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IPS - Inter Press Services

• HAITI: Looking More and More Like a War Zone
  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Mar 30 (IPS) - On an empty road in Cite Militaire, an industrial zone across from the slums of Cite Soleil, a group of women are gathered around a single white sack of U.S. rice. The rice was handed out Monday morning at a food distribution by the Christian relief group World ...
• COLOMBIA: FARC Calls for Prisoner Swap After Rel ...
  BOGOTÁ, Mar 30 (IPS) - Hopes that a humanitarian prisoner-for-hostage swap may be negotiated in Colombia before August added to the emotion over the release of Sergeant Pablo Emilio Moncayo by the FARC guerrillas Tuesday and his reunion with his family after more than 12 years in captivity i ...
• SOUTH AFRICA: Men Battle Gender-based Violence
  
CAPE TOWN, Mar 30 (IPS) - When Mbuyiselo Botha decided to take the African National Congress League President, Julius Malema, to court for hate speech against women, he was confident from the start that the case had merit. But he also knew it was a toughest test yet in his 15 years of gende ...
• RIGHTS-SIERRA LEONE: Journalists Under Attack
  FREETOWN, Mar 30 (IPS) - Sierra Leone has become a place of torment for journalists practicing their profession.
• CLIMATE CHANGE: From Copenhagen to Cochabamba
  LA PAZ, Mar 30 (IPS) - A different way of fighting global warming will be tried out in the central Bolivian city of Cochabamba when government representatives and thousands of activists gather for the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth.

Scoop - NZ

• Europe leaves Greece hanging in the wind
  The Frankfurter Allgemeine summed up the deal succinctly: "No member of Europe's monetary union should be liable for the debts of another state. Bilateral credit from Berlin for Athens is not the same as German acceptance of responsibility for Greek debt." This shatters the assumption since Maastri ...
• Aafia Siddiqui Day: Protests Worldwide
  Today is the seventh anniversary of the day that Pakistani neuroscientist Dr. Aafia Siddiqui and her three young children were reportedly abducted in Karachi, leading to Aafia's disappearance for over five years - when she was apparently held in secret prisoners and subjected to appalling abuse - be ...
• Slow Quake Near Gisborne
  A slow slip event (also known as a "slow earthquake") is occurring near Gisborne, the third such event this year. The area, which normally is pushed westward a few millimetres per year, has moved eastward by 70 mm since mid-March. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
• The Feminist Sex Work Shibboleth
  For feminists, arguments about sex work have become an ugly, obstructive shibboleth. The debate about whether feminism can ever tolerate the sale of sex has raged for over five decades, and in recent years the question has opened old wounds in the fabric of feminist unity, leading to such embarrassi ...
• Arundhati Roy: Walking With The Comrades
  The terse, typewritten note slipped under my door in a sealed envelope confirmed my appointment with India's Gravest Internal Security Threat. I'd been waiting for months to hear from them. I had to be at the Ma Danteshwari mandir in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, at any of four given times on two given d ...

Independent ( London )

• US calls on Sarkozy to boost Afghan presence
  President Barack Obama conceded yesterday that progress on cleaning up government in Kabul remains "too slow" even as he welcomed the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, to the White House with a plea to France to beef up its military contribution to Nato in Afghanistan.
• Iranian agents 'free hostage'
  Iran's intelligence agents mounted a tricky cross-border mission and freed an Iranian diplomat kidnapped in 2008 by gunmen in north-west Pakistan, state television reported yesterday.
• Bodies of 21 babies washed ashore in China
  The bodies of 21 babies have been washed ashore on a riverbank in eastern China and two hospital mortuary workers have been detained for allegedly dumping them.
• France tries to halt march of English
  Rumours, or crazes, which sweep through the French-language internet – or "la toile" – should no longer be known as "le buzz". They should in future be called "le ramdam", which may be Arabic but at least is not English. Similarly, the practice of souping up or "pimping" cars should no longer be kno ...
• Serbia to apologise for Srebrenica massacre
  The Serbian parliament was expected last night to pass a resolution apologising for the 1995 massacre by Bosnian Serbs of 8,000 unarmed Muslim men and boys in the town of Srebrenica .

Rogue Government.com

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• Aliens Up The Ante As V Returns
• Vatican offers 3 reasons it's not liable for abus ...
  Dragged deeper than ever into the clerical sex abuse scandal, the Vatican is launching a legal defense that it hopes will shield the pope from a lawsuit in Kentucky seeking to have him answer attorneys' questions under oath.
• Romney defends Mass. health care law
  Mitt Romney offered an enthusiastic defense last night of the comprehensive health care law he helped create four years ago in Massachusetts, even as he pointed to crucial distinctions between it and a similar national program enacted last week by Democrats.
• Ex-members spar with Scientology over beating all ...

Innovation Canada

• The power of autism
  (Courtesy of Le Devoir)   Montréal researchers have uncovered previously unsuspected intellectual potential in many people with autism, a discovery that opens doors to new approaches for education.   A new approach to research, which looks at the neural disorder not in terms deficits, but in terms o ...
• Disappearing act
  (Courtesy of Frontier magazine, University of British Columbia)   A commitment to both discovery and education places the Beaty Biodiversity Centre in a unique position to safeguard our natural heritage by bringing together outstanding researchers, exceptional facilities, and the public to better un ...
• Particle accelerating … in high school
  For Palak Suryavenshi, the grade-12 science lab was the first step in a journey that led to a chance to test a hypothesis on one of North America’s most advanced particle accelerators. In 2007, Suryavenshi and her classmates from Saskatoon’s Centennial Collegiate worked with researchers at the Unive ...
• Nose jobs
  (Courtesy of Carleton University Magazine) People around the world ask the same question on a daily basis: “Is the milk bad?” A quick sniff gives us a fast and reliable answer. The sense of smell is very powerful and often taken for granted. We simply follow our nose, because it always knows…but so ...
• 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 ...

Signs of the times

• Magnets 'can modify our morality'
  Scientists have shown they can change people's moral judgements by disrupting a specific area of the brain with magnetic pulses. They identified a region of the brain just above and behind the right ear which appears to control morality. And by using magnetic pulses to block cell activity they imp ...
• Investigators warn of further attacks as Moscow me ...
  Security officials say two women who blew themselves up, killing 39 people, could have been part of squad of bombers Russian investigators warned of further possible attacks following Monday's deadly bombings on the Moscow metro and said a squad of up to 20 trained suicide bombers was still at larg ...
• Though shalt not mention the 'Z' word: AIPAC persu ...
  American Israel Public Affairs Committee circulates letter urging White House to 'reinforce' relationship with Israel America's main pro-Israel lobby group is mobilising members of Congress to pressure the White House over its bitter public confrontation with Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime m ...
• Los Angeles Times Reports on Patients Eliminating ...
  The Los Angeles Times has run an article highlighting the cases of five people, including television star Larry Hagman of Dallas, who have successfully cut out the use of insulin and other diabetes drugs through improvements in their diet and exercise habits. "Don't underestimate the body's potenti ...
• US oil company donated millions to climate sceptic ...
  Report identifies Koch Industries giving $73m to climate sceptic groups 'spreading inaccurate and misleading information' A Greenpeace investigation has identified a little-known, privately owned US oil company as the paymaster of global warming sceptics in the US and Europe. The environmental cam ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Université Laval sure knows how to build 'em . . .
  WIRED REPORTS THAT A CAR designed and built by students from Université Laval has won the Shell Eco-Marathon for the second year in a row, with a winning consumption of 2,487.5 MPG. That's a lotta empeegee, folks. According to Tony Borroz,  This year’s Shell Eco-Marathon was held over this past week ...
• Missed statistics class that day, did we Steve?
  I don't know of any post-secondary education in things involving the exchange of goods and services, the movement of money or the creation and stability of wealth that doesn't involve a healthy dose of the science of statistics. That would include, even at a basic level, an education in economics. ...
• Epic of Guergis continues...
  Via Stageleft , this report about Helena Guergis' assistant penning fan letters to newspapers under a pseudonym...
• Rock on!
  With none other than Lindsay Stewart , resident at Canadian Cynic and a regular commenter here at TGB. Way to go, PSA!
• The enterprise of piracy.
  As Charli Carpenter points out, one of the more interesting parts of the UNSC-mandated Monitoring Group on Somalia report is not just the rampant corruption, but one of the annexes to that report which details how piracy operations are run from that territory. A basic piracy operation requires a min ...

Media Matters for America

• Fox baselessly suggests Muslim scholars are "terr ...
  Fox & Friends baselessly suggested that Muslim scholars Tariq Ramadan and Adam Habib -- who were both denied entry into the United States under the Bush administration but had the ban lifted by the Obama administration -- are "terrorists." However, both have denied engaging in terrorist acti ...
• Kelly now carrying water for GOP with attacks on O ...
  Adopting Republican spin as fact, Fox News host Megyn Kelly reported that Craig Becker -- who Obama appointed to the National Labor Relations Board -- thinks that "employers must sit silent" in union elections and may "forc[e] card check on employers." Contrary to Kelly's claims, during a congressi ...
• Fox News cuts away from an Obama speech for ... ...
  Fox News continues to put its credibility as a news outlet on the line by repeatedly cutting away from major Obama administration events to provide commentary on those events, cover non-essential news stories, or show its regular programming. Happening Now cut away from Obama to cover ai ...
• They Live: Mattera's Obama Zombies r ...
  In his new book Obama Zombies , Jason Mattera uses selective editing to repeat conservative attacks on President Obama, smearing the president by claiming that "he fancies himself the 'apologizer in chief.' " Mattera also falsely claims that "[e]ight days after 9/11, Obama wrote an op-ed ... in whi ...
• Right-wing attacks "despot" Waxman and misleads on ...
  Right-wing media have accused Rep. Henry Waxman and the Obama administration of "tyrannical" actions after Waxman announced a hearing looking into several large corporations' assertions about prescription drug costs related to health care reform. According to Waxman, the companies' claims "appe ...

Global Research.ca

• Pedophilia in the Catholic Church: Coverup Operati ...
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• VIDEO: US-NATO versus Russia. The Battle for Arcti ...
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• The Illusion of Nuclear Disarmament. US-Russian ST ...
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• VIDEO: NATO Tries to Silence a Truth-Teller in Afg ...
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• The Pentagon is using Haiti as a Training Ground f ...
  Haiti is being used as a military training ground for forces without in-theater combat experience

TPM Cafe

• Make It Rain: The Michael Steele Remix
  RNC chairman Michael "Drill Baby Drill" Makes it rain! The RNC, the party of Family Values, dropped nearly $2,000 at a lesbian/bondage-themed night club in West Hollywood. In honor of Steele's desire to bring the conservative movement "to urban-surburban hip-hop settings," we bring you "Make It Rain ...
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• Nuclear Arms Control: The Senate Debate
  The historic U.S.-Russia nuclear arms reduction agreement signed last week now faces its toughest test: winning the 67 Senate votes needed to ratify the treaty. The new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) marks a small but indispensable step towards President Obama's vision of a world free o ...
• It Is All About Racism
  Sometimes someone says it so much better than I can that all I want do do is link to someone else. My old Brandeis buddy, Rick Horowitz, says it all here. The only difference I have with Rick is that he seems to think it's not ONLY about racism. I think it is. To deny it is to argue that ...
• Happy Passover from Gaza
  In 2010, Jews in Israel and around the world will celebrate Passover beginning on March 30th. Passover is the seven-day holiday of the Feast of Unleavened Bread commemorating the ancient Hebrews' escape from enslavement in Egypt. (In Israel, March 30th is also Land Day: the day when Palestinians ...

TruthOut

• US Recants Claims on "High-Value" Detainee Abu Zub ...
  The Justice Department has quietly recanted nearly every major claim the Bush administration had made about "high-value" detainee Abu Zubaydah, a Guantanamo prisoner who at one time was said to have planned the 9/11 attacks and was the No. 2 and 3 person in al-Qaeda. Additionally, Justice has b ...
• US Recants Claims on "High-Value" Detainee Abu Zub ...
  The Justice Department has quietly recanted nearly every major claim the Bush administration had made about "high-value" detainee Abu Zubaydah, a Guantanamo prisoner who at one time was said to have planned the 9/11 attacks and was the No. 2 and 3 person in al-Qaeda. Additionally, Justice has backe ...
• Van Jones and Billy Parish, the Two Bird Challenge ...
  On Monday, March 22, Van Jones and Billy Parish appeared together for a presentation entitled "Challenging America: Achieving Sustainability and Justice Through the Green Collar Economy" at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. read more
• Student Loans: The Government Is Now Officially in ...
  "We say in our platform that we believe that the right to coin money and issue money is a function of government.... Those who are opposed to this proposition tell us that the issue of paper money is a function of the bank and that the government ought to go out of the banking business. read more
• PR Firm Behind Propaganda Videos Wins Stimulus Con ...
  President Obama’s push for electronic medical records has faced resistance from those who question whether health information technology systems can protect patient privacy. So last week, the U.S Department of Health and Human Services hired a public relations firm to try to win consumer trust. re ...

Planetsave

• Living in Community to Help the World — 7 Ob ...
  This post is our contribution to sustainablog’s Pedal-a-Watt Powered Blogathon this weekend. The long-running green blog (and new green shopping site) is publishing for 24 hours straight to raise funds for the Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage in Northeastern Missouri. Go join the fun: read post contributi ...
• Unsafe Water Kills More People than War: Study
  A new study commissioned by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) demonstrates that unclean water for drinking as well as for sanitation services is responsible for more deaths than all forms of violence, including war. “These deaths are an affront to our common humanity, and undermine ...
• Earth Hour Getting Large Corporate Support
  We know that it is actually a positive thing these days to care about the environment. It is not a fringe, weirdo concern. For this reason, we now even have the problem of corporate greenwashing — companies (or politicians, people, etc.) trying to convince people they are green when they are not. ...
• Paper or Plastic? Neither
  Green Cities California (GCC) announced today the release of its Master Environmental Assessment (MEA) on Single Use and Reusable Bags. The MEA, commissioned by GCC and developed by ICF International’s Sacramento office, summarizes existing studies on the environmental impacts of single use plasti ...
• How to Help the Environment
  If you are reading this article, I think you are probably more concerned about the environment than most others. I assume that you keep up with environmental news a bit, reading more than the miniscule amount covered in the mainstream media. However, I cannot make any guess as to how much you actua ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• It takes a village...
  Stone Canyon Creek at UCLA And the persistence of one or two passionate people, to bring the funding
• Happy World Water Day! March 23, 2010
  The official kick-off for World Water Day was actually yesterday, but it’s supposed to last all week
• 9 Problems Destroying Our Ocean
  At Huffington Post, a look at nine threats to the health of our seas.
• AFBF calls attention to its legal advocacy effort
  The American Farm Bureau Federation’s legal department has launched a new “Legal Affairs” section of
• SANDUSKY, OH - Public Opinion on Tap Water & B ...
  In Part Two of Cassandra Lagunzad’s series on water, she interviewed patrons outside of the Sa

Public Citizen in Texas

• Ryan Rittenhouse and Nikisha Nathan dance at Publi ...
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
• Ken Flippen, Eric Bremer, Melissa Sanchez, and Dav ...
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
• Corpus Christi Residents Can Breathe a Short, but ...
  This week the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality received a recommendation from two administrative judges denying the air permit for the proposed Las Brisas Energy Center in Corpus Christi.  The decision is a ray of hope in the battle to prevent the petcoke plant from showering the citizens o ...
• Public Citizen Deputy Director David Power, Meliss ...
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
• Trade Up Your Appliances to Save Money and Energy
  By taking advantage of the Texas Trade Up Appliance Rebate Program from April 16-25, Texas residents can receive rebates for replacing old appliances with new, more efficient models. Rebates range from $45 up to $1,000 and may be even more if you qualify for additional rebates through your electric ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• Daylight UFO filmed over China
  A very clear video of a typical saucer-shaped UFO over Ningbo in China is currently doing the rounds on the web. The footage shows a number of student...
• Tourists flock to "Jesus's Tomb" in Kashmir
  Tourists are flocking to a run down shrine in Srinagar believing it to be the tomb of Jesus Christ. Some believe that Jesus survived the crucifixion a...
• LHC to start high energy 'God Particle' hunt
  The Large Hadron Collider is being geared up to begin its high-energy hunt for the 'God Particle'. Operations are expected to begin today, scientists ...
• Biblical plagues really happened say scientists
  A volcanic eruption and global warming could have been the cause of the plagues detailed in the Old Testament. Far from being the work of God the plag...
• Christ's face reconstructed from Shroud of Turin
  An image of what some believe to be the real face of Jesus has been computer generated from the Turin Shroud. A new History Channel documentary entitl...

Grassroots

• Haitian Led Reconstruction and Development
  Subheadline:� A compilation of recommendation documents from several Haitian civil society and diaspora conferences, organizations and coalitions Haiti_leader.JPG Grassroots Intern ...
• Honoring Land Day in 2010, and Remembering Its Roo ...
  4420070025_7d496d4fc5_b1.jpg � Sakhnin is a Palestinian village nestled between the mountains of Israel’s Galilee and is known for at least 3,500 years of agrarian tradition. It wasn’t until March 30, 1976, however, that the people of Sakhnin ...
• Water Rights -- What's Wrong?
  bechtel-water.jpg Frankly,�a lot! read more
• Combating Hunger by Reforesting Haiti
  � Last August, I stood in Haiti’s Artibonite valley with several peasant organizers and looked out at the mountains leading up to the Central Plateau. The older leaders in the group explained in depth how green the mountains once were, while the younger organizers and I listened in amazement. The tr ...
• Demand Accountability and Transparency of US Aid t ...
  Haiti_eaction_pic_small.jpg Some say that the devastating earthquake in Haiti that killed more than 230,000 and displaced more than a million people has left Haiti with a "blank slate."��� read more

Climate

• March 30, 2010
  EPA Proposes Scuttling Bush-Era Air Pollution Rule (The Hill) A coalition of electric utilities quickly bashed EPA’s plan announced today to scuttle a Clean Air Act rule finalized at the tail end of the Bush administration that determined how much a power plant or factory could be modified befo ...
• March 29, 2010
  U.S., China Are Top Clean Energy Markets, Ernst & Young Says (Bloomberg)  The U.S., China and Germany are among the most attractive markets for developers of renewable energy technologies, according to an Ernst & Young survey released today. China Became Top Wind Power Market in 2009 (Reuters) ...
• March 28, 2010
  New Rule Cuts Ship Pollution Around US, Canada (AP) A UN agency that regulates the international shipping industry adopted a plan Friday to dramatically reduce air pollution from ships that sail within 200 nautical miles of the U.S. and Canadian coasts. 'I'm Not Quitting' Says Under-Fire UN Cl ...
• March 30, 2010
  U.S. Government to Unveil Offshore Drilling Plan This Week (Reuters) The Obama administration is expected to announce by Wednesday its updated plan for oil and natural gas drilling in U.S. waters, including whether to allow exploration for the first time along the U.S. East Coast. Sen. S ...
• March 29, 2010
  U.S., China Are Top Clean Energy Markets, Ernst & Young Says (Bloomberg)  The U.S., China and Germany are among the most attractive markets for developers of renewable energy technologies, according to an Ernst & Young survey released today. China Became Top Wind Power Market in 2009 (Re ...

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

• Rampaging Rightwing Retreats, Slightly - Shot Thei ...
  To no one's great surprise, itself a point of interest, unhinged Republicans predicted the Democratic relief of worst-case insurance abuses meant the end of the world. Imagine the pandemic heart attacks, let alone exhausted rhetoric, had the public option sneaked through. When single-payer happens ...
• What if Fox News actually wants mob violence?
  Conservative commentators were atwitter last week following news that Ann Coulter's speech at the University of Ottawa was canceled in the face of protests. Of course, Coulter has the right to speak her mind on campuses. But in announcing the cancellation, her conservative Canadian sponsor, pundit E ...
• Memo To The Media: Forget Your Focus On Politician ...
  How A Teen Summit And A Broadway Show Showcase Who The Real Change-Makers Are One of the most popular lines about New York is still, "If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere." So imagine the surprise that visitors from Africa have when they discover that one of the most popular shows on Br ...
• Who's Really Responsible for Moscow Subway Bombing ...
  A horrific viciousness, the Moscow subway bombings. But surely the word "suspected" or "alleged" should be applied to the "two female bombers" being trumpeted through an Associate Press story on HuffPost and elsewhere. The source for this allegation is the head of the successor organization to the K ...
• The Trillion-Dollar Shadow
  What secrets are hidden in the Federal Reserve's trillion-dollar shadow? Economic recovery depends on confidence, and confidence requires knowledge. But Senators like Chris Dodd and Judd Gregg don't want us to have that knowledge. They don't even want it themselves. In Sen. Dodd's case, he's tr ...

Ten Percent

• Reprieve Take Up The Case Of Chagos Ignored By Cor ...
  Also worth seeing is Johann Hari’s exposé of co-opted environmental shills. While this focusses on the rendered clients of Reprieve it does also talk about the dispossessed Chagossians and makes the good point that human rights are being abused while other lifeforms gain some protection. Reprieve: ...
• Just Remind Me How The Tories Will be Worse?
  Later, a healthcare professional working for the private healthcare company which carries out these assessments, wrote in indicating that there was a target that the inspection team were expected to meet. Under the username rightthewrong, he wrote: “I probably am going to get fired tommorrow for ...
• NLD Votes No To Burma ‘Election’
  Burma’s main opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), on Monday decided against registering for the general election this year, a party spokesman told The Irrawaddy. “Without any objections, all the party leaders reached a consensus not to register the party and join the election ...
• 7 Years Since Aafia Siddiqui Was First Abducted
  Supporters have named this Aafia Siddiqui Day, Andy Worthington has a good post and asks these pertinent questions- Was she indeed kidnapped with her three children in Karachi on March 28, 2003, and subsequently rendered to a secret prison, where she was raped and tortured for five years? Binyam Mo ...
• D’oh, Canada
  Apartheid torturer allowed to settle and practice medicine in Canada…finally is brought to book for sex crimes, it reminds me of the joke (I think by Mark Steel) about all those white South Africans fleeing democracy. Topically it is reminiscent of the Vatican’s practices, I think one of the key asp ...

Booman Tribune

• Climategate Fizzles Out
  The "worst scientific scandal of our generation" (according to climate change "skeptics") suddenly has run out of outrage. It seems the British parliamentary panel investigating the "scandal" has concluded that the most serious charge, which alleged that prominent climatologists fabricated or d ...
• Shooting Yourself in the Foot
  For decades conservatives have worked to see that blacks and latinos are undercounted in the Census. Now they are voluntarily disenfranchising themselves by refusing to send in the forms. Should we be happy about that? After all, it could cost them seats in Congress and votes in the Electoral Col ...
• So Much for "Law and Order" Conservatism
  There's one thing slightly less shocking than the arrest of nine members of the Hutaree Christian militia for plotting to plotting to kill law enforcement officers (with IEDs). That's conservative bloggers coming to their defense. Blue Texan at Firedoglake compiles the responses at the preceding ...
• Obama and the New Netroots
  I enjoyed reading Chris Bowers's recent piece on losing the argument to President Obama. It's an admission that Obama has support from an overwhelming percentage of self-styled progressives in this country. Nowhere was that more clear than during the late stages of the health care reform effort. ...
• Does Karzai Owe His Life to Diem?
  Sometimes I wonder if the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem is the reason that Hamid Karzai is still alive and nominally in control of Afghanistan. As bad as Diem was, things only got worse in South Vietnam after Kennedy had him offed. Okay, I know that the actual murder of Diem was not ordered by Ke ...

European Tribune

• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 31 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1939 – Volker Schlöndorff,...
• Tuesday Open Thread
  Has your weather gone rotten again? Complain about it here....
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 30 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1941 – Birth of...
• Monday Open Thread
  What happened to Spring?...
• Back to talking about oil?
  Washington considers a decline of world oil production as of 2011 The U.S. Department of...

Futurismic

• Now *that’s* what I call force feedback…
  Via SlashDot, the next generation of gaming peripherals: a haptic vest that lets you feel every punch, kick, stab and blast from your combat-game opponent. Might I mention that such a system featured quite heavily in Philip Brewer’s story “An Education of Scars”, as published here a little over a ye ...
• Escher Circuits: visual computation programs
  Here’s a proper science fictional “what-if?”, via the ever-reliable MetaFilter, where the brilliant slug-line “software for your wetware” was applied: is it possible to exploit the biological computation power of our visual apparatus to deal with tasks that we find difficult at a cognitive level? Or ...
• Beginner’s guide to atom-smashing
  Today’s ubiquitous topic in the geek-o-sphere is surely the successful test of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN… so if you were wondering exactly how it is that particle accelerators are supposed to discover hypothetical sub-atomic thingybobs with funny names, Ars Technica is running a series of ar ...
• Redefining karma and building reputation economies
  An interesting and lengthy overview post from Randy Farmer and Bryce Glass, authors of the book Building Web Reputation Systems, on (unsurprisingly) the basics of building web reputation systems [via MetaFilter]. I’ll swap ten whuffie points with anyone who has the time to buy and read this book on ...
• Dude, where’s my island?
  Since around 2005, at least 24 small islands have effectively vanished from the Indonesian archipelago. While sea levels are rising quickly enough to make some islands vanish (and solving long-running turf disputes in the process), these particular islands are not victims of climate change, but of ’ ...

Therapy News

• Study Finds Power may Hamper Time Predictions
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Estimating the time it should take to complete a given task is something people do on a regular basis, whether at work or going about their personal business at home. People in positions of power, however, may be at a disadvantage when it comes to making such estimate ...
• Shedding Light on Partner Abuse
  By Leslie Larson, LPC-S, Domestic Violence Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Leslie and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Partner abuse, or intimate partner violence (IPV), is most simply defined as coercive control directed toward an intimate partner. Abuse is behavior that physically ...
• Pain is Inevitable; Suffering is Optional
  By Ker Cleary, MA, Contemplative Psychotherapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Ker and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile “Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.” – Buddhist saying We all experience pain in our lives. Unfortunately, our attempts to manage pain often turns it into ...
• “What Is This?”
  By Linda Jame, LCSW, Contemplative Psychotherapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Linda and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Sorrow enters my heart. I am afraid of death. – Gilgamesh Many individuals ask me how I treat someone who is suffering from anxiety. I usually clarify that the ...
• Having Multiple Children may Ward Off Suicide
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Suicide is of great concern to those involved in psychology and psychotherapy, especially as rates of suicide rise in some parts of the world. While suicide is certainly prevalent in developed nations, it is often seen as more of a concern in the developing world, wher ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Will Tennessee Legislators Vote to Ban Mountaintop ...
  Will Tennessee Legislators Vote to Ban Mountaintop Removal ? Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) All eyes are turned to Tennessee, where the State Legislature is set to vote on a bill to ban mountaintop removal coal mining. ... Reverend Billy Delivers Mountain Mud to JP Morgan Chase NewsBlaze ...
• Legislature Effectively Kills Mountaintop Removal ...
  Nashville Scene (blog) Legislature Effectively Kills Mountaintop Removal Bill Knoxville Metro Pulse (blog) ... (0) Today the state House used an unusual procedure to avoid voting on the TN Scenic Vistas Act, a bill that would ban mountaintop removal mining. ... Mountaintop-removal coal vetoed for A ...
• Mountaintop Removal Bill Stalled by Adjournment Vo ...
  Mountaintop Removal Bill Stalled by Adjournment Vote Nashville Public Radio The bill would have regulated “ mountain top removal ,” the controversial practice of blasting on mountaintops to expose the coal underneath. ...
• House Move Blasts Hopes to End Mountaintop Mining ...
  House Move Blasts Hopes to End Mountaintop Mining This Year Knoxville Metro Pulse Jackson, a Democrat from Dickson, who has sponsored all three legislative attempts in as many years to ban mountaintop removal mining. ... and more��
• MoJo: JPMorgan Chase's War on Nature - It's Gettin ...
  MoJo: JPMorgan Chase's War on Nature It's Getting Hot In Here (blog) JPMorgan backstops one of the most destructive mining practices in the world: mountaintop removal coal mining. And it continues to do so even as other major ...

Memeorandum

• Militia Probe Included Undercover FBI Agent (Wall ...
  Wall Street Journal : Militia Probe Included Undercover FBI Agent   —  An undercover agent was part of the federal investigation of a Michigan-based Christian militia group that allegedly planned to spark an uprising against the government by killing police officers, court documents show.
• Charles Johnson "Fairly Sure" the Tennesee State F ...
  ZIP / Weasel Zippers : Charles Johnson “Fairly Sure” the Tennesee State Flag is a Neo-Nazi Logo...   And I'm fairly sure the Husky Ponytailed Blogger's a washed-up has-been...  The link he provides goes to this picture:  —  Umm yeah, that's the Tennesee state flag...  FAIL.
• Hating Us For Our Degeneracy (Daniel Larison/Eunom ...
  Daniel Larison / Eunomia : Hating Us For Our Degeneracy   —  This morning Bret Stephens dusted off D'Souza's thesis on jihadism: … That must be why America was beset by jihadist attacks since at least 1948.  Oh, wait, this never happened?  How strange.  That might mean that the decadence-as-cause … ...
• EXCLUSIVE: Iran Nuclear Scientist Defects to U.S. ...
  Matthew Cole / ABCNEWS : EXCLUSIVE: Iran Nuclear Scientist Defects to U.S. In CIA ‘Intelligence Coup’   —  Shahram Amiri Disappeared Last June in Saudi Arabia, Reportedly Now Resettled in the United States  —  An award-winning Iranian nuclear scientist, who disappeared last year under mysterious c ...
• Obama Defends Health Care Law (Peter Baker/The Cau ...
  Peter Baker / The Caucus : Obama Defends Health Care Law   —  President Obama defended his health care program in an interview broadcast on Tuesday morning, portraying it as a “centrist approach” that Republicans are opposing mainly because they want “political benefit in November.”  —  Speaking on ...

