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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.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • JAMAICA: Young Offenders Caught Up in Adult Syste ...
    KINGSTON, Feb 23 (IPS) - For years, Jamaica's correctional system has been under the glare of the international spotlight.
  • U.S.: Hispanic Farmers Seek Redress for Years o ...
    ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Feb 23 (IPS) - When the Barack Obama administration urged Congress to settle a protracted anti-discrimination lawsuit for 1.25 billion dollars on behalf of African American farmers last week, Lupe Garcia of Las Cruces, New Mexico was paying close attention.
  • AFGHANISTAN: Marja Offensive Aimed to Shape U.S. ...
    WASHINGTON, Feb 23 (IPS) - Senior military officials decided to launch the current U.S.-British military campaign to seize Marja in large part to influence domestic U.S. opinion on the war in Afghanistan, the Washington Post reported Monday.
  • POLITICS: What Will China Do With Its Veto?
    WASHINGTON, Feb 23 (IPS) - With relations between China and the U.S. taking some bitter turns in recent months, how China responds to mounting pressure from the U.S. and its European allies for tougher sanctions on Iran is being viewed as a major test of the current relations and a determina ...
  • U.S.: CIA Briefed Congress on Renditions
    NEW YORK, Feb 23 (IPS) - The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) briefed members of Congress from both political parties numerous times about the agency's interrogation and detention programmes, several prominent human rights groups said Monday.

Scoop - NZ

  • The well-oiled wheels of climate scepticism
    The climate sceptics' current resurgence is part of a (if you're excuse the pun), well-oiled, finely timed and carefully executed campaign. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • Citizen Ethics in a Time of Crisis
    A pamphlet of prominent thinkers exploring key questions about ethics today Download pdf, 61 pages. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • NZTA Orders Auckland Taxi Company Off the Road
    The NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) has revoked the operating licence of AA Yellow Cabs Ltd an Auckland taxi company with a fleet of approximately 200 cabs. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • 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 ...

Independent ( London )

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Why Iran?
    Summary: Why the double standard? Simply because Israel is the privileged ally of the United States in the Middle East -- the country that receives the most US aid in the world -- whereas Iran is in opposition to the United States. Plain and simple. source: MRzine read more
  • New Grist for Hype on Iran
    Summary: Here we go again. A report issued Thursday by the new director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Japanese diplomat Yukiya Amano, has injected new adrenaline into those arguing that Iran is developing a nuclear weapon. source: Antiwar.com read more
  • What If the “Pressure Track” Does Not Work?
    Summary: CENTCOM Commander General David Petraeus stated on Meet the Press yesterday that the United States is now pursuing the “pressure track” as a means to halt Iran’s nuclear program. source: Race for Iran read more
  • Clinton’s Final Offer to Iran
    Summary: "The language of American threats demonstrates a colonialist mentality. Threatening Iran with the Security Council, with more sanctions or military action further complicates the issue. It just doesn’t work.” source: Atlantic Free Press read more
  • An American Attack On Iran Would Lead To US Collap ...
    Summary: Juan Cole Top Russian general talks about consequences of US attack on Iran. Such an attack,he opines, would lead to US collapse and also have negatives consequences for Russia as well as the region. source: Informed Comment read more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Get Your Daily Dose of Awe @The Daily Galaxy Faceb ...
    Link & Share The Daily Galaxy Facebook Page
  • Invisible Extraterrestrials? One of World's Leadin ...
    The intriguing remark was made by Lord Martin Rees, a leading cosmologist and astrophysicist who is the president of Britain’s Royal Society and astronomer to the Queen of England. Rees, who last month hosted the National Science Academy’s first conference on the possibility of alien life, said he ...
  • Dalai Lama to 'Tweet' on Tibet -New Twitter Feed @ ...
    The Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has joined Twitter. The Dalai Lama's Twitter feed -- @DalaiLama -- was launched on Monday, a day after he met in Los Angeles with Evan Williams, one of Twitter's founders, attracting over 55,000 followers in just two days. "Met the Dalai Lama today in LA. ...
  • "Global Warming, Not Asteroids Caused Planet's Mas ...
    “If you look at the fossil record, it is just littered with dead bodies from past catastrophes,”  observes University of Washington paleontologist Peter Ward. Ward says that only one extinction in Earth’s past was caused by an asteroid impact – the event 65 million years ago that end ...
  • Is Jupiter Protecting Earth from Massive Comet & A ...
    On 1994 July 16-22, over twenty fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with the planet Jupiter. The comet, discovered the previous year by astronomers Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker and David Levy, was observed by astronomers at hundreds of observatories around the world as ...

Natural News

  • Toyota's consumer safety problems are dwarfed by b ...
    (NaturalNews) Even as Toyota now finds itself the target of an increasingly hyped-up inquisition about "public safety," skeptical consumers are asking the commonsense question: If public safety is so important, then why isn't Congress asking about the dangers of Big Pharma's deadly drugs? Toyota's p ...
  • GlaxoSmithKline deliberately hid evidence of Avand ...
    (NaturalNews) GlaxoSmithKline, maker of the diabetes drug Avandia, knew the drug was linked to tens of thousands of heart attacks but went out of its way to hide this information from the public, says a 334-page report just released by the Senate Finance Committee. (http://finance.senate.gov/press/G ...
  • GlaxoSmithKline deliberately hid evidence of Avand ...
    (NaturalNews) GlaxoSmithKline, maker of the diabetes drug Avandia, knew the drug was linked to tens of thousands of heart attacks but went out of its way to hide this information from the public, says a 334-page report just released by the Senate Finance Committee. (http://finance.senate.gov/press/G ...
  • Hurom Slow Juicer review: Why it has become an ess ...
    (NaturalNews) I've been using my Hurom Slow Juicer every day for quite some time now, and because so many NaturalNews readers have expressed interest in this new "slow juicing" technology, it's a good time to review my experience with juicer in more detail. First off, let me repeat that this juicer ...
  • Smokeless tobacco products like snuff also cause c ...
    (NaturalNews) A recent study published in the journal Chemical Research in Toxicology is urging tobacco manufacturers to reformulate a smokeless tobacco product called moist snuff . Researchers from Minnesota have found that the product contains high levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) ...

    The Galloping Beaver

  • Seabus bomb scare
    RCMP detonated a fishing rod in a tube mistakenly left behind at the Seabus Terminal in North Vancouver yesterday, so that's one less Olympic terrorist incident to worry about. The suspicious package was discovered at 2:30pm and detonated at 5pm after city blocks were evacuated and buses, all CNR t ...
  • Don't let the bastard sleep: CAPP Flash Rally at B ...
    (h/t Woman at Mile 0 )
  • First-person shooter
    FOREIGN POLICY has an article by P.W. Singer, " Meet the Sims … and Shoot Them ", which is an interesting account of the emergence of the first-person shooter game as a key component in military training. There is a companion article, "War Games" , also worthy of your perusal. Personally, I find fir ...
  • The $10-million Olympic Storage Shed
    aka the Canada Pavillion for the 2010 Games The pre-fab tent was built by a company from Chicago for $10-million. .Vancouver architect Bing Thom : "We listened to too much advice from the Americans. There was all this talk about not being worried about the architecture." .Out here this style of arc ...
  • "Paging Vice Principal B. Brother, please report t ...
    Pennsylvania's Lower Merion School Board's efforts to give every one of its high school students a laptop computer are doubleplusgood ! A Lower Merion family has set off a furor among students, parents, and civil liberties groups by alleging that Harriton High School officials used a webcam on a sc ...

Media Matters for America

  • Wash. Post's Thiessen justifies waterbo ...
    In his new book, Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen justifies waterboarding by falsely claiming that the CIA adhered to limits on the technique described in a 2002 Department of Justice memorandum. In fact, the CIA inspector general found that one of the "interrogators/psychologists" ackno ...
  • Fox & Friends misrepresents CIA doc ...
    During the February 23 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends , co-hosts Steve Doocy and Alisyn Camerota falsely claimed that newly released CIA documents show House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was briefed "about Abu Zubaydah and waterboarding" on April 24, 2002, and suggested the documents contradict Pe ...
  • Right-wing media mock Reid for linking unemploymen ...
    Right-wing media figures have seized on comments Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made linking unemployment to a rise in domestic violence by suggesting that if he loses his re-election bid, then Reid, whose mother was a victim of domestic abuse, will subsequently become abusive toward his wife. M ...
  • Washington Examiner falsely claims Obam ...
    A February 23 Washington Examiner editorial falsely claimed that President Obama's health care proposal "includes a sweetheart deal to protect unions' expensive health care plans from taxation imposed on nonunion health plans." In fact, the Obama plan delays the excise tax on high-cost insura ...
  • Drudge, CNS News falsely suggest Obama health car ...
    A February 22 CNS News article, to which the Drudge Report linked, claimed that "Obama's 'new' health care plan would use tax dollars to pay for abortions," falsely suggesting that President Obama's plan, which adopts the Senate bill's abortion language, exceeded the Hyde Amendment, which forbi ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Is Harvard Prof Advocating Palestinian Genocide?
    Is this genocide that Prof. Martin Kramer of Harvard, the Washington Institute of Near East Policy, and president of Israel's Shalem Center is advocating here? I think it may be as the international genocide treaty specifically bans "imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group." ...
  • Nuclear Posture Review -- I Repeat Myself
    Nearly every major policy address by the administration's top officials -- from the president to the vice president and secretary of state -- has stressed that the forthcoming Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) will "reduce the role of nuclear weapons" in our security. Same formulation every time. That's ...
  • Free Trade Trap
    I've been arguing for the last four months that we have entered a New Normal era in which the combination of a naive embrace of free trade, aggressive use of automation and a substandard education and retraining system, has left the United States in a position where it can no longer create enough jo ...
  • Conservatives Strive to Repel Jewish Support, Agai ...
    You've perhaps heard by now that Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul won this weekend's presidential straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) gathering in Washington, D.C.You may also have heard that Paul surprised the pundits with his strong victory, especially given the competi ...
  • Rep. Eliot Engel Salutes Israel For Shunning His C ...
    Last week, the Israeli government took the unprecedented step of refusing to meet with a group of five Democratic House members who were visiting Israel with J Street, the pro-Israel, pro-peace group. It was an incredibly stupid move. Israeli officials never refuse to meet with American legislato ...

TruthOut

  • Marjah Offensive Aimed to Shape US Opinion on War
    Washington - Senior military officials decided to launch the current U.S.-British military campaign to seize Marjah in large part to influence domestic U.S. opinion on the war in Afghanistan, the Washington Post reported Monday.Marjahh The Post report, by Greg Jaffe and Craig Whitlock, both of whom ...
  • Power Team Battles Proposition 8
    PBS Airtime: Friday, February 26, 2010, at 9:00 PM EST on PBS ( check local listings ). read more
  • Facing Down Danger to Make Reproductive Freedom a ...
    Abortion is one of the safest medical procedures in the country; ironically, those professionals and staff who make sure that abortion is safe may find their own safety compromised. Since it began tracking anti-abortion violence in 1977, the National Abortion Federation has tabulated more than 156, ...
  • Teabaggers Trying to Rewrite the Constitution
    Sarah Palin stood before an audience of 600 at the first Tea Party convention and in her twinkly homespun rhetoric, she declared we don't need a professor of law but a commander-in-chief. As expected, she received roaring applause. And, as expected, she was wrong. After Dick Cheney and George W. Bu ...
  • No Justice Forever - America's New Foreign Policy ...
    As evidenced by the recent outpouring of generous support for the people of Haiti, America remains a caring and compassionate nation. But when it comes to human rights and the rule of law, the United States falls woefully short, trailing behind the rest of the civilized world. Case in point, the US ...

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

  • Health Care Summit Aims for "Bi-partisan" Diagnosi ...
    On Thursday, President Obama meets in a high stakes summit with Republicans. �The topic of their meeting may be health care reform. �But the underlying subtext is "bi-partisanship." �At stake is the all-important public verdict over which party it believes sincerely wants to solve the nation's most ...
  • Steve King's odd terrorist sympathies
    You have to wonder about the rabid right. I mean, I hesitate to paint anyone as being sympathetic to terrorism, but when a sitting member of congress says of the home-grown whack-job who flew his plane into an IRS office in Austin last week and killed at least one innocent person that he can "empath ...
  • Number 88
    Kentucky's third Afghanistan casualty in three weeks is a Boone County High School graduate. Adam Peak, of Florence, was a Marine infantryman who was killed by an improvised explosive device yesterday. According to his father, Bruce Peak, he was part of a perimeter team which was responding to a pre ...
  • Don't Fall for Repug Rope-a-Dope on Jobs Bill
    For pity's fucking sake dems! �Do not, Do Not, DO NOT fall for this. After a year of solid-block, no-defections obstruction by republicans in the Senate, and just when dem criticisms of the repugs as the party of no are starting to get traction in the media and across the country, now, all of a sudd ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Straightforward American law enforcement triumphs again. "An Afghan-born Colorado airport bus driver has pleaded guilty to plotting to blow up New York's subway system. Najibullah Zazi told a federal court in the city that he had been planning what he called a "martyrdom operation". Zazi pleaded gui ...

Care 2

  • The Year of the Tiger- Beautiful animals on the br ...
    Around 100,000 tigers were found in the wild at the beginning of last century; now there are fewer than 3,200. But it's the Year of the Tiger, and high time we rally to support them: These amazing photos and videos -- from humorous to awe inspiring to Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat �|� �N ...
  • Bad Press for Pressured Species - Leopard Attacks ...
    What do we expect when we take away and animal's habitat and they have neither a large enough home nor enough food? Two incidents of a clash between humans and big cats occured this week as a leopard and a tiger both left their "sanctuaries" in search of Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat �|� �Note- ...
  • Let our black cats bring you love and good luck
    In America, black cats are associated with Halloween, bad luck and witches. Yet, in other cultures and seafaring lore, they are revered as quite the opposite. Sea captains kept them to ensure safe voyages. The Brits and the Scots view them as a good omen Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat �|� �Note- ...
  • Bobcat spotted in NSB beachside near A1A high rise ...
    NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Some residents like Stan Kapp say they are nervous about walking at nights because of wild bobcats; while others are concerned these felines might get into their houses, which are not very far from the cats Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • ACTION ALERT: SHAWNEE MISSION PARK WANTS TO SLAUGH ...
    Watch this video of a deer dying in agony as the result of a bow shot. THIS is what Shawnee Mission Park in Kansas has already done to their deer, and wants to CONTINUE on an annual basis. Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

GreenBiz

  • 4 Tips on Buying CFLs for Your Business
    In this tight economy, businesses are increasingly looking for ways to cut operational expenses and provide service to their customers. One area that offers opportunities to save now is lighting for your offices and buildings.
  • Bacardi Cuts Emissions by 20K Tonnes, KPMG Reports ...
    Bacardi Ltd. , the world's largest privately held spirits company, cut greenhouse gas emissions 9.2 percent in the last fiscal year by increasing efficiencies and the use of renewable energy, while KPMG LLP shrank its carbon footprint in the U.S. by reducing air travel, use of electricity and waste.
  • 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.

