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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.

Friday, February 5, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • POLITICS: Peace Talks May Follow Ex-Taliban Medi ...


    KABUL, Feb 5 (IPS) - If peace talks do ultimately begin between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the Taliban leadership, they may well follow a "road map" to a political settlement drawn up by a group of ex-Taliban officials who have been serving as intermediaries between the two sides.
  • RIGHTS: Legal Experts Slam "Targeted Killings" of ...


    NEW YORK, Feb 5 (IPS) - Civil liberties advocates and legal authorities struck back Friday at what they describe as the "deliberate targeted killing of U.S. citizens far away from any active hostilities, as long as the executive branch determines unilaterally that they meet a secret definiti ...
  • MIGRATION: Lost in the Desert? There's an App for ...


    SAN DIEGO, California, Feb 5 (IPS) - Over the past two decades, Ricardo Dominguez has made a career for himself tweaking the sensibilities of government officials and developing software tools meant to disrupt the status quo.
  • CUBA: Women Knitting for Change


    HAVANA, Feb 5 (IPS) - A neighbour started calling Andrea del Sol "Perseverance," and the name stuck. Since 1998, she and a small group of women from Alamar, on the outskirts of the Cuban capital, have been throwing their combined energies behind a common purpose: "changing things."
  • ENVIRONMENT: Keeping Wetlands from Becoming Waste ...


    VICTORIA, Seychelles, Feb 5 (IPS) - Swamps, marshes and other wetlands are beginning to be recognised as a country's 'green jewels', even in a tropical paradise like Mahé Island here in the Seychelles, with its stunning beaches and dramatic granite outcrops.

Scoop - NZ

  • BoA sued over Merrill bailout


    Legal action has begun against Bank of America and its former bosses, accusing them of duping investors and taxpayers during the takeover of Merrill Lynch. The defendants are accused of intentionally withholding details of huge losses Merrill was suffering. New York state officials have filed the ...
  • Corporation Says It Will Run for Congress


    Following the Supreme Court decision implicitly granting corporations the right to free speech (by determining that political spending is a kind of speech), a corporation has decided to take what it believes to be "democracy's next step": It is running for Congress. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • US frame-up of Aafia Siddiqui begins to unravel


    Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui went on trial in a federal courtroom in New York City on January 19, charged with the attempted murder of US personnel in Afghanistan's Ghazni Province in 2008. The case against Dr. Siddiqui, 37, is rapidly unraveling due to lack of evidence and discordant tes ...
  • The Next Contagion


    The next contagion is beginning to spread around the globe. It is unexpected on Wall Street, misunderstood in Washington - and very dangerous. It could sabotage the plans of the U.S. Treasury, the Federal Reserve, and many of their counterparts overseas. It is a4¦ The Collapse of Sovereign Gover ...
  • Goff on unlimited US corporate spending on electio ...


    Well, we need to have the discussion. There's a lot to unpack on this grotesque Supreme Court decision; and a lot of people are going to be talking about it for quite a long while. When something is being chattered about like this is, and will be, then some of the most powerfully held and shared cul ...

Independent ( London )

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Analysis of Multiple Polls Finds Little Evidence I ...


    Summary: Indications of fraud in the June 12 Iranian presidential election, together with large-scale street demonstrations, have led to claims that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not actually win the election, and that the majority of Iranians perceive their government as illegitimate and favor regime ...
  • The lessons of Iraq have been ignored: The target ...


    Summary: Seumas Milne The US military buildup in the Gulf and Blair's promotion of war against Tehran are a warning of yet another catastrophe source: The Guardian read more
  • What Exactly Do Promoters of Sanctions Seek To Ach ...


    Summary: The New York Times‘ Editorial Board fell into lock-step with the Obama administration yesterday, calling for the United States to impose additional sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran. source: Race for Iran read more
  • Iran launches new phase in nuclear crisis


    Summary: Afrasiabi On the same day Iran launched a rocket named Simorgh (Phoenix) into space, Tehran pulled its diplomatic engagement with the West back from the brink, saying it was prepared to accept a nuclear "fuel-for-fuel" proposal and exchange three Americans held in Iran with Iranians im ...
  • Western Officials Slam Iran for Accepting Western ...


    Summary: Bushehr Nuclear Reactor Yesterday Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad surprised everyone when he declared publicly that the terms of the draft third party enrichment deal Western nations have been demanding that Iran sign are perfectly acceptable. source: Antiwar.com read more

The Daily Galaxy

  • You Create the Caption


     
  • NASA Extends Cassini's Fly-bys of Saturn to Focus ...


    NASA will extend the international Cassini-Huygens mission to explore Saturn and its moons to 2017. "This is a mission that never stops providing us surprising scientific results and showing us eye popping new vistas," said Jim Green, director of NASA's...
  • Is Aging a Disease That can be Cured?


    "It's a repair and maintenance approach to extending the functional life span of a human body. It's just like maintaining the functional life span of a classic car, or a house. We know -- because people do it -- that...
  • "Smart Dust" -From SciFi to Reality: The Coming Er ...


    "We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough." Niels Bohr, Nobel Prize winner in Physics The science-fiction dream of "smart dust" had its beginning, perhaps, back in 1964, with...
  • The Cygnus Bubble - Natural or Artificial?


    Is the solar-system sized bubble in the Consellation Cygnus a planetary nebulae or could it be an "AC" or astroengineering construction, also known as a Dyson sphere, named after Freeman Dyson of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study who proposed...

Natural News

  • The Lancet retraction of vaccine autism paper cond ...


    (NaturalNews) When I saw The Lancet's recent retraction of Dr. Wakefield's famous paper linking vaccines to autism, I couldn't help thinking back to 1989 when Fleischmann and Pons were widely attacked and discredit over their demonstration of cold fusion technology . These two brilliant physicists h ...
  • Heal yourself in 15 days with the Health Ranger's ...


    (NaturalNews) Continuing our 15-part article series called Heal Yourself in 15 Days , today we focus on cleansing your digestive tract and energizing your cellular energy with the help of some living foods . This is in preparation for part six in the series, which we'll get to tomorrow. Here's the c ...
  • Green Tea Extracts Halt Growth of Prostate Cancer ...


    (NaturalNews) An extract made from one of the main antioxidants found in green tea may be able to slow the progression of prostate cancer, according to a study conducted by researchers from Louisiana state University and published in Cancer Prevention Research , a journal of the American Association ...
  • Goji Berries: Enjoy an Antioxidant Packed Superfoo ...


    (NaturalNews) Goji berries, also known as Wolfberries, are one of the most nutritionally dense superfoods on the planet. They contain a vast array of unique carotenoids, vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients. Among these it is also believed by many to be one of the best sources of antioxidants on t ...
  • Certified Organic Nutiva Hemp Seeds: Huge Discount ...


    (NaturalNews) Here's one of the secrets of really healthy people: Make hemp seeds a regular part of your diet. They're rich in omega-3 fatty acids, plant-based proteins and phytonutrients. That makes them a nutritional powerhouse for supporting good health! And today, NaturalNews has teamed with the ...

Webhosts

TheGallopingBeaver

  • FYI for VANOC, IOC, Canadians*, et al


    Australians, generally, do not like be told what to do or how to behave. They like fun. Especially the sort of fun that amounts to a giant middle finger to bullshit regulations telling them what to do and how to behave. So when their athletes hang a giant boxing kangaroo flag from their Vancouver c ...
  • Fb Fragging


    NERVE IS A BLOG that proclaims its focus on "love • sex • culture". Well, one of their contributors, Brian Fairbanks, found this hearty piece of brouhaha: apparently this young teenager got grounded for three months, because his sister snitched on him, and told their parents that he had a 12-pack of ...
  • 'No Prorogue' Rally For Canada Tomorrow!


    Meet up on Georgia St. and march to Victory Square Bring a Canadian flag ! And cookies - I quite like cookies. Rallies at 63 other locations across Canada each one with its own wee facebook page of info .. Boots in the streets, people. .Update : And for heaven's sake don't forget about this!
  • A Reverse Palindrome


    A PALINDROME is not a hangar for Sarah Palin's ego, it's a word or phrase that means the same read forwards or backwards. Well, this reads with a completely opposite meaning when read backwards. This video was submitted in a contest by a 20-year old. The contest was titled "u @ 50" by AARP. It w ...
  • Vancouver police beat up a guy; media coverage blo ...


    Vancouver's finest responded to a domestic dispute call by going to the wrong suite at 2am and beating the crap out of the guy who answered the door. They were in plain clothes. Yao Wei Wu does not speak English. He said he did not resist because the men had guns. "Mr. Wu was taken to hospital wher ...

Media Matters for America

  • Wash. Times' Pruden continues assault on ...


    In an anti-gay screed, Washington Times editor emeritus Wesley Pruden wrote that "[t]here's really not very much gay about war," but that "[y]ou might think war is endless gaiety, like Mardi Gras, from this week's coverage of" Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mike ...
  • Politico quotes Lott calling Obama "fooli ...


    The Politico quoted former Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) stating that the Obama administration was "foolish to take all those big votes on cap and trade" because doing so endangered moderate Democrats. While Politico identified Lott as a lobbyist, it did not note that his firm lobbies for oil companies on ...
  • Why does Fox choose to use loaded term "illegals" ...


    On February 5, Fox News' Fox & Friends aired on-screen text stating, "Estimates: 980,000 illegals living in FL," continuing a Fox News pattern of using the pejorative and unprofessional term "illegals" to refer to immigrants in the United States without legal status. Prominent journalists' asso ...
  • Fox & Friends ignores Fox News' own ...


    Fox & Friends co-hosts highlighted Sen. Kit Bond's (R-MO) allegation that it was wrong to disclose that Northwest Airlines bombing suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was now cooperating with the investigation because, according to Bond, FBI officials, including director Robert Mueller, instruct ...
  • Morris forwards dubious figure for total TARP rep ...


    In a New York Post column, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann wrote that President Obama should "[r]efund to the Treasury the $500 billion in TARP funds repaid by the banks." But according to the Treasury Department, Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) repayments have totaled $165 billion as of Ja ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • How's That Counter-Terror Debate Working Out?


    God bless my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Adam Blickstein, who is on the case, right on the ball. He's there at every turn, exposing the deceit, hysteria and all-around ridiculousness of the opposition's fear-mongering. Adam and others have built up... Democracy Arsenal - United States ...
  • Avatar Is Subversive!


    I saw AVATAR tonight. Great film. But it is the most anti-American major film ever. The bad guys are clearly Americans. The good indigenous bluish people are a combination of American Indians, Africans, native Latin and Central Americans, Vietnamese, Palestinians... United States - Native ...
  • The White House Ducks


    Some good news: the White House celebrates a 94-2 vote for one of its appointments, Martha Johnson as GSA administrator, after a nine-month delay. The bad news: the official statement from the White House Communications Director, Dan Pfeiffer, maintains that... White House - White House ...
  • Who's Killing Financial Reform


    Senator Chris Dodd, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, scolded Wall Street representatives at a hearing Thursday for sending "an army of lobbyists whose only mission is to kill the common-sense financial reforms" needed by the public. "The fact... Wall Street - Chris Dodd - Chri ...
  • "Rogue" Nations, American Leadership, and Multilat ...


    In Newsweek recently, Nader Mousavizadeh offerred a trenchant critique of US efforts to corral wayward governments back into the law-abiding international fold. Part of Mousavizadeh's argument rehearses some key lessons of past attempts to isolate so-called rogues -- one lesson... Warfare ...

TruthOut

  • Mediators' Plan a Road Map to Afghanistan Peace?


    If peace talks do ultimately begin between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the Taliban leadership, they may well follow a "road map" to a political settlement drawn up by a group of ex-Taliban officials who have been serving as intermediaries between the two sides. read more
  • Haiti: Still Starving 23 Days Later


    You can walk down many of the streets of Port-au-Prince and see absolutely no evidence that the world community has helped Haiti. Twenty-three days after the earthquake jolted Haiti and killed over 200,000 people, as many as a million people have still not received any international food assistance ...
  • Surge in Women’s Employment Brings Unemployment Ra ...


    The unemployment rate fell to 9.7 percent in January, driven by a 0.4 percentage-point drop in the unemployment rate for women to 8.4 percent. The unemployment rate for men fell 0.2 percentage points to 10.8 percent. This drop came in spite of a reported loss of 20,000 jobs in the establishment surv ...
  • Bush, Cheney and the Great Escape


    With each passing day, it becomes more and more astonishing to encompass the fact that George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and their henchmen from the prior administration have managed thus far to escape any accounting whatsoever for the massive battery of criminal activity committed during their time in of ...
  • In Iraq, Karbala Bombings Spark Fears of Renewed S ...


    At least 40 people were killed today in Karbala, where thousands of pilgrims have gathered to commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hussein in AD 680. His death marked the beginning of the Sunni-Shiite split in Islam. Baghdad - Two car bombs killed up to 40 people and wounded at least 140 more during t ...

Planetsave

  • 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 ...
  • Saving BioGems : False Killer Whales Still in Dang ...


    Last season NRDC announced it’s mission to save the Hawaiian island’s Whales , and now that this decision is facing the president we’re asking the Obama Administration to protect Hawaii’s false killer whales under the Endangered Species Act because the loss of even a few whales could endanger the ...
  • New National Wildlife Refuge System Coloring Book


    Even if the U.S. government continues its pseudo protection to save the planet’s wildlife and natural resources they can be thanked indirectly as they recently created a new National Wildlife Refuge System Coloring Book. Most people might not be aware of the U.S. Refuge System , which includes ...
  • It’s Time to Get Angry


    It’s time to get angry. This is what John Kerry, not exactly the most extreme guy, is saying to us. Is it the best solution? This is what Kerry told advocates of climate legislation recently: “I want you to go out there and start knocking on doors and talking to people and telling people this h ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Public Citizen in Texas

Press TV

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Lords Of Greenwich Are Among The Most Foul Ima ...


    Dear Tom, Our friend has died. �Let's pay our respects, and remember what, and who we are fighting for. Melanie Shouse has died. Melanie was a small business owner from Missouri battling stage four breast cancer, who also had to fight with insurance companies who didn't want to pay for her treatment ...
  • The Audacity of Frank Luntz


    I suppose we should take it as a measure of the right's ability to deceive the public with impunity that we've heard so little from conservatives about a leaked memo from Republican talking points guru Frank Luntz that exposes Republicans as the lying bastards that they are. � The 17-page memo, call ...
  • You. Can't. Make. This. Stuff. Up.


    The "Tea Party Convention" has kicked off... Scores of tea party activists from as far as Hawaii arrived in Nashville on Thursday, energized by signs that their cries last year had been heard and that that political tide is turning against Obama and congressional Democrats. Someone hung a poster of ...
  • What is WRONG with these people?


    There is a surreal disconnect in the minds of religious freaks. Their brains just don't work right, for some reason. Scratch the surface of a wingnut freakazoid, and you find entitlement, sanctimony, arrogance and a basic sense that the rules of society don't apply to them because they have been 'sa ...
  • Of pork, republicans and extortion


    Just when you thought the craven, venal assholes in the Senate had plumbed the depths and would be unable to sink any lower, Richard Shelby of Alabama showed up with a dredging machine and dug a little deeper . Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) has put an extraordinary "blanket hold" on at least 70 nominat ...

Care 2

  • Senator Franken Rips Into Comcast CEO Brain Robets ...


    Comcast CEO Brian Roberts and NBC President Jeff Zucker testified in front of House and Senate subcommittees Thursday as regulators decide whether to allow the proposed merger of the two media giants. *** This article is a must read, it applies to all.** Submitted by Kit B. to Business �|� �Note-i ...
  • FEW REMAIN: As COAL FIRE of 1962 Still Burns Benea ...


    The fire began at the town dump and ignited an exposed coal vein. It could have been extinguished for thousands of dollars then, but a series of bureaucratic half-measures and a lack of funding allowed the fire to grow into a voracious monster Submitted by Dandelion G. to Environment �|� �Note-it! ...
  • Denmark teen passage to manhood: kill innocent dol ...


    To be considered a man in the Faroe Islands, part of Denmark and Greenland: it is a ritual requirement to kill dolphins and other small cetaceans. The whole town turns out to watch the slaughter. Children are kept home from school, so they can Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �| ...
  • Dog rescued from Baltic ice gets new owner - upda ...


    Baltic, the spunky dog who drifted at least 120 kilometres on an ice floe, has a new owner -- the seaman who rescued him. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The GOP: Grand, Old and Preposterous


    The GOP is unable and unwilling to have a serious conversation with Americans about the fix we are in. Instead, the party's leaders posture and pose, as practiced as a Gregorian chorus in chanting their poll tested messaging that makes utterly no sense. Submitted by Kit B. to US Politics & Gov't �| ...

GreenBiz

Reuters Global

  • The view from Iqaluit: mostly white


    When we told Reuters editors we'd be adding plenty of color to the stories we're putting together from a G7 finance meeting in the Canadian Arctic this weekend, there was a split second of bemused silence on the line. "I suppose that color is mostly white," said one wag. And that just about sums up ...
  • ‘Frankenstein’-food fears keep GMOs ou ...


    Scientists and health experts say there's no harm in GMO crops, but Europeans just don't seem to be able to stomach them. Recent moves by Bulgaria and other EU countries suggest it will be some time yet before Europe embraces GMOs.
  • Brussels’ MEPs ready to duke it out with ban ...


    Banking sector reform is going to be a focus of legislation emanating from the European Union over the coming months and already there are signs of a fight. Some MEPs look determined to take on London and other EU capitals over a veto they say weakens new banking watchdogs even before they've been s ...
  • Where gays do serve, openly, in the military


    In many corners of the world, the policy on gays in the military could be labeled this way: “Don’t Ask, Don’t Care.”
  • Qat joins al Qaeda as Yemen threat


    U.S. lawmakers, convening a meeting to discuss the threat posed by al Qaeda in Yemen, found themselves focused on another problem stalking the impoverished Arab country: the mild drug qat, which permeates Yemeni society.

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • huffington chooses den of inciteful rhetoric to co ...


    Monday night, Arianna Huffington appeared on Countdown with Keith Olbermann to complain about Glenn Beck’s inciteful language? Keith Olbermann – the unhinged man, person, human…er…talking head who spews hatred nightly. She chooses Olbermann, the purveyor of inciteful, hateful rhetoric, she chooses h ...
  • Sticks and Stones… and Populism


    While our President and other politicians have been learning the talk of populism in the last few weeks, a lot of media ink, electronic and otherwise, has been given over to trashing the walk of the populist.  Of particular interest is David Brooks’ explanation of the media/political world view in ...
  • Our Commander In Chief Doesn’t Know How to Pronoun ...


    President Obama mispronounced the word corpsman THREE TIMES (!) at the National Prayer Breakfast. Many are excusing him for his over-dependence on a teleprompter. Come on. Anyone who knows how the word is pronounced properly — particularly the Commander in Chief of all U.S. military — will also kn ...
  • Republican Intellectual Dishonesty on Terrorism Co ...


    The Republican spin machine is going full tilt in its bogus campaign to discredit Barack Obama and Eric Holder on their handling of terrorism. I cannot believe the number of prominent folks who use the lame excuse that “we are facing a different terrorist threat” to justify ignoring the law, partic ...
  • Rasmussen Says Few Believe Obama on Economy


    Rasmussen issued a report on January 30th, saying most people did NOT believe Obama’s SOTU statements about the economy. During his State-of-the-Union address Wednesday night, President Obama spoke about a deficit of trust between the American people and political leaders. New Rasmussen Reports poll ...

Environmental Graffiti

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

  • If the Climate Accord Works, Will the Climate Noti ...


    A member of the American negotiating team in Copenhagen assesses whether the resulting accord can limit climate risks.
  • The No(w)osphere


    Can instant translation software facilitate one-planet thinking and acting?
  • A Teacher's Primer on Climate Action


    Off and on I've invited Dot Earth readers to open discussions on books exploring core issues discussed on this blog, and here's the latest, from Anna Haynes, a blogger and longtime Dot Earth comment contributor. (If there's a book out there you'd like to discuss, post a comment here or send your "pi ...
  • Mann's Fate in Climategate


    A climate scientist at the heart of the "climategate" files is cleared on three issues by his university, with a fourth still under investigation.
  • Why Not Prairie Dog Day, Activists Ask


    Animal activists call for a "Prairie Dog Day."

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Pearl Harbor: Evidence of shady biz or just a lett ...


    Remember the Maine, while you're at it! :-D
  • Controlling 9/11 "crippled epistemology" via fake ...


    ".... we will suggest below that if the hard core arises for certain identifiable reasons, it can be broken up or at least muted by government action." .... " We suggest a role for government efforts, and agents, in introducing such diversity.  Government agents (and their allies) might enter chat ...
  • 'Civil support' apparatus appears, Oh noes: Obama ...