Energy & Environment News

• Obama to Open Offshore Areas to Oil Drilling for F ...
  The proposed expansion would end a moratorium on oil exploration along the East Coast from the northern tip of Delaware to the central coast of Florida.
• Crude Oil Prices Seem to Hit a Sweet Spot
  The price is high enough to drive investment in production and alternative energy, but low enough that consumers can bear it.
• Fine Upheld Against Total in 1999 Oil Spill
  A French appeals court confirmed a landmark ruling that the oil giant and related parties were responsible for environmental damage caused by a spill from the tanker Erika off Brittany.
• Green Inc. Column: Can Business Do the Job All by ...
  The environmental spotlight is not just on parliaments and presidents but also on boardrooms and executive suites.
• Seoul Mayor Pins Political Hopes on Green Growth
  The mayor of Seoul, Oh Se-hoon, is seeking to build defining legacy for his mayoralty, and has sought to improve his city’s environment.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 6.0, Mindoro, Philippines
  Thursday, March 25, 2010 05:29:24 UTC Thursday, March 25, 2010 01:29:24 PM at epicenter Depth : 16.00 km (9.94 mi)
• M 6.6, Andaman Islands, India region
  Tuesday, March 30, 2010 16:54:47 UTC Tuesday, March 30, 2010 10:24:47 PM at epicenter Depth : 41.70 km (25.91 mi)
• M 6.9, Andaman Islands, India region
  Tuesday, March 30, 2010 16:54:46 UTC Tuesday, March 30, 2010 10:24:46 PM at epicenter Depth : 46.00 km (28.58 mi)
• M 5.2, near the coast of southern Peru
  Tuesday, March 23, 2010 20:19:23 UTC Tuesday, March 23, 2010 03:19:23 PM at epicenter Depth : 41.40 km (25.72 mi)
• M 5.1, north of Ascension Island
  Friday, March 26, 2010 09:36:57 UTC Friday, March 26, 2010 08:36:57 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

China Dialogue

• Causes for optimism (1)
  The bare-bones climate agreement produced at Copenhagen has provoked international gloom. But, argues Michael Grubb, history may judge it more kindly. “Diplomatic disasters don’t come much bigger than this” was the verdict of one European-based newspaper on the outcome of the Copenhagen climate-chan ...
• Man with a mission
  Kirit Parikh, former member of India’s Planning Commission, chairs a 26-member expert group tasked with developing a low-carbon growth strategy for India. Here, he tells Anna da Costa about his plans. There was a time, not long ago, when the idea of a national low-carbon growth strategy for India wo ...
• A personal one-child policy?
  Family size is the great unmentionable of the campaign for greener lifestyles, writes Oliver Burkeman. Westerners need to consider that babies are consumers, too, with their own carbon footprints. Twelve years ago, the American author Bill ­McKibben published a short book entitled Maybe One: A Perso ...
• Security alert
  The US government’s recent defence review shows new levels of attention being given to climate change. Xie Yanmei talks to two experts about the implications. The United States’ Department of Defense has started studying the implications of climate change for national security and military planning. ...
• Sorrows of Sumatra
  Intensive deforestation in Indonesia – fuelled by corruption – is scarring the landscape and wrecking a vital resource. Andre Vltchek went to see the devastation. Tin-mine pits are like enormous open wounds dominating the landscape of island Bangka , near Sumatra and only 40 minutes flight from the ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Has the ‘Last Supper’ Been Supersized?
  This post first appeared on Food Politics. As readers of this blog know by now, I very much admire and enjoy the work of Brian Wansink, the Cornell professor who studies environmental cues (like portion size) that trigger overeating. In his latest publication, he teamed up with his brother, a prof ...
• Racism is a Mental Illness: Disgusting Cartoon Dep ...
  When I saw this cartoon, I shook my head. If there ever was an example of a simultaneously “neutral” and “provocative” editorial cartoon that stinks of racism then this is it. Rape allusions? Check. Allusions to the myth of the black rapist? Check. Intentional provocation? (and denial…check out the ...
• ICE Slip Up Casts Serious Doubt on Immigration Enf ...
  Until we have comprehensive immigration reform, ICE is going to be saddled with an enormous list of targets, and many people watching to see how they’re going to tackle it.
• True Patriots: Tea Bag Leaders Say They Want to Ab ...
  This post originally appeared on No More Mister Nice Blog. CNN reports: Republican Senate candidates are being instructed Tuesday to promote the party’s health care policy proposals as they continue to push the “repeal and replace” theme following passage of the President Obama’s health care reform ...
• Conservative Conspiracy Fearmongering to Cost GOP ...
  Spewing crazy, anti-government lies for short-term political gain doesn’t always work as planned, especially when you’re a member of said government and want to stay that way. To whit: Last year, Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann warned that the federal government could use the information ga ...

Threat Level

• Google, Microsoft Push Feds to Fix Privacy Laws
  A coalition of the net’s biggest online service providers, including Google and Microsoft, are joining with the top internet rights groups to demand Congress modernize the nation’s privacy laws. Among the reforms pushed by the so-called Digital Due Process coalition is a requirement that law enforce ...
• Isohunt Ordered to Remove Infringing Content
  A U.S. judge is ordering Isohunt, one of the world’s leading BitTorrent search engines, to remove all infringing content. Isohunt’s operator said Tuesday that the decision would likely shutter the site, which has 30 million unique monthly visitors. The injunction targeting Isohunt follows similar ru ...
• Government Stops Shielding Corporate Breach ‘Victi ...
  For the past few months, national retailer J. C. Penney has been fighting an under-seal court battle to keep you from knowing that its payment card network was breached by U.S. and Eastern European hackers. Scenes From a Hack Chat logs between Albert Gonzalez and an Eastern European accomplice reg ...
• Judge Nullifies Gene Patents
  A federal judge on Monday nullified patents associated with human genes known to detect early signs of breast and ovarian cancer. It was the first time a federal court has invalidated a patent on genes. The American Civil Liberties Union, which brought the case, said the New York federal court decis ...
• TJX Accomplice Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison
  BOSTON — A hacker who helped TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez and others gain access to corporate networks was sentenced to 7 years and one day on Monday . Christopher Scott, 27, pleaded guilty to breaching the wireless access points of several retailers between 2003 and 2007 to siphon credit and debit ca ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• REFILE-UPDATE 4-Mini-Big Bangs created in cosmos o ...
  * Success hailed as huge step in understanding universe
• Tennessee man pleads guilty in plot to kill Obama, ...
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. man pleaded guilty on Monday to charges of conspiring to carry out a killing spree targeting African Americans, including then-presidential candidate Barack Obama, the Justice Department said.
• Obama signs final healthcare changes, defends law
  ALEXANDRIA, Va./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama made another push to sell his healthcare overhaul to a skeptical public on Tuesday, calling it a victory over special interests that will help the middle-class and defending the "courage" of legislators who backed it.
• Obama administration has blunt message for insurer ...
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Monday had a blunt message for health insurers - the new healthcare law requires that they not drop coverage for children with certain pre-existing conditions.
• Obama to sign new student aid initiative
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday will sign into law an overhaul of the college student loan program which cuts commercial banks out of the student loan business, drying up a multibillion dollar profit stream.

Equality Trust

• The Equality Trust in the news
  Please visit our new Media section for the latest details.
• Inequality: a threat to social cohesion
  As Edmund Conway comments in today's Daily Telegraph : "It is not merely, as Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett point out in their book The Spirit Level, that this damages health and encourages crime; in times of austerity, inequality can tear apart the social fabric."
• Labour is running up a down escalator to tackle in ...
  Tackling society's inequalities is what Labour governments are supposed to be about, and this one has quietly redistributed billions worth of tax since 1997, much of it paid by those fatcat bankers, to alleviate the plight of the poorest. How much has it got to show for it? Read Michael White's ...
• The five-star lifestyle: "horrible, soulless and w ...
  Austrian millionaire Karl Rabeder is giving away every penny of his £3 million fortune after realising his riches were making him unhappy. Read more here...
• Lynda Gratton: The business case for greater incom ...
  Read Lynda Gratton in the Financial Times [Wilkinson and Pickett's] argument is that societies which are very unequal have all sorts of problems, and I have a feeling that the same is true for companies,” she says. “I think one has to be very careful about what you pay people ... We’ve put far t ...

PDA AMERICA

• IOT: Inside the Democratic Party March Call
  On this call we ratified the national endorsement for Bill Hedrick in CA44. We also heard from Tracy Emblem (CA50) Robert Dobbs (SC01).
• The Agitator: Voices of PDA Episode 4 – Marc ...
  Agitator Voices Episode 4 ~ Marcy Winograd, Tracy Emblem, Conor Boylan In this episode of Agitator Voices, Tim Carpenter turns our attention to the midterm elections and PDA’s endorsed candidates for Congress, Marcy Winograd and Tracy ...
• Podcast: Focus 2/21/10 Leo Maley with Tim Carpent ...
  Union organizer, PDA-member, and progressive radio host Leo Maley interviews PDA’s Tim Carpenter about the growing national movement of "Brown Baggers" calling for an end to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and for single-payer ...
• Lies, Damn Lies, and the Media
  Lies, Damn Lies, and the Media By David Swanson ACORN is shutting down because of a fraudulent video pimped by the corporate media. U.S. forces in Afghanistan have heroically laid seige to and conquered a fictional ...
• Healthcare Reform has just begun— next steps for M ...
  The health reform bill passed by the 111th Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama does far more than fall short of extending healthcare to all. See Rose Ann DeMoro’s analysis of the ...

Marler Blog

• When Food Safety and Health Care Come Together - T ...
  A lot of my blog followers and subscribers have been following the story of Linda Rivera and her fight against the E. coli O157:H7 bacteria.� As you might recall, Linda has been hospitalized since May 2, 2009 - yes, almost 11 months.� She has suffered kidney and liver failure.� She has suffered seiz ...
• Parent Food Safety Guide for Hepatitis A
  Hepatitis A is the only common vaccine-preventable foodborne disease in the United States (Fiore, 2004). It is one of five human hepatitis viruses that primarily infect the human liver and cause human illness. Unlike hepatitis B and C, hepatitis A doesn’t develop into chronic hepatitis or cirrhosi ...
• Now that the Senate has passed Health Care it is t ...
  FDA Food Safety Modernization Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) to expand the authority of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary) to regulate food, including by authorizing the Secretary to suspend the registration of a food facility. Requires each f ...
• Marler Clark Foodborne Illnesses Site Updated
  A "one stop shop" for all foodborne illnesses and food poisoning bacteria and viruses.
• Chicks and Ducks can carry Salmonella
  Though they are cute and soft and associated with the arrival of spring, baby chicks or ducklings can carry harmful salmonella bacteria, health officials warn. “We strongly discourage giving chicks or ducklings as gifts,” said Dr. Alan Melnick, Clark County health officer. “To prevent possible inf ...

AutoblogGreen

• AutoblogGreen for 03.30.10
  Transportation Secretary embraces bicycling, walking for a greener future Makes sense. Gasoline-powered alarm clock catches Energy Star off guard Wow. Just wow. ...
• AutoblogGreen for 03.29.10
  Cruze Comes To Town: Chevy unveils 40-mpg Eco model and RS package It's expected to yield a hybrid-like 40 mpg on the highway. RelayRides can turn anyone into a carsharer as it tries to "Reinvent the Wheel ...
• AutoblogGreen for 03.26.10
  Hummers are for Horses: Artist reimagines the monsterous SUV [w/video] Gives "Futurama" a new meaning. Infiniti EV to be built on Leaf platform, release scheduled for 2014 One more step in Nis ...
• AutoblogGreen for 03.25.10
  GM unveils three futuristic, urban EN-V concepts A typical GM vehicle this is not. Customer ignorance convinces BMW that front-drive is OK Eighty percent of 1 Series drivers thought the car ...
• AutoblogGreen for 03.24.10
  Mitsubishi announces UK pricing for i-MiEV: �33,699 Early adopters are helping to subsidize the future... if they can afford the present. Local police agree, runaway Prius in NY caused by driver error ...

Rafe's Radar

• The Rescue survey: Car navigation systems
  Is convenience worth a 10x premium? Originally posted at CNET to the Rescue
• Demo debrief: Rafe and Josh's favorites
  This year's Demo Spring conference has come to a close, and we take a minute to look back at some of our favorites. Originally posted at Webware ...
• Neverend Media builds smart new e-book format
  It's arguably a better format than PDF for electronic books. But is it better enough to get traction?
• At Demo, three examples of why the iPhone needs ba ...
  These apps would probably be on the iPhone if it had background capabilities.
• Medl Tech portable monitor gives idea for iPad
  Company at Demo presents a 13-inch, battery-powered, USB-driven portable computer monitor. Is there a market for it?

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!

• Part II: Daniel Ellsberg on US Foreign Policy
  Part II of our conversation with Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg. He speaks on the under-reported leaked memos of US Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry, US Policy on Iran, and more. In 1971, the then-RAND Corporation analyst Daniel Ellsberg leaked to the media what became kn ...
• Amy Goodman to appear on CNN tonight at 7pm ET
  Amy will make her third appearance on CNN’s new show, John King USA tonight at 7pm ET. If you missed her March 26th appearance, take a look here: If you want to see more of Amy on CNN, please get in touch with John King and his team to let them know. You can contact them via: Emai ...
• Indonesian Media Reports Journalist Allan Nairn Fa ...
  A leading TV news network in Indonesia is reporting the Indonesian military is planning to charge journalist Allan Nairn with “smearing [its] good name.” In an appearance on Democracy Now! last week, Allan exposed that US-backed Indonesian armed forces assassinated a series of civilian activists ...
• Obama’s Bad Prescription for Indonesia
  President Barack Obama dedicated the signing of health care legislation to a number of people, including his mother, S. Ann Dunham Soetoro, who, he said, “argued with insurance companies even as she battled cancer in her final days.” The health care legislative process and its frenetic endgame prom ...
• Amy Goodman on CNN's _John King, USA_
  Click here to see Democracy Now! ’s award-winning host Amy Goodman talking about health care on CNN’s new program, John King, USA , on Tuesday, March 23rd.

Farming Pathogens

• The Alan Greenspan Strain
  First, a question with which few biogeographers bother. If a goodly chunk of their discipline is dedicated toward obfuscating the impact capitalism imposes on the natural world (discussed here and here), how can researchers interested in paying their bills study the crises that threaten the croupier ...
• King Leopold’s Pandemic
  The origins of HIV offer a great example of the ways treating human impact as an afterthought—discussed in our previous post—locks the study of pathogens into limited and oftentimes downright drunken trajectories. In 2006 Beatrice Hahn and her colleagues identified the likely source for the SIVcpz p ...
• 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, [...]

Digg Green

• The Magnificently Captured Beautiful Places On Ear ...
  Earth Hour 2010 will take place on March 27, 2010 from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., local time and we are trying to showcase few of the millions stunning photographs to give a tribute to Earth Hour and to create some awareness about this event. Climate Change is not about what country you are from… It’s ...
• Beijing to Shoot Giant Deodorant Guns at Smelly La ...
  The city of Beijing is installing 100 giant deodorant guns at its Asuwei dump site to address complaints it has received about the smell. Beijing, F@ck Yeah!
• The Rapid Demise of Cap and Trade
  The market-driven system was the preferred policy for tackling climate change a year ago, but now it is in wide disrepute.
• War Paint, Anyone? Indian Tribes Battle Against Wi ...
  Citing customs and religious practices recorded since the earliest contact with Europeans, two local tribes have blocked, at least for now, America's first planned offshore wind farm and the Obama administration's efforts to promote renewable sources of energy.
• Hollywood's "Riviera" Now A Toxic Dump
  Set beside the Imperial Valley in southeastern California, the Salton Sea area was supposed to be Hollywood's answer to the Riviera back in the '50s. But its developers failed to anticipate the raw sewage that would run up the New River from Mexico and make survival impossible for many aquatic speci ...

Invisible Opportunity

• The Convenient Media Rope-a-Dope with The Pope
  By Les Visible The health care bill was written by the insurance companies so that now, you not only still don’t have health care but you have to pay for it too. The Republicans are touting this tea party horror that will accomplish nothing but allow people too stupid to think, a way to channel thei ...
• ARE MOST DISEASES CAUSED BY THE MEDICAL SYSTEM?
  By Walter Last I do not want to pretend that this is an impartial investigation. Instead I am now fully convinced that most diseases are indeed caused by the medical system, and in the following I want to state my reasons for this conclusion. Increasingly over the years my health beliefs have been t ...
• John Costella’s Climategate Analysis
  This is a very long analysis (149 page PDF)  of the climategate emails and data.  Kudos to John Costella for working through all the information and presenting  it to us in a manner that the layman can understand… by John P. Costella | December 10, 2009 The most difficult thing for a scientist in ...
• Algerian authorities arrest Mossad agent holding f ...
  ALGERIA, (PIC)– Algerian newspaper revealed on Sunday that the authorities in Algeria arrested a secret agent working for the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence apparatus, and holding a forged Spanish passport. According to Al-Nahar newspaper, the Algerian security apparatuses arrested an Israeli spy c ...
• Discharged soldiers sue for millions over Anthrax ...
  Vered Luvitch Sixty-four former IDF soldiers are suing the Defense Ministry for NIS 18 million ($4.8 million) over what they claim is damage caused to them during Anthrax vaccine experiments in the early 1990s. The experiments, which were meant to determine the efficacy of an Anthrax vaccine, were c ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

• How Marijuana Can Fix California
  Far from being a war between hippies and police, the fight to legalize marijuana in California centers on whether decriminalizing cannabis can help fill the state's fiscal hole.
• The $250,000 Joint
  A single joint smoked by Amir Varick Amma cost him an additional 5 years in prison, and taxpayers roughly $250,000.
• Marijuana Legalization on the CA Ballot: Separatin ...
  Brace yourself for a blast of alarmist hot air from the drug war status quo, a nine-month onslaught of distortions, half-truths and real whoppers.
• Another Senseless Drug War Death
  Stunning developments in the 2009 police shooting of Georgia pastor Jonathan Ayers.
• You Can't Understand Drug War Bloodbath in Mexico ...
  "Living on the border can cripple a person's emotional range. I grow more numb with each passing day."

Twilight Earth

• 10 Incredible Green Technologies That Could Shape ...
  As consumption of fossil fuels and other, damaging non-renewable energy materials reaches it’s greatest extent, it’s becoming increasingly obvious that sustainable power will play a significant part in shaping (and possibly saving) the future of the planet. Here’s our list of 10 of the most promisin ...
• Harvesting the Winter White House Garden – Video
  After a long, and historically snowy winter here in Washington DC, the White House harvested their winter crop on March 10th. Related posts: Endearing Video of the Whitehouse Garden – With First Lady Michelle Obama Farming the White House Lawn: Victory Garden for Obama? White House Video – ...
• Photo Sunday – Green Spring Gardens Nature Center
  Sometimes, when you can't get away for an extended drive, visiting a local nature center is the next best thing to being in the wilderness. Related posts: The First Day of Spring, 2009 – Photo Sunday Photo Sunday – Sounds of Nature First Day of Spring – 2010 (Photo Essay)
• Win a Trip to Washington DC for Earthday!
  Our friend Nathan Winters just told us about an exciting contest where you can sign up for a chance to win a trip for two to the Earth Day Celebration in Washington DC. Related posts: Solar Decathlon on the Mall in Washington DC Photo Sunday – Washington DC Fireworks Was George Washington G ...
• We Live Inside Borders – But Have We Bordered Up O ...
  We live in a land of borders, but have we bordered up our minds? Do we care about what happens next door? Related posts: Coal Country Film: Inside Modern Coal Mining John McCain Quotes Live From The RNC Convention Floor Speech Live Dispatch from the Climate Express : The IPCC is not the Univ ...

Inhabitat

• Hidden House Is a Stunning Example of Sustainable ...
  Many architects and designers were caught dead in their tracks when the recent economic downturn struck. Standard architecture in Los Angeles successfully powers through by taking sustainable action, cutting construction costs and preserving pre-existing materials in their Hidden House. “Hidden Ho ...
• Urban Reserve: A Modern, Sustainable Community in ...
  Urban Reserve is a modern sustainable community situated on fourteen hilly acres of land on the urban edge of Dallas. Envisioned as “a neighborhood where the common thread between residents is a passion for modern architecture“, the 50-home planned development requires that all homes are at least 20 ...
• Peer+ Unveils Energy Generating Windows With Contr ...
  Windows are a two-way street when it comes to efficient green building. We need them for light, fresh air, beauty, and the connection they create to the outdoors, but even the most efficient windows, installed perfectly, are akin to having a hole in the wall as far as energy is concerned. Enter Pee ...
• The Personal Fresh Air Desk is a New Kind of Cubic ...
  For those who’ve had enough of those depressing gray upholstered cubicle walls, the Personal Fresh Air Desk just may be your salvation. Created by Julio Radesca de Carvalhom, a recent graduate of the Design Academy Eindhoven, this desk incorporates a dozen plants that not only look great, but also h ...
• Greenpeace Reveals the Internet’s Biggest Secret – ...
  The next time you’re marveling about the amount of information you can access at the click of your mouse, think about this: if it were considered a country, our collective computing carbon footprint would place 5th in world for energy use. What shows up on your computer screen is most likely coming ...

Pogue's Posts

• Why the Line2 App is Up and Down
  An explanation of the ups and downs of Line2, the popular iPhone calling app.
• A Bigger Sensor for a Coat-Pocket Camera
  Samsung's NX10 takes the necessary next step in the development of a small camera that takes SLR-quality photos.
• A Tech-Filled Life, Without Power
  My family has now been without electricity, heat or hot water for five days. I gotta tell you: it's getting old.
• Photo Tip: Slowing a Babbling Brook
  Try photographing a babbling brook on a sunny day. Here's the trick to avoiding an overexposed shot.
• Why I Prefer External Chargers
  Is it better to have in-camera battery rechargers or external recharges?

WIRED Magazine | Science

• New Evidence of Ice Age Comet Found in Ice Cores
  A new study cites spikes of ammonium in Greenland ice cores as evidence for a giant comet impact at the end of the last ice age, and suggests that the collision may have caused a brief, final cold snap before the climate warmed up for good. In the April Geology, researchers describe finding chemica ...
• Bats Use Sun to Calibrate Geomagnetic Compass
  Bats are nocturnal, but some need sunlight to set their internal compass. “Recent evidence suggests that bats can detect the geomagnetic field,” wrote Max Planck Institute ornithologists Richard Holland, Ivailo Borissov and Bjorn Siemers in an article published March 29 in the Proceedings of the Na ...
• Phew, It Works! Science Begins at the LHC
  Early this morning, two proton beams collided in the Large Hadron Collider’s 17-mile-long ring at a combined energy of 7 TeV, three times higher than ever before. Finally, the flood of data particle physicists have been anticipating for years for has begun. “It’s a great day  to be a particle phys ...
• Video: Elephants Run Like No Other
  A biomechanical analysis of running elephants has revealed that Earth’s largest land animals do some strange things at high speed. Unlike every other quadruped, they use all four legs for braking and propulsion, rather than rather dividing those tasks between hind and front legs. Elephants also ...
• Bats Get Pitchy to Make 3-D Echolocation Map
  Bats can subtly adjust the frequency of the sounds they use to do echolocation to adjust to particularly cluttered terrain. In a laboratory testing room filled with dangling plastic chains, bats wearing tiny, half-gram microphones were recorded flying through the obstacle course. When confronted wi ...

The Progressive Realist

• They Hate Russia for Its Freedoms Too!
  Daniel Larison neatly disposes of the latest version of the neo-conservative argument that terrorists hate us for our freedoms/morality – the Sayyid Qutb edition. …[T]he decadence-as-cause-of-terrorism argument grossly exaggerates the importance of such cultural factors in explaining jihadist viole ...
• Experts: Military Attack on Iran Would Dampen Pros ...
  Concern over Iran’s desire to possess nuclear weapons has intensified in light of an article stating that Iran may begin construction on two more nuclear enrichment facilities and could be planning even more. A according to the New York Times , which published an article on Sunday referring to an in ...
• Stuck in the Cold War
  (Photo Credit: U.S. Army Photostream ) New America Foundation /Economic Growth Program Policy Director and The American Way of Strategy author Michael Lind has an excellent new column over at Salon that traces the roots of the United States' strategic insolvency. Lind argues persuasively that the ...
• Off-the-Radar News Roundup
  - South Korea formally protested a decision by the Japanese government to approve an elementary school textbook claiming that South Korea "illegally occupies" a chain of islets disputed by the two countries. Maps are another area where this kind of territorial dispute gets expressed. When I traveled ...
• Europe and Turkey's Constitutional Reform
  Amidst German Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit to Turkey this week, Spiegel Online published a lengthy interview yesterday with Turkey Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan . The interview touched on most of the familiar subjects - including Iran's nuclear program, the Armenian genocide resolution co ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Lightning Round: Family Values Forever.
  The impulse behind conservatives like Norman Podhoretz preferring obviously unqualified politicians to Barack Obama has several sources. First there's the deep-seated mistrust, even among conservative intellectuals, of intellectuals in general. Backing candidates like the former governor of Alaska ...
• Why Are We Still Surprised By Women Suicide Bomber ...
  Part of The New York Times' second-day coverage of the Moscow subway bombings was a story dissecting a renewed fear of female suicide bombers. Known as Black Widows, the Chechen separatists have been deploying women as suicide bombers since 2000. Though that's when female suicide bombers began in ea ...
• Playing the Long Game.
  Paul Waldman on the president's ability to keep things in perspective: On March 4, 2008, Hillary Clinton won surprise victories in primary elections in Texas and Ohio. At first, it seemed to be a momentous shift of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, making Barack Obama 's victory ...
• The Little Picture: The White House Seder.
  Speaking of Passover, President Barack Obama and the First Family hosted a Seder in the Old Family Dining Room of the White House last night. (White House/Pete Souza)
• Still Not Getting Passover.
  Continuing with the theme of right-wingers simply not getting Passover, Jon Chait catches Jennifer Rubin taking umbrage at the president's holiday message. Here's Obama 's statement: The enduring story of the Exodus teaches us that, wherever we live, there is oppression to be fought and fre ...

Andy Worthington

• Andy Worthington discusses the release of Guantána ...
  On Saturday, I spoke by phone to Georgian journalist Ketevan Khachidze about the three men released from Guantánamo to Georgia last week, congratulating the country on its humanitarian gesture, and explaining why fears that the government is accepting “terrorists” are gravely misplaced, and are base ...
• Video: Q&A session at Glasgow screening of “Outsid ...
  Last Thursday, the Q&A session following the screening in Glasgow of the new documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (directed by Polly Nash and Andy Worthington) was filmed by We Are Change Glasgow, and I’m happy to report that the session, featuring former prisoner Omar Deghay ...
• An interview with Omar Deghayes, following Kent sc ...
  On Sunday, the newspaper Kent on Sunday published the following interview with former Guantánamo prisoner Omar Deghayes, following a very successful screening of the new documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (directed by Polly Nash and Andy Worthington) at the University of Ke ...
• A warm Scottish welcome for “Outside the Law: Stor ...
  Former Guantánamo prisoner Omar Deghayes and I have just returned from an excellent week-long trip to Scotland, where we were promoting the new documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (directed by Polly Nash and myself) as part of an ongoing UK tour of the film. We also encourag ...
• Protests worldwide on Aafia Siddiqui Day, Sunday M ...
  Today is the seventh anniversary of the day that Pakistani neuroscientist Dr. Aafia Siddiqui and her three young children were reportedly abducted in Karachi, leading to Aafia’s disappearance for over five years — when she was apparently held in secret prisoners and subjected to appalling abuse — ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Gene-Altered "Enviropig" to Reduce Dead Zones?
  "Enviropig," now approved for limited production, is modified to excrete less phosphorous, a key trigger of algal blooms, scientists say.
• Earth Hour 2010: Record 121 Countries to Go Dark
  In the biggest Earth Hour yet, millions of businesses and homes around the world will participate in a voluntary blackout to show support for action against global warming.
• Texas Pioneers Energy Storage in Giant Battery
  Uniquely prone to electrical outages, Presidio, Texas, deploys a first-of-its-kind solution.
• Global Warming Making People More Aggressive?
  Forget anger over leaked emails: Murders and assaults could jump by a hundred thousand cases a year in a warmer world, a new study says.
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drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

• Recruiting Young Republicans and Off to the Sex Cl ...
  There was quite a bit of talk yesterday concerning the RNC interesting expense account... Obviously spending the money people donate to the Republican National Committee on nights out an expensive bondage and lesbian themed sex club was not exactly what the donors would hope for, never mind the $17, ...
• 1000 people show up for free healthcare clinic
  I was watching Countdown last night and Keith Olbermann had said that 1000 people got free healthcare at the clinic in Hartford. Most of them had not had access to a Doctor in years. Whether it was the unemployed, the underemployed, the working poor. The common thread among them all is that access t ...
• BAD !!!
  Yes... It is that time of the year, according to my favorite kangaroo : email skippy if you want the code to these logos! yes, once again, it's blogroll amnesty day ! loyal readers of this humble space know that b.a.d., or blogroll amnesty day for short, is a celebration of blogs of all sizes thr ...
• Not sure that Rob Simmons' Wife and Chris Healy's ...
  The bigger news is that Connecticut Republican's have mastered the science of cloning AstroTurf garbage... "SIMMONS CAMPAIGN ANNOUNCES WOMEN FOR SIMMONS COALITION" IOW: This ain't news at all. Same old same old. When reality tells you that only 28% of Republican women support your candidacy , neve ...
• Boughton the populist!
  Cough!!! Cough!!! Will we find old naked photos of him in Cosmo too? "Boughton enters GOP gubernatorial race as pickup-truck populist"

SPL Center

• Calling All Thugs: Gas Line Cut After Tea Party Le ...
  The latest news from the opponents of health care reform who like to suggest that supporters should suffer for their transgressions: A day after two Virginia Tea Party activists posted the address of the brother of a congressman who voted for the bill, authorities discovered that someone had severed ...
• Armed MCDC to ‘Forcefully Engage’ Border ‘Criminal ...
  The leader of the nativist extremist group Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC) publicly repudiates the use of illegal tactics to secure the border against undocumented immigrants. “If one single individual steps over the line for their personal gratification, we are all stained with that irrespon ...
• Croatian Extremist Joins White Hate Group Leadersh ...
  A popular speaker at gatherings of white supremacists and anti-Semites has joined the board of directors of the nascent white nationalist political party, American Third Position (A3P). Tomislav Sunic, who describes himself as a former professor, Croatian diplomat and author, has spoken on multiple ...
• The Unlikeliest Conspiracy-Monger: Colorado Public ...
  Law-abiding U.S. citizens who express politically unpopular views are at risk of being rounded up and imprisoned in concentration camps by a tyrannical government. That’s according to a conspiracy theory that has long been popular within the antigovernment “Patriot” movement. Although recently debun ...
• Nine Members of the Hutaree Militia Indicted in Pl ...
  Nine members of the Hutaree Militia were indicted today in what federal authorities are describing as a plot to murder a law enforcement officer in Michigan and then attack other officials who gathered for the funeral. The five-count indictment followed a series of raids in Michigan, Ohio and Indian ...

change: org.

