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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • RIGHTS-EUROPE: Military Technology to Track Down ...
    BRUSSELS, Feb 25 (IPS) - Arms manufacturers have been asked to advise an official European Union (EU) body on how their products can be used to stop asylum seekers entering the bloc’s territory.
  • PAKISTAN: Smoke-free Stoves A Godsend for Village ...
    THATTA, Pakistan, Feb 25 (IPS) - Forty-something and unlettered, Sona Siddiqi never imagined she would become the most sought-after woman in her village of Ramzan Katiar.
  • ENVIRONMENT-CHINA: Dam Plans Open Gates to Tough ...
    NU RIVER VALLEY, China, Feb 25 (IPS) - The Nu River flows from the Tibetan highlands through China’s western Yunnan province, cutting between two mountain ranges before rushing through Burma into the Andaman Sea. It is home to a third of the country’s ethnic groups and a diverse ecosystem of ...
  • RIGHTS-BURMA: For Sex Workers, A Life of Risks
    RANGOON, Feb 25 (IPS) - When Aye Aye (not her real name) leaves her youngest son at home each night, she tells him that she has to work selling snacks. But what Aye actually sells is sex so that her 12-year-old son, a Grade 7 student, can finish his education.
  • RIGHTS-CUBA: Dissidents Bid Final Farewell to Hun ...
    HAVANA, Feb 24 (IPS) - Several dozen anti-government opponents gathered Wednesday at the headquarters of the Ladies in White, a Cuban dissident group, in the capital, to hold a "symbolic wake" for Orlando Zapata, a political prisoner who died on the 85th day of a hunger strike.

Scoop - NZ

  • CRE collapse bigger than subprime ..
    Most people that follow real estate even at a cursory level have heard of the problems in commercial real estate. The enormous $3.5 trillion market in commercial real estate (CRE) has deep and profound problems. At the peak CRE was estimated to be valued at $6.5 trillion. Today the value is close ...
  • The Dark Underbelly of Occupation: Iraq
    "Look around," the drill sergeant said. "In a few years, or even a few months, several of you will be dead. Some of you will be severely wounded or so badly mutilated that your own mother can't stand the sight of you. And for the real unlucky ones, you will come home so emotionally disfigured that y ...
  • A Mossad Operation Gone Awry ?
    It could have been Dubai's unofficial entry in the Berlin International Film Festival: A 27-minute reality thriller, edited from footage shot with two dozen surveillance cameras, with constantly shifting settings, close-ups and freeze frames, with subtitles artfully entering the frame from the edge ...
  • Fares are up But Still Cheaper Than Chips
    ticket prices for Auckland's bus, train and some ferry services are at least 10 cents more a journey. However one Auckland business association says the nominal price rises reinforce just how cost effective public transport remains. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • The well-oiled wheels of climate scepticism
    The climate sceptics' current resurgence is part of a (if you're excuse the pun), well-oiled, finely timed and carefully executed campaign. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews

Independent ( London )

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • What Richard Cohen got wrong about my Iran views
    Summary: Brzezinski What I have said repeatedly is that an Israeli attack on Iran through U.S.-controlled airspace would make the United States complicit, and the United States would then become the target of Iranian retaliation. That is why the United States should make it clear that its airspa ...
  • Russia not working on Iran sanctions
    Summary: Iran Russia Russia: "We are not going to work on sanctions, on measures which should lead to political, economic or financial isolation of that country." source: Press TV read more
  • We Want a Nuclear-Free Middle East
    Summary: Mehmanparast As an IAEA member, Iran has certain rights. One of them is that its peaceful nuclear demands should be met. So the IAEA has to supply the nuclear fuel for Tehran’s reactor. This is our right. Countries which do not possess the nuclear fuel cycle know-how should expect IAEA’ ...
  • Iran criticizes IAEA for neglect of duties
    Summary: Ali Larijani Iran's Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has criticized the UN nuclear watchdog for failing to carry out its responsibilities to transfer know-how and technology to its member states. source: Press TV read more
  • Iran Reports Jundallah Leader in Custody
    Summary: Rigi The Iranian government is reporting today that Abdulmalek Rigi, the founder and leader of the Jundallah militant group, was turned over to their custody today following his arrest. Rigi was reportedly arrest on a flight from Dubai to Kyrgyzstan. source: AntiWar.com read more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Viewing the Universe Through "Alien Eyes"
    "Our human window on the Universe is terribly small within a stunningly small range of wavelengths. With our eyes we see wavelengths between 0.00004 and 0.00008 of a centimeter (where, not so oddly, the Sun and stars emit most of their energy). The human visual spectrum from violet to ...
  • Dwarf Galaxy Remnants Invading Milky Way
    The Milky Way has an estimated 160 globular clusters of which one quarter are thought to be ‘alien’ invaders from other galaxies, new research from Swinburne University of Technology (Australia) shows. Swinburne astronomer Professor Duncan Forbes has shown that many of our galaxy’s globular star cl ...
  • Mystery Nebula with the Hottest, Most Massive Star ...
      Quite a few of the most beautiful objects in the Universe are still shrouded in mystery. Even though most of the nebulae of gas and dust in our vicinity are now rather well understood, there are some which continue to puzzle astronomers.  This is the case of a small number of unusual nebulae that ...
  • Saturn's Moon Enceladus: Do Huge Reservoirs of Wat ...
      This image by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the extraordinary tectonic deformation in the fractured south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus, where jets of water ice spray outward to form Saturn's E ring. Dramatic plumes, both large and small, spray water ice out from many locations along ...
  • Image of the Day: The "Milky Way" Tree
     

Natural News

  • Heal Yourself in 15 Days by Cleaning Up Your Skin ...
    (NaturalNews) Continuing with our 15-day self healing series, today we focus on cleaning up your skin exposures . By "skin exposures," I mean all the things your skin comes into contact with... and the sheer quantity of those things will probably surprise you. But first, let's get something out of ...
  • New research: no good scientific evidence flu shot ...
    (NaturalNews) According to none other than the esteemed health experts of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) web site, "... people 65 and older should get their regular, or 'seasonal', flu vaccine as soon as possible...People age 65 and older are at increased risk for complications from seasonal ...
  • Note Congressional Aspartame Testimony (Opinion)
    (NaturalNews) Despite all the information concerning the adverse effects of aspartame and the endless trail of money and corruption by Searle Pharmaceutical and Donald Rumsfeld, this synthetic, artificial sweetener is still touted as the panacea to sugar. To send a loud and clear message to those wh ...
  • Choking on Hot Dogs? It's not the shape, it's the ...
    (NaturalNews) The American Academy of Pediatrics is making headlines this week with a bizarre recommendation that hot dogs should be re-shaped to make them less of a choking hazard for children. But there's no mention of all the cancer-causing chemical ingredients that actually go into the hot dogs. ...
  • Product review: Rejuvenate Berries and Herbs super ...
    (NaturalNews) It's rare that I discover a new superfood product that truly impresses me. SunWarrior (www.SunWarrior.com) has a new green superfood product that I still plan to review shortly, and I'm always a fan of LivingFuel (www.LivingFuel.com), Boku Superfood (www.BokuSuperfood.com), Delicious G ...

    The Galloping Beaver

  • Maxime Bernier for PM? You betcha!
    C'mon, he's decorative, he's dumb , and besides, since he came out today as a climate change 'skeptic' , the Blogging Tories have been falling all over themselves to get their teabagging credentials in order : "Maxime really is great!!! Keep up the good work Maxime. One day you will be HM PM. "You ...
  • She's thought about it alright...
    The slightly Not Work Safe US Representative Nancy Elliot (R-New Hampshire) does a little fantasizing , thinkering: Aside from the obvious and ubiquitous, yet unacknowledged, conservative ideal that because they don't like something nobody else should either (and if they do, they should be preven ...
  • A different kind of burning stick
    You might be forgiven for thinking you'd fallen through a wormhole into Mississippi circa 1961 reading this . We Canadians sometimes get a bit smug watching the racial problems in the U.S. and forget that we have ignorant, knuckle-dragging, racist�shitbirds of our own. If you want to hear seven minu ...
  • Seabus bomb scare
    RCMP detonated a fishing rod in a tube mistakenly left behind at the Seabus Terminal in North Vancouver yesterday, so that's one less Olympic terrorist incident to worry about. The suspicious package was discovered at 2:30pm and detonated at 5pm after city blocks were evacuated and buses, all CNR t ...
  • Don't let the bastard sleep: CAPP Flash Rally at B ...
    (h/t Woman at Mile 0 )

Media Matters for America

  • An O'Reilly Factor hat trick: Rove, Morri ...
    On the night before the bipartisan health care summit, Bill O'Reilly hosted Fox News contributors Karl Rove, Dick Morris, and Doug Schoen, all of whom repeated various falsehoods about health care reform. Rove distorts CBO report to claim "everybody's health care premiums are going to be higher tha ...
  • Hannity conflates reconciliation, "nuclear option ...
    Sean Hannity aired clips of Democratic leaders he falsely claimed were criticizing GOP use of the reconciliation process, and accused them of "hypocrisy" for currently supporting the use of reconciliation to pass healthcare reform. In fact, those Democrats were criticizing a 2005 Republican ...
  • Baier claims reconciliation "was once called the ...
    On Fox News' Special Report , Bret Baier said that the Senate process of reconciliation "was once called the nuclear option," then aired clips of what he claimed were Democrats discussing the "nuclear option" "when Republicans were using it." In fact, the Democrats shown in the clips were disc ...
  • Quick Fact: Special Report baselessly suggests Oba ...
    Special Report advanced Rep. Bart Stupak false suggestion that health care reform bill legislation favored by President Obama would go beyond the Hyde amendment's restrictions by providing "public funding for abortion." Shannon Bream furthered Stupak's claim by stating that lawmakers "have fought t ...
  • Both sides of their mouth: A guide to the conserva ...
    In attacking President Obama's recent health care reform guidelines, right-wing media have leveled numerous criticisms that are at odds with their earlier attacks against Democratic health care reform legislation. This follows repeated efforts by conservative media figures to shift their criticism ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Free Trade Trap
    I've been arguing for the last four months that we have entered a New Normal era in which the combination of a naive embrace of free trade, aggressive use of automation and a substandard education and retraining system, has left the United States in a position where it can no longer create enough jo ...
  • Conservatives Strive to Repel Jewish Support, Agai ...
    You've perhaps heard by now that Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul won this weekend's presidential straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) gathering in Washington, D.C.You may also have heard that Paul surprised the pundits with his strong victory, especially given the competi ...
  • Rep. Eliot Engel Salutes Israel For Shunning His C ...
    Last week, the Israeli government took the unprecedented step of refusing to meet with a group of five Democratic House members who were visiting Israel with J Street, the pro-Israel, pro-peace group. It was an incredibly stupid move. Israeli officials never refuse to meet with American legisla ...
  • Try again!
    The trade press reports that the President is trying again to pass an energy bill with a long term price on carbon emissions. Good! Its critical to realize how easy this transition from carbon to clean can really be. With low cost and long term financing we can provide up to 5 percent replacement of ...
  • Is "The Beck" The Work of A Liberal Dark Genius?
    In a typically smart piece yesterday at the Cafe, Steve Clemons salutes Rahm Emanuel for inventing the tea-partiers. Steve doesn't know if Rahm is responsible for creation of this monstrous splinter that will divide the GOP or even devour it so that Democrats maintain control of the country for ...

TruthOut

  • Documents Reveal Anthem Blue Cross's California Ra ...
    Internal documents obtained by a powerful Democratic lawmaker show one of the country's largest for-profit health insurers spent tens of millions of dollars on retreats, doled out seven-figure salaries to more than three dozen corporate executives, dropped its sickest customers and planned to increa ...
  • Weiner Offends The GOP: You're All "Owned" by the ...
    Today, the House of Representatives debated the Health Insurance Industry Fair Competition Act, legislation that would repeal the 65 year exemption health insurance companies have from anti-trust regulations. Speaking on the House floor this afternoon, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) lambasted Republica ...
  • Robert Reich | Bust Up the Health Insurance Trusts
    Years ago I worked at an agency in Washington called the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC predates the New Deal. It was set up in 1914 during the administration of Woodrow Wilson, at a time when many of America's industries had combined into giant trusts that had enormous market and political power ...
  • Haiti: Collapsed House, No Number
    "Collapsed house, no number" is an old expression that Haitians use to indicate that their flimsy homes of sticks and mud or shoddy concrete blocks have finally fallen apart. Today that expression could serve as the motto for the capital city of Port-au-Prince. read more
  • Cell Phone Tracking: The New Constitutional Crisis
    If you own a cell phone, you should care about the outcome of a court case that "could well decide whether the government can use your cell phone to track you - even if it hasn't shown probable cause to believe it will turn up evidence of a crime." Also See: A Snitch in Your Pocket read more

Planetsave

  • 7 Myths about Climate Change Science [& FUN VIDEOS ...
    The science of climate change is not really the question at hand anymore. Of course, there is always more to learn, but that highly accelerated climate change is real and that humans are the main cause of that are no longer questionable facts to the large majority of the scientific community. What ...
  • DE bottle refund law: Mend it, don’t end it, say ...
    A volunteer poses with the bottles and cans collected at a Massachusetts watershed cleanup. A month after the governor of Delaware proposed dumping the state’s beverage container refund law in favor of a new tax for community recycling, in-state and national environmental groups have come out a ...
  • Mann is Off the Hook, So Let’s Look at the Real Cr ...
    Michael Mann, the somewhat infamous climate scientist from Penn State, shouldn’t be so infamous after all, we find out yet another time! “An academic inquiry into the so-called ‘climategate’ email scandal has concluded that a well-known U.S. scientist [Mann] did not directly or indirectly falsify ...
  • Is A Pill Take-Back Law in Our Future?
    As the product stewardship movement gains steam, attention is turning to the issue of unsafe disposal of residue or unwanted consumer pharmaceuticals.  The widespread detection of pharmaceutical residues in public waters and fish has raised biologists’ concerns.  In Minnesota, the popularity o ...
  • Ocean Conservancy Holds US Responsible for Coastal ...
    This week we’re on the topic of saving endangered sea life , and now is the best time to take action with the Ocean Conservancy ! The Obama Administration has a newly formed Ocean Policy Task Force that’s accelerating a planning process for our glorious ocean and coasts. Since it’s up to us to ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Public Citizen in Texas

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Don't Deny Peaceful Protests in West Bank
    Former Grassroots International Board member and current Board member of the U.S. Campaign to�End the Israeli Occupation ,�Bill Fletcher Jr. recently blogged on CNN.com about the "frequent tendency to misrepresent the lessons of�[the�U.S. black freedom]�movement and apply them to other social moveme ...
  • Water for All, Not for Profit
    brazil200907-395.jpg Last month I went to Wingspread in Racine, Wisconsin for a meeting of water funders (mainly foundations funding freshwater conservation) where I’d been asked to be on a panel addressing issues of Equity, Rights and the Com ...
  • Rebuilding Haiti, with A Rwandan Twist
    leave.jpg Today marks the first of many anniversaries in this new phase of Haiti’s history.�It has been a month. The earthquake—known simply as “the incident” to Haitians—changed everything, instantly dividing their experience into a before an ...
  • Fault Lines—Haiti: The Politics of Rebuilding
    In what’s left of Port-au-Prince, Haitians have self-organized into 450 camps administered by neighborhood committees. These newly formed communities not only provide temporary shelter, but are also launching points for local organizers to promote Haitian voices in their society’s new structure. rea ...
  • Aldo Gonzalez of UNOSJO interviewed in San Francis ...
    2010_01_27_0034.jpg Grassroots International partner Aldo Gonzalez from the Union of Organizations of the Sierra Juarez of Oaxaca (UNOSJO) joined us in the San Francisco Bay Area at the end of January for a week of meetings, conferences an ...

Climate

  • February 25, 2010
    Vermont Senate Votes to Close Nuke Plant in 2012 (AP)  The Vermont Senate has voted to block the state's only nuclear plant from operating after its license expires in 2012. The move is at least a temporary setback for nuclear power a week after Pres. Obama announced loan guarantees for two r ...
  • February 24, 2010
    UN Chief: Reject Skeptics' Attempts to Derail Global Climate Deal (Guardian) UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon today urged environment ministers to reject attempts by skeptics to undermine efforts to forge a climate change deal, stressing that global warming poses "a clear and present danger. ...
  • February 23, 2010
    Solar Project in Mojave Desert Gets $1.4 Billion Boost from Stimulus (Washington Post) The Energy Department announced a "conditional" $1.4 billion loan guarantee to BrightSource Energy to build a solar thermal power complex in the Mojave Desert that would ultimately produce as much as 392 M ...
  • February 23, 2010
    Solar Project in Mojave Desert Gets $1.4 Billion Boost from Stimulus (Washington Post) The Energy Department announced a "conditional" $1.4 billion loan guarantee to BrightSource Energy to build a solar thermal power complex in the Mojave Desert that would ultimately produce as much as 392 MW of ...
  • February 22, 2010
    Study: Warming to Bring Stronger Hurricanes (AP) Top researchers now agree that the world is likely to get stronger but fewer hurricanes in the future because of global warming, according to a new consensus paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience . Senate Weighs Final Push to Move Cli ...

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

  • Once more for the record: An update on The Annotat ...
    Obviously Barack Obama has wiped his ass on his campaign promises. That's yesterday's news. Americans demand jazzy new and ever more shocking "news" daily, or else they fall asleep before their TV sets face down in their sausage pizzas from Brooklyn to Beaumont (or their fat free vegan lentil soup, ...
  • The Paranoid States Of America: 12-Year-Old Girl A ...
    ...A Week After 25 High Schoolers Arrested For Food Fight File this under “Seriously Fucked Up”: While most of America has been hiding under the covers afraid they might have to confront the ghost of Joe Stack, shooing him away by pretending he was something else–”He was a Tea Bagger!”/”He was a lib ...
  • Feeling the Hate at CPAC 2010 With Andrew Breitbar ...
    While I was filming at CPAC for a forthcoming project, I was confronted by Hannah Giles, Andrew Breitbart and a mob of crazed teabaggers. They were enraged by an article I wrote for Salon.com about James O'Keefe's attendance of and assistance with a white nationalist event featuring open racialists ...
  • Will Breitbart, O'Keefe, and Giles come clean abo ...
    Last September 12, when the story of undercover ACORN surveillance videos was just breaking, conservative activist Hannah Giles, who starred in the clips as a wannabe prostitute, appeared on Fox News. Host Greg Gutfeld was positively giddy during his Giles interview , as he mocked the ACORN employee ...
  • The Implicit Bribe of Government Officials
    Government regulators are like the referees in any sports game. They are supposed to make sure there is fair competition and everyone plays by the rules. Without refs you can't really have a fair game, you would pretty much have anarchy. So, for example, if Toyota is making cars that speed out of co ...

Ten Percent

  • Yarl’s Wood Hunger Strikers Health At Risk, UK is ...
    This is from a report in the Guardian on Sunday, so this is a good three days old- Doctors warned that around 20 detainees, who say they have not eaten for 17 days, are entering a critical phase of their protest and risk doing long-term damage to their health. The strike goes on and now John McDonne ...
  • Video About Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill
    By Waking Up Now via Black Looks. A superb dissection of the bill that reveals it is basically a potential blueprint for a genocidal sanction on all LGBT people and their friends and families by fundamentalist Christians. Here is the bill as shown in the video that is now before the Ugandan Parliam ...
  • Irene Khan on Gita Sahgal
    An important post @ Earwicga, Irene Khan was on Woman’s Hour and inevitably was asked about Gita Sahgal and Amnesty, despite Sahgal saying she has been brining up these issues internally at Amnesty repeatedly (although she changes these details from interview to interview) Khan says- I hired Gita an ...
  • The Loan Sharks of War
    I guess this is inflation, the Friedman unit is played out, it’s time for the McChrystal unit, c’mon just another 12-18 months- The general overseeing the US military campaign in Afghanistan has warned that the offensive against the Taliban in southern Helmand province’s Marjah town is just the star ...
  • David Cameron Knowingly Employs A Cowardly Bully- ...
    Gordon Brown does appear to be a bully (and a wildly in denial neoliberal chump), but as Adam Bienkov has shown the National Bullying Helpline is a dodgy outfit and here in a repost from three months ago, Cameron knowingly employs a bully, Andy Coulson, as his head of communications/spin doctor. Whe ...