Reuters Global

  • India and Pakistan: finding the right forum for di ...
    India and Pakistan will try on Thursday to break a diplomatic freeze which followed the November 2008 attack on Mumbai. But their first challenge will be in finding the right forum for dialogue.
  • Greeks bay for blood but get committees
    Greeks hit by a financial crisis threatening their salaries and pensions are baying for blood.
  • America attempting a more “humane war” ...
    One of the reasons the big U.S.-led offensive in Afghanistan's Marjah area has slowed down is because the Marines are trying to avoid civilian casualties at all costs, according to military commanders. So use of air power, the key to U.S. battle strategy, has been cut back because of the risk of col ...
  • 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 ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Tomorrow’s Summit, and Why the American People Won ...
    In case you’re going to tune in to the White House Health Care Summit, we’ll post an open thread tomorrow to catch your thoughts and opinions about what you hear. I checked C-Span’s site, and they will air the summit starting at 10 a.m. ET on C-Span 3, which means it will be available [...]
  • Rev. James Meeks Takes on the New Slave Masters
    “We don’t have slave masters,” he said. “We got mayors. But they still the same white people who are presiding over systems where black people are not able . . . to be educated.” That is some statement. Who expressed such strong and incendiary outrage? The Reverend James Meeks, founder and senior p ...
  • Yo-Yobama, the Spinning Man
    It seems like Obama’s administration is in constant circular motion, spinning in one direction then another. Up, down, around the world. I’m getting dizzy. UP Hope and change…. DOWN Same old, same old…. UP No lobbyists in my administration…. DOWN Lobbyists running loose UP Get the best peo ...
  • Well, Are They Rising Or Not?
    The waters, that is. Now, I know that Obama claimed when the nomination was given to him by the DNC (cue angelic choirs), “this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal…” Oh, how I wish I was kidding, but that is just [...]
  • Settling for the Possible
    Sigh. No matter how loudly the American people decry Obamacare, the White House and Democratic leadership keep digging that hole deeper and deeper. (See “White House: If GOP Filibusters, We’ll Pass Health Reform Via Reconciliation.”) Bronwyn slaps her forehead. Have you ever seen a White House so ...

Environmental Graffiti

Foreign Policy in Focus

  • Our Taliban
    Attempting guns and butter can result in fates worse than Nixon.
  • Congressional Briefing: A Unified Security Budget ...
    Experts will provide testimony on how the U.S. can create a unified, rebalanced security budget.
  • A Fond Farewell to Dennis Brutus
    Throughout his entire life, Dennis Brutus fought systems of exploitation and oppression. In one of his last interviews he discusses his past, the latest attempts of social movements to fight global oppression, and the role of the United States in the world.
  • Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocat ...
    Poets, artists, social justice activists, and community organizers from across the area and the nation will take to the stages and streets of the capital to celebrate poetry as an agent of social change.
  • CIA Accountability Hits New Lows
    The CIA's involvement in targeting drug traffickers in Peru and terrorists in Pakistan shares a similar lack of accountability.

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

  • CHLAMYDIA–THE MOST WIDESPREAD VENEREAL DISEASE
    CENSORED IN 1984: CHLAMYDIA–THE MOST WIDESPREAD VENEREAL DISEASE –LEADS TO STERILITY One hundred thousand women a year are becoming sterile from NGU (nongonococcal urethritis), an inflammation of the urinary tube commonly called Chlamydia. It infects some 3 to 10 million Americans each year, making ...
  • TSA plans to swab random airline passengers for ex ...
    In the past, TSA officials would swab random bits of luggage looking for traces of explosives. Now, they are randomly swabbing airline passengers as well. Security experts consulted by CNN said swabbing hands is a good move, and privacy advocates said they support the new swabbing protocols, provid ...
  • A harrowing week of educational news: Detroit and ...
    You can’t make this stuff up! For all readers: A bit of news from the decks of the Titanic.  The activities follow the criminal threat and assault pattern emerging in the zero-tolerance atmosphere of American culture.  One involves Detroit teachers; the other involves students. I have attempted to ...
  • Judge Rakoff Nails JP Morgan
    Michael Collins Federal district court Judge Jed S. Rakoff called off a J.P. Morgan deal in an order that revealed the inside track on how the financial giant does business. The ruling of January 28 prevents Morgan from selling or participating the $225 million loan it made to Cablevisión, owned ...
  • 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 ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

Institute for Policy Studies

Pine River World News

  • Fiddling with a war in Afghanistan: Pak editorial
    The following editorial is from The Frontier Post, Peshawar, Pakistan. Fiddling with a war � � The Frontier Post February 23, 2010 President Barack Obama may have spent some months on working out his surge strategy for pacifying occupied Afghanistan to make for the occupiers to pull out quickly. B ...
  • 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 ...

    PDA AMERICA

  • The Agitator: Voices of PDA Episode 2
    The Agitator: Voices of PDA Episode 2, February 22nd 2010. Donna Smith and Norman Solomon discuss Healthcare NOT Warfare and Brown Bag Lunch Vigils Listen to "Healthcare NOT Warfare" national co-chairs Donna Smith and ...
  • Inside the Democratic Party, January Call
    On this call we welcomed our current locally endorsed candidates to the call. Each talked about what we can do for their campaign and what they can do for PDA. Marcy Winograd (CA-36) http://www.winogradforcongress.com/ Jonathan Tasini (US Senate ...
  • 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. ...

Marler Blog

  • Beta Testers Needed for Foodborne Illness Outbreak ...
    Marler Clark is set to sponsor the Foodborne Illness Outbreak Database , a resource that provides access to over 600 food poisoning outbreaks in one easy to search place. The database accesses information on outbreaks dating back to 1993. We would love your input on how the database functions a ...
  • Petition Number 09-03: Petition for an Interpretiv ...
    Good News, FSIS is paying attention, as is the industry, or at least its minions .� I would not vote against FSIS doing right by the consuming public (click on below to download letter and attachments):
  • Rep. John Dingell Calls out "Slow to Act" Senate o ...
    The Hill's, J. Taylor Rushing caught Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), the longest serving member of the House and author of the lower chamber’s food safety bill, calling out the Senate as being “slow to act” on the bipartisan bill that passed the House. Dingell’s bill passed the House last July on a 28 ...
  • 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 ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 02.23.10
    Forbes predicts Nissan Leaf will be a flop Some people just don't get it. How best to tax EVs? Probably not with Washington's $100 flat rate People want good roads, so how do we pay for them. ...
  • Fisker hires Lambesis as ad agency of record; we e ...
    Filed under: Hybrid , Sedan , Performance , Marketing/Advertising , Fisker , Electric , Luxury Fisker Karma - Click above for high-res image gallery We've already seen at least one TV ad from Fisker Automotive , a minute-long spot that aired in the Los Angeles area almost a year ago (watch it her ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 02.22.10
    Even the most efficient cars can't compete with bees in MPG fight What's the mpg of a bee drinking honey? Insane. The future is uncertain: CAP says residual values of electric cars are up in the air ...
  • 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 ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • 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

  • A Bio-Friendly Way to Meet Your Maker!
    The process’s biggest draw, supporters say, is the environmental impact: The stainless steel cylinder that processes the body uses less energy to operate and produces far fewer pollutants than cremation by incineration. There’s no worry that embalming fluid will further harm the earth.
  • Earth's Fiery Power: Big, Bad, Beautiful Volcanoes ...
    When it comes to extremes in nature, not much else compares to the violent blood and guts of the earth and erupting volcanoes.
  • Barrow, Alaska: Ground Zero for Climate Change
    Scientists converge on the northernmost city in the US to study global warming's consequences...
  • Gas industry faces crossroads in western Wyoming,
    Environmentalists have long argued that the frenetic drilling pace should be slowed in the heart of prime habitat for antelope, mule deer and sage grouse. Industry officials, however, say they worry that tighter federal leasing rules could discourage drilling on Wyoming's public lands in favor of le ...
  • Ants recruited in war on cane toad
    Australian researchers have found a new way to control the dreaded cane toad: using cat food to attract vicious meat ants.

Invisible Opportunity

  • Economy, Money and human predictions from Maya Cal ...
    Interview with Carl Johan Calleman
  • Is Joe Stack a Wake-Up Call to America? by John W. ...
    By John Whitehead “In my lifetime I can say with a great degree of certainty that there has never been a politician cast a vote on any matter with the likes of me or my interests in mind. Nor, for that matter, are they the least bit interested in me or anything I have to say.” [...]
  • The US Government Poisoned Alcohol During The ‘Pro ...
    It was Christmas Eve 1926, the streets aglitter with snow and lights, when the man afraid of Santa Claus stumbled into the emergency room at New York City’s Bellevue Hospital. He was flushed, gasping with fear: Santa Claus, he kept telling the nurses, was just behind him, wielding a baseball bat. Be ...
  • What May Be the Single Biggest Threat to Your Heal ...
    By Joseph Mercola The UK Government is seeking to rid itself of a billion pounds worth of unwanted swine flu vaccine — because the “deadlyâ€� H1N1 epidemic never materialized. Major drug companies may have pushed the World Health Organization (WHO) to warn that swine flu could be a worldwide ‘pand ...
  • 75 reasons to be skeptical of “global warmin ...
    * Carbon dioxide contributes to only 4.2 – 8.4% of the greenhouse gas effect * Only approximately 4% of carbon dioxide is man-made * Water vapor accounts for 90 – 95% of the green house gas effect * 99.99% of water vapor is natural, meaning that no amount of deindustrialization could get rid of it * ...

    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

  • Jordan Army Fights to Save the World by Attacking ...
    Jordan has unveiled the battle plans to help combat climate change, including upgrading its armed forces and lowering its "Boot Print" by 2020. Related posts: The Proof versus Belief Conundrum in Reference to Climate Change 2009 Global Climate Change Impact Report Released White House Foll ...
  • 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 ...

Inhabitat

  • Future Downtown Brooklyn Citypoint Mall Seeking LE ...
    Just across the Manhattan bridge, downtown Brooklyn is bustling with shoppers running from store to store, and stores there are a plenty! That’s why it’s a little confusing to us that the city of New York has just delegated 20 million dollars in stimulus funds to jump-start the building of the LEED ...
  • GREENER GADGETS SNEAK PEEK: We Interview Keynote S ...
    We’re psyched about the Greener Gadgets Conference coming up in just 2 days, and are thrilled to be able to give all of you a sneak peek by interviewing industrial designer extraordinaire and keynote speaker at the event, Yves Béhar. We’ve been long-time fans of Béhar’s innovative projects, which ...
  • America’s First Wave Power Farm Coming to Oregon C ...
    America is getting its very first wave power farm! Ocean Power Technologies, a New Jersey-based firm, is currently installing giant buoys off the coast of Reedsport, Oregon. Once all ten buoys are in place, developers hope to use them to harness the energy of wave motion and generate power for hundr ...
  • Brightsource Energy Gets $1.4 Billion Loan for Mas ...
    Solar power got a big boost this week with news that the U.S. government is guaranteeing $1.37 billion in loans to BrightSource Energy for the construction of three solar thermal plants in the Mojave Desert. The plants are expected to generate 400 megawatts of electricity — enough to power 140,000 ...
  • U.N. Says Emissions Vows Not Enough to Avoid Devas ...
    New modeling released by the United Nations today paints a very disturbing picture – the emission cuts pledges made by the 60 countries who signed the Copenhagen Accord will not be enough to keep the average global temperature rise low enough to avoid devastating climate change. The simple explanati ...

Pogue's Posts

Open Your Eyes News

  • CERN on trial: could a lawsuit shut the LHC down?
    New Scientist – COURTS and legal scholars love quoting legal maxims in Latin. One of the most famous is fiat justitia ruat caelum. The phrase is a resolute affirmation of the rule of law. It means “Let justice be done though the heavens fall”. It was intended as hyperbole. But, ironically, courts m ...
  • Argentina set to win new backing in Falklands row
    AFP – Argentina was anticipating Monday to broaden regional support in its escalating row with Britain over the disputed Falkland Islands after winning immediate backing from Venezuela and Nicaragua. After losing a short but bloody war over the south Atlantic islands with Britain in 1982, Argentina ...
  • How you can be a part of the Open Your Eyes News t ...
    Send us links to pertinent mainstream news articles that you spot ( send to thehistorian@openyoureyesnews.com ) Follow us via Twitter and Facebook pages and encourage your friends to do the same Join our mailing list and receive our weekly comprehensive weekly news review e-mail Post comments on th ...
  • Internet Freedom Under Attack – Global – Leaked AC ...
    Computer World – The US, Europe and other countries including New Zealand are secretly drawing up rules designed to crack down on copyright abuse on the internet, in part by making ISPs liable for illegal content, according to a copy of part of the confidential draft agreement that was seen by the I ...
  • Pharmaceutical industry support not desirable but ...
    PhysOrg.com – Most directors of internal medicine residency training programs would prefer not to accept pharmaceutical support for the residencies they oversee, but more than half report doing so, according to an article in the February 22 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. “Over the past two ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Krótkie spojrzenie na niektóre błędy Mao
    Krótkie spojrzenie na niektóre błędy Mao (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Mao Tse-tung był największym rewolucjonistą ostatniego stulecia. Poprowadził on jedną czwartą świata do walki o zrzucenie kajdan imperializmu, feudalizmu i kapitalizmu. “Lud Chin podniósł się” – jak ogłosił on na placu Tia ...
  • A quick look at some of Mao’s errors
    A quick look at some of Mao’s errors (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Mao Zedong was the greatest revolutionary of the last century. Mao led a quarter of the world in throwing off the chains of imperialism, feudalism and capitalism. “China has stood up,â€� he announced from the steps of Tian’ ...
  • MSH on healthcare, NPR on barefoot doctors
    MSH on healthcare, NPR on barefoot doctors (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com, npr.org) The following is an mainstream, bourgeois article from National Public Radio on socialist China’s barefoot doctors. The barefoot doctors were an part of socialist China’s alternative approach to medicine. The pr ...
  • Sacrifice and struggle
    Sacrifice and struggle (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) We stand before an abyss. Unless Maoism-Third Worldism is able to break through onto the international scene, the communist revolution will suffer a tremendous setback. Unless we can put the project of total liberation back onto the map, un ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • U.S. Could Generate 37 Million GWh of Wind Power P ...
    For those in the wind power business, or those considering jumping in, last week brought some big news.  A new study by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) found that the U.S. could theoretically generate 37 million gigawatt-hours of wind power per year, triple the amount previously tho ...
  • Device Mimics Leeches, Ejects Plug When Gadget is ...
    Leeches drink blood until they're full and then fall off of their host, but our plugged-in gadgets keep drinking electricity even once they're fully charged.  The Outlet Regulator changes this by ejecting the plug from the electricity source once the gadget is done charging, turning vampir ...
  • Bloom Energy: Should you Believe the Hype?
    The clean tech news of the week is going to be dominated by Bloom Energy 's emergence from stealth. I can hardly believe that it was almost four years ago that I first wrote about Bloom . Reading that 2006 EcoGeek article, I'm proud to say that we got got the broad picture right, but the details are ...
  • 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 ...

    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

  • Survivor: Home Gardening Edition
    Paranoia is potentially profitable. Plenty of people are eager to sell you freeze-dried foods, medical kits and even weapons to help you survive the supposed social chaos on the horizon. Now, there’s the “Survival Seed Bank,” brought to you by an outfit called Solutions for Science. For a mere $297, ...
  • Local Clubs the Answer for Racist Group’s Conferen ...
    Fresh off American Renaissance’s embarrassing debacle last week in which it was forced to cancel its biannual confab of academic racists and other extremists, one of the white nationalist group’s members has proposed a solution that can circumvent nervous hoteliers in the future. Chicago lawyer and ...
  • White National Event Canceled Yet Again
    After being jilted by yet another hotel, the white nationalist American Renaissance conference was cancelled again last week — this time, for good. The conference, scheduled for Feb. 19-21, had been held biannually since 1994 and featured prominent academic racists, far-right politicians and other e ...
  • Haitian-Oriented Radio Station Has Surprising New ...
    How’s this for white supremacist irony? Derek Black, son of Stormfront.org founder Don Black and friend of ex-Klansman David Duke , began broadcasting a twice-weekly program on Tuesday on a South Florida news/talk radio station with a large Haitian audience. Derek Black, who turns 21 this month, is ...
  • Gun Rights Advocates to March Against Phantom Thre ...
    Public support for gun control has been steadily declining, the U.S. Supreme Court has issued a ruling that strengthens an individual’s right to own firearms and President Obama has said nothing to suggest he will take on gun-rights enthusiasts. No matter. Gun rights advocates, including some in t ...

change: org.

