacco: Footnotes in Gaza + Footnotes to a forg ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Warning This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience. by pdxjustice Media Productions Award winning journalist and cartoonist, Joe Sacco, talks about his latest book, FOOTNOTES I ...
  • The Media Response to the Growing Influence of the ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Elizabeth Woodworth Global Research, February 15, 2010 Part I: The Media Response to the Growing Influence of the 9/11 Truth Movement Part II: A Survey of Attitude Change in 2009-2010 Abstract In the past year, in response to emerging independent science ...
  • World Economic Crisis: Latvia’s Neoliberal Madness ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Prof Michael Hudson and Prof. Jeff Sommers Global Research, February 15, 2010 While most of the world’s press focuses on Greece (and also Spain, Ireland and Portugal) as the most troubled euro-areas, the much more severe, more devastating and downright d ...
  • US army chief: We are obligated to make sure that ...
    Propaganda Alert compiled by Cem Ertür Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 15 February 2010 “We, all of us, are obligated to make sure that such terrible events [i.e. the Holocaust] will never happen again.” [US army chief Michael Mullen, speech at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, Jeru ...
  • “Libertarian” capitalism’s corpo ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ mr1001nights February 13, 2010 Why would big corporate interests sponsor an ideology that supposedly undermines their power? Could it be that the ideology of “libertarian” capitalism supports the status quo (or an even worse corporate one)? This section of An A ...

Your New Reality

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    From the New Yorker,13 stories by JD Salinger : “ A Perfect Day for Bannanafish ” (January 31, 1948) “ Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut ” (March 20, 1948) “ Just Before the War with the Eskimos ” (June 5, 1948) “ The Laughing Man ” (March 19, 1949) “ For Esmé—With Love and Squalor ” (April 8, 1950) ...
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    Newsweek Forgot The Conspiracy They Were An Active Part Of : To Lie America Into The Iraq War In a fairly weak piece of clickbait (and the mainstream media knows 'conspiracy theories' are click magnets), Newsweek lists the following as "hip, trendy, least likely fringe beliefs" : * Obama Is A Secre ...
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    American Soldiers In Iraq Use Slayer To Engage A "Predator Mindset" The UK Guardian on the soundtrack of war for Generation Y soldiers in Iraq : A musicologist, Pieslak discusses why these songs triggered a "mental transformation". He analyses Slayer's guitar-drum barrage, and the pre­fabricated ni ...
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    100 Years Of Visual Effects In Five Minutes. Cinemafastique! (Via The Drum )
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    This Story About The Flying Killer Robots Vs Terrorists War Has Been Endorsed By The White House By Darryl Mason The White House on Twitter has about 1.7 million followers. White House postings on Twitter are often 'retweeted' by hundreds, sometimes thousands, of followers. If the White House want ...

