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IPS - Inter Press Services

• PERU: Women Combine Invention, Tradition to Imp ...
  PAUCARÁ, Peru, Feb 7 (IPS) - Although Huancavelica is the poorest region of Peru, it has more than just poverty, malnutrition and unmet needs. There are also women using their creativity, efforts and traditional indigenous knowledge to improve the diets of their families and communities.
• CLIMATE-GERMANY: Planting the Forest of the Futur ...
  BERLIN, Feb 7 (Tierramérica) - Exotic tree seedlings grow next to native species in the southeastern German village of Laufen, at a site where researchers are experimenting with ways to restore forests lost to the effects of global warming.
• YEMEN: Development Recognised as Crucial for Stab ...
  WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (IPS) - Amid growing concerns here over the threat posed by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), a consensus is emerging among U.S. experts that Washington and other donors to Yemen must place at least as much or greater emphasis on promoting sustainable development in ...
• ETHIOPIA: Dam Critics Won't Go Away
  ADDIS ABABA, Feb 6 (IPS) - Ethiopia is building a 240-metre high dam on the Omo River that is intended to end the country's electricity shortage and supply power to neighbouring countries. Not everyone's happy.
• ROMANIA: Starting Early on Human Rights With Scho ...
  BUCHAREST, Feb 6 (IPS) - A textbook on human rights activism, being introduced in Romanian schools this year, steers away from preaching and uses interviews with global and local rights activists to suggest how young people may get involved.

Scoop - NZ

• Predators pound North Waziristan camp
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  A swarm of unmanned US aircraft pounded an al Qaeda camp today in the Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan. Five unmanned US strike aircraft, likely the Predators and Reapers, are reported to have fired 18 missiles at a camp and vehicles in the village of Datta Khel, a known al Qaed ...
  
• Life after oil: "A thousand barrels a second"
  Peter Tertzakian has a double education in geophysics and economics and is "Chief Energy Economist" at a Canadian energy investment company. His book "A Thousand Barrels a Second: The Coming Oil Breakpoint and Challenges facing an energy dependent world" was published in 2007, but was, based on the ...
• How to talk to friends about climate change
  I may soon end up walking the streets of Boston with a sandwich board and a tinfoil hat. I know you'll all remember me fondly when that day comes, and stop to say hello and maybe buy me a sandwich. But in the meantime, with my wits still somewhat collected, I'm going to tell you about my present str ...
• Brown attacks Ashcroft funding scandal
  Gordon Brown has thrust the issue of Tory party donations to the centre of the election campaign by declaring that the secrecy surrounding its biggest financial backer - Lord Ashcroft - is "a scandal". In an exclusive interview with the Observer, in which he spoke at length of the need to restore ...
• Chomsky: The Corporate Takeover of U.S. Democracy
  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 elections-a decision that profoundly affects government policy, both domestic and internat ...

Independent ( London )

• Workers killed in power plant blast
  At least two people died and dozens more were feared injured in an explosion at a power plant today.
• 'Mass casualties' after Connecticut gas explosion
  Police are reporting a gas explosion and fire at a power plant in the northeastern state of Connecticut.
• Mass casualties after Connecticut gas explosion
  Police are reporting a gas explosion and fire at a power plant in the northeastern state of Connecticut.
• Polls open in Ukraine's bitterly fought election
  Ukrainians voted today in a runoff election between two bitterly opposed presidential candidates, a vote that some observers predict could be settled in the courts.
• G7 financial leaders focus on budget crises
  A crisis in Europe over budget belt-tightening has upended global markets and seized the attention of financial leaders meeting in the Canadian Arctic.

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Iran to enrich uranium to 20 percent
  Summary: Natanz Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ordered uranium enrichment to a 20 per cent level without giving up Tehran’s readiness to swap domestically produced low-enriched uranium with atomic fuel produced abroad. source: The Hindu read more
• Iran's Mottaki in 'good talks' with IAEA chief
  Summary: Mottaki Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Saturday he had held a "very good meeting" with the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over a nuclear fuel swap proposal. source: Press TV read more
• Pipes: Bombing for Political Expediency
  Summary: Islamophobe Daniel Pipes makes what has to be considered the strongest case ever (and in a manner entirely consistent with his and other hard-line neo-cons notoriously cavalier attitude toward violence and war) for bombing nuclear facilities in Iran in his op-ed on National Review Onl ...
• China: Big powers should talk with Iran, not punis ...
  Summary: The U.S. State Department said senior officials from the United States, Britain, France, Germany, China and Russia held a conference call on the issue. source: Reuters read more
• 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 Daily Galaxy

• Will It Soon Be Possible to Teleport Energy? World ...
  There is an increasing awareness among the world's scientific community that the properties of the universe are best described not by the laws that govern matter but by the laws that govern information, which appears to be true for the...
• LHC Shatters World Record -One Step Closer to Solv ...
  In December, the Large Hadron Collider, the world?s largest particle accelerator, shattered the world record for highest energy particle collisions. “This is the very first step in a long road to performing extremely sensitive analyses that can detect particles produced...
• Galaxy Mashup Yields An Awesomely Violent Binary Q ...
  Astronomers have found the first clear evidence of a binary quasar within two actively merging galaxies. Quasars are the extremely bright centers of galaxies surrounding super-massive black holes, and binary quasars are pairs of quasars bound together by gravity "This...
• Quantum Laws Discovered at Work in Photosynthesis
  We were astonished to find clear evidence of long-lived quantum mechanical states involved in moving the energy. Our result suggests that the energy of absorbed light resides in two places at once. It also raises some other potentially fascinating questions,...
• New Hubble Survey Finds Milky Way Unique
  A team of European astronomers led by François Hammer of the Observatoire de Paris has scored a first, completing a census of galaxy types from 116 local galaxies and 148 distant galaxies at two different points in the Universe’s history...

Natural News

• Andrew Wakefield, Scientific Censorship, and Fourt ...
  (NaturalNews) When it comes to vaccines, Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey get it. They see how the pharma industry is engineering a campaign to silence Dr. Andrew Wakefield in order to suppress the publication of startling new evidence linking vaccines to severe neurological damage. At great risk to th ...
• Chevron hires twelve public relations firms to dis ...
  (NaturalNews) In response to an environmental lawsuit filed against the oil giant, Chevron has fortified its defenses with at least twelve different public relations firms whose purpose is to debunk the claims made against the company by indigenous people living in the Amazon forests of Ecuador. Acc ...
• Plant-Based "Eco-Atkins Diet" Boosts Health, Drops ...
  (NaturalNews) Researchers have found evidence that it may be possible to use a version of the Atkins diet to improve health, rather than harming it -- a vegetarian version dubbed the "Eco-Atkins" diet. The Atkins diet is a form of high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet that was popular in 2003 and 20 ...
• Cannabis Beneficial for Multiple Sclerosis Patient ...
  (NaturalNews) A systematic review conducted by The Global Neuroscience Initiative Foundation found that five of six controlled trials reported a reduction in spasticity and an improvement in mobility amongst multiple sclerosis patients using cannabis extracts. The two researchers, Shaheen Lakhan and ...
• Big Pharma executive murders 8-year-old son with X ...
  (NaturalNews) I've always said that Big Pharma executives were guilty of crimes against humanity. Now one of their wealthiest and most successful executives has been caught trying to pull off a murder-suicide in an upscale NY hotel. Gigi Jordan, who ran pharmaceutical companies selling pills to trea ...

Webhosts

• Paged Media

TheGallopingBeaver

• I got your class war right here
  Give a man a fish and he'll eat it, teach a man to fish....and he may starve to death waiting to get a bite. There has been a lot of asinine talk lately about the evils of creating dependence among the poor by...well, y'know, making sure that they don't starve to death. My previous favorite were en ...
• Sheesh
  ERIC CLAPTON is now shilling for T-Mobile and Fender. Eric, don't you have enough money, already? If you can't get a decent sound out a plebeian Mexican-made Strat, the megabuck Clapton model isn't going to make you sound any better.
• Bye bye "Buy Local' - Hello "Buy North American"
  Harper and Co have been working hard . They have decided the prorogation of parliament is the ideal time to implement a crippling new extension of NAFTA into our lives . The Deal : In exchange for a 10 day window in which Canadian corporations will theoretically be allowed exemption from some of Ob ...
• Duct Tape
  During a private "fly-in" fishing excursion in the Alaskan wilderness, the chartered pilot and fishermen left a cooler and bait in the plane. And a bear smelled it. This is what the bear did to the plane:  The pilot used his radio and had another pilot bring him 2 new tires, 3 cases of duct tape, ...
• Vancouver Rally For Democracy photos
  Pix from me and West End Bob -click 'em to enlarge . Canwest : Thousands turn out for Vancouver rally to protest PM Harper's decision to prorogue Parliament. " Thousands ", says Canwest, with 25,000 nation-wide. . Look at all those handmade signs! Very upbeat mood throughout, passing cars ...

Media Matters for America

• Quick Fact: Wallace revives Palin's "pal around ...
  During an interview with Sarah Palin on Fox News Sunday , host Chris Wallace aired a clip of Palin claiming during the 2008 presidential campaign that then-candidate Barack Obama had been "pal[ling] around with terrorists." But Wallace did not note that the New York Times article to which Palin ori ...
• Quick Fact: Palin repeats falsehood that Alaska p ...
  During an interview with Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace, Fox News contributor Sarah Palin falsely claimed that "20 percent of the US domestic supply of energy" comes from Alaska. In fact, according to the most recent data available from the Energy Information Administration, Alaska account ...
• Palin's tea party speech full of false and mislead ...
  During her address before the National Tea Party Convention, Fox News contributor Sarah Palin made numerous false and misleading claims about national security and foreign policy, including suggesting that the Obama administration doesn't use the word "war," that interrogators didn't ask alleged Ch ...
• Palin latest to walk back criticism of GOP leader ...
  On  Fox News Sunday , Sarah Palin became the latest Republican leader to walk back criticism of Rush Limbaugh's incendiary rhetoric, saying that he had been "satirical" in using the word "retards." In a prior statement about Limbaugh's comments, a Palin spokesperson had criticized the "crude a ...
• Quick Fact: Despite her previous support, Palin ba ...
  In appearances at the National Tea Party Convention and on  Fox News Sunday , Sarah Palin repeated criticism of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) as "crony capitalism at its worst," a "slush fund," and claimed that part of the "fundamental difference" between conservatives and the Obama Whit ...

Global Research.ca

• The Crisis in Haiti
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Award Winning Movie: "SUPERPOWER":
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Sovereign Debt Fears Signal New Stage of Global Cr ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• AIG-Gate: The World's Greatest Insurance Heist
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Boiling Tea in America
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• Stupid Question
  The Public Editor at the New York Times, Clark Hoyt, is doing the public a great disservice, not only by calling for Ethan Bronner's reassignment, but for asserting a reason, apparently supported by Harvard's Alex Jones, that makes a nonsense... New York Times - Clark Hoyt - Ethan Bronner ...
• Weekly Roundup: What We Missed
  Election season has begun. And the results of the contentious primaries in Illinois and the ranked up races across the country prove that it will be an entertaining, surprising season. There's already a muck-drenched story in the Land of Lincoln,... Lincoln Nebraska - Illinois - United ...
• 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 ...
• Jerusalem Post No Longer A Newspaper & Avatar Is S ...
  UPDATE: Two years ago, at a family event, an Israeli guest noticed Wolf Blitzer in attendance and said, "In Israel, we took CNN off the cable packages for being anti-Israel. Now we have FOX which is great." My younger son,... United States - Native Americans in the United States - Holocaus ...
• 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 ...

TruthOut

• Connie Schultz | Snow Job in Washington
  The night before the big snow started to drop on our nation's capital, frenzied shoppers stockpiled toilet paper as if the entire city were about to be scooped up and airdropped into Outer Mongolia. Apparently, this is one of Washington's winter rituals. "You have enough toilet paper?" one person a ...
• Super Bowl Fever in New Orleans and the Militariza ...
  Sportswriter Dave Zirin, author of A People’s History of Sports in the United States, says the New Orleans Saints’ Super Bowl appearance—at least for the moment—is boosting spirits in New Orleans on a level unseen since Hurricane Katrina. Zirin also discusses pro athletes who have stood up for gay r ...
• Is Pot Legalization Push in California a Trend Tha ...
  San Francisco - It's almost a cliché these days that this city and its sister to the east, Oakland, stand as the primary incubators of some of California's infamously wacky but later transformational social and political ideas. From the Silicon Valley to Oakland and Berkeley to the Napa Valley – if ...
• GRITtv: Feminism, the Superbowl and the Media
  CBS has changed its longstanding policy of not allowing issue ads during the Super Bowl to accept an anti-choice advertisement from Focus on the Family, and women’s groups are furious at the double standard: CBS still rejected an ad from a gay dating service. Jehmu Greene and the Women’s Media Cente ...
• False Profits
  False Profits: Recovering From the Bubble Economy By Dean Baker PoliPoint Press, 2010 He who feels punctured must once have been a bubble. - Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, 6th century BCE read more

Planetsave

• Mann is Off the Hook, So Let’s Look at the Real Cr ...
  Michael Mann, the somewhat infamous climate scientist from Penn State, shouldn’t be so infamous after all, we find out yet another time! “An academic inquiry into the so-called ‘climategate’ email scandal has concluded that a well-known U.S. scientist [Mann] did not directly or indirectly falsify ...
• Is A Pill Take-Back Law in Our Future?
  As the product stewardship movement gains steam, attention is turning to the issue of unsafe disposal of residue or unwanted consumer pharmaceuticals.  The widespread detection of pharmaceutical residues in public waters and fish has raised biologists’ concerns.  In Minnesota, the popularity o ...
• Ocean Conservancy Holds US Responsible for Coastal ...
  This week we’re on the topic of saving endangered sea life , and now is the best time to take action with the Ocean Conservancy ! The Obama Administration has a newly formed Ocean Policy Task Force that’s accelerating a planning process for our glorious ocean and coasts. Since it’s up to us to ...
• 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 ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Water Preservation 101: Points on Collaboration an ...
  Last week, I attended the Cahaba River Society’s (CRS) annual meeting. I’ve been a board member for
• Livestock Links: Examining the role of baceria in ...
  [Source: Sarah Lupis, Institute for Livestock and the Environment and Thomas Borch, Assistant Profes
• Sustainable water and sanitation infrastructure - ...
      Water.org in the News    Featured News    Water Headlines Matt Damon and Water.org announced at
• USGS experts study Sierra groundwater
  Experts from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) held a public meeting on January 11, 2010 to discuss
• Wanzenried Announces Re-election Bid for SD49
  by jhwygirl I’d been waiting….frankly, I was a little concerned that he might be recruit

Public Citizen in Texas

• Jim Hightower, Roger Duncan, Tom Smitty Smith, and ...
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
• Russel Smith, Executive Director of TREIA, at Pub ...
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
• Carol Geiger, Public Citizen's Office Manager, at ...
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
• Eric Bremer and Andy Wilson at Public Citizen Texa ...
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
• Ric Sternberg at Public Citizen Texas' 25th Annive ...
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:

Press TV

• Toyota plans to recall Prius Hybrid, reports say
  The Toyota Motor Corporation plans to recall more than 270,000 Prius Hybrid cars to fix their braking system problems as soon as early this week, reports from Japan say.
• Pentagon to make 'immortal organisms'
  The Pentagon's advanced research division has allocated $6 million to create immortal synthetic organisms, which can die on command and keep a genetic record of what they have been doing, a report says.
• Iran says home-made stealth drone tested
  Iran has successfully tested the prototype of its first domestically-built stealth drone, a senior Air Force commander said Sunday.
• Yanukovich leading Tymoshenko in Ukraine run-off
  Former Ukrainian prime minister and opposition leader Viktor Yanukovich, is the winner of the presidential run-off in the former Soviet state, exit polls suggest.
• 'Syria to back Lebanon in case of Israeli attack'
  Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Sunday that Damascus would stand by Beirut, should Israel launch another war on Lebanon.

