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IPS - Inter Press Services

• PERU: CIA, Military Trade Blame Over Missionary P ...
  LIMA, Feb 9 (IPS) - Nine years after the 2001 shootdown of a small airplane carrying U.S. missionaries over the Peruvian jungle, the CIA and the armed forces of this South American country are pointing fingers at each other over who was responsible for the fatal mistake, which cost the live ...
• ZIMBABWE: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Arrear ...
  BULAWAYO, Feb 9 (IPS) - Faced with nearly six billion dollars of external debt, Zimbabwe's national unity government is considering applying for Highly Indebted Poor Country status.
• Q&A: Creating Momentum for Women's Participati ...
  NEW DELHI, Feb 9 (IPS) - Women's movements have played a critical role in creating political space for female participation in politics around the world. In fact, there are more women in government today than ever before.
• ENERGY-MEXICO: Big and Small Firms Harness Sun's ...
  CHAPANTONGO, Mexico, Feb 9 (IPS) - It was Isabel Cortés, the family matriarch, who started the project. In 1990, she started looking for a way to market xoconostle, the sour variety of the nopal cactus fruit that is abundant in this arid part of central Mexico, in the Mezquital valley.
• FINANCE: Fighting Off Looters in the Ruins
  SEATTLE, Feb 9 (IPS) - Reckless greed on Wall Street is a dog-bites-man story. Still, the renewed feeding frenzy of the alpha dogs of finance in the embers of the bonfire of their own vanities has inspired amazement and disgust across the political spectrum.

Scoop - NZ

• No Scandal behind these gates | Sign On
  Since December there has been a glut of stories challenging the science of climate change as represented by the IPCC. Should we be concerned? Only about climate change.  »  PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
• 2010: A second wave of defaults/foreclosures
  As we have been forecasting for the last two years, the second wave of mortgage defaults and foreclosures will hit the economy this year. Not only will we have failure in prime loans and option-arm loans, but we are faced with a new crop of subprime and ALT-A loans put into motion by Fannie Mae, Fre ...
• Goff: Joint Special Operations Command
  The Joint Special Operations Command, known by the acronym JSOC, pronounced jay-sock by members of the US armed forces, carries with it a mystique. The press, JSOC's promoters and its critics, as well as the entertainment media, have all contributed to its mystique; and that mystique is promoted my ...
• Fisk: Why the blind eye to Israeli bulldozers ?
  "Palestine" is no more. Call it a "peace process" or a "road map"; blame it on Barack Obama's weakness, his pathetic, childish admission - like an optimistic doctor returning a sick child to its parents without hope of recovery - that a Middle East peace was "more difficult" to reach than he imagine ...
• Afghanistan: A new Fallujah ?
  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 ...

Independent ( London )

• Afghanistan: A new role for British troops
  This time last year Major Tom Bewick was scrambling along a ditch under heavy Taliban mortar and rocket fire in hours of rolling, close quarter combat in the heart of the Helmand badlands.
• Saudi rights commission seeks divorce for child br ...
  Saudi Arabia's state human rights body has hired a lawyer to review the case of a girl whose mother sought her divorce from an 80-year-old man, a move activists hope is a first step against child marriage.
• Saudi sex braggart Mazen Abdul-Jawad gets no relie ...
  A Saudi appeals court has upheld a sentence of five years in jail and 1,000 lashes for a Saudi man who bragged about his sexual exploits on television, newspapers reported today.
• Saudi sex braggart gets no relief in court appeal
  A Saudi appeals court has upheld a sentence of five years in jail and 1,000 lashes for a Saudi man who bragged about his sexual exploits on television, newspapers reported today.
• Briton dies in Tenerife 'burglary'
  A British man has died in Tenerife, the Foreign Office said today, in what may have been a bungled robbery.

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• AP Article Fuels Iran War Hysteria
  Summary: Uranium enrichment In a widely-circulated article which has further fueled Western hysteria about the prospect of an imminent war with Iran, the Associated Press today claimed that Iran’s uranium enrichment program move, an effort to produce medical isotopes which are rapidly running ou ...
• Iran, China, and the Shanghai Cooperation Organiza ...
  Summary: SCO Over the past three years, Russia has pushed for Iran to be accorded full membership in the SCO. China has quietly resisted this push. In public, Chinese officials say only that the issue needs to be studied, as a formal mechanism through which the SCO can bring in new members does ...
• Germany's Unilateral Sanction against Itself and t ...
  Summary: Netanyahu & Merkel Germany can continue sanctioning itself through Iran, the US can pretend to be concerned about the security of the world and democracy in Iran, France can share a desire to destroy Iran's economy and independence, the UK is free to try to sabotage another nationalized ...
• Dangerous steps in Iran's nuclear dance
  Summary: Days after announcing that Iran was willing to send its low-enriched uranium for further processing abroad, President Mahmud Ahmadinejad told the country's Atomic Energy Agency to begin the enrichment process in the country. However, Ahmadinejad emphasized that Iran was still open to a ...
• 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

The Daily Galaxy

• Did Dark Matter Destroy Universe 1.0? (VIDEO - A ...
  No galaxies have been seen before at such early epochs as that seen in this deepest images of the universe ever taken in near-infrared light by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (see video below). The faintest and reddest objects in the...
• Astronomers: A Galaxy of Dark Matter Orbits the Mi ...
  People used to think that the heavens were a vast clockwork, with planets and moons moving in circular orbits like a vast timepiece. Recent advances have shown us that this stellar machinery is far vaster than they ever suspected -...
• Intelligent Robots Will Explore Milky Way by 2020 ...
  In line with the new US space strategy focus on new technologies, before the year 2020, scientists are expected to launch intelligent space robots that will venture out to explore the universe for us. "Robotic exploration probably will always be...
• Living Colors of a Dinosaur Revealed for 1st Time
  For the first time, scientists have decoded the full-body color patterns of a dinosaur, a new study in the journal Science says.The subject of the new study—the 155-million-year-old Anchiornis huxleyi—turns out to have looked something like a woodpecker the size...
• Image of the Day: Laser Strikes at Supermassive Bl ...
  It's not the sequel to War of the Worlds! Astronomers at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) site in Chile are trying to measure the distortions of Earth's ever changing atmosphere. Constant imaging of high-altitude atoms excited by the laser --...

Natural News

• Sugary soft drinks linked to pancreatic cancer
  (NaturalNews) A 14-year study of 60,000 people in Singapore found that those who consume two or more sweetened soft drinks per week have an 87 percent higher risk of pancreatic cancer .Published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention , the study was led by Mark Pereira of the ...
• The revolutionary new Hurom Slow Juicer will revol ...
  (NaturalNews) The last juicer I recommended was the Breville juicer. I own two of them, and they are top-of-the-line juicing appliances that can transform fresh fruits and vegetables into healing, nutrient-rich juices right from your kitchen counter. But today, I have incredible news for you about a ...
• After horrible deaths caused by medical radiation ...
  (NaturalNews) In late January, the New York Times published a startling and groundbreaking series of reports by investigative reporter Walt Bogdanich who has uncovered case after case of people who suffered devastating consequences -- including horrendously painful, torture-like deaths -- because of ...
• Research Suggests Marine Oil may Prevent Alzheimer ...
  (NaturalNews) While doctors are prescribing expensive drugs that can have devastating side effects to slow the progress of Alzheimer`s, new research shows it might be possible to prevent the onset of this cruel disease by something as simple, inexpensive, and safe as a dose of marine oil every day d ...
• Breast cancer virtually "eradicated" with higher l ...
  (NaturalNews) In a gathering of vitamin D researchers recently held in Toronto, Dr. Cedric Garland delivered a blockbuster announcement: Breast cancer can be virtually "eradicated" by raising vitamin D levels. Vitamin D is "the cure" for breast cancer that the cancer industry ridiculously claims to ...

  TheGallopingBeaver

• Have a Coke and a "What" ? ? ? ?
  The Lady Alison posted a few days back about Coca Cola bottlers in Columbia and a documentary on same . As luck would have it, my friend PC and her Solidarity Notes Choir had a live performance on the same topic at the Granville SkyTrain Station on Sunday. Enjoy, and think about that the next tim ...
• Dear Supreme Court of Canada,
  What the effing hell is this supposed to mean? The Supreme Court of Canada has overturned lower-court orders that the federal government must try to repatriate Toronto-born Omar Khadr from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay. However, the top court agrees his human rights have been violated ...
• Future Imperfect
• More Bullshit from Rideau Hall
  While it may just be the latest shiny object to be dangled in front of the public to keep them distracted from Stephen Harper's prorogation shenanigans and the response from both the electorate and the opposition until the big Burning Stick Festival in Vancouver next month, I still think this is unf ...
• They just don't get it
  When I was a recruit, the military training staff would periodically designate one trainee as "section senior"* and sometimes "platoon senior"**. The designated individual would wear a brassard with sergeant's rank insignia and was responsible for communicating the wishes of the directing staff to t ...

Media Matters for America

• Brain Freeze: Conservative media still using winte ...
  Conservative media figures have used the recent snowstorms in the Washington, D.C., area to level more science-free attacks on global warming. As Media Matters for America has repeatedly noted, scientists agree that short-term localized weather patterns are not relevant to global warming. If at fir ...
• Fox & Friends' one-sided coverage o ...
  Since White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan's February 7 appearance on Meet the Press , in which he criticized Republicans for politicizing the Obama administration's response to the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight, Fox & Friends has repeatedly hosted ...
• No longer "overexposed"? Fox & Friends
  On Fox & Friends, co-host Brian Kilmeade and Fox News legal analyst Peter Johnson Jr. criticized President Obama for not holding press conference since July, which Johnson claimed was a "tactic" to "avoid hard questions." But Fox News' newfound concern with Obama's purported press conference neglec ...
• Conservative media preemptively attack Obama's bip ...
  Numerous conservative media outlets have criticized President Obama's plan to hold a bipartisan health care summit "to go through systematically all the best ideas that are out there and move it forward," by attacking the summit as a "dog and pony" show or a "PR stunt" before the event has even occ ...
• Quick Fact: Carlson falsely claimed Republicans we ...
  On the February 9 edition of Fox & Friends , co-host Gretchen Carlson advanced the false claim that Republicans had been "sidelined through the whole" health care "discussion." In fact, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee and Senate Finance Committee bills contained n ...

Global Research.ca

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• Global Militarization and the Real Costs of War
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TPM Cafe

• What Tea Partiers See-- and What They Don't
  I don't see why Tea Party Patriots in Nashville paid Sarah Palin $100,000 for a keynote last week when, for no more than the love of country, they could have honored me, a living witness to the Boston Tea Party... Sarah Palin - Boston Tea Party - Tea - United States - Tea Partiers
• Be Careful What You Wish For
  As I've said before the right wing of American Politics is a pretty fractious bunch. It now appears that the Pro-business wing is getting pretty worried about the anti-business rhetoric of the Tea Party Populists. Conventional wisdom is that... Sarah Palin - United States - Politics of t ...
• Inevitable: New Republic Calls Former Editor Andre ...
  I knew that Andrew Sullivan's abandonment of the hard right position on Israel was driving his old buds at the New Republic crazy. Andrew was once TNR's wunderkind, the youngest editor in its history. Smart, hunky, and a gentile Zionist.... Israel - Andrew Sullivan - Zionism - Antisemitism ...
• Obamanomics One Year Out
  Obamanomics suffers from a misunderstanding of what the President is trying to achieve and what he's up against. Into the breach come Republicans, Tea Partiers, nay-sayers, deficit vultures, and Raging-Dog Democrats, all viewing Obamanomics as more taxes and more spending.... Republican - ...
• Why The Ethan Bronner Case Matters
  The story this far is that the New York Times is seriously on the defensive because the son of it's Israel correspondent, Ethan Bronner, joined the Israeli army. In the end, the Bronner story is not that significant. He will... New York Time - Middle East - Ethan Bronner - Israel Defense ...

TruthOut

• Pennsylvania Democratic State Committee Takes Sing ...
  If you are a single-payer advocate (full disclosure: I am), Lancaster Pennsylvania had a surreal tinge to it this past weekend. Fellow advocates were converging upon the Host Hotel and Conference center from as far away as Erie along with Democratic State Committee people, undaunted by a near-record ...
• Rep. Dennis Kucinich v. Glenn Greenwald on the Sup ...
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• Give Peace Spending a Chance
  Last week, when President Obama requested the largest-ever military budget since World War II, hardly anyone batted an eyelash. The Bush years immunized many of us to the shock of colossal defense spending bills skating across the table - and zipping through Congress to sure passage - regardless of ...
• Haiti Numbers - 27 Days After the Quake
  890 million. Amount of international debt that Haiti owes creditors. Finance ministers from developing countries announced they will forgive $290 million. Source: Wall Street Journal 644 million. Donations for Haiti to private organizations have exceeded $644 million. Over $200 million has gone to ...
• 2010 Labor Notes Conference
  2010 Labor Notes Conference Friday, April 23, 1:00 PM Hyatt Regency Dearborn, 600 Town Center Drive, Dearborn, Michigan, USA 48126-2793 Rub shoulders, shake hands and share strategies with other committed workplace and labor activists from around the world at the April 23-25 Labor Notes conferen ...

Planetsave

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

Water Quality - WordPress

• Seedling Trees Ideal for Reforestation after Pine ...
  [Source: Kimberly Sorensen for Colorado State University] So far, the mountain pine beetle has impac
• All is Well in Our World
  Cherry Tomatoes We’ve had an extremely dry summer. The drought started in late November and we’re no
• Environment: Colorado wetlands at risk
  Many Summit County wetlands are well-protected by local rules, but Supreme Court rulings in 2001 and
• EPA Hydrofracking Study
  From a member of representative Chris Carney’s staff: EPA Administer Lisa Jackson minutes ago
• "America's Failed Food Production System"
  With 12 Recommendations for Change View the PDF > America’s Failed Food Production System P

Public Citizen in Texas

• Texas Ag Commissioner Todd Staples says Agricultur ...
  Back in the movie/musical “Oklahoma”, we got a musical lesson that the farmer and the cowman should be friends.  They seem to have bridged that divide rather well in the intervening decades, but today the question remains whether the farmers and ranchers and the climate should be friends. Agricultu ...
• San Antonio Public Forum on Proposed Rate Hikes
  Tonight San Antonio citizens will have a chance to weigh in on CPS Energy’s proposed rate hike. I have the following request from an activist in San Antonio: Monday night CPS will be taking comments from the public on the proposed rate increase. This is short notice but we need a strong showing. W ...
• Texas Progressive Alliance
  The Texas Progressive Alliance congratulates the city of New Orleans for the Saints’ stirring Super Bowl victory, and reminds them that the “hair of the dog” trick doesn’t really help with the hangover. The Texas Cloverleaf highlights the sentencing of GOP Denton County Constable Ken Jannereth. Prob ...
• Jim Hightower, Roger Duncan, Tom Smitty Smith, and ...
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
• Russel Smith, Executive Director of TREIA, at Pub ...
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Press TV

• Investigation under way into 10 Texas church blaze ...
  Officials in Tyler, Texas have launched an arson investigation to determine how at least ten churches and houses of worship caught fire.
• San Francisco mayor cuts hours for city workers
  Nearly 10,000 San Francisco city workers will be laid off and most rehired for jobs with shorter hours under a controversial plan being examined by Mayor Gavin Newsom.
• Two Mousavi aides released from prison
  Two senior aides to Iran's defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi have been released from prison.
• New poll raises prospect of hung parliament in UK
  A new poll has raised the possibility of a hung parliament emerging from Britian's upcoming general elections, as the ruling Labor Party struggles to close the gap with the opposition Conservative's 10% lead.
• Somali pirates free Panamanian ship, crew

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

• Senator Claire McCaskill (D): What portions of the ...
  They complain, they say they're a'gin it, they show up on the Faux News Channel to mouth unintelligible random health care obstruction talking points, but when it comes down to it, Missouri republicans, in all their hypocrisy, will still take the check. Senator Claire McCaskill (D) called their bluf ...
• John Brennan keeps it short, sweet and concise. So ...
  I will say this with confidence - this White House is not going to get Cartered. They are not taking accusations of weakness in stride and just ignoring them. Instead, they are pushing back with vigor and swinging a vorpal sword as they do so. Senior counterterrorism advisor John Brennan did a fine ...
• VoteVets calls out Roy Blunt with $600,000 ad camp ...
  VoteVets is going after Roy Blunt with a new ad that shows a Missouri veteran of the war in Iraq calling him out for taking thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars from oil and energy companies that do business in countries with terrorist ties, and they are putting it on the air in the stat ...
• "Investigating" Toyota? Yeah, Right!
  Follow up to post a couple of days ago. In an unusual move for the mainstream media (possibly because the main character is a Democrat), several national papers are running the AP article THE INFLUENCE GAME: Toyota's powerful DC friends ..  It's going to be interesting to see how the non-Dixiecrats ...
• How will it play in Peoria?
  Last week I posted about the republicans clambering at the feet of the Master's of the Universe and begging for crumbs in the form of campaign donations, and in exchange they will block financial reform that would stabilize the system and protect consumers by keeping the fecklessness and greed of th ...

Care 2

• Naked rambler handed new jail term
  Naked rambler Stephen Gough has been jailed for a total of 21 months after he was arrested seconds after walking free from an earlier jail term Submitted by Lone Wolf to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Suspected DUI driver hits police car
  DENVER - An officer was conducting a traffic stop when a suspected DUI driver crashed into the back of the police cruiser, according to the Denver Police Department. Submitted by Kristi K. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Off Duty Tulsa Police Officer Arrested After Bar D ...
  TULSA, OK -- A Tulsa police officer is out of the Tulsa County jail after officers said he pointed a gun at a bouncer and threatened to kill him. Witnesses say it happened after the officer was thrown out of a downtown Tulsa bar Submitted by Lone Wolf to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Northeast is best hope for tigers
  China has approximately 50 or fewer tigers living in the wild but efforts to stabilize the population in the bleak northeast are starting to pay off, a conservationist said on Monday. The population of tigers, which once roamed huge swathes of China, Submitted by Simone D. to Animals  |   No ...
• Colorado Rancher Says Wolves May Have Arrived; Wel ...
  DNA test of scat samples is all that remains before a western Colorado ranch owner knows for sure if wild wolves are present on his land. Paul R. Vahldiek, Jr., majority shareholder and CEO of The High Lonesome Ranch, a mixed use landscape sprawling Submitted by Simone D. to Animals  |   No ...