Wired - Science

  • Driving Distracts Cellphone Users
    Cellphone conversations don’t just interfere with driving. Driving dents the capacity to describe and remember cellphone messages, at least for some of the youngest and oldest drivers, a new study finds. Routine driving impedes a person’s ability to relay information from a cellphone call accuratel ...
  • New Lasers Fight Crime, Martians
    A new technique that uses a laser to vaporize materials like rocks and steel to analyze their chemical composition is finding new applications from Mars to forensics. digg_url ="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/02/lasers-fight-crime/"; Thanks to its relatively small size and low cost, laser-i ...
  • New Chemical Diversity Discovered in Old Meteorite
    A new analysis of an ancient meteorite that fell to Earth in 1969 reveals millions of complex compounds, underscoring the richness of our galaxy’s primordial soup. More than 200 pounds of the meteorite were recovered from its crash site in Murchison, Australia in 1969. Subsequent analysis classifie ...
  • $100 DIY Shelter Could Help Homeless Haitians
    With just $100 worth of plywood and screws, almost anyone can build a shelter known as a Hexayurt that can last three years and possibly even withstand a hurricane. The simple DIY structure could be a critical temporary solution for some of the estimated 1 million or more people left homeless in qu ...
  • New Close-Ups of Saturn’s Moons Mimas and Calypso
    > NASA’s Cassini spacecraft took a swing by Saturn’s moons Mimas and Calypso over the weekend and sent back some fantastic shots released today. Mimas is the 20th in size of Saturn’s 62 moons with a diameter of about 246 miles, and it may be the smallest body in the solar [... ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Dubai police hunt 11 with EU passports for Hamas m ...
    DUBAI: Police are hunting 11 suspects with European passports, including a woman, for the murder in a Dubai hotel room of a top militant of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, the Gulf emirate's... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Israeli reporter insists IDF officer ‘confirmed ki ...
    In her appeal Dayan stated that the program aired a live recording of Captain R. reporting back to his commander during the incident saying that he had "confirmed the kill," by firing two bullets at... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Noam Chomsky: Howard Zinn
    Historian Howard Zinn's remarkable work, including his most famous book, A People's History of the United States, is summarized best in his own words. His primary concern, he once explained, was "the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Israel is accused of waging covert war across the ...
    Israel is waging a covert assassination campaign across the Middle East in an effort to stop its key enemies co-ordinating their activities. 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 mor ...
  • 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 ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Coral Loss Slowed, Reversed by Marine Protected Ar ...
    A new worldwide study shows marine protected areas (MPAs), underwater parks where fishing and other potentially harmful activities are regulated, provide an added bonus - helping coral reef ecosystems ward off and recover from threats to their health. Researchers also found the protective effects of ...
  • Fiber: A Closer Look at Health Benefits
    Two new review studies in Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, published by the Institute of Food Technologists, take a closer look at fiber--from the different types available to the role fiber plays in cardiovascular disease and overall health.
  • Colored Chickpeas: The Next Functional Food
    Colored chickpeas have significantly higher antioxidant qualities than the regular cream and beige color varieties, according to a new study in the Journal of Food Science, published by the Institute of Food Technologists.
  • Multi-Hued Carrots Offer A Wide Variety of Health ...
    Orange carrots are highly revered and regarded as "good for you" vegetables but a review from Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety describes carrots of the purple and red variety and suggest they offer just as much nutritional benefit.
  • Food Scientists Suggest that Boiling Shrimp May Re ...
    Food scientists found that boiling shrimp for 10 minutes may reduce allergenic properties of total shrimp extracts, according to a new study in the Journal of Food Science, published by the Institute of Food Technologists.

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

  • GE Triffid Seed Threatens Flax Industry
    Canadian flax seed has been shut out of its largest market after traces of Triffid - a genetically modified form of the crop ordered destroyed 10 years ago - was found in shipments. Click here to read this article
  • Farmers Must Test Flax in 2010
    The discovery of the de-registered GM variety CDC Triffid in flax shipments to Europe has cost the Canadian flax industry millions of dollars and led to new protocols by the Flax Council. All producers are required to have their seed stock tested to weed out and thin the stock accordingly and to let ...
  • Farmers' Frustration Rising Over Flax Issues
    Prairie flax growers on a conference call Monday to discuss the state of the flaxseed industry expressed concern over plans offered to deal with trace amounts of genetically-modified (GM) material found in flaxseed samples across the country. Click here to read this article
  • India's Battle Against Monsanto Rages On
    1.The battle against Monsanto. A victory for science and democracy 2.Some on Bt panel were promoting own interest 3.The debate around Bt Brinjal has only grown louder Click here to read this article
  • The Information Super-Sewer
    The Internet has become one more tool hijacked by corporate interests to accelerate our cultural, political and economic decline. The great promise of the Internet, to open up dialogue, break down cultural barriers, promote democracy and unleash innovation and creativity, has been exposed as a scam. ...

fotoFrontera

  • Imágenes de flores, rosas y arreglos florales
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. ¿Está usted buscando imágenes de flores? Si es así, le invito a disfrutar de esta colección con 15 fotografías de rosas y arreglos florales . Si eso no es suficiente, descubra nuestro especial de flores para el 10 de may ...
  • Carnavales del Mundo 2010, Río de Janeiro, Brasil.
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. De la mano de " The Big Picture , descubra cómo se vive el carnaval en diversas partes del mundo. Explore a detalle la magia de los colores, la algarabía, música, danza, costumbres y tradiciones de lugares tan famosos co ...
  • Mujeres hermosas fanáticas del fútbol
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías.
  • Un oso panda, un zorro o Firefox?
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías.
  • Un verdadero Snowmageddon como dice Barack Obama
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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

