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Thomas Paine

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • DEVELOPMENT-CAMEROON: Are Women the Magic Bullet ...
    YAOUNDE, Mar. 12 (IPS) - A support network for women's political participation, are challenging head-on what it calls "electoral apathy", after noting a growing trend in electoral abstention.
  • RIGHTS: Guatemala, El Salvador Ordered to Heed Ru ...
    SAN SALVADOR, Mar 12 (IPS) - Guatemala and El Salvador have a terrible record in terms of compliance with the recommendations and sentences handed down by the inter-American human rights bodies on cases involving appalling abuses like forced disappearance, torture and massacres committed dur ...
  • PHILIPPINES: Reproductive Health Tests Candidate ...
    MANILA, Mar 12 (IPS) - Filipino voters who have yet to make up their minds about their choice for their next president are being advised: look at each aspirant’s stance on reproductive health to help them gauge the candidate’s leadership mettle and political guts.
  • IRAQ: Women Miss Saddam
    BAGHDAD, Mar 12 (IPS) - Under Saddam Hussein, women in government got a year's maternity leave; that is now cut to six months. Under the Personal Status Law in force since Jul. 14, 1958, when Iraqis overthrew the British-installed monarchy, Iraqi women had most of the rights that Western ...
  • EGYPT: Population Growth Overtakes Literacy Rise
    LUXOR, Mar 12 (IPS) - Literacy programmes are teaching millions of Egyptians to read, but are struggling to keep up with the country's high population growth.

Scoop - NZ

  • The Unpersuadables
    George Monbiot's excellent article on why people refuse to accept the science of climate change, or anything else and why scientists make it hard for us to bleieve them A really interesting look at why people dont want to believe that climate change is real ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • Urban Resilience for Dummies 2.
    Last post I covered some guiding principles for urban resilience planning in the face of climate change and diminishing resources (especially fresh water and oil). Considering these guidelines, what aspect of U.S. metro development stands out as the most ill-advised and risky? Short answer: exurban ...
  • UK: commercial property may cause new crisis
    The City watchdog has sounded alarm about the prospect of a meltdown in commercial property. Announcing much tougher stress tests for banks, the Financial Services Authority raised concerns that they are not setting aside enough to cover losses on the sector. In its overview of the financial risks ...
  • Govt internet filter going live is sad day for NZ
    The Department of Internal Affairs has admitted that the internet filter is now operational and is already being used by ISPs Maxnet and Watchdog. It appears that Maxnet have not told their customers that they are diverting some of their internet traffic to the government system to be filtered. ��� ...
  • Iranian President Ahmadinejad and US destabilisati ...
    Today Iranian President Ahmadinejad has warned that the US and its allies have destabilised the Middle East. Before we dismiss this statement as the ranting of a mad man, let's remember that senior US figures have said the same. It would be self destructive for Israel, or the world, not to be vigila ...

Independent ( London )

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Israel’s Lobby Imposes Crippling Sanctions on Amer ...
    Summary: Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and there’s no evidence that it is anywhere near producing nuclear weapons. Non-signatory Israel, with its vast secret arsenal of nuclear weapons — likely built with uranium stolen (but never paid for) from the United States — ...
  • Iran wants help from a friend
    Summary: An unusual alliance has been unveiled after Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad revealed that the recent arrest of Abdulmalik Rigi, leader of the Sunni terrorist group Jundallah, was made possible with intelligence cooperation from Afghanistan and Pakistan. source: Asia Times read mo ...
  • Turkey, Angry at U.S., Pledges Support for Iran
    Summary: Erdogan As the Obama administration scrambles to contain the diplomatic fallout with Turkey over the “Armenian genocide” resolution in the U.S. Congress, Turkey’s tilt towards Iran continues largely unnoticed. source: CNSNews,com read more
  • Brazil's president says new UN sanctions could lea ...
    Summary: Brazil's president warned Tuesday that U.S.-proposed sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program could lead to war, and said he will make his own efforts to head off further conflicts — an example he said shows his country's growing global prominence. source: LA Times read more
  • Sanctions on Iran counterproductive, says India
    Summary: India believes sanctions on Iran are counterproductive, the government told Parliament on Tuesday in the first public articulation of the government’s views on U.S. efforts to tighten the screws on the Islamic Republic. source: The Hindu read more

The Daily Galaxy

Natural News

  • Epidemic of Vitamin D deficiency sweeping the worl ...
    (NaturalNews) There is an epidemic of vitamin D deficiency sweeping across our modern world, and it's an epidemic of such depth and seriousness that it makes the H1N1 swine flu epidemic look like a case of the sniffles by comparison. Vitamin D deficiency is not only alarmingly widespread, it's also ...
  • Vitamin D slashes risk of bowel cancer by 40 perce ...
    (NaturalNews) A recent study published in the British Medical Journal found that high levels of vitamin D help to lower the risk of developing bowel cancer. The study, which was the largest of its kind, evaluated nearly 2,500 people with and without bowel cancer to see how vitamin D plays a role in ...
  • Vitamin D Improves Insulin Sensitivity, Helps Prev ...
    (NaturalNews) High-dose vitamin D supplements may help increase the body's sensitivity to the blood sugar-regulating hormone insulin, thus reducing the risk of diabetes, researchers have found. Insulin resistance (or insensitivity) occurs when the body's tissues stop responding as strongly to the pr ...
  • Hormone replacement therapy now linked to cataract ...
    (NaturalNews) For decades, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) was pushed by the medical establishment as a kind of youth elixir that offered all sorts of remarkable benefits. Take the hormones Big Pharma concocts from pregnant horses' urine and chemicals and middle-aged and older women would supposed ...
  • Dr. William Grant discusses healing power of Vitam ...
    (NaturalNews) This week's NaturalNews Talk Hour features William Grant, Ph.D. as he reveals "The Power of Vitamin D and Ultraviolet Light". Discover how to reduce your risk for degenerative dis-eases. Our program runs this Thursday evening at 6pm Pacific / 9pm Eastern, and registration is FREE. Simp ...

