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Thomas Paine

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

Saturday, February 27, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • U.S.: Senate Torture Probe Uncovers Missing Email ...
    NEW YORK, Feb 27 (IPS) - The Justice Department investigation into whether the authors of the George W. Bush-era "torture memos" were guilty of professional misconduct did not have full access to the emails used by those lawyers and by other key figures in the investigation, including for ...
  • U.S.: DynCorp Oversight in Afghanistan Faulted
    WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (IPS) - Afghan police are widely considered corrupt, unable to shoot straight, and die at twice the rate of Afghan soldiers and NATO troops. After seven billion dollars spent on training and salaries in the last eight years, several U.S. government investigations are askin ...
  • MIDEAST: How to Check Both Iran and Israel
    TEL AVIV, Feb 27 (IPS) - The U.S. is raising the stakes in its bid to halt Iran's nuclear programme, putting the issue on a "pressure track", says top U.S. general David Petraeus. The U.S. and other world powers are drumming up support for a fourth round of UN sanctions against Iran for i ...
  • US-IRAN: How Was Rigi Arrested?
    WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (IPS) - New details of the arrest of the Jundullah leader, Abdolmalek Rigi, partly corroborate and partly contradict the initial narrative given by Iranian officials for his arrest.
  • RIGHTS: What Fish may do for Western Sahara
    BRUSSELS, Feb 27 (IPS) - Legal advice stating that European vessels have no justification to fish off Western Sahara - a territory occupied by Morocco - has provoked a row between the main political institutions in Brussels.

Scoop - NZ

  • GEAB42: Intensification of Global Systemic Crisis
    LEAP/E2020 is of the view that the effect of States' spending trillions to « counteract the crisis » will have fizzled out. These vast sums had the effect of slowing down the development of the systemic global crisis for several months but, as anticipated in previous GEAB reports, this strategy wi ...
  • Plagiarism & Petraeus's Counterinsurgency Manual
    Editors' note: This expose of the stolen scholarship in the Army's new manual on counterinsurgency to which General David Petraeus has attached his name also runs in our current newsletter sent by US mail or as a pdf to our newsletter subscribers. Normally material in our newsletter does not run on ...
  • Mossad's Licence to Kill
    The killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh bears the hallmarks of the ruthless Israeli intelligence service. One of the leading chroniclers of the agency gives a unique insight into its methods. The Mossad assassins could have felt only satisfaction when the news broke that they had succeeded in killing Mah ...
  • GEAB42: Intensification of Global Systemic Crisis
    LEAP/E2020 is of the view that the effect of States' spending trillions to « counteract the crisis » will have fizzled out. These vast sums had the effect of slowing down the development of the systemic global crisis for several months but, as anticipated in previous GEAB reports, this strategy wi ...
  • Plagiarism & Petraeus's Counterinsurgency Manual
    Editors' note: This expose of the stolen scholarship in the Army's new manual on counterinsurgency to which General David Petraeus has attached his name also runs in our current newsletter sent by US mail or as a pdf to our newsletter subscribers. Normally material in our newsletter does not run on ...

Independent ( London )

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Russia's Lavrov says no proof Iran working on nucl ...
    Summary: flag of russia There is no hard proof that Iran is working on nuclear weapons source: RIA Novosti read more
  • In U.S., Barak signals Israeli autonomy against Ir ...
    Summary: Ehud Barak and Hillary Clinton Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak: We felt very proud that we never asked the Americans to come and fight for us. We basically ... to paraphrase Churchill, we said, 'Give us the tools and we will do the job'. source: Reuters read more
  • Barak says Iran unlikely to launch nuclear strike ...
    Summary: Both Israel and the United States believe that Tehran may obtain the uranium fuel needed for nuclear weapons by the same process to purify uranium. But Iran insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purpose. Israel has labeled Iran's nuclear program as a major threat to its security, ...
  • Iran offers official explanation on IAEA report
    Summary: IAEA Logo Iran, a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), rejects the allegations of having military objectives in its nuclear program as politically motivated and says its nuclear work is totally peaceful and within the framework of the NPT. source: Press TV read mor ...
  • "Depriving Iran of the right to produce peaceful n ...
    Summary: President Bashar al-Assad, at a joint press conference Thursday morning with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, said that in spite of big frustrations and stumbles that did harm to the region and to its people, yet the outcome during the past stage was in favour of the resistance ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • "The Great Silence" -Stephen Hawking & Others Look ...
    "The idea that we are the only intelligent creatures in a cosmos of a hundred billion galaxies is so preposterous that there are very few astronomers today who would take it seriously. It is safest to assume therefore, that they...
  • Image of the Day: "The Cosmic Eye" - Helix Nebula ...
    The Helix Nebula is the closest example of a planetary nebula created at the end of the life of a Sun-like star. The Helix Nebula, given a technical designation of NGC 7293, lies about 700 light-years away towards the constellation...
  • Future Tech Department (Humor - Weekend Edition)
    Image Credit: With thanks to our friends at gizmodo.com
  • Viewing the Universe Through "Alien Eyes"
    "Our human window on the Universe is terribly small within a stunningly small range of wavelengths. With our eyes we see wavelengths between 0.00004 and 0.00008 of a centimeter (where, not so oddly, the Sun and stars emit most of...
  • Dwarf Galaxy Remnants Invading Milky Way
    The Milky Way has an estimated 160 globular clusters of which one quarter are thought to be ‘alien’ invaders from other galaxies, new research from Swinburne University of Technology (Australia) shows. Swinburne astronomer Professor Duncan Forbes has shown that many...

Natural News

  • Doritos ads represent sick, demented nature of jun ...
    (NaturalNews) Junk food advertising has reached a new low with the recent Doritos "Crash the Super Bowl" ads which portray Doritos consumers as violent murderers who will kill fellow human beings to get a bag of Doritos. One Doritos ad portrays a man backing out of a parking lot when his car strikes ...
  • Surge in infertility tourism leads to Viking babie ...
    (NaturalNews) In vitro fertilization (IVF) has become a popular method by which women who are having trouble getting pregnant are able to use donor sperm to achieve pregnancy. In the UK, however, there is a shortage of donor sperm that is causing British women to have to travel to countries like Den ...
  • How to Get Rid of Head Lice Naturally
    (NaturalNews) Head lice are easily transmitted by head-to head contact or by sharing combs, brushes or caps. Infestations are common in school children but this is not an indication of poor hygiene or dirty hair. Lice lay their eggs along the base of the hair shaft, close to the scalp. Conventional ...
  • Oops! Brain cancer patients over-irradiated with m ...
    (NaturalNews) One of the advantages of natural medicine is that if you make a mistake on your dosage, it's usually no big deal because natural medicine is inherently safe. But conventional medicine, with all its toxic chemotherapy poisons and irradiation machines, can be fatal even when simple mista ...
  • McCain bill threatens access to vitamins and suppl ...
    (NaturalNews) Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) has introduced a new bill called The Dietary Supplement Safety Act (DSSA) of 2010 (S. 3002), that, if enacted, would severely curtail free access to dietary supplements. Cosponsored by Senator Byron Dorgan (D-North Dakota), the bill would essentially giv ...

    The Galloping Beaver

  • Aircraft maintenance
    UPS has a fleet of aircraft, and they require maintenance. Here's an oldie but goodie: UPS Air Cargo TROUBLE SHEET UPS requires a college degree to fly a plane, but only a high school diploma to fix one. After every flight, UPS pilots fill out a form called a 'gripe sheet', which tells mechanics a ...
  • We also walk dogs . . .
    IO9 IS A SITE THAT FOLLOWS SCIENCE FICTION in its many aspects. According to Meredith, who has an article titled " Atheists Will Take Care Of Your Pet After The Divine Rapture, For A Price ", Eternal Earth-Bound Pets promises to care for your pet after the apocalypse. Their slogan: " The next best t ...
  • Comment section
    Comments will return when I return. HaloScan is gone and it took all the comments with it. Sometime next week I hope to have it all fixed. Maybe.
  • "No Fly List" her.
    That's the solution to the right-wing concealer of a druggie . Tell her to take a fucking walk.... because she's a goddamned security risk to everyone else on a plane. Remember, these pukes are telling you the reason for the pat-downs, the swabs of your laptop, the unreasonable search of documents ...
  • Dear David Warren...
    You have a little problem. Your column was an incredible yawner : out of touch, out of date, out of the current reality. In short, Dave, you're an unbelievable bore trying to push your ridiculously Victorian mentality on a population that really wants to find its way back to the humanity of the Midd ...

Media Matters for America

  • Hannity falsely claims Obama admin. gives special ...
    Commenting on a White House staff-level meeting with leaders of atheist groups, Sean Hannity claimed that religious groups "have not received this treatment from the Obama White House." In fact, President Obama himself has met with numerous religious leaders, and the administration's contacts with ...
  • Quick Fact: Van Susteren allowed Hatch to call re ...
    Fox News' Greta Van Susteren did not challenge Sen. Orrin Hatch's (R-UT) description of the possible use of the reconciliation process to pass health care reform "an abuse of the Senate rules like I've never seen before." In fact, Hatch has repeatedly supported the use of the budget reconciliat ...
  • Hannity is the one "obscuring the facts" on premiu ...
    While attempting to correct President Obama, Sean Hannity�cited the Congressional Budget Office's statement that "the average premium" for individual policyholders would increase "10 to 13 percent" under the Senate health bill. However�the�CBO stated that�premiums paid by a majority of people insur ...
  • Garrett allows McCain to falsely claim health care ...
    Fox News' Major Garrett allowed Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) to falsely claim current health care legislation would be "2.5 trillion in debt on future generations of Americans." In fact, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that the legislation would reduce deficits during and beyond t ...
  • Limbaugh's health care plan: Get rich or die tryi ...
    Throughout the health care debate, Rush Limbaugh has gradually rolled out his health care plan. The provisions of the plan include being rich, eating applesauce if you can't afford dentures, and not breaking your wrist. Limbaugh's health care plan: "If you don't have any teeth, so what? What's ap ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • AIPAC To Decide If GOP Senate Candidate Meets Its ...
    This is hilarious. The lobby that supposedly doesn't exist is being called in to determine if a GOP candidate for the US Senate, Tom Campbell, is sufficiently devoted to Israel's interests. Those who reject the idea that the lobby is the 800 pound gorilla in American politics will say this is ...
  • Foreign Policy Hawks: Wrong Since 1938
    In every international conflict, the side that favors war invariably gets to "own" the flag. Those favoring diplomacy can complain as much as they choose, but it's always the hard-liners, the hawks, and the "bombs away" crowd that successfully portrays itself as defender of the nation's interests. ...
  • Try Out the New TPMPollTracker
    Can you help us with beta-testing a new product we're about to roll out? If you're a longtime TPMer, you know that since 2006 we've tracked and collected polling data as part of TPM Election Central and TPMDC. But over the last few months, we've radically redesigned and upgraded TPMPolltracker ...
  • UPDATE: YES, Harvard Fellow Did Advocate Palestini ...
    My latest on Martin Kramer is here , followed by original post. 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 ...
  • 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 ...

TruthOut

  • Defense Contractors' Mental Health Neglected
    Redding, California - Wade Dill does not figure into the toll of war dead. An exterminator, Dill took a job in Iraq for a company contracted to do pest control on military bases. There, he found himself killing disease-carrying flies and rabid dogs, dodging mortars and huddling in bomb shelters. Di ...
  • The Myth of Low Military Pay
    One great myth in American society is that military personnel are poorly paid. That was true until the 1980s, when a push to improve recruit quality boosted military pay each year at twice the inflation rate. The military was once known for low pay yet great retirement, but now has great pay as well ...
  • Defying Progressives, Obama Revives Nuclear Power
    Those who continue to insist that President Obama would implement progressive measures if he only had 60 Senate votes (ignoring that he had this for most of 2009) will have a hard time explaining his move this week to launch the first nuclear power plants built in the United States since the 1970s. ...
  • Sri Lanka: After the "War on Terror"
    Just four months ago, the rulers of Sri Lanka were the toast of the "anti-terror" fraternity in the region and the rest of the world. They were supposed to have attempted and achieved what others made of less-stern stuff had abandoned as unattainable: a military solution to the problem of terrorism. ...
  • The Dirty Truth Behind Clean Coal
    If you've tuned in to the Winter Olympics this past week, you likely sat through repeated showings of a multimillion-dollar public relations campaign paid for by Big Coal regarding the potential laurels of "clean-coal" technology. The premise of the 30-second spot is simple: Coal can be clean and Am ...

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

  • Dallas Morning News Editorial: Editorial: Clean ai ...
    This editorial from the Dallas Morning News is a little bit old news, responding to Governor Perry’s lawsuit against the EPA’s endangerment finding about carbon dioxide, BUT I really like the message that clean air vs. jobs is a false choice.  Because everything we would have to do to create a new ...
  • Introducing the Get to Know an Activist Series: Pa ...
    This is the launch of our Get to Know an Activist Series. Everyday the staff of Public Citizen Texas works to protect and enhance the rights of Texas citizens. We scrutinize, work to reform, and disseminate the details of local policy and energy issues to ensure that our government is of, for, and b ...
  • PUC Chairman Ignores Impending Impact of Coal Emis ...
    Barry Smitherman, chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of Texas (PUC), made this statement regarding the “progress” Texas has been making in regards to green energy and “responsible” leadership: Texas is the nation’s reddest state on the political map. But it produces more green energy than ...
  • The Next Big Bailout: Not a Done Deal
    Original post can be found at our DC “Citizen Energy” blog President Obama wants to triple the loan program for construction of new nuclear reactors, to $54 billion. The nuclear loan guarantee program commits taxpayers to not only underwrite risky nuclear reactor projects, but also allows wealthy n ...
  • Jim Hightower, Roger Duncan, Tom Smitty Smith, and ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Nasca lines: the buried secrets
    A new National Geographic documentary is revealing the secrets behind who made the Nasca Lines and why. Its one of the most well known spectacles of t...
  • Man with world's longest hair has died
    Tran Van Hay, a Vietnamese man credited with having the world's longest hair has died aged 79. He held the Guinness World Record for the longest hair ...
  • Glow in the dark toilet roll developed
    In an effort to help those taking a trip to the bathroom in the dead of night one company has created the perfect solution. The price might be a bit s...
  • Probes to explore the galaxy by 2020
    A leading Caltech physicist has said that the future of space exploration lies with intelligent space probes. There's no doubt that unmanned probes ha...
  • The haunted vaults of Edinburgh's South Bridge
    Stephen Emerson takes a walk through the dark haunted vaults under Edinburgh in search of the paranormal. The Edinburgh vaults are often considered to...

Grassroots

  • One step forward towards a Declaration on the Righ ...
    image001.jpg � Recently the Advisory Committee of the U.N. Human Rights Council�approved the report “Discrimination in the Context of Right to Food.” Their endorsement of the report is a significant first step towards the recognition of peasan ...
  • One step forward
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  • 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 ...

Climate

  • February 26, 2010
    Key Senators Do Not See Climate Bill in 2010 (Reuters)  The U.S. Senate is unlikely to pass a comprehensive climate bill to reduce greenhouse gas emissions this year, according to a Reuters survey of 12 key Democrat and Republican Senators who could hold the swing votes. Reid Calls for C ...
  • February 25, 2010
    Vermont Senate Votes to Close Nuke Plant in 2012 (AP)  The Vermont Senate has voted to block the state's only nuclear plant from operating after its license expires in 2012. The move is at least a temporary setback for nuclear power a week after Pres. Obama announced loan guarantees for two r ...
  • February 24, 2010
    UN Chief: Reject Skeptics' Attempts to Derail Global Climate Deal (Guardian) UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon today urged environment ministers to reject attempts by skeptics to undermine efforts to forge a climate change deal, stressing that global warming poses "a clear and present danger. ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • An Accidental Experience with a Health System that ...
    As I write this article, I'm seated in a hotel room across from the train station in Geneva, Switzerland. There's a slight, dull pain in my forehead from a two-inch line of stitches that are pulling together a gash that runs diagonally across my brow, thanks to a stumble on a high step on a sidewalk ...
  • Two Legal Foes Unite to Fight - for Same Sex Marri ...
    Watching this week's "health summit" in Washington, with both sides barely repressing the urge to turn the Blair House event into the Potomac version of mixed martial arts cage fighting, was discouraging. To get a little peace and quiet I was tempted to switch to ESPN and search for an hour of the w ...
  • The Case against Greenspan and Bernanke
    Is there enough evidence to indict Ben Bernanke and Alan Greenspan on charges that they aided and abetted the banks and other financial institutions in the sale of fraudulent loans to investors? That depends on whether there is sufficient proof to show whether the two men KNEW that the nation's len ...
  • Take the Damn Vote
    I have now heard countless times that Democrats don't have enough votes for the public option. Twenty-four senators and 120 representatives have signed a letter supporting the public option. Apparently, that's still not enough. Serious people assure us that there just aren't the votes, even to pass ...
  • It's time to rewrite the Pledge of Allegiance
    "Corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government," said Texas populist and longtime political writer Jim Hightower nearly a decade ago. Last month, the United States Supreme Court proved the point of Hightower's wise words of warning. In a 5-4 decision, the court rul ...

Ten Percent

  • Friday! The Bible (1966) film trailer
    Wherein we learn Hollywood marketing, film ‘criticism’ and religion make a heady brew of AWESOME! I challenge you not to laugh, also only 4 out of 10 in the US accept the theory of evolution and they say Avatar was successful, it’s got nothing on this ‘Bible’ franchise!
  • Surging On
    (AFP) – The United States plans a major offensive this year in the Taliban bastion of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, a senior official said Friday, calling a hard-fought ongoing operation a mere prelude. The remarks were the latest sign that President Barack Obama’s administration plans t ...
  • MI5 Cover Up Continues To Crumble
    “[The record of security service officials] regrettably, but inevitably, must raise the question of whether any statement in the certificates on an issue concerning such treatment can be relied on … Not only is there an obvious reason for distrusting any UK government assurance based on SyS [secur ...
  • Support The Troops- Support Joe Glenton
    I got a press release today from some video sharing site called winkball (hmmm) which announced Goerdon Borwn was the latest ‘celeb’ to video a message of support ‘faces for the Forces campaign aims to collect a million messages of support for the troops serving in Afghanistan‘ there was also a ...
  • Gangster- Cameron & Murdoch’s Rat Fucker Coulson
    The reason that this story is not a big as it deserves to be is because of gangsterism, that is Coulson is a bully, he and/or Cameron and/or Murdoch will have a great deal of dirt on very powerful people, Coulson works for a man who might become PM, he did work for Rupert Murdoch. [...]

