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Thomas Paine

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

Sunday, February 21, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Q&A: "We Have a Take-Make-Waste Economy"
    UNITED NATIONS, Feb 21 (IPS) - To halt the planet's declining biodiversity and loss of critical natural resources, both the economy we live in and communication about science needs to be changed profoundly, says a prominent Dutch ecologist.
  • BULGARIA: Govt Forced Down on Genetically Modifed ...
    BUCHAREST, Feb 21 (IPS) - Campaigning by environmental groups and the general public has weakened the determination of the Bulgarian government to allow the cultivation of genetically modified (GM) crops in this country.
  • DEVELOPMENT: Grassroots Aid Groups Struggle to St ...
    UNITED NATIONS, Feb 20 (IPS) - The Holy Child Integrated Agricultural Centre, an organic farm near Abeokuta in southwestern Nigeria, was looking forward to having running water. An industrial borehole had already been already installed, and a pump and piping to various buildings were in plac ...
  • COTE D'IVOIRE: Crisis Within a Crisis Delays Ele ...
    ABIDJAN, Feb 20 (IPS) - A week after President Laurent Gbagbo dissolved the government and the electoral commission, thousands marched in the city of Bouaké, damaging cars and shops. There have been almost daily demonstrations in cities across the country as Côte d'Ivoire's political crisis ...
  • ENERGY-SOUTHERN AFRICA: Small Is Beautiful, Say I ...
    WINDHOEK, Feb 20 (IPS) - Independent power producers argue that small hydroelectric plants have a key role to play in avoiding an energy shortfall in the Southern African region.

Scoop - NZ

  • Currency Traders of the Istanbul Bazaar
    Istanbul's "pushcart stock market," located inside its legendary and labyrithian Grand Bazaar, has been the site of currency trading for hundreds of years. Its traders don't wear suits or ties, but they have proven adept at sensing the global economic climate. Osman Ataç, 48, a short and stocky ma ...
  • Money Traders of the Istanbul Bazaar
    Istanbul's "pushcart stock market," located inside its legendary and labyrithian Grand Bazaar, has been the site of currency trading for hundreds of years. Its traders don't wear suits or ties, but they have proven adept at sensing the global economic climate. Osman Ataç, 48, a short and stocky ma ...
  • Gallup data refutes US Commerce Dept. optimism
    As if anyone needed more reasons to doubt the data coming out of our government. Earlier today the Commerce Department reported that January retail sales data came at a nice and bubbly 0.5% sequential increase, and an even nicer and bubblier 4.7% YoY. This presumably beat expectations which were loo ...
  • Quiggin: Climategate revisited
    Now that the main charges of scientific misconduct arising from the hacking of the University of East Anglia email system have been proven false, it's possible to get a reasonably clear idea of what actually happened here. For once the widely used "X-gate" terminology is appropriate. As with Waterga ...
  • Fisk: Gaza's tunnellers head deeper underground
    They are the real resistance. They are the lung through which Gaza breathes. True, missiles must pass along their subterranean tracks, Qassam rockets, too, Kalashnikov ammunition, explosives. But by far the greatest burden of the tunnellers of Gaza is the very life-blood of this besieged little pseu ...

Independent ( London )

  • Darfur rebels sign truce deal with Sudan
    Darfur's most powerful rebel group has initialed a truce with the Sudanese government, officials said yesterday, marking the rebel group's return to peace talks aimed at ending the Darfur conflict.
  • Japan 'to speed up car recall system'
    Japan's transport ministry may reform its car recall system, reports said today, as Toyota faces accusations of delays over drivers' complaints.
  • London Philharmonic Orchestra/Jurowski, Royal Fest ...
    Fateful prophecies and exultant perorations – the enduring spirits of Leos Janacek and Josef Suk ascend from the valley of the shadow of death and another of Vladimir Jurowski’s beautifully crafted programmes for the London Philharmonic makes connections that will profoundly affect the way we hear ...
  • Emergency rescue crews head to Madeira
    Portugal was today flying out emergency rescue crews and equipment to the holiday island of Madeira after flooding and mudslides feared to have killed at least 38 people and injured dozens more.
  • Darfur rebels sign truce deal with Sudan
    Darfur's most powerful rebel group has initialed a truce with the Sudanese government, officials said yesterday, marking the rebel group's return to peace talks aimed at ending the Darfur conflict.

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran calls on IAEA not to surrender to will of ce ...
    Summary: Mehmanparast TEHRAN, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast said Sunday that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) should not surrender to the will of certain states over Iran's nuclear program, the official IRNA news agency reported. source: ...
  • Ayatollah Khamenei: Iran Will Never Seek Atomic Bo ...
    Summary: Ayatollah Khamenei With the usual calls for Israel, France and Germany leading the way, the Obama Administration today expressed hope that a leaked IAEA report speculating on Iran’s nuclear program would help with the international push for additional sanctions against Iran. source: A ...
  • An appeal to anti-war organizations & activists to ...
    Summary: Around the world, anti-war activists are preparing for major protests this spring to oppose the continuing U.S.-led occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. Meanwhile, a storm of developments is dramatically increasing tensions between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran. In ...
  • New IAEA Chief Stokes Iran War Fever for the Bush- ...
    Summary: Yukia Amano In an astounding development, the brand-new director of the International Atomic Energy Agency — who was narrowly elected to the post a few months ago with the strong, one might say insistent, backing of the United States — has just issued his very first report on Iran’s nuc ...
  • Analysis of the Feb 2010 IAEA report on Iran
    Summary: So here's my analysis of the latest IAEA report on Iran, and how the US media totally mischaracterize it for the purpose of scaremongering. source: Iran Affairs read more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Did Dark Stars Seed the Universe? New Research Poi ...
    Dark matter not only had a role to play in fueling early stars, it may have created "dark stars" so massive that they went on to spawn supermassive black holes found at the cores of the one trillion galaxies estimated to populate the universe according to new research headed by Katherine Freese of ...
  • Super Voyager from the Oort Cloud
    Comet Siding Spring streaks across the sky like a cosmic superman this new infrared image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE taken on Jan. 10, 2010.The comet, also known as C/2007 Q3, was discovered in 2007 by observers in Australia. In this view, longer wavelengths of infrar ...
  • Robotic Supernova Observatory Reveals a Stunning F ...
    At first, like an opening scene scene out a scifi classic, there didn't seem anything odd or unusual about the tiny point of light blinking in the southern Californian night sky in early April 2007. Only the robotic eyes of the Nearby Supernova Factory, a project designed to spy out distant stellar ...
  • The World's Largest Tropical Ice Field is Vanishin ...
    The Quelccaya Ice Cap in the heart of the Peruvian Andres, is the largest tropical body of ice in the world. The ice cap is at an average altitude of 5,470 meters (18,600 ft) and spans an area of 44 square kilometers (17 miles).  As the ice cap is retreating, it is exposing a ...
  • "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish!" There Will ...
    It has now been thirty plus years since October 12, 1979 when The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy novelization of a popular British radio series, first saw print. Douglas Adams, our icon of humorous geek literature, would write four sequels to it, and would, tragicall ...

Natural News

  • Are mandatory vaccinations acts of violence agains ...
    (NaturalNews) This article refers to the parody cartoon found at (http://www.naturalnews.com/028211_vaccines_Merck.html). This parody cartoon grew out of the idea that vaccines are "shots" that are being increasingly forced upon children and teens. At times, these vaccines are enforced at gunpoint o ...
  • Daily Dose of Vitamin D Prevents Falls in Elderly
    (NaturalNews) Seniors who take a large daily dose of vitamin D may be significantly less likely to suffer from falls, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Center on Aging and Mobility at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and published in the British Medical Journal ."Falls are ...
  • Plants are actively intelligent: What does this me ...
    (NaturalNews) Most vegetarians believe that by not eating animals, they are preserving life. Everyone knows that plants are alive but they are not viewed with the same level of intelligence as animals are. As science continues to uncover the complex nature of plants, it is becoming more apparent tha ...
  • Wild foods and herbal medicine tour in Ecuador now ...
    (NaturalNews) The "Amazon Wild Foods and Medicinal Plants Adventure" that I first wrote about in December has opened up a new schedule in April! You can join the adventure in Ecuador (in Zamora, Vilcabamba and other surrounding towns) from April 8th through the 13th. Only a few spaces are available ...
  • Amino acids shown to be effective at treating brai ...
    (NaturalNews) Researchers from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have found in a lab study that amino acids are highly effective at restoring cognitive function and balancing neurochemical levels in those who have undergone brain trauma. Conducted on mice who had been inflicted with traumatic ...

    The Galloping Beaver

  • Olympics - It's a dog's life
    G&M : "Whistler RCMP is investigating a possible threat to athletes at Whistler, the police announced Saturday. A map of the Whistler athletes' village was discovered with notations on the map that gave police cause for concern, said Staff Sergeant Steve LeClair, of the Whistler Pemberton RCMP. Pol ...
  • Have a Coke and a "What" ? ? ? ?
    The Lady Alison posted a few days back about Coca Cola bottlers in Columbia and a documentary on same . As luck would have it, my friend PC and her Solidarity Notes Choir had a live performance on the same topic at the Granville SkyTrain Station on Sunday. Enjoy, and think about that the next tim ...
  • Driving danger
    JALOPNIK IS A DELIGHTFULLY CHEERFUL SITE devoted to things automotive. Sam Smith has an article, "The Ten Most Dangerous Drivers In America", listing the top fender-bender piloti by occupation: Attorney/Judge – Why chase ambulances if you can bring them to you? Financial professionals – Do they cove ...
  • Future Imperfect
  • Rest John Babcock. Just rest.
    You take with you the last living memory of a war that never needed to be fought. Regardless, you served and no one anywhere has the right to say you didn't serve well and that you didn't contribute to making this a better world. John Babcock did all of that. With condolences and respect to his f ...

Media Matters for America

  • Quick Fact: Wallace lets McConnell criticize reco ...
    Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace allowed Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to criticize legislative reconciliation as arrogant without noting that McConnell has repeatedly supported the use of reconciliation in the past. McConnell voted in favor of the Bush tax cuts in 2003 and 2005 using reconcili ...
  • Right wing runs wild with Fox News and CBN report ...
    Right-wing media seized on Fox News and Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) reports and claimed that in December "five Muslim soldiers" were "arrested for trying to poison the food supply at Fort Jackson," often while fearmongering about a "jihadist" plot against the base or speculating that t ...
  • "Political Star" Marco Rubio is the latest Fox Ne ...
    Fox News has declared that "A Political Star [Was] Born" at CPAC on February 18: Marco Rubio, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate from Florida, who Fox News personalities have described as a "rising star" and an "amazing leader" who "knocked it out of the park during his speech." Rubio is t ...
  • Fox News, New York Post advance Trump's ...
    Both Fox News and the New York Post advanced Donald Trump's false claim that this is the "coldest winter ever." In fact, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), global land and ocean surface temperature for December 2009 was the eighth warmest on record, and Jan ...
  • Beck's charts by the numbers
    A year ago, Glenn Beck rolled out the first in a long series of increasingly bizarre blackboard scrawls and graphics intended to link President Obama and the progressive movement to extremists and dictators and otherwise illustrate Beck's conspiratorial worldview. Throughout the year, he has used c ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Future Shock: Did Rahm Emanuel Create the Tea Par ...
    Given current trends in the country, I can easily imagine "conspiracy theorists" (not me) in the future looking back in history at the Tea Party movement as having been a Rahm Emanuel creation. That would have been, in retrospect, sheer political genius. After all, looking back in time, one woul ...
  • Obama Now Owns a Deficit Commission - and Senator ...
    On Thursday President Obama signed an executive order creating a� National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform . This deficit commission is based on an idea promoted by two Senators, Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) and Judd Gregg (R-N.H.),� which would have required the Congress to vote on their bu ...
  • What Does it Mean to Be Engaged?
    As he launches a new column at ForeignPolicy.com, Jim Traub counts the many ways that the authors of current policy are muddleheaded and empty-handed -- particularly as they try to reach agreements with autocratic regimes (a key element of their engagement strategy). The strongest part of Traub's pi ...
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  • Weekly Roundup: What We Missed
    At the risk of revealing too much behind the TPM curtain -- we watch quite a bit of cable news. And this week one particular Senator, who has had a relatively low profile in that past, was all over the networks. Apparently, that's what sudden retirement will get you. Sen. Evan Bayh's (D-IN) drama ...

TruthOut

  • Bulgarian Government Forced Down on Genetically Mo ...
    Bucharest - Campaigning by environmental groups and the general public has weakened the determination of the Bulgarian government to allow the cultivation of genetically modified (GM) crops in this country. read more
  • Without More Federal Help, States Might Cut Medica ...
    Washington - Unless Congress bails them out, states probably will have to cut health coverage for low-income families and others without insurance, a new report says. Lawmakers included higher Medicaid reimbursement funds for states in last year's economic stimulus bill, but the money will expire n ...
  • Congress Launches Investigation into Gas Drilling ...
    Two of the largest companies involved in natural gas drilling have acknowledged pumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of diesel-based fluids into the ground in the process of hydraulic fracturing , raising further concerns that existing state and federal regulations don't adequately protect drink ...
  • Some Sanity Creeps into the Drug War
    There’s one thing that Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama have all agreed on: expanding military aid to Latin America to fight the so-called “Drug War.” read more
  • Asia-Produced Ozone Making its Way to US
    Washington - A new study further bolsters concerns that pollution blowing across the Pacific Ocean from China and other rapidly developing Asian nations may swamp efforts to clean up the air in the Western United States and make it difficult for states and cities to meet federal standards. The stud ...

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Cue the right-wing cries of "General Betray-us!"
    It wasn't that long ago that it was just assumed among certain circles on the right that the next republican President would be General David Petraeus, and the war hero would lead the republicans out of the wilderness like Ike before him. � That was before he refused to follow them as they not only ...
  • "A Gentleman's Agreement"?: fools rush in...
    This is the forty-ninth post in an ongoing series as we file Missouri Sunshine Law (RSMo 610) requests and investigate the non-renewal of the contract of University of Central Missouri President Aaron Podolefsky. Links to previous coverage are below the fold. BG and MB Yesterday we posted on the Uni ...
  • Hope, Recovery and Ingratitude
    Superb medical news out of Louisville: It strikes thousands of African Americans every year, clogging blood vessels with sickle-shaped cells - causing strokes, blindness and excruciating pain as it damages the heart, liver, lungs and kidneys. Half of its victims die by age 40. But University of Loui ...
  • And with that their phony fealty fades and dies.. ...
    One of the first lessons I learned at my father's knee was that politicians are fickle motherfuckers and they will fuck us over in a heartbeat. "Us" in this instance was the United States military. They all like the photo ops, but at the end of the day, they don't trust us. Not politically, anyway. ...
  • Becoming the Evil We Used to Fight
    If you're having trouble remembering who we used to be, and why it mattered, and why what President Obama's Justice Department has done is a catastrophe, go watch "Judgement at Nuremburg."

Care 2

  • Microsoft offers web browser choice to IE users
    Millions of European Internet Explorer (IE) users will have the option to choose an alternative browser from 1 March, Microsoft has announced. Submitted by Alisa Roberts to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 25 Essential Android Apps for Science Nuts
    If you are a science nut, then you might already be attached to your Android at the hip. Unlike the iPhone, Android’s processing capabilities allow it to keep its current state when you switch to another app — even independent apps — without losing inform Submitted by Alisa Roberts to Science & Tech ...
  • ACTION ALERT: Tell Bucknell University to End Crue ...
    PETA was told about the experiments by a concerned Bucknell University alumnus and found that for 30 years, Prof. Owen Floody has been drilling holes into the skulls of female hamsters, damaging their brains, and observing the injuries' effects on the Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! ...
  • Try To Stay Clear Of Craig's List Scams
    Try to stay clear of craig's list scams. Submitted by Janine Boguslawski to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Youngest Extra-Solar Planet Discovered Around Sola ...
    Astronomers have discovered the youngest extra-solar planet around a solar-type star, named BD+20 1790b. Submitted by Alisa Roberts to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

GreenBiz

  • Banks Should Finance Energy Efficiency Loans, Not ...
    Banks and other financial institutions could refurbish their tarnished reputations by using their smarts to innovate new financial products that actually help average Americans while addressing some of the nation's greatest challenges: unemployment, economic competitiveness, national security and cl ...
  • United, U.S. Airways Earn Fs in Airline Recycling ...
    Although Delta, Virgin and Southwest received better scores in a new report released by Green America Responsible Shopper, the airline industry as a whole must make changes to recycle more than a fraction of the millions of tons of waste it generates each year.
  • Cut The Paper Out of Your Operations, Save Million ...
    A new report from JP Morgan outlines the steps to transition to a paperless financial system, and finds that companies can save roughly $1 for every sheet of paper not used.
  • Making the Shift to Paperless Treasury Management
    This report from J.P. Morgan outlines how companies can cut the paper from their treasury departments, saving millions of dollars and reducing tons of waste in the process.
  • Walmart Creates Online Hub for Best Practices in G ...
    Walmart Canada hopes its newly launched ShareGreen website will eventually become the go-to resource for green business best practices in the country.

Reuters Global

  • When is a coup a good coup?
    Weeks after the African Union boldly announced the end of an era of coups on its continent, Niger’s military staged a spectacular overthrow. Now the international community is facing the difficult task of dealing with the unconstitutional ouster of someone widely seen as an unconstitutional presiden ...
  • Ex-Guantanamo Bay prisoner the next Afghan Taliban ...
    It is a measure of the shadowy nature of the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan that it is hard to come up with even a couple of names of senior figures who could succeed Mullah Abdul Ghani Barader following his capture in a joint U.S.-Pakistan raid. Some people think that Abdul Qayum Zakir, a former ...
  • How Reuters told the world about Tutanhkamun in Fe ...
    It was on the November 26, 1922 that archaeologist, Howard Carter looked through a small opening chipped in a 3000 year old wall and saw the glittering chaos of the ante room of the tomb of the Boy Pharaoh Tutankhamun. “Can you see anything?” asked Lord Carnarvon, his chief backer. “Yes, wonderful t ...
  • Pakistan’s arrest of Mullah Baradar: tactics ...
    The arrest of Taliban commander Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in Karachi leaves big unanswered questions about why Pakistan chose to act now against a man credited with giving operational coherence to Afghan Taliban operations in Afghanistan.
  • 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 ?