    The Galloping Beaver

  • Dear Liberals,
    Is there anything, anything at all that the Conservatives might do that would cause you to, you know, DO SOMETHING substantive? Contempt of parliament, and it's "not necessary to go to the wall"? By definition, given parliamentary supremacy, this is going to the wall. Yet somehow you've managed to ...
  • Who are the intolerant ones?
    This is not unusual : A prominent Islamic scholar issued a religious ruling against terrorism and suicide bombings at a speech in London Tuesday. Muhammad Tahir ul -Qadri , a leading scholar of Sufism, the tradition within Islam that focuses on peace and tolerance, isn't the first Islamic teacher ...
  • Steve reaches out to Youtube World
    As PMO spokesthingey Dimitri Soudas pitches it somewhat awkwardly on YouTube : Ask Your Questions to Prime Minister Harper : Submit your questions for Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in his response to the Speech from the Throne and the recent budget. The Prime Minister will answer a select ...
  • Piracy in the Gulf of Aden? Who knew?
    If you're going to sail your yacht anywhere in the world it pays to: a. Know your position at all times ; b. Make sure you know the conditions around you at all times ; c. Keep your maritime mobile radio system on; d. Oh yes... and if you're planning on being anywhere around the Horn of Africa you ...
  • Who ya gonna call?
    THE TIMES OF LONDON has a very disturbing report by  Richard Owen in Rome: Chief exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth says Devil is in the Vatican Hey — it deserves big and bold. Sex abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church are proof that that "the Devil is at work inside the Vatican", according to ...

Media Matters for America

  • Applesauce redux: Doocy endorses "treat them like ...
    Less than two weeks after Rush Limbaugh proposed eating "applesauce" as a solution for not being able to afford dentures due to lack of health insurance, Fox's Steve Doocy endorsed a veterinarian's idea to "fix" health care by "treat[ing] people like dogs." Limbaugh has also cited a lack of a " ...
  • Upping the double standard: Fox now asking if it's ...
    Despite presenting no evidence that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was personally aware of concerns regarding former-Rep. Eric Massa's behavior months before those claims were made public, Fox & Friends hosted a panel on March 12 to discuss whether it's "time for Speaker Pelosi to go." But Fox news fig ...
  • Glenn Beck: Behind the Music
    Glenn Beck has repeatedly attacked popular music as "propaganda" that is helping to advance a progressive agenda and undermine America. Fox example, Beck warned that Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" is "about a progressive utopia" and that the Beatles' "Revolution" "spell[s] it all out" ...
  • Doocy baselessly claims Slaughter is angling to p ...
    Fox & Friends' Steve Doocy baselessly claimed that Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) is offering a way to pass health care reform legislation "without actually voting on it." However, the House has already voted on and passed a health care reform bill, and a legislative rule reportedly under consi ...
  • Double standard: After defending Hastert over Fol ...
    Fox News has trumpeted stories that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's staff -- but not Pelosi herself -- may have been made aware of some concerns regarding Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) last year. However, following the revelation that then-House Speaker Dennis Hastert had likely been personally informed ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Where Is The Center?
    Ever since Barack Obama's election in 2008 there has been an ongoing discussion of where the political center is in America. Conservatives and Republican leaders have made the contention that this is a Center-Right country and that the Reagan Revolution of the 1980's permanently shifted the politica ...
  • Nixon Opposes Dan Senor Candidacy
    My apologies for my disappearing post on Dan Senor. Everyone hated it so I went in to fix it and hit "unpublish" and it was gone. I figured I would get right back to it but I went out drinking with my friends in Dupont Circle instead and didn't get home til 1 AM. Here is everything anyone needs ...
  • BUILDING FOR ULTRA-ORTHODOX JEWS IN JERUSALEM:MORE ...
    The announcement by Israeli Interior Minister that Israel is building 1600 more housing units in East Jerusalem made during VP Biden's visit was probably not an accident--hard to imagine otherwise. But, not simply because Eli Yishai, the Minister, wanted to embarrass the VP; also because he honestly ...
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  • America To The Rescue, (Not) Again
    We are told that President Obama has taken a leap of political faith in trying to bridge a final peace settlement between Palestinians and Israelis. The United States' new weapon is "proximity talks": if either side fails to meet American expectations, the US will squarely and publicly lay blame. ...

TruthOut

  • Six Democratic Senators Poised to Kill Student Loa ...
    Graduating from college is a great feeling. Not so great: being saddled with $23,200 in student loans, the average debt owed by graduates of the class of 2008, according to the Project on Student Debt . read more
  • The People's Nuclear Posture Review
    Who decides our national and nuclear policy? (a) REQUIREMENT FOR COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW. "In order to clarify United States nuclear deterrence policy and strategy for the near term, the Secretary of Defense shall conduct a comprehensive review of the nuclear policy of the United States for the next ...
  • Gazans Struggle to Keep Farming a Family Tradition
    Trying to make a living as a farmer in Gaza these days is taking a toll on the family ties so integral to the Palestinian culture. Traditionally, occupations are passed from father to son for generations, and their tie to the land is particularly strong. Before Israel imposed a suffocating blockade ...
  • David Sirota | The Tax War Goes Online
    Is the Internet everywhere or is it nowhere? This question will strike many readers as a navel-gazing exercise in post-modern existential inquiry, prompting reflections on the 21st-century meaning of location (is an IP address really an address?) and space (is cyberspace actually "space"?). But tha ...
  • Labor and Obama: Sweethearts No More
    President Obama's honeymoon with organized labor has finally ended. It was a long honeymoon, though, more than a year and full of passion. But, alas, labor's ardor has cooled. The pair aren't likely to split up, although, like so many post-honeymoon couples, they are sure to wrangle occasionally - ...