Axis of Logic

• How Globalization Works: Toyota Motor Manufacturin ...
• China's Prosperity: Capitalist, Communist or "Non- ...
• US Intelligence Report Classifies Venezuela as “An ...
• Useful Lies, Useless Lives
• Tout Moun Ce Moun: The Haitian Revolution as a Pe ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• The Ad You Should - But Won't - See During the Sup ...
  Here's what they're talking about.
• Intellectual Dishonesty, Again, on the Right
  Over at the Washington Post today, University of Virgina politics professor Gerard Alexander attempts to provide some academic reinforcement to Sarah Palin's right wing grievance-mongering rant yesterday at the Tea Party convention.  In his column, Alexander wonders "Why are Liberals So Condescendin ...
• Funny thing about history - it really does repeat
  Did you know that this "Tea Party" nonsense is nothing new? The first time around was in the mid 50s... And do you know what makes it all the more delightful? These "Freedom Fries" eating idiots who sniff after her with their hands in their pants are reprising a short-lived burst of right-wing popul ...
• Redirecting TARP Funds to Small Business
  In his weekly address, President Obama proposes one small step away from enriching Wall Street and toward helping Main Street. Read the full transcript here.
• Sarah Palin And The Tea Baggers: Attack Of The 4.5 ...
  The tea-party people held their first national convention this weekend in Nashville, and former Alaska novice Governor and bestselling airhead Sarah Palin actually tried to give them a rabble-rousing speech. It was filled with lots of profound insights like: "How's that hope-y, change-y stuff workin ...

Care 2

• Kashmir on Boil After Killing of Another Boy
  A 16-year-old boy was allegedly shot dead by Indian border guards in the outskirts of Srinagar, triggering fresh protests in Kashmir, which is already on boil over the killing of a 13-year old boy in police shelling. The boy killed on Friday has Submitted by Sally G. to World  |   Note-it!  |   A ...
• ACTION ALERT: International Day of Action for the ...
  International Day of Action for the Seals Protest Against the Seal Hunt: Putting Pressure on the Sealers Before the Slaughter Begins. Submitted by Simone D. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Enough talk - Time to Back Tuna Trade Ban - TAKE ...
  France, other European countries and the EU Commission will in the next days confirm their final position regarding a temporary trade ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna, a measure shown by science as offering the best chance to save this overexploited species Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |   Note ...
• Tea Party Convention Seems a Very Genteel Affair
  A TIME magazine opinion piece on the recent Tea Party convention in Nashville, TN (US). Submitted by Talathiel Tlogesi GoodHeart to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Ocean Film Fest 2010: It's Not If, But How Militar ...
  Are human-generated noises killing the oceans? This is the question posed by Michael Stocker of the Ocean Conservation Research organization and Volker Barth, creator of Sounds of the Sea, a documentary exploring how military sonar operations are the caus Submitted by Daphna Yanez to Environment  | ...

GreenBiz

• Novo Nordisk Slashes Emissions and Water Use, But ...
  Novo Nordisk slashed greenhouse gas emissions and water consumption in 2009, at the same time the Danish pharmaceutical giant boosted sales and profit over the year before.
• A New Way of Thinking About Companies, Society and ...
  Sustainability has become the touchstone of the entire discussion about the relationship between business and the society it serves. It is a global issue, with an impact in every country, and every community.
• U.S. EPA and DOE Join Forces with States to Spur A ...
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy have formed an action group to help states achieve the maximum cost-effective energy efficiency improvements possible in offices, buildings, industries and homes by 2020.  
• GE Launches New Ecomagination Healthcare Products, ...
  General Electric's healthcare arm has added five new entries to its Ecomagination line, and the company dedicated its new Renewable Energy Global Headquarters.  
• Paint The Town Green: A Case for Sustainable Innov ...
  This report looks at how Dulux lowered the carbon, waster and waste impact of its paint thanks to a three-year research project.  

Reuters Global

• On India-Pakistan thaw and the changing Afghan dyn ...
  The thaw between India and Pakistan cannot bring a radical turnaround in Afghanistan, not least because Islamabad may now be sensing a resolution of the conflict in its favour
• 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.”

Paul Krugman

• Alesina On Stimulus
  Why I'm not convinced.
• People Should Travel In Trains As God Intended
  Amtrak does its part. NJ Transit ... we'll see.
• Spain's Problem, Illustrated
  Costs out of line.
• Yes, We're Poland
  Polish paralysis in the Senate.
• Brains ... Brains ...
  Now that we seem to have avoided a full replay of the Great Depression, a large part both of the economics profession and of the political establishment seems ready to pretend that none of it happened.

No Quarter

• After Obamanation
  Glum. Powerless, lackadaisical, aimless remarks by POTUS re the jobless report Friday 5. What is the “hot air” remark? POTUS tries defensive sarcasm at half-speed. And the claims that losing 22k jobs (January estimate) compares well to the losing of 800k jobs last January 2009 is both cynical and i ...
• Palin Emerges as the Star of First National Tea Pa ...
  All major news publications covered Sarah Palin’s speech yesterday, making sure to point out she collected a large fee for her work. She replied she is keeping none of it, but giving it to “the cause.” According to many sources, while she was greeted with cries of “Run, Sarah, Run,” she kept her [ ...
• DC Snow Update
  Thought some of you might enjoy the morning after shots. There is light after the darkness. I woke early today to put the brisket on the BBQ as part of the prep for tonight’s Super Bowl Party. Our winter wonderland.
• How Corrupt Are We?
  Whether it’s AIG’s perverse multiple rewarding of the executives who almost brought our economy down or the likes of Bernie Madoff and Ken Lay, we see our country as rife with greed at the expense of weary American taxpayers. The 2009 Global Corruption Report by watchdog group Transparency Interna ...
• Should Michelle Obama Have Brought Her Daughters I ...
  The First Lady is getting her share of grief for mentioning her daughters while discussing obesity. ABC News reports in their article, Did Michelle Obama Send the Wrong Message With Obesity Comments?: The first lady made the issue of healthy eating personal last week at an event in Alexandria, Va., ...

Environmental Graffiti

• 10 Most Incredible Abandoned Mental Asylums
• The Tiniest Snails On Earth!
• Metamorphosis of the Damselfly
• Flamingos Hiding in Mumbai’s Filth
• The World’s Rainforests in Pictures

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Iraq Policy: D
  The Obama administration’s policy toward Iraq largely continues the policies of the Bush years.
• Murder Capital of the World
  Mexico's drug war is a failure. Ciudad Juarez, Laura Carlsen points out, is the epicenter of this failure.
• Obama's State of the Union
  The president devoted only 10% of his speech to foreign policy.
• The Next Great Transformation
  Should the United States look to China for inspiration?
• Guiding Haiti's Roadmap to Recovery with Human Rig ...
  Respecting human dignity is a principle no government can ignore, and one that needs to be applied when sending aid to the earthquake-ravaged nation.

Global Elite

• Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K Gov ...
  Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will be c ...
• President European Commission Advocated World Gove ...
  Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International Affa ...
• Billions of People Expected to Die Under Current C ...
  Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in the d ...
• Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of a G ...
  Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare progr ...
• Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
  Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’s p ...

Al Jazeera

• Deaths in US power plant blast
  At least two dead and 100 injured after explosion rips through plant in Connecticut.
• Iraq MPs delay debate on vote row
  Discussion on poll participation of candidates with alleged links to Baath party put off.
• Ahmadinejad orders nuclear work
  Iranian president tells country's atomic energy chief to begin enriching uranium.
• Peace agreement eludes Yemen
  Clashes with Houthis continue in spite of a ceasefire deal proposed by the government.
• Yemeni scholar backs 'jet bomber'
  Anwar Awlaki defends US plane bombing bid by "student", but denies ordering him to do so.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Trucking and Oil Industries Protest Fuel Mandate i ...
  The trucking and petrochemical industries are calling California's new clean-fuel mandate unfair and prohibitively expensive.
• Anticipating Federal Rules, New Power Plant Reques ...
  A Texas company that builds power plants around the country said Thursday that it had been granted a federal permit for a new plant near San Francisco that, at its own request, sets a limit for carbon dioxide output.
• Hackers Hit Europe's Carbon Market
  German authorities say fraudsters probably made money from gaining access to national registry of carbon credits.
• Britain Mulls Energy Market Reforms
  The British Office of Gas and Electricity Markets unveiled a sweeping menu of proposals aimed at reconciling growing energy demands with the European Union's renewable energy targets.
• A Boom in 'Distributed' Solar Projects
  Over the past few weeks, some 1,300 megawatts' worth of distributed solar deals and initiatives have been announced or approved.

Dot Earth News

• Signs of Damage to Public Trust in Climate Finding ...
  Signs mount that credibility in climate findings has suffered following recent flareups over errors and email messages.
• 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.

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

• Anti-privatizers victory against the REALM charter ...
  REALM Charter schools withdraws its petition to open both its proposed middle school and high school from the Berkeley Unified School Board (BUSD) In a tentative victory for opponents of the proposed REALM middle and high school charter schools proposed for Berkeley, California the proponents and ...
• The saturated fat scam: What’s the real story?
  The “Coca Cola conspiracy” and the obesity epidemic Aletho News | February 7, 2010 In the late 1960’s the US, through conventional hybridization techniques, succeeded in creating new types of corn dramatically increasing yield per acre by reducing the space required per plant as well as increasing t ...
• Victory for anti-privatiztion organizers? REALM c ...
  REALM Charter schools withdraws its petition to open both its proposed middle school and high school from the Berkeley Unified School Board (BUSD) In a tentative victory for opponents of the proposed REALM middle and high school charter schools proposed for Berkeley, California the proponents a ...
• Myths of Main Street: What does it really mean to ...
  In the face of raging distrust of corporations and the federal government, localism is no longer provincial, it’s no longer cheesy, but cool. But what does it really mean to “go local”?
• Jobs: Have I Got Your Attention Yet?
  Probably the most important news this year appeared today in the Op Ed column of Bob Herbert.  He wrote about the need for a serious, long range plan to rebuild the nation’s job force, infrastructure, and manufacturing capabilities before we descend to the level of a third world country.  With the c ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• Internet down in Iran ahead of opposition protests
• Iran detains 7 ’spiesâ&eu ...
• ‘We gave them away†...
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Institute for Policy Studies

• A Really Inconvenient Truth
• Murder Capital of the World
• Congo, from Lumumba to Freedom: a Black History Mo ...
• Obama's State of the Union
• The Next Great Transformation

Pine River World News

• Operation Moshtarak: The upcoming U.S.-British-Afg ...
  [ Blogmaster note :  I posted the following analysis on my companion blog, IntelTrends . Readers of Pine River World News are encouraged to subscribe to IntelTrends as well - a RSS button appears in the right column. Additionally, IntelTrends is where you'll find the latest official Taliban statemen ...
• 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 ...

MSM Blogging

• Knox News Blogs

PDA AMERICA

• The Historic Cost of the State of the Union
  The Historic Cost of the State of the Union: Mr. President, Welcome to the Saudi Arabia of Coal y Jeff Biggers | Huffington Post While President Obama addresses the US Congress in his historic State of the ...
• 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 ...

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

• Video: Volvo helping to develop new material that ...
  Filed under: Hybrid , Technology , Volvo , Electric Battery bodywork prototype material - Click above to watch the video after the jump How much will a plug-in vehicle's battery weigh in 2020? How much will the same car's bodywork weigh? If a new prototype material developed by researchers in the ...
• Study: Access to good public transportation can ma ...
  Filed under: Etc. , Earnings/Financials Would you believe that there's a connection between owning a car and having to foreclose on your home? A study by the Natural Resources Defense Council found that yes, indeed, there is. At least, a relationship was found in the three areas that the study lo ...
• 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? ...

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

• I thought of killing myself, says climate scandal ...
  THE scientist at the centre of the climategate email scandal has revealed that he was so traumatised by the global backlash against him that he contemplated suicide.
• Arizona closes most of its state parks
  Wrestling with a multibillion-dollar budget deficit, Arizona decided Friday to close nearly all of its state parks, including the famed Tombstone Courthouse and Yuma Territorial Prison.
• Washington DC prepares to shut down for massive sn ...
  Washington DC was grinding to a halt on Saturday as the US capital prepared for its heaviest snowfall in nearly a century, dubbed "snowpocalypse" and "snowmageddon".
• U.N. defends climate panel after Himalaya blunder
  The United Nations defended on Friday its panel of climate scientists from criticisms that an error about the thaw of Himalayan glaciers undermined its wider findings that global warming is man-made.The panel "remains without doubt the best and most solid foundation" for assessing climate change, sa ...
• Climate change emails betwe scientists reveal flaw ...
  Fred Pearce: A close reading of the hacked emails exposes the real process of science, its jealousies and tribalism...

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

• Trends in Cognitive 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

• Do Employers Really Need to Give Drug Tests for Po ...
  Many former police officers, city officials, even corrections officers now favor a new drug paradigm. Surely it is time to revisit a system that protects few and harms many.
• South Dakota Advocates Set to Push Again for Medic ...
  Will the second time be the charm in South Dakota? Four years ago, a medical marijuana initiative there lost by four points. Now, advocates are ready to try again
• False Claims on Rockefeller Drug Law Reform Lead t ...
  New report takes down the claims that disaster will result from drug law reform, and that judges are incapable of making sound decisions.
• Sewage as a Measure of Society's Drug Use
  Testing municipal wastewater for drugs may be the next big thing in public health research. The methodology will likely confirm the universality of drug use.
• NJ Allows Medical Marijuana for a Fraction of the ...
  NJ restricts doctors from prescribing marijuana for anything less than a terminal illness or debilitating condition, such as cancer, AIDS or multiple sclerosis.

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

• GIVEAWAY: PACT Organic Cotton Undies for Eco-Lover ...
  Still have no idea what to wear on Valentine’s Day? Well, let us say that it’s what’s underneath all those clothes that really matters! We’ve teamed up with PACT to giveaway a sexy set of his-and-hers organic cotton skivvies to two lucky winners. Practical, seductive and organic – what more ...
• 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 ...
• 14 Sexy Sustainable Skivvies To Set Hearts (And Sh ...
  There is only one thing on the Earth that is more sexy than a person who cares for the environment, and that’s a person who cares for the environment in silky, barely there eco-lingerie! Simultaneously clean up the planet and dirty up your sweetheart’s thoughts with the sultry and sumptuous selectio ...
• Portable Flatpack High Chair Made from 100% Recycl ...
  Have things gotten a bit cramped in your home since welcoming a new baby? Belkiz Feedaway is the perfect solution to recoup some space. Certainly sturdy enough to support a smiling little guy (or gal!) within its recycled cardboard frame, this portable seating system can also be flat-packed and slip ...
• Recycled Plastic Wrap Art!
  If you’ve ever lamented having to throw away a piece of saran wrap, this might cheer you up. This rather striking piece of outdoor eco-art is made out of 10,000 feet of recycled plastic-wrap salvaged from a warehouse! Reader amputectecture says: “This piece invited people to leave the prescribed pa ...

Pogue's Posts

• Why We Make Home Videos
  As you may be aware, we're about to enter a whole new era of data rot, one of the biggest and most personal of all: consumer videotape is going away.
• A New Way to Comment on Pogue's Posts
  Pogue's Posts has a new, updated comment system that is better for everyone.
• The Apple iPad: First Impressions
  Some wild speculations of a guy who's never even tried the iPad. Believe me, I'll review it when I get one. But I like what I'm seeing.
• Google Voice Is Back on the iPhone, Mostly
  Have an iPhone? Tired of waiting for a Google Voice app? There's a workaround from the folks in Mountainview.
• The Apple Guessing Game
  What might Apple be announcing this week? It seems to be a tablet, but the mystery is in the details.

Open Your Eyes News

• U.S., Germany say Iran not ready for nuclear deal
  Reuters – The United States and Germany said on Saturday they saw no sign Tehran would make concessions on its nuclear programme, despite upbeat comments from Iran’s foreign minister over prospects for a deal. Read article
• France backs ban on bluefin tuna exports
  BBC – France has added its voice to calls for a ban on the global trade in bluefin tuna, the numbers of which have dwindled through overfishing. France wants a ban after an 18-month delay to allow scientists time to study the data on tuna stocks, Environment Minister Jean-Louis Borloo said. The blue ...
• Online game lets 5-year-old girls play prostitute
  World Net Daily – Young girls aspiring to be fashion queens may find more than they bargain for in a new, free, online game called “My-Minx,” which permits players to role play … as prostitutes. At My-Minx.com, touted by its own header as the “online fashion game for girls and dress-up game for st ...
• Russia names NATO expansion as national threat
  Reuters – President Dmitry Medvedev approved Friday a new military doctrine identifying NATO expansion as a national threat and reaffirming Russia’s right to use nuclear weapons if the country’s existence is threatened. Read article
• Ancient Human Teeth Show That Stress Early in Deve ...
  ScienceDaily — Ancient human teeth are telling secrets that may relate to modern-day health: Some stressful events that occurred early in development are linked to shorter life spans. Read article

Monkey Smashes Heaven

• COMRADE KAZIMIERZ MIJAL DIES AT 99
  COMRADE KAZIMIERZ MIJAL DIES AT 99 (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Comrade Kazimierz Mijal died in Poland on January 28. He would have celebrated his 100th birthday later this year. Comrade Mijal took a firm line against the revisionism that had subverted socialism in Poland by the 1950s. He co ...
• Zionists now admit using chemical weapons on Pales ...
  Zionists now admit using chemical weapons on Palestinians (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Israel has now reported that two senior military officers were reprimanded for their use of white phosphorus against Gaza’s population last year. Thus Israel has confirmed what has long been known to victim ...
• 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 ...