Booman Tribune

  • Is Andy McCarthy Making Sense?
    I usually think Andy McCarthy is the dimmest bulb at the Weekly Standard, which is an accomplishment of sorts. But his little missive this morning is mostly accurate in the larger sense, even if it is wrong in many particulars. McCarthy argues that since the Democrats have already internalized tha ...
  • Radio Address
    In his Saturday radio address the president continued his execution of a point by point plan for passing health care reform. Pointing to the Olympics, he congratulated American medal winners and their ability to bring the nation together over the past two weeks. Saying he realizes the di ...
  • B.S. of the Day
    Normally, this award goes to some ass-clown like Frank Gaffney or Michele Bachmann, but McDonald's just told me that Chicken McNuggets are a favorite food of the Winter Olympians. I think most Olympic coaches would strangle their athletes if they caught them eating McDonald's food.
  • Casual Observation
    The Democrats seem confident for the first time in a long time. The Republicans will make the process as messy and annoying as possible, but it looks manageable. I wish I could find some discussion of what's going to be in the sidecar reconciliation bill. It seems to me that it will matter a lot ...
  • Durbin
    ...is fed up with the filibuster. I am too. So, let's have us some tunes:

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • The Hollywood Stock Exchange, and bands with share ...
    If investment bankers can gamble on the success of big-money projects, why can’t the rest of us? Well, of course, we can – but those sort of big-money projects aren’t the sort of thing that get us normal folk excited, nor the sort of thing we understand (or think we understand) sufficiently to throw ...
  • Haven is a place on earth: can Iceland be made int ...
    Via Jay Rosen, here’s an interview with Julian Assange, editor of the infamous Wikileaks whistleblower website, explaining how the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative organisation intends to attempt to turn Iceland into a global safe haven for journalism and free speech: BOB GARFIELD: So you’ve skimme ...
  • Fab another little piece of my heart now, baby: 3D ...
    The idea of printing replacement biological tissue and organs has been around for a while – we mentioned the development the pressure-assisted spinning system back in 2007, in fact – but it looks like it’s finally reached the point where people think they can make a profit from it on a commercial sc ...
  • Emily Howell has written a song for you
    If a piece of very-well-written computer software can produce classical music compositions that the experts can’t distinguish from ones created by people, does that mean that music is essentially meaningless? [via MetaFilter] And doesn’t it also mean that the program in question essentially passed a ...
  • Swapping the Senate for Reddit, and other daft ide ...
    For the sake of change-around, I’m gonna let someone else propose the wild idea this time. So, how’s about you US citizens swap your Senate for something like Reddit.com? [image adapted from a photo by cliff1066â„¢] Let’s abolish the Senate! Replace it with something truly new and egalitarian, a s ...

Therapy News

  • Irish Study Links Childhood Stress with Eventual D ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline The modern prevalence of depression, which is quickly emerging as one of the world’s largest health problems, may leave some people wondering how and why the concern emerges. There are many theories focused on explaining the origins of depression, but recently, a stud ...
  • Chronic Illness Anxiety May Benefit from Exercise
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Physical activity is often recommended for people with a wide range of psychological concerns, though precise regimens and concerns still leave a great amount of research to be completed in the area. A team form the University of Georgia at Athens has made a positive ...
  • Greater Susceptibility to Emotions, Environment Ma ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary The period of adolescence is often described as being one of the most confusing and difficult –and, sometimes, enjoyable– stages of life, and tends to feature new and sometimes troubling behaviors, accompanied by a whirlwind of thoughts and feelings that can prompt s ...
  • Expert Calls for Aggressive Action in Treating, no ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline The fact that detention facilities such as jails and juvenile halls tend to operate poor programs for therapy and other forms of psychological treatment probably isn’t new to many professionals in the industry, but while some work towards improving the quality of thes ...
  • The Quarterlife Crisis: Where Am I Going?
    By Katie Chisholm, Psy.D. Click here to contact Katie and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Are you a twenty-something who feels confused about what path to take in life? Are you filled with confusion, anxiety and self-doubt much of the time? Are you considering going to graduate school because y ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Mountaintop Removal Mining: Why There's No Such Th ...
    Daily Yonder (blog) Mountaintop Removal Mining: Why There's No Such Thing as 'Clean Coal' Energy Collective (blog) Here are the deets, according to the organizers at the Rainforest Action Network: JP Morgan Chase is the largest US financier of mountaintop removal coal ... Tweet Against Mountaintop ...
  • The Post's Appalachia is not the one we know - Was ...
    The Post's Appalachia is not the one we know Washington Post ... but I hope that next time you'll also go to the hollers in Wise County, where people's homes and health have been destroyed by mountaintop removal , ... and more��
  • Judge Berger grants Massey injunction against prot ...
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  • Musicians rally to stop mountaintop removal - Moth ...
    Mother Nature Network Musicians rally to stop mountaintop removal Mother Nature Network By Michael d'Estries To help raise cash for their campaign against mountaintop removal , the Natural Resources Defense Council is organizing a benefit ... and more��
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Memeorandum

  • Coburn warns against majority-vote tactic in weekl ...
    Jordan Fabian / The Hill : Coburn warns against majority-vote tactic in weekly Republican address   —  Should Democrats use the budget reconciliation process to pass healthcare reform, it would fly in the face of public opinion, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) said in the Republicans' weekly address.
  • Man who broke the Bank of England, George Soros, ' ...
    Karl West / Daily Mail : Man who broke the Bank of England, George Soros, ‘at centre of hedge funds plot to cash in on fall of the euro’   —  A secretive group of Wall Street hedge fund bosses are said to be behind a plot to cash in on the decline of the euro.  —  Representatives of George Soros's ...
  • Michigan Democrat blasts GOP leaders for Bunning's ...
    Jordan Fabian / The Hill : Michigan Democrat blasts GOP leaders for Bunning's objection on benefits   —  Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) on Saturday blamed Senate Republican leaders for the stalled unemployment benefits extension.  —  The senator said that by remaining silent on Sen. Jim Bunning's ( ...
  • Latest Updates on Earthquake in Chile (Robert Mack ...
    Robert Mackey / The Lede : Latest Updates on Earthquake in Chile   —  A map showing the location of Saturday's 8.8 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Chile from the Web site of the U.S. Geological Survey. … A reader using the screen name Noyarzo writes from Chile's capital: … Another reader, Pa ...
  • Transformation - By: Andy McCarthy (Andy McCarthy/ ...
    Andy McCarthy / The Corner on National Review Online : Transformation — By: Andy McCarthy   —  On Sean's panel last night, when the conversation turned to how nervous Democrats supposedly are over what for now is teeing up like a very bad November, I felt like I was channeling Mark Steyn, Mark Levi ...

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China Dialogue

  • Slideshow: organic overtures
    Meng Si visited a project in eastern China that trials natural farming methods. Introducing her photographs of the farm, she says extending its agricultural revolution still seems a distant dream. In late 2008, reports claimed that pesticide residue in peanuts grown in one county in Shandong , easte ...
  • Dynamic data
    The results of China’s first national pollution survey make for dispiriting reading. But, argues Ma Jun, their release could be the spark for environmental recovery. Figures from China's first national pollution survey were jointly released by the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP), the Nati ...
  • America’s shale-gas bonanza (2)
    Proven reserves -- and jobs -- are growing, but gas has its critics and prices are unpredictable. As other nations seek to explore their own potential, the future is uncertain, writes Sheila McNulty. Hans-Martin Schulz, a German geologist, is co-founder of Gas Shales in Europe , a project funded by ...
  • 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 ...

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Threat Level

  • Lawmakers Punt Patriot Act to Obama
    The House and Senate are forwarding to President Barack Obama legislation reauthorizing three expiring provisions of the Patriot Act — despite heated debate among lawmakers that the surveillance measure went too far. The act, hastily adopted six weeks after the 2001 terror attacks, greatly expanded ...
  • Former Teen Cheerleader Dinged $27,750 for File Sh ...
    A federal appeals court is ordering a university student to pay the Recording Industry Association of America $27,750 — $750 a track — for file sharing 37 songs when she was a high school cheerleader. The decision Thursday by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reverses a Texas federal judge who h ...
  • Military Monitored Planned Parenthood, Supremacist ...
    The U.S. military monitored Planned Parenthood and a white supremacist group as part of the government’s security preparations for the 2002 Olympics in Utah, according to new documents released by the Department of Defense. The U.S. Joint Forces Command liaison collected and disseminated information ...
  • Whistleblower Site Back After Microsoft Withdraws ...
    Cryptome, the secret-document-spilling site, is back online Thursday, after Microsoft withdrew a copyright complaint that shuttered the site the day before. Microsoft’s efforts to suppress a document about how to subpoena online user data backfired, leading instead to widespread attention to (and r ...
  • Wisconsin Teen Gets 15 Years for Facebook Sex-Exto ...
    A Wisconsin teenager was sentenced to 15 years in prison Wednesday for an extortion scheme that had him tricking male classmates into sending them nude photos of themselves, then blackmailing them with exposure if they didn’t have sex with him. In 2008, defendant Anthony Stancl, who was 18 at the ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Hawaii prepares evacuations ahead of tsunami
    HONOLULU (Reuters) - Hawaii prepared to start evacuations ahead of a tsunami generated by a massive earthquake in Chile, a civil defense official on the U.S. island said on Saturday.
  • Chile quake generated tsunami: USGS
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The huge 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck central Chile early on Saturday generated a tsunami that may have been destructive along the coast near the epicenter, a U.S. agency said.
  • UPDATE 2-8.3-magnitude quake hits Chile - USGS
    SANTIAGO, Chile, Feb 27 (Reuters) - A massive magnitude-8.3 earthquake struck near Concepcion, Chile, early on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported, shaking buildings and causing blackouts in parts of the capital of Santiago.
  • UPDATE 2-U.S. approves Shire's drug for Gaucher di ...
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  • Huge 8.8-magnitude quake hits Chile - USGS
    SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) - A massive magnitude-8.8 earthquake struck near the coast of south-central Chile early on Saturday, shaking buildings and causing blackouts in parts of the capital Santiago, 200 miles away.

Equality Trust

  • Inequality: a threat to social cohesion
    As Edmund Conway comments in today's Daily Telegraph : "It is not merely, as Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett point out in their book The Spirit Level, that this damages health and encourages crime; in times of austerity, inequality can tear apart the social fabric."
  • 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

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #299
    US lawmaker wants to stop CIA agents working second jobs. Poland admits to aiding CIA. Former Romanian-German spy fired for secret past.
  • News you may have missed #298
    Senior officers charged in Turkey coup plot. Cryptome online again after Microsoft backs down.
  • Israeli agents tried to obtain Australian passport ...
    Yesterday’s revelation, that three members of the Mossad hit squad that assassinated Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai last January, used Australian passports, has shocked Australian public opinion. In reality, however, the Australian government had been warned in as early as 2004 that Israeli agents were ...
  • News you may have missed #297
    Australia to use spy agency to combat human smuggling. Three Lebanese charged with spying for Israel. Analysis: CIA and Pakistan work together, but do so warily.
  • Ireland seeks Israeli spy who assembled forged pas ...
    As the number of suspects involved in the assassination of Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh rose to 26 yesterday, Irish government sources said they suspect an Israeli agent in Dublin of orchestrating the acquisition of several Irish passports used in the assassination.

After Downing Street.org

  • Honoring Howard Zinn at Busboys and Poets
  • Senator Reid Supports Jay Bybee, Promises to Do An ...
    Well, at least that first part is already confirmed. Reid thinks Bybee should be a lawyer.
  • Chilean Earthquake Update
    Chilean Earthquake Update, 5:00 AM CST CNN: Tsunami advisory issued for California, Washington State, Oregon, Alaska . CNN: Tsunami arrival in Hawaii estimated to be 11 AM local time. USGS Map, showing quake magnitudes throughout Southern Hemisphere Live Stream from Chile Google Live Updates Daybre ...
  • BREAKING: USGS Reports 8.8-Magnitude Earthquake Hi ...
    USGS Reports 8.8-Magnitude Earthquake Hits Chile | Yahoo! News SANTIAGO, Chile – A massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake capable of tremendous damage struck central Chile early Saturday, shaking the capital for a minute and half and setting off a tsunami. Buildings collapsed and phone lines and electrici ...
  • Yoo Must be Held Accountable
    By Kenneth J. Theisen The Berkeley Daily Planet February 25 2010 On Feb. 19, the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) finally issued its report on whether John Yoo and Jay Bybee should be held accountable for their actions associated with their role providing leg ...

Grist - News

  • Coffee hit by global warming, growers say
    by Agence France-Presse GUATEMALA CITY -- Coffee producers say they are getting hammered by global warming, with higher temperatures forcing growers to move to prized higher ground, putting the cash crop at risk. "There is already evidence of important changes," said Nestor Osorio, head of the ...
  • The Climate Post: Climate bill + climategate = Bil ...
    by Eric Roston First things first: Recent political difficulties for the president and key colleagues in the Senate have not removed energy and climate issues from the White House and majority's agenda. Obama told business executives yesterday that the U.S. economy must start "to put a price on ...
  • Making sense of Wal-Mart’s big green announc ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes Wal-Mart made big news today with a major commitment to trim its greenhouse-gas emissions. Here’s the context: Over the past five years the retail giant has taken big, splashy steps to save energy, reduce waste, and sell cleaner products, like compact-fluorescent light bulbs. ...
  • World’s biggest solar-powered boat unveiled
    by Agence France-Presse The PlanetSolar boat. KIEL, Germany -- A skipper hoping to become the first to sail round the world using solar power said his catamaran could carve a wake for pollution-free shipping as he unveiled the record-breaking yacht Thursday. "This is a unique feeling to see in ...
  • British Airways plans to get wasted on future flig ...
    by Ashley Braun Being a good stewardess of resources Next time the state of the planet has you down in the dumps, remember you've got a reason to look up. By 2014 British Airways will be filling up with 10% waste to keep landfilling down. Sure, they have airways to go in green, but it's plane t ...

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Washington Independent

  • Proposal to Pay Contractor Employees Living Wages ...
    President Obama plans to change the criteria used to award all federal government contracts in order to reward companies who pay employees better than average wages and offer benefits. Rather than cheering the thought of having more government money end up in individual workers’ pockets, (rather tha ...
  • On Unemployment, We’ve Seen This Movie Befor ...
    There’s plenty of criticism being directed today at Sen. Jim Bunning, the Kentucky Republican who single-handedly prevented the Democrats from extending the filing deadline for unemployment benefits, which arrives Sunday. Bunning says that he wants the $10 billion cost to be paid for with cuts elsew ...
  • Latest Conservative Smear Calls Justice Dept. Lawy ...
    In the latest bit of brazen slander from the right, Republican Senators are trying to invent a scandal about Justice Department lawyers who — horror — represented Guantanamo detainees. You know, provided the representation that the Rehnquist and Roberts Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled those detai ...
  • Trent Franks: Abortion Is Worse for Blacks Than Sl ...
    Mike Stark talks to Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), a conservative in a safe seat who has no qualms about discussing abortion in extreme terms, and Stark gets the congressman to say legal abortion was worse for African-Americans than slavery was. “I don’t believe for one second that he intends to ins ...
  • Palin: Obama Was ‘Arrogant’ to Critici ...
    In an interview with Sean Hannity on his ABC News radio show, Sarah Palin chastised President Obama for telling Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), during the health care summit, “the campaign is over.” “Todd and I both saw that,” said Palin, “and we both said, you know, how arrogant for our president to sa ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

  • Tax those carbon gluttons
    LEMME TELL YOU about a carbon tax you’re gonna love. Two such taxes, actually. I tell you, kid, Stephane Dion had the right idea, but the wrong sales pitch. The fun starts with the government giving you maybe $2,000 as a carbon dividend. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & C ...
  • Why do we hate? Academics seek answer in new field
    Hate is everywhere, but the fundamental question of why one person can hate another has never been adequately studied, contends Jim Mohr of Gonzaga University, who is developing a new academic field of hate studies. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �A ...
  • 'Fat for cosmetics' murder suspects arrested in Pe ...
    Four people have been arrested in Peru on suspicion of killing dozens of people in order to sell their fat and tissue for cosmetic uses in Europe. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 6 Ways Agriculture Impacts Global Warming
    Sure, agriculture provides us with the food we all eat every day. But do you know how those agricultural practices impact global warming? Turns out there's some pretty big impacts, on both the sustainable and industrial sides of the equation; employing su Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to ...
  • We love Butchers
    Former chef Josh Applestone and his wife, Jessica Applestone, are typical of the new butcher breed. He was a vegan, she was a one-time vegetarian when they founded Fleisher’s Grass-fed and Organic Meats in Kingston, N.Y., in 2004 Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �N ...

Suzie-Q

  • Chile Earthquake 8.8: Tsunami Threatens 1/4 Of The ...
    Chile Earthquake, Tsunami 2010: LATEST UPDATES, VIDEO Huffington Post |  Nicholas Sabloff First Posted: 02-27-10 10:19 AM   |   Updated: 02-27-10 11:55 AM Early Saturday morning a devastating 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck Chile, setting off ...
  • Prosecuting Bush for War Crimes
    Charlotte Dennett and Vincent Bugliosi Want Bush in the Dock By Russell Mokhiber, Counterpunch.org,  Feb 25, 2010 In 2008, Charlotte Dennett ran for Attorney General in Vermont. Dennett’s key campaign pledge – if elected, she would appoint Vincent Bugliosi as a special prosecutor to seek a murd ...
  • Haiti and the Aid Racket
    Well, I’ve got to say, the reality of seeing the leaders of three different administrations speaking from one script certainly raises the hair on my neck. It’s like they have all become clones for the New World Order, I mean like…scope on Hillary on this video as she predictably mouths the NWO ag ...
  • Bunning (R-KY): Blocks Unemployment Benefits Exten ...
    Bunning Whines About Missing Basketball Game, Tells Dems ‘Tough Sh*t’ On Unemployment Benefits Think Progress- By Pat Garofalo at 9:57 am Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed an extension of unemployment benefits on a voice vote. The Senate, however, has yet to act on the same measure, as ...
  • The Iraq Withdrawal: Obama vs. the Pentagon
    by Raed Jarrar, CommonDreams.org, Feb 25, 2010 This Monday, Army Gen. Ray Odierno, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, asked officials in DC to approve contingency plans to delay the withdrawal of US combat forces. The next day, the New York times published an [...]

Solari

  • “European Union Squabbles”
    Continue reading Who Are You Mr President? Nigel Farage Asks Van Rompuy Related reading: Europe Chooses a President Stratfor (20 Nov 09) Herman Van Rompuy: Europe’s First President to Push For ‘Euro Tax’ Telegraph.co.uk (22 Nov 09) European Union Wikipedia
  • Norway Does It Their Way
    By Matthew Futterman and Kevin Helliker Vancouver, British Columbia Norway’s Olympic team has won a surprising 17 medals in Vancouver so far, enough to place it third overall and only one gold medal behind the leaders. The country grabbed two medals Tuesday when Kjeitil Jansrud and Aksel Svindal to ...
  • Administration to Stop Foreclosures ?
    By Dawn Kopecki The Obama administration may expand efforts to ease the housing crisis by banning all foreclosures on home loans unless they have been screened and rejected by the government’s Home Affordable Modification Program. The proposal, reviewed by lenders last week on a White House conferen ...
  • The Solari Report Digest ~ New Podcast Available!
    Solari has produced a new free podcast—The Solari Report Digest #9. Listen to Solari Report Digest #9 The Solari Report Digest is a podcast featuring highlights from the live one-hour Solari Report briefings. In the rapidly changing political and economic landscape the Solari Report Digest provi ...
  • Microsoft’s Global Criminal Compliance Handb ...
    U.S. Domestic Version March 2008 By Addy Dugdale Microsoft has acted swiftly after the Web site Cryptome leaked its “Global Criminal Compliance Handbook.” The guide does exactly what it says: outlines the surveillance services the software company will perform for law enforcement agencies on its on ...