  • For Mike Huckabee, CPAC is Too Liberal
    One of the biggest conservative lovefests of the year, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), happened this past weekend. And providing some red meat to conservatives and tea party members were a host of anti-gay politicians and activists. There was Ryan Sorba, who went up on stage and ...
  • Citing Abortion Laws, Nicaragua Denies a Cancer Pa ...
    " Nicaragua Anti-Abortion Law Becomes a Cancer Patient's Death Sentence ." So headlines Sarah Menkedick over on our women's rights blog . I know, it's a confusing statement -- I had to read it twice, myself -- but follow me for a moment. This story is even crazier than you might expect. Right now, i ...
  • Young Women and Feminism in the Lady Gaga Age
    Whenever the F word comes up among a group of intelligent young women, someone will say she doesn't consider herself a feminist. And someone else will, without variation, say something to the effect of "We don't need feminism anymore ... do we?" This response represents the negative side of the Girl ...
  • Prince Charles Tries to Save Wool
    It seems rare these days to hear anyone who's not an industry hack promoting an expansion of animal agriculture, but Prince Charles has announced the Wool Project . He hopes to revitalize the industry by promoting wool as a sustainable material. I suppose wool is technically a renewable resource, si ...
  • The Changing Ethics of Accidental Killing in Milit ...
    Fool us once, shame on you; fool us twice, shame on us. For the second time in less than a year, the commander of NATO forces, U.S. General Stanley McChrystal, has apologized to the Afghan government and people for killing civilians during a massive offensive strike. Strangely, just a few decades ag ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Rachel Corrie's Family Bring Civil Suit over Human ...
    by Rory McCarthy in Jerusalem The family of the American activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza seven years ago, is to bring a civil suit over her death against the Israeli defence ministry. read more
  • Plan B? US Plans for Possible Delay in Iraq Withdr ...
    by Craig Whitlock The U.S. military has prepared contingency plans to delay the planned withdrawal of all combat forces in Iraq, citing the prospects for political instability and increased violence as Iraqis hold national elections next month. read more
  • AIDS: Is the End in Sight?
    by Steve Connor Testing everyone at risk of HIV and treating them with anti-retroviral drugs could eradicate the global epidemic within 40 years, according to the scientist at the centre of a radical new approach to fighting Aids. An aggressive programme of prescribing anti-retroviral treatment (ART ...
  • Obama Health Care Plan Drops Public Option
    by Ryan Grim Despite the recent surge of support in the Senate for a government-run health insurance option, President Obama chose not to include one of the most popular elements of reform in the plan he is presenting to a bipartisan group of lawmakers Thursday. read more
  • Obama’s New Health Insurance Rate Authority: New P ...
    by Jon Walker This morning, Obama released his new health care reform plan . It was a series a changes to the Senate health care bill. One was the addition of a new Health Insurance Rate Authority. It was an idea recently introduced by Dianne Feinstein . Can this new authority become law or is it ju ...

Lifehacker

  • Remains of the Day: PowerPoint Mistakes Never Chan ...
    Google Reader goes real-time, the Criterion Collection comes to Hulu, and some PowerPoint mistakes never change. AT&T Roars Back in PCWorld's Second 3G Wireless Performance Test PC World's annual 3G performance test puts AT&T's 3G network on top of download and upload speeds, followed by Verizon, ...
  • Step-by-Step Guide to Rooting and Tethering a Nexu ...
    With the Nexus One, Google made it a little easier for modders and hackers to unlock and alter the phone. Boing Boing editor Cory Doctorow took the Cyanogen plunge for 3G tethering and open access, and explains the process in great detail. Doctorow's post stems from his reading of the CyanogenMod Wi ...
  • Best Start Page: iGoogle/Google [Hive Five Followu ...
    Earlier last week we asked you to share your favorite start pages , and then we rounded up the results for a vote. Now we're back to announce the winner and runners up. Taking home nearly a third of the votes (31%) was the powerhouse of iGoogle /Google . Some readers love iGoogle for the customizabl ...
  • What Managers and Freelancers Can Learn From the G ...
    In between writing hits like "Sugar Magnolia" and "Franklin's Tower," it turns out The Grateful Dead were pretty shrewd businessmen. The Atlantic took a look at the band to find out what managers and freelancers can learn from them. Photo by Alaskan Dude . Music professor Fredric Lieberman and soci ...
  • GleeBox Makes the Web Keyboard Friendly, Is Very C ...
    Firefox/Chrome: If you love using your keyboard and shun your mouse, you'll definitely want to try gleeBox, an awesome add-on that lets you effortlessly browse the web without your mouse. Check out the video inside to see it in action. Click on the picture above for a closer look. Browsing the web ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Must Read - Pillar vs Nagl on Afghanistan
    By Steve Hynd Today's "must read" is from The National Interest. Former spook Paul R. Pillar absoluetely pwns CNAS head and Petraeus-buddy John Nagl. The COINdinista is reduced to sputtering "but...we're at war!" and making vague allusions to the threat of Al Qaeda getting its hands on Pakistan's nu ...
  • 33 Civilians Killed by NATO Airstrike in Afghanist ...
    By Derrick Crowe On Sunday, NATO forces in Uruzgan province in Afghanistan killed more than thirty civilians, including women and children, when an airstrike was ordered on three minivans. According to the AP story on the incident: "'This creates an opportunity for the Taliban to us ...
  • A Kinder, Gentler, Taliban?
    By Steve Hynd "No plan ever survives contact with the enemy." The rationale of Obama's strategy, what there is of it, is that the Afghan Taliban are inextricably allied with Al Qaeda and are butchering thugs who are bad for Afghans - so we can't just leave no matter how for Afghans' own good, much K ...
  • 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 ...

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The Wonk Room

  • After Voting To Block Debate On Jobs Bill, Vitter ...
    Yesterday, the Senate voted to invoke cloture on a $15 billion jobs bill by a vote of 62-30, with Republican Sens. Scott Brown (MA), Olympia Snowe (ME), Susan Collins (ME), George Voinovich (OH) and Kit Bond (MO) voting to advance the measure, along with all but one Democrat (Nebraska’s Ben Nelson). ...
  • Chuck Grassley Claims ‘Illegal Workers&#8217 ...
    This morning, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) chastised Democrats for not doing anything about language in the jobs bill which he claims will allow employers of “illegal workers” and the “illegal workers” themselves to receive “benefits of a payroll tax holiday.” Grassley remarked: The bill as currently ...
  • Lawmakers May Impose Moratorium On Don’t Ask ...
    During today’s hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee, the army announced its opposition to instituting a moratorium on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell discharges, but some lawmakers suggested that they may still press ahead with the policy. Chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) asked Army chief of staff Ge ...
  • Najibullah Zazi: Another Point Against Iraq War
    The plea copped by Najibullah Zazi is another vindication of the Obama administration’s belief that the threat of terrorism does not necessitate the abandoning of the U.S. legal system, and its discarding of a militaristic “war on terror” frame generally. But the Washington Post’s story on Zazi’s pl ...
  • Sen. Merkley: ‘We’re Going To Create Jobs By ...
    Today, the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works considered the 2011 budget request for the Environmental Protection Agency. EPA administrator Lisa Jackson spent most of the hearing listening to Republicans deny the science of global warming, as Democrats talked about protecting their con ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Reply to No_Blah_Blah_Blah
    I don't have a lot of time today, so I'll post my response to No_Blah_Blah_Blah's comment at this post . No-blah: I'm a little surprised over the somewhat widespread anger over the few broken windows. I suspect it has something more to do with this incident being an outlet for people to vent their ...
  • What's Another Year in Afghanistan?
    After eight years of a corrupt, brutal, unelected puppet-government, propped-up by foreign troops and gangster warlords? After eight years of arresting farmers, some of whom joined the insurgency in response to the depredations of the torturing, thieving, raping government forces, and others who ha ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • New Report Highlights Need For U.S. Anti-Corruptio ...
    Global Integrity, a non-profit that tracks governance and corruption trends in countries throughout the world, has released its latest annual Global Integrity Report. (Full disclosure: I worked for Global Integrity before joining POGO, which provided advice and assistance during the...
  • POGO Calls on Congress to Investigate Ineffective ...
    There was plenty of blame to go around in the aftermath of the financial crisis, as evidenced by a series of well-publicized congressional hearings that examined the wrongdoings of investment bankers, credit rating agency executives, and Federal Reserve officials, among...
  • Pentagon Wish List: A Modest Proposal
    When Congressional appropriators say that there are excess funds in the Pentagon's operations and maintenance accounts (as the Center for Defense Information's Winslow Wheeler has pointed out that they do each year) remember that the Navy and the Air Force...
  • Morning Smoke: A New Voice in the Tanker Debate
    New power lobby emerges for KC-X split buy by Stephen Trimble [The DEW Line] Barofsky, House Republicans raise new questions about TARP oversight by Ryan Holeywell [BailoutSleuth] Stunning Reversal -- Schwartz Expects a Cost Breach on JSF by Amy Butler...
  • New Podcast: Elaborating on Last Week's Recommenda ...
    A new POGO podcast is now available for your listening pleasure! Click the link below to listen, or right-click / "Save As" to download: In this episode, POGO staffers discuss our . But instead of an orderly rundown, we decided to mix things up and determine the sequence of recommendations by an ...

Science Express

  • Study Offers Evidence That Spongiform Brain Diseas ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have determined how a normal protein can be converted into a prion, an infectious agent that causes fatal brain diseases in humans and mammals.
  • New photonic material may facilitate all-optical s ...
    A class of molecules whose size, structure and chemical composition have been optimized for photonic use could provide the demanding combination of properties needed to serve as the foundation for low-power, high-speed all-optical signal processing.
  • 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 ...

TechDirt

  • MagicJack Tries To Silence Boing Boing; Loses And ...
    MagicJack, a VoIP-dongle solution that I've used in the past, has a reputation as a product that actually works pretty well, but the company behind it has some serious problems. It's marketed aggressively on cable TV, has put misleading claims on its website, hides important things in the fine prin ...
  • Russian Collecting Society Sues Promoters For Not ...
    Last year we wrote about a situation in Russia where the promoters of a Deep Purple concert were fined because they failed to secure a license to let Deep Purple perform Deep Purple music. Seriously. It seems that the same situation is playing out again with a Beyonce concert. The Russian collec ...
  • Olympics: Thou Shalt Not Tweet (Without Paying Up)
    Every time you think that the Olympics can't get more ridiculous with its attempts to abuse trademark law to control its name, they go one step further into ridiculousness. Following the threat to goggle maker UVEX for mentioning skiier and gold medalist Lindsey Vonn on its website, the US Olympic ...
  • 88-Year Old Man Caught Taping Avatar With A Camcor ...
    There's this impression out there, among some, that copyright infringement is just something that the young do. The truth is, of course, that plenty of people infringe on copyrights all the time, for perfectly natural reasons (even some of the strongest copyright supporters do it as well). And the ...
  • VC Explains How Damaging Software Patents Can Be
    Despite claims that no VCs would ever invest in companies without patents, we've been seeing more and more VCs moving over to the side of recognizing that patents are more often hindering their portfolio companies rather than helping them -- and these are some of the most respected VCs around these ...

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

  • Gone Fishin
    No posting this week, as I am in Florida soaking up the sun and trying not to let my relatives drive me over the edge.  If you don’t hear from me by next Wednesday, send a rescue team.
  • 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 ...

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Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Greenspan: Worst Financial Crisis EVER, INCLUDING ...
    Greenspan just said that the current credit crunch is “by far the greatest financial crisis, globally, ever” — including the 1930s Great Depression. Bloomberg notes: Greenspan said that while the economy was in worse shape in the Great Depression, the recent financial crisis was potent ...
  • The Alex Jones Show – ARCHIVE – February 23rd With ...
    Alex talks with Craig X. Rubin, who is running for mayor of Los Angeles. If elected, Rubin promises to tax and regulate the cultivation of medical marijuana, a crop which he says will bring jobs and billions of dollars in revenue to Los Angeles. Watch the video archive and access the high qualit ...
  • Pictures from CPAC
    By Matt Holdridge Pictures from CPAC 2010 are now on C4L’s Flickr page. This album contains photos of members with Ron Paul and other speakers at the event.  Click here to see them.     View the original article at Campaign for Liberty
  • How to Reach A Larger Audience
    Stop preaching to the choir! Start reaching a larger audience! The people you talk with and the websites which publish what you write might think you’re great, but the vast majority of people out there aren’t hearing it. You’re Reaching a Very Small Audience Communications experts like George Lakof ...
  • Even More Ron Paul Interviews
    By Matt Hawes Stay tuned to your television today, as Dr. Paul will be making two more appearances! Congressman Paul will be on MSNBC’s The Dylan Ratigan Show at 4:45pm eastern and on CNN’s The Situation Room at 5:10 pm eastern. View the original article at Campaign for Liberty

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

  • Facebook is Between a Rock and a Greenpeace
    Photo via NCSU The "rock" in that exceedingly clever headline above refers, of course, to coal. You may have heard that FaceBook recently chose to power a new energy-hungry data server with coal-fired electricity at a new location up in Oregon. Greenpeace, and others, scolded the company--which ...
  • Simple Math Explains Finch Beak Evolution
    Image credit: Wikimedia Commons The variation in the beaks of Galapagos finches famously served as inspiration for Darwin's theory of evolution. The various birds , however, may not be all that different. According to new research in applied mathematics from Harvard University, the finches can ...
  • New York Fashion Week: Deux FM Fall 2010 (Slidesho ...
    Eco-Model Summer Rayne Oakes walks in Deux FM runway show during New York Fashion Week. Credit: Paul O. Colliton Novia Scotia-based sustainable apparel brand Deux FM showed their fall 2010 collection at the GreenShows during New York Fashion Week last Wednesday. Designer Anna Gilkerson draw ...
  • How Portland Mastered the Art of Transit-Oriented ...
    Image: Fast Company Portland gets a lot of love from the green movement, and for good reason. By making use of a blend of transportation options ( biking , aerial tram, pedestrian walkways, trolleys, etc) and cultivating an appealing aesthetic for each to coexist in, Portland has come up with a ...
  • Nature Themes Dominate Intl. Photography Contest
    E Zhang's photo is one of the finalists for Sony World's Photography Awards. After reviewing around 80 thousand photographs, Sony World Photography Awards officials announced today the finalists in 21 different categories. Some of the most stunning photos were selected for the "Natural History" ...

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 ...
  • Mediterranean Diet May Prevent Stroke-Related Brai ...
    Avoiding potentially dangerous silent strokes may be another health benefit of following a Mediterranean diet. A new study shows people who most closely followed a Mediterranean-style diet were 36% less likely to have areas of brain damage linked to silent strokes than those who least closely follow ...
  • An Early Warning System for Cancer
    A new screening tool developed by scientists in Denmark may help detect the earliest stages of cancer by taking advantage of the body’s own defenses. The researchers constructed a microarray system that analyzes patients’ blood for a specific class of immune agents called autoantibodies. These are a ...