Booman Tribune

  • Froggy Bottom Cafe
  • Pre-Game Health Summit Hype
    Going into the health care summit, polling shows that the nation is very divided on most questions related to reform. But they hate the bills the Democrats have created. One thing that is interesting (PDF) is that 38% of respondents oppose preventing health insurance companies from dropping co ...
  • Shrill
  • Bearing Grudges
    President Barack Obama doesn't begrudge Wall Street's banksters their bonuses. The president, speaking in an interview, said in response to a question that while $17 million is "an extraordinary amount of money" for Main Street, "there are some baseball players who are making more than that and ...
  • A World With No Senate
    Anyone want to take a stab at listing what Obama would have accomplished if the House of Representatives were our only legislative chamber? Like, not only what the House has passed over the last year, but what they would have passed if they didn't have to make some effort to work with the Senate. ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Foursquare, Chatroulette and the social panopticon
    I think what surprised me most about the Please Rob Me flap was how little flapping there was, and that most of what there was came from the sort of people I usually expect to see beyond the obvious tabloid angles to the truth of a technology story. Perhaps technopanics just aren’t getting the click ...
  • Neurocapitalism
    Move over, neurocinematics Рneurocapitalism reaches far beyond the theatre and focus group in its all-pervasive influence! Well, not quite, but Martin B̦rjesson responds to an article that uses the term as its title in order to make a point about the increasing ubiquity of neuroscience and the eff ...
  • Kenya dials up banking by text
    Many places across the planet lack basic commercial infrastructure. Kenya is serving as a case study of how banking by mobile phone seems to fill (or leapfrog?) the gaps. Since a phone-text bank service called M-PESA was introduced in 2007, almost 40% of Kenyan households have one user, while only 2 ...
  • Should we clone Neanderthals?
    It’s another hat-tip to Chairman Bruce for flagging up this thoughtful article on whether or not we should clone Neanderthals from their mapped DNA, though I’ve seen others link it since (slow on the uptake, that’s me). But note the thrust of the question: it’s not can we clone them, but should we? ...
  • DIY nuclear round-up
    Given the horrific costs of energy at the moment, you might be thinking about ways to cut your household bills. Maybe you could build your own nuclear reactor? [image by brndnprkns] It’s not as crazy as it sounds. In fact, it’s so simple that a boy scout could do it, and sourcing your fuel materials ...

Therapy News

  • Poland Holds “Day of Combating Depression”
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline In the Eastern European nation of Poland, as in most countries throughout the world, depression affects a significant number of citizens, and ranks high in the list of national health concerns. To help spread awareness about depression, the country has organized an an ...
  • UK Bullying Helpline Under Fire for Breach of Conf ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline One of the most important elements of caring treatment and psychological services for many clients is the guarantee of confidentiality that they can expect from professionals. This importance of confidentiality and the trust that underlies it have come under heavy scr ...
  • Five Tips to Help Manage Depression
    By Jeffrey Raich, LICSW, MSW Click here to contact Jeffrey and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile Do you have difficulty getting out of bed? Have you lost your appetite or perhaps you’re eating more than usual? Have others noticed that you’re somehow different, somehow not as up or happy as you usua ...
  • Making Peace With Our Elderly Parents
    By Paul Cohen, LCSW, Aging & Geriatric Issues Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Paul and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile In my experience with psychotherapy with the elderly client in family settings, I’ve found that the ability to facilitate a sustaining positive outcome after long- ...
  • Three Simple Reasons Why Solution-Focused Therapy ...
    By Lindsey Antin, M.A., MFT, Solution Focused Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Lindsey and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Solution-focused therapy is a new type of therapy to many people, including psychology professionals. It is considered a form of brief therapy, much li ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Dear Companion brings relaxed twangy protest. - El ...
    Dear Companion brings relaxed twangy protest. El Paisano The self titled album released by Sub Pop records focuses on the group's admiration of their home state and the issue of mountain top removal caused by coal ...
  • Mountain Justice Spring Break: REGISTER NOW - It's ...
    Mountain Justice Spring Break: REGISTER NOW It's Getting Hot In Here (blog) This March 12 – 20, Mountain Justice Spring Break will bring hundreds of young people face to face with the impacts of mountaintop removal and the coal ...
  • Audacious Environmental Hypocrisy: James Cameron – ...
    Big Hollywood (blog) Audacious Environmental Hypocrisy: James Cameron – Grow Up Big Hollywood (blog) I would hope everyone also accepts the point things like mountain top removal and leaching are a net negative." When did I say you can't stand up for ... and more��
  • Bees hurt by mountaintop removal coal mining - Bus ...
    Daily Yonder (blog) Bees hurt by mountaintop removal coal mining BusinessWeek In doing so, Horn called attention to a problem that has received little attention in the debate over so-called mountaintop removal mining: how it affects ... Mountaintop Removal Mining: Why There's No Such Thing as 'Clea ...
  • RENEWED ENERGY: Job-Creation Plan May Not Have Las ...
    RENEWED ENERGY: Job-Creation Plan May Not Have Lasting Effect Wall Street Journal A big knock on mountaintop removal mining, which involves blasting off mountaintops to get at the coal underneath, is also that the mechanization of the ...

Memeorandum

  • There's no plan B for health-care reform (Ezra Kle ...
    Ezra Klein : There's no plan B for health-care reform   —  The Wall Street Journal has a splashy piece this evening on the White House's plan B for health-care reform: a fallback approach that would cover 15 million people, do less to reform the system and cut costs, and carry a lower price tag.  ...
  • Banks Bet Greece Defaults on Debt They Helped Hide ...
    New York Times : Banks Bet Greece Defaults on Debt They Helped Hide   —  Bets by some of the same banks that helped Greece shroud its mounting debts may actually now be pushing the nation closer to the brink of financial ruin.  —  Echoing the kind of trades that nearly toppled the American Interna ...
  • Preparing in Great Detail for a Health Debate, and ...
    New York Times : Preparing in Great Detail for a Health Debate, and for Its TV Audience   —  WASHINGTON — In convening Thursday's bipartisan health session, President Obama is angling to recreate the kind of spontaneous, unscripted debate that gave him a decided advantage when he took questions on ...
  • Photo Emerges Of Murderous Killer Whale At Tea Par ...
    R. H. Potfry / The Nose On Your Face : Photo Emerges Of Murderous Killer Whale At Tea Party Rally   —  Some quick investigate reporting by the folks at Daily Kos and Democratic Underground has unearthed a photo of Tilikum, the killer whale who yesterday killed a trainer at Sea World, at a Tea Part ...
  • Can This Possibly Be True? New Obama Missile Defe ...
    Frank Gaffney / Big Government : Can This Possibly Be True?  New Obama Missile Defense Logo Includes A Crescent   —  The Obama administration's determined effort to reduce America's missile defense capabilities initially seemed to be just standard Leftist fare — of a piece with the Democratic base ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.0, Tonga region
    Thursday, February 25, 2010 11:26:36 UTC Thursday, February 25, 2010 11:26:36 PM at epicenter Depth : 107.00 km (66.49 mi)
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China Dialogue

  • America’s shale-gas bonanza (2)
    Proven reserves -- and jobs -- are growing, but gas has its critics and prices are unpredictable. As other nations seek to explore their own potential, the future is uncertain, writes Sheila McNulty. Hans-Martin Schulz, a German geologist, is co-founder of Gas Shales in Europe , a project funded by ...
  • America’s shale-gas bonanza (1)
    In the backwoods of Louisiana, energy companies are handing out money in their dash to tap a vast new source of gas. The discovery has global implications, Sheila McNulty reports. After their father died 15 years ago, Mike Smith’s six siblings wanted nothing to do with the tract of land the old man ...
  • The business of biodiversity
    As the International Year of Biodiversity gets under way, John Elkington and Jennifer Biringer foresee a central role for corporations in conservation. Welcome to the International Year of Biodiversity . Throughout 2010, countless initiatives will promote the protection of biodiversity and encourage ...
  • Clash to cash in Niger Delta?
    To dissuade its volatile – and poor -- oil region from rearming, Nigeria proposes handing over 10% stakes in its biggest energy industry to “host communities”. Tom Burgis and Martin Sandbu report. On Commander Ebi’s baseball cap, the logo reads: “Alaska”. Little else connects the 42-year-old – who h ...
  • A disappointing business
    China’s greenest entrepreneurs went to Copenhagen amid great fanfare – but did they actually achieve much? Feng Jie is not convinced. On returning from the climate conference at Copenhagen, the Vanke Group chairman, Wang Shi, posted a picture of himself pushing an old bike through the streets of the ...

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  • Yelp Accused of Extortion
    Yelp, the online review site, is being accused of extortion in a class-action lawsuit filed in Los Angeles this week. The suit alleges that the site tried to get a Long Beach veterinary hospital named Cats and Dogs Animal Hospital to pay $300 a month — for a minimum 12-month commitment — to suppres ...
  • Microsoft Takes Down Whistleblower Site, Read the ...
    Microsoft has managed to do what a roomful of secretive, three-letter government agencies have wanted to do for years: get the whistleblowing, government-document sharing site Cryptome shut down. Microsoft dropped a DMCA notice alleging copyright infringement on Cryptome’s proprietor John Young on T ...
  • China Widens Net Censorship; Google Exile Looms
    The Chinese government is imposing new internet restrictions demanding personal-website operators to acquire central-government permission to operate their sites. The latest censorship measure, which covers .cn domestic domains, comes as Google is trying to convince Chinese censors to ease up. Goog ...
  • Does Italy’s Google Conviction Portend More Censor ...
    Online rights activists are divided Wednesday over an Italian court’s guilty verdicts against Google executives who were convicted on privacy charges for not blocking a video that made fun of a child with Down syndrome. All agree the controversial ruling runs counter to longstanding U.S. and E.U. “s ...
  • FTC: Identity Theft Is No. 1 Consumer Complaint
    Are you really you? It’s hard to say. That’s because identity theft was the top consumer complaint for 2009, the Federal Trade Commission reported Wednesday. It was also the top complaint from the year before, although 5 percent fewer consumers reported it in 2009, the commission said. Overall, of t ...

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Equality Trust

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

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #296
    Al-Mabhouh assassination suspects' travel routes (.pdf). Litvinenko story to be made into film.
  • Son of senior Hamas official was Shin Bet informan ...
    The son of a senior Hamas official, who moved from the Gaza Strip to the United States in 2007, has said he was an informant for Israeli intelligence for at least a decade.
  • News you may have missed #295
    No Americans on CIA’s assassination list. US spies want super-sensitive human lie detectors. UK may purchase IP monitoring system from CIA-linked company.
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    Tensions mount in Turkey over alleged coup plot. CIA recruiting Chinese-Americans. Two alleged Israeli spies sentenced to death in Lebanon.
  • Analysis: Taliban knew about US Special Forces pre ...
    There has been remarkably little coverage in the US media of the deaths earlier this month of three US Special Forces operatives in Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province, who were killed in a bomb attack in the city of Shahi Koto. Most of the few analyses that have commented on the importance of th ...

After Downing Street.org

  • Doctors and Their Allies Rally for Single-Payer He ...
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  • Why Leahy Is Afraid to Subpoena Yoo
    By David Swanson We're about to witness the pretense of war lawyer hearings without the war lawyers (commonly known as torture lawyers by those willing to ignore their role in "legalizing" aggressive war). This may highlight for many observers the little-known fact that Congress no longer has the p ...
  • Treat yourself like a V.P.
    CheneyCARE CheneyCARE POGS
  • Rain-Drenched, Wind-Tossed New York City Peace Gra ...
    Rain-Drenched, Wind-Tossed New York City Peace Grannies Hold Memorial for the 1,000 Dead G.I.s in Afghanistan by Joan Wile It seems as if most of our U.S. populace has forgotten that U.S. soldiers are dying in Afghanistan. Focused on Tiger Woods' sex life and, more understandably, the see ...
  • Visiting a Modern-Day Slave Plantation
    Visiting a Modern-Day Slave Plantation By Angola 3 News | Truthout An Interview With Nancy A. Heitzeg Nancy A. Heitzeg Ph.D. is a professor of sociology and program co-director, critical studies of race and ethnicity at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota. Angola 3 News: Please tell ...

Grist - News

  • Van Jones is back
    by David Roberts Van Jones.Center for American ProgressVan Jones, who resigned from the White House Council on Environmental Quality last fall in the face of a coordinated smear campaign by conservative activists , has emerged from his self-imposed semi-exile with a bang. He'll be teaching a po ...
  • What the heck is a Bloom Box and will it solve the ...
    by Ashley Braun The internet loves mysterious product unveilings, especially those promising to revolutionize the world and how we live in it. (Think Apple's iPhone.) But few (except for maybe the iPhone) actually live up to the hype. (Or so I hear. Anyone wanna get me an iPhone?) CEO K.R. Sri ...
  • Climate meeting in April will aim to revive U.N. p ...
    by Agence France-Presse COPENHAGEN -- Talks will take place in April under the U.N. flag for planning the next steps in the effort toward a global treaty on climate change, Danish Minister for Climate and Energy Lykke Friis said Monday. The April 9-11 meeting will take place in Bonn, Germany, g ...
  • Electric bikes on a roll in China
    by Agence France-Presse TIANJIN, China -- Chinese commuters in the millions are turning to electric bicycles -- hailed as the environmentally friendly future of personal transport in the country's teeming cities. Up to 120 million e-bikes are estimated to be on the roads in China, making them a ...
  • Halliburton secret spurs investigation into gas-dr ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes Louis Meeks’ well water contains methane gas, hydrocarbons, lead and copper, according to the EPA’s test results. When he drilled a new water well, it also showed contaminants. The drilling company Encana is supplying Meeks with drinking water.Abrahm Lustgarten / ProPublicaTh ...

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Washington Independent

  • Olbermann vs. the Tea Parties
    Michael Calderone recaps an amusing spat between MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and Mediaite.com, after the gossipy website ran an item about the Dallas Tea Party’s video knocking MSNBC for its all-white line-up of hosts. The headline is Olbermann’s  criticism of Dan Abrams; the part that interests me is ...
  • The Taliban Arrests: Pakistan Setting the Table fo ...
    Still no confirmation of The Christian Science Monitor’s major story about the Pakistanis arresting half of the Taliban’s senior leadership. But The New York Times has a great piece this morning about the restored closeness of the CIA and its Pakistani counterpart, the Inter-Services Intelligence ag ...
  • Race to Succeed Murtha Divides Republicans
    The district is the sort of largely white, largely pro-life, conservative area where reporters once found "Reagan Democrats," and the sort that needs to flip if Republicans are to take back the House.
  • Gates’ Counteroffer to Rebalance Civilian-Mi ...
    As reported on Monday, the Pentagon didn’t embrace Stuart Bowen’s proposal to create a new agency — the U.S. Office of Contingency Operations — to help plan and coordinate civilian-military operations in conflict and post-conflict zones and failed states. But that’s not to say that Robert Gates, the ...
  • Ann Coulter Winks at the Birthers
    The conservative author who makes a living offending liberals takes a tiny step into the land of Obama birth certificate theories with a throwaway line in her new column. If they could, Americans would cut the power to the Capitol, throw everyone out and try to deport them. (Whereas I say: Anyone in ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

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

Suzie-Q

  • Eight Health Care Lobbyists For Every Member Of Co ...
    Lobbying run amok: Eight health care lobbyists for every member of Congress By Raw Story Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 — 10:18 pm President Obama will meet with 22 high-ranking lawmakers Thursday to discuss health care reform and how to accomplish it. But if newly released information about lobbyi ...
  • Where’s The Noise, Democrats?
    Two weeks ago in this space, I wrote about how the Democrats appear to be totally incompetent at ballyhooing their own successes. And make no mistake, there have been numerous legislative triumphs over the last year. Really. No, seriously. Stop laughing. There have been. They rescued the economy. Th ...
  • Lawyers and Journalists’ Group See No End in ...
    by The Robert Jackson Steering Committee – 2010-02-23 The Justice Robert Jackson Steering Committee, a group of lawyers, journalists and advocates formed in the fall of 2008 to pursue the prosecution of top Bush administration officials for alleged war crimes while in office, is both greatly concern ...
  • Senate Jobs Bill Passed
    Senate Jobs Bill Vote Passed ANDREW TAYLOR | 02/24/10 12:27 PM | WASHINGTON — Companies that hire the unemployed would claim new tax breaks under a jobs-promoting bill the Senate passed Wednesday, delivering President Barack Obama and Democrats a much-needed victory. The 70-28 vote s ...
  • Rahm Emanuel: A Closer Look at The Healthcare Issu ...
    Chief of Staff Draws Fire From Left as Obama Falters Wall Street Journal By PETER WALLSTEN JANUARY 26, 2010 WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama’s liberal backers have a long list of grievances. The Guantanamo Bay prison is still open. Health care hasn’t been transformed. And Wall Street bank ...

Solari

  • European Banks Face Showdown Over €Trillion ...
    European banks need to roll over €1 trillion (£877bn) of debt over the next two years at a much higher cost and in direct competition with hungry sovereign states, according to a report by Morgan Stanley. By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard The bank has advised clients to prepare for chillier times as monet ...
  • Fannie, Freddie Post Losses on Tax Credit Writedow ...
    By Dawn Kopecki Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage-finance companies under government control, are reporting fourth-quarter losses after writing down the value of tax credits and setting aside money for housing-market losses. Freddie Mac posted a $6.5 billion net loss as it ...
  • Sir James Goldsmith
    You are an opponent of the project for single currency. Why? The effects of a single currency go far beyond the economy. They would transform the political structure of Europe as well as the stability of its societies. A currency is both an economic tool and a reflection of the economic and social c ...
  • Community Call to Prayer
    The Garden at Vetheuil by Claude Monet Faith never knows where it is being led, but it knows and loves the One who is leading. ~ Oswald Chambers Everyone is welcome to join this weekly fifteen-minute Thursday gathering, live on the conference line or from wherever you are. 10 a.m. Pacific / 11 a.m ...
  • World’s Top Firms Cause $2.2 Trillion of Env ...
    Report for the UN into the activities of the world’s 3,000 biggest companies estimates one-third of profits would be lost if firms were forced to pay for use, loss and damage of environment by Juliette Jowit The cost of pollution and other damage to the natural environment caused by the world’s bigg ...

Global Insights

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

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

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Sideways News

  • Sustainable fashion action plan launched
    A host of clothing, textile and retail firms have announced plans to sign up to a government initiative to promote sustainable fashion. Speaking at an event at London Fashion Week , environment minister Dan Norris confirmed that more than 40 firms had endorsed the Sustainable Clothing Action Plan (S ...
  • Nasa 'plans inflatable space stations'
    Astronauts could one day explore space in inflatable balloons instead of metal stations, under new plans announced by Nasa . The news follows the White House's announcement earlier this month that Nasa would no longer focus on planned crewed missions to the moon. Instead, more money will be investe ...
  • Brits flock to free attractions
    Bargain-hunting Brits have been making good use of the nation's free attractions since the onset of the recession, with visitor numbers rising at a number of galleries and museums. According to figures from the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (Alva), its members saw a 10.9% increase in at ...
  • Bomb-sniffing dog awarded Dickin Medal
    A nine-year-old black Labrador with an eye for danger and a nose for roadside bombs has been awarded the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross. Treo, who served on the frontline in Afghanistan in 2008, has been recognised for his skill and bravery with the highest honour to be bestowed upon a mili ...
  • Bloom Box: The new clean energy
    Every home could one day benefit from clean energy produced by its own individual power plant, thanks to an invention from the US. The Bloom Box is the brainchild of former NASA rocket scientist KR Sridhar , who once built a similar device to generate oxygen on Mars for future colonists. However, b ...

Fabius Maximus

  • A look behind the Afghan mask covering our operati ...
    Fixing What’s Wrong in Washington… in Afghanistan By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch, 21 February 2010 — Reposted with permission. Explain something to me. In recent months, unless you were insensate, you couldn’t help running across someone talking, writing, speaking, or pontificating about how buste ...
  • FM newswire for 24 February, articles for your mor ...
    Today’s links to interesting news and analysis, collected from around the Internet.  If you find this useful, pass it to a friend or colleague.  America will mature beyond adolescence when we learn to weigh risks, like adults:  “One Million Ways to Die“, Ryan Singel, 11 September 2006 This wi ...
  • Stratfor explains “The Meaning of Marjah&#82 ...
    “The Meaning of Marjah“ By Kamran Bokhari, Peter Zeihan and Nathan Hughes of Stratfor.  17 February 2010 — This report is republished with permission of STRATFOR. On Feb. 13, some 6,000 U.S. Marines, soldiers and Afghan National Army (ANA) troops launched a sustained assault on the town of Marja ...
  • FM newswire for 23 February, articles for your mor ...
    Today’s links to interesting news and analysis, collected from around the Internet.  If you find this useful, pass it to a friend or colleague. Why Inflation Won’t Solve Our Debt Problems, blog of the New York Times, 18 February 2010 “Climategate: The World’s Biggest Story, Everywhere but H ...
  • The future of Marjah, after the invasion and occup ...
    Summary:  We occupy Marjah amidst promises to rebuild and bring good government. Just as we did in Fallujah – which was in fact a simple punitive strike. Typical counter-insurgency tactics, as practiced for millenia. We’ll see if Marjah is different.  It’s a test-case.  Is COIN real, or just ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Deep-Sea Bacteria Form Avatar-Style Electrochemica ...
    According to findings that could have been pulled from a deep-sea sequel to Avatar, bacteria appear to conduct electrical currents across the ocean floor, driving linked chemical reactions at relatively vast distances. Noticed only when reseachers happened to test sediment leftovers from another ...
  • Much-Touted Bloom Fuel Cell Still Too Spendy
    A Silicon Valley startup that’s taken more than $400 million in venture funding finally unveiled its product today in a star-studded extravaganza. In an event held at eBay’s headquarters in San Jose, California, Bloom Energy called on California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Google co-founder Lar ...
  • New High-Res Images of Luminous Star-Forming Regio ...
    Stars shine amidst a luminous, cotton-candy nebula in this new image of NGC 346, the largest star-forming region in our neighboring galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud. The star cluster, located about 210,000 light-years away and measuring around 200 light years across, is home to a group of brillia ...
  • Brainy Crows Finally Stumped by Intelligence Test
    Maybe they’re not as smart as we thought: The New Caledonian crow, having passed so many other tests of animal cognition, has finally flunked an exam. New Caledonian crows are valedictorians among corvids, a family of birds that includes ravens, jays and magpies. They’ve wowed scientists with their ...
  • Chinese Scientists Say Losing Google Would Hurt Re ...
    Google and China may not be fighting over science, but their feud could have unintended negative consequences for researchers in the country. A Nature News survey of Chinese scientists found that 84 percent of them thought losing access to Google would “somewhat or significantly” hurt their work pr ...