    Article I Section 10 Clause 3.... No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State , or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such immine ...
  • TSA goon loses notebook tracing blogger leaks; hon ...


    Next time at the airport: "resonant effects allow THz waves to unzip double-stranded DNA, creating bubbles in the double strand"..... But first, Crush the Bloggers with Fake Tweets!!! "Sent Blog Message to entice M... [?] to respond" --Randomly found TSA investigator notebook re manipulating Twitt ...
  • New TSA leak PDF; False Flag ops for Detroit Chris ...


    An interesting confluence of events as Obama suddenly grants INTERPOL diplomatic immunity of sorts, while an apparent airport false flag operation or at least 'shady biz as usual' unravels pretty quickly. Good times in the shadow state for 2010. We found some snippets on the case from two noted ...

Daily Censored

  • Global Warming: THE HOTTEST DECADE


    “The decade ending in 2009 was the warmest on record, new surface temperature figures released Thursday by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration show…. 2009 was the second warmest year since 1880, when modern temperature measurement began. The warmest year was 2005. The other hottest rec ...
  • The for-profit Educational Maintenance Organizatio ...


    Academica, Inc. The for-profit Educational Maintenance Organization The first Florida charter school statute was approved in 1996, opening the door for the creation of charter schools as part of the state’s public education system, where they would operate independently. Since that time the race has ...
  • BEWARE: MIRANDA RIGHTS RESTRICTED — Another Consti ...


    By guest blogger Marti Hiken The words we hear in so many movies and television shows when someone is arrested, “Read him his Miranda rights,” no longer have meaning. These rights are dead because the courts have “interpreted” them out of existence. Throughout our country, if you don’t say the righ ...
  • DOJ’S COVER-UP UNDER ERIC HOLDER


    “Justice Official Clears Bush Lawyers in Torture Memo Probe,�By Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman, Newsweek, January 29, 2010, at:http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/archive/2010/01/29/holder-under-fire.aspx. In reviewing the action of government attorneys, judges and the legal profess ...
  • The Virtual Charter School: The new rat in town


    For young Jaime, Tori and Hope Leonard, they wake up at 6:30 a.m. and by 7:30 they get dressed and they are – virtually – in school, without ever leaving home. Like all children who are home- schooled, the two sisters don’t even have to leave their house. But unlike home-schooled children, the Leo ...

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Pine River World News

  • New Patriotism: Restoring Our Real Freedoms


    The following column is reprinted with permission from Gordon Duff, staff writer and Senior Editor at Veterans Today . New Patriotism: �Restoring Our Real Freedoms � �Gordon Duff Source: �Veterans Today February 4, 2010 * � No More Corporate Run "Militia" Groups * � No More Controlled Press And " ...
  • Paul Craig Roberts: The Crisis Is Not Over


    The following column is reprinted with permission from Paul Craig Roberts. The Crisis Is Not Over � �Paul Craig Roberts February 3, 2010 Readers ask if the financial crisis is over, if the recovery is for real and, if not, what are Americans' prospects. The short answer is that the financial cris ...
  • F. William Engdahl: The Fateful Geological Prize C ...


    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Global Research. The Fateful Geological Prize Called Haiti � �F. William Engdahl Source: � Global Research January 30, 2010 President becomes UN Special Envoy to earthquake-stricken Haiti. A born-again neo-conservative U.S. business wheel ...
  • NORTH KOREA: Citizens asked to project their "ment ...


    © Pine River World News January 30, 2010 The use of mental powers such as 'visualization' (using one's thoughts to imagine - and achieve - a desired future or outcome) has been investigated on the periphery of science for years - including its use by the military. This stems from a belief that "th ...
  • To my RSS subscribers...


    OK, I see that I have "71 RSS subscribers" to Pine River World News - as per Feedburner today. And, I also realize, that RSS subscribers seldom visit my blog "in person" because the updates arrive on their computers directly via the newsfeeds. This message is specifically for you. A lot of what I ...

MSM Blogging

PDA AMERICA

  • Video: Doctors Flowers and Paris Arrested, Re: Oba ...


    On Jan. 29, 2010, Doctors Margaret Flowers and Carol Paris were arrested outside a hotel, at the Inner Harbor, in Baltimore, MD, where President Barack Obama was to give a speech. They were on a ...
  • An Underdog Who Isn’t Daunted by a New Try for the ...


    By N. R. KLEINFIELD | Cross-posted from the NYT The long shot ate breakfast with his mother. She asked for campaign buttons for her friends. He handed her a dozen. She got worried. That many? Weren’t ...
  • Connect the Dots with Lila Garrett


    Monday morning at 7 on CONNECT THE DOTS the one year anniversary of Obama’ election tune in or use this link http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive/index.php?shokey=ctd as we talk with: TIM CARPENTER Exec Dir. Of PDA, ...
  • Yes, we still need HealthCARE reform


    By Paulette Garin | PDA Blog Contributor and Cross-posted from Paula’s Blog As part of a recent medical exam, my doctor ordered blood work to evaluate my overall medical condition as well as follow up on ...
  • IOT: Stop Global Warming: Jan Call


    On this month’s Stop Global Warming/Environmental Issues Organizing Team call, the following topics were covered: Kathy Callan's meeting with Sen. Boxer's staff, results of the Copenhagen climate summit, updates on the Price Carbon Campaign and ...

Marler Blog

  • Linda Rivera's Deadly Dance with E. coli O157:H7


    For readers here, and those who saw the Washington Post article, who have followed Linda and her family's struggle with E. coli O157:H7, the report that I received late yesterday from her brother-in-law is heartbreaking.  It seemed only a few days ago that there was talk about her leaving the hospit ...
  • Daniele Recalls another 23,754 pounds of Salami


    Daniele International Inc., an establishment with operations in Pascoag and Mapleville, R.I., is now recalling approximately 1,263,754 pounds of ready-to-eat (RTE) varieties of Italian sausage products, including salami/salame, in commerce and potentially available to customers in retail locations b ...
  • Daniele Recalla another 23,754 pounds of Salami


    Daniele International Inc., an establishment with operations in Pascoag and Mapleville, R.I., is now recalling approximately 1,263,754 pounds of ready-to-eat (RTE) varieties of Italian sausage products, including salami/salame, in commerce and potentially available to customers in retail locations b ...
  • West Missouri Beef Recalls Fresh Boneless Beef Pro ...


    West Missouri Beef, LLC, a Rockville, Mo., establishment, is recalling approximately 14,000 pounds of fresh boneless beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced. The following products are subj ...
  • Mincing Oversees Spice Company and Wholesome Spice ...


    The Rhode Island Department of Health announced this afternoon that recent test results strongly suggest black pepper is the source of the Salmonella outbreak associated with Daniele Inc. Daniele purchased black pepper from two different distributors (Mincing Oversees Spice Company and Wholesome Spi ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 02.05.10

    NHTSA opens investigation into Prius brake issue The world's most popular hybrid hasn't been recalled - yet - but there might be real problems there. AFS Trinity looking at Delaware to build ...
  • Audi gets Cheap Trick to re-record Dream
  • Audi's Green Police Super Bowl ad for clean diesel technology and the A3 TDI has gotten a bit of negative attention, but some parts of the campaign have gone unnoticed. For example, did you know that none other than Cheap Trick provided the soundtrack for the ad? They did, and the band even wen ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 02.04.10
    Is Chery designing an electric jeep for Better Place? Probably not. Tesla hires new manufacturing lead, but there's more An IPO sure opens a company up, doesn't it? ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 02.03.10
    Study: hydrogen proponents rely on "five distinct fantasy themes" Well, this should be interesting. Reading murky tea leaves about Tesla Motors' future and IPO Is Daimler Tesla's shining knig ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 02.02.10
    Union of Concerned Scientists criticizes hybrids for bundling too many features The strategy appears to be to hide the premium in the leather seats. Coda says plug-in vehicle tax rebate (inst ...

Rafe's Radar

  • Reporters' Roundtable Podcast: What the iPad means ...
    The iPad . Perhaps you've heard of it. Now there are hundreds, maybe thousands of posts and podcasts up about this product, and whether it's worth buying, and what's with the stupid name. But for this podcast I have two smart guests with me with whom I want to step a bit beyond these immediate co ...
  • iPad will be to MacBook as Netbook is to PC
    There's work ahead for the iPad engineers, but make no mistake: This product is a direct attack on the Netbook category.
  • Twitter adds local trends to Web site
    New feature shows you what's hot on Twitter near you.
  • Hands-on with Google Voice for the iPhone
    iPhone users get somewhat better Google Voice access, still pine for a real app.
  • Reporters Roundtable podcast: Charity 2.0
    This week: Charity in a Connected World. The January 12 earthquake and humanitarian disaster in Haiti had an important technological component: Through the text message giving program, the Red Cross raised $26 million in funds in just 9 days. That's not just a large amount of money to be raised ...

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Catch Amy Goodman with Naomi Klein and Raj Patel o ...
    Amy Goodman talks to Raj Patel, author of “The Value of Nothing” and Naomi Klein, author of “The Shock Doctrine,” about their books, the economy, the earthquake in Haiti, and other topics. On C-SPAN’s Book TV: Sunday, February 7th at 3pm (ET) Monday, February 8th at 5am (ET) About the Au ...
  • Democracy Now! Makes Lily Tomlin's Short List
    Lily Tomlin gave Democracy Now! a shout out in Time Magazine’s “Short List of Things To Do.” Here’s the excerpt from Tomlin’s short list: Radio days Stephanie Miller as commentator-comic Mama and her irreverent two-man band of merrymaking mischief monkeys get me laughing every morning. Then ...
  • Oscar Nominees Include Docs on China Earthquake, B ...
    Nominations have been announced for the 82nd annual Academy Awards. In the documentary category, three films featured on Democracy Now! in the past year received nods: * China’s Unnatural Disaster * The Most Dangerous Man in America * Burma VJ
  • Howard Zinn: The People’s Historian
    Howard Zinn, legendary historian, author and activist, died last week at the age of 87. His most famous book is “A People’s History of the United States.” Zinn told me last May, “The idea of ‘A People’s History’ is to go beyond what people have learned in school … history through the eyes of the pr ...
  • Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010)
    Howard Zinn, one of the country’s most celebrated historians and author of the seminal work A People’s History of the United States, died of a heart attack Wednesday in Santa Monica, California. He was 87. Over the years, Zinn was a frequent guest on Democracy Now! Click for more

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • Who is this man? 9-11 official story started minut ...
    Here is the official story in just 13 seconds.  This guy is not/can not be your average Joe on the street.  How could he know the cause of the collapses of the twin towers?  It has taken NIST, with countless engineers, millions of dollars and years to come up with their story, which still doesn’t ...
  • 9/11: Would Government?
    By Scott Ogilby In 1994, several months before the first commercial web-browser software launched the popular explosion of the world-wide web, R. J. Rummel’s book, Death by Government, was published. Bigeye.com gave it a separate webpage. A quick review of this book’s chapter headings underscores th ...
  • Investigation Chief: Swine Flu Pandemic Was A Hoax
    Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Thursday, February 4, 2010 Appearing on The Alex Jones Show, outgoing Chair of the Council of Europe’s Sub-committee on Health Wolfgang Wodarg said that his panel’s investigation into the 2009 swine flu outbreak has found that the pandemic was a fake hoax manufac ...
  • Leonard Horowitz – Doctors Poisoned By Medic ...
    By Leonard Horowitz The Lancet is among 2,000 science journals published by the Reed-Elsevier-ChoicePoint conglomerate. The UK-based company sells more than 250,000 articles annually. Through its vast network of publications, combined with ChoicePoint’s “intelligence services,” control over scientif ...
  • Sunday Times’ Discredited – Wakefield’s Autism Res ...
    Here we expose one of the biggest lies of this century. The claim that The Royal Free Hospital London’s and Andrew Wakefield’s research into children with autistic spectrum disorders was ever “discredited” are shown here to be false. We provide the references. The false “discredited research” clai ...

Cognitive Research - Sciences

Insurgency Watch - Posts

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • School Lunch Reform? I Dont Think So! (Cartoon)
    Follow Joe’s cartoonery at JoeMohrToons.com and on Twitter at @GreenCartoons. Related posts: Monsanto News Roundup – A Frankenfood Extravaganza of GMO News Articles There is This Duck that I Have Lunch With Dont Stop the Drilling to Save the Polar Bears
  • Alfalfa at the Eleventh Hour
    The USDA is getting closer to approving Monsanto's genetically engineered (GE) alfalfa, despite the fact that it's likely to contaminate other crops... Related posts: Monsanto News Roundup – A Frankenfood Extravaganza of GMO News Articles What is Genetic Pollution and How is it Affecting our F ...
  • TwilighTV Video – Duraflame Firelog – Is it Eco?
    Adam Shake from Simple Earth Media tests the Duraflame Firelog for Eco friendliness. Related posts: Twilight Earth Debuts TwilighTV – Sustainable Living Video News Cop15 – On The Streets – Day One Video
  • Simple Earth Media Website and Social Media Inform ...
    Where to find Simple Earth Media Websites and Social Media accounts on the internet. Related posts: Green Living Ideas and Twilight Earth Form New Major Environmental Network, Simple Earth Media 10 Ways to Change the World Through Social Media 10 Ways to Support Charity Through Social Media ...
  • Medical Bills Fundraiser for Derek Markham
    Written by David Quilty: One of our green friends needs our help, and I am hopeful you guys can chip in. Adam Shake from Twilight Earth, Jerry James Stone (from every green site on the net – the guy is a content wizard!) and myself, David Quilty from The Good Human, have started a fund for [...] ...

Inhabitat

  • SF Mayor Newsom Announces New Energy Efficiency Fu ...
    Yet another reason New Yorkers might be jealous: the city of San Francisco has just announced 19.2 million dollars in new funding for energy efficiency programs. The bulk of the funds will go to EnergyWatch, a program that provides free energy efficiency assessments and low-cost retrofits for busine ...
  • PREFAB FRIDAY: Prototype for the House Arc Modular ...
    We love prefab designs, but we love seeing them come to life even more! Last July, we brought you renderings for the House Arc, a bicycle rack-inspired modular home designed by Joseph Bellomo, and now we’re thrilled to give you a peek of the prototype version which was just unveiled. Prefabricated a ...
  • ROCCO: A Kinetic Energy Harvesting Rocking Horse
    If you’ve got a toddler running about the house you may have asked yourself “Isn’t there some way I could put all of that energy to good use?” Well the folks who came up with Rocco, one of the awesome entries in the Greener Gadgets design competition, were thinking the same exact thing. When kids [. ...
  • Physicists Discover How to Teleport Energy
    One of the biggest challenges of building a sustainable future is figuring out how to efficiently move people and objects from one place to another. Electric cars and biofuel-powered planes might be the answer in the short-term, but now a physicist at Tohoku University in Japan has figured out how t ...
  • Swirl: A Washing Machine in a Ball for Laundry in ...
    Imagine if you could kick, bunt and play your way to clean clothing. Well Swirl, an innovative new concept for easy laundering on the go lets people do just that. This colorful ball (which we wish had been entered into the Greener Gadgets design competition) designed by German-based designaffairs St ...

Pogue's Posts

Open Your Eyes News

  • Commercial Fishing Endangers Dolphin Populations, ...
    ScienceDaily — Extensive commercial fishing endangers dolphin populations in the Mediterranean. This has been shown in a new study carried out at the University of Haifa’s Department of Maritime Civilizations. “Unfortunately, we turn our backs to the sea and do not give much consideration to our m ...
  • Liquid glass will change your life, eliminate dete ...
    BoingBoing – A Turko-German consortium has announced a liquid glass product “that will revolutionize everything” (it’s a “new kind of glass,” as Mr Wolfram might put it). Seriously, it sounds like the applications for this stuff are endless, and yes, that’s what everyone said about aerogel and the S ...
  • Romanians Accept Plan for Basing of Missiles
    New York Times – Romania’s top defense body approved an American proposal to base missile interceptors there, the country’s president said Thursday in a hastily arranged announcement. The president, Traian Basescu, said in a statement that Romania, a former Warsaw Pact member and now part of NAT ...
  • Will the new European Research Council lead EU sci ...
    The Scientist – Once in a generation, perhaps, a new research agency is born that does unprecedented things. The US National Science Foundation (NSF) got going (after 5 years of argument) in 1951 and its budget hit $1 billion 32 years later, in 1983. The budget of the UK Medical Research Council, wh ...
  • Island residents sue U.S., saying military made th ...
    CNN – Nearly 40 years ago, Hermogenes Marrero was a teenage U.S. Marine, stationed as a security guard on the tiny American island of Vieques, off the coast of Puerto Rico. Marrero says he’s been sick ever since. At age 57, the former Marine sergeant is nearly blind, needs an oxygen tank, has Lou Ge ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Για το βίντεο με τίτλο: «Για τη Θεωρία των Παραγωγ ...
    Για το βίντεο με τίτλο: «Για τη Θεωρία των Παραγωγικών Δυνάμεων» μέρος 2ο (shubelmorgan.wordpress.com) Ποτέ μην ξεχνάτε την ταξική πάλη! Το βίντεο υπό συζήτηση, “On the Theory of the Productive Forces”, ξεκινά με αυτήν την θεμελιακή αρχή του Μαοïσμού. Η εισαγωγική μας ιστοριούλα περιγράφει γεγονότα ...
  • Marxismo real y falso sobre el reparto socialista
    Marxismo real y falso sobre el reparto socialista por la compañera «Prairie Fire» (in English) (in French) (in Greek) (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Un reparto socialista de la riqueza del mundo a escala mundial implica un reparto que se acerque al igualitarismo o cuyas únicas desigualdades b ...
  • Round 4 of 4: Once Again, Fist Worldist Hoxhaists ...
    Round 4 of 4: Once Again, Fist Worldist Hoxhaists versus Maoist-Third Worldists: On the First World “working class” and on reading Marx.. KO (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Recently, a debate took place between First Worldist Hoxhaists and Maoist-Third Worldists. This debate touched on many are ...
  • Για το βίντεο με τίτλο: «Για τη Θεωρία των Παραγωγ ...
    Για το βίντεο με τίτλο: «Για τη Θεωρία των Παραγωγικών Δυνάμεων» Μέρος 1ο (shubelmorgan.wordpress.com) (English) Σημείωση: Η Μαοïστική-Τριτοκοσμιστική διαδικτυακή οργάνωση Shubel Morgan, πρόσφατα κυκλοφόρησε ένα βίντεο με θέμα την ρεβιζιονιστική Θεωρία των Παραγωγικών Δυνάμεων και τον καθοριστικές ...
  • Marxismo real y falso sobre el reparto socialista
    Marxismo real y falso sobre el reparto socialista por la compañera «Prairie Fire» (in English) (in French) (in Greek) (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Un reparto socialista de la riqueza del mundo a escala mundial implica un reparto que se acerque al igualitarismo o cuyas únicas desigualdades b ...

PakAlert

  • UNCLE SAM, REMOVE YOUR GLASSES
    Zaheerul Hassan According to the media reports, China strongly reacted against Washington administration decision of arm sale for worth $ 6.4 billion dollars to Taiwan. The arms package for Taiwan made out by Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency includes 60 UH-60M Black Hawk helicop ...
  • Another U.S. War? Obama Threatens China and Iran
    by Shamus Cooke The possibility of yet another U.S. war became more real last week, when the Obama administration sharply confronted both China and Iran.  The first aggressive act was performed by Obama’s Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, who “warned” China that it must support serious econ ...
  • Zardari’s Sprititual War: Pakistani President Slau ...
    Swamped by court challenges and under pressure from a hostile opponents (PML-N), Pakistan’s president, Asif Ali Zardari, has found solace in an unusual form – the ritual slaughter of goats. Zardari has a black goat killed every day at his Islamabad house to ward off “evil eyes” and protect himsel ...
  • Video: How Mass Media Control You!
    This is how they control the masses of this world through media – Yes we all are brainwashed.. doesn’t matters if we are in USA, India, Pakistan or any other part of the world.. we are being fed on deceptions, lies and personal agendas just to rule us. The below amazing interview was don ...
  • Alert: U.S. Moves Missiles And Troops To Russian B ...
    Nuclear and Conventional Arms Pacts Stalled by Rick Rozoff 2010 is proceeding in a manner more befitting the third month of the year, named after the Roman god of war, than the first whose name is derived from a pacific deity. On January 13 the Associated Press reported that the White House ...

ecogeek

  • Vote for Your Favorite Greener Gadget
    It's that time of year again!  The Greener Gadgets Design Competition has started and 18 cool, eco-friendly gadget ideas are waiting for your votes. This year is the third year for the competition and the Greener Gadgets Conference , which is being held on February 25 in New York City, and I must ...
  • Smaller, Distributed Solar Projects are Gaining Mo ...
    While the BLM is facing a virtual clog of large, desert-based solar project proposals, smaller, distributed solar projects are popping up at an impressive rate.  In just the past few weeks, 1,300 MW worth of these projects have been announced or approved, which could equal about the same energy out ...
  • A Safe Way to Dispose of BPA-Containing Plastics
    The media coverage of the health dangers of BPA has really reached a fever-pitch these days and, thanks to that coverage, many companies are removing it from their products.  While that is wonderful, there are still many BPA-containing plastics out there and 2.7 million tons of it being made every ...
  • Italy to Plug in Idling Cruise Ships
    Italian port cities are planning to connect large ships like cruise liners to the grid while they're berthed to cut fuel consumption and potentially slash carbon dioxide emissions by 30 percent and nitrogen oxides and particulate pollution by more than 95 percent. Venice , Paolo Costa, La Spezia a ...
  • Rubber Material Harvests Energy from Small Movemen ...
    A new material developed by researchers at Princeton and Caltech is capable of harvesting energy from the simplest of movements like walking or breathing.  This new rubber chip made of PZT (lead zirconate titanate) nanoribbons could eventually power small portable electronic devices like cell phone ...