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Pruning Shears

  • Getting Beyond Regulation (Ritholtz Feedback)
    Barry Ritholtz emailed about my quote of him on Thursday’s post [emph. his]: You wrote: In short, regulation has a spotty track record lately. Economist Barry Ritholtz acknowledged that and pointed to a new approach when he wrote a recent proposal “would not have prevented this crisis, but it would ...
  • 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 ...

Natural Health News

  • WARNING: Is Your Diabetes Drug the One Found to K ...
    Hundreds of people taking Avandia, a controversial diabetes medicine, needlessly suffer heart attacks and heart failure each month. Confidential government reports say that about 500 heart attacks and 300 cases of heart failure would be averted every month if patients switched away from Avandia. ...
  • 5 Ways to Stop Second Guessing Yourself
    Here are 5 ways to stop second-guessing or, of you prefer, 5 ways to make confident decisions. 1. Test them against your values The decision that’s most in line with the things that mean the most to you -- your core values -- will be the best decision for you.  That might not be the simplest or mo ...
  • Outrageous Perversion -- 'Pain Free' Animal Cruelt ...
    More animals than ever suffer from injuries and stress on factory farms. Veal calves and gestating sows are so confined as to suffer painful bone and joint problems. The unnatural high-grain diets provided in feedlots cause severe gastric distress in many animals. And faulty or improperly used stu ...
  • Flu Vaccine is a Waste of Time
    A review examined 75 scientific studies of influenza vaccines and said there was only "poor" evidence that they were actually effective in preventing the illness.  Also, some elderly people did not respond to the vaccine. Simple hand washing and good personal hygiene may be more effective. There ...
  • Green Tea is Good for Your Eyes
    A new study suggests drinking green tea often mat help protect against common eye diseases like glaucoma. The study found that catechins are absorbed by the lens, retina and other parts of your eye and reduce oxidative stress.  Catechins found in green tea are known antioxidants, which are believed ...

Antemedius

  • Time To Renew Organized Labor In America
    No fight in politics or culture is ever completely finished. Even the idea that no human should hold another in chattel slavery is still playing out in our society today. This idea of forever struggling for progress should be the core of anyone’s thinking if they want to label themselves progressive ...
  • Pre-Partisan America, 1789-1801
    By David Swanson I'm not a big fan of post-partisan America, a notion that seems to amount to running the government through two political parties but taking care that one of them not perform in any significant way better than the other one. But I am a fan of the idea, which nobody ever seems to co ...
  • TARP Watchdog: 2011 $300 Billion Commercial Real ...
    Wednesday's report from the Congressional Oversight Panel makes it very clear that while things may feel relatively stable right now on the commercial real estate front, the real bomb hits in 2011. Banks could lose $200 - $300 billion, and 'every American' could be affected: The full force of the ...
  • How To Create 18 Million Jobs
    Robert Pollin is Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and is a founding co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) . �His research centers on macroeconomics, conditions for low-wage workers in the U.S. and globally, the analysis of financial marke ...
  • Explain Something to Me: Fixing What's Wrong in W ...
    Originally published at TomDispatch.com Explain something to me. In recent months, unless you were insensate, you couldn’t help running across someone talking, writing, speaking, or pontificating about how busted government is in the United States.� State governments are increasingly broke and getti ...

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

  • It’s so cold now Niagara Falls freezes over
    We now see real-world evidence that our planet is facing danger more from cooling than warming. Lucky photographers have been bearing the brutal cold to take spectacular photos of a truly rare event: Niagara Falls freezing over. The winter of 2009/10 has now joined those years of 1848, 1909, 1936, 1 ...
  • Bill Nye the Science Guy versus Weather Channel’s ...
    Here's a segment from The O'Reilly Factor last night where Bill Nye the Science Guy debates Joe Bastardi from the Weather Channel.Who's the winner?
  • UK weather latest – more snow forecast
    With a few days of February left, the winter of 2009/2010 is shaping up to be the coldest since 1978/79, with the provisional average winter temperature for England being just 2.4C (36.3F). This winter is likely to be the third coldest in the last 50 years and the 10th coldest in the last 120 years. ...
  • Medieval Warm Period maps
    The SPPI Blog just posted this list of maps of the Medieval Warm Period. Good links to bookmark. From German website, this is an incredible job showing various maps placed on a world map. Hover your cursor over any map to enlarge it, click to retrieve it. Beautiful:http://pages.science-skeptical.de ...
  • Wind turbines – The Truth
    How efficient are wind turbines? Take a looksee at the UK online real time energy website.

Opinio Juris

  • The End of the War Over the Torture Memos?
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku After five years, the U.S. Department of Justice has finally released its report of its internal investigation into the legal advice provided by its attorneys that became known as the “Torture Memos.”  The lead investigator was the Office of Professional Responsibility ...
  • Gloves are Sexy, But Are They Sexist?
    by Roger Alford That's the question, sort of, raised in Totes-Isotoner v. United States , the most interesting tariff classification case you will ever read. Under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule, men's glove have a tariff rate of 14 percent whereas gloves "for other persons" have a rate of 12.6 p ...
  • Whale Wars: Australia Gives Japan One More Chance ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I had almost forgotten about this ongoing dispute between Australia and Japan over whaling, which has been going on for years (and which I first noted on this blog way back in 2005).  The Australian Prime Minister warned Japan yesterday that if whaling doesn’t stop by N ...
  • Harold Koh Discussion with John Bellinger at ASIL ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Julian mentioned, in his first post on Sarah Cleveland’s UVA talk below, that Harold Koh, legal adviser to State, held an informal public discussion with his predecessor from the Bush administration, John Bellinger.  This was an ASIL event, held at John’s ...
  • The “Obama-Clinton” Policy on Treaty Submissions
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku One small followup on Sarah Cleveland’s articulation of an “Obama-Clinton” approach to international law. In her UVA address, she notes that more treaties have been deposited and ratified in the past year than in any other year in U.S. history.  This is no doubt true, b ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • Telecom’s woes self-inflicted
    Telecom's ongoing XT problems are the result of a business philosophy based on gutting your core business units and spinning them off. The corporation has, in the name of fooling its shareholders, embarked on an alleged efficiency programme that involved...
  • 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...

Public News Service

  • AZ Working Poor Face Continued Child Care Cuts
    AZ Working Poor Face Continued Child Care Cuts Phoenix, AZ – Yesterday (Thursday) marked the first anniversary of Arizona’s growing waiting list for the working poor to get child care subsidies. Enrollment in the program has dropped by 14-thousand, threatening the state’s federal matching funds. Com ...
  • PHX Minister Stops Signing Marriage Licenses in Eq ...
    PHX Minister Stops Signing Marriage Licenses in Equality Stand Phoenix, AZ – A Phoenix minister has decided to no longer sign marriage licenses for heterosexuals. She says it's a stand to promote marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples. Comments from Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray, minister of the ...
  • Valentine L.O.V.E Rally for Public Schools at Stat ...
    Valentine L.O.V.E Rally for Public Schools at State Capitol Phoenix, AZ – Hundreds of educators, students, parents and concerned citizens will hold a Valentine-themed noon rally Saturday at the State Capitol. The message to lawmakers and the Governor will be to avoid decimating education while balan ...
  • High-Speed Rail Touted as Phoenix-Tucson Congestio ...
    High-Speed Rail Touted as Phoenix-Tucson Congestion Cure Phoenix, AZ – Supporters of high-speed passenger trains between Phoenix and Tucson are encouraged by increased federal funding for rail projects. A new report proposes other rail links to Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Comments from Jesse Victor, ...
  • Looking For Job Creation in AZ
    Looking For Job Creation in AZ Phoenix, AZ – According to the AFL-CIO, the country is ten million jobs behind where it should be, starting from when the recession began more than two years ago. The labor federation is hoping for more government effort dedicated to creating jobs. Comments from Nick U ...

My Care2 Picks

  • School used student laptop webcams to spy on them ...
    Lower Merion School District laptops issued to high-school students have webcams that can be covertly activated by the schools' administrators, who have used this facility to spy on students and even their families. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Scientists develop new plastic made from sugar tha ...
    Plastics could be made from sugar and composted at home.It could soon be composted at home along with organic waste. Researchers at Imperial College London have managed to transforms sugars found in fast growing trees and grasses into a large molecule Submitted by Beatrice B. to Science & Tech ...
  • Treaty on Cluster Bombs
    Cluster bombs are capable of inflicting incredible damage because they release many small bomblets over a wide area. Unexpected bomblets can kill or maim civilians long after a conflict is over. As a result, they are often referred to as "second landmines Submitted by Naoko I. to World �|� �Note-it ...
  • Inside the Military-Industrial-Media Complex
    In the United States today, the rift between reality and reporting has peaked. There is a literal Truth Emergency in which the most important information affecting people is concealed from view. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Obama's Pentagon Rebrands Iraq War, Rolls Out PR O ...
    The new PR campaign has all the qualities of a George Orwell novel. Perhaps 'Operation Imperial Sunset' is a more appropriate name. US bullshit and wars will end the world? Submitted by Grigory Rasputin to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

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

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

  • NATO Seeks More Trainers for Afghan Army, Police
  • Book review: Joe Sacco draws life into history&#82 ...
    rr r r r rr r rr r rr r rr rr rrr rIn his new book-length work of serial art journalism, Footnotes in Gaza, Joe Sacco seeks out the recollections of the remaining Palestinian witnesses and survivors of the November 1956 massacres at the Gaza refugee camps of Rafah and Khan Younis. The result is a po ...
  • Why Iran?
    Summary: Why the double standard? Simply because Israel is the privileged ally of the United States in the Middle East—the country that receives the most US aid in the world—whereas Iran is in opposition to the United States. Plain and simple. source: MRzineread more
  • New Grist for Hype on Iran
    Summary: Here we go again. A report issued Thursday by the new director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Japanese diplomat Yukiya Amano, has injected new adrenaline into those arguing that Iran is developing a nuclear weapon. source: Antiwar.comread more
  • Robert Manning: “Credit Card Nation: The Con ...
    New federal credit card rules that took effect Monday promise to outlaw the most egregious practices of the credit card industry that have plunged customers into insurmountable debt. The Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure, or CARD, Act includes new protections for customers und ...

Rogue Government.com

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

  • FLASHBACK: UK: Five X-Ray scanner guards lose babi ...
    Unions want watchdog to probe new Heathrow device Five security guards operating new airport body scanners which give off radiation have had miscarriages, it was revealed yesterday. Unions fear the X-ray machines, which penetrate 1cm under the skin, could be responsible. The Rapiscan Secure 1000 ...
  • Circular Aztec temple found in Mexico
    A temple built on a circular base, possibly consecrated to the Aztec wind god, has been found in the historical centre of Mexico City. Archaeologist Eduardo Matos Moctezuma told the German Press Agency, Mexico's most respected archaeologist and coordinator since 1978 of excavations on the remnants ...
  • Brown Physicist Discovers Odd, Fluctuating Magneti ...
    Providence, Rhode Island - At the quantum level, the forces of magnetism and superconductivity exist in an uneasy relationship. Superconducting materials repel a magnetic field, so to create a superconducting current, the magnetic forces must be strong enough to overcome the natural repulsion and p ...
  • Transport strikes lay bare Europe's malaise
    With economic recovery barely there and talk of austerity spreading, many European workers are pushing back. French air traffic controllers walked off the job Tuesday just as Lufthansa pilots ended a strike and British Airways cabin crews voted to launch one of their own. Greek unions prepared to s ...
  • Iran arrests leader of Jundallah terrorist group
    Iran's security officers grounded the plane carrying the ringleader of Jundullah terrorist group Abdolmalek Rigi in one of Iran's southern ports, informed sources say. As initial reports indicated that Iran's most wanted man was captured on a flight en-route to Kyrgyzstan from Dubai, a source talki ...

Threat Level

  • ‘Sophisticated’ Hack Hit Intel in January
    Intel is the latest U.S. corporation to acknowledge that it was hacked in January in a sophisticated attack that occurred at the same time that Google, Adobe and others were targeted. The giant California-based chipmaker was rumored to have been among some 34 companies that were targeted, but said ...
  • DMCA Exemption Unlikely for iPad Jailbreak
    A lot and little has transpired following the Electronic Frontier Foundation asking the U.S. Copyright Office for an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for authorization to jailbreak an iPhone or any “wireless telephone handsets.” For starters, the Copyright Office’s decision has bee ...
  • U.S. Pinpoints Coder Behind Google Attack
    BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. government analysts believe a Chinese man with government links wrote the key part of a spyware program used in hacker attacks on Google last year, the Financial Times reported on Monday. The man, a security consultant in his 30s, posted sections of the program to a hacking ...
  • 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Crushed Testicles, Civilian Massacres, Nuclear Bla ...
    The Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility final conclusion that Bush torture team lawyers should not face misconduct penalties has triggered triumphant celebrations in right-wing circles. The Wall Street Journal rejoiced in "Vindicating John Yoo" that the "Bush lawyers are foun ...
  • On Taxes, Heroes and Patriots
    On Monday, the daughter of Austin IRS suicide pilot Joseph Stack proclaimed her father a "hero." By joining the anti-government agitators, white supremacists, militia groups and other right-wing extremists in lauding him for standing up to the "injustice" of "the system," she like them dishonored t ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Texas Progressive Alliance Monday, February 22, 20 ...
    Monday, February 22, 2010 Texas Blog Roundup The Texas Progressive Alliance reminds you that early voting runs through this Friday at 7 PM for the primaries as it brings you this week’s blog highlights. BossKitty at TruthHugger is amazed that anger is directed toward the Internal Revenue Servic ...
  • 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.

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Unexplained Mysteries

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 23, 2010
    Solar Project in Mojave Desert Gets $1.4 Billion Boost from Stimulus (Washington Post) The Energy Department announced a "conditional" $1.4 billion loan guarantee to BrightSource Energy to build a solar thermal power complex in the Mojave Desert that would ultimately produce as much as 392 M ...
  • February 23, 2010
    Solar Project in Mojave Desert Gets $1.4 Billion Boost from Stimulus (Washington Post) The Energy Department announced a "conditional" $1.4 billion loan guarantee to BrightSource Energy to build a solar thermal power complex in the Mojave Desert that would ultimately produce as much as 392 MW of ...
  • February 22, 2010
    Study: Warming to Bring Stronger Hurricanes (AP) Top researchers now agree that the world is likely to get stronger but fewer hurricanes in the future because of global warming, according to a new consensus paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience . Senate Weighs Final Push to Move Cli ...
  • 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 Greenh ...
  • 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 Journal) T ...

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

  • Mythic Truths Unify, Mythic Lies Fragment - "A hou ...
    "Myth" has gotten itself a bad rap, with only itself to blame by proposing two opposed meanings. Ditto "cleave" or "splice," which suggest both joining and separation. "Quantum" depicts both minute and elephantine, as in "quantum physics" yet also "quantum leap." "Sanction" is my favorite bi-pola ...
  • Say It's So, Tiger: In Defense of Tiger Woods and ...
    Why does Tiger Woods owe us an apology? Let's assume that all the accusations of serial philandering are true. That no waitress was safe from his charms. What right do we, the public, have to be upset? Woods never presented himself as a pillar of moral virtue. He marketed himself as a great golfer. ...
  • The is GOP betting America fails
    In the worst riverboat gamble in modern political history, the Republican Party is betting that America fails, a bad bet that hands Democrats the narrative to bring a blue comeback in 2010. Republicans have so poorly positioned their party that they have a huge political interest in the jobless rate ...
  • $250,000 A Year Is Not Middle Class Anywhere In Am ...
    Last year, the New York Times told us it's difficult for people to make ends meet on $500,000 a year, and the Washington Post insisted that it's hard to "squeak by" on $300,000 a year. Now the Denver Post insists that if you make $250,000 a year, you may only be "middle class": The $250,000 income c ...
  • The White House Weighs In On Health Reform - What' ...
    The White House has just released " The President's Proposal " on health reform. It must be considered in context, and the context is this: The House and Senate have each passed a bill and they're deadlocked on the differences between them. The President is outlining what he considers a reasonable ...