PakAlert

• Disinformation Tactics: The Methods Used To Keep Y ...
  By Giordano Bruno | Neithercorp Press There was a time, not too long ago (relatively speaking), that governments and the groups of elites that controlled them did not find it necessary to conscript themselves into wars of disinformation. Propaganda was relatively straightforward. The lies were ...
• 10 Geopolitical Predictions for 2010 & Short Term ...
  A great – and still growing – divergence appeared in 2009 between public statements by leaders and their public performance. The politicized, romanticized theater of increasingly populist “democratic” leaders and media seemed to be of a different planet from activities taking place in the real w ...
• The Planning of War Behind Closed Doors
  Brussels, London, Istanbul: A Week Of Western War Councils by Rick Rozoff The defense chiefs of all 28 NATO nations and an undisclosed number of counterparts from non-Alliance partners gathered in Istanbul, Turkey on February 4 to begin two days of meetings focused on the war in Afgha ...
• Video: UFOs Dance Above Earth – Never Doubt Again!
  Footage filmed during NASA Space Shuttle STS-80 Mission. Many camera’s are filming the missions and all these video’s, and communication between space & ground is being send to Houston (NASA) with satellite. In Canada there was a owner of a TV Station named: Martyn Stubbs, who could also receive ...
• 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 ...

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

• The drugs don't work anymore
  Do we really need so many powerful drugs? Clinical tests on patients increasingly show that the power of belief can often work just as effectively. This is due to the placebo effect, the power of our bodies to self-heal when we’re convinced that we’ve been given a cure.
• The phantom promise
  Touch something sharp like a pin and it will hurt. Maybe quite a lot, depending on how hard you press on it. Another person doing the same will have to endure the kind of shooting pain that you did.
• Winning? It's all in the mind
  I cannot overestimate how much controlling the mind is crucial to my life as a goal-kicker in rugby union. You have to be able to see perfection before you can achieve it. So I might do parts of a practice session in which I set a ball up, go through the motions, see the kick in my head and the ...
• Who are you, Graham Farmelo?
  Nature or nurture? I try to avoid problems that involve separating the two. Such complexities are best left to clever biologists. I prefer the simplicities of physics, where nature is everything.
• A great sporting achievement
  It is with little pleasure that we report here that the best brains in sport may be the simplest. Or that when we refer to the “geniuses” of playing fields across the world we are, in fact, referring to athletes whose use of grey matter is very limited. Or that sporting intelligence as a concep ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Haiti Earthquake & Voodoo: Myths, Ritual, and Robe ...
  A voodoo scholar explains how Haiti's many believers may view the earthquake, why he thinks Pat Robertson's post-quake remarks were "cruel, ignorant, unforgivable"—and more.
• Green Energy "Oasis" to Bloom in the Desert?
  A research center slated to be built in 2010 as part of the Sahara Forest Project is meant to serve as a proving ground for new technologies designed to bring green living to the desert, project managers say.
• Strongest Hurricanes May Triple in Frequency, Stud ...
  The U.S. Southeast, Mexico, and the Caribbean will be pounded by more very intense hurricanes in the coming decades due to global warming, a new computer model suggests.
• BPA Linked to Heart Disease, Study Confirms
  Bisphenol-A—used in many sunglasses, reusable bottles, food packaging, and baby bottles—is linked to heart disease, a new study confirms. In a separate development, the FDA changes course and announces concern over BPA.
• Chemical BPA Linked to Heart Disease, Study Confir ...
  Bisphenol-A—used in many sunglasses, reusable bottles, food packaging, and baby bottles—is linked to heart disease, a new study confirms.

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

• Pacifica Forum Speaker Celebrates National Sociali ...
  The speaker blamed “Jewish lies” for the Iraq War, praised the swastika as a symbol of white people, showed a neo-Nazi propaganda video, and led several audience members in an enthusiastic Nazi salute. No, this wasn’t an assembly of America’s largest neo-Nazi organization, the National Socialist Mov ...
• Survivor: Home Gardening Edition
  Paranoia is potentially profitable. Plenty of people are eager to sell you freeze-dried foods, medical kits and even weapons to help you survive the supposed social chaos on the horizon. Now, there’s the “Survival Seed Bank,” brought to you by an outfit called Solutions for Science. For a mere $297, ...
• ‘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 ...

change: org.

• G7 Countries to Cancel Haiti's Bilateral Debt
  In a show of support for earthquake-devastated Haiti last night, the leaders of the G7 nations announced that they would be canceling all of the country's bilateral debt . As the BBC reports, the actual amount in question is small, as Haiti's largest bilateral debts are not held by G7 nations (which ...
• The "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Tipping Point
  This past week has probably seen more "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" coverage than at any other point in the policy's 17-year history. From Admiral Mike Mullen to General Colin Powell, from Defense Secretary Robert Gates to Senator Joe Lieberman, a chorus of political figures and military leaders have call ...
• When Will We Take Care Of Our Own?
  I want you feel a little bit of what I am feeling so maybe we will all wake up and start taking care of our neighbors. Last year the most horrifying photo for the homeless community was of a dead homeless man frozen in the ice in an abandoned building in Detroit. Over the summer I happened to be vis ...
• Legal Rights for Animals: Will Switzerland Remain ...
  Next month, Swiss voters will decide whether domesticated animals should get lawyers. If a referendum passes, each district will appoint a public defender for animals. And not just companion animals; farm animals would have a right to legal representation, too. Predictably, farmers and government of ...
• 1 in 8 Americans Receive Emergency Food Assistance
  Would you want to live in a country where one in eight residents receive emergency food assistance each year? If you're an American, it's too late -- you already do. Feeding America released a shocking report this week on the state of hunger in America, relying on data gathered from its large networ ...

Common Dreams -News

• HRW Says Israel 'Failed' to Probe Gaza War Crimes
  JERUSALEM - Human Rights Watch said on Sunday that Israel has failed to properly investigate alleged crimes committed during last winter's devastating Gaza war as demanded by the United Nations. "Israel claims it is conducting credible and impartial investigations, but it has so far failed to make t ...
• Call the Caterer! Bank Bonuses a Relief in Greenwi ...
  by Shashank Bengali GREENWICH, Conn. - After one of the leanest years in memory, life in this upper-crust enclave is slowly returning to normal. The Greenwich version of normal, anyway. Caterers' cell phones are ringing again. Luxury car dealers are sending the Porsches out for test drives. An archi ...
• Rape on the Rise in Haiti's Camps
  by Nina Lakhani In one of the great unmentioned effects of the earthquake in Haiti, women and young girls are suffering a rising number of rapes and sexual assaults, according to leading aid agencies. So widespread are the reports - and they include the rape of a girl of 12 by her rescuer after she ...
• Think-Tanks Take Oil Money and Use it to Fund Clim ...
  by Jonathan Owen and Paul Bignell An orchestrated campaign is being waged against climate change science to undermine public acceptance of man-made global warming, environment experts claimed last night. The attack against scientists supportive of the idea of man-made climate change has grown in fer ...
• US Lawmakers, NGOs Call for Debt Cancellation
  by Jim Lobe WASHINGTON - Three weeks after Haiti's devastating earthquake, nearly 100 U.S. lawmakers joined with key civil society groups here Thursday to urge the Group of Seven (G7) leading western nations to commit to canceling all of the Caribbean country's multilateral debt. read more

Lifehacker

• Black, White, and Down Lighting [Featured Workspac ...
  Once you get beyond the basics of a comfortable computer chair and a computer that runs the apps you need, a significant part of office design revolves around style. Today's featured workspace is a small office with plent of style. Lifehacker reader Kokonut Justin took what could have been boring of ...
• Ask the Commenters Roundup [Hive Mind]
  Is it possible to block posts on Facebook about game updates? What's a good way to batch download images? What's the best way to go about putting together a personal website for fun, resume hosting, and displaying my potential work—with virtually no web experience? Anyone know a good, free program f ...
• Make Ice Cream in 15 Minutes with a Dry Ice Bath [ ...
  Have a hankering for some tasty homemade ice cream but don't have the patience? The DIY folks at Make detail how to make serious ice cream in 15 minutes with a little help from our old friend, dry ice. We've featured a couple of shortcut recipes for making ice cream or sorbet on-the-quick, but most ...
• Learn to Snag Stuff with a Whip [Outdoors]
  Good news, Indiana Jones wannabes: Wired's How-To Wiki offers a quick, five-step instructional guide for grabbing an item with a whip—so let's get cracking. It's a pretty simple step-by-step process, though remember—simple doesn't necessarily mean easy, and that whip of yours can do some serious dam ...
• Snag a Membership at Semi-Private BitTorrent Site ...
  BitTorrent tracker Demonoid secured a close second to The Pirate Bay in our recent comparison of the five best public BitTorrent trackers , but the catch with Demonoid is that—although it's a great public tracker—it's only semi-public, meaning that the best Demonoid experience comes with an account. ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• Endless Whack-A-Mole On The NorthWest Frontier
  By Steve Hynd Ahead of the well-publicised new massive offensive about to take place in Helmand province, Afghanistan, Afghan Taliban fighters are flocking to the region and digging in. Helman has already been declared "cleared" four times since 2001 so one has to wonder why this time the "clear, ho ...
• Bacevich On Weaning America From The Folly Of Cons ...
  By Steve Hynd This weekend's "must read" essay is by Andrew Bacevich. In it he looks at the dynamic that has led America to begin one war after another since 1945 but with only three cleacut victories, against three pint-sized opponents, in the Dominican Republic, Granada and Panama. He writes: A se ...
• Learning The Lessons We'd Rather They Didn't
  By Steve Hynd There are many, many problems with training the Afghan police which make it unbelievable that "they'll stand up so we can stand down" in any sense accept a paper-thin PR one. And just to add to those woes, it seems they're learning lessons by emulation as well as by formal training. Af ...
• 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 ...

Water Wars

• City extends medical marijuana moratorium (Sterlin ...
  STERLING — The Sterling city council voted unanimously in support of the first reading extending the temporary moratorium on issuance of sales tax licenses for medical marijuana dispensaries.
• Clock Ticking For Klamath Dams (Oregon Public Broa ...
  As early as this month, groups that once called each other enemies will sign a pair of agreements changing the course of history for the Klamath Basin.
• Congressional fight on CUP set future Gooseberry d ...
  In February 1955, it appeared Gooseberry dam would be built in short order.
• Ruling victory for wetlands (The Post and Courier)
  After two decades of losing battles against the development of freshwater wetlands along the coast, conservationists won a war this week.
• Journalist takes stock of Bay County's waterways ( ...
  Cynthia Barnett, senior writer at Florida Trend magazine, will be speaking at Books Alive on Saturday. Her latest book, “Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.,” gives an in-depth account of Florida’s water usage. From...

WordPress | Economics

• Persian Oil
  In 1953 a joint Anglo-American coup had installed the Shah in power in Iran because Winston Churchil
• Will the value of the euro increase if the piigs d ...
  The reflex thought on the value of the euro if Greece or any other country were to leave is that suc
• samuelson vs. parsons
  By the 1940s, economics and sociology mirrored each other. Emerging from political economy in  Europ
• Will the Demos go on demos?
  As we are all aware, there is something rotten in the euro state of Greece at the moment. But there’
• Hearts and Love and Mushy, Romantic Crap
  I hate Valentine’s Day. Not because I’m a bitter, old spinster (although I look forward

Electronic Intifada

• Israel slaps six-month travel ban on Palestinian m ...
  Citing "security reasons" -- the ubiquitous and unanswerable catch-all phrase against which it is almost impossible to mount any defense -- Israel's Ministry of the Interior has ju ...
• Pressure continues on Veolia and Alstom to halt li ...
  French transport giants Veolia and Alstom are involved in the construction and running of a light rail line which connects West Jerusalem to several illegal settlements in or surro ...
• Naseer Shamma and the music of resistance
  Celebrated Iraqi musician Naseer Shamma plays emotive compositions in beautiful tones on the oud to major audiences across the Middle East, stirring musical reflections on human re ...
• Report: Israel stole $2 billion from Palestinian w ...
  Over the past four decades Israel has defrauded Palestinians working inside Israel of more than $2 billion by deducting from their salaries contributions for welfare benefits to wh ...
• Raze illegal buildings -- unless they are Jewish
  SILWAN, occupied East Jerusalem (IPS) - Backed by armed security men, the municipal inspectors race their jeeps through the narrow alleyways and up a hillside crowded with building ...

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

• Palin Says Congress Should Not Repeal DADT ‘ ...
  During her first appearance on Fox News Sunday, Sarah Palin criticized President Obama for calling for an end to ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ in his State of the Union address, but did not defend the policy. “There are other things to be worried about right now with the military. I think that kind of on ...
• Gillibrand To Propose Spending Freeze For DADT Fun ...
  en. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) plans to introduce an amendment to the budget that would deny “funding to the military for the costs of pursuing inquiries, dismissal proceedings and other procedures associated with enforcing” ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’ The NYT’s Caucus blog reports that “Gillibrand has ...
• Pence: U.S. MidEast Policy Should Be Dictated By I ...
  In a Christian Broadcasting Network interview Rep, Mike Pence (R-IN) (who appears to be doing a very good Michael Scott impression) shares his view that the U.S. shouldn’t decide its own policy toward Israel, but rather simply do what Israeli voters want: PENCE: I have grown increasingly troubled at ...
• As GOP Leadership Backs Away, Conservatives Throw ...
  Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), the ranking member of the House Budget Committee, recently released an updated version of his “Roadmap for America’s Future” — a radical budget proposal that eliminates long-term deficits by essentially privatizing Medicare and Social Security and placing arbitrary, non-specif ...
• At Behest Of King Coal And Big Ag, Ike Skelton And ...
  Speaking before a gathering of coal-powered executives, Rep. Ike Skelton (D-MO) announced Tuesday that he, Rep. Collin Peterson (D-MN), and Rep. Jo Ann Emerson (R-MO) were introducing yet another piece of legislation to roll back Clean Air Act action on global warming pollution. Skelton’s Dirty Air ...

thwap's schoolyard

• So, Um, About Those Afghan Children Who Were Execu ...
  Yeah, I hate to be, like, you know, a pest or anything, but still ... I can't help but think that if Hugo Chavez's, or Fidel Castro's, or Vladimir Putin's, or Kim Jong-Il's troops had killed ten civilians (two adults and eight students), execution style , I don't think the MSM would collectively shr ...
• So stephen harper is Above the Law is he?
  In response to my stated desire to see stephen harper and all the relevant cabinet ministers in the harpercon government put behind bars for their complicity in war crimes, many, many, many people are convinced that it'll never happen. Given the fact that ignorance is no defence against war crimes, ...
• Prorogation and the Culture of Impunity
  Note: The following is a response to Todd, who critiqued my last post from a Marxist perspective. Todd, I've been in transit, seeing family members, and now, drinking heavily due to my numerous psychological problems. I have been wrestling with some of your comments on and off over the last few da ...
• harper Prorogues Parliament (Again)
  Well, he did it . Together with our shit-for-brains Governor General, harper has prorogued parliament again. His insulting rationalization is that he can concentrate on the economy (which, you'll remember, harper has been insisting has been recovering nicely thanks to his steady hand on the tiller ...
• 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 ...