Times Online - Science

  • Yorkshire astronaut Nicholas Patrick toasts end of ...
    A British-born astronaut will blast off for the last large construction mission to the International Space Station tomorrow, as thousands of workers responsible for getting him there face losing their jobs in the biggest Nasa shake-up since the end of the Apollo programme.
  • Archive: The consumptive fight for TB glory
    My aunt Rosy didn’t fit any of the stereotypes of a TB victim. She wasn’t pale, wilting or a poet. She lived in comfortable Oxford, played tennis regularly, skied energetically and could be relied on to be the life and soul of any party.
  • Greenwash: The truth is not the whole truth
    Here’s a trick question: one company claims that its green initiative is saving a thousand tonnes of carbon dioxide a year; another, selling a similar product, says it is saving a million tonnes. Which one should you buy from if you care about the environment? The answer is neither because bot ...
  • My brain made me do it!
    The ideas behind neurocriminology are not entirely new. Johann Lavater (1741-1801), a Swiss pastor, thought that you could tell criminality from a man’s face; Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828), a German anatomist, from the bumps in his skull. Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909), an Italian doctor and crim ...
  • Save your life ... digitise
    What if you could recall everything you did? Every person you met, every sight you saw, every moment of your life? What if you recorded everything digitally? You could take photos every few seconds, store all your e-mails, your phone calls, every web page you looked at, every document you read. ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Lieberman's numbers in Connecticut tank - Public O ...
    From Scarce at MLN, Joe Lieberman's numbers across the board are pitiful after his healthcare asshattery . That's the word from PPP's poll they've done this week in Connecticut. Want to know how far Joe Lieberman has fallen in the wake of the health care vote last month? Barack Obama's approval rat ...
  • Be Careful What You Bargain For...
    “We need to stop looking at the tea parties as separate from the Republican party, If we do that, we can stand up and create the biggest tent of all.” - Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) Via BarbinMD , we catch a glimpse into the mind of a "Man of Faith" and Tea Party leader: But that's not just your typic ...
  • Do they know it's Christmas time?
    We grabbed a card off of one of those Christmas "Wish Trees" for a local homeless shelter when I took the boys out to get their hair cuts the other day. It was from a 10 year old girl living in the shelter. What was she asking for? "Home Essentials" Ya know: Tooth brush, toothpaste, soap, shampoo ...
  • Who the heck is Barry Cafero?
    Via ctblogger : I know it's early to be making this call but I'm almost certain no one topping this comment today: It's ok that Larry Cafero doesn't know my name. Over the course of the next year, he'll quickly realize that Connecticut voters don't know his, either. -Connecticut Democratic Party C ...
  • Monday Morning Peak
    Image Taken From National Geographic Forget about Wednesday being hump day this week. The peak was already hit this morning, if you are among today's sleepy heads that stayed up to watch the Gemenids meteor showers : Coming fast on the heels of its more famous cousin the Leonid meteor shower —which ...

SPL Center

  • ‘Patriot’ Vendors Hawking Their Own Coins – Again
    Move over George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt and, especially, Abraham Lincoln. There’s a new set of national leaders for America’s currency: conspiracy-monger and syndicated radio host Alex Jones, ardent Federal Reserve opponent and conspiracy-obsessed documentarian G. Edward Griffin, and 2008 ...
  • 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 the ...
  • Columnist Describes Barrage of Threats from Nazi L ...
    ROANOKE, VA. — Pulitzer-prize winning columnist Leonard Pitts told the jury this afternoon that his “blood ran cold” when he received an E-mail from white supremacist Bill White with his home address, telephone number and a reference to his wife. When he clicked a link in the E-mail and saw that Whi ...
  • 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 ...
  • Indictments Detail Alleged Police Cover-up in Beat ...
    At about 11:30 on the night of July 12, 2008, six teenagers brutally assaulted a Latino man in a Shenandoah, Pa., park while yelling “Fucking spic, “Go back to Mexico” and “Tell your fucking Mexican friends to get the fuck out of Shenandoah.” As they gathered at one of their homes after the attack, ...

change: org.

  • Feuding Restaurants Want to Give You a Heart Attac ...
    C an you imagine buying a model of car called the "Shattered Vertebre"? How about pain relievers called "Liver Damagers"? Weird, right? Are you any more likely to eat at a burger joint called the Heart Attack Grill? Or its supposed ripoff Heart Stoppers? The Heart Attack Grill in Chandler, Arizona, ...
  • Snowpocalypse Now!
    If you live on the East Coast, I hope you're preparing to hunker down this weekend: Two-plus feet of snow are predicted in Washington, D.C., perhaps enough to break the record. New York is also expecting more snow. So perhaps it's time to revisit climate science, again . Does this winter's flurry o ...
  • How Women's and LGBT Rights Are Intertwined
    In August, Michael Jones reported on Change.org's Gay Rights blog on the disturbing practice of "corrective rape" -- also known as trying to rape a queer person, most often a lesbian, straight. Because all a woman really needs is a real man between her legs to realize what she's missing out on, the ...
  • NYC Cops Take a Stand Against Doodling
    New York is the "safest big city in America," as Mayor Bloomberg would repeatedly have you know. So he must be feeling pretty gratified to know that cops have finally been able to start going after those low-grade perpetrators still left in the mix: middle-school students. Or something like that. Th ...
  • The Shell Game
    You can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy: The old saying appears to hold true for oil companies' expansion into renewable fuels. Earlier this week, Royal Dutch Shell announced a $12 billion joint venture with the Brazilian company Cosan to make ethanol ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Legal Experts Slam "Targeted Killings" of US Citiz ...
    by William Fisher NEW YORK - Civil liberties advocates and legal authorities struck back Friday at what they describe as the "deliberate targeted killing of U.S. citizens far away from any active hostilities, as long as the executive branch determines unilaterally that they meet a secret definition ...
  • Obama Admits Health Care Overhaul May Die on Hill
    by Erica Werner WASHINGTON - After insisting for a year that failure was not an option, President Barack Obama is now acknowledging his health care overhaul may die in Congress. read more
  • The Expanding US War in Pakistan
    by Jeremy Scahill Three US special forces soldiers were killed in northwest Pakistan this week, confirming that the US military is more deeply engaged on the ground in Pakistan than previously acknowledged by the White House and Pentagon (see " The Secret US War in Pakistan ," November 23, 2009). Th ...
  • Ancient Tribal Language Becomes Extinct as Last Sp ...
    by Jonathan Watts The last speaker of an ancient tribal language has died in the Andaman Islands, breaking a 65,000-year link to one of the world's oldest cultures. Boa Sr, who lived through the 2004 tsunami, the Japanese occupation and diseases brought by British settlers, was the last native of th ...
  • Pentagon to Increase Stock of High-Altitude Drones
    by Tony Capaccio WASHINGTON - The U.S. military plans to more than triple its inventory of high-altitude, armed and unarmed drones capable of 24-hour patrols by 2020. The long-range aviation plan delivered to Congress Feb. 2 calls for 800 high-altitude drones, up from 220 currently. "Recent operatio ...

Lifehacker

  • This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights]
    This week we compared our favorite media centers to help you choose which fits you best, demystified browser cookies, and passed on our favorite Gmail ninjitsu. Which Media Center Is Right for You: Boxee, XBMC, and Windows Media Center Compared Want all your downloads, streaming video, and other t ...
  • How to Open a Locked Interior Door When You've Los ...
    If you have a lot of interior doorknobs with key locks on them, sooner or later you're bound to lose the key or lock them inside the room. Here's what to do to get back in. When one of my interior doors got locked with the keys inside recently, I learned all I ever wanted to know about lock-picking ...
  • Declare a Super Simple Month to Help Set Limits [T ...
    Sometimes it's not enough to prioritize our to-do lists and add buffers to our schedules . To re-energize yourself and stay on track, consider declaring a Super Simple Month. Photo by chatirygirl . If your schedule is overflowing with commitments and dozens of low- and medium-priority things you ha ...
  • Facebook to Launch a Full-On Email Client
    Facebook is revamping their messaging system into a full-fledged email client, according to tech news site TechCrunch. We can't imagine ditching our beloved Gmail accounts for Facebook's alternative anytime soon (at least not without some serious innovation from Facebook), but for those true Faceboo ...
  • CinemaDrape Creates a Distraction-Free Zone for An ...
    Windows only: Distraction-eliminating application CinemaDrape covers your desktop with a black screen except for the application you're currently working in, so you can eliminate background distractions and help yourself focus on getting something done. The application is provided in both the instal ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • McChrystal's Gut Feelings, Running On Empty
    By Steve Hynd On the eve of the biggest military offensive in Afghanistan since 2001 - the fifth such surge into Helmand province, despite the area being described as a "sideshow" to Kandahar - General Stanley McChrystal is in all the main media today with an assessment of the occupation's current s ...
  • Tell the House Armed Services Committee to read Ei ...
    By Derrick Crowe The New York Times recently published the full text of U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry's memo to President Obama detailing his deep reservations about sending more troops to Afghanistan. The White House ignored his warnings and sent troops anyway. With the House Armed Services Commi ...
  • The Military Is More Important Than You
    By Steve Hynd Kevin Drum has a chart via Spencer Ackerman. There are two interesting things about this chart. Firstly, Kevin writes: "What is that makes us think our national security needs are going to get more and more pressing but not our domestic needs?" The base Pentagon budget this year is alr ...
  • Afghanistan War Shapes Engorged Defense Budget Whi ...
    By Derrick Crowe The Obama Administration just unveiled a huge Defense Department budget for next year shaped by the Afghanistan war. War spending is exempt from the president's proposed spending freeze, despite President Obama's statement at West Point that, "we can't simply afford to ignore the pr ...
  • Karzai: Afghan Mineral And Oil Reserves Worth $Tri ...
    By Steve Hynd Karzai, announcing a survey of Afghan oil and mineral deposits: "I have very good news for Afghans," Karzai said. "The initial figures we have obtained show that our mineral deposits are worth a thousand billion dollars -- not a thousand million dollars but a thousand billion," he said ...

Water Wars

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Electronic Intifada

CS Monitor - News

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

The Wonk Room

  • START Exposing Divide Among Conservatives
    split within the conservative movement is becoming more and more apparent as the US and Russia come close to finalizing a new START treaty that will cut nuclear arsenals. The treaty has widespread and broad support from a long list of prominent Republican foreign policy figures (it is after all mer ...
  • Gibbs On Health Reform Negotiations With Republica ...
    Yesterday, President Obama reiterated that the “next step” for health care reform is “a meeting where I’m sitting with the Republicans, sitting with the Democrats, sitting with health care experts and let’s just go through these bills.” “Their ideas, our ideas. Let’s just walk through them in ...
  • Beck: Drunk Driving The Express Bus To Clown Town
    Yesterday on Glenn Beck’s Wild-Eyed Hysteria Hour, the Tearful One managed to pack an unusually impressive amount of incoherent stupidity into one rant about Iran. “This week Iran successfully launched a rocket into space,” Beck informed us. “The media yawned. The only thing they found interesting ...
  • Student Loan Profiteers Spend Millions Searching F ...
    Last week, after President Obama called for its passage in his State of the Union address, Pedro de la Torre noted that the the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act (SAFRA), “has stalled in the Senate because of the long and cantankerous health care debate and a multi-million dollar lobbying an ...
  • Ollie North: Allowing Gays To Serve Openly Is Tant ...
    Last night, Oliver North, the retired U.S. Marine Corps officer turned Fox News contributor, appeared on Hannity’s America to condemn the administration’s decision to over-turn “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” North characterized Obama’s support for the repeal as a “stunning assault on the all-volunteer mil ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • If harper Prorogues
    Others in the blogosphere point to the even stronger rumours that harper is planning to cowardly prorogue parliament until after the fascist spectacle of the Olympics in order to avoid public accountability for his possible complicity in war crimes in Afghanistan. This is unacceptable. If harper d ...
  • Child Slaves in Haiti
    Say! Why don't we check in on " Haiti ... the core [of] our engagement in the Americas, as our largest program in the region ," Canada's second-biggest foreign initiative after the mega-success [please note: that's sarcasm] of Afghanistan? How are Canada and Haiti doing? After all, Canada (at the ...
  • Note to MSM: The Tea-Baggers Can Be Ignored ...
    ... just like we were. You know us, we're the " unserious " people who were right about the FTA and NAFTA . Who were right about Afghanistan . Who were right about Iraq . Who were right about the Olympics . Who were right about Mike Harris . You ignored us, and you cheer-led for disastrous eco ...
  • Weren't There Billions and Billions in Tax Cuts?
    A quick question (prompted by discussion of Newfoundland and Labrador premier Danny Williams abruptly taking off for heart surgery in the United States recently): Haven't successive prime ministers and premiers since Brian Mulroney's era been cutting taxes? And haven't the bulk of these tax cuts g ...
  • Democracy in Haiti Will Be Destroyed (and other st ...
    It's sickening, and I can't really bring myself to read much about it. But the massive amounts of aid going to Haiti can be divided into two groups: 1) Real aid, sent by people genuinely concerned about the human suffering they're witnessing and 2) Bullshit "aid" sent by imperialists as a means of ...

Financial Sense Editorials

  • Market Observation: Cycle Logical Issues?
    by Brian Pretti. "One of the themes I’ve been discussing on our subscriber site has been our expectation for an increase in market volatility. Probably about three weeks back I wrote, “Unlike the consensus and big Street houses which have been predicting/expecting falling volatility in 2010 after an ...
  • Vintage Wine Turns Sour for Financiers
    by Alex Daley & Doug Hornig. "When the folks at a private equity firm gather at the holiday party refreshment table to talk about “vintage,” they aren’t commenting on the Château Pétrus. The world of private equity financing doesn’t have high visibility, but it is big business behind the scenes. Unl ...
  • Celebrating the Demise of the Liberal Capitalist S ...
    by J. R. Nyquist. "In recent days Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was heard to say, "I believe that Feb. 11 marks the demise of the liberal capitalist system." In all probability, he was not boasting of an impending terrorist operation. The date in question is the anniversary of Iran's Islami ...
  • Market Observation: Long Term Perspectives
    by Ron Griess. "... "Regressing to the mean" is a term often cited by financial commentators. In truth, market prices spend very little time at a "mean." If our trend line is considered a "mean," the following chart shows just how little time the DJIA has spent at the "mean," especially since 1925.. ...
  • How to Talk to a Nincompoop
    by Jeff Clark. "My Grandmother’s favorite word for politely describing the obtuse among us aptly characterizes a recent attack on gold. And that it comes from an investment magazine that commands front-of-the-rack prominence in waiting rooms across our great land is reassuring evidence we have a lon ...

on Government Oversight

  • Morning Smoke: Senator Places Hold on Obama Nomine ...
    Ala. senator blocks nominees over Air Force tanker contract by William Matthews [Federal Times] Bank of America E-Mails Show Lehman, Not Merrill Was Buy Target by Linda Sandler [Bloomberg] Mystery Men of the Financial Crisis by William Cohan [The New...
  • The Politics of Contracting: International Edition
    Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court voted to lift most restrictions on corporate spending in federal elections, a widely condemned decision that many people, including President Obama, want Congress to “correct.” We cynically noted on this blog that not many...
  • Morning Smoke: Report Highlights Holes in Money La ...
    Laws, Guns, and Money by Andy Kroll [Mother Jones] Obama budget seeks 13.4 percent increase for National Nuclear Security Administration by Walter Pincus [The Washington Post] Robert Gates: The Survivor by Elizabeth Rubin [Time] Bernanke Vows to Defend Fed Autonomy...
  • Groups Offer Feedback on High Value Data Sets
    January 22 saw the release of a truckload of "high value data sets" on data.gov as part of the Open Government Directive. Now, after having a chance to convene and digest the data, POGO and a handful of other groups...
  • Morning Smoke: Dodd Criticizes White House Timing ...
    Dodd Vents Over Handling of Bank Proposal by Damian Paletta [The Wall Street Journal] F-35 Nunn-McCurdy? by John Tirpak [Air Force Magazine] Pay czar says AIG bonus flap to end in March by David Morgan [Reuters] C-5M Operational Testing Concludes...

Science Express

  • UCSB physicists move one step closer to quantum co ...
    Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have made an important advance in electrically controlling quantum states of electrons, a step that could help in the development of quantum computing. The work is published online today on the Science Express Web site.
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 recalculate age of Solar System
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Lead-lead (Pb-Pb) dating is among the most widely used radiometric dating techniques to determine the age of really old things, such as the age of the Earth or the Solar System. However, recent advances in instrumentation now allow scientists to make more precise measurements that p ...

TechDirt

  • UK Whistleblowers Highlight The Dangers Of Widespr ...
    We've had numerous stories concerning some rather concerning trends in law enforcement, including the use of things like redlight cameras to increase revenue, not make things safer, as well as the fact that more data can often make it harder for law enforcement to keep people safe. Finally, we've h ...
  • No, Copyright Has Never Been About Protecting Labo ...
    Ugh. So, we recently wrote about Matthew Yglesias' quite accurate economic explanation for why the price of music was going to get pushed to zero, no matter what the industry said or what happened with copyright law. Andrew Sullivan spotted it, and also a response from a guy named Sonny Bunch who ...
  • USTR Insists Gov't Isn't Keeping ACTA Secret
    Stan McCoy, the assistant US trade rep, is apparently the new point man from the USTR office on jaw-dropping political doublespeak about ACTA. You may recall a few days back when McCoy insisted that there was a lot of misrepresentations about ACTA , but failed to clarify any of them . Instead, he ...
  • Springsteen Pissed At ASCAP For Implying He Instig ...
    The antics of ASCAP get sadder and sadder with each month. In just the last year alone, the group has claimed that embedding videos from YouTube requires a performance license despite the fact that YouTube already pays them. It's also claimed that ringtones are a public performance as are the 30 s ...
  • Microsoft Exec Calls For 'Driver's License For The ...
    It's been nearly ten years since we first heard the idea that there should be some sort of driver's license for the internet , and it's no less ridiculous a concept now than it was then. However, it's still brought up every now and then. The latest, as sent in by Marcus Carab is that Microsoft's c ...

VacTruth

  • Cervarix HPV vaccine adverts are untrue and should ...
    . . . Christina England vactruth.com 2/2/2010 Cervical cancer kills around 940 women in the UK every year and the majority of these women are over the age of 45 years. Although shocking, this is a comparatively low figure,compared to those dying from other cancers, the highest rate of death bei ...
  • Scientific Link to Autism Identified
    The Center For Modeling Optimal Outcomes PRNewswire 11/18/2009 JACKSON, N.J., Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ — During its research into the application of neuroscience in business, a New Jersey based think tank, The Center for Modeling Optimal Outcomes®, LLC (The Center) made an inadvertent and amazing disc ...
  • Agony of doctor’s receptionist paralysed by ...
    By Sophie Borland Daily Mail 01st February 2010 A receptionist at a GP’s surgery has been left unable to walk properly after having the swine flu jab. Alison Dygnas, who as an NHS worker was advised to have the vaccination, also experienced the paralysis in her face, had slurred speech and found ea ...
  • Miscarriage prompts halt to flu jabs
    Ministry denies link, launches an inquiry Bangkok Post 01/29/2010 H1N1 flu vaccinations among pregnant women have been suspended after a woman who received a jab lost her baby to miscarriage a day later. The Public Health Ministry yesterday denied any link between the vaccinations and the foetal de ...
  • Forced Vaccinations, Government, and the Public In ...
    By Dr. Russell Blaylock, M.D. thehnf.com December 2009 Those who are observant have noticed a dangerous trend in the United States, as well as worldwide, and that is the resorting of various governments at different levels to mandating forced vaccination upon the public at large. My State of Missis ...