• Somalia: An Open Critique of Newswire Coverage
  Dear Western newswires covering Somalia and other war-affected countries, After working in Somalia three times, interviewing hundreds, and traveling to all three regions, I've come to the conclusion that Western newswires too often misrepresent the country by extrapolating summaries of what's happen ...
• Why and How LGBT People Should Complete the Census
  This Thursday, April 1, is not only April Fool’s Day, but National Census Day, when all Americans are reminded to return their 2010 Census forms. The Census is especially important to LGBT Americans because it gives us a rare, national look at the demographics of the LGBT community -- information us ...
• The Philippines Defies Catholic Church, Hands Out ...
  Flowers, chocolates, and condoms: all three were distributed on Valentine's Day in the Philippines this year, and while they might all help you get lucky, only one of the three will prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS. "Take care always, my Valentine," a program by the Philippines' Department of He ...
• Deported Over a Couple of Joints?
  Calling all stoners: Did you know that smoking a couple of joints can get an immigrant deported? In immigration law, joint #1 + joint #2 = drug trafficking. Yes, in the infinite wisdom of the United States government, two minor drug possession charges makes you a drug trafficker, an "aggravated felo ...
• South Africans Open Homes, Churches to Kids During ...
  June will be a pretty exciting month for most South African school children -- they get a whole month off of school, their parents won't have to go to work, and the World Cup will be played in their country. But some children will face a very different scenario. Kids with troubled families or whose ...

Common Dreams -News

• Company Seeks First US Oil Sands Project, in Utah
  by Paul Foy Salt Lake City - An energy company with government approvals to launch the first significant U.S. oil sands project is trying to raise money to build a plant in eastern Utah that would turn out 2,000 barrels of oil a day. Earth Energy Resources Inc. has a state lease to work a 62-acre pi ...
• Maine's Clean Election System Blazes a Trail in Fu ...
  by Sasha Issenberg BANGOR — Gubernatorial candidate Libby Mitchell ended a recent hourlong evening appearance before the local gay community the same way she ends nearly every campaign event on her schedule. She did not ask her audience members for their vote, their volunteer time, or as much money ...
• Seven Arrested in FBI Raids Linked to Christian Mi ...
  by Jennifer Chambers At least seven people, including some from Michigan, have been arrested in raids by a FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana as part of an investigation into an Adrian-based Christian militia group, a person familiar with the matter said. The suspects a ...
• Obama Puts Pesticide Pusher in Charge of Agricultu ...
  WASHINGTON - Sidestepping a stalled Senate confirmation vote, yesterday President Obama recess-appointed Islam Siddiqui to be chief agricultural negotiator in the office of the U.S. trade representative. Dr. Siddiqui's nomination was held up in the Senate and was opposed by the Center for Biological ...
• US Oil Company Donated Millions to Climate Sceptic ...
  by John Vidal A Greenpeace investigation has identified a little-known, privately owned US oil company as the paymaster of global warming sceptics in the US and Europe. The environmental campaign group accuses Kansas-based Koch Industries , which owns refineries and operates oil pipelines, of fundin ...

Lifehacker

• How I’d Hack Your Weak Passwords [Security]
  Internet standards expert, CEO of web company iFusion Labs, and blogger John Pozadzides knows a thing or two about password security—and he knows exactly how he'd hack the weak passwords you use all over the internet. More » ...
• Remains of the Day: Teach Yourself Programming in ...
  We get a good reminder that there aren't always shortcuts when you want to learn something new, Firefox Mobile (Fennec) is getting close on Android, and iTunes updates to 9.1. More��
• Learn to Use Depth of Field to Focus Attention, Ta ...
  Getting pictures in focus is important, but if you know what you're doing, a bit of unfocusing can be even better. Take more interesting photos by choosing a depth of field, drawing your viewer to what's really important in the picture. Mor ...
• Stop Windows 7 from Deleting Your Desktop Shortcut ...
  If it seems like the desktop shortcuts on your Windows 7 keep disappearing, you're not hallucinating. Windows 7 automatically deletes broken and network shortcuts if there are too many. Here's how to stop Windows from throwing these (often sti ...
• Start Work Fresh Tomorrow by Slaying Your Most Unp ...
  If your to-do list was a spectrum, some tasks would congregate on the not-so-bad end and others would loom on the anything-else-first end. Start your work day on the right foot by doing your worst task first. More��

Newshoggers - AfPak

• Bush & Blair Killed The Special Relationship
  By Steve Hynd Renowened British national security reporter Michael Smith - he off "Downing Street Memos" fame - notes in the London Times today that a report by the Commons foreign affairs committee says that using the term "special relationship" to describe Britain's relations with the U.S. “is pot ...
• Pakistan Sends More Troops To Indian Border
  By Steve Hynd Just days after Hillary Clinton's giggling presser with Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Pakistan is already walking back any real co-operation with American interests - and, as always, Pakistani fears of India are the prime motive. The Financial Times eports: Pakistan has sent extra troops to it ...
• NATO Tries to Silence a Truth-Teller in Afghanista ...
  By Derrick Crowe Q: Why would U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan go out of their way to smear a journalist? A: Because he told the truth about a night raid that killed Afghan civilians, including pregnant women. Last week, I spoke with Afghanistan-based journalist Jerome Starkey about his reporti ...
• Paying not to quake in our boots
  at Chinese defense spending trends. 
• U.S., Allies Responsible for Most Marjah Civilian ...
  By Derrick Crowe According to the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, U.S. and Allied forces have killed and injured more civilians than have the insurgents during Operation Moshtarak. Incredibly, the Pentagon continues to insist that this operation "protects the people." AIHRC's Feb. 23 pre ...

Water Wars

• World at war over water (The New Statesman)
  The most bitter conflicts of the next 50 years won’t be over oil. The prize commodity of the future is the stuff of life – water. How we manage it now will determine if we’ll survive tomorrow.
• There are plants that sip water but never guzzle i ...
  Ever since settlers turned the first clump of dirt west of the Rockies, there have been water wars. These conflicts grow even more turbulent in periods of prolonged drought. During the 20th century, water needs escalated as immigrants flooded in. Westerners have been sensitive to water consumption l ...
• There are plants that sip water but never guzzle i ...
  Ever since settlers turned the first clump of dirt west of the Rockies, there have been water wars. These conflicts grow even more turbulent in periods of prolonged drought. During the 20th century, water needs escalated as immigrants flooded in. Westerners have been sensitive to water consumption l ...
• There are plants that sip water but never guzzle i ...
  Ever since settlers turned the first clump of dirt west of the Rockies, there have been water wars. These conflicts grow even more turbulent in periods of prolonged drought. During the 20th century, water needs escalated as immigrants flooded in. Westerners have been sensitive to water consumption l ...
• There are plants that sip water but never guzzle i ...
  Ever since settlers turned the first clump of dirt west of the Rockies, there have been water wars. These conflicts grow even more turbulent in periods of prolonged drought. During the 20th century, water needs escalated as immigrants flooded in. Westerners have been sensitive to water consumption l ...

WordPress | Economics

• Soccernomics and the Mismanagement of English Foot ...
  I recently finished the excellent Soccernomics written by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski.  It uses
• Demented morality
  Demented morality means making a moral claim that has absolutely no link to God’s truth. Examp
• The Statist Quo
  Declaring something a right, doesn’t make it so. And declaring something a right won’t s
• Sneak-Moves and False Surplus
  President Obama, in a massive weasel-move, hitched a college funding bill onto the Healthcare bill t
• RWC train: corporate travel or rowdyism?
  ### ODT Online Wed, 31 Mar 2010 World Cup train option between Christchurch, Dunedin By Mark Price R

Electronic Intifada

• Israel greenwashing the "war on terror"
  Under cover of a sudden interest in developing new green technologies, the Israeli government hopes to weaken the Gulf states by making their oil redundant and thereby defeating "I ...
• Mayada's mime gives expression to Gaza youth
  In the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, an ordinary family has raised a talented daughter. Her talent is not something widespread in Gaza or even elsewhere in the w ...
• Israel's blood diamonds
  Every year, consumers the world over unwittingly spend billions of dollars on diamonds crafted in Israel, thereby helping to fund one of the world's most protracted and con ...
• "We are defending our culture": an interview with ...
  Earlier this month the Palestinian group Le Trio Joubran gave a concert in Geneva to support the work of the Association Meyrin-Palestine, which is planning to build a cult ...
• Stuck between a wall and an occupation
  When Bilal Jadou's grandmother was sick last year, neither Israeli ambulances or Palestinian ambulances were able to cross the checkpoint to his house. Jadou's house is on the othe ...

Afghanistan Sun

• Japan gives $9 mn for refugees in Pakistan's ...
  Japan has donated $9 million to the World Food Programme (WFP) for the rehabilitation of civilians displaced by last year's military operations against the Taliban in Pakistan's restive northwest, it was announced here Tuesday.
• From Afghanistan to Arakans, militants converge on ...
  At least 15 foreign militant organisations were active or are still operating in Bangladesh since 1991 using the country as a safe haven or transit point to infiltrate India and other neighbouring countries, those nabbed have confessed.
• US publicly demands deployment of Canadian troops ...
  The United States is publicly calling for Canadian troops to stay in Afghanistan past next year, sparking questions over what Canada's role will be after the 2011 deadline for military withdrawal.
• Karzai told to end corruption to ensure NATO offen ...
  The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, Admiral Mike Mullen, has told Afghanistan President Hamid Ansari that NATO's military offensive in Afghanistan will prove a waste of time unless he stamps out corruption in the Taleban stronghold of Kandahar.
• NATO troops to launch offensive in Kandahar in Jun ...
  The NATO-led coalition in Afghanistan will launch a long-planned offensive in the southern city of Kandahar in June, military officials have said.

Futurismic

• Now *that’s* what I call force feedback…
  Via SlashDot, the next generation of gaming peripherals: a haptic vest that lets you feel every punch, kick, stab and blast from your combat-game opponent. Might I mention that such a system featured quite heavily in Philip Brewer’s story “An Education of Scars”, as published here a little over a ye ...
• Escher Circuits: visual computation programs
  Here’s a proper science fictional “what-if?”, via the ever-reliable MetaFilter, where the brilliant slug-line “software for your wetware” was applied: is it possible to exploit the biological computation power of our visual apparatus to deal with tasks that we find difficult at a cognitive level? Or ...
• Beginner’s guide to atom-smashing
  Today’s ubiquitous topic in the geek-o-sphere is surely the successful test of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN… so if you were wondering exactly how it is that particle accelerators are supposed to discover hypothetical sub-atomic thingybobs with funny names, Ars Technica is running a series of ar ...
• Redefining karma and building reputation economies
  An interesting and lengthy overview post from Randy Farmer and Bryce Glass, authors of the book Building Web Reputation Systems, on (unsurprisingly) the basics of building web reputation systems [via MetaFilter]. I’ll swap ten whuffie points with anyone who has the time to buy and read this book on ...
• Dude, where’s my island?
  Since around 2005, at least 24 small islands have effectively vanished from the Indonesian archipelago. While sea levels are rising quickly enough to make some islands vanish (and solving long-running turf disputes in the process), these particular islands are not victims of climate change, but of ’ ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

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

• Graham County wins again, but new healthcare law b ...
  Today the U.S. Supreme Court handed another victory to the Graham County Soil and Water Conservation District, throwing out whistleblower Karen Wilson's lawsuit. In the 7-2 decision , the high court agreed with the fraudsters that their own internal "audit report" and another report by a state agenc ...
• Stephen M. Kohn breaks down S. 372 on Boiling Frog ...
  Last week, Stephen M. Kohn was invited by Sibel Edmonds’ Boiling Frogs Post to debate Norman L. Eisen, Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform on the controversial “Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act” (S. 372). In Mr. Eisen’s absence (he declined the invitation to par ...
• Fred Whitehurst converses on his legacy at the FBI ...
  Fred Whitehurst is the whistleblower who revealed that the crime lab at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) failed to live up to its reputation for scientific integrity, and sometimes even resorted to falsifying results. Today Jeff Stein of the Washington Post's Spy Talk blog calls Whitehurst ...
• RCG dialysis company pilfered $19.4 million
  A federal judge in Tennessee has found that a dialysis company bilked the federal government out of $19.4 million. U.S. District Judge William J. Haynes Jr. issued the order against Renal Care Group, Renal Care Group Supply Co. and Fresenius Medical Care Holdings Inc. The order concluded that the co ...
• Whistleblower complaint prompts DaimlerChrysler to ...
  The Detroit Free Press is reporting that DaimlerChrysler and U.S. government attorneys have reached an agreement in which the company will pay $185 million to settle charges that it paid bribes to foreign officials to obtain at least $50 million in business profits. Company auditor David Bazzetta ob ...

Science Express

• Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratospheric ...
  The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the glo ...
• After growth spurt, supermassive black holes spend ...
  Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
• Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
  A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20th c ...
• New approach precisely tracks evolution's footprin ...
  (PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for example. T ...
• RNA interference found in budding yeasts
  Some budding yeast species have the ability to silence genes using RNA interference (RNAi). Until now, most researchers thought that no budding yeasts possess the RNAi pathway because Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the protoypical model budding yeast does not.

TechDirt

• Russian WWII Veterans Asked To Pay Up For Singing ...
  We've talked in the past about how the Russian Authors' Society has made bands pay up to play their own songs, and now apparently it's going after some Russian WWII veterans for getting together and singing old war songs . Patriotism and nostalgia, apparently, aren't free. We've discussed this bef ...
• Novell Wins Yet Again; Says SCO Never Got Unix Cop ...
  Could the case that never ends finally end? As you may recall, years back SCO sued IBM, claiming that Linux infringed on Unix, whose rights SCO acquired earlier. Except... in 2003 Novell tossed a bit of a firecracker into the whole thing by noting that it still owned the copyrights on Unix . The ...
• And... Here Come The iPad Patent Claims
  Back when Steve Jobs launched the iPhone, one of the points he made clear in his presentation was how Apple had applied for over 200 patents on the device. And, yet, despite all of that, Apple has been sued over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. ...
• Google Sued For Using The Term 'Gadgets'; Tiny Com ...
  Ah, more trademark insanity. Eric Goldman points us to the news that Google has been sued, yet again, this time over a trademark infringement claim, with a company called Firefly Digital that makes some sort of content management system that it trademarked as "Website Gadget." As you may know, Goo ...
• Wealth Is Defined By More Than Just Money
  This post is part of the Entrepreneurship series - sponsored by AcceptPay from American Express, a new online solution that lets you electronically invoice customers and accept online payments-all in one place. Offer more payment options, manage your cash flow and get paid faster wit ...

VacTruth

• Pharma Planning to Dump Experimental and Controver ...
  Parents would revolt if they knew that the pharmaceutical industry, the Department of Health and Human Services, and Centers for Disease Control have allocated millions of dollars in funding to establish vaccine clinics in the public schools.
• Ocular Motor Damage
  Langes Clinical Neurology A small portion from a study on how Polio affected the midbrain
• GSK Push Tasteless Propaganda Ad for Cervical Canc ...
• GSK Push Tastless Propaganda Ad for Cervical Cance ...
• Rotarix vaccine banned by UAE
  . . . Kamilah Qasimi TopNews Arab Emirates 03/25/2010 On Wednesday, Dr Amin Al-Amiri, CEO for Medical Practice and Licensing at the Ministry announced the UAE Ministry of Health has taken the decision to suspend utilization of GlaxoSmithKline’s Rotarix vaccine for some time. The vaccine was found t ...

BroadSnark

• Carnival of the Godless
  There is a new Carnival of the Godless up at Arizona Atheist.  Enjoy.
• Growing up Jewish – Passover Edition
  It’s passover, the perfect time for another installment of Growing up Jewish. Passover is a very big holiday for the Jews.  It commemorates our escape from slavery in Egypt about two gazillion years ago.  (We have very long memories).  The story goes like this. Once upon a time the Jews were slav ...
• Why the Legal System Does Not Work For You
  On Monday I wrote about how car contracts work and how people end up getting screwed.  The logical question, and the one that started this all, is why doesn’t the legal system work for you?  And the answer is…it isn’t meant to. Who writes the laws?  Legislators.  Who are the legislators?  They ...
• Watts Towers Closing Down
  I don’t usually post on Thursdays, but I just heard that they are closing the Watts Towers (and a bunch of other art centers in L.A.) and it really bums me out. You’ve may have heard of the Watts riots or seen Menace to Society.  But even if you live in L.A., you probably haven’t actually [...]
• Things You Might Have Missed
  I spent my lunch hour (o.k., several hours) over at CATO watching a premier of 10 Rules For Dealing with Police.  Very useful info.  Usually, CATO puts up podcasts of their events.  Nothing up there yet, but I’ll give you the link here, in case they put it up. Another video I would highly recomme ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• The Only Thing Obama Fears Is Lyndon LaRouche
  By Debra Freeman Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 26, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 12
• LaRouche to Private Washington Seminar: Sovereign ...
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 26, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 12
• LaRouche Webcast: The Ides of March 2010
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 26, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 12
• London's `Our Men' in Moscow Keep Poisoning Russia ...
  By Rachel Douglas Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 26, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 12
• Russia: What Comes Next?
  Editorial, by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 26, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 12

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

• MRFF Demands Swift Action on ‘Jesus Rifles’
• GORDON DUFF: THE HUTEREE HOAX, GOP IN SHEEP’S CLO ...
  CHRISTIAN ZIONIST “FANATIC” GROUP ARRESTED IN MICHIGAN PART OF MAINSTREAM MILITIA By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor This week, a massive federal raid in our area netted what we are told was a Christian terrorist organization planning to murder dozens of police in our region.  Almost immedia ...
• The Mother of All Oil War Weapons will Finally End ...
  MEET THE LEAF! The Nissan Leaf EV will cost you just $25,000 in the good ole USA    Nissan Leaf Electric Car . Okay, maybe we are exaggerating on the end the wars bit but Nissan announced Tuesday that its Leaf electric car will come with a sticker price of $32,780. But after a federal tax credit o ...
• JOHN HUMINS: Undoing a Myth: Corporations are Peo ...
  Undoing a Myth: Corporations are People and have Constitutional Rights in Elections: By John Humins STAFF WRITER Americans are led to believe that corporations have legal standing drawn directly from the law of the land.  Contrary to common belief, corporations are not mentioned in the U.S. Constit ...
• Journalist Allan Nairn Facing Arrest in Indonesia ...
  Allan Nairn, Journalist There is simply no better journalist in the world over the last 30 years than Allan Nairn. EXCLUSIVE from Demcoracy Now Journalist Allan Nairn Facing Possible Arrest in Indonesia for Exposing US-Backed Forces Assassinated Civilians In Indonesia, investigative journalist Al ...

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

• Peruvian Farmers Happy to Offset West's Carbon
  Photos via AFP Peruvian farmers are about to get a windfall--and it's all thanks to the burgeoning carbon offsetting market . Recently, one particular section of Peru was selected to be the site of a massive r... Read the full story on TreeHugger
• 1 Million Lbs of BPA Released Into US Environment ...
  Photo via BPA Plastic Yesterday, news broke that the EPA was launching a major investigation into the impact of Bisphenol A--especially targeting the US water supply. BPA is a chemical that has been documented to have negative health impacts, especially on infants and children, and is commonly ...
• Cadence EcoMatic Watch: Self Winding & Battery Fre ...
  Photo: Cadence Having replaced the battery on my watch just last week, the incoming media release from Cadence held a certain irony. Their new Ecomatic wrist watch doesn't need batteries. It winds itself using the motion of the wearers wrist. Not that self winding watches are a new idea. As ...
• James Lovelock Says Humans 'Not Clever Enough' to ...
  photo: John Bracken via flickr. Ah, James Lovelock ... The 90-year old originator of the Gaia Theory has just been interviewed by The Guardian and boy is it a doozy. Lovelock covers everything from Climategate, the over-reliance on computer modeling, the necessity of climate skepticism, wind po ...
• The Most Impressive Hoard of Recycled Bikes Ever? ...
  Image credit: The Journey TV From the ReCYCLEry in North Carolina to bike co-ops in LA , there are plenty of people out there giving old life to new bikes—whether those bikes have been bought, scavenged or donated. But the bike warehouse of one Mr Biggles, in an undisclosed location somewhere i ...

Biosingularity

• Chemists create synthetic ‘gene-like’ ...
  UCLA chemists report creating a synthetic “gene” that could capture heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions, which contribute to global warming, rising sea levels and the increased acidity of oceans. “We created three-dimensional, synthetic DNA-like crystals,” said UCLA chemistry and biochemistry pro ...
• Researchers develop dietary formula that maintains ...
  Researchers at McMaster University have developed a cocktail of ingredients that forestalls major aspects of the aging process. “As we all eventually learn, ageing diminishes our mind, fades our perception of the world and compromises our physical capacity,” says David Rollo, associate professor of ...
• Chocolate lovers could be lowering their risk of s ...
  Giving chocolates to your Valentine on February 14th may help lower their risk of stroke based on a preliminary study from researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital. The study, which is being presented at the American Academy of Neurology in April, also found that eating chocolate may lower the risk of ...
• Scientists synthesize unique family of anti-cancer ...
  Yale University scientists have streamlined the process for synthesizing a family of compounds with the potential to kill cancer and other diseased cells, and have found that they represent a unique category of anti-cancer agents. Their discovery appears in this week’s online edition of theJournal o ...
• Mediterranean Diet May Prevent Stroke-Related Brai ...
  Avoiding potentially dangerous silent strokes may be another health benefit of following a Mediterranean diet. A new study shows people who most closely followed a Mediterranean-style diet were 36% less likely to have areas of brain damage linked to silent strokes than those who least closely follow ...

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

• Monckton on Bonn climate conference: they're at it ...
  Lord Christopher Monckton issues a warning to America that the UN will try again to pass their treaty in Bonn, Germany.
• Losing jobs with green technology
  In reality, the renewables will subtract from our standard of living.
• CFACT's Marc Morano recognized for outstanding jou ...
  Morano received The Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award for his exposé of the ClimateGate scandal.
• Disclosing the real risks of climate change
  SEC says companies must disclose risks due to climate change. Seize the opportunity.
• A Sage Grouse hang up over barbed wire

Ria Novosti Online News

• One injured as theater in downtown Moscow catches ...
• Small plane crashes in U.S. state of Virginia, pil ...
  A small plane crashed into a building in the U.S. state of Virginia on Tuesday; the pilot later died and the passenger was injured.
• South America condemns Moscow subway bombings
  South American countries have resolutely condemned Monday's deadly bombings in the Russian capital's subway.
• Obama would like to see UN sanctions against Iran ...
  U.S. President Barack Obama said Tuesday he would like to see international sanctions imposed on Iran as soon as possible.
• Iran's nuclear program

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Putin congratulates Nobel Prize winning physicist ...
  Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has congratulated Nobel Prize winner Zhores Alfyorov on his 80th birthday, the government press service said on Monday.
• Russia contributes greatly to atom smasher success ...
  Russia has made significant contributions to the international particle collider project and hopes it will boost the prestige of Russian scientists worldwide, a Russian physicist said on Tuesday.
• Canada to build bases for space tourism rocket lau ...
  Canadian Space Agency is planning to build two bases for launching rockets carrying space tourists, the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos said citing the information agency Canadian Press.
• CERN to start 7 TeV collisions in Large Hadron Col ...
  The world's most powerful atom smasher will hold first attempt for collisions at an energy of 7 tera-electron volts (TeV), or 3.5 TeV per beam, on Tuesday.
• U.K. could become Russia's major hi-tech partner - ...
  The U.K. could become one of Russia's leading partners in innovative technologies, the head of the country's hi-tech government corporation Rosnano told RIA Novosti.

Pruning Shears

• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Jane Mayer dismantled Marc Thiessen’s book “Courting Disaster”: In order to make the case that America was blind to the threat of Al Qaeda in the days before 9/11, Thiessen skips over the scandalous amount of intelligence that reache ...
• Political Rehabilitation and Financial Reform
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Republicans may be at their lowest point since 1964. Sure, they got walloped in 2006 and again in 2008, but afterwards seemed to project an attitude of “beaten but unbowed.” Now though, there is an air of capitulation about them, w ...
• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. I don’t want the military to be above criticism, so I don’t have a problem with this . It is worth noting, though, that a similarly sharp cr ...
• Will Bloggers Rescue the Lehman Story?
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Last year I wrote about Mark Mitchell’s story of Deep Capture , a complex tale of financial corruption centered around the use of illegal naked short selling and phantom stock. It was (and is) a difficult story to write about becaus ...
• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The ACLU asked the president about his commitment to the rule of law. It probably cost more than $1000, but the lack of of a wingnut welfare shop’s imprimatur prevented it from getting any traction. Our image in the Muslim world wou ...

Natural Health News

• Osteoporosis Drug Implicated in Thighbone Fracture ...
  The case reports first surfaced about two years ago -- orthopedists reported that women taking osteoporosis drugs called bisphosphonates to prevent broken bones were showing up with rare and serious fractures of their thighbones. The bone was snapping like a twig, sometimes splintering. Often there ...
• Dirty Water Kills More People Than War
  Dirty water is killing more people than wars and other violence, the United Nations announced on World Water Day. � This includes 2.2 million people whose deaths are attributed to diarrhea, mostly from dirty water, and 1.8 million children aged under five who succumb to water-borne diseases. Th ...
• Massage Helps Low-Back Pain
  Most people have experienced back pain, and many hope that massage will relieve it. But not all forms of massage have been scientifically proven to help against low back pain. Research suggests that classic massage, Thai massage and acupressure can relieve low back pain that has lasted longer than ...
• Bees Face Unprecedented Pesticide Exposures
  For years, honey bees are being hammered by a mysterious environmental plague that has a name -- colony collapse disorder -- but no established cause. A two-year study now provides evidence indicting one likely group of suspects: pesticides. It found “unprecedented levels” of mite-killing chemicals ...
• Like Hiking? Here's 6 of the Most Dangerous Hikes ...
  Hiking is a common outdoor sport and leisure activity, enjoyed by millions of people every day. However, there are several hiking trails throughout the world that only the bravest would attempt. They're dangerous and are only meant for the most adventurous of people -- or the craziest. � ...

Antemedius

• 28 Countries Helped U.S. Detain War on Terror Susp ...
  Twenty-eight nations have cooperated with the U.S. to detain in their prisons, and sometimes to interrogate and torture, suspects arrested as part of the U.S. “War on Terror.” The complicit countries have kept suspects in prisons ranging from public interior ministry buildings to “safe house” villas ...
• Open Letter to So-Called Left-Wing Bloggers
  An open letter to so-called leftist bloggers: It's interesting that we are seeing the usual excuse-making for how and why the health care battle went the way it did. Bloggers are calling for civility after having displayed nothing but outright hostility to their readers, calling for cooperation aft ...
• The Crisis of Neoliberalism
  Dr. Gerard Dumenil, of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at The University of Massachusetts, is one of the world's foremost theorists of neoliberalism and economic crises, and is the author of numerous influential books, many of which have been translated into several languages, includ ...
• Of Cutting Gas Lines
  By David Swanson Here in Virginia where we're addicted to the practice of killing people in order to teach them not to kill people, there are certain things that must not be said about the moron(s) who cut a gas line to a backyard grill at the home of the brother of a congressman who voted for a hea ...
• The Far Right and Perverting Patriotism
  Check American History and you will find that patriotism was defined and consisted of far different practices than occurred following World War Two. It was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, an American leader the right maligned when he was in office and continued to malign after his death, who be ...

Son of Alex Constantine's Blacklist

• UnderpantsGate: Big Oil, the CIA and the Attempted ...
  Also see: American Sponsorship of Global Terrorism By Alex Constantine (Supplementary revisions, 12-30-09, 1:29 pm) It’s All, Once Again, About Big Oil and a Pipeline … Abdulmutallab’s exploding unmentionables “Why Was Umar AbdulMutallab in Houston in August 2008? Whom Did He Visit There? What Did H ...
• Celebrities Lead Charge against Scientology
  Hollywood figures quit ‘rip-off’ church as Australian prime minister threatens parliamentary inquiry into its activities Peter Beaumont in London, Toni O’Loughlin in Sydney, and Paul Harris in New York The Observer | 22 November 2009 The security at the red-brick and glass-walled horseshoe of the Jo ...
• Baltimore: Cultist Withdraws Guilty Plea in Baby&# ...
  BALTIMORE — A former member of a defunct religious cult has backed out of a plea deal and will face trial on charges he and others starved a toddler to death. Marcus Cobbs had agreed to plead guilty to a lesser charge of accessory after the fact. But his attorney abruptly withdrew the plea Friday mo ...
• What’s Wrong with this RFID Chip?
  RFID chip brought to you by the Carlyle Group and Matrics, Inc.
• Will Donor Scandals Doom Crist’s Senate bid?
  ” … Three of Crist’s top fund-raisers have been hamstrung by federal investigations in the past nine months, and a fourth, Jupiter sports agent and real estate investor Marc Roberts, is facing a federal lawsuit alleging he defrauded a business partner out of $100 million to support his own ‘lavish p ...