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

• Heart of a galaxy emits gamma rays
  (PhysOrg.com) -- Quite a few distant galaxies turn out to be cosmic delivery rooms. Large numbers of massive stars are born in the hearts of these starburst galaxies, and later explode as supernovae. In the remnants they leave behind, particles are accelerated to very high energies. Astrophysicists ...
• Physicists Demonstrate Three-Color Entanglement
  (PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, physicists have demonstrated the quantum entanglement of three light beams, all of different wavelengths. Entanglement of two light beams of different wavelengths has already been demonstrated, but the researchers explain that going beyond two beams is important ...
• Cassini Data Help Redraw Shape of Solar System (w/ ...
  (PhysOrg.com) -- Images from the Ion and Neutral Camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft suggest that the heliosphere, the region of the sun's influence, may not have the comet-like shape predicted by existing models. In a paper published Oct. 15 in Science Express, researchers from the Johns Hopkins Ap ...
• New study predicts future consequences of a global ...
  A report examining the impact of a global biofuels program on greenhouse gas emissions during the 21st century has found that carbon loss stemming from the displacement of food crops and pastures for biofuels crops may be twice as much as the CO2 emissions from land dedicated to biofuels production. ...
• A solution to Darwin's 'mystery of the mysteries' ...
  Biological species are often defined on the basis of reproductive isolation. Ever since Darwin pointed out his difficulty in explaining why crosses between two species often yield sterile or inviable progeny (for instance, mules emerging from a cross between a horse and a donkey), biologists have st ...

TechDirt

• How Patents Harm Biotech Innovation
  Patent defenders often claim that patents are necessary because top venture capitalists would never invest without patents. And yet, we keep pointing to examples of some of the best venture capitalists in the business who are quite skeptical of patents . For the most part, those have been limited ...
• Because When MetroPCS Says 'No Contract,' It Actua ...
  The mobile phone business seems to have a serious problem with taking words that have a pretty clear meaning in English, using them in advertising and marketing promotions -- but meaning something entirely different. For example, various mobile operators claimed "unlimited" broadband, but to them " ...
• Appeals Court Says Internet Content Should Be Held ...
  One of the issues we've talked about repeatedly over the years is the question of what is the "internet jurisdiction." Since content is available anywhere there's an internet connection, under which laws should it apply. If you think that just because it appears on the internet, anyone's laws appl ...
• Online Comic Book Store Stands Up To Olivia Munn L ...
  Boing Boing points us to the news that Heavy Ink, an online comic book shop, is pushing back against the lawyers for geeky TV personality Olivia Munn, after those lawyers demanded Heavy Ink destroy all copies of an Olivia Munn parody comic book called the Celebrity Showdown Olivia Munn One Shot #1 . ...
• Comcast CEO Argues Rules Will Protect Customers In ...
  Earlier, we had a story about NBC Universal boss Jeff Zucker being caught lying in his Congressional testimony on the Comcast/NBC merger. And a bunch of folks have now been sending in the news of Al Franken blatantly calling Comcast boss Brian Roberts for also being less than honest, specifically a ...

VacTruth

• John Erb Report Reveals Toxic Nature of MSG
  . . . Don’t forget folks, MSG is an ingredient in your vaccines! Link to the CDC’s vaccine ingredient webpage. Check out the MSG Truth website here. Revised Erb Report on MSG to the WHO
• 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 ...

BroadSnark

• The Art of Non-War
  Let’s set aside for just a moment the horrors of war.  Ignore the cost in human lives, the suffering, the destruction.  Ignore the repercussions that are felt for generations.  And let’s ignore any debates about what it means to declare “victory” in a place like Iraq, where people continue to fig ...
• 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 [...]

Executive Intelligence Review

• FDR: Haiti's Development `Is Not Against Our Inter ...
  By Cynthia R. Rush Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 5, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 5
• The Emperor's New Statistics
  By John Hoefle Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 5, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 5
• LaRouche Webcast: The End of the Obama Administrat ...
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 5, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 5
• Rice-ists Strike Again in Africa
  EIR News Service press release.
• Why Obama Must Be Impeached
  EIR News Service press release.

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

• Dirty Little Secrets, Duplicity in Afghanistan
  WHAT OUR MILITARY LEADERS ONLY SAY BEHIND CLOSED DOORS By Gordon Duff Veterans Today February 7th 2010 Open today’s newspaper and get a map of the battle zones in Afghanistan and Pakistan. You say they aren’t there? Open today’s newspaper and find out how many troops our enemies have, who ...
• Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-07
  For the 1% of the world that use #Opera as a #browser the following is a good #performance tweak list http://bit.ly/c1HnDW #web #internet # If you don't want your cock, tits & ass measured then your not getting on the plane says Heathrow & Gatwick http://strurl.com/qk #privacy # 3 points on ur #Int ...
• RAF ‘relying’ on drones in Afghanistan
  Richard Norton-Taylor www.guardian.co.uk Sunday 7 February 2010 An MQ-9 Reaper drone takes off from Kandahar airbase in southern Afghanistan. Photograph: James Lee Harper/AFP/Getty Images Freedom of information request reveals unmanned weapons more prominent in RAF strategy British fo ...
• Internet Censorship: Major Truth-Providing Website ...
  Clare Swinney infonews.co.nz Sunday, February 7th, 2010 Has Chinese-style internet censorship arrived in New Zealand this year? The question is posed because two major news websites, Infowars.com and Prisonplanet.com, both of which are run by documentary maker and radio show host Alex Jones, w ...
• Why do terrorists hate America? – That which ...
  Taken from "Media Disinformation in America" Global Research by William Blum "The purpose of terrorism is to provoke an overreaction," writes Fareed Zakaria, a leading American foreign-policy pundit, editor of Newsweekmagazine's international edition, and Washington Post columnist, referrin ...

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

• 'Aesthetic Power Plants' to Make Energy from Art
  Ready for some art. The end of Dubai Creek is site #1 for the Land Art Generator Initiative competition. The United Arab Emirates have made their wealth from oil , an energy source environmentalists are trying to consign to the past, but if two American artists have their way, these Persian Gul ...
• Forget the Iron Curtain: Berlin Film Festival Rais ...
  Image: Metropolis, Original Film Poster, UFA Do you know which film inspired C-3PO in Star Wars? Or gave Superman's home its name? It is Fritz Lang's Metropolis . Lang produced his epic silent film in the brief period of stability and astounding intellectual productivity between the two world ...
• Out of the Ruins, A More Sustainable Haiti?
  Photo credit: Getty Images. With over a million left homeless and its capital city all but destroyed, Haiti is set to become the focus of an enormous rebuilding effort. Internationally, many are calling for a full-fledged "Marshall Plan" to rebuild the country, lasting at least a decade and cos ...
• American Pika Denied Endangered Species Protection
  courtesy via www.americanpika.org A woman I work with has the sound of an American Pika as her ringtone. It's a high-pitch squeal recognizable to anyone who has heard it before, and she has it on her phone to draw attention to the plight of the Pika, a small furry creature under threat from cli ...
• Rural North Carolinians Adapting To Landfill Plast ...
  Image credit:Concord, North Carolina North Carolina now bans the landfilling of plastic bottles of all types - more information here - and this has become a practical issue in rural towns where curbside recycling is not offered. Winston-Salem Journal reports on how the problem was solved in on ...

Biosingularity

• Cutting Salt as Good as Quitting Smoking
  Cutting U.S. salt intake by just half a teaspoon a day would prevent up to 92,000 deaths, 99,000 heart attacks, and 66,000 strokes — a benefit as big as smoking cessation. That’s the prediction from computer models that used real clinical data to predict the effects of small reductions in salt intak ...
• Vitamin D May Lower Colon Cancer Risk
  Soaking in more sunlight and drinking more dairy may help you ward off colon cancer.Researchers in Europe have found that people with abundant levels of vitamin D — the so-called sunshine vitamin — have a much lower risk of colon cancer. The findings add to a growing body of evidence that suggest vi ...
• Prolonged Sitting Boosts Bad Health
  If you are reading this while sitting down, you might want to stand up for moment.A new editorial published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine suggests that people who sit still for prolonged periods of time — such as desk workers or coach potatoes — have a higher risk of disease than those w ...
• Lung Cancer Drug Zaps Tumor Blood Vessels
  A new lung cancer drug that disrupts blood vessels within the tumor and inhibits blood flow to it looks promising, say researchers who are slated to report their findings Thursday at a cancer meeting in California. When added to traditional chemotherapy, the new drug, called vadimezan and also known ...
• Human immune cells — in mice
  In 1796, English physician Edward Jenner decided to investigate a tale he had often heard — that milkmaids infected with cowpox became immune to smallpox, a much more dangerous affliction. To test this theory, Jenner inoculated an eight-year-old boy with pus from the blisters of a milkmaid who had c ...

CFACT

• CFACT continues their mission in Cancún
• Greenpeace Opts for Millions of Blind Kids
  We can't prevent earthquakes, but we can prevent blindness.
• Not Exactly Mother Teresa
  In fact, unethical Greenpeace actions threaten the livelihoods and lives of millions
• CFACT drops the banner on Greenpeace ships
  In daring land and sea raids, activists tag Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior with “Propaganda Warriorâ€Â banner; Arctic Sunrise hit with “Ship of Liesâ€Â banner earlier in the day
• Illegal aliens: An environmental boon?

Ria Novosti Online News

• Viktor Yanukovych pledges reforms to scale down cr ...
  Opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych who, according to exit polls and preliminary official data, narrowly won Sunday's presidential election runoff in Ukraine, has pledged to launch reforms to scale down the consequences of the crisis.
• Viktor Yanukovych wins Ukraine presidential electi ...
  Opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych has narrowly won Ukraine's presidential election with different exit polls giving him from 48.7% to 50.26%.
• Too early to name Ukraine presidential election wi ...
  Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who appears to have narrowly lost Sunday's presidential election runoff to rival opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych, said it was too early to name the winner, and pledged to defend each vote cast for her.
• Yulia Tymoshenko: a colorful politician
  Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, a colorful politician, has, according to exit polls, lost Sunday's presidential election runoff in Ukraine.
• Yanukovych's hard road to victory
  Viktor Yanukovych, who believes Ukraine's presidency was unfairly taken away from him five years ago, has, according to exit polls, staged a comeback after his 2004 defeat.

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

• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Declan McCullagh reported on the efforts to give law enforcement agencies direct access to ISP traffic. At the end of the article the Cato Institute throws in the towel and admits it doesn’t give a damn about individual liberty. I ...
• Living In The Age Of The Exploit
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post One of my favorite blog posts is L33T Justice by Kung Fu Monkey. Aside from being very funny and concisely getting at an important truth, it seems to represent a tipping point - one that mirrored my own. Prior to that things had be ...
• BlogRoll Amnesty Day
  Today is Blogroll Amnesty Day , the day where bloggers promote their lesser trafficked bretheren (and sisteren(?)). Pruning Shears isn’t exactly an A-List blog and therefore not in a position to drive a whole lot of hits to anyone, but it’s the spirit of the thing that counts. Here are some of my ...
• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Bruce Schneier writes , “In order to comply with government search warrants on user data, Google created a backdoor access system into Gmail accounts.” The bargaining away of our civil liberties in the name of keeping us Safe From T ...
• 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 ...

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

• Growing Discontent with Democrats & Access-Blogger ...
  Lately there has been a spate of diaries at such web sites as FireDogLake and "Open" Left wherein lay members — typically under attack from site moderators, who act as Democratic Party hacks and gatekeepers — have sought ways to bring back the Progressive Party, or join the Greens, or build up some ...
• The Republican Right's Effort to Banish George W. ...
  The latest effort of the Republican right and the leader they vigilantly rallied around not that long ago and have now forgotten is reminiscent of a ploy that occurred regularly within the now defunct Soviet Union. When a former leader became too huge a burden to explain then he would be banished. ...
• The Deep State, A Powerless President, The CIA, Af ...
  Peter Dale Scott , a former Canadian diplomat and Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, is a poet, writer, and researcher. His most recent books are Drugs, Oil, and War (2005), The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America (2007), The War Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11 ...
• Wall Street Organizing To Buy U.S. Elections
  The January 21 Supreme Court decision [.pdf] in the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission case lifted bans on corporate spending for campaign finance, drawing heavy criticism from across the country for the ruling's potential to undermine the American democratic process. Now with that rulin ...
• Howard Zinn, RIP: The People's Champion
  The death of Howard Zinn last week at 87 is a loss deeply felt by the grassroots citizenry that he so ardently championed. Zinn’s longtime friend and ideological compatriot Noam Chomsky put the historian-activist’s life of achievement in perspective in a quote from an obituary in the Boston Globe Ja ...

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

• Welcome to the death threat club, Phil
  Phil Jones: “There were death threats. People said I should go and kill myself. They said they knew where I lived.” Welcome to the club, Phil.  Now you know what people who run skeptic sites or conservative sites have to deal with.  Quit your whining. Source: Times Online Related posts:Barack ...
• Raingate splashes across the London Times
  The London Times today reports on a story that has been circling the blogosphere in recent weeks as either “Raingate” or “Africagate.” The respected British mainstream newspaper exposes yet another example of what peer-review means in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s 2007 Fo ...
• Scientists behaving badly as the scandals grow
  The Wall Street Journal.com has a must read that says the scandals just keep pouring from the laboratories. This quote about sums it up: “The experiments never turned out the way they were supposed to, and so we were always having to fudge the results so that the projects wouldn't be screwy. I alwa ...
• Lord Monckton debates Rupert Posner from the Clima ...
  Lord Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, former advisor to Margaret Thatcher, architect, mathematician and climate change sceptic is on a speaking tour of Australia to spread his message that climate change activists are 'bed-wetters and liars'. Related posts: Lord Monckton: “Come on Al ...
• Monckton’s Australian tour so successful two new t ...
  Due to the overwhelming success of the tour by Lord Monckton in Australia, two extra tour presentation dates have been arranged in Perth and Sydney. Related posts: Lord Monckton calls out Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Lord Monckton schools more Greenpeace idiots 18 lies, fibs, fabrications ...

Opinio Juris

• Jewish Praise for Inglourious Basterds
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Eight Oscar nominations and accolades at the Museum of Tolerance — not a bad week for Mr. Tarantino: Last night at a special community screening at The Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance, internationally renowned rabbi Marvin Hier addressed the f ...
• Breaking News: The Obama Administration Will Not S ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Apparently, the Obama Administration has decided it will not seek ratification of the ICC Rome Statute.  There is still no official policy, as far as I know, but this is the latest from Assistant Secretary of State for War Crimes Stephen Rapp. This is not exactly a surpr ...
• Doing Justice in a Dusty Courtroom in an Overlooke ...
  by Roger Alford Here's a wonderful story from my friend and former student Jeff Cook on the wonderful work he is doing in Cambodia with International Justice Mission to fight child prostitution. Jeff Cook is a former law clerk to Judge Urbina in Washington, D.C. and a former associate at O'Melven ...
• Are President Obama’s Assassinations of U.S. Citiz ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The NY Times Opinionator has a nice roundup of lefty-blog reaction to the Obama Administration’s claim of the legal authority to kill and assassinate U.S. citizens abroad (and its admission to having already done so). Most lefty-blogs seem unconcerned about this policy, ...
• 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 ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• A cornered Wratt: NIWA needs to apologise for temp ...
  Not just NIWA, but its paid propagandist, PR hack Peter Griffin, and the artist formerly known as Ken Perrott, and truffle grower Gareth Renowden. So loudly they brayed in support of NIWA's temperature research, and yet, their local climate science...
• A cornered Wratt: NIWA needs to apologise for temp ...
  Not just NIWA, but its paid propagandist, PR hack Peter Griffin, and the artist formerly known as Ken Perrott, and truffle grower Gareth Renowden. So loudly they brayed in support of NIWA's temperature research, and yet, their local climate science...
• IPCC: International Pack of Champion Chumps
  I'm sorry, I was skeptical before but even I hadn't appreciated just how much of a credibility deficit lurked beneath the surface of the IPCC's Fourth Annual report. The latest news is that the Summary for Policymakers contained false data...
• In the bunker at IPCC HQ...
• Climate science should face much tougher public sc ...
  There have been buffoons in this neck of the woods suggesting climate scientists are entirely altruistic and should be trusted with the fate of the planet because, well, hey, 'we're scientists'. I'm sure thalidomide victims would agree. Nonetheless, we're starting...