Ten Percent

  • Video About Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill
    By Waking Up Now via Black Looks. A superb dissection of the bill that reveals it is basically a potential blueprint for a genocidal sanction on all LGBT people and their friends and families by fundamentalist Christians. Here is the bill as shown in the video that is now before the Ugandan Parliam ...
  • Irene Khan on Gita Sahgal
    An important post @ Earwicga, Irene Khan was on Woman’s Hour and inevitably was asked about Gita Sahgal and Amnesty, despite Sahgal saying she has been brining up these issues internally at Amnesty repeatedly (although she changes these details from interview to interview) Khan says- I hired Gita an ...
  • The Loan Sharks of War
    I guess this is inflation, the Friedman unit is played out, it’s time for the McChrystal unit, c’mon just another 12-18 months- The general overseeing the US military campaign in Afghanistan has warned that the offensive against the Taliban in southern Helmand province’s Marjah town is just the star ...
  • David Cameron Knowingly Employs A Cowardly Bully- ...
    Gordon Brown does appear to be a bully (and a wildly in denial neoliberal chump), but as Adam Bienkov has shown the National Bullying Helpline is a dodgy outfit and here in a repost from three months ago, Cameron knowingly employs a bully, Andy Coulson, as his head of communications/spin doctor. Whe ...
  • 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 ...

Booman Tribune

  • Casual Observation
    Harry Reid says a lot of stupid and impolitic things, but occasionally he provides a great line.
  • Health Care in Hindsight
    For me, the biggest mistake the Democrats made on health care was not being ready to pass the bill once Paul Kirk was seated as the replacement for Teddy Kennedy on September 24th, 2009. Naturally, it was assumed that a Democrat would be elected to replace Kirk, but you never know when a senator mi ...
  • CPAC: Sideshow and Snake Oil, Pt 1.
    The Sideshow Glenn Beck, in a sense, is right. CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, is not and could never be a "big tent." Neither is the brand of conservatism it tries so hard to sell. The "big tent," to borrow his circus analogy is usually reserved for acts featuring genuine tal ...
  • Serious Questions
    What's the most conservative state in the nation? Why?
  • Question for the Day
    Why do you think Obama didn't even put include a weakened version of the public option in his administration's personal "health care" plan? Curious minds (well, at least one of them) want to know.* * BTW Boo, babies aren't the only thing that sap your energy. Teenage girls filled with hormone ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Neurocapitalism
    Move over, neurocinematics Рneurocapitalism reaches far beyond the theatre and focus group in its all-pervasive influence! Well, not quite, but Martin B̦rjesson responds to an article that uses the term as its title in order to make a point about the increasing ubiquity of neuroscience and the eff ...
  • Kenya dials up banking by text
    Many places across the planet lack basic commercial infrastructure. Kenya is serving as a case study of how banking by mobile phone seems to fill (or leapfrog?) the gaps. Since a phone-text bank service called M-PESA was introduced in 2007, almost 40% of Kenyan households have one user, while only 2 ...
  • Should we clone Neanderthals?
    It’s another hat-tip to Chairman Bruce for flagging up this thoughtful article on whether or not we should clone Neanderthals from their mapped DNA, though I’ve seen others link it since (slow on the uptake, that’s me). But note the thrust of the question: it’s not can we clone them, but should we? ...
  • DIY nuclear round-up
    Given the horrific costs of energy at the moment, you might be thinking about ways to cut your household bills. Maybe you could build your own nuclear reactor? [image by brndnprkns] It’s not as crazy as it sounds. In fact, it’s so simple that a boy scout could do it, and sourcing your fuel materials ...
  • Rowling plagiarism row rattles on; the sound of a ...
    Remember me mentioning a plagiarism lawsuit filed against J K Rowling, wherein some dude claims prior art of the Harry Potter books because of his self-published work, and tries to take her for a whole lot of money? Well, it’s soon to arrive in court, and Teresa Nielsen-Hayden has a good summary of ...

Therapy News

  • Ecotherapy Garnering Greater Attention as Interest ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline The benefits of sunlight and enjoying the outdoors have been documented in many contexts, and those who suffer from symptoms of depression and other similar concerns may be especially able to notice effects with a simple stroll outdoors. Expanding these opportunities ...
  • Anxiety and Anger
    By Evelyn Goodman, Psy.D, LMFT, Anxiety Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Evelyn and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile The reaction of your body to anger is very similar to the reaction of your body to fear. They are both reactions of the fight or flight part of the brain. This creates ...
  • Debunking the Myths of Hospice
    By Beth S. Patterson, MA, LPC, Grief & Loss Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Beth and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile As a psychotherapist specializing in grief and loss and as a hospice bereavement coordinator, I am saddened by how underutilized hospice care is. This is largely be ...
  • Tiger’s Tale: Apology and Forgiveness
    By Kelly Chicas, LPCC, NCC, CRS, Relationships & Marriage Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Kelly and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Last week the world watched as a once adored celebrity made an intensely public apology to his family, fans and friends about his infidelity and sexua ...
  • Counselor Offers Mobile Unit for Treatment in Rura ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Access to quality counseling, therapy, and other types of care is often cited as one of the most pressing issues in modern treatment, and innovative ideas for bringing services to those who live in disadvantaged or sparsely populated areas are constantly being encoura ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Catherine Pancake On the Impact of Black Diamonds, ...
    Catherine Pancake On the Impact of Black Diamonds, Her 2006 Film About ... Baltimore City Paper By Van Smith | Posted 2/23/2010 The devastation wrought by mountaintop-removal mining was brought into tight focus by Catherine Pancake of Baltimore (a ...
  • Federal Judge Expected to Rule Soon on Coal Protes ...
    State Journal Federal Judge Expected to Rule Soon on Coal Protest Injunction State Journal BECKLEY -- Massey Energy was back in court Tuesday requesting a permanent injunction to bar protestors from its mountain top removal operations in Raleigh ... and more��
  • Fight MTR in ATL: March 1st - It's Getting Hot In ...
    Fight MTR in ATL: March 1st It's Getting Hot In Here (blog) ... mountaintop removal coal mining come on over to Atlanta March 1st to tell the EPA to ban MTR. To date, the practice of mountain top removal coal mining ...
  • Appalachian strip mines have long-term environment ...
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Memeorandum

  • Hate Sells: Why Liberal Magazines Are Suffering Un ...
    Matt Pressman / Vanity Fair : Hate Sells: Why Liberal Magazines Are Suffering Under Obama   —  The George W. Bush years were good for more than just oilfield-services companies and waterboard manufacturers.  They were also a boon for liberal political magazines, whose circulation soared on the win ...
  • MSNBC Regular Donny Deutsch Slams Marco Rubio With ...
    Scott Whitlock / NewsBusters.org : MSNBC Regular Donny Deutsch Slams Marco Rubio With Racially Charged Attack: He's a ‘Coconut’   —  MSNBC and CNBC contributor — and professed Charlie Crist admirer — Donny Deutsch used racially charged language on Monday night, smearing Republican senatorial candid ...
  • Jay Rockefeller's inconvenient honesty on the publ ...
    Ezra Klein : Jay Rockefeller's inconvenient honesty on the public option   —  Sen. Jay Rockefeller did something very strange last night: He was honest.  He said, publicly, that he does not support adding the public option to the reconciliation bill.  And he's going to pay for it today.
  • The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index&reg ...
    The Conference Board : The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index® Declines Sharply   —  The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index®, which had increased in January, declined sharply in February.  The Index now stands at 46.0 (1985=100), down from 56.5 in January.  The Present Situation In ...
  • Robert Gibbs: Public Option Via Reconciliation Can ...
    Greg Sargent / The Plum Line : Robert Gibbs: Public Option Via Reconciliation Can't Pass Congress   —  Hmm.  At the press briefing just now, Robert Gibbs made the White House's most expansive comments yet about the push for a reconciliation vote on the public option — and, to put it mildly, support ...

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  • M 5.3, Tonga region
    Tuesday, February 23, 2010 22:38:31 UTC Wednesday, February 24, 2010 10:38:31 AM at epicenter Depth : 1.40 km (0.87 mi)
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    Wednesday, February 17, 2010 02:52:41 UTC Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:52:41 AM at epicenter Depth : 457.50 km (284.28 mi)
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    Tuesday, February 23, 2010 15:36:10 UTC Tuesday, February 23, 2010 04:36:10 AM at epicenter Depth : 52.00 km (32.31 mi)
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    Tuesday, February 23, 2010 15:16:06 UTC Tuesday, February 23, 2010 09:16:06 AM at epicenter Depth : 38.10 km (23.67 mi)

China Dialogue

  • America’s shale-gas bonanza (1)
    In the backwoods of Louisiana, energy companies are handing out money in their dash to tap a vast new source of gas. The discovery has global implications, Sheila McNulty reports. After their father died 15 years ago, Mike Smith’s six siblings wanted nothing to do with the tract of land the old man ...
  • The business of biodiversity
    As the International Year of Biodiversity gets under way, John Elkington and Jennifer Biringer foresee a central role for corporations in conservation. Welcome to the International Year of Biodiversity . Throughout 2010, countless initiatives will promote the protection of biodiversity and encourage ...
  • 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Bush's Torture Memos Author OK with Nuking Civilia ...
    Bush's senior Justice Department legal adviser to Bush defended comments that the president could unilaterally "massacre" civilians in wartime in newly released interview.
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    Today, more than half of all urban water use in most western states goes to landscaping, and most of that goes to trying to maintain green turf.
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    The media should reject the use of industry rhetoric, stop using Nukespeak talking points, and start telling us the truth about nuclear power!
  • Who Cares About Adultery?
    By Harriet Fraad. Cross posted from Tikkun Daily. Tiger Woods’ scripted apology for cheating on his wife has been a riveting topic for the US media. On the newsstands on February 20, 2010, every US newspaper carried stories of Tiger Woods’ confession. It was a bold full-page headline in the [. ...
  • New Video Exposes Horrors of Salmon Farming
    Pure Salmon Campaign recently released a new video, “Farmed Salmon Exposed: The Global Reach of the Norwegian Salmon Farming Industry,” about how salmon farming with open-net pens is threatening wild salmon populations, consumers, and marine ecosystems. In the U.S. about 2/3 of the salmon we eat is ...

Threat Level

  • ‘Sophisticated’ Hack Hit Intel in January
    Intel is the latest U.S. corporation to acknowledge that it was hacked in January in a sophisticated attack that occurred at the same time that Google, Adobe and others were targeted. The giant California-based chipmaker was rumored to have been among some 34 companies that were targeted, but said ...
  • DMCA Exemption Unlikely for iPad Jailbreak
    A lot and little has transpired following the Electronic Frontier Foundation asking the U.S. Copyright Office for an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for authorization to jailbreak an iPhone or any “wireless telephone handsets.” For starters, the Copyright Office’s decision has bee ...
  • U.S. Pinpoints Coder Behind Google Attack
    BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. government analysts believe a Chinese man with government links wrote the key part of a spyware program used in hacker attacks on Google last year, the Financial Times reported on Monday. The man, a security consultant in his 30s, posted sections of the program to a hacking ...
  • 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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Military leaders doubt repeal of limits on gays
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Military brass raised doubts on Tuesday about lifting restrictions on homosexuals in the armed forces, weighing in on a debate in Congress over whether to back President Barack Obama's effort to let gays serve openly.
  • US Jan mass layoffs edge up on weak manufacturing
    WASHINGTON, Feb 23 (Reuters) - The number of mass layoffs by U.S. employers edged up in January as manufacturers stepped up job cuts, data showed on Tuesday, but probably not enough to alter views that the economy is on the brink of creating jobs.
  • Dutch parties tussle over approach to far right
    * Labour figure calls on others to keep Wilders out of govt
  • UPDATE 1-Toyoda says 'deeply sorry' for accidents
    (For more stories on Toyota's recall crisis, click on [ID:nN27231388] * Toyota President Toyoda "deeply sorry" for accidents * Toyoda blames fast growth, vows safety reforms * 'My name is on every car...you have my personal commitment'
  • How long can the U.S. dollar defy gravity?
    NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The only time the U.S. dollar ever took a serious shellacking in the marketplace, the wounds were almost entirely self-inflicted.

Equality Trust

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

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #295
    No Americans on CIA’s assassination list. US spies want super-sensitive human lie detectors. UK may purchase IP monitoring system from CIA-linked company.
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    Tensions mount in Turkey over alleged coup plot. CIA recruiting Chinese-Americans. Two alleged Israeli spies sentenced to death in Lebanon.
  • Analysis: Taliban knew about US Special Forces pre ...
    There has been remarkably little coverage in the US media of the deaths earlier this month of three US Special Forces operatives in Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province, who were killed in a bomb attack in the city of Shahi Koto. Most of the few analyses that have commented on the importance of th ...
  • News you may have missed #293
    US DHS monitors websites. Russian spy lived in Dayton, stole secrets. Niger army suspends constitution.
  • Analysis: Google-NSA partnership part of broader t ...
    We reported last week the apparent alliance between the Google Corporation and the US National Security Agency, which is the main US government organization tasked with communications interception, as well as communications security. The partnership, which began soon after Google’s decision to close ...

After Downing Street.org

  • From Testicles to Village Massacres to Nuking the ...
    The latest at Raw Story and Think Progress .
  • Student Suspended For Facebook Posting
    Student suspended for Facebook posting By Kevin Roy | WLS The family of a suburban Chicago high school student is considering legal action against the school after their son was suspended for creating a Facebook page that criticized a teacher. Justin Bird, 16, a sophomore at Oak Forest High ...
  • Lawyers and Journalists' Group Sees No End in Sigh ...
    http://lawsnotmen.org ��� The Justice Robert Jackson Steering Committee, a group of lawyers, journalists and advocates formed in the fall of 2008 to pursue the prosecution of top Bush administration officials for alleged war crimes while in office, is both greatly concerned and guardedly hopeful by ...
  • CNN Poll: American Believe Iran Has Nuclear Weapon ...
    Michael Munk remarked about the article below: "This is a serious consequence of the hysterical coverage of Iran in the US MSM, it's just like most Americans were similarly bamboozled into believing about Iraq before the invasion." CNN Poll: American believe Iran has nuclear weapons Seven in 10 Ame ...
  • Airport Security: Welcome to Scannergate - Terror ...
    Airport Security: Welcome to Scannergate Terror Scares A Boon for Security Grifters By Tom Burghardt | Global Research Call them what you will: bottom feeders, corporate con-men, flim-flam artists, peddlers of crisis, you name it. You can't help but marvel how enterprising security firms have the u ...