Global Insights

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

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

  • Spring seasonal veg recipes
    Tasty, healthy, and affordable: vegetables are good for you in more ways than one. Finding inspiration and learning to make the most of the best seasonal ingredients can be a bit of a challenge, though: and with this in mind Jane Baxter, from the Riverford farm kitchen, has provided us with a select ...
  • Group therapy 'helps treat back pain'
    Group therapy can provide a cheaper alternative to treating lower back pain, according to a new study. Some 701 people took part in the study, which involved six 90-minute sessions where the subjects were given advice on taking pain medication, how to stay active, and avoiding bed rests. The partici ...
  • Week in Pictures: 22nd February 2010
    A picture for every day, taking a snapshot view of what is happening in the world around us. Come and browse through our gallery of this week's most inspiring images.
  • The election run-up: what about women?
    Winning the female vote is crucial to winning the forthcoming general election, so much so it’s even been billed the "Mumsnet election". Let's be under no illusion, no stone is being left unturned. High-profile website, Mumsnet recently celebrated its 10th birthday and, with an estimated one million ...
  • Mandatory sex education for school children?
    In 2009, the government announced plans to make sex education (PSHE) a compulsory part of national school curriculum at both primary and secondary level. The new curriculum, covering abortion, contraception and homosexuality will be taught to children from age five. � Schools Secretary, Ed Balls sa ...

Fabius Maximus

  • FM newswire for 27 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.  A look at the increasing weirdness of American politics:  “It’s Not Politics, It’s Bonkers“, Michael Wolff, Newser, 23 February 2010 “Inside the ...
  • What is the best measure of success to our expedit ...
    I find National Journal an interesting and valuable website.  Esp their national security blog, which features brief provocative blognotes with responses from experts.  Here’s an example, followed by the most interesting replies. “A ‘New Dawn’ In Iraq, Or More Darkness?“, James Kitfield (bio), 2 ...
  • FM newswire for 26 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.  “‘Starve the Beast’ – Origins and Development of a Budgetary Metaphor“, Bruce Bartlett (bio), The Independent Review, Summer 2007 Broke states are ...
  • Stratfor looks at “The Utility of Assassinat ...
    In this otherwise excellent article, Stratfor ignores the key factors about assassination:  if we assassinate the leaders of our enemies, eventually our enemies will assassinate our leaders.  When the inevitable happens, only hypocrites will cry about the evil of our enemies.  Those terrorists!   In ...
  • FM newswire for 25 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.  About China, the short version:   “China – The Mother of All Black Swans“,  12 February 2010 About Japan, the short version:  ”Japan – Past th ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • No Lie! Your Facebook Profile Is the Real You
    “On the Internet,” one dog tells another in a classic New Yorker cartoon, “nobody knows you’re a dog.” The internet is notorious for its digital dens of deception. But on Facebook, what you see tends to be what you get — at least in one study of tailless, two-legged young adults. College-age users ...
  • Flash-Freezing Technique May Boost Egg Survival Ra ...
    A new study has identified the best way to flash freeze living tissue, which could lead to better human egg and stem cell storage. The technique could dramatically improve the odds that frozen, unfertilized eggs could be thawed out and still be healthy enough to be fertilized. That would reduce how ...
  • Blood-Chilling Device Could Save Stroke Victims Fr ...
    SAN ANTONIO — Cool runnings, indeed. A tiny device placed inside a central vein can safely refrigerate blood as it flows through stroke patients, lowering their temperature and raising the possibility that they might gain brain protection from hypothermia without having to be packed in ice. Althoug ...
  • What Is Time? One Physicist Hunts for the Ultimate ...
    SAN DIEGO — One way to get noticed as a scientist is to tackle a really difficult problem. Physicist Sean Carroll has become a bit of a rock star in geek circles by attempting to answer an age-old question no scientist has been able to fully explain: What is time? Sean Carroll is a theoretical phys ...
  • Fish See Their Enemies’ Faces in Ultraviolet
    Seen in the right light, yellow reef fish become spotty pains in the tail fin. Members of one damselfish species use facial patterns of speckles and swooshes to identify the fish species they regularly attack, researchers report in an upcoming issue of Current Biology. These markings show up only i ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Marja was a Success, Now on to Kandahar!
    I'm trying to figure out the logic behind NATO's latest rhetorical pivot. I expected the Marja triumphalism -- the arrival of NATO's hand-picked governor , Haji Zahir, and the well-publicized flag-raising ceremony . Commanders said today that they've finished the "clear" phase of "clear-hold-build-t ...
  • Stripping away Emotions, Agendas and Politics from ...
    Yesterday Marine Commandant Gen. James Conway expressed his views on ending the ban on gays in the military through a rhetorical question: “My personal opinion is that unless we can strip away the emotion, the agendas and the politics and ask, at least in my case, ‘do we somehow enhance the war-fi ...
  • The Rise of China, European Security, Iran Revisit ...
    In case you haven't already read it, I suggest reviewing the remarks of China's Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi at the Munich security conference (here is the transcript of the question and answer period that followed). Two interesting themes that I detected; one, a "concert" approach to solving global ...
  • Russian Economic Model Dead? From BRIC to BIC?
    Anders Åslund asserts that "The Putin model of crony state capitalism is dead" and consequently "the juggernaut of emerging economies in Brazil, Russia, India and China is being reduced from BRIC to BIC." Writing in today's Washington Post , he explains: For years, the structure that Vladimir ...
  • Sudan's Truce: A turning point or a simple pause?
    Last weekend's signing of the truce between Omar al-Bashir's government and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) rebels in Darfur is a good first step. The government will commute the death sentences of some of the JEM rebels and will release several others. The JEM will hold to a truce and t ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: I Knew Boxcar Riding was Coming B ...
    Rep. Dean Heller (R-NV) says he believes "there should be a federal safety net" yet also asks rhetorically whether extending unemployment insurance is the equivalent of the government "creating hobos." In attempting to reconcile these two sentiments, I have to ask: at which point do our unemployed ...
  • Lifting Wages With Government Money.
    As part of his effort to reform the way government contracts are rewarded, Obama plans to favor companies that offer higher wages and better benefits packages in government contracts, reports the New York Times . It would also reinstate controls started by Clinton and rolled back by Bush that preven ...
  • Republican "Mirandization" Ploy Fails.
    House Republicans failed in an attempt to insert into the Intelligence Authorization Act an amendment that would have seriously micromanaged the executive branch, requiring the director of National Intelligence's "personal and prior approval before mirandizing a terrorist suspect." The motion to rec ...
  • The Little Picture: Lift Every Voice.
    "President Barack Obama and the First Family join the performers on stage in the East Room of the White House as they sing ' Lift Every Voice and Sing ' at the conclusion of 'In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement,' Feb. 9, 2010." (Flickr/ WhiteHo ...
  • To Live and Learn in L.A.
    In a move that affects nearly 40,000 students, the Los Angeles Board of Education has let teachers' groups -- instead of charters -- take over failing schools in the city's Unified School District (LAUSD). Twelve failing campuses were overhauled, as were 24 newly built ones. Though charters were sel ...

Andy Worthington

  • Judges Restore Damning Passage on MI5 to the Binya ...
    On February 10, the Court of Appeal brought to an end an 18-month campaign by foreign secretary David Miliband to prevent the publication of a short summary, prepared by two High Court judges, explaining how US agents had subjected the British resident Binyam Mohamed to what was described as “at the ...
  • On Torture, New York Times Calls for Bush Official ...
    In a principled editorial on Wednesday, the New York Times responded to the internal Justice Department report on the conduct of lawyers in the Office of Legal Counsel, in which the authors’ findings — that John Yoo and Jay Bybee were guilty of “professional misconduct”, and should be referred ...
  • US Military Lawyer: Kuwait Needs to Speak Up on Gu ...
    One of the heroes of the Military Commissions at Guantánamo is Lt. Col. Barry Wingard, who has served for 26 years in the US military, works as a public defender in Pittsburgh, and is also a Judge Advocate General (JAG) in the Air Force. A veteran of the conflicts in Bosnia and Iraq, he was [...]
  • Four prisoners freed from Guantánamo: three in Alb ...
    On Wednesday, four prisoners were released from Guantánamo: an Egyptian, a Libyan and a Tunisian arrived in Albania, and a Palestinian arrived in Spain. All four had been cleared by military review boards at Guantánamo under the Bush administration, and had then been cleared by President Obama’s int ...
  • 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 ...

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  • 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

  • Gun Rights Advocates to March Against Phantom Thre ...
    Public support for gun control has been steadily declining, the U.S. Supreme Court has issued a ruling that strengthens an individual’s right to own firearms and President Obama has said nothing to suggest he will take on gun-rights enthusiasts. No matter. Gun rights advocates, including some in t ...
  • Federal Jury Convicts Missouri Extremist
    Whoever complained that the wheels of justice move slowly would have enjoyed this week’s trial of Robert Joos Jr. A federal jury in Springfield, Mo., needed nine minutes to convict the reputed antigovernment white supremacist on charges of being a felon in possession of firearms and a felon in posse ...
  • IRS Long a Target of Antigovernment Extremists
    This morning’s attack by Joseph Andrew Stack against an IRS office building in Austin, Tex., is a reminder again of how extreme hatred of government can morph into violence. Since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has documented 75 domestic terrorist plots, ...
  • Racists Holding Event at Former Justice Roy Moore’ ...
    This coming Saturday, the Foundation for Moral Law (FML) in Montgomery, Ala., will be the site of the 2010 Alabama Secession Day Commemoration , featuring speakers tied to the League of the South , a neo-Confederate hate group that considers slavery “God-ordained” and advocates for “the cultural dom ...
  • American Renaissance Finds New Venue for D.C. Conf ...
    After being cancelled because its organizers couldn’t find a venue willing to host it, this weekend’s white nationalist American Renaissance conference is back on again — this time at a Washington D.C. hotel where two similar events were recently held. Jared Taylor , who heads American Renaissance, ...

change: org.

  • Rethinking the Rules of Organ Transplants
    Have you ever watched a person die? If death is expected, it can be beautiful. If it's abrupt, it can be deeply disturbing. But if it's predictable and preventable, but is not prevented as a matter of policy, it's torturous. I'm talking about organ transplantation, or more specifically, patients who ...
  • A New, Off-Road Wheelchair For the Developing Worl ...
    According to the U.S. Agency For International Development, around the world, over 20 million people need wheelchairs. Unfortunately, a huge percentage of those people -- 70% by one estimate -- live in rural areas where traditional wheelchairs just don't really work. Enter the Leveraged Freedom Chai ...
  • Greyhound Racing Uses Walmart Philosophy
    When Jen Krebs of Grey2K USA went to testify at a public hearing in Montgomery, Alabama, on the electronic bingo bill, the Chairman told her that expanded gambling and greyhound racing had nothing to do with each other. They shouldn't have anything to do with one another, but dog track promoters are ...
  • When Cavities Kill
    Three years ago, the death of a 12-year-old Maryland boy from a simple toothache brought national attention to the lack of available dental care for poor families in the United States. There were blue-ribbon commissions, a host of policy recommendations and promises that a case like Deamonte Driver' ...
  • Emergency Texting: An Issue of Student Safety
    At this point, everyone is aware of the tragic shooting at University of Alabama Huntsville on February 12th. Plenty of media attention has been spent on the shooter's violent background and why she was let loose on the public in the first place. However, not much time has been devoted to the school ...

Common Dreams -News

  • DynCorp Oversight in Afghanistan Faulted
    by Pratap Chatterjee WASHINGTON - Afghan police are widely considered corrupt, unable to shoot straight, and die at twice the rate of Afghan soldiers and NATO troops. After seven billion dollars spent on training and salaries in the last eight years, several U.S. government investigations are asking ...
  • Giant Antarctic Iceberg Could Affect Global Ocean ...
    by James Sturcke An iceberg the size of Luxembourg that contains enough fresh water to supply a third of the world's population for a year has broken off in the Antarctic continent, with possible implications for global ocean circulation, scientists said today. read more
  • Black Bloc Taints Anti-Olympic Movement
    by Doug Ward The performance of the anti-Olympic protest movement over the past two weeks bears resemblance to certain Canadian skiers who over-reached, lost their form and crashed. The shambolic and small group of black-clad anarchists who threw a newspaper box at the downtown Hudson's Bay Co. stor ...
  • Chile's Quake Many Times More Powerful Than Haiti' ...
    by Fred Tasker "This was a big one. A really big one,'' said Dr. Tim Dixon, geophysics professor at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science in Miami, speaking of the magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck near Chile Saturday morning. There would be no connection between the quake in Ha ...
  • Conservatives Target Their Own Fringe
    by Kenneth P. Vogel After months of struggling to harness the energy of newly engaged tea party activists , the conservative establishment - with critical midterm congressional elections on the horizon - is taking aim for the first time at the movement's extremist elements. read more

Lifehacker

  • Keep Up with the Latest Tsunami Warnings Online [N ...
    This morning's 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Chile has left in its wake a whole lot of destruction in Chile and impending tsunamis across the Pacific. Weblog Mashable rounds up a few options for keeping up with the latest news with real-time web resources. Mashable's Pete Cashmore suggests several rea ...
  • Google Person Finder Helps Reunite People Affected ...
    Google quickly launched a Person Finder to help reunite people separated by this morning's earthquake in Chile. The site has two options: I'm looking for someone and I have information about someone. If you're trying to get information or have any information about anyone affected, it looks like a g ...
  • All Android Phones in the U.S. Will Receive an Upg ...
    According to Android fan site Android and Me, every Android phone in the U.S. will eventually receive an update to Android 2.1. That's great news for Android users (like our own Kevin Purdy) who've been frustrated with how quickly Android devices are left in the upgrade dust . Not every device will ...
  • Smart Move Tape Streamlines Packing and Unpacking ...
    Smart Move Tape clearly identifies what room a box belongs in with color-coding and unmissable text so it's easy to get all your stuff in the right place when you're moving. From cool gear blog Cool Tools : The clearly marked and color-coded designations (Office, Bedroom, Bedroom #2 , Kitchen, S ...
  • Top 10 Android Apps [Lifehacker Top 10]
    Android's been around for more than a year, and in that time developers have whipped up some great apps. Whether you're a new Android owner or a pro looking for new tools, these 10 great and free apps belong in your arsenal. Photo by lwallenstein . We're going to skip right over the apps that are j ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • You'll Have Had Your Pakistani "Co-operation" Then ...
    By Steve Hynd Despite a lot of slightly breathless retelling of the administration's preferred tale that Pakistan detaining so many Taliban high-ups is a "game-changer" for Pakistani co-operation against terrorist extremists, it doesn't seem to be going that way after all. For one thing, Afghanistan ...
  • 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 ...

Water Wars

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CS Monitor - News

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

The Wonk Room

  • At Summit, Boehner Repeats False Claim that the Wh ...
    Our guest blogger is Jessica Arons, Director of the Women’s Health and Rights Program at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. At yesterday’s White House summit on health reform, Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) once again repeated the misleading canard that the White House’s embrace ...
  • Did C-SPAN Cameras Improve The Health Bill Or Chan ...
    Last month, Republican leaders seized on C-SPAN’s request for full access into the Democrats’ health care talks to argue that capturing policy negotiations on camera would inform the public and improve the underlying legislation. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) accused Obama of breaking his campaign pledge ...
  • At Health Summit, Cranky McCain Complains About No ...
    At yesterday’s health care summit and again this morning on Good Morning America, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) proved that he was yesterday’s man as he rehashed old grievances and complained that Obama’s health care bill was full of special interest deals and carve outs. McCain signaled out an amendment ...
  • Rep. Tom Perriello Tells ‘Spineless’ S ...
    Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA) is “sick” of the “insider baseball crap” dominating the Senate debate over global warming and energy reform. In an interview with Grist, the first-term congressman stated in no uncertain terms that the country is at risk from global warming and our economy is at risk of los ...
  • The Winger Within – Kyl Obstructs Key Nomine ...
    On Wednesday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified forcefully that the blocking of crucial State Department nominees more than a year after President Obama was inaugurated was endangering the security of the United States. We’re now more than a year into a new administration and whether you ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Dred Tory Speaks ...
    You really oughta read it : Canada has just lost its first war, after having dragged over a hundred of its bravest souls into futile slaughter, without having earned a single battle honour worthy of being affixed to any of our regimental colours, and without being able to promise those on whose beha ...
  • Why I'll Be Attending the Anti-Prorogation Rally
    Today is January 23rd, 2010. As Montreal Simon pointed out, that's the fourth anniversary of stephen harper's coming to power! I'll be attending the anti-prorogation rally in Hamilton's Gore Park between 1-4 pm today. I'll be going because while I believe that our political system is debased, it ...
  • Global Warming Readings
    I'm not scientifically inclined. I'm a very broad, sloppy thinker really. What I try to do to keep safe from justifiable ridicule is to stick close to subjects (such as foreign policy) that are more amporphous, while at the same time more based on clear, moral principles [ie., "don't slaughter inn ...
  • So, Um, About Those Afghan Children Who Were Execu ...
    Yeah, I hate to be, like, you know, a pest or anything, but still ... I can't help but think that if Hugo Chavez's, or Fidel Castro's, or Vladimir Putin's, or Kim Jong-Il's troops had killed ten civilians (two adults and eight students), execution style , I don't think the MSM would collectively shr ...
  • Anti-War Movement Crippled By Violence
    Now, I'd like to make something clear in this, my fourth post on the topic of violent protest. I don't advocate violence. I don't advocate violence but at the same time I don't condemn violence and I don't reject it as a tactic. One of the knee-jerk statements that comes out of the pathological a ...