Center for a Livable Future

• Unsupported Claims About Livestock and Climate Cha ...
  As a public health doctoral student, I have been taught the importance of communicating scientific information to the public, journalists, and policy makers in a careful manner, especially when dealing with complex issues.  Scientific research almost never provides clear answers, but as a scientist ...
• Maryland’s Grocery Store Tax Credit Bill Could Imp ...
  Maryland House Bill 1135, the Grocery Store Property Tax Credit Bill, passed the House yesterday with 138-0 votes! The bill grants a property tax credit to grocery stores throughout the state located in low-income areas. Delegate Justin Ross, the main sponsor of the bill, represents Prince George’s ...
• Urban Chicken Farming
  This past Saturday, the Baltimore Food Makers held their monthly potluck in Northeast Baltimore at the home of an urban chicken farming couple. Our hosts distilled a lifetime of farming know-how into a short tour of their backyard chicken coop, and fielded questions about their three hens, poultry h ...
• JHU’s Ambitious Sustainability Plan Needs Help fro ...
  Johns Hopkins University reached a major sustainability milestone March 11 when President Ron Daniels announced a commitment to reduce the University’s carbon footprint by more than half by 2025 - which will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 81,000 metric tons a year. That is equivalent to the annu ...
• AVMA leadership missing key facts on antibiotics i ...
  Dr. Ron DeHaven, CEO and Executive VP of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA)*, spoke last week to the pork industry in Kansas City, MO. DeHaven opposes legislation to ban the use of non-therapeutic (growth promoting) antibiotics and antibiotics with human uses from food animal produc ...

Norwegianity

• Names in the news
  Busy day but some of the links are still good: Caroline Hunter, RNC attack lawyer and unindicted perjurer Notorious girly man and Confederacy sympathizer Wes Pruden Gun Counter Gomer Doc Thompson & the tanning salon tax on white people Yes Men call O’Keefe and Breitbart sad and pathetic Scott McClel ...
• Uncompress at your leisure
  It’s a good thing working out gives you more energy because taking an hour out of your day every day isn’t something I’d care to do if I had any real deadlines. You can wait. In some cases you’d probably be better off waiting than receiving. Links are a good thing. Essential. But some days I wonder ...
• Another post about Eastasia
  Financial reform: The White House is optimistic, because it believes that Republicans won’t want to be cast as allies of Wall Street. I’m not so sure. The key question is how many senators believe that they can get away with claiming that war is peace, slavery is freedom, and regulating big banks ...
• Smokin’
  Yes, a new header (sorry Mick). Attention must be paid and Obama finally did something to justify his getting paid. No, not the just barely (not really) acceptable health care reform bill he signed twice last week, but his entirely sane decision to recess appoint fifteen highly qualified individuals ...
• Septicism
  A couple of stories raced through the blogosphere yesterday with remarkably alacrity. One was the back story on David Frum’s firing from the American Enterprise Institute think tank. Frum famously ripped on Republicans earlier this week for their unyielding stance on healthcare reform. Think Progres ...

The Seferm Post

• Links for 2010-02-27 [del.icio.us]
  Here Are 10 Things Not to Share with Your Co-Workers There are certain things co-workers need not know about each other, including religious and political views as well as personal issues, but some folks just can't seem to keep their mouths shut. And don't forget -- a casual conversation can eas ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Links for 2010-02-10 [del.icio.us]
  Get Rid Of Browser Hijackers, Spyware, Malware Once And For All They're intrusive and often difficult to delete. Sometimes, people actually wipe their hard drives clean and start over again just to get rid of them. It's time to act! Winter Driving Safety Tips: How To Take Control Of Your Car ...
• Facebook A Big Threat To Israeli Soldiers
  The military's added it is cracking down on soldiers' use of social networking Web sites and has launched a campaign warning of the dangers of sharing military classified information online.

The World We Live In

• Constitutional Game to Undo Pakistan from the Back ...
  Written By :- Dr Shahid Qureshi Pakistan is unfortunately one of those countries where traitors masquerade as politicians and treachery is deemed to be ‘legitimate politics’.  There is no prize for guessing how did the desire the revoke the 17th Amendment got transformed into a full fledg ...
• Palestinians urge global action against Israel
  The Palestinian Authority has called on international bodies and the Arab League summit in Libya to protect East Jerusalem al-Quds against Israeli settlement activities. Acting PA Chief Mahmoud Abbas, speaking at the opening of a two-day Arab League summit in the Libyan city of Sirte, called on int ...
• Bling Faith or Emotional Pull ?? | Teeth Maestro
  Recent debates, especially on facebook , regarding Zaid Hamid and his relations with a convicted blasphemer who died in jail almost a decade ago have certainly caught the Pakistani youth by surprise. They find themselves locked in an argument which is taking a heavy toll on their intellect and ener ...
• Israeli tanks cross technical fence near Lebanon
  Two Israeli tanks have crossed their technical fence near the border with Lebanon two kilometers south of the disputed Ghajar village. The United Nations peacekeeping forces in Lebanon, also known as the UNIFIL, were present in the area along with Lebanese Armed Forces to make sure that the Israeli ...
• Colonel Imam: ‘I have the Green Beret but the Tale ...
  Perhaps no man alive knows Mullah Omar, his Taleban insurgents and the American military quite so well as “Colonel Imam”, a battle-creased Pakistani officer who wears a faded British paratrooper’s jacket and a turban. As a top agent for the Pakistani intelligence agency, the ISI, Colonel I ...

Center for Food Safety

• Court Rules in GMO Sugar Beet Case
  Today, federal district Judge Jeffrey White of the Northern District of California denied a request by a coalition of organic seed growers, and conservation and food safety groups seeking a temporary ban on genetically engineered (GE) sugar beets and sugar beet seeds. While Judge White denied the pr ...
• More Than 200,000 NGOs, Farmers, Consumers, and Or ...
  Resulting contamination of non-GE and organic alfalfa hay and seed would devastate livelihoods and organic industry The National Organic Coalition (NOC) today announced that more than 200,000 people submitted comments to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) critiquing the substance and ...
• Lawsuit Filed to Bar GE Crops from National Wildli ...
  Delaware’s Bombay Hook Lacks Required Environmental Review and Justification A lawsuit filed today in federal court against the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service seeks to compel the Service to uproot genetically engineered (GE) crops from its Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge in Delaware. As many as 8 ...
• Food Safety and Health Organizations Criticize Ela ...
  Food safety, consumer and health advocacy organizations blasted Eli Lilly subsidiary Elanco for claiming that prominent health organizations had endorsed use of the controversial artificial growth hormone rbGH,(rbST) on dairy cows when, in fact, they have not. Elanco’s report, from eight experts and ...
• Farmers and Conservation Groups Seek to Halt Plant ...
  Earlier Court Decision Found Federal Approval of GE Sugar Beets to Be Unlawful Earthjustice and Center for Food Safety announced today that they filed court papers seeking a ban on genetically engineered (GE) sugar beets and sugar beet seeds. The motion was filed in Federal Court on behalf of a coal ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

• Holding their breath for Palm justice
  Wednesday, 10 March 2010 by Chris Graham ( http://www.crikey.com.au/author/chrisgraham/ ) Another day, another inquest into the death of Mulrunji Doomadgee — an Aboriginal man killed in the Palm Island Police Station in 2004, is under way. The findings of the second inquest (the first was abando ...
• The Doctor, the Depleted Uranium, and the Dying Ch ...
  Google Video : "An award winning documentary film produced for German television by Freider Wagner and Valentin Thurn. The film exposes the use and impact of radioactive weapons during the current war against Iraq. The story is told by citizens of many nations. It opens with comments by two Bri ...
• Chilean National State: Practices of Assimilation, ...
  By Ana Millaleo / [Translated from the original Spanish]"The Mapuche were forced to recognize the victory of the new invaders, were introduced into its structures of domination and were taught that they were not the same as before, meaning that their blood lost, made them part of what again, but no ...
• Indigenous struggle in defense of Mother Earth and ...
  [ Translated from the original Spanish ] by Hugo Blanco -- The indigenous population of America has been fighting for over 500 years in environmental protection and collective social organization. With the onslaught of neoliberalism, both nature and your organization, this struggle has intensified. ...
• Marianne Mackay speaks at rally for Mr Ward 17-3-1 ...
  Marianne Mackay, Deputy Co-Chair DICWC (WA) Inc addresses the crowd gathered at Parliament House in Perth on 17 March 2010 calling for compensation to be paid to the family of Mr Ward immediately, and end to the G4S contract and to deaths in custody. The Ward Campaign for Justice ...

Pensieve

• Inside Costa Rica Features my Article
  After being disappointed by two articles in a row that presented Honduras in the unfavorable light the news wires shine on Honduras, I complained to the editor of Inside Costa Rica with a accusation of severe bias. He responded, and graciously invited me to write an article for them. I thank him, an ...
• Chigüire Bipolar Hacked, Bad Week for Freedom
  This week has seen the demise of Google China, the arrest of Guillermo Zuolaga, the president of Globovisión, Venezuela’s last opposition channel, and the reelection of Jose Miguel Insulza as the leader of the OAS. In a much smaller and more personal level, my website was hacked. But that the Chigà ...
• My Site Was Hacked, sorry
  Apparently my site was hacked. I removed 17 links to malware and have resubmitted this site to Google, hopefully everything will be ok soon. Related posts:Presidential Island, by El Chigüire Bipolar What! (Google Suggest oddity) Here Comes Another Bubble Related posts: Presidential Island, by E ...
• Presidential Island, by El Chigüire Bipolar
  El Chigüire Bipolar is a Venezuelan spoof news website inspired by The Onion and the Colbert Report. It has probably been the cause of Hugo Chavez’s latest attack on the freedom of Venezuleans, his threat to censor the internet. Thanks Gringa for leading me to find this! If your browser is warning ...
• Ted Williams Show Launches Website
  The Ted Williams Show, a Monterrey rock band I play keyboards for, has released a new website, in Spanish, called “El Show de Ted Williams“. It is a very modest embryo of a website, but hopefully I’ll be able to expand it to include bios, a blog, a lyrics section, and who knows what else. The [...] ...

Green Times

• The Challenges of Getting About and Being Green in ...
  Does where you live affect how green your transport can be? We take a look at regional green transport options…
• Natural and Green Beauty Tips
  As a female it’s sometimes easy to fall in to the trap of temptation: to fill the bathroom cupboards with all those alluring bath, body and beauty care products that promise to bring about youth, glamour and beauty, and look oh-so-pretty on the bathroom shelf with their delightful packaging. But hav ...
• Clean Up Australia: Celebrating 20 years in 2010!
  Clean Up Australia started with one man’s discovery of the rubbished state of the world’s oceans. Returning from an around-the-world sailing journey in 1987, Ian Kiernan AO reflected upon the appalling amount of rubbish he had sighted in oceans far and wide, including the legendary Sargasso Sea. It ...
• Contrary to Nature
  The scientific consensus is that man-induced climate change is real and is happening now! The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007 assessment runs to several thousand pages, with more than 400 authors and 2,500 reviewers and the updated report, "Copenhagen Diagnosis 2009" also makes this a ...
• Environmental News - 27/01/10
  Environmental News Suburban family sets sustainable living standard (http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/27/2802013.htm) - An ultra retro-fitted unassuming house in Melbourne's West Brunswick does not seem like the place you would encounter a snapshot of our future sustainable households, bu ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Obama Is Out-Bushing Bush and the Quote, Unquote L ...
  By Lori Price, www.legitgov.org 30 March 2010 The Tea Party protests and violent outbursts are serving as a weapon of mass distraction and cover for the unbridled growth of corporate power and lack of (promised) reform under this Administration. No one dares to mention these facts, yet alone acts on ...
• US Bagram Airbase hit during Obama visit
  Afghan officials: Three rockets targeted airfield The US Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan has been hit by rockets during an official visit by President Barack Obama to the war-torn country. Afghan officials told Press TV on Monday that three rockets targeted the airfield. No damages or casualties ...
• US transit security increased over Moscow blast
  NY: Special units distinguished by their special black uniforms, helmets and body armor in subway stations 29 Mar 2010 U.S. transit agencies are beefing up security as a precaution following the suicide bombing in Moscow's subway system. In New York City, caravans of police vehicles have been ...
• CIA 'suggests' Europe should understand suffering ...
  European Nato governments should emphasise the suffering of women under Taliban rule to counter domestic calls for troop withdrawal a leaked CIA analysis suggests . A steep increase in French and German casualties this summer could trigger public anger at their involvement and calls for a milita ...
• Report: Israel copied thousands of passports
  Britain believes thousands of its passports have been copied by airline staff working for the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, a UK tabloid reported Sunday. News of the World reported that the British MI6 intelligence service believe Britons flying to Israel have been targeted for months and ...

Daily Loaf

• Skatepark of Tampa’s new mixed-use space, The Bric ...
  For the past several months, SPoT principal owner Brian Schaefer and a crew of SPoT friends, family and soon-to-be staffers have been building out the interior of The Bricks section by section with their own bare hands, working all hours of the day and night to get the place ready for its debut.
• Sweden’s Refused to reunite? (with video)
  Refused broke up a few months after releasing the best album of their career. Twelve years later, is it time for a victory lap?
• Terminations at Tampa City Hall : 9 staffers let g ...
  In the past three years, the city has cut $92 million from its operations and over 500 employees, but Iorio said back in February that next $27 million could be the toughest yet.
• Michael Steele AWOL as site committee for Republic ...
  This being Tampa's 3rd attempt in the last decade to acquire the 4 day political party, Al Austin joked that "some of our best donors have died waiting to get this convention." Austin stressed that he wants everybody, Republicans, Democrats, and Tea Party members alike in the Bay area to rally to ...
• DIY junk food: Make your own organic Twinkie knock ...
  I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd be much happier with a Twinkie that had a lot less ingredients (especially sans the ones found in rocket fuel) and were more wholesome so I could feel better about eating them. Thankfully, Grist's "Ask Umbra" has come to the rescue with a great organic Tw ...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• The Only Democracy? Wishes You a Sweet and Liberat ...
  By Jesse Bacon Of all the stories in the Passover liturgy, I am most inspired by the idea that it was “mixed multitude” that went forth from Egypt, Israelites and Egyptians alike. Here is a perfect description of what I mean when I talk about democracy: a diverse group of people united by an idea, a ...
• Jerusalem City Government Muzzles a Tour
  by Rebecca Kirzner Sometimes it’s just too easy. I mean, really. Sometimes, the total idiocy of your political enemy just makes it so much easier to promote your ideas. This week, the Jerusalem Municipality requested that Ir Amim, a Jerusalem-based non-profit organization, remove its study tours of ...
• Israel Tries to Expel People For Their Beliefs
  By Noam Sheizaf, cross-posted from his Promised Land blog with permission. Pay close attention to this item. It doesn’t seem like much, but it’s an important one: Two international activists, Ariadna Jove Marti (from Spain) and Bridgette Chappell (Australia), who are living in Bir Zeit in the Wes ...
• In West Bank Palestinian Childhood Is Cut Short &# ...
  Palestinian Child Being Arrested In the West Bank, there is a two-tiered system of justice, including for minors.  For settler children, justice is administered according to Israeli domestic law, with all the due process protections that affords.  They  cannot be  charged as adults until they re ...
• Quarreling Lovers Make Up Over Missiles
  The United States and Israel may be fighting, but fear not. These BAF (Best Allies Forever) have the equivalent of a bunch of roses to reconcile over, a sweetheart deal to buy fighter jets. The US supplies the cash, and Israel buys the weapons. It’s like a gift certificate! For your own store. That ...

Politics in the Zeros

• KPFK and KPFA circling the drain
  Marc Cooper, who was purged a while back from KPFK, explains how now it really does appear that Pacifica Radio is about done for. There are snarling (and endless) internecine feuds, cratering numbers of listeners, and even a 26 day long pledge drive. Do you know what 26 straight days of fundraising ...
• Shipping up. An optimistic economic indicator. Rea ...
  Containers are stacking up in Asian ports because there isn’t enough shipping capacity to send them to US and Europe. Shipping companies had idled ships due to the recession. Now they’re scrambling to catch up. As is obvious, we aren’t overly perky here about the economic situation. However, this r ...
• Healthcare! The topic of interest on the tip of ev ...
  (Polizeros welcome our new contributor, Will O’ The Wisp) Well, maybe on the tips of the tongues of those well-heeled, health-insured politicians. On the tips of the tongues of those whom health care reform is meant to assist? Food! Water! Shelter! Bills! Let’s go back to that first subject – Fo ...
• How the progressive blogosphere gets co-opted by t ...
  TalkLeft continues their discussion of “the transformation of the once Left blogosphere into the Democratic blogosphere” wondering how this could have happened. It’s because that is a primary function of the Democratic Party. They play good cop to the Republican Party bad cop. Come on in kid, we’re ...
• FedEx debuts all-electric delivery trucks
  They designed this new EV to do a full 8 hour shift, 100 miles, in an urban area without needing a recharge. They are also testing 1,800 other alt-fuel vehicles, including 300 hybrid-electric vehicles.

Coteret

• Arrested for Post Zionism
  Cross posted from Promised Land. Editors note: Note how the charge resembles Yuval Diskin’s definition of the Shabak’s mandate. —– Pay close attention to this item. It doesn’t seem like much, but it’s an important one: Two international activists, Ariadna Jove Marti (Spain) and Bridgette Chappel ...
• Searching for scapegoats, Netanyahu now tries to l ...
  In May 2007, the current head of Israel’s internal security agency, the General Security Service (GSS aka Shabak and Shin Bet), Yuval Diskin, unilaterally revolutionized his agency’s mandate.  Disken was responding to a request by Adalah to clarify the scope of the GSS’s authority to investigat ...
• MK’s Passover proposal for migrants and refu ...
  Fitting that this proposal was circulated in the run-up to Passover by an “observant” MK. It is becoming increasingly clear that for the fundamentalist strain of Jewish Orthodoxy and its secular nationalist allies, the only problem with our history of persecution is that Jews were the victims. How c ...
• Elliot Abrams and local neoconservatives to Israel ...
  In a Tuesday (March 16 2010) interview with the Jerusalem Post, the Anti-Defamation League’s Abe Foxman took criticism of the US administration’s handling of the current confrontation to a new frontier Israel should immediately battle a charge emerging in the US that its actions are endangering the ...
• Yediot exposes police lying on suppression of East ...
  After an interlude, the Jerusalem police resumed arrests of Sheikh Jarrah protesters last Friday (March 12 2010.) On Sunday, the Jerusalem Post, like many other Israeli media outlets, ran the police statement on the incident nearly verbatim Earlier on Friday, about 250 locals and left-wing protester ...

Deadline Live

• Karl Rove heckled, called ‘war criminal&#821 ...
  Los Angeles, California (CNN) — Former White House chief of staff Karl Rove was heckled and branded a “war criminal’ at a book signing in Beverly Hills, California, on Monday night. Rove, who served as senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to President Bush, was at the Saban Theater to discus ...
• Alan Grayson challenges opponent to bring his son ...
  During its near 24/7 coverage of ” violent extremism” in America and its attempt to hype threats made by a few still unknown individuals against Democratic Congressman in order to scare Americans away from any further dissent against the health care takeover law, Alan Grayson invoked his five year o ...
• CNN (CIA) Psyop: If you believe in the “NEW ...
  The government is trying to set up militias and people who question the government… so yes if you have a brain then you are a terrorist.. these two people are the real terrorist. Any attacks on police will probably have something to do with these 2 Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | [...]
• F.D.A. to Examine Menthol Cigarettes
  For the cigarette industry, the menthol debate is about to flare up again. The new federal advisory board for tobacco regulation plans to meet for the first time Tuesday in Washington. Topping the agenda is one of the most contentious, and racially charged, health issues that Congress deferred la ...
• Obama set to sign health care ‘fixes’ ...
  Washington (CNN) — President Obama is set to claim final victory on his top domestic priority Tuesday by signing into law a package of changes to the newly enacted health care reform bill. The signing ceremony at a community college in northern Virginia will culminate almost a year of fiercely p ...

The Air Vent

• House of Commons Report on Climategate
  Breaking news: Today The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee released their report on climategate emails.  Professor Jones et team were exonerated from any wrong doing.  No big surprise there but oddly I’m a little busy right now with my newborn.  My wife and I thank you for the wis ...
• PCA, SAMPLING ERROR, AND TELECONNECTIONS
  This is a guest post from Ryan O.  Ryan was principle author of our submission on Antarctic temperature reconstructions which used PCA based methods for combination of satellite and surface data.  This post has some very loose basis in that work.  When I first learned of ‘teleconnections’ it was ...
• A New Id
  Ethan Matthew 7lb – 13oz — 3.54 Kg — 0.00354 Metric Tons Born 3/29/2010 10:01PM  
• Say Anything
  An article from the morning call which requires a bit of translation. I don’t know how they do it with a straight face, but in my opinion the mann has a personality disorder.  My comments below are in Red the article is in black. ———— ALLENTOWN, Pa.– Penn State global [...]
• New Surface Temperature Page
  I’ve started a new surface temperature documentation page.  Currently it contains only Roman’s offset global anomaly calculation but I will be adding to it periodically starting with a standard anomaly style calculation. If people have links to different raw and finished data and methods, I would l ...

Focal Point

• The Marketing Wizards Behind the Bitter Community ...
  A few days ago, I posted about an unusual ad that appeared in my local subway stop. The ad featured a kid with a broken leg hobbling down a hospital corridor on crutches. The copy read: " Football? Nope. Broken sidewalks. Broken sidewalk stories won't win us a Pulitzer, but they could keep you out ...
• Calls to Move Goalposts as Girls Surpass Boys in S ...
  In his latest op/ed Nick Kristof is lamenting the fact that girls are outperforming boys at school. Kristof is as ardent a defender of women's rights as anyone in the established media, so he gets a proverbial clitoral ' hood pass . That said, Kristof seems uncharacteristically oblivious to th ...
• The FDA Ignores Court Order on Emergency Contracep ...
  In March 2009, a federal judge ordered the Food and Drug Administration to reassess the arbitrarily imposed and scientifically unjustified age restrictions on access to emergency contraception (aka "the morning after pill" or Plan B). Nominally, EC is available over the counter, but on ...
• Skeptic and Magician James Randi Escapes the Close ...
  Skeptic and magician James Randi has pulled off yet another daring escape. The famous debunker of scam psychics has emerged from the closet at the age of 81. Randi made the big announcement on his blog last Sunday. After all these years, Sean Penn's biopic Milk inspired him to finally go public. "I ...
• House Passes Sweeping Health Care Reform Bill
  Last night, House Democrats passed comprehensive health care reform legislation. After decades of fruitless struggle, the U.S. is finally poised to extend insurance to 32 million people and curb the worst abuses of the health insurance industry. President Obama is expected to sign the bill tomorrow. ...

Inside Facebook

• Facebook’s Revenues Grow, But Financial Market Exp ...
  Although Facebook’s revenues have steadily grown every year since it was founded in 2004, its valuation has seen many more ups and downs. Uncertain about the company’s future, investors and would-be investors have waffled on what they’re willing to pay for the company’s stock. But the company star ...
• Luxury Appliance Makers Sub-Zero and Wolf Market t ...
  Sub-Zero and Wolf, makers of luxury kitchen appliances, are claiming strong results from a Facebook Page that has just under 81,000 fans. The reason, as the company tells us, is that these fans are actual customers, who already associate with the lifestyle image of the products, and who are helping ...
• Rita’s Italian Ice Uses Free Treats, Peeps, to Gro ...
  Rita’s Italian Ice, a Pennsylvania-based franchise with 560 stores in 18 states, launched a Facebook promotion/contest on March 20 that has since helped the company add almost 100,000 fans, with 58,500 coming in the last week — landing the page on at 17 on our weekly list of top 20 growing Facebook ...
• Zynga, Food, Music and Politics on This Week’s Top ...
  Beyond the regular mix of celebrities and social games this week, our list of the 20 Facebook Pages that gained the most new fans includes supporters and opponents of the newly-passed US health care bill. The data is drawn from our independent PageData tool, which tracks fan page growth over time. T ...
• Facebook Users Will Soon “Like” a Page to Become a ...
  Facebook is changing some terminology around how people become fans of its Pages product, a move that could be somewhat confusing but has apparently worked well in the company’s tests. “People will soon connect with your Brand Pages by clicking ‘Like’ rather than ‘Become a Fan,” the company recently ...

Truthout - Tweets

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ReDress News

• Palestine's "turbulent priest" delivers a blisteri ...
  Stuart Littlewood views the Easter message of Gaza’s courageous Fr Manuel Musallam in which he delivered a blistering attack on Israel’s occupation and its rape of the holy sites, and a damning indictment of the silence of the cowards in the West.
• Even the New York Times doesn’t believe Netanyahu
  Alan Hart urges the New York Times – and other Western media – to focus on how the logic of Zionism will manifest itself in Israeli policy: a new round of ethnic cleansing, “provoking an all-out confrontation with the Palestinians to give the Israeli military and the armed settlers the pretext for d ...
• Israel unveils “green” strategy to defeat enemies
  Under cover of a sudden interest in developing new green technologies, and with strong support from US neo-conservatives, the Israeli government hopes to weaken the Gulf states by making their oil redundant and thereby defeating “Islamic terror”.
• Samson and the second Nakba: a short history of th ...
  Gilad Atzmon argues that the rift in US-Israeli relations may be seen by the hawks who dominate Israeli politics as an opportunity to free Israel from what they see as a US bond that holds them back from ethnically cleansing Palestine of all Palestinians and from attacking Iran.
• "Cabbing" for Israel? What UK voters should ask el ...
  Stuart Littlewood says that the forthcoming UK general election will be an opportunity for the British public to call to account those politicians – Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat – who are “cabbing”, or “stooging”, for a foreign power, Israel.

Amazon Rainforest

• Amazonia for Sale – new documentary – ...
  Amazonia for Sale is a new documentary on the Awajun People and their struggle to protect their ancestral territory. Approximately 35 minutes in length, Amazonia for Sale tells the story of the Awajun Peoples, who, like so many other Indigenous People around the world, are struggling to preserve the ...
• New threat to uncontacted Tribes in Amazonia !
  Anglo-French oil company Perenco has revealed plans to build a pipeline deep into the heart of uncontacted tribes’ land in the Amazon rainforest. The pipeline is being built to transport an estimated three hundred million barrels of oil from the depths of the northern Peruvian Amazon. The company ...
• Austria: Call for OPEC and Latin UNASUR cooperatio ...
  Ecuadorian Germanico Pinto, current chairman of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has called for the development of South-South talks and cooperation with the Union of South American Nations(UNASUR). Pinto, who is also Ecuadorian minister of Non-Renewable Natural Resources, s ...
• New study: Air pollution as a possible inhibitor o ...
  In the world of climate change there is much debate over the reality of greenhouse gases and the volatile nature of toxic chemical emissions. However, in a new study, published February 17, 2010, scientists are beginning to look at air pollution as a possible inhibitor of global warming. The thick b ...
• Amazonia!
  The Amazonia represents over half of the planet’s remaining Rainforests, and it comprises the largest and most species-rich tract of tropical Rainforest in the World. The Amazon River stretches more than 6.4oo km. The tropical Rainforest of its watershed is home to millions of species of plants and ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Peddling Peril, Peddling Lies
  A Book on ‘Arming America’s Enemies’ Written by America’s Enemies?! David Albright, President of the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), has a new book out (which I haven’t read) about AQ Khan and the nuclear black market called Peddling Peril: How the Secret Nuclear Tra ...
• Updates & Weekly Round Up for March 28
  Today marks Boiling Frogs Post’s fifth month of operation, and the last day of our fundraising campaign. On behalf of our team members I want to thank all of you for your support, with a special thanks to 658 of you who donated to our cause. We may not have reached our benchmark for our [...]
• Podcast Show #26
  NWC’s Stephen Kohn Takes on the Absentee White House Last week Boiling Frogs Post invited Mr. Norman L. Eisen, Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform, and Mr. Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center, to publicly debate on the Whistleblow ...
• White House vs. Whistleblowers Debate: NWC Accepts ...
  National Whistleblowers Center & Boiling Frogs Post Ask White House to Reconsider On Friday, March 19, Boiling Frogs Post invited Mr. Norman L. Eisen, Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform, and Mr. Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center, ...
• Boiling Frogs Post Takes Obama White House to Task ...
  Boiling Frogs Will Host a Public Debate on the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act Boiling Frogs Post has invited Mr. Norman L. Eisen, Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform, and Mr. Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center, to publ ...

Afro Spear

• Year 3 of the AfroSpear!
  YES! It’s been 3 years already… and counting! Much love and appreciation to all our contributors, commentators, visitors and supporters over these 3 years!
• Beauty: The Versatility of Natural Hair
  {images from Arise magazine} The natural hair shots here are almost aerodynamic in their structure and dimenson. The saturated colour of her lipstick and her accessories clashes in majestic harmony with the crown of gorgeous Afro hair. With the natural hair the possibilities for beauty are endless. ...
• sat’day riddymz
• AFRICOM: The expansion of US military interests on ...
  Thanks to Désiré Katihabwa for forwarding these videos.
• Ann Coulter’s Canadian Adventure
  American conservative, so-called “right-wing”, political commentator Ann Coulter is on a speaking tour of Canadian universities this week. Known for her controversial, sound bite type comments, she didn’t fail to live up to her billing when asked by a Muslim student about her previous stateme ...