Paul Krugman

  • Inflation Perceptions
    Unless you're really, really into chicken, prices don't seem to be soaring at all.
  • Health Care: Game On
    That's the style, Mr. President!
  • Class notes for Feb. 22
    The interwar trade decline.
  • The Bankruptcy Boys
    Social Security and Medicare are, you know, very popular. The only way they could be gutted, as opposed to reformed in an incremental way, is in the face of fiscal catastrophe -- basically, federal bankruptcy. And that, in effect, is what the WSJ is calling for.
  • Is the Fed Getting Ready to Tighten?
    No rate rise -- and no tightening through other measures, such as shrinking the Fed's balance sheet -- for at least another two years.

No Quarter

  • Memoirs of the Cold War
    Catch Larry Johnson tonight on the syndicated John Batchelor Show. Listening details below the fold. � Lake Placid, 1980. I am openly rooting for the Russians at the Vancouver games this winter, and I watched the cockiness of the Canadians vanish as they survived a shoot-out with the lowl ...
  • No Quarter Radio’s Sense on Cents with Larry Doyle ...
    Is Barack Obama preparing to take over your retirement accounts? Far fetched? Think again. This idea is not only being bandied about around Washington but elsewhere around the world, as well. Are we to stick our heads in the sand and hope it doesn’t happen? That is no way to properly navigate the ec ...
  • EVENT HONORING LYNN FORESTER DE ROTHSCHILD
    Cross-posted from The New Agenda. Honoring Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild: The New Agenda has some exciting news to report and we invite you to join us! We will be HONORING Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, who has been an inspirational force in the formation and growth of our organization, on T ...
  • Rahm Emanuel, Squealing like a Pig?
    Hey Rahm. You got a pretty mouth. Talk about your WTF moment. Yesterday’s Tomorrow’s Washington Post contains an article by Dana Milbank that rips the scab off of the festering wound that is the Obama Presidency and reveals a cancer that is helping consume Barack. The cancer’s name? Rahm Emanue ...
  • With Good Leadership, The Country Is Indeed Govern ...
    One of the political positives of 2008 has been a willingness for some on one side of the aisle to give fair hearing to those on on the other. This was accomplished by none other than Nancy Pelosi, Donna Brazile et al telling those of us not willing to get on board with the [...]

Environmental Graffiti

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Gerald Posner quits over plagiarism! Olympics Indy ...
    Here's a good one: Gerald Posner was a convenient weathervane for conspiracy coverups, much as Howard Fineman is a convenient weathervane for Safe Establishment Thinking. You can just look for Fineman and Posner for the exact line the mockingbirds are supposed to push. Everyone else seems to water t ...
  • The biggest scandal in world history; WANTAGATE, L ...
    Draft conspiracy post note - this rough draft story lacks links but I want to get it up anyways... Have fun everyone! This guy, Leo Wanta / Lee Wanta / Ambassador Leo Wanta, could be the key to the biggest financial conspiracy of all time. Or maybe it's a huge thing of hot air. It seems we can ...
  • New Video! Robert Erickson, Tea Party prankster, s ...
    This was a fun project to work on. TIP! Combine the old OSX Mp3 player Audion with the Wiretap outgoing-sound recorder by Ambrosia , and you can strip the vocals or VoiceOver off anything to make excellent Fair Use satire from pompous conservative videos!! I found that tip on a random forum, I thi ...
  • Pearl Harbor: Evidence of shady biz or just a lett ...
    Remember the Maine, while you're at it! :-D
  • Controlling 9/11 "crippled epistemology" via fake ...
    ".... we will suggest below that if the hard core arises for certain identifiable reasons, it can be broken up or at least muted by government action." .... " We suggest a role for government efforts, and agents, in introducing such diversity.  Government agents (and their allies) might enter chat ...

Daily Censored

  • ACLU Calls For UN To Intervene In Inhumane Treatme ...
    This past week, the American Civil Liberties Union, the organization that brought Guantanamo into the American consciousness, appealed to the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture on behalf of a mentally ill juvenile inmate in Montana that has been held in inhumane conditions, suffering torture and hum ...
  • 12 Year old gets the bracelets for doodling in sch ...
    Alexa's hands were cuffed behind her back, and tears gushed as she was escorted from school in front of teachers and -- the worst audience of all for a preadolescent girl -- her classmates. "They put the handcuffs on me, and I couldn't believe it," Alexa recalled. "I didn't want them to see me being ...
  • Room with a view: compromising on public education ...
    Is the plan now to cut the humanities and a liberal arts education from community and state colleges? Don't be surprised. why should one take messy history classes or philosophy classes when they are majoring in law enforcement or pursuing a Home Land Security Degree? Why should they be exposed to ...
  • A Convenient Truth
    How convenient it is that the justice department has decided the person who sent weapon’s grade anthrax to key Democratic offices, like Senator Patrick Leahey’s, is a dead person.  Yes, It is Obama’s justice Department, but the people in it were hired in the last nine years.   I think Obama’s Justic ...
  • Feds Wanted Private Data on Visitors to Liberal Ne ...
    A Justice Department subpoena requested that Indymedia.us hand over any information the website had on visitors who viewed the website on June 25, 2008. Indymedia is an independent left-leaning news website that addresses controversial issues such as gay rights. The website was targeted as part of a ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

Institute for Policy Studies

Pine River World News

  • Texas Attack: U.S. Double-standard Terrorism
    The following article is from IslamOnline (IOL). Texas Attack ... U.S. Double-standard Terrorism � � IslamOnline By Dina Rabie, IOL Staff February 21, 2010 WASHINGTON - The Obama administration's refusal to acknowledge last week's plane attack at a government facility in Texas as terrorist shows a ...
  • Dalai Lama and memories of the CIA
    The following opinion and analysis is from RIA Novosti, Moscow. Dalai Lama and memories of the CIA � � RIA Novosti By Dmitry Kosyrev, RIA Novosti political correspondent February 20, 2010 The Dalai Lama's meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is probably the most interesting part of ...
  • U.S. health insurers reap record profits in 2009
    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from World Socialist Web Site. U.S. health insurers reap record profits in 2009 � � World Socialist Web Site By Kate Randall February 19, 2010 The five largest U.S. health insurance companies set new profit records in 2009, while the greatest ...
  • Statement from man who crashed plane into Texas IR ...
    Reuters has the article: Small plane is crashed into tax offices in Texas , the synopsis of which reads: AUSTIN (Reuters) - An apparently disgruntled man crashed a small plane into a federal building housing U.S. tax offices in Austin, Texas on Thursday in what local officials said was likely a deli ...
  • Ramzy Baroud: Western Media, Not Israeli Hasbara
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Ramzy Baroud. Western Media, Not Israeli Hasbara � �Ramzy Baroud February 17, 2010 With the dreadful threat of yet another Israeli war in the Middle East looming, Israeli propaganda machine is likely to go into full gear. In fact, trial ballo ...

    PDA AMERICA

  • Field Report: Central Kentucky Chapter, Single Pa ...
    Hi Health Care Reformers, Click on the link below to see a photos from Friday’s “Heartless in Kentucky” press conference in the lobby of Lexington’s Government Center. http://www.flickr.com/photos/peaceky/sets/72157623435807064/detail/ Sixteen of us showed up for Friday’s press conference; unfortuna ...
  • Video: John Yoo’ Speech Disrupted at Johns Hopkins ...
    On Wed. evening, Feb. 17, 2010, John Yoo gave a talk on the campus of the Johns Hopkins U., in Baltimore, Md. Before the controversial law professor could get into his talk, however, it was ...
  • Video: Healthcare Not Warfare Activists Hold Vigil ...
    Baltimore’s “Pledge of Resistance,” led by activist Max Obuszewski, joined the call today from the “Progressive Democrats of America to hold Brown Bag Vigils around the country” to spotlight the issue of healthcare not warfare. ...
  • Cheney’s Crimes and Confessions
    By David Swanson | AfterDowningStreet Dick Cheney’s statutory crimes are notable for their severity, their number, and his public confessions to them.  Torture is the least of it. We can start with the crimes found in ...
  • Video: Jonathan Tasini: “End the Filibuster!”
    On Feb. 18, 2010, Jonathan Tasini presented a “Petition to End the Filibuster,” to aides of U.S. Senate Majority Leader, Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), in the Hart Office Building, in Washington, D.C. Mr. Tasini is ...

Marler Blog

  • GMA - Grocery Manufacturers Association Speech in ...
    I�have the honor to co-present with defense counsel, Alan M Maxwell , at this week's GMA Litigation Conference in Austin, Texas - (click on image below) - I am also going to hand out Food Safety News thermometers.
  • Queseria Bendita Recalls Queso Fresco, Panela, and ...
    According to an FDA Press Release, Queseria Bendita of Yakima, Wash., is recalling three types of cheese, Queso Fresco, Panela, and Requeson, because they have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes , an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young ch ...
  • Happy 23rd Birthday Stephanie Smith - Yet Another ...
    Stephanie Smith turned 23 years old today. She was born on February 20, 1987 in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Stephanie was a dancer. She lost the ability to walk in 2007 as a result of the most severe E. coli O157:H7-induced HUS illness I have ever seen in someone who survived. One day, she will lose h ...
  • Cargill Admits its E. coli-tainted Hamburger Cause ...
    According to KARE TV 11 in Minneapolis today, the Minnesota company accused of producing tainted meat that left a former dance instructor paralyzed has admitted fault in the case.  According to documents filed earlier this month in the federal lawsuit, Cargill says it manufactured and sold a product ...
  • Will Cargill, a Mulit-Billion Dollar Privately Hel ...
    The 2007 Cargill E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak and its Genesis On October 3, 2009, the New York Times published an article on Stephanie Smith’s injuries and the contaminated, recalled Cargill meat that caused them—specifically, a hamburger patty that Stephanie’s aunts had purchased at a local Sam’s Clu ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 02.19.10
    Greenlings: How do hybrids and electric vehicles blend regenerative and friction braking? A lot happens when you step on the brakes. Consumer attitude data proves it once again: gas is too cheap in Americ ...
  • Geneva Preview: Fisker Karma's "advanced aluminum ...
    Filed under: Hybrid , Sedan , Performance , Geneva Motor Show , Technology , Fisker , Electric , Luxury Fisker Karma - Click above for high-res image gallery At the Chicago Auto Show last week, Fisker Automotive brought along the Karma Sunset with a new black exterior we hadn't seen before. For th ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 02.18.10
    Detroit News columnist calls electric cars "inferior in every way," which gets a response Well, that's going to get a rise out of people. Shocking Omission? First 2011 Chevrolet Volts reporte ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 02.17.10
    Report: Lutz says hybrids unlikely to grab more than 10% of US market He also said he expects GM will always lose money on its hybrid vehicles. GM subjects 2011 Chevrolet Volt to cold-weather testing in C ...
  • 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? ...

Rafe's Radar

  • Reporters' Roundtable Podcast: Buzz vs. privacy
    Last week, Google launched Buzz , a status update tool that has elements of Twitter, Facebook, and FriendFeed. Google launched it inside the Gmail app, giving it an instant installed base of millions of people. More importantly, Google gave Buzz access to your Gmail contacts. When the app first ...
  • Parlor trick: Buzzzy searches Buzz
    If Google's own Buzz search doesn't work for you, try Buzzzy.
  • Reporters' Roundtable Podcast: HTML 5 vs. Flash
    One of the biggest criticisms of Apple's new iPad, and of the iPhone, is that it does not support Adobe's Flash, a system that lets Web developers code streaming videos and interactivity into Web pages. Steve Jobs is reported to be a big booster for HTML 5, a new extension of the HTML standard ...
  • Divvyshot launches refreshingly simple photo shari ...
    Photo site has bonus feature for iPhone users: shake to share
  • Rafe and Josh debate Google's Buzz
    Is Google Buzz effective competition to Twitter? Or is it just FriendFeed light? Webware writers Rafe Needleman and Josh Lowensohn debate. Originally posted at Webware ...

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!

  • Catch Amy Goodman on C-SPAN2's Book TV this Sunday ...
    Friends of Howard Zinn gathered at Busboys and Poets in Washington, DC to pay tribute to the historian who died on January 27th. The speakers include Ralph Nader, Marian Wright Edelman, Amy Goodman, Dave Zirin, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Phyllis Bennis, Geoffrey Millard, Richard Rubenstein and Busboy ...
  • Coming Up: Joseph Stiglitz on "Freefall: America, ...
    Nobel Prize-winning economist Jospeh Stiglitz joins us to discuss the stimulus, the state of the economy and his new book, Freefall
  • Obama’s Nuclear Option
    President Barack Obama is going nuclear. He announced the initial $8 billion in loan guarantees for construction of the first new nuclear power plants in the United States in close to three decades. Obama is making good on a campaign pledge, like his promises to escalate the war in Afghanistan and ...
  • 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.

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

  • On the brink of extinction – 25 of our closest rel ...
    Governments around the world need to take drastic action to save the most endangered primate species, a new report is demanding..........
  • Military personnel in Va. may get to drive carpool ...
    Virginia state lawmakers appear likely to pass a bill that would let active duty military personnel use the HOV carpool lanes no matter how many people are in their vehicles; in other words, even when driving alone. Smart traffic management? Show of support for our troops? Or political pandering? Yo ...
  • States Bite Back Against Emissions Regulations... ...
    When automakers and the Obama White House announced agreement on a single national standard for emissions and fuel economy last May, the entire auto industry heaved a huge sigh of relief. The issue was settled, at least until 2016. Yesterday, however, the state of Texas filed suit in the U.S. Court. ...
  • 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 ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Up Around the Bending End
    By Les Visible What is irrefutably clear to me at this moment is that the governments of the United States, England and Israel are the greatest looming dangers to the welfare of humanity across this round and still spinning planet. Humanity has always had its enemies. Sometimes it’s been rampaging w ...
  • Joe Stack’s Final Message
    By Joe Stack If you’re reading this, you’re no doubt asking yourself, “Why did this have to happen?”  The simple truth is that it is complicated and has been coming for a long time.  The writing process, started many months ago, was intended to be therapy in the face of the looming realization tha ...
  • Big Pharma researcher admits to faking dozens of r ...
    By Mike Adams It’s being called the largest research fraud in medical history. Dr. Scott Reuben, a former member of Pfizer’s speakers’ bureau, has agreed to plead guilty to faking dozens of research studies that were published in medical journals. Now being reported across the mainstream media is th ...
  • IPCC gate Du Jour – Antarctic Sea Ice Increase Und ...
    So, the peer reviewed literature, both extant at the time of the AR4 as well as published since the release of the AR4, shows that there has been a significant increase in the extent of sea ice around Antarctica since the time of the first satellite observations observed in the late 1970s. And yet t ...
  • The NASA Files: U.S. Climate Science as Corrupt as ...
    By Chris Horner NASA stonewalled my request for more than two years, until Climategate prompted me to offer notice of intent to sue if NASA did not comply immediately. On New Year’s Eve, NASA finally provided the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) with the documents I requested in August 2007. T ...

    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...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • White House Video – The GreenGov Challenge
    Today, the President is calling on us to turn ideas into action to put the Federal Government on the path to a clean energy future. Related posts: President Obama Gives Federal Agencies 90 Days to set Greenhouse Reduction Goals Van Jones First Public Letter Since Resigning From the White House ...
  • 5 Reasons Why Nuclear Energy is Even Worse than Cl ...
    President Barack Obama announced that he is giving $8.3 Billion dollars in loan guarantees to build the first U.S. nuclear power plant in almost three decades. Related posts: President Obama on the Clean Energy and Security Act (Video) Poll Suggests that 71 Percent of Americans Want a Clean E ...
  • 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

Inhabitat

  • NEW YORK FASHION WEEK: Eco-Fashion Highlights from ...
    ATTENTION ALL ECO-FASHION FANATICS! Regardless of whether or not you’re as gung-ho eco-fashion as we are, it’s incredibly interesting to see the evolution of sustainable fashion from casual wear towards haute-couture. New York Fashion Week’s The Green Shows certainly made this trend very obvious bo ...
  • Samantha Pleet’s Fall/Winter 2010 Line Overflows w ...
    Sweet meets sexy is something not easily achieved by fashion designers, but Samantha Pleet’s Fall/Winter 2010 has got that vibe down, pat. With ultra-feminine thigh-grazing cuts, charming empire waists and strapless sweetheart necklines, we can’t help but swoon when also hearing about her use of s ...
  • Popomomo’s Fall 2010 Collection Wows Us at New Yor ...
    For those of you who still think eco-fashion means beige hippy skirts and cream-colored organic t-shirts, we would like to introduce you to Popomomo. This line of smart, unique and provocative-yet-totally-wearable garments highlights the chic edge of modern eco-fashion. For her Fall 2010 collection, ...
  • How to Use Technology to Green Your Commute
    For most of us, walking, biking, driving or taking public transportation to and from work is a part of our everyday routine. Depending on the method you use, you might think that your ride is already pretty green, but why not make it even more eco-friendly with a few simple tips? Check out our list ...
  • Gary Harvey Brings “Dumpster-Chic” Couture to New ...
      Gary Harvey is redefining haute-couture with his impressive use of unconventional materials. With the expert craft, Harvey assembled 22 stunning gowns by recycling all sorts of common junk materials ranging from old t-shirts, to consumer packaging, to newspapers, to old laundry bags. Just clickin ...

