- Sweden for 'diplomacy' on Iran nuclear program
Summary: Carl Bildt Sweden's foreign minister said Tuesday all parties involved in the Iranian nuclear issue must switch focus from sanctions to diplomacy. source: Press TV read more
- Clinton Strikes Out in Brazil: A Security Council ...
Summary: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton traveled to Brasilia to mount a full court press on the Brazilian government to support a United Nations Security Council resolution imposing tougher sanctions against Iran over its nuclear activities. source: The Race for Iran read more
- Mullen Wary of Israeli Attack on Iran
Summary: Adm. Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, came home with sweaty palms from his mid-February visit to Israel. Ever since, he has been worrying aloud that Israel might mousetrap the U.S. into war with Iran. source: Consortiumnews.com read more
- The Qom Enrichment Facility: Was Iran Legally Boun ...
Summary: JURIST Guest Columnist Daniel Joyner of the University of Alabama School of Law says that, reflective of the central tension between nonproliferation and peaceful use, Iran has not clearly violated any legal obligations incumbent upon it in the timing of its disclosure of the existenc ...
- Is the Obama Administration supporting violent "Re ...
Summary: rajavi rigi Last year, the Obama Administration reviewed whether Jundallah should be designated a foreign terrorist organization, but decided not to do so. Why was that? And, even though the Muhahedin-e Khalq (MEK) retains its designation as a foreign terrorist organization, the Obama ...
- Over 130,000 cases of diabetes now linked to soda ...
(NaturalNews) For years, advocates of natural health have been hammering away at the message that soda causes diabetes and obesity . The soda industry, meanwhile, has remained in denial mode, mirroring the ridiculous position of the tobacco industry that "nicotine is not addictive." Soda doesn't cau ...
- Green tea nutrients may prevent glaucoma
(NaturalNews) Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of blindness in the U.S., according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It comes like a silent thief, gradually stealing sight and usually providing no warning symptoms in the early stages. But as the disease progresses, damage to the optic ...
- South Korea does what the US refuses to do: Restri ...
(NaturalNews) The health ministry of South Korea has announced that advertisements for foods that are high in fat, sugar, and salt, will be limited during the prime time television hours of 5 and 7 p.m. and during any children's programming. In support of national efforts to curb childhood obesity, ...
- Global Healing Center founder Ed Group speaks out ...
(NaturalNews) In a new video interview posted on YouTube, the Health Ranger interviews Dr. Edward Group, founder of Global Healing Center (www.GHChealth.com), one of America's best-known providers of extremely high-end nutritional and cleansing products. I've been an advocate for Dr. Ed Group's comp ...
- Product review: Ormus Greens from SunWarrior - a n ...
(NaturalNews) There are a lot of good products in the superfood "greens" category, but few great ones. Now, a new contender joins the field from SunWarrior, the company that brought you SunWarrior Protein products (which remain among my top-recommended plant-based protein products). The new product? ...
- Securing OZ
THE LONDON REVIEW BLOG has an article by Ross McKibbin, " Coercive Solution s", that discusses a White Paper created by the OZ government: The Counter-Terrorism White Paper, Securing Australia – Protecting our Community . The Australian (Labor) government has just published a white paper (‘Securing ...
- Weaselry
HELLACIOUS HELENA'S HUBBY has beat the rap! The egregious Rahim Jaffer is the mysterious beneficiary of a get-out-of-jail-free card issued by some weasel. According to the G&M: He was initially charged with driving while having more than 80 milligrams in one hundred millilitres of blood, speeding an ...
- Happy International Women's Day
Meet Dr Sima Samar, MD -Chair of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, -UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Sudan, and -founder of the Shuhada organization which runs hospitals, schools and health clinics for girls and women all over Afghanistan and Pakistan. .After obtaining a degre ...
- Quote for the day
Reading CC today reminded me of something else I'd recently read: Fanatics don't laugh at themselves; laughter is by definition heretical, unless used cruelly, turned outwards against an opponent or enemy. Bigots can't laugh. True believers don't laugh. Their idea of laughter is a satirical cartoon ...
- Edification
DRIBBLEGLASS IS CHEERFULLY irreverent. They have a fine selection of faux billboards for your amusement. Stevie probably wouldn't like it.
- O'Reilly, Dobbs wrong that undocumented immigrant ...
On the March 9 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor , host Bill O'Reilly and former CNN host Lou Dobbs suggested that undocumented immigrants "dodge taxes," with O'Reilly asserting that the notion that they pay taxes is "crap." In fact, according to the Congressional Budget Office and the ...
- After trumpeting ethics allegations against Massa, ...
After highlighting reports last week that the House ethics committee was investigating whether former Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) had sexually harassed a member of his staff, conservative media pivoted to promote Massa's subsequent claim that the Democratic leadership had orchestrated the investigation ...
- Horner promotes discredited green jobs study, pus ...
In a Washington Times ' op-ed, Chris Horner revived a discredited study to conclude that green jobs initiatives in Spain were "economic and employment disasters." Horner also accused the Center of American Progress, the American Wind Energy Association, and the Department of Energy of coordinat ...
- Fox misinforms on health care reform's immediate ...
On Fox & Friends , co-host Gretchen Carlson falsely suggested health care reform legislation contained no immediate benefits, and Fox Business Network host Stuart Varney claimed that "nobody believes" that health care reform will reduce the deficit. In fact, numerous benefits found in the Senat ...
- WND falsely claims TSA nominee's views on diversi ...
In an attack on Gen. Robert Harding, President Obama's nominee to head the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), WorldNetDaily falsely claimed that Harding's views on the necessity for diversity hiring in the intelligence community are "controversial." In fact, numerous officials -- inc ...
- Administration FINALLY "Condemns" Israeli Settleme ...
The Netanyahu government has enjoyed treating our President as a patsy. But today a new era may have begun. Vice President Joe Biden is in Israel to kick-start negotiations. His program began with a love-fest ceremony with President Peres and Prime Minister Netanyahu. The most touching (I'm ...
- Financial Innovation: What Is It Good For (I)?
Brookings economist Robert Litan picked up the gauntlet thrown down by Paul Volcker and others, and put out a lengthy paper defending the major financial innovations of the last four decades. Litan surveys the field and pronounces most of what he sees to be good. While there is certainly some mer ...
- Arab/Palestinian leaders okay indirect peace talks ...
The Arab Foreign Ministers meeting today in Cairo gave a begrudging nod to the Palestinians to resume indirect peace negotiations with Israel, suggesting that they were willing to give US efforts another chance but that the talks should initially be limited to four months. PLO Leader Abbas has b ...
- Administration FINALLY "Condemns" Israeli Settleme ...
The Netanyahu government has enjoyed treating our President as a patsy. But today a new era may have begun. Vice President Joe Biden is in Israel to kick-start negotiations. His program began with a love-fest ceremony with President Peres and Prime Minister Netanyahu. The most touching (I'm bei ...
- The Real Hope Of Economic Peace
Everybody knows the core issues between Israelis and Palestinians, except for the one that will matter the most and can be acted on immediately, before any comprehensive deal; the one where Israel's concessions will not compromise its security but enhance it. I am speaking of Palestine's economy, sp ...
- United by Hard Times: Workers Organize Across Race ...
I'm feeling relieved. For a while it seemed like the historic election of our first African American president would give legitimacy to the idea that we live in a "post-racial" America. The idea that race is no longer a part of people's daily experience is not merely false. It's potentially dangerou ...
- Number of Millionaires in US Increased 16 Percent ...
A new study released by the research and consulting firm Spectrem Group finds that the number of millionaires in the United States increased by double digits the last year. According to Spectrem Group's data, "families with a net worth of at least $1 million, excluding primary residences, rose to 7. ...
- Utah Governor Signs Law Charging Women and Girls W ...
On Monday afternoon, a controversial Utah bill that charges pregnant women and girls with murder for having miscarriages caused by "intentional or knowing" acts, was signed into law by Gov. Gary Herbert. read more
- I Am Angry
I am angry. I'm tired of pundits and know-nothing, media gasbags. I'm tired of snarky "inside politics" programming. I am sick of the bigotry and hatred of "birthers" and faux patriotic cranks and their GOP puppet masters. And I'm really pissed at the Democratic Party that confuses having a plate o ...
- Al Gore Still Won't Talk About Meat
Al Gore penned a lengthy New York Times op-ed entitled , "We Can't Wish Away Climate Change," on February 28, 2010. As expected, Gore was wordy, made no effort to discuss the planet's top polluter (US Department of Defense), and, most of all, the former vice president once again opted to ignore the ...
- 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 act ...
- 7 Myths about Climate Change Science [& FUN VIDEOS ...
The science of climate change is not really the question at hand anymore. Of course, there is always more to learn, but that highly accelerated climate change is real and that humans are the main cause of that are no longer questionable facts to the large majority of the scientific community. What ...
- DE bottle refund law: Mend it, don’t end it, say ...
A volunteer poses with the bottles and cans collected at a Massachusetts watershed cleanup. A month after the governor of Delaware proposed dumping the state’s beverage container refund law in favor of a new tax for community recycling, in-state and national environmental groups have come out a ...
- Mann is Off the Hook, So Let’s Look at the Real Cr ...
Michael Mann, the somewhat infamous climate scientist from Penn State, shouldn’t be so infamous after all, we find out yet another time! “An academic inquiry into the so-called ‘climategate’ email scandal has concluded that a well-known U.S. scientist [Mann] did not directly or indirectly falsify ...
- Is A Pill Take-Back Law in Our Future?
As the product stewardship movement gains steam, attention is turning to the issue of unsafe disposal of residue or unwanted consumer pharmaceuticals. The widespread detection of pharmaceutical residues in public waters and fish has raised biologists’ concerns. In Minnesota, the popularity o ...
- Help Stop Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
Please join us in supporting ILoveMountains.org in their ongoing campaign to bring a halt to Mountaintop Removal (MTR) Coal Mining. There is a bill in front of the House of Representatives that would do a great deal to help stop this incredibly destructive operation. As you probably know, MTR is one ...
- Gas Drilling 101: North Texas Communities Alliance ...
NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COMMUNITIES ALLIANCE March Meeting: Gas Drilling 101 When: Thursday, March 11, 2010 Where: Hotel Trinity – Inn Suites I-30 @ Beach Street (east of downtown Ft. Worth) You asked for it, we listened! We’ll have a panel of knowledgeable, experienced, community leaders who have been ...
- Texas Oil And Gas Accountability Project: A New Wa ...
This month Earthworks officially launched the Texas Oil and Gas Accountability Project (OGAP), a new citizens’ group that will work to ensure that Texas’ burgeoning Barnett shale gas industry operates while respecting the environment and the rights of its neighbors. There have been, to say the (very ...
- On global warming, the science is solid
Last weekend professors and scientists from four major Texas universities joined forces to write an editorial in the Houston Chronicle defending the science of global warming from skeptics and deniers. Check it out! On global warming, the science is solid In recent months, e-mails stolen from the ...
- Industry Experts Confirm Carbon Capture and Seques ...
Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) is the fossil fuel industry’s much-touted cure-all for our global warming woes. This theoretical solution to global warming is to pump all our industrial releases of CO2 underground, cross our fingers, and hope really, really hard that it will stay there – lite ...
- March 9, 2010
U.S. EPA Chief Slams Attempted Delays on Climate (Reuters) U.S. EPA chief Lisa Jackson fought back on Monday against Senate attempts to challenge the agency's authority to regulate global warming emissions, saying delaying action would be bad for the economy. Obama Will Meet with Key Se ...
- March 9, 2010
U.S. EPA Chief Slams Attempted Delays on Climate (Reuters) U.S. EPA chief Lisa Jackson fought back on Monday against Senate attempts to challenge the agency's authority to regulate global warming emissions, saying delaying action would be bad for the economy. Obama Will Meet with Key Senators ...
- March 8, 2010
EU Warns Climate Loopholes Could Lead to CO2 Rise (Reuters) Loopholes in the UN climate treaties could actually amount to an increase in global-warming emissions over the next decade, and must be closed, a draft EU report shows. Head of Pocasset Wampanoag Sends Salazar Letter Supporting Cape W ...
- March 7, 2010
Arctic Melt to Cost Up to $24 Trillion by 2050 (Reuters) Arctic ice melting could cost global agriculture, real estate and insurance anywhere from $2.4 trillion to $24 trillion by 2050 in damage from rising sea levels, floods and heat waves, according to a new report. Climate Change Skepticism ...
- March 5, 2010
Met Office Analysis Reveals 'Clear Fingerprints' of Man-Made Climate Change (Guardian) It is an "increasingly remote possibility" that human activity is not the main cause of climate change, according to a major Met Office review of more than 100 scientific studies that track the observed changes ...
- 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 ...
- Dilemma: Best Nations Really Are the Brightest - S ...
What most jeopardizes every American, curiously enough, is wholly within our control. 100%. Better still, substantial solutions are affordable, may be sequenced, and every dollar stays home - a bargain at half the cost of endless Iraq. Vs. killing machines, we just have to value rationality and i ...
- The Pentagon shooter, insurrectionism, and right-w ...
When news broke last Thursday that a deranged gunman had opened fire outside a Pentagon security checkpoint, wounding two officers before being stopped by return fire (the gunman later died from his wounds), the reaction from some oddly giddy right-wing bloggers was swift . They wanted everyone to p ...
- Liz Cheney's McCarthyism: A Family Tradition?
(For her continued encouragement and inspiration, this column is dedicated to my wife, Gale Bataille, on our eighth wedding anniversary.) In November 2001, just two months after 9/11, an organization called the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) published an inflammatory report that clai ...
- We Remain United: In Zimbabwe's Labor Movement, a ...
Cross posted from Border Jumpers , Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. In Harare, on the way to our meeting with Wellington Chibebe, the secretary general of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), even our driver was excited for us. "He is a good, good man. I've only seen him on TV, but ...
- Tomgram: Michelle Alexander on the Age of Obama as ...
California is, as the time-worn adage has it, our nation's bellwether, and nowhere is that truer than in the Golden State’s prison crisis. California’s inmate population is among the highest in the nation. Its complex of prisons spills over with tens of thousands of inmates housed in every available ...
- International Women’s Day
Some food for the eye & the mind from half the world’s population- Lillie Langtry, Memory in Latin America- 1325 mujeres tejiendo la paz is a project presenting biographical sketches of women peace activists from all over the world with images by graphic designers. The ‘1325′ refers to UN Security ...
- Govt. Can’t Stop Covering Up Torture
It’s interesting this case also involves Moazzam Begg the focus of the recent campaign against Amnesty by Decent types. The government will attempt today to have a case about torture heard entirely behind closed doors in a move that some lawyers say would extend secrecy to a new area of hearings, o ...
- Economic Warfare Against Iran Intensifies
FT.com:- The world’s largest oil traders have quietly stopped supplying petrol to Iran in a clear sign that the threat of sanctions and Washington’s behind-the-scenes efforts to convince companies not to sell to Tehran are paying off. However, the decision by Vitol, Glencore and Trafigura is unlikel ...
- Out Of Sight
Current Google trends snapshot- While Al Maliki is being spun as a cautious winner by the US & UK mainstream, the secular nationalist bloc Al-Iraqiya is showing some legs, although lots of claims of corruption, bans, terrorism and an occupation don’t help (not to mention ongoing birth defects caus ...
- Free Shaker Aamer
Shaker Aamer is basically a hostage because he is a witness to events behind the murder of three other detainees, he is being held in order to protect murderers in the US detention forces and because he also has been tortured which both the US & UK govts want to cover up. A hostage held [...]
- Evening Recipe Thread
It is Cabin Boy the Younger's 15th Birthday today and I have been busy making Horseradish Potato Salad, Martha Stewart's Mac & Cheese, and Ultimate Cheater Pulled Pork with a homemade Midwestern BBQ Sauce. Should be a tasty celebration. Thank you to everyone who made a contribution this month. ...
- A Black Man in Alabama
A black man is running for governor in Alabama. And his chances are not dismissed out of hand. That ought to be something to celebrate. It couldn't be imagined ten, twenty, or thirty years ago. But, what does a black man who wants to have a chance in a state-wide Alabama election think he needs ...
- Abortion and Health Care
Hotline has a helpful whip count on House members' position on health care reform. The math sure looks complicated. We have a lot of scaredy-cat Democrats and not a few who take their marching orders from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Let me tell you something. If you are to ...
- Live and Let Live
The more I read about the Religious Right in this country, the more I think that Karl Marx had it wrong about religion being the opiate of the people. I don't think it calms them, and I don't think it puts them to sleep. At least on the Right, I think it mainly makes them angry. Here's what Marx ...
- Casual Observation
There are probably some reasons to hate UPS, but I'd definitely recommend using them over FedEx.
- Even people who play Farmville want to avoid playi ...