Expose the BNP

• BNP leader facing suspension for racist rant
  Barking and Dagenham’s disgraced BNP leader Bob Bailey may be suspended from his role as councillor for making racially offensive remarks. His racist rant was made during a planning meeting in July last year, when the predominantly Nigerian Redeemed Christian Church of God, applied for permission to ...
• Police protection of fascist movements
  Witnesses to last weekend’s demonstration against the English Defence League in Bolton reported deeply disturbing police operational tactics. Greater Manchester Police sought to stymie the Unite Against Fascism counter-demonstration with aggression and brutality, whilst allowing the racist EDL to ra ...
• MEDIA BRIEFING: The BNP and the election
  With DOMINIC CARMAN, journalist and author of the unofficial biography of Nick Griffin. And MARC VALLEE,  photojournalist and investigative journalist who is currently working on a long-term project to document political protest and dissent in modern Britain. Wednesday 7th April at 7pm National Uni ...
• Eyewitness: Police attack demonstrators
  The following is the eye-witness testimony of an NUJ member who joined the anti-fascist protest in Bolton on Saturday. On arriving in Bolton at 10.30am, the group from the East London coach walked to Victoria Square, where we assembled on the north side of the square, opposite the eastern corner of ...
• No title
  BOLTON, UNITED KINGDOM - 20.03.10. An anti-fascist campaigner is arrested as the far right English Defence League congregate in Bolton on Saturday 10 March 2010 in Lancashire, England.  Police in full riot gear used the controversial tacit of ‘kettling’ along with dogs, horses and riot police sna ...

Sen45Earth

• Overshoot: Climate, Inequity and Corruption
  (See Recent Posts at Right for More articles) The author of the article below is Dr. Glen Barry, President and Founder of Ecological Internet (EI). He is recognized internationally by the environmental movement as a leading global visionary, environmental policy critic and public intellectual commit ...
• More Proof of Need for Urgent Action
  Click Here for SEN’s Catastrophe Summary This page is to document, detail and expand upon the facts for the benefit of those who may be understandably disbelieving or skeptical.                        In World Energy and Population Trends to 2100, Paul Chefurka establishes the direct c ...
• Sustainability Education Network
  Welcome to Sustainability Education Network! The main website of Sustainability Education Network (SEN) at sen4earth.org will not be completed until May. In the meantime, we are using this ”blog” or article section of sen4earth.org to get underway without delay, because the world is running out of ...
• Blue Men to Earth ~ Do you hear it?
• Boycott4Earth.com
  Coming Soon: boycott4earth.com Now: Click to TAKE THE PLEDGE, then PASS IT ON! 

If Americans Knew

• The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised as ...
  John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.
• A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and love ...
  We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine providence ...
• Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
  This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.
• Impressions of Israeli Executions in the West Bank
  Much planning had gone into our family vacation in Israel-Palestine. We could spare only the last two weeks of 2009, and so had developed an uncompromising itinerary for each day, allowing a mere half-day to recover from jet lag from our trip from California. After devoting most of the first week to ...
• Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist ... i ...
  In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their Gandh ...

David J. Gregory

• REMINDER: The Vast Majority Of The Government Defi ...
  Many people right now are making a scare story out of the U.S. government’s future deficit projections. Many of these same people are also blaming our government’s horrific projected deficits on the current administration. Problem is, as shown in the chart below (via The Economist), America’s defic ...
• Nearly Too Late
  Corporate Takeover 95% Complete Time to wake up!! You’ll be late for the END.
• PEACE
  ………………………………….PEACE…………………………….. No! Sadly dear heart, passivity and quietism won’t make the nightmares go away!.. Some of US write to reach those who are still asleep.. We rally to express our disenchantment with the status quo! We March to show the strength of our convictions. “We” will com ...
• Join this Care2 group, Care2 over 12 million stron ...
  ~  WELCOME  ~ Get involved join this Care2 group to make a difference, apathy is no longer acceptable! Group Discussions new topic default View All red Welcome (4) blue News (4) green Petitions (3) yellow Miscellaneous (10) [...]
• Prayer for America
  This prayer was offered eight years ago in Congress by Dennis Kucinich, one of a very small group, who actually represent the American people in government today. Please do all you can to see that he is reelected to Congress, he represents the 10th District of Ohio in the House of Representatives, w ...

  Blacklisted News

• Oddities in the Nancy Schaefer “Suicide” Case
  Senator Schaefer led opposition to HB582 and SB304, two bills introduced by fellow Republicans that would have likely resulted in increasing child sex slave trafficking. These bills would have made it legal for teenagers to participate in certain illicit acts. The bills effectively removed the legal ...
• School Bus Driver Part Time Preacher arrested for ...
  A Hall County school bus driver and part-time preacher arrested last week on child pornography charges confessed to an FBI agent, saying he had “a sickness,” the agent testified Monday.
• Advancing the Transatlantic Agenda
  Although there is a need for Canada to expand its trade horizons, the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) currently being negotiated with the European Union (EU) appears to be based on the flawed NAFTA model
• Michigan Militia Group Charged With Police-Killing ...
  Nine suspects tied to a militia in the Midwest are charged with conspiring to kill police officers, then attack a funeral in the hopes of killing more law enforcement people, federal prosecutors said Monday.
• It's Official - America Now Enforces Capital Contr ...
  It couldn't have happened to a nicer country.

The Intelligence Daily

• “Mommy, Mommy! Why Am I Fat?”
  By David Kendall (The Intelligence Daily) — Malnutrition comes in a delightful assortment of...
• The Logic of Abundance
  By John Michael Greer (The Intelligence Daily) — The last several posts here on The Archdruid...
• The Silent Entitlements Monster: Social Security, ...
  By Michael T. Snyder (The Intelligence Daily) — There is a silent monster that looms...
• The McCain-Lieberman Police State Act
  By Stephen Lendman (The Intelligence Daily) — If enacted, it will advance what this writer...
• UK Telegraph Reports, “Oil Reserves ‘Exaggerated b ...
  (The Oil Drum) — Earlier this week, the UK Telegraph reported: Oil reserves...

My AntiWar

• Judging the Mood at the IAEA
  Summary: The latest IAEA report on Iran has been widely touted as containing new evidence of Iranian weapons work and as a sign of the Agency?s new hard-line attitude toward the Islamic Republic under its new Director General Yukiya Amano. We believe the document has been seriously misrepresented i ...
• VICTORY FOR THE OVERLORDS - OBAMA’S HEALTHCA ...
• “Our President Is Deceiving the American Pub ...
  We are joined by a man who played a major role in efforts to end the Vietnam War in the 1970s. In 1971, the then-RAND Corporation analyst Daniel Ellsberg leaked to the media what became known as the Pentagon Papers, a 7,000-page classified history outlining the true extent of US involvement in Vietn ...
• Rage on the Right: Christian Militia Raided in Mic ...
  The Justice Department has charged nine members of a Michigan-based Christian militia group in connection with an alleged plot to spark a war against the federal government. Meanwhile, a white power skinhead from Tennessee has pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to carry out a killing spree targ ...
• Headlines for March 30, 2010
  Death Toll in Moscow Subway Bombing Rises to 39, Michigan-based Christian Military Accused of Plotting War Against Federal Gov’t, Skinhead Pleads Guilty to Obama Assassination Plot, Penn. Man Arrested for Threat to Kill Rep. Eric Cantor, Ten Young Mexican Students Killed at Drug Cartel Checkpoint, I ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Judging the Mood at the IAEA
  Summary: The latest IAEA report on Iran has been widely touted as containing new evidence of Iranian weapons work and as a sign of the Agency’s new hard-line attitude toward the Islamic Republic under its new Director General Yukiya Amano. We believe the document has been seriously misrepresente ...
• On Iran, is London again 'helping' Washington purs ...
  Summary: Is London really ready to help Washington go down the primrose path of regime change in the Middle East one more time? Because, if Washington follows London’s diplomatic advice, that is, in all probability, the place where American policy will end up. source: Race for Iran read more
• Medvedev says sanctions against Iran not 'optimal'
  Summary: Dmitry Medvedev The settlement of Iran's nuclear problem should be implemented solely by politic-diplomatic means in strict accordance with the Charter of the United Nations," Medvedev said at the annual summit of the 22-nation Arab League. source: CNN read more
• Obama squeezed between Israel and Iran
  Summary: The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) annual show in Washington would hardly be out of place in a Quentin Tarantino movie; picture a giant hall crammed with 7,500 very powerful people regimented by a very powerful lobby - plus half of the United States Senate and more tha ...
• 98% of US Jews Won't Cast Votes Based on Iran Issu ...
  Summary: Sharmine Narwani Ninety-eight percent of American Jews do not rank Iran as a major factor influencing their vote in the 2010 midterm elections. source: The Huffington Post read more

The Daily Galaxy

• New Artificial Intelligence Helps Mars Rover Make ...
  Software uploaded this winter is the latest example of NASA taking advantage of the twin Mars rovers' unanticipated longevity for real Martian test drives of advances made in robotic autonomy for future missions. Now in its seventh year on Mars,...
• Large Hadron Atom Smasher Reaches Near Speed of Li ...
  Scientists celebrated at the world's biggest atom smasher at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva on Tuesday as they started colliding particles at record energy levels mimicking conditions close to the Big Bang, opening a new era...
• Get Your Daily Dose of Awe @The Daily Galaxy Faceb ...
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• Earth's Arctic -A NASA Test Ground for Missions to ...
  Cracks in the icy shell of Jupiter’s moon Europa contain sulfur-rich material and may reflect the composition of the subsurface ocean. An expedition this past summer to a sulfur spring in the Arctic could help solve some mysteries about Europa...
• 1st Choice for Extraterrestrial Life: Saturn's Tit ...
  Extraterrestrial life is the most interesting thing ever, bar nothing, and if you disagree you're either a terribly limited person or misread the start of the sentence. We're incredibly lucky to even exist, and on top of that we have...

Natural News

• Vitamin B3 beats Big Pharma's Zetia cholesterol dr ...
  (NaturalNews) The utter worthlessness of Big Pharma's cholesterol drugs was demonstrated recently by a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine which showed that niacin (a low-cost B vitamin) out-performs Merck's drug Zetia for preventing the build-up of arterial plaque, a symptom of c ...
• Researchers discover papaya is effective against b ...
  (NaturalNews) Originally native to southern Mexico and now cultivated in many tropical countries (including Brazil, India, Indonesia, South Africa, Vietnam and Sri Lanka), the papaya plant has been touted by traditional healers for centuries as a source of powerful medicine. Not only is papaya fruit ...
• LA Times Reports on Patients Eliminating Diabetes ...
  (NaturalNews) The Los Angeles Times has run an article highlighting the cases of five people, including television star Larry Hagman of "Dallas," who have successfully cut out the use of insulin and other diabetes drugs through improvements in their diet and exercise habits. "Don't underestimate the ...
• The real health reform solution: A Health Freedom ...
  (NaturalNews) Even as America has just been handed a "reformed" health care monopoly, most Americans by now realize that the drugs-and-surgery approach to health care is a failure . Keeping people sick and diseased so that you can pump more profits into the pharmaceutical corporations just doesn't w ...
• Pharma Planning to Dump Experimental and Controver ...
  (NaturalNews) The golden calf of public health was smashed in this recent flu season as many in the United States outright rejected the H1N1 vaccine. Pharmaceutical companies are now holding the bag, as millions of doses of the vaccine are rotting on shelves or being discarded as hazardous waste. Or ...

Threat Level

• Google, Microsoft Push Feds to Fix Privacy Laws
  A coalition of the net’s biggest online service providers, including Google and Microsoft, are joining with the top internet rights groups to demand Congress modernize the nation’s privacy laws. Among the reforms pushed by the so-called Digital Due Process coalition is a requirement that law enforce ...
• Isohunt Ordered to Remove Infringing Content
  A U.S. judge is ordering Isohunt, one of the world’s leading BitTorrent search engines, to remove all infringing content. Isohunt’s operator said Tuesday that the decision would likely shutter the site, which has 30 million unique monthly visitors. The injunction targeting Isohunt follows similar ru ...
• Government Stops Shielding Corporate Breach ‘Victi ...
  For the past few months, national retailer J. C. Penney has been fighting an under-seal court battle to keep you from knowing that its payment card network was breached by U.S. and Eastern European hackers. Scenes From a Hack Chat logs between Albert Gonzalez and an Eastern European accomplice reg ...
• Judge Nullifies Gene Patents
  A federal judge on Monday nullified patents associated with human genes known to detect early signs of breast and ovarian cancer. It was the first time a federal court has invalidated a patent on genes. The American Civil Liberties Union, which brought the case, said the New York federal court decis ...
• TJX Accomplice Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison
  BOSTON — A hacker who helped TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez and others gain access to corporate networks was sentenced to 7 years and one day on Monday . Christopher Scott, 27, pleaded guilty to breaching the wireless access points of several retailers between 2003 and 2007 to siphon credit and debit ca ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• Sarah Palin Double Dribbles on Right-Wing Violence
  As suspended NBA star Gilbert Arenas could attest, guns and basketball don't mix. But just days after getting roundly criticized for her incendiary language about the need for Republicans to "reload" and target the vulnerable Democrats in her crosshairs, Sarah Palin turned to Facebook to cloak her ...
• The Bipartisanship Scorecard
  After a year of rancorous debate, Congress has given its blessing to the final health care reform bill. As expected, the reconciliation fixes to the $940 billion package received exactly zero Republican votes, passing the House 220 to 207 and 56 to 43 in the Senate. In theory, the born-again defic ...
• 10 Years After Bush's Worst Speech, GOP Offers Onl ...
  I've long felt that George W. Bush's acceptance speech at the 2000 Republican National Convention was among the most arrogant and reprehensible in the annals of American political oratory. But now that his party's overheated rhetoric on health care has helped foment threats and violence, Bush's add ...
• The 5 Signs of Republican and Tea Party Unity
  After a year of denying the obvious, the American media is finally coming to the conclusion that the supposed Tea Party movement is simply a continuation of the failed 2008 Republican presidential campaign by other means. As the data show, the vast majority Tea Baggers don't merely identify themsel ...
• AG's Fight to Preserve States' Dismal Health Care
  That 14 state attorneys general - 13 of them Republicans - have brought a lawsuit to stop the health care reform legislation signed into law Tuesday by President Obama is a perfect reflection of today's GOP. It not only confirms the Republican Party's longstanding mantra of "judicial activism for m ...

Blackspot News Feed

• The American Taliban by Bruce Gagnon
  Christians cannot love their enemies and kill them, tooOriginally uploaded by Lorri37 by Bruce Gagnonfeatured writerDandelion SaladOrganizing NotesMarch 27, 2010A French documentary about the right-wing Christian fundamentalists who are preparing to wage war on behalf of Jesus.The difference between ...
• Chris Hedges: War is a Force that Gives us Meaning ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/by Chris HedgesFeatured WriterDandelion SaladUCTV – University of California Television11/1/200459 minutesVeteran New York Times correspondent Chris Hedges has covered conflicts in Bosnia, El Salvador and Israel. Tune in for this thought-provoking lecture based on ...
• NATO Chief: Weapons of Mass Destruction threat is ...
  Propaganda Alertcompiled by Cem ErtrFeatured WriterDandelion Salad27 March 2010 http://www.nato.int/cps/en/SID-D6107D8E-02CBC541/natolive/opinions_62395.htm excerpts from: Building a Euro-Atlantic Security Architecture Speech by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary General Anders ...
• received goods 27mar10
  It’s like watching a reknowned and venerable pointillist taking up a brushpen. Studying the paper for long moments, considering its tooth and weight. Laying down five lines without apparent consideration for where they should be or what they are. And with the sixth mark you realise, you see, you can ...
• The Pentagon is using Haiti as a Training Ground f ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/by Michel ChossudovskyGlobal Research, March 28, 2010A Recent report in Star and Stripes reveals the nature of the US military operation in Haiti. Combat units from Iraq and Afghanistan have been deployed in Haiti under the banner of a humanitarian operation. Conv ...

Consortium News

• Why Pope Benedict Must Resign
  Pope Benedict XVI's role in the cover-up of priests raping boys means he must resign, says Marquette ethicist Daniel C. Maguire. March 28, 2010
• A Surprise Tea-Party Confrontation
  Reporter Richard L. Fricker found himself surrounded by angry Tea Party protesters denouncing him as a "professor." March 28, 2010
• Welcoming a CIA Official at Fordham
  Senior CIA official Michael Sulick and ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern got different receptions at Fordham, reports Debra Sweet. March 28, 2010
• US-Israeli Relations at a Crossroads
  President Obama and the Israeli government are at an impasse over what to do next for Mideast peace, says Melvin A. Goodman. March 28, 2010
• Chalking Up a Win on Student Loans
  Progressives, unhappy with President Obama's concessions on healthcare, find solace in a student-aid change, notes Jeff Cohen. March 28, 2010

CounterPunch

• Uri Avnery : The Dubai Hit
• William P. O'Connor : The Story of Pvt. Hargrove
• Alexander Cockburn : From God to Gaia to Obama's N ...
• Joshua Frank / Jeffrey St. Clair : The Case of Br ...
• Paul Craig Roberts : Looting Social Security

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• 1 killed, 16 injured during Land Day protests in t ...
  One Palestinian child was killed, 16 others injured, one critically when Israeli troops opened fire at Land Day protests at different locations in the Gaza Strip. In one of the protests ...
• Stuck between a wall and an occupation (Nora Barr ...
  When Bilal Jadou's grandmother was sick last year, and in need of immediate medical care, the family called the Jerusalem emergency service and requested an ambulance - only to hear on th ...
• U.S-Israel Crisis (aic )
• Saying no to 'next year in Jerusalem' (Emily Ratn ...
  Like many non- and anti-Zionist Jews struggling to pack their bags for this year's Passover trip, I'm not really sure how to prepare for Tuesday's seder, which coincides with Land Day, an ...
• Israel allows first shipment in three years (Doug ...
  Israel will allow a shipment of clothes and shoes to be delivered to the Gaza Strip for the first time in its three-year blockade of the enclave, Palestinian officials said. The first 10 ...

Water - AlterNet

• Smooth Sailing? Billionaire's Recycled Boat Cruise ...
  David de Rothschild has set sail for Australia in a boat made of plastic bottles. But is his anti-pollution crusade contributing to the problems it's supposed to critique?
• Chemicals in the Water Still Bending Genders in Wi ...
  Endocrine disrupters are still changing the sex of some aquatic organisms, which may continue to find its way into humans later on down the food chain.
• Coal-Fired Plants Drink 1.5 Trillion Gallons of Wa ...
  In many respects, some folks might use more water flicking on their lights, than chugging back a glass of that wondrous stuff.
• Meet the Celebrities Who Climbed Kilimanjaro to Aw ...
  Grammy-nominated recording artist Kenna has personal drive behind his mission to increase awareness about the global water crisis.
• The Looming Water Disaster That Could Destroy Cali ...
  There's a disaster waiting to happen in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, and a handful of wealthy farmers seem to like it that way.

TruthHugger

• Note to readers
  I’m om a hiatus again.  Check back now and then, I may surprise you. Tagged: Personal Note
• 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 ...

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Financing Fascism, Part II by Steven Jonas, MD, MP ...
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• Once again, a CSIS report designates Turkey as the ...
  Propaganda Alert compiled by Cem Ertür Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 29 March 2010 In March 2009,
• Peace Outlaws by Cindy Sheehan
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• Why I Hate Palm Sunday by Cindy Sheehan
  by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbo
• Western Civilization and the Economic Crisis: The ...
  tweetmeme_url = 'http://wordpress.com/blog/2010/03/29/western-civilization-and-the-economic-crisis-t

Axis of Logic

• Why Insurgency in Balochistan Cannot Succeed?
• Australia: Look Different and Risk being Assaulted
• My Palace, My Palace
• China's Report on U.S. Human Rights Record in 2009
• Pakistan Must Strengthen Relations With Russia

They Gave Us a Republic

• The Context of Violence
  Yeah, yeah, when you have to resort to nuance you've already lost, but still, the point has to be made. The Rude Pundit applies context: 'Cause, see, whenever anyone tries to make some kind of moral equivalence between the actions of leftist protesters in the 1960s and 1970s and those of the teabagg ...
• Sheehan apologizes to the Dutch
  A couple of weeks back we were treated to a shameful display by General Jack Sheehan when he was invited to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee about repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." In that testimony he embarrassed himself terribly. It was so bad that it was embarrassing to watch, ...
• Food Fraud: you don't always get what you pay for
  Food fraud has been around since the time of the Romans, and it will never go away completely. There will always be the occasional beekeeper who dilutes expensive honey with cheap corn syrup then sells it as pure, or the person who mixes a sugar solution into the maple sap they harvest for syrup. Th ...
• Put That Tomato Down and Read This
  Those pretty veggies in the produce department in February, months before local tomatoes are ripe? Yeah, you know they spent their adolescence in a truck barreling down the highway from California and Florida. But did you know they were harvested by slaves? Today, in 2010, in the USA, though not a U ...
• Sickening Abuse Of Judicial Responsibility
  From Huffpo: Father Of Dead Marine Ordered To Pay Legal Fees Of Westobro Baptist Church Protesters The foul stench that calls itself the Westboro Baptist Church and it's head stench, Fred Phelps, have managed to win another victory in their crusade to become the foundation that underlies scum. Maybe ...

Care 2

• Scientist Says Blowing Bubbles Could Cool the Eart ...
  Photo via Flickr As anyone who has ever left an open can of soda out too long knows, some things are just better with a little fizz, and the world's oceans may be no exception. One physicist from Harvard Submitted by Alisa Roberts to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Animal rights protestors wait for justice
  Three men and one teen are charged with the shooting death of a wild horse. Their case was in court in Didsbury, Monday and animal protesters were at the courthouse, but the four accused did not show, instead their lawyer's handled the court appearance. Submitted by Sophie Smith to Animals �|� �Not ...
• ACTION ALERT: End the production and consumption o ...
  A petition to the members of the 111th US Congress to end the practice of foie gras production and consumption thereof nationwide. Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Prosecutor: 9 teens charged in bullying that led t ...
  Nine Massachusetts teenagers have been charged with involvement in a months-long campaign of bullying that led to the suicide in January of a 15-year-old girl, a prosecutor said Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Portugal creates 4 Marine Protected Areas covering ...
  Portuguese authorities have announced the establishment of four marine protected areas on the extended continental shelves of the Azores as well as mainland Portugal. The four sites - on the southern Mid Atlantic Ridge, Altair Seamount, Antialtair Submitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! � ...

GreenBiz

• Solar Power's Dirty Secrets
  A new "rank 'em and spank 'em" scorecard of solar power firms finds that the process of making clean energy isn't very clean.
• Kaiser Permanente Launches 15 MW Solar Initiative
  Kaiser Permanente will install solar power systems totaling 15 megawatts at California facilities in the first wave of renewable energy projects planned by the largest managed care organization in the U.S.
• Efficient Sainsbury's Easter Packaging Lays an Egg ...
  Easter egg packaging is getting lighter in the U.K., but there are clear leaders and laggards when it comes to packaging efficiency and recyclability. �
• 300 Gallons for $1 of Sugar and Other Hidden Water ...
  New research from by Carnegie Mellon University� and his colleagues provides the first industry-specific estimates of annual water use in almost 30 years.
• Top Water-Saving Rebates and Incentives for Your B ...
  From paying businesses to replace water-guzzling grass to simply paying companies to save hundreds of thousands of gallons, water agencies around the country offer commercial customers a slew of free money opportunities to help them reduce water use.

Reuters Global

• India and Pakistan: a personal view of the water w ...
  The row betwen India and Pakistan on water is not new. It has just been newly uncovered.
• Obama’s secret trip to Afghanistan
  For a leader who has come to own the Afghan war, U.S. President Barack Obama's first trip to Kabul and the military headquarters in Bagram since he took office 15 months ago was remarkable for its secrecy and surprise.
• Japan’s “political deflation”
  Six months after the Democratic Party of Japan swept to power for the first time in a landslide election win, support for the new government is down by half.
• Australia’s “Ironman” opposition ...
  Australia's opposition leader Tony Abbott, 52, this weekend completed the Ironman Australia triathlon, swimming 3.8 kilometres (2.3 miles), cycling 180 kilometres and then running a 42-kilometre road marathon in just under 14 hours of extreme sporting prowess. And in the process he has kicked off a ...
• Iran’s role in Afghanistan
  Depending on who you listen to, Iran is either an unlikely potential ally for the United States in Afghanistan or a spoiler, ready to back its old enemies the Afghan Taliban to make trouble for the Americans.

Paul Krugman

• False Charges of Racism, Tanning Edition
  Taxing tanning.
• Disappointing Roach
  This issue deserves more than misrepresenting the views of the renminbi hawks and rolling out old macroeconomic fallacies.
• Health Reform Revelations
  One of the side benefits of health reform is that it has acted as a character test.
• Economists Who Say "Ni!"
  Worrying about inflation is what these guys do, no matter the circumstances.
• Don't Be Narrow-Minded
  Regulation has to be smarter than something as simple as narrow banking.

No Quarter

• Nada Prouty, Patriot
  ~ Bumped Up ~ As Women’s History Month comes to an end, this is a timely piece. This will piss you off. Once again, a CIA officer who risked her life for her country discovered she could not count on her country. If you did not see this 60 minutes episode please take [...]
• NOTICE ABOUT COMMENTS!!
  We are having some major problems with the Comments Section. Our software people are not available tonight, but the Administrator is looking into it, and will be dealing with it first thing in the morning. NONE of our regular readers/commenters have been banned or are in moderation, or anything li ...
• Under The Radar
  So Mr. Transparency and his Pelosi-led crew have been mighty busy over the past couple of weeks. Okay, okay, his entire presidency thus far. But the past couple of weeks have been particularly bad. First there was the whole health care bill rammed down our throats. But also inside that Health [ ...
• Learning From The Russians; Response and Reaction ...
  As a three year+ resident of Moscow (late 2005-early 2009) I could regale you with stories of endemic corruption, political murder, police state tactics, and rampant inefficiencies and disconnects of logic and common sense that are guaranteed to drive the average business person from the West comple ...
• V
  The V Party Forget the Tea Party. The Coffee Party was an Axelrod created non-starter. The real party is the V Party. Obamabots are dressing up in bib overhauls showing up at republican rallies, pretending to be “one of them” and acting like idiots. They call themselves the Vs – The Vistor ...

Environmental Graffiti

• Happy World Water Day
• This is How Environmental Graffiti is About to Shi ...
• Paradise is a Land Called Kissimmee
• 13 Incredible Arcus Clouds
• Amazing Tape Graffiti by Buff Diss

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Iraq's Baby Steps Toward Democracy
  The recent Iraqi elections have brought the country a few steps closer to true self-determination.
• Earthquake Olympics
  Democracy, market forces, and religious apostasy aren't determining factors in the scores Chile and Haiti notched in this grim competition.
• Earthquake and Tsunami in Chile: The Militarizatio ...
  The emergency has brought to light problems that will have serious consequences for the neoliberal business model.
• A Journey Through the Occupied Territories
  An activist artist displays and describes her revelations from visiting Hebron, the only Palestinian city outside East Jerusalem.
• Postcard From...Chile
  Two earthquakes have shaken the Latin American country. The political one might have greater long-term impact.

Global Elite

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

Al Jazeera

• Farc frees second Colombian soldier
  Sergeant captured as a teenager released after 12 years in captivity.
• Serbia offers Srebrenica apology
  Parliament says sorry but does not call 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslim males genocide.
• Obama pushes speedy Iran sanctions
  US president hopes to see new restrictions "in weeks" as France pledges support.
• Iran nuclear expert 'defects to US'
  Shahram Amiri, missing since June, debriefed on Tehran's nuclear programme, ABC News says.
• Iran 'frees' diplomat in Pakistan
  Iranian agents claim to have rescued kidnapped diplomat in cross-border operation.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Koch Industries Responds to Greenpeace
  "The Greenpeace report mischaracterizes these efforts and distorts the environmental record of our companies," the company said.
• Developer Defends Ethiopian Hydro Project
  "The campaign against the construction of the Gibe plant in Ethiopia is merely another initiative without a technical and scientific basis," the company said.
• Kaiser Permanente Invests in Solar Power
  The health maintenance organization will install solar power systems on 15 of its hospitals, offices and other facilities across California.
• Tougher Emissions Rules for Ships Operating in Nor ...
  The International Maritime Organization agreed Friday to a plan creating a North American emissions control area extending 200 nautical miles from the coasts of the United States and Canada.
• Greenpeace Takes Aim at Koch Industries
  A new report from Greenpeace calls Koch Industries, an industrial conglomerate based in Kansas, a "financial kingpin of climate science denial and clean energy opposition."

Dot Earth News

• Weather Forecasters on Global Warming
  Video excerpts of on-air comments by meteorologists, who are more likely than climatologists to question the science of climate change. Whom do you trust when it comes to climate science?
• In Canada, TV Goes Deep on Climate
  A rare thing: five hours of television on climate modeling, science, politics, media coverage and more.
• Heat-Toting Ocean Currents Chugging Along
  New findings boost confidence that Atlantic Ocean currents are not at risk from climate change.
• New Ways to Gauge the Finite Atmosphere
  An illustrator finds ways to bring to life largely invisible environmental conditions and trends.
• A Physics Maven's Take on Skeptical Science
  An Australian blogger takes on climate skeptics' arguments, one by one.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• Oh noes: Epic FBI white supremacist troll Hal Turn ...
  Alright here's a bizarre story about a strange man from New Jersey, Hal Turner, who rose to fame as a racist, anti-semitic blogger and radio talk show host whose violent rhetoric upset many people. Alex Jones to his credit accurately flagged Turner years ago as an FBI informant/operative. No mainstr ...
• War on WikiLeaks? Nasty intelligence plan to destr ...
  Well this is grim! The ACIC or Army Counterintelligence Center published in March 2008 a National Security Information Special Report, under the auspices of the Department of Defense Intelligence Analysis Program (DIAP). Michael D Horvath of the Cyver Counterintelligence Assessments Branch d ...
• Restored 1927 "Metropolis" adds new subplots on wo ...
  Frame by frame, the lost almost-complete version of Metropolis is coming out. METROPOLIS2710 It's an amazing & essentially perfect film, which created the bases for epic pop culture characters like Doc Brown, C3PO, as well as a powerful vision of utopian urbanism -- the film itself created a huge c ...
• Young: "The Internet is a giant spying machine rig ...
  Got BitLocker? Feel a bit r00ted??? [It was later posted that this full Windows 7 law enforcement pack was actually originally posted on the very cool newer site PublicIntelligence.net: Microsoft Windows 7/Vista Advanced Forensics Guides for Law Enforcement | Public Intelligence ] In a continuation ...
• Viddy Still from Michael Ruppert appearance in Min ...
  Its taking a while but I have a lot of footage from Michael Ruppert's visit to St Anthony Main for the screenings of Collapse last week... Overall it was quite awesome, with new items of geopolitics and a lot of jokes. Plus the lighting looks like the movie which is neat :) Standby on that one, I th ...