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Open Your Eyes News

  • Google denies sales of Alex Jones new film which i ...
    Russia Today
  • Privacy, complexity seen as Google blind spots
    SF Gate Chronicle – The recent privacy backlash over Google Buzz, the company’s new social-networking service, is the latest in a series of launch fumbles that some argue reveal troubling blind spots within the Internet giant. The huge amount of cash generated by the Mountain View company’s search b ...
  • Four more US banks close, total hits 20 for 2010
    Reuters – Regulators seized four more U.S. banks on Friday, bringing the total for the year to 20.The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, in charge of safeguarding bank deposits and resolving failed banks, has predicted that 2010 will be peak year for failures resulting from the recent financial crisis. ...
  • Harassment of Privately-Owned Newspaper ‘The Zimba ...
    RSF – Reporters Without Borders condemns the Zimbabwean authorities’ repeated harassment and intimidation of The Zimbabwean, a privately-owned newspaper that is edited in Britain and printed in South Africa. In the latest instance, criminal charges of “publishing falsehoods” have been brought ...
  • US: States short $1 trillion to fund retiree benef ...
    CNNMoney.com – Just as they are contending with massive gaps in their operating budgets, states and localities must also deal with a $1 trillion deficit in public employees’ retirement benefits’ funds, a new report found. The shortfall amounts to more than $8,800 for every household in the nation, a ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Northwestern Shoshone Nation Marks Anniversary of ...
    Northwestern Shoshone Nation Marks Anniversary of Bear River Massacre (raimd.wordpress.com) A few weeks ago this year many Native people gathered at the burial grounds of Bear River in Idaho, near the city of Preston, to remember and honor their ancestors who were murdered by Amerikan soldiers.  14 ...
  • Stamp out the First World!
    Stamp out the First World! (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) It’s not enough to sit back and do nothing. It is our revolutionary duty to get organized. Contact Monkey Smashes Heaven (monkeysmashesheaven@yahoo.com) or the Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist Movement to help kill the imperialist beast. ...
  • Maoism-Third Worldism leads the way: A recent hist ...
    Maoism-Third Worldism leads the way: a recent history of struggles in the international scene (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Lots of yapping and hype continues to be generated by the fakes, opportunists and fence-sitters. Despite all of the revisionist noise, the Maoist-Third Worldist movement ...
  • When the State Declares War On Its Own People
    When the State Declares War On Its Own People (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) When the State Declares War On Its Own People (2009) is a short film that documents some of the atrocities carried out by the state of India against its own people. It documents the suffering caused by the state’s Oper ...
  • Imperialism makes the First World Go ‘Round
    (shumbelmorgan.wordpress.com) Filed under: ..Shubel Morgan, Amerikkka, Communism, Idiot Amerikkkans, Maoism, Maoism Third Worldism, Maoisme, Maoismo, North America, Parasitism and the labor aristocracy

PakAlert

  • Trinitite – WHAT THE HECK IS THIS STUFF?
    Michael Rivero| whatreallyhappened.com The above image is a scan of a piece of Trinitite. This is desert sand that was underneath the explosion of the world’s first Atomic bomb in New Mexico as part of project TRINITY, hence the name Trinitite. The heat from that blast melted the sand into a gr ...
  • The Occult Dajjali Symbolism of Sherlock Holmes
    The latest Hollywood blockbuster Sherlock Holmes revolves around occult murders and world conspiracies. The movie is riddled with occult symbols and allusions to a “New Order”. We’ll look at the history of Sherlock Holmes, the origins of the symbols found within the movie and its meaning in today’s  ...
  • Illuminati Symbolism: The Auto Industry
    This article will provide an in-depth analysis of each auto maker logo (badge/ emblem). It will show that they all can be traced back to three ancient esoteric symbols for the sun, and ancient Egypt. Those in control during ancient times are still in control now, and they insist on bombarding us wit ...
  • Destabilizing Pakistan – Operation Breakfast Redux
    By Tom Engelhardt and Pratap Chatterjee Almost every day, reports come back from the CIA’s “secret” battlefield in the Pakistani tribal borderlands. Unmanned aerial vehicles – that is, pilotless drones – shoot missiles (18 of them in a single attack on a tiny village last week) or ...
  • Gerald Celente : This is a Total Financial Meltdow ...
    “I do not eat corporate food and I do not buy Made in China ” says Gerald Celente …If Israel and The US attack Iran it is the start of World War III , Iran is not Iraq… the top trends for 2010 are the crash of 2010 and terrorism 2010 , the anti Americanism [...] Read More at http://pakalert.wor ...

ecogeek

  • Heat-Resistant Algae Could Help Threatened Coral
    Warmer ocean temperatures pose a serious threat to corals around the world.  Warmer waters typically kill the brown or green algae that a reef depends on for food, leading to bleaching and death of the reefs, but Penn State scientists have found some algae are not affected by rising temperatures, b ...
  • Truck Retrofits Could Cut Fuel Use by 3.4 Billion ...
    The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Navistar are testing drag-reducing devices that could cut big rig fuel use by 12 percent, or 3.4 billion gallons a year.  The devices would fit into the areas of the truck that produce the most drag, making it more aerodynamic and reducing the e ...
  • Arctic Permafrost has Retreated 80 Miles in 50 Yea ...
    Scientists at Université Laval in Quebec have been tracking the movement of permafrost in the area and have found it's receding at an alarming rate. Aerial photos of the James Bay region between the 51st and 53rd parallels taken in 1957 were compared to those taken in 2004 and 2005.  The photos sh ...
  • Reservations for Nissan Leaf Starting in April; St ...
    Nissan will begin taking reservations for the Nissan Leaf in April, actual orders can be placed in August and cars will be delivered by the end of the year.  But a big question sitll looms - how much will it cost? You can reserve a Leaf for a $100 refundable fee, but as for the actual cost of the ...
  • 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 ...

    Environment _ National Geographic

  • Volcanoes Erupt Side by Side in New Satellite Pict ...
    Two neighboring Russian volcanoes exploded in unison last week. A geologist explains the science behind the picture.
  • Giant Redwoods May Dry Out; Warming to Blame?
    Some of the planet's tallest and longest-lived trees may be harmed by declining fog cover on California's coast, a new study suggests.
  • Vancouver 2010 to Be Warmest Winter Olympics Yet
    The Vancouver 2010 games will be the warmest Winter Olympics yet, experts say. And that may actually be good news for Olympians.
  • More Mega-Snowstorms Coming -- Global Warming to B ...
    Get used to heavy U.S. snowstorms, scientists say. The cause, though—global warming? El Niño?—is a subject of hot debate.
  • Haiti Earthquake & Voodoo: Myths, Ritual, and Robe ...
    A voodoo scholar explains how Haiti's many believers may view the earthquake, why he thinks Pat Robertson's post-quake remarks were "cruel, ignorant, unforgivable"—and more.

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

  • IRS Long a Target of Antigovernment Extremists
    This morning’s attack by Joseph Andrew Stack against an IRS office building in Austin, Tex., is a reminder again of how extreme hatred of government can morph into violence. Since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has documented 75 domestic terrorist plots, ...
  • Racists Holding Event at Former Justice Roy Moore’ ...
    This coming Saturday, the Foundation for Moral Law (FML) in Montgomery, Ala., will be the site of the 2010 Alabama Secession Day Commemoration , featuring speakers tied to the League of the South , a neo-Confederate hate group that considers slavery “God-ordained” and advocates for “the cultural dom ...
  • American Renaissance Finds New Venue for D.C. Conf ...
    After being cancelled because its organizers couldn’t find a venue willing to host it, this weekend’s white nationalist American Renaissance conference is back on again — this time at a Washington D.C. hotel where two similar events were recently held. Jared Taylor , who heads American Renaissance, ...
  • Student Activists Confront Anti-Semitic California ...
    Students at Cal State Long Beach are launching a campaign against a faculty member known for his anti-Semitic writings and, most recently, for his leadership of a white supremacist political party. Aiming to force Kevin MacDonald ’s departure from the university, student activists this week began ur ...
  • Oath Keepers Chief Denies Accused Rapist Was Membe ...
    Antigovernment “Patriots” are pledging support for a former Marine and self-described Oath Keeper who recently was charged with the rape of a child in Oklahoma and illegally having a grenade launcher. They say the man is being set up because of his own unorthodox and antigovernment views. Stewart Rh ...

change: org.

  • Turns Out, Immigrants' Health Care Doesn't Cost Th ...
    With his infamous "you lie!" heckle during President Obama's health care address to Congress, Rep. Joe Wilson put the issue of health care for immigrants at the forefront of the reform debate. Wilson's contention that President Obama's reform plan would include benefits for undocumented immigrants h ...
  • The Looming Debate Over Geoengineering
    Forget Climategate , DailyMailGate , RoseGate and every other attempt by the climate change denialist machine to distract the planet from the coming klimakatastrophe . All of these 'scandals' amount to the climate change science equivalent of the Swift Boat Campaign – they're not going to go away ...
  • Military Culture Punishes Rape Victims instead of ...
    Feminists are keenly aware that we live in a society that promotes a rape culture. I can think of few places that is this more obvious than in the rank and file of today's military. Women in uniform are finding themselves, too many times, victims of sexual assault and rape -- only to be re-victimize ...
  • Who Are the Most Innovative Companies in the World ...
    One of my favorite regular pieces in any magazine is Fast Company 's list of the most innovative companies in the world. This year, they've expanded the categories even further, identifying the 10 leading innovators across a huge array of industries. Innovation is in vogue these days. So many of the ...
  • The Military's Salute to Climate Change
    The case for climate action has gone through several incarnations. First was the environmental: The greenhouse effect would destabilize the planet's climate, melt the polar ice caps, wipe out coast lands disrupt ecosystems and cause mass extinctions. The second gave the issue a human face: Climate ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Tracking a New Kind of Civil Disobedience
    by Kathleen Burge NEWTON, Mass. - As Newton resident Lisa Dodson, a Boston College sociology professor in the thick of a research project, was interviewing a grocery story manager in the Midwest about the difficulties of the low-income workers he supervised, he asked her a curious question: "Don't y ...
  • Asia-Produced Ozone Making its Way to U.S., Study ...
    by Les Blumenthal WASHINGTON - A new study further bolsters concerns that pollution blowing across the Pacific Ocean from China and other rapidly developing Asian nations may swamp efforts to clean up the air in the Western United States and make it difficult for states and cities to meet federal st ...
  • Israel Unveils New Drone Fleet that Can Reach Iran
    Israel's air force has introduced a fleet of large unmanned planes that can fly as far as Iran. Air force officials say the Heron TP drones have a wingspan of 86 feet (26 meters), making them the size of passenger jets. They say the planes are primarily used for surveillance. The drones, built by st ...
  • Probes Overlook McChrystal's Role in Costly Afghan ...
    by Jonathan S. Landay WASHINGTON - Army Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, kept a remote U.S. base in the country manned last year at the local governor's request despite warnings from his field commanders that it should be closed because it was vulnerable and had no ...
  • Art Program Gves Boulder's Homeless a New Perspect ...
    by Heath Urie Ask a dozen artists what their creations mean to them and you'd probably get a dozen different answers. But to a group of Boulder women who paint and draw together for a few hours each week, their creations are motivated by one common bond: their art is an escape from homelessness. On ...

Lifehacker

  • Google Officially Ditching Gears for HTML5, Drops ...
    We've known for a while that Google wasn't actively improving Gears , their tool that offers offline support for many popular web applications. Now the Official Gears blog explains their transition to the game-changing HTML5 : If you've wondered why there haven't been many Gears releases or posts ...
  • Five Best Start Pages [Hive Five]
    Your start page is the first thing you see when you open your browser or load a new tab—your gateway to the rest of the web. Get the most from your start page with one of these five favorites. Whether the start page you're using is your browser's default or you've carefully selected it, checking out ...
  • Keep Your Headphones Tangle-Free and Nearby with a ...
    Reader Charles Kim has tried every cord -wrapping technique under the sun , but ultimately found that a vinyl badge clip to be the best tool for keeping his headphones tangle-free and on-hand when he needs them. There's actually nothing to it, once you've got a badge clip . Just fold your headphone ...
  • Add an Alpha-Numeric Passcode to Your iPhone or iP ...
    Want a little stronger security lock-down for your iPhone than what the 4-digit PIN offers? Weblog 9 to 5 Mac details how to enable a more secure alpha-numeric passcode on your device with a few tweaks. You've always been able to turn on the passcode lock in Settings -> General, requiring users to e ...
  • Top 10 Windows Media Center Plug-Ins and Boosters ...
    Microsoft's powerful home theater centerpiece, Windows Media Center, is easily one of the best applications that ships for free with Windows. But you can still make it better—and take it into new realms—with these plug-ins, helper apps, and tweaks. Photo by ryaninc . We've previously covered a coup ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • U.S. Pressure Over Afghanistan Leads To Dutch Gov. ...
    By Steve Hynd Here's a fine state of affairs: The Dutch government has ­collapsed over disagreements on whether or not to extend troop deployment in Afghanistan. The prime minister, Jan Peter Balkenende, said the Labour party – the second-largest party in his coalition government – was quitting. Bal ...
  • U.S. Pressure Over Afghanistan Leads To Dutch Gov. ...
    By Steve Hynd Here's a fine state of affairs: The Dutch government has ­collapsed over disagreements on whether or not to extend troop deployment in Afghanistan. The prime minister, Jan Peter Balkenende, said the Labour party – the second-largest party in his coalition government – was quitting. Bal ...
  • So, What's General Kayani Up To?
    By Steve Hynd Yes, this is going to be yet another post about the detention of Taliban No.2 Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, because now we've news that two other Taliban leaders have been arrested in Pakistan . Afghan officials said the Taliban’s “shadow governors” for two provinces in northern Af ...
  • Operation Moshtarak - Papering Over The Cracks
    By Steve Hynd Gareth Porter tells the Real News Network that Operation Moshtarak is intended purely for domestic consumption and is meant to prepare Americans for negotiations with the Taliban. And Joshua Foust is scathing about U.S. vague plans for a "government in a box" in Marjah. The Guardian ha ...
  • 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, ...

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CS Monitor - News

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

The Wonk Room

  • Glenn Beck: Up with Child Labor!
    Our guest blogger is senior fellow John Halpin, co-director of the Progressive Studies Program at the Center for American Progress. Glenn Beck’s dire warning yesterday at CPAC against progressivism — “the cancer in America” — was truly one for the Texas state history books. In exacting detai ...
  • Completing Global Warming Flip-Flop, Pawlenty Call ...
    Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-MN), a potential candidate for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012, completed the reversal of his stance on global warming today on Meet the Press. When asked by NBC’s David Gregory if climate change is real, the former champion of strong climate action questioned “how much ...
  • NYT Profile Leaves Out McCarthy’s Bigotry, C ...
    The New York Times runs a profile of former prosecutor, current National Review contributor Andrew McCarthy, presenting the NRO wackjob as a brave dissenter against using the U.S. legal system to deal with terrorism cases. While the Times profile does touch on some of McCarthy’s extremist views, su ...
  • Full Disclosure: White House Addresses Climate Cha ...
    Written by Sarah Collins, intern with the Energy Opportunity team at the Center for American Progress and a graduate of the University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, and Brad Johnson. Thursday, the Obama administration took an initial step to require all federal agencies to cons ...
  • Lincoln Wants To Do ‘More’ On Job Crea ...
    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is reportedly having a bit of trouble rounding up the votes to begin debate on a $15 billion jobs bill because (surprise, surprise), Republicans have threatened to filibuster. This problem has become further complicated because Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) ha ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Margaret Wente Wrote About Tiger Woods' Apology .. ...
    Oh, but of course I couldn't read it! The idea of that bimbo's thoughts about an subject that's already so banal that thinking about it kills your brain cells is terrifying enough! I wouldn't have thought such a thing possible until the Mayan Calendar runs out in 2012, when it could serve as one ...
  • Still more violence ...
    A couple more observations on violent protest, on top of this post and this post . By not condemning violence if it is employed in the interest of causes that I support, don't I leave myself open for the chaos that will result if other people, whose causes I reject, also resort to violence? To a d ...
  • Note to MSM: The Tea-Baggers Can Be Ignored ...
    ... just like we were. You know us, we're the " unserious " people who were right about the FTA and NAFTA . Who were right about Afghanistan . Who were right about Iraq . Who were right about the Olympics . Who were right about Mike Harris . You ignored us, and you cheer-led for disastrous eco ...
  • Weren't There Billions and Billions in Tax Cuts?
    A quick question (prompted by discussion of Newfoundland and Labrador premier Danny Williams abruptly taking off for heart surgery in the United States recently): Haven't successive prime ministers and premiers since Brian Mulroney's era been cutting taxes? And haven't the bulk of these tax cuts g ...
  • Democracy in Haiti Will Be Destroyed (and other st ...
    It's sickening, and I can't really bring myself to read much about it. But the massive amounts of aid going to Haiti can be divided into two groups: 1) Real aid, sent by people genuinely concerned about the human suffering they're witnessing and 2) Bullshit "aid" sent by imperialists as a means of ...

Financial Sense Editorials

  • Market Observation: Is the Glass (Steagall) Really ...
    by Brian pretti. "As you already know, the pre-midterm election/post Massachusetts election get tough on Wall Street and the banks official Administration policy is now in play. Maybe. Sort of. Well, we’ll see. At least it was a short term sound bite the Street took seriously for about 3 seconds at ...
  • The ABCs of ETFs
    by Marin Katusa. "Why invest in a fund, a cluster of stocks, rather than the stocks themselves? The reasons are twofold. First, a fund provides cheaper diversification for those investors with smaller amounts of capital. Buying each component of a fund spreads out your risk in the same way, but you ...
  • Europe's Return to Risky Investment
    by Elliott Wave Int. "Over 100 banks are opening soon, buying junk bonds is gaining popularity and emerging markets are the trendy investment. Sound familiar? Europe appears to be returning to some bad investment habits. "
  • Civilization's Wrecking Crew
    by J. R. Nyquist. "Joseph Schumpeter once explained that many Marxists and Keynesians never read a line of Marx or Keynes. According to Thomas Sowell, "They have gotten their ideas second- or third-hand from the intelligentsia." One might say that Marxism and Keynesianism bear a resemblance to dise ...
  • Market Observation: Emerging Markets - Key Chart F ...
    by Martin Goldberg CMT. "It seems that most market professionals love the emerging markets! So is their love supported by their technical charts? As you will see in the analysis below, probably not. Below you see a weekly chart of the emerging market ETF (symbol EEM). Many of the professionals who l ...

on Government Oversight

  • Contracts -- Somebody Might Be Watching You
    This week ends with remarkable news in the federal contract transparency world. First, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) announced that a new and improved version of USAspending.gov will be released this year. I had the privilege of beta...
  • Morning Smoke: Treasury Secretary Could See New Ov ...
    Bill would broaden Treasury secretary's power by Brady Dennis and David Cho [The Washington Post] F-​​35 Nunn-​​McCurdy Breach All But Certain: AF Chief by Greg Grant [Defense Tech] VIDEO: General Schwartz versus the defense industry by Stephen Trimble [The DEW...
  • Your Two Cents on an Independent Audit Agency?
    Nick Baumann over at Mother Jones has posted some feedback on the 12 recommendations we recently made to Congress: My favorite idea of the bunch is probably the second one, an independent audit agency. The great thing about spending more...
  • Morning Smoke: Internal Controls at TSA Are Defici ...
    Inspector general faults TSA's internal controls [CongressDaily] Pentagon will ramp up F-35 review by Megan Scully [Government Executive] Homeland Security’s Billion-Dollar Bet on Better Communications by Sarah Laskow [Center for Public Integrity] Senate Panel Announces Big Hearing on Blackwater’s A ...
  • Morning Smoke: Joint Strike Fighter Delayed by One ...
    Pentagon confirms 1-year delay for JSF by John Reed [Air Force Times] A Timely Jolt for the F-35 [The New York Times] Tougher financial regulations not coming fast or easy for SEC's Mary Schapiro by Zachary Goldfarb [The Washington Post]...