I’m probably going to upset a few people by saying so, but I loathe Farmville. If you do too, this darkly funny but simultaneously serious analysis of the Farmville phenomenon in socioeconomic terms will probably make your week [via Chairman Bruce; image by taberandrew]: One might speculate that peo ...
- Cash for coastlines: Germany suggests Greece sell ...
Further indications of the corrosive effect of corporatist economics on the nation-state: German politicians suggest to Greece that it balance the books by hocking off a few spare islands and a national monument or two [via BLDGBLOG]: Alongside austerity measures such as cuts to public sector pay an ...
- Do free ebooks actually affect the sales of dead-t ...
For those retaining an interest in ebooks and publishing economics, here are a few interesting links. First, via Nick Harkaway: proper academic research that asks what happens to book sales if digital versions are given away for free? The answer: well, it’s not entirely clear, but it probably doesn’ ...
- Sousveillance Barbie
Via Lauren Beukes, and offered pretty much without comment: new Barbie doll with chest-embedded YouTube-grade video camera spotted at International Toy Fair. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Sousveillance Barbie Share and Enjoy: Project ...
- Augmented Reality tattooing
Keen to get some serious ink, but not so keen on spending hours under the needle? Not to mention fielding the reactions of your family, friends and colleagues? Well, good news – draw a basic QR barcode on your arm with black marker, and everyone will see it covered with whatever fierce and gnarly ta ...
- Is Tax Season Taxing Your Marriage? How to Keep a ...
By Pamela Lipe, MS, LP, Relationships & Marriage Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Pam and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Do you and your spouse fight when you do your income taxes? Do you dread going over your expenses and income each year and so put it off until April 14? Do you b ...
- School Counselor Points Out Need for Lower Counsel ...
A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Recently, a report was published by Public Agenda, a research organization, highlighting significantly negative public feedback regarding the performance of school counselors. In defense of his profession and of those who work within it, a school counselor recently pu ...
- Facebook May be Hazardous to Your Relationship
By Dana Vince, LMHC, Infidelity / Affair Recovery Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Dana and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile There are more than 400 million active users on Facebook. It has grown into a huge social networking site. While it is useful in that it gives you access to al ...
- Family Ties – Part III
By Darren Haber, MFT, Addictions & Compulsions Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Darren and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile The final alcoholic family “role” I’d like to discuss in the context of recovery is the “Lost Child”. This is the child who stays under the radar, invisible, q ...
- Depression from a Holistic Psychotherapist’s Persp ...
By Nicole S. Urdang, M.S., NCC, DHM, Holistic Psychotherapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Nicole and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile. As a holistic psychotherapist, I think of depression as a natural part of life. While it isn’t fun, it is necessary for our deepest spiritual evol ...
- Dumb Like a Fox - Fox News isn't part of the GOP; ...
Terry McDermott / CJR : Dumb Like a Fox — Fox News isn't part of the GOP; it has simply (and shamelessly) mastered the confines of cable — Last December 10 was a big news day. U.S. Senate negotiators announced they had agreed to a compromise on health care reform, final preparations were bein ...
- The Cable News Problem (Myglesias/Matthew Yglesias ...
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias : The Cable News Problem — If you live in Washington and work in politics, it's always almost shocking to read the truth about how low the ratings are for cable news. Especially when you're talking about daytime cable news in a non-election year. As Kevin Drum say ...
- Roberts: Scene at State of Union 'very troubling' ...
Jay Reeves / Associated Press : Roberts: Scene at State of Union ‘very troubling’ — TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday the scene at President Obama's State of the Union address was “very troubling” and the annual speech has “degenerated to a political p ...
- Readers react to photo of two men kissing (Andy Al ...
Andy Alexander / Ombudsman Blog : Readers react to photo of two men kissing — Powerful photographs can have lasting impact, and a Post photo of two men kissing is an image that many readers can neither forget nor accept. — The photo, which ran on the newspaper's front page and online last wee ...
- Why I'm not counting votes - I'm getting a lot of ...
Ezra Klein : Why I'm not counting votes — I'm getting a lot of e-mails about this or that congressperson's latest hedge, or this or that effort to count the votes. So let me take a second to explain why I'm not posting those articles: I don't trust them. — To a degree that's really under-appr ...
- M 5.4, Bio-Bio, Chile
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 02:41:49 UTC Tuesday, March 9, 2010 11:41:49 PM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
- M 5.7, Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 14:06:52 UTC Tuesday, March 9, 2010 04:06:52 AM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
- M 5.1, south of the Fiji Islands
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 12:42:44 UTC Wednesday, March 10, 2010 12:42:44 AM at epicenter Depth : 515.10 km (320.07 mi)
- M 5.2, Samar, Philippines
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 06:00:41 UTC Tuesday, March 9, 2010 02:00:41 PM at epicenter Depth : 40.90 km (25.41 mi)
- M 5.1, Valparaiso, Chile
Monday, March 8, 2010 18:43:29 UTC Monday, March 8, 2010 03:43:29 PM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
- High-rise drama in Nanchang
The unnecessary demolition of a 10-year-old hotel in south-east China exposes a shallow commitment to low-carbon development, argues Li Taige. It only takes eight seconds to demolish a four-star hotel. Nanchang , the capital of Jiangxi province in south-eastern China, which claims it is en rou ...
- A home away from home
Can some of the most vulnerable species be saved from extinction due to climate change? One biologist has a radical idea: pick them up and move them, writes Suzanne Goldenberg. Picture an elephant in the wild, making its stately progress across the savannah, tall grass bending beneath its feet. No ...
- Wringing China dry
Reservoirs and hydropower stations are sprouting up all over China, damaging ecosystems and causing conflict. It’s time to leave the rivers alone, says Feng Yongfeng. Last December, 160,000 residents living along the Qingzhang River in Hebei , north-east China petitioned local government over the co ...
- Chinese coal remedies (2)
The global community can – and must – help China overcome the obstacles to a carbon capture revolution, argues the Natural Resources Defense Council. While it is evident that China needs and has the necessary technical capability – and sufficient storage capacity – to carry out carbon capture and st ...
- Chinese coal remedies (1)
In spite of an urgent need to cut emissions, fossil-fuel consumption in China is soaring. CCS offers a solution, says the Natural Resources Defense Council. To avoid the worst consequences of global warming, the world must limit average temperature increases to two degrees Celsius or less above pre- ...
- Supreme Court Takes ‘Informational Privacy’ Case
The U.S. Supreme Court is agreeing to decide how much personal information the federal bureaucracy may acquire on its workers. The justices, without comment, decided Monday to review a lower-court decision surrounding the concept of so-called “informational privacy.” The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of A ...
- Lifelock Dinged $12 Million for Deceptive Business ...
The CEO of Lifelock, Todd Davis, became famous for advertising his Social Security number on television ads and banners painted on trucks promising his $10 monthly service would protect consumers from identity theft. The company also offered a $1 million guarantee to compensate customers for losses ...
- Pink Floyd, EMI Brawl Over iTunes Royalties
Pink Floyd and its label, EMI, are battling over online royalties stemming from a contested clause in their decade-old contract. The developer of The Dark Side of the Moon and other top-selling albums claims its contract with EMI requires its music to be sold as an entire album, not the single trac ...
- Feds Move to Break Voting-Machine Monopoly
Citing anti-competitive concerns, the Justice Department sued Election Systems & Software in order to force the company to divest itself of the voting machine assets it obtained from Premier Election Solutions last year. The department’s antitrust division, along with nine state attorneys general, ...
- Funeral Flap: Justices Weigh Religion, Speech Righ ...
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to delve into the sensitive question of whether the First Amendment protects anti-gay protesters carrying placards outside military funerals, bearing “America is Doomed,” “Thank God for 9/11″ and other volatile slogans, like “Thank God for dead soldiers.” The message ...
- India backs Copenhagen climate deal
by Agence France-Presse NEW DELHI -- India has decided to formally back a climate change accord struck in Copenhagen last year that includes non-binding limits on global warming, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said Tuesday. Ramesh told parliament that India, the last major emitter yet to f ...
- South Korea unveils ‘recharging road’ ...
by Agence France-Presse Online electric vehicleCredit: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology SEOUL -- South Korean researchers on Tuesday launched an environmentally friendly public transport system using a "recharging road"-- with a vehicle sucking power magnetically from buried ...
- U.S. stops short of protection for western sage gr ...
by Agence France-Presse A sage grouse.Photo: Gary Kramer of U.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceWASHINGTON -- U.S. officials on Friday stopped short of giving endangered species status to the sage grouse, an iconic bird that is at the center of a dispute over oil drilling and other energy development ...
- E.U.‘s ‘carbon fat cats’ get ric ...
by Agence France-Presse PARIS -- Europe's system for industrial carbon quotas has enriched the continent's biggest polluters, with 10 firms together reaping permits for 2008 alone worth $680 million, a new report revealed. Dominated by steel and cement makers, the same "carbon fat cats" stand t ...
- Sen. Blanche Lincoln faces a challenger from the l ...
by Samantha Thompson Blanche Lincoln Arkansas Lt. Gov. Bill Halter (D) is mounting a primary challenge against conservative Democrat Blanche Lincoln for the U.S. Senate seat she's held for two terms. Environmentalists and progressives have it in for Lincoln , angry over her opposition to high-p ...
- Pakistani Lawmakers Decry U.S. Airport Profiling
In January, after the Department of Homeland Security announced that citizens of 14 (mostly Muslim) “terror-prone” countries would face extra security screening at U.S. airports, I wrote a piece predicting a backlash. The U.S. was trying to convince Pakistan, for instance, that it was looking out fo ...
- Jobless Benefits Extension Moving in the Senate
The Senate this afternoon hopped the procedural hurdle to end debate on a $150 billion package that would renew a number of expiring tax breaks and extend access to emergency unemployment benefits. The vote was 66 to 34, with eight Republicans voting in favor of the measure and one Democrat, Nebrask ...
- Before We Hear From Our Senate Candidate, Let̵ ...
Christina Bellantoni obtains audio of a Lincoln Day dinner in Ohio where — on their way to introducing the party’s U.S. Senate candidate, Rob Portman — a former and current GOP official both make jokes about President Obama’s citizenship. Worth noting: The laughter for master of ceremonies and forme ...
- States Play Fast and Loose With Employee Pension F ...
One of the reasons many people work for government even when there’s not a recession going on (despite the fact that government jobs often pay lower salaries than private sector ones) is the job security and generous benefits. Particularly for the younger generation of workers, there remain relative ...
- Blanche Lincoln’s Army of Lobbyist Disciples
It’s been obvious for some time that Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) was unlikely to support comprehensive climate legislation. What wasn’t clear was the extent of her influence, which, according to a new report by the Sunlight Foundation, goes well beyond her single vote in the Senate: Six of Lincoln ...
- 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 ...
- Liz Cheney Is Thinking Of Running For Office
And You Thought We Left The Monarchy In England? Liz Cheney’s Thinking of Running for Office Crooks And Liars- By Susie Madrak Tuesday Mar 09, 2010 7:00am You may have been under the impression that we don’t have a monarchy in this country, but apparently we do – especially if you’re part of the C ...
- Fear mongering by those who fear truth, justice, a ...
There has sure been a lot of fear mongering, of late, by the same folks that we’re spinning the facts in the Bu$h administration. The Neo Republican minions of the corporate government still speak with one voice and the choreography is all too predictable. KSM is on trial for his involvement in th ...
- Palin: God Wrote Notes On His Hand
Sarah Palin: God Wrote Notes On His Hand, Too First Posted: 03- 8-10 09:27 AM | Updated: 03- 8-10 11:49 AM Sarah Palin came up with a new defense for her conspicuous use of hand notes over the weekend: God did it, too. When the media first challenged her on the need to write her core beliefs o ...
- Oscars 2010: ‘Hurt Locker’ Wins Best P ...
Oscars 2010: ‘Hurt Locker’ is biggest winner SFGate– Monday, March 8, 2010 On an evening when “The Hurt Locker” bested “Avatar” for the most Oscar glory – with six awards including best picture – the film’s director also made history. Kathryn Bigelow, a San Carlos native, became the first woman to ...
- The Oscars: 15 Ways To Watch LIVE For Free
Moviematics- By Alan Smith March 4, 2010 The mother of all film awards is here – 82nd Annual Academy awards, popularly known as Oscar awards (or Oscars) are the awards presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industr ...
- Less Than a Week Away
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- The Georgia Guidestones
On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the Ame ...
- The Creation
THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to put an ...
- The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catas ...
In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-openin ...
- About George Green
Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to focus ...
- 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 . ...
- Lice to tackle invasive Japanese plant
Politicians have revealed plans to tackle the problem of the invasive Japanese knotweed plant, which can cause damage to buildings, roads and drains. Wildlife minister Huw Irranca-Davies confirmed plans to release a foreign species of "jumping plant lice" in the UK in order to control the plant. The ...
- IMF pushes for climate change fund
The IMF , worried about the challenge presented by global warming, has urged the world's governments to pool their resources and band together to tackle climate change. The organisation wants to see countries adopt a quota system of payments to a unified fund based on economic size - a scheme simila ...
- Smile, and your doctor smiles with you
We've known for years that smiling is believed to be good for your wellbeing - and also that blocking a frown, however you see fit ,�can work wonders. Now, a pair of scientists from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, have posited that having a good, sincere grin can mean that you prolong y ...
- To share, or not to share
The bonobo, one of our closest primate relatives, prefers sharing its food to eating alone, according to new research. This proves that the generous act of sharing is not an exclusively human trait, as previously thought.
- Bigelow wins Oscar for best director
The film-maker Kathryn Bigelow is celebrating after winning the Oscar for best director. She described her victory at the US ceremony as "the moment of a lifetime" after she became the first woman to win the award for her Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker. She also triumphed in the battle of the exes w ...
- Does the US government have consent of the America ...
Summary: Does the American government retain the consent of the American people?  What does that mean? The possibility of hard times ahead makes these theoretical questions of great practical importance. Polling data shows widespread dissatisfaction. Glenn Reynolds gives one interpreta ...
- Light the firework – the campaign starts tod ...
The campaign begins today. It does not end on 4 November 2010.  Or 4 November 2012. But when enough citizens in America participate in political process so that we’re in control of the nation.  Not just voting, choosing between candidates on the ballot like a drunk choosing what brand of ...
- FM newswire for March 9, interesting articles abou ...
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. “The Cars of the Future“, Department of Energy, 3 March 2010 — Informative, but does not say when we get flying cars. Today’s astonishing data: “Age, wa ...
- A real-time example of the birth and spread of cli ...
Summary: In our weak condition, America has become unusually susceptible to propaganda. Accepting of it, so long as it confirms our views. Loving lies. If we become sheep, don’t blame the wolves for preying upon us. This post traces the evolution of science research into propaganda. ...
- FM newswire for March 7, interesting articles abou ...
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. About Iraq: “No promised land at the end of all this“, The Economist, 4 March 2010 — “Iraq, having beaten most of its insurgents, holds an election on M ...
- Bottled Wind Could Be as Constant as Coal
Wind power has made incredible inroads into the U.S. energy system thanks to big, efficient machines standing hundreds of feet tall. But the future of wind power may be underground. In the abandoned mines and sandstones of the Midwest, compressed-air storage ventures are trying to convert the inter ...
- Better Than Apollo: The Space Program We Almost Ha ...
SAN FRANCISCO — In the late 1950s, American space companies jumped into a headlong race to build an aerospace industry that could launch missiles across the world and rockets above it. In her new book Another Science Fiction, archivist Megan Prelinger delves into the hyperbolic, whimsical world of ...
- Your Computer Really Is a Part of You
An empirical test of ideas proposed by Martin Heidegger shows the great German philosopher to be correct: Everyday tools really do become part of ourselves. The findings come from a deceptively simple study of people using a computer mouse rigged to malfunction. The resulting disruption in attentio ...
- Mile-High Mega Kites Could Pull Giant, Floating Po ...
Take a huge oceanic catamaran, stick a hydroelectric turbine underneath it, and hitch it to a 6.5 million-square-foot parafoil flying nearly a mile in the air. That’s a Korean research team’s new proposal for generating gigawatts of clean energy. As the parafoil pulls the boat, seawater would be fo ...
- Low Tolerance for Pain May Be Genetic
One form of a common genetic variant may ratchet up pain sensitivity in people who have it, researchers report online March 8 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The discovery could lead to more powerful pain treatments that lack the debilitating side effects of current drugs. “ ...
- Dire Warnings from Greece's Papandreou in D.C. Vis ...
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou speaks in calm, measured tones, but he is clearly determined to do what it takes to pull the debt-crushed remnants of his country's economy out of the fire. This week he is in Washington campaigning for a unified front against the "unprincipled" financial specu ...
- The Roots of Anti-Americanism in Turkey
(Photo Credit: Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) Last week, I referred to the remarkably high level of anti-Americanism in Turkey in the context of H.R. 252 - the House Resolution accusing Turkey of committing genocide against Armenians in 1915 that passed the House Foreign Affairs Comm ...