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I am so tired of hearing about kids being beat up and criminalized.  Are you prepping them for life or prison?  (That was a rhetorical question.) Racialicious has a really beautiful and brave post by A. Rahman Ford called Race, Disability and Denial. Far be it for me to tell Americans that they shou ...
  • Media and Anarchists Violent Reputation
    Picture an anarchist in your head.  What do you see? For most people the image is of a black clad, pubescent boy throwing rocks through a store window or spray painting an anarchist symbol.  People with a better sense of history might picture a slightly older, wild-bearded man making assassination p ...
  • Irrational Fears and the Status Quo
    It seems like I have spent my entire life trying to fight off the irrational fears that people have tried to instill in me. I was advised not to ride the bus in Ft. Lauderdale or I’d get robbed. I was told if I went to Liberty City, I would get beat up. Before [...]
  • Howard Zinn Will Be Missed
    I feel very lucky that I had the opportunity to see Howard Zinn at Busboys and Poets last year.  I wish I had a recording of his talk.  The gist of it was that no politician is going to bring us the change we need.  We have to make the change happen.  Here is an [...]
  • Women, Are You Up for a Gathering?
    You may have heard about a conference coming up in San Francisco called Libertopia. Its purpose is to create a worldwide movement of individuals who choose their own form of governance – a voluntary society based on mutual respect for each individual’s dignity and ownership of his/her own body and ...

Executive Intelligence Review

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Twitter Updates for 2010-02-06
    #Police tells public who they stop n search "don't complain" we know its wrong but we have targets 2 fill http://strurl.com/pl #liberty #UK # More #ClimateChange #Fraud this time in Holland as #UN falsey reports the country is mostly under sea level http://strurl.com/ql #AGW #green # Mi ...
  • Twitter Updates for 2010-02-06
    #Police tells public who they stop n search "don't complain" we know its wrong but we have targets 2 fill http://strurl.com/pl #liberty #UK # More #ClimateChange #Fraud this time in Holland as #UN falsey reports the country is mostly under sea level http://strurl.com/ql #AGW #green # Missing bomb m ...
  • Reason Interviews Tim Carney
    By Matt Hawes Recently, Tim Carney was interviewed by ReasonTV about his new book Obamanomics: How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, and Union Bosses. We’re excited to have Tim joining us for a book signing and speech at CPAC 2010.  Click he ...
  • Ron Paul on Freedom Watch 2/3/10
    By minnesotachris http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i39Vb-YoPGE View the original article at Campaign for Liberty
  • Mysterious Danish group builds exotic compound on ...
    Michael Waterman San Diego Reader Friday, February 5, 2010 Tvind Alert says that the complex cost $10 million to build. The watchdog website says that a Mexican-Danish company bought the land from local landowners between 1999 and 2003. Attorney Morachis informed me that the landowner is a Mexica ...

food and water watch

  • “Fragrance” or Foe?
    The cosmetics industry is a lightly-regulated, moneymaking machine. It encourages women to buy products to look better, thinner, tanner, softer, and generally more “attractive”. Unfortunately, these products are filled-to-the-brim with chemicals.  We know some of these chemicals are harmful.   That’ ...
  • Farmed Blue fin tuna awash in San Diego
    Ironically, as blue fin tuna populations have dropped dramatically around the world, Imperial Beach in San Diego was unexpectedly awash with them last week as “disoriented” fish struggled in the surf and some were beached on the shore. Blue fin tuna are prized by sport fishermen and high-end sushi r ...
  • The Real Farmville
    Farmville, the virtual farming game on Facebook.com, has recently become an online phenomenon with millions of active players. The game portrays an idyllic farming community where players can create small, personalized farms with options to harvest anything from tomatoes to Clydesdales (for horse h ...
  • Turning Trash into More Trash
    The bottled water industry tries very hard to convince consumers that buying their product is fine, because all those empty bottles are recyclable. What they don’t address is exactly what plastic bottle recycling often entails. Check out this video from National Geographic for a closer look at the p ...
  • Jobs, Pipes, Water
    Last night the House of Representatives passed the Jobs for Main Street Act by a vote of 217-212. The Act would provide $2 billion for wastewater and drinking water infrastructure.  This could lead to about 50,000 people having good jobs repairing water mains, detecting leaks, and modernizing treatm ...

treehugger

  • The Fun Times Guide to Living Green Hosts Carnival ...
    This week marks Carnival of the Green #213 , and it's being hosted by The Fun Times Guide to Living Green , a website that believes that every little step counts. They are on a quest to find fun, simple, creative, easy, and inexpensive ways to begin (or continue) living green. So head on over ...
  • Move Over OLEDs: Scientists Create Cheap, Fully Re ...
    Photo via Gizmag Swedish and American researchers have just developed a fully recyclable lighting component with what Science Daily is terms a "new super material": graphene. Graphene is both inexpensive to produce and is 100% recyclable, and could be used to create glowing wallpaper made out o ...
  • Gwyneth Paltrow's Meat-Free GOOP, Eco-Friendly Val ...
    Photo via Indian TV Today Gwyneth Paltrow's weirdly-named GOOP website and weekly newsletter are full of the actress's favorite things--destinations, recipes, meditation techniques, detox plans, fashions, books, and more--for die-hard fans looking to live the Paltrow life. But this week, she e ...
  • New Bill Would Create 10 Million Solar Roofs Acros ...
    A great new bill was introduced to Congress yesterday (how often do you get to write a sentence like that these days?). Authored by Bernie Sanders (I-VT), it would create incentives and tax rebates for solar roofs and solar water heaters. The bill aims to get 10 million solar roofs and 200,0 ...
  • Laundry's Dirty Secret: The Overdose Dilemma
    Photo: Method Guest contributor Adam Lowry is the founder of Method. I blog here about design as intention, which is to say that if you broaden your design intention to include social and environmental factors, your designs can become transformational. Examining typical laundry packaging fro ...

Biosingularity

  • Chemical Exposure Linked to Attention Deficit Diso ...
    Children exposed in the womb to chemicals in cosmetics and fragrances are more likely to develop behavioral problems commonly found in children with attention deficit disorders, according to a study of New York City school-age children published Thursday. Scientists at Mount Sinai School of Medicine ...
  • Surgical procedure urged for atrial fibrillation
    People with atrial fibrillation, a common type of irregular heartbeat, should be referred for a surgical treatment called catheter ablation if an oral medication is not effective, said the authors of a study released Tuesday. In a head-to-head comparison of the two forms of treatment, catheter ablat ...
  • Skin Cells Turned into Brain Cells
    Skin cells called fibroblasts can be transformed into neurons quickly and efficiently with just a few genetic tweaks, according to new research. The surprisingly simple conversion, which doesn’t require the cells to be returned to an embryonic state, suggests that differentiated adult cells are much ...
  • Magnesium May Improve Memory
    New research finds that an increase in brain magnesium improves learning and memory in young and old rats. The study, published by Cell Press in the January 28th issue of the journal Neuron, suggests that increasing magnesium intake may be a valid strategy to enhance cognitive abilities and supports ...
  • Scientists Discover a Controller of Brain Circuitr ...
    By combining a research technique that dates back 136 years with modern molecular genetics, a Johns Hopkins neuroscientist has been able to see how a mammal’s brain shrewdly revisits and reuses the same molecular cues to control the complex design of its circuits. Details of the observation in lab m ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Moscow Friendship University marks 50 years
    Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday congratulated Peoples' Friendship University, an institution created in 1960 to prepare qualified specialists from Asia and Africa, and Latin America with the 50th anniversary.
  • World's largest atom smasher to jump straight to m ...
    The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will jump straight to its maximum energy without any medium-energy proton collisions, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has said on its website.
  • Kazakhstan to diversify satellite suppliers in fut ...
    Kazakhstan will not name Russia as a privileged supplier of satellites and will announce international tenders after the launch of its KazSat-2, the head of the Kazakh space agency said on Tuesday.
  • Iran to unveil five space projects
    Iran will unveil five space projects at ceremonies starting on Monday to celebrate the victory of the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Fars news agency said.
  • Soyuz spacecraft blasts off to space station
    The Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft which is to carry three astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) was launched in the early hours of Monday, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.

Pruning Shears

  • Living In The Age Of The Exploit
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post One of my favorite blog posts is L33T Justice by Kung Fu Monkey. Aside from being very funny and concisely getting at an important truth, it seems to represent a tipping point - one that mirrored my own. Prior to that things had be ...
  • BlogRoll Amnesty Day
    Today is Blogroll Amnesty Day , the day where bloggers promote their lesser trafficked bretheren (and sisteren(?)). Pruning Shears isn’t exactly an A-List blog and therefore not in a position to drive a whole lot of hits to anyone, but it’s the spirit of the thing that counts. Here are some of my ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Bruce Schneier writes , “In order to comply with government search warrants on user data, Google created a backdoor access system into Gmail accounts.” The bargaining away of our civil liberties in the name of keeping us Safe From T ...
  • Thomas Hoenig Will Save Us All!
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post NOTE: Shortly before I finished this post Ben Bernanke was confirmed by the Senate for a second term as Fed chairman. I’m posting this anyway because I think it was a terrible decision that will only look worse with time, and maybe ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post I keep waiting for some official word on Scott Horton’s blockbuster exposé on detainee deaths in Guantánamo. In the mean time here are two observations on media coverage of this bombshell story. First, Yves Smith :Anyone familiar ...

Natural Health News

  • Can Foods Contribute to Infertility?
    Millions of people have celiac disease, but most don’t know they have it, in part because symptoms can be so varied. It is an often overlooked digestive disorder that causes damage to the small intestine when gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley and rye, is eaten. Infertility seems to be more c ...
  • Acupuncture Effective Against Depression During Pr ...
    Researchers will soon unveil findings that show that acupuncture may be an effective treatment for depression during pregnancy. About 10 percent of pregnant women meet criteria for major depression and almost 20 percent have increased symptoms of depression during pregnancy. Dealing with depression ...
  • Despite Lancet Retraction, the Vaccine-Autism Cont ...
    Dr. Andrew Wakefield, who coauthored a paper suggesting a potential link between autism and Measles-Mumps-Rubella vaccine, is one of the most vilified medical practitioners of recent times.  He carries the extremely rare dishonor of a retraction of his paper in The Lancet medical journal. History ...
  • Chinese Plant Could Help Refine Cancer Treatment
    Researchers are seeking to refine cancer treatment with an anti-inflammatory plant derivative long used in Chinese medicine. Celastrol, derived from trees and shrubs called celastracaea, has been used for centuries in China to treat symptoms such as fever, chills, joint pain and inflammation. Resea ...
  • The Top 10 Places You Can't Go
    The world is full of secret and exclusive places.  This is a list of ten of the most significant places around the world that are closed to the general public or are virtually impossible for the general public to visit.   Mezhgorye is a closed town in Russia which is believed to hous ...

Antemedius

  • Republican Neanderthals and "Don't Ask, Don't Tell ...
    A party whose titular head appears to be Rush Limbaugh with strong competition from Roger Ailes’ Fox News could be expected to be disturbed over the recent proposal to scrap the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” rule regarding the service of homosexuals in the military invoked when President Bill Clinton was ...
  • Payment Shock Means Economic And Political Trouble ...
    There is a tendency in politics to see everything in a small time horizon. The fight in front of you is the one that is most important one there is. The problem with this approach is that it lets the clock run out on issues that you should be able to see coming and address before they become a catas ...
  • Enough waiting. Let's rebuild the Progressive Par ...
    At what point do progressives stop being Democrats' whipped dogs and start acting like a movement capable of putting the Dems in their proper place as the party of the people? David Sirota wrote today about Obama's latest call to increase war spending beyond its already ludicrous proportions. How m ...
  • We're Not In Kansas Anymore
    Over at Mindfully.org you can find hundreds of big and small literary and informational treasures for those interested in peering through the veils of darkness that the media does it's best to pull over our eyes with all of their well practiced smoke and mirrors. One such is in the Political/Social ...
  • Tomgram: Michael Schwartz, Will Iraq's Oil Ever Fl ...
    Originally published at TomDispatch.com Americans have largely stopped thinking about Iraq, even though we still have approximately 110,000 troops there, as well as the� largest “embassy” �on the planet (and� still growing ).� We’ve generally chalked up our war in Iraq to the failed past, and some A ...

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

  • Police pension fund conflict of interest raises qu ...
    contributed by John O’Sullivan Legal experts have advised me that the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), not the Information Commissioner’s Office nor Norfolk Police, should rightly be handling the ‘Climategate’ investigation. This policy has been in effect for over twenty years. I am reliably info ...
  • Sign Lord Monckton’s petition if you haven’t yet
    If you didn't know, Lord Monckton has a petition that every climate change skeptic should sign. Related posts: Copenhagen deadline dead Before Climate Meeting, a Revival of Skepticism Save yourself! Andrew Weaver looks for a way out
  • Met Office uses backyard homemade weather station
    The UK Met Office has a £30million this is supposed to improve weather forecasting. But, they are instead relying on someone who collates rainfall, temperature and humidity readings from a homemade weather station in his garden in Tavistock, Devon. Link: here. Related posts:BBC interviewer absolu ...
  • Has the climategate email leaker been found?
    Climategate can now put a name to its heroic whistleblower. Our man on the inside appears to be top scientist, Paul Dennis, Head of Stable Isotope and Noble Gas Geochemistry Laboratories of the University of East Anglia (UEA). Related posts: Climategate: McIntyre and the ‘Divergence Problem’ BREA ...
  • Prince Charles is a denier…of recent revelations
    Today Prince Charles spoke on the evils of man-made global warming skeptics, after arriving in Manchester by Royal Train pulled by a coal-fired steam locomotive. Related posts: Global Warming expert Prince Charles says we are all going to die Breaking! Penn State says they are exempt from Freedom ...

Opinio Juris

  • A Response to Geoffrey Corn
    by Sean Watts by Sean Watts Thank you to Professor Corn for his exceptionally thoughtful response to the article. His observations illustrate vividly, and persuasively, the apparent choices undergirding the traditional approach my Article critiques. I’ll reply briefly to some of his comments and ...
  • A Response to Sean Watts by Geoffrey Corn
    by Geoffrey Corn by Geoffrey Corn [Geoffrey Corn is an Associate Professor at South Texas College of Law] Let me begin by extending my compliments to Prof. Watts for his exceptionally well-written article, and my thanks for his suggestion that I provide comment. I am also grateful to my friends a ...
  • A Response to Tom Ginsburg, Michael Vandenbergh, M ...
    by Daniel Abebe and Jonathan S. Masur by Daniel Abebe and Jonathan S. Masur We are very grateful to Professors Ginsburg, Vandenbergh, Cohen, and Wiener for engaging in this dialogue with us. The value of discussing these issues with such leading scholars in the field cannot be overstated. Profess ...
  • A Response to Daniel Abebe and Jonathan Masur by J ...
    by Jonathan B. Wiener by Jonathan B. Wiener [Jonathan B. Wiener is a Professor at Duke University Law School] In their paper on the “Two Chinas” and climate change policy, Professors Abebe and Masur raise an important point about how China’s internal politics may affect its international relation ...
  • A Response to Daniel Abebe and Jonathan Masur by M ...
    by Michael P. Vandenbergh and Mark Cohen by Michael P. Vandenbergh and Mark Cohen [Michael P. Vandenbergh is Tarkington Professor of Law; Director, Climate Change Research Network; and Co-Director, Regulatory Program at Vanderbilt University Law School. Mark Cohen is Vice President for Research, ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • Sea levels in Mediterranean rose nearly two metres ...
    A groundbreaking study of sea levels on the Israeli coast has revealed dramatic ups and downs repeatedly over the past 2,500 years. The study suggests modern sea level movements are nothing special: "During the Hellenistic period, the sea level was...
  • BREAKING NEWS; NZ Govt blasts IPCC, hints UN clima ...
    5 February 2010 New Zealand's Climate Change Minister Nick Smith has sent a strong hint that Western nations are gearing up to drop the UN framework for climate change negotiation, and probably switch to a G20 model that locks out...
  • Believers have only themselves to blame
    Columnist Lucy Gill of Progress magazine makes some salient points here on why global warming believers have brought rapidly growing public ridicule upon their cause: Another factor that has contributed to scepticism, particularly, I suspect, among the older generation, is...
  • Hockey-stick's Michael Mann under deeper investiga ...
    Just in from Penn State today: the investigation into Professor Michael Mann, whose activities were exposed in the Climategate emails, is widening. H/t ClimateDepot
  • BREAKING: IPCC's 2007 report riddled with non-peer ...
    The credibility of the 'science' section of the IPCC report is hanging by a thread after fresh revelations that the Working Group 1 chapters relied on more 'non-peer-reviewed science' as the basis of its catastrophic global warming claims. Far from...

Public News Service

  • Looking For Job Creation in AZ
    Looking For Job Creation in AZ Phoenix, AZ – According to the AFL-CIO, the country is ten million jobs behind where it should be, starting from when the recession began more than two years ago. The labor federation is hoping for more government effort dedicated to creating jobs. Comments from Nick U ...
  • Vets Take National Security Message on the Road in ...
    Vets Take National Security Message on the Road in AZ Flagstaff - It's a different kind of military operation - the "Operation Free" bus tour heads for northern Arizona this week, manned by military veterans with a message on national security and energy policy. Comments from Matt Victoriano, a form ...
  • Colorado Congressman Puts Public Option Back on Ta ...
    Colorado Congressman Puts Public Option Back on Table Washington, D.C. - A Colorado Congressman says the public option should be back on the table in the health care reform debate, and he says there are enough votes to pass a bill that includes it - through a process called reconciliation. Comments ...
  • How Canceling KidsCare Could Hurt AZ Public Health
    How Canceling KidsCare Could Hurt AZ Public Health Phoenix, AZ - In her proposal to deal with Arizona’s huge budget deficit, Governor Jan Brewer would eliminate funding for Arizona’s KidsCare program, the state health program for children of the working poor. Public health professionals warn that th ...
  • Tax Cuts Wrong Strategy to Boost Jobs?
    Tax Cuts Wrong Strategy to Boost Jobs? Phoenix, AZ – The Arizona House is expected to vote soon on a tax cut bill aimed at boosting job creation in the state. But a coalition of 50 social service and union groups say the tax cuts will only increase projected state deficits. Comments from Dana Naimar ...

My Care2 Picks

  • The War Machine is the Mindset in Washington
    The war machine that co-opted Obama into his escalation of a drug-corrupted war is not just a bureaucratic cabal inside Washington. It’s solidly grounded in and supported by a wide coalition of forces in our society. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Coal and the fossil record of climate change in th ...
    Paleocene-Eocene may provide clues as to how polar flora and fauna and their physical environment responded to global mean surface temperatures that were 2-4 degrees warmer than they are today, right in line with predictions for the end of this century. Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech � ...
  • Corporate Personhood
    Cartoon Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Now We Impeach Jay Bybee
    Jay Bybee's name is at the bottom of memos that were treated as laws which legalized aggressive war at the pleasure of a president and a variety of acts of torture. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The Terror Card: Fear is the Key to Obedience
    This is an official congressional definition of terrorism that applies only to other nations. However, the psychological end results of terror, is always fear that eventually leads to resignation and submission. Fear and terrorism are interconnected... Submitted by Just Carole to US Politics & Gov't ...