Financial Sense Editorials

  • Market Observation: Bond Vigilantes Set Sights on ...
    by Gary Dorsch. "The collapse of Lehman Brothers triggered one of the biggest corporate debt defaults in history, and also ignited the biggest stock market meltdown in decades. When the smoke had finally cleared, Lehman’s bonds attracted bids of 8-cents on the dollar, resulting in staggering losses ...
  • Is Ben Bernanke Smart Enough to Be a CEO?
    by Vedran Vuk. "Ben Bernanke has got to be laughing it up after being reappointed to another term as Federal Reserve chairman. What else could we expect from the ex-lawyers and lifetime Beltway bandits voting on global monetary policy?"
  • The Disappearance of the Natural Gas Glut
    by Bill Powers. "Lost amongst all the noise generated from the Federal Reserve’s discount rate hike and the ongoing saga in Greece, is the disappearance of last fall’s large overhang of natural gas. As recently as November 30, 2009, natural gas storage was 479 billion cubic feet (bcf) over November ...
  • Sultans of Swap
    by Gordon Long. "Every parent has had that moment when their child asks them the simplest sounding question but in that instance before you respond, you realize you have never really thought about it and actually don’t know the real truth. To not have an answer would be to lose all credibility as th ...
  • Market Observation: What Does the Historical Recor ...
    by Ron Griess. "The following chart shows the entire history of reported earnings for the S&P Composite since 1871. Shown are trailing 12 months reported earnings and five and ten year moving averages of reported earnings. Using the most recent reported earnings and estimates from Standard and Poor' ...

on Government Oversight

  • One Important Step Towards Curbing Over-Classifica ...
    Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), Chair of the House Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment, has offered an amendment to the Intelligence Authorization Bill that would require a the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community to prepare a...
  • Morning Smoke: House Ethics Committee Asserts Find ...
    Rep. Rangel's trips broke congressional gift rules, panel says by Paul Kane [Washington Post] KC-X: The Podcast by Stephen Trimble [The DEW Line] GMAC tells oversight panel it will be able to repay TARP money by Ryan Holeywell [BailoutSleuth] The...
  • DHS Handles Contractors with Kid Gloves
    The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General (IG) has found that the DHS suspension and debarment system isn’t being utilized to the fullest extent possible: Department procurement officials characterized the suspension and debarment process as being too resource intensive,...
  • Livermore Can't Yet "Open Its Doors to Outsiders"
    Today’s article about the Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL) in The Wall Street Journal explores how the lab (described as a "city of fences and secrets") is opening its doors and “moving forward on plans to build a campus where...
  • Reappearance of Black Eyes in Federal Contracting
    This week, we were reminded of two cases in which federal contract spending was driven by improper influences. The first case involves a recent Department of Defense Inspector General report finding: Two Commanding Generals of the Army Sustainment Command directed...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Whining Won't Solve Anything, Especially Not Homel ...
    I got my start in homeless services several years ago working with a homeless advocacy organization that also operated a shelter. While the organization was quite vocal in its activism, it was largely ineffective at helping the homeless families in its shelter transition into housing. I found it iro ...
  • Ending Homelessness Is Possible and This Is What i ...
    This is a guest post from Catherine An of the National Alliance to End Homelessness in response to a post from blogger David Henderson, "Why Ending Homelessness Is Impossible and How We Can Do It." My thanks to David Henderson of Idealistics, Inc. for his recent review of the Ten Year Plan. But his ...
  • A Texas Town Votes Down a Homelessness Committee
    An interesting case study came out of Lubbock, Texas yesterday when the prospect of a nine-member citizens' task force on homelessness proposed by city councilman Todd Klein came up for a vote. The proposal was rejected by a vote of four to three, with Mayor Tom Martin among the opponents. In propo ...
  • The Homeless Can't Afford Lobbyists -- They Need Y ...
    Hurry, there are only a few days left! Thanks to the snowstorms that shut down and delayed Congress earlier this month, we still have time to fax or email letters to our representatives requesting that they increase funding for the McKinney-Vento programs , the legislative backbone of assistance for ...
  • Living in a Motel Is No Vacation
    The National Alliance to End Homelessness directed my attention this morning toward a stunning bit of journalism. It's an audio slideshow called "Motel Manor" from last November from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch . If you haven't seen it, please take five minutes to watch it. If you saw it when it cam ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Prime Minister too powerful: Canadians
    According to a recent poll conducted by Nanos Research, 42% of Canadians think the Prime Minister’s Office has too much power  (Campbell Clark, “PMO too powerful, Canadians say,” Globe and Mail, 24 February 2010). Nine percent of Canadians think that the PMO has too little power, while 40% respon ...
  • Gates: “Pacification” of Europe threatens security
    U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has condemned the “pacification” on Europe. Speaking to a meeting of NATO officials and security experts, Gates declared that “The demilitarisation of Europe, where large swaths of the general public and political class are averse to military force and the risks t ...
  • 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– ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Judge won’t give infomercial pitchman approv ...
    February 25, 2010 Canadian Business By Mike Robinson A federal judge refused Wednesday to give infomercial pitchman and author Kevin Trudeau permission to visit Canada next month while appeals his 30-day criminal contempt sentence in Chicago. U.S. District Judge Robert W. Gettleman said Trudeau’s $5 ...
  • Infomercial pitchman denied OK to leave country
    February 24, 2010 WBBM By Associated Press A federal judge has refused to give infomercial pitchman and author Kevin Trudeau permission to visit Canada next month while he is appealing his 30-day contempt sentence in Chicago. Judge Robert Gettleman said Wednesday an appeals court has set Trudeau’s b ...
  • Judge won’t give pitchman OK to leave US
    February 25, 2010 ABC News By Associated Press A federal judge refused Wednesday to give infomercial pitchman and author Kevin Trudeau permission to visit Canada next month while appeals his 30-day criminal contempt sentence in Chicago. U.S. District Judge Robert W. Gettleman said Trudeau’s $50,000 ...
  • Judge says infomercial pitchman can’t visit ...
    February 24, 2010 WREX By The Associated Press A federal judge in Chicago refused today to give infomercial pitchman and author Kevin Trudeau permission to visit Canada next month while Trudeau appeals his 30-day criminal contempt sentence. U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman says Trudeau’s $50,000 ...
  • Infomercial pitchman denied OK to leave country
    February 24, 2010 WREX By Associated Press A federal judge has refused to give infomercial pitchman and author Kevin Trudeau permission to visit Canada next month while he is appealing his 30-day contempt sentence in Chicago. Judge Robert Gettleman said Wednesday an appeals court has set Trudeau’s b ...

Pambazuka News

  • 45 years after the assassination of Malcolm X
    Malcolm X was assassinated 45 years ago this weekend. Earlier this year, WNYC Radio unearthed a 1960s interview between the civil rights leader and a reporter named Eleanor Fischer. On this somber anniversary, we consider Malcolm X’s legacy through t...
  • Haiti: Private contractors 'like vultures coming t ...
    Critics are concerned that private military contractors are positioning themselves at the centre of an emerging "shock doctrine" for earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Next month, a prominent umbrella organisation for private military and logistic corporation...
  • How NGOs are profiting off a grave situation
    It's now more than a month since the earthquake that laid waste to Port-au-Prince, killing more than 200,000 people and thrusting millions of people into the most desperate conditions. But according to the U.S. government, Haitians have a lot to be ...
  • Global: New murders and fumigations in ancestral A ...
    In only two weeks, four Afro-Colombian leaders have been murdered, and several subjected to death threats. Fumigations have caused the internal displacement of more than 100 Afro-Colombians. The violation of Afro-Colombian fundamental rights continue...
  • Katrina victims face eviction
    Following reports of federal government plans to repossess temporary housing from Katrina victims, the US Human Rights Network - http://www.ushrnetwork.org has called for the Obama administration to reverse this decision and provide those affected with substantive directive support.

War in Context

  • The attrition of bravery
    In Shakespeare’s Henry V, as the Battle of Agincourt is about to commence, the king addresses his men — “We few, we happy few, we band of brothers” — heavily outnumbered by the French and facing the risk of imminent slaughter. Henry — a king who fights with his men and doesn’t simply issue commands ...
  • The rise of militainment
    At Foreign Policy, P W Singer writes: The country of Ghanzia is embroiled in a civil war. As a soldier in America’s Army, your job is to do everything from protect U.S. military convoys against AK-47-wielding attackers to sneak up on a mountain observatory where arms dealers are hiding out. It is a ...
  • Marjah: Success for the military, hell for the res ...
    At GlobalPost, Jean MacKenzie and Mohammad Ilyas Dayee write: The dusty squares of Marjah are empty; there is no life, the soul of the place seems to have disappeared. Those residents who are left cower in their homes, afraid of bullets or mines if they venture out, even for food. “It is a small p ...
  • US can’t get no satisfaction from Syria and Iran
    At his blog, Syria Comment, Joshua Landis writes: President Bashar al-Assad and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was in Damascus today, threw down the gauntlet. Only the day before Hilary Clinton warned Syria “to begin to move away from the relationship with Iran,” and stop supporting Hizbullah, Hamas, and ...
  • The attack on climate-change science
    At TomDispatch, Bill McKibben writes: Twenty-one years ago, in 1989, I wrote what many have called the first book for a general audience on global warming. One of the more interesting reviews came from the Wall Street Journal. It was a mixed and judicious appraisal. “The subject,” the reviewer sa ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Tsunami threat for the Pacific
    Of course the big news today is the 8.8 earthquake in Chile and the Tsunami warning stemming from it. There’s not much I could add that’s not already being covered, but I thought this image from the American West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center was interesting. They posted this map with es ...
  • Luxemberg
    From the BBC: ‘Iceberg the size of Luxembourg threat‘ – click image for video and watch the collision of two giant ice masses. Of course 50 years ago, such things would likely go unnoticed without satellite imagery. They write: A vast iceberg that broke off eastern Antarctic earlier this month c ...
  • The Times: “University ‘tried to mislead MPs on cl ...
    Reposted from Climate Audit: A savage article in the Times today by Ben Webster about the UEA submission to the UK Parliamentary Inquiry – the letter in which they tried to “trick” the Committee about the contents of the letter from the Information Commissioner. (A “trick”, according to Gavin Sc ...
  • Institute of Physics on Climategate
    Here’s something rather astonishing. The Institute of Physics, has made a statement about climate science. The Institute of Physics is a scientific charity devoted to increasing the practice, understanding and application of physics. It has a worldwide membership of over 36,000 and is a leading ...
  • Contribution of USHCN and GISS bias in long-term t ...
    Guest post by David W. Schnare, Esq. Ph.D. When Phil Jones suggested that if folks didn’t like his surface temperature reconstructions, then perhaps they should do their own, he was right. The SPPI analysis of rural versus urban trends demonstrates the nature of the overall problem. It does not, h ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Mitteleuropa – The Making of America’s ...
    by Gaither Stewart Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 27 February 2010 La Repubblica in Rome quoted the Russian Chief of Staff General Nikolay Makarov that the US missile shield scheduled for installation in East Europe is blocking the signing by Presidents Obama and Medvedev of a new START agr ...
  • Naomi Klein: Climate Debt
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ policyalternatives February 26, 2010 Feb. 25, 2010 – Naomi Klein gives a lecture on the issue of climate debt, organized by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (http://www.policyalternatives.ca/) This was the first in a series of lectures in honour of ...
  • Deadly quake rocks Chile + Chile’s deadly qu ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Al Jazeera English February 27, 2010 A magnitude 8.8 earthquake has struck near the city of Concepcion in Chile, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reports. The quake, which struck early on Saturday, shook buildings and caused blackouts in as far away as parts of ...
  • Liberian leader urges MPs to back action against v ...
    by Heather Stewart and Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com 24 February, 2010 An investigation for BBC’s Newsnight, to be broadcast tonight, Thursday at 10:30pm GMT, has uncovered allegations that speculators subverted the international debt relief process. By Heat ...
  • Dennis Kucinich Obesity Bill Could Fund Child Hung ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Congressman Dennis Kucinich Washington, Feb 24, 2010 photo by Dandelion Salad Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today offered the following statement on the address by U.S. Department of Agricultural Secretary Tom Vilsack about the Administration’s priorit ...

Your New Reality

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    Tsunami Alert Issued For Entire Pacific The 7th largest earthquake in recorded history has struck off Chile today, magnitude 8.8. The entire Pacific is now under tsunami alert. The official warnings being issued tonight (Sydney time) across dozens of countries demand everyone to stay away from co ...
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    From The Desk Of Tesla The beautiful letterheads of the Nikola Tesla Company at the start of the 20 century : Letterheady Has More On The Inventions Featured
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    White House official photographer Pete Souza continues turning out magnificent work : And a screen grab from a recent White House Photo Of The Day page : There's an excellent collection of DeSouza photos chronicling the Obama family's first year in the White House here .
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    An impressively creative collection of billboard art here .
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    Dude, I'm Seeing Islamic Crescent Moons Everywhere! And some more fine work by Matt Drudge, whoever he is now, as highlighted by Raw Story . This is the logo of the US Missile Defence Agency : Matt Drudge claims this is similar to an "Islamic flag" . No, it's not. Drudge also claimed : "New M ...

Wired - Science

  • No Lie! Your Facebook Profile Is the Real You
    “On the Internet,” one dog tells another in a classic New Yorker cartoon, “nobody knows you’re a dog.” The internet is notorious for its digital dens of deception. But on Facebook, what you see tends to be what you get — at least in one study of tailless, two-legged young adults. College-age users ...
  • Flash-Freezing Technique May Boost Egg Survival Ra ...
    A new study has identified the best way to flash freeze living tissue, which could lead to better human egg and stem cell storage. The technique could dramatically improve the odds that frozen, unfertilized eggs could be thawed out and still be healthy enough to be fertilized. That would reduce how ...
  • Blood-Chilling Device Could Save Stroke Victims Fr ...
    SAN ANTONIO — Cool runnings, indeed. A tiny device placed inside a central vein can safely refrigerate blood as it flows through stroke patients, lowering their temperature and raising the possibility that they might gain brain protection from hypothermia without having to be packed in ice. Althoug ...
  • What Is Time? One Physicist Hunts for the Ultimate ...
    SAN DIEGO — One way to get noticed as a scientist is to tackle a really difficult problem. Physicist Sean Carroll has become a bit of a rock star in geek circles by attempting to answer an age-old question no scientist has been able to fully explain: What is time? Sean Carroll is a theoretical phys ...
  • Fish See Their Enemies’ Faces in Ultraviolet
    Seen in the right light, yellow reef fish become spotty pains in the tail fin. Members of one damselfish species use facial patterns of speckles and swooshes to identify the fish species they regularly attack, researchers report in an upcoming issue of Current Biology. These markings show up only i ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • EU court strikes blow against Israeli settlers
    The EU court in Luxembourg has ruled that Israel cannot pass off products made by its settlers on occupied Palestinian land as its own in order to get customs perks... It is unlikely to have a big... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Nadia Hijab: Scattered in death as in life
    [T]he battle over Jerusalem's Mamilla Cemetery, a Muslim cemetery known in Arabic as Maman Allah, where the US-based Simon Wiesenthal Center intends to build a Museum of Tolerance, ... encapsulates... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Jerusalem families come out against museum built o ...
    Members of prominent Palestinian families from Jerusalem came out last week in protest against plans by the Simon Wiesenthal Center to build a Museum of Tolerance on top of part of the ancient... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  • 2010 Video Selections – updated 25 Feb 2010
    A selection of video clips: 2010 – news, history, and more. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
  • Jonathan Cook: Ethan Bronner and Conflicts of Inte ...
    “The degree to which Bronner's personal life... is integrated into Israeli society, makes him an excellent candidate to cover Israeli political life, cultural shifts and intellectual life. The... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

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

  • Leading the Way to a Low-Energy Future
    The failure of the Copenhagen climate talks taught us one thing-that hoping for intelligent responses to climate change from the world's governments is an exercise in futility. It's just not going to happen in time. Click here to read this article
  • Time for a Comprehensive Farm Bill Environmental I ...
    Twenty-eight page article from Harvard Law Review on the negative environmental impacts of U.S. farm policy. This article addresses these damages and the failure of federal agencies to observe a law that might provide some measure of transparency, level-headed comparative analysis, and perhaps even ...
  • Greenpeace Denounces UN Support for GM Crops in Me ...
    The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization is supporting the introduction of transgenic, or genetically modified, crops in Mexico and other developing nations, the Greenpeace chapter in that country denounced. Click here to read this article
  • Why Isn't the Public Option an Option?
    On Monday, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) announced that although he strongly supports the so-called public option, he wouldn't vote to add it to the health care bill by way of the reconciliation process. Many senators say that passing the public option by way of reconciliation—a procedure which bypass ...
  • The Attack on Climate-Change Science
    Twenty-one years ago, in 1989, I wrote what many have called the first book for a general audience on global warming. One of the more interesting reviews came from the Wall Street Journal. It was a mixed and judicious appraisal. "The subject," the reviewer said, "is important, the notion is arrest ...

fotoFrontera

  • Fotografías recientes del terremoto en Chile (8.8 ...
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. A las 3:34 de la mañana hora local de Chile de este sábado 27 de febrero, se dejó sentir un fuerte sismo de 8.8 grados en la escala de Richter . He aquí las fotografías más recientes cortesía de Boston.Com. De igual form ...
  • Foto Reportajes: Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, Canadá.
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Si es usted un apasionado de los viajes, la aventura y las buenas fotografías, le invito a conocer Mont-Tremblant . Un hermoso lugar que ha sido escenario de múltiples eventos debido a su posición geográfica y la belleza ...
  • Fotografías de los Juegos Olímpicos Vancouver 2010
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. He aquí las fotografías más recientes de los Juegos Olímpicos de Vancouver 2010 en Canadá . En la primera colección , usted será testigo del colorido, la magia y la escenografía durante la ceremonia de apertura. En la se ...
  • 33 fotografías de la ciudad de Nashville, Tennesse ...
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías.
  • Tercera entrega de imágenes PNG para colocar tus f ...
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre el collage para descargar las imágenes. Esta es la tercera entrega de nuestra serie " imágenes para colocar tus fotografías ". Como ya es nuestra costumbre, te ofrecemos 20 imágenes en alta resolución con extención .png que podrás editar a tu gusto en Photoshop. Le recue ...

Executive Intelligence Review

Center for a Livable Future

  • Organic Conference Draws Large Crowd
    Last weekend I had the pleasure of escaping the snow-ridden Mid Atlantic to travel to Athens, Georgia for the Georgia Organics conference. I was contacted months ago to come speak to them about what it means to “eat for the future” - the title of the program I run and an apt title for my [...] ...
  • Congressional briefing by meat industry provides n ...
    The Meat Industry* hosted a Congressional briefing on Tuesday (2/23/2010) in Washington D.C. on antibiotics in livestock and poultry production. The purpose of the briefing was to uncover, in the moderator’s words, the ‘true science’ on antibiotics. Contrary to his assertion, there was very little s ...
  • Congressional briefing by panel of vet experts rep ...
    The Meat Industry* hosted a Congressional briefing today (2/23/2010) in Washington D.C. on antibiotics in livestock and poultry production. The purpose of the briefing was to uncover, in the moderator’s words, the ‘true science’ on antibiotics. Contrary to his assertion, there was very little scienc ...
  • 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 ...

Norwegianity

  • Blame games
    The Japanese see Toyota’s problems as a U.S. plot. And some Americans agree. I do not and I am finding it hard to excuse people who confuse good engineering with perfection, an unachievable goal. The cover up was the crime. Design errors happen but how many have died or been maimed because Toyota wa ...
  • * for asshole
    Paul Krugman on the healthcare Summit: [T]he debate [has] ended as it began: with Democrats offering moderate plans that draw heavily on past Republican ideas, and Republicans responding with slander and misdirection. Not what you read in your newspaper this morning? Depends on which paper you rea ...
  • Whole Lotta Links
    Before I cut loose with the links, I feel compelled to say: Fuck Jon Kyl (and the horse he’s been having sex with) - Econo-etc.: Great graphs that spell out why I keep saying we need to plan for a post-jobs society Pay day usury confronted in Montana Mick on banking and healthcare so-called reform ...
  • Whole Lotta Links
    Before I cut loose with the links, I feel compelled to say: Fuck Jon Kyl (and the horse he’s been having sex with) - Econo-etc.: Great graphs that spell out why I keep saying we need to plan for a post-jobs society Pay day usury confronted in Montana Mick on banking and healthcare so-called reform ...
  • Focusing on the prosecution
    Koua Fong Lee makes the Washington Post this morning. Ever since his 1996 Toyota Camry shot up an interstate ramp, plowing into the back of an Oldsmobile in a horrific crash that killed three people, Koua Fong Lee insisted he had done everything he could to stop the car. A jury didn’t believe him ...