- Understanding Pakistan's Terrorist Arrests
For the last week, Gregg Carlstrom has done an impressive job of highlighting all the reasons why U.S. observers should avoid chest-thumping over the wave of arrests of Taliban leaders by Pakistani authorities. Responding to a rather sanguine piece by Bruce Riedel in the Daily Beast on the benefits ...
- Cheney, Kristol Still Running Rove’s 9/11 Playbook
Coinciding as it does with the backlash against Bill Kristol and Liz Cheney’s shameful Karl Rove-style attacks on the Department of Justice, the release of Karl Rove’s spin-tastic memoir provides an opportunity to remember the central lesson that Karl Rove, Bill Kristol, and Liz Cheney learned from ...
- Short-Term Fixes, Long-Term Consequences in Afghan ...
One theme that's clear in a lot of recent writing on the war in Afghanistan -- particularly writing from the policy community in Washington -- is the delineation between what's good for the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan, and what's good for Afghanistan itself. Here's Bruce Reidel, for example, w ...
- Lightning Round: When, Precisely, Does "Government ...
Ah, the zombie genre of "analyzing" politics through sheer presidential will. Brendan Nyhan says it best: "If/when the economy picks up, Obama 's speeches will start 'connecting' and everyone will marvel at how effective the White House political team has become." Ironically, the advice to "give be ...
- The Continued Fight for Gay Rights in D.C.
This morning, Angelisa Young and Sinjoyla Townsend were the first couple to legally get married in the nation's capital. At 1 p.m. the pair was still giving interviews to the press outside the Human Rights Campaign building, fielding questions about who made Angelisa's dress (a friend who works at ...
- The "Klan Lawyer" Canard.
Steve M. makes a relevant point about another comparison Cheneyite conservatives are using to justify the McCarthyism of Keep America Safe. Hans von Spakovsky -- who is as equipped to talk about proper hiring practices as Tiger Woods is to talk about monogamy -- offered this argument, reported by D ...
- The Little Picture: Hear No Evil.
In the fall of this year, the U.S. Supreme Court will weigh the appeal of a multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed against Westboro Baptist Church for protesting and disrupting the funeral of Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew A. Snyder , who died in Iraq in 2006. His father, Albert Snyder , sued the church su ...
- The Future of Health-Care Rhetoric.
What will Republicans say if health-care reform passes? This is a question I've begun to ponder, since the things conservatives have been saying up to this point -- "death panels," reform is a "government takeover of one-sixth of the economy" -- have been totally unmoored from reality.� But if refo ...
- Guantánamo Uighurs Back in Legal Limbo
Last Monday, the Supreme Court declined to review a case brought on behalf of seven men in Guantánamo whose release into the United States was ordered by a US judge 17 months ago. The men in question are Uighurs, Muslims from China’s Xinjiang province, and the ruling ordering them to be rehoused in ...
- London Bangla Interview with Andy Worthington, Aut ...
The following interview, with the London Bangla free newspaper, was conducted by email and published in two parts, in the most recent issues of the newspaper, which has a print run of 30,000 copies. I’d like to thank Emdad Rahman for coming up with a great set of questions that allowed me to cover a ...
- Three US screenings of “Outside the Law: Stories f ...
I’m delighted to report that three screenings of the new documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (directed by Polly Nash and myself), which is currently on a UK tour, have been arranged by pioneering grass-roots activists in the US. All the screenings are free, and Polly and I, ...
- “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”: A Day ...
On Friday, there was another successful screening of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” the new documentary film, co-directed by Polly Nash and myself, which was chosen as the closing film in Oxford Brookes University’s 8th Human Rights Film Festival (also see here). The screening was part ...
- Send a letter to David Miliband calling for the re ...
Throughout 2010, former Guantánamo prisoner Omar Deghayes and I are touring the UK, showing the new documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo†(directed by Polly Nash and myself). The film focuses on the stories of three British residents — Shaker Aamer, Binyam Mohamed and Om ...
- Grayson's Message Embraced By Florida Republicans
That all mythical squishy middle centristy stuff that The Village preschoolers can not read or write beyond? The one that Obama keeps trying to to pander to and live off of while producing medicocre to pure crap legislation, IF he can get anything to pass at all, which is pissing everybody on all po ...
- RIP Jon Swift
A sad day for the entire Bloggosphere as Al Weisel, AKA Jon Swift, has passed away : The great Jon Swift has died. That's the "blogging" angle to a personal tragedy. In reality, the voice of Jon Swift - the hilarious faux conservative blogger whose talent and passion were evident in every post - bel ...
- Where did the time go?
If it seemed like today went by a little faster than usual it might be because it could very well have : The massive 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile may have changed the entire Earth's rotation and shortened the length of days on our planet, a NASA scientist said Monday. The quake, the seventh stro ...
- Is Little Green Footballs a Communist Blog now?
"The American right wing has gone off the rails, into the bushes, and off the cliff. I won’t be going over the cliff with them." From LGF's Charles Johnson: Why I Parted Ways With The Right 1. Support for fascists, both in America (see: Pat Buchanan, Robert Stacy McCain, etc.) and in Europe (se ...
- Will Teabagger anti-immigration agnst spill over t ...
�Smells like Teabaggrrrr spirit... Peter Schiff is well known for his for far right wing way out there libertarian Ron Paul-like views . You have to wonder if some of Teaba grrrrr angst will spill over to the GOP primary battles and burn Peter Schiff here in Connecticut ? Jim Gilchrist, founder of ...
- Conspiracy Central: Beck, Birchers to Converge at ...
The John Birch Society, whose conspiracy theories eventually became so fantastic that it faded into irrelevance, has edged back toward the mainstream – or at least the mainstream of conservative thought. It’s listed as one of 87 co-sponsors of next month’s annual Conservative Political Action Confer ...
- Microchip Implantation Feared as Sign of End Times
Virginians who fret about being forcibly implanted with microchips were likely disappointed this week. A state bill that passed the House would have made it illegal for employers or insurance companies to require that the human tracking devices be embedded in people. Violators would have faced a $50 ...
- Activist Sues Nativist Leader for Defamation – Aga ...
San Diego Minutemen leader Jeff Schwilk is the adult equivalent of a small child who burns his finger on a stove and – learning nothing from the experience – does it again. Last May, Schwilk was ordered to pay $135,000 to Joanne Yoon, a Korean-American civil rights activist who had helped monitor Mi ...
- Gays Should Face Legal Sanctions, Says American Fa ...
People in same-sex relationships should face the same penalties as heroin users. Just ask Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association (AFA), an ultraconservative religious right group. In a Jan. 29 response to an E-mail from a listener to his “Focal Point” radio program, Fischer suggests that “ ...
- Activist Sues Nativist Leader for Defamation – Aga ...
San Diego Minutemen leader Jeff Schwilk is the adult equivalent of a small child who burns his finger on a stove and – learning nothing from the experience – does it again. Last May, Schwilk was ordered to pay $135,000 to Joanne Yoon, a Korean-American civil rights activist who had helped monitor Mi ...
- The New Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks Framework
It's no news to anyone in the know that the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are intractable only insofar as the parties involved want them to be. That's why the proposed framework in the works for them is such a sharp, double-edged sword. Here are three of the most salient features of the peace tal ...
- The New Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks Framework
It's no news to anyone in the know that the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are intractable only insofar as the parties involved want them to be. That's why the proposed framework in the works for them is such a sharp, double-edged sword. Here are three of the most salient features of the peace tal ...
- Women Can and Do: Ad Campaign Spotlights Global Wo ...
In 2002, Mukhtar Mai was gang raped in Pakistan on the orders of a village tribunal. This was meant as punishment for her 12-year-old brother's alleged crime of holding hands with a girl of a higher caste, intended to shame and silence their family. But Mai broke with tradition and went public, defy ...
- To Meat or Not to Meat?
At least since the publication of Frances Moore Lappé’s best selling book Diet for a Small Planet , the environmentally inclined have worried about the consequences of meat eating. The question of whether you can be “good environmentalist” and still eat meat has been the, um, fodder for countless (a ...
- Allow Gay Students to Go to Prom
Prom nights are generally one of the most memorable nights of high school. There's the punch. The dancing. The corsages. The dresses. The tuxedos. But not the same-sex couples. At least if you're a student at Itawamba Agricultural High School in Fulton, Mississippi, that is. That's because the high ...
- UN: Olympic 'Beautification' of Cities Means Force ...
A UN human rights expert blamed football's World Cup and the Olympic Games for forcing thousands out of their homes, as host cities sought "beautification" often at the expense of poor residents. Raquel Rolnik, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, said the International Olympic ...
- 9/11 Suspects Should Face Civilian Court, UN Envoy ...
by Stephanie Nebehay United Nations human rights investigators called on the Obama administration on Tuesday to prosecute the accused September 11 masterminds in a civilian court, declaring that U.S. military tribunals would not be fair. The White House is reviewing options to bring the 9/11 detaine ...
- Fiction of Marja as City Was US Information War
by Gareth Porter WASHINGTON - For weeks, the U.S. public followed the biggest offensive of the Afghanistan War against what it was told was a "city of 80,000 people" as well as the logistical hub of the Taliban in that part of Helmand. That idea was a central element in the overall impression built ...
- Challenging Conventional Wisdom on Renewable Energ ...
by Sue Sturgis But a groundbreaking study out of North Carolina challenges that conventional wisdom: It suggests that backup generation requirements would be modest for a system based largely on solar and wind power, combined with efficiency, hydroelectric power, and other renewable sources like lan ...
- At Least 500 Dead in Nigeria Attack
JOS, Nigeria - Nigeria's government on Monday sent troops to the flashpoint Jos region after attacks by machete-wielding gangs on Christian villages that officials say killed at least 500 people. Under fire for failing to prevent another outburst of sectarian violence only weeks after hundreds died ...
- Can I Play HTML5 YouTube Videos in Firefox Right N ...
Dear Lifehacker, I've read about how HTML5 will change the way I use the web , but it seems like the biggest example of HTML5 in action is on sites like YouTube—which don't support my favorite browser, Firefox. What's the deal? I find myself, and I'm sure tons of others, caught in the Adobe Flash P ...
- Lifehacker's Looking for a New Writer [Announcemen ...
Think you've got what it takes to join Team Lifehacker? That's good, because we're on the hunt for a new writer to join the crew. You could be a great fit if: You love and understand a lot about technology, and have a knack for tinkering with software and bending gear to your will. (Bonus points ...
- Remains of the Day: Google on Your TV Edition [For ...
Google dips its toe into TV programming searches, netbooks' market share is growing, Twitter and Facebook gear up for geolocation, and researchers make the case for fat as a sixth taste sense. The Rise of Netbooks Think netbooks are a dwindling fad? GigaOM's infographic designers look at the last ...
- SecondBar Puts a Menu Bar on All Your Mac's Monito ...
Mac only: Multiple monitors do great things for your desktop space, but your menu bar sticks to one screen. If you're looking for more menu access, free utility SecondBar puts one at the top of each monitor. As veteran Mac users know, each application's menus fill in the menu bar at the top of the d ...
- Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Customizer Tweaks, Enl ...
Windows 7: Hailing from the camp of "software that does exactly what its name implies", Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Customizer fine-tunes the size, spacing, and margins of your Windows 7 Superbar previews. If you're unhappy with the size and spacing of application and folder thumbnails on your Super ...
- 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 ...
- One in Three Killed By Drones in Pakistan Is a Civ ...
By Derrick Crowe A new report from the New America Foundation states that one of every three people killed in the U.S.'s not-so-secret drone war in Pakistan is a civilian. The report also discloses that none of the strikes in 2009 targeted Bin Laden, and that they have had little impact on the Talib ...
- Reeling in the proxy rebels?
By Dave Anderson: I'm coming late to this party, but I want to highlight a couple of things. First, from Yorkshire Ranter from last week: Well, this is unusual; Londonstani confirms that the Pakistanis just arrested 50% of the Taliban high command, in so far as such a thing matters. Not only that, t ...
- US and Pakistan Heading For A Clash Over Terror Ai ...
By Steve Hynd Despite US analysis that has veared from optimistic to wildly over-optimistic, there's still a serious cloud over US/Pakistan relations in the form of reimbursement for Pakistani expenditure claims in pursuit of American objectives in the "War on Terror (tm)". Yesterday, Pakistani news ...
- India, Isolated, Has To Find Longterm Strategy
By Steve Hynd There's an op-ed by Prof. Harsh V. Pant of the prestigious Defense Studies department at King's College, London in the Japan Times today which bears reading as an accurate summation of Indian hawkish - and not so hawkish - feelings on the American misadventure in Afghanistan. Lots of I ...
- Interview with Gaza rights defender: "Siege began ...
BRUSSELS (IPS) - For the first time since September 2006, Mahmoud Abu Rahma, a leading figure in the Palestinian human rights group Al Mezan, has been granted permission to ...
- Amir, ten years old, abducted by Israeli soldier ...
Amir smiled when I asked him to tell me his favorite color. Sitting in his family's living room last Thursday afternoon in the Old City of Hebron, the ten-year-old softly replied, ...
- "Palestinian cinema is a cause": an interview with ...
Nazareth-born filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad is best known internationally for his 2005 film Paradise Now about two young, attractive Palestinian men from Nablus in the occupied West Ban ...
- Pushing the boundaries of identity: an interview w ...
Jennifer Jajeh's critically acclaimed one-woman show, I Heart Hamas and Other Things I am Afraid to Tell You , pulls no punches. From a Ramallah Convention in San Francisco in the ...
- Palestinian women become breadwinners under occupa ...
RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) - Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories, with its ubiquitous closures, checkpoints, military raids and arrests, has decimated the Pa ...
- Even people who play Farmville want to avoid playi ...
I’m probably going to upset a few people by saying so, but I loathe Farmville. If you do too, this darkly funny but simultaneously serious analysis of the Farmville phenomenon in socioeconomic terms will probably make your week [via Chairman Bruce; image by taberandrew]: One might speculate that peo ...
- Cash for coastlines: Germany suggests Greece sell ...
Further indications of the corrosive effect of corporatist economics on the nation-state: German politicians suggest to Greece that it balance the books by hocking off a few spare islands and a national monument or two [via BLDGBLOG]: Alongside austerity measures such as cuts to public sector pay an ...
- Do free ebooks actually affect the sales of dead-t ...
For those retaining an interest in ebooks and publishing economics, here are a few interesting links. First, via Nick Harkaway: proper academic research that asks what happens to book sales if digital versions are given away for free? The answer: well, it’s not entirely clear, but it probably doesn’ ...
- Sousveillance Barbie
Via Lauren Beukes, and offered pretty much without comment: new Barbie doll with chest-embedded YouTube-grade video camera spotted at International Toy Fair. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Sousveillance Barbie Share and Enjoy: Project ...
- Augmented Reality tattooing
Keen to get some serious ink, but not so keen on spending hours under the needle? Not to mention fielding the reactions of your family, friends and colleagues? Well, good news – draw a basic QR barcode on your arm with black marker, and everyone will see it covered with whatever fierce and gnarly ta ...
- Critics Question Senate Whistleblower Bill
Today’s Politico article entitled “Critics question whistleblower bill” highlights the broken promises of the White House and Senate on national security whistleblower protection. The NWC has repeatedly pointed out the serious flaws in the national security provisions of the Whistleblower Protectio ...
- Critics question whistleblower bill
Today’s Politico article entitled “Critics question whistleblower bill” highlights the broken promises of the White House and Senate on national security whistleblower protection. The NWC has repeatedly pointed out the serious flaws in the national security provisions of the Whistleblower Protecti ...
- OSHA Listens, all day today
The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) is conducting its public hearing all day today.� The "OSHA Listens" event is also available by webcast . Assistant Secretary Dr. David Michaels opened the event by decrying the 5,000 fatalities American workers suffer every year.� He said OSH ...
- Whistleblower murdered in Philippines
Whistleblower Wilfredo "Boy" Mayor was murdered last Sunday morning in Pasay City, Philippines. According to numerous news reports, gunmen on two motorcycles attacked Mayor's vehicle (which had heavily tinted windows) while it was stopped at a red light at 4:11 am on Sunday. Mayor had been an operat ...
- FBI Whistleblowers Speak Out Against S. 372
FBI whistleblower Dr. Frederic Whitehurst issued a letter today strongly opposing the repeal of FBI whistleblower rights contained in the current Senate version of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act ( S. 372 ). This bill is currently being “hotlined” in the Senate, a process by which legis ...
- 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.
- Study: Vaccination of 70 percent of US population ...
An aggressive vaccination program that first targets children and ultimately reaches 70 percent of the U.S. population would mitigate pandemic influenza H1N1 that is expected this fall, according to computer modeling and analysis of observational studies conducted by researchers at the Vaccine and I ...