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

  • The Role Of Curation In Journalism
    Jay Rosen points us to an article out of France that takes a stab at presenting what a modern internet-era newsroom should look like . The point that I find most interesting, that helped clarify a few different ideas for me, is that it splits "journalism" into three distinct categories, all of whic ...
  • Turns Out That People Are Actually Pretty Honest A ...
    Many people think that when people set up their online social networking profiles, they may be prone to... exaggerating a bit. Given that they can control what they say about themselves, many have posited that those profiles really represent an idealized version of themselves. Yet, perhaps that's ...
  • Connecting With Fans Is An Ongoing Process: Do Som ...
    I've been meaning to write about Topspin CEO Ian Rogers' "moonlighting" foray into managing the band Get Busy Committee . Given Ian's close involvement with new music business models, it's no surprise that he's been doing a lot of interesting things, from selling uzi-shaped USB keys with the album ...
  • Time To Change (Or Ditch) The USTR Special 301 Pro ...
    A few days ago, you may remember, I posted the comments I submitted to the USTR on the Special 301 report, where I pointed out the value of allowing countries to set their own intellectual property policy, rather than forcing everyone to follow US faith-based intellectual property policy. Tradition ...
  • School District Says It Only Turned Spy Cameras On ...
    More details are coming out about the case we wrote about yesterday concerning the school district that could (and did) turn on webcams on student laptops. The district is now claiming that, yes, it had the ability to do so, and in fact did so 42 times (though, it never told students or parents it ...

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

  • Growing Up Jewish – Sabbath Edition
    It occurs to me that I don’t spend near enough time pointing out the lunacies of the religion I was brought up in.  And since I am leaving today to go to Florida, where I will visit my kooky religious mother, it seems a perfect time for the the first installment of Growing Up Jewish. My [...]
  • 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 ...

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

  • Why does America support Israel – A panel di ...
    The following video is from a debate over the influence that the pro-Israeli lobbies such as AIPAC have over American politics. Favourite quote from video refers to Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in New York in a hotel lobby and some members of AIPAC wanted to talk him but he replied "I ...
  • Seven Reasons To Support Israel
    And just for an opposing view to the last few posts.... "Favourite" quote from this video is "If God says so that settles it". Okay then debate over.
  • Campaign begins to boycott Israeli Goods
    A campaign has begun to boycott Israeli goods in support of the Palestinian people. Why should you join the boycott? Taken from the bigcampaign.org website: The Palestinian people are experiencing their 42nd year of military occupation. The siege by the Israeli army and the economic blockade ha ...
  • Anti-Semitism is all right when its carried out by ...
    By Dark Politricks I stumbled across the SHIT list last week for the first time when researching my article on the building of a museum of tolerance by the Simon Wiesenthal centre on top of an ancient Muslim cemetery. If you don't know what the list is then I suggest taking a look and the SHIT st ...
  • Gaza Fishermen Fight to Keep a Way of Life Alive
    Pam Rasmussen Truthout.org Sunday 21 February 2010 Once upon a time, this little strip of land (just 139 square miles, about twice the size of Washington, DC) was a potentially booming resort and fishing capital, with 25 miles of beautiful coastline and beaches and a Mediterranean seaport teemi ...

food and water watch

  • USDA Goes Back to the Drawing Board On Better Trac ...
    In early February, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) pleasantly surprised small farmers and food protection advocacy groups alike by abandoning its National Animal Identification System (NAIS). NAIS was a program put in place after a 2003 occurrence of mad cow disease with intention ...
  • Two options for tap water at Vancouver Olympics: O ...
    Metro Vancouver recently took on the task of promoting the consumption of tap water over bottled water and is now battling it out with Coca-Cola at the Olympic games. As one of the Olympics biggest official sponsors, Coca-Cola, who claims their bottled water “doesn’t compete with tap water,” is of ...
  • Farm to School Needs More Support
    It seems the Obama administration is starting to take some steps toward addressing the childhood obesity epidemic. The President recently requested the inclusion of an additional $1 billion in funding for child nutrition programs in the national budget. This commitment preceded the unveiling of Fir ...
  • 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 ...

treehugger

  • THINK & Aerovironment: 80% EV Charge in 15 Minutes
    Image credit: ElectricAid Having teetered on the verge of bankruptcy , only to be rescued by a massive financial boost , the Think City Electric Car recently restarted production in Finland. And it's also been making... Read the full story on TreeHugger
  • Australia Sets Deadline For Japan to End Whaling o ...
    Physical conflict between anti-whaling activists and Japanese whalers has been growing. Here, members of Sea Shepherd throw stink bombs aboard a Japanese whaler. Photo: John via flickr. Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd has set a deadline for Japan to stop whaling in the Southern Ocean or fa ...
  • Freakonomics Looks at Plastic Packaging of Food, E ...
    Image via Apartment Therapy It's a tough job, trying to turn conventional wisdom on its head every day for the New York Times, but that doesn't stop the Freakonomics team from trying, from spreading lousy advice and from not seeing the forest for the trees. Take the packaging of fruits and vege ...
  • Reforestation in Brazil's Atlantic Forest Could He ...
    A lush valley in the Atlantic Forest. Photo by de Paula FJ vie Flickr. Guest blogger Cara Smusiak is a journalist and regular contributor to NaturallySavvy.com 's Naturally Green section. A reforestation project in Brazil's critically endangered Atlantic Forest been handed a boon in the form ...
  • New Helmet Design Uses Biomimicry to Reduce Rotat ...
    Lazer Helmets Here is an interesting idea for a helmet, designed for motorcyclists but that might work for cyclists and skateboarders down the road. 80% of fatal motorcycle accidents are caused by head trauma, and most of those are from "rotational acceleration" and subsequent "intracranial she ...

Biosingularity

  • Researchers develop dietary formula that maintains ...
    Researchers at McMaster University have developed a cocktail of ingredients that forestalls major aspects of the aging process. “As we all eventually learn, ageing diminishes our mind, fades our perception of the world and compromises our physical capacity,” says David Rollo, associate professor of ...
  • Chocolate lovers could be lowering their risk of s ...
    Giving chocolates to your Valentine on February 14th may help lower their risk of stroke based on a preliminary study from researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital. The study, which is being presented at the American Academy of Neurology in April, also found that eating chocolate may lower the risk of ...
  • Scientists synthesize unique family of anti-cancer ...
    Yale University scientists have streamlined the process for synthesizing a family of compounds with the potential to kill cancer and other diseased cells, and have found that they represent a unique category of anti-cancer agents. Their discovery appears in this week’s online edition of theJournal o ...
  • Re-Engineering the Human Immune System
    Swine Flu. Spanish Flu. SARS. Almost every year, it seems, there is a new virus to watch out for. Roughly thirty thousand Americans die annually from a new flu strain — meaning roughly one flu fatality for every two victims of car accidents — and there is always the possibility that we will do battl ...
  • New class of brain-protecting drugs emerging
    Researchers have identified a compound that mimics one of the brains own growth factors and can protect brain cells against damage in several animal models of neurological disease. 7,8-dihydroxyflavone is a member of the flavonoid family of chemicals, which are abundant in fruits and vegetables. T ...

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Pruning Shears

  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post I hate to sound like a broken record, but Dick Cheney is shameless and is eager to be publicly guilty . He has made his life an open, defiant challenge to the US government. Does anyone have the courage to take him down, and unleas ...
  • Getting Beyond Regulation
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The theory on how to best protect the public from private sector wrongdoing consists basically of regulation. From the Federal Reserve Act nearly a century ago to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) during the Depression to ...
  • 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 ...

Natural Health News

  • Denmark Uses Antibiotic-Free Animals
    The "Danish Experiment" is a source of pride for that country's 17,000 farmers. Unlike industrial farms in the U.S., which use antibiotics to promote growth and prevent disease, farmers in Denmark use antibiotics sparingly -- only when animals are sick. The experiment to stop widespread use of ...
  • Does Counting Sheep Really Help You Fall Asleep?
    The reason people count sheep when trying to sleep, as opposed to anything else, is uncertain. But the purpose is well known -- the sheer monotony of the task is meant to lull you to sleep. But does it work?  Sleep researchers recruited insomniacs and split them into groups. Then they monitored the ...
  • How Can Coke Sponsor Government Heart Healthy Prog ...
    Diet Coke and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health have joined forces to raise awareness about women’s risk of heart disease.  Diet Coke’s Red Dress Program will take center stage at high-profile events. The Center for Science in the Public Inte ...
  • Whooping Cough Strain Immune to Vaccine
    The bacteria that causes whooping cough has mutated, and is no longer affected by the vaccine now given to children in Australia. Researchers have identified significant changes in the two most common strains of the bordetella pertussis bacteria, which they also traced back to events in the late 1 ...
  • Dietary Formula Maintains Youthful Function into O ...
    Researchers have developed a cocktail of ingredients that forestalls major aspects of the aging process. Ingredients include vitamins B1, C, D, E, acetylsalicylic acid, beta carotene, folic acid, garlic, ginger root, ginkgo biloba, ginseng, green tea extract, magnesium, melatonin, potassium, cod li ...

Antemedius

  • Rightist Propaganda Absurdity: Snow Storm; Global ...
    It is understandable why in Propaganda 1 Nazi obfuscation master in residence Joseph Goebbels stressed repetition. The idea is you keep repeating the same basic points you want to cement into the minds of the controllable, in this case the Limbaugh-Palin-Tea Bag-Fox News solidly committed zealots. G ...
  • 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 ...
  • Greg Mortenson Builds Schools in War-Ridden Afghan ...
    (From The Paragraph .) From Climbing Mountains to Building Schools Greg Mortenson is an American, who grew up near Mount Kilimanjaro, where his father started a teaching hospital and his mother started a school. 20 +21 From that background, Mortenson became a nurse, and an avid mountain climber — ...
  • Thinking Beyond The Two Party System
    This piece was written as part of GreenChange Blog Action Day. Learn more here . I'm not going to pull any punches here. I detest the two party system. I believe that it undermines representative government. It makes our government more responsive to corporations than to citizens. It decreases ...
  • Tomgram: Engelhardt, Fear Inc.
    Originally published at TomDispatch.com Hold Onto Your Underwear This Is Not a National Emergency 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 w ...

Son of Alex Constantine's Blacklist

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

Climategate

  • The Church of FARCE
    If you have likened the warmers to religious zealots, this article from American Thinker provides an opinion about why the enviro-kooks are, in essence, a religious cult that should be known as FARCE.
  • Green police take down Al Gore
    In this animation, the Green Police take down Al Gore.
  • When is an oil palm plantation a rainforest?
    And another from commenter Graham. He’s on a roll. When is an oil palm plantation a rainforest? When the EC is handing out carbon offsets and paying for rainforests to be burned. “Two weeks ago, a leaked document from the EU revealed that the European Commission and some member states hope to incl ...
  • Another unjustified theory
    From a comment by Graham: Drew Shindell, at NASA’s Goddard Institute in New York, says: “It’s [methane] gone up by 150 percent since the pre-industrial period. So that’s an enormous increase. CO2, by contrast, has gone up by something like 30 percent. “For example, methane in the atmosphere also cre ...
  • Associated Press spins more Climategate lies
    Thanks to the prompting by Media Matters, I'll now prove that the Associated Press (AP) is complicit in perpetrating further Climategate hype and lies.

Opinio Juris

  • Yale Journal of International Law Conference on Go ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The release of the final report on the Yoo/Bybee “torture memos” reminds us of how government lawyering can intersect with the interpretation of international law.  And so just in time, the Yale Journal of International Law will be hosting a conference next Friday, Febr ...
  • Those Anti-Whaling Pirates
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku My former law firm colleague Natalie Klein (now a law prof at Macquarie) calls out aggressive anti-whaling protesters, suggesting they could be liable for piracy. WHEN Sea Shepherd Conservation Society member Pete Bethune climbed from his jet ski on to Japanese whaling s ...
  • Sarah Cleveland Defends the “Obama-Clinton” Approa ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I had the good fortune of participating in a symposium last week sponsored by the University of Virginia Law School’s John Bassett Moore Society.  Entitled “The Obama Impact”, the symposium explored the impact of the new administration on international law and policy.  ...
  • David Margolis’s Whitewashing
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I don’t have much time, but it’s important to note that although David Margolis may be a career attorney, he has made a career out of preventing government officials from being held accountable for their misconduct.  From Scott Horton: But “Yoda” Margo ...
  • D’Amato Sues Hungarian Railways for Holocaust-Era ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I don’t know about this lawsuit, presumably filed under the Alien Tort Statute, but it should be interesting.* A Northwestern University law professor has sued the Hungarian State Railways on behalf of Jews deported to camps during World War II. Anthony D’Amato, who teac ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • STUDY: Sea levels falling 2004-2010 data
    Consistent with the acknowledged lack of ocean warming as found by the ARGO project, the sensors are also finding a tiny decrease in sea levels, rather than a relentless rise: The full 6 year dataset from January 31, 2004 to...
  • BREAKING: IPCC lied about Antarctica, public belie ...
    The heartbreak for the UN IPCC continues with revelations it grossly underestimated the growing extent of Antarctic sea ice, in order to underscore the "it's worse than we thought" meme. Meanwhile, the latest Rasmussen Poll in the US finds only...
  • NIWA's David Wratt defends this?
    NIWA climate scientist David Wratt is on record in this week's Listener magazine defending the UN IPPC's work. Perhaps he could defend the IPCC position in the graph below. The IPCC claims Scandinavian temperature anomalies are higher than ever. The...
  • 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...

Public News Service

  • Expert: AZ Immigration Bill Will Hurt Crime Fight
    Expert: AZ Immigration Bill Will Hurt Crime Fight Phoenix, AZ – The latest effort by state lawmakers to crack down on illegal immigrants is headed for the Arizona House after passage this week in the Senate. A criminal justice expert says the bill’s unintended result will be more crime, especially i ...
  • 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 ...

My Care2 Picks

  • Does Insomnia Shrink Your Brain? : Discovery News
    Chronic insomniacs losing out on sleep may also be missing brain matter. For the first time, brain imaging has linked chronic insomnia to lower gray matter density in areas that regulate the brain's ability to Submitted by Robyn P. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Iran leader accuses U.S. of "war-mongering"
    Iran's supreme leader accused the United States on Wednesday of war-mongering and of turning the Gulf into an "arms depot" Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 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 ...

Angry Indian News

  • WWF: LOYAL ALLY TO AGRIBUSINESS AND GLOBALISATION
    By Javiera Rulli Geneva, 12 February 2010 The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) seems to have become a sort of environmental secretariat for agribusiness companies, as it is playing an increasingly dubious... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Patriot Movement Calling Joe Stack a Hero
    ABC News: "The Web was studded with praise for Stack almost immediately after his plane slammed into the Austin office complex Thursday morning. The admiring salutes appearing on sites ranging from... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Gaza City in Darkness
    uruknet.info :: "Last night the Children of the beleaguered Gaza strip held a candlelit protest on the streets of a Gaza City plunged into darkness as a result of the devastating and continued... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Tories tell Livni: we’ll change 'arrest' law
    The Jewish Chronicle: "Senior Conservatives have assured opposition leader Tzipi Livni that a Tory government would change the law that allows magistrates to issue arrest warrants for foreign... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Officials: Settler sewage flowing into West Bank v ...
    Maan News Agency: : Qalqiliya – Ma’an – Sewage from a treatment plant in the Israeli settlement of Sha’are Tiqwa has been flowing into a high school in the northern West Bank village of Azzun Atma... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • No title
    Old NAIS vs. New NAIS: No Way! No How! February 21, 2010 by ppjg | Editby Marti Oakley (C) 2010 copyright ALL RIGHTS RESERVED    The PPJ Gazette _____________________________________________________ The good news is the federal government has abandoned its original National Animal Identifi ...
  • Vote Yes or No on Equine Enforced ID
    There are a few people left that don’t know how disliked a government enforced animal ID is.  The people at www.thehorse.com are using a poll to help them understand the appreciation, or lack of it, for old NAIS, or the “new NAIS.” If you have an opinion go there, and down [...]
  • When will the snow end?
    The 2010 forecast warns of frequent stormy weather into March, with heavy rains and wet snows, for much of North America.
  • 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.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Governmenr

  • Report: Bush Lawyer Said President Could Order Civ ...
    The chief author of the Bush administration's "torture memo" told Justice Department investigators that the president's war-making authority was so broad that he had the constitutional power to order a village to be "massacred," according to a report released Friday night by the Office of Profes ...
  • British Prime Minister: Israeli officials were par ...
    In his recent testimony to the UK Committee investigating the Iraq war, British Prime Minister Tony Blair admitted that Israeli officials influenced and participated in the decision by the US and UK governments to attack Iraq in 2003. During testimony regarding his meetings in Texas with then-US ...
  • Dubai hit squad may have used diplomatic passports
    The hit squad that killed a senior Hamas official in Dubai may have entered the country using diplomatic passports, senior officials in the Emirates said yesterday, calling on Britain and other European countries whose passports were forged to launch a full-scale inquiry. "There is still informa ...
  • Report: PM approved Dubai assassination in early J ...
    Sources: Mossad hit squad trained for Dubai mission by secretly rehearsing in Tel Aviv hotel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorized in early January the assassination of Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, according to a report published in the Sunday Times. Based on information obtained ...
  • Two US pilots die in Iraq
    A US Army helicopter has reportedly been involved in an accident, as a result of which two America pilots were killed in north of Iraq. Reporting on the incident, which took place near an airfield, the US Army said, "The aircraft made a hard landing inside the base. There were no enemy forces p ...