Grist - News

  • What the heck is a Bloom Box and will it solve the ...
    by Ashley Braun The internet loves mysterious product unveilings, especially those promising to revolutionize the world and how we live in it. (Think Apple's iPhone.) But few (except for maybe the iPhone) actually live up to the hype. (Or so I hear. Anyone wanna get me an iPhone?) CEO K.R. Sri ...
  • Climate meeting in April will aim to revive U.N. p ...
    by Agence France-Presse COPENHAGEN -- Talks will take place in April under the U.N. flag for planning the next steps in the effort toward a global treaty on climate change, Danish Minister for Climate and Energy Lykke Friis said Monday. The April 9-11 meeting will take place in Bonn, Germany, g ...
  • Electric bikes on a roll in China
    by Agence France-Presse TIANJIN, China -- Chinese commuters in the millions are turning to electric bicycles -- hailed as the environmentally friendly future of personal transport in the country's teeming cities. Up to 120 million e-bikes are estimated to be on the roads in China, making them a ...
  • 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 ...

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Washington Independent

  • Report: Reid Pushing Now for 10-Month Unemployment ...
    Though initial proposals for extending unemployment benefits have ranged from six months (in the House) to three months (in the Baucus-Grassley proposal), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is now pushing for an even longer extension: through the end of the year. The AP’s Andrew Taylor repor ...
  • Scott Brown Bought His Truck to Help Transport His ...
    Frank Bruni reports a new fact in the Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) origin story. How and why did he acquire his “famous truck,” as he calls it? As Arianna, the younger of his two daughters, told me, he originally purchased it not so he could haul lumber but so he could attach it to a trailer [...]
  • James O’Keefe and Joseph Basel, the Early Ye ...
    A liberal St. Louis blogger passes on this November 29, 2009 video of James O’Keefe and Joseph Basel — who would be arrested two months later for a still-mysterious hidden camera operation they attempted in the New Orleans office of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.). Blogger Adam Shriver argues that the vi ...
  • In Ohio, a Republican Candidate Slips in the Polls
    Former congressman John Kasich, running for governor of Ohio after a solid decade of local Republican pols begging him to make the plunge, is seen as one of the party’s best candidates in a blue state. At CPAC, 2006 Ohio gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell beamed with confidence when I asked him h ...
  • Lunchtime Links
    In 2009, Wall Street gave out $20 billion in bonuses. Here’s how that money could have been spent instead. The Senate is sitting on 290 bills the House has passed. Some people who homosexuality is wrong still support gays serving openly in the military. Mark Rubio becomes the GOP’s Obama. American c ...

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

  • Jon Stewart To Glenn Beck: “You’re A C ...
    Stewart To Glenn Beck: “You’re A Communist!” (VIDEO) Huff Po- First Posted: 02-23-10 08:13 AM   |   Updated: 02-23-10 08:25 AM Fresh from the week off, Jon Stewart jumped right in Monday night and took on one of his favorite targets, Glenn Beck, who used his appearance at CPAC as a chance to ...
  • John Yoo: President Could Order Village Of Civilia ...
    Yoo: ‘Sure,’ The President Could Order A Village Of Civilians Massacred TPM Muckraker Justin Elliott | February 22, 2010, 10:10AM In John Yoo’s vision of executive power, the president can legally order a village of civilians “massacred,” according to the internal Justice Department report released ...
  • Evening Jukebox- In The Air Tonight
    Phil Collins- In The Air Tonight
  • Jobs Bill Vote: Advances Past GOP Filibuster
    Jobs Bill VOTE: GOP Filibuster Fails As Scott Brown And Others Break With Party Huff Po- Ryan Grim  First Posted: 02-22-10 04:44 PM   |   Updated: 02-22-10 07:40 PM Scott Brown was in and out of the Senate chamber and had voted against his party before most of his colleagues had even arrive ...
  • Obama’s Health Care Proposal (VIDEO)
    Obama To Propose Federal Board To Control Health Insurance Rates Crooks & Liars- By Susie Madrak Monday Feb 22, 2010 7:00am This will be controversial, to say the least. I wonder on what legal grounds this will be asserted – and how long it will be before the insurance companies lobbyists stop ...

Solari

  • World’s Top Firms Cause $2.2 Trillion of Env ...
    Report for the UN into the activities of the world’s 3,000 biggest companies estimates one-third of profits would be lost if firms were forced to pay for use, loss and damage of environment by Juliette Jowit The cost of pollution and other damage to the natural environment caused by the world’s bigg ...
  • Secret AIG Document Shows Goldman Sachs Minted Mos ...
    By Richard Teitelbaum Feb. 23 (Bloomberg)—When a congressional panel convened a hearing on the government rescue of American International Group Inc. in January, the public scolding of Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner got the most attention. Lawmakers said the former head of the New York Feder ...
  • Homeland Chief: Domestic Extremism is Top Concern
    Associated Press (21 Feb 10) WASHINGTON – Americans who turn to terrorism and plot against the U.S. are now as big a concern as international terrorists, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Sunday. The government is just starting to confront this reality and does not have a good handle ...
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  • The Financial Crisis in Greece
    London Firm Was Created to Route Cash GATA (22 Feb 10) Greece Turns the Euro Into a “Carry Trade” Currency Financial Sense (18 Feb 10) Italy’s Draghi Had No Role in Greek Swaps at Goldman Bloomberg.com (17 Feb 10) Germany Growls as Greece Balks at Immolation London Telegraph (14 Feb 10) Most German ...

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

  • Charity of the month: Monkeys for Maddie
    Holly Lambert made her friend Maddie (who had cancer) a gift of a monkey made out of a sock. Maddie, post-chemotherapy, needed a wig. They started selling the monkeys, made enough money for two wigs and from there set up a charity. � � “With cancer you can’t work, so you can’t make money and there a ...
  • Most endangered primates in 2010
    Apes, monkeys, lemurs and other primates are in peril and desperately need help and conservation aid according to Primates in Peril: The World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates, 2008–2010 report, released last week.
  • Winter Olympics energy use 'tracked'
    As concerns grow over the environmental costs of hosting large-scale international sports competitions, a real-time system to track energy consumption has been put in place at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver.
  • Leaders vow to fight lone parent myths
    Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Tory leader David Cameron and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg have all signed a pledge to debunk commonly held misconceptions about single parents. Charity Gingerbread has secured the support of all three party leaders to expose and challenge false stereotypes about s ...
  • Bill Gates calls for energy miracles
    Microsoft founder Bill Gates is calling for "energy miracles" to help achieve zero carbon emissions by 2050. Speaking at the annual TED Summit in the US last week, he said that developed nations will need to completely decarbonise the energy they use within 40 years to avert the worst effects of cli ...

Fabius Maximus

  • FM newswire for 23 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. Why Inflation Won’t Solve Our Debt Problems, blog of the New York Times, 18 February 2010 “Climategate: The World’s Biggest Story, Everywhere but H ...
  • The future of Marjah, after the invasion and occup ...
    Summary:  We occupy Marjah amidst promises to rebuild and bring good government. Just as we did in Fallujah – which was in fact a simple punitive strike. Typical counter-insurgency tactics, as practiced for millenia. We’ll see if Marjah is different.  It’s a test-case.  Is COIN real, or just ...
  • Can Obama turn America into something like Zimbabw ...
    Summary:  Can Obama make America like Zimbabwe?  Or is this widespread warning a sign that we’ve become gullible fools?  The easy acceptance of this preposterous warning suggests the latter.  It’s sad that such a post is necessary.  Worse, explaining these facts is unlikely to change the mind o ...
  • 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 Failâ€� 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 ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Sperm Whales Use Teamwork to Hunt Prey
    PORTLAND — Sperm whales sometimes collaborate when they forage the depths, new tracking data suggests, with some individuals herding prey into dense schools while others lunge into the fray and feed. Scientists have long known that sperm whales, like many other toothed whales, form long-lasting soc ...
  • Virulent Bird-Human Flu Hybrid Made in Lab
    Engineered hybrids of bird and human flu strains have proven virulent in mice, raising the disturbing possibility that a natural recombination could be deadly to humans. For years, researchers have worried that H5N1 avian influenza would mix with human flu viruses, evolving into a form that keeps i ...
  • DOE Ponies Up $10 Billion in Financing for Solar, ...
    The Department of Energy has provided almost $10 billion in loan guarantees for two nuclear and three solar power plants in just the past week. The moves mark a new DOE strategy to finance the large-scale deployment of low-carbon technologies in the United States. The Oakland-based company Brightso ...
  • Math Shows Some Crime Hot Spots Can Be Cooled, Oth ...
    SAN DIEGO — Not all crime hot spots are created equal, a new mathematical model suggests. For some areas repeatedly hit hard with crime, police intervention can shut down lawlessness and keep it down. But for others, police involvement just shifts the trouble around. “If you see a hot area of crime ...
  • Why Ladies-Only Species Don’t Need Men
    How all-female species avoid the shrinkage of their gene pool is among the animal kingdom’s great mysteries. Now biologists think they’ve discovered the trick. According to a study published Sunday in Nature, egg-producing cells in a ladies-only species of whiptail lizard contain double the standar ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Human Rights and Strategic Interests
    In a recent piece in Foreign Policy magazine, James Traub struggles to divine the true nature of the Obama administration’s foreign policy posture – in particular, the quality of the Obama administration’s predisposition to pursue engagement with other regimes and institutions, regardless of the m ...
  • Using the Law to Play Hardball with Terrorists
    The point has been made in the context of the Underpants bomber's cooperation, that under the legal regime preferred by elements of the GOP, Abdulmutallab’s family members never would have worked with FBI interrogators to encourage further cooperation from him.  Not only does this example vindicate ...
  • Mobile Subscriber Growth in Africa
    On February 20, Harvard Business School hosted its eleventh annual African Business Conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  While the conference broadly addressed the continent, a number of breakout events focused on the centrality of mobile technology, as addressed in titles such as “Reaching A ...
  • U.S.-China: The View from Australia
    One curious aspect of the domestic discussion of the U.S.-China relationship is how rarely it takes into consideration how things look from the perspective of our friends and allies in the region. So we hear about the need to balance, hedge and integrate in order to maintain regional stability, but ...
  • Is Optimism on Afghanistan Warranted?
    Over at the excellent Majils blog, Greg Carlstrom is pessimistic : Operation Moshtarak could ultimately be a significant development -- if it leads to a secure Helmand province with decent local governance. Baradar's capture, too, could have broader implications. The early signs are not all encou ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: The Suspense is Killing Me.
    Harry Joe , a junior at Dartmouth, has put together a convincing argument that, based upon the generic congressional ballot, Democrats stand to lose an unprecedented number of seats in the midterm elections. Joe grants that national polls might not necessarily reflect the opinions of every individu ...
  • Two Facts About The Supreme Court.
    Today, the Supreme Court upheld , 7-2, a conviction that had been thrown out by the Florida Supreme Court. The latter held that the warnings given to the suspect did not comply with Miranda requirements because the police did not make clear that the suspect had the right to a lawyer during (as wel ...
  • A Win Against Harassment.
    A JetBlue employee whose harassment case was thrown out in 2007 won an appeal last week that will revive her claim. A judge had thrown out the case, in which Diane Gorzynski provided evidence of gender, racial, and age discrimination from her supervisor and complained about it to the same supervisor ...
  • The Little Picture: Brooklyn.
    Three young girls in Brooklyn, New York, 1974. (Flickr/ pingnews /National Archives)
  • Beyond Privacy.
    Kay Steiger writes that reproductive rights advocates are fighting state-level abortion restrictions with creative litigation -- and winning: On Friday, an Oklahoma judge ruled against a state law that was poised to, among other things, force women obtaining an abortion to disclose a substantial am ...

Andy Worthington

  • Torture Whitewash: How “Professional Misconduct” B ...
    The long-awaited report by the OPR (the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility) into the conduct of the lawyers in the OLC (Office of Legal Counsel), regarding their role in approving the use of torture, has finally been published (PDF). The report largely focuses on two memos da ...
  • PRESS RELEASE: New Guantánamo documentary on UK to ...
    PRESS RELEASE New Guantánamo documentary on UK tour Focuses on prisoners whose torture has been exposed by UK courts and is being investigated by police Former prisoner Omar Deghayes and journalist Andy Worthington will be speaking at screenings across the country “Outside the Law: Stories from Gua ...
  • As Police Launch New Torture Inquiry, It’s Time fo ...
    On Friday, it emerged in a UK court that the Metropolitan Police is investigating allegations that MI5 was complicit in the torture, in US custody in Afghanistan, of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident still held at Guantánamo. In the High Court, Richard Hermer QC, counsel for Aamer, told Mr. Ju ...
  • 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 ...

Buzzflash

  • How to Avoid Falling Off the Responsible Eating Wa ...
    GREEN IS GOOD by Meg White It's snowing, but my stomach doesn't know it. It's not even March yet and all I can think of is fresh, locally-grown tomatoes. I've ordered my vegetable garden seeds, bought my peat pots and lugged home a stack of gardening books from the library. Last night, I had a prett ...
  • Congress to Investigate Saudi Prince’s Stake in FO ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT by Jeffrey Joseph With FOX's often unfounded cries of terrorism permeating their programs, the network's alliance with Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal necessarily led to questions about FOX's credibility on terrorism. Now it seems that Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), a ranking member ...
  • FOX’s Inconsistent Approaches to Terror: Claim Al ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT by Jeffrey Joseph Fear can create an immense hold on a viewing audience, so FOX's attempts to use fear mongering about terrorism come as little surprise. The sensationalism with which FOX personalities pursue that evocation of fear can prove occasionally startling, as well. When ...
  • Dr. J.’s BF Commentary No. 134: Why Washington "Do ...
    BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY By Steven Jonas, MD, MPH�������������� This week's cover of Time magazine screams "Washington is Frozen."� The New York Times News of the Week in Review for February 21, 2010 tells us that "Washington doesn’t work."� Evan Bayh of "Bayh, Bayh-Partisanship" tells us that he ...
  • That IRS Attack In Texas -- Verse-Case Scenario
    Because of the man’s state of mind And how that plane was flown Joseph Stack ’s the first terrorist that The Tea Party can call their own. read more

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • Salon Radio: Supreme Court terrorism case today
    The�U.S. Supreme Court today is hearing oral argument in the case of Humanitarian Law Project v. Holder , which has received far less attention than it deserves.� The case was brought by numerous human rights workers challenging the constitutionality of the statute which criminalizes the providing ...
  • Inside the mind of Newsweek on "terrorism"
    On so many levels, this is one of the most stunningly revealing things I've read in quite some time. �As I documented last week , the media's reluctance to describe IRS�attacker Joe Stack as a "terrorist"�reveals that this term has little to do with the act itself and everything to do with the dem ...
  • The Democratic Party's deceitful game
    (updated below) Democrats perpetrate the same scam over and over on their own supporters, and this illustrates perfectly how it's played: Politics Daily , October 4, 2009 : Jay Rockefeller on the Public Option: "I Will Not Relent" Jay Rockefeller has waited a long time fo ...
  • The NYT on its "kill more civilians" Op-Ed writer
    (updated below) Last week, I� wrote about the mysterious Op-Ed writer, Lara M. Dadkhah, published by The New�York Times , who urged that the U.S. be less restrained about slaughtering Afghan civilians with air attacks (when Dadkhar reads things like this from today -- "Airstrike kills doz ...
  • The flailing falsehoods of America's war criminals
    I didn't think it was possible, but former Bush officials -- desperately fighting what they know will be their legacy as war criminals -- have become even more dishonest propagandists out of office than they were in office.  At National Review , Bill Burck and Dana Perino so thoroughly mislead the ...