- Physicists Demonstrate Three-Color Entanglement
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, physicists have demonstrated the quantum entanglement of three light beams, all of different wavelengths. Entanglement of two light beams of different wavelengths has already been demonstrated, but the researchers explain that going beyond two beams is important ...
- Heart of a galaxy emits gamma rays
(PhysOrg.com) -- Quite a few distant galaxies turn out to be cosmic delivery rooms. Large numbers of massive stars are born in the hearts of these starburst galaxies, and later explode as supernovae. In the remnants they leave behind, particles are accelerated to very high energies. Astrophysicists ...
- Rescuecom Declares Victory... In Dropping Its Laws ...
We've covered some of Rescuecom's bizarre lawsuit against Google for selling Adwords based on Rescuecom's trademarks. The lawsuit has been going on for a while, without Rescuecom getting very far. At almost every turn it was pointed out that what was happening was not trademark infringement. Fina ...
- EU Politicians Get Serious Demanding ACTA Transpar ...
Last week, there were reports that the EU trade policy folks had decided to stand up for ACTA transparency , and now it looks like they're really doing it. As various reports are noting, a joint resolution was put forth by nearly all party groups in the EU Parliament demanding that ACTA negotiation ...
- White House Cyber Security Guy: There Is No Cyberw ...
We recently wrote how some special interests have been playing up the idea that there's some sort of cyberwar going on that the US is losing. Of course, there have been similar claims going back for a decade, without anything to support it. Are there state-supported hackers breaking into computers ...
- Where Are The European Regulators In Charge Of Pro ...
Michael Scott points us to a blog post by Peter Fleischer, the Global Privacy Counsel for Google -- perhaps better known as one of the three Google execs to be convicted on criminal charges due to a video some kids uploaded to Google Video, which the Italian courts believe Google did not take down f ...
- Record Labels Put Out Misleading Study Trying To G ...
The record labels have been trying out all sorts of schemes for a while now to try to get ISPs over to its side in propping up their old business models, and the latest is pretty laughable. BPI at the behest of Universal Music, commissioned a study which suggests that ISPs can make a lot of money b ...
- FDA Requests Meeting With Activists Exposing Garda ...
. . . . Christina England Vactruth.com 03/08/10 Throughout history there have been strong women debating big issues and changing history, amongst them are Joan of Arc, Emrneline Pankhurst and Amelia Earhart. On the 12th March 2010 in an extraordinary move, six strong, brave women of the world will ...
- SEBELIUS: HHS document EXTENDING THE PANDEMIC to 2 ...
. . . *Special thanks goes to Eileen D. for bringing this to our attention. See bolded Excerpt such as: Therefore, pursuant to section 319F-3(b) of the Act, I have determined there is a credible risk that the spread of pandemic influenza A viruses and those with pandemic potential and resulting d ...
- A Response to a Pediatrician
. . . . From a post on Neil Z. Miller’s Facebook page… I received the following email this morning (my response follows): The documentation of the reduced incidence of certain diseases is public information, and easily accessible. Here is a link to just one report http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mm ...
- Half of parents concerned about vaccine side effec ...
Maryn McKenna CIDRAP March 1, 2010 Mar 1, 2010 (CIDRAP News) – About half of the parents responding to a national survey say they are concerned about adverse effects of vaccines, and one in four believe some vaccines cause autism, according to a paper published today by the journal Pediatrics. But ...
- Gardasil Primer: Doctors & vaccine injured familie ...
- Step One – Understanding
On Saturday night, I went to a friends birthday party. The party was at a club in Temple Hills, Maryland. Temple Hills is 85% African American. It took the bfriend and I three tries before we found a cab willing to take us there. (FYI – It is just outside DC and an easy 10 [...]
- I’m Back!
I made it back from Florida with my sanity and only a minor drinking problem, so things are good. I’ll get back to my regular posting schedule next week. In the meantime, you can check out a couple blog carnivals I participated in. Carnival of the Godless and Carnival of the Liberals (I know I’m ...
- Gone Fishin
No posting this week, as I am in Florida soaking up the sun and trying not to let my relatives drive me over the edge. If you don’t hear from me by next Wednesday, send a rescue team.
- Growing Up Jewish – Sabbath Edition
It occurs to me that I don’t spend near enough time pointing out the lunacies of the religion I was brought up in. And since I am leaving today to go to Florida, where I will visit my kooky religious mother, it seems a perfect time for the the first installment of Growing Up Jewish. My [...]
- Issue by Issue
Political parties and broad categorizations have warped the way we think about issues and problem solving. We may think that we cannot work with a conservative on anything. But which conservative do we mean – the Christian conservative from Focus on the Family or the follower of Buckley? We may ...
- 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 ...
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- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Finding the Key to Subsidizing Solar Power
Photo via International Rivers The International Herald Tribune has an interesting (if embarrassingly headlined--in the print edition, they went all-out for an Icarus reference) look at the boom and bust of the Spanish solar industry today . Basically, in a rush to jumpstart a pioneering sola ...
- Who Will Lead The U.N. On Climate Change?
photo via Climate Changer A few weeks ago, UN Climate Chief Yvo de Boer stepped down from his post as the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat. Who replaces him figures to be a signal of where the UN is going on climate change. Developing countries have had a hard road to climb in the UN p ...
- Totally Cool and Easy to Make Recycled Plastic Bag ...
Photos: Courtesy of Louis Rigano. We've seen plenty of things with fused plastic bags , one of the best being the Chilean plastic bags boots we featured last year. However, few look like something that you would wear or that can be easily done. Until now.... Read the full story on TreeHugger ...
- Harvard's Tiny "Pocket" Laboratory Could Speed Dis ...
Image via Eurekalert , Credit: Courtesy of Jeremy Agresti, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Just a bit smaller than an iPod Nano, a new pocket-sized laboratory could revolutionize the way biofuels are discovered. The device - a "microfluidic sorting device" - can sort enzymes ...
- Go Barefoot for TOMS Annual Day Without Shoes Apri ...
TOMS Shoes has announced their third annual One Day Without Shoes campaign for Apr... Read the full story on TreeHugger
- 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 ...
- An Early Warning System for Cancer
A new screening tool developed by scientists in Denmark may help detect the earliest stages of cancer by taking advantage of the body’s own defenses. The researchers constructed a microarray system that analyzes patients’ blood for a specific class of immune agents called autoantibodies. These are a ...
- This Week In Tyranny
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The neocons may finally gone too far ( via ). There seems to be an actual backlash building against this latest smear. It’s kind of funny to observe what counts as “over the line” in Washington. Right wing lunatics have been casua ...
- The Shocking Solution to Senate Obstructionism
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Induction :mathematical demonstration of the validity of a law concerning all the positive integers by proving that it holds for the integer 1 and that if it holds for an arbitrarily chosen positive integer k, it must hold for the in ...
- Al Weisel, (aka Jon Swift), 1963 - 2010
Al Weisel blogged as Jon Swift. He was a regular read for me, and his dry faux-conservative persona was flawlessly done. He hadn’t posted in almost a year, but I thought he just sort of went off the grid as bloggers sometimes do. He was co-originator of Blogroll Amnesty Day, where bloggers “link ...
- This Week In Tyranny
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Searchable versions of the OPR report and related documents are available here . They are primary sources for items like this .Andrew Sullivan on torture. I can’t tell you how much I admire his sustained focus on the issue. Seeing ...
- The Many Deficiencies of the OPR Report
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) report on its ethics investigation for torture-approving lawyers has already generated some remarkable reactions. One of the few defenses came from former ...
- Americans Don't Get Enough Sleep
The National Sleep Foundation has releases its annual "Sleep in America Poll," which reveals how much sleep Americans are getting, what their bedtime habits are, and who's taking medications when sleep is elusive. This year, for the first time, the report explored differences in the sleep habits of ...
- Vitamin D Deficiency is Why You Get Flu!
A new study has confirmed that vitamin D plays an important role in activating your immune defenses against infectious diseases like flu. Vitamin D deficiency has already been linked to a wide spectrum of diseases including heart disease, cancer, diabetes, depression, autoimmune disease and many ot ...
- Why I Avoid Ever Buying Any Sony Products
According to the Gizmodo article linked below, Sony has lost its spirit, spending too much time telling you it's the greatest electronics company in the world and not nearly enough time showing you. Time and again, Sony took an excellently engineered solution and held it tightly, the better to extr ...
- Dangers of Drinking Water from a Water Fountain
As the U.S. taste for bottled water grows, environmentalists have been trying to sell people on tap water. Bottled water is a drain on the environment -- the U.S. public goes through about 50 billion water bottles a year, and most of those plastic containers are not recycled. But switching to tap w ...
- New Definitions for Organic Meat and Milk Issued
After a drawn-out debate, the U.S. Agriculture Department has significantly narrowed the definition of organic livestock to animals that spend a third of the year grazing on pasture. The new rules also say that “organic” milk and meat must come from livestock grazing on pasture for at least four mo ...
- Torture Accountability Letter 8 - How Will The Wor ...
Happy Monday. Welcome to the Dog’s letter writing campaign for torture accountability. This campaign is designed to keep the issue of accountability under the law for the Bush administrations torture program alive. Here is how it works, every Monday the Dog writes to one of the decision makers on th ...
- New Video and Song: Tangled Up in Yoo
Play this video and sing along! The Hoos of the University of Virginia support indictment and prosecution for guest lecturer John Yoo. Join a protest in Charlottesville, Va., on March 19, 2010. This event can be found at http://hoosagainstyoo.org and on Facebook . This event is supported by ...
- We Remain United: In Zimbabwe's Labor Movement, a ...
Cross posted from Border Jumpers , Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. In Harare, on the way to our meeting with Wellington Chibebe, the secretary general of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), even our driver was excited for us. "He is a good, good man. I've only seen him on TV, but ...
- Creeping Jethro Bodine-ism In The Republican Party
It is easy to think of Members of Congress as corrupt, this is particularly true of the Republicans who seem hell bent on doing everything they can to go against what polls show time and again is the will of the people. Since they are the avowed party of business and they have so many multi-milliona ...
- Tea Baggers: Where Were You When Bush Demolished ...
If you want a stern dose of reality I recommend visiting an important website, one to keep you in touch with the real world in a society where media and political spin abound. The site is USDebtClock.Org and all you need to do is look at the steadily changing, ever flickering numbers that literally ...
- 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 ...
- The Falklands Dispute: Too Important for the ICJ
by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The always knowledgeable Marko Milanovic, responding to an earlier post of mine, reviewed the possibility of an international tribunal resolving the Falklands dispute here, and concludes that no court decision will happen because  ”… the Falklands dispute is, as a po ...
- The Arbitrability of Libyan Terrorist Claims
by Roger Alford As I have noted earlier , there is a pitched battle between victims of Pan Am 73 terrorist hijacking over the distribution of treaty funds secured by the United States for American victims in a 2008 diplomatic settlement with Libya. The treaty and Executive Order stipulates that t ...
- A Letter from Centrists and Conservatives on the R ...
by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Politico (linked here to Yahoo) carries a story today on a letter drafted by Benjamin Wittes and signed by a number of conservative and centrists lawyers, former Bush administration officials, and policy analysts on conservative attacks on the role of lawye ...
- Call for Papers: German Yearbook of International ...
by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Our friends at the German Yearbook have asked us to post the following call for papers, and we are happy to oblige: The German Yearbook of International Law is Germany’s oldest yearbook in the field of public international law. The GYIL is published annuall ...
- Who Owns the Arctic? Canada, Says Michael Byers
by Julian Ku by Julian Ku That’s a bit of an overstatement, but this review of Michael Byers’ latest book: Who Owns the Arctic: Understanding Sovereignty Disputes in the North, reminds me of the surprising legal positions taken by Russia, Canada, and the United States over the legal status of the ...
- 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 ...
- Should Time Outdoors be a National Health Priority ...
Should Time Outdoors be a National Health Priority? Phoenix – Child obesity numbers in Arizona have skyrocketed since today's adults were children – that's one reason over 200 groups are asking the Surgeon General to make more time outdoors a national health priority for children. Comments from Kevi ...
- Report: Energy Efficiency Could Earn AZ Families $ ...
Report: Energy Efficiency Could Earn AZ Families $300 Phoenix, AZ – A new analysis of research on what federal energy efficiency standards would cost families state-by-state – and how much they would save on utility bills – shows the net gain would be nearly $300 for the average Arizonan. Comments f ...
- New Jaguar Sighting Boosts AZ Wilderness Protectio ...
New Jaguar Sighting Boosts AZ Wilderness Protection Efforts Tucson, AZ – A new photo of an endangered jaguar near the Mexican border has renewed calls for wilderness designation on public lands in southeast Arizona. Conservationists hope to preserve critical habitat and the migration corridors linki ...
- Vitamin D 'triggers and arms' the immune system - ...
The so-called sunshine vitamin, which can be obtained from food or manufactured by human skin exposed to the sun, plays a key role in boosting the immune system, researchers believe. In particular it triggers and arms the body's T cells, the cells in the Submitted by June Marshall to Health & Wellne ...
- Avatar art director studied Alberta oilsands
Oilsands engineers in the Athabasca region helped in understanding how a control room would be laid out for a full refinery and what the ore would look like that the trucks were bringing in Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- This is New York this is the Moment- IDF benefit d ...
Next Tuesday night at the Waldorf, there's a $1000-a-plate dinner to support the Israel Defense Forces. The video above, by a coalition of protest groups, says that 1,200 tickets have been sold. Their demo begins at 5 pm at 53d and Lex. They are urging de Submitted by Cheryl Benson to World �|� �No ...
- VRM: Morgellons Syndrome & Chemtrails
Bio-Weaponry Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Energy Healing - You Can Heal Yourself!
Many people will offer their bodies and souls to a person who claims to heal them through energy healing. This could be someone claiming to be a spiritual healer. Submitted by Sharon S. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- GMO Database 2009
The following table provides a listing of novel traits by crop species. In each case, the number of events with a particular trait is also provided. For additional information on each crop x trait combination, follow the relevant link under the "Crop Name" column.
- Vilsack announces new budget for 2011 for USDA…..a ...
The PPJ Gazette A March 2, 2010 Agriculture Committee hearing televised live on CSPAN gives a clear picture of what’s ahead for domestic farmers, ranchers and herders in the US.. Deputy Secretary Kathleen A. Merrigan cheerfully announced the “new age of enforcement” citing the intent to increase ...
- Is the U.S. Conducting Biological Warfare Against ...
In the movie, War of the Worlds, the invading aliens were ultimately defeated not by guns or bombs, but by the smallest of things. It was the bacteria that killed them. Will it be the same with us?
- Hierloom Organics Seeds of Action Community Suppor ...
The Heirloom Organics Seeds of Action! program provides seeds and assistance, free of cost, to non-profit groups and organizations throughout North America, who are using seeds for community service projects.
- What In The World Are They Spraying?
Read this article, then let us know if you have noticed any problems with crops that might be related to chemtrail spraying.
- In NY, silent protest greets architect of Gaza ons ...
Alex Kane at the Indypendent has a report on the silent march tonight by hundreds outside the Waldorf, where an IDF fundraiser featured the Israeli military’s chief of general staff, Gabi Ashkenazi: “Our idea is to show the totally atrocious contradiction of having a $1,000 a plate dinner for peo ...
- The price tag for Israeli intransigence
The day before Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Israel — supposedly on a mission to help kick-start peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians — the Netanyahu government made its contempt for the Obama administration clear by approving new settlement construction. They were quick to take offe ...
- Biden takes one on the chin
Having spent most of the day stressing "his personal love for the Jewish state as well as the ‘unshakable’ commitment of the United States to Israel’s security," Vice President Biden in return was granted a special surprise by Israel’s right-wing religious Interior Minister, Eli Yishai – the announ ...
- Oren, who won’t meet with J Street, says dia ...
Chagrined Michael Oren says that he wants to go back to UC Irvine, despite being shouted down there a few weeks back. The diplomat said he understood the emotional nature of Middle East politics, but said it was also important to observe the decorum of free speech and hear others’ viewpoints. ...
- Lobby’s purchase of Republican Campbell reca ...
Alison Weir of If Americans Knew has published a piece on Tom Campbell’s back pages–the former California congressman who is now running for Senate. Note that Campbell obviously had realist bona fides back in the day, but has utterly abandoned his pro-Palestinian position. Campbell’s collapse is rem ...
- VRM: Morgellons Syndrome & Chemtrails
REALITY CHECK: YOU ARE NOW BREATHING ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE, NANO-PARTICULATES OF ALUMINUM AND BARIUM AND CATIONIC POLYMER FIBERS WITH UNIDENTIFIED BIOACTIVE MATERIAL. LONG TERM CHRONIC EXPOSURE TO SUCH TOXINS IN ADDITION TO THE HAZARDS OF VACCINES DESTROYS THE BODY’S IMMUNE SYSTEM LEAVING YOU VULNERABL ...