The Progressive Realist

  • All Presidents Engage With Tyrants
    I’m normally a James Traub fan, so I was taken aback by his recent article on the Obama administration’s policy of engagement and the alleged deep ethical compromises that it’s entailed. The piece has a kind of goofy, not-sure-if-this-is-naive-or-cynical air about it that I normally associate with ...
  • Turkey Charges Seven Senior Officers with Plotting ...
    Is Turkey moving towards better civilian control over the military -- or sliding towards a serious confrontation between the government and the army? Seven former senior officers -- including four admirals and an army general -- were formally charged and jailed today by a Turkish court. Police ar ...
  • Off-the-Radar News Roundup
    - There's been a lot of shuttle diplomacy going on between Beijing and Pyongyang recently, with some speculation that a resumption of the Six-Party talks is gaining traction. American and South Korean envoys are now in Beijing to see what concrete concessions China has managed to get in terms of Nor ...
  • The Afghanistan Fallacy: Pay Any Price . . . Bear ...
    I've been fighting the urge to write a rather long blog post taking down John Nagl's recent article in the National Interest on why the the war in Afghanistan is the right war for America. To be honest, the prospect simply exhausts me (plus Paul Pillar does a nice job in the back and forth with Nagl ...
  • Iraq and its Region
    I had a piece at World Politics Review yesterday that looked at where things stand on Iraq’s reintegration back into the region. The regional context is often cited in pro forma fashion, and I think this issue is often overlooked when thinking about Iraq’s long-term future or when discussing how Ir ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Sharpton vs. Smiley.
    This heated exchange between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Tavis Smiley ( via Oliver Willis ) isn't over whether or not Obama should have a "black agenda." We can argue over whether the administration has done enough to help deal with black unemployment -- he hasn't, just like he hasn't done enough to ...
  • Lightning Round: An Exclusive Look at the Day's Ne ...
    Tom Goldstein has a long post arguing that Justice John Paul Stevens will retire this spring, and by "October 4, 2010, Elena Kagan will ask her first question as a Supreme Court Justice." As far as his analysis of Supreme Court politics goes, the thesis is plausible enough, but I don't see why the ...
  • A Year in Health Care: Dems Should Have Started Wi ...
    Almost a year ago, President Obama held his first health-care summit , and tomorrow we'll have what is hopefully the final health-care summit . How time flies! One thing that we've learned in the last year is that reformers could have employed a much better legislative strategy. The original Democ ...
  • The Two Faces of Budget Reconciliation.
    The budget reconciliation process, Ezra Klein points out , "has been the key to getting anything done for at least 20 years." He's right, of course (and how I miss those long afternoons talking to Ezra about things like budget reconciliation!). But he's not quite right to call it "a majority-rules ...
  • The Little Picture: Howard Law.
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  • Torture Whitewash: How “Professional Misconduct” B ...
    The long-awaited report by the OPR (the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility) into the conduct of the lawyers in the OLC (Office of Legal Counsel), regarding their role in approving the use of torture, has finally been published (PDF). The report largely focuses on two memos da ...
  • PRESS RELEASE: New Guantánamo documentary on UK to ...
    PRESS RELEASE New Guantánamo documentary on UK tour Focuses on prisoners whose torture has been exposed by UK courts and is being investigated by police Former prisoner Omar Deghayes and journalist Andy Worthington will be speaking at screenings across the country “Outside the Law: Stories from Gua ...
  • As Police Launch New Torture Inquiry, It’s Time fo ...
    On Friday, it emerged in a UK court that the Metropolitan Police is investigating allegations that MI5 was complicit in the torture, in US custody in Afghanistan, of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident still held at Guantánamo. In the High Court, Richard Hermer QC, counsel for Aamer, told Mr. Ju ...
  • Moazzam Begg Responds To His Critics
    The following article, originally published on Cageprisoners, is Moazzam Begg’s first detailed response to the campaign directed at his relationship (and that of Cageprisoners) with Amnesty International, which I reported in an article entitled, “Defending Moazzam Begg and Amnesty International.” I ...
  • Will Parliament Rid Us of the Cruel and Unjust Con ...
    Since last June, when, in the wake of a significant ruling in the European Court of Human Rights, the Law Lords ruled that imposing control orders breaches Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which guarantees the right to a fair trial, the system established in haste and paranoia i ...

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  • Is Little Green Footballs a Communist Blog now?
    "The American right wing has gone off the rails, into the bushes, and off the cliff. I won’t be going over the cliff with them." From LGF's Charles Johnson: Why I Parted Ways With The Right 1. Support for fascists, both in America (see: Pat Buchanan, Robert Stacy McCain, etc.) and in Europe (se ...
  • Will Teabagger anti-immigration agnst spill over t ...
    �Smells like Teabaggrrrr spirit... Peter Schiff is well known for his for far right wing way out there libertarian Ron Paul-like views . You have to wonder if some of Teaba grrrrr angst will spill over to the GOP primary battles and burn Peter Schiff here in Connecticut ? Jim Gilchrist, founder of ...
  • Valuable Lesson From Sarah Palin's Book
    TRex has extracted and documented the bulk of the knowledge that can be had from Sarah Palin's new book, Going Rogue. Trust me on this, there is a valuable lesson to be had from her book that every Blogger, journalist and pundit should be sharing with anyone that is truly interested in the politic ...
  • Would you drive this car?
    More importantly, would you buy and drive this car? Tata Motors May Launch Nano In America: Special Editions In The Works Efficient, light, and affordable. That is the philosophy behind the Tata Nano, the world’s cheapest car, and one of the smallest as well. Launched earlier this year in Tata’s ho ...
  • T-9 and Holding:
    About 8 minutes before the shuttle blasts off : At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Atlantis and crew are nearing liftoff at Launch Pad 39A, prepared to begin the STS-129 cargo-delivery mission to the International Space Station. The countdown clock is holding at T-9 minutes. ...

SPL Center

  • 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 ...
  • 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, ...
  • Conspiracy Buff Triumphs Over Marital Troubles, Sa ...
    OK, the marital split of Dave vonKleist and Joyce Riley didn’t generate the national buzz of Tom and Nicole or Lucy and Desi. But devoted listeners of the far-right, conspiracy-laced “The Power Hour” certainly noticed last year when Dave departed as suddenly a patriot whisked away to a detention cam ...
  • Florida Church Triggers Protests With Anti-Islam M ...
    Westboro Baptist Church , the Kansas-based group that pickets the funerals of fallen service members with “God Hates Fags” signs, is notorious nationwide for preaching a gospel of hate. But another small church is using similar tactics to attack Muslims, causing an uproar in the university town of G ...

change: org.

  • "Government-Sanctioned Bigotry" Bars Parents from ...
    Earlier this month, I wrote about the termination of a school secretary, Ana Mateo, in North Carolina for translating for Spanish-speaking parents -- including the mother of a seven-year-old boy who had allegedly been sexually assaulted while at school. Mateo crossed a new principal's English-only ...
  • Human-Animal Hybrids and Other Crimes Against Natu ...
    Last week, the Oklahoma House of Representatives passed a bill that would ban human-animal hybrids from being developed in the state. No, they haven't been reading too much science fiction — labs around the world are toying with the creation of human-animal embryos for research, as well as projects ...
  • Nativist Admits Ulterior Motive in Promoting Envir ...
    It's always convenient when nativists don't even bother to pretend about their manipulative agenda. This weekend, CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, drew right-wingers from all over to Washington, D.C. Not surprisingly, hating immigration was one of the topics on the schedule. I've ...
  • Living in a Motel Is No Vacation
    The National Alliance to End Homelessness directed my attention this morning toward a stunning bit of journalism. It's an audio slideshow called "Motel Manor" from last November from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch . If you haven't seen it, please take five minutes to watch it. If you saw it when it cam ...
  • Banning Cluster Bombs Moves One Step Closer
    It's pretty hard to find a weapons system that is kind and merciful. But there's something particularly disgusting about cluster bombs. These nasty weapons, some about the size of a Diet Coke can, get launched from the ground or the sky and plaster indiscriminate areas of land. Some of them explode ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Nuclear Subsidies Put Taxpayers at Risk
    by Michael Kranish WASHINGTON - President Obama's plan to kick-start the construction of nuclear power plants in the United States comes with a big catch: Because private banks won't lend to an industry viewed as financially risky, taxpayers would be accountable for billions in government-guaranteed ...
  • Nuclear Subsidies Put Taxpayers at Risk
    by Michael Kranish WASHINGTON - President Obama's plan to kick-start the construction of nuclear power plants in the United States comes with a big catch: Because private banks won't lend to an industry viewed as financially risky, taxpayers would be accountable for billions in government-guaranteed ...
  • Obama May Compromise on Consumer Agency to Pass Fi ...
    by David Cho and Brady Dennis The Obama administration is no longer insisting on the creation of a stand-alone consumer protection agency as a central element of the plan to remake regulation of the financial system. In hopes of quick congressional approval of a reform bill, White House officials a ...
  • Central Falls Thurst into School Reform Forefront
    by Jennifer D. Jordan CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. - "You're a coward!" "You should be ashamed!" Shouts broke through the heavy silence that had fallen in the auditorium of Central Falls High School. Supt. Frances Gallo had just recommended that the district's ...
  • Why Isn't the Public Option an Option?
    by Robert de Neufville On Monday, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) announced that although he strongly supports the so-called public option, he wouldn't vote to add it to the health care bill by way of the reconciliation process. Many senators say that passing the public option by way of reconciliation—a ...

Lifehacker

  • Mute on Lock Automatically Turns Off Your Speakers ...
    Windows only: Portable utility Mute on Lock turns off your system speakers whenever you walk away and lock your workstation, but it also provides a quick shortcut key for toggling your speakers on or off. Once you've downloaded and launched the no-installation-required utility, your speakers will tu ...
  • Take Advantage of Singletasking When Possible, Get ...
    You may dazzle your coworkers with your multitasking chops, but it's probably not doing much for your productivity. Over at Fast Company, our own Gina Trapani continues her Work Smart video series, this time tackling the time-sinks that come along with multitasking. Doing two things at once, ...
  • Sharpen Your Kitchen Knife on a Coffee Mug [Kitche ...
    If you don't have a knife sharpening kit and you're in between taking knives down to the cutlery store to get sharpened, you can put a little bite back into your knife with a coffee mug. Photo by Rhett Maxwell . Over at the site DIYLife they highlight a way to sharpen the edge of a knife using a co ...
  • A Reminder: Why It's Worth Double-Checking Your Cr ...
    It's easy to mindlessly pay off your monthly credit card bill without giving much attention to what you were charged for (especially if you've automated your finances ), but the Consumer Reports Money Blog reminds us why it's still important to double-check your credit card bill before paying out: ...
  • MeetWith.Me Tells People When You're Available Whi ...
    When you're trying to set up a meeting with someone who's as busy as you, it's tempting to just flop open your datebook and say "pick a time when I'm free." MeetWith.Me lets you do that while keeping your appointment details private. This free web service hooks into your online or computer-based cal ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Must Read - Pillar vs Nagl on Afghanistan
    By Steve Hynd Today's "must read" is from The National Interest. Former spook Paul R. Pillar absoluetely pwns CNAS head and Petraeus-buddy John Nagl. The COINdinista is reduced to sputtering "but...we're at war!" and making vague allusions to the threat of Al Qaeda getting its hands on Pakistan's nu ...
  • 33 Civilians Killed by NATO Airstrike in Afghanist ...
    By Derrick Crowe On Sunday, NATO forces in Uruzgan province in Afghanistan killed more than thirty civilians, including women and children, when an airstrike was ordered on three minivans. According to the AP story on the incident: "'This creates an opportunity for the Taliban to us ...
  • A Kinder, Gentler, Taliban?
    By Steve Hynd "No plan ever survives contact with the enemy." The rationale of Obama's strategy, what there is of it, is that the Afghan Taliban are inextricably allied with Al Qaeda and are butchering thugs who are bad for Afghans - so we can't just leave no matter how for Afghans' own good, much K ...
  • U.S. Pressure Over Afghanistan Leads To Dutch Gov. ...
    By Steve Hynd Here's a fine state of affairs: The Dutch government has ­collapsed over disagreements on whether or not to extend troop deployment in Afghanistan. The prime minister, Jan Peter Balkenende, said the Labour party – the second-largest party in his coalition government – was quitting. Bal ...
  • U.S. Pressure Over Afghanistan Leads To Dutch Gov. ...
    By Steve Hynd Here's a fine state of affairs: The Dutch government has ­collapsed over disagreements on whether or not to extend troop deployment in Afghanistan. The prime minister, Jan Peter Balkenende, said the Labour party – the second-largest party in his coalition government – was quitting. Bal ...

Water Wars

  • Oregon Klamath Basin deal a boon for farmers, fish ...
    SALEM, Ore. - A century-old fight over water from Oregon's Klamath Basin ended last week with signed agreements that assure farmers water and power to keep their crops green, and lay out the removal of dams that have blocked salmon from hundreds of miles of spawning grounds.
  • Email Newsletters (Dairy Herd)
    His rulings play a crucial role in determining the operation of federal and state water projects in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. But Judge Oliver Wanger said last week that court rulings aren't to blame for drastic reductions in water deliveries.
  • Legislators…Help Us, Please! (Jackson County Times ...
    Crowd of approximately 80 citizens attend Legislative Delegation Forum meeting. By Sid Riley “I have been attending these Delegation meetings for some twenty years, prior to each session of the Legislature, and this is the most unusual meeting I can recall ever attending.” Those were the closing rem ...
  • Deal proposes Klamath River dams' removal (Oregon ...
    By: Ian Geronimo | News reporter Project could be largest-ever U.S. river restoration, must get federal approval Dozens of groups in Klamath County, who for years have been steeped in political skirmishes over the Klamath River’s coveted water supply, agreed on a deal Thursday that proposes the remo ...
  • Film shines spotlight on the fight for water (Toro ...
    Toronto-based film festival producer Martin Robertson gets angry when he hears about the privatization of the world's water supply.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

CS Monitor - News

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

The Wonk Room

  • Pre-Summit Comparison: Has The GOP Offered A &#821 ...
    Yesterday, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) responded to White House requests for the GOP to post a comprehensive health care bill online by explaining that Republicans had already offered and voted on a comprehensive alternative on the House floor. “Our House bill has been scored by the CBO and will bring d ...
  • Schwarzenegger Affirms That Undocumented Immigrant ...
    Throughout the economic recession, anti-immigrant groups have been eager to blame California’s budget woes on the state’s undocumented immigrants. However, yesterday, in an interview with Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA) denied these accusations. While recognizing tha ...
  • Republican Stimulus Opponents Brag About Clean Ene ...
    Our guest blogger is Sarah Collins, intern with the Energy Opportunity team at the Center for American Progress and a graduate of the University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. The Congressional Budget Office’s new analysis determined that the American Recovery and Reinvestment A ...
  • Fox News Attacks ‘This Guy’ Van Jones ...
    Responding to the announcement that former White House green jobs advisor Van Jones will be the recipient this Friday of an NAACP Image Award, Fox News relaunched its smear campaign against the environmental leader. According to NAACP president Benjamin Todd Jealous, Van Jones is an “American treasu ...
  • Internal WellPoint Emails Reveal How Company Incre ...
    Today, during a hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, Reps. Bart Stupak (D-MI) and Henry Waxman (D-CA) questioned WellPoint CEO Angela Braly about the company’s proposed rate increases in California’s individual health insurance market. The congressmen read from a series ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • So, Um, About Those Afghan Children Who Were Execu ...
    Yeah, I hate to be, like, you know, a pest or anything, but still ... I can't help but think that if Hugo Chavez's, or Fidel Castro's, or Vladimir Putin's, or Kim Jong-Il's troops had killed ten civilians (two adults and eight students), execution style , I don't think the MSM would collectively shr ...
  • Anti-War Movement Crippled By Violence
    Now, I'd like to make something clear in this, my fourth post on the topic of violent protest. I don't advocate violence. I don't advocate violence but at the same time I don't condemn violence and I don't reject it as a tactic. One of the knee-jerk statements that comes out of the pathological a ...
  • Reply to No_Blah_Blah_Blah
    I don't have a lot of time today, so I'll post my response to No_Blah_Blah_Blah's comment at this post . No-blah: I'm a little surprised over the somewhat widespread anger over the few broken windows. I suspect it has something more to do with this incident being an outlet for people to vent their ...
  • What's Another Year in Afghanistan?
    After eight years of a corrupt, brutal, unelected puppet-government, propped-up by foreign troops and gangster warlords? After eight years of arresting farmers, some of whom joined the insurgency in response to the depredations of the torturing, thieving, raping government forces, and others who ha ...
  • Margaret Wente Wrote About Tiger Woods' Apology .. ...
    Oh, but of course I couldn't read it! The idea of that bimbo's thoughts about an subject that's already so banal that thinking about it kills your brain cells is terrifying enough! I wouldn't have thought such a thing possible until the Mayan Calendar runs out in 2012, when it could serve as one ...