GreenBiz

• The Age of Sustainability: Why 'Less' Should Be Mo ...
  Business has officially entered The Age of Sustainability, and businesses that don't figure in sustainability aren’t likely to survive. Here’s a look at the reasons why as well as pointers on how your company can adapt to the change.
• KKR Extends Green Program to a Fifth of Global Por ...
  Global Equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. (KKR) has extended its money-saving environmental management program to 20 percent of its portfolio, including two companies located outside the U.S.
• Winter Olympics Get Bronze for Environmentalism
  Organizers of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics deserve only a bronze medal for environmentalism, according to a Canadian green group.
• 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.

Reuters Global

• EU gets new Commission, but little to cheer yet
  The European Parliament voted overwhelmingly in favour of the next EU Commission on Tuesday, giving President Jose Manuel Barroso a strong mandate at the head of the EU executive. But rather than something to cheer about, the approval just clears the way for the Commission to start dealing with a we ...
• Cometh the hour, cometh Van Rompuy?
  Three months ago, Herman Van Rompuy was named the inaugural president of the European Union. He's been a low-key and understated figure since, but on Thursday he has a chance to drive the agenda at a time of crisis for the EU.
• 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.

Paul Krugman

• Anatomy of a Euromess
  The troubles of the eurozone have turned out to be even worse than the skeptics imagined.
• Euro perspective
  It's easy to lose perspective on the size of the Greek problem.
• Know Your Deficits
  Until the crisis hit, Spain to all appearances was highly responsible on the fiscal front -- more so than Germany.
• 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.

No Quarter

• Elizabeth Warren Exposes Jamie Dimon
  How is it that some people are able to aggressively promote the virtues of truth, transparency, and integrity within our financial system while others would seem to talk a good game but do not truly walk the walk? The key, in my mind, is that the former are not beholden to a constituency focused on ...
• Republican National Security Leak Hypocrisy
  Aw, pity the poor, oppressed Republicans who are in high dungeon over the Obama Administration’s “playing politics” with terrorism. Really? As I recall it was not the Obama Administration that jumped on the arrest of Abdulmuttalab-i.e., the failed underwear bomber–to tout their prowess as a fighte ...
• Tune In To NoQuarter Radio’s Sins of Omission with ...
  Promo bumped down. Click on Paulie’s photo to listen to her archived February 8th show. Editor’s Note: Paulie has just had her power restored, in the nick of time to get us the promo for her regular Monday show tonight. This show sounds special! Join Sins of Omission Monday, February 08, 2010 at ...
• Tune In To NoQuarter Radio’s Sins of Omission with ...
  Editor’s Note: Paulie has just had her power restored, in the nick of time to get us the promo for her regular Monday show tonight. This show sounds special! Join Sins of Omission Monday, February 08, 2010 at 9pm (ET) as host Paulie Abeles asks award-winning historian and best-selling author John ...
• Palin, Intellectual Lightweight
  Sarah Palin’s effort to protray herself as smart, savvy politician blew up at the Tea Party Convention. I think Sarah is a nice person. I think she is well meaning. But she is not an intelletual powerhouse. Sort of reminds me of someone else who, with the thinnest of resumes, because [...]

Environmental Graffiti

• Where Neon Signs Go to Die
• The Ultimate Reason to Visit South Korea
• The Earliest Gunpowder Weapons in History
• 10 Most Incredible Abandoned Mental Asylums
• The Tiniest Snails On Earth!

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Iran's Fateful Choice
  Reformers and hardliners continue to face off in Iran. What can the United States do to encourage peaceful change?
• Rugged Collectivism
  For some years now, the radio has been announcing a yellow alert. Will we fight over space in the bomb shelter of The Twilight Zone or work together in a spirit of rugged collectivism to avert the looming disasters?
• Invite North Korea to the Global Nuclear Security ...
  Denuclearize North Korea or end the Korean War? Here's a proposal for doing both at the same time.
• 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.

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

• US seeks significant Iran sanctions
  Obama says six powers moving "fairly quickly" against Iran for latest uranium enrichment.
• Wife outraged by Fonseka's arrest
  Sri Lanka accused of treating defeated presidential candidate "like an animal".
• India delays GM vegetable launch
  Minister calls for more scientific tests as introduction of "BT Brinjal" is put off.
• Philippine massacre charges filed
  Clan leader faces 57 murder charges over election-related killings.
• Video shows Nigeria 'executions'
  Footage obtained by Al Jazeera appears to show civilians being shot in wake of Boko Haram clashes.

Green Inc. - NYT

• The Rise of 'Green' Modular Homes
  "Green and energy efficient homes are here to stay," said a manager Clayton Homes, a maker of solar-ready modular homes.
• K.K.R. Continues Greening Its Portfolio
  The private equity giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is expanding an initiative it started with the Environmental Defense Fund to improve the sustainability of its portfolio companies.
• Siemens Touts Growth in Renewables and the Value o ...
  "We want to be one of the leading companies on the American market," said Andreas Nauen, the chief executive of Siemens Wind Power, told Green Inc. on Monday.
• Good Energies Invests in Massachusetts Clean Energ ...
  Nexamp, a Massachusetts clean energy firm, announced Tuesday that it has raised $6.5 million in venture financing from the Dutch-Swiss investment giant Good Energies and other investors.
• Nuclear Power Giant Buys Solar Firm
  Areva, French nuclear power company, has bought Ausra, a small manufacturer of solar thermal systems that can be used for electricity production or industrial steam.

Dot Earth News

• Does an Old Climate Critique Still Hold up?
  A climate scientist's strong critique of a climate panel report from 2005 resurfaces.
• When Coal Flows Between Countries, Who 'Owns' the ...
  When rich countries sell coal to poor countries and buy the resulting goods, who "owns" the resulting CO2 emissions?
• Exxon and the Climate Fight
  A British newspaper reports that oil companies direct money to climate skeptics.
• Reality Check on Old Ice, Climate and CO2
  An expert on glaciers and climate explains how ice records relate to global warming.
• 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.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• New Video! Robert Erickson, Tea Party prankster, s ...
  This was a fun project to work on. TIP! Combine the old OSX Mp3 player Audion with the Wiretap outgoing-sound recorder by Ambrosia , and you can strip the vocals or VoiceOver off anything to make excellent Fair Use satire from pompous conservative videos!! I found that tip on a random forum, I thi ...
• Pearl Harbor: Evidence of shady biz or just a lett ...
  Remember the Maine, while you're at it! :-D
• Controlling 9/11 "crippled epistemology" via fake ...
  ".... we will suggest below that if the hard core arises for certain identifiable reasons, it can be broken up or at least muted by government action." .... " We suggest a role for government efforts, and agents, in introducing such diversity.  Government agents (and their allies) might enter chat ...
• '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 ...

Daily Censored

• Is Arne Duncan clinically a paranoid schizophrenic ...
  Education Secretary, Arne Duncan called Hurricane Katrina: the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans because it forced the community to take steps to improve low-performing public schools, according to excerpts from the transcript of a television interview made public Frid ...
• Cuomo Takes on The Money Party
  A trial will likely involve testimony by the current Bank of America CEO and President Brian Moynihan against defendants Kenneth Lewis, the bank's former CEO and board chairman, former chief financial officer (CFO) Joseph L. Price, and the bank itself. Price is currently in charge of BofA's credit c ...
• 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 ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• Eat Meat Ethically: 5 Ways To Be Flexible About Yo ...
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Institute for Policy Studies

• Iran's Fateful Choice
• A Really Inconvenient Truth
• Murder Capital of the World
• Congo, from Lumumba to Freedom: a Black History Mo ...
• Obama's State of the Union

Pine River World News

• AFGHANISTAN: Operation Moshtarak: Mother of All Ba ...
  The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Pravda, Moscow. Afghanistan:  Mother of All Battles Poised to Begin ©   Pravda.ru By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey February 8, 2010 As NATO gets ready for a massive troop surge in Helmand Province, the local population flees ahead of what both ...
• 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 ...

MSM Blogging

• Knox News Blogs

PDA AMERICA

• Paulette Garin: Public financing of campaigns vita ...
  By Paulette Garin | The Cap Times Dear Editor: The Supreme Court’s decision to recognize a corporation’s free speech rights under the 1st Amendment is yet another step in our decline into becoming a corporatist propaganda ...
• A Report From the Field
  A Report From the Field By Steve Carlson | PDA Member and Blog Contributor As one of Dave Obey’s constituents up here in north west Wisconsin, I have to say it was heartening to see my Congressman ...
• Restore the Power to the People: Amend the Constit ...
  Restore the Power to the People: Amend the Constitution! William John Cox | PDA Blog Contributor ¿Plata o plomo? Colombian and Mexican drug gangs ask government officials, judges and police officers which they prefer, “silver or lead,” ...
• Congressman Kucinich … Focus on the Economy
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich sent the following email to his supporters on February 4: We should pay careful attention to the message of the Massachusetts election. And that message is to focus on the economy. ...
• Fade to White
  y ISHMAEL REED | NYT Op-Ed Contributor Oakland, Calif. JUDGING from the mail I’ve received, the conversations I’ve had and all that I’ve read, the responses to “Precious: Based on the Novel ...

Marler Blog

• The Summer 2008 E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak linked to ...
  On June 30, 2008, Nebraska Beef, Ltd., an Omaha-area beef processor, recalled approximately 531,707 pounds of ground beef products because the meat was potentially contaminated by E. coli O157:H7 . On June 24, 2008, the CDC announced an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 illnesses among 24 residents of Mi ...
• 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 ...

AutoblogGreen

• AutoblogGreen for 02.09.10
  Toyota Prius braking issues may predate 2010 model; other problems reported Surprised? Audi Super Bowl ad: what trikes did the Green Police ride? The T3 Series Audi' ...
• Report: Toyota to extend recall run to Prius and L ...
  Filed under: Hybrid , Sedan , Recalls , Safety , Hatchback , Lexus , Toyota 2010 Toyota Prius - Click above for high-res image gallery While Toyota still hasn't officially recalled the Prius , they have admitted the world's most popular hybrid has potential brake problems . The company is now als ...
• AutoblogGreen for 02.08.10
  Report: Toyota considering Prius recall over brake problems More to come, we're sure. A look back at the Super Bowl's green car sides Yes, there was something to report. ...
• 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 ...

Rafe's Radar

• How CoverItLive failed users during iPad unveiling
  When you're covering tech's Super Bowl equivalent live, you really don't want your broadcasting platform to collapse.
• 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.

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

• Hackers Steal $4 Million in Carbon Credits
  Cyber-thieves used a classic phishing scheme to gain access to $4 million in carbon emissions credits last week, sending out emails to businesses asking them to log in to a fraudulent website posing as that of the German Emissions Trading Authority (DEHSt).
• Cali. Power Plant Would Be First in US to Include ...
  Calpine Corp. is poised to build the first U.S. power plant with federal limits on greenhouse gas emissions in California after clearing a final regulatory hurdle today.
• Toxic coal-tar cleanup to cost New York $3 billion ...
  A toxic liquid has been creeping through the soil of cities in the mid-Hudson Valley for more than a century. From the 1800s to the 1950s, manufactured gas plants provided light and heat to thousands who walked city streets and lived in city homes. But an industrial byproduct from those plants, coal ...
• Turning Trash to Treasure: Composting 101
  Some new gardeners shun starting a compost pile because of preconceived notions that it is unsightly, too much work and perhaps smelly. It need not be any of these.
• The True Cost of The Amazon Dam (Infographic)
  This week, the Brazilian government greenlit a plan to build a massive hydroelectric dam to power 23million homes. However, its creation will see 500 sq km of the rainforest flooded - is it worth it?

Invisible Opportunity

• What really happened in New Orleans?
• Audi promotes eco-terrorism for the police state
  You cannot make this stuff up.  The powers that be outdo themselves here…
• The Stupid Propaganda of Umar Fizzlepants Just Dro ...
  Here’s an author who can seen right through the illusion… By Scott Creighton Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian who faces terrorism charges in the Christmas bombing, has been cooperating with the FBI for about a week, providing information about his contacts in Yemen and the al Qaed ...
• Big Pharma executive murders 8-year-old son with X ...
  By Mike Adams 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 ...
• Elron – Voxeo: Israeli Firm Will Count The I ...
  By Christopher Bollyn 1-1-8 The Iowa caucus is only a few days away and the nation’s attention will be directed to the results, which signify the beginning of the U.S. presidential race. But does anyone watch who tallies the results of the Iowa caucus? The Iowa caucus results were tallied in 2004 by ...

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

• China Blows Past the Rest of the World as Largest ...
  China blows past Denmark, Germany, Spain and the United States to become the world's largest maker of Wind Turbines. Related posts: Windspire Wind Turbine Generating Electricity at Michigan Governor’s House Mariah Power and Windspire Wind Turbine Featured on 20/20 Mariah Power Celebrates 400 ...
• 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 ...

Inhabitat

• VOTE to help Project H Launch a High School Design ...
  Project H Design, the design nonprofit founded in 2008 by Inhabitat Senior Editor Emily Pilloton, is in the running for a $50,000 grant from the Pepsi Refresh Project to launch Studio H, a high school design and vocational program in the poorest county in North Carolina. Studio H will be a one-year ...
• Build It Green is a One Stop Reclaimed Materials S ...
  Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | diggPost tags: "green furniture", build it green, build it green nyc, buy green furniture, buy recycled furniture, eco design, green building materials, green design, new york city, Recycled Materials, reused materials, salvaged materials
• Corky Mouse Generates Kinetic Energy With Every Cl ...
  Portable wireless mice have a problem: most of them rely upon disposable batteries, which often wind up in landfills as e-waste. Adele Peters’ Corky mouse aims to change all that — it’s a kinetic energy-harvesting mouse that is powered with a flick of the wrist. One of 18 finalists in this year’s Gr ...
• Solar Building Skin Turns Sydney’s Ugliest Tower i ...
  Sydney’s ugliest building may soon be getting a new lease on life through to a plan to ‘reskin’ the entire tower with a high-performance photovoltaic skin. Architecture firm Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA) has proposed the retrofit, and if their plan is enacted it would turn the 1960’s ...
• World’s Smallest Solar-Powered Sensor Could Run Fo ...
  It’s easy enough to find a solar-powered charger for iPods, cell phones, and other gadgets, but this ultra-tiny solar-powered sensor system is smaller than anything else on the market — 1,000 times smaller than standard systems, in fact. Developed at the University of Michigan, the 2.5 x 3.5 x 1 mil ...

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

• Sexualised Images Stir Parliamentary Debate
  ABC – Moves to cut down the sexualisation of girls in the media has won support from both sides of politics, but media commentators say the Federal Government should take a cautious approach to regulation. Labor MP Amanda Rishworth wants a new code of conduct for the media industry and on Monday nig ...
• 197 charged over Philippines massacre
  ABC – Nearly 200 people have been charged with murder in connection with a politically motivated mass killing in the Philippines late last year. They include the head of a powerful clan and a former ally of President Gloria Aroyo. Read article
• No, Prime Minister. That drought wasn’t man-made, ...
  Herald Sun – Melbourne University alarmist David Karoly once claimed a rise in the Murray Darling Basin’s temperatures was “likely due to the increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from human acitivity” and “This is the first drought in Australia where the impact of human-induced globa ...
• UK Minister Backing Move to Ban the Term Chairman ...
  Daily Telegraph – Miss Harman, the leader of the Commons, is supporting a proposal to make MPs refer instead to the gender-neutral “chair” or “occupant of the chair” and “panel of chairs” rather than chairman’s panel. She has endorsed a recommendation by the parliamentary committee, set up to reform ...
• Detecting Cancer Early
  ScienceDaily — The earlier the doctor finds the tumor, the better the patient’s chances of recovery. A new testing method aims to detect the disease in its initial stages. The technology is based on a microfluidic chip with tiny channels in which a blood sample from the patient circulates. The chi ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

• RAIM: Earthquake Strikes Haiti; Imperialism is a D ...
  Earthquake Strikes Haiti; Imperialism is a Disaster (www.raimd.wordpress.com) On Tuesday, January 12th, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake rocked the country of Haiti, its epicenter a mere fifteen miles from the country’s capital, Port-au-Prince. By that Thursday, 80,000 people were already buried in mass-g ...
• Για το βίντεο με τίτλο: «Για τη Θεωρία των Παραγωγ ...
  Για το βίντεο με τίτλο: «Για τη Θεωρία των Παραγωγικών Δυνάμεων» μέρος 3ο Shubelmorgan.wordpress.com) Προτού δημοσιεύσουμε το βίντεο “On the Theory of the Productive Forces” , προτείναμε κάποια σχετικά αναγνώσματα, ώστε αυτό να γίνει πιο κατανοητό και ευχάριστο. Στη προτεινόμενη λίστα προσθέτουμε κά ...
• 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 ...

PakAlert

• This Ambassador Is A Sore For US-Pakistani Relatio ...
  “I have a challenge for Ms Patterson today. I challenge her to repeat every single word she said back then and swear it is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth … America’s reputation is lying in the lowest gutters in Pakistan at the moment and it can’t sink any lower.” By AHMED ...
• 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 ...

ecogeek

• Energy Star for Data Centers Launching in June
  Starting in June of this year, data cente r operators can apply for Energy Star status.  The new rating system will score data centers based on PUE, or power unit efficiency, on a scale of 1 - 100. The operators will use an online tool that allows them to enter information on energy use and operat ...
• New Bill Would Create 10 Million Solar Roofs in 10 ...
  A really exciting new bill was introduced to Congress last week by Bernie Sanders of Vermont.  The bill lays out a plan to install 10 million solar roofs and 200,000 solar water heaters over the next 10 years through tax rebates and incentives.  The installations would equal 30 GW of clean energy o ...
• Chicago Area Gets Wind-Powered EV Charging Station
  The Windy City area is capitalizing on its most famous attribute with a new wind-powered electric vehicle charging station.  Located in Highland Park, 30 miles outside of the city, the charging station uses electricity generated by Illinois wind farms for law firm Emalfarb Swan & Bain. The chargin ...
• Federal Climate Change Agency Being Formed
  A new federal agency charged with reporting on climate change is being formed.  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will set up the Climate Service using members of the National Weather Service and other NOAA offices. Climate operations have been spred out among NOAA offices ...
• 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 ...