Public News Service

• Teen Pregnancies Up After Decade of Decline; AZ Ra ...
  Teen Pregnancies Up After Decade of Decline; AZ Rate Stays High Phoenix, AZ – A new study shows teen pregnancies rising in the United States after ten years of decline. The study from the non-partisan Guttmacher (GOOT-mock-er) Institute shows Arizona with the third-highest teen pregnancy rate in the ...
• GLBT Community Responds to Obama's Pledge on "Don' ...
  GLBT Community Responds to Obama's Pledge on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Washington, D.C. - Some civil rights activists are applauding President Obama's State of the Union pledge to work towards repealing the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy that prohibits gay soldiers, sailors, air-men and -women to come o ...
• Retiree Volunteers Getting Mesa United Way Through ...
  Retiree Volunteers Getting Mesa United Way Through Tough Times Mesa, AZ – With revenues down and needs exploding, the Mesa United Way is making creative use of older volunteers to stretch scarce resources. The volunteers are using their experience and skills to help fill the dollar gap. Comments fro ...
• Web Tool Helps Arizonans Connect with Social Servi ...
  Web Tool Helps Arizonans Connect with Social Services Phoenix, AZ – In these tough times, there's a new helper for getting help. A statewide website called Arizona Self Help provides free, confidential screening to determine eligibility for any kind of assistance or social benefit program. Comments ...
• AZ Payday Lenders in Last-Ditch Bid to Avoid Rate ...
  AZ Payday Lenders in Last-Ditch Bid to Avoid Rate Cap Phoenix, AZ – The usury law exemption for Arizona’s payday loan stores expires at the end of June, unless the industry can persuade enough state lawmakers to reauthorize higher interest rates. A leading payday loan opponent says to everyone outsi ...

My Care2 Picks

• Deeper Politics: For Profit Government, Intelligen ...
  Paul Jay of The Real News part 3 of the series : the way to succeed in Washington has become to support the next use of the war machine to attack its next chosen target : lying private corp given job of identifying liars in road to Iraq ! Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note- ...
• Verichip is now called PositiveID!
  Verichip keeps spawning and shape shifting to gain market acceptance as people from across the globe unite and reject the IBM seed-funded, Raytheon-manufactured Human Implantable tumour-causing microchip Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• ETHIOPIA:Dam Critics Won't Go Away
  Ethiopia is building a 240-meter high dam on the Omo River that is intended to end the country's electric shortage and supply power to neighbouring countries. Not everyone's happy. Submitted by Naoko I. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• P.T.S.D Is Really Post Traumatic Heart Dysfunction
  Symptoms of PTSD are very similar to the symptoms of people separated from love whereas deep psychic pain as well as feelings of guilt and unworthiness override the ability to give and receive love. A soldier eventually retreats into an inpenetrable shell Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellne ...
• 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

Angry Indian News

• Five Indians Killed In An Ambush In Southern Mexic ...
  Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources: Five members of an indigenous Triqui political organization were shot and killed today (Feb. 5, 2010) by unknown assailants ambushed them in the Mexican state... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• BC Indian Chiefs Launch Olympic Rights Campaign Ta ...
  Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources: A group of B.C. First Nations leaders says it will carry out a campaign during the Winter Games to pressure Canada to sign a UN declaration on the rights of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Twenty-Eight Tribal Children In Two Villages Have ...
  Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources:The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that 28 tribal children have recently been allowed to die of malnutrition. According to a... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Anti-racist demonstration held in Prague
  -West Midlands Unity-:: "Prague, Feb 4 (CTK) - Roughly 100 people attended the March against Racism and Neo-Nazism in Prague yesterday afternoon.The quiet march ended outside the Faculty of Law of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Leonard Peltier and the Notorious Perversity of US ...
  Image by Sheila Steele via FlickrPan-African News Wire::"I N T E R N A T I O N A LHavana. February 5, 2010Leonard Peltier and the notorious perversity of USA-style justiceElsa ClaroTWO hundred years... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• USDA Dropping NAIS?
  A USDA press release put out yesterday, February 5, 2009, states that implementation of NAIS has been ceased, and instead, Agriculture Secretary Vilsack will opt for a state and tribal-run system. Read this brochure from APHIS:
• Animals Fed GMO Are Different!
  In a landmark ruling, the NZ Commerce Commission has accepted evidence from Prof Jack Heinemann, from an exhaustive review of the literature and on the basis of his own extensive professional experience, that animals fed on GM components ARE different from those which are reared using non-GM feed. ...
• Monsanto Takes Center for Food Safety Legal Victor ...
  Monsanto intervened in a 2007 federal district court ruling that the Department of Agriculture’s approval of GE alfalfa was illegal.
• Environmental pretexts for land-grabs from private ...
  We are all for protecting the environment, but stealing land is not necessary or justified. Yet it is occurring every day.
• The multiple personality disorder of the USDA
  Low milk prices, the result of market price manipulation by the USDA, is setting the stage and preparing the way for the New Zealand based Cullen-Agritech to over take the domestic and independent dairy industry in the US.

  Blacklisted News

• U.S. Intelligence Officials Asked State Department ...
  The State Department didn't revoke the visa of foiled terrorism suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab because federal counterterrorism officials had begged off revocation, a top State Department official revealed Wednesday.
• Pepsi With H1N1 Flavoring Now Available At Walgree ...
  First, there was Pepsi Vanilla. Then there was Pepsi Lime. Now, exclusively at Walgreens, you can get the latest special flavor of Pepsi: Pepsi H1N1. It is also available in frozen pizza, Buffalo wing, and ice cream form.
• Veiled Threats Directed against Russia: U.S. Expan ...
  They need not have been, though, as the expansion of the U.S. global, layered, integrated interceptor missile system into the Black Sea was as foreseeable as it is inevitable.
• FBI wants records kept of Web sites visited
  The FBI is pressing Internet service providers to record which Web sites customers visit and retain those logs for two years, a requirement that law enforcement believes could help it in investigations of child pornography and other serious crimes.
• Pentagon Looks to Breed Immortal "Synthetic Organi ...
  The Pentagon’s mad science arm may have come up with its most radical project yet. Darpa is looking to re-write the laws of evolution to the military’s advantage, creating “synthetic organisms” that can live forever — or can be killed with the flick of a molecular switch.

The Intelligence Daily

• Video: Waking Up in the Universe; Growing Up in th ...
  Oxford professor Richard Dawkins presents a series of lectures on life, the universe, and our place... For more details, please click on the link to read the article
• U.S. Extends Missile Buildup From Poland And Taiwa ...
  By Rick Rozoff (The Intelligence Daily) — On January 20 Poland’s Defense Ministry revealed... For more details, please click on the link to read the article
• Endgame: Peak Oil
  by John Michael Greer (The Intelligence Daily) — I’ve mentioned more than once in these... For more details, please click on the link to read the article
• As the Middle East Peace Talks Hit Deadlock, Talk ...
  By Claude Salhani (The Intelligence Daily) — The Middle East peace talks are at a deadlock.... For more details, please click on the link to read the article
• Child Slavery in Haiti
  By Stephen Lendman (The Intelligence Daily) — In November 1989, the UN General Assembly... For more details, please click on the link to read the article

My AntiWar

• Ukraine Exit Polls Say Yanukovych Has Won Election
• Iraqi Shi’ite Group Says Holding Two America ...
• Talabani Warns of ‘Ba’athist Coup&#821 ...
• Iran to enrich uranium to 20 percent
  Summary: Natanz Iran?s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ordered uranium enrichment to a 20 per cent level without giving up Tehran?s readiness to swap domestically produced low-enriched uranium with atomic fuel produced abroad. source: The Hinduread more
• Ahmadinejad Orders Uranium Enrichment for Medical ...

Open ID

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Rogue Government.com

• Terror Suspect Kept Visa To Avoid Tipping Off Lar ...
  The State Department didn't revoke the visa of foiled terrorism suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab because federal counterterrorism officials had begged off revocation, a top State Department official revealed Wednesday.
• Americans advised to get H1N1 vaccine
  Federal health officials urged Friday that more Americans get vaccinated against the H1N1 flu virus, sometimes referred to as swine flu, which continues to kill.
• School bombing exposes Obama's secret war inside ...
  THE discovery of three American soldiers among the dead in a suicide bombing at the opening of a girls’ school in the northwestern Pakistan town of Dir last week reignited the fears of many Pakistanis that Washington was set on invading their country.
• Priest checks fingerprints for mass attendance
  A Polish priest has installed an electronic reader in his church for schoolchildren to leave their fingerprints in order to monitor their attendance at mass, the Gazeta Wyborcza daily said on Friday.
• No joke: South Carolina now requires "subver ...
  Terrorists who want to overthrow the United States government must now register with South Carolina's Secretary of State and declare their intentions -- or face a $25,000 fine and up to 10 years in prison.

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

• Karzai wants Afghanistan security handover to begi ...
  Afghanistan is prepared to begin taking over security from international forces in some parts of the war-torn nation by the end of the year, President Hamid Karzai said Sunday. By the end of his five-year term in 2014, Karzai said, "conditions permitting ... Afghan forces will have full responsibil ...
• Ukraine braced for conflict as polls signal end of ...
  Ukraine faced the prospect of renewed political confrontation on the streets after exit polls predicted that the man closely allied to Moscow was heading for victory in the fiercely contested presidential election last night. According to exit polls published immediately after voting ended, Yuliya ...
• FLASHBACK: America on a killing spree
  The televised broadcast of videotape showing a US marine executing a wounded, unarmed Iraqi at point-blank range inside a Fallujah mosque has provoked outrage throughout the Middle East, while creating a fresh crisis for the American military. The marine has been suspended from his command, as the ...
• US to launch Fallujah-style attack in Afghanistan
  As US and British troops prepare to attack the town of Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand Province, military commanders and the media are openly comparing the operation to the November 2004 siege of Fallujah, one of the bloodiest war crimes of the Iraq war. The operation in central Helmand province, l ...
• Wisconsin: Man Tased at Shopping Mall
  A police detective tased a man in Southridge Mall Saturday. The 20-year-old man fell to the floor and unresponsive. Nurses assisted with CPR and Southridge Mall provided a "paddle device" to try to resuscitate the man until rescue personal arrived. "Everybody was watching and waiting to see if he ...

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

• CBS Super Bowl Ads We'd Like to See
  After refusing in the past to run "controversial" ads from groups such as the United Church of Christ, CBS is reversing course. During its extended Super Bowl coverage on Sunday, the network will air a not-so-subtle anti-abortion message sponsored by...
• The Immaculate Convention
  "I'm mad, I'm really mad," the man said, adding, "It's not the economy. It's the socialist taking over our country." If you thought those words came from one of the 600 faithful breathlessly waiting to hear from Sarah Palin at...
• 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,...

Blackspot News Feed

• The 6 Weirdest Things Women Do to Their Vaginas
  What the hell is vaginal rejuvination? Who would want their vagina bleached? Here's a list of the strangest ways to make your genitals meet the demands of the beauty industry.
• Jesse Ventura Takes the Soaring Interest in Conspi ...
  Bringing formerly taboo issues to TV, the former Minnesota governor and professional wrestler's show has caught on. Conspiracy theorists probably aren't surprised.
• Food and Investigations: Feed Your Appetite For To ...
  AlterNet's hottest new sections -- Food and Investigations -- have just launched. Find out how to get the latest stories.
• Dollar Stores Reign: Appetite for Cheap Food Is St ...
  Dollar stores may be places to nab a bargain but for many they are the only place to buy food -- the rock-bottom of the food chain, the last stop before the food pantry.
• Justice Department Clears Torture Memo Authors Joh ...
  A long-awaited Department of Justice watchdog report that probed whether John Yoo and his former boss Jay Bybee violated professional standards when they provided the Bush White House with legal advice on torture has cleared both men of misconduct, according to Newsweek , citing unnamed sources who ...

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

• Alexander Cockburn : The Left: Downhill From Green ...
• Joanne Mariner : "If You Were in Secret Prisons... ...
• Jeffrey St. Clair : Vigilante Justice in the Land ...
• Joseph Nevins : Bottled Water Syndrome: the Drinki ...
• Mike Miller : What Do Grassroots Organizers Actual ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Gazans denied justice as rights take a beating (M ...
  Gazans hoping for a modicum of justice following Israel's indiscriminate military assault on the coastal territory during December 2008 and January 2009 - which left 1,400 Palestinians, m ...
• Hope for Middle East talks? (Inside Story, Al Jaz ...
• The return of Goldstone (Amira Howeidy, Al Ahram ...
  On Monday, 1 February, the Israeli media reported that the commander of the Israeli army's Gaza division, Brigadier General Eyal Eizenberg, and the commander of the Givati Brigade, Colone ...
• Gaza power plant to cease operations (Ma'an News)
  The Gaza Strip's sole power plant will cease all operations late Friday night due to a lack of fuel, officials warned. The plant had already shut down services to all but 30-40 percent of ...
• Sad journey in a time machine (Gideon Levy, Haare ...
  The first time I walked past this wall at the entrance to the school, the following crude graffiti was scrawled on it: "Mayor is a whore." As simply as that. The unholy anger of a frustra ...

Water - AlterNet

• Coca-Cola Puts on Green Guise for the Winter Olymp ...
  Critics point out inconsistencies in Coke’s approach to the environment including its opposition to city efforts to support public water and to bottle recycling bills.
• Keep Fish Off Drugs: Don't Flush Your Pills
  Around the country, chemists have discovered that fish in the water downstream from water treatment plants absorb chemicals found in antidepressant drugs into their bodies.
• Los Angeles May Get Mandatory Rainwater Harvesting ...
  Does this mean LA is becoming water wise?
• Orland, California Group Gets Ready to Ward off Wa ...
  Crystal Geyser is seeking approval for a bottling plant on an industrial-zoned parcel that is bordered on three sides by bucolic agricultural-residential land.
• Coal Ash Industry Manipulated EPA Data, Ghost-Wrot ...
  The industry "watered down official reports, brochures and fact-sheets to remove references to potential dangers." So-called "environmental benefits" were aggrandized.

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

• Today's Super Bowl: A Convenient Distraction by Ed ...
  by Ed Ciaccio Dandelion Salad Featured Writer February 7, 2010 wizbang August 28, 2006 Video of the
• Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Trai ...
  with Howard Zinn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad by Worthwhile Media Documentary in which professor
• The United Police States of America by Cindy Sheeh ...
  by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbo
• Romania: U.S. Expands Missile Shield Into Black Se ...
  by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO -Opposition to global militarism
• No title
  by William Blum Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.killinghope.org 6 February, 2010 The Anti-Empire

Unexplained Mysteries

• What gives mass to matter ?
  A new run on the Large Hadron Collider lasting until 2011 is hoping to solve the mystery of what gives mass to matter. The run will last a whole two y...
• Hubble snaps Pluto changing colour
  The Hubble Space Telescope has taken pictures showing Pluto changing colour in a new series of detailed photographs. The pictures are not as clear as ...
• 100 year-old whiskey found in Antarctic
  Crates of whiskey from 100 years ago have been uncovered below Ernest Shackleton's hut in Antarctica. A number of crates of Mackinlay's Scotch whisky ...
• Could China be next to return to the Moon ?
  With NASA recently pulling out of the race to return to the Moon it looks like China could be set to take first place. It is believed China could succ...
• Searching for life on Europa
  Last year NASA and the European Space Agency announced plans for a joint effort to seek out life on Jupiter's moon Europa. Scientists believe Europa c...

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 7, 2010
  Study: Arctic Ice Melt Worse than 'Most Pessimistic' Models (Sydney Morning Herald) Climate change is transforming the Arctic environment faster than expected and accelerating the disappearance of sea ice, scientists said in giving their early findings from the biggest-ever study of Canada's ...
• 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 ...

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

• Just Gimme Some Truth
  The layers of the American political pathology are so multiple and so deep, it's sometimes hard to know where to start. It's not so much that we're a country with problems. Every country has its challenges, and compared to much of the rest of the world I'd take our particular batch hands-down. It' ...
• Wars sending U.S. into ruin: Obama the peace presi ...
  U.S. President Barack Obama calls the $3.8-trillion US budget he just sent to Congress a major step in restoring America's economic health. In fact, it's another potent fix given to a sick patient deeply addicted to the dangerous drug -- debt. More empires have fallen because of reckless finances th ...
• Chicken Scratch
  First you hear their sounds. Then you see a man affectionately stroking a colorful bird. I came early, but a few dozen people were already gathering around the Mo'oheau Bandstand in downtown Hilo one recent Sunday morning. I was one of the first haoles to arrive. "What are all these chickens doing h ...
• Toyota Unveils New Slogan: "Drive a Toyota. You'll ...
  TOKYO (The Borowitz Report) - Hoping to reverse a series of public relations setbacks, Toyota today unveiled a new slogan, "Drive a Toyota. You'll Never Stop." Company spokesman Hiroshi Kyosuke said that the slogan was chosen after the company considered several others, including "Toyota Puts the Pe ...
• The Death of an American Community
  My county is dying. As I ride to Spartan Express gas station to get my 5 gallons of gas for my pickup, I notice that the readout on the Citgo gas pump has been vandalized, and the pumps are bent and beat up. A few years ago, the Hugo Chavez-Venezuela gas station and its pumps were kept in pristin ...