Financial Sense Editorials

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

on Government Oversight

  • Vermont State Legislature Taps Whistleblower Exper ...
    POGO often talks about how not to treat whistleblowers—retaliating against them, ignoring them, and marginalizing them—yet we often do not hear about how government agencies should treat someone who shines the light on significant wrongdoing. This morning’s broadcast of Democracy...
  • Oak Ridge Slow to Secure Stock of Uranium-233
    On Monday, the Department of Energy (DOE) Inspector General (IG) released a report on why it has been taking so long for DOE to secure the stock of Uranium-233 (U-233) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The stock of...
  • Morning Smoke: Blackwater Taking More Than Cheesy ...
    Blackwater Took Hundreds of Guns From U.S. Military, Afghan Police by Spencer Ackerman [The Washington Independent] Eye Opener: Homeland Security has more contractors than feds by Ed O'Keefe [Federal Eye] Rep. Anna Eshoo targets CIA moonlighting by Eamon Javers [Politico]...
  • New Report Highlights Need For U.S. Anti-Corruptio ...
    Global Integrity, a non-profit that tracks governance and corruption trends in countries throughout the world, has released its latest annual Global Integrity Report. (Full disclosure: I worked for Global Integrity before joining POGO, which provided advice and assistance during the...
  • POGO Calls on Congress to Investigate Ineffective ...
    There was plenty of blame to go around in the aftermath of the financial crisis, as evidenced by a series of well-publicized congressional hearings that examined the wrongdoings of investment bankers, credit rating agency executives, and Federal Reserve officials, among...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Living in a Motel Is No Vacation
    The National Alliance to End Homelessness directed my attention this morning toward a stunning bit of journalism. It's an audio slideshow called "Motel Manor" from last November from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch . If you haven't seen it, please take five minutes to watch it. If you saw it when it cam ...
  • A Homeless Artist Dreaming of His Own Studio
    I first met Rico at the Glendale Winter Shelter, when I was drawn to his large canvas of bright colors. We've had some rainy weather in Los Angeles this winter, and the National Guard allowed us to keep the armory open during the day. Rico didn't mind the rain; it excited him because he could work o ...
  • Why Ending Homelessness Is Impossible and How We C ...
    In the year 2000, the National Alliance to End Homelessness introduced a Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness , a strategy to address homelessness systematically through initiatives like improving homeless services with better data collection and analysis, building affordable housing and stabilizing ho ...
  • Where Do You Put an Old Homeless Man on a Friday A ...
    I received a call from a local bank recently. An elderly gentleman who, according to the bank manager, appeared to be "homeless and suffering from Alzheimer's," had wandered in and out of his branch office at least four times within the past hour, each time trying to withdraw money with a bank card ...
  • Help Shape National Homeless Policy
    That's right. The federal government actually wants our help to prevent and end homelessness. With a deadline encroaching, the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) wants our suggestions as they develop a Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness (FSP), which they mu ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Gates: “Pacification” of Europe threatens security
    U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has condemned the “pacification” on Europe. Speaking to a meeting of NATO officials and security experts, Gates declared that “The demilitarisation of Europe, where large swaths of the general public and political class are averse to military force and the risks t ...
  • Ottawa Outfront Speaker Series: Dr. Walter Dorn on ...
    On 11 February 2010, the Ottawa Outfront Speaker Series hosted Dr. Walter Dorn in conversation with Gloria Galloway of the Globe and Mail on the topic of Canada’s future as a UN peacekeeper. Dr. Dorn, a professor at the Canadian Forces College, strongly advocated a return to Canada’s proud tradition ...
  • Ottawa Outfront Speaker Series: Dr. Walter Dorn on ...
    On 11 February 2010, the Ottawa Outfront Speaker Series hosted Dr. Walter Dorn in conversation with Gloria Galloway of the Globe and Mail on the topic of Canada’s future as a UN peacekeeper. Dr. Dorn, a professor at the Canadian Forces College, strongly advocated a return to Canada’s proud traditio ...
  • Five NATO countries want US nukes out of Europe
    Five NATO countries plan to call for the removal of all U.S. tactical nuclear weapons from Europe, reports Agence France Presse (Pascal Mallet, “Allied bid for Obama to remove US European nuclear stockpile,” AFP, 19 February 2010). The five–Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Norway– ...
  • Dutch government falls over Afghanistan issue
    The Dutch coalition government “collapsed” on Saturday due to differences over how the Netherlands should respond to a NATO request to extend the Dutch mission in Afghanistan past its scheduled end in August (”Dutch cabinet ‘collapses’ in dispute over Afghanistan,” BBC News, 20 February 2010). The ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Cities Shorten Yellow Lights to Boost Revenue
    February 24, 2010 Alternet.org Reeling through a 21st century addicted to technology and surveillance, citizens may be too overwhelmed to complain of increasing cameras popping up atop red lights at intersections across the nation, most of which are designed to catch them breaking traffic laws. That ...
  • Bill Gates Weighs in on the Climate
    February 24, 2010 Alternet.org On Friday, the world’s most successful businessperson and most powerful philanthropist did something outstandingly bold, that went almost unremarked: Bill Gates announced that his top priority is getting the world to zero climate emissions. Now, I’m not a member of the ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 2-24-10
    Today, Kevin explains who really controls the mainstream media outlets and gives you detailed proof that they are deceiving the public, especially with his court proceedings. Plus, find out how high fructose corn syrup is like crack cocaine! Take Trudeau on the Go! Click here to download this show t ...
  • Buy Farmland and Buy Gold – Sound Advice for ...
    February 24, 2010 TimesOnline.co.uk By Leo Lewis The world’s most powerful investors have been advised to buy farmland, stock up on gold and prepare for a “dirty war” by Marc Faber, the notoriously bearish market pundit, who predicted the 1987 stock market crash. The bleak warning of social and fina ...
  • Pending Lawsuit Over Baby DNA
    February 24, 2010 Statesman.com By Mary Ann Roser An Austin lawyer threatened to pursue a new federal lawsuit Monday after learning that some newborn blood samples in Texas went to the U.S. military for potential use in a database for law enforcement purposes. The Department of State Health Services ...

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

  • Dubai money trail leads back to Israel
    Although the Israeli government has yet to confirm its role in the murder of Mahmoud al Mahbouh, the Dubai police have provided further evidence through financial records that connect the crime to Israel. The company Payoneer Inc., based in New York, has been named in the case – a company that help ...
  • Dubai police name new suspects in Hamas murder
    Gulf News reports: Police revealed 15 more suspects in the Al Mabhouh murder case on Wednesday. The extensive investigation has led to a total of 26 suspects so far involved in the murder of the Hamas official Mahmoud Al Mabhouh at a Dubai hotel. In addition to the previously released list of 11 su ...
  • Turkey arrests the alleged ringleaders of the Sled ...
    Today’s Zaman reports: The latest wave of detentions of nearly 50 retired and active duty military personnel as part of an investigation into the Sledgehammer coup plot, allegedly devised by the military to overthrow the government, has put those who strongly denied the authenticity of the plot whe ...
  • Peres shown bowing to Erdogan
    In an interview with the Spanish newspaper El Pais, published on Monday, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the Davos incident in which he clashed with Israel’s President Shimon Peres a year ago soon after Israel’s war on Gaza, led to a new Turkish approach to foreign policy. †...
  • Turkey reins in its renegade generals
    The most determined challenge to military political power in Turkey in decades is being reported in much of the Western media as a struggle between an Islamist government and the forces of secularism. Bulent Kenes, a columnist for Turkey’s Today’s Zaman, frames the issue much more starkly: this is a ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Judith, I love ya, but you’re way wrong &#82 ...
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Judith Curry posted here on WUWT regarding rebuilding the lost trust we used to have in climate science and climate scientists. This is my response to her post, an expansion and revision of what I wrote in the comments on that thread. First, be clear that I admire Ju ...
  • The great filament
    From Spaceweather.com with apologies to Linus and Charles Schulz The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is tracking an enormous magnetic [...]
  • WMO: “. . . we cannot at this time conclusiv ...
    The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) issued a stunning statement in a  recent report. Roger Pielke Jr. has the details on his blog. Just to remind folks that we’ve been saying much the same thing for months on WUWT: Global Warming = more hurricanes | Still not happening Above: Global hurri ...
  • New All-in-one Space Weather Tool from NASA
    The press release doesn’t contain any pictures, and really doesn’t do this new web tool justice, so I’ve added some screencaps. In a nutshell, the new iSWA site lets you arrange graphical packages of solar images and plots oncsreen for simultaneous evaluation. Stuff that had been scattered over seve ...
  • On the Credibility of Climate Research, Part II: ...
    Foreword - Below is  a guest post (by request) from Dr. Judith Curry on the issues we deal with every day here. While I and other like minded bloggers were given the opportunity to have some early input into this, little of it was accepted. This I think puts it off to a bad start [...]

Dandelion Salad

  • Why Washington “Doesn’t Work” by ...
    by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted on Buzzflash.com Feb. 24, 2010 This week’s cover of Time magazine screams “Washington is Frozen.”  The New York Times News of the Week in Review for February 21, 2010 tells us that “Washington doesn’t work.”  Evan Bayh ...
  • Peace Camp Demands That President Obama Meet With ...
    by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox February 24, 2010 Dear President Obama, A contingent of Peace Groups and Activists will be setting up a Peace Camp across the street from your house on the lawn of the Washington Monument ca ...
  • Robert Fisk and Yossi Melman on the murder in Duba ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ AlJazeeraEnglish February 23, 2010 When Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was found dead in his Dubai hotel room last month, the death was chalked up to natural causes. But evidence revealed in the past few days indicates that the Israeli spy agency, Mossad, ...
  • Ralph Nader: Nothing can stop the organized power ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ talkingsticktv February 18, 2010 Talk by Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader at the Egyptian Theatre in Seattle October 18, 1996. more about “Ralph Nader – Seattle – October 18, 1996“, posted with vodpod see Tribute to Howard Zinn with Ralph Nader, Amy Goodm ...
  • Boycott FedEx by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig February 22, 2010 Dean Henderson’s career with FedEx ended abruptly when a reckless driver plowed into his company truck and mangled his leg. His doctor will decide this week if it needs to be amputated. No longer able to drive, strippe ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    Dude, I'm Seeing Islamic Crescent Moons Everywhere! And some more fine work by Matt Drudge, whoever he is now, as highlighted by Raw Story . This is the logo of the US Missile Defence Agency : Matt Drudge claims this is similar to an "Islamic flag" . No, it's not. Drudge also claimed : "New M ...
  • No title
    Censorship By Matt Drudge It's hard to believe that Matt Drudge was once regarded as some sort of take-no-prisoners mainstream media troublemaker. An example follows of Matt Drudge's reaction, and censorship, when confronted with one of the most explosive media scandal stories in years. A headlin ...
  • No title
    All The Airline Pilots Are In On It, Too How many t-shirts, coffee cups and other merchandise could you sell if you officially re-started The Flat Earth Society and started getting big write-ups in the British, and, soon, American media? Daniel Shenton is about to find out. Besides believing that ...
  • No title
    How Can Demanding Truth Be More Dangerous Than Demanding War? By Darryl Mason A good question , not asked often enough : I have one simple question though for anyone free-thinking enough not to immediately follow whatever the voice on the radio tells them. What “conspiracy theorists” are more da ...
  • No title
    Your body is like a video game on the inside. A white blood cell pursues bacterium, but turn off the sound and imagine PacMan music :

Wired - Science

  • Deep-Sea Bacteria Form Avatar-Style Electrochemica ...
    According to findings that could have been pulled from a deep-sea sequel to Avatar, bacteria appear to conduct electrical currents across the ocean floor, driving linked chemical reactions at relatively vast distances. Noticed only when reseachers happened to test sediment leftovers from another ...
  • Much-Touted Bloom Fuel Cell Still Too Spendy
    A Silicon Valley startup that’s taken more than $400 million in venture funding finally unveiled its product today in a star-studded extravaganza. In an event held at eBay’s headquarters in San Jose, California, Bloom Energy called on California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Google co-founder Lar ...
  • New High-Res Images of Luminous Star-Forming Regio ...
    Stars shine amidst a luminous, cotton-candy nebula in this new image of NGC 346, the largest star-forming region in our neighboring galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud. The star cluster, located about 210,000 light-years away and measuring around 200 light years across, is home to a group of brillia ...
  • Brainy Crows Finally Stumped by Intelligence Test
    Maybe they’re not as smart as we thought: The New Caledonian crow, having passed so many other tests of animal cognition, has finally flunked an exam. New Caledonian crows are valedictorians among corvids, a family of birds that includes ravens, jays and magpies. They’ve wowed scientists with their ...
  • Chinese Scientists Say Losing Google Would Hurt Re ...
    Google and China may not be fighting over science, but their feud could have unintended negative consequences for researchers in the country. A Nature News survey of Chinese scientists found that 84 percent of them thought losing access to Google would “somewhat or significantly” hurt their work pr ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Gideon Levy: Dispersing white phosphorous clouds o ...
    Ask any tea grower in Sri Lanka or banana farmer in Cameroon and they'll tell you that Israel is seen as a global weapons provider, a political and economic power, an occupying and oppressing state. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
  • Vanunu: Take me off list of Nobel peace prize nomi ...
    "The reason he gave was that Shimon Peres had received the Nobel Peace Prize, and Peres he alleged was the father of the Israeli atomic bomb and he did not want to be associated with Peres in any... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
  • Ultra-Orthodox Jews, Palestinians clash in Sheikh ...
    Clashes erupted Wednesday between Palestinian residents and ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem. A Palestinian woman and child were hurt in the incident and taken... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Henry Siegman: For Israel, defiance comes at the c ...
    The disappearance of the two-state solution is triggering a third transformation, which is turning Israel from a democracy into an apartheid state. The democracy Israel provides for its (mostly)... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
  • Joel Beinin: Confronting Settlement Expansion in E ...
    The neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, a 20-minute walk up the hill from the Damascus Gate to the Old City of Jerusalem, has become the focal point of the struggle over the expanding project of Jewish... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Novel Antitoxin Strategy Developed Using "Tagged B ...
    Strategy proven for botulism; may lead to improved therapies for many toxins and some chronic diseases.
  • MBA Students Returning to Peru with Social Entrepr ...
    About 30 MBA students at IU's Kelley School of Business are going to Peru as part of the school's Global Business and Social Enterprise initiative, a social entrepreneurship consulting program.
  • Machine-Guided Cultivation May Reduce Vegetable Gr ...
    Can a computerized machine tend broccoli and lettuce in the fields? With automated cultivation assisting in the battle against weeds, vegetable growers may be able to reduce costs of herbicide and labor without diminishing the crop yield. A new study in Weed Technology examines the economic effectiv ...
  • The First T2K Neutrino Event Observed at Super-Kam ...
    Physicists from the Japanese-led multinational T2K collaboration announced today that they had made the first detection of a neutrino which had travelled all the way under Japan from their neutrino beamline at the J-PARC facility in Tokai village (about an hour north of Tokyo by train) to the gigant ...
  • HIV Drug Given to Protect a Fetus Should be Avoide ...
    A new study finds that while nevirapine works well to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission, a single dose of nevirapine in infected pregnant women can trigger resistance to some forms of the AIDS-drug cocktail known as combination antiretroviral treatment (ART). This nevirapine-induced resistanc ...

Intel Trends

  • NOTICE: IntelTrends is moving to Blogger
    * * Effective 10-FEB-2010 this blog is moving to Blogger. * * The new URL is: http://inteltrends.blogspot.com RSS subscribers need to "re-subscribe" to the updated newsfeed URL. http://feeds.feedburner.com/inteltrends Thank you for your patience during the transition. Steve Permalin ...
  • Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: Peace Campaign Hyp ...
    The following comment is from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Reprinted with permission. Peace Campaign Hypes and the Rogue War-mongering Source: �Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan February 10, 2010 �17:46 �administrator Of Late, the invading forces led by America and their surrogates have l ...
  • Sahara Becomes Desert of Terrorism
    The following article is reprinted with permission from Pravda, Moscow. Sahara Becomes Desert of Terrorism ©   Pravda By Sergey Balmasov February 10, 2010 Senegal's president Abdoulaye Wade urged African leaders and the West to join forces in the fight against al-Qaeda's North African branch ...
  • IntelTrends 10-FEB-2010
    Military hospitals under pressure in advance of new offensive Telegraph, 10 Feb Military hospitals in Afghanistan and the U.K. are operating close to capacity as British forces prepare to launch a major offensive against the Taliban. Arab diplomat annuls wedding with hairy bride Al Arabiya, 10 ...
  • Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: On the So-called R ...
    The following opinion is reprinted with permission from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. On the So-called Re-integration Source: �Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan February 9, 2010 �08:56 �S.H. The recent American tactic to lure away members of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan under the nam ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Say ‘No!’ to Corporate Control of Agriculture and ...
    To commemorate the International Day of Peasant Struggle on April 17th 2010, the international peasant movement La Via Campesina calls upon member organisations, allies and supporters to unite against transnational corporations (TNCs), which seek complete control over food and agriculture systems ar ...
  • Bayer Pesticide Banned over Threat to Honeybees
    A U.S. District Judge from Manhattan has banned the sale of spirotetramat, a pesticide produced by Bayer CropScience. Citing allegations by environmental groups and commercial beekeepers that the pesticide is toxic and is killing off the nation's honeybee population, Judge Denise Cote has declared t ...
  • Protection of Chesapeake Bay Requires Regulation o ...
    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- State agriculture officials are alarmed about impending environmental regulations they say could close farms, drive up food prices and force Americans to buy more food from overseas. Supporters of the Chesapeake Bay cleanup have a far different take. They say reducing pollution ...
  • 98 Organizations Oppose Obama's Monsanto Man, Isla ...
    A large coalition of groups – including the Organic Consumers Association – has been fighting since the fall to block Obama's nomination of CropLife/biotech industry rep and former pesticide lobbyist, Islam Siddiqui, to the position of Chief Ag Negotiator at the US Office of the Trade Rep. The nomin ...
  • GM Crops Failing to Tackle Climate Change
    On the day of the release of annual industry-sponsored figures, a new report from Friends of the Earth International reveals that claims made by the biotech industry that genetically modified (GM) crops can combat climate change are both exaggerated and premature. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

  • 48 alternativas a Photoshop, 22 programas de escri ...
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las opciones. Desde hace tiempo, he visto que mis lectores, suscriptores y usuarios en general del Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas , buscan algún software para editar sus fotografías o imágenes . El día de hoy, estaba leyendo XatakaFoto cuan ...
  • Imágenes de flores, rosas y arreglos florales
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. ¿Está usted buscando imágenes de flores? Si es así, le invito a disfrutar de esta colección con 15 fotografías de rosas y arreglos florales . Si eso no es suficiente, descubra nuestro especial de flores para el 10 de may ...
  • Carnavales del Mundo 2010, Río de Janeiro, Brasil.
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. De la mano de " The Big Picture , descubra cómo se vive el carnaval en diversas partes del mundo. Explore a detalle la magia de los colores, la algarabía, música, danza, costumbres y tradiciones de lugares tan famosos co ...
  • 10 imágenes .PNG para personalizar
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Y ya que vamos en línea recta, aquí tiene usted la quinta entrega de imágenes .PNG que podrás personalizar libremente. Tan fácil como descargar el archivo, descomprimirlo, abrir las imágenes en Photoshop, agregar tus fot ...
  • Fondos con diseños para poner tus fotos
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Esta es la cuarta entrega de imágenes .PNG que traemos para ti absolutamente gratis. Son fondos prediseñados donde podrás colocar tus fotografías a través de Photoshop o algún otro software para edición de imágenes digit ...

Executive Intelligence Review

Center for a Livable Future

  • Congressional briefing by panel of vet experts rep ...
    The Meat Industry* hosted a Congressional briefing today (2/23/2010) in Washington D.C. on antibiotics in livestock and poultry production. The purpose of the briefing was to uncover, in the moderator’s words, the ‘true science’ on antibiotics. Contrary to his assertion, there was very little scienc ...
  • Biological Food in the Netherlands – Big Presence, ...
    When I first arrived in Amsterdam, I was thrilled to see that there was a good-sized and well-stocked organic market on the corner of the street I was staying on. I immediately saw that the awareness of and demand for biological (organic) foods was widespread. I saw organic markets littering many ne ...
  • More from Katie Couric on Antibiotic Broadcast
    Yesterday, CBS News’ Katie Couric had former FDA Commissioner Dr. David Kessler and “Fast Food Nation” author Eric Schlosser on @katiecouric to discuss further last week’s two-part series on the overuse of antibiotics in industrial farm animal production. “There are real risks here, using drugs in a ...
  • California Meatpacker Hit by Huge Recall
    Exactly two years from the largest meat recall in history, a California meatpacker has been ordered to recall over 4.9 million pounds of beef and veal products. On Monday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the expansion of a previous recall for Huntington Meat Packing, Inc., of Montebello ...
  • CBS Evening News Investigative Report Highlights U ...
    I hope every lawmaker on Capitol Hill had a chance to watch CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric’s two-part investigative series on the risks of using antibiotics as growth promoters in food animals. After viewing both pieces it would be difficult for most people to question the immediate need to pa ...

Norwegianity

  • Focusing on the prosecution
    Koua Fong Lee makes the Washington Post this morning. Ever since his 1996 Toyota Camry shot up an interstate ramp, plowing into the back of an Oldsmobile in a horrific crash that killed three people, Koua Fong Lee insisted he had done everything he could to stop the car. A jury didn’t believe him ...
  • My ignorance being exceeded only by my stupidity
    I’m in an absolutely vile mood today. I had to complete an I-765 application for employment authorization. It’s a one-page form with TWELVE FUCKING PAGES OF INSTRUCTIONS. A one-page form typically used by immigrants. When I did federal forms I charged $65 an hour and people thanked me for taking the ...
  • Koua Fong Lee case continues to disgrace Ramsey Co ...
    Wow. I didn’t post last night because all the stories seemed to add up to little more than we don’t know but here’s what he said, and here’s what she said. Then I got up this morning and saw that the PiPress, not having a new Toyota stuck accelerator story, ran a wire story about the [...]
  • Pawlenty of bull and other shit
    The Strib explains their malware problem and has some links for those of you who might have gotten tagged. How Microsoft has evaded legal responsibility for their virus-prone operating systems is, as usual, beyond me. - The NY Times likes Obama’s new health care proposal. Fuck the NY Times. Their ne ...
  • Clusterfuck Monday
    New Clusterfuck Nation! - 90%. Just sayin. - Sam Pizzigati’s take on the Oligarchy 400. Yes you’ve read the story but Sam piles on the background like no one I’ve read. - I guess Obama making his bill all the more repugnant is one good way to encourage reconciliation and the back room process invent ...

The Seferm Post

  • Here's How to Determine Your Heart Attack Risk (VI ...
    Here's how to determine which category you fall into:
  • 10 Top Jobs For 2010 In The U.K.
    If you are looking for a job or expect to graduate soon, then take a look at the fastest growing sectors and jobs in the UK. Here are 10 jobs predicted to experience the most growth and demand throughout 2010.
  • Links for 2010-02-24 [del.icio.us]
    10 Top Things You Need To Know About 'Up In The Air' Movie The film is an adaptation, co-written by Juno director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Sheldon Turner, of a novel by Walter Kirn published in 2001, though Reitman tried to claim sole credit for writing it initially, until the Writer’s Gui ...
  • Take A Nap To Clear Your Mind And Learn Better: St ...
    The new findings reinforce the researchers' hypothesis that sleep is needed to clear the brain's short-term memory storage and make room for new information, Walker said.
  • Links for 2010-02-11 [del.icio.us]
    Here Are 10 Things Not To Include In Your Resume And Why Employers don't have the time or the patience to sift through irrelevant information like your hobbies, interests or how many grandchildren you have. Just stick to the basics and you're good to go. Here are 10 things to leave off your résu ...