Times Online - Science

• Sexy Science: Portrait of the artist as scientist
  Traditionally, as you progress through your education, you are expected to make a choice: Shakespeare or the second law of thermodynamics, Debussy or DNA, Rubens or relativity. Art or science. But isn’t this a false dichotomy? Artists and scientists are often drawn to the same cardinal structur ...
• Yorkshire astronaut Nicholas Patrick toasts end of ...
  A British-born astronaut will blast off for the last large construction mission to the International Space Station tomorrow, as thousands of workers responsible for getting him there face losing their jobs in the biggest Nasa shake-up since the end of the Apollo programme.
• Archive: The consumptive fight for TB glory
  My aunt Rosy didn’t fit any of the stereotypes of a TB victim. She wasn’t pale, wilting or a poet. She lived in comfortable Oxford, played tennis regularly, skied energetically and could be relied on to be the life and soul of any party.
• Greenwash: The truth is not the whole truth
  Here’s a trick question: one company claims that its green initiative is saving a thousand tonnes of carbon dioxide a year; another, selling a similar product, says it is saving a million tonnes. Which one should you buy from if you care about the environment? The answer is neither because bot ...
• My brain made me do it!
  The ideas behind neurocriminology are not entirely new. Johann Lavater (1741-1801), a Swiss pastor, thought that you could tell criminality from a man’s face; Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828), a German anatomist, from the bumps in his skull. Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909), an Italian doctor and crim ...

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 )

• Medicare spending rose an OUTRAGEOUS 5% !eleventy! ...
  That is according to the CBO : Adjusted for timing shifts, Medicare spending rose by $7 billion (or 5 percent). Of course this is reason to be outraged at all that government spending coming out of our pockets, right? Right? Thankfully those fiscally responsible Republicans have come up with the gre ...
• 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 ...

SPL Center

• Gays Should Face Legal Sanctions, Says American Fa ...
  People in same-sex relationships should face the same penalties as heroin users. Just ask Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association (AFA), an ultraconservative religious right group. In a Jan. 29 response to an E-mail from a listener to his “Focal Point” radio program, Fischer suggests that “ ...
• Nativists Stewing Over Refuge for Haitians
  Some nativists are riled up about the Obama administration’s recent decision to give temporary refuge to undocumented Haitian immigrants. Their anger comes after Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced on Jan. 15 that Haitians who were in the United States on the day of the earthquake ...
• Nativist Leader Starts Website to Attack ‘Subversi ...
  A new website purports to expose the machinations of “extremist” organizations that supposedly are trying to stifle debate about immigration. These groups represent “the well-funded far-left anti-enforcement mob that is ‘the other side’ of the majority of Americans,” states the website, Center for I ...
• Suspect in Two Canadian Hate Bombings Arrested
  After a two-hour standoff at a home in Winnipeg, police arrested a notorious Canadian neo-Nazi who’d been on the lam for weeks after two bombing attempts in Calgary. Kyle Robert Mckee, 24, was taken into custody early yesterday and faces two counts of attempted murder, along with weapons charges. Po ...
• Neo-Nazi Stage Mom Seeks a New Line of Work
  It’s been a while since April Gaede’s teenage daughters appeared as the racist pop-singing duo Prussian Blue, but the former neo-Nazi stage mom is planning to keep busy with a new vocation: white-power matchmaker. Eager to see white folks reproduce, Gaede is touting her services on Stormfront.org, t ...

change: org.

• The Top 5 Ideas From TED Fellows
  I spent this morning watching the TED Fellows talk about their work -- a group that included clean tech entrepreneurs, scientists, musicians, artists and more. All are, as TED Fellow founder and TED Community Manager Tom Rielly put it, polymaths who excel in far more than just their particular area ...
• Urge the Senate to Extend Unemployment Benefits
  The unemployment insurance and COBRA health care subsidies that have proven critical to families struggling through the recession are set to expire this month unless the Senate acts now. Congress previously extended both programs when the economy didn't bounce back as quickly as some had hoped, but ...
• The Last Year of the Tiger?
  The Chinese Year of the Tiger starts on Valentine's Day, but there may not be enough love in the world to save tigers from exploitation and extinction. According to the Wildlife Conservation Society, it may already be too late for the South China tiger. In the rest of the country, there are fewer t ...
• Marriage as an Exclusive Country Club
  If you're straight and you support marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples, Sarah Silverman has a few words for you. Namely, avoid marriage like the plague. Silverman dropped by The View this week to promote a new television show that she's got in the pike at LOGO. But when it came time to dis ...
• This Week: Live from the TED Conference
  Right now, I'm on my way to the TED conference, one of the most renowned events for global thought leaders in the world. For the next five days, I'll be surrounded by new ideas and, frankly, a lot of people who have the power to make those ideas happen. While TED’s origins go back a long way, it’s ...

Common Dreams -News

• Fighting Off Looters in the Ruins
  by Peter Constantini SEATTLE  - Reckless greed on Wall Street is a dog-bites-man story. Still, the renewed feeding frenzy of the alpha dogs of finance in the embers of the bonfire of their own vanities has inspired amazement and disgust across the political spectrum. read more
• Climate Scientists Hit Out at 'Sloppy' Melting Gla ...
  by David Adam Climate scientists who worked on the UN panel on global warming have hit out at "sloppy" colleagues from other disciplines who introduced a mistake about melting glaciers into the landmark 2007 report. read more
• Tritium Hot Zone Expands Around Vermont Nuclear Pl ...
  by Susan Smallheer VERNON - The Department of Health said late Monday there appears to be "a very large area" at the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor contaminated with radioactive tritium, and contamination levels continue to rise. Because the area is so big, according to William Irwin, radiological h ...
• 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 ...

Lifehacker

• Best Podcast Manager: iTunes [Hive Five Followup]
  Last week we asked you to share your favorite podcast manager and then we rounded up the top five contenders for a vote . Now we're back to crown the winner and highlight the runners up. In a landslide victory that shouldn't be surprisng to anyone, iTunes beat down the competition with a majority vo ...
• Route4Me Maps the Optimal Route for Multi-Stop Tri ...
  To save time and gas money while running errands or long trips, it makes sense to map out the best route so you can hit all the places you need to go without doubling back. Have Route4Me do the planning for you. Before heading out the door, jump on the internet and enter the addresses of all the pla ...
• Pinta Brings Paint.NET's Just-Enough Image Editing ...
  Windows/Mac/Linux: If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, the coders of Pinta love the heck out of the Windows-only image editor Paint.NET . Luckily, they also want to make it available on every OS, and are faithful to its just-enough interface methodology. If you've read Lifehacker for a b ...
• Do You Prefer Hand-Writing or Typing Notes? [Reade ...
  Note taking—whether in classrooms or boardrooms—is a highly personalized style of recording information for later review. Despite the proliferation of cheap and portable computers many people remain loyal to handwritten notes. Where do you fall on the spectrum? The above image is a remix of photos b ...
• Listary Sifts Through Files with Powerful Search H ...
  Windows only: Explorer's integrated search is fine for most things, but more powerful searches or sorting through long lists of similar files isn't exactly easy—Listary gives you hotkeys, wildcards, and commands to help you quickly find anything in a folder. In Windows Explorer, you can jump to a fi ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• Bad boys, bad boys, what you going to do when they ...
  By Dave Anderson: The Afghan Army and the Afghan police are supposed to stand up so the US, NATO and ISAF can stand down. It's somewhat hard to stand up when you're enjoying some high quality heroin or hash. Reuters reports: When British trainers administered random drugs tests to 25 Afghan police r ...
• The Economics of Empire II
  Commentary By Ron Beasley As I noted here it's economics that bring an end to empires not military defeats. In Wars Sending US into Ruin Eric Margolis supplies some details. More empires have fallen because of reckless finances than invasion. The latest example was the Soviet Union, which spent itse ...
• 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 ...

Water Wars

• Payson OKs talks with SV on water (Payson Roundup)
  What war? We’re all friends here.
• 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.

WordPress | Economics

• Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem--"Fear the Boom and Bu ...
   ”Fear the Boom and Bust” a Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem   Related Post On Pronk Palisade
• Economics 02/10/2010
  Elizabeth Warren Calls Out Wall Street « The Baseline Scenario tags: economics But last month, Repub
• Energy Savers: Approved Energy Efficient Appliance ...
  Approved Energy Efficient Appliance Rebate Programs The U.S. Department of Energy’s $300 milli
• Adultery website gets free ride without paying TTC ...
  December 12, 2009 Katie Daubs Ashley Madison won’t be advertising adultery on TTC streetcars,
• ReferMyHomeBiz on NottHeads
  Welecome ReferMyHomeBiz.com as a regular content provider to NottHeads Refer My Home Biz We apprecia

Electronic Intifada

• A mother's grief
  Nejoud al-Ashqar is a 30-year-old mother from the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya. Two of her sons, Bilal, 5, and Mohammad, 6, were killed during Israel's invasion of Gaza ...
• Jerusalem mayor to raze 200 Palestinian homes
  Jerusalem's mayor threatened last week to demolish 200 homes in Palestinian neighborhoods of the city in an act even he conceded would probably bring long-simmering tensions over h ...
• United solidarity with Gaza
  Once the Gaza Freedom March arrived in Cairo I repeatedly heard justification that organizers did not want to put Egyptian protesters at risk. Yet, Egyptians regularly protest in E ...
• Justice denied in Gaza
  RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) - Gazans hoping for a modicum of justice following Israel's indiscriminate military assault on the coastal territory during December 2008 and Jan ...
• 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 ...

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

• The Administration’s Middling On Missile Def ...
  he Administration’s new Ballistic Missile Defense Review, which came out last week with the QDR, is strategically refreshing. Unfortunately, however, the corresponding budget for long-range missile defense is anything but. And when it comes to defense programs, money talks. The Ballistic Missile Rev ...
• Obama Hopes To ‘Establish Common Facts&#8217 ...
  President Barack Obama hinted that he may incorporate some Republican tort reform proposals into the existing health care reform legislation, but warned that “bipartisanship cannot mean simply that Democrats give up everything they believe in, find the handful of things Republicans have been advocat ...
• Corzine Endorses Bank Tax: Banks Should ‘Pay ...
  Last week, Senate Banking Committee chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) announced that Democrats are going to go it alone on financial regulatory reform, as negotiations with the committee’s ranking member, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), were at an “impasse.” One of the sticking points has been the Obama admini ...
• Top Pelosi Aide Says Reconciliation Process Is &#8 ...
  This morning, during a panel discussion at the Academy Health National Health Policy Conference, a top Pelosi policy aide said that the reconciliation process was “the only way” for Democrats to salvage health reform in the aftermath of the Massachusetts election. “There is only one way to get it do ...
• Nelson Intends To Support GOP Filibuster Of Labor ...
  Late yesterday, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) announced that he would not vote for cloture on the nomination of former AFL-CIO and SEIU attorney Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), effectively joining a Republican filibuster. Republicans have been using Becker’s nomination as a proxy ...

thwap's schoolyard

• A Post About Patrick "Asshole" Ross
  [ Edited to Add: Patrick, in this post I'm asking for an apology from you necessary to sustain your commenting privileges here. You can read all about it! But I'm here attaching one further condition. Since I've mentioned "Canadian Cynic" ("CC") and your obsessive stalking of him, you'll probably ...
• Is Tom Flanagan Simple?
  Last night , on CBC's amusingly titled "Power Panel" Tom Flanagan tried to make himself out as something other than a "harper stooge" by trashing harper's inarguably ridiculous excuse for prorogation (to deal with the awesome task of winding down the response to the great recession) and wishing that ...
• Dred Tory Speaks ...
  You really oughta read it : Canada has just lost its first war, after having dragged over a hundred of its bravest souls into futile slaughter, without having earned a single battle honour worthy of being affixed to any of our regimental colours, and without being able to promise those on whose beha ...
• Why I'll Be Attending the Anti-Prorogation Rally
  Today is January 23rd, 2010. As Montreal Simon pointed out, that's the fourth anniversary of stephen harper's coming to power! I'll be attending the anti-prorogation rally in Hamilton's Gore Park between 1-4 pm today. I'll be going because while I believe that our political system is debased, it ...
• Parallels
  I've just finished reading Antony Beevor's The Fall of Berlin 1945 . There was one passage that struck me. Now, before I get to it, I want to assure everyone that I'm well aware of Godwin's silly law about internet discussions and the Nazis. I also want to assure everyone that I'm not going to pu ...

Financial Sense Editorials

• Market Observation: A Sterling Account of Silver's ...
  by Rob Kirby. "From Mark Leibovit’s most recent VR Gold Letter: "In the news, we learned that demand for precious metals weakened substantially in January. The world's largest gold-backed exchange-traded fund, New York's SPDR Gold Trust (GLD), said its holdings fell 21.7 tons or 1.9 percent in Janua ...
• The Devil is in the Details
  by Paul Nolte. "Sinister forces are at work in both the economy and financial markets. The devil is in the details of the just released employment report showing further job losses, yet an unemployment rate that fell to 9.7%. After all revisions to prior year data, it was noted that the US lost even ...
• Th*nk*ng (Oracles)
  by Fred Cederholm. "I’ve been thinking about oracles. Actually I’ve been thinking about predictors, money, politics, the economy, and the "recovery." I remember back to Rochelle High School Latin classes when I TH*NK about Oracles --- most specifically the Oracle at Delphi. The ancients in particula ...
• 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 ...

on Government Oversight

• Senate Committee Talks a lot of "Oversight," But L ...
  Today’s confirmation hearing of President Obama’s three nominees to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) did little to relieve POGO’s concerns about longtime nuclear power proponent William Magwood’s ability to serve as an independent NRC Commissioner and stringent overseer of the...
• FAA Whistleblowers Speak Out About Uncorrected Saf ...
  Looks like the next round of winter weather isn't the only good reason to stay inside tonight -- at 9pm EST, PBS airs a new FRONTLINE investigation on regional airlines, featuring disturbing information about uncorrected safety violations provided by the...
• Morning Smoke: A Quicker, more Nimble SEC?
  S.E.C. Enforcers Focus on Avoiding Madoff Repeat by Jenny Anderson and Zachery Kouwe [The New York Times] Agencies Open to the Public – Some Not So Much by Jennifer LaFleur [ProPublica] No Exit in Sight for U.S. As Fannie, Freddie...
• NRC Needs Nuclear Power Regulators, Not Promoters
  It’s not often that POGO lobbies to defeat a presidential nominee. However, we have felt called to speak out as loud as we can in opposition to President Obama’s nomination of William Magwood for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on...
• 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...

Science Express

• Colon cancer may yield to cellular sugar starvatio ...
  Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have discovered how two cancer-promoting genes enhance a tumor's capacity to grow and survive under conditions where normal cells die. The knowledge, they say, may offer new treatments that starve cancer cells of a key nutrient - sugar. However, ...
• Researchers Clone and Engineer Bacterial Genomes i ...
  Researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), a not-for-profit genomic research organization, published results today describing new methods in which the entire bacterial genome from Mycoplasma mycoides was cloned in a yeast cell by adding yeast centromeric plasmid sequence to the bacterial c ...
• Scientists develope optimal flu vaccine priorities ...
  (PhysOrg.com) -- Optimal control of the spread of the seasonal flu and H1N1 is achieved by prioritizing vaccinations for schoolchildren and for adults aged 30 to 39 in the United States. Those are the findings of a new study by Clemson University and Yale University School of Medicine mathematicians ...
• RNA interference found in budding yeasts
  Some budding yeast species have the ability to silence genes using RNA interference (RNAi). Until now, most researchers thought that no budding yeasts possess the RNAi pathway because Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the protoypical model budding yeast does not.
• Study: Vaccination of 70 percent of US population ...
  An aggressive vaccination program that first targets children and ultimately reaches 70 percent of the U.S. population would mitigate pandemic influenza H1N1 that is expected this fall, according to computer modeling and analysis of observational studies conducted by researchers at the Vaccine and I ...

TechDirt

• Some More Data On How CwF + RtB Is Working In The ...
  While we keep presenting details of CwF+RtB working for various musicians, big, medium and small, some have complained that there needs to be more data to demonstrate that these kinds of business models can work. So, here we go. I briefly got to meet Shamal Ranasinghe from Topspin at Midem, but un ...
• Comedian Has To Retell Joke 2nd Time, Because Viac ...
  Copyright insanity continues. Stephan Kinsella posts an email from Luke Mroz, who recently attended a Comedy Central taping of some standup comics, that is going to be used in an upcoming TV show. Mroz explains how copyright law got in the way and forced one comedian to have to come back out and t ...
• NBC Continues To Do The Exact Wrong Thing When It ...
  Is it any wonder that NBC Universal keeps having trouble? If you painted them a map that explained how to clearly provide people what they wanted, the company would do the exact opposite. Two years ago, during the summer Olympics, NBC Universal severely limited online offerings. It didn't let peo ...
• Kevin Smith May Try Crowdfunding Horror Film, Red ...
  We've already pointed out how director/writer/filmmaker/entertainer Kevin Smith is a great example of a filmmaker embracing the model of connecting with fans and giving them a reason to buy , even to the point of saying that unauthorized file sharing is just a way to get more fans he can "convert." ...
• Research Shows Unauthorized Digital Books Leads To ...
  We've seen this before, with individual authors like Paulo Coelho and David Pogue , who both found that as more people were able to get unauthorized copies of their ebooks, their sales actually increased. So, this shouldn't come as a surprise, but some new research looking at the impact on sales of ...

VacTruth

• Health Doesn’t Come Through a Needle
  . . . Dr. Sherri Tenpenny DrTenpenny.com 02/08/2010 From Maine to Maui, Vancouver to Miami, autism rates across North America are soaring. As of February, 2010, there are an estimated 300,000 severely autistic children in this country — requiring nearly $9billion per year in services. Then number ...
• 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 ...

BroadSnark

• Over-Reliance on the Law
  Over the weekend, a friend of mine posted a video (below) about a Fox news report that was squashed. Several years ago, Fox reporters were working on a story about Monsanto and rBGH.  Monsanto, upon getting wind of the story, had their attorneys send Fox a letter threatening to sue.  Fox wanted to s ...
• 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 [...]