Ten Percent

• Falklands, Malvinas, Oil
  That ol’ timey empire dies hard, then oil arrives to reinvigorate the corpse, it’s Carbon Zombie Imperialism! It does not look like much: a jumble of pipes, containers and drilling equipment sitting on a windswept jetty at Port Stanley. The hardware, however, signals an imminent search for oil and ...
• Cry Me A RIver
  Madeley’s a wanker, Campbell had direct power in conspiring to kill a million plus people and remains unrepentant (ht2 Harpy). There is no way in which Campbell is acting out of good faith, he was instrumental in concocting the media lies to move us into war. Why the media waste our time giving thes ...
• Wanker Of The Week
  He always was a total wanker, Richard Madeley defending Blair’s war crimes (ht2 AD). This is just waiting for the comedy remixes which I expect are already being made. Also I hear that Hitler was a nice chap (hey Madeley started it with the V2 nonsense, somehow Iraq becomes Nazi Germany to Dickhead ...
• 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 ...

Booman Tribune

• Serious Question
  I'm not sure why Kevin Drum is neutral on a sugared beverage-tax. I like to drink soda that has cane sugar in it every once in a while, but I've done my best to completely eliminate high fructose corn syrup from my diet. You should do the same. And diet sodas are just as nasty. Our society pays ...
• Greatest QB's
  Peyton Manning is a very, very good quarterback. But he hasn't come close to proving himself the best quarterback ever. He hasn't even proved himself to be better than his contemporary, Tom Brady. Brady had an off season after losing the prior season to injury. But, Brady's resume is much more i ...
• Quote of the Day
  "The tea party movement is dead. The one I was familiar with anyway. Judson Phillips held it down and Sarah Palin drove a stake right through its heart live last night on C-Span in front of an unsuspecting audience." - Kleinheider at the Nashville Post.
• Tea Party Cat Fight
  I knew I should have gone to that damn Teabagging Convention. Just standing around in the halls talking to those nutters would have been high comic relief. I could have even called myself a journalist and compared notes. But, seriously, it's belly-achingly funny to picture Andrew Breitbert and Wo ...
• Open Thread
  Finn's thoughts on the snow: How are things at your house?

European Tribune

• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 8 ...
   A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:# 1828 – Jules...
• Sunday Open Thread
  Time for talk...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 7 ...
   A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:1927 – Juliette Gréco,...
• Saturday Open Thread
  For your weekend conversation...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 6 ...
   A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:1932 – Birth of...

Futurismic

• Life on Earth may depend on quantum processes
  Not to go all new-age on you, but it is remarkable to consider that something as esoteric as quantum physics has been observed at work in biological processes. University of Toronto physicist Greg Scholes has published in Nature the strongest evidence yet that photosynthesis itself uses “coherence,” ...
• Cyborg
  Does Not Equal is a webcomic by Sarah Ennals – check out the pre-Futurismic archives, and the strips that have been published here previously. [ Be sure to check out the Does Not Equal Cafepress store for webcomic merchandise featuring Canadians with geometrically-shaped heads! ] Project Wonderfu ...
• 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 ...

Therapy News

• Intervention Counseling for Moms-to-be Facing Viol ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary In myriad ways, domestic violence can be responsible for taking a toll on quality of life and reducing victims’ overall well-being, and therapists and counselors along with other professionals in the psychology and psychiatry fields are frequently engaged in seeking wa ...
• Study Finds Counseling Costs Influence Client and ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline The idea that therapy and counseling clients may think differently about treatments based on their costs may not exactly be novel, but the severity of bias, along with the changed behavior of caregivers themselves in dispensing advice and recommending referrals, might ...
• Kansas City Weighs Homicide Prevention Program
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Cities often have differing methods of preventing homicides and other types of violence, and a program in Chicago has been successful in lowering homicide rates while inspiring other cities to develop similar initiatives. Kansas City, in particular, has created a prog ...
• 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 ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Can the myth of clean coal become a reality? - ist ...
  Can the myth of clean coal become a reality? istockAnalyst.com (press release) "The term clean coal ignores the consequences of coal mining, particularly the mining practices of mountaintop-removal coal mining," said Glen Besa, ... and more »
• Colbert on Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining - GOOD
  Colbert on Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining GOOD ... in the show to talk about—as only Colbert can—a recent study published in Science that highlights the human impacts of mountaintop removal coal mining. ... Colbert Report Takes Down Big Coal: Save the Endangered Hillbilly The Indypendent When Scie ...
• An Old Prayer for Clean Coal: Strip-Mining Jesus - ...
  An Old Prayer for Clean Coal: Strip-Mining Jesus AlterNet (blog) “ And this means that even more dirty coal will be stripmined by reckless mountaintop removal operations in Appalachia, and stripmining operations across ... and more »
• Earth and the Balance of Powers: What the Citizens ...
  Earth and the Balance of Powers: What the Citizens United Ruling Means for the ... Huffington Post (blog) Jackson also reversed a Bush administration permit for the nation's largest mountaintop-removal coal mine. Perhaps most significantly, Jackson's ... and more »
• Mountaintop-removal mining draws protest - Knoxvil ...
  Mountaintop-removal mining draws protest Knoxville News Sentinel I consider mountaintop removal as an insult to American ingenuity and American pride in its natural heritage. Would we just sit by if Mount LeConte were ...

Memeorandum

• Witness To Middletown Explosion: 'There Are Bodies ...
  Hartford Courant : Witness To Middletown Explosion: ‘There Are Bodies Everywhere’   —  (RICHARD MESSINA / HARTFORD COURANT / February 7, 2010)  —  MIDDLETOWN - Witnesses and authorities said as many as 100 people may have been injured and two killed when a massive explosion, which homeowners more ...
• Palin 'Would Be Willing' to Take On Obama in 2012 ...
  Judson Berger / Fox News : Palin ‘Would Be Willing’ to Take On Obama in 2012   —  Sarah Palin has President Obama in her sights, telling FoxNews.com she “would be willing” to challenge him in the 2012 presidential race.
• A Scrubbed Toe in the Race (Maureen Dowd/New York ...
  Maureen Dowd / New York Times : A Scrubbed Toe in the Race   —  Between bites of an egg-white garden omelet at a bistro in his Union Square neighborhood, Harold Ford Jr. defended himself on pedicures and flip-flops.  —  “I either run or try to play basketball every day,” he said.  “I have severe at ...
• Judge being gay a nonissue during Prop. 8 trial (S ...
  San Francisco Chronicle : Judge being gay a nonissue during Prop. 8 trial   —  The biggest open secret in the landmark trial over same-sex marriage being heard in San Francisco is that the federal judge who will decide the case, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker, is himself gay.
• Sinatra Song Often Strikes Deadly Chord (Norimitsu ...
  Norimitsu Onishi / New York Times : Sinatra Song Often Strikes Deadly Chord   —  GENERAL SANTOS, the Philippines — After a day of barbering, Rodolfo Gregorio went to his neighborhood karaoke bar still smelling of talcum powder.  Putting aside his glass of Red Horse Extra Strong beer, he grasped a ...

Energy & Environment News

• Vermont Power Plant Continues to Leak Radiation
  Levels found in the groundwater near the Vermont Yankee plant are three times greater than were found last week.
• Countries Submit Emission Goals
  A total of 55 developed and developing countries restated earlier pledges to curb emissions by 2020.
• The Count: A Globe Still in Need of Steel
  The steel industry, though buffeted by crises in past decades, remains a core part of the economy.
• Hawaii Senate Says Cutting Back on Paper Has Saved ...
  By eliminating the use of millions of sheets of paper, the lawmakers said they saved more than 800 trees.
• Green Inc. Column: Failed Efforts in Protecting Bi ...
  The world is losing ground on efforts to protect biodiversity, according to Ahmed Djoghlaf, the executive secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.3, south of the Fiji Islands
  Sunday, February 7, 2010 23:22:52 UTC Monday, February 8, 2010 11:22:52 AM at epicenter Depth : 518.90 km (322.43 mi)
• M 5.8, south of the Fiji Islands
  Sunday, February 7, 2010 22:28:18 UTC Monday, February 8, 2010 10:28:18 AM at epicenter Depth : 513.00 km (318.76 mi)
• M 5.0, Sulawesi, Indonesia
  Sunday, February 7, 2010 21:21:43 UTC Monday, February 8, 2010 05:21:43 AM at epicenter Depth : 140.20 km (87.12 mi)
• M 5.4, Jujuy, Argentina
  Sunday, February 7, 2010 17:09:49 UTC Sunday, February 7, 2010 02:09:49 PM at epicenter Depth : 247.50 km (153.79 mi)
• M 5.1, Easter Island region
  Wednesday, February 3, 2010 10:16:16 UTC Wednesday, February 3, 2010 03:16:16 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Why We Can't Afford to Let Obama Give Bush's War C ...
  Punishing the guilty for deeds they committed in the past is the only way to show the world that we are truly on a new path.
• Hey Congress -- Stand up to Wall Street!
  Lobbyists aren't the only people working against financial reform. The lawmakers who accept their campaign cash deserve the same blame.
• The Newest Diet Trend: What Would Jesus Eat?
  Whether you call it the Hallelujah Diet, the Maker's Diet or the Lord's Diet, the holy spirit is driving one of America's biggest weight-loss fads.
• Being 'Objective' Is Killing Newspapers, But We'll ...
  Don’t blame the Internet. The bloodless and soulless journalism of the traditional media left newspapers on the wrong side of the growing class divide and their readers.
• The Commercial Super Bowl: Voyeuristic Horndogs, H ...
  Whatever happens, the Tim Tebow controversy has put the game’s spotlight back where it belongs -- on the advertising.

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

• Obama's 2010 strategy taking shape
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama's campaign strategy for Democrats in the November elections is taking shape -- appeal to Republicans to make compromises and if they do not, accuse them of obstruction.
• Two dead in Connecticut gas plant explosion
  MIDDLETOWN, Conn (Reuters) - At least two people were killed and dozens injured on Sunday when a massive explosion rocked a gas power plant under construction in Connecticut, police said.
• Iran ratchets up atom work despite sanctions threa ...
  TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's president gave instructions on Sunday for the production of higher-grade nuclear reactor fuel, prompting the United States and Germany to threaten carefully targeted new sanctions against Tehran.
• "Avatar" loses box office crown to "Dear John"
  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - It had to happen sometime, but nobody expected the biggest film of all time to lose its North American box office crown this weekend to "Dear John," a low-budget "chick flick" with a pair of little-known stars.
• U.S. mid-Atlantic digs out from blizzard
  * Storm dumps two feet (half-meter) of snow on Washington

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

• Bush Protested Wherever He Goes
  By Sharon Tipton Thirty protesters gathered on February 4th, in Dana Point, Calif., where George Bush received the prestigious Cardinal John J. O’Connor Pro-Life Award from Legatus a Catholic business and civics leaders group, at its annual Summit. 9/11 Truthers from Los Angeles joined us, as well a ...
• Pennsylvania Democrats Unanimously Endorse Single ...
  http://healthcare4allpa.org Lancaster – The Pennsylvania Democratic State Committee today unanimously endorsed a resolution calling for passage of single payer healthcare, Senate Bill 400 and House Bill 1660, also known as the "Family and Business Healthcare Security Act." Given the healthcare refor ...
• Video: Government killing Americans abroad, okay?
• Residents Sickened by Bombs? - Vieques Island Am ...
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• Why We Can't Afford to Let Obama Give Bush's War C ...
  Why We Can't Afford to Let Obama Give Bush's War Criminals a Free Pass Punishing the guilty for deeds they committed in the past is the only way to show the world that we are truly on a new path. By Charlotte Dennett | Alternet In a week when one-year report cards on the Obama administration we ...

Grist - News

• Palin bashes ‘cap and tax’ and commend ...
  by Lisa Hymas Sarah Palin's much-anticipated speech Saturday night at the first National Tea Party Convention in Nashville included a one-minute-and-20-second disquisition on energy policy.  She hit on her familiar talking points -- drill here, drill now, "cap-and-tax" sucks. But she also comme ...
• 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 ...

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Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

• Sarah Palin, See Me After Class
  A viral video surfaced of her at the Tea Party convention with some scribblin' on her left hand.
• Engineers Swarm to Twitter
  A visualization of how engineers have been attracted to Twitter as a development platform, just like bees to a hive.
• Bluebloods Aren’t Yellow About Green
  Debs Goodenough, Head Gardener to Prince Charles arrives in the US for presentations on the remarkable Highgrove experiment turned utopia for ecological sustainability
• Video: Understanding The Nexus One Design Process
  A look inside the making of Google's Nexus One smartphone.
• Kirstie Alley's Big Life Premieres March 21st on A ...
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Time - Top Stories

• Top 10 Superbowl Ads of the Decade
  TIME TV Critic James Poniewozik sorts suicidal robots, magic refrigerators and a maniacal Robert Goulet to rank the best Superbowl commercials of the past 10 years
• Venezuela's Opposition: Taking ChÁvez Out at ...
  The fiery president's popularity has been plummeting and his opponents took advantage of the situation by heckling him at a popular baseball series
• Swampland: Palin Stirs the Tea Party
  Palin didn't miss an opportunity to round on President Obama for what she called his failures on the national security and economic fronts.
• How ShelterBox Helps Haiti Quake Victims
  ShelterBox helps people after disasters. Tom Henderson tells how the little nonprofit he started is aiding 100,000 Haitians
• A Year After Fires, Australia Debates What Went Wr ...
  On Feb. 7, Australia will mark the one-year anniversary of the Black Saturday bushfires, the worst natural disaster in the continent's recorded history

Washington Independent

• Palin Speaks: “How’s that Hopey-Change ...
  NASHVILLE — “I’m so proud to be an American! Happy birthday, Ronald Reagan.” Sarah Palin took the stage of the National Tea Party Convention to a thundering ovation, which she cut down quickly by praising “anyone who serves in uniform or has served in uniform” and diving right into her speech. “I a ...
• Waiting for Sarah, Part II
  NASHVILLE — The 1100 ticketholders for Sarah Palin’s speech have assembled in the ballroom after a lengthy wait outside. As promised, the dinner being served is steak and lobster, and from the view in the media risers there are few vegetarian substitutions. “We put a lot of thought into the dinner, ...
• Scenes From the National Tea Party Convention
  NASHVILLE — Below are some photos I took at the National Tea Party Convention, featuring Tea Party merchandise, Palin 2012 signs and a few of the attendees.
• Waiting for Sarah
  NASHVILLE — Stan and Mary Hess own the United States Hot Air Balloon Team in St. Peter’s, Pa. All last year, they had a very direct involvement with the Tea Party movement, renting out balloons for American Prosperity’s climate change-skeptical “Hot Air Tour.” But they had never seen Sarah Palin spe ...
• Orly Taitz in Nashville
  NASHVILLE — The woman dubbed by the Orange County Register as “queen of the birthers” arrived at the National Tea Party Convention today and did what she always does–hustled around talking to reporters and trying to get media coverage. Pictured below–Taitz talking to Lydia DePillis of The New Republ ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

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

Suzie-Q

• SNL: Rahm Emanuel’s Apology For ‘Retar ...
  SNL Takes On Rahm Emanuel’s Apology For ‘Retarded’ Comment (VIDEO) HuffPo-  First Posted: 02- 7-10 09:47 AM   |   Updated: 02- 7-10 11:21 AM Played by Andy Samberg, Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel offered up an “Even-Tempered Apology” last night on SNL for his use of the word “retarded.” While ...
• Sarah Palin: Did She Write Answers To Tea Party Co ...
  Closer inspection of a photo of Sarah Palin, during a speech in which she mocked President Obama for his use of a teleprompter, reveals several notes written on her left hand. The words “Energy”, “Tax” and “Lift American Spirits” are clearly visible. There’s also what appears to read as “Budget cut ...
• Bill Moyers Smacks Democrats And Republicans (VIDE ...
  Bill Moyers: “Let’s Face It, Two Political Parties; Equal Opportunity Hypocrites” Crooks & Liars- By Heather Saturday Feb 06, 2010 2:00pm Bill Moyers smacks the Democrats and Republicans for sucking up to corporate lobbyists at their retreats and Mitch McConnell for the hypocrisy of his statement o ...
• National Tea Party Convention: Still Taking Shape ...
  The Tea Party is still taking shape By Ann Gerhart and Philip Rucker Washington Post Staff Writers Saturday, February 6, 2010 NASHVILLE — The 600 delegates at the National Tea Party Convention feel taxed to death, ignored by their elected representatives and the media, and appalled at the federal g ...
• Tea Party Movement: White Racial Resentment?
  White Racial Resentment Bubbles Under the Surface of the Tea Party Movement AlterNet / By Rich Benjamin The simmering movement is the whitest phenomenon on the national scene, evident not just in its Caucasian numbers but in the bedrock beliefs stirring its anti-government contempt. February ...