    Blacklisted News

  • British Prime Minister: Israeli officials were par ...
    In his recent testimony to the UK Committee investigating the Iraq war, British Prime Minister Tony Blair admitted that Israeli officials influenced and participated in the decision by the US and UK governments to attack Iraq in 2003.
  • Yoo Called Civilian Slaughter OK
  • The Richest 1% Have Captured America's Wealth -- W ...
  • Gadhafi: Obama fears Israel will assassinate him l ...
    Gadhafi saw a dark motive behind a recent speech by Obama in support of Israel. "Obama offered $300 billion in aid to Israel and more military support. He avoided talking about Israel's nuclear weapons," he said.
  • Dubai wants head of Mossad arrested over Hamas ass ...

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

Innovation Canada

  • The STEALTH advantage
    The average Olympic ski race lasts between 90 and 110 seconds, with skiers clocking speeds of up to 130 kilometres per hour. The difference between a gold-medal performance and a 10th-place finish is often measured in hundredths of a second. As University of Calgary geomatics engineering professor G ...
  • 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 ...

Signs of the times

  • Big Brother can catch you even for an inspection v ...
    You know that startled feeling when a police cruiser is bearing down on you with flashing red and blue lights. You pull over to let the cop pass, but he pulls up behind you, and next thing you know, you're being asked for your license and registration. "I wasn't speeding, was I?" you ask in all inn ...
  • More doctors prefer the AK-Vaccine-47 rifle by Mer ...
    This parody cartoon grew out of the idea that vaccines are "shots" that are being increasingly forced upon children and teens. At times, these vaccines are enforced at gunpoint or with the presence of vicious guard dogs -- as happened in Maryland two years ago when a court judge ordered thousands of ...
  • Bridlington off-licence fingerprints customers
    An off-licence owner in Bridlington has started using fingerprint technology to deter underage drinkers and smokers. Rod Parker installed a scanner at his Bossy Boots shop in Queensgate just over a week ago. The equipment reads a customer's thumb or fingerprint and checks it against ID previously ...
  • More Doctors Prefer the AK-Vaccine-47 Rifle by Mer ...
    Comments by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger This parody cartoon grew out of the idea that vaccines are "shots" that are being increasingly forced upon children and teens. At times, these vaccines are enforced at gunpoint or with the presence of vicious guard dogs -- as happened in Maryland two years ...
  • Plants Are Actively Intelligent: What Does This Me ...
    Most vegetarians believe that by not eating animals, they are preserving life. Everyone knows that plants are alive but they are not viewed with the same level of intelligence as animals are. As science continues to uncover the complex nature of plants, it is becoming more apparent that plants are a ...

Threat Level

  • Probe Traces Google Hack to Chinese Schools
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Recent cyber attacks on Google and other American corporations have been traced to a top Chinese university as well as a school with ties to the Chinese military, The New York Times reported on Thursday, citing people involved in the investigation. Those people told the Times th ...
  • School District Halts Webcam Surveillance
    A suburban Philadelphia school district is deactivating a webcam, theft-tracking program secretly lodged on 2,300 student laptops following allegations the device was used by administrators to spy on a boy at home. “I think given the concerns of parents and community members, I think we have a resp ...
  • Dubai Assassination Was Work of Mossad and Likely ...
    The elaborate assassination of a Hamas official last month in Dubai has all the earmarks of a Mossad operation and was likely sanctioned by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, says a former case officer in the Israeli intelligence service. Victor Ostrovsky, who wrote a controversial book about his ...
  • Feds Can Search, Seize P2P Files Without Warrant
    The authorities do not need court warrants to view and download files traded on peer-to-peer networks, a federal appeals court says. Wednesday’s 3-0 ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concerned a Nevada man convicted of possessing child pornography as part of an FBI investigation. Defen ...
  • Google Books Fosters Intellectual, Legal Crossroad ...
    Nobody in their right mind opposes the intellectual soundness of digitizing the world’s books – even titles gathering dust in the stacks of university libraries — and making them available online. Yet Google will encounter stiff resistance in a Manhattan federal court Thursday during a marathon he ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Pawlenty Swings 9 Iron, Clubs Self
    After his dismal performance at this weekend's CPAC conference, Minnesota Governor and 2012 White House hopeful Tim Pawlenty might want to ask for a mulligan. Before finishing a distant fourth in the CPAC straw poll, Pawlenty's speech was panned by the conservative faithful he sought to impress. W ...
  • The Bush 400
    For Democrats wavering in their resolve to end the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, shocking new data from the IRS should hopefully stiffen their backbones. Between 2001 and 2007 , the 400 richest taxpayers doubled their annual incomes to an average of $345 million, while their effective ...
  • Austin Attack Highlights Dangerous Anti-IRS Rhetor ...
    Thursday's suicide airplane attack on the Austin office of the Internal Revenue Service by a disgruntled tax protester has once again focused attention on dangerously inflammatory anti-IRS rhetoric. To be sure, the language was threatening. "Gestapo-like tactics." "The IRS is out of control!" "W ...
  • For Republicans, Stimulus Reality Bites
    Back in January, a CNN poll revealed that "nearly three out of four Americans think that at least half of the money spent in the federal stimulus plan has been wasted." But one year after the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was signed into law, the numbers - and the overw ...
  • 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 ...

Blackspot News Feed

Consortium News

  • Yoo Called Civilian Slaughter OK
    Ex-Bush legal adviser John Yoo said President Bush could legally slaughter a village of civilians, reports Jason Leopold. February 20, 2010
  • Upping the Bid on American Justice
    The U.S. Supreme Court ruling on campaign spending means more bought state judges, Bill Moyers and Michael Winship note. February 20, 2010
  • US Media Replays Iraq Fiasco in Iran
    The major U.S. news media is acting like a propaganda vehicle on Iran much like it did on Iraq, observes Robert Parry. February 18, 2010
  • 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

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

TruthHugger

  • Tax and Defiance – Short Sighted Protester, Joe St ...
    Income Tax is Public money that is managed by our elected politicians, who also design the rules for how to use that money. The American Voter is where the ultimate responsibility lies. If the American voter cannot recognize they are complicit in creating a monster taxation system, they can throw ...
  • 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 ...

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Unexplained Mysteries

  • SETI founder wants off-world listening post
    Frank Drake has expressed an interest in sending out a spacecraft to listen for alien signals where they'd be easier to pick up. By sending the listen...
  • Weight lifting ant wins contest
    A photograph showing a tiny ant lifting a 500mg weight has won a prestigious photograph competition. Its an image that captures brilliantly the incred...
  • Curse of the cocaine mummies
    In the ancient world cocaine grew only in the Andes, so how did the Egyptian mummy of Ramses II have some on him ? Its an enduring mystery that has ra...
  • Can we dispose of nuclear waste in volcanoes ?
    It seems like the ideal way to dispose of radioactive materials within nature's biggest furnaces. There are some 29,000 tons of spent uranium fuel rod...
  • Turin Shroud to go on display
    The Turin Shroud is expected to attract up to 100 million visitors when it goes on display in Northern Italy this year. It is a rare thing indeed for ...

Grassroots

  • Don't Deny Peaceful Protests in West Bank
    Former Grassroots International Board member and current Board member of the U.S. Campaign to�End the Israeli Occupation ,�Bill Fletcher Jr. recently blogged on CNN.com about the "frequent tendency to misrepresent the lessons of�[the�U.S. black freedom]�movement and apply them to other social moveme ...
  • Water for All, Not for Profit
    brazil200907-395.jpg Last month I went to Wingspread in Racine, Wisconsin for a meeting of water funders (mainly foundations funding freshwater conservation) where I’d been asked to be on a panel addressing issues of Equity, Rights and the Com ...
  • 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 ...

Climate

  • February 21, 2010
    State Senate committee Urges EPA to Cease Regulating Greenhouse Gases (Deseret News) The Utah Senate Natural Resources Committee passed a controversial climate change resolution on Friday urging the U.S. EPA to cease its regulation of CO2 as a pollutant. Ohio Coal Group Challenges EPA on ...
  • February 19, 2010
    Governor, Premier Sign Mining, Drilling Ban (AP) Leaders from Montana and British Columbia signed an agreement Thursday banning coal mining and oil and gas drilling in a valley along the U.S.-Canadian border north of Glacier National Park. Google Cleared on Power Bid (Wall Street Journa ...
  • February 18, 2010
    Business Groups Challenge EPA on Greenhouse Gases (AP) Several industry groups, including the American Petroleum Institute and the National Association of Home Builders, have joined a list of organizations and states challenging the EPA's finding that CO2 pollution is dangerous to people. ...
  • February 17, 2010
    Virginia Challenges U.S. Greenhouse Gas Curbs (Washington Post) Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II has sent a petition to the U.S. EPA, asking the agency to reconsider its finding in December that greenhouse gases pose a danger to public health by contributing to climate change. ...
  • 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) ...

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

  • Rampage in Central Philadelphila Shows the Potenti ...
    City leaders and the downtown business community in Philadelphia are wringing their hands and calling for "tough action" against a horde of some 150 high school kids from eight of the city's decrepit and failing high schools who rampaged late Tuesday afternoon through the Center City district's shop ...
  • Crushing debt a Greek tragedy
    Rebuilding country's economy while preventing the pain from spreading through the EU will require a herculean effort NEW YORK -- The fifth labour of the mythological Greek hero Hercules was cleaning 30 years of accumulated manure from the Augean stables. He did so by diverting two rivers, then went ...
  • Yoo, Bybee, and Disinformation
    Everything you're reading about torture lawyers John Yoo and Jay Bybee getting off the hook is wrong. They are not torture lawyers, they are not off the hook, there never was any hook, they may not be lawyers for long, impeachment and indictment are on the agenda, and you have a role to play. Calli ...
  • I Support Terry Nichols' Hunger Strike
    As a lifelong progressive committed to nonviolence, I have little sympathy for a man who conspired in the most heinous act of domestic right-wing terrorism in U.S. history. For his role in the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing that killed 168 people (including kids at childcare), Terry Nichols is serving ...
  • What Are We Bid for American Justice?
    by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship That famous definition of a cynic as someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing has come to define this present moment of American politics. No wonder people have lost faith in politicians, parties and in our leadership. The power of money d ...

Ten Percent

  • UK & Israel Are Conspiring To Protect War Criminal ...
    Britain is braced for a diplomatic row after a senior Israeli politician warned that she was preparing to travel to the UK, where she faces an arrest warrant for alleged war crimes. Tzipi Livni, the former Israeli Foreign Minister and now the leader of the Opposition, said that she wanted to test pr ...
  • Sahgal Expands Campaign To Canada
    This is an interview- CBC The Current 18/02/10 with Anna Maria Tremonti with Gita Sahgal and then Claudio Cordone, available here and as a podcast. Sahgal is upping the ante, yet presenting no evidence and the interviewer is repeating assertions that are not factual but seem to be becoming ‘accept ...
  • Friday! The Young Gods- She Rains
  • Doctor Who IS Craig Murray!
    Well David Tennant is- Saturday 20th BBC Radio 4 Saturday Play- Murder in Samarkand David Hare’s witty portrait of an unlikely hero, based on the memoir by Craig Murray. Craig is proud to be sent as Ambassador to Uzbekistan, eager to work hard and also eager for fun. The combination takes him on a ...
  • Moazzam Begg Responds
    This latest article by Moazzam Begg is well worth reading and I do hope he does not withdraw from the wider public sphere, people such as him provide engagement as points of nexus, it is not necessary to agree with all he has to say but it is necessary to communicate, the smears against him [...]

Booman Tribune

  • Clubby Senate
    Evan Bayh recalls a milder time in the Senate: While romanticizing the Senate of yore would be a mistake, it was certainly better in my father’s time. My father, Birch Bayh, represented Indiana in the Senate from 1963 to 1981. A progressive, he nonetheless enjoyed many friendships with moderate R ...
  • The Great Set-Up
    Mitch McConnell asks a question about the health care summit. "If they're going to lay out the plan they want to pass four days in advance, then what are we doing there on Thursday?" McConnell asked. McConnell is referring to the White House's intention to offer a complete bill on Monday and p ...
  • Sunday Morning Cuteness Overload
    and open thread.
  • Froggy Bottom Cafe
  • Reid Moving a Reconciliation Bill
    Harry Reid has announced, in strong and confident terms, his intention to pass a health care bill in the next 60 days, and to do it (most likely) through the use of the budget reconciliation process. This was always how I envisioned this happening until the Dems briefly reached the magic number of ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Personal Information – the pilot episode
    Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information – the pilot episode Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low ...
  • Crowdfunding the creatives – should writers ask fo ...
    The entry of former Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde into the micropayments scene with the beta-launch of his new Flattr service has people discussing donation-based funding models for creatives once again. Micropayments have been mooted plenty of times before now, but no one has ever made them wor ...
  • Back to the future of the past? Venture capitalist ...
    Advocates of science fictional thinking crop up in the weirdest places. For example, Peter Thiel helped found PayPal and invested early in Facebook, and his main business is hedge funds and venture capital (which may predispose one to take his ideas with a large pinch of salt, given the economic eve ...
  • Artificial Flight – Dresden Codak spoofs AI skepti ...
    Dresden Codak is one of my favourite webcomics; its creator, Aaron Diaz, is a staunch transhumanist, but rather than soapboxing directly he embeds his philosophical interests into his creative work. This occasionally spills over into brief satirical ripostes against anti-transhumanist naysayers; lon ...
  • Please Rob Me: what’s the big panic, exactly?
    Unless you’ve been sleeping under that hypothetical internet-proof rock for the last 24 hours, you’ve probably caught wind of the charmingly-named Please Rob Me, a site that aggregates publicly-available Twitter updates which announce that their creator has left their home empty while they go somewh ...

Therapy News

  • Researcher Examines Effect of Vacations on Psychol ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Taking a bit of a break from the everyday rhythm of life is often touted as being an effective therapy in and of itself, and scores of people take advantage of the mental and emotional benefits of vacationing each year. Typically aimed at providing a relaxing contrast ...
  • Therapy Options for Tourette’s Expanding
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline A psychological concern that affects a fair amount of children and some adults, Tourette’s Syndrome can cause social difficulties and produce issues of poor self-esteem and frustration, calling for treatments that help such clients overcome symptoms while also working ...
  • Clients with Anxiety Show Differences in Emotional ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Modern psychotherapeutic treatments for symptoms of anxiety are often able to help clients overcome panic attacks, feelings of constant or debilitating worry, and other issues frequently experienced when anxiety is diagnosed. But understanding precisely why the brain ...
  • GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up
    GoodTherapy.org is pleased to announce a new feature on our site; the Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up! Each Friday, GoodTherapy.org will post ten of the week’s top news stories and articles about psychology, psychotherapy, and mental health from around the web. Located under the “Therapy News” ...
  • Fighting the “Quick Fix” for Depression
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline In today’s culture of convenience, it’s not surprising, perhaps, that many people who find themselves facing psychological concerns opt for whatever treatment type is seen as fastest. In many cases, people experiencing symptoms of depression may seek anti-depressants ...

Mountaintop Removal

An Iowa Interview with Appalachian Voices - Blog f ...
  • An Iowa Interview with Appalachian Voices Blog for Iowa (blog) According to Matt Wasson and other experts, when you look at the entire process, from mountaintop removal through burning and coal ash disposal,there is no ...
  • New GAO report documents mountaintop removal damag ...
    Charleston Gazette (blog) New GAO report documents mountaintop removal damage Charleston Gazette (blog) The US Government Accountability Office (the GAO) has released its second major report on mountaintop removal coal mining in the last three months. ... Report: Mountaintop-removal damage outlives ...
  • Awareness needed on mountaintop removal - Bowling ...
    Awareness needed on mountaintop removal Bowling Green Daily News ... a determination to do all I can to bring awareness about mountaintop removal practices now going on in Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia and Virginia. ...
  • Kentuckians Sollee, Moore offer plea to save the h ...
    Kentuckians Sollee, Moore offer plea to save the hills with album 'Dear Companion' Louisville Courier-Journal Although inspired by topics dealing with mountaintop removal , it's not so much a record ...
  • Science, policy, pressure pay off with new BC mini ...
    Science, policy, pressure pay off with new BC mining ban Daily Inter Lake Not long after that, Cline Mining announced plans to pursue another mountaintop-removal coal-mining operation on Foisey Creek, one of the northernmost ... and more��

Memeorandum

  • McConnell: 'Not clear' if GOP can block partisan t ...
    Michael O'Brien / The Hill : McConnell: ‘Not clear’ if GOP can block partisan tactic on healthcare   —  It's “not clear” whether enough Democrats will defect on a majority-vote procedure on health legislation to stop it, the Senate's top Republican said Sunday.  —  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McCo ...
  • The Fat Lady Has Sung (Thomas L. Friedman/New York ...
    Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times : The Fat Lady Has Sung   —  A small news item from Tracy, Calif., caught my eye last week.  Local station CBS 13 reported: “Tracy residents will now have to pay every time they call 911 for a medical emergency.  But there are a couple of options.  Residents can ...
  • Millions of Unemployed Face Years Without Jobs (Pe ...
    Peter S. Goodman / New York Times : Millions of Unemployed Face Years Without Jobs   —  BUENA PARK, Calif. — Even as the American economy shows tentative signs of a rebound, the human toll of the recession continues to mount, with millions of Americans remaining out of work, out of savings and nea ...
  • Boos as Paul wins CPAC straw poll (The Politico)
    The Politico : Boos as Paul wins CPAC straw poll   —  Rep. Ron Paul, the libertarian-leaning Texas Republican who ran a quixotic bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, was the top vote-getter in the Conservative Political Action Conference's straw poll, capturing the support of 31 ...
  • Why I'm Leaving the Senate - BASEBALL may be our n ...
    Evan Bayh / New York Times : Why I'm Leaving the Senate   —  BASEBALL may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience.  Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.0, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
    Sunday, February 21, 2010 00:56:57 UTC Sunday, February 21, 2010 09:56:57 AM at epicenter Depth : 51.00 km (31.69 mi)
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China Dialogue

  • Clash to cash in Niger Delta?
    To dissuade its volatile – and poor -- oil region from rearming, Nigeria proposes handing over 10% stakes in its biggest energy industry to “host communities”. Tom Burgis and Martin Sandbu report. On Commander Ebi’s baseball cap, the logo reads: “Alaska”. Little else connects the 42-year-old – who h ...
  • A disappointing business
    China’s greenest entrepreneurs went to Copenhagen amid great fanfare – but did they actually achieve much? Feng Jie is not convinced. On returning from the climate conference at Copenhagen, the Vanke Group chairman, Wang Shi, posted a picture of himself pushing an old bike through the streets of the ...
  • Stand-off in Beijing
    A heated debate in the Chinese capital exposed the social impacts of waste management decisions. Xie Yanmei reports. Last August, dozens of cars filed out of a gated housing compound in a northern Beijing suburb and paraded through the surrounding streets. Slogans plastered on the vehicles read: “Re ...
  • 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 ...