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

  • National Lawyers Guild Files Amicus Brief on Behal ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 23, 2010 National Lawyers Guild The National Lawyers Guild filed an amicus curiae ("friend of the court") brief in the Colorado Court of Appeals on February 18 in the case of Churchill v. The University of Colorado in support of the tenured professor who was fired over ...
  • United States to Retire Nuclear-Armed Tomahawk Mis ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 23, 2010 Union of Concerned Scientists The Japanese press reported yesterday that the United States will retire its nuclear-armed Tomahawk cruise missiles, signifying the end of an ongoing debate within the Obama administration over the future of these weapons. The Tom ...
  • CCR Challenges Patriot Act Material Support Law in ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 23, 2010 Center for Constitutional Rights Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, the first case to challenge a portion of the Patriot Act before the highest court in the land. read m ...
  • CCR Urges Support of Stop Outsourcing Security Leg ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 23, 2010 Center for Constitutional Rights Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement in response to the introduction in Congress of the Stop Outsourcing Security legislation by Rep. Jan Schakowsky (IL) in the House and the companio ...
  • U.S. House Of Representatives Holds Hearing On Sex ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 23, 2010 ACLU The House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security will hold a hearing today on preventing sexual assault in adult and juvenile detention facilities. The hearing comes on the heels of a report released last month by the Justice Department’s ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Student Censorship
    by Robyn Blumner Let me say at the onset that when a 14-year-old eighth-grader posts a fake profile on MySpace.com about her school principal, as one did in Orwigsburg, Pa., that includes vulgar references to his anatomy and insinuations of sex with children, she deserves to be grounded for life by ...
  • Boycott FedEx
    by Chris Hedges Dean Henderson’s career with FedEx ended abruptly when a reckless driver plowed into his company truck and mangled his leg. His doctor will decide this week if it needs to be amputated. No longer able to drive, stripped of value in our commodity culture, he was tossed aside by the co ...
  • New Grist for Hype on Iran
    by Ray McGovern Here we go again.  A report issued Thursday by the new Director General of the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Japanese diplomat Yukiya Amano, has injected new adrenalin into those arguing that Iran is developing a nuclear weapon.  read more
  • The Bankruptcy Boys
    by Paul Krugman O.K., the beast is starving. Now what? That’s the question confronting Republicans. But they’re refusing to answer, or even to engage in any serious discussion about what to do. For readers who don’t know what I’m talking about: ever since Reagan, the G.O.P. has been run by people w ...
  • Explain Something to Me
    by Tom Engelhardt Explain something to me. In recent months, unless you were insensate, you couldn't help running across someone talking, writing, speaking, or pontificating about how busted government is in the United States.  State governments are increasingly broke and getting broker.  The federa ...

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Toyota boss grilled by US Congress
    'When the cars are damaged, it is as though I am as well,' says founder's grandson in written evidence ahead of congressional committee hearing The boss of the embattled Japanese carmaker Toyota has conceded that his company's runaway growth over the past decade has clouded its focus on safety, in a ...
  • Nice one Cheryl - what took you so long?
    By separating from her husband Ashley Cole, the X Factor judge has rewritten the depressing subtext of so many football marriages • Cheryl Cole leaves husband Ashley Cole Her statement was brief, but not frustratingly so: it pretty much said it all. "Cheryl Cole is separating from her husband Ashle ...
  • Government denies complacency after NI bomb
    Northern Ireland secretary rejects Ulster Unionist claim of 'deteriorating security' in province as politicians condemn bombing The Northern Ireland secretary and the province's chief constable today denied any "complacency" about the threat posed by dissident republican violence after a 115kg (250l ...
  • Iran captures Sunni insurgent Abdolmalek Rigi
    Tehran official claims head of Jundallah had visited a US military base hours before his arrest Iran trumpeted a significant security success today with the capture of Abdolmalek Rigi, the leader of Jundullah, a Sunni insurgent group accused by Tehran of mounting terrorist attacks with the support o ...
  • Pregnant Nicaraguan denied cancer treatment
    • Abortion ban prevents any action which may harm foetus • Campaigners say woman will die unless treated Nicaraguan authorities have withheld life-saving treatment from a pregnant cancer patient because it could harm the foetus and violate a total ban on abortion. A state-run hospital has monitored ...

McClatchey

  • Recall may not solve problem, Toyota executive tel ...
    WASHINGTON — Toyota's top U.S. executive insisted to lawmakers on Tuesday that electronic problems weren't the cause of sudden acceleration problems in some of its cars, but added that the company's recall of millions of vehicles may not "totally solve" the problem.
  • Washington state's Gregoire wants governors to wei ...
    WASHINGTON – Gov. Chris Gregoire is headed home after a National Governors' Association winter meeting that focused on jobs, the economy and health care. It also included a stop, with the other governors, at the White House for a meeting with President Obama.
  • Garridos ask for visiting right, sheriff objects
    The El Dorado County sheriff is objecting to a request that Phillip (far left) and Nancy Garrido (left) be allowed to visit each other in jail, saying it "is breathtaking in its audacity."
  • Woman who got 3 years for sex with boy out after 6 ...
    BOISE — Esmeralda Ahumada was sentenced in August to serve at least three, and up to seven, years in prison after pleading guilty to felony injury to a child.
  • Senator: U.S. says Haiti will release last two mis ...
    The State Department has told Idaho's U.S. Sen. James Risch that two missionaries still being held in Haiti on child kidnapping charges will be released later this week.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Whaling: A draft of cold comfort?
    The International Whaling Commission (IWC) has unveiled detailed proposals on how whaling could be regulated in a way that countries still engaged in the hunt and those opposed to it could both live with. The essential dilemma is what it has been for decades: some societies view the whale as just a ...
  • 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 ...

Afghanistan Sun

  • Bob Marshall's Taliban-style politics
    The Christian Taliban is rearing its ugly mug in Richmond – tossing out lies, insults and misinformation, and calling down Old Testament-style judgment. A gaggle of clergy and holy-roller lawmakers...
  • Karzai removes foreigners from Afghan poll watchdo ...
    Afghan President Hamid Karzai has signed into law changes that remove foreign observers from the electoral watchdog tasked with reviewing voting fraud, his office said on Tuesday. The five-member Elec...
  • Toll of US dead in Afghanistan hits 1,000
    WASHINGTON (APP): The number of US soldiers who have died in Afghanistan reached 1,000 on Monday, according to website icasualties.org, a grim milestone in the war launched more than eight years ago. ...
  • Helmand elders want US-led forces out
    MARJAH (NNI): Tribal elders in the southern Afghan province of Helmand want an end to the US-led anti-Taliban offensive there, citing Western troops' disregard for civilian lives as a reason. In a ga...
  • Insecurity, funding delays mean students face blea ...
    LASHKAR GAR (NNI): Bismillah Jan, a student at Abdul Matin high school in the Helmand provincial capital of Lashkar Gah, is visibly angry. He says he will be forced to give up his studies if promised ...

Futurismic

  • Neurocapitalism
    Move over, neurocinematics Рneurocapitalism reaches far beyond the theatre and focus group in its all-pervasive influence! Well, not quite, but Martin B̦rjesson responds to an article that uses the term as its title in order to make a point about the increasing ubiquity of neuroscience and the eff ...
  • Kenya dials up banking by text
    Many places across the planet lack basic commercial infrastructure. Kenya is serving as a case study of how banking by mobile phone seems to fill (or leapfrog?) the gaps. Since a phone-text bank service called M-PESA was introduced in 2007, almost 40% of Kenyan households have one user, while only 2 ...
  • Should we clone Neanderthals?
    It’s another hat-tip to Chairman Bruce for flagging up this thoughtful article on whether or not we should clone Neanderthals from their mapped DNA, though I’ve seen others link it since (slow on the uptake, that’s me). But note the thrust of the question: it’s not can we clone them, but should we? ...
  • DIY nuclear round-up
    Given the horrific costs of energy at the moment, you might be thinking about ways to cut your household bills. Maybe you could build your own nuclear reactor? [image by brndnprkns] It’s not as crazy as it sounds. In fact, it’s so simple that a boy scout could do it, and sourcing your fuel materials ...
  • Rowling plagiarism row rattles on; the sound of a ...
    Remember me mentioning a plagiarism lawsuit filed against J K Rowling, wherein some dude claims prior art of the Harry Potter books because of his self-published work, and tries to take her for a whole lot of money? Well, it’s soon to arrive in court, and Teresa Nielsen-Hayden has a good summary of ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Judge approves Westrick suit against Toyobo
    Federal Judge Richard W. Roberts has denied a motion to dismiss a major suit claiming the Japanese manufacturer Toyobo sold millions of dollars of defective bulletproof vests. Dr. Aaron Westrick filed the suit under the Federal False Claims Act in 2004, and the U.S. government formally joined the su ...
  • Hundreds rally for airport screeners
    Hundreds of Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) and their allies rallied today in Washington for the right of these federal employees to have union recognition. Union leaders remembered that many union members gave their lives in the rescue efforts on 9/11, took down the shooter at Ft. Hood, and ...
  • Missouri Supreme Court recognizes whistleblower to ...
    This month, the Missouri Supreme Court recognized and defined a tort claim for whistleblowers. The Court explained that the traditional "employment-at-will" doctrine is not static, and may be changed to reflect public policy. In Fleschner v. Pepose Vision Institute, P.C. , the Court confirmed that M ...
  • Poison Pills in Senate Whistleblower Bill May Beco ...
    The Senate version of the Whistleblower Protection Act (S.372) contains troublesome provisions that actually reduce whistleblower rights but may be passed soon due to a Senate tactic called “hotlining.” When a bill is “hotlined” in the Senate, there is no roll call vote, no debate, no amendment proc ...
  • NELA training on appellate advocacy, Dallas, March ...
    The National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA), is presenting "Effective Appellate Advocacy In Employment Cases." Using a mock case, the seminar will feature workshops on brief writing and oral argument. This program will be held on March 12 - 13, 2010, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Dallas Downtown, ...

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

  • Movie Theatre Prevails in Gaza Exhibition Row
    A Canadian photo exhibition chronicling last year's Israeli assault on Gaza will continue as scheduled after attempts at bringing about its closure are rebuffed.
  • 'Bachelor' host Chris Harrison 'extremely disappoi ...
    'Bachelor' host Chris Harrison says he is "extremely disappointed" with Rozlyn Papa's behavior on the show. Papa accused the host of "hitting on a producer's wife" after being interrogated of her inappropriate relationship with a staffer.
  • Survey Shows Olympics Are Truly Canadian
    As Canadians bond together in national pride, a recent Ipsos survey concludes that the Olympics are bringing us together as a nation. Could it be the positive lift needed in these recessionary times, a mid-winter awakening, or just an excuse to party?
  • Workplace bullying: Silent epidemic destroys emoti ...
    Workplace bullying can hurt, injure or kill, according to advocates of legislation to curb what they call a destroyer of employee health. What is being done to prevent a problem that some call a form of workplace violence and an epidemic?
  • Caribou hunt as protest threatens endangered Canad ...
    About 150 Quebec Innu hunters have moved onto Labrador for a week-long caribou hunt. They are hunting in a protected area, and say they will stay to exercise their rights.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Why Ending Homelessness Is Impossible and How We C ...
    In the year 2000, the National Alliance to End Homelessness introduced a Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness , a strategy to address homelessness systematically through initiatives like improving homeless services with better data collection and analysis, building affordable housing and stabilizing ho ...
  • Where Do You Put an Old Homeless Man on a Friday A ...
    I received a call from a local bank recently. An elderly gentleman who, according to the bank manager, appeared to be "homeless and suffering from Alzheimer's," had wandered in and out of his branch office at least four times within the past hour, each time trying to withdraw money with a bank card ...
  • Help Shape National Homeless Policy
    That's right. The federal government actually wants our help to prevent and end homelessness. With a deadline encroaching, the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) wants our suggestions as they develop a Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness (FSP), which they mu ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 2-23-10
    Today, Kevin risks his own freedom to give YOU the truth! Find out why the FTC is going after him and not McDonald’s or Big Pharma and why the first amendment apparently doesn’t apply to him. Plus, get the headlines you won’t hear from the mainstream media: Big Pharma Researcher Admits to Faking Res ...
  • More People Dying Of Infections Acquired At Hospit ...
    February 23, 2010 Reuters Pneumonia and blood-borne infections caught in hospital killed 48,000 patients and cost $8.1 billion in 2006, according to a report released on Monday. The study is one of the first to put a price tag on the widespread problem, which is worsening and which some experts say ...
  • Discussion on message boards
    February 21, 2010 EastwoodCompanies.com Reg. Date : 10-02-21 10:58 Con King Kevin Trudeau finally arrested!!!! Author : EBMR View : 79 I read this headline in the internet. I believe that you did too. Of course, many of his enemies felt totally vindicated. “I told you so” “See? This snake oil sa ...
  • GlaxoSmithKline Hid Evidence of Avandia Harm
    February 23, 2010 Natural News By Mike Adams GlaxoSmithKline, maker of the diabetes drug Avandia, knew the drug was linked to tens of thousands of heart attacks but went out of its way to hide this information from the public, says a 334-page report just released by the Senate Finance Committee. (ht ...
  • Kevin Trudeau Included in Michael Jackson Lawsuit
    September 18, 2009 TMZ A man is suing Michael Jackson’s estate, claiming the singer is responsible for the theft of his herpes cure. Erle Bonner claims Jackson gave his formulas for “herpes cure, acne cures and arthritis cures” to a guy named Kevin Trudeau, also a defendant, who allegedly pilfered t ...

Pambazuka News

  • USA: Black coalition to protest expanding U.S. war ...
    A newly-formed Black coalition has announced a rally and march on the White House to take place November 7, 2009 beginning in Washington, D.C.’s historic Malcolm X Park. The rally and march are to protest the expanding U.S. wars and other policy ini...
  • Brazil: Bloggers on why there is still racism in t ...
    Two weeks ago, Global Voices Online reported the story of Januário Alves de Santana, a black man who had been beaten and punched by security guards of one of the largest international retailers in Brazil. He was waiting for his family in the car park...
  • Global: It takes a Villager
    Owino Odhiambo left his tiny Kenyan village less than a decade ago to immerse himself completely in American culture. Equipped with American citizenship, two degrees, and five years experience working as a dedicated graphic designer in New York City,...
  • Honduras: Implications of coup for Afro-descendant ...
    Currently, the country of Honduras in Central America is experiencing its worst political crisis in decades. In the aftermath of the military coup that forcibly removed President Manuel Zelaya Rosales, there have been various developments that have r...
  • Guadeloupe: Demand for support for the independenc ...
    Felix Alain Flémin, secretary general of the Guadeloupe Communist Party (GCP) has called for international solidarity in support of the struggle for independence and self-determination of the people of those Caribbean islands under French colonial do...