- VRM: Health Matters
A compromised immune system is more susceptible to infection. Some areas of concern - Anyone with Hyper-Thyroid needs to double their efforts to rapidly cleanse the system. The Thyroid Gland is key to overall health. Iodine is required by the Thyroid in order to synthesize T3 hormone from T4 which h ...
- VRM: Polio Scam
POLIO EXPOSED TO THE LIGHT 1948 Polio cases in North Carolina number 2,498. 1949 Noticing that polio strikes most in the summer, when children increase their intake of sugar, Dr. Sandler warns residents to cut down on sugar and dairy products in North Carolina. Polio cases dramatically decrease to ...
- VRM: H1N1 Bio-weaponry Incorporated
VRM: H1N1 Bio-weaponry Incorporated The criminal timeline begins in 1997, when Dr. Jeffrey Taubenberger assembled a team of geneticists and microbiologists to analyze the genome structure, and then to REPRODUCE (i.e. reverse engineer) what is arguably one of the most deadly viral structures the wor ...
- VRM: Human Rights & Voluntary Consent
NUREMBERG CODE: LAW #10 – VOLUNTARY CONSENT 1. The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any ...
- 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!!!
- Riverwalker/Stealth Survival Holiday Give-a-way!
Check out this post at the CPN for a message from Riverwalker of Stealth Survival for a great holiday give-a-away! Make sure to leave a comment and you could be the winner of a fireplace accessory of your choice!!!
- The Do 1 Thing Program
If you haven't already checked out Scarecrow's posts at the Ontario Preppers Network (OPN) - you really should! Scarecrow has some of the best Canadian-specific, prepping information available on the net!!! Below are links to Scarecrow's latest masterpiece - his summary of The Do 1 Thing Program wh ...
- Children and Disasters
(originally posted at the OPN by Scarecrow) While reading this article from a US source, Canadians should substitute their appropriate local authorities and agencies as required... It's called prepping for a reason. Being prepared requires you to takes steps before trouble arrives, not during or a ...
- Great Britain Loses one of its Finest
03 November 2009 British soldiers at war are an incredible group. Courageous, competent, and committed in very difficult conditions. An email came today from London, from a BBC correspondent who has been to Afghanistan saying that Staff Sergeant Olaf Schmid had been killed. To see the arti ...
- Arghandab & The Battle for Kandahar
13 December 2009 Kandahar, Afghanistan People are confused about the war. The situation is difficult to resolve even for those who are here. For most of us, the conflict remains out of focus, lacking reference of almost any sort. Vertigo leaves us seeking orientation from places like Vietnam—w ...
- Into Thine Hand I Commit My Spirit
Arghandab, Afghanistan New Year's Eve, 2009 On this small base surrounded by a mixture of enemy and friendly territory, a memorial has been erected just next to the Chapel. Inside the tepee are 21 photos of 21 soldiers killed during the first months of a year-long tour of duty. The fallen will ...
- Spitting Cobra
15 January 2010 Cobra Battery at FOB Frontenac Arghandab, Afghanistan Artillery is called “The King of Battle.” When it comes to the delivery of force, probably nothing outside of nuclear weapons can outmatch the sustained delivery of extreme brutality. Cannons also can deliver small atomic we ...
- Special Delivery
Kandahar, Afghanistan 08 February 2010 American troops are spread widely across Afghanistan. Some are remote and accessibility is difficult. In 2008, I was with six soldiers in Zabul Province who didn’t even get mail for three months. They had no email. They were on the moon. Six courageous ...
- Abu Dhabi is future base for News Corp: Murdoch
News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch announced on Tuesday that the Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi is to become the headquarters of his global media empire in the Middle East.
- Don't Miss Lee Rogers Of RogueGovernment.com's Liv ...
- Gendercide: The worldwide war on baby girls
Technology, declining fertility and ancient prejudice are combining to unbalance societies
- Biometric ID Card for Workers Is at Center of Immi ...
Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required to obtain.
- Today's Obama Assault on Freedom– New Regulations ...
A sweeping oceans and Great Lakes management policy document proposed by the Obama Administration will have a significant impact on the sportfishing industry, America’s saltwater anglers and the nation’s coastal communities.
- 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 ...
- The STEALTH advantage
The average Olympic ski race lasts between 90 and 110 seconds, with skiers clocking speeds of up to 130 kilometres per hour. The difference between a gold-medal performance and a 10th-place finish is often measured in hundredths of a second. As University of Calgary geomatics engineering professor G ...
- An accidental soft landing
In February 2005, Aaron Coret was a third-year engineering student at the University of British Columbia (UBC) with a passion for snowboarding. His goal was to turn pro some day, but that dream changed instantly when he crashed while snowboarding in a Whistler Blackcomb terrain park, a playground of ...
- Biology in motion
InnovationCanada.ca sits down with Queen’s University psychology professor and biological motion expert, Nikolaus Troje. In his Biomotion Lab, Troje and his colleagues study the cognitive processes that occur in the mind to help us recognize emotional and mental health through human movement.
- Over 130,000 cases of diabetes now linked to soda ...
For years, advocates of natural health have been hammering away at the message that soda causes diabetes and obesity. The soda industry, meanwhile, has remained in denial mode, mirroring the ridiculous position of the tobacco industry that "nicotine is not addictive." Soda doesn't cause diabetes, th ...
- 9/11 Truth goes mainstream: Chris Wallace's ABC Ne ...
- Pope's Brother: I Ignored Physical Abuse Reports
Berlin - The pope's brother said in a newspaper interview published Tuesday that he slapped pupils as punishment after he took over a renowned German boys' choir in the 1960s. He also said he was aware of allegations of physical abuse at an elementary school linked to the choir but did nothing about ...
- Utah Governor Signs Law Charging Women and Girls W ...
On Monday afternoon, a controversial Utah bill that charges pregnant women and girls with murder for having miscarriages caused by "intentional or knowing" acts, was signed into law by Gov. Gary Herbert. Contrary to media reports last week, the "Criminal Homicide and Abortion Amendments" or HB12, w ...
- Failed Banks May Get Pension-Fund Backing as FDIC ...
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is trying to encourage public retirement funds that control more than $2 trillion to buy all or part of failed lenders, taking a more direct role in propping up the banking system, said people briefed on the matter. Direct investments may allow funds such as thos ...
- Supreme Court Takes ‘Informational Privacy’ Case
The U.S. Supreme Court is agreeing to decide how much personal information the federal bureaucracy may acquire on its workers. The justices, without comment, decided Monday to review a lower-court decision surrounding the concept of so-called “informational privacy.” The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of A ...
- Lifelock Dinged $12 Million for Deceptive Business ...
The CEO of Lifelock, Todd Davis, became famous for advertising his Social Security number on television ads and banners painted on trucks promising his $10 monthly service would protect consumers from identity theft. The company also offered a $1 million guarantee to compensate customers for losses ...
- Pink Floyd, EMI Brawl Over iTunes Royalties
Pink Floyd and its label, EMI, are battling over online royalties stemming from a contested clause in their decade-old contract. The developer of The Dark Side of the Moon and other top-selling albums claims its contract with EMI requires its music to be sold as an entire album, not the single trac ...
- Feds Move to Break Voting-Machine Monopoly
Citing anti-competitive concerns, the Justice Department sued Election Systems & Software in order to force the company to divest itself of the voting machine assets it obtained from Premier Election Solutions last year. The department’s antitrust division, along with nine state attorneys general, ...
- Funeral Flap: Justices Weigh Religion, Speech Righ ...
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to delve into the sensitive question of whether the First Amendment protects anti-gay protesters carrying placards outside military funerals, bearing “America is Doomed,” “Thank God for 9/11″ and other volatile slogans, like “Thank God for dead soldiers.” The message ...
- Liz Cheney Fails David Rivkin's Crazy Test
That former Clinton inquisitor Ken Starr admonished Liz Cheney for her stunning and shameless attack on the Obama Justice Department tells you all you need to know about her " Al Qaeda 7 " and "Department of Jihad" slanders. But to truly appreciate the depth of Cheney's descent into the political g ...
- Rove: No Bush War for Democracy in Iraq
As millions of Iraqis braved bomb blasts and threats of violence to vote this weekend, voices across the political spectrum in the U.S. praised the democratic elections . But while President Obama announced that "Their participation demonstrates that the Iraqi people have chosen to shape their futu ...
- McCain: Prohibit Use of Reconciliation to Change M ...
Republicans desperate to halt health care reform at all costs are turning to a new gambit. To Democrats intent on passing a Senate bill with a 51 vote simple majority via the reconciliation process , Republicans for months have warned the move would trigger a "holy war" ( Hatch ), a "nuclear war" ( ...
- GOP Wins Gold Medal for Obstructionism
Canada may have eked out a thrilling 3-2 overtime win over the United States in the Olympic hockey final on Sunday, but when it comes to political obstructionism , it's no contest. The AP is just the latest to document the Republicans' runaway gold medal in the filibuster. On track to easily shatt ...
- The Resurrection of Lamar Alexander
In May 1996 , a sheepish businessman admitted to a hotel bellhop, "There's a guy in the lobby who was running for president two months ago, and now I've forgotten his name." When the bellhop told him the man was the former Tennessee Governor, the businessman quickly remembered, "that's right, Lamar ...
- Why Do We Demand That Celebrities Apologize for Ch ...
Tiger Woods does not owe me an apology. He cheated on his wife, not me. He owes her one hell of an “I’m sorry.” And he owes an apology to those sponsors who paid him a lot of money, at least in part, because of his appealing, family-man image. Still, I fail to [...]
- Juan Gonzalez Receives 2010 Justice in Action Awar ...
Democracy Now! co-host and Daily News columnist Juan Gonzalez received the 2010 Justice in Action Award from the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund last week. We play an excerpt of his acceptance speech.
- "Avatar": The Prequel
The anticipation may be building, but we’ll all have to wait for the 82nd Academy Awards on March 7th to find out just how many Oscars the global box-office smash Avatar will receive. That 3-D sci-fi spectacle, directed by James Cameron, has garnered nine nominations, including ones for Best Picture ...
- "The Media-Lobbying Complex": Investigation Expose ...
A four month investigation into the covert corporate influence on cable news found that since 2007 at least 75 registered lobbyists, public relations representatives and corporate officials have repeatedly appeared on MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, CNBC and Fox Business Network with no disclosure that they a ...
- Anti-Nuclear Activists Mobilize to Oppose Obama-Fu ...
The news in Vermont follows Obama's announcement last week of $8.3 billion dollars in loan guarantees for the construction of the first new nuclear power plants in the United States in close to three decades. The loan guarantees will help the Atlanta-based Southern Company build two more nuclear rea ...
- The Nightowl Newswrap
Condemning new settlements just a start - now work on removing the illegal ones. "US Vice-President Joe Biden has condemned Israel's approval of 1,600 new homes for ultra-Orthodox Jews in East Jerusalem. Mr Biden, in Israel as part of US attempts to kick-start the peace process, said it was "the kin ...
- DeLay Brings Yet More Shame Upon Texas -- Those Sh ...
Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay embodies a chapter of Texas history that I wish could be forgotten. But, he keeps resurfacing in all sorts of repulsive ways, including his embarrassing turn on Dancing With the Stars. Then on Sunday, he goes on CNN's State of the Union and basically says that ...
- No Escape from Freakazoid Control of Textbooks
If you thought you could protect your children from the freakazoid lies being taught in public schools by home schooling them, think again: Home-school mom Susan Mule wishes she hadn't taken a friend's advice and tried a textbook from a Christian publisher for her 10-year-old's biology lessons. Mule ...
- Remember how Richard Shelby tried to sidestep the ...
Remember last month, when Richard Shelby of Alabama had a snit fit and placed a blanket hold on all of President Obama's nominees to various posts that are stalled in the Senate thanks to republican obstructionism? One of the things that Shelby so brazenly demanded was that the normal procurement a ...
- Real Freakazoid Family Values
Yet still more evidence than ever before that members of the Wire Hanger Brigade are willing to throw poor children, social workers and cancer patients under the bus in order to accomplish their real goal of controlling other people's sex lives. The latest from the Kentucky General Assembly: Four mo ...
- What flesh will be put on the bones of an EMF?
EU policymakers are weighing up the idea of a European Monetary Fund -- an emergency fund that would help out financially troubled EU member states. But so far little flesh has been put on the bones of a concept that just a few weeks ago was an academic idea.
- EU to tackle gender pay inequality
The European Commission is promising to reduce the gender equality gap in the European Union but the gap -- women's salaries are on average only 82 percent of the male rate in the EU -- has not changed much for about 15 years. Will the EU be successful now?
- Terror index: Iraq down, but Afghanistan and Pakis ...
Iraqis are voting today for a new parliament and despite the bombings in the run-up to the election, the over-all trend is down, according to the Brookings Institution. Not so in the Afghanistan-Pakistan theatre, America 's other war, which remains red-hot.
- Balancing powers in the Malacca Strait
Singapore's warning of a terrorist threat in the Malacca Straits has again highighted the issue of who is in charge of security in one of the world's busiest shipping lanes. Besides the littoral states of Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, regional powers such as Japan, China, India, Japan, not to m ...
- Papandreou wrestles with family legacy
Papandreou's family legacy can play to his advantage and his detriment.
- Tone Deaf Obama: “The Show Must Go On!”
Or so it seems since Obama, despite all of the Town Halls, all of the polls (here’s one), the Tea Party protests, all of it, is going on with his huge push for his Healthcare bill, and it is most definitely his. Even in the face of mounting opposition within his own party, and [...]
- Eric Massa: He’s Had Enough!
When I heard about how the Democrats are treating Eric Massa for sticking to his guns rather than falling in line with Democratic Party orders, I thought about Eric’s old boss, General Wesley Clark, and and what General Barry McCaffery once wrote about him. “Wes was always looked on as too well-edu ...
- Marc Thiessen, King of the Morons
Marc Thiessen, former Bush speechwriter, is a dangerous man. Apart from his lunatic ravings and fantasies in his book, Courting Disaster, he has now weighed in on the fact that the Department of Justice is now employing lawyers who helped represent alleged Al Qaeda terrorists in Guantanamo. Obviou ...
- Where is Wall Street Hiding Hundred Plus Billion i ...
Banks are increasingly healthy, right? Our nation’s accounting rules promote real transparency and integrity in our financial reporting, right? Housing is bottoming, right? No, no, and no! Why so pessimistic, you may ask? I am not pessimistic at all. I am merely searching for the truth in the midst ...
- Chicken George, Watermelon Barry?
Do ya’ll member that nice colored boy, Chicken George, in the made for TV series, Roots? Yessirree, dat boy was a fine specimen of the darky seeking his freedom. I seems to recall dat Chicken George, along with loving dat fried chicken also was sweet on collard greens, chitlins and watermelon. Yu ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Bad time for Asian plots! Iran busts Jundullah rin ...
Quick hits for the fans of stuff & things. Welcome to the Fishbowl says a sad federal judge upon the abandonment of the 4th Amendment. Alex Kozinski in the 9th Circuit has some integrity... via Reason : This is an extraordinary case: Our court approves, without blinking, a police sweep of a pe ...
- Preventive maintenance
... is always warranted! What better investment than new hard drives after a few years when things start acting up? I was able to find a dual FireWire 800 SATA enclosure, delightful! Reinstalling OS X 10.5 has breathed new life into this machine, and in the nick of time too. Much snappier!
- Belgium diss!! Farage rips Von Rumpuy in European ...
The only redeeming feature of the European Union system is British anti-globalist man of wit Nigel Farage, who rips Von Rompuy, the European Union president, a classic Belgian Reptilian, and noted fan of the New World Order. MOAR: http://www.economicvoice.com/nigel-farage-calls-herman-va ...
- Making the ‘grade’: Loose change we can believe in
In fact, with education itself having little more than ‘exchange value’ for most participants, the new ‘Gold/Grade’ standard was inevitable.
- Iran’s refutation of US’ lies of nuclear weapons c ...
engage with Operation Mockingbird comments at source: http://www.examiner.com/x-18425-LA-County-Nonpartisan-Examiner~y2010m3d9-Irans-refutation-of-US-lies-of-nuclear-weapons-censored-by-corporate-media-political-leaders Levying war against the US is defined as treason in the US Constitution. The pol ...
- AMERICAN INDUSTRIALISTS TRADED WITH THE ENEMY
CENSORED IN 1982: AMERICAN INDUSTRIALISTS TRADED WITH THE ENEMY Author Charles Higham, in a shocking expose of American corporate greed, has revealed a disgraceful if not criminal collaboration of some of America’s largest corporations with Nazi German not only before but during World War II. Higha ...
- Go Detroit Teachers and Students! Unity puts Robe ...