The Seferm Post

The World We Live In

  • A series of setbacks for the coalition in Afghanis ...
    Less To Cheer STANLEY MCCHRYSTAL, the famously self-controlled commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, could be forgiven if he let off an expletive when he heard that soldiers under his command had killed 27 civilians on Sunday February 21st. A missile strike on a three-vehicle convoy in an isolat ...
  • 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 ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Food Safety and Health Organizations Criticize Ela ...
    Food safety, consumer and health advocacy organizations blasted Eli Lilly subsidiary Elanco for claiming that prominent health organizations had endorsed use of the controversial artificial growth hormone rbGH,(rbST) on dairy cows when, in fact, they have not. Elanco’s report, from eight experts and ...
  • 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 ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • O'odham Ofelia Rivas imprisoned in Chiapas support ...
    O'odham Ofelia Rivas imprisoned for four days in southern Chiapas while supporting Zapatistas By Brenda Norrell Human Rights Editor UN OBSERVER & International Report http://www.unobserver.com/ Photos: Ofelia Rivas upon return home by Brenda Norrell. Photo 2: Tapachula prison in Chiapas near Guate ...
  • Bolivia: ‘We are here to serve people, not capital ...
    Federico Fuentes Pledging to move the country towards “communitarian socialism”, Bolivian president Evo Morales proclaimed the death of the “colonial state” during the January 21 inauguration of his second term as president. He said “a new plurinational, autonomy and solidarity-based state is being ...
  • Robbie Thorpe ft M1 (Dead Prez) at Trades Hall
    Robbie Thorpe and m1 (Dead Prez) speak out against the Northern Territory Intervention at Trades Hall, Melbourne, 26th Jan 2010.
  • US New Enemies: Indigenous Peoples
    Source: Fourth World Eye �"One has to keep in mind the nature of organizations that end up on the U.S. State Department terrorist list. Many are indigenous nations seeking accommodation with oppressive states. Unfortunately, many of these oppressive states are also friends of the United States gov ...
  • No Thanksa To ANCSA
    http://FreeHawaiiTV.com - A Pact Stacked Against Alaska Natives, ANCSA Created Native Corporations Which Caused Major Frustrations. It Made A Few Rich, Which, Through Sleight Of Hand, Stole Everyone's Land, Just Like The Akaka Bill & That Should Give You A Chill. Do Alaska Natives Think It Stinks? ...

Pensieve

  • Major Earthquake Rattles Chileans
    A major earthquake struck Chile early this morning, followed by a many aftershocks. The US Geological Survey has stated its magnitude as 8.8 in the Richter scale. Chile is much more prepared for earthquakes than Haiti, for its economy is first among emerging nations, approaching the level of a firs ...
  • General Velasquez Dismissed, Who’s to Blame?
    Honduran President Porfirio Lobo Sosa has removed General Romeo Vasquez Velazquez from his position as head of the armed forces of Honduras. He will retire and lead a civilian life. This is transparently the result of international pressure for his dismissal for his role in the 2009 constitutional c ...
  • General Velasquez Dismissed, Who’s to Blame?
    Honduran President Porfirio Lobo Sosa has removed General Romeo Vasquez Velazquez from his position as head of the armed forces of Honduras. He will retire and lead a civilian life. This is transparently the result of international pressure for his dismissal for his role in the 2009 constitutional c ...
  • Consciousness: Algorithm or Soul?
    Body, Soul and Spirit A few days ago during a conversation, the topic of the difference between body-soul-spirit came up. On that occasion I replied that the body was the biological engine that keeps the soul and the spirit together. But what is a soul? I have heard the soul defined as mind, the se ...
  • A Protest the MSM Refused to Air
    The above footage is from a protest from the “camisetas blancas”, Hondurans in favor of the Constitution. It was held in “Plaza la Libertad” before the presidential palace, the day that OAS president José Miguel Insulza visited Honduras to demand the reinstatement of Manuel Zelaya as president, a ...

Green Times

  • Environmental News - 26/02/10
    Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html)   - (http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1964085,00.html?xid=huffpo-direct)Even committed carnivores can't dodge the facts: we're going to have to cut down on the red stuff. A bit.  ...
  • ETS: Wanted But Not Understood!
    Believe it or not, the majority of us think that human activity contributes to global warming and that significant action by individuals and businesses must be taken to reduce global carbon emissions.
  • Contagiously Green
    Being green is contagious. The reality is that we do have an effect on those that we come in contact with…
  • Environmental News - 24/02/10
    Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html)   Eliminating the Wasted Energy in Your Car-Your car only uses 15 percent of the energy from its gas, but engineers are working on sucking every last drop from your petrol.  Even the most over-en ...
  • Green Christmas Gift Ideas
    What if you gave gifts with a personal touch this year?  What if you chose to think creatively as to what you can contribute to the environment as well? It seems a little silly to just buy something with no thought put into it whatsoever. Chances are those “thoughtless” gifts will end up in the tras ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Hawaii issues tsunami alert, evacuating up to 100, ...
    A seismic sea wave estimated at 3 to 8 feet is heading toward the islands . Hawaiian authorities were rushing to evacuate up to 100,000 residents and tourists from low-lying coastal areas Saturday morning as an estimated 3-to-8-foot tsunami raced toward the islands at the speed of a jet plane. R ...
  • 8.8-magnitude earthquake hits central Chile; tsuna ...
    A massive earthquake rocked Chile before dawn on Saturday, killing at least 147 people and triggering tsunami waves that threatened much of the Pacific region. Emergency warning sirens blared in Hawaii as coastal residents scrambled to prepare. The magnitude-8.8 quake was the worst in Chile in ...
  • Chile earthquake: tsunami reaches Pacific islands ...
    At least 147 have been killed and nearly a quarter of the globe put on tsunami alert after one of the most powerful earthquakes of modern times hit South America . A tremor with a magnitude of 8.8 devastated large parts of southern Chile and sent huge waves racing at up to 400 miles an hour acro ...
  • Warship leaves O.C. to avoid tsunami
    The guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey is leaving the Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station to avoid potential damage from tsunami waves that could roll into Anaheim Bay, says Gregg Smith, a spokesman for the base... Smith said they also want to protect the Dewey's sonar dome, which is below water, ...
  • Chile Quake Is One of the Biggest in a Century
    Tsunami unleashed by quake is now speeding across the ocean at 550 miles per hour, or the speed of a jet plane The 8.8 magnitude earthquake that struck off coastal Chile in the early hours of the morning is one of the biggest temblors anywhere in more than a century. Data from the U.S. Geologic ...

Daily Loaf

  • Aronberg and Gelber rip into McCollum, not each ot ...
    When asked if they were satisfied with Bill McCollum waiting until new GOP Party Chair John Thrasher was elected to hold a “forensic” audit on the use of American Express cards by key Republican leaders, both men non-surprisingly exploited the growing scandal by taking issue with the AG's response ...
  • Hot trailer: Luca Guadagnino’s I Am Love, starring ...
    Luca Guadagnino’s I Am Love has received near unanimous raves in Venice, Toronto and Sundance, leaving CL Contributor Anthony Nicholas desperate to get a sneak peek. his one. Then I caught the UK trailer, and it knocked his socks off. Check out what all the fuss is about (with video) …
  • Joe Bardi talks Cop Out, American Idol, and Raging ...
    For this week's show, the guys and I discussed Kevin Smith's Cop Out , why the dudes suck on American Idol and Tony Kornheiser's PTI suspension. Plus, I try to talk Bill into liking Raging Bull — with limited success.
  • What dogs can learn from watching other dogs — and ...
    Dogs learn by watching. The amazing thing is, they can learn by watching not only other dogs, but humans too. Though many dogs seem to learn only bad habits from other dogs, some dogs actually learn desirable skills from other dogs!
  • Sami Al-Arian again creating controversy – this ti ...
    Campbell's alleged association with Al-Arian? It goes back to the late 1990's, when Sami was politically active (primarily to support members of Congress who wanted to eliminate so called "Secret evidence" in immigration cases, which at the time was what Al-Arian's brother in law, Mazen Al-Najjar ...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Open Shuhada Street Action in Hebron
    Here is a short summary of today’s protest in Hebron, longer first person account to follow! This afternoon about 300 Palestinian, Israeli, and International activists met at the Hebron municipality where they made posters, distributed t-shirts and hats, and spoke with media personnel before the ...
  • New Struggle in Beit Sahour
    The New Statesman reports on a budding protest movement in one of the historic centers of Palestinian protest, Beit Sahour. Like many of the campaigns we follow here, it is resistance to an attempted takeover by settlers. Ush al Ghrab (‘Crow’s Nest’) is a small piece of land being targeted by a grou ...
  • Wrong man for the job? Some quotes from Israel&#82 ...
    Some quotes from the Chief Scientist of the Israeli Education Ministry Gavriel Avital has the Israeli scientific community irate. Quotes like”I don’t recycle, I put plastic in the trash. The earth will not be harmed, God promised us,” “Man does not cause global warming.” Not surprisingly he’s no ...
  • UN: Israel’s “Heritage Sites” A ...
    Following Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement on Sunday that the biblical Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem and the Tomb of the Patriarch in Hebron would be added to the list of Israel’s “Heritage sites”, a chorus of officials condemned the plans as confiscatory, and derailing  peace efforts.   ...
  • Response from Physicians for Human Rights-Israel
    I wrote Physicians for Human Rights-Israel about the case of Maria Amen we covered previously and the issue of Palestinians getting access to medical treatment. Here is their response, reprinted with permission. Dear Jesse, Thanks for approaching us on the issue of the Israeli policy at Erez Crossin ...

    Blacklisted News

  • Cybersecurity bill to give president new emergency ...
    The president would then have the ability to initiate those network contingency plans to ensure key federal or private services did not go offline during a cyberattack of unprecedented scope, the aide said.
  • Massive Bank Failures Due, Says Oversight Panel
    Close to 3,000 banks are currently classified as having a risky concentration of commercial real estate loans, according to a recent report by the Congressional Oversight Panel (COP). All of them are small to mid-sized banks, already weakened by the financial crisis.
  • Iris scanning for Australian Dubai visitors
    AUSTRALIANS travelling to Dubai will have to obtain a visa, be fingerprinted and have an iris scan in the wake of the Mossad hit squad passport scandal.
  • South America to create new EU-type bloc to defy U ...
    The 24-strong bloc of Latin American states known as the Rio Group is to join the Caribbean Community to form a new trade body intended to present opposition to US dominance. What can it really hope to achieve?
  • California is a greater risk than Greece, warns JP ...
    Jamie Dimon, chairman of JP Morgan Chase, has warned American investors should be more worried about the risk of default of the state of California than of Greece's current debt woes.

The Intelligence Daily

  • 21st Century Strategy: Militarized Europe, Globali ...
    By Rick Rozoff (The Intelligence Daily) — With the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) on... For more details, please click on the link to read the article
  • Stasi 2.0?: Evidence of Digital Fortress
    By Justin O’Connell (The Intelligence Daily) — “You know they are putting people in... For more details, please click on the link to read the article
  • Energy Follows Its Bliss
    By John Michael Greer (The Intelligence Daily) — Industrial civilization is a complicated... For more details, please click on the link to read the article
  • Anthrax Case Closing Challenged
    By Michael Collins (The Intelligence Daily) — Shortly after September 11, 2001, mailings... For more details, please click on the link to read the article
  • Global Sweatshop Wage Slavery
    (The Intelligence Daily) — In its mission statement, the National Labor Committee (NLC)... For more details, please click on the link to read the article

My AntiWar

Innovation Canada

  • Snow fall
    To the average Canadian, a research station getting completely buried in snow more than 1,500 metres high in the Cariboo Mountains might indicate that snow levels at this altitude are not at risk from global warming. But University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) professor Stephen Déry says look ...
  • 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 ...

Signs of the times

  • Bill Hicks: You are free, to do as we tell you!
    "Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye." - Bill Hicks 1961 - 1994 R.I.P.
  • Massive earthquake strikes Chile
    A massive earthquake has hit central Chile, killing at least 82 people, the interior minister says. The 8.8 magnitude quake struck at 0634 GMT about 115km (70 miles) north-east of the city of Concepcion and 325km south-west of the capital, Santiago. President Michelle Bachelet declared a "state ...
  • FLASHBACK: Bigfoot "Baby and adult tracks" found i ...
    East Stave Lake, British Columbia - Up in B.C., researcher Randy Brisson and his son Ray happened to be in the mountains again recently and during their walk down a remote logging road, found some interesting tracks in the snow that he said couldn't be more than 15 minutes old. One set of barefoo ...
  • Bernanke warned congress that US could soon face d ...
    Bernanke is now joining Rosenberg, Ferguson and Faber, Edwards, Grice and many others in warning that the debt crisis rearing its head in Greece may spread to America, causing U.S. interest rates to climb. As the Washington Times wrote yesterday: With uncharacteristic bluntness, Federal Res ...
  • Report: Iran moves nuclear fuel to above-ground pl ...
    New York Times says move baffled IAEA inspectors, as nuclear fuel now exposed to Israel airstrike. 'There's no technical explanation, so there has to be some other motivation,' US official says. Military officials: This is a tempting moment for the Israelis About two weeks ago Iran moved nearly its ...

Threat Level

  • Lawmakers Punt Patriot Act to Obama
    The House and Senate are forwarding to President Barack Obama legislation reauthorizing three expiring provisions of the Patriot Act — despite heated debate among lawmakers that the surveillance measure went too far. The act, hastily adopted six weeks after the 2001 terror attacks, greatly expanded ...
  • Former Teen Cheerleader Dinged $27,750 for File Sh ...
    A federal appeals court is ordering a university student to pay the Recording Industry Association of America $27,750 — $750 a track — for file sharing 37 songs when she was a high school cheerleader. The decision Thursday by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reverses a Texas federal judge who h ...
  • Military Monitored Planned Parenthood, Supremacist ...
    The U.S. military monitored Planned Parenthood and a white supremacist group as part of the government’s security preparations for the 2002 Olympics in Utah, according to new documents released by the Department of Defense. The U.S. Joint Forces Command liaison collected and disseminated information ...
  • Whistleblower Site Back After Microsoft Withdraws ...
    Cryptome, the secret-document-spilling site, is back online Thursday, after Microsoft withdrew a copyright complaint that shuttered the site the day before. Microsoft’s efforts to suppress a document about how to subpoena online user data backfired, leading instead to widespread attention to (and r ...
  • Wisconsin Teen Gets 15 Years for Facebook Sex-Exto ...
    A Wisconsin teenager was sentenced to 15 years in prison Wednesday for an extortion scheme that had him tricking male classmates into sending them nude photos of themselves, then blackmailing them with exposure if they didn’t have sex with him. In 2008, defendant Anthony Stancl, who was 18 at the ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Pawlenty Calls for End to GOP's ER Health Care Pla ...
    For years, Republican leaders including President George W. Bush, former House Minority Leader Tom Delay and current Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have insisted that "no American is denied health care in America" because "you just go to an emergency room." Apparently, Minnesota Governor an ...
  • At Health Care Summit, GOP Repeats Same "Start Ove ...
    At Thursday's White House health care summit , President Obama pleaded with the participants for "a discussion, and not just us trading talking points." Alas, as Tennessee Republican Lamar Alexander made clear from the get-go, the President was destined for disappointment. In his opening remarks , ...
  • White House Summit Highlights Republican Malpracti ...
    In the run-up to Thursday's White House health care summit , the Washington Post's Ezra Klein documented "the six Republican ideas already in the health-care reform bill." Among these is the GOP's favorite whipping boy, tort reform . But the Senate provision which "encourages states to develop new ...
  • National Shame Yoo's "Gift to the Obama Presidency ...
    As the Scooter Libby affair showed, no one circles the wagons like the Republican Party and its conservative allies. Now that Bush torture architects John Yoo and Jay Bybee barely escaped disbarment in the final version of the report from the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibili ...
  • CBO Latest to Confirm Success of Stimulus
    With its estimate Tuesday that the $787 billion Obama stimulus package created up to 2.1 million jobs in the last quarter of 2009, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) joined in the near-unanimous chorus of voices proclaiming the package's success. Of course, it wasn't just the overwhelming consen ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Why Do We Demand That Celebrities Apologize for Ch ...
    Tiger Woods does not owe me an apology. He cheated on his wife, not me. He owes her one hell of an “I’m sorry.” And he owes an apology to those sponsors who paid him a lot of money, at least in part, because of his appealing, family-man image. Still, I fail to [...]
  • Juan Gonzalez Receives 2010 Justice in Action Awar ...
    Democracy Now! co-host and Daily News columnist Juan Gonzalez received the 2010 Justice in Action Award from the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund last week. We play an excerpt of his acceptance speech.
  • "Avatar": The Prequel
    The anticipation may be building, but we’ll all have to wait for the 82nd Academy Awards on March 7th to find out just how many Oscars the global box-office smash Avatar will receive. That 3-D sci-fi spectacle, directed by James Cameron, has garnered nine nominations, including ones for Best Picture ...
  • "The Media-Lobbying Complex": Investigation Expose ...
    A four month investigation into the covert corporate influence on cable news found that since 2007 at least 75 registered lobbyists, public relations representatives and corporate officials have repeatedly appeared on MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, CNBC and Fox Business Network with no disclosure that they a ...
  • Anti-Nuclear Activists Mobilize to Oppose Obama-Fu ...
    The news in Vermont follows Obama's announcement last week of $8.3 billion dollars in loan guarantees for the construction of the first new nuclear power plants in the United States in close to three decades. The loan guarantees will help the Atlanta-based Southern Company build two more nuclear rea ...

Consortium News

  • Parallels of Conquest, Past and Present
    A millennium after the Norman conquest of England, there are parallels to Iraq and Afghanistan today, says Douglas Valentine. February 25, 2010
  • Al Haig's Foreign Policy Blunders
    Obituaries on Al Haig missed the long-term damage this Cold War hardliner did to U.S. foreign policy, writes Melvin A. Goodman. February 25, 2010
  • BBC Depicts US/UK Torture Tolerance
    A BBC drama recounts the story of Craig Murray, a British ambassador who blew the whistle on torture, writes Richard L. Fricker. February 22, 2010
  • New Grist for Hype on Iran
    The UN's new atomic energy chief has touched off a wave of speculation on Iran's nuke program, says Ray McGovern. February 21, 2010
  • Al Haig and a 'Green Light' to Chaos
    In 1981, Secretary of State Al Haig wrote a 'top secret' memo about what became a 'green light' to chaos, recalls Robert Parry. February 21, 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

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Celebrate Music Freedom Day March 3
    Because what's a revolution without music hated by The Man? Musicians in this country don't have it easy with the implosion of the music industry making it difficult for new acts to get paid for the work they produce. But, at least at the moment, they're free from the death threats, imprisonment, in ...
  • Remember, Remember the 24th of December
    I am really sick of hearing the bullshit line that if Democrats use reconciliation to pass healthcare, it is akin to tyranny and besides it was never meant for things as big as healthcare, it was only intended for budget fixes. And the White House and Democrats are pushing back in a fact-based manne ...
  • If D.C. is the Olympics, Repugs Are the East Germa ...
    And thanks, repugs, for showing the country your ass live on the tee-vee. Full transcript here.
  • The Many Deficiencies of the OPR Report
    A long awaited examination of possible ethics violations by the authors of the Bush administration's torture memos was finally released late last week. �As has seemed typical on this topic, the official document raises more questions than it answers. For more on pruning back executive power see Prun ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Desiree Rogers will leave the White House next month The Queen Bee will most certainly be drinking toasts and gloating tonight and taking credit where none is due over this. We fervently hope that when she takes a victory lap she sprains her ankle. (Yeah, we really, really, really hate Sally Quinn, ...