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Threat Level

  • Probe Traces Google Hack to Chinese Schools
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Recent cyber attacks on Google and other American corporations have been traced to a top Chinese university as well as a school with ties to the Chinese military, The New York Times reported on Thursday, citing people involved in the investigation. Those people told the Times th ...
  • School District Halts Webcam Surveillance
    A suburban Philadelphia school district is deactivating a webcam, theft-tracking program secretly lodged on 2,300 student laptops following allegations the device was used by administrators to spy on a boy at home. “I think given the concerns of parents and community members, I think we have a resp ...
  • Dubai Assassination Was Work of Mossad and Likely ...
    The elaborate assassination of a Hamas official last month in Dubai has all the earmarks of a Mossad operation and was likely sanctioned by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, says a former case officer in the Israeli intelligence service. Victor Ostrovsky, who wrote a controversial book about his ...
  • Feds Can Search, Seize P2P Files Without Warrant
    The authorities do not need court warrants to view and download files traded on peer-to-peer networks, a federal appeals court says. Wednesday’s 3-0 ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concerned a Nevada man convicted of possessing child pornography as part of an FBI investigation. Defen ...
  • Google Books Fosters Intellectual, Legal Crossroad ...
    Nobody in their right mind opposes the intellectual soundness of digitizing the world’s books – even titles gathering dust in the stacks of university libraries — and making them available online. Yet Google will encounter stiff resistance in a Manhattan federal court Thursday during a marathon he ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Britain, Ireland to press Israel over passports
    BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Israel's foreign minister will face sharp questions from his British and Irish counterparts in Brussels on Monday over Israel's alleged use of forged European passports by a team of assassins in Dubai.
  • Europe and Asia sweep medals as U.S. falters
    VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Lindsey Vonn and Shani Davis, two of the performers who helped rescue the Vancouver Olympics from a slew of bad publicity, were relegated to bit-part roles on a day of upsets and drama at the Winter Games on Saturday.
  • Oh yes, says Ohno as Blair's record beaten
    VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Apolo Anton Ohno once featured on South Korean toilet paper but now the short track skater is flush with Olympic medals and a new American record.
  • Future of AIDS gels may lie in drugs, experts say
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The quest for a cream or gel to prevent AIDS infection has narrowed to using powerful HIV pills that are already on the market, scientists say.
  • Reviewers urge Glaxo's Avandia come off market
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two U.S. drug safety reviewers have recommended that GlaxoSmithKline PLC's diabetes drug Avandia be pulled from the market after concluding it is more dangerous to the heart than a rival medicine, according to documents released on Saturday.

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

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  • Montgomery County MD Schedules 1000 Americans Kill ...
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  • Yoo, Bybee, and Disinformation
    By David Swanson Everything you're reading about torture lawyers John Yoo and Jay Bybee getting off the hook is wrong. They are not torture lawyers, they are not off the hook, there never was any hook, they may not be lawyers for long, impeachment and indictment are on the agenda, and you have a ro ...
  • Top 50 New Names for War on Iraq
    By David Swanson On Friday afternoon, I posted the following announcment online : CONTEST: Obama Calls War on Iraq "A New Dawn" -- What Do You Call It? (Limit 8 Words) I'll start the entries: Operation Funnel Unlimited Cash to Killing (OFUCK) The winner will be announced on an aircraft carrier with ...
  • Marcy Winograd (CA-36): Military Contractors Gave ...
    Dear Friend, My opponent Jane Harman relies on military contractors to keep herself in office. Military contractors rely on my opponent to keep us at war. Already, my opponent has taken almost $60,000 in campaign contributions (2009/2010) from military contractors. Certainly, these contributions ...
  • U.N. Rejects ‘Militarization’ of Afghan Aid
    U.N. Rejects ‘Militarization’ of Afghan Aid By Roc Nordland | NY Times Senior United Nations officials in Afghanistan on Wednesday criticized NATO forces for what one referred to as “the militarization of humanitarian aid,” and said United Nations agencies would not participate in the military’ ...

Grist - News

  • Halliburton secret spurs investigation into gas-dr ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes Louis Meeks’ well water contains methane gas, hydrocarbons, lead and copper, according to the EPA’s test results. When he drilled a new water well, it also showed contaminants. The drilling company Encana is supplying Meeks with drinking water.Abrahm Lustgarten / ProPublicaTh ...
  • Obama rebukes climate skeptics
    by Agence France-Presse HENDERSON, Nev. -- President Barack Obama on Friday rebuked climate change skeptics who argue that piles of snow dumped on the United States during a frigid winter cast doubt on global warming science. "We just got five feet of snow in Washington," said Obama, when asked ...
  • All-electric plug-in project seeks to make the fam ...
    by Agence France-Presse SAN DIEGO -- U.S. researchers unveiled a vehicle Thursday that could earn money for its driver instead of guzzling it up in gasoline and maintenance costs. The converted Toyota Scion xB, shown at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Scien ...
  • Two months after Copenhagen summit, U.N. climate p ...
    by Agence France-Presse PARIS -- The head of the United Nations' climate convention said Thursday that he was to resign, in a surprise announcement that comes barely two months after the fiercely contested Copenhagen summit on tackling global warming. Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the U.N ...
  • 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 ...

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Washington Independent

  • An Open Letter to Liz Cheney on Torture
    Dear Ms. Cheney, I don’t know if you saw ‘Meet The Press’ this morning, but a general you may have heard of named David Petraeus — he’s the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East and South Asia and is the most distinguished Army general since Colin Powell — graced your television. He was asked ...
  • Glenn Beck at CPAC: ‘Progressivism is a Canc ...
    Glenn Beck closed the 37th annual CPAC with a passionate, personal, ideological-but-not-partisan speech about his career and America’s values. For 45 minutes held the crowd in the palm of his hand, veering between tales of his small town upbringing and denunciations of the progressive movement. “Pro ...
  • Ron Paul Wins 2010 CPAC Presidential Straw Poll
    Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) scored a victory in the annual CPAC straw poll, besting nine other Republicans in a vote taken by around 2,395 attendees — around 25 percent of the people at this conservative conference. Paul won 31 percent of the vote; Mitt Romney came in second with 22 percent, his first s ...
  • Andrew Breitbart Meets Daryle Jenkins of the One P ...
    Max Blumenthal’s appearance at CPAC ended, apparently, with a confrontation between him and Andrew Breitbart. The subject of the argument: the Salon.com story that I’ve written about here Blumenthal claimed, incorrectly, that O’Keefe had helped organize a “racist conference” in 2006 — in reality, O’ ...
  • Gingrich: GOP Will Take House and Senate from &#82 ...
    Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich — who bounded onto the CPAC stage to the strainfs of Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger” — predicted that the GOP will seize control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections. That was the headline-grabbing bit of his bombastic, 30-minute speech, which touc ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

  • Snail pie is tastier, more nutritious than beef
    Malnutrition and iron deficiency among schoolchildren in developing countries could be reduced by serving up generous portions of delicious, bargain-priced snail pie and other handy beef alternatives. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • CO2, Methane Ousted as Worst Global Climate Change ...
    Move over CO2—you’ve been ousted, along with methane, as the biggest offenders of global climate change. The majority of “greenhouse gases” are created by humans. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Skeptics claim global warming is fake after top sc ...
    Hackers recently broke into thousands of emails and internal documents from a leading climate research center and dumped them onto an anonymous Russian server. The hacked emails (160 MB worth, unzipped) came from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic R Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to ...
  • We're expanding, while economy shrinks
    Americans now have another excuse for hitting the fast food establishments and getting farther out of shape by adding unwanted weight, and it's allegedly not their fault. The latest health discovery is called "recession pounds," and some researchers Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to So ...
  • Reports call for radical rethink on food policy to ...
    The food and farming sector is not pulling its weight when it comes to tacking climate change and food shortages could be the consequence if we fail to make fundamental changes to the way we farm, process, distribute and eat our food over the next 20 year Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to ...

Suzie-Q

  • CPACers, The Joke’s On You
    Yuck it up, CPACers, the joke’s on you Conservative activists spend three days giddily forecasting a return to power in 2012. History suggests otherwise Salon- By Steve Kornacki Saturday, Feb 20, 2010 18:20 EST The man who assured us we’d be greeted as liberators in Iraq dropped in on this year†...
  • Behind Clinton’s tough talk on Iran
    The goal of Hillary Clinton’s rhetoric seems to be to promote conflict and convince Americans Iran is a threat to their security Mark Weisbrot, The Guardian/UK, Feb 18, 2020 In a visit to Qatar and Saudi Arabia this week, Hillary Clinton said that Iran “is moving toward a military [...]
  • CPAC Straw Poll: Ron Paul Wins
    CPAC 2010 Straw Poll RESULTS: Ron Paul Wins Big Huff Po– Sam Stein First Posted: 02-20-10 05:40 PM   |   Updated: 02-20-10 06:00 PM In a strong reflection of just how strong his standing remains within the die-hard conservative community, Texas Republican and 2008 presidential candidate Rep. ...
  • UK called to account over torture allegations
    From The Times February 20, 2010 Frances Gibb, Legal Editor, and Sean O’Neill, Security Editor The Government’s own human rights watchdog has demanded a public inquiry into claims that British intelligence agencies were complicit in the torture of more than 20 detainees in the War on Terror, The Tim ...
  • Conyers Announces Hearings On Torture Memos
    Conyers Slams Authors Of Torture Memos, Announces Hearings TPM Muckraker Justin Elliott | February 19, 2010, 5:44PM In a statement this afternoon, [Friday], House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) says that the Justice Department torture memo report released today makes “plain that those mem ...

Solari

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  • Class Warfare’s Next Target: 401(k) Savings
    By Newt Gingrich and Peter Ferrara You did the responsible thing. You saved in your IRA or 401(k) to support your retirement, when you could have spent that money on another vacation, or an upscale car, or fancier clothes and jewelry. But now Washington is developing plans for your retirement savin ...
  • Monsanto Indian Farmer Suicide
  • Plane Crash Suspect’s Online Diatribe
    Posting rages at IRS, claims, “I have had all I can stand” FEBRUARY 18—The man suspected of intentionally crashing an airplane into a Texas office building today appears to have posted a lengthy online diatribe attacking the Internal Revenue Service and declaring that, “I know I’m hardly the first ...
  • 43% Say Local Government Better Than Feds, States
    Rasmussen Reports (16 Feb 10) Forty-three percent (43%) of U.S. voters rate the performance of their local government as tops compared to its counterparts on the state and federal level. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 14% think the federal government does a better ...

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 ...
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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

  • M&S to fund kerbside recycling
    Marks & Spencer (M&S) has announced plans to fund kerbside collection for recyclable material, which it will use to make food packaging for its stores.
  • Romantic and organic
    ADVERTISING PROMOTION Food and romance have been inextricably linked ever since we learned how to make fire and light candles. But it’s best not go down the well-trodden route of couples the world over - don’t join the ranks of diners in crowded restaurants enjoying weekend “treats”, staring dejecte ...
  • SETI founder wants to expand alien hunt
    The founder of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), Frank Drake, wants to expand the hunt for aliens by sending spacecraft out to listen for other-worldly communications. He proposes widening the search by around 82 billon kilometres, as at this point electromagnetic signals from dis ...
  • Tigers 'outnumber' great white sharks
    There are fewer great white sharks left in the world's oceans than previously thought, leading marine expert Dr Ronald O'Dor has claimed. According to Dr O'Dor, who is the senior scientist at the Census of Marine Life project, the fish has become so threatened that it is now outnumbered by tigers. ...
  • Top graduates wanted for social work
    High-flying graduates have been targeted by a new scheme aimed at attracting top professionals into social work. As part of the scheme, graduates with a 2:1 degree or above and experience working with children and families will be offered £15,000 to study for a Masters degree and move into social wo ...

Fabius Maximus

  • FM newswire for 21 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. We should check the bill before we sign the check:  “Value of the “Too Big to Fail” Big Bank Subsidy“, Dean Baker and Travis Mcarthur, Center for ...
  • Would a default by the US government help America?
    Question for the Day “Would a default on Treasuries accomplish what the Balanced Budget Amendment was supposed to achieve, by forcing the government to spend no more than it takes in?” — Glenn Reynolds (The Instapundit, Law Professor at U of Tennessee), source. Contents The short answer Default c ...
  • The U.S. Military’s German Fetish
    “American Blitzkrieg – Loving the German War Machine to Death“ By William J. Astore, TomDispatch, 18 February 2010 — Reposted with permission. Introduction by Tom Engelhardt Remember the 100 hours of combat that made up the first Gulf War, the mere weeks it took for Kabul to fall in the 2001 invasio ...
  • FM newswire for 20 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. US federalism faces the biggest challenges since the Civil War:  “State of the States 2010: How the Recession Might Change States“, Pew Center for the ...
  • Forensic analysis of propaganda: “Michelle ...
    Summary:   This is a forensic analysis of an of propaganda.   The story was obviously false, yet blasted  around the Internet — aided by endorsements by some major conservative website — and others repeating the story.  It provides another warning of how the Internet can make us stupid.  We ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • America’s Wind Energy Potential Triples in New Est ...
    The amount of wind power that theoretically could be generated in the United States tripled in the newest assessment of the nation’s wind resources. Current wind technology deployed in non-environmentally protected areas could generate 37,000,000 gigawatt-hours of electricity per year, according to ...
  • New Giant Prehistoric Fish Species Found Gathering ...
    A fresh look at forgotten fossils has revealed two new species of giant, filter-feeding fish that swam Earth’s oceans for 100 million years, occupying the ecological niche now filled by whales and whale sharks. Until now, that ancient niche was thought to be empty, and such fish to be a short-lived ...
  • Winner (and Losers) of NASA’s Final Shuttle Patch ...
    The final patch for the Space Shuttle Program has been selected by a NASA committee from a pool of entries created by NASA employees and contractors. It beat out 84 other prospective patches to be the final commemorative token of the program that defined this generation of space travel.  “As the Sp ...
  • The First and Last Meeting of Everyone with a Full ...
    Nearly every person who has had their entire genome sequenced will gather in a single room near Boston on April 27. It’s the last time this will ever happen. Within a year, the dozen or so people in this elite group will have been joined by a thousand or more people. Soon after that, hobbyists ...
  • NASA Brings the Dark Side of the Sun to Your iPhon ...
      As the sun reawakens from an anomalously quiet period, keep track of solar flares, sunspots and coronal mass ejections with a new iPhone app that puts the real-time status of the sun in your hand. “This is more than cool,” Dick Fisher, director of NASA’s Heliophysics Division, said in a press re ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Remembering Alexander Haig
    I visited Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation Director John Taylor's interesting blog, The New Nixon , this morning to see what he had posted on General Alexander Haig, whom Taylor knew very well. There are a set of interesting posts that put Haig's life and role in the context of a tribute to hi ...
  • Europe, Navies, and Power Projection
    James Rogers over at European Geostrategy has an interesting post up about naval supremacy and power projection. Rogers covers a lot of ground - quoting from a BBC documentary about the Royal Navy, he expounds on the differences between naval and maritime powers, the kinds of dominion the exercise a ...
  • Iraq: Time for a Deadline
    Al-Anbar, the largest of Iraq’s eighteen provinces, was once thought of as a lost cause. A 2006 US Marine Corps report stated that the situation in the region was deteriorating by the day. The Sunni population of Anbar – dominant under Saddam – was fearful of growing Iranian influence in Baghdad, a ...
  • Salah al-Mutlak's Party Drops Out of March Electio ...
    Another ominous sign for the legitimacy of Iraq's March 7 election: The National Dialogue Front, the secular Sunni party headed by Salah al-Mutlak, has decided to withdraw from the vote. A statement from Haidar al-Mulla, a spokesman for the party, linked the withdrawal to recent statements by Gen ...
  • James Traub Outs the Closet Realists in the Obama ...
    As he launches a new column at ForeignPolicy.com, Jim Traub counts the many ways that the authors of current policy are muddleheaded and empty-handed -- particularly as they try to reach agreements with autocratic regimes. The strongest part of Traub's piece is the harsh bright light he shines on th ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: This One's For You, CPACers.
    The White House has finally taken a stance on health care: they are committing to it, one way or another, even if that means using budget reconciliation . The unveiling of what one could accurately call " Obama care" will premiere on Monday, in advance of Thursday's health-care summit. I like this ...
  • Compensation for Black Farmers.
    After decades of discrimination, litigation, and negotiating, it looks today like agreement has been reached on compensation to black farmers. This is one of those times that government works that Paul Waldman wisely counsels us to celebrate. So, a few words of praise for the real progress made by P ...
  • The Little Picture: Smile For Your Rights.
    Writer James Baldwin and actor Marlon Brando at the 1963 March on Washington . ( Wikimedia )
  • Who Will Be King Regulator?
    The financial regulation news of the moment is that Congress and the administration have reached a consensus for the Treasury to take the lead on a new council designed to regulate systemic risk. Remember, one problem of 2008 was that no one was tasked with looking out for threats like AIG that end ...
  • Democracy's Faith-Based Trouble.
    Peter Steinfels reviews Ian Buruma 's Taming the Gods: Three years ago, Ian Buruma published Murder in Amsterdam: Liberal Europe, Islam, and the Limits of Tolerence , an analysis of the shocking public slaying by an Islamist extremist of a Dutch filmmaker who, working with Ayaan Hirsi Ali , self-d ...