Planetsave

  • 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 ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Anchia and Johnson: A challenge to build on solar ...
    Great joint op-ed by our friend McCall Johnson over at Environment Texas and State Rep. Rafael Anchia, winner of Public Citizen’s Legislator of the Year award.  Following on the heels of TXU’s announcement last week that it will offer customers an affordable solar leasing program, the gist of it is ...
  • DOE Throws $154 Million Down A Texas Hole
    The United States Department of Energy has sunk $154 million into a carbon capture and sequestration project in Texas proposed by NRG Energy near Houston. The “demonstration” project will be built on their existing Parish Generating Station in Thompsons, TX (one of the biggest and dirtiest coal plan ...
  • FACTCHECK: Governor Perry sends a letter to Congre ...
    Governor Perry sent a letter to Congressional leadership and the Texas delegation asking them to strip the EPA of the authority to regulate greenhouse gases, which they were told to do by the Supreme Court in 2007’s Massachusetts v. EPA. Governor Perry needs to check his facts a little more carefull ...
  • Drop by Drop: 7 Ways Texas Cities Can Conserve Wat ...
    The National Wildlife Federation and the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club have created a splash with their latest report: Drop by Drop: 7 Ways Texas Cities Can Conserve Water. Austin should be proud. Out of 19 cities studied in this report, our capital city was highly ranked on outdoor water ord ...
  • 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 ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Beating Hunger in Haiti with Seeds and Tools for S ...
    haiti200604-129.jpg On the cusp of Haiti’s spring planting season, we received urgent communications from our partners and allies in Haiti about their dire need for seeds and tools to ensure that food production might be enhanced in the immedi ...
  • Women on the March until we are All Free!
    World_March_of_Women.jpg Grassroots International ally the World March of Women has launched a Call to Action on the occasion of International Women's Day, March 8, 2010. The World March of Women is also a�close ally of many Grassroots Interna ...
  • Via Campesina calls for End to Violence against Wo ...
    Women_farmers_against_violence_and_agribusiness.jpg Grassroots International partner La Via Campesina celebrated international women's day, March 8, 2010 with a re-affirmation of their global campaign to end violence against women. Last Novemb ...
  • A Future for Agriculture, a Future for Haiti
    Outside Author Bio:� Beverly Bell is the founder and Coordinating Committee Member and Program Coordinator of Other Worlds, which is a Grassroots International ally. She is also an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, Education Coordinato ...
  • Grassroots International, Partners and Allies Spea ...
    2010_01_27_0037.jpg � read more

Climate

  • March 12, 2010
    Japan's Cabinet Endorses Cap-and-Trade Climate Bill (Bloomberg) Japan's Cabinet has endorsed a climate draft law today that would cap industrial emissions and thrust the second-biggest economy into the $125 billion market for trading carbon credits. Meeting on Deforestation Boosts Moral ...
  • March 11, 2010
    U.S. Governors Ask Congress To Stop EPA Rules (Wall Street Journal) Governors of 18 U.S. states on Wednesday urged Congress to stop "harmful" EPA regulation of greenhouse-gas emissions, saying the agency isn't equipped to deal with "the very real potential for economic harm." Sen. Lev ...
  • March 10, 2010
    Kerry Says 'Great Deal' of Consensus Reached on Climate Policy (Bloomberg) Senator John Kerry said a bipartisan group of 14 lawmakers achieved a "great deal of consensus" on energy policy at the White House yesterday, and he's moving "rapidly" to introduce legislation on the subject. Ob ...
  • 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 ...

TomDispatch

  • Tomgram: 'This Administration Ended, Rather Than ...
    [ Note for TomDispatch Readers: On Friday evening, TomDispatch will be switching to an updated version of this site. It's possible that you might not be able to reach TD for some hours. If so, we expect to be back up on Saturday morning. Tom ] The Afghan Speech Obama Should Give (But Won't) ...
  • Tomgram: Pratap Chatterjee, Afghanistan as a Patr ...
    It's now a commonplace of the Afghan War. Western leaders in London , Berlin, Amsterdam , and Washington , as well as on flying visits to Kabul or even Kandahar , excoriate Afghan President Hamid Karzai for the "corruption" of his government. In return for their ongoing support, they repeatedly ...
  • Tomgram: Max Blumenthal, How Palin Became a Rogue
    It can't get better than this, can it? A first printing of 1.5 million copies sent out into an otherwise dead book market. Possibly as much as $7 million dollars going to the author, who already has interviews lined up with Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Walters. A bus tour of the "real America" tha ...
  • Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Surveillance State, U.S.A.
    Wars come home in strange, unnerving ways -- as Americans have just discovered at Fort Hood. Even before Major Nidal Malik Hasan went on his killing spree, that base, a major military embarkation point for our war zones, was already experiencing the after-effects of eight years of war and repeate ...
  • Tomgram: Droning On
    [ Note for TomDispatch Readers : A number of you have recently written in for clarification on contributing to this site through your purchases at Amazon.com. Here's my best shot at a useful explanation: If you click on any book image at this site -- like the book-cover image of The End of Vict ...