Angry Indian News

  • Winter Olympics on slippery slope after Vancouver ...
    guardian.co.uk: Oversized neon Olympic rings illuminate Vancouver harbour while a giant mural of a snowboarder mid-trick welcomes visitors to the airport. In the city centre, a sleek steel-and-glass... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Last speaker of ancient language of Bo dies in Ind ...
    BBC News: The last speaker of an ancient language in India's Andaman Islands has died at the age of about 85, a leading linguist has told the BBC.Professor Anvita Abbi said that the death of Boa Sr... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Kenya found guilty of removal of indigenous people
    uk.oneworld.net/: "In a landmark decision, an African regional body has found the Kenyan government guilty of violating the rights of the country’s indigenous Endorois community, by evicting them... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • CIA Video Of U.S. Missionaries' Plane Being Shot D ...
    www.huffingtonpost.com/: "ABC News has obtained some incredibly dramatic footage [scroll down for video] of an incident from nine years ago in which the CIA watched as a Peruvian air force fighter... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Police brutality breeds public outrage in wake of ...
    Matthew Newton - Annals of Americus: Take a look at the photos of Jordan Miles, the 18-year-old CAPA (Creative and Performing Arts) high school student allegedly beaten by Pittsburgh Police on... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

Open ID

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • Biology in motion
    InnovationCanada.ca sits down with Queen’s University psychology professor and biological motion expert, Nikolaus Troje. In his Biomotion Lab, Troje and his colleagues study the cognitive processes that occur in the mind to help us recognize emotional and mental health through human movement.
  • Rethinking the pine beetle
    When he talks about the fight against the mountain pine beetle, Joerg Bohlmann likes to use a medical analogy. “Imagine we’re trying to combat malaria,” says the genome biologist based at the University of British Columbia, “but we don’t know the makeup of the disease-causing parasite, so we leave i ...
  • A Partnership of peoples
    (Courtesy of Frontier magazine, University of British Columbia) Forget what you may have heard about anthropology: it is not solely a science of lost cultures, dusty relics and ancient peoples. This widely misunderstood discipline provides a critical link to contemporary history, and its contributio ...
  • Decade in review
    The first decade of the 21st century will be remembered as a decade of breakthroughs in science and technology. “It’s well known that discoveries in science are often drivers for important technological developments; for example, fuel cells,” says Thomas Ellis, director of research at the Canadian L ...
  • i2eye with James Hesser
    Two years ago, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 2009 the International Year of Astronomy (IYA). From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, people around the globe have been marking the 400th anniversary of the first use of an astronomical telescope by Galileo Galilei. Laypeople, especially children ...

Signs of the times

  • British woman receives 'incompatible' kidney with ...
    A British woman has undergone a life-saving kidney transplant after having her blood plasma frozen and filtered to ensure that the organ was not rejected. Maxine Bath, 41, is the first person in the world to have the groundbreaking operation, which allowed her to receive an "incompatible" donor ki ...
  • UK: Accused MPs argue they are above the law
    Three Labour MPs charged yesterday with theft over fraudulent expense claims declared that they were above the law and would fight attempts to put them on trial. Elliot Morley, David Chaytor and Jim Devine each face up to seven years in jail after Keir Starmer, QC, the Director of Public Prosecutio ...
  • Monsanto: The World's Poster Child for Corporate M ...
    When Forbes magazine declared Monsanto as the Company of the Year for 2009, millions of surprised people were forced to reevaluate their opinions about a major corporation. Now they no longer trust Forbes. Monsanto is one of the most despised corporations on earth. This is the first in a series o ...
  • 'Moscow cannot agree with sanctions against Iran', ...
    Russian Deputy Foreign Minister has said that the country cannot agree with sanctions against Iran because sanctions do not work as a rule. "We do hope very much that Tehran will consider the sextet's proposals in a constructive manner and respond to them positively," Sergei Ryabkov said in an inte ...
  • After U.S. deal, Taiwan to buy helicopters from Eu ...
    Taiwan said on Friday it would buy up to 20 military helicopters from a European manufacturer less than a week after Washington infuriated China by proposing a $6.4 billion arms deal for the island which Beijing claims as its own. The Taiwan deal with Eurocopter, a subsidiary of German-based EADS, ...

Threat Level

  • Authors Guild: ‘To RIAA or Not to RIAA’
    There’s equal reason to support or object to the proposed Google Books settlement: Creating a digital catalogue of the worlds’ words might be the Holy Grail of intellectual empowerment. Yet building that library in the clouds would be allowed without the rightsholders’ consent — which the Justice De ...
  • Rulings Leave Online Student Speech Rights Unresol ...
    Do American students have First Amendment rights beyond the schoolyard gates? The answer is yes and no, according to two conflicting federal appellate decisions Thursday testing student speech in the online world. “Ultimately, the Supreme Court is going to have to decide if there ever is a time stud ...
  • ISP Defeats Hollywood Copyright Claims
    A leading Australian internet service provider was cleared of copyright allegations Thursday when a federal judge ruled against Hollywood’s lawsuit that iiNet was responsible for infringing BitTorrent data traveling its pipes. The Australian Federal Court decision siding with the country’s third-lar ...
  • Wikileaks Meets Its Cash Goal — For Now
    The whistleblowing site Wikileaks has apparently raised the money it needs to continue operating for the time being, according to a message the organization sent out Wednesday night on Twitter. “Achieved min. funraising [sic] goal. ($200k/600k); we’re back fighting for another year, even if we have ...
  • Google Asks NSA to Help Secure Its Network
    Goggle is teaming up with the National Security Agency to investigate the recent hack attack against its network in a bid to prevent another assault, according to The Washington Post. The move is raising concerns among privacy and civil rights advocates. But sources assured the Post that the deal do ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Tea Bagging for Jesus
    As a quick glance at the video tape makes clear, the supposed Tea Party movement is simply a continuation of the right-wing's failed 2008 presidential campaign by other means. (Senator Jim Demint (R-SC) spoke for Sarah Palin, John Cornyn, Michele...
  • Obama's Deficit Attention Disorder
    During his first State of the Union address Wednesday, President Barack Obama will apparently endorse two bad ideas whose time hasn't come. The first, a freeze affecting $477 billion in domestic spending, has been rightly labeled "appalling" (Paul Krugman), "a...
  • GOP Budget Proposal: Ration Medicare, Privatize So ...
    Throughout the bitter debate over health care reform, talking points about "rationing" and "cuts to Medicare" have been the twin pillars of Republican fear mongering. For example, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in June warned of reform that "denies, delays,...
  • Convention Program: 10 Lessons for Tea Baggers
    Starting today in Nashville, a strange brew of Birthers and Birchers, Deathers and Deniers will gather for the National Tea Party Convention. They will be entertained by the likes of WorldNetDaily's Joseph Farah, "War on Christians" Pastor Rick Scarborough, Andrew...
  • From Truman to Powell on Don't Ask, Don't Tell
    On February 2, 1948, President Harry Truman declared in a special civil rights message to Congress that he "had instructed the Secretary of Defense to take steps to have the remaining instances of discrimination in the armed services eliminated as...

Blackspot News Feed

Consortium News

  • The Right Gets Itself 'Wired'
    For years, the Right's media infrastructure had only one weak spot, the Internet, but now that is changing, says Robert Parry. February 3, 2010
  • Obama's Budget Ducks Pentagon Cuts
    By exempting the Pentagon from a "freeze," President Obama tries to shield Democrats from GOP attacks, says Ivan Eland. February 2, 2010
  • Vietnam Replay on Afghan 'Defectors'
    A new plan for bribing Afghan Taliban fighters to defect has a dark precedent in the Vietnam War, recalls Douglas Valentine. February 1, 2010
  • America's Sad History with Haiti, Part 2
    Over the past two decades, the U.S. Right has helped sabotage Haiti's experiment with democracy, writes Lisa Pease. February 1, 2010
  • Answering Obama on Health Care
    President Obama says he is open to any health-care idea that works, except for "Medicare for All," notes Kevin Zeese. February 1, 2010

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

TruthHugger

  • American Theocracy divorces the US Constitution, p ...
    America wants to be ruled by TV Evangelist Bankers who are always holier than everyone else until they're caught! This is where Religion has buddied up with weapons manufacturers to promote killing in the name of Jesus.
  • Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up Jan 4, ...
    The Texas Progressive Alliance is still somewhat amazed to be living in the year we make contact, and we hope we’re all still going strong when Odyssey Three rolls around. Texas has most drilling, worst regulation. Texas made national news this week in the ProPublica investigative report and they us ...
  • Weary Soldiers At Risk, They Know This
    A poignant editorial on Al Jazeera seems to have more in depth observations than America’s Corporate media.  Mainstream media must follow the money, toe the line for sponsors and political perks that promise ’scoops’. ‘The US military is exhausted” By Sarah Lazare The call for over 30,000 more tro ...
  • Darth Vader Strikes Again
    The botched terrorist attack on Christmas Day is NOT Obama's fault.
  • Try To Remember America
    Well, few public schools, and few private schools, will fill in the gaps between America the fantasy and America the reality.  The name of America has been invoked with reverence when describing its history of righteous endeavors.  What is seldom included in these filtered history lessons, is some o ...

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • After the Catastrophe: Our Country Can Rise Again
    After.jpg Many of Grassroots International’s partners in Haiti recently released the following statement in the wake of the earthquake in Haiti.  Our partners have used this devastating and unstable time to bond together and to work to rebuild ...
  • Troubled Waters
    � Harmony Foundation releases new educational presentation, Troubled Waters � Harmony Foundation of Canada recently released a new educational presentation, entitled Troubled Waters .read more
  • Howard Zinn – a remembrance
    zinn__1264635536_4226.jpg � Historian, activist, and Grassroots International friend Howard Zinn died January 27 at the age of 87. read more
  • Grassroots International Partners in Haiti receive ...
    haiti-fruit_nursery.JPG �Since a devastating earthquake shook Haiti more than two weeks ago, Grassroots International’s partners on the ground have been working to assess the situation and respond to the needs of the community – even as they t ...
  • From Honduran ally organization: "Solidarity with ...
    Trinidad-Central_America_site_visit_143.JPG The letter below comes from one of Grassroots International's allies in Honduras -- Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH)-- and expresses solidarity with their ne ...

Climate

  • February 5, 2010
    GOP Lawmakers Seek to Suspend Calif. Climate Law (AP) Republican lawmakers in California are circulating a ballot initiative backed by business interests that would suspend California's landmark global warming law, a signature policy of Gov. Schwarzenegger's tenure. Senators Seek Sulfur ...
  • February 4, 2010
    Obama Pushes Energy Plan That GOP May Support (AP) Pres. Obama on Wednesday pushed energy proposals designed to attract allies and opponents alike, calling for increased ethanol production and technology to limit pollution from coal. IEA Says U.S. Must Adopt Carbon Pricing System (Reute ...
  • February 3, 2010
    Obama Retreats From Goal of Cap-Trade Bill (Wall Street Journal) Pres. Obama said for the first time Tuesday that legislation that would require industries to pay for greenhouse gas emissions may need to be separated from a more popular "green jobs" bill in the Senate, a maneuver that could kill ...
  • February 2, 2010
    Australia: Abbott Reveals $3.2 Billion 'Climate Incentives' Plan (Sydney Morning Herald) Tony Abbott, Australia's opposition leader, has announced a climate policy that would unleash $3.2 billion in incentives over four years to big polluters to reduce their carbon emissions. Abbott Keeps Pull ...
  • February 1, 2010
    Nations Quietly Reaffirm Copenhagen Climate Pledges (Deutsche-Welle)  Countries including the U.S., China and several EU member states have reaffirmed their emissions reduction goals, quietly meeting a UN deadline for the endorsement of the Copenhagen Accord. Global Deal on Climate Change in 20 ...

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

  • Coming soon to a fundraiser near you: the begging, ...
    As they say in the movies, "We can do this the nice way, or ...." Oh it was such a nice fundraiser for two days, with a nice healthy flow of money, and then over the next three days things dried up completely. As I write this, it's almost noon and all of $10 has come in today. If the pace doesn't pi ...
  • Obama's State-of-the-Union: Ten Lessons
    A week after Democrats suffered a stunning defeat, Barack Obama bounced back with a memorable State-of-the-Union address. After a year in office, Obama has to learn ten lessons. Lesson one: It's not ideology, it's the candidate. Scott Brown won the Massachusetts' Senate race because Martha Coakl ...
  • Sarah Palin takes $100,000 for populist Tea Party ...
    When Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense, it was one of the great best-sellers in history and made a ton of money by 1776 standards. Paine donated all of the money, every penny of it, for the troops of the continental army. Sarah Palin, by contrast, gives a populist speech at a Tea Party convention, and ...
  • A whole year wasted. Now that it's too late, Obama ...
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  • Tea Party Express III on the launching pad
    Sarah Palin to help Tea Party Express launch its third nation-wide bus tour in Searchlight, Nevada, on March 27 The organizers of the Tea Party Express franchise are ready to roll once again. They recently announced plans for its "Tea Party Express III: Just Vote Them Out" tour. The national tour wi ...

Ten Percent

  • Friday! The League of Gentlemen- Job Club
    Seemingly New Labour took this as an instruction manual.
  • BAE Are Guilty Of Bribery, So What Of Blair Who Pu ...
    And closed down the investigation… It’s small beer compared to Iraq but… Al Capone was convicted of tax evasion not murder or racketeering, just saying is all. The arms giant BAE today agreed to pay out almost £300m in penalties as the company finally admitted guilt over its worldwide conduct in th ...
  • Go Cards Profit Off The Poor
    This is a slick marketing operation to make money off the poorest people, disgusting. Given how much the govt. bailed out the banks and if fact own one they could have put into place regulations that mean people on benefits get free banking, of course they didn’t which tells its own story (even as n ...
  • Curiouser…Plaid Leader Says Secret Document Proves ...
    PLAID Cymru’s Westminster leader [MP Elfyn Llwyd] yesterday revealed he has seen a top secret document that he says “proves beyond doubt” Tony Blair did a deal with George Bush to invade Iraq one year before the war. Meirionnydd Nant Conwy MP Elfyn Llwyd insists he has seen highly confidential docum ...
  • Guatemala- The Best Kept Secrets Are the Military’ ...
    (ht2 Memory in Latin America) By Danilo Valladares (IPS) – Human rights groups are worried that the declassification of military archives dating from Guatemala’s 1960-1996 civil war, which left more than 200,000 victims, by a special commission will not go far enough in terms of clarifying the atroc ...

Booman Tribune

  • Casual Observation
    Maybe, but I support it simply because it would help Democrats. Immensely.
  • Kidnapping (Even for Christ) Is A Crime, Pt. 2
    With reports that of kidnapping and criminal association have been filed in the case of 10 Baptist missionaries from Idaho, accused of kidnapping 33 Haitian children, it seems that several things are — or may be — going on. The news about the background of the groups leader, 40-year-old "businesswom ...
  • Interesting Development
    Dana Milbank publicly confesses to being the biggest dupe alive.
  • Afghanistan: Gorby Chimes In
    One failed imperialist gives magnanimous advice (for the most part) to a failing imperialist. What to do about Afghanistan? Mikhail Gorbachev has some suggestions in today's New York Times. I have been asked several times in recent months what I would recommend to President Obama, who inherit ...
  • Kidnapping (Even for Christ) Is A Crime, Pt. 1
    (Ed. Note: This was written yesterday, before charges were reported, and updated after news of charges was released.) Let's get something straight. Kidnapping is a crime. Taking a child across state or national borders, without the full knowledge and informed consent of the parents or survivi ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Phishing for carbon credits
    Wherever there’s a fast buck to be made, there you’ll find phishing scams and internet fraudsters. Some enterprising souls evidently decided that phishing for the credit card details of ordinary people was insufficiently ambitious, so they turned their attention to the nascent carbon credits market: ...
  • Industrial strength fungus: mycelium as building m ...
    I usually try very hard to think up my own headlines when passing on items like this, but sometimes you just have to concede that the one you found can’t be improved upon. So, enter the newest candidate for the ultimate in environmentally-friendly building materials – fungal mycelium [via MetaFilter ...
  • Americaland: writing the US from beyond its border ...
    People can be very quick to make jokes about the lack of knowledge some Americans have about the countries beyond their borders, but the opposite can also be true. Damien Walter recalls a discussion he had with Neil Gaiman at last year’s Clarion writer’s workshop about “Americaland” – the bundle of ...
  • Google for President? Nations, corporations and th ...
    (Thinking out loud here, folks, so do feel free to chip in and tell me why I’m completely wrong on any or all points raised… ) The guys at TechDirt pointed toward a wryly tongue-in-cheek piece at Bloomberg that attempts to nominate Google, Inc as a presidential candidate. Obviously enough, it’s a r ...
  • The sentient Love Machine: Second Life creator pla ...
    Regular readers may remember me mentioning LoveMachine Inc., the new project of Second Life creator Philip Rosedale, back in November of last year. At that point, all the signs pointed toward LoveMachine being a start-up that intended to develop a reputational currency system for virtual worlds… and ...

Therapy News

  • Trust in Authority Shown to be Indicative of Traum ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Understanding how people are prone to behaving in various potentially traumatic settings is an important component of modern psychology and can also inform government agencies and hospitals as they create protocols for handling pandemics. A study just performed at Uni ...
  • Trauma Treatment State of the Art
    Today GoodTherapy.org members enjoyed the 3rd event in our 2010Teleconference Series: Trauma Treatment State of the Art: Understanding Phasic Nervous System Process presented by Steven Hoskinson. A big thank you to Steve for a fascinating and comprehensive presentation on trauma. Please feel free, i ...
  • Psychology: Cognitive Fluency Discussion Heating U ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Psychology is a field rich in concepts and ideas that can spark seemingly endless conversations amongst therapists and other professionals and clients or other interested parties alike, and cognitive fluency is among the most prevalent in the modern age. Cognitive flue ...
  • Stress Hormone Linked to Potential Diabetes Treatm ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline The stress hormone CRF, which may play a significant role in the creation and management of thoughts and feelings of stress throughout the course of daily life, has recently become the focus of an in-depth study on the accelerated growth of certain types of insulin ce ...
  • Trying to Understand the Quake’s Impact on Haiti
    By Susanne M. Dillmann, Psy.D., Post Traumatic Stress / Trauma Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Susanne and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Our human relationship with nature is somewhat of an enigma; it seems impossible to decipher whose impact is greater. We are able to tame and s ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • An Old Prayer for Clean Coal: Strip-Mining Jesus - ...
    An Old Prayer for Clean Coal: Strip-Mining Jesus Huffington Post (blog) And this means that even more dirty coal will be stripmined by reckless mountaintop removal operations in Appalachia, and stripmining operations across the ...
  • Letter from a West Virginia Jail - It's Getting Ho ...
    Letter from a West Virginia Jail It's Getting Hot In Here (blog) So far, the coal industry and their political allies, inside and out of Appalachia, are fighting the anti- mountaintop removal legally (both criminal and ...
  • Pittsburgh activist leads mountaintop removal tour ...
    Pittsburgh activist leads mountaintop removal tours West Virginia Public Broadcasting January 22, 2010 · Mountaintop removal mining is one of the most controversial industrial practices of our time ... and more��
  • Coal lobby study touts industry's benefits to W.Va ...
    WVNS-TV Coal lobby study touts industry's benefits to W.Va. Charleston Gazette (blog) The recent study (also published in a peer-reviewed journal) that documented the scientific consensus that mountaintop removal's environmental impacts are ... King Coal's Top Lobbyist to Meet Obama It's Getting Ho ...
  • Kennedy and Blankenship to Debate Mountaintop Remo ...
    Treehugger Kennedy and Blankenship to Debate Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining It's Getting Hot In Here (blog) This Thursday evening at 6:30pm Robert F. Kennedy Jr will debate Don Blankenship on the future of coal, mountaintop removal and economic opportunities for ... Must-read report: The decline o ...

Memeorandum

  • Why are liberals so condescending? - Every politic ...
    Gerard Alexander / Washington Post : Why are liberals so condescending?   —  Every political community includes some members who insist that their side has all the answers and that their adversaries are idiots.  But American liberals, to a degree far surpassing conservatives, appear committed to th ...
  • Harold Ford Superstar (The Smoking Gun)
    The Smoking Gun : Harold Ford Superstar   —  U.S. Senate wannabe's tour rider anticipates swarms of adoring fans  —  Like Jay-Z and Lady Gaga, Harold Ford, Jr. has a tour rider.  The former Tennessee congressman, who is now trying to carpetbag his way to a Senate seat in New York, banks about $20,0 ...
  • Cornyn: No thanks to Obama Q & amp; A (The Politic ...
    The Politico : Cornyn: No thanks to Obama Q & amp; A   —  Senate Republicans don't have much of an appetite to give President Barack Obama their version of question-and-answer time - not after seeing how Obama handled House Republicans last week.  —  “We're always happy to hear from the president ...
  • Palin e-mails reveal a powerful 'first dude' (Bill ...
    Bill Dedman / msnbc.com : Palin e-mails reveal a powerful ‘first dude’   —  Nearly 3,000 pages of e-mails that the first gentleman, Todd Palin, exchanged with state officials draw a picture of his influence on policy in the Sarah Palin administration.  Other e-mails are still being withheld by th ...
  • What is a 'hold'? - The news of the day, as I ment ...
    Ezra Klein : What is a ‘hold’?   —  The news of the day, as I mentioned earlier, is that Richard Shelby has decided to place a hold on everything that eats, breathes or moves unless Alabama gets a couple billion more in pork.  Before we take a step further on this, it's worth noting that Shelby is ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.1, South Island of New Zealand
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China Dialogue

  • Charting unknown waters
    The behaviour of Himalayan glaciers is beset with uncertainty but the region’s water availability remains a critical issue. Navin Singh Khadka reports. In the wake of the recent controversy over the retreat of Himalayan glaciers, in which the United Nations' climate-science body admitted that it was ...
  • Time for a plan
    Months of friendly discussion between China and the west went up in smoke at Copenhagen. Qin Xuan argues that a new diplomacy is needed to avoid a repeat performance. The most valuable lesson to be learned from the climate change conference in Copenhagen is this: the aims of global governance are un ...
  • Understanding glacier changes (3)
    Whether expanding or retreating, changes in the planet’s glaciers pose dangers for humans. In the conclusion of a three-part article, Kenneth Hewitt explores these risks. Glaciers and their immediate environs present many dangers for humans, such as crevasses and glacier mills into which one might f ...
  • Understanding glacier changes (2)
    How are glaciers affected by climate change? In the second segment of a three-part article, Kenneth Hewitt explains regional variance. As we saw in part one, climate change is obviously having different consequences in different mountain areas of Asia. The situation in the Karakoram must represent s ...
  • Understanding glacier changes (1)
    Reports about the melting – and advancing – of Himalayan glaciers have sparked heated debate. In the first section of a three-part article, Kenneth Hewitt warns against oversimplification. Glaciers are quite sensitive to climate change and, recently, there have been many reports of major changes in ...