Daily Censored

• There is a thing about “Opinions.”
  I have got to answer JFoster My mother warned me about arguing or discussing with certain kinds of people, but there was entirely too much disinformation in one comment to ignore.  And lastly, I have to say that people who think they know everything are a real pain in butt to those of us who do. No ...
• Alex Jones interview blasts corporate media war li ...
  engage in comments and view the video interview at source. Any person competent with the disclosed facts of evidence and US war laws can prove that US government and media “leadership” willfully lied by commission and omission to cause unlawful war in Iraq. I document the evidence and explain the la ...
• MILITARY’S UNKNOWN WASTE AT HANFORD
  CENSORED IN 1981: THE MILITARY’S UNKNOWN A-WASTE AT HANFORD Radioactive waste is building daily throughout the United States and the government doesn’t seem to know what to do with it. The failure of the media to fully address the issue of increasing radioactive waste qualifies this story for nomin ...
• Capitalist Diplomacy, the US and Israel
  In the natural world, different animals – especially those who live in packs, such as wolves – have developed a complex set of signals in order to avoid outright physical confrontation. At some point, however, tensions either within the pack or between different packs can become so great that a figh ...
• Carl Herman podcast: explaining the evidence of Ir ...
  engage with Operation Mockingbird agent comments at source. James Fetzer interviewed me on his radio show and podcast, The Real Deal, to walk Americans through the disclosed evidence for war with Iraq to demonstrate beyond doubt that claims for war were all known as false at the time they were told ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• Tea-party prowess overblown; just new branding for ...
• Two-Thirds of Boys in Afghan Jails Are Brutalized, ...
• Tea party leaders say they would â€&til ...
• DOJ Cites Powell’s Past Support ...
• Pennsylvania Unions Endorse Specter, the Man Who K ...

Institute for Policy Studies

• Earthquake Olympics
  Democracy, market forces, and religious apostasy aren't determining factors in the scores Chile and Haiti notched in this grim competition.
• Enabling Wall Street's Gambling Problem
  Thought bankers had learned their lesson in 2008? Think again.
• Advice for the Blue Ribbon Commission
  Hopefully Obama's new commission will motivate the country to finally deal with the toxic legacy of the nuclear age.
• The New U.S.-Mexico War
  Sanho Tree discusses the significance of U.S. officials in Mexico, and whether the new plan is an adequate one.
• Flying and Excess Radiation
  The doses of radiation experienced in everyday life, especially flying long distances in jet aircraft, pose risks we should carefully heed.

Pine River World News

• Backlash against Muslims simmering in Russia after ...
  [ Blogmaster note : �I wrote the following article for my satellite blog, IntelTrends, but I believe it may also be of interest to readers of Pine River World News.] Backlash against Muslims simmering in Russia after Metro bomb blasts � � IntelTrends By Steve in Wisconsin March 30, 2010 The recent ...
• The Pentagon is using Haiti as a Training Ground f ...
  The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Global Research. The Pentagon is using Haiti as a Training Ground for Afghanistan � � Global Research By Michel Chossudovsky March 28, 2010 A recent report in Stars and Stripes reveals the nature of the U.S. military operation in Haiti. Co ...
• Mass Migration, the Modern Version of Invasion
  The following column is reprinted with permission from Stanislav Mishin, a frequent contributor to Russian newspaper Pravda. Mass Migration, the Modern Version of Invasion � �Stanislav Mishin Source: � Mat Rodina March 26, 2010 In the ancient days, such as prior to 1945, politics, that is territor ...
• Paul Craig Roberts: Truth Has Fallen and Has Taken ...
  The following column is reprinted with permission from Paul Craig Roberts. Truth Has Fallen and Has Taken Liberty With It � �Paul Craig Roberts March 24, 2010 During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. - George Orwell There was a time when the pen was mighti ...
• Gordon Duff: America and Israel - A Health Care Co ...
  The following column is reprinted with permission from Gordon Duff, staff writer and Senior Editor at Veterans Today . America and Israel: �A Health Care Comparison � �Gordon Duff Source: �Veterans Today March 23, 2010 * � Dialog In A Madhouse, Mob Rule In The Health Care Debate Editors note: �Ru ...

IntelNews

• Analysis: The limits of Israeli espionage
  Israeli investigative journalist Ronen Bergman (The Secret War with Iran) has written an editorial in Yedioth Ahronoth, in which he argues that Israel’s espionage successes in recent years have failed to bring about significant changes on the strategic level.
• News you may have missed #318
  US State Dept. lawyer defends CIA drone attacks. How the CIA let Anwar al-Aulaqi escape to Yemen. More on alleged Israeli spy caught in Algeria.
• Study points to Chinese city as ‘world capital’ of ...
  A major traffic analysis of cyberespionage attacks has identified a provincial urban center in southeast China as ‘the world capital’ of cyberespionage.
• News you may have missed #317
  Captured MI6 spy denied bail. Alleged Israeli spy arrested in Algeria. MI6's top ranking female spy dies at 88.
• MI5’s tech skills lacking, admits director-general
  The director-general of MI5, Britain’s foremost domestic intelligence agency, has revealed his concern that the organization he heads lacks officers with even basic experience in information technology.

After Downing Street.org

• TMS changes people's minds & morals
  "You think of morality as being a really high-level behavior. To be able to apply (a magnetic field) to a specific brain region and change people's moral judgments is really astonishing." Moral Judgments Can Be Altered: Neuroscientists Influence People’s Moral Judgments by Disrupting Specific Brain ...
• If it doesn't kill them first
  Iraq War Stunts Children’s Growth, Researchers Find ScienceDaily (Mar. 29, 2010) — Iraqi children born in areas affected by high levels of violence are shorter in height than children born in less violent areas, according to a study at Royal Holloway, University of London. The level of violence has ...
• Zero Public Option + One Mandate = Disaster
  Zero Public Option + One Mandate = Disaster Progressive critics of the new healthcare law have been demonized By Norman Solomon | Washington Free Press Not long ago, the most prominent supporters of the public option were touting it as essential for healthcare reform. Now, suddenly, it’s inciden ...
• 28 Nations Helped U.S. To Detain "Suspects"
  28 NATIONS HELPED U.S. TO DETAIN “SUSPECTS” By Sherwood Ross Twenty-eight nations have cooperated with the U.S. to detain in their prisons, and sometimes to interrogate and torture, suspects arrested as part of the U.S. “War on Terror.” The complicit countries have kept suspects in prisons ranging ...
• The Last War Supplemental Ever
  The Last War Supplemental Ever By Siun | FireDogLake Last April, shortly after beginning his first term as president, Barak Obama promised that the war supplemental he requested from Congress would be the last one ever: White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday that this will be th ...

Grist - News

• Greenpeace takes on iPads, cloud computing, other ...
  by Jonathan Hiskes Greenpeace has a new report out highlighting the climate impact of cloud computing and devices like the Apple iPad that rely on it to stream video, download music, load Greenpeace.org , etc. The “Make IT Green” report calls on Apple and other tech leaders to tackle the proble ...
• Lawyer: No, you shouldn’t paint your own bik ...
  by Jonathan Hiskes Portland, where else?Courtesy Related Links: Greenpeace takes on iPads, cloud computing, other click-friendly subjects TV weathercasters moonlight as climate experts. It’s a problem Koch Industries funds climate change deniers, Greenpeace reports ...
• TV weathercasters moonlight as climate experts. It ...
  by Jonathan Hiskes This week in TV-news bashing, we learn that significant numbers of TV weathercasters are serving as climate-change experts, without training in climatology but with lots of confidence in their ability to opine on the subject. Here’s what it means for your weekend. Here’s why ...
• Koch Industries funds climate change deniers, Gree ...
  by Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON - Koch Industries, a huge privately owned U.S. company dominated by oil and chemical interests, is plowing millions of dollars into campaigns to discredit climate science and clean energy policies, a report alleged Tuesday. Between 2005 and 2008, the Kansas-b ...
• H&M’s organic line and the Wal-Mart pers ...
  by Jonathan Hiskes Eurochic retailer H&M is launching an earth-friendly spring Garden Collection , H&M shopper Joe Romm reports. No, scratch that, this is from thegreengirls.com . The new line will include recycled polyester, organic cotton, and organic linen. Presumably the expected life of th ...

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• TLC's Paranormal Court is in Session
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  During these hard economic times annuities can be a safe investment and there are some tips investors can follow to help decide if annuities are right for them

Time - Top Stories

• Where to Buy a Land Mine in Sri Lanka
  The civil war in Sri Lanka may be over, but you can buy a landmine on the side of the road in the northern city of Jaffna -- though they're more likely to explode in your mouth than anywhere else
• Giving Up the Search for Haiti's Last Lost America ...
  After more than two months, a U.S. military team gives up the search for the body of six-year old Lodz Annoule
• Utah's Bid to Take Back Its Land
  There's little doubt that defenders of states' rights are feeling emboldened by the perception that the Obama Administration has overstepped its authority on issues ranging from the bank bailouts to health care reform
• A Testy Test Drive in Chevy's New Volt
  "How did you like it?" Bob Lutz asks me. It, in this case, is Chevrolet's Volt, the electric - drive vehicle that the company is introducing this year.
• Court Rules Against Patenting Human Genes
  In a decision that could have broad ramifications for future genetic research and medical practice, a U.S. District Court judge ruled that patents on two genes linked to ovarian and breast cancer, BRCA-1 and BRCA-2, were invalid.

Washington Independent

• Obama to Open Atlantic Coast to Offshore Drilling
  This is bound to draw some fire from the left: The Obama administration is proposing to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling for the first time, officials said Tuesday. The proposal — a comp ...
• Iranian Nuclear Scientist Defects: ABC News
  Just in from ABC: An award-winning Iranian nuclear scientist, who disappeared last year under mysterious circumstances, has defected to the CIA and been resettled in the United States, according to people briefed on the operation by intelligence officials. The officials were said to have termed the ...
• Egg Crime 1984
  Last week, conservatives grew annoyed with the way Democrats discussed the threats against them — it was unfair, said critics of the health care bill, to link all extremism to their opponents. This week, the conservative pushback is being led by Andrew Breitbart, who’s been posting — piece by piece ...
• The Burning New START Question: How Many Votes Can ...
  In the spirit of self-criticism, something that I see my New START coverage has taken for granted is the support of Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), the leading arms-control baron on the Republican side in the Senate and long a driving force behind the move to secure loose nuclear materials from the for ...
• Club for Growth Reminds Mark Kirk of His Pledge
  When I asked Mike Connolly of the Club for Growth what, exactly, could strip candidates who’d signed the Club’s “Repeal It” pledge of official support, Connolly suggested that repercussions couldn’t really happen until January 2011, when new members of Congress have a chance to introduce repeal legi ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

• Snail pie is tastier, more nutritious than beef
  Malnutrition and iron deficiency among schoolchildren in developing countries could be reduced by serving up generous portions of delicious, bargain-priced snail pie and other handy beef alternatives. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• CO2, Methane Ousted as Worst Global Climate Change ...
  Move over CO2—you’ve been ousted, along with methane, as the biggest offenders of global climate change. The majority of “greenhouse gases” are created by humans. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• 'Fat for cosmetics' murder suspects arrested in Pe ...
  Four people have been arrested in Peru on suspicion of killing dozens of people in order to sell their fat and tissue for cosmetic uses in Europe. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• 6 Ways Agriculture Impacts Global Warming
  Sure, agriculture provides us with the food we all eat every day. But do you know how those agricultural practices impact global warming? Turns out there's some pretty big impacts, on both the sustainable and industrial sides of the equation; employing su Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to ...
• We love Butchers
  Former chef Josh Applestone and his wife, Jessica Applestone, are typical of the new butcher breed. He was a vegan, she was a one-time vegetarian when they founded Fleisher’s Grass-fed and Organic Meats in Kingston, N.Y., in 2004 Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �N ...

Suzie-Q

• Are The Right-Wing Extremists Courting Another Okl ...
  Courting Another Oklahoma City Huff Post- Cliff Schecter Posted: March 30, 2010 01:08 PM It was almost exactly a year ago at this time that a “controversial” report was released by the Department of Homeland Security. This finding, labeled “Right-wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Clim ...
• Sexual Freedom Group: After A Night At A Bondage N ...
  Sexual Freedom Group Charges RNC With Hypocrisy Huff Post- Sam Stein First Posted: 03-30-10 09:57 AM   |   Updated: 03-30-10 10:36 AM One of the leading organizations advocating for sexual openness and freedom is charging the Republican National Committee with hypocrisy in the wake of revelatio ...
• Christian Militia Member “Pale Horse”: ...
  Accused Christian Militia Member Posted Video Last Year: ‘I’m Just A Simple Militant … What’s Wrong With That?’ TPM MUCKRAKER Zachary Roth | March 29, 2010, 2:37PM We already told you that one of the members of a Christian militia group charged today with “seditious conspiracy” in connection to ...
• The Animal: On George Orwell, Frankenfood, Corpora ...
  from Wikipedia George Orwell, in his book Animal Farm, wrote about Old Major, the old boar on the Manor Farm, who calls the animals on the farm for a meeting, where he compares the humans to parasites and teaches the animals a revolutionary song, “Beasts of England.” When Major dies three days lat ...
• Glenn Beck’s World: What If the Tea Partiers ...
  Welcome to Glenn Beck’s World: What If the Tea Partiers Ruled the Country? Tomdispatch.com / By Chip Ward March 29, 2010 | Imagine a land where white, patriarchal, religiously zealous, Tea Party-type patriots rule. It’s called Utah, and what happens here should terrify you. What if the Tea P ...

Solari

• US Dollar Index - 1990 to Present
  As we read stories about a strong US dollar, it is good to keep a historical perspective in mind. View larger image at FXStreet.com
• Understanding Big Bang
  By Robert Evans Scientists smashed sub-atomic particles into each other with record energy on Tuesday, aiming to recreate conditions just after the Big Bang that gave rise to the universe 13.7 billion years ago. The experiment at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) drew applause from th ...
• Capital Controls, By Another Name
  By Gretchen Morgenson With all the hoopla over the health care bill, hardly anybody noticed that a job creation bill that President Obama signed on March 18 makes it much harder for United States citizens to avoid taxes by hiding money in overseas bank accounts. Nobody likes to pay taxes, of course ...
• Tracking Federal Food Safety Legislation
  Here is a tool to track proposed federal food “safety” legislation. Continue reading Tracking Food Safety Proposals
• US, Russia Seal Nuclear Treaty
  President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev have sealed an agreement on a landmark nuclear arms reduction treaty. Obama and Medvedev plan to officially sign the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty on April 8 in Prague. President Obama: “Broadly speaking, the new START Treaty makes progres ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• ICE Slip Up Casts Serious Doubt on Immigration Enf ...
  Until we have comprehensive immigration reform, ICE is going to be saddled with an enormous list of targets, and many people watching to see how they’re going to tackle it.
• Why I Tried to Put the Cuffs on Karl Rove
  We could not allow this war criminal to tout his book around the country and get away with describing anything tied to Bush as courageous.
• Modern Slavery Museum Is an Eerie Reminder of How ...
  The Modern-day Slavery Museum will not poach visitors from Disneyworld, that's for sure. But it will serve as a forceful reminder that slavery is far from extinct.
• Do Republicans Really Have a Shot at Crippling Oba ...
  Fourteen state attorney generals are suing the federal government, charging it with a power-grabbing violation of the 10th Amendment. Can it possibly work?
• Teacher Sued For Bashing Christianity -- Will Othe ...
  A teacher in California was found to have violated a student’s First Amendment rights by disparaging religion in the classroom. The ruling could silence outspoken teachers.

Sideways News

• Recessionistas coin new phrases
  Going forward, here are a few things we at Sideways News would like to run up the flagpole while we get 110% of our ducks in a row. Love it or loathe it, office-speak and jargon have entered into common parlance in the workplace as one of the more annoying signs of the times. Even those of us fortun ...
• Scientists uncover bat echo evolution
  New research has shown bats have developed a sophisticated way to avoid interference with their echo signals. When bats fly in packs or chase prey in thick foliage there is a danger the high-pitched sounds they make may bounce off objects and cause interference. But scientists based in the US found ...
• PepsiCo pushes forward nutrition targets
  PepsiCo has unveiled ambitious plans to improve its nutritional and environmental impact around the world between 2012 and 2020. The announcements were made during the company’s two-day investor conference held in Yankee Stadium in New York. The company owns a number of global food and drink concern ...
• The Recycling Debate looks to the future
  The Recycling Debate is being launched today by the UK plastics industry in order to try to improve recycling facilities and accessibility across society.
• Facebook’s proposals raise privacy concerns
  Facebook has proposed another set of changes to its privacy policy. In a post on the social network’s blog , deputy general counsel Michael Richter said the company had “identified some interesting opportunities to improve the way you share and connect with the people and things in your life”.

Fabius Maximus

• America, the land of limited opportunity. We must ...
  More first-rate research from the OECD:  “Economic Policy Reforms: Going for Growth 2010“.  Of special interest to Americans is chapter 5:  “A Family Affair: Intergenerational Social Mobility across OECD Countries“.  Like the massive body of research preceeding it, this contracts one of the key ...
• FM newswire for March 30, interesting articles abo ...
  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. Lots of rumors about the number of these in circulation:  “A Revisit to the Fake Gold Plated Tungsten Story“, Robert Bradshaw, Market Oracle, 11 March 20 ...
• A third American regime will arise from the ashes ...
  Summary:  The dysfunctional nature of our political apparatus shows that the second American regime has begun its death throes.  History shows that the transitional period can take decades — and that America can emerge renewed and stronger. We face many challenges.  Increasing political polariza ...
• National Drug Threat Assessment 2010
  The Dept of Justice has published an update on one of our longest wars, declared by President Nixon at a press conference on 17 June 1971.  Only the War on Poverty (declared by LBJ on 8 January 1964) has run longer.  (I have not found a date for first use of  “War on Cancer”; it [...]
• About the movie “Fight Club”
  The most interesting comment thread I’ve seen in a long time:  Matthew Yglesias’ post about the movie Fight Club, at ThinkProgress.  What does it mean?  Why do people like it?  It’s about feminism and masculinity in our culture, and a dozen other things. Fascinating comments, a discussion better ...

Open Your Eyes News

• UK Police criticised for staging mock burglaries
  Guardian – It was meant to be an imaginative way of hammering home the message that some householders are making life too easy for burglars. But police were under fire today after admitting they had been sneaking into people’s homes through open doors and windows and gathering up their valuables int ...
• French Endorse Sarkozy’s Scrapping of Carbon Tax, ...
  Bloomberg – French President Nicolas Sarkozy was right to scrap a planned tax on carbon emissions, according to the majority of people in an Ipsos option poll. The poll released today found 69 percent of those surveyed endorsed Sarkozy’s decision, while 21 percent said it was wrong. 948 people wer ...
• South Africa to kick homeless off streets before W ...
  Mirror – Thousands of homeless people are being forced off the streets of South Africa to hide the scale of poverty there from World Cup fans. More than 800 tramps, beggars and street children have already been removed from Johannesburg and sent to remote settlements hundreds of miles away. And in ...
• HSBC Ejects Carbon Traders From Index
  New York Times – The banking giant HSBC removed two companies involved in carbon trading from its Climate Change Index on Monday because they had lost too much value. Analysts from HSBC said the cause was mainly that governments had failed to come up with a timetable for a global climate deal at the ...
• Precious research rediscovered, ‘a breakthrough fo ...
  ABC – A long-lost collection of work by one of Australia’s early anthropologists has been recovered by Queensland researchers in what has been heralded a breakthrough for Aboriginal studies. Caroline Tennant-Kelly worked in the south-east Queensland Aboriginal settlement at Cherbourg in 1934 and at ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

• RAIM-Seattle: 7 years of ongoing u$ imperialist sl ...
  7 years of ongoing u$ imperialist slaughter in Iraq (raims.wordpress.com) Figures and statistics are stubborn things sometimes, especially for the impotent First Worldist “anti-war left.” A RAIM-S analysis of polling data reveals that roughly 75% of Amerikkkans supported the invasion and occupation ...
• Jednostavna pitanja prema brojevima.. veDina u Sje ...
  Jednostavna pitanja prema brojevima.. veDina u Sjedinjenim DrE>avama: revolucionarna ili ne? autor: Prairie Fire (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) (English) (Macedonian) (Tagalog) (Serbo-Croatian) (Czech) Srednji (ne proseDni, nego onaj iznad kog su 50%) prihod po domaDinstvu u 2006 bio je 48.201 ...
• Едноставни прашања според бројките.. мнозинството ...
  Едноставни прашања според бројките.. мнозинството во Соединетите Држави: револуционерно или не? автор: Prairie Fire (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) (English) (Macedonian) (Tagalog) (Serbo-Croatian) (Czech) Средниот (не просечниот, туку оној над кој се 50%) годишен приход по домаќинство во 2006 б ...
• Sa paghahati sa pagitan nina Mao at Lin Biao
  Sa paghahati sa pagitan nina Mao at Lin Biao (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) (English) (Tagalog) (Greek) “Mahal kong Maoista-Third Worldista, Sinusubukan kong unawain ang misteryo sa likod ng pagkakalaglag ni Lin Biao. Sina Zhou at Deng ay gumamit ng maraming kasabihan mula kay Tagapangulong Ma ...
• US leading offensive against Somalia
  US leading offensive against Somalia (http://raimd.wordpress.com) They’re at it again. The US is quietly leading a major military operation against the African country of Somalia. Since last year, the US been training and funding the ‘Transitional Federal Government’(TFG). Now, the US is planni ...

PakAlert

• The Road To Armageddon
  The morons in Washington are pushing the envelope of nuclear war. The insane drive for American hegemony threatens life on earth. The American people, by accepting the lies and deceptions of “their” government, are facilitating this outcome. Paul Craig Roberts The Washington Times is a news ...
• Why the CIA is the World’s Number One Terrorist Or ...
  by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy The time has come to abolish the CIA –to smash it into a thousand pieces –as JFK had promised! Its leadership should be dismissed and investigated. Where there is probable cause, CIA members should be investigated and tried for crimes against humanity.Th ...
• Fresh Evidence On The Unprovoked Indian Invasion O ...
  Bangladesh Leader Admits India Conspired To Invade East Pakistan Mujeeb’s daughter admits her father was a traitor, says Indian helped him raise an Indian-backed terror militia that raped and plundered in order to malign Pakistan Army India’s advocates in Washington and London have argued for ...
• US-Israel agree privately–disagree publicly
  by Moin Ansari There are multiple news stories coming out of Middle East. On the one hand there are stories that the US has tacitly approved the construction of 1600 housing units in disputed East Jerusalem; on the other hand there is bluster from Hillary Clinton which threatens Israel with d ...
• An Open Letter To American War Criminals And Other ...
  I am finally convinced that a huge percentage of the American people are the worst hypocrites imaginable ­ considering the fact that some 80% of us claim to be "Christians". The AVAILABLE facts that our barbarian young sons have murdered many thousands of COMPLETELY innocent women and children in Ir ...

ecogeek

• Nissan Sets Price for the LEAF
  We've all been waiting to hear what exactly Nissan has meant by "competitively priced" when describing the LEAF.  Well, now we know.  The all-electric sedan will have a sticker price of $32,780, slightly more than expected, but still pretty cheap for an EV. At that price, the LEAF is a good $10,00 ...
• FedEx Adding All-Electric Trucks to Fleet
  FedEx says it will be the first U.S. delivery service to add all-electric trucks to their fleet.  Starting in June, the company will enter four EVs into service in Los Angeles . Two of the trucks will come from Navistar, based on a design the parcel service already is using in Europe.  FedEx has 1 ...
• Energizer Installing Trojan Malware With Battery C ...
  Energizer's DUO Charger is a battery charger for NiMH (nickel metal hydride) rechargable batteries. (This isn't the same as USB batteries that have a built-in USB port on the batteries themselves.) Energizer provided a nice little desktop app for computers so that the user could see the charge sta ...
• Recyclable Plastic Boat Sets Sail
  A boat aptly called the Plastiki, made out of 12,500 recyclable plastic bottles filled with carbon dioxide, has set sail for a great voyage through the Pacific.  While it seems like an extreme stunt, the journey has more of a purpose than just seeing if a plastic boat can make the trip. By now, ma ...
• The Hypocritically Bold Look of Kohler
  Taryn, an EcoGeek reader, received her subscriptions to Wired Magazine as well as National Geographic this week. A very EcoGeek combination, I must say, keeping up on the beauty and diversity of our world as well as cutting technology. But what she found surprised her. Each magazine had an ad from t ...

Buzzflash

• Dr. J.’s BF Commentary No. 136: Financing Fascism, ...
  BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY By Steven Jonas, MD, MPH��� As I noted at the beginning of my Commentary No. 135 that appeared on BuzzFlash last week, fascism may be briefly defined as: “A politico-economic system in which there is: total executive branch control of both the legislative and administrativ ...
• Survivor of Clergy Sexual Abuse in Boston: The Cat ...
  GARY BERGERON FOR BUZZFLASH.COM BuzzFlash Note: We called Gary, who lives in the Northeast, to confirm his E-Mail to BuzzFlash. In a discussion, he told us that he is not looking for vengeance, but wants the Catholic Church hierachy to answer the question of what it will do to prevent child sexual a ...
• The Legacy of Three Mile Island: It Could Happen A ...
  HARVEY WASSERMAN FOR BUZZFLASH As radiation poured from 3 Mile Island 31 years ago this weekend, utility executives rested easy.��They knew that no matter how many people their errant nuke killed, and no matter how much property it destroyed, they would not be held liable.�Today this same class ...
• Monsanto in the White House Garden: One Recess App ...
  BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Meg White Curled up on the couch with The New York Times this past Sunday, I could almost hear the superhero theme song emanating from the White House. Or maybe it was "Macho Man"? This front page piece trumpeted the president's "muscular show," which "suggests a newly ...
• Laura Ingraham, Bill O’Reilly, and FOX’s Blame the ...
  BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT by Jeffrey Joseph FOX personalities have apparently coordinated an effort to continue the illogical defense of violence against lawmakers involved in healthcare reform . Unsurprisingly, FOX exposes its GOP underpinnings with its annoyance focused squarely on the Democrats for re ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• Mike McConnell, the WashPost & the dangers of slea ...
  In a political culture drowning in hidden conflicts of interests, exploitation of political office for profit, and a rapidly eroding wall separating the public and private spheres, Mike McConnell stands out as the perfect embodiment of all those afflictions.� Few people have blurred the line between ...
• The war on WikiLeaks and why it matters
  A newly leaked CIA report prepared earlier this month (.pdf) analyzes how the�U.S.�Government can best manipulate public opinion in Germany and�France -- in order to ensure that those countries continue to fight in Afghanistan.� The Report celebrates the fact that the governments of those two nation ...
• Salon Radio: Rep. Alan Grayson
  Rep. Alan Grayson has been declared to be the Number One target for defeat in November by various official GOP groups. Grayson has been able to maintain an unorthodox stance, and to publicly attack powerful interests that are normally shielded from attack, because he has attempted to rely upon indiv ...
• The right-wing need for victimization and Israel
  As rabid and unhinged as the American Right generally has become of late, the right-wing blogosphere is, as usual, several degrees more twisted.  Here is Powerline's Paul Mirengoff , a lawyer , protesting Obama's treatment this week of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and comparing it to ho ...
• The horrible prospect of Supreme Court Justice Cas ...
  A media consensus has emerged that the retirement of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, the 90-year-old Ford-appointee who became the leader of the Court's so-called "liberal wing," is now imminent.  The New York Times ' Peter Baker has an article today on Obama's leading candidates to replace ...