Andy Worthington

  • Moazzam Begg Responds To His Critics
    The following article, originally published on Cageprisoners, is Moazzam Begg’s first detailed response to the campaign directed at his relationship (and that of Cageprisoners) with Amnesty International, which I reported in an article entitled, “Defending Moazzam Begg and Amnesty International.” I ...
  • Will Parliament Rid Us of the Cruel and Unjust Con ...
    Since last June, when, in the wake of a significant ruling in the European Court of Human Rights, the Law Lords ruled that imposing control orders breaches Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which guarantees the right to a fair trial, the system established in haste and paranoia i ...
  • Control Orders: Special Advocates’ Evidence before ...
    On February 3, 2010, the Joint Committee on Human Rights, comprising members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, met to hear oral evidence on “Counter-Terrorism Policy and Human Rights: Control Orders” from two solicitors representing control order detainees, and three Special Advocates ...
  • Control Orders: Solicitors’ Evidence before the Jo ...
    On February 3, 2010, the Joint Committee on Human Rights, comprising members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, met to hear oral evidence on “Counter-Terrorism Policy and Human Rights: Control Orders” from two solicitors representing control order detainees, and three Special Advocates ...
  • A full house for Amnesty screening of “Outside the ...
    It was a full house yesterday evening at Amnesty International’s Human Rights Action Centre in London, for a screening of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” directed by Polly Nash and myself. I’m glad to report that the film was very well received, and was followed by an excellent Q&A sessi ...

Buzzflash

  • George Lakoff: Why "Rational Reason" Doesn't Work ...
    � It’s always satisfying for a scientist to see his or her predictions proved right experimentally (which happens often) and actually discussed in the press (which happens rarely). As a cognitive scientist and linguist, it’s been a good couple of weeks for me and my colleagues, especially in the NY ...
  • After Hillary Calls Iran A Military Dictatorship, ...
    Two can clearly play this game So, I bet someone quite soon will try To add to the fray by saying, "I know what you are but what am I?" read more
  • A Personal Stake in Sanity
    BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Robert C. Koehler When we write about mass slaughter, even the good kind, which we call “war,” the waging of it should be on trial in every sentence. Anything less than that is propaganda, the chief characteristic of which is moral opacity. Sadly, this is how our news i ...
  • A Partial Fix to Campaign Reform? No! It Has Been ...
    BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Richard A. Stitt On February 17 the New York Times ran an editorial on campaign finance titled " A Welcome, if Partial, Fix ." � Yes, it's a fix, meaning that campaign finance has been totally emasculated by the U. S. Supreme Court 5-4 ruling in the case, Citizens Unite ...
  • Texans Riding Dinosaurs May Sound Funny, But the ' ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Meg White A majority of Texans do not believe that humans "developed from earlier species of animals," according to a University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll published Wednesday. The article publishing the findings, called "Meet the Flintstones," noted that one-third of res ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • The GOP's "small government" tea party fraud
    There's a major political fraud underway:��the GOP�is once against donning their libertarian, limited-government masks in order to re-invent itself and, more important, to co-opt the energy and passion of the�Ron-Paul-faction that spawned and sustains the�"tea party"�movement.� The Party that spat ...
  • The Bush nostalgia of Rahm and the Beltway
    When President Obama's approval ratings were still very high, we were regularly bombarded with sycophantic profiles of Rahm Emanuel that touted his vast power in the West Wing ("arguably the second most powerful man in the country," the New York Times declared last January ; "perhaps the most infl ...
  • Terrorism: the most meaningless and manipulated w ...
    (updated below) Yesterday, Joseph Stack deliberately flew an airplane into a building housing IRS offices in Austin, Texas, in order to advance the political grievances he outlined in a perfectly cogent suicide-manifesto .  Stack's worldview contained elements of the tea party's anti-gove ...
  • The NYT's mystery Op-Ed writer
    The  New York Times today published a monstrous Op-Ed complaining that the U.S. is being too careful to avoid civilian deaths in Afghanistan (which would probably come as a surprise to these people and these people if they hadn't been Liberated by the U.S. . . . from life).  The Op-Ed is by someon ...
  • Iran "hawk" Rep. Gary Ackerman
    In 2008, the 13-term, AIPAC-supporting, Democratic�Rep. Gary Ackerman co-sponsored a resolution along with GOP�Rep.�Mike Pence declaring Iran to be a threat to "the vital national security interests of the United States"�and "demanding"�that the�President impose a full-scale naval, air and land bl ...

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Shedding light on photosynthesis
    The rules have changed regarding photosynthetic law, The Alchemist learns, while it turns out that plants use steroid hormones just like those found in mammals. Another type of plant could lead to a novel anticancer drug. In polymer news, an approach to locking in plasticizers could eradicate probl ...
  • Interview with David J Newman (Pt. II)
    This is Part II of the unabridged transcript of an interview with Dr David Newman, Chief at the Natural Products Branch of the NCI in Maryland. The interview was conducted for a new quarterly newsletter – Chemistry Matters. You can read Part I in which Dr Newman discussed how natural products can l ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Bill to Tax and Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Is ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 18, 2010 Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) reintroduced legislation today that would tax and regulate marijuana in a manner similar to alcoholic beverages. The bill, A.B. 2254 would create a regulatory structure similar to that us ...
  • Imposter Faux Fur Partners with Farm Sanctuary to ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 18, 2010 Farm Sanctuary For everyone who has ever put on a gorgeous article of faux fur, only to spend the entire day worrying "I hope no one thinks this is real," comes Imposter , a compassionate new fashion initiative that aims to make animal-inspired fashions recogn ...
  • Clark County Challenged for Weak Stormwater Contro ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 18, 2010 Earthjustice Clean water advocates, represented by Earthjustice, today formally put Clark County on notice it could be sued under the federal Clean Water Act for on-going failure to protect fish, drinking water supplies, and rivers, and comply with laws limiti ...
  • Poll Shows Voters Ready to Flush $11 Billion Water ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 18, 2010 Food & Water Watch A majority of California voters oppose the $11.1 billion water bond that the Legislature and the Governor have placed on the November ballot, according to a recent statewide poll conducted by Tulchin Research. read more
  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Sued Over Repeated ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 18, 2010 Conservation Groups Five conservation groups, the Conservancy of Southwest Florida, the Sierra Club, the Center for Biological Diversity, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), and the Council for Civic Associations, filed a lawsuit today in ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • I Support Terry Nichols’ Hunger Strike
    by Jeff Cohen As a lifelong progressive committed to nonviolence, I have little sympathy for a man who conspired in the most heinous act of domestic rightwing terrorism in U.S. history. For his role in the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing that killed 168 people (including kids at childcare), Terry ...
  • CPAC -- The Right Wing Olympics
    by Tom Andrews The Games are on! We’re not talking about the ones in Vancouver, but the ones in Washington, D.C. The Conservative Political Action Conference is underway in the land of the wicked to showcase their best to the nation and rally the faithful. The right-wing is on a roll in American po ...
  • Yoo Called Civilian Slaughter OK
    by Jason Leopold Former Justice Department lawyer John Yoo argued that President George W. Bush's commander-in-chief powers were so sweeping that he could willfully order the massacre of civilians, yet Yoo's culpability in Bush administration abuses was deemed "poor judgment," not a violation of "pr ...
  • Wall Street's Bailout Hustle
    by Matt Taibbi On January 21st, Lloyd Blankfein left a peculiar voicemail message on the work phones of his employees at Goldman Sachs. Fast becoming America's pre-eminent Marvel Comics supervillain, the CEO used the call to deploy his secret weapon: a pair of giant, nuclear-powered testicles. In hi ...
  • Domestic Terrorism or Tax Revolts?
    by Dallas Darling In 1786 and after hearing about the tax revolts occurring throughout the newly formed United States of America, Thomas Jefferson, who was in France, claimed such rebellions were good things...and it was medicine necessary for the sound health of government. On the other hand, Samue ...

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Civil service chief warned Brown over abuse of st ...
    • Book reveals cabinet secretary's fears • PM told: curb your volcanic temper Gordon Brown's abusive behaviour and volcanic eruptions of foul temper left Downing Street staff so frightened that he received an unprecedented reprimand from the head of the civil service, an explosive new book by the Ob ...
  • Madeira floods: death toll rises to 40
    Rescuers head for cut-off villages as one Briton confirmed dead following tragedy on holiday island The death toll in flash floods on the ­Portuguese holiday island of Madeira rose to 40 as search teams began digging for survivors and environmentalists blamed greed and overbuilding for the scale of ...
  • Al-Mabhouh 'betrayed by associate'
    Two more fraudulent Irish passports linked to Palestinian's killing, officials say Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, the Hamas official assassinated in Dubai, was betrayed by a close associate, the emirate's police chief claimed as it emerged today that the Palestinian's murderers used more fake Irish passports. ...
  • Inside Gordon Brown's Number 10
    In the most eagerly awaited political book for years, the Observer's chief political commentator, Andrew Rawnsley , provides a gripping inside account of Labour governments since 2001. Here, in an exclusive extract from The End of the Party, he paints a disturbing portrait of a besieged, tortured an ...
  • Bamber 'did not murder family'
    The crime was horrific: an elderly couple, with their daughter and her six-year-old twins, were gunned down in an Essex farmhouse 25 years ago. Their adopted son, Jeremy Bamber, has always protested his innocence. But as this film shows , new evidence casts doubt on his conviction Inconsistencies in ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Unknowns behind climate chief's resignation
    Rumours that Yvo de Boer, the UN's top climate official, would be leaving his post well before the end of this year were rife even during the Copenhagen summit. The theory went like this. If Copenhagen turned out to be a "failure" - however you want to define that - then someone would have to take ...
  • 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 ...

Afghanistan Sun

  • Pak set-up 26 new military check-post along Afghan ...
    Lahore, Feb.21 : Pakistan has set-up 26 new military check-post in Balochistan along the Afghanistan border to check infiltration of Taliban and other extremists in the wake of the ongoing 'Operation Mushtarak' in the neighbouring country.
  • troops to leave Afghanistan this year
    Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende arrives at the opening of the NATO summit at the Kurhaus on April 3, 2009 in Baden Baden, Germany. (Sean Gallup, Getty Images) AMSTERDAM (AP) — Prime Mini...
  • UN envoy on children and armed conflict kicks off ...
    A senior United Nations official today began a visit to Afghanistan to look into the situation of war-affected children, in particular the recruitment of child soldiers.
  • Taliban Rejects Renewed Karzai Call For Peace Talk ...
    Afghanistan's Taliban has once again rejected President Hamid Karzai's call for peace talks.Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousuf accused Karzai of being a "puppet," adding that he could no...
  • NATO Reports Three More Soldiers Dead In Afghanist ...
    NATO says one foreign soldier was killed by a makeshift bomb in southern Afghanistan today. This brings to 25 the number of foreign troops reported killed since the February 13 launch of Operation Mus...

Futurismic

  • Personal Information – the pilot episode
    Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information – the pilot episode Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low ...
  • Crowdfunding the creatives – should writers ask fo ...
    The entry of former Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde into the micropayments scene with the beta-launch of his new Flattr service has people discussing donation-based funding models for creatives once again. Micropayments have been mooted plenty of times before now, but no one has ever made them wor ...
  • Back to the future of the past? Venture capitalist ...
    Advocates of science fictional thinking crop up in the weirdest places. For example, Peter Thiel helped found PayPal and invested early in Facebook, and his main business is hedge funds and venture capital (which may predispose one to take his ideas with a large pinch of salt, given the economic eve ...
  • Artificial Flight – Dresden Codak spoofs AI skepti ...
    Dresden Codak is one of my favourite webcomics; its creator, Aaron Diaz, is a staunch transhumanist, but rather than soapboxing directly he embeds his philosophical interests into his creative work. This occasionally spills over into brief satirical ripostes against anti-transhumanist naysayers; lon ...
  • Please Rob Me: what’s the big panic, exactly?
    Unless you’ve been sleeping under that hypothetical internet-proof rock for the last 24 hours, you’ve probably caught wind of the charmingly-named Please Rob Me, a site that aggregates publicly-available Twitter updates which announce that their creator has left their home empty while they go somewh ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Florida nurses rally for improved staffing and whi ...
    Florida nurses rallied at their state capitol this week to call for minimum staffing ratios and whistleblower protection. The Miami Herald was there to report on the rally. The nurses cite research showing that improving nurse-to-patient ratios saves lives and costs less than alternative safety proc ...
  • Iceland's answer to the financial crisis? Protect ...
    Iceland’s economy has been ravaged by the international financial crisis. Rage against corruption sparked protests.  Iceland's legislature is now trying to resurrect their economy by ensuring that citizens will have free speech rights that will spur economic growth. On February 16 members of the Ice ...
  • Florida jury awards carpenter $210,000
    Congratulations to carpenter Dennis Brown for his courageous efforts to expose unhealthy conditions at the Broward County School District in Florida. Brown raised concerns about the atrocious environment he was forced to work in. A mildew infested classroom made his asthma worse. He ...
  • JM Eagle lashes out against pipe-quality whistlebl ...
    Pipe manufacturer JM Eagle is lashing out against whistleblower John Hendrix, claiming that he spoke to a prospective witness and offered that witness a kick-back. JM Eagle has made the claim in an interview with industry magazine PlasticsNews . Meanwhile, Hendrix's attorneys at the Washington, DC, ...
  • Live Webcast of Whistleblower Event Tonight at 7:0 ...
    Tonight Participant Media kicks off its social action campaign for the film The Informant! with a panel discussion entitled “Anyone Can Whistle – The Essential Role of the Whistleblower in American Society.” A panel of whistleblowers will be discussing their own personal experiences and the importan ...

Defense and the National Interest

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

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • What Does It Mean to "Look Homeless"?
    I'm sure you've heard it many times, people saying "that person looks homeless" or "he's dressed like he's homeless." What do people mean when they say someone looks homeless? I conducted a little experiment to help me figure out what looking homeless means. Since Google's image search algorithm pri ...
  • Don't Let Salt Lake City Criminalize Panhandling
    It's not as if there is ever a good time or place to be homeless, but a brutal winter and unfair regulations around the country are making this year harder than ever for people living on the streets. In recent weeks,  a no-camping law was upheld in Boulder , a movement to end public feedings took sh ...
  • "Good People with Bad Habits"
    Boston has been on the street for 15 years. He has mental health issues and consistently battles depression and addiction. As a child, he lost both of his parents -- his mother to murder. From there, he moved in with his grandparents, an alcoholic and dysfunctional household. He left that home for t ...
  • Dear Architects, the Homeless Are Regular People
    Architects thinking of designing buildings for the homeless often fall into the trap of imagining that homeless people for some reason have different needs than regular folks. We often get questions from design and architecture students on the International Homeless Forum . They either want to desi ...
  • From Homeless to Olympic Medalist
    The Olympics are full of hard-knock stories that tug at the heartstrings. Already during the Vancouver games, I've sniffled during formulaic TV tear-jerkers about a Canadian moguls skier whose older brother suffers from cerebral palsy, the Chinese figured skating pair that got married but continue t ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Ottawa Outfront Speaker Series: Dr. Walter Dorn on ...
    On 11 February 2010, the Ottawa Outfront Speaker Series hosted Dr. Walter Dorn in conversation with Gloria Galloway of the Globe and Mail on the topic of Canada’s future as a UN peacekeeper. Dr. Dorn, a professor at the Canadian Forces College, strongly advocated a return to Canada’s proud tradition ...
  • Ottawa Outfront Speaker Series: Dr. Walter Dorn on ...
    On 11 February 2010, the Ottawa Outfront Speaker Series hosted Dr. Walter Dorn in conversation with Gloria Galloway of the Globe and Mail on the topic of Canada’s future as a UN peacekeeper. Dr. Dorn, a professor at the Canadian Forces College, strongly advocated a return to Canada’s proud traditio ...
  • Five NATO countries want US nukes out of Europe
    Five NATO countries plan to call for the removal of all U.S. tactical nuclear weapons from Europe, reports Agence France Presse (Pascal Mallet, “Allied bid for Obama to remove US European nuclear stockpile,” AFP, 19 February 2010). The five–Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Norway– ...
  • Dutch government falls over Afghanistan issue
    The Dutch coalition government “collapsed” on Saturday due to differences over how the Netherlands should respond to a NATO request to extend the Dutch mission in Afghanistan past its scheduled end in August (”Dutch cabinet ‘collapses’ in dispute over Afghanistan,” BBC News, 20 February 2010). The ...
  • Hard power, fuzzy logic
    Prime Minister Stephen Harper used the occasion of a visit to Canada’s aid efforts in Haiti on Tuesday to praise the virtues of his government’s spending on “hard power” items like the C-17 transport aircraft: “This fleet of new aircraft, the C-17 fleet, is a big part of making this response possib ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Kevin back LIVE – Legal Documentation Here!
    Looks like l will be back LIVE next week to deliver all the news directly to you – unedited and unfiltered! Don’t believe it?  Here is the official Court Order Make sure to tune in to ktradionetwork.com and watch me LIVE on the video Tuesday and Wednesday at 1pm CST so I can CONTINUE to give you ...
  • GIN Dream Weekend – Chicago – May 21-2 ...
    Friday, May 21 – Sunday, May 23, 2010 Event Location Hyatt Regency O’Hare Rosemont, IL (Chicago) Visit Hotel Website Who Can Attend GIN Affiliates All GIN Members Registration Click here to register for this event online. Please do not contact the hotel about event registration. Thank you. Event ...
  • Latest Update On Kevin’s Proceedings
    As promised, Kevin would like to make sure that you are up to date on all of the recent events and are receiving all of the facts behind the proceedings. Here is the brief Kevin’s attorneys have just filed on his behalf and attached to the brief are emails Judge Gettleman received. Click here to rea ...
  • Kevin Trudeau’s Fight For Freedom
    Here is what the press has said about the proceedings involving Kevin Trudeau and Judge Gettleman. Please note that these articles may contain inaccurate and/or incomplete factual information. Click here to read The Chicago Tribune’s coverage. Click here to read the Chicago Sun-Time’s coverage. Clic ...
  • Update from Kevin!
    On Thursday, February 17th, Judge Gettleman sentenced me to 30 days in jail. I was granted a chance to fight this sentencing by presenting the case to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. My lawyers have requested that I not comment until the legal proceedings are final. However, I will be live on ...