Detroit Teachers point the way forward: Resistance to privatization and racist anti-working class policies of Robert Bobb, aka “Eli Broad’ All eyes should be on Detroit where the poverty and inequality is glaring under the oppressive weight of ‘compassionate conservatism’ but where the ...
- “Springtime for America (Again)”
When Ronald Reagan ran for re-election for president in 1984, he declared that it was “springtime for America”. He should have said it was “springtime for Corporate America.” Under his administration and those that followed, Corporate America and the world wide capitalist class increased its dominat ...
- U.S./NATO offensive unravels in Afghanistan
The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Workers World. U.S./NATO offensive unravels in Afghanistan � � Workers World By Sara Flounders March 7, 2010 The Pentagon offensive against the Afghan city of Marjah was public-relations media hype from the very first day. The sole purpo ...
- Gordon Duff: America's Political Mess, Time To Sta ...
The following column is reprinted with permission from Gordon Duff, staff writer and Senior Editor at Veterans Today . America's Political Mess, Time To Start Over � �Gordon Duff Source: �Veterans Today March 5, 2010 * �Term Limits, A Third Party Or Even Real Campaign Finance Rules Aren't Enough ...
- Swine Flu, the Ultimate Racket
The following column is reprinted with permission from Stanislav Mishin, a frequent contributor to Russian newspaper Pravda. Swine Flu, the Ultimate Racket � �Stanislav Mishin Source: � Mat Rodina March 5, 2010 As many may recall, only a year ago, the world was abuzz, the death of the human race w ...
- Ramzy Baroud:Flexible Afghanistan War Objectives: ...
The following column is reprinted with permission from Ramzy Baroud. Flexible Afghanistan War Objectives: �And the Agony Grinds On � �Ramzy Baroud March 4, 2010 Washington and its willing mouthpieces in the media have for years been trying to sell us the preposterous war in Afghanistan. While they ...
- United Arab Emirates to Follow Third Reich Policie ...
The following article is reprinted with permission from Pravda, Moscow. United Arab Emirates to Follow Third Reich Policies against Jews � � Pravda.ru By Sergey Balmasov and Vadim Trukhachev March 4, 2010 The authorities of the United Arab Emirates made an unusual decision. Dubai police chief Dahi ...
- Michael Moore: There’s Going to Be a Second ...
From AlterNet We interviewed Michael Moore on The Young Turks today and he was not shy about sharing his opinions. Anyone surprised? He had very strong words for the Democratic Party, the state of our ...
- Bill Ayers, TO TEACH: The Journey, In Comics
Bill Ayers takes his classic book TO TEACH into the realm of comics with his debut graphic novel: http://bit.ly/b824WI. Bill shares his wisdom, and with the help of Ryan Alexander-Tanners illustrations demonstrates why, “teaching is ...
- Chatting With Kirsten Gillibrand’s Primary Opponen ...
Daily Intel | NY Mag Harold Ford Jr. may have decided not to challenge Kirsten Gillibrand, but that doesn’t mean she’s running for the Democratic Senate nomination unopposed. Unbeknownst to most New Yorkers, Jonathan Tasini, a ...
- End the Afghan War!
On Thursday, March 24, Rep. Dennis Kucinich plans to introduce his privileged resolution to end the Afghan War. The resolution requires that the House debate the continuing war in Afghanistan, now the second longest war ...
- IOT: End War and Occupations, Redirect Funding Ma ...
The EWO IOT conference call had its usual stellar lineup of guests, including last-minute guest Rep. Dennis Kucinich. PDA Conference Call Guests: Brown Bag Lunch Vigils (BBLV) partner David Swanson started the call off with comments ...
- Shigella Lawsuit Filed Against Lombard Subway - He ...
We filed a lawsuit today against a Lombard Illinois Subway restaurant for a Wheaton couple on behalf of their child who became sick after eating at the restaurant on February 26th.� Ron and Sarah Bowers purchased a meal for their child, JB, which was contaminated with Shigella sonnei , a potentially ...
- Coming to an IPhone App soon - Food Safety News
Well Food Safety News IPhone Application has been submitted.� Hopefully, it will be approved and up and running in the next few days - for free.
- Did Basic Food Flavors knowingly ship Salmonella-t ...
According to the Wall Street Journal a few moments ago, Basic Food Flavors Inc., the Las Vegas company at the center of a recall of more than 100 food products containing hydrolyzed vegetable protein, or HVP, continued to make and distribute food ingredients for about a month after it learned the ba ...
- I love the smell of a Subway Shigella Lawsuit in t ...
Sometimes lawsuits are a bit like a war, or perhaps more a long battle anyway. Like a battle or a war, the damages to each side in litigation are real – the injuries to the victims, the costs to the defendant. The decision when to file suit (when to go to war or battle) are difficult to make. And ...
- Rehaping the Role of the Personal Injury Lawyer in ...
I think lawyers like me are about as popular and well thought of as congress members and AIG executives.� Just in the last few days I have felt the sting of prejudice when asked to financially support a couple of non-profit groups and projects, but to do so without being directly involved because ot ...
- AutoblogGreen for 03.09.10
At Witz' End - It's the Battery, Stupid! And we need better ones. Mitsubishi and PSA finalize deal for 100,000 electric vehicles Europe, get ready. ...
- "Style your Smart" contest elicits 50,000(!) desig ...
Filed under: Coupe , Marketing/Advertising , Hatchback , Smart , Design/Style Daimler rang in the new year with an online design contest called " Style your Smart ." Apparently, the idea of decorating a virtual Smart Fortwo appeals to a lot of people, since 50,000 design ideas we submitted by ove ...
- U.S. Annual Energy Outlook predicts "alternative v ...
Filed under: Hybrid , Etc. , Electric , Diesel Just because it's difficult to predict the future doesn't mean people won't try. See, for example, the CEO of Shell, who said last week that he expects plug-in vehicles to make up 40 percent of the new car market in 2050 . The U.S. Energy Informatio ...
- AutoblogGreen for 03.08.10
Toyota joins Clean Energy Partnership, helps build new H2 stations That makes five more hydrogen vehicles in Europe. Update on the CMT-380 microturbine hybrid sports car It's really too bad th ...
- AutoblogGreen for 03.05.10
Report: BMW will offer up to 700 urbanites an electric 1 series lease Who's ready? CARB approves of Roush's propane-powered Ford F-250 and F-350 The wait is over, for those of you who've been ...
- Reporters' Roundtable podcast: The soul of Microso ...
This week, just because I find it interesting: The soul of Microsoft. We have three guests to plumb the depths of Microsoft's spirit, two of whom have been at points in their careers tireless advocates and evangalists for the tech giant. First, in the studio, Robert Scoble, former tech evalngalis ...
- Can you appeal a YouTube ban?
A travel blogger gets banned from YouTube and doesn't know why. We get the ban reversed. Originally posted at CNET to the Rescue
- Google acquiring Web-based photo editor Picnik
Picnik, which makes an online photo editor, has announced on its blog that the company is being bought by Google. Originally posted at Webware ...
- Reporters' Roundtable Podcast: ILM on the future o ...
This show is about one of the categories for the Academy Awards: visual effects. This year, there are three films up for awards in the visual effects category: Avatar, Star Trek, and District 9. We're going to be talking with Russell Earl of Industrial Light & Magic . Russell was co-visual effect ...
- Quicken for the Mac: Finally!
After three years, Intuit releases a (simplified) version of Quicken for the Mac. It's attractive and useful, but people with complex financial lives may run into walls with the product. ...
- 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 ...
- Midwestern Towns Sue Manufacturer of Atrazine Weed ...
Sixteen Midwestern towns and cities have sued the manufacturer of a popular weedkiller over drinking water contamination. The weedkiller Atrazine manufactured by Syngenta is commonly used in Midwestern cornfields. The lawsuit was filed by towns and cities in Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Missour ...
- Part II: Leading Education Scholar Diane Ravitch o ...
Diane Ravitch is a former Assistant Secretary of Education and counselor to Education Secretary Lamar Alexander under President George H.W. Bush and was appointed to the National Assessment Governing Board under President Clinton. She is the author of over twenty books, is research professor of edu ...
- WATCH: Is the Medium the Message? Corporatization ...
In 1964, media analyst Marshall McLuhan suggested that a given medium was more important than its message. Kimberly Butler of the Huffington Post interviews Amy Goodman along with Dan Rather, Geraldo Rivera, Tim Zagat, Rachel Sklar, Carol Jenkins, Bill Pullman, Bob Simon, John Ziegler, Juan Willia ...
- Domestic Violence: A Pre-Existing Condition?
March is Women’s History Month, recognizing women’s central role in society. Unfortunately, violence against women is epidemic in the United States and around the world. Domestic violence is on the minds of many now, as reports published by The New York Times implicate New York Gov. David Paterson ...
- Cracking Down on Fracking
Mike Markham of Colorado has an explosive problem: His tap water catches fire. Markham demonstrates this in a new documentary, “Gasland,” which just won the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize. Director Josh Fox films Markham as he runs his kitchen faucet, holding a cigarette lighter up to th ...
- 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, [...]
- Pigs Do Fly! Implications for Influenza
The influenza genome is segmented. Eight pieces of single-stranded RNA encode for 11 proteins: PB2, PB1, PB1-F2, PA, HA, NP, NA, M1, M2, NS1, and NS2. The segmentation allows influenza of different subtypes infecting the same host to trade segments like card players on a Friday night. Most of the re ...
- InsurgencyWatch moving to True/Slant
In the coming days, InsurgencyWatch will be moving to True/Slant, “an original content news network tailored to both the ‘Entrepreneurial Journalist’ and marketers who want a more effective way to engage with digital audiences.” (That’s what the official about page says.) It’s not a decision I’ve ma ...
- Kerry-Lugar’s First Victim
If true, this is total bullshit: After strong criticism on the Kerry-Lugar bill in Pakistan, the government has decided to replace Pakistan’s ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqani and the announcement in this respect is expected within the next two days. There’s nothing in the bill reasonable Pakist ...
- Pakistan’s Civil War Heating Up
In the aftermath of this weekend’s assault on the Pakistani General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, the Taliban hit again in Alpuri, in the Shangla district east of Mingora in Swat. According to military sources who asked to remain anonymous because they weren’t authorized to talk to the press, a 13- or ...
- At Home with a Swat Lashkar
I just finished up a few days in Swat and while I’m working on a story about it, I thought you might like to see a few pictures I took while there. Enjoy. Share/Save
- FACTBOX: Uzbek militant leader killed in Pakistan ...
Washington PostFACTBOX: Uzbek militant leader killed in PakistanReutersBy this time he is thought to have fled the region for the safe haven of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. * Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader ...Pakistan to Target Taliba...
- Whose Future is It?
Guest Article by June Birch, author of “Everyone Can be a herO.†Guest Article by June Birch, author of “Everyone Can be a herO.†Related posts: The “Goracle” Speaks on Global Warming and Predicts The Future. Video We Must Start Adapting Now, to the Manifestations of Global Warming ...
- Photo Sunday – Water – Wild and Wonderful
Water, the giver of all life. Wild, wonderful. Related posts: Photo Sunday – Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Photo Sunday – When its Raining on Sunday Morning Photo Sunday – Poems and Prayers and Promises
- Podcast Spotlight – Green Talk Radio
GreenTalk Radio is a play-on-demand audiocast (podcast) that helps listeners in their efforts to lead more eco-friendly lifestyles. Related posts: Green Living Ideas and Twilight Earth Form New Major Environmental Network, Simple Earth Media Green Wont Be The Norm, Until We Stop Calling Thi ...
- Natural Parenting Website Spotlight – Natural Papa
Natural Papa focuses on natural parenting and fatherhood, home remedies for common children’s ailments, homeschooling, green and simple living for families, and natural foods. Related posts: Derek Markham, Prolific Environmental and Natural Parenting Author to Join Twilight Earth Medical Bills ...
- It is Not Enough to Question Authority – You Must ...
I entreat you, I implore you, I exhort you, I challenge you: To speak with conviction. Related posts: One Question for the World (Video) What are you going to DO for Earth Day? Photo Sunday – Robin Chicks From Birth to Flight
- READER TIP: Birdhouses Upcycled from Discarded Shi ...
Olson Lewis Dioli & Doktor Architects recently shared their appreciation of upcycling with youngsters at the Brookwood School Sustainability Fair by teaching them how to turn trash into treasure. The firm taught children at the elementary school how to save simple wooden pallets from the incinerator ...
- OPOWER Encourages Efficiency With Energy Report Ca ...
Most Americans would have a fit if their credit card or cell phone company sent a dollar amount at the end of the month with no itemized description to match. But we tolerate it from our utility companies with little complaint. If we’re going to change our energy habits, we’re going to need more inf ...
- Chef Daniel Angerer Defends Cheese Made From Wife’ ...
Last week, we brought you news about Chef Daniel Angerer’s special cheese made from his wife’s breast milk, and boy did that open a can of worms! While we expected knee-jerk ‘EEEWWW‘ reactions from people, we didn’t really imagine the extent to which people would get up in arms about breast milk che ...
- Nokia Files Patent for Kinetically Charged Cell Ph ...
Photo: Jurvetson Telecom giant Nokia recently filed a patent for a cell phone powered by kinetic energy (one of our favorite kinds of energy here at Inhabitat!). The conceived phone would charge via built-in piezoelectric generators that will convert the user’s motions into power. Now, we’ve seen a ...
- Artist Uses LEGO Blocks to Rebuild New York City
Read the rest of Artist Uses LEGO Blocks to Rebuild New York CityPermalink | Add to del.icio.us | diggPost tags: Dispatch, Jan Vormann, Lego bricks, LEGOs, new york city, New York City Legos, New York., NY, volta, volta artshow
- How paedophile priest was allowed to evade
BBC – Former priest Bill Carney was named as one of the worst cases in Dublin’s Catholic diocese in the Murphy report into clerical abuse there. However, for the last 10 years he has been free to live quietly in Britain. Newsnight’s Olenka Frenkiel has investigated his case and tracked him down in ...
- Op-Ed: The climate industry wall of money
Somehow the tables have turned. For all the smears of big money funding the “deniers”, the numbers reveal that the sceptics are actually the true grassroots campaigners, while Greenpeace defends Wall St. How times have changed. Sceptics are fighting a billion dollar industry aligned with a trillion ...
- Portugal follows Greece down austerity path
Reuters – Portugal became the latest euro zone country to announce austerity measures to rein in a ballooning budget deficit on Monday as debt-stricken Greece urged global action to curb speculation in credit default swaps. The European Commission said it was prepared to propose the creation of an I ...
- ‘Problem kids’ risk future pain
BBC – Children with behavioural problems are twice as likely to suffer chronic pain as adults than others, say researchers. Scientists at Aberdeen University, who followed the lives of more than 19,000 children, think faulty hormone signals in the brain may play a key role. Read Article
- Burma publishes new election laws
Times Online – Burma’s military dictatorship has set out laws governing a general election promised later this year, reinforcing the predictions of its opponents that it will be a hollow exercise intended to consolidate military power under a democratic façade. The country’s state-run newspaper ...
- RAIM: Movie Review: Shutter Island (Martin Sorsese ...
Movie Review: Shutter Island (Martin Sorsese, 2010) (raimd.wordpress.com) Shutter Island, the cinematic thriller by director, Martin Scorsese, adapted from a novel by Dennis Lehane, presents a choice between two narratives. Reality is skewed in the movie. Tension unfolds in an purposeful, ambiguous ...
- Reviewing the revolutionary gender line for Intern ...
Reviewing the revolutionary gender line for International Women’s Day (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Because of the massive inflow of value from the Third World, contradictions between First World populations have generally diminished across the board. The most glaring example of this is that t ...
- Hit Squad kills Hamas leader, caught on tape
Hit Squad kills Hamas Leader, caught on Tape (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) On January 19, 2010, Mahmoud Abdel Rauf al-Mabhouh, a Hamas senior military commander leader, was assassinated in his hotel room in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. According to reports, he was drugged with a strong sedativ ...
- Points on People’s War
Points on People’s War (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) 1. People’s war must be carried through to the end. People’s war cannot be turned off and on. Once initiated, only two outcomes are possible. Either the people’s war is victorious and the new power conquers the old or the people’s war is d ...
- Beware of Amerikkkans bearing gifts: Haiti and Afr ...
Beware of Amerikkkans bearing gifts: Haiti and Africa (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) The earthquake in Haiti was a natural event, but 200 years of imperialism turned it into a massive disaster that killed between 200,000 and 300,000 people. The tremendous death toll and loss of infrastructure ...
- The Great Recession of 2011-2012
By James Srodes from the February 2010 issue Are you ready for the Great Recession of 2011–2012? You should be, for it is getting under way even as you read this. Just as the 2009 “greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression” actually began back in 2007, so we [...] Read Mor ...