The World We Live In

  • A series of setbacks for the coalition in Afghanis ...
    Less To Cheer STANLEY MCCHRYSTAL, the famously self-controlled commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, could be forgiven if he let off an expletive when he heard that soldiers under his command had killed 27 civilians on Sunday February 21st. A missile strike on a three-vehicle convoy in an isolat ...
  • MQM Caught Spying On Pakistan
    Guest post sent in by Truth Seeker MQM caught spying red-handed for foreign nationals and smuggling classified state material outside Pakistan and violated Official Secret Act.  According to a report published in the press Waseem Akthar (MNA) and former advisor to the Chief Minister on poli ...
  • US drones killed 123 civilians, three al-Qaeda men ...
    Monday, February 01, 2010 By Amir Mir LAHORE: Afghanistan-based US predators carried out a record number of 12 deadly missile strikes in the tribal areas of Pakistan in January 2010, of which 10 went wrong and failed to hit their targets, killing 123 innocent Pakistanis. The remaining two successfu ...
  • War Begets War, Don’t Call it Terrorism
    Slate | By William Saletan | 11 January 2010 Traitor, Bomber, Soldier, Spy Stop crying “terrorism� every time we’re attacked. Afghan police officers inspect the site of a blast in Khost province Photo: REUTERS Two weeks ago, a Jordanian suicide bomber blew up seven CIA employees at a U.S. m ...
  • Indian army doesn’t posses ability to fight in nig ...
    NEW DELHI: While the Indians celebrate 62nd Army Day, country’s Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor, just after a couple of weeks of announcing a new war doctrine of Indian army to eliminate Pakistan and China in matter of hours even if it has to fight on simultaneous fronts, outrageously admitted I ...

Center for Food Safety

  • 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

  • US New Enemies: Indigenous Peoples
    Source: Fourth World Eye �"One has to keep in mind the nature of organizations that end up on the U.S. State Department terrorist list. Many are indigenous nations seeking accommodation with oppressive states. Unfortunately, many of these oppressive states are also friends of the United States gov ...
  • No Thanksa To ANCSA
    http://FreeHawaiiTV.com - A Pact Stacked Against Alaska Natives, ANCSA Created Native Corporations Which Caused Major Frustrations. It Made A Few Rich, Which, Through Sleight Of Hand, Stole Everyone's Land, Just Like The Akaka Bill & That Should Give You A Chill. Do Alaska Natives Think It Stinks? ...
  • 'Dr Jekyll' Obama Goes Nuclear
    Obama targets black community with risk of radiation and death from new nuclear reactors By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Photo: Obama flanked by nuclear industry announces funding. UPDATED Feb. 19, 2010: Obama spoke out against atomic energy before taking office; ...
  • Canadian Company Begins Uranium Mining Grand Canyo ...
    Uranium Mining Begins at Grand Canyon Thousands of Claims Threaten Public Health and Sacred Lands By Klee Benally Indigenous Action Media http://www.indigenousaction.org/ Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ Photo (R): Havasupai gathered near Red Butte at the south rim of the Grand Ca ...
  • Babylon by Bus -Sina Brown Davis
    The following is a Special Report by Aboriginal News Group senior editor Sina Brown Davis for the Aotearoa Independent Media Centre : -- Representing Te Ata Tino Toa , I took part in the Trade to Climate Caravan , which took 60 Activists from the global south from the WTO meeting in Geneva to C ...

Pensieve

  • A Protest the MSM Refused to Air
    The above footage is from a protest from the “camisetas blancas”, Hondurans in favor of the Constitution. It was held in “Plaza la Libertad” before the presidential palace, the day that OAS president José Miguel Insulza visited Honduras to demand the reinstatement of Manuel Zelaya as president, a ...
  • Alliances that Divide
    The AFP published an article today that troubles me. I’m jaded already with AFP and Reuters imprinting their ideology on the news about Honduras, but there are some facts they let slip that could show what this summit was all about. Honduras was not invited to the summit. And, that the organizers of ...
  • US Hypocrisy: Niger and Honduras
    Photo by SkyTruth Thursday, US State Department assistant secretary Philip J. Crowley made the following statement about Niger: MR. CROWLEY: Right. Very fluid situation and the Embassy there is monitoring it closely. Indications are it could be an attempted coup. There was evidently an attempted as ...
  • Course Correction Needed
    I didn’t choose my career in Computer Science, my family guided me to it. If I had had my choice, I would have studied Music or Architecture. If I had followed my aptitude tests, I would have studied Divinity, Psychology, or Literature. I knew in my sophomore year in college, at the age of 18, the [ ...
  • Chavez Shuts Down RCTV…Again
    Not content to shut down RCTV on the public airwaves when their broadcasting license expired, by quietly ignoring their repeated attempts at renewing it, Chavez has forced cable TV companies to stop carrying the channel as well. The following CNN report talks about it, in a balanced tone they denied ...

Green Times

  • Environmental News - 16/02/10
    Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html) Would you like to fry with that? - (http://www.smh.com.au/environment/would-you-like-to-fry-with-that-20100213-nyjf.html)If you want urgent action on climate change and want to transform Austral ...
  • Roundabout Way to Drive Down Emissions
    I’ve always thought of a roundabout as just a traffic control system.  Yet, while I was visiting North America recently I realised that the benefits of roundabouts go far beyond safety and traffic flow performance. In fact, roundabouts have significant environmental benefits!
  • Environmental News - 09/02/10
    Environmental News Loss of species hits economy; new U.N. goals needed (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6144FO20100205) - Losses of animal and plant species are an increasing economic threat and the world needs new goals for protecting nature after failing to achieve a 2010 U.N. target of s ...
  • Environmental News - 08/02/10
    Environmental News Arctic climate changing faster than expected (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6145KP20100205) - Climate change is transforming the Arctic environment faster than expected and accelerating the disappearance of sea ice.Search for 'Jetsons family' to trial new home (http://w ...
  • Green Up in 2010 or Go Into the Red
    Is it me, or wasn’t it just the other day that we ushered in a new century? It feels like just yesterday when we donned our silly Year 2000 party hats and tooted excitedly as we looked to the future. I remember too that we also had a fair amount of concern that the Y2K bug would cause a worldwide fi ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Deaths from Runaway Toyotas Put at 39 by Investiga ...
    "If the Camry and the Prius were airplanes, they would be grounded," says House Committee Chairman As the CEO of Toyota, Akio Toyoda, took his place at a Congressional hearing, the committee chairman said the death toll from runaway Toyotas had reached 39. "To give that horrifying number some p ...
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    Readers, we need your support! Please click HERE to donate. Or, please mail a check or money order to the CLG: Citizens for Legitimate Government (CLG) P.O. Box 1142 Bristol, CT 06011-1142 To allow us complete freedom in tackling bad government, CLG is not an IRS Section 501 C-3 ch ...
  • Contractors outnumber full-time workers at DHS; la ...
    200,000 contractors outnumber civilian work force of Homeland Security The Department of Homeland Security has more contractors working for it than full-time employees, a situation two members of Congress said Tuesday was "unacceptable, untenable and unsustainable." Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the ch ...

Daily Loaf

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My AntiWar

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Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • Snow fall
    To the average Canadian, a research station getting completely buried in snow more than 1,500 metres high in the Cariboo Mountains might indicate that snow levels at this altitude are not at risk from global warming. But University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) professor Stephen Déry says look ...
  • The STEALTH advantage
    The average Olympic ski race lasts between 90 and 110 seconds, with skiers clocking speeds of up to 130 kilometres per hour. The difference between a gold-medal performance and a 10th-place finish is often measured in hundredths of a second. As University of Calgary geomatics engineering professor G ...
  • An accidental soft landing
    In February 2005, Aaron Coret was a third-year engineering student at the University of British Columbia (UBC) with a passion for snowboarding. His goal was to turn pro some day, but that dream changed instantly when he crashed while snowboarding in a Whistler Blackcomb terrain park, a playground of ...
  • Biology in motion
    InnovationCanada.ca sits down with Queen’s University psychology professor and biological motion expert, Nikolaus Troje. In his Biomotion Lab, Troje and his colleagues study the cognitive processes that occur in the mind to help us recognize emotional and mental health through human movement.
  • Rethinking the pine beetle
    When he talks about the fight against the mountain pine beetle, Joerg Bohlmann likes to use a medical analogy. “Imagine we’re trying to combat malaria,” says the genome biologist based at the University of British Columbia, “but we don’t know the makeup of the disease-causing parasite, so we leave i ...

Signs of the times

  • Fans?
  • Singapore's Budget 2010: Ministers Get More
    While extensive publicity was given by the state media on the impending hike in foreign workers levy to placate Singaporeans still peeved off with the ruling party over its pro-foreigner policy, little was mentioned about the expected increase in salaries of the PAP ministers and ministers of states ...
  • The children of the "Dirty War": Argentine stole ...
    Buenos Aires - The search is finally over for Abel Madariaga, whose pregnant wife was kidnapped by Argentine security forces 33 years ago. After decades of doubt and loneliness, of searching faces in the street in hopes they might be related, Madariaga has found his son. "I never stopped thinkin ...
  • What's in Household Dust? Don't Ask
    It's hard to get too worked up about dust. Yes, it's a nuisance, but it's hardly one that causes us much anxiety - and our language itself suggests as much. We call those clumps of the stuff under the bed dust bunnies after all, not, say, dust vermin. But there's a higher ick factor to dust than ...
  • In Lean Times, Military Spending Still Gets a Pass
    Broken Government You know the government's broken when, in the face of tough fiscal times, the President freezes government spending but gives the military a pass. That's because spending on the military and homeland security, following 9/11 and the launch of two wars in its wake, has become sacro ...

Threat Level

  • Yelp Accused of Extortion
    Yelp, the online review site, is being accused of extortion in a class-action lawsuit filed in Los Angeles this week. The suit alleges that the site tried to get a Long Beach veterinary hospital named Cats and Dogs Animal Hospital to pay $300 a month — for a minimum 12-month commitment — to suppres ...
  • Microsoft Takes Down Whistleblower Site, Read the ...
    Microsoft has managed to do what a roomful of secretive, three-letter government agencies have wanted to do for years: get the whistleblowing, government-document sharing site Cryptome shut down. Microsoft dropped a DMCA notice alleging copyright infringement on Cryptome’s proprietor John Young on T ...
  • China Widens Net Censorship; Google Exile Looms
    The Chinese government is imposing new internet restrictions demanding personal-website operators to acquire central-government permission to operate their sites. The latest censorship measure, which covers .cn domestic domains, comes as Google is trying to convince Chinese censors to ease up. Goog ...
  • Does Italy’s Google Conviction Portend More Censor ...
    Online rights activists are divided Wednesday over an Italian court’s guilty verdicts against Google executives who were convicted on privacy charges for not blocking a video that made fun of a child with Down syndrome. All agree the controversial ruling runs counter to longstanding U.S. and E.U. “s ...
  • FTC: Identity Theft Is No. 1 Consumer Complaint
    Are you really you? It’s hard to say. That’s because identity theft was the top consumer complaint for 2009, the Federal Trade Commission reported Wednesday. It was also the top complaint from the year before, although 5 percent fewer consumers reported it in 2009, the commission said. Overall, of t ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • National Shame Yoo's "Gift to the Obama Presidency ...
    As the Scooter Libby affair showed, no one circles the wagons like the Republican Party and its conservative allies. Now that Bush torture architects John Yoo and Jay Bybee barely escaped disbarment in the final version of the report from the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibili ...
  • CBO Latest to Confirm Success of Stimulus
    With its estimate Tuesday that the $787 billion Obama stimulus package created up to 2.1 million jobs in the last quarter of 2009, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) joined in the near-unanimous chorus of voices proclaiming the package's success. Of course, it wasn't just the overwhelming consen ...
  • Crushed Testicles, Civilian Massacres, Nuclear Bla ...
    The Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility final conclusion that Bush torture team lawyers should not face misconduct penalties has triggered triumphant celebrations in right-wing circles. The Wall Street Journal rejoiced in "Vindicating John Yoo" that the "Bush lawyers are foun ...
  • On Taxes, Heroes and Patriots
    On Monday, the daughter of Austin IRS suicide pilot Joseph Stack proclaimed her father a "hero." By joining the anti-government agitators, white supremacists, militia groups and other right-wing extremists in lauding him for standing up to the "injustice" of "the system," she like them dishonored t ...
  • Pawlenty Swings 9 Iron, Clubs Self
    After his dismal performance at this weekend's CPAC conference, Minnesota Governor and 2012 White House hopeful Tim Pawlenty might want to ask for a mulligan. Before finishing a distant fourth in the CPAC straw poll, Pawlenty's speech was panned by the conservative faithful he sought to impress. W ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

  • Yoo Called Civilian Slaughter OK
    Ex-Bush legal adviser John Yoo said President Bush could legally slaughter a village of civilians, reports Jason Leopold. February 20, 2010
  • Upping the Bid on American Justice
    The U.S. Supreme Court ruling on campaign spending means more bought state judges, Bill Moyers and Michael Winship note. February 20, 2010
  • US Media Replays Iraq Fiasco in Iran
    The major U.S. news media is acting like a propaganda vehicle on Iran much like it did on Iraq, observes Robert Parry. February 18, 2010
  • On Health Care, Dems Lack GOP Grit
    Unlike Democrats playing nice on health care, Republicans used hardball tactics to pass their priorities, Bruce P. Cameron says. February 15, 2010
  • Duty to Warn: Lessons for Americans
    Three young Germans who challenged Hitler's war machine still inspire those who oppose militarism, writes Gary G. Kohls. February 16, 2010

CounterPunch

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Water - AlterNet

TruthHugger

  • Texas Progressive Alliance Monday, February 22, 20 ...
    Monday, February 22, 2010 Texas Blog Roundup The Texas Progressive Alliance reminds you that early voting runs through this Friday at 7 PM for the primaries as it brings you this week’s blog highlights. BossKitty at TruthHugger is amazed that anger is directed toward the Internal Revenue Servic ...
  • Tax and Defiance – Short Sighted Protester, Joe St ...
    Income Tax is Public money that is managed by our elected politicians, who also design the rules for how to use that money. The American Voter is where the ultimate responsibility lies. If the American voter cannot recognize they are complicit in creating a monster taxation system, they can throw ...
  • Military Sexual Offenses, Nothing New – Don’t Ask, ...
    How American’s deal with their sexual drives has a long twisted history of abuse and disinformation
  • Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up Feb 8, ...
    The Texas Progressive Alliance congratulates the city of New Orleans for the Saints’ stirring Super Bowl victory, and reminds them that the “hair of the dog” trick doesn’t really help with the hangover. The Texas Cloverleaf highlights the sentencing of GOP Denton County Constable Ken Jannereth. P ...
  • American Theocracy divorces the US Constitution, p ...
    America wants to be ruled by TV Evangelist Bankers who are always holier than everyone else until they're caught! This is where Religion has buddied up with weapons manufacturers to promote killing in the name of Jesus.

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Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Where does California find these twits? Miss Beverly Hills 2010 appears determined to make the master of video-sexting masturbation, Carrie Prejean, look like a gay-rights activist. Prejean just opposes gay marriage. The latest incarnation of California-fake-bitch believes that the Christian god she ...
  • It's that time again
    You know, I really and truly planned to skip the spring fundraiser, because you guys are terrific and I appreciate you each and every one immensely, and whenever I have had a need, you guys have stepped up and helped me out. For the first three years that I blogged, I didn't even have a donation bu ...
  • Wellpoint Is Still Hungry.
    Remember when I said that the Anthem/Blue Cross �rape attempt on Californians was just a trial balloon for Wellpoint operations elsewhere? �Well here ya go: From Think Progress: REPORT: WellPoint Raising Premium Rates By Double Digits In At Least 11 States They obviously don't care that ABC's requst ...
  • Senate approves jobs bill
    On a vote of 70-28 the upper chamber today approved the $15 billion jobs bill. Thirteen republicans joined 55 Democrats and both Independents in voting in favor of the legislation. Ben Nelson, the most conservative member of the Democratic caucus, voted with the losing repuiblican minority. It is, ...
  • If a congressman expresses terrorist sympathies an ...
    Hyperbole and bombast was the order of the day at CPAC last �weekend, but even by the standards of the libertarian looneybin that CPAC has become, the comments of Iowa Congressman Steve King stood out when he "empathized" with the Texas Teabomber who flew his plane into an IRS building in Austin las ...

Care 2

  • Japanese Pro-Whaling Advocates Gather in Tokyo To ...
    They are protesting against the disturbance of their whaling activities in the Southern Ocean by a conservationist group, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Submitted by Claudia Peters to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • McAllen bust yields 2 tons of pot in tanker truck
    Law enforcement authorities arrested one man after they found about two tons of marijuana packed in a parked tanker truck at a home in McAllen.Jaime Fernandez Cantu, of McAllen, was arrested Feb. 18 and charged with possession with intent to distribute Submitted by Lady Xanadu to Offbeat �|� �Note- ...
  • Democrats slam insurers before healthcare summit
    Democrats turned up the heat on health insurers on Wednesday, attacking the industry for greed and lack of competition before a White House summit that President Barack Obama hopes will revive his healthcare overhaul. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comm ...
  • Legislature Considering Puppy-mill Regulations
    Puppy mills — commercial dog-breeding operations, some with notorious reputations for animal cruelty — are moving away from neighboring states that are cracking down on them and relocating to North Carolina, where industry regulations are nearly Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Ad ...
  • WWF – PROSECUTE THE WHALE SHARK BUTCHERS
    WWF is calling for the prosecution of fishermen who sliced off the dorsal and pectoral fins from an 18-foot whale shark in the Philippines. Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

GreenBiz

  • Pouring Out a New Look for Milk
    Julie Corbett, founder of Ecologic Brands, the company that developed a new paper-plastic hybrid milk packaging, speaks about the inspiration behind the package and the tests they've done with Straus Family Creamery and Whole Foods Market.
  • BASF Ranked Most Efficient Chemical Firm, Dow Fini ...
    Chemical companies Air Liquide and BASF use their environmental and social resources more efficiently to create value than other major chemical companies around the world, according to a new study. �
  • Sprint Dials In New Green Design Scorecard and Rec ...
    Sprint Nextel upped its green credentials before Congress Tuesday with testimony that it had developed a green design scorecard for new products and would vastly expand its wireless phone recycling program.
  • 4 Tips on Buying CFLs for Your Business
    In this tight economy, businesses are increasingly looking for ways to cut operational expenses and provide service to their customers. One area that offers opportunities to save now is lighting for your offices and buildings.
  • Bacardi Cuts Emissions by 20K Tonnes, KPMG Reports ...
    Bacardi Ltd. , the world's largest privately held spirits company, cut greenhouse gas emissions 9.2 percent in the last fiscal year by increasing efficiencies and the use of renewable energy, while KPMG LLP shrank its carbon footprint in the U.S. by reducing air travel, use of electricity and waste.

Reuters Global

  • Towards a regional settlement in Afghanistan (Redu ...
    The "utopian" idea of a regional solution to Afghanistan has resurfaced. Will it work?
  • What can Nigeria expect now?
    What will the return of Nigeria's president, still to unwell to rule, mean for the chance of dealing with pressing problems and preparing for elections by April next year?
  • Sniping mars EU image and unity
    The European Union is struggling to maintain a show of unity during Greece's debt crisis, and sniping has started to mar its image. In the latest examples, a member of the European Parliament has sharply criticised the new EU president and Greece's deputy prime minister has said the Union lacks lead ...
  • ‘Stop me before I bet again in Singapore&#82 ...
    Ten days after Singapore's first casino opened, business is booming, even as Singapore emerges from one of its worse recessions ever. The number of problem gamblers seeking to get themselves barred from the casino has spiked as well.
  • India and Pakistan: finding the right forum for di ...
    India and Pakistan will try on Thursday to break a diplomatic freeze which followed the November 2008 attack on Mumbai. But their first challenge will be in finding the right forum for dialogue.