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

• Obama to make a push for a "significant regime of ...
  By Matt Hawes Via Fox News: President Obama said Tuesday that he’s “bent over backwards” to engage Iran in “constructive” dialogue and the U.S. will push in the United Nations to sanction the country, which has begun enriching uranium to levels capable of making an atomic bomb…. Read t ...
• 13 Congress Members Write to FDIC Chair Regarding ...
  This was sent to me by a contact in Congress. The FDIC has an open comment period for a rule they are considering to tie insurance deposit premiums to executive compensation structures. 13 members of Congress are sending the following letter to the FDIC as part of this open comment period. Sheil ...
• Ron Paul on The Takeaway 2/5/10
  By minnesotachris Dr. Paul discusses the Tea Party movement, which as we know began during his presidential campaign: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je5u37NgiUY View the original article at Campaign for Liberty
• Traders splash £5 billion betting against the euro ...
  Sam Fleming Daily Mail Tuesday, February 9, 2010 Traders and hedge funds are making record bets against the euro, underlining the mounting alarm over the region’s debt crisis. Market players have bet almost £5billion that the value of the currency will fall against the U.S. dollar, t ...
• McCain’s Daughter: Tea Party Movement is Racist
  Kurt Nimmo Prison Planet.com Tuesday, February 9, 2010 According to Meghan McCain, daughter of John McCain, the Tea Party is chock full of racists. Once again appearing on the View, McCain slammed the Tea Party movement, said young people are “turned off” by its “innate racism,” and attacke ...

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

• China's Water Pollution Twice the Officially Liste ...
  Photo via Guardian A recent report from Reuters reveals some disturbing news about China: the water pollution levels recorded in the official reports were found to be merely half the actual levels. Meaning that China's water pollution is literally twice as bad as its government claime... Read t ...
• NY Times Duped by Climate Disinformation Campaign?
  Image via Climate Progress I think for the most part, the New York Times is still the most reliable source for breaking news and good information out there. But they have been seeming to slip in their coverage of climate change--for instance, they ran a story on the front page today crying U.N. ...
• California Toxic Waste Dump Feared to Cause Fatal ...
  Photo via the LA Times There's been an unusual spate of tragic birth defects over the last year in the central California town of Kettleman City. Five out of the twenty children born in just over a year have been born with birth defects or "other maladies, including cleft palate and cleft lip," ...
• Mapping Water Vapor for More Accurate Weather Pred ...
  Image credit: Mike-wise /Flickr The same thing that limits the accuracy of your GPS unit to within a few meters also prevents meteorologists from making precise weather predictions. Atmospheric water vapor interferes with radio signals as they are sent from GPS satellites and this same vapor sc ...
• Where are Ethics in the Not-So-Great US Climate Po ...
  Flooding in Bangladesh. Photo via Leroo Why don't US politicians ever really talk about the ethical imperative of stopping climate change ? Are we too selfish to care whether or not our greenhouse gas pollution will cause intense suffering in some of the poorest parts of the world? Don't senato ...

Biosingularity

• New class of brain-protecting drugs emerging
  Researchers have identified a compound that mimics one of the brains own growth factors and can protect brain cells against damage in several animal models of neurological disease. 7,8-dihydroxyflavone is a member of the flavonoid family of chemicals, which are abundant in fruits and vegetables. T ...
• ‘Starving’ fat suppresses appetite
  Peptides that target blood vessels in fat and cause them to go into programmed cell death (termed apoptosis) could become a model for future weight-loss therapies, say University of Cincinnati (UC) researchers. A research team led by Randy Seeley, PhD, of UC’s Metabolic Diseases Institute, has fou ...
• Why humans outlive apes
  Genetic adaption to meat-rich diets may also lead to high rates of Alzheimer’s and heart disease The same evolutionary genetic advantages that have helped increase human lifespans also make us uniquely susceptible to diseases of aging such as cancer, heart disease and dementia, reveals a study to be ...
• Antioxidants aren’t always good for you and ...
  Antioxidants increasingly have been praised for their benefits against disease and aging, but recent studies at Kansas State University show that they also can cause harm. Researchers in K-State’s Cardiorespiratory Exercise Laboratory have been studying how to improve oxygen delivery to the skeletal ...
• To restore vision, implant preps and seeds a damag ...
  Researchers trying to restore vision damaged by disease have found promise in a tiny implant that sows seeds of new cells in the eye. The diseases macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa lay waste to photoreceptors, the cells in the retina that turn light into electrical signals carried to the ...

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

• Israel says peace talks with Palestine may resume ...
  Israel and Palestine may resume indirect peace talks, which have been stalled for more than a year due to Israel's refusal to halt settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, "in the near future", Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has said.
• Large-scale war less possible, but threats remain ...
  Russia's military policies are aimed at avoiding an arms race and military conflicts, but they should also correspond to real threats which the country faces, Russia's security chief Nikolai Patrushev said in an interview with the Russian government daily.
• White House press secretary mocks Palin's palm not ...
  White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has poked fun at Sarah Palin, mimicking the former vice presidential candidate's idea to write notes on a palm.
• International community ready to help Iran get med ...
  The international community is ready to help Iran import medical isotopes from abroad, which would make Islamic republic's new uranium enrichment plan "unnecessary", the U.S. State Department has said.
• Top stories of the day

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• NASA Endeavor shuttle reaches orbit
  The NASA Endeavor space shuttle that was launched on Monday on a mission to the International Space Station (ISS) has successfully reached low-Earth orbit.
• 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.

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

• MS Drug Continues to Cause Disastrous Side Effects
  In the latest blow to the controversial multiple sclerosis drug Tysabri, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has ordered a new label be put on the drug, warning that the risk of developing progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), a rare but deadly brain infection, increases as more Tysabr ...
• An Expert Guide to Reducing Your Dementia Risk
  There are lifestyle changes you can adopt which may reduce your chance of developing dementia by as much as 20 percent. A panel of independent experts evaluated more than 70 research papers and articles to come up with this series of tips for reducing your risk. Exercise What is good for the hear ...
• Attractive Women, Especially Blondes, Anger More E ...
  Attractive women may gain the competitive edge by letting their temper flare more, research suggests. Researchers found women who rated themselves as pretty displayed a war-like streak when fighting battles to get their own way. They interviewed more than 150 female students to gauge their temperam ...
• 5 Steps to a Calmer Evening
  The toughest part of the day is the often those frantic early evening hours when there are mouths to feed, homework to do, and cranky kids to handle.  The trick is to streamline your to-do’s so you can feel calmer and focus on what counts. Here’s how: 1) Ease Into the Evening Instead of walking in ...
• Reflections on the Anti-Vaccine Movement
  In the article linked below, Mary Tocco, a chiropractor and the owner of Vitality Health, looks back and evaluates the progress of the anti-vaccine movement. She started her research in 1979 and there were only a few research books available on the topic. Even so, she knew the theory was terribly fl ...

Antemedius

• Fire In The Belly - Progressives & The Democratic ...
  Journalism professor Jeff Cohen of FAIR and the Park Center for Independent Media on the struggle within the Democratic Party, starting from the Viet Nam War: There's no doubt that there's an awakening . What concerns me is that the liberal base, the Democratic Party base, has never been more educa ...
• Obama's Base Pact With Columbia Accelerates 'Dange ...
  The Obama administration’s pact to use seven Colombian military bases accelerates “a dangerous trend in U.S. hemispheric policy,” an article in The Nation magazine warns. The White House claims the deal merely formalizes existing military cooperation but the Pentagon’s 2009 budget request said it ne ...
• Blocking War Funding Just Got Easier
  By David Swanson Last June we were handed an opportunity to block the funding of our illegal, murderous, counterproductive, catastrophic, and hated wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The president insisted on an off-the-books "emergency supplemental" bill, and the Senate added an IMF bailout to the bill ...
• Brownbaggers not Teabaggers
  Brownbaggers Not Teabaggers VIGILS AGAINST WAR FUNDING SPREAD ACROSS NATION Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) organized "brownbag" lunch vigils against war funding at noon on Wednesday, January 20th, at the district offices of 22 members of the U.S. House of Representatives. On February 17th ...
• Hate Crimes Act Challenged. Religious Bigotry At W ...
  Where the Religious Right in this country is concerned there is no such thing as equal rights for gay citizens. Even something as innocuous as adding sexuality and gender to the Hate Crimes act is under challenge from these “divinely” inspired bigots. The Thomas More Law Center, which prides itself ...

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

• Lord Monckton says Rajendra Pachauri “is going to ...
  Lord Monckton comments on corruption in climate change funding, climate change millionaires and billionaires, and at minute 07:10 he says that Rajendra Pachuari will be jailed for fraud. Related posts: Lord Monckton takes apart a Greenpeace activist with facts 18 lies, fibs, fabrications and exa ...
• Monster Washington snowstorm screws up new NOAA Cl ...
  The press conference for the NOAA's new Climate Services office was to be held at the National Press Club, but the persistent snowstorm expected to dump at least another foot of snow, is now going to be held by telephone, Related posts: Met Office uses backyard homemade weather station A U.S. clim ...
• A U.S. climate panel: just another step in the wro ...
  The US has called for its own climate panel to be formed after the missteps of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC). The office will be a section of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and will provide climate data and information to businesses and communities. ...
• British climate professor John Mitchell may face f ...
  Now another senior British climate scientist--this time Professor John Mitchell, the Met Office’s Director of Climate Science, is about the face the full force of the blogosphere for contemptuous breaches of the UK’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Mitchell and the UK Meteorological Office ha ...
• BBC used “Calibrated Reporting” in covering climat ...
  Concerns are growing that BBC journalists and their bosses regard disputed scientific theory that climate change is caused by mankind as “mainstream” while huge sums of employees’ money is invested in companies whose success depends on the theory being widely accepted Related posts: Biased r ...

Opinio Juris

• New Law Review Partner — Melbourne Journal of Inte ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I am delighted to announce that Opinio Juris has formed a partnership with the Melbourne Journal of International Law, one of the leading non-US journals in the field.  Twice a year, beginning tomorrow, we will be hosting the same kind of symposia that we h ...
• President Obama (and 37 States) Agree To Let Canad ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Last week, the U.S. and Canada reached an agreement to permit Canadian firms to bid on projects funded by U.S. stimulus money based on the legislation enacted last year. The confusing part is just how exactly this will occur.  According to CTV, Canadian firms will be ex ...
• 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 ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• Look how much money Green groups are making from c ...
  Look how much money WWF has made, trading on the back of climate change hysteria: WWF, for example, took this much money in recent years: Year Income ($US) 2003 370,245,000 2004 468,889,000 2005 499,629,000 2006 549,827,000 2007 663,193,000 TOTAL 2,551,783,000...
• The Green Police
  Audi, which has sneered at BMW's ongoing suck-up to the climate change movement, has hit back with a brilliantly satirical plug for its own diesel, in the Superbowl ad they're all talking about. At the stage when the climate movement...
• Did Pachauri's institute bribe Green corporate don ...
  This from the Telegraph: * It has also emerged that the research institute run by the head of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, has given a series of awards to companies that have provided it...
• Alaskan glacier melt overestimated by nearly 50%
  More embarrassment for the boffins. Estimates of Alaskan glacier melt over the past 40 years "of global warming" haveturned out to be wildly inaccurate. Glaciologists at the Laboratory for Space Studies in Geophysics and Oceanography (LEGOS – CNRS/CNES/IRD/Université Toulouse 3)...
• 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...

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

• The “Coca Cola conspiracy” and the obesity epidemi ...
  Earl Butz altered US farm policy to permanently subsidize the increased production of corn, opening a new era in which corn-based processed foods would become far cheaper than their rivals,cornerstones of the obesity epidemic Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a C ...
• 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. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't   ...
• State of Green Business
  More companies are doing more things, but moving the needle of environmental progress only slightly, if at all. Submitted by John Farnham to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Aboriginals push back over hunting rules on caribo ...
  Aboriginal hunters across the North are pushing back against attempts to conserve wildlife, launching court actions and legislative measures to stop the three territories from regulating the harvest of caribou and polar bears. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• 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- ...

Angry Indian News

• Tensions worsen between Israel and Syria
  wsws.org: "Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s foreign minister from the far-right Israel Beiteinu, last week directly threatened President Bashar Assad that in the event of war Syria would be defeated and... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• This week in history: February 8-February 14
  wsws.org: "On February 13, 1960, France detonated a 70 kiloton nuclear bomb in the atmosphere over Algeria's southern Sahara, not far from Mali and Mauritania. 'Gerboise bleue,' as Paris dubbed the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Guatemalan Mining Re-Sister Crisanta Perez arreste ...
  : Intercontinental Cry-Crisanta Perez, a Maya Mam villager from the community of Agel, in San Miguel Ixtahuacan, Guatemala, was arrested by police for an outstanding arrest warrant that was laid... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Bushmen angry at president’s empty meeting
  Survival International: "Hundreds of Bushmen were left angry and frustrated after the Botswana president refused to enter into discussions with them during a meeting on Thursday.President Khama,... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• POICA-Umm Salamuna Village stands to lose its land ...
  poica.org: The village of Umm Salamuna lies to the south of Bethlehem city, some 6.5 kilometers far from it; It is bordered by Jouret Ash Sham'a village form the north, the villages of Al Halqam and... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• It happened! HELL FROZE OVER!
  The PPJ Gazette By Marti Oakley (c)copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved The District of Criminals was brought to a standstill and congress rendered unable to meet as a result of three blizzards converging over a three day period.  The snow which collected at about 2 feet, along with winds and seve ...
• The Patriot Act Is Up For Revote In Congress: An O ...
  According to an email from the ACLU dated on February 4th, 2010, the Patriot Act is now up for renewal in Congress as certain provisions are set to expire this February. And as is typical, Congress is once again being fear-mongered into voting for it, along with what the ACLU says is even more freed ...
• 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. 

  Blacklisted News

• Bolton: ‘A Post-American Speech By Our First Post- ...
  Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton tells NRO that President Obama’s address to the U.N. was “a post-American speech by our first post-American president. It was a speech high on the personality of Barack Obama and high on multilateralism, but very short in advocating American i ...
• Your Future Morning View Will Make You Vomit
• New York Bills Would Mandate HPV Vaccines Without ...
• Chinese Military: Sell U.S. Bonds To Punish Washin ...
  Senior Chinese military officers have proposed that their country boost defense spending, adjust PLA deployments, and possibly sell some U.S. bonds to punish Washington for its latest round of arms sales to Taiwan.
• Yemen and The Militarization of Strategic Waterway ...
  Among Washington’s strategic objectives is the militarization of major sea ways. This strategic waterway links the Mediterranean to South Asia and the Far East, through the Suez Canal, the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

The Intelligence Daily

• Inteldaily's RSS/Feedburner feeds
• Flight 253: Intelligence Agencies Nixed State Depa ...
  By Tom Burghardt Rightist demagogues, as they are wont to do, prattle-on how they, and they alone,... For more details, please click on the link to read the article
• Romania: U.S. Expands Missile Shield Into Black Se ...
  By Rick Rozoff (The Intelligence Daily) — When Romanian President Traian Basescu disclosed on... For more details, please click on the link to read the article
• Iraqi Insurgents Capture Human Terrain Team Member ...
  by John Stanton (The Intelligence Daily) — Steve Fondacaro and Montgomery Clough, senior... For more details, please click on the link to read the article
• Peace Talks May Follow Ex-Taliban Mediators’ Plan
  By Gareth Porter (The Intelligence Daily) — If peace talks do ultimately begin between Afghan... For more details, please click on the link to read the article

My AntiWar

• Rep. John Murtha, Iraq War Critic, Dies at 77
  Democratic Congressman John Murtha of Pennsylvania has died at the age of seventy-seven from complications after gall bladder surgery. He was the powerful chair of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. In 2002 Murtha voted to support the invasion of Iraq, but three years later he shocked ma ...
• Eamon Javers on the Secret World of Corporate Espi ...
  The CIA is under fire following the news it’s allowing active-duty operatives to work for private companies on the side. The previously undisclosed “moonlighting” has granted wealthy private entities such as financial firms and hedge funds access to top-level intelligence officials. It?s said to be ...
• David Price: “The CIA Is Welcoming Itself Ba ...
  In the latest edition of Counterpunch Magazine, the anthropologist David Price reveals the U.S. intelligence community has established academic outposts at twenty-two U.S. universities over the past four years. Government agencies including the CIA, FBI, National Security Agency, Defense Intelligenc ...
• Rep. Dennis Kucinich v. Glenn Greenwald on the Sup ...
  A new poll has found nearly two-thirds of respondents oppose the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Citizens United to allow corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money to elect and defeat candidates. Rep. Dennis Kucinich and Glenn Greenwald offer differing opinions on the controversial ruling. [ ...
• Obama Administration: US Forces Can Assassinate Am ...
  The Obama administration has acknowledged it’s continuing a Bush-era policy authorizing the killing of US citizens abroad. The confirmation came from Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair in congressional testimony last week. Blair said, “Being a US citizen will not spare an American from g ...

Rogue Government.com

• Chinese Police Admit Enormous Number Of Spies
  "Every policeman and auxiliary policeman, no matter their division or particular police station, has to establish at least 20 informants in their community, village, work unit and so on. Altogether, these add up to 10,000 spies.
• Chinese Military: Sell U.S. Bonds To Punish Washi ...
  Senior Chinese military officers have proposed that their country boost defense spending, adjust PLA deployments, and possibly sell some U.S. bonds to punish Washington for its latest round of arms sales to Taiwan.
• Disinformation Tactics: The Methods Used To Keep ...
  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.
• Assistant to the President and Deputy National Se ...
• Justice Department seeking lawyers with "men ...
  In its ostensible attempt to create a nondiscriminatory application process, the Department of Justice is inviting candidates with “mental retardation” to pursue attorney posts.

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

• Terrorist state: List of 13 Hamas leaders publishe ...
  The Israel-based self-described intelligence and security news service debkafile published a list of 13 Hamas leaders allegedly "Israel's next targets for liquidation" on their website Friday. The service said the list was distributed by de facto government security services to members following th ...
• We're living in broken Britain, say most voters
  Voters are deeply pessimistic about the state of Britain today, believing that society is broken and heading in the wrong direction, a Populus poll for The Times has found. Nearly three fifths of voters say that they hardly recognise the country they are living in, while 42 per cent say they would ...
• India awaits go-ahead on first GM food crop despit ...
  India will decide tomorrow whether to approve its first genetically modified (GM) food crop. It is a move that supporters argue will help to avert a global food crisis but which critics say is being rushed through recklessly. The new vegetable, an aubergine - or brinjal in Hindi - contains a to ...
• FLASHBACK: Rabbi of Britain's oldest synagogue sac ...
  The rabbi of Britain's oldest synagogue has stood down after a row over his part in a demonstration against the role of banks in the financial crisis. Rabbi Nathan Asmoucha allowed a protest march to begin at the Bevis Marks synagogue in the City of London. He was recruited by Bevis Marks - built i ...
• Effort To Retroactively Approve Illegal Jerusalem ...
  A seven-story building constructed by right-wing Israeli settlers on Palestinian land, in East Jerusalem in 2004, is moving toward receiving 'retroactive approval,' with the unexpected support of Israel's Interior Minister, Eli Yishai. This support adds an air of legitimacy to the settler's illegal ...