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Threat Level

  • Authors Guild: ‘To RIAA or Not to RIAA’
    There’s equal reason to support or object to the proposed Google Books settlement: Creating a digital catalogue of the worlds’ words might be the Holy Grail of intellectual empowerment. Yet building that library in the clouds would be allowed without the rightsholders’ consent — which the Justice De ...
  • Rulings Leave Online Student Speech Rights Unresol ...
    Do American students have First Amendment rights beyond the schoolyard gates? The answer is yes and no, according to two conflicting federal appellate decisions Thursday testing student speech in the online world. “Ultimately, the Supreme Court is going to have to decide if there ever is a time stud ...
  • ISP Defeats Hollywood Copyright Claims
    A leading Australian internet service provider was cleared of copyright allegations Thursday when a federal judge ruled against Hollywood’s lawsuit that iiNet was responsible for infringing BitTorrent data traveling its pipes. The Australian Federal Court decision siding with the country’s third-lar ...
  • Wikileaks Meets Its Cash Goal — For Now
    The whistleblowing site Wikileaks has apparently raised the money it needs to continue operating for the time being, according to a message the organization sent out Wednesday night on Twitter. “Achieved min. funraising [sic] goal. ($200k/600k); we’re back fighting for another year, even if we have ...
  • Google Asks NSA to Help Secure Its Network
    Goggle is teaming up with the National Security Agency to investigate the recent hack attack against its network in a bid to prevent another assault, according to The Washington Post. The move is raising concerns among privacy and civil rights advocates. But sources assured the Post that the deal do ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • UPDATE 1-Powerful snowstorm hits U.S. East Coast
    WASHINGTON, Feb 5 (Reuters) - A powerful storm slammed the U.S. mid-Atlantic on Friday, threatening record snowfall in a region heavily dependent on home heating oil and natural gas supplies.
  • China "indignant" on U.S. arms sales to Taiwan
    MUNICH (Reuters) - China is indignant about new U.S. arms sales to Taiwan and its opposition to them is "very reasonable," Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said on Friday.
  • Instant View: Jobless rate falls to 9.7 percent in ...
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Employers unexpectedly cut 20,000 in January, but the unemployment rate surprisingly fell to a five-month low of 9.7 percent, suggesting some labor market improvement starting to take root.
  • Powerful storm bears down on East Coast
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A powerful winter storm closed in on the U.S. mid-Atlantic on Friday, threatening record snowfalls and unseasonably cold temperatures in a region heavily dependent on home heating oil and natural gas supplies.
  • Charlie Sheen's stolen car plunges down hill
    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles officials on Friday were investigating an early morning car crash in which actor Charlie Sheen's stolen luxury automobile drove off a road and plunged down a hillside.

Equality Trust

  • Broken Britain due to Broken Families?
    Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson on Comment is Free
  • Comment Is Free: Inequality harms all of us
    Lesley Riddoch writes that it's not only the poorest who suffer from inequality – in an equal society, fulfilment and health improve for everyone. Read her article on Comment is Free
  • Unequal Britain
    Richest 10% now 100 times better off than the poorest. Read the Guardian report See the data behind the story Read other news coverage
  • How economic democracy would have prevented the Ca ...
    A letter in today's Guardian points out that employee ownership would have prevented the Cadbury sell-off. Had the Cadbury family followed the examples of the families behind John Lewis, Ove Arup, Tullis Russell, Scott Bader, the Baxi Group and others in selling their shareholdings into employee ...
  • Harriet Harman puts class at the heart of election ...
    Labour deputy leader to make inequality a key dividing line with Conservatives. Harriet Harman will reopen the politically explosive debate over class tomorrowby insisting that it remains the single biggest factor in determining individual achievement. In a speech designed to put the fight against ...

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #0280
    Interview with Canadian ambassador who worked for the CIA. US Pentagon's black budget tops $56 billion. CIA agents working for private companies on the side.
  • Analysis: The Downward Spiral in US-Pakistan Intel ...
    For decades, US geopolitical interests in southern Asia have centered on controlling the Indian Ocean, with its lucrative energy transport routes to and from Japan and China. The events of 9/11, however, in association with nuclear weapons proliferation and the rise of al-Qaeda, have immensely compl ...
  • News you may have missed #0278
    Israelis arrest two alleged Hamas informants. Descendant of Richard Sorge’s accomplice receives Soviet-era award.
  • Did Blackwater bribe Iraqi officials after 2007 sh ...
    The US-based private security company Blackwater is under investigation by the US State Department, which suspects the corporation of having bribed Iraqi officials, in order to gain permission to continue to operate in Iraq, after the 2007 Nisour Square massacre.
  • News you may have missed #0279
    Pakistani spy agencies drug political activists. Georgia jails alleged Russian spy.

After Downing Street.org

  • 12 Leaders Cosponsor Amendment to Block Corporate ...
    By David Swanson Congresswoman Donna Edwards' bill proposing a Constitutional Amendment to deny corporations the free speech rights of persons in the form of unlimited election bribery spending has now been cosponsored by: John Conyers, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Jim McGovern, Keith Ellison, Chellie Pin ...
  • The US Government has Lost its Reason for Being
    By Dave Lindorff There were two points in President Obama’s State of the Union address that provoked resounding and universal applause in the chamber from the assembled senators and representatives of both parties. One point was when the president said he wanted to start his job-creation program “i ...
  • Human Rights Abuses in Israel and Occupied Palesti ...
    Human Rights Abuses in Israel and Occupied Palestine By Stephen Lendman Founded in 1972, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) is its leading human and civil rights organization through activities involving litigation, legal advocacy, education, and public outreach. Each year it publish ...
  • PBS' Bill Moyers Journal Airs Dr. Margaret Flowers ...
    On tonight's " Bill Moyers Journal ," Friday, Feb. 5, 2010, the program will feature one of my favorite activist, Dr. Margaret Flowers of Baltimore County, Maryland, and the relevant and important issue of "Medicare for All." Check you local pbs station for the time in your area. Excerpt from Bill M ...
  • Airport Body Scanning Raises Radiation Exposure, C ...
    Airport Body Scanning Raises Radiation Exposure, Committee Says By Jonathan Tirone | Bloomberg Air passengers should be made aware of the health risks of airport body screenings and governments must explain any decision to expose the public to higher levels of cancer-causing radiation, an inter-age ...

Grist - News

  • Cleantech execs learn to lobby
    by Jonathan Hiskes Dirty energy lobbyists long ago mastered the art of lobbying on Capitol Hill, as evidenced by their copious government subsidies . Now clean energy companies are playing catch-up. Jim Snyder at The Hill reports on executives flying in to Washington to learn about the happy wa ...
  • Climate accord gets boost, but key elements still ...
    by Agence France-Presse PARIS -- Fifty-five nations including the world's top carbon polluters have registered their commitments to combat global warming, the U.N. climate chief said late Monday. The pledges from both industrialized and developing countries for cutting greenhouse gases up to 20 ...
  • Digging into Obama’s 2011 budget on energy a ...
    by David Roberts The Obama administration released its 2011 budget proposal today and the internets are choked with stories about it. The four biggest green stories are EPA funding, fossil-fuel defunding, nuke and clean energy spending, and the cap-and-trade placeholder. EPA regs are funded Th ...
  • Why senators don’t see the clean energy boom
    by Jonathan Hiskes You might not have heard, because almost nobody reported it, but new clean-energy projects attracted more global funding in 2008 than fossil-fuel projects did. For the first time ever, investors put more money in solar, wind, geothermal, and hydropower than in fuels that must ...
  • Bin Laden blames industrial nations for global war ...
    by Agence France-Presse DUBAI -- Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden blamed industrial nations for global warming and urged a boycott of the U.S. dollar to end "slavery" in an audio tape aired by Al-Jazeera television on Friday. "All industrial nations, mainly the big ones, are responsible for the c ...

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Washington Independent

  • Labor Official: Don’t Worry About Likely Loo ...
    Related to the warnings from some economists that the official unemployment rate will likely jump again this year, a Labor Department official today conveyed this message to lawmakers: Don’t worry about it. Testifying before the Joint Economic Committee, Keith Hall, commissioner of the Bureau of Lab ...
  • Don’t Pop the Champagne on Those Job Numbers
    Democrats are reacting to today’s jobs report with an optimism that’s also notably guarded. (Despite the 0.3 percent drop in unemployment, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), for example, described the news tepidly as “a welcome step in the right direction.”) Turns out, there’s probably good reas ...
  • Tea Party Jewelry for Sale
    NASHVILLE — Now for sale at the National Tea Party Convention: tea bag jewelry, courtesy of the Tea Party Emporium, a co-sponsor of the event.
  • Media at the Tea Party Convention
    NASHVILLE — The National Tea Party Convention’s early reluctance to give credentials to reporters — a decision that came after some negative commentary on the event’s cost and critics — was short-lived. Reporters are swarming the Gaylord Opryland Hotel and, with little exception, getting press passe ...
  • Tancredo: Tea Party Movement Can Learn From Anti-I ...
    NASHVILLE — Former congressman Tom Tancredo is the only former federal officeholder working the rooms at the National Tea Party Convention, and he followed up a fiery speech last night with a short address today at a breakout session on immigration run by Numbers USA. He informed a crowd of older-sk ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

  • Snail pie is tastier, more nutritious than beef
    Malnutrition and iron deficiency among schoolchildren in developing countries could be reduced by serving up generous portions of delicious, bargain-priced snail pie and other handy beef alternatives. Submitted by cowboss Left CareII to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • CO2, Methane Ousted as Worst Global Climate Change ...
    Move over CO2—you’ve been ousted, along with methane, as the biggest offenders of global climate change. The majority of “greenhouse gases” are created by humans. Submitted by cowboss Left CareII to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Skeptics claim global warming is fake after top sc ...
    Hackers recently broke into thousands of emails and internal documents from a leading climate research center and dumped them onto an anonymous Russian server. The hacked emails (160 MB worth, unzipped) came from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic R Submitted by cowboss Left CareII to Environm ...
  • Reports call for radical rethink on food policy to ...
    The food and farming sector is not pulling its weight when it comes to tacking climate change and food shortages could be the consequence if we fail to make fundamental changes to the way we farm, process, distribute and eat our food over the next 20 year Submitted by cowboss Left CareII to Society ...
  • TV host curious about attacks on animal ag (audio)
    “Anybody from a city, in my opinion, who spends a day, a week, maybe even just a few hours on a working farm is going to be quickly disabused of a lot of what they believe,” Rowe told AgriTalk radio host Mike Adams last week. Submitted by cowboss Left CareII to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �| ...

Suzie-Q

  • Todd Palin: ‘Shadow Governor’ Internal ...
    Internal Emails Show Robust Role For ‘Shadow Governor’ Todd Palin TPM Muckraker Justin Elliott | February 5, 2010, 10:40AM A nice get from MSNBC.com: a huge batch of internal e-mails released in response to an Alaska open records request show that Todd Palin played a big role in his wife’s admin ...
  • Study: Hunger in America jumps ‘unprecedented’ 46 ...
    By Daniel Tencer, Raw Story, Feb 2, 2010 70 percent of emergency food centers face threats to their survival If there is any indicator of the toll that the Great Recession has taken on the public, it would be the statistics beginning to emerge about hunger in the US. According to a study from the ...
  • CNN: Tea Party Infighting (VIDEO)
    CNN On Tea Party Infighting (VIDEO) TPM Muckraker Zachary Roth | February 3, 2010, 5:52PM CNN has a lengthy (for TV) report on the infighting that, as we’ve detailed, is besetting the Tea Party movement. The high-note comes when CNN gets on camera the GOP consultants who run the Tea Party Expres ...
  • Tony Blair: Gaza’s Great Betrayer
    It’s more than a year since Israel launched its immoral attack on Gaza and Palestinians are still living on the verge of a humanitarian disaster. So what has Tony Blair done to further peace in the region? Virtually nothing, argues the historian Avi Shlaim Avi Shlaim The Guardian/UK, February ...
  • Jewish Anti-Occupation Activists Send Forceful Mes ...
    By Alex Kane, The Indypendent, Feb 1, 2010 For some Upper West Side residents, their usual stroll down Broadway this evening had a surprise: a group of 20 New York Jews denouncing Israel’s occupation of Palestine were standing with thought-provoking signs while a few passed out flyers. Challenging ...

Solari

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  • Expect al Qaeda Attack Soon: CIA
    WASHINGTON - Al Qaeda can be expected to attempt an attack on the United States in the next three to six months, senior intelligence officials told Congress yesterday. CIA Director Leon Panetta said the terror organisation was deploying operatives to the US to carry out new attacks from inside the c ...
  • National Intelligence Tells Congress Americans Can ...
    By Jason Ditz In testimony before the House Intelligence Committee today, National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair told representatives that American citizens can be assassinated by the US government when they are oveseas. Blair said the comments were intended to “reassure” Americans that there ...
  • A Solari Report - The 2010 Census
    “Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding ...
  • CIA Moonlights at Hedge Funds
    By: Eamon Javers In the midst of two wars and the fight against Al Qaeda, the CIA is offering operatives a chance to peddle their expertise to private companies on the side — a policy that gives financial firms and hedge funds access to the nation’s top-level intelligence talent, POLITICO has learn ...

Global Insights

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

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

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Sideways News

  • Dream job on offer in New Zealand
    A dream job as caretaker of a remote island off the coast of New Zealand is on offer.
  • Singer wears ‘Twitdress’ to Grammys
    A singer’s fans are very important. Few more so than to British pop singer Imogen Heap. So important in fact, that she took thousands of them with her to the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. Heap attended the ceremony in a self-made "Twitdress", where fans’ tweets were relayed on an over-sized digital ...
  • Running away to the circus with Rachael West
    Rachael West is the engineer who sold her house and ran away to the circus. Here she tells Sideways News about the experience so far. � SN: Tell me about your background and how you ended up training for the circus. I’m really interested in creative thinking. I do a lot of work facilitating and tra ...
  • Scans allow coma victim to communicate
    Coma patients could be able to communicate using their thoughts, according to a new study conducted at Cambridge University's Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit .
  • Equality bill: politics vs pope
    The Equality Bill, starting life as a mere line in Labour’s 2005 election manifesto, has�become a focal point for political and public battle�– largely due to Harriet Harman (Minister for Women and Equality) putting her political weight behind it. The bill - tackling discrimination in the face of cl ...

Fabius Maximus

  • Republicans have found a sure-fire path to victory ...
    Introduction:  This is the third in a series of dashed off speculative opinions.  Normal procedure on the FM website for these topics would be 3 thousand word posts, supported by dozens of links.  I dont’ have the time to finish them, and too many of these outlines have accumulated in my drafts file ...
  • FM newswire for 5 February, articles for your morn ...
    Today’s links to interesting news and analysis.  If you find this useful, pass it to a friend or colleague.  Esp note the possible breaking news shown below in red. Important article for anyone interested in the coming energy transition:  “21st century energy: Some sobering thought“, Vaclav S ...
  • More propaganda: the eco-fable of Easter Island
    In Successful propaganda as a characteristic of 21st century America I said that in general the Right has been more successful than the Left in promulgating its propaganda in America.  There are exceptions.  Wonderful fables, contradicted by the scientific evidence but told with such confidence and ...
  • FM newswire for 4 February, articles for your morn ...
    Today’s links to interesting news and analysis.  If you find this useful, pass it to a friend or colleague. “The Eikenberry Cables and the Escalation in Afghanistan – Turning Sun Tzu on His Head“, Franklin C. Spinney, Counterpunch, 29-31 January 2010 ClimateGate update — So much for the foreig ...
  • One criterion of victory in Iraq: when will the o ...
    As our involvement in the Iraq War winds down, Michael Schwartz writes about two of the criteria for victory by the Coalition Forces:  increasing Iraq’s oil production under involvement of western companies. “The Iraqi Oil Conundrum – Energy and Power in the Middle East“ By Michael Schwartz, TomD ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Ultra-Precise Quantum-Logic Clock Puts Old Atomic ...
    Scientists have built a clock which is 100,000 times more precise than the existing international standard. The quantum-logic clock, which detects the energy state of a single aluminum ion, keeps time to within a second every 3.7 billion years. The new timekeeper could one day improve GPS or detect ...
  • Electric Charge Can Change Freezing Point of Water
    A watched pot never boils, but an electrically charged pot sometimes freezes. A study in the Feb. 5 Science reports that water can freeze at different temperatures depending on whether the surface it rests on is positively or negatively charged. Under certain conditions, water can even freeze as it ...
  • Leaves Show Looped Networks May Be Better Than Bra ...
    Tree branches have inspired efficient transit networks, but a new study finds inspiration in leaves. The curvy, connected leaf veins found in some plants are an efficient way to circumvent damaged areas and channel nutrients, report researchers led by Eleni Katifori of the Rockefeller University i ...
  • Best View Yet of Pluto Shows Rapidly Changing Surf ...
    After more than four years of processing on 20 hand-built computers, the best views ever captured of Pluto are now available. Working from 384 images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in which the image of Pluto itself was just a few pixels across, astronomer Marc Buie and his team at the Sout ...
  • Dinosaur Fossil Reveals True Feather Colors
    Another week, another colorful feathered dinosaur. Hot on the heels of a recent report identifying pigments in fossilized dino feathers and filaments (SN Online: 1/27/10), a different team of scientists says that it has mapped the full pattern of plumage sported by the oldest known feathered dinosa ...

The Progressive Realist

  • While Nukes Proliferate, John Bolton Repackages Fa ...
    In his lengthy State of the Union address Op-Ed , President Obama John Bolton was brief on national security issues nuclear terrorism , which he squeezed in toward the end beginning . Nonetheless, Obama Bolton boasted insinuated that "the United States and Russia are should not complet eing negotiat ...
  • The Collapse of Spain
    A great Paul Krugman post illustrates the point that the budget crisis in Spain has basically nothing to do with irresponsible budgeting. Pre-crisis Spain had a budget surplus and a low debt load. The problem is that the structure of the EU has made it impossible for Spain to adapt to a large negati ...
  • Spanish President Zapatero the Optimist
    Despite coming off what the Spanish press has dubbed “Zapatero’s Horrible Week,” the President of Spain gave an inspired and constructive speech before the Atlantic Council in Washington last night. The past week has truly been a difficult one for President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.  At Davos ...
  • Off-the-Radar News Roundup
    - China's foreign minister called 2010 a year of opportunity for French-Chinese relations. Certainly relations between the two countries could get no worse than 2009, when they hit a rough patch following President Nicolas Sarkozy's meeting with the Dalia Lama in December 2008. By my back-of-the-env ...
  • A Response to Michael Rubin on Questions of Democr ...
    My tweet the other day in response to Michael Rubin’s article hailing Iraqi democracy — in which I wrote “Michael Rubin still defines democracy as ‘elections’” — has apparently made Rubin upset. He writes “Brian Katulis, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, appears to believe that de ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Fiscal Folly.
    Robert Kuttner argues for more deficit spending on public investment and jobs: The economy is still very fragile, yet Washington seems more fixated on deficits than on recovery. Fiscal conservatives in Congress hope to hold recovery spending hostage for long-term caps on social outlay, and they hav ...
  • Literature from the Underground.
    Adam Serwer reviews Born to Use Mics , a new anthology edited by Michael Eric Dyson : Illmatic , the first album by hip-hop elder statesman Nas , is a masterpiece. Released in 1994, its tales of scowling corner boys, prowling drug addicts, undercover cops, treacherous lovers, and remorseful gangste ...
  • Helping Haiti With Arrogance.
    Ten American missionaries accused of kidnapping 33 Haitian children were formally charged with abduction and conspiracy by a Haitian court yesterday. Haiti's ambassador to the United States, Raymond Joseph , says he hopes the move sends the message that Haiti's government is alive and well after the ...
  • This Byline Could Be Yours.
    We're accepting applications for the Prospect writing fellowship. --The Editors
  • A Response to Conservative Indifference to Unemplo ...
    My crack yesterday, denigrating Ramesh Ponnuru 's integrity and intelligence was admittedly mean-spirited and he has justifiably responded to me in kind. But in the course of responding to my substantive claims, he has essentially acknowledged that economic forces drive anti-incumbency sentiment, bu ...