The BiPartisan Report

• Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
• Nihilism 1 American People Nil
• Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate floo ...
• Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
• Those holier than thou Conservatives

Sciencebase

• Materials, water, and light
  Some scientific links from this week, including my Materials Today news round up. Periodic Table of Parodies – Yet more periodic table fun and games Similar websites to Sciencebase – This neat little tool automagically works out your site's keywords and searches for other sites with the same keywor ...
• Awards, PTs, and green phones
  Awards – Research Blogging – Winners and finalists in the Research Blogging Awards 2010 announced today! A Clever Periodic Table from Sciencebase | Genome Alberta Education – It's official. My periodic table of science bloggers is clever, even if it maybe didn't include enough Canadians. Go Green! ...
• Periodioc table of science blogs
  Many, many thanks to everyone who joined in the fun and frolics in helping create the Periodic Table of Science Bloggers. I cannot quite believe how quickly it got filled – 118 elements – having only started it on Friday after a spate of periodic posts. Thanks for all the tweets, suggestions, retwee ...
• Chemical science, night sky, scientific trust
  Delicious links March 16-18 Chemical Science – Building linear polymers from monomers, inaugural paper in RSC's new journal Bing maps now let you scan the nighttime sky – The stars are coming out tonight…even when it's cloudy Sex and social networking – Patterns of prostitution revealed by analysis ...
• The Periodic Table of David Bradley
  Given the intense interest and heated debate surrounding an old Sciencebase post about novel periodic tables, I thought I’d have a bit of fun with one of my own…click on an orange element to visit one of my links. If you’ve got a chemistry/science blog and your initials or its initials fit one of t ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• Army Considers Continuing KBR Monopoly in Iraq
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 29, 2010 Project on Government Oversight (POGO) In a letter sent today to Army Secretary John McHugh, the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) urged the Army to end KBR's monopoly in Iraq and reconsider the continued use of the LOGCAP III program. read more
• Press Conference ** A Call for the Inclusion of Ha ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 29, 2010 MADRE As donor nations gather in New York this week for a major conference on reconstruction in Haiti, Haitian women are demanding that their voices be heard in all phases of the deliberation.  To amplify their call, a coalition of Haitian and international wo ...
• ACLU Lawsuit Challenges Unconstitutional Practices ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 29, 2010 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Rhode Island today filed a class-action lawsuit charging that the state's truancy court system is devoid of due process protections in violation of state and federal law. ...
• New Lawsuit Looms for Manatee Protection
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 29, 2010 Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) Florida's largest natural spring haven for wintering manatees should be put off limits to swimmers and snorkelers, according to a formal notice of intent to sue filed today by Public Employees for Enviro ...
• Undaunted: Movement for Improved Medicare for All ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 30, 2010 Progress Democrats of America (PDA) Just blocks from President Obama's Hyde Park home south of the Loop in Chicago, more than 70 activists gathered on Saturday, March 27, 2010, to plan strategy for advancing an improved and expanded Medicare for all system as ...

Common Dreams-Views

• Welcoming a CIA Official at Fordham
  by Debra Sweet I'm not sure what was worse; sitting in an auditorium for a speech by the head of CIA clandestine operations, or having most of the audience give a standing ovation afterward. There were some low points in between, too. read more
• Could Bloomberg Lawsuit Mean Death to Zombie Banks ...
  by Mary Bottari My recollection is a bit hazy. How does one kill a zombie exactly? Do you stake it? Cut off its head? Nationalize it? Perhaps it's time to ask the experts at Bloomberg News . read more
• Congress: Let My Tax Cut Expire
  by Gene Mulligan As Congress begins debate over what to do about the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy, I hope it has the courage to let my tax cuts expire. It would be the right thing to do. Back in 2001, Congress voted for President Bush's tax program, including substantial tax reductions for ...
• In America: Getting Beyond the Hate
  by Sarah van Gelder If we had any question about the timeliness of the spring issue of YES!, "America: The Remix," those doubts were put aside by the race-baiting at recent tea party rallies. Less well known are the many ways the current recession is devastating the fragile fortunes of people o ...
• Punks and Plutocrats
  by Paul Krugman Health reform is the law of the land. Next up: financial reform. But will it happen? The White House is optimistic, because it believes that Republicans won't want to be cast as allies of Wall Street. I'm not so sure. The key question is how many senators believe that they can get aw ...

Karl Burkart

• Titanium 'leaves' could unlock hydrogen power
  The Artificial Inorganic Leaf (AIL) may unlock the secrets to producing cheap, clean hydrogen by mimicking the photosynthetic structure of the leaf.
• EPA gives us a day to celebrate
  Today the EPA moves to veto the largest mountain top removal proposal, Spruce No. 1.
• Climate Counterspin TV
  After more than a decade of anti-climate spin, the folks at DeSmogBlog say enough is enough with Climate TV.
• Bill Gates: billions for next-gen nuclear
  Bill Gates set to commit billions in a partnership between Toshiba and next-generation nuclear company TerraPower.
• Creative kids turn 'Trash to Treasure'
  PBS announces 2010 'Trash to Treasure' contest which will turn three kids into eco-design stars.

Water Privatization

• Water commission looking for solutions to infrastr ...
  The Cold Lake Regional Utility Services Commission feels its situation mirrors that of the city – it's cash strapped, faces a long list of infrastructure upgrades and it is looking for solutions.[...]
• Water commission looking for solutions to infrastr ...
  The Cold Lake Regional Utility Services Commission feels its situation mirrors that of the city – it's cash strapped, faces a long list of infrastructure upgrades and it is looking for solutions.[...]
• 2ndUPDATE: Adwea In Talks With Banks For Power Pro ...
  (Adds number of prequalified companies.) ABU DHABI (Zawya Dow Jones)-- Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority , or Adwea Adwea , is in talks with banks to finance its new 1,600 megawatt independent power project at Shuweihat, which is attracting new inter ...
• Instant sermon (just add water) (New York Post)
  Don't bring your water bottle to "A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick." This earnest, socially conscious and relentlessly talky new play includes lengthy debates over such issues as mega-dams, the privatization of water and the merits of tap versus bottled. No wonder the restroom lines at Playwri ...
• Following the water trail (The Telegraph)
  EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the last of three parts about Illinois-American Water Co.'s current ICC request for an average 30 percent rate increase across the state.

Guardian

• Hung parliament PM may be Brown
  MPs will get 18-day window to form government under emergency plan drawn up by Whitehall The likelihood of a hung parliament has prompted Whitehall to draw up contingency plans that would give Gordon Brown extra time to form a viable administration if there is no clear winner at the general election ...
• NHS shows scope of cancer blunders
  Exclusive: Tissue samples mixed up and diagnostic tests delayed because of staff shortages, study finds Blunders by GPs, hospital doctors and nurses jeopardised the health of thousands of patients when cancer was misdiagnosed or not spotted soon enough, according to an NHS report. Over a period of a ...
• Southern Sudan readies for freedom
  Southern Sudan rebels vow to go it alone despite little progress since peace accord In the early days of the war, with weapons supplies short and the odds of achieving independence impossibly long, the southern Sudanese rebels composed songs to keep up morale. Some were battle anthems, designed to i ...
• Mourinho attacks Italian football
  • 'I don't like Italian football and it doesn't like me' • 'I miss English football ... there's no doubt about that' The Internazionale coach, José Mourinho, again spoke of his distaste for Italian football on the eve of his side's Champions League quarter-final first leg against CSKA Moscow. "I am ...
• J Crew is coming
  The preppy label beloved of Michelle Obama will soon be available to UK shoppers at net-a-porter.com – here's why we will learn to love this classic American brand Special relationship or no special relationship, there are some things we will always need the Americans for. I'm talking about really w ...

McClatchey

• Iraqi artist who opposed Saddam now fights 'terror ...
  WASHINGTON — A federal judge is forcing the Department of Homeland Security to process the permanent-residency request of an Iraqi artist despite the U.S. government's claims that he could be considered a terrorist under post-Sept. 11 laws.
• India's hottest weapon in fight against terrorists ...
  NAVI MUMBAI, India — For about $10, Ravi Arora will sell you a pound of the Indian military's latest biological weapon in its anti-terrorism arsenal.
• Propane: What fuels the barbecue grill can also ru ...
  It's been a century since an expert for the federal Bureau of Mines was asked to investigate mysterious vapors rising from the fuel tank of a Ford Model T. One of the vapors components turned out to be propane, and with that an industry was born that provides an important fuel for warming rural home ...
• Backlash starts for Palin visit to California univ ...
  TURLOCK -- Organizers knew that inviting former vice presidential candidate and ex-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to California State University, Stanislaus, would generate talk.
• Judge raps government over ex-DEA agent's legal od ...
  WASHINGTON — An unhappy federal judge on Tuesday approved a $3 million settlement with a former narcotics officer who said the CIA spied on him overseas.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

• Whaling words: Into the new
  Few things drive people who would like to see whaling end to distraction quite as much as the lack of engagement with the issue across Japanese society. Their argument goes like this: continuing whaling is clearly not in the best interests of Japan as a nation, raising opprobrium in countries that ...
• CITES: Murky waters for marine conservation
  So, the once-every-three-years Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meeting has come to an end; and rather like the last time, conservationists are coming away with hands empty, apart from a few scrappy morsels of succour. I haven't been at the meeting in Doha, but I have ...
• Does healthcare win leave climate in better shape?
  The passage of President Obama's healthcare reform package prompts the question: what might it mean for climate change legislation? Will it clear the path for a climate bill this year , as some believe? Or has politicking over the healthcare bill poisoned the well of goodwill in Washington, as oth ...
• Tuna defeat's hypocritical roots
  The frustration of conservation groups at the outcome of Thursday's tuna trade discussions was almost palpable. The proposal to ban international trade in the Atlantic bluefin discussed at the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meeting - tabled by Monaco and backed b ...
• Climate ads far from divine
  Some interesting perspectives on communication, information and climate change emerge this week from Africa and the UK. A survey for the BBC World Service Trust (the corporation's international charitable arm) shows that although many Africans are noticing progressive changes to their weather, they ...

The Wonk Room

• Why Antagonizing Insurers Could Backfire
  The health insurance industry announced yesterday that it would accept new HHS regulations clarifying that “children with medical problems can get coverage starting this year.” Insurers had previously said that the new law “does not require them to write insurance for the child and it does not guara ...
• AGs Say Constitutional Challenges To Reform Have ‘ ...
  If Sen. Harry Reid’s (D-NV) home state of Nevada sued the federal government over the health care bill he helped write and pass, it would make a difficult re-election campaign even more challenging. But thankfully, Nevada’s Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto has informed Governor Jim Gibbons th ...
• Report: Koch Industries Outspends Exxon Mobil On C ...
  The Wonk Room has long detailed the role of the billionaire brothers of Koch Industries, Charles and David Koch, in destroying American prosperity. Their pollution-based fortunes have fueled a network of right-wing ideologues, from McCain mouthpiece Nancy Pfotenhauer to loony conspiracy theorist Chr ...
• DOJ Cites Powell’s Past Support For DADT To ...
  The New York Times reported in January that President Obama, who deeply believes banning gay men and women from serving openly in the military is “just wrong,” was finally spurred to push for repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell by the realization that “if he did not change the policy, his administration ...
• FLASHBACK: In 2006, Bankers Association Argued For ...
  One of the most common arguments employed by the banking industry and conservatives in Congress against the creation of an independent Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA) — which would be empowered to police abuses in consumer lending — is that that it will divorce consumer protection from t ...

thwap's schoolyard

• Vatican Sex Scandals
  There's a lot happening today. From the rise of Christian-fascism in the USA , to the Obama Administration's simultaneous condemnation of Canada at the Arctic Conference and its request for further Canadian blood to be spilled in Afghanistan . However, I'd like to post a little something regarding ...
• New Flash!!! Torture and Corruption Rampant in Afg ...
  I really don't know what else to say beyond what I've already said before: " Is it time to give up on Hamid Karzai? " Afghanistan is now the second most corrupt nation on earth, just after Somalia, according to Transparency International, a Berlin-based advocacy group. ... "This is not a governm ...
• Olympic Hockey Gold ... and I couldn't care less
  So Canada's Olympic hockey team won the gold medal last night. I'm not sure why this is supposed to be meaningful to a sane person. If being Canadian stirs any sort of pride in me, it's for any of the good things that Canadians have done and not for a random series of victories attributed to stran ...
• David Bercuson Again
  I noticed a lot of people (Hey! For this fucking blog anyway!) liked my recent trashing of David Bercuson's stupid editorial . In the comments section, Alison at Creekside hepped us to the fact that Bercuson's Centre for Military and Strategic Studies is a recipient of almost $800,000 from the Depa ...
• Historians Behaving Badly
  The latest is David Bercuson, who wrote a howler recently. About how stephen harper can get out of his own supposedly ill-advised promise to get Canada out of the Afghanistan nightmare by 2011. It's called " This U.S. plea is a [h]arper saver ." The United States, according to The Globe and Mail, ...

Financial Sense Editorials

• Census Numbers Uncensored
  by Vedran Vuk. "The Census aims to be every man’s hero. It promises an economic stimulus, a reduction in unemployment, and greater funds for every community. Of course, the reality is much closer to a game of musical chairs with your money. And guess who will be left standing?"
• Fibonacci Techniques for Math Geeks -- and Everyon ...
  by Elliott Wave Int. "The word Fibonacci (pronounced fib-oh-notch-ee) can draw either blank stares or an enthusiastic response. There's hardly any in-between ground. But for those who ask how an esoteric mathematical relationship can apply to price charts and trading, here's a quick lesson. Everyone ...
• Market Observation: Dollar Free Ride
  by Ryan J. Puplava, CMT. "The U.S. dollar has enjoyed a free ride since Europe’s economic troubles with Greece. Sovereign debt downgrades had encouraged assets to begin leaving the European region causing the euro to drop. The euro zone’s current account balance fell pretty strongly in January. The ...
• Fibonacci Techniques for Math Geeks -- and Everyon ...
  by Elliott Wave Int. "The word Fibonacci (pronounced fib-oh-notch-ee) can draw either blank stares or an enthusiastic response. There's hardly any in-between ground. But for those who ask how an esoteric mathematical relationship can apply to price charts and trading, here's a quick lesson. Everyone ...
• Progress is Slowing
  by Paul Nolte. "From the Washington euphoric high on Monday (As VP Biden said: “this is a big ____ deal!!) to the realization that many companies will be taking write-downs due to the increased costs of the bill by week's end could put a crimp in what many believe to be a good quarterly earnings sea ...

on Government Oversight

• Word War III
  The battle over the definition of "inherently governmental function" rages on, and the pro-insourcing forces are hauling out the heavy artillery. Two weeks ago, 11 Democratic Senators sent a letter to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Peter Orszag...
• Morning Smoke: RIK's Dead
  Termination of Royalty-in-Kind (RIK) Eligible Refiner Program [Federal Register] More F-35 Style Cost Scrubs Coming by Colin Clark [DoD Buzz] SEC Quizzes Wall Street Firms, Seeking Lehman-Like Accounting by David Scheer, Joshua Gallu and Jesse Westbrook [Bloomberg] Homeland Security IG...
• End KBR's Monopoly in Iraq
  We may have spoken too soon when we praised the Army for taking past contractor performance into consideration for the LOGCAP program. POGO was recently informed that the Army is considering awarding KBR additional work in Iraq under the LOGCAP...
• Morning Smoke: Hearing to Address Drawdown of Cont ...
  Hearing: Rightsizing and managing contractors during the Iraq drawdown [Commission on Wartime Contracting] - Watch the hearing live at C-SPAN 2 Afghan corruption: How to follow the money? by Karen DeYoung [The Washington Post] Defense investigates information-operations contractors by Walter...
• Congress Should Not Let Itself by Rolled Over by N ...
  Realizing that there is mounting doubt on the Hill in the wisdom of spending billions of dollars on four new buildings for the creation of new components for nuclear weapons, the directors of three national laboratories are going on the...

Digital Journal

• The water has restarted and the finger pointing ha ...
  The pipeline carrying water from Lake Huron to more than 350,000 residents of Southwestern Ontario is back in operation. But the finger pointing has just begun.
• Ontario's minority women have harder time finding ...
  A study by researchers at St. Michael's Hospital and the Institute for Clinical and Evaluative Sciences (ICES) found that Ontario women who are South and West Asian or Arab have a difficult time finding a doctor.
• Toronto last place in traffic gridlock, overtakes ...
  A recently released report finds that Toronto is dead last when it comes to commuting times compared to several other metropolitan cities. But is it surprising to most Torontonians?
• Clinton scolds Canada for exclusive Arctic confere ...
  Hillary Clinton left the Arctic Summit a little early Monday. Hosted by Canada, the invitation-only confab was focused on how to share Arctic resources and resolve overlapping claims to new territory.
• Angry wife gives Ontario man a ride-on the hood of ...
  A woman is being sought by Windsor, Ontario cops after she took her common law hubby for a ride on the hood of his car this weekend during a domestic dispute.

End Homelessness | Change.org

• Breaking and Entering for Food and Sleep
  Early last week, a woman returned to her home in Ambridge, Pennsylvania and found 31-year-old Rashawn Smith , a homeless man, lying in her bed. She also discovered that he ate some of her food and ripped pages out of several of her books. He was arrested. I imagine the woman was very frightened when ...
• Obama Declares End to Homelessness
  Disclaimer: This is fake. It is satire. It is the announcement we dream of hearing. This was inspired by the documentary The Yes Men Fix the World , about the pranksters that call themselves The Yes Men and go after fatcats. In one scene of the film, they created a "Special Edition" of the  New York ...
• The Last Homeless Man Standing in Times Square
  In New York City, where I live, there are two camps: people old enough, or who've been in New York long enough, to know "the old Times Square," and people young enough, or new enough to the city, to have only experienced "the new Times Square." I'm in the latter. All I know about old Times Square I ...
• Officials Finally Admit the Obvious, Homelessness ...
  I was amazed last year when I heard claims from major cities around the country that homelessness was decreasing dramatically. Los Angeles officials, for instance, touted an almost 40 percent decrease in homelessness. Here in Berkeley, the mayor proudly announced a close to 50 percent reduction in t ...
• Too Old to Get Hired, Not Old Enough for Senior As ...
  Sandy sleeps in a sleeping bag on the sidewalk in Berkeley, California because it's against the law to sleep in her car. She's on the verge of mental illness from life on the streets. The thing keeping her unemployed? Her age. She says that's the main factor keeping her from finding work, and she's ...

Ceasefire.ca

• Fowler scorches Canadian foreign policy
  Former Canadian diplomat Robert Fowler launched a blistering attack on the foreign policy of recent Canadian governments during a speech to the Liberal Party’s “thinkers’ conference” on Sunday (video of speech here). Fowler, now retired, was a senior member of the Canadian foreign policy establishme ...
• U.S. and Russia agree on modest nuclear cuts
  The United States and Russia have reached agreement on the terms of a new strategic nuclear arms reduction treaty, the White House reported on Friday (”Key Facts about the New START Treaty,” Whitehouse.gov, 26 March 2010). The new treaty, which will be signed in Prague on April 8th, will replace bot ...
• Petition: Make Canada a UN Peacekeeper again
  Once the world's top contributor of troops for UN Peacekeeping, Canada has fallen far down the list as the military has turned away from the UN. Urge Prime Minister Harper, the political party leaders and your Member of Parliament to make Canada a proud UN Peacekeeeper once again.
• U.S. to ask Canada to keep troops in Afghanistan
  The Globe and Mail reported on Thursday that the United States will ask Canada to keep as many as 500 to 600 soldiers in Afghanistan following the scheduled end of the mission in July 2011 (John Ibbitson, “U.S. to press for Canada to keep troops in Afghanistan,” Globe and Mail, 25 March 2010).  Acc ...
• The power of protests: “When the public gets mad, ...
  Former Senator Douglas Roche on the power of protests (Douglas Roche, “Stand up and speak out for what’s right: Mass protests have the power to bring about social change,” Edmonton Journal, 24 March 2010): “When the public gets mad, politicians… back down. When the kitchen gets too hot, they run ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

• Fred Van Liew – The Water Doctor
  Click the picture or link below to hear Kevin’s interview with The Water Doctor, Fred Van Liew and click here to save yourself from the toxins lurking in your water supply!   Fred Van Liew 03/30/10
• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-30-10
  Today, Kevin hits back against the misinformed members of society and reveals the truth they don’t want you to know about! Medicated Bath Products Worsening Water Pollution Cuban Leader Endorses Obama Health Care Reform Soldiers Take Psychiatric Meds for Stress Personal Income Drops Across USA Junk ...
• Scripps Florida: Addicted rats ’starved them ...
  March 30, 2010 The Palm Beach Post By Jeff Ostrowski In a study that compares cupcakes and cookies to cocaine, scientists at Scripps Florida say rats fed a diet of junk food grew addicted to high-calorie, high-fat fare. The fat rats became so hooked on junk food that when researchers took away th ...
• Gonorrhea Becoming Drug-Resistant “Superbug& ...
  March 30, 2010 Reuters By: Kate Kelland The sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea risks becoming a drug-resistant “superbug” if doctors do not devise new ways of treating it, a leading sexual health expert said. Catherine Ison, a specialist on gonorrhea from Britain’s Health Protection Agency sa ...
• Beware! Agave Worse Than High Fructose Corn Syrup
  March 30, 2010 Mercola By: Dr. Mercola Many people interested in staying healthy have switched to agave as a safer “natural” sweetener. They want to avoid well documented dangerous sweeteners like HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) but are unaware that agave is actually WORSE than HFCS. So just what ...

Pambazuka News

• Haiti: Where solidarity means survival
  Perhaps more than anything today, Haiti needs a new macro-economy, one based above all on meeting the needs of its citizens. Post-earthquake economic restructuring could include equitable distribution of resources, high levels of employment with fair...
• 45 years after the assassination of Malcolm X
  Malcolm X was assassinated 45 years ago this weekend. Earlier this year, WNYC Radio unearthed a 1960s interview between the civil rights leader and a reporter named Eleanor Fischer. On this somber anniversary, we consider Malcolm X’s legacy through t...
• Haiti: Private contractors 'like vultures coming t ...
  Critics are concerned that private military contractors are positioning themselves at the centre of an emerging "shock doctrine" for earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Next month, a prominent umbrella organisation for private military and logistic corporation...
• How NGOs are profiting off a grave situation
  It's now more than a month since the earthquake that laid waste to Port-au-Prince, killing more than 200,000 people and thrusting millions of people into the most desperate conditions. But according to the U.S. government, Haitians have a lot to be ...
• Global: New murders and fumigations in ancestral A ...
  In only two weeks, four Afro-Colombian leaders have been murdered, and several subjected to death threats. Fumigations have caused the internal displacement of more than 100 Afro-Colombians. The violation of Afro-Colombian fundamental rights continue...

War in Context

• The opium wars in Afghanistan
  At TomDispatch, Alfred W. McCoy writes: To understand the Afghan War, one basic point must be grasped: in poor nations with weak state services, agriculture is the foundation for all politics, binding villagers to the government or warlords or rebels. The ultimate aim of counterinsurgency strategy ...
• Effortless, carefree war
  What was the most significant thing about President Obama’s surprise trip to Afghanistan on Sunday? He wore a leather bomber jacket. Or, to be more precise, the most significant thing about Obama’s six-hour visit was nothing that he said, nor the fact that he went, but that in the utterly trivializ ...
• Kandahar, a battlefield even before U.S. offensive
  Carlotta Gall reports from Kandahar: American forces have begun operations to push back Taliban insurgents in this most important southern province, the birthplace and spiritual home of the Taliban, and a full-scale offensive is expected in coming weeks. But the Taliban have already turned this ci ...
• Karzai refuses to be an American puppet
  The New York Times reports: This month, with President Hamid Karzai looking ahead to a visit to the White House, he received a terse note from aides to President Obama: Your invitation has been revoked. The reason, according to American officials, was Mr. Karzai’s announcement that he was emascula ...
• War tourists
  The McClatchy blog, Nukes and Spooks reports: Amongst the swirl of soldiers, diplomats and contractors at America’s largest military bases in Afghanistan are congressional delegations, CODELs as they are often called. Members of Congress and their staffs come through, take a lot of photos with vari ...

Watts Up With That?

• NASA Data Worse Than Climate-Gate Data, GISS Admit ...
  By Blake Snow – FOXNews.com Image: NASA / Goddard Institute for Space Studies – Maps from NASA’s GISS reveal temperatures where no data exist, thanks to mathematical extrapolation of data. NASA was able to put a man on the moon, but the space agency can’t tell you what the temperature w ...
• Results of the Climategate Parliamentary Inquiry i ...
  This is the final report, which has been embargoed until 5:01 PM PDT / 00:01 GMT March 31st. Below is the emailed notice to MP’s sent with the PDF of the report. Date: 30 March 2010 10:30 Subject: EMBARGOED REPORT: CLIMATE SCIENCE MUST BECOME MORE TRANSPARENT SAY MPs To: [undisclosed recipients] Ph ...
• Heads up
  Just a note to let everyone know that the Parliamentary inquiry into Climategate has produced the final report and that I have an advance copy, which is embargoed until 5:01PM PDT (00:01 GMT). I’ll be posting it then, be sure to check in. There are some wins in it, and there are some disappointments ...
• Sea change in American media preferences
  While Americans continue to put global warming aka climate change at the bottom of the list of worries, it seems the electronic media outlets that most often push alarming climate stories are losing favor. This interesting juxtaposition was from my Shoptalk TVSpy business newsletter today: CNN Fails ...
• Ocean acidification: the “evil twin of globa ...
  From the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies James Cook University “Evil twin” threatens world’s oceans, scientists warn The rise in human emissions of carbon dioxide is driving fundamental and dangerous changes in the chemistry and ecosystems of the world’s oceans, international m ...

Dandelion Salad

• Naomi Wolf Thinks the Tea Parties Help Fight Fasci ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By Justine Sharrock AlterNet March 30, 2010 Naomi Wolf, author of ‘End of America,’ talks about why she has become an improbable Tea Party darling, and if progressives can learn from the conservative activists In her bestselling End of America, Naomi Wolf outl ...
• Financing Fascism, Part II by Steven Jonas, MD, MP ...
  by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted on Buzzflash.com Mar. 30, 2010 As I noted at the beginning of my Commentary No. 135 that appeared on BuzzFlash last week, fascism may be briefly defined as: “A politico-economic system in which there is: total executive bran ...
• The Eikenberry Cables
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Note: to view images larger, click the picture, then click “All Sizes” to view largest (original) size. You may need to zoom in as well. ~ DS Truthdig Jan 28, 2010 The now-famous Eikenberry Cables of November 2009 outline the opposition of Karl Eikenberry, ...
• Once again, a CSIS report designates Turkey as the ...
  Propaganda Alert compiled by Cem Ertür Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 30 March 2010 Three weeks before the US President Barack Obama’s visit to Ankara in April 2009, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) published a report which claimed that Turkey would ...
• Daniel Ellsberg: Our President Is Deceiving the Am ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Democracy Now! March 30, 2010 “Our President Is Deceiving the American Public”: Pentagon Papers Whistleblower on President Obama and the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq We are joined by a man who played a major role in efforts to end the Vietnam War in the 1970s. ...

Your New Reality

• No title
  They Call It Dominating "The High Frontier" NASA/US Air Force's Global Hawk, with a wingspan greater than a 737 -800, is now surveilling the planet from an official height of 19 kilometres : Imagine if, or when, the "robotic plane" is armed? Would NASA oppose it being loaded with heavy weaponr ...
• No title
  As I looked through these Rare Star Wars photos , I found myself thinking, 'Wow, these are of great historical importance. This is history.' But they're only behind the scenes pics from the 1976 set of Star Wars. I had to remind myself, this was not a real historical event, it did not happen a long ...
• No title
  Do You Feel Safer Yet? Soldiers and police in combat gear, armed with mega-powerful M4s, patrol New York City's subway.....because bombs exploded in the Moscow subway yesterday (?) . The New York Post calls them "armed guards" .
• No title
  Fudge You, You MotherFudger By Darryl Mason Okay, it's not Bye Bye Birdie or Hello Dolly!, but why isn't Scarface a good morality play for kids? Sure he flies high, but Tony Montana pays dearly for his crimes. The peak of success sees him become a prisoner in his own home, crippled by paranoia, ...
• No title
  Does Hollywood help pre-condition Americans for coming new realities?

Wired - Science

• New Evidence of Ice Age Comet Found in Ice Cores
  A new study cites spikes of ammonium in Greenland ice cores as evidence for a giant comet impact at the end of the last ice age, and suggests that the collision may have caused a brief, final cold snap before the climate warmed up for good. In the April Geology, researchers describe finding chemica ...
• Bats Use Sun to Calibrate Geomagnetic Compass
  Bats are nocturnal, but some need sunlight to set their internal compass. “Recent evidence suggests that bats can detect the geomagnetic field,” wrote Max Planck Institute ornithologists Richard Holland, Ivailo Borissov and Bjorn Siemers in an article published March 29 in the Proceedings of the Na ...
• Phew, It Works! Science Begins at the LHC
  Early this morning, two proton beams collided in the Large Hadron Collider’s 17-mile-long ring at a combined energy of 7 TeV, three times higher than ever before. Finally, the flood of data particle physicists have been anticipating for years for has begun. “It’s a great day  to be a particle phys ...
• Video: Elephants Run Like No Other
  A biomechanical analysis of running elephants has revealed that Earth’s largest land animals do some strange things at high speed. Unlike every other quadruped, they use all four legs for braking and propulsion, rather than rather dividing those tasks between hind and front legs. Elephants also ...
• Bats Get Pitchy to Make 3-D Echolocation Map
  Bats can subtly adjust the frequency of the sounds they use to do echolocation to adjust to particularly cluttered terrain. In a laboratory testing room filled with dangling plastic chains, bats wearing tiny, half-gram microphones were recorded flying through the obstacle course. When confronted wi ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Brighton PSC and J-Big disrupted a London Jerusale ...
  The Brighton PSC (Palestine Solidarity Campaign) and J-Big (Jews for Boycotting Israeli Goods) disrupted yesterday a London concert and live radio broadcast of Jerusalem Quartet, which is closely... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
• Jonathan Cook: The Jerusalem “Compromise”
  [T]he signs are that Barack Obama could be just as ready to accommodate the Israeli consensus on East Jerusalem as the previous Bush administration was in backing Israel’s position on keeping the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
• MPs call for review of arms exports after Israeli ...
  A cross-party group of MPs will call today for a review of the way arms sales are approved after the government admitted British equipment was "almost certainly" used in the assault on Gaza last... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
• ‘Marriage to an Arab is national treason’
  Recent poll reveals steep rise in racist views against Arabs in Israel; many participants feel hatred, fear when overhearing Arabic, 75 percent don’t approve of shared apartment buildings. Over half... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
• Chris Hedges: Israel Crackdown Puts Liberal Jews o ...
  Norman Finkelstein: “Goldstone did not perform the role of the Jewish liberal... which is to be anguished, but no consequences. And all of a sudden Israeli liberal Jews are discovering, hey, there... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Russian military gets ready for large-scale drills ...
  The commander of the Russian Ground Forces has arrived in Russia's Far East to inspect the preparation for upcoming strategic military exercises in the region.
• Russia set to float out 2nd stealth corvette
  St. Petersburg's Severnaya Verf shipyard will float out on Wednesday a new corvette featuring stealth technology, a Russian Navy spokesman said.
• Russia, Greece to hold joint naval drills in 2010
  The Russian and Greek navies will conduct joint exercises in 2010 as part of a bilateral military cooperation action plan, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.
• Russian nuclear cruiser sails on mission in Indian ...
  The Russian nuclear-powered cruiser Pyotr Veliky (Peter the Great) set sail from its base in Severomorsk on Tuesday on a tour-of-duty in the Indian Ocean, RIA Novosti reported from the board of the ship.
• Russian firm denies rumors of U.S. aerial tanker b ...
  Russia's United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) said on Monday it does not plan to enter a lucrative contract to replace the U.S. Air Force's fleet of aerial tankers.