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Republican and Democratic Hypocrisy on Reconciliat ...
    I agree with brother Larry Doyle’s early piece on the Democrats hypocrisy regarding reconciliation. Republicans are just as guilty. I heard Sean Hannity whining tonight and trotting out a host of clips featuring Harry Reid, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton complaining about the Republicans back wh ...
  • Hardball McCotter
    From the blog for the syndicated John Batchelor Show, aired nightly via iTunes. (Click Radio, then Spoken Word/Talk. Then scroll to and click New York City’s WABC-AM.) (The concluding video is below the fold.) House Not Close.   Spoke Steve Dennis and David Drucker of Roll Call Monday re the Obam ...
  • Democrat Hypocrites on Reconciliation
    The political process known as reconciliation has been infrequently utilized in Congressional proceedings. For good reason. In order to maintain proper checks and balances in our legislative procedures, our founding fathers thought it necessary to require a 60% vote in the Senate to pass legislation ...
  • Rev. James Meeks Takes on the New Slave Masters
    * Bumped up * “We don’t have slave masters,” he said. “We got mayors. But they still the same white people who are presiding over systems where black people are not able . . . to be educated.” That is some statement. Who expressed such strong and incendiary outrage? The Reverend James Meeks, founde ...
  • A Nut By Any Other Name…
    Is still a nut. You may have heard that ACORN, the group which has received millions of taxpayer dollars, and has misused millions of taxpayer dollars, is restructuring. Along with that comes a name change, to COI (Community Organizations International). I wonder what THAT means (the International ...

Environmental Graffiti

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Preventive maintenance
    ... is always warranted! What better investment than new hard drives after a few years when things start acting up? I was able to find a dual FireWire 800 SATA enclosure, delightful! Reinstalling OS X 10.5 has breathed new life into this machine, and in the nick of time too. Much snappier!
  • Belgium diss!! Farage rips Von Rumpuy in European ...
    The only redeeming feature of the European Union system is British anti-globalist man of wit Nigel Farage, who rips Von Rompuy, the European Union president, a classic Belgian Reptilian, and noted fan of the New World Order. MOAR: http://www.economicvoice.com/nigel-farage-calls-herman-va ...
  • Gerald Posner quits over plagiarism! Olympics Indy ...
    Here's a good one: Gerald Posner was a convenient weathervane for conspiracy coverups, much as Howard Fineman is a convenient weathervane for Safe Establishment Thinking. You can just look for Fineman and Posner for the exact line the mockingbirds are supposed to push. Everyone else seems to water t ...
  • The biggest scandal in world history; WANTAGATE, L ...
    Draft conspiracy post note - this rough draft story lacks links but I want to get it up anyways... Have fun everyone! This guy, Leo Wanta / Lee Wanta / Ambassador Leo Wanta, could be the key to the biggest financial conspiracy of all time. Or maybe it's a huge thing of hot air. It seems we can ...
  • 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 ...

Daily Censored

  • Steve Poizner, Gubernatorial candidate and charter ...
    Co-founder and long time California Charter School Association board member and gubernatorial candidate, Steve Poizner targets un-documented workers with racist speech at the conservative CPAC Charter Schools, segregation and capitalism: they all go together I have written a great deal about th ...
  • Has the US gone the way of the former Soviet Union ...
    As one takes a glimpse at the economic and social problems ailing the US , one cannot help but ask if there are similarities between the fall of the former Soviet Union and the current free-fall of the United States . For that matter, it is important to look at the current state of affairs in [...]
  • Haiti – The Empire Strikes Again
    By Guest Blogger Terry Morrone The good old USA has added another country to its empire. It was an earth quake assisted takeover. The major media as usual have the story all wrong. While a few stories in the major media covered the ineffectiveness of US aid, most focused instead on the poor, misera ...
  • Marjah – Winning the Battle; Losing the War
    We are now witnessing the first act of the increased US troop level in Afghanistan. The scene is Marjah in Helmand Province. There, the US has sent some 10,000 US troops and an even greater number of Afghani troops. The idea is to break the Taliban’s control over this remote, dusty village of some ...
  • CHLAMYDIA–THE MOST WIDESPREAD VENEREAL DISEASE
    CENSORED IN 1984: CHLAMYDIA–THE MOST WIDESPREAD VENEREAL DISEASE –LEADS TO STERILITY One hundred thousand women a year are becoming sterile from NGU (nongonococcal urethritis), an inflammation of the urinary tube commonly called Chlamydia. It infects some 3 to 10 million Americans each year, making ...

Institute for Policy Studies

Pine River World News

  • The Drive to Eliminate Social Security in America
    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Global Research. The Drive to Eliminate Social Security in America � �Shamus Cooke Global Research February 23, 2010 In Washington each new day brings a fresh call to "reform entitlement programs" - Social Security, Medicare, etc., (in Con ...
  • Fiddling with a war in Afghanistan: Pak editorial
    The following editorial is from The Frontier Post, Peshawar, Pakistan. Fiddling with a war � � The Frontier Post February 23, 2010 President Barack Obama may have spent some months on working out his surge strategy for pacifying occupied Afghanistan to make for the occupiers to pull out quickly. B ...
  • Texas Attack: U.S. Double-standard Terrorism
    The following article is from IslamOnline (IOL). Texas Attack ... U.S. Double-standard Terrorism � � IslamOnline By Dina Rabie, IOL Staff February 21, 2010 WASHINGTON - The Obama administration's refusal to acknowledge last week's plane attack at a government facility in Texas as terrorist shows a ...
  • Dalai Lama and memories of the CIA
    The following opinion and analysis is from RIA Novosti, Moscow. Dalai Lama and memories of the CIA � � RIA Novosti By Dmitry Kosyrev, RIA Novosti political correspondent February 20, 2010 The Dalai Lama's meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is probably the most interesting part of ...
  • U.S. health insurers reap record profits in 2009
    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from World Socialist Web Site. U.S. health insurers reap record profits in 2009 � � World Socialist Web Site By Kate Randall February 19, 2010 The five largest U.S. health insurance companies set new profit records in 2009, while the greatest ...

PDA AMERICA

  • IOT: Healthcare for All/Single Payer Feb Call
    On this call we had -Donna Smith, Healthcare NOT Warfare co-chair, updated us from the Hill on where we stand and also the Brown Bag Lunch Vigil campaign from DC. Chuck Pennacchio, Executive Director of Healthcare ...
  • IOT: Stop Global Warming: Feb Call
    On this month’s Stop Global Warming/Environmental Issues Organizing Team call, the following topics were covered: assembling a new leadership team for the IOT, and our campaign to achieve national climate legislation based on direct carbon ...
  • National Safety Net (NSN) — Six Point Agenda
    National Safety Net (NSN) — Six Point Agenda In keeping with the Spirit of FDR’s “Second Bill Of Rights.â€� National Safety Net – Six Point Agenda America needs a National Safety Net (NSN). Presently, America has a weak ...
  • (Video) John Yoo speech disrupted at Johns Hopkins ...
    From the Examiner Wednesday evening, Feb. 17, 2010, John Yoo, torture memo author, gave a talk on the campus of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Before the controversial law professor could get into his ...
  • Yoo, Bybee, and Disinformation
    By David Swanson | AfterDowningStreet.org Everything you’re reading about torture lawyers John Yoo and Jay Bybee getting off the hook is wrong. They are not torture lawyers, they are not off the hook, there never was ...

Marler Blog

  • 242 Salmonella Senftenberg and Salmonella Montevid ...
    According to the CDC , 238 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Montevideo , which displays either of two closely related pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) patterns, have been reported from 44 states and District of Columbia since July 1, 2009. The number of ill person ...
  • Beta Testers Needed for Foodborne Illness Outbreak ...
    Marler Clark is set to sponsor the Foodborne Illness Outbreak Database , a resource that provides access to over 600 food poisoning outbreaks in one easy to search place. The database accesses information on outbreaks dating back to 1993. We would love your input on how the database functions a ...
  • Petition Number 09-03: Petition for an Interpretiv ...
    Good News, FSIS is paying attention, as is the industry, or at least its minions .� I would not vote against FSIS doing right by the consuming public (click on below to download letter and attachments):
  • Rep. John Dingell Calls out "Slow to Act" Senate o ...
    The Hill's, J. Taylor Rushing caught Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), the longest serving member of the House and author of the lower chamber’s food safety bill, calling out the Senate as being “slow to act” on the bipartisan bill that passed the House. Dingell’s bill passed the House last July on a 28 ...
  • GMA - Grocery Manufacturers Association Speech in ...
    I�have the honor to co-present with defense counsel, Alan M Maxwell , at this week's GMA Litigation Conference in Austin, Texas - (click on image below) - I am also going to hand out Food Safety News thermometers.

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 02.25.10
    Five Axis Aerius kit for 2010 Prius now available Tuner calls hybrids "a blank canvas for styling enhancements". Tesla driver helps Roadster fans with donated charge point between LA and SF O ...
  • Cummins will recall 405 engines, pay $2.1 million ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal , Recalls Cummins Inc. has lodged a settlement in the U.S. District Court for D.C. agreeing to pay a $2.1 million penalty for violating the Clean Air Act. What did Cummins do? Well, it "shipped more than 570,000 heavy duty diesel engines to vehicle equipment manufact ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 02.24.10
    HumanCar Imagine_PS is here, almost - preorders accepted [w/video] Pedal faster! Consumer Reports declares the Ford F-250 Lariat 2010's worst gas guzzler How bad? How 'bout 10 mpg? ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 02.23.10
    Forbes predicts Nissan Leaf will be a flop Some people just don't get it. How best to tax EVs? Probably not with Washington's $100 flat rate People want good roads, so how do we pay for them. ...
  • Fisker hires Lambesis as ad agency of record; we e ...
    Filed under: Hybrid , Sedan , Performance , Marketing/Advertising , Fisker , Electric , Luxury Fisker Karma - Click above for high-res image gallery We've already seen at least one TV ad from Fisker Automotive , a minute-long spot that aired in the Los Angeles area almost a year ago (watch it her ...

Rafe's Radar

  • Quicken for the Mac: Finally!
    After three years, Intuit releases a (simplified) version of Quicken for the Mac. It's attractive and useful, but people with complex financial lives may run into walls with the product. ...
  • New Seesmic Web out-features Seesmic Desktop
    In a few key areas, the Web-based version of the Seesmic Twitter client bests its desktop sibling.
  • Reporters' Roundtable Podcast: Buzz vs. privacy
    Last week, Google launched Buzz , a status update tool that has elements of Twitter, Facebook, and FriendFeed. Google launched it inside the Gmail app, giving it an instant installed base of millions of people. More importantly, Google gave Buzz access to your Gmail contacts. When the app first ...
  • Parlor trick: Buzzzy searches Buzz
    If Google's own Buzz search doesn't work for you, try Buzzzy.
  • Reporters' Roundtable Podcast: HTML 5 vs. Flash
    One of the biggest criticisms of Apple's new iPad, and of the iPhone, is that it does not support Adobe's Flash, a system that lets Web developers code streaming videos and interactivity into Web pages. Steve Jobs is reported to be a big booster for HTML 5, a new extension of the HTML standard ...

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Cracking Down on Fracking
    Mike Markham of Colorado has an explosive problem: His tap water catches fire. Markham demonstrates this in a new documentary, “Gasland,” which just won the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize. Director Josh Fox films Markham as he runs his kitchen faucet, holding a cigarette lighter up to th ...
  • Catch Amy Goodman on C-SPAN2's Book TV this Sunday ...
    Friends of Howard Zinn gathered at Busboys and Poets in Washington, DC to pay tribute to the historian who died on January 27th. The speakers include Ralph Nader, Marian Wright Edelman, Amy Goodman, Dave Zirin, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Phyllis Bennis, Geoffrey Millard, Richard Rubenstein and Busboy ...
  • Coming Up: Joseph Stiglitz on "Freefall: America, ...
    Nobel Prize-winning economist Jospeh Stiglitz joins us to discuss the stimulus, the state of the economy and his new book, Freefall
  • Obama’s Nuclear Option
    President Barack Obama is going nuclear. He announced the initial $8 billion in loan guarantees for construction of the first new nuclear power plants in the United States in close to three decades. Obama is making good on a campaign pledge, like his promises to escalate the war in Afghanistan and ...
  • 2009 Polk Winners interviewed on _Democracy Now!_
    The 2009 George Polk Awards were announced on Monday. Two of the winners include reporters featured on Democracy Now!: * Environmental Reporting: Abrahm Lustgarten for documenting the deadly side effects of hydraulic fracturing * Military Reporting: Charlie Reed and others at Stars and Strip ...

Farming Pathogens

  • The Expulsion
    In 1845 a diplomat delivered a letter from Friedrich Wilhelm to Louis Philippe of France protesting the insults leveled at the Prussian king by expatriates living in Paris. King Louis had the radicals’ newspaper closed down and the group, along with one Karl Marx, deported. This was not the first ti ...
  • Do Pathogens Time Travel?
    Evolution arises from a wealth of failure: 1) natural selection requires large and variable populations comprised largely of organisms that fail because their designs do not match their present problems and 2) chance destruction occurs at all spatiotemporal scales. So clearly strict optimization doe ...
  • We Are All Astronauts Now
    Five years ago I gave copies of this essay to a few friends and family as a year-end holiday gift. As a first stab I think it’s aged well, despite its ignorance of the work of Berger, Harvey, Reichenbach, among others. I offer it now to everyone else in a similar spirit–all in good fun, [...]
  • Pigs Do Fly! Implications for Influenza
    The influenza genome is segmented. Eight pieces of single-stranded RNA encode for 11 proteins: PB2, PB1, PB1-F2, PA, HA, NP, NA, M1, M2, NS1, and NS2. The segmentation allows influenza of different subtypes infecting the same host to trade segments like card players on a Friday night. Most of the re ...
  • Breeding Influenza: The Political Virology of Offs ...
    What better way to medicate against a holiday’s genocidal origins and the hunger now swelling worldwide in the wake of a related banker-brought recession than with a bellyful of turkey, stuffing, yams, and pumpkin pie? Despite its rotten ambiguities Thanksgiving remains my favorite American holiday. ...

Digg Green

  • Climategate: The World's Biggest Story Everywhere ...
    “biggest scientific scandal in history.” It has everything to earn Pulitzer consideration: lies and misconduct in high places, political implications, even massive financial transactions that may or may not be legitimate or even legal. It’s big news … as long as you read the Telegraph, the Guardian, ...
  • Bird wings alter shape with habitat changes
    A newly published study in the journal Ecology finds evidence that the wing shape of birds in North America has changed over the last 100 years as an adaptation to the loss of forest habitat.
  • AAAS: Coral reefs could disappear by the end of th ...
    The world's coral reefs could dissolve away by the end of the century as oceans become more acidic, research suggests.
  • A Bio-Friendly Way to Meet Your Maker!
    The process’s biggest draw, supporters say, is the environmental impact: The stainless steel cylinder that processes the body uses less energy to operate and produces far fewer pollutants than cremation by incineration. There’s no worry that embalming fluid will further harm the earth.
  • Earth's Fiery Power: Big, Bad, Beautiful Volcanoes ...
    When it comes to extremes in nature, not much else compares to the violent blood and guts of the earth and erupting volcanoes.

Invisible Opportunity

  • GlaxoSmithKline deliberately hid evidence of Avand ...
    By Mike Adams GlaxoSmithKline, maker of the diabetes drug Avandia, knew the drug was linked to tens of thousands of heart attacks but went out of its way to hide this information from the public, says a 334-page report just released by the Senate Finance Committee. (http://finance.senate.gov/press/G ...
  • Serious birth defects linked to the agricultural c ...
    By S. L. Baker Gastroschisis is a birth defect in which the intestines, and sometimes other organs, develop outside the fetal abdomen and poke out through an opening in the abdominal wall. Long considered a rare occurrence, gastroschisis has mysteriously been on the rise over the last three decades. ...
  • Harvard Fellow calls for genocidal measure to curb ...
    A fellow at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Martin Kramer, has called for “the West” to take measures to curb the births of Palestinians, a proposal that appears to meet the international legal definition of a call for genocide. Kramer, who is also a fellow at the ...
  • Do Our Organs Have Memories?
    By Jurriaan Kamp Transplant patients sometimes take on part of their donors’ personalities. Glenda lost her husband, David, in a car crash. She made his organs available for transplant. A few years later, as part of a study by neuropsychologist Paul Pearsall, she met the young Spanish-speaking man w ...
  • FDA Invades Non-Commercial Amish Farm in PA
    In what used to be a free country it seems the FDA even want the Amish to stop drinking raw milk. In a total disregard for his health freedom, agents of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) came onto the property of Amish farmer Dan Allgyer, without permission, claiming to be conducting an in ...

Insurgency Watch | True/Slant

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • Jordan Army Fights to Save the World by Attacking ...
    Jordan has unveiled the battle plans to help combat climate change, including upgrading its armed forces and lowering its "Boot Print" by 2020. Related posts: The Proof versus Belief Conundrum in Reference to Climate Change 2009 Global Climate Change Impact Report Released White House Foll ...
  • White House Video – The GreenGov Challenge
    Today, the President is calling on us to turn ideas into action to put the Federal Government on the path to a clean energy future. Related posts: President Obama Gives Federal Agencies 90 Days to set Greenhouse Reduction Goals Van Jones First Public Letter Since Resigning From the White House ...
  • 5 Reasons Why Nuclear Energy is Even Worse than Cl ...
    President Barack Obama announced that he is giving $8.3 Billion dollars in loan guarantees to build the first U.S. nuclear power plant in almost three decades. Related posts: President Obama on the Clean Energy and Security Act (Video) Poll Suggests that 71 Percent of Americans Want a Clean E ...
  • Gas Drilling Causes Mud Volcano – Kills 14 and Dis ...
    A report released on Friday accuses energy firm PT Lapindo Brantas with inadvertently creating a mud volcano that killed 14 and displaced 60,000 people. Related posts: Dont Stop the Drilling to Save the Polar Bears Pollution Kills 40 Percent of Us – Artisanal Gold Mining Pollution Kills 40 Pe ...
  • I Love Mountains Day – Kentuckians Rally to Save t ...
    Kentuckians gather to push The Stream Saver Bill (Senate Bill 139) at the 2010 “I Love Mountains Day” march and rally. Related posts: Wendys Restaurant Chain Supports Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Senior Citizens March 25 Miles Against Mountaintop Removal Verizon Apologizes for Sponsorin ...

Inhabitat

  • Inhabitat Reports LIVE From Greener Gadgets Today!
    Today team Inhabitat is reporting LIVE from the Greener Gadgets Conference to bring you the latest as design and technology luminaries from around the world discuss the state-of-the-art in green electronics. We’re excited to bring you today’s stellar lineup of speakers and can’t wait to kick things ...
  • GEOtube is A Building That Grows Its Own Weblike S ...
    It may sound a bit creepy, but wouldn’t it be cool if buildings could grow their own skin? California-based architecture firm Faulders Studio certainly thinks so. GEOtube, their proposal for Dubai is almost exactly like a normal building – except for the fact that it will have the ability to generat ...
  • Rock-Solid Rammed Earth Office by David Marchetti
    High-tech building materials may be all the rage, but ancient materials can be just as effective at creating energy-efficient and environmentally sensitive buildings. Case in point: David Marchetti Architetto has designed a office building for Leeds, UK that features a modern façade formed from ramm ...
  • Wood Pallets Repurposed into Modular Furniture
    Swiss designer Sibylle Stoeckl has come up with a new way to repurpose old and discarded wood pallets. In a series called Le Cageot, Stoeckl takes standard crates and turns them into modular pieces which can be combined and stacked into a variety of shapes and sizes. The unfinished wood also makes a ...
  • Ice Records Play the Songs of Melting Glaciers
    If the Earth growls, then glaciers beat-box. In an installation called Langjökull, Snæfellsjökull, Solheimajökull, artist Katie Paterson created three records out of glacier ice and then played them until they melted. The progression of the warbling watery sounds and liquefying flux were doc ...

Pogue's Posts

Open Your Eyes News

  • Experts Predict Rapid Spike in Cancer Cases
    The Local.de – The number of cancer cases in Germany will likely spike by a third in the next 20 years, medical experts reported on Wednesday. Nobel Prize-winning doctor and president of German Cancer Aid, Harald zur Hausen, told daily Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung that the numbers will increase dramat ...
  • ‘Seek, test and treat’ slows HIV
    Nature – Treating HIV infection aggressively before symptoms appear could help to control the spread of the disease, according to data presented at a retroviral conference last week. Independent studies in Canada, the United States and Africa support the strategy in both the developed and developing ...
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  • The IMF Destroys Iceland and Latvia
    Huffington Post – The International Monetary Fund operates primarily as a banker bailout machine. They cajole and tempt and confuse and threaten the leaders of governments worldwide to pay off the failed bets of the big bankers using the taxpayer funds of their countries. This has been going on a lo ...
  • Did design flaws doom the LHC?
    Nature – Running more than a year behind schedule and at half its intended energy, the world’s most powerful particle accelerator is slated to begin its first full scientific run this week. Along with relief, the occasion is bringing some soul-searching. One senior scientist who helped to build the ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Runda 1: Pierwszoświatowy hodżaizm kontra trzecioś ...
    Runda 1: Pierwszoświatowy hodżaizm kontra trzecioświatowy maoizm o Teorii Trzech Światów (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Ostatnio miała miejsce debata pomiędzy pierwszoświatowymi hodżaistami a trzecioświatowymi maoistami, która obejmowała wiele tematów. Jednym z nich była opracowana przez Mao T ...
  • Black history month: Interview with “Steve Struggl ...
    Black history month: Interview with “Steve Struggle” on the Black Panther Party and Black liberation (raimd.wordpress.com, monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) For Black history month, The Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist Movement (RAIM) interviews “Steve,” veteran Black revolutionary, one-time member o ...
  • Krótkie spojrzenie na niektóre błędy Mao
    Krótkie spojrzenie na niektóre błędy Mao (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Mao Tse-tung był największym rewolucjonistą ostatniego stulecia. Poprowadził on jedną czwartą świata do walki o zrzucenie kajdan imperializmu, feudalizmu i kapitalizmu. “Lud Chin podniósł się” – jak ogłosił on na placu Tia ...
  • A quick look at some of Mao’s errors
    A quick look at some of Mao’s errors (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Mao Zedong was the greatest revolutionary of the last century. Mao led a quarter of the world in throwing off the chains of imperialism, feudalism and capitalism. “China has stood up,â€� he announced from the steps of Tian’ ...
  • MSH on healthcare, NPR on barefoot doctors
    MSH on healthcare, NPR on barefoot doctors (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com, npr.org) The following is an mainstream, bourgeois article from National Public Radio on socialist China’s barefoot doctors. The barefoot doctors were an part of socialist China’s alternative approach to medicine. The pr ...