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

  • Netanyahu authorized Dubai assassination
    The Sunday Times reports: In early January two black Audi A6 limousines drove up to the main gate of a building on a small hill in the northern suburbs of Tel Aviv: the headquarters of Mossad, the Israeli secret intelligence agency, known as the “midrasha”. Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime mi ...
  • Are we living in the post-moral age?
    Rafi Eitan, an Israeli elder statesman and former intelligence officer is perhaps best known for having led the Mossad operation that captured Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Holocaust, and brought him back to face trial and execution in Israel in 1962. In an interview with Haaretz this week, Eita ...
  • Has Israel been helping supply weapons to Hamas?
    The idea that Israel could be involved in supplying weapons to Hamas might sound like a preposterous conspiracy theory, but let’s look at some connections — the theory might not be as wild as it sounds. In undisputed reports, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh has been described as the top Hamas commander responsi ...
  • This is no ripping yarn, but a murder to fan more ...
    Seumas Milne writes: … since launching its war on terror, the US has also adopted Israel’s practice, stretching back decades, of carrying out killings far from the theatre of war. First, Israel’s attacks were targeted against PLO leaders; more recently against the ­Islamists. But since the fiasco ...
  • The Dahlan connection
    While the diplomatic fallout from the Dubai murder continues to expand, there are several new twists in the story. Though the real identities of the murder suspects whose passport photographs have been released are unknown, two Palestinian suspects under arrest in Dubai have been linked to Mohammed ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Pachauri’s TERI institute golf course &#8211 ...
    Richard North of the EU Referendum reports on this bizarre twist with CIPCC Chairman Rajenda Pachauri’s use of land that was designated for public use, now runs afoul of the grant under which the land was given. Plus a lot of water in a city that has water shortages. So much for sustainability. Pach ...
  • Must see: John Coleman’s Global Warming Spec ...
    I’m proud to be a part of this second one hour long special report done by KUSI-TV and veteran TV meteorologist John Coleman. John is, in my opinion, the “Walter Cronkite of television weather”. His demeanor, humor, and delivery is reminiscent of that extraordinary television journalist. I traveled ...
  • Quote of the week #29
    This QOTW is from an article in the Toronto Globe and Mail which focuses on the rise of skeptic blogs including CA and WUWT. The article contained this nugget from Gavin Schmidt, who never fails to disappoint with his (what McIntyre calls backhanded ) prose: “He could be a scientific superstar,†...
  • Setting the Record Straight on the IPCC WG II Four ...
    Guest post by Indur M. Goklany Nature News is carrying an interview with Professor Martin Parry, co-chair of IPCC WG II during the preparation of its Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), titled Setting the Record Straight.  Unfortunately, he is not asked about, nor does he address, any sins of omis ...
  • Spencer: developing a new satellite based surface ...
    New Work on the Recent Warming of Northern Hemispheric Land Areas by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. INTRODUCTION Arguably the most important data used for documenting global warming are surface station observations of temperature, with some stations providing records back 100 years or more. By far the most ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Having problems with Youtube videos (updated)
    Not sure what’s going on but the Youtube videos aren’t showing up here and also on my vodpod acct. Hopefully it will be fixed soon as I have more videos to post for today. If you are on a post with a video that you really want to see, try clicking the vodpod link, then on the [...]
  • Justice Department clears Bush lawyers for ‘ ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By Marisa Taylor McClatchy Feb. 19, 2010 WASHINGTON — Two former high-level Bush administration officials who provided legal justification for harsh interrogations of overseas terror suspects are likely to escape any formal punishment now that the Justice Depar ...
  • Dump Both Political Parties By Timothy V. Gatto
    By Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad liberalpro.blogspot.com February 17, 2010 I was going to stop writing about political things and concentrate on fiction. Fiction is an easier venue because most of the time it doesn’t get you wrapped around the proverbial axle and make you w ...
  • It’s an Honor to be Part of the ‘Loony’ Left in Am ...
    by Sean Fenley Dandelion Salad The Anything and Everything February 18, 2010 As the American political center spirals farther and farther down the road toward barbarism, it truly becomes a greater and greater privilege and an honor, seemingly by the day, to be condescended to as just one of th ...
  • Keiser Report №17-18: Save Our Savers + Paul Craig ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Keiser Report â„–17 RussiaToday February 18, 2010 In the 17th episode Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, look at the scandals behind Goldman Sachs’ fictional exchange rate swaps and whether these same fictional derivatives could have been sold to China, ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    67 Year Old "Epic Beard Man" Promises To Kick Ass, And Does By Darryl Mason Now everyone has a camera, the one-on-one confrontations of everyday life on public transport that once went unreported now become world news. How can fake TV drama compete with this? The Ass-Kicking : The Aftermath : ...
  • No title
    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

  • America’s Wind Energy Potential Triples in New Est ...
    The amount of wind power that theoretically could be generated in the United States tripled in the newest assessment of the nation’s wind resources. Current wind technology deployed in non-environmentally protected areas could generate 37,000,000 gigawatt-hours of electricity per year, according to ...
  • New Giant Prehistoric Fish Species Found Gathering ...
    A fresh look at forgotten fossils has revealed two new species of giant, filter-feeding fish that swam Earth’s oceans for 100 million years, occupying the ecological niche now filled by whales and whale sharks. Until now, that ancient niche was thought to be empty, and such fish to be a short-lived ...
  • Winner (and Losers) of NASA’s Final Shuttle Patch ...
    The final patch for the Space Shuttle Program has been selected by a NASA committee from a pool of entries created by NASA employees and contractors. It beat out 84 other prospective patches to be the final commemorative token of the program that defined this generation of space travel.  “As the Sp ...
  • The First and Last Meeting of Everyone with a Full ...
    Nearly every person who has had their entire genome sequenced will gather in a single room near Boston on April 27. It’s the last time this will ever happen. Within a year, the dozen or so people in this elite group will have been joined by a thousand or more people. Soon after that, hobbyists ...
  • NASA Brings the Dark Side of the Sun to Your iPhon ...
      As the sun reawakens from an anomalously quiet period, keep track of solar flares, sunspots and coronal mass ejections with a new iPhone app that puts the real-time status of the sun in your hand. “This is more than cool,” Dick Fisher, director of NASA’s Heliophysics Division, said in a press re ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Israeli scientists irate after top education offic ...
    Israel's great march backward: "Today I am pleased that more and more scientists engaged in pure science, rather than being employed in the name of an ideology, are reaching the conclusion that the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Brazen hardliners and ardent critics: the Israel I ...
    As he prepares to leave Jerusalem after four years as the Guardian's correspondent, Rory McCarthy reflects on a new, harsher climate of thought that is apparent in the wake of the Dubai... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its ...
  • Meir Dagan: the mastermind behind Mossad’s secret ...
    The Mahmoud al-Mabhouh Assassination: The mission was not regarded as unduly complicated or risky, and Netanyahu gave his authorisation, in effect signing Mabhouh’s death warrant... One... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
  • US: Protestors halt Israeli Ballet performance
    National Ballet Company's show in Vermont interrupted by pro-Palestinian protestors who force their way into theater. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
  • Most Israeli Jews: National interest exceeds human ...
    War and Peace Index shows 52% of Israel's Jewish residents believe those criticizing Israel's policy when talking to foreign elements should not be viewed as traitors. IOA Editor: Which may mean... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Study Shows Advantages of Robotic Surgery for Kidn ...
    A comparison of two types of minimally invasive surgery to repair kidney blockages that prevent urine from draining normally to the bladder found that robot-assisted surgery was faster and resulted in less blood loss and shorter hospital stays.
  • NDSU and Triton Systems, Inc., Partner on Coatings ...
    North Dakota State University, Fargo, and Triton Systems, Inc. (Triton), a Massachusetts-based materials products company, have announced a research partnership and Triton's plan to establish a new facility in the NDSU Research & Technology Park. The company's Fargo facility will primarily be devote ...
  • "Brain Bank" to Foster Research, Treatment of Majo ...
    Johns Hopkins Children's Center neurovirologist Robert Yolken, M.D., and collaborators from the Stanley Medical Research Institute have developed a large repository of brain and tissue samples to advance the understanding and treatment of bipolar disorder, major depression and schizophrenia.
  • JRRD Releases Volume 46, Issue 9
    JRRD, volume 46, issue 9, is now available in print and on online. This multitopic issue includes articles on Parkinson disease, osseointegration, dysphagia, amputation and more.
  • Project Homeless Connect Offers Free Mammograms to ...
    Poor and low income women who have no health insurance will be able to get a mammogram and the medical care they need, at the next Project Homeless Connect event on Wednesday, February 24th.

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

  • Natural Food Industry Giant, UNFI, Refuses to Sign ...
    Yesterday, the Coalition for a Sustainable Food Supply Chain, an alliance that includes the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, organic food advocates and environmental organizations, attended United Natural Foods, Inc.'s (UNFI) Southeast Tabletop Show in Orlando, Fla., an annual conference held ...
  • NAIS Not Dead?
    Contrary to what you are being told, National Animal Identification System is not dead - just renamed, reworded and still very much alive. Click here to read this article
  • Oaxaca Mexico: Celebrating Indigenous Culture, Aut ...
    Santa Gertrudis, Sierra Juarez, Oaxaca - The 4th annual Zapotec Feria of the Cornfield - Globalization and the Natural Resources - was held in Santa Gertrudis, Sierra Juarez on February 7-8. Organized by the Union of Social Organizations of the Sierra Juarez of Oaxaca (UNOSJO), this year's event was ...
  • Grass-Fed Organic Cows Enrich Soil, Improve the En ...
    Cattle, particularly cows, have been the target of many environmental groups that believe raising animals for food is contributing to climate change and causing environmental harm. While true about the vast majority of American livestock that are raised using feedlots, pastured animals that are rota ...
  • USDA Closes Organic Milk Loophole
    Consumers can rest assured that organic milk can be associated with images of cows on green pastures, eating grass still attached to the soil, in a herd, taking in the sunshine. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

  • Fotografías de los Juegos Olímpicos Vancouver 2010
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. He aquí las fotografías más recientes de los Juegos Olímpicos de Vancouver 2010 en Canadá . En la primera colección , usted será testigo del colorido, la magia y la escenografía durante la ceremonia de apertura. En la se ...
  • 18 ilustraciones para el Día de San Valentín
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. El día del Amor y la Amistad está a la vuelta de la esquina y nosotros continuamos ofreciéndote las mejores imágenes para que disfrutes al máximo esta fecha tan especial. En esta ocasión, compartimos contigo 18 dibujos o ...
  • Imágenes .png para poner tus fotografías en photos ...
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre el collage para descargar todas las imágenes. Google ofrece cada vez más y mejores herramientas que pueden simplificar nuestro desarrollo en la red. Como ejemplo, utilizaré en esta ocasión el servicio de Google Docs para compartir con ustedes 20 imágenes .PNG en las cual ...
  • Colección de imágenes fantásticas con movimiento
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre el collage para descargar todas las imágenes. Prepárese para disfrutar de esta maravillosa colección con más de 80 imágenes .gif que a través de Google Docs tengo el privilegio de compartir . Todo lo que necesita es un programa descompresor de archivos como WinRar, WinZi ...
  • Más de 100 Wallpapers para la nueva iPad
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Aunque aún no sale a la venta la nueva iPad de Apple , algunos usuarios de Flickr se han adelantado al lanzamiento y están creando una excelente galería de wallpapers dedicada exclusivamente al nuevo juguete del Señor St ...

Executive Intelligence Review

Center for a Livable Future

  • Biological Food in the Netherlands – Big Presence, ...
    When I first arrived in Amsterdam, I was thrilled to see that there was a good-sized and well-stocked organic market on the corner of the street I was staying on. I immediately saw that the awareness of and demand for biological (organic) foods was widespread. I saw organic markets littering many ne ...
  • More from Katie Couric on Antibiotic Broadcast
    Yesterday, CBS News’ Katie Couric had former FDA Commissioner Dr. David Kessler and “Fast Food Nation” author Eric Schlosser on @katiecouric to discuss further last week’s two-part series on the overuse of antibiotics in industrial farm animal production. “There are real risks here, using drugs in a ...
  • California Meatpacker Hit by Huge Recall
    Exactly two years from the largest meat recall in history, a California meatpacker has been ordered to recall over 4.9 million pounds of beef and veal products. On Monday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the expansion of a previous recall for Huntington Meat Packing, Inc., of Montebello ...
  • 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 ...

Norwegianity

  • 100 links, not all about CPAC
    A disappointing column from Garrison Keillor this morning (he clearly doesn’t understand wingnuts well enough to mock them), but then I saw Joe Soucheray had written about potholes, a subject made for wingnut humor. Not. Soucheray ignored the science of potholes and went after big-spending governmen ...
  • Requacks, 9-ironing, and links
    The DOJ’s investigative report is out and Yoo and Bybee are cleared of legal wrongdoing (but slammed for faulty legal reasoning). The report makes it clear that we rushed to torture others at the behest of the already torturing White House which, in retrospect, clearly used 9/11 as their Reichstag F ...
  • Flying into your browser with accelerants on board
    Ramsey County is adamantly resisting efforts by Koua Fong Lee to have his I-was-driving-a-fucking-Toyota manslaughter case reviewed, but the victims’survivors aren’t waiting, they’re suing Toyota now. If this was Texas, Lee would have gotten a needle by now for reckless driving while nonwhite. As it ...
  • Rall now, smack later
    From Vick: Tough love from Ted Rall. Next week, a smack upside the head. - A Texas moron suicide dive bomber just took out an IRS building in Austin, Texas. Prediction: not one rightwing gasbag will make the connection between this NUT and the eliminationist rhetoric of the hard right. - Lots of ou ...
  • (Guitar solo)
    Apparently the voices in support of reconciliation have grown to chorus-like levels now, making it safe for Sen. Klobuchar to hop aboard. I’m hearing via backchannels that reconciliation will be a good thing, but my trust isn’t easily gained given the asshattery that came before. - Of all the Bush-C ...

The Seferm Post

  • WARNING! Cooking With Gas May Give You Cancer: Stu ...
    Researchers in Norway have found that cooking with gas produces more potentially harmful fumes than electric cooking.
  • Bill Clinton Claims: 'Better Sleep, Exercise Good ...
    Clinton said he would make changes like getting more sleep and being more disciplined about exercising every day.
  • Top 10 Benefits of Microsoft Office Professional P ...
    Office 2010 helps save time and money by providing one-click communication through unified communications technology, and document sharing from within Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, without the need to switch applications. This makes virtual meetings more effective so team members can get mo ...
  • Links for 2010-02-11 [del.icio.us]
    Here Are 10 Things Not To Include In Your Resume And Why Employers don't have the time or the patience to sift through irrelevant information like your hobbies, interests or how many grandchildren you have. Just stick to the basics and you're good to go. Here are 10 things to leave off your résu ...
  • Bad Condoms Boost Sexually Transmitted Diseases An ...
    Poorly fitting condoms not only boost the risk of sexually transmitted diseases, they also reduce sexual pleasure during intercourse, a new study has found.

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

  • Morris Dees: A death in Homer
    Image by Getty Images via Daylife Dear Friend, As you may have read in yesterday's New York Times , we've just filed an important new lawsuit against the town of Homer, Louisiana , where an elderly black man was shot dead by a white police officer while standing harmlessly on his own front porch. ...
  • Colonisation and Apartheid in Canada
    Gord Hill reminds Canadians of the Colonisation and Apartheid entrenched in the Indian Act of Canada See Also: No 2010 Olmpics on Stolen Native Land
  • NT INTERVENTION AGENTS EVICTED
    Australian Federal Government agents not welcome at Ampilatwatja protest Walk-off camp, Arurrnga Soak, Ampilatwatja, Alyawarr Country NT. Richard Downs instructs 'GBM' Government Business Manager, Peter Van Heusen and FHCSIA (Families, Housing, Community Services & Indigenous Affairs) bureaucr ...
  • 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 ...

Pensieve

  • US Hypocrisy: Niger and Honduras
    Photo by SkyTruth Thursday, US State Department assistant secretary Philip J. Crowley made the following statement about Niger: MR. CROWLEY: Right. Very fluid situation and the Embassy there is monitoring it closely. Indications are it could be an attempted coup. There was evidently an attempted as ...
  • Course Correction Needed
    I didn’t choose my career in Computer Science, my family guided me to it. If I had had my choice, I would have studied Music or Architecture. If I had followed my aptitude tests, I would have studied Divinity, Psychology, or Literature. I knew in my sophomore year in college, at the age of 18, the [ ...
  • 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 ...

Green Times

  • Food for Thought
    Look around you – are we generally getting slimmer or heavier? What is it about western culture that predisposes us towards being unhealthily overweight? Mark Bittman, New York Times food writer, has a theory on this that is unquestionably worth listening to and considering.  
  • Environmental News - 17/02/10
    Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html) Can Climate Shift the Biology of Ecosystems? - (http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1964085,00.html?xid=huffpo-direct)A team of scientists led by Stephen Thackeray, an expert on lake e ...
  • 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 - 15/02/10
    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…  

Citizens for Legitimate Government

 

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