Smirking Chimp

  • Tomgram: Andy Kroll's 'Welcome to America, Sucker' ...
    — from TomDispatch "I landed in this country with $2.50 in cash and $1 million in hopes, and those hopes never left me," Charles Ponzi once told the New York Times . An Italian, who emigrated to the New World in 1903, his glory, such as it was, involved leaving countless immigrants and other America ...
  • Dangerous Visions for Desperate Times
    The good ship USA is sailing through an iceberg-laden sea, severely damaged and taking in water. Beset by an array of daunting problems, including a failed economy and global climate change, Americans have two choices. We can ignore how bad our situation is or we can fight to save our democracy. ...
  • Why Hayden's Wrong, Why Pelosi's Lying
    Tom Hayden wants peace, but he's sincerely mistaken about how to get it. He claims that Wednesday's unsuccessful vote to end the war in Afghanistan makes ending the war less likely, and that the way to end the war is to pass a bill that would then have to pass the Senate and the President, a bill r ...
  • United States of Foreclosures: How 'Bankquakes' Sh ...
    The financial crisis started as a housing bubble with the financial industry convinced that home values never fall. How wrong they were even as they leveraged and securitized their investments to create a global crisis. Now, brace yourself because not only is it not over, but in some respects it's j ...
  • Ask the Chamber of Commerce: Why Is Too Much Not E ...
    by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship Living in these United States, there comes a point at which you throw your hands up in exasperation and despair and ask a fundamental question or two: how much excess profit does corporate America really need? How much bigger do executive salaries and bonuses have ...

Ten Percent

  • Ha, Ha, BNP’s Still Racist Rules Cost Them 60 Gran ...
    The British National Party has been forced to rewrite its rules again after a court said they were discriminatory The BNP voted to scrap its whites-only membership policy last month after a legal threat from equality watchdogs. Instead, it said members had to sign up to maintaining the “integrity o ...
  • Total Terror
    It is impressive that the media is so cynical and hysteria so unremarkable that they can spin this as actually still terrifyingly dangerous with a straight face- Al-Qaida seen eyeing less complex attacks on US Now it appears that the group, which has prided itself on its ideological purism, seems to ...
  • Leave Them Kids Alone
    Teachers in England should not be banned from membership of the British National Party or any group which may promote racism, a review has concluded. The government commissioned the report after a leaked list identified 15 BNP members as teachers. Yeah because institutions full of young impressionab ...
  • BBC Find New Role As Serco & The UKBA’s PR Pimp
    A tour of Yarl’s Wood- I was given a guided tour by Dawn Elaine, the Serco manager, who runs the centre. I saw no obvious signs of distress amongst residents. But then there were a lot of closed doors. Positive steps have been taken since Serco took over, including a new school. It’s a lovely airy c ...
  • Not Quite Short Enough To Go On Twitter
    Which may or may not be a regular posting type thingy, anyways… I do wonder if the vitriol against Kucinich by Kos & co. was also indulged in to distract from the Afghanistan debate, this being the good Obama war etc. Questions from Scotland Against Criminalising Communities in regard to the triple ...

Booman Tribune

  • Take A Look at Joe Hoeffel in PA
    With all the focus on Bart Stupak and abortion, it's easy to overlook state and local races where abortion is an issue. In Pennsylvania, we are coming up on a primary to determine which Democrat will win the nomination to replace Governor Ed Rendell. There are four serious candidates (although pol ...
  • Not As They Do: Conservatives and the Deficit, Pt. ...
    Conservatives who squawk about the deficit — and Democrats who should know better, but squawk anyway — tend to do so selectively. That is, they tend to focus only on spending. But spending is only half of any deficit equation. After all, a deficit is "the amount by which expenditures or liabilities ...
  • Monsanto Makes a Killing
    You would think that in a in the most severe economic downturn prices would generally hold steady or rise very slowly. Well, as we know, when you have a captive market that ain't necessarily so. Take the case of Monsanto last year. Monsanto controls much of the market for the seeds which US fa ...
  • Health Care News
    Harry Reid has sent a rather muscular letter to Minority Leader Mitch McConnell justifying the use of budget reconciliation rules to pass heath care reform. Meanwhile, the Washington Post continues to provide a platform for misleading agitprop against reform from so-called Democrats (in this case, ...
  • Reid's Wife and Daughter Injured
    Here is some upsetting news: Sen. Harry Reid’s wife and daughter were hurt in a car accident Thursday and were taken to a Washington-area hospital for treatment. Reid’s (D-Nev.) wife, Landra, age 69, and daughter Lana Reid-Barringer, 48, were involved in a car accident in Virginia. Reid spoke ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Downtime
    Just a quick note to say that there’ll be no posts from yours truly here at Futurismic for the rest of this week, as I’m off for a long weekend away from the computer in the company of The Lady and a fistful of books I’ve been itching to read for ages. I’ll be doing my [...] Project Wonderful - You ...
  • New business models in transmedia storytelling
    The TechDirt gang have pointed out an interesting experiment in monetizing storytelling across multiple media platforms from movie house Zen Films: It’s not a requirement for the audience to consume all media – only that they enjoy whichever one they have right now. Now, given all the attention we’r ...
  • ereaders: an ecological argument
    From Sam Jordison of The Guardian: what difference do ebooks make to a reader’s carbon footprint? I’ve only managed to find one report – on the Kindle (by The Cleantech Group) – but it backs up suggestions that so long as e-readers are used as book replacements rather than supplements, they soon ...
  • Downsizing Detroit: agriculture in the inner city
    We mentioned last summer that there was a chance some of the American cities affected worst by the changing economic climate deliberately “downsizing” themselves in order to consolidate what remains and cauterise the wound, and it seems that the decision has been made in the case of Detroit. With th ...
  • We are all Ponce: The Quest for Longevity
    When I was very little, some early-grade teacher lost in the mists of memory told me the story of how Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon spent much of his life searching for the Fountain of Youth. Now that I’m approaching one of those decade birthdays, I can finally relate. Besides, as the [...] ...