PakAlert

  • Trinitite – WHAT THE HECK IS THIS STUFF?
    Michael Rivero| whatreallyhappened.com The above image is a scan of a piece of Trinitite. This is desert sand that was underneath the explosion of the world’s first Atomic bomb in New Mexico as part of project TRINITY, hence the name Trinitite. The heat from that blast melted the sand into a gr ...
  • The Occult Dajjali Symbolism of Sherlock Holmes
    The latest Hollywood blockbuster Sherlock Holmes revolves around occult murders and world conspiracies. The movie is riddled with occult symbols and allusions to a “New Order”. We’ll look at the history of Sherlock Holmes, the origins of the symbols found within the movie and its meaning in today’s  ...
  • Illuminati Symbolism: The Auto Industry
    This article will provide an in-depth analysis of each auto maker logo (badge/ emblem). It will show that they all can be traced back to three ancient esoteric symbols for the sun, and ancient Egypt. Those in control during ancient times are still in control now, and they insist on bombarding us wit ...
  • Destabilizing Pakistan – Operation Breakfast Redux
    By Tom Engelhardt and Pratap Chatterjee Almost every day, reports come back from the CIA’s “secret” battlefield in the Pakistani tribal borderlands. Unmanned aerial vehicles – that is, pilotless drones – shoot missiles (18 of them in a single attack on a tiny village last week) or ...
  • Gerald Celente : This is a Total Financial Meltdow ...
    “I do not eat corporate food and I do not buy Made in China ” says Gerald Celente …If Israel and The US attack Iran it is the start of World War III , Iran is not Iraq… the top trends for 2010 are the crash of 2010 and terrorism 2010 , the anti Americanism [...] Read More at http://pakalert.wor ...

ecogeek

  • Why is Bloom Energy Lying to Us?
    Don't get me wrong, I'm extremely excited about Bloom Energy. I honestly think that their technology is a good thing for the world and that it might very well revolutionize the power infrastructure in America and throughout the world. And yes, it will create jobs and make a select few people very ri ...
  • BrightSource Gets $1.4 Billion DOE Loan Guarantee ...
    BrightSource Energy, Inc has received $1.37 billion in loan guarantees from the DOE for 400 MW's worth of solar thermal energy projects through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. With the funding, the company is constructing three utility-scale concentrated solar plants that will make up ...
  • British Airways Turning Waste into Jet Fuel
    British Airways has announced that it will start producing jet fuel from landfill waste to reach its target of 50 percent reduced emissions by 2050. The airline is partnering with biofuels company Solena to construct a waste-to-energy fuel plant in East London that will turn 500,000 tonnes of orga ...
  • U.S. Could Generate 37 Million GWh of Wind Power P ...
    For those in the wind power business, or those considering jumping in, last week brought some big news.  A new study by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) found that the U.S. could theoretically generate 37 million gigawatt-hours of wind power per year, triple the amount previously tho ...
  • Device Mimics Leeches, Ejects Plug When Gadget is ...
    Leeches drink blood until they're full and then fall off of their host, but our plugged-in gadgets keep drinking electricity even once they're fully charged.  The Outlet Regulator changes this by ejecting the plug from the electricity source once the gadget is done charging, turning vampir ...

Buzzflash

  • The Disunited Fiefdoms of America
    Body What can one preemptively conclude about today's big show, other than that of The System's catastrophic failure? We are now reduced to health care as pure politics -- and jobs and the economy as pure politics, as well as climate change, and regulatory reform, and so on. And the k ...
  • Infantilized politics: a parent of polarization
    Body This week's CNN/Opinion Research poll, which confirmed the astonishingly obvious, is missing a critical verb. In broad adverbs, precise predicate adjectives and the verbal urgency of now, the poll does not want; it tells us that we, "overwhelmingly," are pretty sure that our gove ...
  • Democrats Need to Prosecute Winnable Battles
    Body Our political process is jeopardized when partisan talking points form the basis for public understanding of important issues. Any mental deviate is free to frame an opinion no matter how absurd or factually bereft, as was made clear at the weekend’s CPAC conference and at many o ...
  • Suspicious Funding from a Saudi Prince: FOX Shareh ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT by Jeffrey Joseph Conventional political wisdom says that conservatives benefit politically from making national security a vital issue. Implied is the notion that though everyone suffers from terrorism, conservatives can gain from it, at least on the political stage. While that ...
  • Anthem Blue Cross Fails to Defend Rate Increases B ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Meg White As you may have seen in my piece from earlier today , I was impressed by the eloquence of the Anthem Blue Cross policy holders who testified before the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations today. I was significantly less impressed with the arguments ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • Excessive bipartisanship and other matters
    One of the strangest prongs of conventional Beltway wisdom is the lament that there is not enough bipartisanship.� The opposite is true:��many of the most damaging acts inflicted on the country by Washington are enacted on a fully bipartisan basis -- the most destructive political act of this gene ...
  • Salon Radio: Supreme Court terrorism case today
    The�U.S. Supreme Court today is hearing oral argument in the case of Humanitarian Law Project v. Holder , which has received far less attention than it deserves.� The case was brought by numerous human rights workers challenging the constitutionality of the statute which criminalizes the providing ...
  • Inside the mind of Newsweek on "terrorism"
    On so many levels, this is one of the most stunningly revealing things I've read in quite some time. �As I documented last week , the media's reluctance to describe IRS�attacker Joe Stack as a "terrorist"�reveals that this term has little to do with the act itself and everything to do with the dem ...
  • The Democratic Party's deceitful game
    (updated below) Democrats perpetrate the same scam over and over on their own supporters, and this illustrates perfectly how it's played: Politics Daily , October 4, 2009 : Jay Rockefeller on the Public Option: "I Will Not Relent" Jay Rockefeller has waited a long time fo ...
  • The NYT on its "kill more civilians" Op-Ed writer
    (updated below) Last week, I� wrote about the mysterious Op-Ed writer, Lara M. Dadkhah, published by The New�York Times , who urged that the U.S. be less restrained about slaughtering Afghan civilians with air attacks (when Dadkhar reads things like this from today -- "Airstrike kills doz ...

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Shedding light on photosynthesis
    The rules have changed regarding photosynthetic law, The Alchemist learns, while it turns out that plants use steroid hormones just like those found in mammals. Another type of plant could lead to a novel anticancer drug. In polymer news, an approach to locking in plasticizers could eradicate probl ...
  • Interview with David J Newman (Pt. II)
    This is Part II of the unabridged transcript of an interview with Dr David Newman, Chief at the Natural Products Branch of the NCI in Maryland. The interview was conducted for a new quarterly newsletter – Chemistry Matters. You can read Part I in which Dr Newman discussed how natural products can l ...
  • Prostate problem probed
    Pinpointing prostate problems – The chemical cousin of magnetic resonance imaging, MR spectroscopy, could be used to pinpoint the exact location of prostate cancers and to determine the aggressiveness of a tumour without major surgical intervention, according to research published in the journal Sc ...
  • Summer born lucky are born rich
    If you want to feel lucky in life, make sure you are born to well-off parents and don’t worry about whether you’re birthday is in the summer or winter. In 2005, well-known psychologist Richard Wiseman and his colleagues surveyed 30,000 people via the internet to see if there is a relationship betwe ...
  • A chiefly natural interview with David Newman (Pt. ...
    David Newman is Chief at the Natural Products Branch, Developmental Therapeutics Program, DCTD, at the National Cancer Institutes in Frederick, Maryland, USA. I interviewed him for Issue 1 of a new quarterly newsletter called Chemistry Matters in Pharma. This is Part I of the unabridged transcript ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Death Penalty Abolition Setback by South Korean Co ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 25, 2010 Amnesty International - USA Amnesty International is deeply disappointed by the South Korean Constitutional Court's decision to uphold the death penalty today. In a five to four ruling, the Constitutional Court stated that capital punishment did not violate " ...
  • National Lawyers Guild Files Amicus Brief on Behal ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 23, 2010 National Lawyers Guild The National Lawyers Guild filed an amicus curiae ("friend of the court") brief in the Colorado Court of Appeals on February 18 in the case of Churchill v. The University of Colorado in support of the tenured professor who was fired over ...
  • United States to Retire Nuclear-Armed Tomahawk Mis ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 23, 2010 Union of Concerned Scientists The Japanese press reported yesterday that the United States will retire its nuclear-armed Tomahawk cruise missiles, signifying the end of an ongoing debate within the Obama administration over the future of these weapons. The Tom ...
  • CCR Challenges Patriot Act Material Support Law in ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 23, 2010 Center for Constitutional Rights Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, the first case to challenge a portion of the Patriot Act before the highest court in the land. read m ...
  • CCR Urges Support of Stop Outsourcing Security Leg ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 23, 2010 Center for Constitutional Rights Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement in response to the introduction in Congress of the Stop Outsourcing Security legislation by Rep. Jan Schakowsky (IL) in the House and the companio ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Bust Up the Health Insurance Trusts
    by Robert Reich Years ago I worked at an agency in Washington called the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC predates the New Deal. It was set up in 1914 during the administration of Woodrow Wilson, at a time when many of America’s industries had combined into giant trusts that had enormous market and ...
  • War Politics: Numb and Number
    by Norman Solomon Playwright Lillian Hellman said: "I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions." The statement was in a letter to the House Un-American Activities Committee. The year was 1952. We tell ourselves that the McCarthy era was vastly different than our own -- bu ...
  • The Attack on Climate-Change Science
    by Bill McKibben Twenty-one years ago, in 1989, I wrote what many have called the first book for a general audience on global warming. One of the more interesting reviews came from the  Wall Street Journal.   It was a mixed and judicious appraisal.  “The subject,” the reviewer said, “is important, t ...
  • The Iraq Withdrawal: Obama vs. the Pentagon
    by Raed Jarrar This Monday, Army Gen. Ray Odierno, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, asked officials in DC to approve contingency plans to delay the withdrawal of US combat forces. The next day, the New York times published an op-ed asking president Obama to delay the US withdrawal and keep some tens ...
  • The Ignorant Righteous v. The Lower Merion School ...
    by Ru Freeman There is a reason why I ceased to support the ACLU after a brief affair with the organization as a college student. Whenever a group operates within a narrow framework that denies the nuance and complexity of our ultimately human lives, it becomes irrelevant. read more

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Relatives face prosecution for 'mercy killings'
    Top prosecutor removes exemption for family members from guidelines that give six mitigating factors against prosecution Family members who help a loved one die in "mercy killings" could still face criminal charges in new guidelines on assisted suicide set out by the director of public prosecutions ...
  • RBS makes £3.6bn loss
    • Chairman understands 'public concerns' over bonuses • George Osborne attacks 'ridiculous' salaries in banking • Investment banking arm makes £5.7bn Royal Bank of Scotland faced renewed criticism over its decision to hand out £1.3bn of bonuses to its investment bankers this morning as the state-con ...
  • Brown to Blair: 'You ruined my life'
    New Andrew Rawnsley revelations detail the extent to which Brown manoeuvred to oust Blair as PM Gordon Brown repeatedly shouted at Tony Blair: "You ruined my life" in the final confrontation that forced Blair to agree to announce a date by which he would stand down as prime minister, according to An ...
  • Starved girl's mother convicted
    Angela Gordon cleared of murder charge after defence of diminished responsibility accepted by prosecutors A mother who starved her seven-year-old daughter to death was today cleared of murder after prosecutors accepted her defence of diminished responsibility. Angela Gordon, 35, was formally found n ...
  • Wayne Bridge quits England
    • Left-back says his position is 'untenable and potentially divisive' • Fabio Capello left with World Cup selection headache • Former England players reaction to Bridge's decision Wayne Bridge has said his position in the England squad is "untenable and potentially divisive" and he has decided to ma ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • A stark snapshot of nature loss
    While spending a few days off last week with the young primates closest to my own heart, I neglected to flag up here a new report on the threats facing various other primate species around the world. Primates in Peril: The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates 2006-8 is compiled by specialists from ...
  • Whaling: A draft of cold comfort?
    The International Whaling Commission (IWC) has unveiled detailed proposals on how whaling could be regulated in a way that countries still engaged in the hunt and those opposed to it could both live with. The essential dilemma is what it has been for decades: some societies view the whale as just a ...
  • Unknowns behind climate chief's resignation
    Rumours that Yvo de Boer, the UN's top climate official, would be leaving his post well before the end of this year were rife even during the Copenhagen summit. The theory went like this. If Copenhagen turned out to be a "failure" - however you want to define that - then someone would have to take ...
  • Climate panel: Time for a refit?
    In the past few weeks, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has received a vast amount of advice on how it should be reformed, ranging from minor structural tinkering to immediate self-immolation. So it must inevitably be when powerful political interests come to blows over what is ...
  • 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 ...

Afghanistan Sun

  • Pakistan to hand over captured Taliban leaders to ...
    Kabul, Feb 25 (DPA) Pakistan was ready to hand over captured Taliban leaders to Kabul after a high-level meeting between security officials of the two neighbours, the Afghan presidential palace said Thursday.
  • Pak accepts Kabul's demand to hand over Barad ...
    Kabul, Feb.25 : The Pakistan government has agreed to handover the top Afghan Taliban commander Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who was nabbed in a joint operation by the Pakistani and US officials in Karachi earlier this month, to Afghanistan.
  • Afghan government claims Taliban stronghold
    (IDM) MARJAH, Afghanistan (AP) — The Afghan government has raised its flag over the southern Taliban stronghold of Marjah, installing an administrator as it took official control.U.S.-led forces a...
  • Airman killed in Afghanistan blast
    An airman taking part in a vehicle-mounted patrol in Afghanistan was killed following an explosion, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said. The airman, from 2 Squadron, Royal Air Force Regiment, part of ...
  • Pakistan to hand over Taliban No 2
    KABUL (Reuters) - Pakistan has agreed to hand over to Afghanistan captured Afghan Taliban number two, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, and other militants, the president's office said on Thursday.Pakis...

Futurismic

  • Foursquare, Chatroulette and the social panopticon
    I think what surprised me most about the Please Rob Me flap was how little flapping there was, and that most of what there was came from the sort of people I usually expect to see beyond the obvious tabloid angles to the truth of a technology story. Perhaps technopanics just aren’t getting the click ...
  • Neurocapitalism
    Move over, neurocinematics Рneurocapitalism reaches far beyond the theatre and focus group in its all-pervasive influence! Well, not quite, but Martin B̦rjesson responds to an article that uses the term as its title in order to make a point about the increasing ubiquity of neuroscience and the eff ...
  • Kenya dials up banking by text
    Many places across the planet lack basic commercial infrastructure. Kenya is serving as a case study of how banking by mobile phone seems to fill (or leapfrog?) the gaps. Since a phone-text bank service called M-PESA was introduced in 2007, almost 40% of Kenyan households have one user, while only 2 ...
  • Should we clone Neanderthals?
    It’s another hat-tip to Chairman Bruce for flagging up this thoughtful article on whether or not we should clone Neanderthals from their mapped DNA, though I’ve seen others link it since (slow on the uptake, that’s me). But note the thrust of the question: it’s not can we clone them, but should we? ...
  • DIY nuclear round-up
    Given the horrific costs of energy at the moment, you might be thinking about ways to cut your household bills. Maybe you could build your own nuclear reactor? [image by brndnprkns] It’s not as crazy as it sounds. In fact, it’s so simple that a boy scout could do it, and sourcing your fuel materials ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

  • UCSB physicists move one step closer to quantum co ...
    Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have made an important advance in electrically controlling quantum states of electrons, a step that could help in the development of quantum computing. The work is published online today on the Science Express Web site.
  • Research sheds light on workings of anti-cancer dr ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- The copper sequestering drug tetrathiomolybdate (TM) has been shown in studies to be effective in the treatment of Wilson disease, a disease caused by an overload of copper, and certain metastatic cancers. That much is known. Very little, however, is known about how the drug works a ...
  • Researchers develop cheap, easy 'kitchen chemistry ...
    A team at The Scripps Research Institute has made major strides in solving a problem that has been plaguing chemists for many years: how best to break carbon-hydrogen bonds and then to create new bonds to join molecules together. This problem is of great interest to the pharmaceutical industry, whic ...
  • Rice physicists find reappearing quantum trios
    Using atoms at temperatures colder than deep space, Rice University physicists have delivered overwhelming proof for a once-scoffed-at theory that's become a hotbed for research some 40 years after it first appeared. In a paper available online in Science Express, Rice's team offers experimental evi ...
  • Researchers recalculate age of Solar System
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Lead-lead (Pb-Pb) dating is among the most widely used radiometric dating techniques to determine the age of really old things, such as the age of the Earth or the Solar System. However, recent advances in instrumentation now allow scientists to make more precise measurements that p ...

TechDirt

  • Home Cooking Is Killing The Restaurant Industry!
    For many years, whenever people insisted that the ability to download movies would kill the movie business -- including the box office revenues -- we've made the analogy that just because people can prepare food at home (for much lower cost!) it hasn't changed the fact that sometimes people still go ...
  • And Of Course: AFACT Appeals iiNet Ruling
    This isn't a huge surprise, but down in Australia, AFACT, a group representing the major movie studios, which had already fought having to pay iiNet's legal fees after getting trounced in court, is appealing the ruling itself . You had to figure this would happen. The studios weren't going to go d ...
  • ReverbNation Adds Some RtB To Its CwF Platform
    It's been neat to watch more and more companies step up to better enable the types of business models that are working these days. The latest is ReverbNation -- a company that's really focused on the Connect with Fans (CwF) side of the business for a while -- by building what it called a "fan relat ...
  • Mandelson Gets To Choose How Long Your 'Temporary' ...
    Remember how the UK was just playing a word game by claiming that it wouldn't disconnect users from the internet via Peter Mandelson's Digital Economy Bill? That was quickly debunked, as people realized that the gov't was simply changing how it described the disconnection, calling it a "temporary a ...
  • Should YouTube Allow Artful Nudity?
    The EFF and the National Coalition Against Censorship are apparently asking YouTube to consider changing its policy with regards to nudity . Apparently, it will allow nudity if the video is from a film or TV show -- but not if it's user generated videos made for YouTube. Separately, YouTube sugges ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Gone Fishin
    No posting this week, as I am in Florida soaking up the sun and trying not to let my relatives drive me over the edge.  If you don’t hear from me by next Wednesday, send a rescue team.
  • Growing Up Jewish – Sabbath Edition
    It occurs to me that I don’t spend near enough time pointing out the lunacies of the religion I was brought up in.  And since I am leaving today to go to Florida, where I will visit my kooky religious mother, it seems a perfect time for the the first installment of Growing Up Jewish. My [...]
  • Issue by Issue
    Political parties and broad categorizations have warped the way we think about issues and problem solving. We may think that we cannot work with a conservative on anything.  But which conservative do we mean – the Christian conservative from Focus on the Family or the follower of Buckley?  We may ...
  • Collaborating Across the Divide
    Here’s a hypothetical situation. You work in a town with one factory.  You need your job.  Moving to another town, starting your own business, or getting some other means of survival is not an option at the moment. One of your coworkers (let’s call him Bob) is a racist, sexist, homophobic SOB.  Y ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    If you ever wondered how to confront the racism, sexism, and homophobia of your family and friends, Model Minority shows us how it is done. Tech Dirt covers the creative ways music artists are getting it done outside the traditional system. Alternet has an amazing article highlighting the stories of ...