Threat Level

• Court Keeps White House Spy Docs Secret
  A federal appellate panel on Tuesday blocked a court order requiring disclosure of e-mail between the White House, Justice Department, National Security Agency and Office of the Director of National Intelligence — communications that paved the way for new spy legislation. The 2008 messages were a pr ...
• Sweden Probing Cisco, NASA Hacks
  Swedish investigators are probing a hacker U.S. authorities accuse of unlawfully intruding into Cisco Systems, NASA’s Ames Research Center and NASA’s Advanced Supercomputing Division, the authorities said Monday. Philip Gabriel Pettersson, known in the hacking world as “Stakkato,” allegedly seized c ...
• Jurors: Stop Twittering
  A federal court policy making body is belatedly entering the internet age by proposing that judges clearly inform jurors they must not electronically discuss cases they are hearing. It’s standard procedure to inform jurors to remain mum and not conduct any research about the case until a verdict. B ...
• 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• Thiessen Laments Dead Terrorists Can't Be Tortured
  In the wake of the September 11 attacks, President Bush famously announced his plans for Osama Bin Laden, "There's an old poster out west, as I recall, that said, 'Wanted: Dead or Alive.'" Bush, of course, failed to deliver Bin...
• For Republicans, No Means No
  If nothing else, Barack Obama is a glutton for punishment. Apparently confident in his ability to manhandle the Republican leadership in the wake of his televised beat-down of the House GOP caucus two weeks ago, Obama has invited McConnell, Boehner...
• Republican Sexism Meets Palin's Sex Appeal
  As conservatives rush to defend Sarah Palin in the wake of her Tea Party "Telepalmter" episode, no reaction has been as comically hypocritical as that offered by the right-wing blog, Legal Insurrection. There, William Jacobsen bemoans the rash of adolescent...
• Palin's America Dependent on Divine Intervention
  Over the past 10 days, President Obama and Sarah Palin made clear everything you need to know about their dueling visions of America's character and its future. In his State of the Union address, the President rejected the notion that...
• 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...

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

• Palin, Psy-Ops and 'Condescending' Libs
  The neocon Washington Post slams "condescending" liberals while Sarah Palin mocks them condescendingly, says Robert Parry. February 8, 2010
• Shunning Howard Zinn's History
  The mainstream U.S. media ignores or denigrates progressive viewpoints, like those of Howard Zinn, notes William Blum. February 7, 2010
• Lobbyists Ply GOP, Dem Retreats
  Big business lobbyists lurked on the sidelines of "retreats" by Republican and Democratic lawmakers, writes Michael Winship. February 5, 2010
• Why Obama Dodges CIA Reform
  In recent years, politicians, including President Obama, have shied away from tough criticism of the CIA, says Melvin A. Goodman. February 4, 2010
• An Edgy 'Edge of Darkness'
  Mel Gibson's first on-screen performance in years mixes a murder mystery with layers of government secrecy, writes Lisa Pease. February 4, 2010

CounterPunch

• Vijay Prashad : Troubles in the Mountains
• Bill Quigley : Haiti by the Numbers
• Jonathan Cook : Jerusalem Mayor to Raze 200 Palest ...
• Shamus Cooke : The Democrats are Coming After Soci ...
• Robert Jensen : The New York Times, Israel and Eth ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Beware the iron wall, the coming war (Ramzy Barou ...
  Will Gaza or Lebanon be attacked first? Israel is sending mixed messages, and deliberately so. Hamas, Hizbullah and their supporters understand well the Israeli tactic and must be prepari ...
• Campaign for the opening of Shuhada Street in Hebr ...
• If Israel lets ex-pats vote, what's to stop enfran ...
  Israel won't hear about a Palestinian right of return, and deprives all rights to every Palestinian who goes abroad, after his or her family lived here for generations. But it is opening ...
• Building back in Gaza - with mud bricks (IRIN)
  Hassan al-Err, aged 67, and his seven-member family are moving into a mud house built by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in the Gaza Strip, because other building materials ...
• Israeli court releases pro-Palestinian foreigners ...
  Israel's Supreme Court ordered two pro-Palestinian foreign activists released on bail on Monday, saying Israeli immigration officers overstepped their bounds by detaining them in the West ...

Water - AlterNet

• Will More Enforcement Staff Overseeing Gas Drillin ...
  Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection will double its enforcement staff, open a new office closer to the drilling action and release new drilling regulations.
• The War on Tap: Stadium Where Cleveland Cavaliers ...
  The only way for thirsty fans to get water now is to wait in line at the concessions counter for a free small cup or pay $4 for bottled water.
• 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?

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

• Double Doom Deflected: McCainiac & Sarah Sycop ...
  By Robert S. Becker Featured Writer Dandelion Salad rbecker@cal.net February 9, 2010 I never trusted
• American Empire, Part II By Timothy V. Gatto
  By Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad liberalpro.blogspot.com February 8, 2010 As his
• 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

Unexplained Mysteries

• Signs of liquid water found on Enceladus
  Scientists have found signs of liquid water on Saturn's moon Enceladus, boosting the chances of life existing there. Negatively charged water ions wer...
• The mysteries of water
  Water is one of the most important substances on the planet yet mystery still surrounds many of its properties, exactly how much do we really know abo...
• Man photographs "ghost" in post office window
  A man in New Zealand has taken a photograph of a post office that appears to show a ghostly figure in one of the windows. Andrew Watters and his partn...
• 45-foot ancient snake devoured crocodiles
  Scientists have found fossil evidence of a giant prehistoric snake that was so large it could devour crocodiles. The massive snake known as the titano...
• What came before the Big Bang ?
  Scientists are considering the idea that our universe was created when two other universes collided, producing the Big Bang. If true it would open the...

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 9, 2010
  Merkel's Party May Delay Solar Subsidy Cut (Bloomberg)  Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats and their allies will propose a cut in subsidies for solar power from rooftop panels by 16% from June 1, instead of April 1, the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung newspaper said. A Federal Climate ...
• February 8, 2010
  Support Down for Australia's Rudd, CO2 Scheme: Poll (Reuters) Support for Australia's PM Kevin Rudd and an carbon emissions trading plan backed by his government is slipping ahead of elections this year, but Rudd's Labor remains clearly ahead, a poll showed on Monday. Malcolm Turnbull Says He ...
• 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 chan ...
• 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 Dioxid ...
• 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 (Reuters)  ...

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

• Dodging Doom: the Double Whammy of President McCai ...
  I never trusted John McCain because he never struck me as stable or principled - plus his grasp of ideas and facts fluctuated like glare off water. My judgment focused not on his positions per se, nor successful charade to seem less Republican than his rightwing voting record proves. For years, he ...
• Globalization Is Killing The Globe: Return to Loca ...
  Globalization is killing Europe, just as it's already wiped out much of the American middle class. Spain and Greece are facing immediate crises that many other European nations see on the near horizon: aging boomer workers are retiring with healthy benefit packages, but the younger workers who are p ...
• 'Take back our country' indeed - from the phonies
  Among the nation's founders, none was a greater advocate of small government than Thomas Jefferson. Ronald Reagan used the Jefferson Memorial in Washington the weekend of July 4 in 1987 to unveil his "economic bill of rights," a 10-point exaltation of privatization and balanced budgets. By then, Rea ...
• Palin headlines birther conference; press pretends ...
  If you don't think there's a media double standard that favors Republicans over Democrats, then let's play a game of what-if. What if, in 2006, at Yearly Kos, the first annual convention of liberal bloggers and their readers, organizers shelled out $100,000 for former Vice President Al Gore to addre ...
• Here There Be Monsters
  — from Truthout They say everything can be replaced, Yet every distance is not near. So I remember every face Of every man who put me here. -- Bob Dylan, "I Shall Be Released" I have a livid scar in the center of the back of my right hand. It is clearly visible, so I see it every day, and every ...

Ten Percent

• Dogs Of War
  Le Monde diplomatique, February 9, 2010, Marie-Dominique Charlier:- Estimates of the numbers of PMC personnel in Afghanistan vary from 130,000 to 
160,000, the second-largest deployment after Iraq, which it is set to overtake in the near future. The 30,000 extra US troops bound for Afghanistan coul ...
• Observation & Reflection
  I think it would be useful for some people to ask themselves why they are eager to immediately believe the best about The Times/Spectator articles and/or Gita Sahgal and the worst about Amnesty International, Moazzam Begg and/or CagePrisoners.
• Troubled Water: AI, Gita Sahgal & Moazzam Begg
  NB. Sorry lots of long quoted text in this post, if you are already aware of various articles just skip to the next bit. As a member of Amnesty International I am very aware of the organisation’s occasional difficulties and the many powerful and vicious enemies it has (put simply people who enjoy an ...
• More Than 50 Women On Hunger Strike In Yarl’s Wood ...
  The UKBorder Agency are of course lying to the media that the women are being treated well, the majority of detainees are rape survivors and the UKBA treats them like criminals, yet this is not reported in the horror story way we report say Saudi or Bangladeshi criminalising of rape survivors but it ...
• 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 ...

Booman Tribune

• The Evil Rahmbo
  A funny thing about all the criticism of Rahm Emanuel is that no one that I can remember ever blamed Andy Card for Bush's policies and failures. I used to wonder about Card a lot. He had a reputation as a fairly moderate Yankee Republican, and I thought at the time he was hired that it was a nod t ...
• Remembering History
  Do you know what Tsar Bomba was? It was the biggest nuclear bomb ever exploded. You don't hear much about it, do you? It was 50 megatons. The Soviets dropped it from a plane in the Arctic Circle in 1961. Ever hear of Castle Bravo? That was the biggest bomb the United States ever exploded. We ...
• We Need a Public Option to Stop This
  If we don't create competition for our bloated American Health Insurance Corporations (and a public option like Medicare for all would provide that necessary element), we will continue to see these large corporations manipulate their markets to raise rates for health care policies to levels that few ...
• Froggy Bottom Cafe
• Casual Observation
  This is why every Democratic blogger in the known universe advises their readers not to donate to the DSCC, DCCC, or DNC, and only to donate directly to individual candidates. If I send money to the DSCC and they use that money to help Ben Nelson, then I've just effed myself in the a, have I not? ...

European Tribune

• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 10 ...
   A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:1935 – Birth of...
• Tuesday Open Thread
  What are your favourite things? Apart from ET, of course....
• The Right to Die
  New discussion is brewing in the Netherlands to legalize assisted suicide, or euthanasia, for the...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 9 ...
   A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:1923 – Birth of...
• Monday Open Thread
  Here we are.What's the gossip?...

Futurismic

• Futurismic goes smartphone friendly
  Hey there, all you smartphone early-adopter alpha-geek types. I’ve just gone and installed a rather neat plugin on the site that should render it in a format better suited to touchscreen smartphone reading when viewed with a mobile browser, and it seems to be working fine on my Android phone just fi ...
• Iceland as free speech haven-state
  Still riffing on the shifting sands of geopolitics, here’s another interesting nugget: the people behind the controversial (and short-of-funds) Wikileaks site have been lobbying Iceland to introduce a suite of journalism shield laws and become a sort of free-speech sanctuary or safe harbour for cont ...
• Neomedievalism
  While I’m on the subject of Bruce Sterling, here’s a brief piece he flagged up at Foreign Policy – a bleak prediction that the world is reverting to a kind of technology-mediated econo-political feudalism. Call it Neomedievalism: The state isn’t a universally representative phenomenon today, if it e ...
• Bruce Sterling on atemporality
  I’d be remiss in my fanboy duties if I didn’t repost this video of a keynote speech from Bruce Sterling at last week’s Transmediale Futurity Now! conference in Berlin. Appropriately enough for a conference in Berlin, a city where history lays heavily in layers of physical and psychological flotsam a ...
• Blue-sky bioengineering on the DARPA drawing-board
  If you’re looking for the sort of bat-shit Faustian gambles that form the back-bone of much military science fiction, following the news from the Pentagon’s science and tech division is like supergluing your lips to a firehose… and Wired’s DangerRoom blog is one of the better consumer-level sources ...

Therapy News

• Bipolar Linked to High Achievement
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Though issues such as bipolar symptoms have traditionally encountered significant prejudice in many societies, correlations between these symptoms and high achievement have been noted in the past. Recently, these correlations have been highlighted in a study performed ...
• Supporting Gay Teens: A Family Proposition
  By John Sovec, LMFT, LGBT Issues (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact John and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile Remember back when you were in High School and the time came when your schedule would finally include that intriguing and informative heal ...
• Why Do We Value Religion More As We Age?
  By Kalila Borghini, LCSW and Ordained Yoruba Priest, Spirituality Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Kalila and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile What prompted this article was something I read recently in AARP Magazine. (I guess I’m dating myself with that one!). “The older you are, t ...
• Mindfulness Practices
  By Nicole S. Urdang, M.S., NCC, DHM, Holistic Psychotherapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Nicole and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile. All supportive techniques, like meditation, yoga, chanting, music, tai chi, or walking in nature, share one common thread: they focus the mind. Tr ...
• Blame & Helplessness
  By Jim Hutt, Ph.D., Family Problems Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jim and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile Today let’s take a look at the powerful consequences of blame. In my opinion we have a very blaming culture, and I won’t go in to why that is right now–I’ll save that for a f ...

Mountaintop Removal

• W.Va. House forms committee to monitor mining perm ...
  W.Va. House forms committee to monitor mining permit process Daily Mail - Charleston Most involve the mountaintop removal method of mining, which accounts for a fourth of the state's coal production. That has the industry in an uproar, ... and more »
• Surface mining allows cattle to graze on land prev ...
  TriCities.com Surface mining allows cattle to graze on land previously unusable say proponents TriCities.com “If it wasn't for mountaintop removal [mining] in our county, we wouldn't have shopping centers or hospitals or schools built on it, and you can see how we ...
• Massey cited for safety violation after gaining en ...
  West Virginia Public Broadcasting Massey cited for safety violation after gaining environmental honors West Virginia Public Broadcasting The reclaimed surface or mountaintop removal site is a fruit tree orchard. Protesters have tried to stop the company from operating mountaintop removal ... and m ...
• Coal Ad Blitz Launches New Spot as Industry Sees P ...
  Coal Ad Blitz Launches New Spot as Industry Sees Political Gains New York Times Mountaintop-removal coal mining proposals are getting increased scrutiny under the Obama administration, and plans for new coal-burning plants have stalled ... Can the myth of clean coal become a reality? istockAnalyst. ...
• Coal River Mountain Protestors Meet with Governor ...
  WVNS-TV Coal River Mountain Protestors Meet with Governor HNN Huntingtonnews.net 28, Roland Micklem, 81, and other group members told the Governor that the civil-disobedience campaign won't stop until mountaintop removal does. ... Tree Sits, Air Horns and Helicopters: The Fight to Save Coal River M ...

Memeorandum

• President Obama: 'Put Aside Matter of Party' of Jo ...
  ABCNEWS : President Obama: ‘Put Aside Matter of Party’ of Jobs Bill, Health Care   —  During Surprise Press Conference, Obama Condemns ‘Obstinacy,’ Outlines Proposal for Health Care Summit This Month  —  President Obama appealed for bipartisanship from the podium of the White House briefing room to ...
• Shelby not done blocking nominations (Manu Raju/Th ...
  Manu Raju / The Politico : Shelby not done blocking nominations   —  Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) may have dropped his holds on President Barack Obama's nominees, but he's more than willing to keep blocking nominations if he doesn't get his way.  —  “The process goes on every day,” Shelby told POL ...
• Poll: Bipartisanship popular, compromise tricky (J ...
  Jon Cohen / Behind the Numbers : Poll: Bipartisanship popular, compromise tricky   —  Americans spread the blame when it comes to the lack of cooperation in Washington, and, in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, most want the two sides to keep working to pass comprehensive health-care reform.
• Congressional Democrats point finger of blame at R ...
  Alexander Bolton / The Hill : Congressional Democrats point finger of blame at Rahm Emanuel on healthcare   —  Democrats in Congress are holding White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel accountable for his part in the collapse of healthcare reform.  —  The emerging consensus among critics in both ch ...
• Robert Gibbs Scrawls Notes on Hand, Mocking Sarah ...
  CBS News : Robert Gibbs Scrawls Notes on Hand, Mocking Sarah Palin (Video)   —  Posted by Brian Montopoli Following President Obama's surprise appearance at the White House press briefing, press secretary Robert Gibbs garnered laughter from the press corps by holding up his hand to reveal that he ...

Energy & Environment News

• California Sets Up Statewide Network to Monitor Gl ...
  The monitoring system is believed to be the first statewide network and is meant to help the state find specific sources of emissions.
• U.N. Climate Panel and Chief Face Credibility Sieg ...
  Rajendra K. Pachauri and the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change face accusations of scientific sloppiness and potential financial conflicts of interest.
• A Federal Climate Service Is Created to Provide Da ...
  The new office within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will provide governments and businesses with data about long-term climate change.
• Green Inc. Column: Fraud Besets E.U. Carbon Trade ...
  The latest bump in the E.U.'s Emission Trading System came last month, when swindlers used faked e-mail messages to obtain access codes for individual accounts.
• 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.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.1, eastern New Guinea region, Papua New Guinea
  Saturday, February 6, 2010 07:55:51 UTC Saturday, February 6, 2010 05:55:51 PM at epicenter Depth : 113.80 km (70.71 mi)
• M 6.0, Kuril Islands
  Saturday, February 6, 2010 04:44:59 UTC Saturday, February 6, 2010 03:44:59 PM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
• M 5.1, South Island of New Zealand
  Friday, February 5, 2010 09:48:47 UTC Friday, February 5, 2010 10:48:47 PM at epicenter Depth : 5.00 km (3.11 mi)
• M 6.2, southeast Indian Ridge
  Friday, February 5, 2010 06:59:07 UTC Friday, February 5, 2010 01:59:07 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
• M 5.1, Sea of Japan
  Friday, February 5, 2010 06:48:12 UTC Friday, February 5, 2010 03:48:12 PM at epicenter Depth : 386.60 km (240.22 mi)

China Dialogue

• Security in a drier age (1)
  Climate change poses new – and serious – barriers to China’s plans for stable development. In the first segment of a three-part article, Scott Moore says water will top the agenda. Outside analysts have long stressed that climate change threatens China’s basic national interests. The Chinese governm ...
• Asian water wrangles
  Pollution and water scarcity threaten livelihoods in central-south Asia. But, argues Michael Renner, international efforts could help to forge a solution. The quantity and quality of available water play a crucial role in the politics of central-south Asia. Access to clean drinking water is a major, ...
• 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• California Carbon Trading Allows Timber Companies ...
  California's race to be the first state to develop a carbon-trading program comes at an unacceptable cost for Sierra forests.
• New York Times "Stands Behind" Its Conte ...
  The Times maintains its claim that James O'Keefe wore a pimp suit into ACORN offices -- despite an attorney general's report that says otherwise, and no corroborating evidence.
• Starbucks' Cop-Out to Gun Nuts: Customers Served C ...
  Starbucks has become a popular gathering spot for some Second Amendment crusaders, and the company is pretending it doesn't have the power to keep them out.
• How a Foodie Got Duped and Seduced By Mass-Market ...
  Seduced by KFC's Original Recipe, one foodie set out to discover the roots of this tasty chicken -- and the other ingredients on the KFC menu.
• Will More Enforcement Staff Overseeing Gas Drillin ...
  Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection will double its enforcement staff, open a new office closer to the drilling action and release new drilling regulations.