Care 2

  • Infant Sindi joins our family of rescued orangutan ...
    A young female orangutan is the latest arrival at International Animal Rescue's centre in Ketapang, West Kalimantan. IAR's team took part in the rescue of the infant, named Sindi, who thankfully was found to be in good condition, although very frightened Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it ...
  • ACTION ALERT: Urgent: Ask Hutchinson Mall to Cance ...
    G.W.'s use of baby tigers, lions, bears, and other animals in its traveling road show is a cruel and indefensible practice. Forcibly removed from their mothers and carted around the country to be used for public photo sessions, the cubs very quickly Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! � ...
  • ELEPHANT FESTIVAL 28 February 2010 : Ankush ban - ...
    Ankush banned now as per the High Court, Jaipur Bench issued on 26-2-2010 on PIL moved by Naresh Kadyan, Chairman, PFA Haryana. OIPA in India asked the organizers of the event, please don't allow ANKUSH to control the Elephants, which is not possible????? Submitted by Kadyan Naresh to Animals �|� � ...
  • Roman urn contains human ashes
    The 2,000-year-old vessel, which is whole and unbroken, was dug up during construction work on the Millwood Homes site in the centre of the town. Submitted by Marty Powell to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Hare coursing much better for hares than conservat ...
    Irish hares are, apparently, eighteen times more abundant in areas managed by the Irish Coursing Club (ICC) than at similar sites in the wider countryside according to a recent study by Queen's University Belfast. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

GreenBiz

  • Exploring the Forgotten Water Footprint
    It is becoming increasingly common for companies to measure and report the water they consume within their four walls. Yet they rarely track all the water used to make the electricity powering their operations. It's called the forgotten water footprint, and it's about to get a lot more attention.
  • Why Walmart's Carbon Cuts Will Make a World of Dif ...
    Walmart's new commitment to cut 20 million metric tons of CO2 emissions from its supply chain is big news in and of itself, but it's the way the company will leverage its suppliers to make cuts that will make the biggest impacts.
  • Pouring Out a New Look for Milk
    Julie Corbett, founder of Ecologic Brands, the company that developed a new paper-plastic hybrid milk packaging, speaks about the inspiration behind the package and the tests they've done with Straus Family Creamery and Whole Foods Market.
  • BASF Ranked Most Efficient Chemical Firm, Dow Fini ...
    Chemical companies Air Liquide and BASF use their environmental and social resources more efficiently to create value than other major chemical companies around the world, according to a new study. �
  • Sprint Dials In New Green Design Scorecard and Rec ...
    Sprint Nextel upped its green credentials before Congress Tuesday with testimony that it had developed a green design scorecard for new products and would vastly expand its wireless phone recycling program.

Reuters Global

  • Pakistan, India and the Kabul attack
    The Taliban attack on the Afghan capital Kabul may be the latest evidence of India-Pakistan rivalry which nowadays focuses as much on Kabul as on Kashmir.
  • U.N. official clarifies ‘elation’ at H ...
    U.N. official issues statement after his remarks to journalists that reports of only three recent rapes in Haiti "almost elates me" raised eyebrows
  • The comic books that brainwash North Koreans
    Heinz Insu Fenkl, a literature professor at the State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz, has cracked one secret to understanding the bizarre regime of North Korea: by reading its comic books.
  • Pakistan, India send in their professional diploma ...
    The quickening pace of developments in Afghanistan has changed the regional context for India and Pakistan, whose foreign secretaries met to try to break a diplomatic freeze which followed the November 2008 attack on Mumbai.
  • Of Greece, the EU and high-stakes financial chicke ...
    The EU wants Athens to get its finances in order. Greece wants the EU to say how it's going to help if its bond market keeps getting hit. And the markets keep watching both to see who is going to blink first in what is becoming a game of high-stakes financial chicken.

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Obama’s Gambits Aren’t Working
    I get the reason that Obama held the health care summit on Thursday. You and I — we who follow the news closely — know that the entire reason that Obama has failed to get Obamacare passed is because of dissension among the Democrats in the House and Senate. Obama is harping on [...]
  • The Secret History of Gen. Alexander Haig
    Editor’s Note: Republished from Truthout.org with the express permission of Mel Goodman, whose bio is at the end of this post. Alexander Haig. (Photo: Tom Ordelman) The obituaries in the mainstream media failed to capture the full extent of the controversy and confrontation that marked G ...
  • Fannie Mae Blight Plagues America
    Is it any surprise that the next drawdown in a multi-billion dollar ongoing bailout gets posted at 5pm on a Friday afternoon? Not in this economy where Uncle Sam, that’s you and me boys and girls, continues to pay for the woefully mismanaged financial and legislative practices of those in Washington ...
  • Can ACORN Fool You Twice?
    ACORN is in the process of restructuring in the wake of multiple scandals, including voter fraud and misuse of tax dollars. So, watch out for lots of little acorns wearing funny glasses and fake moustaches. Instead of trying to mend its broken image (and fill its empty coffers), ACORN will diss ...
  • We Need Less Government Like…
    As we approach the next round of elections this year, we will undoubtedly hear about the need for tort reform and how, according to some national groups, we need to shrink Big Government to the point where it can be ‘drowned in the bath tub.”  While such slogans may have a certain appeal, it may be ...

Environmental Graffiti

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Bad time for Asian plots! Iran busts Jundullah rin ...
    Quick hits for the fans of stuff & things. Welcome to the Fishbowl says a sad federal judge upon the abandonment of the 4th Amendment. Alex Kozinski in the 9th Circuit has some integrity... via Reason : This is an extraordinary case: Our court approves, without blinking, a police sweep of a pe ...
  • Preventive maintenance
    ... is always warranted! What better investment than new hard drives after a few years when things start acting up? I was able to find a dual FireWire 800 SATA enclosure, delightful! Reinstalling OS X 10.5 has breathed new life into this machine, and in the nick of time too. Much snappier!
  • Belgium diss!! Farage rips Von Rumpuy in European ...
    The only redeeming feature of the European Union system is British anti-globalist man of wit Nigel Farage, who rips Von Rompuy, the European Union president, a classic Belgian Reptilian, and noted fan of the New World Order. MOAR: http://www.economicvoice.com/nigel-farage-calls-herman-va ...
  • 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 ...

Daily Censored

  • Ron Paul: Oath to US Constitution rejected by both ...
    please feel free to go to the source to engage with government PSYOPS/COINTELPRO/Operation Mockingbird disinfo agents who attack my articles: http://www.examiner.com/x-18425-LA-County-Nonpartisan-Examiner~y2010m2d27-Ron-Paul-Oath-to-US-Constitution-rejected-by-both-parties-leadership-US-revolt-comin ...
  • How bad does it have to get?
    Somebody wrote a column about toxins and autism in this country.  In 1943 hardly anyone in this country had ever heard of it.  Now it affects almost 1% of our children.  There was a small flurry of letters and the topic disappears from our consciousness for another millennia. Ortho Weed Killer – ...
  • Paul Craig Roberts: US pushing for nuclear war; “l ...
    I invite you to witness, learn from, and do battle with COINTELPRO/PSYOPS/Operation Mockingbird disinfo agents at source: http://www.examiner.com/x-18425-LA-County-Nonpartisan-Examiner~y2010m2d26-Paul-Craig-Roberts-US-pushing-for-nuclear-war-leadership-treasonous-for-duping-US-into-wars “The moron ...
  • Anthrax Case Closing Challenged
    Shortly after September 11, 2001, mailings containing the lethal toxin anthrax were sent to members of Congress, including then Senate majority leader Tom Daschle, the National Enquirer, and others. The first suspect, Steven Hatfill, was pilloried in the press as the prime FBI suspect. He was ...
  • Rhode Island: The predators have landed
    The public education deterioration metastasizes  Crime scene: Rhode Island It seems that the “turnover artists” (for they turnover schools to privatizers) are pillaging Rhode Island public schools as we knew they eventually would.  While Obama plays hacki sak with Republicans over a public option ...

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Pine River World News

  • Yes My Dear, Actions Do Have Consequences
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Stanislav Mishin, a frequent contributor to Russian newspaper Pravda. Yes My Dear, Actions Do Have Consequences � �Stanislav Mishin Source: � Mat Rodina February 26, 2010 As previously in the Bush Regime, so too now in the Obama regime, the ma ...
  • Paul Craig Roberts: The Road to Armageddon
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Paul Craig Roberts. The Road to Armageddon � �Paul Craig Roberts February 25, 2010 The Washington Times is a newspaper that looks with favor upon the Bush/Cheney/Obama/neocon wars of aggression in the Middle East and favors making terrorists p ...
  • The Drive to Eliminate Social Security in America
    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Global Research. The Drive to Eliminate Social Security in America � �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 Con ...
  • 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 ...

    PDA AMERICA

  • Inside the Democratic Party February Call
    PDA-endorsed House congressional candidates Marcy Winograd (CA-36), Tracy Emblem (CA-50), and Robert Dobbs (SC-01), and PDA-endorsed Senate candidate Jonathan Tasini (NY) spoke to the group. Each gave the reasons for their candidacy and demonstrated why ...
  • An Open Letter To Jim Dean, Democracy For America
    February 24th 2010 An Open Letter To Jim Dean, Democracy For America Dear Jim: Your most recent e-mail solicitation (see below) on behalf of my opponent in the U.S. Senate New York Democratic primary prompted me to write ...
  • IOT: Healthcare for All/Single Payer Feb Call
    On this call we had -Donna Smith, Healthcare NOT Warfare co-chair, updated us from the Hill on where we stand and also the Brown Bag Lunch Vigil campaign from DC. Chuck Pennacchio, Executive Director of Healthcare ...
  • IOT: Stop Global Warming: Feb Call
    On this month’s Stop Global Warming/Environmental Issues Organizing Team call, the following topics were covered: assembling a new leadership team for the IOT, and our campaign to achieve national climate legislation based on direct carbon ...
  • National Safety Net (NSN) — Six Point Agenda
    National Safety Net (NSN) — Six Point Agenda In keeping with the Spirit of FDR’s “Second Bill Of Rights.” National Safety Net – Six Point Agenda America needs a National Safety Net (NSN). Presently, America has a weak ...

Marler Blog

  • Huntington E. coli and Daniele Salmonella Retail D ...
    Here is a really good thing the FSIS has been doing over the last year - listing where recalled products really went.� Click on links below to follow the trail of Huntington E. coli Beef and Daniele Salmonella Salami products: HUNTINGTON RETAIL CONSIGNEES LIST FOR FS ...
  • Rotten Tomatoes? What do They Really Tell Us About ...
    In reading the February 20th Food Safety News story, “Ten Years of Bribery and Bad Tomatoes” and today’s New York Times story, “Bribes Let Tomato Vendor Sell Tainted Food,” (thanks for pic) I was struck by the thought that the safety of our food ultimately rests on the belief – albeit and apparently ...
  • Food Safety News Turns Six - Months
    Food Safety News (FSN) has been up and running for six months now.� I am very proud of our DC, Denver and Seattle offices.� We have also grown from three full time people to four, plus several interns and freelance writers spread across the country.� We are also working to get more coverage internat ...
  • 242 Salmonella Senftenberg and Salmonella Montevid ...
    According to the CDC , 238 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Montevideo , which displays either of two closely related pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) patterns, have been reported from 44 states and District of Columbia since July 1, 2009. The number of ill person ...
  • 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 ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 02.26.10
    Eurocopter announces plans to build diesel helicopter A chopper that burns 40 percent less fuel? Sounds sweet. Officially Official: Lexus drops the curtain on CT 200h A luxury hy ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 02.25.10
    Five Axis Aerius kit for 2010 Prius now available Tuner calls hybrids "a blank canvas for styling enhancements". Tesla driver helps Roadster fans with donated charge point between LA and SF O ...
  • Cummins will recall 405 engines, pay $2.1 million ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal , Recalls Cummins Inc. has lodged a settlement in the U.S. District Court for D.C. agreeing to pay a $2.1 million penalty for violating the Clean Air Act. What did Cummins do? Well, it "shipped more than 570,000 heavy duty diesel engines to vehicle equipment manufact ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 02.24.10
    HumanCar Imagine_PS is here, almost - preorders accepted [w/video] Pedal faster! Consumer Reports declares the Ford F-250 Lariat 2010's worst gas guzzler How bad? How 'bout 10 mpg? ...
  • 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. ...

Rafe's Radar

  • Reporters' Roundtable Podcast: ILM on the future o ...
    This show is about one of the categories for the Academy Awards: visual effects. This year, there are three films up for awards in the visual effects category: Avatar, Star Trek, and District 9. We're going to be talking with Russell Earl of Industrial Light & Magic . Russell was co-visual effect ...
  • Quicken for the Mac: Finally!
    After three years, Intuit releases a (simplified) version of Quicken for the Mac. It's attractive and useful, but people with complex financial lives may run into walls with the product. ...
  • New Seesmic Web out-features Seesmic Desktop
    In a few key areas, the Web-based version of the Seesmic Twitter client bests its desktop sibling.
  • Reporters' Roundtable Podcast: Buzz vs. privacy
    Last week, Google launched Buzz , a status update tool that has elements of Twitter, Facebook, and FriendFeed. Google launched it inside the Gmail app, giving it an instant installed base of millions of people. More importantly, Google gave Buzz access to your Gmail contacts. When the app first ...
  • Parlor trick: Buzzzy searches Buzz
    If Google's own Buzz search doesn't work for you, try Buzzzy.

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!

  • Cracking Down on Fracking
    Mike Markham of Colorado has an explosive problem: His tap water catches fire. Markham demonstrates this in a new documentary, “Gasland,” which just won the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize. Director Josh Fox films Markham as he runs his kitchen faucet, holding a cigarette lighter up to th ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • The Global e-waste Crisis (Slideshow)
    The world is heading for a potentially devastating deluge of electronic waste as many nations struggle to keep the sheer volumes they are facing under control.
  • 2 Huge Icebergs Let Loose Off Antarctica's Coast
    An iceberg about the size of Luxembourg that struck a glacier off Antarctica and dislodged another massive block of ice could lower the levels of oxygen in the world's oceans, Australian and French scientists said Friday.
  • Goodbye Earth
    *****
  • NPR: Global Warming Skepticism Due to Narrow 'Worl ...
    It's like Christoper Joyce of National Public Radio is completely unaware of ClimateGate. Phil Jones? Never heard of him. Oh, he is the former head of Britain's Climatic Research Unit who now admits manipulating data?
  • Unusual Luxury Yacht
    Wally et Hermès use green energy to 20 to 30% fuel savings and 40 to 50% electricity consumption on board.

Invisible Opportunity

  • Toyota’s consumer safety problems are dwarfe ...
    By Mike Adams 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 ...
  • Iran again asks to buy, swap nuclear fuel for pati ...
    By Carl Herman Iran will run-out of medical isotopes within a month; leaving nearly 850,000 patients without a critical tool for their diagnosis and treatment. Iran’s government repeated their request to buy or swap fuel (previous acceptance here), even though they are legally authorized to produce ...
  • Hamas founder’s son once top Israel spy, report sa ...
    JERUSALEM-The son of one of Hamas’ founders served as a top informant for Israel for more than a decade, providing top-secret intelligence that helped prevent dozens of suicide bombings and other attacks against Israelis, a newspaper reported Wednesday. Mosab Hassan Yousef, dubbed as “the Green Prin ...
  • Maya 2012 series: Maya predictions & lessons from ...
    Robert Sitler’s first exposure to the genius of Maya culture came in 1976 while hiking in the rainforests of Chiapas. Since then, he has spent as much time as possible in the Maya world, visiting regularly among natives from more than a dozen language groups. He completed a PhD from the University o ...
  • Video – 9/11 Truth Search: Planes didn&#8217 ...
    On 9/11, the world watched as two airplanes crashed into the twin towers of the world trade center, both of which collapsed shortly after. This much we know for sure, but for some, the cause of the collapse is still not so clear. Michael T Donly is a part of a group that says the [...]

Cognitive Research - Sciences

Insurgency Watch | True/Slant

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

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Twilight Earth

  • Fluoride – Better Living Through Dentistry?
    The difficulty is navigating the ever-growing list of environmental toxins your children are exposed to every day. I have another one to add. Fluoride. Related posts: Green Living Ideas and Twilight Earth Form New Major Environmental Network, Simple Earth Media Living Off-Grid: Micro Hydro Ele ...
  • 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 ...

Inhabitat

  • A Modern and Eco-Friendly Dollhouse by Brinca Dada
    Our modern kids certainly don’t need to subscribe their imaginations to antiquated Victorian dollhouses, so why not replace those uptight, dim monstrosities with something a little more in-tune with the times? With six spacious rooms spread across an open floor plan, the uber-modern Emerson House  ...
  • Stunning Rooftop Paintings Visible from Satellites
    There’s no doubt that Google Earth has given us all a new perspective. Apart from being able to see our own houses from above (weird!), we can even monitor global deforestation and track migrating animals. And while US Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu would like us all to paint our rooftops whi ...
  • Green Covered Taipei Music Center by Mario Bellini ...
    We’re totally intrigued by this pop music center for Taipei and its striking resemblance to a rolling green hill. Conceived by Italian firm Mario Bellini Architects, the design is “a single body wrapped in a plastic ‘mantle plant’,” according to our friends at Designboom. While we aren’t sure how su ...
  • San Francisco’s Pavement to Parks Initiative Gets ...
    Streets and public rights-of-way make up a whopping 25% of San Francisco’s total land area–more land than all of the city’s parks combined. Many of the streets are wider than necessary or contain wasted space, and that’s where the Pavement to Parks initiative comes in. The recently-launched program ...
  • T-Shirts Upcycled into Laptop Sleeves Help Sex-Tra ...
    Is your favorite t-shirt in such distress that it garners more attention for its rips and holes than its clever declaration against CO2 emissions? There is no reason to despair over your cherished threads, because your loss is your computer’s gain. The people at Hello Rewind have come up with a grea ...