  • Finland, fuck yeah!
    Bayh is now saying that not having a primary is a good thing for Indiana Democrats. I’m sure some bloggers agree. Average citizens are, y’know, such assholes. Me? I’m still hung up on small ‘d’ democracy. This reeks of DFLery to me. The second you give all the power to the activists, they cease to ...
  • Shared experiences (2b avoided)
    Light posting until later (errands to run, massive download finally up to speed and hate to stop it, etc.). - Newspapers I can’t access online while using most of my bandwidth to steal download music: Star Tribune (no matter how much bandwidth you have, they want all of it and a little more) Pionee ...
  • Bye Bayh
    Amazing. Dan Coats had to rent a fucking house in Indiana so he could run against Evan Bayh, and now Bayh is throwing in the towel. I won’t miss Bayh at all, but I promise to let you know how much his next job pays (hint: I think he’ll be spending more time on the Hill [...]
  • Apré-VD links
    Morning links: Krugman on how foreign development screwed Spain Bernie Sanders on unemployment Big Dog won’t stop flogging war with Iran, the only power on earth that puts a check on Zionist aggression in the Middle East Hillary says ZERO TOLERANCE FOR IRAN (does it really help HRC for Bill to help ...
  • No love to be found (politics as usual)
    Dan Balz continues to believe in Sarah Palin with all his heart. Very few brain cells, however, were sacrificed when he penned his Valentine’s Day note to Sarah pure and simple. Kathleen Parker must be jealous of Palin because instead of a mash note, she wrote about how Palin exploits her grandson T ...

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

  • Sir! No Sir! - The Suppressed Story of the GI Move ...
    Easily the most timely and resonant film about the soldiers on the front lines of antiwar resistance, the award-winning breakout theatrical hit SIR! NO SIR! Tells an almost entirely forgotten story of the military men and women who helped force the U.S. government to end the Vietnam War. Contrary t ...
  • No Olympics on Stolen Land! Let the Resistance Beg ...
    TODAY Monday, Feb. 15: Olympic Tent Village Rally for Homeless No Olympics on Stolen Land March By Arthur Manuel Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ Photos by Arthur Manuel Canada may have conducted it's Opening Ceremony for the 2010 Winter Olympics but not without a very strong opposi ...
  • Mohawk Splitting the Sky: Attempted Citizen's Arre ...
    Splitting The Sky: Exposing The Bush-Cheney Cabal from Steve Poole on Vimeo .
  • Free climate prisoners! Sydney solidarity action
    Sydney activists call for the release of Copenhagen climate prisoners at Danish Consulate on Monday December 4th 2010.
  • Laie Kuleana Re Occupation
    Aunty Dawn Wasson makes a heartfelt plea for the land of her ancestors Dawn K. Wasson, Kupuna o Laiewai Today mark your calendars I will enter the Battle of this Century between an Indigenous Hawaiian Woman and the entity of the Mormon Church, Hawaii Reserves Incorporated. Adverse Possession i ...

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 ...

Green Times

  • Environmental News - 16/02/10
    Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html) Would you like to fry with that? - (http://www.smh.com.au/environment/would-you-like-to-fry-with-that-20100213-nyjf.html)If you want urgent action on climate change and want to transform Austral ...
  • Environmental News - 15/01/10
    Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html) Sydney's solar ferries go global - (http://media.smh.com.au/news-video/environment-news )Solar powered ferries currently sailing in Sydney are soon to become a frequent sight in and around Hong ...
  • TV to blame for Climate Change
    The TV screen contributes more to the perpetuation of climate change than anything else…  
  • Environmental News - 12/01/10
    Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html) Society ignores the oil crunch at its peril - (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html)Warnings of a crash in oil production are no longer limited to a p ...
  • Environmental News - 11/01/10
    Environmental News Residents see the light and form solar support group (http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/08/2813144.htm) - One man's idea for a solar energy plant on the Hay Plains is now a community-led initiative.  The project is the brainchild of resident Peter Oataway, who hopes to ...

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