Therapy News

  • Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up – 3/12/2010
    A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up As promised, here are ten of this week’s top psychotherapy news pieces. Enjoy! • Psychotherapist Wins Right to Abuse Hearing • Intervention for Terrorist Attack Victims Reveals Poor Referrals to Psychological Services • How to Tell if a Guy ...
  • Power of Acts of Kindness Meaningfully Mapped
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline The potential for acts of kindness and charity to have a positive impact on those who witness the acts has been a recurring theme in many fields within popular culture, but extensive research into the precise functioning of kindness within networks has been lacking fo ...
  • Conquering College: Adjusting to College Life Can ...
    By Danielle Organista, LMFT, Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Danielle and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile As a young person entering into college life, you are probably having many thoughts about what lies ahead, and feeling excited about this ...
  • Do You Try to Avoid Your Feelings?
    By Joyce A. Thompson, MS, LMFT, Abuse / Survivors of Abuse Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Joyce and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Many survivors of childhood abuse are very skilled at avoiding their feelings. You might ask why they would do this, but it actually makes a lot of ...
  • Massage’s Benefits for Anxiety Matched by Other Me ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Getting a soothing and relaxing massage has long been not only a popular source of unwinding and pleasure after a hard workweek or difficult event, but has also been hailed for its ability to ease symptoms of anxiety. In fact, massage therapy has traditionally been one ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • EPA's Lisa Jackson and the Science of Mountaintop ...
    Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) EPA's Lisa Jackson and the Science of Mountaintop Removal Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Jackson readily acknowledged the established body of evidence suggesting mountaintop removal coal mining harms water quality. How can it not? ... Dept. of Prot ...
  • Welcome to San Francisco: A Coal-Free City Eco-Tou ...
    Huffington Post (blog) Welcome to San Francisco: A Coal-Free City Eco-Tourism Campaign? (Free Postcards!) Huffington Post (blog) Go to Alcatraz and stand in solidarity with the Appalachian coalfields, soon to be freed from the prison of mountaintop removal mining! ...
  • Speak Your Piece: My Congressman - Daily Yonder (b ...
    Daily Yonder (blog) Speak Your Piece: My Congressman Daily Yonder (blog) Rahall told the newspaper he would use his power as a committee chair to stop a bill that would abolish mountaintop removal mining. ...
  • Daniel Martin Moore objects to mountaintop-removal ...
    A.V. Club Daniel Martin Moore objects to mountaintop-removal mining with quiet, reasoned ... A.V. Club AVC: How did you become interested in the mountaintop removal mining issue? DMM: Kentucky has a really fragile economy. We have a lot of people living in ... and more��
  • Round 2: Blankenship versus RFK Jr. on Mountaintop ...
    Round 2: Blankenship versus RFK Jr. on Mountaintop Removal It's Getting Hot In Here (blog) As Kennedy writes, Mr. Blankenship acknowledged, in a recent debate with me, that mountaintop removal cannot be accomplished without violating the law. ... Mountaintop Removal Redux: Bobby vs. Blankenship II ...

Memeorandum

  • The Democrats' scam becomes more transparent (Glen ...
    Glenn Greenwald / Salon : The Democrats' scam becomes more transparent   —  A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about what seemed to be a glaring (and quite typical) scam perpetrated by Congressional Democrats: all year long, they insisted that the White House and a majority of Democratic Senators vig ...
  • SEIU Warns Dems: If You Don't Back Reform, We Won' ...
    Greg Sargent / The Plum Line : SEIU Warns Dems: If You Don't Back Reform, We Won't Back You   —  Hardball time.  —  In what seems intended as a shot across the bow of House Dems wavering on health reform, top officials with the labor powerhouse SEIU have bluntly told a Democratic member that they w ...
  • Texas Conservatives Win Vote on Textbook Standards ...
    James C. McKinley Jr / New York Times : Texas Conservatives Win Vote on Textbook Standards   —  AUSTIN, Tex. — After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday voted to approve a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics text ...
  • 'They Just Want This Over' - By: Robert Costa (Rob ...
    Robert Costa / The Corner on National Review Online : ‘They Just Want This Over’ — By: Robert Costa   —  Sitting in an airport, on his way home to Michigan, Rep. Bart Stupak, a pro-life Democrat, is chagrined.  “They're ignoring me,” he says, in a phone interview with National Review Online.  “That ...
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    Renae Merle / Washington Post : New round of foreclosures threatens housing market   —  The housing market is facing swelling ranks of homeowners who are seriously delinquent but have yet to lose their homes, and this is threatening a new wave of foreclosures that could hit just as the real estate ...

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China Dialogue

  • 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 ...
  • Jane Goodall: wild at heart
    It has been 50 years since the scientist turned eco-evangelist began her seminal work with chimpanzees in Africa. But, writes Stephen Moss, her work is far from finished. Jane Goodall , grey in complexion but resplendent in a red shawl, is sitting on the sofa in a dimly lit room in west London. The ...
  • Modern and mobile (2)
    African pastoralism has been dismissed as outdated and inefficient. But awareness of its social and environmental benefits is growing, says Ced Hesse. In many parts of dryland Africa, national governments are beginning to value pastoralism and the importance of mobility for productivity. Innovative ...
  • Modern and mobile (1)
    Nomadic pastoralism boosts African economies and protects livestock from drought. So why is it under threat? Ced Hesse explains. Mobile-livestock keeping, or pastoralism , plays a critical role in the economic prosperity of Africa’s drylands. Across east and west Africa, an estimated 50 million live ...
  • 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Karl Rove “Proud” of U.S. Waterboardin ...
    As part of his ongoing media blitz to promote his book, Courage and Consequences, Karl Rove appeared Thursday on the BBC program Newsnight, where he told his host that he takes pride in the Bush administration’s so-called “enhanced interrogation” program. “I’m proud that we used techniques that brok ...
  • Spin me round: diverse genes get diverse headline ...
    If you’re a girl who likes a little diversity in your love life, new research shows that it may reflect the diversity in your genes. The journal “Animal Behavior,” reported that scientists from the University of Australia studied the DNA of 150 college students, primarily looking at the genes infl ...
  • Senate Judiciary Committee Passes Bill to Reduce C ...
    Bill would reduce -- but not eliminate -- the disparity in sentencing for federal crack and powder cocaine offenses.
  • Smart Toilets? A Revolution May Be Coming to Your ...
    It turns out that there's a double-win in most bathrooms around the world with "NoMix" toilets that separate urine from solid waste.
  • The F Word: Aren’t We Cheneyed Out Yet?
    At what point do we call them the family of mass intimidation and simply stop playing into the Cheney clan’s tired old terror tactics? Liz is the latest. Cheney child number one made the headlines this week, with an innuendo-laced video questioning the loyalty of lawyers who represent Guantanamo det ...