Pogue's Posts

Open Your Eyes News

  • U.S. Data Since 1895 Fail To Show Warming Trend
    New York Times – After examining climate data extending back nearly 100 years, a team of Government scientists has concluded that there has been no significant change in average temperatures or rainfall in the United States over that entire period. While the nation’s weather in individual years or e ...
  • Does full-body scanning pit religion vs. security?
    Chicago Tribune – Is full-body scanning a religious question? Christian, Jewish and Muslim scholars have called the security measure, coming soon to O’Hare International Airport, a violation of religious and privacy rights. Earlier this month, the Fiqh Council of North America, a group of scholars ...
  • Chile earthquake: Resources, reactions online
    Washington Post – Thousands of people are going online to share information about the massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck central Chile early this morning. Note that much of it is in Spanish, but can be converted to English through Google’s translation tool. Read more
  • Hawaii, Japan, Eastern Australia, Asia and South P ...
    Washington Post — Wide swaths of the south Pacific, Asia and Australia braced for a tsunami after a devastating earthquake hit the coast of Chile on Saturday. Officials in Japan and Australia warned a tsunami from the earthquake was likely to hit Asian shorelines within 24 hours. The Pacific Tsunami ...
  • 8.8-magnitude earthquake hits central Chile; Chile ...
    Washington Post — A devastating earthquake struck Chile early Saturday, toppling homes, collapsing bridges and plunging trucks into the fractured earth. A tsunami set off by the magnitude-8.8 quake threatened every nation around the Pacific Ocean – roughly a quarter of the globe. President-elect Seb ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Runda 2: Pierwszoświatowy hodżaizm kontra trzecioś ...
    Runda 2: Pierwszoświatowy hodżaizm kontra trzecioświatowy maoizm o kontrrewolucji. (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Ostatnio odbyła się debata między pierwszoświatowymi hodżaistami a trzecioświatowymi maoistami. Debata ta dotykała rozmaitych tematów. Jedną z głównych kwestii była ta dotycząca pr ...
  • Runda 1: Pierwszoświatowy hodżaizm kontra trzecioś ...
    Runda 1: Pierwszoświatowy hodżaizm kontra trzecioświatowy maoizm o Teorii Trzech Światów (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Ostatnio miała miejsce debata pomiędzy pierwszoświatowymi hodżaistami a trzecioświatowymi maoistami, która obejmowała wiele tematów. Jednym z nich była opracowana przez Mao T ...
  • Black history month: Interview with “Steve Struggl ...
    Black history month: Interview with “Steve Struggle” on the Black Panther Party and Black liberation (raimd.wordpress.com, monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) For Black history month, The Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist Movement (RAIM) interviews “Steve,” veteran Black revolutionary, one-time member o ...
  • 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,” he announced from the steps of Tian’ ...

PakAlert

  • The Great Recession of 2011-2012
    By James Srodes from the February 2010 issue Are you ready for the Great Recession of 2011–2012? You should be, for it is getting under way even as you read this. Just as the 2009 “greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression” actually began back in 2007, so we [...] Read Mor ...
  • Absolute Proof Most Jews Are Not ‘True Jews’
    The 13th Tribe’ by Arthur Koestler (suicided by Mossad) explains the creation of the European Khazar/Ashkenazi Jews who are descended from Huns, not semitic peoples. From Dick Eastman Arthur Koestler and his wife were killed by Mossad shortly after releasing this book. As expected, The Thirtee ...
  • Terrorism: The Most Meaningless and Manipulated Wo ...
    By Glenn Greenwald Joseph Stack deliberately flew an airplane into a building housing IRS offices in Austin, Texas, in order to advance the political grievances he outlined in a perfectly cogent suicide-manifesto.  Stack’s worldview contained elements of the tea party’s anti-government a ...
  • Video: US Will Start World War 3 by Attacking Iran
    A UN nuclear watchdog report suggests Iran could be developing a nuclear bomb, apparently confirming long-held suspicions in the West. But Tehran denies the claims, again insisting that its atomic intentions are peaceful. Michel Chossudovsky, who’s from an independent Canadian policy research group, ...
  • Iran Nabs Top NATO Terrorist With Pakistan Help
    By Webster Tarpley 2-26-10 On Tuesday Feb. 23, Iran announced the capture of Abdulmalek Rigi, the boss of the terror organization Jundullah, which works for NATO. The capture of Rigi represents a serious setback for the US-UK strategy of using false flag state-sponsored terrorism against Iran an ...

ecogeek

  • Tesla Leasing Roadster for the Cost of a Mortgage
    If you've been yearning to own a Tesla Roadster , but can't afford the six-figure price tag, the car company will start leasing their popular electric sports car for a minimum of $1,658 a month, meaning you probably still can't afford it. The three-year, 30,000-mile contract requires $12,453 at si ...
  • Texas Utility Leasing Rooftop Solar Systems
    TXU Energy , a large Texas utility company, will lease rooftop solar power systems to their customers in the Dallas area. Homeowners can sign up for the program with TXU and their partner in the project, SolarCity , will design and install the systems.  After tax incentives, an owner of a three-to ...
  • Why is Bloom Energy Lying to Us?
    Don't get me wrong, I'm extremely excited about Bloom Energy. I honestly think that their technology is a good thing for the world and that it might very well revolutionize the power infrastructure in America and throughout the world. And yes, it will create jobs and make a select few people very ri ...
  • BrightSource Gets $1.4 Billion DOE Loan Guarantee ...
    BrightSource Energy, Inc has received $1.37 billion in loan guarantees from the DOE for 400 MW's worth of solar thermal energy projects through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. With the funding, the company is constructing three utility-scale concentrated solar plants that will make up ...
  • British Airways Turning Waste into Jet Fuel
    British Airways has announced that it will start producing jet fuel from landfill waste to reach its target of 50 percent reduced emissions by 2050. The airline is partnering with biofuels company Solena to construct a waste-to-energy fuel plant in East London that will turn 500,000 tonnes of orga ...

Buzzflash

  • Ex-President & Ex-Prime Minister Attend Ceremony I ...
    This shows that Bush is responsible And doesn’t just talk the talk: Even when you own an aging poodle, It’s good to take it for a walk. read more
  • War Politics: Numb and Number
    BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Norman Solomon Playwright Lillian Hellman said: “I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions.” The statement was in a letter to the House Un-American Activities Committee. The year was 1952. We tell ourselves that the McCarthy era was vastly diff ...
  • Michael Winship: Two Legal Foes Unite to Fight -- ...
    MICHAEL WINSHIP FOR BUZZFLASH Watching this week's "health summit" in Washington, with both sides barely repressing the urge to turn the Blair House event into the Potomac version of mixed martial arts cage fighting, was discouraging. To get a little peace and quiet I was tempted to switch to E ...
  • John Yoo and the Bush/Cheney Club are Guilty of Mu ...
    BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZFLASH MINUTE Yoo is guilty of "poor judgment"!? The report by OPR concludes that Yoo, now a Berkeley law professor, and his boss at the time, Jay Bybee, now a federal judge, should be referred to their state bar associations for possible disciplinary proceedings. ...another se ...
  • The Disunited Fiefdoms of America
    Body What can one preemptively conclude about today's big show, other than that of The System's catastrophic failure? We are now reduced to health care as pure politics -- and jobs and the economy as pure politics, as well as climate change, and regulatory reform, and so on. And the k ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • Excessive bipartisanship and other matters
    One of the strangest prongs of conventional Beltway wisdom is the lament that there is not enough bipartisanship.� The opposite is true:��many of the most damaging acts inflicted on the country by Washington are enacted on a fully bipartisan basis -- the most destructive political act of this gene ...
  • 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 BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Four ways to connect with Sciencebase
    Related Posts:Recognisable scientists versus artistsRSS Awareness DayRoyal stamps for Royal SocietyBerlin Wall falls in AustraliaA month with an electricity monitorFour ways to connect with Sciencebase is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog Four ways to connect with Sciencebase is a post fro ...
  • Royal stamps for Royal Society
    Royal Mail Stamps has issued a commemorative set of stamps in the UK to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society this year. The stamps feature ten of the most prominent fellows of the Royal Society: Robert Boyle – Chemistry Sir Isaac Newton – Optics Benjamin Franklin – Electricity Edwar ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Political Operative Abandons Latest Attempt to Dec ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 25, 2010 ACLU Faced with an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit, a political operative who has failed twice before to place an anti-affirmative action initiative on the Missouri ballot has abandoned his latest attempt to rewrite the state constitution to ban equal o ...
  • Task Force Action Fund Responds to Maryland Attorn ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 24, 2010 National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler issued a legal opinion that states that marriages of same-sex couples validly entered into in other jurisdictions may be honored and recognized by state agencies. ...
  • Single-Payer Advocates, Excluded from Summit, Take ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 24, 2010 Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) STEFFIE WOOLHANDLER, M.D., M.P.H. MARGARET FLOWERS, M.D. QUENTIN YOUNG, M.D. MARK ALMBERG read more
  • Salt-Water-Soaked Chicken Not at All Natural, Says ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 24, 2010 Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) Chicken, salt, and water all are natural, but when you combine the three what you get is chicken that is anything but "all natural." When Americans take their hard-earned dollars to the supermarket, they want th ...
  • Losing Our Forests: NRDC Sues to Protect Iconic Wh ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 25, 2010 Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) The Natural Resources Defense Council filed a lawsuit yesterday seeking federal action to protect the whitebark pine, an imperiled tree species critical to the health of the high elevation mountain country of the Northe ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Pat, the Pope and the Devil
    by Christopher Brauchli Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is. . . . - Milton, Paradise Lost Commentators should not be dismissive of Pat Robertson when he says bad things that happen to others are because of their alliances with the Devil. There are few men of the cloth, w ...
  • Hilda Solis: Protecting Workers, Not Corporations
    by Mark Engler Those who voted for "change you can believe in" in 2008 have found many reasons since Obama's inauguration to be disappointed with the new White House. But there have been some bright spots in the administration's first year as well-positive steps that illustrate the difference that a ...
  • Calculating Life for a Dying Empire
    by Francis Shor $2000 per dead child! That's the amount of compensation offered by the Pentagon for the "collateral damage" which it has caused in Afghanistan. As the war escalates and more innocent victims of Washington's aggressive actions accumulate in number, the US military calculates what it ...
  • Cultural, Economic and Workforce Structures Help R ...
    by Lauri E. Kallio With total US military spending now approaching ¾ of a trillion dollars per year - about as much as the rest of the world's countries combined - cutting military spending is becoming an issue of concern for the peace movement and beyond, especially as the president has proposed a ...
  • Iran Captures a 'Good' Terrorist
    by Ray McGovern The Iranian government is celebrating the capture of Abdolmalek Rigi, the leader of a violent group called Jundullah (Arabic for Soldiers of God), which Tehran says is a terrorist organization supported by the United States, Great Britain and Israel. Jundullah is one of several grou ...

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

  • Range of services at risk due to city, state finan ...
    It's a gray winter morning in Chicago 2012. You're a single mom, waiting in the snow for a bus.You lost your job last year as a teaching assistant in the public schools. You'd go back to college to learn new skills, but tuition's high, and financial aid programs are gone.Today, you're heading downto ...
  • Panel formed to study privatizing of jail (Asbury ...
    FREEHOLD — A Monmouth County Board of Freeholders compromise on control of the county jail was reached Feb. 25, with a panel being formed to study whether the 1,328-bed facility could be someday turned over to a private operator.
  • Building division to get subsidy (Osceola News-Gaz ...
    Despite few permitting and inspection work fees that pay for six employees, Kissimmee commissioners decided Tuesday that the city’s building division would stay in-house, using a $110,000 general fund subsidy to sustain it for the next year.
  • Relevant Links (AllAfrica.com)
    But campaigners against water privatization have described AVRL ' s move as too little too late.
  • Panel formed to study privatizing county jail (Asb ...
    FREEHOLD — A Monmouth County Board of Freeholders compromise on control of the county jail was reached Thursday, with a panel being formed to study whether the 1,328-bed facility could be someday turned over to a private operator.

Guardian

  • MPs reject court findings on MI5
    Ministers back MI5 after highly critical verdict on secret service involvement in Binyam Mohamed case The government has launched a co-ordinated counter-attack against three of the country's most senior judges who defied ministerial pressure today to publish a highly critical verdict on secret servi ...
  • England 16-20 Ireland
    England 16-20 Ireland England started, despite all their protestations beforehand of how they would be content to win without making a pass, as if determined to show that they had taken a course in risk-aversion therapy but all they ultimately proved was that playing counter-intuitive rugby is a for ...
  • Art world swoons over tramp genius
    63-year-old former tramp celebrated for collages made during Ceausescu regime Gallery: the art of Ion Barladeanu The guests were chic, the bordeaux was sipped with elegant restraint and the hostess was suitably glamorous in a ­canary yellow cocktail dress. To an outside observer who made it past th ...
  • Kabul attacks aimed at foreigners
    At least nine Indians, Italian diplomat and French filmmaker among foreign casualties in Taliban attacks in Afghan capital Regional tensions in south Asia rose yesterday when 17 people died in a car bomb attack in Kabul apparently aimed at Indians working in the Afghan capital. Reports said at least ...
  • Italy 16-12 Scotland
    Italy 16-12 Scotland The Scottish will say that it was one lapse that cost them this match, singling out the moment in the 68th minute when their midfield split open to allow Pablo Canavosio through for the game's only try. In truth the deciding factor was not that Scotland made one bad mistake, but ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Tough love in a troubled climate
    Forget the Norfolk police's criminal investigation , reviews commissioned by universities in the UK and US , and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 's (IPCC) internal deliberations. Governments have now demanded - and will get - an independent review into how the IPCC conducts its work a ...
  • A stark snapshot of nature loss
    While spending a few days off last week with the young primates closest to my own heart, I neglected to flag up here a new report on the threats facing various other primate species around the world. Primates in Peril: The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates 2006-8 is compiled by specialists from ...
  • 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 ...

Afghanistan Sun

  • Sikh community offers final prayers for two Sikhs ...
    Amritsar, Feb 27(ANI): Hundreds of Sikh community members here on Saturday offered 'Antim Ardas' (final prayers) in memory of two Sikhs youths, who were beheaded by the Taliban in Pakistan.
  • Regional Security on top of Manmohan Singh's ...
    Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), Feb 27(ANI): Regional security with a focus on current developments in Afghanistan and Pakistan are expected to dominate Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh's talks with the Saudi leadership.
  • US envoy condemns Kabul attack
    New Delhi, Feb 27(ANI): United States Ambassador to India Timothy J. Roemer on Saturday strongly condemned Friday's suicide bombings carried out by Taliban militants in Kabul, which killed at least 10 Indian citizens among many others.
  • IAF special plane brings bodies of slain Indians i ...
    New Delhi, Feb 27 (ANI): A special Indian Air Force (IAF) aircraft on Saturday evening brought back the bodies of the Indians, who were killed in the suicide bombings carried out by Taliban militants in Kabul on Friday morning.
  • UN condemns attacks that killed 17 people in Kabul
    New York, Feb 27 (DPA) UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Friday condemned the Taliban for the 'senseless disregard' of human lives in the bomb attacks in Kabul that killed at least 17 people.

Futurismic

  • The Hollywood Stock Exchange, and bands with share ...
    If investment bankers can gamble on the success of big-money projects, why can’t the rest of us? Well, of course, we can – but those sort of big-money projects aren’t the sort of thing that get us normal folk excited, nor the sort of thing we understand (or think we understand) sufficiently to throw ...
  • Haven is a place on earth: can Iceland be made int ...
    Via Jay Rosen, here’s an interview with Julian Assange, editor of the infamous Wikileaks whistleblower website, explaining how the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative organisation intends to attempt to turn Iceland into a global safe haven for journalism and free speech: BOB GARFIELD: So you’ve skimme ...
  • Fab another little piece of my heart now, baby: 3D ...
    The idea of printing replacement biological tissue and organs has been around for a while – we mentioned the development the pressure-assisted spinning system back in 2007, in fact – but it looks like it’s finally reached the point where people think they can make a profit from it on a commercial sc ...
  • Emily Howell has written a song for you
    If a piece of very-well-written computer software can produce classical music compositions that the experts can’t distinguish from ones created by people, does that mean that music is essentially meaningless? [via MetaFilter] And doesn’t it also mean that the program in question essentially passed a ...
  • Swapping the Senate for Reddit, and other daft ide ...
    For the sake of change-around, I’m gonna let someone else propose the wild idea this time. So, how’s about you US citizens swap your Senate for something like Reddit.com? [image adapted from a photo by cliff1066â„¢] Let’s abolish the Senate! Replace it with something truly new and egalitarian, a s ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • NY police officer breaks the code of silence and s ...
    Frank Palestro has been an officer of the New York Police Department for nine years.  Other officers thought well enough of Palestro to make him their union delegate. However, when he saw another officer telling subordinates to write summonses for traffic violations that they never witnessed, refusi ...
  • Visitors from Japan inquire about US whistleblower ...
    We just received a lovely visit from Keiko Nagai Ito and Tomoshige Nakamura of CrossIndex Corp . The are reviewing whistleblower protection laws from around the world in preparation of Japan's 2011 review of its Whistleblower Protection Act.� Pictured here are Phil Barrett (intern with the National ...
  • Report studies historic underfunding of OSHA
    The Center for Progressive Reform (CPR) has released a report on the historic problems OSHA has had in making American workplaces safe. Called Workers at Risk: Regulatory Dysfunction at OSHA , the report explains how OSHA has never had the funding it needs to keep pace with the new chemicals and tec ...
  • 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 ...

Science Express

  • Rice physicists find reappearing quantum trios
    Using atoms at temperatures colder than deep space, Rice University physicists have delivered overwhelming proof for a once-scoffed-at theory that's become a hotbed for research some 40 years after it first appeared. In a paper available online in Science Express, Rice's team offers experimental evi ...
  • Researchers develop cheap, easy 'kitchen chemistry ...
    A team at The Scripps Research Institute has made major strides in solving a problem that has been plaguing chemists for many years: how best to break carbon-hydrogen bonds and then to create new bonds to join molecules together. This problem is of great interest to the pharmaceutical industry, whic ...
  • Research sheds light on workings of anti-cancer dr ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- The copper sequestering drug tetrathiomolybdate (TM) has been shown in studies to be effective in the treatment of Wilson disease, a disease caused by an overload of copper, and certain metastatic cancers. That much is known. Very little, however, is known about how the drug works a ...
  • Scientists ID a protein that splices and dices gen ...
    A novel finding, described today on the Science Express Web site by teams from the National Cancer Institute, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and the University of Toronto, offers a clue as to how genes can have what you might call multiple personalities.
  • San Andreas Fault study unearths new quake informa ...
    Recent collaborative studies of stream channel offsets along the San Andreas Fault by researchers at Arizona State University and UC Irvine reveal new information about fault behavior - affecting how we understand the potential for damaging earthquakes.

TechDirt

  • Is The Fan Who Buys A Product He Wants A Big Dope?
    When we talk about the various new business models that work well for content creators, one of the complaints that some of our regular critics have pointed out is that if most of the people are getting the content for free, and only a small group of superfans are paying, aren't those who pay getting ...
  • It's The Execution That Matters, Not The Idea
    For years we've tried to explain the difference between ideas and execution , and how lots of people have ideas (in fact, many have the same ideas entirely independently), but without good execution, those ideas aren't really worth much at all. This point comes up a lot in the debates we have over ...
  • Court Denies Innocent Infringement Defense To Teen ...
    You may recall a few years back that a teenager, Whitney Harper, who was getting sued by the record labels/RIAA for file sharing, claimed that the amount she should have to pay up should be less than the $750 statutory minimum, because she was an "innocent infringer," unaware that what she was doing ...
  • French Court Says IP Address Does Not Identify A U ...
    Michael Scott points us to the news that a French court has ruled that an IP address is not enough to identify a single individual . Now, obviously, many of us agree with this general point, and we've brought that up time and time again in the past when lawsuits insisted that a single IP address wa ...
  • Swedish Investigator Hired By Warner Bros. During ...
    You may recall, back before The Pirate Bay trial in Sweden, a story came out about how the lead police investigator in the case just happened to take a job at Warner Bros. movie studio while The Pirate Bay investigation was still ongoing. This, obviously lead to quite reasonable questions of confli ...

VacTruth

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 ...