Andy Worthington

  • Bagram: Graveyard of the Geneva Conventions
    On January 15, 2010, the Pentagon released the first ever list of prisoners held in the Bagram Theater Internment Facility, the main US prison in Afghanistan for the last eight years (PDF). An annotated version of the list is available here. In a previous article, “Dark Revelations in the Bagram Pri ...
  • Swiss Take Two Guantánamo Uighurs, Save Obama from ...
    Congratulations to the Swiss Canton of Jura, which recently accepted the asylum claims of two Uighur prisoners at Guantánamo, and to the Swiss federal government for agreeing to accept Jura’s decision on Wednesday. The two men in question — Arkin Mahmud, 45, and his brother Bahtiyar Mahnut, 32 — ...
  • The Guantánamo Files: An Archive of Articles &#821 ...
    Please support my work! For four years, I have been providing detailed information about the prisoners in Guantánamo, first through my book The Guantánamo Files, which tells the story of the prison and around 450 of the prisoners held, and then through 12 online chapters, which provide inform ...
  • “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” – Annou ...
    Throughout 2010, former Guantánamo prisoner Omar Deghayes and Andy Worthington, journalist and author of The Guantánamo Files, will be touring the UK, showing the new Guantánamo documentary “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” and attending post-screening Q&A sessions. On some dates, Omar, wh ...
  • Lawyers Appeal Guantánamo Trial Convictions
    Last Tuesday, a little known court — the Court of Military Commissions Review — convened to hear appeals in the cases of the only two men sentenced in the Military Commission trial system established by Congress in 2006, after the first version, conceived by Vice President Dick Cheney and his close ...

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  • Announcing the Winner of BuzzFlash's Progressive M ...
    BUZZFLASH FUN This Wednesday, we announced we would give away one $50 gift certificate to a randomly selected patron who donated to BuzzFlash or purchased any item from the BuzzFlash Progressive Marketplace between then and Thursday night. And now, the winner! Drum roll, please... read more
  • In Search For Solutions to SCOTUS Ruling, Congres ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Meg White Every once in a while, Congress acts swiftly. But sometimes legislation alone is just not enough to get the job done. It's hard to keep up with the flurry of bills proposed in the wake of the disastrous Citizens United decision by the Supreme Court last month whi ...
  • When Did The Media Start Calling Khalid Sheikh Moh ...
    Standards here seem to be Slipping way low .Treat him like a terrorist --- Not K-Fed or J-Lo .� (A band just starting To play the fame game Can’t be thrilled to Have the same name .) read more
  • What Will TN Mean For TEA? Will the Convention Ene ...
    BUZZFLASH DISCUSSION Honestly, here at BuzzFlash we're not sure what to think of the whole Tea Party convention going on this weekend . Is this the beginning of an effort to get teabaggers on the ballot to challenge the GOP? Or is the convention an effort to merge the rightward moving Republican Par ...
  • Three Unarguable Reasons to Fire Congressional Rep ...
    BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZFLASH MINUTE The deficit blame game :Republicans appeared to make the elementary mistake of believing their own ... um, propaganda... House Republicans shouldn't have allowed the encounter to be televised. But then believing their own disinformation is basically what makes the ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • The lynch-mob mentality
    (updated below) If�I had the power to have one statement of fact be universally recognized in our political discussions, it would be this one: The fact that the�Government labels Person X a "Terrorist" is not proof that Person X is, in fact, a Terrorist. That propositi ...
  • On the claimed "war exception" to the Constitution
    Last week, I wrote about a revelation buried in a Washington Post article by Dana Priest which described how the Obama administration has adopted the�Bush policy of targeting selected American citizens for assassination if they are deemed (by the Executive�Branch)�to be Terrorists.� As The Washing ...
  • Michael O'Hanlon's "testosterone-laden tough guys"
    (updated below) Defense Secretary Robert Gates today will unveil the administration's plan for repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell, beginning with a ban on discharging gay service members who are "outed"�by third parties. �More than 13,500 gay service members have been discharged since the Cl ...
  • What exactly did Bush and Cheney do wrong?
    As I� noted several days ago, it is not only Republicans -- but Democratic and media establishment figures as well -- who clearly crave the preservation of the Bush/Cheney approach to Terrorism and civil liberties.� When Bush's popularity collapsed to historic lows, political and media elites pret ...
  • Susan Collins spreads central myth about the Const ...
    Over the weekend, Sen. Susan Collins released a five-minute video in which she sounded as though she were possessed by the angriest, most unhinged version of Dick Cheney.  Collins recklessly accused the Obama administration of putting us all in serious danger by failing to wage War against the Ter ...

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Getting your fill of Sciencebase
    Do you lie at wake at night worrying that you might have missed the latest words of wisdom on Sciencebase? Are you concerned that a new post might have published that you desperately wanted to comment on and now it’s too late? Well…fear not. There are so many ways to connect with Sciencebase and si ...
  • Making carbon dioxide useful
    My SpectroscopyNOW column is now live. This week self-perception, trapping and using carbon dioxide, cosmic coronene, mopping up radioactive caesium, photosynthesis and magic spectral lines: Red lenses – US scientists have used MRI to show that apparently the less you use your brain’s frontal lobes ...
  • Science based risk assessment
    Ask people why the enter the lottery and they will usually tell you that “you’ve got to be in it to win it”. As far as it goes that’s true, but it still doesn’t get around the odds of you picking the right numbers being vanishingly (although not quite homeopathically) small at 14 million to [...] S ...
  • Early Valentine’s Alchemist
    The Alchemist this week learns of a golden opportunity to make a fundamental industrial feedstock, ethylene, from natural gas, rather than oil. In microfluidics, a droplet of acid finds its way out of a maze, while an accidental mineral could become the material of choice for magnetic tunnel juncti ...
  • How to teach physics to your dog
    There have been rough guides, books for dummies, even howtos for idiots, but Chad Orzel is probably the first to take explain an important corner of human endeavour solely to his dog in How to teach physics to your dog. Ironically, the subject on which he focuses, physics, is a realm usually the pr ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Statement: Chad Stone, Chief Economist, on the Jan ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 5, 2010 Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Today's jobs report shows that job losses have slowed to a trickle compared with what they were in the months just before President Obama and Congress enacted the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) last February ...
  • Stronger Efficiency, Renewables Measures Would Ben ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 5, 2010 Union of Concerned Scientists If Congress passed climate and energy legislation that strengthened the energy efficiency and renewable energy standards in the version the House of Representatives approved last June, consumer electric and natural gas costs would ...
  • Kucinich Challenges Potential Extrajudicial Killin ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 5, 2010 Congressman Dennis Kucinich Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) yesterday wrote to Attorney General Eric Holder following news reports that Americans have been included on targeted assassination lists maintained by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the J ...
  • White House Must Reform Faith-Based Initiative, Sa ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 5, 2010 ACLU One year after the formation of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, the American Civil Liberties Union joins a broad coalition of religious, education, civil rights, labor and health organizations in urging the Obama admini ...
  • AFSCME President Gerald McEntee to Supporters of P ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 5, 2010 AFSCME This week, Congressman and House Budget Committee Ranking Member Paul Ryan (R-WI) woke a sleeping giant when he released his alternative Republican House Budget Committee's plan to privatize Social Security and replace Medicare with private, for-profit c ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Who's Killing Financial Reform?
    by Robert Reich Senator Chris Dodd, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, scolded Wall Street representatives at a hearing Thursday for sending “an army of lobbyists whose only mission is to kill the common-sense financial reforms” needed by the public. “The fact is,” Dodd said, “I am frustr ...
  • Constitutionally Illiterate
    by Christopher Dreisbach On Nov. 5, Rep. John Boehner of Ohio, the House minority leader, took the podium at a Republican rally, waved a document defiantly and declared:"This is my copy of the Constitution, and I'm going to stand here with the Founding Fathers who wrote in the Preamble, We hold thes ...
  • Iraq Policy: D
    by Bonnie Bricker and Adil E. Shamoo Recent suicide bombings in the heart of Baghdad have sent a message to Washington: Maintaining the Iraq policy of the past administration does not inspire hope. read more
  • The Lynch Mob Mentality
    by Glenn Greenwald If I had the power to have one statement of fact be universally recognized in our political discussions, it would be this one: The fact that the Government labels Person X a "Terrorist" is not proof that Person X is, in fact, a Terrorist. read more
  • What’s Missing from the New Clean Energy Agenda?
    by Sarah Laskow Nuclear power, biofuels, clean coal: These are the Obama administration’s answers to climate change. The 2011 budget, released this week, promised new loans for the construction of nuclear power plants, and on Wednesday the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), White House, and othe ...

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

  • Ontario teachers' pension plan in deep over ties t ...
    The Ontario Teachers' Federation is being urged to stop its pension plan managers from investing in Chile's private water sector.
  • Sierra Club Legislative Update (Tucson Weekly)
    Sandy Bahr of the Sierra Club has sent out her weekly bulletin from the Arizona Legislature. Our favorite part: HB2538 federal mandates; proof of constitutionality (Gowan, Burges, Lesko, et al) states that the legislature cannot enact any statute that appropriates state monies pursuant to a federal ...
  • Beating Back the Puerto Vallarta Blues (La Prensa ...
    Frontera NorteSur Not too long ago, Dyviam Romay and David Luna were busy selling fine furnishings to second-home buying foreigners who were snatching up properties in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco. An internationally-known interior designer, Luna’s gift of creating culturally blended home environments k ...
  • New Trade Deal Short-Changes Canadian Provinces, M ...
    OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Feb. 5, 2010) - "The new trade agreement forged by Canada and the United States as a way to side-step U.S. 'Buy America' provisions amounts to Canada giving away the farm for very little in return," says CUPE National President Paul Moist. T
  • NOAA budget shifts priorities (Gloucester Daily Ti ...
    The highlight of NOAA chief Jane Lubchenco's first new budget for federal fisheries is a $54-million investment in catch shares, the hotly disputed regulatory system that's set to take effect in New England May 1.

Guardian

  • BAE admits guilt over corrupt arms deals
    Arms firm pays out £300m after long-running Guardian investigation The arms giant BAE today agreed to pay out almost £300m in penalties as the company finally admitted guilt over its worldwide conduct in the face of long-running corruption investigations. For 20 years, the firm had refused to accept ...
  • Brown hails N Ireland's 'new chapter'
    Promise of US investment follows 'momentous' agreement that seals power-sharing framework Northern Ireland's leaders have been rewarded with the promise of a new US investment programme after securing a historic deal today which saved power sharing. Gordon Brown and his Irish counterpart, Brian Cowe ...
  • Toyota handling of recall criticised
    • Fault was not classed as a safety issue one year ago • Car firm did not inform government until asked Toyota's response to the potentially lethal accelerator fault which has caused cars to career out of control came under renewed attack tonight following an investigation which cast fresh doubt on ...
  • 'People think I'm bonkers'
    The actor talks about life with Tim Burton, their latest spectacular, Alice in Wonderland – and being branded a 'disastrous dresser' Helena Bonham Carter fancies a drink. So she orders a double ­espresso. And a glass of fizzy water. And an apple smoothie. She looks rather ­worried when I order just ...
  • Capello drops Terry as captain
    • Decision is best for the team, says Capello • Vanessa Perroncel says she will not sell her story A day that began with yet more news­paper allegations of impropriety ended today with England captain John Terry stripped of the captaincy by Fabio Capello because it was "best for the team". In the sh ...

McClatchey

  • Obama tells CIA 'win this war' at service for 7 ki ...
    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama told hundreds of CIA employees Friday that the death of seven of their colleagues in a suicide bombing Dec. 30 in Afghanistan was a "summons . . . to carry on their work, to complete this mission, to win this war and to keep our country safe."
  • House GOP leader slams Obama's plan for fiscal pan ...
    WASHINGTON_ John Boehner, the Republican leader in the House of Representatives, issued a stinging denunciation Friday of the Obama administration's plan to create a fiscal discipline commission, calling it a "partisan Washington exercise" that's "rigged" to promote Democrats' spending policie ...
  • Scams surge amid foreclosure problems
    Another downside to swelling foreclosures: More scamsters, preying on people desperate to save their homes.
  • Report: 8 Americans died defending worthless Afgha ...
    WASHINGTON — A U.S. military investigation into a battle last October in eastern Afghanistan that cost eight American soldiers their lives has concluded that the small outpost was worthless, the troops there didn't understand their mission, and intelligence and air support were tied up elsewhere in ...
  • House to vote on stripping health insurers' antitr ...
    WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives plans next week to vote on — and probably approve — a measure to strip health insurers' antitrust protections, which will be Congress' first step this year to try to overhaul the nation's health care system.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Rising scepticism - a chill wind?
    Over the last few months, a number of British commentators have been trumpeting an increase in scepticism about climate change. The cold weather (often claimed - incorrectly - to be a hemisphere-wide phenomenon), the University of East Anglia e-mail hack , the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Cha ...
  • Distorted view through the climate gates
    Much has been written - not least on this website - and much more surely will be written over the coming months about supposed inconsistencies, errors, misjudgements and poor practice among climate scientists. How many "scandals" do we now have with the suffix "-gate" attached to them? At least fiv ...
  • Copenhagen - striking accord?
    Arguably, it's a deadline that isn't a deadline for an accord that isn't an accord. "It" is - or was - the 31 January target date by which governments were supposed to tell the UN climate convention (UNFCCC) secretariat what pledges they are prepared to make on curbing greenhouse gas emissions. Th ...
  • Crunch time for the cosy cousin?
    You'd think that conserving the world's biodiversity would be a pretty uncontroversial aim - wouldn't you? Who wouldn't think it a good idea that the giant panda survives for our children's children to marvel at, that the intricate dependencies of coral reef ecosystems remain un-ruptured by dynamit ...
  • Reflections on a hugely changed climate
    It's hard to overstate how much the events of the last two months have altered the global picture of climate politics. Picture the scene you'd have found on any day towards the end of last year: more prime ministers and presidents talking publicly about climate change than ever before; the vast maj ...

Afghanistan Sun

  • Helmand province the scene of another bomb
    People attending a dog fight in southern Afghanistan have been killing and wounded in a bomb blast.
  • Bomb at Afghan dogfight kills 3
    A bomb planted on a motorcycle ripped through a crowd gathered to watch a dog fight in southern Afghanistan on Friday, killing three people and wounding more than 30, officials said.Eighteen children ...
  • Transit Flights Over Russia 'Taking Place Reg ...
    PRAGUE -- A senior U.S. official says more than two dozen transit flights with lethal military cargo destined for Afghanistan have been made over Russia under a July 2009 agreement with Moscow.The off...
  • US offensive aims to turn page in Afghan war
    Pakistan's links with Taliban leaders believed based in the country could prove vital to the Afghan government's renewed push to make peace with the insurgents, a potential benefit from relationships ...
  • US offensive aims to turn page in Afghan war
    By KIM GAMEL and ROBERT H. REIDAssociated Press Writers KABUL (AP) - A new and possibly decisive chapter of the Afghan war is unfolding. The U.S. is preparing a major attack on the Taliban, the milit...

Futurismic

  • Phishing for carbon credits
    Wherever there’s a fast buck to be made, there you’ll find phishing scams and internet fraudsters. Some enterprising souls evidently decided that phishing for the credit card details of ordinary people was insufficiently ambitious, so they turned their attention to the nascent carbon credits market: ...
  • Industrial strength fungus: mycelium as building m ...
    I usually try very hard to think up my own headlines when passing on items like this, but sometimes you just have to concede that the one you found can’t be improved upon. So, enter the newest candidate for the ultimate in environmentally-friendly building materials – fungal mycelium [via MetaFilter ...
  • Americaland: writing the US from beyond its border ...
    People can be very quick to make jokes about the lack of knowledge some Americans have about the countries beyond their borders, but the opposite can also be true. Damien Walter recalls a discussion he had with Neil Gaiman at last year’s Clarion writer’s workshop about “Americaland” – the bundle of ...
  • Google for President? Nations, corporations and th ...
    (Thinking out loud here, folks, so do feel free to chip in and tell me why I’m completely wrong on any or all points raised… ) The guys at TechDirt pointed toward a wryly tongue-in-cheek piece at Bloomberg that attempts to nominate Google, Inc as a presidential candidate. Obviously enough, it’s a r ...
  • The sentient Love Machine: Second Life creator pla ...
    Regular readers may remember me mentioning LoveMachine Inc., the new project of Second Life creator Philip Rosedale, back in November of last year. At that point, all the signs pointed toward LoveMachine being a start-up that intended to develop a reputational currency system for virtual worlds… and ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • While The Whistleblower Sits in Prison, More Peopl ...
    On January 28, 2010, the Washington Post announced that the Swiss government has suspended the disclosure of information about tax cheats to the United States under a February 2009 “deferred prosecution” agreement and may seek to renegotiate the deal.  Under the agreement the Swiss government was su ...
  • New interns advance whistleblower cause
    We are pleased to have the talents and energy of a new group of interns for this winter semester.� Here they are: Top row: Michelle, Jacquie, Jamie. Next row: Quinn, Caitlin. Penultimate row: Ryan, Kevin, Tom. Bottom row: Amanda, Amy, Kylie, Lauren. Not pictured: Kevin, Megan, Phil. We remain inde ...
  • In memoriam: Howard Zinn (1922-2010)
    With sadness we report the death of Howard Zinn, historian, author, activist, and founding Board member of the National Whistleblowers Center . Other sources have already reported Zinn's remarkable biography. I recall how the time flew by thirty years ago when I read A People's History of the United ...
  • Transparency International Releases Report on Prev ...
    Yesterday, Transparency International (TI) released a practical guide for combating corruption in relief and reconstruction efforts. “Disasters like the catastrophe in Haiti highlight the absolute necessity of ensuring that the funds and supplies allocated actually reach those in need. Corrupti ...
  • While The Whistleblower Sits in Prison, More Peopl ...
    Yesterday, the Washington Post announced that the Swiss government has suspended the disclosure of information about tax cheats to the United States under a February 2009 “deferred prosecution” agreement and may seek to renegotiate the deal.  Under the agreement the Swiss government was supposed to ...