NewsWise

• UT Southwestern Student Receives Fellowship from H ...
  Mariam El-Ashmawy, a student enrolled in UT Southwestern Medical Center's prestigious Medical Scientist Training Program, has been awarded a 2010 Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).
• Fulbright Scholar Delivers Message of Tolerance in ...
  It was not that long after Souad Ali's book "A Religion, Not a State" reached the top of Amazon's list for "bestselling new and future releases in Turkey" that this Arizona State University scholar of Arabic and Middle Eastern studies found herself before a standing-room-only audience at the America ...
• UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business Rejoins The ...
  The Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley has rejoined The Consortium for Graduate Study in Management, Haas School Dean Rich Lyons announced today.
• "Lighting a Match in a Tornado" Just One Propulsio ...
  Walter O'Brien, director of Virginia Tech's Center for Turbomachinery and Propulsion Research, has received a patent for his design of a novel ignitor for combustion and supersonic flows, a device that may prove useful in Mach 5 or hypersonic speed vehicles.
• Bacon or Bagels? Higher Fat at Breakfast May Be He ...
  The age-old maxim "Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper" may in fact be the best advice to follow to prevent metabolic syndrome, according to a new University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) study.

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

• Whole Foods Market's Position on "Organic" Persona ...
  The subject of "organic" label claims on personal care and cosmetic products has been a controversial one, and certain manufacturers and groups have accused some products of "cheating" by using the "organic" claim deceptively. This document clarifies the issues, the USDA's role in regulating organic ...
• Seeds of Antitrust Destruction
  When you can't beat 'em, scream monopoly. That's the vintage gambit now playing out in the farm business, with the encouragement of the Department of Justice. Click here to read this article
• Trailer: Dirt! the Movie
  Dirt! The Movie takes a humorous and substantial look into the history and current state of the living organic matter that we come from and will later return to. Click here to read this article
• Controversy Grows Over Genetically Engineered Rice
  Growers in Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Texas filed lawsuits against Bayer for hurting their sales after genetically altered rice escaped a Louisiana test plot. Bayer faces judgments of $4.5 million so far in the three cases it lost. Click here to read this article
• Toxic Sludge Taints the White House
  When First Lady Michelle Obama decided to plant a vegetable garden at the White House, she faced a problem that many new homeowners in America run into. Previous residents of her house had applied sewage sludge to her lawn, but left no warnings to alert the her about the potential toxicity of her so ...

fotoFrontera

• Majestuosa colección de fotografías by Chromogenic
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• Tributo en imágenes a la hora de la tierra (17 fot ...
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• Coloca tus fotos favoritas en estas imágenes PSD
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• Foto Reportajes: Miel de maple o sirop d'erable 'L ...
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Viaje con el Reportero sin Fronteras a través de 47 fotografías en alta resolución, por una de las cabañas más populares de la provincia de Quebec en Canadá . Conozca de cerca el proceso de elaboración del famoso jarabe ...
• Paisajes Naturales (10 imágenes de 1920x1200)
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. ¿Está usted buscando imágenes o fotografías de paisajes naturales ? Si usted ha respondido afirmativamente, quiero decirle que hoy es su día de suerte pues tengo en exclusiva para usted que viene por primera vez a visita ...

Climategate

• ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks more tr ...
  ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
• How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
  What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “smoking g ...
• What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Report ...
  A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
• Schools call for a “balanced teaching of global wa ...
  USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:
• Global Warming can burn your fingers
  Here's another bit of EU-sponsored propaganda, starring Mads Mikkelsen (the guy with the bleeding eye in Casino Royale, remember?).

Opinio Juris

• Handbook of Comparative Criminal Law
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Forgive the self-promotion, but I was just sent the cover of my co-edited book (with Markus Dubber, who teaches at Toronto), and I think it’s really cool.  The Handbook, which will be published in November by Stanford University Press, is the first ed ...
• Is the Court Prepared to Extend Empagran to Securi ...
  by Roger Alford by Roger Alford Yesterday’s oral argument in Morrison v. National Australia Bank Ltd gave strong indications that the Court was prepared to extend the territorial limitations of Hoffman-La Rouche v. Empagran to the securities fraud context. Morrison involves a class action brough ...
• Immunity for the UN Regarding Srebrenica
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller AP reports that a Dutch court of appeals has affirmed a lower court ruling that held the UN could not be sued for its failure to protect Bosnian civilians in Srebrenica: Appeals judges have ruled that relatives of victims of Europe’s worst massacre since W ...
• Should the ICC Oppose Sudan’s Election?
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Sudan is preparing for a national election next month. It may not be the solution for Sudan, given that it is still very doubtful that there is enough cohesiveness for a genuine democratic result.  Still, I wonder if the ICC’s Prosecutor may be going a little far here. ...
• Unpacking the Compact Clause
  by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis A quick note for interested readers — the Texas Law Review has just published my latest article, Unpacking the Compact Clause.  They’ve posted a copy of it here as well.  My own abstract of the piece follows.  The Compact Clause prohibits U.S. states from ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• Does climate change mean more spiders?
  Got bitten by a fairly sizeable spider overnight, as did Heidi. Photo of my shoulder shows a couple of puncture marks, 8mm apart (outer edge to outer edge). Treatment: antibiotic manuka honey, and band-aid. Itchy, sometimes painful, and I recall...
• Arctic ice continues to improve
  Yes, weather is not climate. But I've posted this because the resident nut-job at Hot Topic is trying to insinuate a more catastrophic perspective.
• James Lovelock: the green gift who keeps on giving
  Extracts from the Guardian's interview with Gaia theorist James Lovelock (precis courtesy Tom Nelson): I have seen this happen before, of course. We should have been warned by the CFC/ozone affair because the corruption of science in that was so...
• Climate change trough analysis released
  Parliamentary Question to Mapp: How many individual research projects have been funded in part or whole by Foundation for Research, Science and Technology since 1999 that either purport to study or to ameliorate the effects of global warming on New...
• So much for acid ocean theory
  This news just in: In discussing their findings, the seven scientists say they indicate that "the survival of coral larvae may not be strongly affected by pH change," or "in other words," as they continue, "coral larvae may be able...

Public News Service

• Arizona Bucks Trend of Fewer State Prison Inmates
  Arizona Bucks Trend of Fewer State Prison Inmates Phoenix, AZ – For the first time since 1972, the number of state prison inmates in the U.S. has gone down, according to a new report from the Pew Center on the States. But Arizona’s inmate population continues to rise. Comments from Adam Gelb, Pew’s ...
• Center Offers Families Break from 24-7 Care of Lif ...
  Center Offers Families Break from 24-7 Care of Life-Threatened Kids Phoenix, AZ – Families caring full-time for a child diagnosed with a life-threatening condition will be able to get a needed break when Ryan House opens later this month in central Phoenix. The facility will focus on making kids com ...
• Lawmaker: Single People Deserve Equal Chance to Ad ...
  Lawmaker: Single People Deserve Equal Chance to Adopt Phoenix, AZ – A bill giving adoption priority to married couples has passed the Arizona House and awaits a hearing in the Senate. One lawmaker rejects the idea that a mom and dad are always the ideal situation for an adopted child. Comments from ...
• Program Promises Lower Energy Bills for Low-Income ...
  Program Promises Lower Energy Bills for Low-Income Arizonans Phoenix, AZ – Arizona is getting 57-million dollars in federal stimulus money to weatherize more than six-thousand low-income Arizona households. Those families stand to save up to 25-percent each year on heating and cooling. Comments from ...
• Time Out Called to Protect Abused Arizona Creek
  Time Out Called to Protect Abused Arizona Creek Prescott, AZ – Since being restored to a free-flowing stream five years ago, central Arizona’s Fossil Creek has become a recreation magnet, attracting not only people, but also trash and vandalism. New regulations taking effect today (Monday) are the ...

My Care2 Picks

• Court OKs Repeated Tasering of Pregnant Woman
  A federal appeals court says three Seattle police officers did not employ excessive force when they repeatedly tasered a visibly pregnant woman for refusing to sign a speeding ticket. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• ENVIRONMENT: Forests May Depend on Survival of Nat ...
  Hundreds of poor Mexican Zapotec indigenous farmers have become owners of a multi-million-dollar diversified forest industry, offering an important model of a community-based enterprise that supports local people and conserves the natural environment Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment �|� � ...
• Judge Nullifies Gene Patents
  You may not know that biotech co. scientists have been applying for and getting patents on individual human genes, some 2,000 so far, as if they had invented them. No more, per one judge! Submitted by Michael Odza to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Thwarted doctors blame diabetic patients, poverty ...
  A first-of-its-kind study, which sought opinions from 34 primary care physicians in four mainland states, found that some feel that many patients lack the money or the motivation to get proper care. They felt they had run out of options to help patients. Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellne ...
• Climate Change Swindlers and the Political Agenda
  I wrote about Climate Change as being probably the most pressing problem facing humanity today. It is so pressing that I am convinced that possibly 90% of the human race - over 6 billion people - could be at risk of certain death in the very near future Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� ...

Angry Indian News

• SOUTH LEBANON: Judea Declares War On Obama
  jnoubiyeh.blogspot.com: "Jewish lobbies certainly do not hold back when it comes to pressuring states, world leaders and even super powers. AIPAC’s behavior last week reminded me of the Jewish... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Shahram Amiri Defects To US: Missing Iranian Nucle ...
  HuffPo: "WASHINGTON — An Iranian nuclear scientist who had been reported missing since last summer has defected to the U.S. and is assisting the CIA in its efforts to undermine Iran's nuclear... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Vatican Offers Three Reasons Why It's Not Liable F ...
  HuffPo: "VATICAN CITY — Dragged deeper than ever into the clerical sex abuse scandal, the Vatican is launching a legal defense that it hopes will shield the pope from a lawsuit in Kentucky seeking to... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Sexual Freedom Group Charges RNC With Hypocrisy
  HuffPo: "One of the leading organizations advocating for sexual openness and freedom is charging the Republican National Committee with hypocrisy in the wake of revelations that a RNC staffer spent... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Is America ‘Yearning For Fascism?’ By Chris Hedges
  Chris Hedges: "The language of violence always presages violence. I watched it in war after war from Latin America to the Balkans. The impoverishment of a working class and the snuffing out of hope... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• McCarthy rises from the dead: The Southern Poverty ...
  The PJJ Gazette by: Marti Oakley (c)copyright 2010 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ___________________________ One of the darkest periods of our recent social and political history were the years Joe McCarthy mounted what became known as the “Second Red Scare”.  McCarthyism lasted from the 1940’s well into t ...
• Are GlaxoSmithKline and the FDA lying to parents a ...
  The PPJ Gazette by: Lynn Swearingen (c) copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved Suppose your child could become seriously ill and Rotavirus could be bypassed with the use of a vaccine. Your Pediatrician’s recommendation? Rotarix, which is developed and marketed by GlaxoSmithKline. Well, Rotarix won’t ...
• What in the World Are They Spraying? Part II
  At the same time as finding decreased solar power, Wigington also began to witness dramatic changes on his property as the trees, grass, insects and wildlife started dying. This led him to get his first rain test just four years ago. The results were shocking as they found aluminum levels at 7 ug/l ...
• Vaccine Safety Testing
• GMO Quality Control
  Ever wonder how they determine if GMOs are safe? Look no further, here is the answer.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• New policy takes middle school athletes out of Lou ...
  Noted by Bob Cook on March 31, 2010 12:03 AM
• National swim group pledges more safeguards for yo ...
  Noted by Bob Cook on March 31, 2010 12:03 AM
• Elizabeth Warren: Banking on Hypocrisy (politico.c ...
  Noted by Jon Pessah on March 31, 2010 12:03 AM
• Digital culture: What does it mean for the future ...
  Noted by Kashmir Hill on March 30, 2010 11:03 PM
• Progressives and the 'Bitter' White Nation (thenat ...
  Noted by Sara Libby on March 30, 2010 10:03 PM

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Obama Is Out-Bushing Bush and the Quote, Unquote L ...
  By Lori Price, www.legitgov.org 30 March 2010 The Tea Party protests and violent outbursts are serving as a weapon of mass distraction and cover for the unbridled growth of corporate power and lack of (promised) reform under this Administration. No one dares to mention these facts, yet alone acts on ...
• US Bagram Airbase hit during Obama visit
  Afghan officials: Three rockets targeted airfield The US Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan has been hit by rockets during an official visit by President Barack Obama to the war-torn country. Afghan officials told Press TV on Monday that three rockets targeted the airfield. No damages or casualties ...
• US transit security increased over Moscow blast
  NY: Special units distinguished by their special black uniforms, helmets and body armor in subway stations 29 Mar 2010 U.S. transit agencies are beefing up security as a precaution following the suicide bombing in Moscow's subway system. In New York City, caravans of police vehicles have been ...
• CIA 'suggests' Europe should understand suffering ...
  European Nato governments should emphasise the suffering of women under Taliban rule to counter domestic calls for troop withdrawal a leaked CIA analysis suggests . A steep increase in French and German casualties this summer could trigger public anger at their involvement and calls for a milita ...
• Report: Israel copied thousands of passports
  Britain believes thousands of its passports have been copied by airline staff working for the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, a UK tabloid reported Sunday. News of the World reported that the British MI6 intelligence service believe Britons flying to Israel have been targeted for months and ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• Does climate change mean more spiders?
  Got bitten by a fairly sizeable spider overnight, as did Heidi. Photo of my shoulder shows a couple of puncture marks, 8mm apart (outer edge to outer edge). Treatment: antibiotic manuka honey, and band-aid. Itchy, sometimes painful, and I recall...
• Arctic ice continues to improve
  Yes, weather is not climate. But I've posted this because the resident nut-job at Hot Topic is trying to insinuate a more catastrophic perspective.
• James Lovelock: the green gift who keeps on giving
  Extracts from the Guardian's interview with Gaia theorist James Lovelock (precis courtesy Tom Nelson): I have seen this happen before, of course. We should have been warned by the CFC/ozone affair because the corruption of science in that was so...
• Climate change trough analysis released
  Parliamentary Question to Mapp: How many individual research projects have been funded in part or whole by Foundation for Research, Science and Technology since 1999 that either purport to study or to ameliorate the effects of global warming on New...
• So much for acid ocean theory
  This news just in: In discussing their findings, the seven scientists say they indicate that "the survival of coral larvae may not be strongly affected by pH change," or "in other words," as they continue, "coral larvae may be able...

Mondoweiss

• In the Jewish democracy, Arab parties aren’t ...
  Roger Cohen has a piece in the Times today urging Obama not to allow the Iran nuke issue to become a Palestine-postponing pawn. I think that’s his phrase. Good. Cohen thereby insists on linkage, that American fortunes in the Middle East are linked to political progress for the Palestinians. (I’d giv ...
• Amazing headline
   Maan news: "After two year delay, clothing to enter Gaza"  Related posts:Smashing, punching, writing– it’s the amazing FriedmanObama’s Amazing Impact: A Day After He Leaves Israel, They Announce More SettlementsAmazing Brit Tzedek rabbi says half of Gaza victims are civilians and anticipates the b ...
• Saying no to ‘next year in Jerusalem’
  As Jews around the world lock up their leavened bread and Jews in the Israeli army lock down the West Bank, I take far too long to pack a small bag for my annual trip to Cleveland to celebrate Passover. Come Tuesday night I’ll be surrounded by dozens of people who share my blood [...] Related pos ...
• How’s life on the planet of Israeli hasbara, ...
  Thomas Friedman lives on a different planet, that of Israeli hasbara. In an Op-Ed piece today for the New York Times about Israeli-American relations and different perceptions on the “peace process,” Friedman repeats standard Israeli talking points. Let’s take a look. Friedman writes:   The c ...
• sea change?
  The BBC says that the U.S. may not veto a Security Council resolution that is critical of Israel’s expansion in East Jerusalem: During their talks, [Qatar Foreign Minister] Sheikh Hamad asked the US official whether Washington would guarantee not to veto a UN Security Council resolution that was ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

• VRM: Media Spin & Swine Flu Hysteria
  “Canada’s vaccine uses an adjuvant, which consists of squalene (shark liver oil), DL-alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E) and polysorbate 80 (an emulsifier also used in ice cream). An adjuvant is a chemical product that boosts the immune response. There were claims that squalene, used in the anthrax vac ...
• Petition: Parents of Vaccine Damaged Children say ...
  A UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF RESISTANCE TO MANDATORY VACCINATIONS We the undersigned, as Freemen & Freewomen, do not recognize the authority of The World Health Organization (WHO) to mandate general forced vaccinations. Our bodies are sovereign territory and subject to our exclusive self-de ...
• Petition: Doctors & Nurses Say NO To Mandatory Vac ...
  A UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF RESISTANCE TO MANDATORY VACCINATIONS We the undersigned, as Freemen & Freewomen, do not recognize the authority of The World Health Organization (WHO) to mandate general forced vaccinations. Our bodies are sovereign territory and subject to our exclusive self-determ ...
• VRM: Photo Gallery
  ‘We the undersigned, as Freemen & Freewomen, do not recognize the authority of The World Health Organization (WHO) to mandate general forced vaccinations. Our bodies are sovereign territory and subject to our exclusive self-determination. Any attempted violation of this trust must be construed a ...
• VRM: Your Testimonials On Vaccine Carnage – ...
  Vaccine Damage Updates: An opportunity to contribute your testimonials from around the world: Charting Physiological & Neurological reactions, including all related trauma to the H1N1 shot & other vaccines. Charting miscarriages resulting from vaccines – Pregnant women are at a heightened risk o ...

B.C. Preppers Network

• Product Review: Hydroclean Water-Saving Toilet Fil ...
  The other week my wife surprised me with a gift that only a prepper could �get excited over: a dual-flush toilet retrofit! I'm really excited to try out this gadget, however when I read the instructions I found out that it doesn't work with the "ball and lever" floater style fill valves. �I'd ...
• More Tips My Wife Hates
  People seemed to get a kick out of my post about tips that my wife hates so I thought I'd keep it. I should let you know though that she doesn't hate all these things. �She seems to range from strong dislike to tolerance with a dash of "my husband is odd". �I should create a "Spousal Colour ...
• A Reader Asks How to Pay Off Student Loans
  A� Next Best West reader posted this in the comments which I think deserves a post of it's own as a reply: "I borrowed 12,250 for my college education to become a Registered Nurse. I took out these loans in the early 90s and after three deferments and consolidation I owe 30,000. I want to go ...
• The Ladies Will Be On the Family Preparedness Guid ...
  Last Saturday American Prepper , WVSanta , Matt and Bob were interviewed on James Stevens' Family Preparedness Guide radio show on Blog Talk Radio. They did a great job explaining the ins and outs of prepping and why we do it. Kudos guys!!! If you missed the show, you can download it here . This Sa ...
• Riverwalker's Back!!!
  It's like the best teaming up since Lewis & Clark!!! Riverwalker & the CPN!!! Riverwalker, usually found "staying above the water line" over at Stealth Survival , is coming to Canada and bringing lots of holiday gifts!!! Stay tuned for more details!!!

Michael Yon

• The Battle for Kandahar: Part I
  FOB Frontenac, Afghanistan 28 March 2010 Under an early morning sky, a red glow is cast from the lights on an Air Force water drilling rig.  A new MATV, or “MRAP All Terrain Vehicle,” is being deployed to Afghanistan to combat homemade bombs, the favorite weapon of the Taliban. The 1-17th ha ...
• The Scent of Weakness
  Kandahar Province, Afghanistan 25 March 2010 Dogs have been trained to carry bombs to attack enemies for decades.  The Soviets and others have used dogs as low-tech smart bombs.  Yet canine platoons likely would rebel if they caught scent they were being duped to die. Today, more sophisticated p ...
• Jungle Law
  Mosul, Iraq The first person to use a shield might have been a hairy man who, days earlier, barely survived a barrage from the stone-throwing man in the cave next door. As the use of weaponized sticks and stones spread, improved shields probably were not far behind. Throughout recorded history, b ...
• Gates of Fire
  Mosul, Iraq Combat comes unexpectedly, even in war. On Monday, while conducting operations in west Mosul, a voice came over the radio saying troops from our brother unit, the 3-21, were fighting with the enemy in east Mosul on the opposite side of the Tigris River. Moments later, SSG Will Shockley ...
• Be Not Afraid
    Be Not Afraid You shall cross the barren desert, but you shall not die of thirst. You shall wander far in safety though you do not know the way. You shall speak your words in foreign lands and all will understand. You shall see the face of God and live. Be not afraid. I go before you always; ...

The Killing Train

• Slumdogs vs. Millionaires: Sainath in Toronto
  The lecture hall slowly filled up as slides of families of the 200,000 farmers who committed suicide in India between 1997-2005 played on the flat screens on the side of the room. P Sainath, the day's speaker, was the journalist who brought the farmer suicides to wide attention. He opened his talk b ...
• Implementing the Bolivarian Revolution: Julio Chav ...
  On October 10/09 Venezuelan former mayor, now state legislator Julio Chavez spoke at the University of Toronto sponsored by Hands off Venezuela and the Louis Riel Bolivarian Circle. He came in sporting the unassuming Bolivarian fashion: red T-shirt, red baseball cap (with a Canada logo on it), jeans ...
• Realclimate on the hacked climate change emails
  A friend asked me for my take on the hacked climate change emails. Before formulating my thoughts I went to realclimate.org to see if they had anything. They do... and it's indispensable as usual .
• If you are thinking of donating to Haiti relief ef ...
  If you are thinking of donating to Haiti relief efforts I would recommend either of these two organizations: The Haiti Emergency Relief Fund or Partners in Health
• Haiti Earthquake Context
  I recorded this video last night (using my new flip HD and PiTiVi editing suite). Part 1 Part 2 read more

treehugger

• Peruvian Farmers Happy to Offset West's Carbon
  Photos via AFP Peruvian farmers are about to get a windfall--and it's all thanks to the burgeoning carbon offsetting market . Recently, one particular section of Peru was selected to be the site of a massive r... Read the full story on TreeHugger
• 1 Million Lbs of BPA Released Into US Environment ...
  Photo via BPA Plastic Yesterday, news broke that the EPA was launching a major investigation into the impact of Bisphenol A--especially targeting the US water supply. BPA is a chemical that has been documented to have negative health impacts, especially on infants and children, and is commonly ...
• Cadence EcoMatic Watch: Self Winding & Battery Fre ...
  Photo: Cadence Having replaced the battery on my watch just last week, the incoming media release from Cadence held a certain irony. Their new Ecomatic wrist watch doesn't need batteries. It winds itself using the motion of the wearers wrist. Not that self winding watches are a new idea. As ...
• James Lovelock Says Humans 'Not Clever Enough' to ...
  photo: John Bracken via flickr. Ah, James Lovelock ... The 90-year old originator of the Gaia Theory has just been interviewed by The Guardian and boy is it a doozy. Lovelock covers everything from Climategate, the over-reliance on computer modeling, the necessity of climate skepticism, wind po ...
• The Most Impressive Hoard of Recycled Bikes Ever? ...
  Image credit: The Journey TV From the ReCYCLEry in North Carolina to bike co-ops in LA , there are plenty of people out there giving old life to new bikes—whether those bikes have been bought, scavenged or donated. But the bike warehouse of one Mr Biggles, in an undisclosed location somewhere i ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• US blames junta for election boycott
  State department laments a 'lost opportunity' by the ruling junta in Burma to move forward but asserts that US policy will not change
• U Win Tin: ‘We will still be here’
  Senior National League for Democracy member tells DVB that the mood remains positive among party members who will reorganise under a new strategy
• Suu Kyi’s party to boycott elections
  The National League for Democracy votes "with no objection" against participating in Burma's elections this year
• French company denies ‘surveillance’ support
  Alcatel-Lucent denies charges that communications equipment provided to Burmese junta through Asian subsidiary is used to monitor phone calls
• Opposition deciding on election stance
  Senior National League for Democracy members split on whether or not register party for Burma elections but a "no" vote appears likely

Telegraph - Climate Change

• MPs criticise plans for nuclear
  Plans for a new generation of nuclear power stations and wind farms need to completely reformed, according to a "withering critique" by MPs.
• Oil conglomerate 'secretly funds climate change de ...
  An oil conglomerate has allegedly spent nearly £16.5 million ($25 million) on campaigns to discredit climate change and clean energy policies, according to a new report.
• Rare animals are being 'eaten to extinction'
  Rare animals, including chimpanzees and gorillas, are being hunted into extinction because of record levels of demand for bush meat, according to a new study.
• 'Climategate' inquiry led by oil boss
  A former oil boss will lead the latest inquiry into the 'climategate' scandal over the science of man made global warming.
• Wildlife havens to be abandoned to the sea
  Protected wildlife havens that are home to rare birds, plants and insects, are to be lost to the sea under government plans to abandon coastal flood defences.

National Geographic | Environment

• Gene-Altered "Enviropig" to Reduce Dead Zones?
  "Enviropig," now approved for limited production, is modified to excrete less phosphorous, a key trigger of algal blooms, scientists say.
• Earth Hour 2010: Record 121 Countries to Go Dark
  In the biggest Earth Hour yet, millions of businesses and homes around the world will participate in a voluntary blackout to show support for action against global warming.
• Texas Pioneers Energy Storage in Giant Battery
  Uniquely prone to electrical outages, Presidio, Texas, deploys a first-of-its-kind solution.
• Global Warming Making People More Aggressive?
  Forget anger over leaked emails: Murders and assaults could jump by a hundred thousand cases a year in a warmer world, a new study says.
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Jurist - Legal Research

• Philippines clan leader cleared of rebellion charg ...
  [JURIST] A Quezon City court on Monday dismissed rebellion charges against 24 people, including Andal Ampatuan Sr., the leader of a Muslim clan in the Philippines' semi-autonomous southern province of Maguindanao, and four of his family members. The Philippines Department of Justice [official websit ...
• Obama urges Afghanistan government to reduce corru ...
  [JURIST] US President Barack Obama on Sunday urged the Afghan government to reduce corruption and institute an effective judicial system. During a surprise visit to the country, Obama called on Afghan President Hamid Karzai [official website; JURIST news archive] to take steps to promote good govern ...
• China court convicts Australia mining employees of ...
  [JURIST] A Chinese court on Monday convicted four employees of Australian mining company Rio Tinto [corporate website] of receiving bribes and stealing commercial secretes. Rio Tinto's Shanghai manager, Australian national Stern Hu, and three Chinese colleagues were sentenced to between seven and 14 ...
• Supreme Court hears arguments on federal sentencin ...
  [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] heard oral arguments [day call, PDF; merit briefs] Tuesday in two cases. In Dillon v. United States [oral arguments transcript, PDF; JURIST report], the court heard arguments on whether the federal sentencing guidelines [material ...
• France council advises against full veil ban
  [JURIST] The France Council of State [official website, in French] on Tuesday advised the French government [report, PDF; in French] that a complete ban on full Islamic veils risks violating the French Constitution [text] and the European Convention on Human Rights [text]. The government requested t ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• Reconciliation Will Have to Wait a Few Days
  Early this morning, the Senate parliamentarian found a few hiccups with House reconciliation bill, forcing the House to re-vote on the legislation next Monday. Fortunately for Democrats, the provisions, which were deemed to violate the "Byrd rule," are easily fixable.� One involves Pell grants, a ...
• The Curious Case of Goodwin Liu
  A Washington truism: to conservatives, potentially troublesome judicial appointments justify immediate action no matter how injurious to the smooth functioning of a legislative body. It's been this way since Roe , as Republicans have grasped how the subtle formalism of American life can be influe ...
• The Silver Lining of the Google-China Cloud
  The vast set of intrusions known collectively as "Google-China" produced a cloud of uncertainty over the whole enterprise of cybersecurity but also a silver lining: it illustrated in stark terms the degree to which collective action (called "cooperative" action by a government sensitive to terms ...
• @PressSec Gets a Little too Cute...
  @PressSec : Kids 1, insurance 0 as companies agree to comply with new regs so kids with pre-existing conditions can get health ins http://bit.ly/dBkN48 Well, kinda sorta. Sometimes tweeting about this stuff isn't the best idea. In the closing weeks of the health reform debate, vilifying insura ...
• Craig Becker Likely Slated for a Recess Appointmen ...
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• Next Year in a Shared Jerusalem!
  The closing invocation of the traditional seder is l’shana ha-ba’ah b’Yerushalayim (“Next year in Jerusalem”).  It’s sung to a rousing melody and can be quite moving and liberating especially after a long seder narrative.  Barack Obama plans a White House seder tomorrow with his Jewish and African ...
• Ron Kampeas Breaks Anat Kam Story in Jewish MSM
  Avner Cohen brought me news that Ron Kampeas broke the Anat Kam story today in JTA for the mainstream Jewish media.  Kol ha-kavod to him.  And thanks also for his tip of the hat acknowledgement of my contribution to the story. Ron does provide some “value-added” reporting noting that Kam faces up ...
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