War in Context

  • Israel’s policy of divide and survive
    Back in the days when hazy-eyed neoconservatives stood like prophets laying out their vision of a democratic wave of Biblical proportions sweeping across the Middle East, Israel was supposedly the actualization of what elsewhere might be possible. The problem was that since it came into existence, ...
  • Fixing what’s wrong in Washington… in Afghanistan
    Tom Engelhardt, noting that the US government is broke and that there is a bipartisan consensus that Washington is paralyzed, asks: Why does the military of a country convinced it’s becoming ungovernable think itself so capable of making another ungovernable country governable? What’s the milita ...
  • Israel’s smiling PR drive
    In The Guardian, Seth Freedman writes: Israel’s latest conscripts in the fight to improve the country’s image have been unveiled: ordinary Israeli citizens. Armed only with a government-issued hasbara pamphlet and a winning smile, they will be sent to wage war with their detractors, in an effort to ...
  • Is Israel a small penis or a limp penis?
    Having thought a lot about Israel, I’ll confess I’ve never pictured it as a penis – of any particular size. But on second thoughts, that’s not actually true. The wars on Lebanon and Gaza did evoke a sense that the Jewish state regards war as a type of Viagra, so I guess if war is Viagra [...]
  • Israel cruises into a diplomatic storm
    Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon, speaking on Saturday, suggested that Israel will not face a diplomatic crisis with Europe over the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai “because there is nothing linking Israel to the assassination.” “Britain, France and Germany are countries with sh ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Climategate Minority Report
    While the Met Office announces a “do over”, the much anticipated report from Environment and Public Works (EPW) minority leader Senator Jim Inhofe has been announced on the U.S. Senate floor. SENATE EPW MINORITY RELEASES REPORT ON CRU CONTROVERSY Shows Scientists Violated Ethics, Reveals Major Disa ...
  • Met office pushes a surface temperature data &#822 ...
    From Fox News, word that the Met Office has circulated a proposal that intends to completely start over with raw surface temperature data in a transparent process. Here’s the proposal from the Met Office metoffice_proposal_022410 (PDF). Unfortunately it is not searchable, as they still seem to be l ...
  • There’s no business like snow business
    Headlines yesterday mentioned yet another new snowfall record: Moscow Covered by More Than Half Meter of Snow, Most Since 1966 Feb. 21 (Bloomberg) — Moscow’s streets were covered by 53 centimeters (20.9 inches) of snow this morning after 15 centimeters fell in 24 hours, putting Russia’s capital ...
  • Climate craziness of the week
    “Art” is in the eye of the beholder. Global warming “art” is often lodged in another place in the body. From AOL News:, this artistic project is described as: “…off London’s Millennium Bridge. Taiwanese artist Vincent Huang used two glass penguins and a stuffed toy polar bear for the eye-catching pr ...
  • Bill O’Reilly hosts Bill Nye The Science Guy ...
    Heh, this is entertaining. While Bill Nye argues for “in whose best interest is denial?” Joe Bastardi runs circles around him with technical graphs and explanations on forcing factors and their magnitudes. Meanwhile, Bill O”Reilly seems more concerned about making his commercial break on time than ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Dennis Kucinich Challenges Sec. Gates on Civilian ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Congressman Dennis Kucinich Washington, Feb 23, 2010 Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a vocal critic of the war in Afghanistan, yesterday wrote to Defense Secretary Robert Gates demanding information on the decision-making process and the underlying intel ...
  • Pharmaceutical Pillage by Joel S. Hirschhorn
    by Joel S. Hirschhorn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.foavc.org February 23, 2010 Business ethics has become an oxymoron.  Wall Street bonuses were up 17 percent to over $20 billion in 2009, the year taxpayers bailed out the financial sector after its meltdown.  So, everyone has many re ...
  • The Drive to Eliminate Social Security in America ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Shamus Cooke Global Research, February 23, 2010 In Washington each new day brings a fresh call to “reform entitlement programs” — Social Security, Medicare, etc., (in Congress, the word “reform” now means to eliminate, or drastically reduce).  Tackling Soc ...
  • Part V: Overcoming the Divide and Conquer Strategy ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by David DeGraw Amped Status February 23, 2010 “The conflicting propaganda of opposing parties is essentially what leads to political abstention. But this is not the abstention of the free spirit which asserts itself; it is the result of resignation, the ex ...
  • Debt Dynamite Dominoes: The Coming Financial Catas ...
    by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad February 22, 2010 Understanding the Nature of the Global Economic Crisis The people have been lulled into a false sense of safety under the rouse of a perceived “economic recovery.” Unfortunately, what the majority of people think does ...

Your New Reality

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    Your body is like a video game on the inside. A white blood cell pursues bacterium, but turn off the sound and imagine PacMan music :
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    British PM's Violence As Seen By Hundreds Of Millions Of Chinese Chinese TV has almost eliminated the need for actual video camera footage of a big news story. In this case, they provide dramatic video where none exists of the alleged violent behaviour of British prime minister Gordon Brown (wait f ...
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    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 : ...
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    Newsweek Forgot The Conspiracy They Were An Active Part Of : To Lie America Into The Iraq War In a fairly weak piece of clickbait (and the mainstream media knows 'conspiracy theories' are click magnets), Newsweek lists the following as "hip, trendy, least likely fringe beliefs" : * Obama Is A Secre ...
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    American Soldiers In Iraq Use Slayer To Engage A "Predator Mindset" The UK Guardian on the soundtrack of war for Generation Y soldiers in Iraq : A musicologist, Pieslak discusses why these songs triggered a "mental transformation". He analyses Slayer's guitar-drum barrage, and the pre­fabricated ni ...

Wired - Science

  • Sperm Whales Use Teamwork to Hunt Prey
    PORTLAND — Sperm whales sometimes collaborate when they forage the depths, new tracking data suggests, with some individuals herding prey into dense schools while others lunge into the fray and feed. Scientists have long known that sperm whales, like many other toothed whales, form long-lasting soc ...
  • Virulent Bird-Human Flu Hybrid Made in Lab
    Engineered hybrids of bird and human flu strains have proven virulent in mice, raising the disturbing possibility that a natural recombination could be deadly to humans. For years, researchers have worried that H5N1 avian influenza would mix with human flu viruses, evolving into a form that keeps i ...
  • DOE Ponies Up $10 Billion in Financing for Solar, ...
    The Department of Energy has provided almost $10 billion in loan guarantees for two nuclear and three solar power plants in just the past week. The moves mark a new DOE strategy to finance the large-scale deployment of low-carbon technologies in the United States. The Oakland-based company Brightso ...
  • Math Shows Some Crime Hot Spots Can Be Cooled, Oth ...
    SAN DIEGO — Not all crime hot spots are created equal, a new mathematical model suggests. For some areas repeatedly hit hard with crime, police intervention can shut down lawlessness and keep it down. But for others, police involvement just shifts the trouble around. “If you see a hot area of crime ...
  • Why Ladies-Only Species Don’t Need Men
    How all-female species avoid the shrinkage of their gene pool is among the animal kingdom’s great mysteries. Now biologists think they’ve discovered the trick. According to a study published Sunday in Nature, egg-producing cells in a ladies-only species of whiptail lizard contain double the standar ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Joel Beinin: Confronting Settlement Expansion in E ...
    The neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, a 20-minute walk up the hill from the Damascus Gate to the Old City of Jerusalem, has become the focal point of the struggle over the expanding project of Jewish... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Israel grants visas to witnesses in suit over Rach ...
    Under pressure from the United States, Israel is to grant visas to four activists from the International Solidarity Movement so they can testify in suit brought against the government by the family... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Adalah-NY: Dancing, Singing New Yorkers protest, c ...
    Forty-five human rights activists called upon fellow New Yorkers to boycott the Israel Ballet at its performance Sunday at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts. Accompanied by the Rude... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now i ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Israel’s new ‘attack on freedom of ...
    [T]he cabinet backed a bill last week that, if passed, will jail senior officials from the country’s peace-related organisations should they fail to meet tough new registration conditions... “We are... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Israel’s new ‘attack on freedom of ...
    [T]he cabinet backed a bill last week that, if passed, will jail senior officials from the country’s peace-related organisations should they fail to meet tough new registration conditions... “We are... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • State Wildlife Agencies Need Reform for Effective ...
    Commentary in The Journal of Wildlife Management: Many state wildlife agencies are dependent, financially and politically, on a single user group--hunters. Although this group should continue to be an integral part of wildlife conservation, agencies should adhere to the foundation upon which they we ...
  • Gene Mutation Is Linked to Autism-Like Symptoms in ...
    When a gene implicated in human autism is disabled in mice, the rodents show learning problems and obsessive, repetitive behaviors, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.
  • Answers for Pakistani Violence Sought in Alabama
    A Pakistani scholar plans to implement a social and emotional skill-building program she is studying in Alabama in 10 Pakistani elementary schools in an effort to reduce aggression and, perhaps one day, reduce the violence that plagues her country.
  • TMS Installs New President: George T. "Rusty" Gray ...
    Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellow George T. "Rusty" Gray III takes the helm as 2010 president of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS)
  • 2010 DOE INCITE Projects Allocated at ORNL
    Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers will lead projects that have been awarded a total of 251 million processor hours of computing time on supercomputers located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory.

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

  • 98 Organizations Oppose Obama's Monsanto Man, Isla ...
    A large coalition of groups – including the Organic Consumers Association – has been fighting since the fall to block Obama's nomination of CropLife/biotech industry rep and former pesticide lobbyist, Islam Siddiqui, to the position of Chief Ag Negotiator at the US Office of the Trade Rep. The nomin ...
  • GM Crops Failing to Tackle Climate Change
    On the day of the release of annual industry-sponsored figures, a new report from Friends of the Earth International reveals that claims made by the biotech industry that genetically modified (GM) crops can combat climate change are both exaggerated and premature. Click here to read this article
  • GMO Crops Decline Worldwide in 2009
    The latest data from the ISAAA on GM crops around the world [1] reveals that seven out of 25 countries had reduced GM cultivation areas in 2009 and another remained static. The data from the industry-funded group reveals that no new countries grew GM crops during this period. Click here to read this ...
  • Is Coal-Fired Power On the Way Out?
    The past two years have witnessed the emergence of a powerful movement opposing the construction of new coal-fired power plants in the United States. Initially led by environmental groups, both national and local, it has since been joined by prominent national political leaders and many state govern ...
  • Warning: Consumer Products May Be Harmful to Your ...
    Last year, Congress banned lead in children's products. But recently, we learned that some manufacturers that phased lead out of children's jewelry are using cadmium, another brain toxin that's a carcinogen to boot. How can we prevent the next chemical crisis from threatening our health and contribu ...

fotoFrontera

  • Fondos con diseños para poner tus fotos
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Esta es la cuarta entrega de imágenes .PNG que traemos para ti absolutamente gratis. Son fondos prediseñados donde podrás colocar tus fotografías a través de Photoshop o algún otro software para edición de imágenes digit ...
  • Fotografías de Asia (colección completa)
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Sin duda alguna, se trata de una colección jamás antes vista. Miles de fotografías de todos los países que conforman el continente asiático. Descubra sin prisa, pero sin pausa, un legado de los mejores fotógrafos.
  • Más 100 ejemplos de fotografías en blanco y negro
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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

  • Pawlenty of bull and other shit
    The Strib explains their malware problem and has some links for those of you who might have gotten tagged. How Microsoft has evaded legal responsibility for their virus-prone operating systems is, as usual, beyond me. - The NY Times likes Obama’s new health care proposal. Fuck the NY Times. Their ne ...
  • Clusterfuck Monday
    New Clusterfuck Nation! - 90%. Just sayin. - Sam Pizzigati’s take on the Oligarchy 400. Yes you’ve read the story but Sam piles on the background like no one I’ve read. - I guess Obama making his bill all the more repugnant is one good way to encourage reconciliation and the back room process invent ...
  • How we got here
    Paul Krugman reminds us of how we got to where we are today. [E]ver since Reagan, the G.O.P. has been run by people who want a much smaller government. In the famous words of the activist Grover Norquist, conservatives want to get the government “down to the size where we can drown it [...]
  • Дарко Миличић rules!
    We break from our usual programming to say Fuck yeah Darko! Darko Milicic played nineteen minutes and had 8 boards (4 offensive), 8 points on 4 of 7 shooting, blocked one shot, had two assists, altered countless shots, disrupted their offense and wracked up an amazing +35! The Wolves lost by two, ...
  • links
    Centered and fully punctuated, because ragged right margins get boring after a while: In case you’ve ever wondered why no one ever holds Colin Powell accountable, it’s because once your regime begins, his lips immediately move from their ass to yours. Saying “it is simply not true” is just another l ...

The Seferm Post

  • Biography: Lady Gaga
    Lady Gaga learned to play the piano by the age of four. At the age of 11, she was accepted to the Juilliard School in Manhattan, but instead attended a private Catholic school in the city.
  • Finally You Can Be Happy With These 5 Top Tips
    People who practice writing down three good things that have happened to them every week show significant boosts in happiness, studies have found. It seems the act of focusing on the positive helps people remember reasons to be glad.
  • 10 Top World Most Endangered Species (Video)
    10 Top World Most Endangered Species: Tiger, Polar Bear, Pacific Walrus, Magellanic Penguin, Leatherback Turtle, Bluefin Tuna, Mountain Gorilla, Monarch Butterfly, Javan Rhinoceros, Giant Panda
  • Dog Chased Seagull And Fell Off 300-Foot (90-Meter ...
    Paul Legendre of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution search and rescue service says the springer spaniel was rescued Feb. 14 after it darted off southern England's scenic Seven Sisters chalk cliffs.
  • Links for 2010-02-13 [del.icio.us]
    Valentine's Day History: What Everybody Need To Know very February, across the world, candy, flowers, and gifts are exchanged between loved ones, all in the name of St. Valentine. But who is this mysterious saint and why do we celebrate this holiday?

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

  • Canadian Company Begins Uranium Mining Grand Canyo ...
    Uranium Mining Begins at Grand Canyon Thousands of Claims Threaten Public Health and Sacred Lands By Klee Benally Indigenous Action Media http://www.indigenousaction.org/ Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ Photo (R): Havasupai gathered near Red Butte at the south rim of the Grand Ca ...
  • Babylon by Bus -Sina Brown Davis
    The following is a Special Report by Aboriginal News Group senior editor Sina Brown Davis for the Aotearoa Independent Media Centre : -- Representing Te Ata Tino Toa , I took part in the Trade to Climate Caravan , which took 60 Activists from the global south from the WTO meeting in Geneva to C ...
  • Kevin Annett: Eye Witnesses, Torture and Murder in ...
    Kevin Annett, beaten in Vancouver on Wed., Jan. 6, 2010, released this article today: By Kevin Annett Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com From the Files of the Community Task Force on the Disappeared - Downtown Eastside of Vancouver Memorandum on Eyewitness Evidence of the Organized Ab ...
  • Rest In Peace Howard Zinn
    Howard Zinn passed away on January 27 in California. He was 87 years old. His legacy is great and he will be sorely missed for telling it like it is and contesting the dominance of imperial American history. A main ingredient of Zinn's academic work, as famously found in his "People's History o ...
  • Fair/Light Skin and Beauty
    A few days ago I was in an office with a colleague of mine who was in the midst of a bantering session with two of the women who work there. "Why did you not wish me a happy new year?," the woman sitting closest to me said to my colleague who was standing directly opposite to the second woman in th ...

Pensieve

  • Alliances that Divide
    The AFP published an article today that troubles me. I’m jaded already with AFP and Reuters imprinting their ideology on the news about Honduras, but there are some facts they let slip that could show what this summit was all about. Honduras was not invited to the summit. And, that the organizers of ...
  • 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 ...

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 - 19/02/10
    Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html) Permafrost Line Recedes 130 Km in 50 Years, Canadian Study Finds (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100217101129.htm)- (http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1964085,00.html?x ...
  • Environmental News - 18/02/10
    Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html) BHP mines set to damage life-giving swamps (http://www.smh.com.au/environment/bhp-mines-set-to-damage-lifegiving-swamps-20100217-odzf.html)- (http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,19640 ...
  • Old Science, New Appreciation
    Like many people I often search for simple answers to complex problems, unfortunately human induced global warming defies such a simplistic approach…
  • 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 ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

 

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