Threat Level

• Court Keeps White House Spy Docs Secret
  A federal appellate panel on Tuesday blocked a court order requiring disclosure of e-mail between the White House, Justice Department, National Security Agency and Office of the Director of National Intelligence — communications that paved the way for new spy legislation. The 2008 messages were a pr ...
• Sweden Probing Cisco, NASA Hacks
  Swedish investigators are probing a hacker U.S. authorities accuse of unlawfully intruding into Cisco Systems, NASA’s Ames Research Center and NASA’s Advanced Supercomputing Division, the authorities said Monday. Philip Gabriel Pettersson, known in the hacking world as “Stakkato,” allegedly seized c ...
• Jurors: Stop Twittering
  A federal court policy making body is belatedly entering the internet age by proposing that judges clearly inform jurors they must not electronically discuss cases they are hearing. It’s standard procedure to inform jurors to remain mum and not conduct any research about the case until a verdict. B ...
• 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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Senate jobs bill extends Medicare payment rates -t ...
  WASHINGTON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - A jobs-creation bill that could pass the Senate this week would delay a scheduled 20 percent reduction in doctor payments under the Medicare health-insurance program, according to a copy of the text obtained by Reuters.
• For extra cautious Toyota driver, a high-speed dea ...
  FLINT, Michigan (Reuters) - Guadalupe Alberto knew the route from her house on a residential street to the tiny grocery store she ran with her husband so well that her family jokes she could have driven it with her eyes closed.
• UPDATE 3-Tax credits, Medicare fix in Senate jobs ...
  * Senate bill cheaper, more bipartisan than House version (Updates with Kyl seeing no vote this week)
• China PLA officers urge economic punch against U.S ...
  BEIJING (Reuters) - Senior Chinese military officers have proposed that their country boost defense spending, adjust PLA deployments, and possibly sell some U.S. bonds to punish Washington for its latest round of arms sales to Taiwan.
• Moscow says U.S. missile shield aimed at Russia
  MOSCOW, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Russia's top general said on Tuesday that plans for a U.S. missile shield are directed against his country.

Equality Trust

• Lynda Gratton: The business case for greater incom ...
  Read Lynda Gratton in the Financial Times [Wilkinson and Pickett's] argument is that societies which are very unequal have all sorts of problems, and I have a feeling that the same is true for companies,” she says. “I think one has to be very careful about what you pay people ... We’ve put far t ...
• Broken Britain due to Broken Families?
  Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson on Comment is Free
• Comment Is Free: Inequality harms all of us
  Lesley Riddoch writes that it's not only the poorest who suffer from inequality – in an equal society, fulfilment and health improve for everyone. Read her article on Comment is Free
• 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 ...

IntelNews

• Iran arrests seven with alleged CIA ties
  The Iranian government has announced the arrests of seven people linked to a US government-funded radio station, some of whom it says were working for the CIA.
• News you may have missed #0281
  US intel director confirms CIA can kill US citizens abroad. Funny sign at CIA gift shop. Gordon Thomas' Secret Wars out in paperback.
• US admits ‘200 troops’ on the ground i ...
  It took the deaths of three of these American soldiers, in a suicide attack by Pakistani Taliban, last week, for American officials to begin to admit that US troops are indeed operating inside Pakistan.
• Russia accuses Georgia of aiding al-Qaeda in North ...
  It may not make headlines in Western media, but Russia’s low-intensity war in Chechnya and Dagestan continues, with scores of separatists and government agents dying on an almost daily basis.
• Al-Mabhouh assassins used Irish passports, says Du ...
  At least four of the seven people believed to have participated in last month’s assassination of a senior Hamas military official in Dubai, used forged Irish passports to enter and exit the United Arab Emirates, according to local police.

After Downing Street.org

• A Peace Blimp - What's That!?
  It's an inspiration, an achievable goal, an organizing tool, and a route around the corporate media cartel: a giant billboard for what we all want but our televisions are afraid to mention.  It's a project worth supporting ! Imagine...a "Peace Blimp"- defiantly displaying a message of peace across ...
• Growing Hunger in America
  Growing Hunger in America By Stephen Lendman In January 2010, Feeding America (FA, formerly America's Second Harvest) released its disturbing new report on growing hunger titled, "Hunger in America 2010." The Chicago-based organization is the nation's "leading domestic hunger-relief charity," ser ...
• Ron Paul Warns of Social Unrest and Martial Law
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• Wars Spending US Into Ruin
  Wars sending U.S. into ruin Obama the peace president is fighting battles his country cannot afford By Eric Margolis, QMI Agency | Toronto Sun 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 a ...
• The Purpose Prize: People in Encore Careers Solvin ...
  The Purpose Prize A $100,000 prize for people in their encore careers who are inventing new ways to solve social problems. Ten people over the age of 60 will win in 2010. Nominate yourself or someone you know. Deadline: March 5. 5 tips for nominating someone for The Purpose Prize 1. Learn about p ...

Grist - News

• U.S. warns China against ‘stillborn’ c ...
  by Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON -- The United States on Tuesday pressed China, India, and other emerging powers to make clearer commitments to fighting climate change, warning that last year's Copenhagen Accord risked being "stillborn." The 194-nation U.N.-led summit in the Danish capital re ...
• Obama admin launches new Climate Service and clima ...
  by Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration announced plans Monday for a new office handling climate change, aiming to help businesses chart future plans as the nation shifts to a greener economy. The first practical effect was the creation of a website, www.climate.gov , whi ...
• U.N. climate chief raises the temperature with rac ...
  by Agence France-Presse Rajendra Pachauri.NEW DELHI -- The U.N.'s top climate official, who is at the heart of a controversy over a few instances of incorrect global warming data, has penned a racy novel that dishes up sex, reincarnation, and a real-life Hollywood actress. The debut fiction wor ...
• New E.U. organic logo set for Europe’s super ...
  by Agence France-Presse The Euro-leaf logo. BRUSSELS -- The European Union on Monday unveiled a new Green logo that will have to be shown on all pre-packaged organic products produced in Europe from July. "I'm delighted that we now have a fresh E.U. organic food logo," said E.U. Agriculture Com ...
• 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 ...

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Time - Top Stories

• Obama and Counterterrorism: The Debate Moves Right
  John Brennan, the Administration's counterterrorism chief has helped move Obama closer to Bush policies, but the GOP is attacking from even further to the right
• Toyota Prius Recall, Safety Problems: Previous War ...
  For decades, Toyota and U.S. government agencies have been negotiating over a growing list of safety issues. A history of major events pertaining to Toyota's acceleration-related problems
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• NBC: There Was Never a Conan O'Brien
  Is there a contractual or business reason the network pulled the reruns? Does it believe they somehow undermine its relaunch of Jay?

Washington Independent

• Draft Senate Bill Includes 3-Month Unemployment Be ...
  It’s just an early version — or so the Democrats are saying — but Senate leaders appear to be that much closer to extending the filing deadline for unemployment insurance (which expires Feb. 28) through the end of May. The additional three months are half what the House passed in December, and an ev ...
• Hawaii’s 2007 Tax Cut Turned Into a 600 Perc ...
  How tax cuts lead to deficits, and higher taxes. You know, the stuff Republicans don't like to talk about.
• Team Palin
  Marc Ambinder has a read on which politicos are close to, or advising, Sarah Palin. Pam Pryor, a former RNC senior adviser, leads Palin’s political action committee and is orchestrating her outreach to social conservatives. Randy Scheunenmann remains her policy maestro, with informal assistance from ...
• How Wall Street Spun the Press on Campaign Donatio ...
  If you read the stories in The Wall Street Journal last week or The New York Times this week about campaign contributions from financial companies, you might have the impression that financial PACs and executives are shifting their money from Democrats to Republicans en masse over bonus restrictions ...
• Mitch McConnell, America’s Foremost Countert ...
  I’m late on this, but Politico has a piece today about Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) 2010 legislative/political strategy, and it involves taking a forceful stand on terrorism against the Obama administration. This must be something like the administration’s dream come true: The guy not only has abs ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

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

Suzie-Q

• Sarah Palin: Crib Notes On The Palm
  Sarah Palin: Faux Populist Alec Baldwin Actor Huffington Post– Posted: February 9, 2010 01:13 PM So, you think Sarah Palin is embarrassed by the crib-notes-on-the-palm incident? You’re kidding, right? This woman, like national candidates of both parties, doesn’t draw a breath without a team of pol ...
• Afternoon Jukebox- Do I Love You
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• Blackwater/XE Services Seeks $1 Billion Contract T ...
  Blackwater, Now Xe, Vying For $1 Billion Contract To Train Afghan National Police HuffPo-  First Posted: 02- 8-10 12:36 PM   |   Updated: 02- 8-10 03:17 PM “Blackwater Worldwide’s legal woes haven’t dimmed the company’s prospects in Afghanistan, where it’s a contender to be a key part of Pr ...
• John Bolton: Either Iran Gets Nukes Or ‘Israel Or ...
  Bolton: Either Iran Gets Nukes Or ‘Israel Or Somebody Else Uses Military Force To Stop It’ Think Progress- By Ben Armbruster on Feb 8th, 2010 at 6:00 pm Last week, Iran’s President Mahmoud Amadinejad said Tehran would have “no problem” agreeing on a deal to send its enriched uranium abroad for fur ...
• Sarah Palin: Bust Up the Republican Party And the ...
  Sarah Palin Aims to Bust Up the Republican Party — And the Tea Party Movement AlterNet / By Adele M. Stan Palin’s speech was her boilerplate of non sequiturs and cognitive disconnections, but in the interview that followed, she revealed her hand in a game for the presidency. February 8, 2010 Sa ...

Solari

• Quote du Jour
  Isn’t it funny when you walk into an investment company and see all the financial advisers watching CNBC? It gives me the same feeling of confidence I would have if I walked into the Mayo Clinic and all the medical doctors were watching General Hospital. ~ Anonymous
• A List - Things To Do When Your Girlfriend Just Us ...
  By a Member of the Solari Network • Let her be angry and negative about the future — just listen and don’t give advice — and then talk about what you both have to be grateful for in each other, your families and your friendships • Send her those cards with the [...]
• USDA Drops Animal ID System
  The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Friday it has abandoned a program that was intended to trace the movement of farm animals around the country but garnered little support from farmers. Instead, the department announced plans for a new, more flexible program to be administered by states and tri ...
• The Manipulation of “Safety”
  By Ari LeVaux Big Ag is at fault for the nation’s food-borne illness outbreaks — but a raft of pending food safety legislation unfairly penalizes smaller producers. Thanks to a recent spate of high-profile, food-borne pathogen outbreaks, there’s been an understandable push for legislation to make A ...
• Think Government Is Corrupt? You May Face 10 Years ...
  By Paul Joseph Watson Subversives who think government is corrupt and should be controlled by the people face 10 years in prison and a $25,000 dollar fine if they fail to register with authorities in South Carolina, in another chilling example of how free speech and dissent is being criminalized in ...

Global Insights

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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
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Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• Starbucks' Cop-Out to Gun Nuts: Customers Served C ...
  Starbucks has become a popular gathering spot for some Second Amendment crusaders, but the company is pretending it doesn't have the power to keep them out.
• Dennis Kucinich vs. Glenn Greenwald: Is Citizens U ...
  Rep. Kucinich warns, "This is something that Jefferson feared, something that Lincoln feared."
• One Company Thinks They've Created Fast Food With ...
  Chipotle has a great record when it comes to buying more sustainable ingredients, but it has done one thing that has human rights activists howling.
• The Bizarre Terror Conviction of Pakistani Scienti ...
  Human rights groups say that Siddiqui, who has been found guilty of attempted murder, was forcibly disappeared by Pakistani officials in 2003 and tortured at the behest of the U.S.
• ACORN Smear Collaborator Claims Persecution to Rai ...
  In a bizarre fundraising appeal, James O'Keefe's co-conspirator Hannah Giles claims ACORN is trying to 'destroy' her -- and invites you to donate $35 to $5,000 to her legal fund.

Sideways News

• Acupuncture 'improves mood, kills pain'
  Acupuncture could be used as an effective treatment for alleviating depression and reducing pain, according to two new studies. In a paper published in the journal Brain Research , scientists say acupuncture works by making the brain, rather than the body, stop experiencing pain.
• Earlier springs could impact on wildlife
  The recent trend for spring and summer to start earlier may be welcomed by anyone sick of the snow and rain, however these changes to seasonal timings could have serious implications for the UK's wildlife.
• University graduates prefer cats to dogs
  People with degrees are more likely to choose a cat over a dog, but the number of both species kept as pets has risen by eight million in the past two decades, according to a study. Researchers at the University of Bristol suggested highly educated people may work longer hours, giving them less tim ...
• Car bodywork could double up as battery
  A car battery could one day be contained in the vehicle's roof, bonnet or even door. Researchers from Imperial College have created a prototype material which can not only store and discharge electrical energy, but which is also strong and lightweight enough to be used for car parts.
• PlantforLife shows benefits of gardening
  The Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) is aiming to highlight the positive impact gardening can have on people's lives with its PlantforLife campaign.

Fabius Maximus

• FM newswire for 10 February, articles for your mor ...
  Today’s links to interesting news and analysis.  If you find this useful, pass it to a friend or colleague.  A look at one of the flaws in our dysfunctional Congress:  “‘Holds’ in the Senate” Walter J. Oleszek, Congressional Research Service, 19 May 2008 “The ‘Devastating’ Decision“, Ronald D ...
• FM newswire for 9 February, articles for your morn ...
  Today’s links to interesting news and analysis.  If you find this useful, pass it to a friend or colleague.  The elephant was powerful, but preferred to be blind:  “National Insecurity“, Philip Giraldi, 29 January 2010 — About the CIA’s lost intelligence capabilities.  Note Giraldi’s bio. Ge ...
• Another nail put in the Constitution’s coffi ...
  Summary:  Americans expressed horror at the thought of “death panels.”  Now the government reveals that the President issues death warrants on American citizens – without even a hearing before a panel.  That’s just fine with us.  Each and every one of us.  Do you see any protests?  Marches, d ...
• Listen to the crowds cheering Sarah Palin, hear th ...
  This transcript of Palin’s speech might not be accurate, but it’s all that I see at this time, Full Sarah Palin Tea Party speech posted at BuzzStation.  While much of this consists of the usual politician’s platitudes, some is chilling. But worse is the acceptance of this by the Tea Party conve ...
• The periphery of Europe – a flashpoint to th ...
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WIRED Magazine | Science

• A Peek at Wired’s Ultra-Geeky Super Bowl Party
  SAN FRANCISCO – More than 100 million Americans watched Sunday’s Super Bowl, but here at Wired.com, a couple dozen of our readers can probably brag they had the strangest viewing experience. They were strapped up with sensors that measured their body’s physiological reactions to what was happeni ...
• Fastest Wings on Earth Show Extremes of Sexual Sel ...
  With feathers that resonate at precisely 1,500 hertz, the male club-winged manakin is perhaps the bird world’s most perfectly tuned example of sexual selection. By pinning down the frequency, researchers have completed a long investigation into the bird’s sonic physiology and showed just how far so ...
• Stunningly Preserved 165-Million-Year Old Spider F ...
  Scientists have unearthed an almost perfectly preserved spider fossil in China dating back to the middle Jurassic era, 165 million years ago. The fossilized spiders, Eoplectreurys gertschi, are older than the only two other specimens known by around 120 million years. The level of detail preserved ...
• Audio: DIY Recordings of Awakening Sun
  As the sun emerges from a long lull in activity, the star’s emissions in the radio band of the spectrum have also picked up. And from a shed on three acres of land outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, amateur radio astronomer Thomas Ashcroft is making recordings of them available for download. “The Sun ha ...
• 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 ...