Solari

• Bank Data Wars Escalate
  SWIFT headquarters in La Hulpe. The civil liberties committee in the European Parliament on Thursday recommended that the parliament’s MPs reject a deal that would allow U.S. authorities to continue accessing information held by a Brussels-based international money transfer system. Since shortly af ...
• Summit of Central Bankers This Weekend
  The world’s central bankers began arriving in Australia yesterday as renewed fears about the strength of the global economic recovery gripped world share markets. Representatives from 24 central banks and monetary authorities including the US Federal Reserve and European Central Bank landed in Sydne ...
• Long-Term Care
• 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 ...

Global Insights

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

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• Why We Can't Afford to Let Obama Give Bush's War C ...
  Punishing the guilty for deeds they committed in the past is the only way to show the world that we are truly on a new path.
• Shocker: Tea Party Convention Opening Speaker Sugg ...
  GOPer Tom Tancredo suggests "literacy test" to protect America from presidents like Obama -- a segregation-era method employed by southern US states to keep blacks from voting.
• Top 10 Problems with America Killing Its Own Citiz ...
  Assassinating non-Americans is just as illegal as assassinating Americans. The leap here is not to victims of a different citizenship but to the legalization of murder.
• The New Racial Segregation at Public Schools
  In 1990 over 40 percent of black students in the South attended majority-white schools. Now less than 30 percent of students do — 1960s numbers.
• Planned Parenthood Posts Pro-Woman Ad, Putting the ...
  With Super Bowl Sunday only a few days away, the fight over Focus on the Family's overtly anti-choice ad featuring University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow is raging.

Sideways News

• Bill to protect Scottish marine life
  A new bill aimed at protecting marine life in Scotland has been passed in what has been described as a "momentous" move for the country.
• 'Artificial pancreas' helps diabetics
  An "artificial pancreas" that regulates blood sugar levels more effectively in children with type 1 diabetes has been developed by Cambridge scientists. The device includes a sensor connected to an insulin pump that cuts the risk of blood glucose falling dangerously low while children are sleeping - ...
• Shackleton's whisky stash freed from ice
  A team of Antarctic conservationists have unearthed a stash of Scotch whisky that had been preserved in ice under the floorboards of explorer Ernest Shackleton's hut. The New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust made the discovery while carrying out restoration work to the hut, which once belonged to th ...
• Wind power capacity increases in EU
  More new wind power capacity was installed in the European Union (EU) during 2009 compared to any other power technology, new statistics have revealed. According to the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), renewable energy technologies accounted for 61% of the new power machinery installed in 20 ...
• 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.

Fabius Maximus

• FM newswire for 7 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.  “Conservatives and Economic Mobility“, Mark Zeitlin, 10 January 2010 Some people never learn:  “Three Strikes You’re Out? Ten? More?“, Josh Marshall, TPM, 12 January 2010 — Conservativ ...
• FM newswire for 6 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.  Today’s must-read article:  “The Founders’ wisdom“, Paul L. Yingling (Lieutenant Colonel, US Army, Professor at the George C. Marshall Center in Garmisch, Germany), Armed Forces Jo ...
• Republicans have found a sure-fire path to victory ...
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• 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 ...

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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

• Overestimating Congo’s Death Toll
  Charli Carpenter observes that the latest Human Security Report contains the interesting news that the wars in Congo have not been quite as deadly as some widely cited figures suggest. In particular, they say that once you get the “baseline” mortality levels in Congo right, the death toll has been c ...
• 2009 Numbers On Displaced Persons and Refugees Ret ...
  In late-2007, as the security situation improved, and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was attempting to bolster his reputation for having improved the country before the 2009 provincial elections, the government began a concerted effort to encourage Iraq's estimated 2.9 million internally displaced a ...
• 2009 Numbers On Displaced and Refugee Returns To I ...
  In late-2007, as the security situation improved, and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was attempting to bolster his reputation for having improved the country before the 2009 provincial elections, the government began a concerted effort to encourage Iraq's estimated 2.9 million internally displaced a ...
• The Last Man in East Germany: A Cold War Scenario
  What must it have been like to be a Stasi case officer in the autumn of 1989? What did they do? The answer, in this fascinating piece in Der Spiegel , was that they kept going to the office. In fact, they kept on going about their spooky business - questioning detainees, trying to recruit informers ...
• US Contemplated Giving India Nuclear Technology in ...
  Two days ago the National Security Archive released a fascinating State Department document from 1961. In the document, US officials recommend passing nuclear technology to India in order to take the steam out of the anticipated nuclear tests by Communist China. Ultimately, of course, Secretary o ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Lightning Round: Now with 100 Percent Less Controv ...
  Barack Obama continues to display a trait guaranteed to annoy his supporters: clearly articulating the nature of a problem, and then refusing to throw his weight behind a solution. The president's remarks last night won't put liberals at ease. To look at the big picture, House Democrats want the S ...
• The Comprehensively Broken Senate.
  The latest breakdown in the operations of the world's most farcical legislative body that Paul mentions below should serve as a reminder that the Senate's crazy anti-democratic rules go well beyond the filibuster. As Mark Tushnet recently noted , getting rid of the filibuster in itself probably woul ...
• The Little Picture: Rosa Parks.
  Rosa Parks sits for a booking photo following her arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, on Dec. 1, 1955. She would have turned 97 this week. Previous Little Pictures in honor of Black History Month: The P-51 Mustang Group of the 15th Army Air Force The Little Rock Nine J ...
• 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 ...

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 ...

Buzzflash

• Dr. J.’s BF Commentary No. 132: Vengeance is Mine, ...
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  John McCain Welcome back to BuzzFlash's GOP Hypocrite of the Week. What is it about sexuality that brings out the two-faced immaturity in Republicans? Ah well, it's a mystery. But one thing we know for sure; mix that confusing sex stuff with talk of the military, and you can count of Sen. John McCai ...
• Bill O'Reilly's Defense of FOX to Jon Stewart Ridd ...
  BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT by Jeffrey Joseph Jon Stewart has, time and again , shown the ineptitude of the bias and selective amnesia characteristic of FOX News. After years of FOX serving as a punching bag for Jon Stewart, Bill O'Reilly, FOX's main ratings leader, had to bring Stewart to defend himself a ...
• White House 'Muzzled' DOJ's Attempts to Advocate o ...
  BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Meg White Among the many names we have for lawyers -- solicitors, counselors, blood-sucking ambulance chasers -- there is one to which I would like to call the attention of the constitutional law professor we call president: advocate. The word "advocate" has a long history ...
• Dave Lindorff - Government Labor Statistics: Lies ...
  For months, the various government departments dealing with things economic--Treasury, Commerce, Labor and of course the Council of Economic Advisers and the Federal Reserve, have been issuing soothing words that the nation’s economy is headed back up from the Great Recession that allegedly began in ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• Palin and the tea-party "movement": nothing new
  (updated below) Fox News , April 6, 2006 : Hundreds of protesters gripped Mexican flags as they marched for immigration reform in the past few weeks, but they say a display of cultural unity is being mistaken as a lack of loyalty to the United States. The displays turned off ...
• 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 ...

The BiPartisan Report

• Nihilism 1 American People Nil
• Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate floo ...
• Image via Wikipedia
  Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
• Those holier than thou Conservatives
• Dennis Kucinich: Enemy of the good, pursuer of the ...

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

• Pres. Obama’s Proposed 2011 Budget Bolsters War on ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 4, 2010 Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) According to 2011 funding "highlights" released this week by the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), the Obama administration is expanding the war on drugs and focusing its funds toward law enforcement over treatment. ...
• Environmental and Health Groups Face Off Against H ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 4, 2010 Earthjustice Public health and environmental advocates faced off against household cleaning giants Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive, Church and Dwight and Reckitt-Benckiser in a Manhattan court today in a fight for transparency about the toxic chemicals in c ...
• Lawsuit Launched to Defend Pacific Fisher From Fed ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 4, 2010 Center for Biological Diversity The Center for Biological Diversity, Sierra Forest Legacy, Environmental Protection Information Center, and Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center today filed a formal notice of intent to sue the Department of the Interior over its f ...
• Haiti: * Canceling Debt * Adoptions * Just Back
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 4, 2010 Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) MELINDA ST. LOUIS read more
• Kenya: Landmark Ruling on Indigenous Land Rights
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 4, 2010 Human Rights Watch (HRW) A ruling by the African Commission on Human and People's Rights condemning the expulsion of the Endorois people from their land in Kenya is a major victory for indigenous peoples across Africa, Human Rights Watch, WITNESS, and the Endor ...

Common Dreams-Views

• I'm So Proud of You, Robin Cook
  by Margaret Cook For nine weeks, they have been making their solemn way to the Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre in Westminster to account for their actions - or inactions - in the build-up to war. More than 70 witnesses have given evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry; among them the former Prime Ministe ...
• Journalists Examine Teapot Tempests as Real Glacie ...
  by Jim Naureckas Curtis Brainard of CJR 's Observatory blog ( 1/29/10 ) complains about the lack of coverage of what he calls "Glaciergate": read more
• Hey Congress - Stand up to Wall Street!
  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 ...
• 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

Karl Burkart

• A tale of two climate polls, part 2
  Two new studies on how Americans perceive climate change is a testament to public confusion and an urgent call for better messaging from the scientific community.
• A tale of two climate polls
  Two new studies on how Americans perceive climate change is a testament to public confusion and an urgent call for better messaging from the scientific community.
• Domestic Transformer: the home of the future
  Half home, half machine this Hong Kong apartment paints the picture of a sustainable future when buildings transform for their owners, saving on resources and money.
• Sierra Club launches activist network
  The Sierra Club rolls out a social network for environmental activists, providing online resources and project 'matchmaking.'
• Climategate scientist cleared
  Academic Board of Inquiry has cleared the scientist at the center of "Climategate" and his "trick." So will the spin machine finally shut up?

Water Privatization

• Editorial / Poll: Beach access ... developments’ ‘ ...
  Dawn Koncikowski of Bonita Beach is on a mission.She is dug in against further private enclaves along the public beaches.She looks at party and picnic areas for developments, such as Bonita Bay and The Brooks, and sees an erosion of the public’s access.She sees privatization.We understand her passio ...
• PSALM excludes Casecnan from IPPA auction line-up ...
  The 150-megawatt Casecnan multi-purpose hydropower facility has, for the meantime, been excluded by the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corporation (PSALM) from the bidding line-up for independent power producer administrator (IPPA) appointment. “The contract is complicated, so we are ...
• 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 ...

Guardian

• Thousands to lose jobs as universities prepare for ...
  • Post-graduates to replace professors • Staff poised to strike over proposals of cuts Universities across the country are preparing to axe thousands of teaching jobs, close campuses and ditch courses to cope with government funding cuts, the Guardian has learned. Other plans include using post-g ...
• Two dead in US gas power plant blast
  Police say they expect 'mass casualties' and that an undetermined number of people are buried under the rubble A large explosion at a Connecticut power station has killed at least two people and injured scores. But rescue workers warned of the possibility of many more deaths. The police said they ex ...
• Yanukovych heading for victory
  • Narrow lead reported over rival Tymoshenko • Remarkable comeback for Orange Revolution villain Ukraine's Russian-leaning opposition leader, Viktor Yanukovych, was tonight on course to become the country's president, with exit polls indicating he had a narrow lead over his bitter rival, Yulia Tymos ...
• UK-Argentina row over Falklands oil
  Four British firms set to drill for oil north of Falkland Islands, in move Argentina calls a 'violation of sovereignty' It does not look like much: a jumble of pipes, containers and drilling equipment sitting on a windswept jetty at Port Stanley. The hardware, however, signals an imminent search for ...
• Scotland and NI could veto rights bill
  Proposals to change the Human Rights Act could become a 'legal and political nightmare,' experts have said Plans for a British bill of rights supported by both Labour and the Conservatives could be vetoed by Scotland and Northern Ireland, a report warns. The proposals to change the Human Rights Act ...

McClatchey

• Feds still exploring charges in Tiller murder afte ...
  For a week, a federal investigator sat in a Wichita courtroom and watched testimony that Scott Roeder murdered abortion doctor George Tiller.
• Defense paints idyllic picture of life in Garrido ...
  SACRAMENTO — It sounds like a typical American family.
• Is pot legalization push in California a trend tha ...
  SAN FRANCISCO — It's almost a cliche these days that San Francisco and its sister to the east, Oakland, stand as the primary incubators of some of California's infamously wacky but later transformational social and political ideas.
• Jenny Sanford has 'no regrets'
  SULLIVAN'S ISLAND - Tall and striking, first lady Jenny Sanford answers the door of her Sullivan's Island beach house.
• Palin says she might run in 2012, that Obama can b ...
  WASHINGTON — Sarah Palin said Sunday she might run for president in 2012 if she decides it�s good for her family and country.

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

• Afghan youth demand to be heard
  KABUL // When reports surfaced that 10 civilians had allegedly been killed in eastern Afghanistan in December, a rare protest broke out on the streets of Kabul.The demonstrators were all male and the ...
• Afghan youth demand to be heard
  KABUL // When reports surfaced that 10 civilians had allegedly been killed in eastern Afghanistan in December, a rare protest broke out on the streets of Kabul.The demonstrators were all male and the ...
• Fighting battles to win allies in Afghanistan
  Last Updated: February 07. 2010 7:43PM UAE / February 7. 2010 3:43PM GMT As the largest offensive since the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 is expected in the next few days, US-led forces face a consi...
• U.S. Sees NATO Filling Gap For Afghan Trainers
  ROME (Reuters) -- The United States said today it was confident NATO allies would be able to fill the shortfall of trainers and mentors needed in Afghanistan by reshuffling rather than expanding their...
• Hundreds flee south Afghan town ahead of offensive
  (AP Photo/Abdul Khaleq)Afghan police men check belongings of displaced families, who arrived from Marjah, at a check post in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital of Helmand province, south of Kabul, Af...

Futurismic

• Life on Earth may depend on quantum processes
  Not to go all new-age on you, but it is remarkable to consider that something as esoteric as quantum physics has been observed at work in biological processes. University of Toronto physicist Greg Scholes has published in Nature the strongest evidence yet that photosynthesis itself uses “coherence,” ...
• Cyborg
  Does Not Equal is a webcomic by Sarah Ennals – check out the pre-Futurismic archives, and the strips that have been published here previously. [ Be sure to check out the Does Not Equal Cafepress store for webcomic merchandise featuring Canadians with geometrically-shaped heads! ] Project Wonderfu ...
• 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 ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

• Geithner's Dirty Little Secret
• Swine Flu
• Putin and the Geopolitics of the New Cold War: Or ...
• The Fake Oil Crisis of 1973
• Fossiles Erdöl
  
  

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

• U.S military to train in bloodless medicine
  Rep. Steve Rothman and Englewood Hospital and Medical Center officials in New Jersey recently announced $4.7 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Defense to train military medical professionals in bloodless medicine.
• 3rd giraffe dies in B.C. animal facility, charges ...
  Charges are pending against the Fort Langely conservation centre, Mountain View Conservation Centre after a giraffe died during hoof trimming.
• Majority of Americans reject Keynesian economics
  A recent survey suggests that only a small amount of Americans agree with Keynesian economics, which supports government increasing deficits during tough economic times, while more than half believe Keynes had it backwards.
• Toronto restaurant bathroom sex. Will you have fr ...
  Mildred's Temple Kitchen is inviting customers to have sex in its bathrooms. The Valentine's Day promotion adds an exotic dish to their menu.
• Sea Shepherd Vessel and Japanese Whaling Ship Coll ...
  Only a month after a similar incident in the waters near Antarctica, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is alleging that a Japanese whaling ship intentionally rammed one of their vessels during a confrontation on February 6.