Threat Level

  • China Warns Google Over Search Censorship
    BEIJING (Reuters) - China warned Google against flouting the country’s laws on Friday, as expectations grow for a resolution to a public battle over censorship and cybersecurity. The chief executive of Google, Eric Schmidt, said this week he hoped to announce soon a result to talks with Chinese auth ...
  • TJX Hacking Conspirator Gets 4 Years
    Humza Zaman, a co-conspirator in the hack of TJX and other companies, was sentenced Thursday in Boston to 46 months in prison and fined $75,000 for his role in the conspiracy. The sentence matches what prosecutors were seeking. Zaman, a 33-year-old former programmer at Barclays Bank, was charged wi ...
  • Hate Blogger Wins Second Mistrial
    Deadlocked jurors in the Hal Turner hate blogger case were excused late Wednesday after deliberating two days. It’s the second mistrial in the government’s case to prosecute the New Jersey man for allegedly threatening to kill judges. Assistant U.S. Attorney William Hogan said a new trial was “highl ...
  • Pink Floyd Beats EMI In Creativity Flap
    Pink Floyd prevailed Thursday in a legal brawl with its label when a British judge ordered EMI to stop selling individual downloads of the acid-inspired group’s songs without permission. The artists behind The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall, and other top sellers claimed its decade-old contract ...
  • Feds: TSA Worker Tried to Sabotage Terror Database
    A former Transportation Security Administration contractor is being charged in Colorado for allegedly injecting malicious code into a government network used for screening airport security workers and others. The malicious code, a logic bomb installed last October, was designed to cause damage and ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • U.S. setting bad example on protectionism - Sarkoz ...
    LONDON, March 12 (Reuters) - President Nicolas Sarkozy of France accused Washington on Friday of setting the wrong example on protectionism, suggesting there had not been a level playing field in the race for a $50 billion refuelling plane contract.
  • UPDATE 2-US FDA releases Amylin inspection report
    WASHINGTON, March 12 (Reuters) - U.S. regulators found shortcomings at an Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc manufacturing plant during a December inspection, according to a report released on Friday ahead of an expected decision on the company's key drug.
  • Calif. lawsuit claims Toyota hid defect evidence
    SANTA ANA, California (Reuters) - Southern California prosecutors filed the first U.S. consumer protection lawsuit against Toyota Motor Corp on Friday, claiming it had engaged in "fraud" by hiding evidence of dangerous vehicle defects.
  • Factbox: Examiner's findings of claims against Leh ...
    (Reuters) - The report by a court-appointed examiner into the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc , the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history, was made public on Thursday.
  • China warns Google as Internet row deal seen soon
    BEIJING (Reuters) - China warned Google, the world's largest search engine, against flouting the country's laws on Friday, as expectations grow for a resolution to a public battle over censorship and cyber-security.

Equality Trust

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

IntelNews

  • Analysis: Forged Irish passports have long history
    At least six of the nearly 30 Mossad assassins who killed Hamas military official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh last January in Dubai, used forged Irish passports to enter and leave the United Arab Emirates. This upset the Irish government, but did not surprise intelligence observers familiar with the long his ...
  • News you may have missed #307
    Aussie spy agency feels the strain as new recruits take key jobs. Secrets spies and steel in the Rio Tinto Case. Former Canadian National Research Council scientist denies spying for Iran.
  • Philby’s granddaughter revisits Moscow in search o ...
    Charlotte Philby, daughter of John Philby, H.A.R. “Kim” Philby’s oldest son, has written an account of a recent trip to Moscow to revisit her grandfather’s apartment and grave.
  • Declassified MI5 files offer wealth of new informa ...
    Britain's National Archives have authorized the release of nearly 200 files from the vaults of MI5, the country's domestic intelligence service.
  • News you may have missed #306
    Sweden jails Chinese man for spying on Uighurs. Pakistan follows US directive on ISI chief. Dubai tells spies to...leave.

After Downing Street.org

  • Charlottesville, VA, Tomorrow Night! Musical/Poeti ...
    Days before torture memo architect John Yoo speaks at University of Virginia ( protest plans ), two New York artists are to present a new composition in Charlottesville built around excerpts of poetry written by prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. Composer Annea Lockwood and new music baritone Thomas Buc ...
  • Health Reform Myths
    Health Reform Myths By Paul Krugman | NY Times So what’s the reality of the proposed reform? Compared with the Platonic ideal of reform, Obamacare comes up short. If the votes were there, I would much prefer to see Medicare for all. Health reform is back from the dead. Many Democrats have realized ...
  • AFRICOM's First War: U.S. Directs Large-Scale Offe ...
    AFRICOM's First War: U.S. Directs Large-Scale Offensive In Somalia Rick Rozoff | Stop NATO | Blog site Over 43 people have been killed in the Somali capital of Mogadishu in the past two days in fighting between Shabab (al-Shabaab) insurgent forces, who on March 10 advanced to within one mile of the ...
  • Falluja's Birth Defects
    Falluja's birth defects By Riz Kahn | Al Jazeera Joining the conversation will be Dr Muhamad Tareq al-Darraji who authored the report Prohibited Weapons Crisis about the impact of the US military assault on the Falluja population, and Dahr Jamail, an American journalist who reported extensivel ...
  • NYC! Tomorrow! DHS: Give Us Our Children Back! 1 o ...