Defense and the National Interest

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

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Be Patient, Respectful and Listen to the Homeless
    Recently I was making a trip I've made several dozen times, a 90-minute drive from one city to another on the highway in Australia. I was focused on getting home quickly without going over the speed limit. Then, not long into my drive, I saw a homeless person pushing a shopping cart on the side of ...
  • California Court Upholds Jessica's Law ... Sort Of
    We all like easy answers. We like things to be black and white, right and wrong. But sometimes, with a complex issue like homelessness, things just aren't this simple. And perhaps nothing illustrates this better than the debacle surrounding Jessica's Law and the soaring rates of homelessness among s ...
  • Swedish Politician Provides Sleeping Bags Instead ...
    Oh brother. A well-meaning member of parliament in Stockholm, Sweden is donating sleeping bags for the homeless and encouraging her colleagues to do the same. The key words here are "member of parliament." If your average everyday citizens were looking for ways to help, I'd applaud them. (I'd also s ...
  • Cheer for the Red Tent Campaign at the Vancouver O ...
    When you tune in to the Winter Olympics next week, be on the lookout for bright red tents dotting the snowy Vancouver scenery. The Red Tent Campaign is taking to the streets of Vancouver, distributing 500 red pop-up tents to the city's homeless to draw attention to this crucial issue and encourage C ...
  • Homelessness Doesn't Have to Be a Death Sentence
    As I write this post, I spot a client across the street who will likely die soon. All the signs point to this possibility: the substance abuse issues, an absent network of support, a fear of shelters and closed spaces because of trauma, being HIV positive, the cold winter -- the list goes on. All th ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Pentagon requests record $708 billion budget
    The Obama administration on Monday requested Congressional approval for a record $708 billion in military spending for fiscal year 2011. Defense Secretary Robert Gates stressed the need for the Pentagon to prepare for a broader range of approaching security challenges while continuing to fund two on ...
  • Loon watch: CDAI “promotes informed public debate”
    The mandate of the Conference of Defence Associations Institute is to “provide research support to the Conference of Defence Associations (CDA) and promote informed public debate on national security and defence issues.” And as a contribution to that informed public debate, the latest edition of its ...
  • U.S. moves in Eastern Europe complicate START talk ...
    The Obama administration is planning to station American Patriot surface-to-air missiles in Poland within 60 kilometres of the Russian border, sparking expressions of concern from Russia. The Russians perceive the plan to station the missiles and accompanying troops in Poland as part of a larger bu ...
  • Mental health and the military
    What has killed the most U.S. military personnel during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars? Surprisingly, the answer is suicide. That disturbing statistic could also be true for Canadian soldiers participating in the Afghanistan war, but we just don’t know. Testifying to a forum on the problems faced by ...
  • London Conference “welcomes” negotiations with Tal ...
    On January 28th, the London Conference convened to discuss the future of Afghanistan. The two main initiatives discussed by the more than 60 foreign ministers in attendance were a proposal for the gradual transfer of security responsibility to Afghanistan and, more controversially, an Afghan governm ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Airport Body Scanners Increase Risk of Cancer
    February5, 2010 Prison Planet By Paul Joseph Watson An influential international radiation safety organization has warned that the naked body scanners currently being rolled out in airports across the world increase the risk of cancer and birth defects and should not be used on pregnant women or chi ...
  • The Swine Flu “Pandemic” is Over
    February 5, 2010 Mail Online By Jenny Hope The swine flu pandemic, which has cost the nation more than £1billion, was declared over yesterday. With the number of new cases plummeting, health chiefs announced the 24-hour flu helpline will close down next Thursday. Critics said the seven-month outbrea ...
  • Swine Flu Pandemic Was a Hoax
    February5, 2010 Infowars By Paul Joseph Watson Appearing on The Alex Jones Show, outgoing Chair of the Council of Europe’s Sub-committee on Health Wolfgang Wodarg said that his panel’s investigation into the 2009 swine flu outbreak has found that the pandemic was a fake hoax manufactured by pharmace ...
  • Social Security Bailout Is Next
    February5, 2010 Yahoo Finance By Allen Sloan Don’t look now. But even as the bank bailout is winding down, another huge bailout is starting, this time for the Social Security system. A report from the Congressional Budget Office shows that for the first time in 25 years, Social Security is taking in ...
  • The Government Has Your Baby’s DNA
    February 5, 2010 CNN By Elizabeth Cohen When Annie Brown’s daughter, Isabel, was a month old, her pediatrician asked Brown and her husband to sit down because he had some bad news to tell them: Isabel carried a gene that put her at risk for cystic fibrosis. While grateful to have the information — I ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • The Siddiqui conviction: A verdict ‘based on fear, ...
    It should go without saying but yet again needs to be repeated: in an effective justice system, justice not only must be done but it must be seen to be done. In this respect the trial of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, which ended in New York on Wednesday was a miserable failure. Although most Americans haven’t ...
  • Deal with the Taliban pragmatists — not the elusiv ...
    Michael Semple, a fellow at the Carr Centre for Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, says that an attempt to cut a deal with the Taliban should not be conceived as an effort to peel away moderates: The people with whom any deal would have to be done, those Taliban prepared to contemplate ...
  • Netanyahu faces arrest in Hamas hotel murder if Mo ...
    From The National: The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, will be at the top of Dubai’s wanted list if the Israeli foreign intelligence service Mossad is proven to be behind the killing of a senior Hamas official, the Dubai Police chief said yesterday. Lt Gen Dahi Khalfan Tamim told The N ...
  • The war of terror
    At Slate, Dahlia Lithwick writes: …what was once tough on terror is now soft on terror. And each time the Republicans move their own crazy-place goal posts, the Obama administration moves right along with them. It’s hard to explain why this keeps happening. There hasn’t been a successful terror at ...
  • Off with his head!
    Matthew Yglesias writes: If the President wants to do something like implement a domestic policy proposal he campaigned on—charge polluters for global warming emissions, for example—he faces a lot of hurdles. He needs majority support on a House committee or three. He also needs majority support on ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Flashback to 2007 – SST to plunge again?
    Steve Goddard points out that warm SST events often have a downside. My view: something like capacitor discharge in an RC circuit. – Anthony Dr. Roy Spencer reported that January, 2010 was the warmest on record at +0.72C anomaly after a relatively cool +0.28 in December.  Dr. Spencer is one of the ...
  • Spencer: Record January warmth is mostly sea
    NASA Aqua Sea Surface Temperatures Support a Very Warm January, 2010 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. When I saw the “record” warmth of our UAH global-average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) product (warmest January in the 32-year satellite record), I figured I was in for a flurry of e-mails: “But ...
  • More on Ocean Heat Content and recent revisions to ...
    OHC Linear Trends and Recent Update of NODC OHC (0-700 Meters) Data Guest post by Bob Tisdale [This is a follow up post to the first one on WUWT where Bob first examined the recent OHC revision, seen below  - Anthony] http://i48.tinypic.com/14e6wjn.gif The National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) ...
  • Israeli study shows variable sea level in past 250 ...
    From the University of Haifa via Eurekalert The sea level has been rising and falling over the last 2,500 years IMAGE: Rising and falling sea levels over relatively short periods do not indicate long-term trends. An assessment of hundreds and thousands of years shows that what seems ...
  • Ummm Charles, about that train thingy you arrived ...
    From the UK Express PRINCE CHARLES ON CLIMATE CHANGE: GLOBAL WARMING SCEPTICS ARE ALL LIARS Charles, who has campaigned on global warming for more than 20 years, said: “I have watched with growing dismay and alarm the glee with which the sceptics have leapt upon the recent news stories that quest ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Vengeance is Mine, Saith the Lord. Reflections on ...
    by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted on Buzzflash.com Feb. 5, 2010 “NEW YORK (CBS, 1/12/10) Pat Robertson, the American Christian televangelist and host of “The 700 Club,” said that Haitians need to have a ‘great turning to god’ while he was reporting on the ...
  • Remember Zinn by Organizing by Ralph Nader
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Ralph Nader he Nader Page February 5, 2010 There are several memorial services and events being planned for Howard Zinn whom The New York Times called a “historian, shipyard worker, civil rights activist and World War II bombardier, when he passed away at ...
  • 9/11, Deep Events, and the Curtailment of U.S. Fre ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Prof Peter Dale Scott Global Research, January 31, 2010 A talk delivered to the New England Antiwar Conference, MIT, January 30, 2010. Hello everyone! I’m honored to be invited to this important anti-war conference. As I am in the final stages of editing ...
  • Debunking Corporate Free Speech
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ JaguarJ0nes February 04, 2010 more about “Corporate Free Speech“, posted with vodpod Links mentioned in the video: http://tinyurl.com/jjsfoxnewsposter http://tinyurl.com/28thAmendment http://tinyurl.com/ibmheadcount Join me on Face Book http://www.facebook.co ...
  • The Corporate Takeover of U.S. Democracy by Noam C ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Noam Chomsky www.planetarymovement.org Feb 5, 2010 Jan. 21, 2010, will go down as a dark day in the history of U.S. democracy, and its decline. On that day the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the government may not ban corporations from political spending on ...

Your New Reality

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    War On Terror Reality Seeded 30 Years Ago In Nostradamus Documentary By Darryl Mason In 1980, a documentary on Nostradamus, screened all over the west to hundreds of millions of people, and repeated for years after, laid out the rise of political Islam through the 80s and 90s, leading to a terrori ...
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    Philip K Dick : "Perhaps we have not truly had a legal government since that day in Dallas, and those dreadful forces of murder and tyranny took over, cloaked in gray fog, to rule over us in the form of secret police, a true police state but masked by the outer garments of legality."
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    Obama Takes On Roomful Of Republicans In Q & A, Carves Them All Up The Transcript Is Here
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    11,000 Haitians are being paid 60 cents an hour by the UN to clear away the rubble of their capital city , and begin rebuilding. The UN plan to employ 90,000 more : This devastated capital showed increasing signs of stirring back to life on Wednesday as Haitians restarted factory assembly lines, vi ...
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    The majestically beautiful apex of a total solar eclipse The Full Image Is Here (via Reddit )

Wired - Science

  • Ultra-Precise Quantum-Logic Clock Puts Old Atomic ...
    Scientists have built a clock which is 100,000 times more precise than the existing international standard. The quantum-logic clock, which detects the energy state of a single aluminum ion, keeps time to within a second every 3.7 billion years. The new timekeeper could one day improve GPS or detect ...
  • Electric Charge Can Change Freezing Point of Water
    A watched pot never boils, but an electrically charged pot sometimes freezes. A study in the Feb. 5 Science reports that water can freeze at different temperatures depending on whether the surface it rests on is positively or negatively charged. Under certain conditions, water can even freeze as it ...
  • Leaves Show Looped Networks May Be Better Than Bra ...
    Tree branches have inspired efficient transit networks, but a new study finds inspiration in leaves. The curvy, connected leaf veins found in some plants are an efficient way to circumvent damaged areas and channel nutrients, report researchers led by Eleni Katifori of the Rockefeller University i ...
  • Best View Yet of Pluto Shows Rapidly Changing Surf ...
    After more than four years of processing on 20 hand-built computers, the best views ever captured of Pluto are now available. Working from 384 images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in which the image of Pluto itself was just a few pixels across, astronomer Marc Buie and his team at the Sout ...
  • Dinosaur Fossil Reveals True Feather Colors
    Another week, another colorful feathered dinosaur. Hot on the heels of a recent report identifying pigments in fossilized dino feathers and filaments (SN Online: 1/27/10), a different team of scientists says that it has mapped the full pattern of plumage sported by the oldest known feathered dinosa ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein ...
    Ridgen and Rossier's new compelling documentary about controversial Jewish-American academic Norman Finkelstein is to open soon at Anthology Film Archives. The film has already played in prominent... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Open Shuhada Street! February 25, 2010 Internation ...
    On February 25, 2010 activists around the world will participate in an international day of action to raise awareness about the issue of lack of freedom of movement in the Palestinian city of Hebron.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Yossi Melman: Robbing Sderot of defense from rocke ...
    The decision to develop Iron Dome appears to have been, from the start, an effort to keep the Rafael scientists employed and compensate the company for not benefiting from the research and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in i ...
  • Israeli report claims $2bn stolen from Palestinian ...
    Jonathan Cook: [Israel's] finance ministry has admitted that most of the money taken from the workers was passed to Israeli military authorities in the Palestinian territories to pay for... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its ...
  • Police would issue arrest warrant for Israeli PM i ...
    “Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, will be the first to be wanted for justice as he would have been the one who signed the decision to assassinate [Mahmoud] al Mabhouh in Dubai. We will... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

Intel Trends

  • IntelTrends 05-FEB-2010
    Five servicemen die, 5 get injuries in battle in Chechnya Itar-Tass, 05 Feb GROZNY - Five servicemen of Interior Troops died and six got injuries as a result of an armed clash with militants in Chechnya's mountain woodland, ITAR-TASS learnt at the law enforcement bodies of the republic on Frid ...
  • BURMA: Who killed Mongla's #6 Min Ein?
    The following article is reprinted with permission from Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.), Chiang Mai, Thailand. Who killed Min Ein? � � S.H.A.N. February 5, 2010 � 15:26 After U Min Ein, General Secretary of the National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA) based in Mongla, opposite China's ...
  • Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: The Impracticable ...
    The following opinion is reprinted with permission from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. The Impracticable Decision of the London Conference Source: �Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan February 4, 2010 � 08:19 � administrator The London Conference is the eighth conference on Afghanistan held ...
  • Indian Rebel Groups Operating Camps in Burma
    The following article is from The Irrawaddy. Indian Rebel Groups Operating Camps in Burma � � The Irrawaddy By Ba Kaung February 4, 2010 Members of United Liberation Front Assam (ULFA), an armed separatist group from Assam State in northeast India, have established four camps inside Burma an ...
  • IntelTrends 04-FEB-2010
    Indian fighters to be armed with BrahMos misiles RIA, 04 Feb India's fleet of Su-30MKI Flanker-H fighters could be armed with BrahMos missiles by 2012, the vice president of the Irkut Corporation said at the Singapore Airshow 2010 on Thursday. U.K. MoD plans cuts in senior army and civilian pos ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • 70+ Organizations Call on EPA to Correct Environme ...
    Check out what EPA and Idaho Dept. of Environmental Quality are doing in an isolated and impoverished community in the nations largest Superfund site in North Idaho. Dumping 600,000 cubic yards of toxic waste at a National Historic Landmark in a vast wetland, along Interstate 90 and a floodplain tha ...
  • Cancer and Pesticides: the Legal Floodgates Have O ...
    After long battles, three farmers in France have won legal claims that their cases of cancer and Parkinson's disease were caused by working with pesticides. Now they want to help others fight similar cases Click here to read this article
  • Shadow Elite: How the World's New Power Brokers Ar ...
    We live in a world of flexibility. We have flex time, flex workers, flex spending, flex enrollment, flex cars, flex technology, flex perks, mind flex-even flex identities. "Flex" has become an integral part not only of how we live, but of how power and influence are wielded. While influencers flex t ...
  • VICTORY! U.S.D.A. Plans to Drop Program to Trace L ...
    Campaign Victory! Faced with stiff resistance from ranchers and farmers, the Obama administration has decided to scrap a national program intended to help authorities quickly identify and track livestock in the event of an animal disease outbreak. Click here to read this article
  • Genetically Modified Forest Planned for U.S. South ...
    International Paper and MeadWestvaco are planning to transform plantation forests of the southeastern U.S. by replacing native pine with genetically engineered eucalyptus Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

  • La magia de los colores (21 imágenes)
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Hace algunos días, compartimos contigo nuestras colecciones número I , número II y número III de imágenes de amor para el día de San Valentín . Para darle cierto aspecto de alegría a este mes tan especial, tenemos para t ...
  • Más de 500 imágenes macro impresionantes
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Me quito el sombrero blanco ante esta impresionante colección de más de 500 imágenes macro que Arachiusz ha conseguido coleccionar. La calidad de cada fotografía, expresa por sí misma la enorme pasión de este artista de ...
  • Las imágenes más recientes de 1x.Com
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  • Fotografías de Anthony Kurtz en Koi Koi Koi
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  • Colección de fotos bonitas by Luděk Wellart
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Executive Intelligence Review

Center for a Livable Future

  • Green Lecture Series at National Building Museums ...
    I recently attended the lecture series at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.  The topic of the talk was urban agriculture.  What I found most interesting was that the lecture series was targeted at architects, planners and builders; even though the ¬¬topic seemed to be directed at the ...
  • New analysis claims Monsanto skewed GM corn findin ...
    Monsanto conducted studies to evaluate the toxicity of genetically modified (GM) corn on rats as part of European regulatory registry of GM food and feed, prior to commercialization. To our knowledge, only a summary of the findings were made available to the public (for examples see European Food Sa ...
  • Baltimore Food Makers potluck
    On the recommendation of a friend, I had to good fortune to attended the Baltimore Food Makers monthly potluck this Saturday to share home-grown, home-preserved and home-made food with a group of ~30 “food makers.”  Before eating we all gathered around the spread of food and each maker discussed w ...
  • Antibiotics in Farming: Has Tyson Foods Shot Itsel ...
    -From the Animal Welfare Approved web site Tyson Foods’ recent agreement to settle a lawsuit for falsely advertising its “raised without antibiotics” chicken brand has received limited media coverage – no doubt to the relief of the company’s boardroom. And with an annual turnover of nearly $27 bill ...
  • Vegetarian and low-carbon diets emerging in China?
    Yesterday I spotted a segment on the China Central Television (CCTV) web site describing the vegetarian restaurant scene in China and the emergence of a low-carbon diet trend. Meat consumption has risen dramatically in China in the last few decades; research by Barry Popkin at the University of Nort ...

Norwegianity

  • O’Keefe’s ties to racist orgs revealed
    Max Blumenthal on James O’Keefe: [A]n activist organization that monitors hate groups has produced a photo of O’Keefe at a 2006 conference on “Race and Conservatism” that featured leading white nationalists…. O’Keefe was manning the literature table at the gathering that brought together anti-Sem ...
  • Linkenstuffen
    Serious stuff: COBRA Cenk Uygur on bipartisanship (the five-syllable way to say fuck you!) Polls, Republicans, and the philosophical immaturity of the right (more) Masaccio on the Lords of Finance The Missing Throats Doesn’t make any difference who’s in charge of Congress, they’re still giving billi ...
  • Stadium jobs and Bennahums
    Ever wonder where all that lottery money goes to? Well, according to the Minnesota Lottery site: Each year, the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund receives 40 percent of Lottery net proceeds, or about 6.6 cents of every dollar spent on lottery tickets. For fiscal year 2008, the Legislat ...
  • Dark glances
    Well that didn’t take long. Last night I noticed I was getting traffic from the Strib. I checked and was laughing out loud after seeing the Strib had automatically linked to my Drowning Pawlenty in a bathtub of his own overflowing post. It’s gone from the Strib’s Pawlenty hagiography page now. No cl ...
  • Same as it ever was
    This is a strategy that can only work if the news media cooperates. Seeing as how this was the top story at the New York Times this morning, it appears our corporatist media is finally seeing some advantage to reporting both sides of the battle in Congress. As weary as I am of Obama’s reaching out t ...

The Seferm Post

The World We Live In

  • MQM Caught Spying On Pakistan
    Guest post sent in by Truth Seeker MQM caught spying red-handed for foreign nationals and smuggling classified state material outside Pakistan and violated Official Secret Act.  According to a report published in the press Waseem Akthar (MNA) and former advisor to the Chief Minister on poli ...
  • US drones killed 123 civilians, three al-Qaeda men ...
    Monday, February 01, 2010 By Amir Mir LAHORE: Afghanistan-based US predators carried out a record number of 12 deadly missile strikes in the tribal areas of Pakistan in January 2010, of which 10 went wrong and failed to hit their targets, killing 123 innocent Pakistanis. The remaining two successfu ...
  • War Begets War, Don’t Call it Terrorism
    Slate | By William Saletan | 11 January 2010 Traitor, Bomber, Soldier, Spy Stop crying “terrorism” every time we’re attacked. Afghan police officers inspect the site of a blast in Khost province Photo: REUTERS Two weeks ago, a Jordanian suicide bomber blew up seven CIA employees at a U.S. m ...
  • Indian army doesn’t posses ability to fight in nig ...
    NEW DELHI: While the Indians celebrate 62nd Army Day, country’s Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor, just after a couple of weeks of announcing a new war doctrine of Indian army to eliminate Pakistan and China in matter of hours even if it has to fight on simultaneous fronts, outrageously admitted I ...
  • Freedom of Speech for a Fiction
    By CHRISTOPHER KETCHAM I often correspond with a long-time Washington DC operator named Leigh Ratiner, who spent 40 years in government, serving under Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Reagan, with cabinet-level posts in the Defense Department, under the Secretary of the Interior, in the ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Farmers and Conservation Groups Seek to Halt Plant ...
    Earlier Court Decision Found Federal Approval of GE Sugar Beets to Be Unlawful Earthjustice and Center for Food Safety announced today that they filed court papers seeking a ban on genetically engineered (GE) sugar beets and sugar beet seeds. The motion was filed in Federal Court on behalf of a coal ...
  • Supreme Court to Hear First Genetically Engineered ...
    Monsanto Takes Center for Food Safety Legal Victory to Highest Court Today, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to hear a first-time case about the risks of genetically engineered crops. Named Monsanto v. Geertson Seed Farms, No. 09-475, the case before the high court will be yet another step in an ongoi ...
  • Tell USDA That You Care About GE Contamination of ...
    In 2006, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) sued the Department of Agriculture (USDA) for its illegal approval of Monsanto’s genetically engineered (GE) Roundup Ready alfalfa. The federal courts sided with CFS and banned GE alfalfa until the USDA fully analyzed the impacts of the plant on the environm ...
  • USDA AGAIN AIMS TO ALLOW UNLIMITED PLANTING OF GEN ...
    Center for Food Safety to lead coalition to protect public, farmers and environment from GE crop hazards The Center for Food Safety today announced that it will lead a coalition of concerned farmers, consumers and environmentalists to hold USDA accountable in its responsibility to protect all farme ...
  • Center for Food Safety and Institute for Agricultu ...
    Groups Urge Government Ban of Common Additives Used in Feed for Chicken, Turkeys and Hogs Today, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), filed a petition with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) calling for the immediate withdrawal of approvals ...

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