End Homelessness | Change.org

• When Will We Take Care Of Our Own?
  I want you feel a little bit of what I am feeling so maybe we will all wake up and start taking care of our neighbors. Last year the most horrifying photo for the homeless community was of a dead homeless man frozen in the ice in an abandoned building in Detroit. Over the summer I happened to be vis ...
• What Obama's Budget Says About Homelessness
  President Obama released his 2011 budget this week and homeless advocates are giving it the seal of approval. As always, some worthy issues, like housing vouchers, see funding increases while others, like aid for the elderly, lose out. This year, though, people who recognize that the answer to homel ...
• A Homeless Mother and Son
  Jody lives in her car, while her 19-year-old son Phillip lives in a shelter in St. Paul, Minnesota. After being unfairly evicted from her apartment, she sold all she had to buy a car to live in. As I was giving out socks, Phillip approached me. His shoes have holes all the way through, so he is unab ...
• 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 ...

Ceasefire.ca

• Situation in Afghanistan improves; Taliban despera ...
  2010 “‘After a difficult year in 2009, we now see a new momentum in 2010 and it has already started,’ [NATO Secretary-General Anders] Fogh Rasmussen said Friday.” (Slobodan Lekic, “NATO Chief: Situation improving in Afghanistan after tough year,” Canadian Press, 5 February 2010) 2009 “The insur ...
• 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 ...

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

• US: System owes Troy Davis another day in court
  It is wrong to execute an innocent man. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit will now consider whether it is constitutional. Troy Anthony Davis, convicted of murder, is asking the courts to hear evidence that key government witnesses have r...
• Caribbean: Civil society demands Haiti debt cancel ...
  Organizations representing Caribbean civil society organizations and social movements have written to G8 finance ministers, the World Bank, and the IMF, to demand an immediate and unconditional cancellation of Haiti's external debt....
• USA: Uhuru movement endorses McKinney/Clemente tic ...
  The International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) has endorsed the McKinney/Clemente ticket in the U.S. presidential race. The endorsement was based on the support that Green Party V.P. candidate Rosa Clemente’s expressed for InPDUM’s “Re...
• Haiti: Women and girls require life-saving assista ...
  More than 800,000 people are in dire need of humanitarian assistance in Haiti in the wake of hurricanes Fay and Gustav and tropical storm Hanna. Houses, medical facilities, main roads and bridges have been destroyed, and an estimated 100,000 people h...
• Haiti: Lula visit prompts protests in Brazil, Mex ...
  Demonstrators in many Brazilian cities and San Francisco denounced Brazil's brutal 4-year military occupation of Haiti -- on the occasion of the May 28th visit to Haiti by Brazilian President Luiz Lula da Silva, marking the 4th anniversary of the arr...

War in Context

• Questioning the New York Times
  When Electronic Intifada contacted the New York Times‘ Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner to ask him if it was true his son had just joined the Israeli army and if so whether he thought this would create a conflict of interest, the newspaper avoided giving a straight answer. It gave what has becom ...
• The inner circle that is destroying the Obama pres ...
  From the Financial Times: At a crucial stage in the Democratic primaries in late 2007, Barack Obama rejuvenated his campaign with a barnstorming speech, in which he ended on a promise of what his victory would produce: “A nation healed. A world repaired. An America that believes again.” Just over ...
• Gates scoffs at Iran nuclear claim
  The New York Times reports: As Iran’s foreign minister met with the chief of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog agency here, the United States and Germany rejected Iran’s assertion that it was close to accepting an international compromise on its nuclear program. Western officials expressed deep ...
• U.S. deaths in Pakistan fuel suspicion
  Time magazine reports: By killing three U.S. soldiers in a bomb attack in a remote corner of northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, Feb. 3, the Taliban scored a political jackpot. With anti-American sentiment cresting in Pakistani public opinion, the presence of the three American trainers in a convoy pa ...
• There’s real hope from Haiti and it’s not what you ...
  Johann Hari: In the weeks after a disaster like the Haiti earthquake, journalists always search for an upbeat twist to the tale. You know it by now – the baby found alive after a week under wreckage. But this time, a shaft of light has parted the rubble and the corpses and the unshakeable grief tha ...

Watts Up With That?

• New study using satellite data: Alaskan glacier me ...
  From a press release provided by Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Paris, France: Improved estimate of glacier decline in Alaska. Glaciologists at the Laboratory for Space Studies in Geophysics and Oceanography (LEGOS – CNRS/CNES/IRD/Université Toulouse 3) and their US and Canadian ...
• Tracking the Earth’s orbit: looking for warm ...
  From a press release by: National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) Understanding past and future climate The notion that scientists understand how changes in Earth’s orbit affect climate well enough for estimating long-term natural climate trends that underlie any anthropogenic climate chan ...
• Snow totals for Washington DC storm
  The storm is over, the totals and reports are in. Here’s the lowdown on the snowfall records from the Baltimore NWS: NOUS41 KLWX 070328 CCA PNSLWX DCZ001-MDZ003>007-009>011-013-014-016>018-501-502-VAZ021-025>031-036> 042-050>057-WVZ049>055-501>504-071100- PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT...CORRECTED R ...
• IPCC’s “Africagate” blunder as t ...
  Dr. Richard North, who does investigative journalism at the EU referendum blog, has a comprehensive analysis and backgrounder on the latest in a series of blunders by the IPCC that have been uncovered. It complements the just released story by Jonathan Leake of The Sunday Times that highlights a lea ...
• The Times: Top British scientist says IPCC is losi ...
  Scientist says IPCC claims about African rainfall reductions due to global warming have no supporting data. By Jonathan Leake, Environment Editor Excerpt: A LEADING British government scientist has warned the United Nations’ climate panel to tackle its blunders or lose all credibility. Robert Watso ...

Dandelion Salad

• The Stimulator: The Olympigs are here
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ stimulator February 07, 2010 subMedia This week: 1. Colombian attack on the indigenous 2. Blocking the flows of carbon 3. Mending the Niger Delta 4. RCMP can’t find Bin Laden 5. The Olympigs are here! 6. The resistance responds 7. KRS1 8. Occupy Everyt ...
• Today’s Super Bowl: A Convenient Distraction ...
  by Ed Ciaccio Dandelion Salad Featured Writer February 7, 2010 As we get ready to watch the New Orleans Saints play in their first ever Super Bowl, it is important to remember what was allowed to happen to the middle class and poor, mostly black people of New Orleans after Hurricane Katri ...
• 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 ...
• 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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  Your body is like a video game on the inside. A white blood cell pursues bacterium, but turn off the sound and imagine PacMan music :
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  Fox News Poll : Obama's Leadership Puts Him At The Top Of The Class Fox News polls its audience on how President Barack Obama performed during his first year in the White House. More than 473,000 had voted when I did this screen capture : I saw it on Fox News. It must be true. This result will ...
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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

• Anshel Pfeffer: When did the Israeli right become ...
  B'Tselem, Yesh Din, Machsom Watch, Breaking the Silence and their ilk are nudniks, they are one-sided, they pick up any story floating around, often giving exaggerated credence to hearsay testimony... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Amid row over contentious ad, Jerusalem Post fires ...
  "They're using me to attack in the most blatant way the basic principles of democracy and the values of the Declaration of Independence: Values of equality, tolerance, social justice and freedom of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• 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 ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Factbox: Russia's new military doctrine
  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has approved the country's new military doctrine which includes the option of using nuclear strikes against potential aggressors.
• FACTBOX: Russia's new military doctrine
  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has approved the country's new military doctrine which includes the option of using nuclear strikes against potential aggressors.
• Russian president approves new military doctrine
  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has approved the country's new military doctrine which allows preventive nuclear strikes against potential aggressors.
• U.S. missiles in Romania would threaten Russia - a ...
  U.S. plans to place elements of its global missile shield in Romania pose a real threat to Russia's national security, a Russian military analyst said on Friday.
• FACTBOX: Russia's fifth-generation fighter T-50 (P ...

NewsWise

• Industrial Cleaner Linked to Increased Risk of Par ...
  Workers exposed to tricholorethylene (TCE), a chemical widely used to clean metal such as auto parts, may be at a significantly higher risk of developing Parkinson's disease, according to a study released today that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 62nd Annual Meeting in Toro ...
• Inhibiting Serotonin in Gut Could Cure Osteoporosi ...
  An investigational drug that inhibits serotonin in the gut, administered orally once daily, effectively cured osteoporosis in mice and rats. Serotonin in the gut has been shown in recent research to stall bone formation. The finding could lead to new therapies that build new bone; most osteoporosis ...
• U-M, Dept. of Defense Team Up to Combat Psychologi ...
  University of Michigan Depression Center, Department of Defense partner to combat stigma associated with seeking care for psychological health, traumatic brain injury among veterans, athletes through Real Warriors Campaign
• South Korean Students Learn About American Educati ...
  Students from South Korea are learning about the American school system and the American culture at a small private school in the Midwest. The University has had an international education focus since 1975 and continues to develop international partnerships.
• Six Things We Can Learn From Olympians
  A Saint Louis University expert offers tips to train like elite athletes.

Intel Trends

• Taliban 'force' Radio Pakistan to discontinue Voic ...
  The following article is from Daily Times, Lahore. Taliban 'force' Radio Pakistan to discontinue VOA broadcasts ©   Daily Times February 7, 2010 PESHAWAR: The Radio Pakistan management has decided to scrap the agreement with the Voice of America (VOA) to broadcast its pushto-language radio pr ...
• Iranian intelligence agents arrest 7 persons for w ...
  The following article is from Mehr News Agency (MNA), Tehran. Iran busts 7 people linked to foreign satellite networks ©   Mehr News February 7, 2010 TEHRAN, Feb. 7 (MNA) – Iranian intelligence forces have arrested seven persons who had links with counter-revolutionary satellite networks and ...
• IntelTrends 07-FEB-2010
  Senior Afghan Police Official Detained Quqnoos, 07 Feb An Afghan police commander has been arrested as part of a ring that planted roadside bombs, NATO-led forces said on Sunday. ISRAEL: IDF considers using BlackBerry Jerusalem Post, 07 Feb Israel Defense Force (IDF) considers using BlackBerry ...
• Operation Moshtarak: The upcoming U.S.-British-Afg ...
  ©  IntelTrends By Steve in Wisconsin February 6, 2010 The Wall Street Journal published an article three days ago titled: U.S. Announces Helmand Offensive "In Unusual Tactic, Allies in Afghanistan Issue Press Release Describing Next Attack, in Bid to Intimidate the Taliban" The Wall Street ...
• Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: Can We Call This R ...
  The following opinion is reprinted with permission from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Can We Call This Reconciliation? Source:  Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan February 6, 2010  15:04  administrator After the London Conference, the Kabul surrogate administration farcically speaks of peac ...

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

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• La magia de los colores (21 imágenes)
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• Más de 500 imágenes macro impresionantes
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Executive Intelligence Review

• FDR: Haiti's Development `Is Not Against Our Inter ...
  By Cynthia R. Rush Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 5, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 5
• The Emperor's New Statistics
  By John Hoefle Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 5, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 5
• LaRouche Webcast: The End of the Obama Administrat ...
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 5, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 5
• Rice-ists Strike Again in Africa
  EIR News Service press release.
• Why Obama Must Be Impeached
  EIR News Service press release.

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

• What the Tea Party and DFL have in common
  Orlando just beat the Celtics (a good thing, imho) and then our local ABC affiliate joined its program in progress. An infomercial for a device to improve bad backs. Is 4 p.m. on a Sunday afternoon that big a TV wasteland that it competes with the 2-5 am slot for infomercial money? Take away all the ...
• Teh party (+ rants’n'links)
  Unsurprisingly, Sarah Palin called for revolution yesterday, but that was a throw away line. Her actual speech sounded more like a Don Rickles style Vegas comedy act. “How’s that hopey-changey thing workin’ out for you?” she asked at one point. It was the perfect comic book weekend for the Classi ...
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  Dr. Alfo, tek cub, anal Panama. Because I thought you should know, and because I can’t resist lard links.
• 1 out of 4 Americans
  Some jokes to get you started from Bill in Portland Maine. My fave? “People are upset that Obama hasn’t solved all the problems yet. C’mon, he’s only been in office one year. You really think he’s gonna solve all our problems in one year? The man went to Harvard, not Hogwarts.” —Wanda Sykes But ...
• Shit I learned on the internet
  One of those days when I learned more than I wanted to. I learned that Republicans no longer have any shame whatsoever, and that Richard Shelby has just put a hold on 70 Obama nominees in order to blackmail the administration into reconsidering a European company’s bid on a military aerospace contra ...

The Seferm Post

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  Sharing Love Is Priceless New found friends: Astonishingly, these cheetahs, whose instinct is to hunt for food, decide to play with this baby impala
• Are You Ready To Beat 10 Common Smoking Triggers?
  Yes You Can Do It! Yes You Can Quit!!
• What Everybody Ought to Know About Why Infants Can ...
  Scientists have figured out the underlying reason why human babies can't walk at birth while foals and other hoofed animals get up and go within hours of being born.
• Ready To Quit Smoking? These Proven Tips Will Help ...
  Using nicotine replacement products and/or medicine doubles your chancesof quitting. Nicotine is addictive.
• If You Smoke Read This: 'Crazy Ways Smokers Stoppe ...
  I made a deal with my dad that if i get a 1,000,000 to join this group he will quit smoking

The World We Live In

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

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

• Celebrate Freedom with Me
  Today, marks the 34th year of imprisonment for Indigenous Rights activist Leonard Peltier. An innocent man, Peltier was arrested in Canada on February 6, 1976, in connection with the shooting deaths of two agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota t ...
• LISTEN: Big Mountain Message to Copenhagen
  Louise Benally on global warming and apartheid at Black Mesa By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Photos: Dan Harrison/Clan Dyken Thanksgiving Black Mesa BIG MOUNTAIN -- As snow covers the land, Louise Benally sends a message to Indigenous Peoples and world leaders gath ...
• Copenhagen Day 6 & 7 Report: A Pacific Perspective
  Talofa all, As we come to the end of the first week in Copenhagen, we look back with somewhat a degree of satisfaction as a Pacific Islander here watching the process unfold from an observer's perspective. Whilst most of the discussions this week have been held in closed doors with many of us in th ...
• VIDEO: Mohawks take out border marker with backhoe
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  US Coyote at Work: Trust Fund Settlement Scam By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Updated with responses Dec. 10, 2009 The same US government that brought us the home mortgage, seize-everything-you-have scam, and the bail-out-the-billionaires programs, now says it wil ...
  
  
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  Arizona Renewable Energy Standard Under Attack From Right

  CleanTechnica

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  In 24 states; the Renewable Energy Standard (RES) has driven what clean new energy the US has. In the absence of such legislation The Invisible Hand has ...

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  PUC Renewable Energy Order Upheld

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  HONOLULU -- The Hawaii Attorney General's Office is upholding a renewable energy order from the Public Utilities Commission even though only two of three ...

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  Factbox: EPA sets 2010 US renewable fuel standard

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  (Reuters) - The US Environmental Protection Agency said that ethanol and other renewable fuels must account for 8.25 percent of total gasoline and diesel ...

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  Interest rates as low as 2 percent on bank loans — the result of a savings rate of 40 percent and a government policy of steering loans to renewable energy ...

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  Ecology: Thoreau-ly different at Walden Pond

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  “How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!“ Henry David Thoreau once wrote in his journal. The author, poet, and philosopher spent two years living ...

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  Enviros: Better regulation needed for Columbia

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  Ecology shapes evolution, but reverse also holds true

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  Even if You're Careful, Drugs Can End Up in Water

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  By AP PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- A study in Maine shows that unused or expired medications that are thrown into the trash are showing up in landfill water, ...

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  Water crisis in South Milwaukee is over for now

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  For 26 hours people living in South Milwaukee had to find their water somewhere other than the faucet in their homes. That crisis is over now. ...

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  The water court would have had the final say in any mitigation dispute if things could not be worked out by the parties to the transfer and the originating ...

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  Pennsylvania American Water lifts conservation requirement
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  Pennsylvania American Water lifted its mandatory conservation notice for Washington and Allegheny County Sunday, saying power has been restored to the ...
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