The Progressive Realist

• Off-the-Radar News Roundup
  - A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman reacted favorably to NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen's call for the alliance to develop more -- and more far-reaching -- global partnerships. The spokesman said China had already conducted security exchanges with NATO and would continue to do so. - ...
• European Currency in Deep Trouble?
  In its short existence, the Euro has achieved its goal of establishing itself as a rival to the dollar.  But many analysts see trouble ahead, with some wondering if it can survive much longer. Writing for the FT, Peter Garnham, Victor Mallet and David Oakley report that "Traders and hedge funds h ...
• Whatever Happens in Marja, Afghan Civilians Will S ...
  If you go to Google News and search for "Marja," you'll find (literally) about 4,000 stories, most of which are rewrites of the same set of ISAF talking points: 20,000 NATO and Afghan troops are gearing up to attack the Taliban ; Marja is the Taliban's last refuge in southern Afghanistan; the battl ...
• What are the Prospects for the Comprehensive Test ...
  "The CTBT is in big, big trouble," said Stephen Rademaker at an East West Institute roundtable on the ever-stalled Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty last Friday. The remark represented a rare area of consensus on what is otherwise a highly divisive issue. The EWI discussion of the CTBT and its l ...
• An Update on the De-Ba'athification Crisis
  My post from last week on the Iraqi de-Ba’athification crisis (“An End to the De-Ba’athification Circus?) was titled with a question mark, meant to express a bit of hesitation in asserting that the pre-election vetting circus had truly come to an end. While there were at that time emerging indicatio ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Lightning Round: In Politics, The People are Alway ...
  Some early results from a forthcoming Washington Post -ABC News poll show that at some level, a majority of the public understands that efforts towards bipartisanship in Washington have largely been at the behest of Barack Obama and the Democrats, and that Republicans have done "too little" to rea ...
• Your 2010 Apocalypse, In a Handy Interactive Infog ...
  Wondering just how human society might collapse into chaos and cannibalism this year? Want to know what the chances are of, say, a cyclone, and how it might relate to an asset price collapse and food price volatility? The World Economic Forum, the masters of the universe who put together those glam ...
• Tackling Childhood Health Problems.
  President Obama created a task force today that will be part of First Lady Michelle Obama's effort to address childhood obesity: Members of the task force include: the Secretary of the Interior; the Secretary of Agriculture; Secretary of Health and Human Services; Secretary of Education; Director ...
• The Little Picture: Land Use.
  Three men pour over the county maps at the colored County Land Use Planning Committee Meeting in the school house in Yanceyville, Caswell County, N.C., 1940. (Flickr/ NYPL )
• The Lessons of Air America.
  Danny Goldberg , a music-industry veteran and prominent progressive donor who spent what he describes as "one unhappy year midway through Air America's life as its CEO" has an interesting piece on Alternet about the radio network's demise. While it's true that there was terrible mismanagement over ...

Andy Worthington

• Taking Guantánamo to Norway: “Human Rights, Human ...
  Over the weekend, Polly Nash and I, co-directors of the new Guantánamo documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” travelled to Oslo, where our film had been chosen as part of the Human Rights, Human Wrongs Film Festival. Organized by Oslo Dokumentarkino and the Human Rights House ...
• White House Repeats Pentagon Lies About Guantánamo ...
  What is to be done about the idiocy that has spread, like a poisonous but imperceptible gas, from the Pentagon to Congress, and is now wafting through the White House, deranging all it touches? As it travels, this dismal infection transforms statistical impossibilities into magic numbers, which appe ...
• Andy Worthington Discusses Bagram and Guantánamo w ...
  Last week, I was delighted to be invited by Jeff Farias to take part in his radio show, just a week after my previous visit. The show is available here (it starts just over two hours in), and Jeff wanted to talk in particular about my article on the recent appeal in the Military Commissions, [...]
• 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 — ...

Buzzflash

• Steve Doocy, Gretchen Carlson, and Republican Rero ...
  BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT by Jeffrey Joseph As President Obama prepared to watch the Super Bowl over the weekend, he presented a challenge to GOP leadership  to meet with him on the subject of healthcare reform . Hoping that he was just posturing, FOX's Gretchen Carlson and Steve Doocy responded by malig ...
• FOX's Gretchen Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Dick Mor ...
  BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT by Jeffrey Joseph Almost as if on cue, the conservative-dominated pundits of FOX News responded to Sarah Palin's  telepalmer gaffe  by doing the only thing a "balanced" network could do -- defending her inept actions with implausible rationales. The damage control began early on ...
• In Search For Solutions to SCOTUS Ruling, Congres ...
  BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Meg White Every once in a while, Congress acts swiftly. But sometimes legislation alone is just not enough to get the job done. It's hard to keep up with the flurry of bills proposed in the wake of the disastrous Citizens United decision by the Supreme Court last month whi ...
• When Did The Media Start Calling Khalid Sheikh Moh ...
  Standards here seem to be Slipping way low .Treat him like a terrorist --- Not K-Fed or J-Lo .  (A band just starting To play the fame game Can’t be thrilled to Have the same name .) read more
• What Will TN Mean For TEA? Will the Convention Ene ...
  BUZZFLASH DISCUSSION Honestly, here at BuzzFlash we're not sure what to think of the whole Tea Party convention going on this weekend . Is this the beginning of an effort to get teabaggers on the ballot to challenge the GOP? Or is the convention an effort to merge the rightward moving Republican Par ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• Rich Lowry's brain
  (updated below - Update II) Markos Moulitsas is writing a book, The American Taliban , which compares various aspects of the American Right to radical Islam ( e.g. , their obsessions with judging and controlling other people's sex lives , their religious fanaticism, their views of gender ...
• Wall Street owners angry with their purchase
  Political science professors could require students to read this article from today's New York Times and little else would be needed to convey the essence of the American political system.  The article describes how Wall Street -- which poured massive amounts of money into the Obama campaign and t ...
• 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 ...

The BiPartisan Report

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

Sciencebase

• Nerdy passwords, secure and memorable
  Coming up with a secure password that cannot be bruteforce or dictionary attacked but that is easy to remember is quite troubling. So, here’s the nerdiest approach yet. Think of a compound, any compound, but preferably one with which you are familiar. If you’re in science, then you could pick a com ...
• 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• Childhood Obesity Initiative Announced by First La ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 9, 2010 CSPI For far too long, the nation's response to childhood obesity has been underwhelming, considering obesity’s massive impact on the nation's physical and fiscal health. The First Lady has the clout and visibility to change that and mobilize the nation's resou ...
• Kucinich: Don’t Subsidize Childhood Obesity
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 9, 2010 Congressman Dennis Kucinich Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement after First Lady Michelle Obama announced a new effort to combat childhood obesity: read more
• Indian Court Gives Boost to Access to Medicines as ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 9, 2010 Doctors Without Borders/MSF In a welcome move for access to medicines, the Delhi High Court has rejected the appeal filed by the German pharmaceutical company Bayer Corporation against an earlier court order which had rejected the implementation of a drug regul ...
• If You Lost Your Home in the Earthquake You Have T ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 9, 2010 Center for Constitutional Rights The following (both in Kreyol and English) are for those Haitians and their families who have lost relatives, homes, property, health, or security during the recent earthquake and its aftermath.   read more
• India: Government Must Stop Bauxite Mine and Refin ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 9, 2010 Amnesty International Indian authorities have given local communities scant or misleading information about the potential impact of a proposed alumina refinery expansion and mining project to be operated by subsidiaries of UK-based company Vedanta Resources in ...

Common Dreams-Views

• When Snow Melts: Vancouver’s Olympic Crackdown
  by Dave Zirin News Flash: Winter Olympic officials in tropical Vancouver have been forced to import snow -- on the public dime -- to make sure that the 2010 games proceed as planned. This use of tax-dollars is just the icing on the cake for increasingly angry Vancouver residents. And unlike the snow ...
• What to Say to Those Who Think Single Payer Advoca ...
  by Paul Hochfeld What do we say to our more conservative friends, who genuinely think that the Single Payer solution to our health care crisis would be a disaster?  Try what follows. In the end, you may simply agree to disagree. That's O.K., but what follows may give them pause to think. read more
• Globalization Is Killing the Globe: Return to Loca ...
  by Thom Hartmann Globalization is killing Europe, just as it's already wiped out much of the American middle class. Spain and Greece are facing immediate crises that many other European nations see on the near horizon: aging boomer workers are retiring with healthy benefit packages, but ...
• The Sex Ed Bait and Switch
  by Amanda Marcotte Big news last week for the "sex is evil and should be avoided" crowd -- big media organizations all over the country trumpeted that abstinence-only education "works".   Naturally, I was skeptical that the sex-phobes had actually produced a curriculum that convinced young people to ...
• Political Prayer Breakfasts Are Bad Religion
  by James Carroll There are only three things wrong with the National Prayer Breakfast: the past, the present, and the future. Last week, President Obama presided at the annual Washington event before what the New York Times called “a bipartisan array’’ of national and international figures. “I assur ...

Karl Burkart

• There are '6 Americas' when it comes to global war ...
  Yale researcher finally pins down the 6 different US population segments and how they relate to issues of climate change.
• 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.'

Water Privatization

• John Feffer: Rugged Collectivism (The Huffington P ...
  It's 1961. William Stockton, a well-respected doctor, is having a birthday dinner with family and friends. They toast his service to the community and joke...
• Low water at Lake Lanao triggers load curtailment ...
  ILIGAN CITY — The continuous lowering of Lake Lanao’s water level triggers the Mindanao-wide load curtailment since February, said Elizabeth Ladaga of the National Grid Corporation of the Ph read more
• Faith & Freedom Award (Acton Commentary)
  The Faith and Freedom Award was established as part of the Acton Institute’s tenth anniversary celebration in 2000. The award recognizes an individual who exemplifies commitment to faith and freedom through outstanding leadership in civic, business, or religious life.
• Oil, gas, gold, copper, etc., in Haiti equals US o ...
  This discovery comes from an incredibly deep well of information in the writings of Ezili Danto (Marguerite Laurent), in her article, Part 2, Oil in Haiti as the economic reasons for the US/UN occupation, written in January.
• Exeter/Hampton/Rockingham community calendar (Exet ...
  n phillips exeter academy 2010 winter concert series: Tuesday, Feb. 9: Gilbert Concert Series, featuring Irina Muresanu, violin and Michael Lewin, piano, at 7 p.m. in Phillips Church, Exeter. Free and open to the public. Information: www.exeter.edu, 777-3453.

Guardian

• Senior Tory clears tax mystery … or does he?
  A senior source said Sir George Young had 'mis-spoken' when he told the BBC that Ashcroft was a 'non-dom' The Conservatives' long-standing defence of their deputy chairman and ­multimillionaire donor Lord Ashcroft was in chaos tonight as the party ­struggled to explain fresh revelations about his t ...
• BBC chief spent £639 on a taxi
  Silicon Valley and Las Vegas provide backdrop for limousine journeys by BBC whizz behind the iPlayer As the BBC's director of future media and technology, Eric Huggers is accustomed to wrestling with the most tricky questions relating to the corporation's role in a rapidly changing digital age. But ...
• Curtis and Nighy team up in new film urging 'Robin ...
  Campaign film says 0.05% 'Robin Hood' tax on financial trades could raise $700bn for world's poor It could be a plot from one of his feelgood movies. Against a snowy London backdrop, something perennially ignored and unloved finds the attention it craves against all odds. Only this time, director Ri ...
• Michelle Obama tackles child obesity
  • One in three American children overweight or obese • Schools and food industry enlisted in drive The Obama administration today embarked on a programme to eliminate childhood obesity, one of the biggest health problems in the US, "within a generation". Launching the initiative at the White House, ...
• Six soldiers in custody over Lanzarote brawl
  • Soldiers allegedly kicked and punched diners as families looked on • Police seek two soldiers as victims complain to Gordon Brown Six British soldiers were today being held in custody after allegedly assaulting diners in a restaurant on the holiday island of Lanzarote in an attack that has provoke ...

McClatchey

• Winter Olympics are full of dangerous sports
  Bob Celski was the first to jump out of the stands, and his wife, Sue, wasn't far behind.
• Manslaughter charges for man who let 11-year-old d ...
  FRESNO, Calif. — A 34-year-old man faces manslaughter charges in the death of three people who died in the crash of a car driven by an 11-year-old last month near Woodville.
• Alaska debates ethics rules raised during Palin's ...
  JUNEAU — A legislative committee on Monday took up ethics issues that erupted during the Palin administration, but it's not clear whether the panel intends to take any action.
• S.C. Republican candidate says anonymous posters d ...
  North Carolina Republican Tim D'Annunzio's "Machine Gun Social" announcement elicited plenty of attacks on the 8th District congressional candidate. So he fired back.
• Airlines, military experiment with cleaner fuels
  Commercial and military aircraft one day could be powered by biofuels, including an oil from a plant grown in Eastern Washington, as the airline industry and the Defense Department seek renewable and cleaner fuel sources.

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

• British death toll in Afghanistan surpasses ...
  London, Feb. 9 : The death toll in the British war campaign in Afghanistan has exceeded that it suffered in the Falklands War, following the death of three soldiers on Sunday in encounters with the Taliban.
• Taliban sends 'veiled' female bombers to ...
  Lahore, Feb.8 : Pakistani intelligence agencies have warned that the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has sent eight female suicide bombers to target strategically important establishments in the province.
• 'Brave' Soldiers Killed In Afghan Blast ...
  Corporal John Moore, 22, and Private Sean McDonald, 26, of the Royal Scots Borderers, 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, died in the blast in Sangin on Sunday.
• West sets stage for major Afghan offensive
  C anadian troops are among nearly 700 soldiers who have launched an attack near the southern Afghanistan town of Marja on Tuesday, setting the stage for one of the West's largest offensives in the cou...
• In Afghanistan, U.S. Military Strategy Emphasizes ...
  (AP) — c ()-2010, The Washington Post ZARI, Afghanistan-Four of the U.S. Army's hulking mine-resistant armored vehicles had just been bombed into submission. They stood immobilized off of High...

Futurismic

• Futurismic goes smartphone friendly
  Hey there, all you smartphone early-adopter alpha-geek types. I’ve just gone and installed a rather neat plugin on the site that should render it in a format better suited to touchscreen smartphone reading when viewed with a mobile browser, and it seems to be working fine on my Android phone just fi ...
• Iceland as free speech haven-state
  Still riffing on the shifting sands of geopolitics, here’s another interesting nugget: the people behind the controversial (and short-of-funds) Wikileaks site have been lobbying Iceland to introduce a suite of journalism shield laws and become a sort of free-speech sanctuary or safe harbour for cont ...
• Neomedievalism
  While I’m on the subject of Bruce Sterling, here’s a brief piece he flagged up at Foreign Policy – a bleak prediction that the world is reverting to a kind of technology-mediated econo-political feudalism. Call it Neomedievalism: The state isn’t a universally representative phenomenon today, if it e ...
• Bruce Sterling on atemporality
  I’d be remiss in my fanboy duties if I didn’t repost this video of a keynote speech from Bruce Sterling at last week’s Transmediale Futurity Now! conference in Berlin. Appropriately enough for a conference in Berlin, a city where history lays heavily in layers of physical and psychological flotsam a ...
• Blue-sky bioengineering on the DARPA drawing-board
  If you’re looking for the sort of bat-shit Faustian gambles that form the back-bone of much military science fiction, following the news from the Pentagon’s science and tech division is like supergluing your lips to a firehose… and Wired’s DangerRoom blog is one of the better consumer-level sources ...

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

• OSHA will listen, but not on February 10
  The federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) has announced that it will conduct an "OSHA listens" meeting. The meeting was originally scheduled for Wednesday, February 10, 2010, but has now been postponed due to the weather here. To speak at the "OSHA listens" meeting, participan ...
• 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 ...

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

• Ian Brown wins the 2010 Charles Taylor Prize for N ...
  The 2010 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction was awarded to author Ian Brown at a gala luncheon in Toronto on February 8.
• Tyrell Duffus becomes Toronto's seventh murder vic ...
  On Monday evening, police discovered a man with multiple gun shots in a high rise apartment stairwell. The victim is Toronto's seventh murder victim of 2010.
• Ontario community in shock over arrest of Col. Rus ...
  Police across Canada say they will compare notes after a top Canadian military officer was accused of sex crimes and the murder of two women.
• Netanyahu: West needs to enforce 'crippling' sanct ...
  Citing what he believes to be an Iranian rush toward the production of nuclear weapons, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed the west to impose tough sanctions on Iran.
• McMaster to study CCSVI as cause of Multiple Scler ...
  The Italian Doctor who has been treating Multiple Sclerosis patients through angioplasty to widen veins in the neck was in Hamilton, Ontario Monday as McMaster University announced a joint study of Zamboni's theory and treatment.

End Homelessness | Change.org

• Awww Alert: Homeless Man Reunited with Cat
  It's enough to make even a dog-lover tear up. This morning the San Francisco Chronicle published a story about Daniel Harlan, a 58-year-old homeless man, and Samantha, his missing pug-nosed Himalayan cat. He says he bought her in Oklahoma for more than $2,000 four years ago, "back when I had money." ...
• Homelessness Cannot Happen to Just Anyone
  As homeless advocates, we have to be driven by facts. It is a fact that an estimated 3.5 million Americans experience homelessness every year. It is a fact that military veterans account for an estimated 26 percent of the homeless population while comprising only 11 percent of the general population ...
• "Poverty Olympics" Spotlight Cost of Vancouver Gam ...
  Yesterday athletes took to the picturesque surroundings of Vancouver. But wait, the Olympics start next weekend. It was the "Poverty Olympics," a protest led by people who feel that the city's leaders haven't delivered on promises that hosting the Games would benefit all residents, even the homeless ...
• Students Shouldn't Be Punished for Being Homeless
  Rosa Bracero should have graduated from high school this week. Instead, she was forced to make an impossible decision between fulfilling her educational aspirations and helping her homeless family gain admittance to a shelter for the night. Rosa was supposed to take the Regents exam at her Brooklyn ...
• 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 ...

Ceasefire.ca

• Army “readjusts” reserve budget
  The Canadian Army has reallocated $5 million to pay for Reserve training that it cancelled earlier this year as a cost-cutting measure. In a press release last week (”Class A Reserves receive $5 million for training,” 3 February 2010), Army commander Lieutenant-General Andrew Leslie acknowledged tha ...
• 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 ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

• Sharry Edwards – Vocal Profiling Expert
  Click the picture or link below to hear Kevin’s interview with Sharry Edwards, the creator of Human BioAcoustic Vocal Profiling Techniques & Technologies. Click here for your free personality vocal reading and click here for your free nutritional reading or call them at (740) 698-9119. Remember to m ...
• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 2-9-10
  Today, Kevin explains how the mainstream media is out of touch with the real world and why Big Pharma believes it’s ‘not about a cure, it’s about repeat business.’  Sodas with High Fructose Corn Syrup Cause Cancer Not Sugar The New Definition of Child Abuse The Most Evil Corporation McDonalds Closin ...
• Chemicals Pass Through Breast Milk to Cause Cancer
  February 9, 2010 Natural News by: David Gutierrez Higher exposure to toxic chemicals may explain the difference in testicular cancer rates between Denmark and Finland, researchers from the University Department of Growth and Reproduction have found in a study on breast milk. “Our findings reinforce ...
• McDonalds Closing Hundreds of Outlets in Japan
  February 9, 2010 Daily Finance by Jonathan Berr McDonald’s Corporation is closing 430 restaurants in Japan, the latest sign of the faltering economy in the Asian country. A 50% owned affiliate will shutter the locations over the next 12 to 18 months in conjunction with the strategic review of the c ...
• Monsanto: The Evils of a Corporation
  February 9, 2010 Wallet Pop By Bob Cesca When we consider the rogue’s gallery of devilish, over-sized, greedy and disproportionately powerful corporations, we generally come up with outfits like Microsoft, Bechtel, AIG, Halliburton, Goldman-Sachs, Exxon-Mobil and the United States Senate. Yet someho ...