Executive Intelligence Review

Armies of Liberation

  • US Sanctions Iran Based al Qaeda, Zawahiri Promise ...
    The US Treasury Department placed financial sanctions on Saad bin Laden, thought to be in Pakistan, and three alleged al Qaeda operatives in Iran including a Yemeni. The terrorist designation Friday froze their assets within US jurisdictions and prohibits Americans from financial dealings with the ...
  • Arabian Peninsula al Qaeda groups merge
    In the face of Saudi Arabia’s success against the al Qaeda organization, many Saudi operatives have fled to the more hospitable climate in Yemen, joining others who recently arrived from Iraq, Somalia, and Pakistan. Al Qaeda in Yemen announced its merger with Saudi Arabia’s al Qaeda organization to ...
  • Yemen strikes multi-faceted deals with al Qaeda
    Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh recently struck a deal with Ayman Zawahiri, and Yemen is in the process of emptying its jails of known jihadists. The Yemeni government is recruiting these established jihadists to attack its domestic enemies as it refrains from serious counter-terror measures aga ...
  • Yemen’s Multi Faceted Deals with Al Qaeda (A ...
    اليمن تعقد صÙ�قات متعددة الوجوه مع القاعدة كتبت: جين نوÙ�اك – Ù�براير/ 2009 عبدالله عبدالوهاب ناجي- ترجمة خاصة بالمستقلة عقد الرئيس اليمني علي عبدا لله صالح مؤخرا صÙ�قة 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

  • Citibank Controversy Puts Dubious FDIC Guarantee B ...
    7 day restriction on bank withdrawals could mean the difference between preserving or destroying your life savings if the U.S. dollar collapses Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Thursday, February 25, 2010 The recent controversy surrounding Citibank’s advisory to its customers reservin ...
  • London Guardian: Prison Planet In ‘Out and Out’ De ...
    Leo Hickman London Guardian Thursday, February 25th, 2010 Professor Judith Curry, who currently chairs the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, has embarked on what she’s describing as a “blogospheric experiment”. Having written a lengthy essay entitled Losing ...
  • EPIC wants TSA to halt implementation of body scan ...
    Doug Hanchard ZD Net Thursday, February 25th, 2010 In a letter sent to the White House, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) President Marc Rotenberg, along with Ralph Nader, request that body scanner technology be halted until several health, safety and privacy issues are resolved. Bod ...
  • Siding with skeptics, Conservative MP decries clim ...
    Joan Bryden The Canadian Press Thursday, February 25th, 2010 Stephen Harper’s sincerity in tackling climate change was challenged Wednesday after his former foreign affairs minister assailed what he described as alarmism over global warming. The Prime Minister’s Office insisted Maxime Bernier was s ...
  • Wall Street Oligarchy and American Empire
    Damon Vrabel Canada Free Press Thursday, February 25th, 2010 Citibank’s recent announcement that it may require seven days notice prior to honoring withdrawals is just the latest small brushstroke on a much larger canvas being painted by the banking system and the US government.  The broader picture ...

food and water watch

  • USDA Goes Back to the Drawing Board On Better Trac ...
    In early February, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) pleasantly surprised small farmers and food protection advocacy groups alike by abandoning its National Animal Identification System (NAIS). NAIS was a program put in place after a 2003 occurrence of mad cow disease with intention ...
  • Two options for tap water at Vancouver Olympics: O ...
    Metro Vancouver recently took on the task of promoting the consumption of tap water over bottled water and is now battling it out with Coca-Cola at the Olympic games. As one of the Olympics biggest official sponsors, Coca-Cola, who claims their bottled water “doesn’t compete with tap water,” is of ...
  • Farm to School Needs More Support
    It seems the Obama administration is starting to take some steps toward addressing the childhood obesity epidemic. The President recently requested the inclusion of an additional $1 billion in funding for child nutrition programs in the national budget. This commitment preceded the unveiling of Fir ...
  • Food & Water Watch Partners With University of New ...
    Today, Food & Water Watch and the University of New Hampshire’s Office of Sustainability kickoff  “Tap In,” a series of films and lectures about water privatization, access, and quality. An initiative of our Take Back the Tap campaign, the series will commence with a showing of, and discussion abou ...
  • USDA Admits Lack of Food Safety Follow-Through
    The USDA finally admitted to a small group of consumer group representatives last week that its official policy is to take very little action when it finds ground beef contaminated with E. coli in commerce. That is, unless several human illnesses have already been identified with the product. I pre ...

treehugger

  • Innovation on a Family Farm: Animals Replace Fossi ...
    Image credit: Chaffin Family Orchards While I can see the appeal of vegan organic agriculture , I am a firm believer that integrating animals into a mixed sustainable food production system can be an efficient way to farm. One family farm in Sacramento Valley, California has been pioneering int ...
  • News from Mother Jones: Is Glenn Beck a Secret Tre ...
    Glenn Beck: Environmentalist? An interview with Beck in USA Weekend revealed that the shock jock's private views on climate are very different from those he espouses in his day job. In fact, Beck appears not only to be convinced that global warming is real, but that it's a genuine problem . ...
  • London Fashion Week: Christopher Raeburn Reaches N ...
    We're delighted to see the brilliant British designer Christopher Raeburn on the fast track to fashion success this season at London Fashion Week . He not only reached new heights with a stunning aerial installation of parachutes and jackets for the Estethica show (picture below), but he was als ...
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    Leather packaging design by Sebastian Vecchio and Guillem Ferran. Leather might not seem the most treehugger-liked material, but like with any material, it depends how you use it, where it comes from and what processes it has undergone. A few craftsmen and designers in Catalonia, Spain, got tog ...
  • Vancouver Gets a Medal for Green Olympics
    Images by B.Alter Vancouver gets a medal for being the greenest Olympics; the question is: which one? The David Suzuki Foundation has given it a bronze because under half of Games-related emissions will not be off-set and they "failed to reach out to Canadians or even Vancouverites about clim ...

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  • Low-Carb Diet Lowers Blood Pressure
    A low-carbohydrate diet may have health benefits that go beyond weight loss. A new study shows that a low-carbohydrate diet was equally good as the weight loss drug orlistat (the active ingredient in Alli and Xenical) at helping overweight and obese people lose weight, but people who followed the lo ...
  • Cosmetics Testing without Animals
    Researchers at Hurel Corporation have reached a major milestone in their quest to create a chip to replace skin allergy testing on animals. Working with cosmetics firm L’Oreal, Hurel has developed a working microfluidic portion of the chip. While there is still much work to be done before they have ...
  • First evidence that blueberry juice improves memor ...
    Scientists are reporting the first evidence from human research that blueberries — one of the richest sources of healthful antioxidants and other so-called phytochemicals — improve memory. They said the study establishes a basis for comprehensive human clinical trials to determine whether blueberrie ...
  • Hungry immune guardians are snappier
    Bonn researchers have discovered an elementary mechanism which regulates vital immune functions in healthy people. In situations of hunger which mean stress for the body’s cells, the body releases more antimicrobial peptides in order to protect itself. The scientists will publish their results in th ...
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    New video footage of a virus infecting cells is challenging what researchers have long believed about how viruses spread, suggesting that scientists may be able to create new drugs to tackle some viruses. Previously, viruses were thought to spread by entering a cell, replicating there, and then bein ...

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  • Getting Beyond Regulation (Ritholtz Feedback)
    Barry Ritholtz emailed about my quote of him on Thursday’s post [emph. his]: You wrote: In short, regulation has a spotty track record lately. Economist Barry Ritholtz acknowledged that and pointed to a new approach when he wrote a recent proposal “would not have prevented this crisis, but it would ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post I hate to sound like a broken record, but Dick Cheney is shameless and is eager to be publicly guilty . He has made his life an open, defiant challenge to the US government. Does anyone have the courage to take him down, and unleas ...
  • Getting Beyond Regulation
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The theory on how to best protect the public from private sector wrongdoing consists basically of regulation. From the Federal Reserve Act nearly a century ago to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) during the Depression to ...
  • Under The Weather
    I’m on day 3 of some nasty bug, so I’ve only been skimming the headlines (and wouldn’t have the energy even if inspiration struck).  Bleh.
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Declan McCullagh reported on the efforts to give law enforcement agencies direct access to ISP traffic. At the end of the article the Cato Institute throws in the towel and admits it doesn’t give a damn about individual liberty. I ...

Natural Health News

  • Genetically Modified Foods: Toxins and Reproductiv ...
    By Jeffrey M. Smith Rhetoric from the US government since the early 1990s proclaims that genetically modified (GM) foods are not significantly different from natural plant foods. This assertion is political, not scientific. In fact, FDA scientists had privately warned that splicing foreign ...
  • Airlines Admit Your Immune System that Gets You Si ...
    Provocative new research suggests international rules that bar potentially infectious tuberculosis patients from flying are too stringent, and airline passengers are really at little risk from catching TB from a fellow traveler. The paper is controversial. U.S. health officials disagree, and a pro ...
  • Feeding Chicken Manure to Cows is a Bad Idea
    Agricultural societies have always fed waste products to livestock. But as agriculture industrialized, the waste products that farmers serve to farm animals have industrialized, too. But with the rise of industrial chicken production, farms produced way too much litter to be absorbed by nearby lan ...
  • Why are Hospitals Killing 50,000 in U.S. Every Yea ...
    In the United States, two common conditions caused by hospital-acquired infections killed 48,000 people and ramped up health care costs by $8.1 billion in 2006 alone, according to a recent study. This is the largest nationally representative study of the toll taken by sepsis and pneumonia, two cond ...
  • Underactive Thyroid Linked to Pesticide Exposure
    Exposure to certain types of pesticides could up the risk of thyroid disease in women, according to a new study of thousands of women married to licensed pesticide applicators. Your thyroid is located at the base of your throat and plays an important role in regulating your body's energy use. There ...

Antemedius

  • Tell Us, Limbaugh: Where is the Global Warming Fr ...
    As Rush Limbaugh continues sallying forth and the ardent Tea Baggers make noise, the key to the whole approach, in the manner of propagandists, as evidenced by the Joseph Goebbels technique, is that there is no accountability. Toss accountability out of the mix and you have a propagandist’s dream. ...
  • Mission Accomplished: Operation Iraqi Freedom Fina ...
    We've all heard from the Obama WH about the fact the the Great War on Terror, sometimes called The Long War, ended shortly after Obama took office in 2010, as was evidenced by the renaming of it to "Overseas Contingency Operations" last year. Now after seven bloody years and by some counts over a mi ...
  • How Are Recess Appointments Like Filibusters?
    By David Swanson Answer: They get around the pesky will of the majority of the American people. Here's a lovely post from the DailyKos praising the president of the AFL-CIO for encouraging the president of the United States to appoint officials during a recess in order to get around the Senate. We ...
  • Glenn Greenwald: 'This is what the Democratic Part ...
    In a post on Salon today, Glenn Greenwald reveals to readers the essential tactic of the Democratic Party leadership. It's not trying to get Republican support, it's not filibuster reform, it's not registering people to vote. It's much more manipulative than that. It is an explanation for the "lac ...
  • Life of Illusion
    An experienced economist and a novice economist are walking down the road. They come across some dog sh*t lying on the pavement. The experienced economist says, "If you eat that dog sh*t, I'll give you $20,000!" The novice economist runs his optimization program and figures out he's better off eatin ...

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  • 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 ...

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  • Commercial Whaling Makes a Comeback
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku It is amazing how much effort has been expended in countries like Japan and Australia to argue about whaling.  It is fascinating from say, a realist perspective, since it is hard to imagine that either side has any real meaningful national interest.  And as far as I ca ...
  • Who Needs the State Department?
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The usual meeting of U.S. governors this year has an added wrinkle: the participation of premiers from Canadian provinces. Provincial leaders wrapped up three days of meetings with U.S. governors in Washington, D.C., on Sunday and Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger said the ...
  • The President Takes a Ruler to the Registry — Agai ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller I am sitting in the Indianapolis airport as I write this, heading home from a conference on the Milosevic trial .  The conference was easily the most enjoyable I've ever attended -- I vastly prefer small, specialized conferences to mega-events like the AALS or ASIL.  The at ...
  • LA Times Op-Ed Contributors on Targeted Killing an ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Over at the Los Angeles Times opinion page today, Sunday, February 21, 2010, Marjorie Miller has lined up various folks to opine on targeted killing and the presumed Mossad hit in Dubai.  The offerings are very short — a hundred or so words each — but I had ...
  • The Ethics and Economics of Asteroid Mining (and t ...
    by Chris Borgen Over at Discover.com , Brian Lamb reports on a lecture by Brother Guy Consolmagno, SJ, an American Jesuit who is a research astronomer for the Vatican Observatory (and has archived blog posts  here ). On the issue of asteroid mining (which we tangentially touched upon in this discu ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • Overwhelming support for changing or ditching MMP
    A new UMR research poll has found a majority of New Zealanders unhappy with the current electoral system: "There is majority support for either changing MMP or ditching it entirely. Only 23% wanted to keep MMP as it is now...
  • STUDY: Urban heat effect seriously underestimated
    CRU's Phil Jones, whose work claiming UHI is not a significant factor in global temperature trends has been trumpeted by less intelligent believers in AGW, is in the gun over more dodgy data. Already this month he was forced to...
  • Looks like IPCC report was indeed wrong on hurrica ...
    A few weeks ago it was reported the IPCC was wrong on its claims of increasing hurricane and cyclone activity due to global warming. Warmists hit back by claiming the paragraph in question was citing a 'study' on the costs...
  • Telecom’s woes self-inflicted
    Telecom's ongoing XT problems are the result of a business philosophy based on gutting your core business units and spinning them off. The corporation has, in the name of fooling its shareholders, embarked on an alleged efficiency programme that involved...
  • STUDY: Sea levels falling 2004-2010 data
    Consistent with the acknowledged lack of ocean warming as found by the ARGO project, the sensors are also finding a tiny decrease in sea levels, rather than a relentless rise: The full 6 year dataset from January 31, 2004 to...

Public News Service

  • Tax Preparer Scammer Alert from the IRS
    Tax Preparer Scammer Alert from the IRS Phoenix, AZ – It’s income tax season and, for some people, the only thing worse than rounding up all their receipts and documentation, is finding out too late that they hired someone to do their taxes who was either unqualified – or simply trying to rip them o ...
  • Expert: AZ Immigration Bill Will Hurt Crime Fight
    Expert: AZ Immigration Bill Will Hurt Crime Fight Phoenix, AZ – The latest effort by state lawmakers to crack down on illegal immigrants is headed for the Arizona House after passage this week in the Senate. A criminal justice expert says the bill’s unintended result will be more crime, especially i ...
  • Labor Leader: AZ Job Slump Not Over Yet
    Labor Leader: AZ Job Slump Not Over Yet Phoenix, AZ – Tomorrow marks the first anniversary of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The national jobless rate and new claims for unemployment benefits are down slightly, suggesting some hope for job growth. But Arizona is still shedding j ...
  • Health Reform Report: Too Long in the Waiting Room ...
    Health Reform Report: Too Long in the Waiting Room For AZ Phoenix, AZ - Congress continues to shape and debate health reform legislation...and a new report reveals those in rural Arizona just can’t wait much longer. The Center for Rural Affairs research shows that if the status quo on health care go ...
  • Troubling Drop in AZ and NM Gray Wolf Population
    Troubling Drop in AZ and NM Gray Wolf Population Phoenix, AZ – Conservationists and wildlife biologists are expressing concern over a one-year, 20-percent drop in Mexican gray wolf numbers in the Southwest. A reintroduction program started in 1998 had envisioned a self-sustaining population by now. ...

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  • Prince Charles Tries to Save Wool
    It seems rare these days to hear anyone who's not an industry hack promoting an expansion of animal agriculture, but Prince Charles has announced the Wool Project. He hopes to revitalize the industry by promoting wool as a sustainable material. Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �A ...
  • Iran grounds plane with Rigi holding US-issued pas ...
    Iran's security officers grounded the plane carrying the ringleader of Jundullah terrorist group Abdolmalek Rigi in one of Iran's southern ports.Iran's intelligence minister says the leader of Jundallah terrorist group was at a US base in Afghanistan Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! ...
  • Japan offers to enrich uranium for Iran
    Japan has offered to enrich uranium for Iran allowing access to nuclear power by the Islamic Republic, the Nikkei business daily reports, : proposal is aimed to allay international fears that Iran might be seeking an atomic weapon. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • School used student laptop webcams to spy on them ...
    Lower Merion School District laptops issued to high-school students have webcams that can be covertly activated by the schools' administrators, who have used this facility to spy on students and even their families. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Scientists develop new plastic made from sugar tha ...
    Plastics could be made from sugar and composted at home.It could soon be composted at home along with organic waste. Researchers at Imperial College London have managed to transforms sugars found in fast growing trees and grasses into a large molecule Submitted by Beatrice B. to Science & Tech ...

Angry Indian News

  • WWF: LOYAL ALLY TO AGRIBUSINESS AND GLOBALISATION
    By Javiera Rulli Geneva, 12 February 2010 The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) seems to have become a sort of environmental secretariat for agribusiness companies, as it is playing an increasingly dubious... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Patriot Movement Calling Joe Stack a Hero
    ABC News: "The Web was studded with praise for Stack almost immediately after his plane slammed into the Austin office complex Thursday morning. The admiring salutes appearing on sites ranging from... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Gaza City in Darkness
    uruknet.info :: "Last night the Children of the beleaguered Gaza strip held a candlelit protest on the streets of a Gaza City plunged into darkness as a result of the devastating and continued... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Tories tell Livni: we’ll change 'arrest' law
    The Jewish Chronicle: "Senior Conservatives have assured opposition leader Tzipi Livni that a Tory government would change the law that allows magistrates to issue arrest warrants for foreign... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Officials: Settler sewage flowing into West Bank v ...
    Maan News Agency: : Qalqiliya – Ma’an – Sewage from a treatment plant in the Israeli settlement of Sha’are Tiqwa has been flowing into a high school in the northern West Bank village of Azzun Atma... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

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    Old NAIS vs. New NAIS: No Way! No How! February 21, 2010 by ppjg | Editby Marti Oakley (C) 2010 copyright ALL RIGHTS RESERVED    The PPJ Gazette _____________________________________________________ The good news is the federal government has abandoned its original National Animal Identifi ...
  • Vote Yes or No on Equine Enforced ID
    There are a few people left that don’t know how disliked a government enforced animal ID is.  The people at www.thehorse.com are using a poll to help them understand the appreciation, or lack of it, for old NAIS, or the “new NAIS.” If you have an opinion go there, and down [...]
  • When will the snow end?
    The 2010 forecast warns of frequent stormy weather into March, with heavy rains and wet snows, for much of North America.
  • Aggie Subscribers – Link is Active
    For everyone who signed up for Farm Wars updates and received the password to see the Aggie presentation in full, the tab is now up on the Farm Wars site, and is active. I apologize for any confusion.
  • Former Managing Director of Monsanto India Blows t ...
    India is leading the way in exposing Monsanto for what it is - corrupt to the core. The following two articles show how Monsanto regularly faked data to get its transgenic crop varieties approved in India.

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Citizens for Legitimate Government

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    "If the Camry and the Prius were airplanes, they would be grounded," says House Committee Chairman As the CEO of Toyota, Akio Toyoda, took his place at a Congressional hearing, the committee chairman said the death toll from runaway Toyotas had reached 39. "To give that horrifying number some p ...
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    200,000 contractors outnumber civilian work force of Homeland Security The Department of Homeland Security has more contractors working for it than full-time employees, a situation two members of Congress said Tuesday was "unacceptable, untenable and unsustainable." Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the ch ...

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  • Overwhelming support for changing or ditching MMP
    A new UMR research poll has found a majority of New Zealanders unhappy with the current electoral system: "There is majority support for either changing MMP or ditching it entirely. Only 23% wanted to keep MMP as it is now...
  • STUDY: Urban heat effect seriously underestimated
    CRU's Phil Jones, whose work claiming UHI is not a significant factor in global temperature trends has been trumpeted by less intelligent believers in AGW, is in the gun over more dodgy data. Already this month he was forced to...
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    A few weeks ago it was reported the IPCC was wrong on its claims of increasing hurricane and cyclone activity due to global warming. Warmists hit back by claiming the paragraph in question was citing a 'study' on the costs...
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  • The Green Police
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USA to Get 16 Gigawatts of Renewable Energy from the Recovery Act
CleanTechnica
- Feb 25, 2010
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Plan to add wind farm land heads to council
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By AP BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Hazardous waste services company American Ecology Corp. said Monday it has changed its name to US Ecology Inc. to better market ...
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Chicago bucks vs. Great Lakes ecology
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- Feb 25, 2010
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The job of a baseball writer every morning used to be opening your door, walking to your driveway, and picking up your local newspapers to find out the ...
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Suez Environnement's Water Allure
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- Feb 25, 2010
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Suez Environnement's message to investors may sound unedifying, but the French water and waste-management company's robust 2009 performance and bold growth ...
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Protecting our water requires supporting advocacy groups
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- Feb 25, 2010
- 7 hours ago
By Doug Alexander An individual looking at full creeks and rivers said, “Look at the water we are losing!” However, native California did not waste water. ...
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EPA sharply criticizes military's Guam plan, cites water and sewage problems
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