- Absolute Proof Most Jews Are Not ‘True Jews’
The 13th Tribe’ by Arthur Koestler (suicided by Mossad) explains the creation of the European Khazar/Ashkenazi Jews who are descended from Huns, not semitic peoples. From Dick Eastman Arthur Koestler and his wife were killed by Mossad shortly after releasing this book. As expected, The Thirtee ...
- Terrorism: The Most Meaningless and Manipulated Wo ...
By Glenn Greenwald Joseph Stack deliberately flew an airplane into a building housing IRS offices in Austin, Texas, in order to advance the political grievances he outlined in a perfectly cogent suicide-manifesto. Stack’s worldview contained elements of the tea party’s anti-government a ...
- Video: US Will Start World War 3 by Attacking Iran
A UN nuclear watchdog report suggests Iran could be developing a nuclear bomb, apparently confirming long-held suspicions in the West. But Tehran denies the claims, again insisting that its atomic intentions are peaceful. Michel Chossudovsky, who’s from an independent Canadian policy research group, ...
- Iran Nabs Top NATO Terrorist With Pakistan Help
By Webster Tarpley 2-26-10 On Tuesday Feb. 23, Iran announced the capture of Abdulmalek Rigi, the boss of the terror organization Jundullah, which works for NATO. The capture of Rigi represents a serious setback for the US-UK strategy of using false flag state-sponsored terrorism against Iran an ...
- Colorado Approves 30% by 2020 Renewable Energy Sta ...
Yesterday, Colorado's state legislature finalized a bill to increase the state's renewable energy standard to 30 percent by 2020. Colorado was one of the first states to adopt a renewable energy standard at all, committing in 2004 to get 10 percent of their electricity from renewables by 2015 and ...
- Nation's First Net Zero School Coming to Kentucky
Warren County Kentucky is building the first net-zero energy school in the country. Richardsville Elementary School will operate free of the grid by generating its own renewable energy, incorporating smart architectural features and a major emphasis on efficiency. The list of features for this s ...
- Report Says LEDs in Short Supply
A new report from technology research corporation iSuppli warns that we're facing a global LED shortage in 2010. Hooray! Why am I cheering? Because the reason for this shortage is a huge surge in demand for the energy-efficient lighting in the electronics industry. Yes, it's bad that the supply ...
- Road Transportation Is the Greatest Culprit in Glo ...
A new study from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies has identified on-road transportation as the most significant overall source contributing to global warming. Power generation, while having the greatest total impact, also includes a large number of compounds that increase cloud reflect ...
- Save Your Battery: Unplug Your Laptop
A recent article from Lawrence Berkely Laboratory suggests that readers should ' Pull the plug. Your battery will thank you. ' Researcher Venkat Srinivasan writes about batteries and battery chemistry rather specifically, but without becoming overwhelmingly technical. He explains how batteries ...
- Literally: We Can't Afford Afghanistan or Our Mili ...
PETER G. COHEN FOR BUZZFLASH While Moody’s is saying that the U.S. could lose its gold-plated AAA credit rating, if the budget deficit is not reduced, President Obama is requesting $33,000,000,000 FY 2010 supplemental to fund the troop buildup in Afghanistan.� This is in addition to the war-funding ...
- Today’s Soulless Republican Party -- Steven C. Day ...
by Steven C. Day Trying to pick the single most troubling aspect to our current toxic — downright spooky, actually — political environment is sort of like trying to pick the most obnoxious feature of Dick Cheney’s persona: there’s just way too much material out there to choose from. Still, if forced ...
- Glenn Beck’s Campaign Against Christianity: Leave ...
BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT by Jeffrey Joseph It was probably just a matter of time before Glenn Beck starting making accusations that would put him at odds with Christianity as a whole. Based on statements from his radio program and his FOX show, he has willingly endeavored to do just that. Attempting to ...
- Is It Doomsday for the Consumer Financial Protecti ...
BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Alison Hamm, Media Consortium Blogger Just when the Democrats need to be tougher than ever on financial reform, Senate Banking Committee Chair Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT), seems to have given up completely and put the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA) at r ...
- The Real Reason Our Ancestors Came Here Was to Get ...
BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZFLASH MINUTE Palin Crossed Border For Canadian Health Care If this is real, is it fraud? I thought one had to be Canadian to benefit from Canada's universal healthcare!�How like the Repuglicans to tarnish that which they have taken advantage of; how like�a Repuglican to use a ...
- Compare and contrast
(updated below) I'll just go ahead and pass this on without (much) comment, because the point is self-evident: Iran Torture Trials Begin TEHRAN, Iran — The trial in Iran opened Tuesday for 12 suspects accused of torturing to death three anti-government protesters tortured ...
- NYU Law School event
On February 26, I�spoke at NYU�School of�Law, at a 90-minute event hosted by that school's�Center on Law and Security, regarding civil liberties, Obama,�Terrorism and many political and media issues that are frequent topics of discussion here.��The event, moderated by NYU�Law Professor Stephen Hol ...
- Obama sabotages himself with fake "pragmatism"
(updated below) A new poll from the Democratic polling firm founded by James Carville and Stan Greenberg -- and co-sponsored by the "centrist" Third Way -- provides what its sponsors call "a wake-up call for President Obama, his party, and progressives on national security," because "[h]i ...
- High standards at The Washington Post
By publishing a book that clearly and unapologetically defends the Bush torture regime , Marc Thiessen catapulted himself from obscure, low-level Bush speechwriter into regular Washington Post columnist, joining fellow torture defenders Charles Krauthammer and Bill Kristol . �Today, Thiessen's col ...
- Congressional condemnation of Cheney/Kristol?
(updated below) One of the most inane acts undertaken by the Democratic�Congress was its formal and highly bipartisan condemnation of MoveOn.org's "Petraeus/Betrayus" ad.� Regardless of one's views of that ad, formally opining on the views of private citizens is not the role of Congress.� ...
- Forensic saliva test within spitting distance
The latest issue of SpectroscopyNOW is online. This week I cover everything from MRI for testicular cancer to egg-shaped carbon balls by way of energy molecules, copper proteins, secret writing, first up a forensic test for distinguishing saliva deposits from other substances at a crime scene: Non-d ...
- Hacking your online identity
Geo-location services are very useful, helping you find a post office, ATM, decent restaurant, or hooking up with friends. They are commonly used in conjunction with smart phones and other mobile devices that ping your location (based on network coordinates or the global positioning system, GPS) bac ...
- Time-keeping alchemy
Time-keeping with quantum mechanics caught The Alchemist’s eye this week with a truly long-term view while secret writing that uses a mix of sunscreen and boron could lead to new scratch and read products. Ionic liquids hold much promise in gas chromatography of biofuels, we learn, and a lethal comb ...
- Four ways to connect with Sciencebase
Related Posts:Recognisable scientists versus artistsRSS Awareness DayRoyal stamps for Royal SocietyBerlin Wall falls in AustraliaA month with an electricity monitorFour ways to connect with Sciencebase is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog Four ways to connect with Sciencebase is a post fro ...
- Royal stamps for Royal Society
Royal Mail Stamps has issued a commemorative set of stamps in the UK to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society this year. The stamps feature ten of the most prominent fellows of the Royal Society: Robert Boyle – Chemistry Sir Isaac Newton – Optics Benjamin Franklin – Electricity Edwar ...
- Equality California Issues Statement on Senator Ro ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 8, 2010 Equality California (EQCA) Equality California Executive Director Geoff Kors issued the following statement regarding Senator Roy Ashburn (R-Bakersfield) who told listeners this morning on KERN Radio AM 1180 that he is gay. "We can empathi ...
- Impacts of Water Privatization on Women Highlighte ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 8, 2010 Council of Canadians This International Women's Day a new report is drawing attention to the impacts of water privatization on women. The report, Women & Water in Canada: The Significance of Privatization and Commercialization Trends for Women's Health, is being s ...
- Women's Rights Are Human Rights
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 8, 2010 Africa Action Monday, March 8th marks International Women's Day, and the 15th anniversary of the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing. 189 countries signed on to a Beijing Platform for Action, pledging to work towards the advancement of ...
- Six Friend of the Court Briefs Ask Supreme Court t ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 8, 2010 Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Friday, six (6) amicus curiae briefs were filed with the Supreme Court in support of the petition for certiorari filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on behalf of Canadian citizen Maher Arar, asking the Supreme ...
- Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Air Pollution Case
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 8, 2010 Earthjustice The Supreme Court sided with community advocates by refusing to review a decision (09-495) by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that closed a gaping air pollution loophole. The loophole, known as the "startup, shu ...
- Blame It on the Bubble
by Dean Baker Politicians and the media continue to refer to the economic downturn as being the result of a financial crisis . This is wrong. We have 15 million people out of work because the housing bubble that drove the economy since the last recession finally burst. The financial crisis may have ...
- The Rightwing Witch Hunt Against ACORN
by Katrina vanden Heuvel After 18 months of screaming headlines and attacks vilifying the anti-poverty group ACORN--attacks reminiscent of a New McCarthyism that threatened the group's very existence--it's clear now that this was a right-wing witch-hunt which, sadly, too many Democrats and the mains ...
- Senator Dodd Doubles Down on a Losing Bet
by Mary Bottari Watching the devolution of the bank reform bill in the U.S. Senate has been painful. read more
- Let Wild Animals Be Wild
by Peter Singer Last month, at the Sea World amusement park in Florida, a whale grabbed a trainer, Dawn Brancheau, pulled her underwater, and thrashed about with her. By the time rescuers arrived, Brancheau was dead. read more
- Obama Points to the Lack of Insurance Competition, ...
by Jon Walker The Obama administration, in its push to get the House to vote for the Senate's health care reform bill unchanged, is pointing to the serious issue of lack of competition in the health insurance market as a powerful reason for reform. Obama's health care proposal, however, no longer do ...
- UK told US of terror suspect torture
• Waterboarding of 9/11 suspect was 'concealed' • Manningham-Buller criticises Bush staff The government protested to the US over the torture of terror suspects, the former head of MI5, Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller revealed last night. She also said the Americans concealed from Britain the waterboar ...
- Aid workers dead in Pakistan attack
Suspected militants armed with grenades attack offices of World Vision humanitarian group Suspected militants armed with grenades attacked the offices of an international aid group in north-west Pakistan today, killing five people working for the organisation, police said. The attack targeted World ...
- Parties trade blows on elderly social care
• Conservatives hit out at Labour and Lib Dems' 'death tax' • Tory proposal would force elderly to sell homes, say critics The political parties traded blows over the vexed issue of how to pay for care of the elderly in the run-up to the first debate between the three main health spokesmen today. Th ...
- Prison inmate reoffending 'costs £10bn'
National Audit Office says so little is done to tackle reoffending rates of p[risoners serving less than 12 months that most have no work or education courses A failure to tackle the criminality of 60,000 prisoners who serve sentences shorter than 12 months is costing the country between £7bn and £1 ...
- Guardian Daily: 999 emergences
The Northern Ireland assembly has voted to devolve policing and criminal justice powers to Belfast. But despite the intervention of George Bush, Hillary Clinton and David Cameron, the Ulster Unionist party refused to back the deal. Henry McDonald , our Ireland correspondent, assesses the implication ...
- Lejeune water probe: Did Marine Corps hide benzene ...
WASHINGTON — Congressional investigators late Tuesday requested detailed documents from Navy Secretary Ray Mabus and a private contractor that was involved in the testing and cleanup of contaminated water at Camp Lejeune, N.C., over the past two decades.
- An insider's guide to the jokes at the Oscars
It's a few days before the Academy Awards, and I'm deep in the bowels of the Kodak Theater (which has miles of bowels) in a cramped space temporarily named the Writers' Room. The show writers, of whom I am one this year, are sitting around a conference table strewn with papers, Starbucks cups and th ...
- Health care overhaul's biggest threat? A delay in ...
WASHINGTON — Thousands of liberal public-option backers and conservative tea partiers launched last-chance campaigns Tuesday in the nation's capital to persuade Congress to pass — or reject — sweeping health care legislation.
- Israel rebuffs Biden's peace bid with new settleme ...
JERUSALEM — Hours after the arrival Tuesday of Vice President Joe Biden to help launch indirect Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, Israel announced the construction of 1,600 homes in a settlement block in mostly Arab East Jerusalem, an open rebuff that led Biden to issue a sharply worded condemnation.
- As feds probe Miami's finances, city's budget dire ...
MIAMI — Miami Budget Director Michael Boudreaux was fired Monday, blamed for a series of questionable multimillion-dollar transfers that helped prop up the city budget but are now central to a federal investigation into the city's financial mess.
- EU - bloc vote or blocked vote?
The somewhat abstruse and legal-jargon-adorned world of internal European Union politics is likely to have a key role to play in two big forthcoming decisions concerning some of the most charismatic life in the world's oceans. EU nations are supposed to adopt a common position on such issues, eithe ...
- Troubled history tinges marine plan
So what do you think: should the Chagos Islands archipelago be turned into a marine reserve, or shouldn't it? If you care either way, you have until the end of the week to give the UK government your views. If you don't care either way... well, read on, and perhaps you'll decide whether it matters ...
- Tough love in a troubled climate
Forget the Norfolk police's criminal investigation , reviews commissioned by universities in the UK and US , and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 's (IPCC) internal deliberations. Governments have now demanded - and will get - an independent review into how the IPCC conducts its work a ...
- A stark snapshot of nature loss
While spending a few days off last week with the young primates closest to my own heart, I neglected to flag up here a new report on the threats facing various other primate species around the world. Primates in Peril: The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates 2006-8 is compiled by specialists from ...
- Whaling: A draft of cold comfort?
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) has unveiled detailed proposals on how whaling could be regulated in a way that countries still engaged in the hunt and those opposed to it could both live with. The essential dilemma is what it has been for decades: some societies view the whale as just a ...
- Virginia Lawmakers Try To Buck Far-Right GOP Leade ...
s Washington DC celebrates its first gay marriages, Virginia residents are organizing against their state’s reactionary Republican leadership. Last week, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli asked all state colleges and universities “to rescind policies that ban discrimination on the basis of ...
- Ryan’s Roadmap Loses $2 Trillion In Revenue, ...
When Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) recently released his Roadmap for America’s Future — a plan which purports to balance the federal budget over the next few decades without tax increases — conservatives leapt to embrace it. “I think it’s fabulous, it’s a great template for everyone that’s not just re ...
- Can Democrats Appease Stupak On Abortion?
Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) is telling reporters that he’s optimistic that he can reach a deal with Democrats on abortion and that “he expects to resume talks with House leaders this week in a quest for wording that would impose no new limits on abortion rights but also would not allow use of federal mo ...
- Tea Bagger Wannabes Divided On Mexican ‘Welf ...
Erin Rosa of Campus Progress reports that NumbersUSA, a “mainstream” immigration restrictionist group with troublesome ties to hate groups, hosted a public conference call last night to discuss “a variety of tactics to thwart an upcoming march on Washington DC by immigrant rights supporters.” One t ...
- Limbaugh Inadvertently Endorses Costa Rica’s ...
Yesterday, Rush Limbaugh — who has been one of health care reform’s most vociferous opponents — warned his loyal troop of “ditto heads” that if health care passes, he’ll leave the country for Costa Rica. “I’ll just tell you this,” Limbaugh said to a concerned caller. “If this passes and it’s ...
- Dred Tory Speaks ...
You really oughta read it : Canada has just lost its first war, after having dragged over a hundred of its bravest souls into futile slaughter, without having earned a single battle honour worthy of being affixed to any of our regimental colours, and without being able to promise those on whose beha ...
- Why Did Rahim Jaffer Cross the Road?
Because when he smashed his car into a telephone pole, his bag of cocaine flew out the driver-side window and landed on the other side. Why did Jim Flaherty spend $9,000 of our money to take a private plane to preach austerity at a Tim Horton's in London? Because he didn't want to risk having a pu ...
- Global Warming Readings
I'm not scientifically inclined. I'm a very broad, sloppy thinker really. What I try to do to keep safe from justifiable ridicule is to stick close to subjects (such as foreign policy) that are more amporphous, while at the same time more based on clear, moral principles [ie., "don't slaughter inn ...
- So, Um, About Those Afghan Children Who Were Execu ...
Yeah, I hate to be, like, you know, a pest or anything, but still ... I can't help but think that if Hugo Chavez's, or Fidel Castro's, or Vladimir Putin's, or Kim Jong-Il's troops had killed ten civilians (two adults and eight students), execution style , I don't think the MSM would collectively shr ...
- Anti-War Movement Crippled By Violence
Now, I'd like to make something clear in this, my fourth post on the topic of violent protest. I don't advocate violence. I don't advocate violence but at the same time I don't condemn violence and I don't reject it as a tactic. One of the knee-jerk statements that comes out of the pathological a ...