Grist - News

  • Seedy tactics in Iowa and Norway in the news this ...
    by Bonnie Azab Powell Monsanto's Roundup Ready soybean seedPhoto: Monsanto The first in a series of daylong federally sponsored workshops kicked off today in Ankeny, Iowa , to debate whether consolidation in agriculture -- in particular in the seed industry -- has stifled competition and harmed ...
  • The Climate Post: Uptick in denialism halts glacie ...
    by Eric Roston First things first: "The absence of an actual bill” is one impediment to the Senate taking up climate legislation, The Hill reported earlier this week. The climate leadership troika of Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) continue to wo ...
  • How many Venezuelan soldiers does it take to chang ...
    by Ashley Braun An entire army, apparently. El Presidente of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, put in big orders for energy efficiency when he commanded the country's lightbulbs get swapped for CFLs . Why the power play? A drought of hydropower has the nation in energy crisis and the military armed with ...
  • Senators negotiate green economy bill with pollute ...
    by Brad Johnson Cross-posted from the Wonk Room . As the Kerry-Graham-Lieberman triumvirate works to craft green economy legislation , they’re negotiating with industry lobbyists who deny the threat of global warming. After meeting with President Barack Obama and a dozen industry-friendly lawm ...
  • Farm lobby’s lawyer appointed as Ag Committe ...
    by Tom Laskawy Here's object lesson No. 452 in the ongoing corrosive handover of government power to corporate interests. And no, I don't think I'm exaggerating. Over at Mother Jones , Kate Sheppard details the high-speed revolving door permanently located between the offices of Sen. Blanche Li ...

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Washington Independent

  • Pelosi Blames Senate for Absence of Public Option
    Just hours after Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) announced that he’d whip “aggressively” for the public option if the House includes it in its reconciliation bill, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) killed the idea. The Washington Post quotes Pelosi saying today that the public option won’t be a part of the ...
  • SEC Calls for Power to Regulate Credit Default Swa ...
    In the wake of the request by European leaders to institute (at a minimum) mandatory reporting and more regulation of credit default swaps, the Securities and Exchange Commission is jumping on the regulation bandwagon. In a statement by its chair, Mary Schapiro called for regulation of credit defaul ...
  • Sen. Sessions Wants Indefinite Detention for Terro ...
    Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.)  – last seen slandering Justice Department lawyers and then distancing himself from Liz Cheney’s similar slanders — goes way further than Sen. Lindsey Graham’s objections to a civilian trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. He writes in a New York Daily News op-ed: According ...
  • Prior to Comcast-NBC Ruling, Court Upholds Ban on ...
    While Comcast awaits a final decision from the FCC on its acquisition of NBC Universal, it was also busy in court arguing that the FCC’s ban on withholding programs from its cable competitors should be thrown out. The courts disagreed. Cablevision Systems Corp. and Comcast Corp. had challenged the F ...
  • GOP Candidate in Hawaii: Social Security Privatiza ...
    Phil Klein talks to Charles Djou, the GOP candidate in the House district that includes Honolulu and looks unusually winnable thanks to an open primary that could split the votes of Democrats. Perhaps because of that, and because of the general confidence boost given to Republicans by Scott Brown’s ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

  • Tax those carbon gluttons
    LEMME TELL YOU about a carbon tax you’re gonna love. Two such taxes, actually. I tell you, kid, Stephane Dion had the right idea, but the wrong sales pitch. The fun starts with the government giving you maybe $2,000 as a carbon dividend. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & C ...
  • Why do we hate? Academics seek answer in new field
    Hate is everywhere, but the fundamental question of why one person can hate another has never been adequately studied, contends Jim Mohr of Gonzaga University, who is developing a new academic field of hate studies. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �A ...
  • Will Whole Foods’ new mobile slaughterhouses squee ...
    Massachusetts poultry farmer Jennifer Hashley has a problem. From the moment she started raising pastured chickens outside Concord, Mass. in 2002, there was, as she put it “nowhere to go to get them processed.” While she had the option of slaughtering her Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to ...
  • Cow beaten to death with plank
    A farmer has condemned an attack in which a cow died after being repeatedly beaten around the head with a 4ft plank of wood. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • ND food pantries reach halfway goal of 700 deer
    A North Dakota program that distributes venison to the needy is halfway to its goal of collecting 700 deer carcasses despite a hunting season that barely got off with a bang. "I was a little worried about the hunting season," said Ann Pollert, Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society ...

Suzie-Q

  • Rove Is ‘Proud’ Of Waterboarding
    Rove Is ‘Proud’ Of Waterboarding, But Falsely Claims It Was More ‘Constrained’ Than SERE Training Think Progress- By Matt Corley at 10:45 am In an interview with the BBC yesterday, former Bush adviser Karl Rove defended the administration’s use of waterboarding, saying that he was “proud” tha ...
  • Kit Bond: Just another. One Voiced, Neo Corporate ...
    A predictable member of the corporate superstructure that was imported from Bu$hco; Kit will do and say anything that greases the skids for the Neo Republicon agenda. Some of his main contributors are Boeing and Monsanto. He is involved in”Vote Smart”, which is, in my opinion, mind control for dumm ...
  • War Crimes Trial Of The Century
    Allen L Roland opednews.com March 10, 2010 at 15:49:41 The war crimes trial of the century will be the World Court versus George W Bush and Dick Cheney. It will be instigated when the shocking details of the 9/11 conspiracy are finally fully brought to light ~ thus validating countless members of th ...
  • The 9/11 Hijackers are Alive?
    Video Interview With Dr. David Ray Griffin Information Clearing House, posted March 10, 2010 According to the chief of Japans Democratic Party who says that the 9/11 hijackers are alive and that 9/11 was a complete hoax. Dr. David Ray Griffin is a professor [...]
  • Tea Party: All About Racism – Part 2
    Last week, I wrote a piece about the tea party movement and the obvious through-line of race, race-baiting, racism and the use of the Southern Strategy within the movement. The responses were mostly positive and supportive, while the responses from the far-right and tea party people were predictably ...