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

• Iran and the bomb — faster, please!
  Considering the fact that the New York Times is in its Middle East outlook a predictably liberal Zionist newspaper, it’s often refreshing to see what kind of surprises occasionally pop up on the op-ed page. I dare say quite a few of the paper’s readers had heart palpitations on Monday morning after ...
• Jews can report on Palestinians, but the other way ...
  Ali Abunimah reflects on the controversy surrounding Ethan Bronner, the New York Times‘ Jerusalem bureau chief whose son recently enrolled in the Israeli army: While Jews/Americans may report on Palestinians, the converse is not true. Why is this? It must be — I assume — because there is an inh ...
• U.S.: Easing Gaza siege would help counter Goldsto ...
  Think of Gaza as a hospital patient whose lips have been stitched closed. Israeli doctors point to an IV drip and say: “Look. We are taking great care to make sure the patient stays alive.” American consultants suggest that it would really be better to remove a couple of stitches so that a tube can ...
• Israel’s campaign against pro-Palestinian foreigne ...
  How long will it be before Israeli immigration officers start asking every visitor whether they support Zionism? Australia’s ABC News reports on the latest arrests in an expanding campaign against foreign activists: The lawyer for an Australian woman arrested in the West Bank says her detention is ...
• Globalization is killing the globe: return to loca ...
  Thom Hartmann on how globalization has resulted in a new form of feudalism: Globalization is killing Europe, just as it’s already wiped out much of the American middle class. Spain and Greece are facing immediate crises that many other European nations see on the near horizon: aging boomer workers ...

Watts Up With That?

• Climategate: Plausibility and the blogosphere in t ...
  I’m honored to offer this guest post by Jerome Ravetz, of Oxford University in the UK. Mr. Ravetz is an environmental consultant and professor of philosophy of science best known for his books challenging the assumptions of scientific objectivity, discussing the science wars and post-normal scie ...
• Hansen colleague rejected IPCC AR4 ES as having &# ...
  The ever sharp Bishop Hill blog writes: While perusing some of the review comments to the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report, I came across the contributions of Andrew Lacis, a colleague of James Hansen’s at GISS. Lacis’s is not a name I’ve come across before but some of what he has to say about Chapte ...
• Prediction: Arctic Ice Will Continue to Recover Th ...
  Steven Goddard writes below that he agrees with the prediction I made in late 2009 that we’d see another 500,000 km2 of Arctic sea ice recovery in 2010. The Arctic Oscillation seems to be negative again, and according to NSIDC, this figures greatly in making thicker ice thus lowering summer losses. ...
• The Green Police: window swat team edition
  Sunday we all got a chuckle (or a scare depending on your world view) from the Superbowl Green Police commercial. Some thought it was fine satire, others thought it hit a little too close to reality. After watching this report about Cathy Zoi in the Obama administration, perhaps the “too close to re ...
• What NOAA Isn’t Saying About Snow and Ice
  By Steven Goddard As reported on WUWT, NOAA is warning of “earlier snowmelt and extended ice-free seasons.”  But what NOAA isn’t saying is that snow is falling earlier and heavier in the Northern Hemisphere.  Rutgers University Global Snow Lab has reported that January was the sixth snowiest on re ...

Dandelion Salad

• It Is Now Official: The U.S. Is A Police State By ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By Paul Craig Roberts February 09, 2010 “Information Clearing House“ Americans have been losing the protection of law for years. In the 21st century the loss of legal protections accelerated with the Bush administration’s “war on terror,” which contin ...
• To Tea Or Not To Tea by Joel S. Hirschhorn
  by Joel S. Hirschhorn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.foavc.org February 9, 2010 As a long term, proud political dissident and rebel I have had some admiration for the national tea party movement.  I welcome all that shakes up and reforms our dysfunctional political system.  But in the e ...
• Dennis Kucinich: Medicare for All, the Idea Whose ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Congressman Dennis Kucinich Washington, Feb 8, 2010 Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today sent a letter to President Obama commending him for calling for new ideas and a renewed discussion about health care reform. Kucinich requested that supporters of ...
• 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 ...
• Dennis Kucinich and Glenn Greenwald: Assassinating ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Democracy Now! Feb. 9, 2010 Obama Administration: US Forces Can Assassinate Americans Believed to Be Involved in Terrorist Activity The Obama administration has acknowledged it’s continuing a Bush-era policy authorizing the killing of US citizens abroad. The c ...

Your New Reality

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  Criticism That Cuts Too Close To The Bone The Google News links to the original Jerusalem Post story are dead .... .....but it's still cached here for now. So why has the Jerusalem Post attempted to disappear this story? The Holocaust only gets media coverage because of affluent Jews' financial ...
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  UnFailable From a speech by Bill Duddley at the low-key world bankers gathering now underway in Sydney : It is critical that we ensure that no firm is too big to fail. This is about both fairness and having proper incentives in the financial system. Having some firms that are too big to fail create ...
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  Ever Wonder Why The United States Is Such A Violent Nation? If half or most of the 100 million Americans who watched Superbowl 2010 sat through the ads, they would have been exposed to the following acts of violence :

Wired - Science

• A Peek at Wired’s Ultra-Geeky Super Bowl Party
  SAN FRANCISCO – More than 100 million Americans watched Sunday’s Super Bowl, but here at Wired.com, a couple dozen of our readers can probably brag they had the strangest viewing experience. They were strapped up with sensors that measured their body’s physiological reactions to what was happeni ...
• Fastest Wings on Earth Show Extremes of Sexual Sel ...
  With feathers that resonate at precisely 1,500 hertz, the male club-winged manakin is perhaps the bird world’s most perfectly tuned example of sexual selection. By pinning down the frequency, researchers have completed a long investigation into the bird’s sonic physiology and showed just how far so ...
• Stunningly Preserved 165-Million-Year Old Spider F ...
  Scientists have unearthed an almost perfectly preserved spider fossil in China dating back to the middle Jurassic era, 165 million years ago. The fossilized spiders, Eoplectreurys gertschi, are older than the only two other specimens known by around 120 million years. The level of detail preserved ...
• Audio: DIY Recordings of Awakening Sun
  As the sun emerges from a long lull in activity, the star’s emissions in the radio band of the spectrum have also picked up. And from a shed on three acres of land outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, amateur radio astronomer Thomas Ashcroft is making recordings of them available for download. “The Sun ha ...
• 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Robert Jensen: NY Times – No Conflict of Interest, ...
  U.S. news coverage of the conflict relentlessly presents the news within this Israeli narrative, primarily because powerful forces in this country find that narrative useful for U.S. strategic... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
• Jonathan Cook: The height of Israeli intransigence
  Jerusalem’s mayor threatened last week to demolish 200 homes in Palestinian neighbourhoods of the city in an act even he conceded would probably bring long-simmering tensions over housing in East... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
• Arab students disrupt speech by Israeli envoy to U ...
  (Video) Michael Oren, Israeli ambassador to United States, gives speech at University of Californian, is interrupted by students shouting, 'How many Palestinians have you killed?', 'Israel is a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
• Stop the Wall offices hit in late night raid
  Late last night Occupation forces raided the Stop the Wall offices in Ramallah. Some 10 military jeeps, hummers and an armoured bus surrounded the building as soldiers searched rooms, turning the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
• Akiva Eldar: The illusion of ‘Syria first’
  Every year since March 2002, Syria and the Palestine Liberation Organization have reiterated their support for the Arab peace initiative. Hopefully they will do so again next month at the Arab League... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• India to buy more BrahMos missiles
  India has plans to introduce into its armed forces the new BrahMos missile, the head of the BrahMos Aerospace company, Sivathanu Pillai, told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.
• Russia rules out sending troops to Afghanistan - s ...
  Russia will not send troops to help NATO forces counter Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan, where it fought nine years ago during the Cold War, the country's top security official said on Tuesday.
• U.S. to beef-up Gulf air defense force to keep Ira ...
  Washington will deploy Patriot missiles in the Gulf region as a balancing force in the troubled region, the Guardian daily said on Monday.
• U.S. to beef-up Gulf air defense force to keep Ira ...
  Washington will deploy Patriot missiles in the Gulf region as a balancing force in the troubled region, the Guardian daily said on Monday.
• Pilot error likely to blame for Russian jet fighte ...

NewsWise

• Single Gene Mutation Induces Endometrial Cancer
  A mutation in a single gene can cause endometrial cancer that is responsive to a specific drug therapy, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found in an animal study.
• Patients With Advanced Dementia More Likely to Rec ...
  Despite being of questionable benefit for patients with advanced dementia, new research finds that hospitals with certain characteristics, such as those that are larger or for-profit, are more likely to have a higher rate of feeding tube placement, according to a study in the February 10 issue of JA ...
• Obese Teens Who Receive Gastric Banding Achieve Si ...
  A higher percentage of severely obese adolescents who received laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding lost more than 50 percent of excess weight and experienced greater benefits to health and quality of life compared to those in an intensive lifestyle management program, according to a study in the ...
• Depression and Lack of Concentration Do Not Necess ...
  A recent review has found that depression does not always lead to memory problems or difficulties concentrating.
• Drinking Milk During Pregnancy May Lower Baby's Ri ...
  Drinking milk during pregnancy may help reduce your baby's chances of developing multiple sclerosis (MS) as an adult, according to a preliminary study released today that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 62nd Annual Meeting in Toronto April 10 to April 17, 2010.

Intel Trends

• Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: On the So-called R ...
  The following opinion is reprinted with permission from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. On the So-called Re-integration Source:  Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan February 9, 2010  08:56  S.H. The recent American tactic to lure away members of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan under the nam ...
• IntelTrends 09-FEB-2010
  SRI LANKA: Fonseka's wife, Muslim leader claim he has been kidnapped ANI, 09 Feb Former Sri Lanka army chief Sarath Fonseka's wife, Anoma Fonseka, has charged the Mahinda Rajapaksa Government of kidnapping her husband, who was an opposition candidate in the recent election. The Russians Are Com ...
• No al-Qaeda command in east Yemen Marib, Yemeni of ...
  The following article is from Yemen News Agency (SABA). No al-Qaeda command in east Yemen Marib, Yemeni official ©   SABA February 8, 2010 MARIB, Feb. 08 (Saba)- A senior Yemeni official has denied the existence of an al-Qaeda command in the eastern Yemeni province of Marib, but he said that ...
• IntelTrends 08-FEB-2010
  Over 9,000 Blackwater officials present in Islamabad: Fazl-ur-Rehman Nation, Pak 08 Feb The Ameer Jamiat Ulama-e-Islam (JUI-F) Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman has said that 9,000 Blackwater operatives are in Islamabad. PHOTOS: Close-up pics of Iran's new Qaem and Toofan 5 missiles Mehr, 08 Feb [ IntelT ...
• 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 ...

Organic Consumers.org

• San Francisco's Toxic Sludge - It's Good for You!
  Fifteen years ago, CMD's book Toxic Sludge Is Good for You! first exposed the hidden government and industry PR campaign greenwashing toxic sewage sludge as "biosolids," an invented PR euphemism used to cynically re-brand toxic waste as "fertilizer" given free to farmers. Today, unfortunately, the b ...
• India to Rule on Future of Aubergine as Country's ...
  A fierce row over the future of the humble aubergine, staple ingredient of fiery brinjal curries for tens of millions of Indians, will reach a climax on Wednesday with a key government decision on the possible future commercial cultivation of genetically-modified strains of the plant. If permission ...
• Brazilian Farmers Declare War on Monsanto
  Growers in [the Brazilian State of] Mato Grosso have declared war against Monsanto, the multinational corporate owner of the GMO soya technology known as RR (Roundup Ready). After exhausting all attempts to engage the company in dialogue, the growers are now considering legal action. In Cuiaba, Apro ...
• Weed Killer Atrazine May be Linked to Birth Defect
  Living near farms that use the weed killer atrazine may up the risk of a rare birth defect, according to a study presented this past Friday at the annual meeting of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine in Chicago. Click here to read this article
• Globalization Is Killing The Globe: Return to Loca ...
  Globalization is killing Europe, just as it's already wiped out much of the American middle class. Spain and Greece are facing immediate crises that many other European nations see on the near horizon: aging boomer workers are retiring with healthy benefit packages, but the younger workers who are p ...

fotoFrontera

• Los colores de la India (40 fotografías)
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. La India, es un país mítico, exótico y dinámico . Para ejemplificar los adjetivos calificativos que he utilizado, comparto con ustedes una interesante galería que contiene 40 fotografías sobre los colores de la India . U ...
• Fotografías de las Tribus del Mundo
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. A través de PBase , he conocido y comparto con ustedes La maravillosa colección de Christa Neuenhofer llena de fotografías sobre las tribus del mundo . Un verdadero encuentro de colores, dialectos, razas, costumbres, ide ...
• La magia de los colores (21 imágenes)
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Hace algunos días, compartimos contigo nuestras colecciones número I , número II y número III de imágenes de amor para el día de San Valentín . Para darle cierto aspecto de alegría a este mes tan especial, tenemos para t ...
• Más de 500 imágenes macro impresionantes
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Me quito el sombrero blanco ante esta impresionante colección de más de 500 imágenes macro que Arachiusz ha conseguido coleccionar. La calidad de cada fotografía, expresa por sí misma la enorme pasión de este artista de ...
• Las imágenes más recientes de 1x.Com
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías.

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

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  Worst foreclosure story I’ve read in almost two days. See also Dave Johnson on how tax cuts for big businesses put small and medium-sized outfits out of business. Not to mention Goldman Fucking Sachs. - FUCK BEN NELSON. Seriously. In the ass. And not in a good way. (Becker’s nomination was defeated ...
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  Bob Herbert on why my open letter to bin Laden was not as outrageous as it may have first appeared to be: When it comes to employment, there are roughly three broad categories in the United States. The folks in the upper-income group are not suffering much, if at all, from the profound reversals [ ...
• Why does Wall Street hate America so much?
  No jobs bill today thanks to snow and Republicans. No link because that’s the whole story. Instead I would refer you to Pam Martens’ Wall Street’s Killer Instinct Spells Death Knell for Jobs and Isaiah J. Poole’s Wall Street Whores. That, and I wrote a letter: Dear Mr. bin Laden: Here is a map of Ne ...
• Skipping the pretense: Wall $treet $$ for GOoPers ...
  This morning’s New York Times: Just two years after Mr. Obama helped his party pull in record Wall Street contributions — $89 million from the securities and investment business, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics — some of his biggest supporters, like Mr. Dimon, have ...
• 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 ...

The Seferm Post

• WARNING! You May Gain Weight Eating At Night
  When you eat, not just what you eat, can affect your weight, a new study on mice suggests. Our circadian clock governs when we should eat, sleep and be active, in concert with daylight and darkness.
• WARNING! Sugary Sodas Gives You Pancreas Cancer: S ...
  "We suspect sugar is the culprit," Pereira said
• Google Counterpunch Facebook, Twitter With Gmail ' ...
  Search giant Google is upgrading its Gmail program to add social-media tools similar to those found on Facebook. Google will incorporate photo and video sharing within the Gmail application, along with a new tool for status updates. Google will hold a press conference at its Mountain View, Calif., h ...
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  FINALLY! Here Are 5 Ways Open Source Symbian Is Good For Smartphone Platform With all of the hype and attention devoted to the iPhone, it's easy to forget that Symbian is actually the leading smartphone operating system in the world. Simple Tips To Make Money Online: Tried And Tested With dai ...
• Get Rid of Children Obesity With 3 Simple Steps
  4year-olds that followed these practices had a nearly 40 percent lower obesity than children who did none of these things.

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

• Somalia's Piracy Produce Abundance for Kenya's Fis ...
• Evo Morales Peoples Climate Summit: Restoring the ...
  By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ Photo: Bolivian President Evo Morales at Copenhagen Climate Summit/Photo by Earl Tulley, Navajo from Blue Gap, Ariz. COCHABAMBA, Bolivia -- Bolivian President Evo Morales, announcing the objectives of the upcoming Peoples Climate ...
• 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 ...
  
  
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  Wind, solar groups push US renewable energy standard

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  Renewable Funding buys ProjectDX

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  Oakland-based Renewable Funding finances renewable energy projects for cities and counties that offer property-assessed clean energy, or PACE, programs. ...

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  NV Energy Signs Power Contract with Pattern Energy for First Utility-Scale ...

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  "We're pleased to add more clean renewable energy for our customers, and this project is a good example of developing renewable energy resources in remote ...

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  Siemens Touts Growth in Renewables and the Value of the American Market

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  According to Siemens, over the next 20 years, the percentage of global power generation arising from renewable sources will grow from less than 5 percent ...

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  Work starts in March on 'green' makeover of former Sentinel building

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  By JONDI GUMZ - Santa Cruz Sentinel SANTA CRUZ - Work is scheduled to begin in mid-March on a "green" makeover of the former Sentinel building for Ecology ...

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  WS Packaging Group Enters into Commercialization Agreement with Ecology Coatings

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  Under the terms of the agreement, WS Packaging will purchase Ecology's EcoQuik™ coatings for labels and packaging products manufactured by the company. ...

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  Pollution fix-it plan proposed for Georgetown site

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  Washington's Department of Ecology is seeking public comments on the proposal through March 26. Burlington Environmental LLC, a subsidiary of PSC ...

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  Scientists say evolution shapes ecology

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  9 (UPI) -- US scientists say an experiment with two populations of guppies shows evolution's influence on ecology can be as great as the converse. ...

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  Whistler men's Alpine course injected with water

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  WHISTLER, British Columbia — Skiing's governing body has injected the men's Alpine course at Whistler with water to harden the surface as the Winter Games ...

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  Feds reduce Calif. water pumping to protect fish

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  The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, where the state's major rivers drain from the northern and central Sierra Nevada, is the hub of California's water supply. ...

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  Child water boarded

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  An American soldier allegedly subjected his four-year-old daughter to waterboard-style torture - pushing her under the water three or four times - when she ...

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  Evidence suggests ingredients for life are present on Saturn's moon
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  This indicates the presence of liquid water. Cassini's plasma spectometer, which was used to capture and analyze samples of the plume jets, also detected ...
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