Executive Intelligence Review

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • I.M.F. Chief wants to consider new reserve currenc ...
    By Matt Hawes Via The New York Times: The I.M.F. leader, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, also floated the idea of creating a global reserve currency that could serve as an alternative to the dollar…. Mr. Strauss-Kahn said that a new reserve currency could limit dependence on the policies and co ...
  • An overview of evidence for WTC controlled demolit ...
    By Dark Politricks This article and the videos contained within should be compulsory viewing for anyone who believes that any talk of controlled demolitions in relation to the World Trade Center is the crazy talk of tin foil hat wearing loons. Its a collection of clips, news stories, talks and li ...
  • Time to Limit Government’s Take of Our Incom ...
    By Doug Bandow Six of ten Americans want to limit government's take of their incomes to half. That's way too much, but at least it's a start. According to Rassmussen Reports: Most Americans favor a law that would limit the amount of taxes paid to state, local and federal governments so th ...
  • Watch Fabled Enemies – Full Length
    By Dark Politricks The following video should be compulsory viewing whether you believe in any 9/11 conspiracy and especially if you don’t. It was made by the Loose Change maker Jason Bermas and looks in detail at at aspects of collusion between the intelligence agencies and the attacks of 9/11 incl ...
  • Karl Rove Chased Out of UCSB
    Youtube Feb 27, 2010 Karl Rove is chased out of UCSB by protesters after making a speech to promote his new book. College Republicans and local conservatives paid for most of Rove’s 25-thousand dollar speaking fee. But more than 12-thousand dollars in mixed student fees and funds from th ...

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

  • Just What Exactly Are Lieberman, Kerry and Graham ...
    Can John Kerry Help Create the Right Climate Bill? Sens. Kerry, Lieberman, and Graham have been meeting behind closed doors for months, presumably writing a new climate and energy bill. Without much word coming from the three, environmentalists have been left to speculate on the bill's contents ...
  • Rich South Africans Oppose Green New BRT Lines; Sa ...
    Opening day for Johannesburg's first bus rapid transit line. Photo via Rea Vaya . Last month, we applauded the five developing cities nominated by the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy for its 2010 Sustainable Transport Award . The list included Johannesburg,
  • New York Fashion Week: Susan Cianciolo Fall 2010 - ...
    Susan Cianciolo fall 2010 presentation, New York Fashion Week. Credit: Emma Grady We recently revealed the beauty secrets behind the vibrant colors at Susan Cianciolo 's presentation during New York Fashion Week and now, the beautifully constructed sustainable garments from her fall 2010 coll ...
  • PETA's at it Again: Sexiest Vegetarian Next Door 2 ...
    Image credit: PETA Much like Blythe's excellent slideshow on PETA porn , I'm never quite sure what to make of PETA . On the one hand, the constant focus on
  • Green Politics, NIMBYism & EVs: LlewTube Meets Chr ...
    Image credit: LlewTube From test driving the Mitsubishi MiEV through taking a ride with Ecotricity's Dale Vince to interviewing Diarmuid O'Connell of Tesla , I am a huge fan of Robert Llewellyn's Llewtube show. The format of taking an interesting personality—often involved in green technology o ...

Biosingularity

  • Medpedia launches new clinical trial platform
    The Medpedia Project today announced Medpedia Clinical Trials, a platform for patients and physicians to receive information about the thousands of clinical trials that are in process or about to begin. Other online sources already allow for searching clinical trials, but the Medpedia platform allow ...
  • Coffee Break Boosts Memory
    - A coffee break after an important meeting or class may be just the thing your brain needs to digest new information and improve memory. A new study suggests that resting while awake aids in memory consolidation and improves memory recall, much like getting a good night’s sleep has been shown to ...
  • Monitoring Cell Death Could Help Cancer Treatment
    When it comes to aggressive cancers, in the brain or lung for example, oncologists know that the sooner they can determine whether a treatment is unsuccessful, the sooner they can reevaluate and, if necessary, prescribe a new course of action. But typically, it takes two months or more to do the bef ...
  • The incredible beauty in the life of cells
  • Brain ‘entanglement’ could explain mem ...
    Subatomic particles do it. Now the observation that groups of brain cells seem to have their own version of quantum entanglement, or “spooky action at a distance”, could help explain how our minds combine experiences from many different senses into one memory. Previous experiments have shown that th ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Rammstein to set themselves on fire on Moscow Stad ...
    German hard rockers Rammstein, whose latest album was banned from public display in Germany and show nearly canceled in Belarus, will make an unprecedented fire show in Russia's capital during their concerts on Sunday and Monday
  • President Medvedev urges tough, balanced fight aga ...
    President Dmitry Medvedev urged the authorities of the Russian republic of Karachai-Circassia to fight gangs toughly but calmly
  • Tsunami warning sirens sound on Hawaii
    Warning sirens have sounded on the Hawaiian Islands to alert residents to evacuate coastal areas ahead of a possible tsunami after a powerful earthquake hit Chile, claiming 122 lives, Fox News TV channel reported Saturday
  • EU warns Minsk on human rights
    The president of the European Parliament has said if Belarus wants to benefit from EU support, it has to change its ways with regard to the opposition, NGOs and ethnic minorities, Polish Radio reported Saturday
  • Ecuador starts evacuation from Galapagos Islands
    Ecuador announced that it will evacuate the residents of the Galapagos Islands to a hill due to a tsunami threat, Latin American media reported Saturday

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • The Many Deficiencies of the OPR Report
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) report on its ethics investigation for torture-approving lawyers has already generated some remarkable reactions. One of the few defenses came from former ...
  • 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.

Natural Health News

  • Company Research On Genetically Modified Foods Is ...
    In 2004, the peer-reviewed British Food Journal published a study claiming that when shoppers in a Canadian farm store were given an informed, unbiased choice between genetically modified (GM) corn and non-GM corn, most purchased the GM variety. The research, which was funded by the biotech ...
  • Vitamin Shows Early Promise in Treatment of Stroke
    An early study suggests that vitamin B3, or niacin, a common water-soluble vitamin, may help improve neurological function after stroke.   When rats with ischemic stroke were given niacin, their brains showed growth of new blood vessels, and sprouting of nerve cells which greatly improved neurolog ...
  • Omega-3 Boosts Brain Function in Boys
    The omega-3 fat DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) may alter the function of the brain associated with working memory, according to results of a new study with healthy boys. Scientists showed for the first time using neuro-imaging that supplementation with DHA alters the functional activity in cortical at ...
  • Salt Water Soaked Chicken isn't Natural at All
    Chicken, salt, and water all are natural, but when you combine the three what you get is chicken that is anything but "all natural." The practice of pumping up poultry with salt water is basically a hidden tax of up to 15 percent that extracts about $2 billion from American consumers each year. Th ...
  • Are 3-D Glasses Bad for Your Health?
    Italy’s ministry of health confiscated 7000 pairs of 3D glasses from cinemas. And they pledge to take away more, claiming the glasses could easily pass around “hygiene risks” if not disinfected between screenings, and that they lacked tags proving they don’t cause vision problems. It’s somewhat su ...

Antemedius

  • KBR awarded $2.3B LOGCAP IV task order in Iraq aft ...
    The long awaited announcement of the first LOGCAP IV task order to be awarded in Iraq has been made. KBR has been awarded Task Order 2 under KBR’s LOGCAP IV contract W52P1J-07-D-0009 for the Iraq CTP (Corp Logistics/Transportation/Postal) effort in the amount of $2.345B. Work is to begin under this ...
  • Can DNA Falsely Convict You? The Chances Are Highe ...
    Let’s do a thought experiment; you are at home and there is a knock at the door. You open it and there is police detective there. He wants to question you about a murder from thirty-one years ago. You know you never murdered anyone, so you consent. Then the detective tells you that your DNA was matc ...
  • "Birther" Orly Taitz's Hail Mary Pass Attempt
    Everyone knows the analogy of “like a dog with a bone”. It is short hand comparison of someone who will not let go of an issue or action regardless of other consequences. This is a great comparison to everyone’s favorite “Birther” Dr. Orly Taitz, esquire. She is the dentist and lawyer who has been a ...
  • Rightist Propaganda Absurdity: Snow Storm; Global ...
    It is understandable why in Propaganda 1 Nazi obfuscation master in residence Joseph Goebbels stressed repetition. The idea is you keep repeating the same basic points you want to cement into the minds of the controllable, in this case the Limbaugh-Palin-Tea Bag-Fox News solidly committed zealots. G ...
  • The Death and Life of American Journalism
    Bob McChesney is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois. In 2008, the Utne Reader listed McChesney among their “50 visionaries who are changing the world”. He has written and edited 17 books, and his work has been translated into 21 languages. ...

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

  • Does it help the AGW cause by being a potty mouth?
    This is essentially a scientific argument and it's quite amazing that all the foul mouthed abuse is being slung by the side who claim to rest their case solely on scientific fact. If that's the case then why the need for all the vitriolic bullying, bordering on fanatacism? It seems that an important ...
  • Beautiful graphs on long term temperatures
    JoNova as published a guest post by David Lapp, a geologist from Alaska, where they show a beautiful set of graphs–including the one of the last 10,000 years in Greenland that you see above.
  • NASA’s greenhouse mistake
    NASA has the greenhouse theory all wrong. Insulated by an outer crust, the surface of the earth acquires nearly all of its heat from the sun. The only exit for this heat to take is through a door marked "Radiation."
  • DEVASTATING REPORT: The Institute of Physics conde ...
    The Institute of Physics, with a membership of over 36,000 physics-related scientists, to publish a report condemning junk climate science.
  • “Hottest January ever” say climate experts, establ ...
    The USA, the UK and many other parts of the world have been reporting cold weather records broken left, right and center. Yet some climate scientists are claiming, no, it's been hot, damn hot, this winter.

Opinio Juris

  • ECJ Rules that West Bank Goods are NOT “Made in Is ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The BBC reports: The European Court of Justice has ruled that Israeli goods made in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank cannot be considered Israeli. This means goods made by Israelis or Jews in the West Bank cannot benefit from a trade deal giving Israel prefe ...
  • Targeted Killings: the NYT echoes Ken and Demands ...
    by Julian Ku Our own Ken Anderson is one of the most knowledgeable and thoughtful legal scholars on the question of targeted killings by the United States. And he has noted here and the Volokh that he has developed a complex analysis of the U.S. policy toward targeted killings, which grounds such ...
  • Stuart Taylor’s Apologia for Torture
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller David Luban and Stuart Taylor are having an interesting exchange at Balkinization over whether the CIA’s use of waterboarding qualifies as torture under the federal torture statute, 18 USC 2340.  Luban accuses Taylor of embracing “the fundamental trick use ...
  • Americans Hate the UN Slightly Less, Gallup Poll S ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The invaluable “Turtle Bay” Blog points me to this recent Gallup poll on the U.S. public’s view of the United Nations. I’m a bit surprised the UN polls so badly (26 percent is pretty low).  Then again, Americans are a tough lot. Congress rates even lower, and President ...
  • Inching Toward Peace in Sudan
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Despite all the grumbling from NGOs, there does appear to be some modest progress toward more peace and stability in Sudan. Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has signed a framework ceasefire deal with one of Darfur’s main rebel groups, the Justice and Equality Movement ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • Overwhelming support for changing or ditching MMP
    A new UMR research poll has found a majority of New Zealanders unhappy with the current electoral system: "There is majority support for either changing MMP or ditching it entirely. Only 23% wanted to keep MMP as it is now...
  • STUDY: Urban heat effect seriously underestimated
    CRU's Phil Jones, whose work claiming UHI is not a significant factor in global temperature trends has been trumpeted by less intelligent believers in AGW, is in the gun over more dodgy data. Already this month he was forced to...
  • Looks like IPCC report was indeed wrong on hurrica ...
    A few weeks ago it was reported the IPCC was wrong on its claims of increasing hurricane and cyclone activity due to global warming. Warmists hit back by claiming the paragraph in question was citing a 'study' on the costs...
  • 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...

Public News Service

  • Soup Leads to Independence for Arizonans with Auti ...
    Soup Leads to Independence for Arizonans with Autism Phoenix, AZ – Soups by famous chefs will soon be made and sold by adults with autism in Central Arizona. It’s part of a training program aimed at providing jobs and a better quality of life. Comments from Jeri Kendle, interim president for the Sou ...
  • Tax Preparer Scammer Alert from the IRS
    Tax Preparer Scammer Alert from the IRS Phoenix, AZ – It’s income tax season and, for some people, the only thing worse than rounding up all their receipts and documentation, is finding out too late that they hired someone to do their taxes who was either unqualified – or simply trying to rip them o ...
  • Watchdogs: Stop Playing Chicken with Industrial Fa ...
    Watchdogs: Stop Playing Chicken with Industrial Farm Antibiotics Pressure is being stepped up on Congress and federal agencies to limit the overuse of antibiotics on industrial farms, as these lifesaving drugs are becoming increasingly ineffective in fighting bacterial infections. The medications a ...
  • Expert: AZ Immigration Bill Will Hurt Crime Fight
    Expert: AZ Immigration Bill Will Hurt Crime Fight Phoenix, AZ – The latest effort by state lawmakers to crack down on illegal immigrants is headed for the Arizona House after passage this week in the Senate. A criminal justice expert says the bill’s unintended result will be more crime, especially i ...
  • Labor Leader: AZ Job Slump Not Over Yet
    Labor Leader: AZ Job Slump Not Over Yet Phoenix, AZ – Tomorrow marks the first anniversary of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The national jobless rate and new claims for unemployment benefits are down slightly, suggesting some hope for job growth. But Arizona is still shedding j ...

My Care2 Picks

  • Co2, Mass Extinction Of Species And Climate Change
    Note the changes : Global Warming,Climate Change,Acidification of Oceans,Poisoning of Vegetation( Koala Extinction story) I'm paranoid these days : Spin Alert because of theme only Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • How the Mountain of Climate Change Evidence Is Bei ...
    Here is an article about climate change, will people use the evidence to prove it as a way to discredit it? Submitted by Beth Stephens to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Nuclear and Strategic Implications of the Mumbai A ...
    Note : Found searching quasi-military website 'promoting democracy' India and Pakistan, which appeared to be on the brink of war in 2001-2002, stood down in the context of a new security paradigm resulting from the presence of nuclear arms Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
  • People For the American Way: Amend the Constitutio ...
    Amend the U.S. Constitution to ensure the government has the authority to limit corporate influence in elections. Be among the first to join this national movement by signing the petition to congressional leaders now. Submitted by Shaktiva Irahs to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comm ...
  • Groups square off over Winnipeg youth centre run b ...
    Tammy Christensen, with a Winnipeg aboriginal employment centre (Ndinawemaaganag Endaawad) says the Christian facility follows the same philosophy that guided residential schools. Many aboriginal groups working with inner-city youth have no govt funding. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Cultur ...

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

  • What makes a corporate hiney hugger: Just ask John ...
    The PPJ Gazette By: Marti Oakley (c)copyright 2010 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ________________________________ A February 20, 2010 article by John Block in the Wisconsin State Journal was quite possibly one of most extreme cases of corporate hiney hugging to come along in quite some time.  After reading ...
  • 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.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Hawaii issues tsunami alert, evacuating up to 100, ...
    A seismic sea wave estimated at 3 to 8 feet is heading toward the islands . Hawaiian authorities were rushing to evacuate up to 100,000 residents and tourists from low-lying coastal areas Saturday morning as an estimated 3-to-8-foot tsunami raced toward the islands at the speed of a jet plane. R ...
  • 8.8-magnitude earthquake hits central Chile; tsuna ...
    A massive earthquake rocked Chile before dawn on Saturday, killing at least 147 people and triggering tsunami waves that threatened much of the Pacific region. Emergency warning sirens blared in Hawaii as coastal residents scrambled to prepare. The magnitude-8.8 quake was the worst in Chile in ...
  • Chile earthquake: tsunami reaches Pacific islands ...
    At least 147 have been killed and nearly a quarter of the globe put on tsunami alert after one of the most powerful earthquakes of modern times hit South America . A tremor with a magnitude of 8.8 devastated large parts of southern Chile and sent huge waves racing at up to 400 miles an hour acro ...
  • Warship leaves O.C. to avoid tsunami
    The guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey is leaving the Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station to avoid potential damage from tsunami waves that could roll into Anaheim Bay, says Gregg Smith, a spokesman for the base... Smith said they also want to protect the Dewey's sonar dome, which is below water, ...
  • Chile Quake Is One of the Biggest in a Century
    Tsunami unleashed by quake is now speeding across the ocean at 550 miles per hour, or the speed of a jet plane The 8.8 magnitude earthquake that struck off coastal Chile in the early hours of the morning is one of the biggest temblors anywhere in more than a century. Data from the U.S. Geologic ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • Overwhelming support for changing or ditching MMP
    A new UMR research poll has found a majority of New Zealanders unhappy with the current electoral system: "There is majority support for either changing MMP or ditching it entirely. Only 23% wanted to keep MMP as it is now...
  • STUDY: Urban heat effect seriously underestimated
    CRU's Phil Jones, whose work claiming UHI is not a significant factor in global temperature trends has been trumpeted by less intelligent believers in AGW, is in the gun over more dodgy data. Already this month he was forced to...
  • Looks like IPCC report was indeed wrong on hurrica ...
    A few weeks ago it was reported the IPCC was wrong on its claims of increasing hurricane and cyclone activity due to global warming. Warmists hit back by claiming the paragraph in question was citing a 'study' on the costs...
  • Did Pachauri's institute bribe Green corporate don ...
    This from the Telegraph: * It has also emerged that the research institute run by the head of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, has given a series of awards to companies that have provided it...
  • The Green Police
    Audi, which has sneered at BMW's ongoing suck-up to the climate change movement, has hit back with a brilliantly satirical plug for its own diesel, in the Superbowl ad they're all talking about. At the stage when the climate movement...

Mondoweiss

  • American friends of Israel ask a visiting Israeli ...
    Poignant post by Noam Sheizaf about the impending crisis in Israeli society: For the first time since I started writing this blog, I haven’t written a post in almost two weeks. I have an excuse: I’ve been out of the country for more than a month now, some of the time on the road, so [...] Rela ...
  • Factchecking Kershner
    Check out Isabel Kershner in the Times, on a clash in Hebron over two "hotly contested" sites in occupied territories that Israel is claiming as national heritage sites: On Sunday, Mr. Netanyahu laid out a $100 million government plan to rehabilitate what he called “archaeological and Zionist her ...
  • Dan Senor has an agenda
    TPM says that neocon Dan Senor, the commentator and Israel lobbyist (I’ve seen him at AIPAC) who recently published a book about how Israel is the great miraculous startup nation, is thinking of running for the Republican Senate nomination in NY and maybe taking on Mort Zuckerman, from the right. I ...
  • Shadow of Emmett Till
    From Coteret: Tel Aviv presents municipal program to stop Jewish girls from dating Palestinian boys. The municipal finance committee decided three weeks ago to  give NIS 250,000 [~$66,000] to what it refers to as “‘an aid program for immigrant girls at risk”. The program will be launched this mon ...
  • more on mayhem, mass death, and genocide
    Max Ajl at Jewbonics had an interesting take on the Martin Kramer genocide charge: The question about Kramer’s insane burblings is not whether use of the word “genocide” is ana­lyt­i­cally appro­pri­ate to describe what has been going on in Palestine for the last 60+ years. The question is if Kr ...

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