- Market Observation: The 5% Solution?
by Brian Pretti "No, this is not an homage to the financial archangel Lloyd Blankfein and his flock of chaste and devoted followers on Goldman's prop desk. Okay, let's get to the heart of the discussion. Be prepared, this is one of those discussions where the pictures do a lot of the talking. At Con ...
- Lies Told to Children
by J. R. Nyquist. "Consider two cases of mass manipulation through a big lie: the first is directed against children, and has to do with Santa Claus; the second is directed against adults, and has to do with government programs and goodies. In the first case adults engage in a conspiracy to inculcat ...
- What’s More Important: Price Per Ounce or Ounces O ...
by Jeff Clark. "In a recent conversation with a fellow gold analyst, he was emphatic that the price one pays for physical gold should be ignored. “What’s far more important,” he insisted, “is how many ounces I own in relation to the total value of my assets."
- Learn Elliott Wave Analysis -- Free
. "Understand the basics of the subject matter, break it down to its smallest parts -- and you've laid a good foundation for proper application of... well, anything, really. That's what we had in mind when we put together our free 10-lesson online Basic Elliott Wave Tutorial, based largely on Robert ...
- Market Observation: Market Rally & Global Economic ...
by Chris Puplava. "News today that Greece will seriously work on cutting their budget deficit sent the global markets rallying today. Details from Greece’s proposed measures are provided below from a Bloomberg article"
- OMB Issues Guidelines for Using Contests and Prize ...
Tucked away in the Open Government Directive was a line instructing agencies to consider using prizes and contests as a means to improve open government initiatives. Today, Nextgov reports that the Office of Management and Budget has released guidelines for...
- Morning Smoke: Northrop Bows Out of Competition fo ...
Northrop Grumman Officially Out of KC-X by Amy Butler [Aviation Week] OMB staffer intimidated OPM's watchdog, will face disciplinary action by Ed O'Keefe [Federal Eye] Your Bailout Update: $315 Billion in the Red by Paul Kiel [ProPublica] A kink in...
- New Report on Financial Regulatory Reform Highligh ...
Last week, the Roosevelt Institute hosted a conference on financial regulatory reform with a star-studded panel of experts including Joseph Stiglitz, Simon Johnson, and Elizabeth Warren, among others. The conference coincided with the release of the Institute’s new report, Make...
- Morning Smoke: Charting the Distance Between Campa ...
Thin wall separates lobbyist contributions and earmarks by R. Jeffrey Smith [The Washington Post] Key vacancies give Obama a chance to steer financial reform by Binyamin Appelbaum [The Washington Post] Big bank oversight to stay with Fed by Tom Braithwaite...
- Judge's Ruling Helps FINRA Keep Its Records Behind ...
As described in our latest podcast, POGO sent a letter to Congress last week calling for increased oversight of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), a self-regulatory organization (SRO) that oversees thousands of securities broker-dealers, and is supposed to be...
- Homeless Girl Needs a New Home to Get New Organs
There's a young girl in Chicago who can't get the lung transplant she desperately needs because she doesn't have a home. At just 14 years old, Ronnie Walker is acutely aware that without two new lungs, she will die. She's currently being kept alive with medication. The major barrier to getting her o ...
- Giving Voice to Alaska's "Chronic Public Inebriate ...
Blogger Mark Horvath is reporting from his trip to Alaska, where the homeless are subjected to the elements and die at alarming rates. Read his previous posts here and here . Until my recent trip to Anchorage, Alaska, I had never heard the term "chronic public inebriate," yet in Alaska the word "ine ...
- It's Time to Change the Definition of "Homeless"
Poverty advocates have long doubted the relevance of the antiquated federal definition of poverty, which is based on the cost of food in the mid-1950s rather than the cost of living in the 21st century. The federal government recently took an initial step toward redefining the federal definition of ...
- Talking Homelessness with the Mayor of Anchorage
Blogger Mark Horvath is reporting from his trip to Alaska, where the homeless are subjected to the elements and die at alarming rates. Read his previous post here . I was really honored that Mayor Dan Sullivan took the time out of his busy schedule to speak with me this week. Anchorage, Alaska has a ...
- In Defense of Social Workers
Since 1984 , the White House has officially recognized March as Social Work Month . Each year, the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) uses it to promote the profession in general and the specific vulnerable populations that we work with. The National Social Work Public Education Campaign ...
- Canadians want military spending cut: poll
A poll conducted at the beginning of March by Leger Marketing shows that a majority of Canadians want military spending to be reduced following the end of Canada’s mission in Afghanistan (Thane Burnett, “Canadians want military spending cut back: poll,” Toronto Sun, 5 March 2010). Almost 60% of tho ...
- The Year of the Drone
A recent report by Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedemann of the New America Foundation provides a detailed examination of the “secret” U.S. drone war in Pakistan. The report, Year of the Drone: Analysis of US Drone Strikes in Pakistan, 2004-2010, looks in particular at the civilian cost of the drone ...
- Amnesty: Canada must take lead on human rights
A report released last Monday by Amnesty International Canada (Canada and Human Rights in 2010: Time to Return to Leadership, February 2010) calls on the Canadian government to adopt a new vision on human rights promotion and protection and to once again make Canada a leader in advancing the interna ...
- Military spending: Up is down?
The new federal budget commits the Harper government to going ahead with its planned increases in military spending in both the coming year (fiscal year 2010-11) and the next, after which, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says, the size of planned increases in military spending will be reduced for two ...
- Loon watch: Gaffney on Obama, Islam, and missile d ...
Frank Gaffney, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control Policy in the Reagan Administration and President of the Center for Security Policy, comments on the “new” logo of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency: The Obama administration’s determined effort to reduce Ameri ...
- Tim Cox – Founder of GOOOH
Click the picture or link below to hear Kevin’s interview with the founder of GOOOH, Tim Cox, and click here to shake up the status quo by fighting for your freedom against a corrupt government! Tim Cox 03/09/10
- The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-9-10
Today, the ‘all-seeing’ Kevin Trudeau explains how the exercises in Washington affect your life directly and gives you the headlines he has been preaching for years: Despite Costs, More Companies Replace High Fructose Corn Syrup The Unbelievable Benefits of Omega-3’s Vitamin D Crucial For Immune Sys ...
- Sugar Gains Favor On Labels
March 8, 2010 Wall Street Journal By Anjali Coredeiro High fructose corn syrup, the sugar alternative used to sweeten sodas, cookies, condiments and cereals, is beginning to lose some ground in the packaged-food industry. More big-name food and beverage products—including Kraft Foods Inc.’s Wheat ...
- Kevin Talks Politics with Two Insiders!
Are you tired of career politicians? Â Whatever happened, to “We The People”? On Tuesday at 1PM CST, Tim Cox stops by the show to talk about his organization, Get Out Of Our House, or GOOOH (pronounced “go”). Mike will discuss what WE can do to rid our House of Representatives of people who don’t t ...
- Residents Scared by Local Cancer Study
March 8, 2010 Chicago Tribune By Jared S. Hopkins Like many residents of Crestwood, Frank Caldario has been worried about the water he drank for years without knowing it was contaminated. Caldario’s concerns, however, were heightened when he was diagnosed with kidney cancer last year. The 30-year-ol ...
- USA: Black coalition to protest expanding U.S. war ...
A newly-formed Black coalition has announced a rally and march on the White House to take place November 7, 2009 beginning in Washington, D.C.’s historic Malcolm X Park. The rally and march are to protest the expanding U.S. wars and other policy ini...
- Brazil: Bloggers on why there is still racism in t ...
Two weeks ago, Global Voices Online reported the story of Januário Alves de Santana, a black man who had been beaten and punched by security guards of one of the largest international retailers in Brazil. He was waiting for his family in the car park...
- Global: It takes a Villager
Owino Odhiambo left his tiny Kenyan village less than a decade ago to immerse himself completely in American culture. Equipped with American citizenship, two degrees, and five years experience working as a dedicated graphic designer in New York City,...
- Honduras: Implications of coup for Afro-descendant ...
Currently, the country of Honduras in Central America is experiencing its worst political crisis in decades. In the aftermath of the military coup that forcibly removed President Manuel Zelaya Rosales, there have been various developments that have r...
- Guadeloupe: Demand for support for the independenc ...
Felix Alain Flémin, secretary general of the Guadeloupe Communist Party (GCP) has called for international solidarity in support of the struggle for independence and self-determination of the people of those Caribbean islands under French colonial do...
- The price tag for Israeli intransigence
The day before Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Israel — supposedly on a mission to help kick-start peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians — the Netanyahu government made its contempt for the Obama administration clear by approving new settlement construction. They were quick to take offe ...
- What the Dubai assassination reveals
Robert Baer considers some of the wider implications of the assassination of the Hamas commander, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, in Dubai in January: If Mossad was indeed responsible, it means that blame for Mabhouh’s assassination can be put at the doorstep of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel’s Prim ...
- The Marjah mirage
Gareth Porter writes: For weeks, the U.S. public followed the biggest offensive of the Afghanistan War against what it was told was a “city of 80,000 people” as well as the logistical hub of the Taliban in that part of Helmand. That idea was a central element in the overall impression built up in F ...
- Fresh Middle East talks hit a wall
Al Jazeera reports: Israel’s move to expand illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank has threatened to sabotage newly agreed indirect talks with the Palestinian Authority before they can even begin. George Mitchell, the US envoy to the Middle East, announced on Monday that the two sides had a ...
- The reconstruction blame game
At Mother Jones, Daniel Schulman writes: After years of a US presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, rebuilding and stabilization projects remain disjointed and chaotic, resulting in wasted taxpayer dollars and, potentially, the deaths of soldiers and civilians. Meanwhile, the nearly six-year-old State D ...
- Himalayan Hijinks
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach According to an article in the Hindustan Times by someone for whom English is a second language, I find: Senior scientists at the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WITG) has rejected the Global Warming Theory and told that the Himalayas are quite safer zone on ear ...
- Wrong way econometricians
People send me stuff. This one reminds me of a famous wrong way: Hi Anthony Today we had some rumour in the Dutch media due to a paper by a couple of econometricians which projected dramatic warming. Ross McKitrick discovered they had used a wrong dataset; We blogged about here: http://climategat ...
- Former Apartheid Spy Appointed to Head UN Climate ...
From the You Just Can’t Make This Stuff Up Department. Former Apartheid Spy Appointed to Head UN Climate Change Effort by Joel B. Pollak From BIGGOVERNMENT.com This week, Marthinus van Schalkwyk, South Africa’s tourism minister, was nominated to head the United [...]
- Accuracy of climate station electronic sensors  ...
Given all of the discussions recently on issues with the surface network, I thought it would be a good idea to present this excellent paper by Lin and Hubbard and what they discovered about the accuracy, calibration and maintenance of the different sensors used in the climatic networks of the USA. P ...
- NSIDC Reports That Antarctica is Cooling and Sea I ...
By Steven Goddard Last month we discussed how NASA continues to spread worries about the Antarctic warming and melting. A January 12, 2010 Earth Observatory article warns that Antarctica “has been losing more than a hundred cubic kilometers (24 cubic miles) of ice each year since 2002” and that “if ...
- Michel Chossudovsky: Is catastrophe ahead for US-C ...
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ RTAmerica March 09, 2010 United States-China relations are on the rocks recently, China says that they have been seriously disrupted. Essentially, China feels that it is being threatened by the United States and this has been mounting since 1999. The threats ...
- Andrew Gavin Marshall: The collapse of Iceland
with Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad March 08, 2010 RTAmerica March 08, 2010 Iceland banks need a bailout but the citizens of the country say there is no chance. The people of Iceland voted against a deal that would have helped fix the economic problems, refusing to pay o ...
- Understanding Toyota Sudden Acceleration by Joel S ...
by Joel S. Hirschhorn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.foavc.org March 8, 2010 As a materials and manufacturing engineer with decades of experience with failure analysis of manufactured products, and as an owner of a Toyota vehicle, I am saddened by the lack of expertise and insight sha ...
- Kucinich: If You Listen To The President You’ ...
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ABC News Disappointed To Find No Ranting Violent Wackos At 9/11 Truth Convention By Darryl Mason The ABC News story turns out be more balanced than many were expecting, though it seems primarily focused on trying to find Truthers who spout violent, ant-government rhetoric, do sd yo to forge a neat ...
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9/11 Truthers Are Dangerous Former members of the US Air Force, the Marines, senior officials of the CIA, the FBI, firefighters, police officers, pilots, engineers, architects, Republican and Democrat congressmen and former members of the 9/11 Commission have all expressed doubts about the Bush ad ...
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Do Schools Kill Creativity? Ken Robinson : Kids will take a chance. If they don't know, they'll have a go. They're not frightened of being wrong. I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. ....if you're not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anythi ...
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Take a huge oceanic catamaran, stick a hydroelectric turbine underneath it, and hitch it to a 6.5 million-square-foot parafoil flying nearly a mile in the air. That’s a Korean research team’s new proposal for generating gigawatts of clean energy. As the parafoil pulls the boat, seawater would be fo ...
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Dr. Keeve Nachman, Director of the Farming for the Future Program at the Center for a Livable Future gave invited testimony to the Maryland House of Delegates on Friday, March 5 on the public health risks of arsenic in poultry feed. Delegate Tom Hucker (D-Montgomery Co) introduced the bill, which al ...
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As I was jogging past the group of giggling teenagers on a stoop, something struck my shoulder. Curious, I picked up the offending projectile: a plastic bag, tied and filled with a dark, crumbly material. The kids on the stoop burst out laughing. “So what’s in the bag?” I asked, playing along ...
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TPM Muckraker has some especially choice items today. Everything is TMPM until I say it’s not. - Did Liz Cheney’s bellicose Dept. of Jihad backfire? and if so, why hasn’t Rush or Glenn’s shit blown up in their faces? The traction here is all coming from Republican leaders, the same leaders who would ...
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Very busy day today but I’ve got some links and you do want to read Bob Herbert on the clusterfuck known as the Obama administration. Jobs. Is that so hard to understand? - Etc.: Former Stribber Tom Hamburger on the CC as a political force Toyota’s dog and throttle show might have gone better were i ...
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Monday, February 01, 2010 By Amir Mir LAHORE: Afghanistan-based US predators carried out a record number of 12 deadly missile strikes in the tribal areas of Pakistan in January 2010, of which 10 went wrong and failed to hit their targets, killing 123 innocent Pakistanis. The remaining two successfu ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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 Jamal Juma is the coordinator of the Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign (Stop the Wall) since 2002. He was arrested in December 2009 by the Israeli military following a series of protests against the construction of the Wall in the West Bank. He was one of 89 Palestinian  human ri ...
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The Palestine Solidarity Project reports on a March 8 raid by Israeli Forces on the Beit Ommar homes of the Project’s founders and family, and on the offices of the Project. This invasion comes one day after Beit Ommar residents blocked Routh 60 in southern Palestine, the main highway for trave ...
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Last week as I drove to Ofer Military Prison in the West Bank to attend a hearing of Abdallah Abu Rahma from Bili’in, it struck me that most people driving past these huge walls on their commute to Jerusalem don’t realize they are driving past a prison. That’s actually not surprising considering t ...
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In its 40 pages on Carney, the Murphy report said that his was one of the worst cases the commission investigated and that the Church’s handling of his case was “nothing short of catastrophic“. “It was inept, self-serving and for the best part of 10 years displayed no obvious concern for the welfare ...
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The problem is not the population of Marja, or it's strategic significance. As long as we continue using military force and propping up a corrupt, illegitimate government, we will continue to fail.
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In his succinct post on the March 6 2010 rally in Sheikh Jarrah, Jerry Haber at the Magnes Zionist wrote in my opinion, the highlight of the night was a speech delivered by young Israeli activist, Sarah Benninga, who spoke about the New Left and the New Right. I agree. It was rousing, articulating t ...
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Note that although Barnea’s primary assertion is that the apocalyptic implications of an Israeli strike would deter a rational Israeli government, he is concerned that Netnayahu may have rhetorically painted himself into a corner: Netanyahu has upgraded Ahmadinejad to the dimensions of a Hitler. ...
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Throughout the scandal over Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon’s “boycott” of the J Street sponsored congressional delegation to Israel (a good wrap here,) not one Israeli official, politician or public opinion maker came out in public support of Ayalon. Except that is, MK Michael Ben Ari, a self- ...
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Crude policy / How to lose friends Op-ed, Uri Misgav, Yediot, February 21 2010 [Hebrew original here] Jeremy Ben-Ami, executive director of J Street, was on the phone. He sounded agitated. “My great-grandfather came to Israel in the First Aliyah – he was one of the founders of Petach Tikva,” he dec ...
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As reported here yesterday (February 21 2010) condemnation of Deputy FM Danny Ayalon’s snubbing of the J Street sponsored US congressional delegation has been nearly universal. The only exception was a Kahanist MK. Now joined only by neoconservative apologist Shmuel Rosner (Maariv Hebrew.) Indeed ...
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