Solari

  • Doris “Granny D” Haddock (January 24, ...
    Doris “Granny D” Haddock, the woman best known for walking more than 3,200 miles across the country in 1999 to advocate for campaign finance reform, died Tuesday at the age of 100. A fierce opponent of “soft money” political donations, Haddock spearheaded a petition for campaign finance reform, ...
  • Chinese PPI Running at Red-Hot 5.4%
    Read full article at BusinessInsider.com. . .
  • Los Angeles Gets Tough on Banks
    By Rachel Beck The city of Los Angeles is putting banks it does business with on the spot. The unanimous directive coming from the city council is that banks need to help Los Angeles slow the pace of foreclosures ravaging its neighborhoods and battle a local unemployment rate that far exceeds the na ...
  • Norway Doomsday Seed Vault Hits 1/2 Million Mark
    Two years after receiving its first deposits, a “doomsday” seed vault on an Arctic island has amassed half a million seed samples, making it the world’s most diverse repository of crop seeds, the vault’s operators announced Thursday. Cary Fowler — who heads the trust that oversees the seed collecti ...
  • Monthly Carload Declines Slow in February 2010
    Click for larger chart The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported that in February 2010, U.S. freight railroads saw a 1.5 percent decline in carloads compared with the same month last year and a decline of 15.6 percent compared with the same month in 2008. According to the March AA ...

Global Insights

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

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Twilight Earth

  • The Oath – Protect Defend and Preserve – The Envir ...
    Click below to listen to Adam Shake discuss the protection, defense and preservation of the environment. Related posts: EPA Seeks to Protect Children Through Airborne Lead Detection Standards Childrens Health Month Tips – Protect Children from Environmental Risks 100 Percent of Fish Tested, C ...
  • 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 ...

Inhabitat

  • Sustainable Prefab Pied-a-Terre by Office of Mobil ...
    Inhabitat has long followed the innovative work of prefab pioneer Jennifer Siegal; from country schools to mod beach houses. This time, the Office of Mobile Design has ventured inland to install its latest design, the Prefab Showhouse. Formerly located in Venice, CA where it served as OMD’s showro ...
  • EcoTopia: New Concepts in Green Product Design
    Opening Monday, March 15th in Long Beach, CA, EcoTopia is a competition and exhibition highlighting new concepts in green product design. The show will feature a variety of eco-products from designers that are all focused on fostering a healthy ecosystem and more sustainable society. The 20 products ...
  • CCC: Outdoor Seating That Purifies the Air
    Inhabitat reader deborah Sommers tells us how Alexandre Moronnoz’s new outdoor seating CCC (named after Champignon Carbone Capture, the material from which it is made) takes the concept of ‘green’ furniture a step further. This series of sculptural urban seating is made from  TX Active Cement ...
  • Cardboard Moving Boxes Transform Into Sturdy Eco-F ...
    Most of us have been re-purposing cardboard boxes since childhood, transforming them from containers for transporting objects into forts or secret hiding places. With her project entitled “Move!” Janine Perkuhn has developed a more practical application for those used cardboard boxes — re-purpos ...
  • Karim Rashid Unveils Water-Filtering “Bobble” Bott ...
    Karim Rashid has done it again. Here at Inhabitat we’re pretty much glued to our reusable water bottles, so we got a little giddy when we saw the Bobble, a water filtering bottle that sells for just $9.95. On top of being reusable and affordable the Bobble is BPA-free, made from recycled plastic and ...

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  • Obesity and alcohol act together to increase the r ...
    Physorg.com – Two studies published in the British Medical Journal today show that obesity and alcohol act together to increase the risk of liver disease in both men and women. Together, these findings have important clinical and public health implications.Read Article Ed. -The liver is the organ th ...
  • Clean energy from beneath the earth
    DW-World – The Earth is an oven. 99 percent of our planet is hotter than 1000 degrees Celsius. This natural heat can be harnessed for eco-friendly electricity production. What is more, poor countries can profit from it. The ancient Romans knew how to live the good life. They turned hot springs with ...
  • New York agrees World Trade Center 9/11 dust payou ...
    BBC – New York City officials have agreed to pay up to $657.5m (£437m) to thousands of rescue and clean-up workers after 9/11. The settlement would compensate more than 10,000 plaintiffs who say they were made sick by dust at the Ground Zero site of the attacks. At least 95% of the plaintiffs must ...
  • U.S. “cap and trade” rebranded “pollution reductio ...
    (Reuters) – Like a savvy Madison Avenue advertising team, senators pushing climate-control legislation have decided to scrap the name “cap and trade” and rebrand their product as “pollution reduction targets.” A clunky and difficult term to define for laymen and some politicians, “cap and trade” had ...
  • Internet Freedom Under Attack – Australia – Leadin ...
    ITWire – Shadow treasurer Joe Hockey yesterday launched an attack on the Federal Government’s internet filtering scheme, in one of the first cases of a senior Opposition figure coming out publicly against the controversial policy. “What we have in the government’s Internet filtering proposals ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • 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 ...

PakAlert

  • It Will Be Far Worse Than The Great Depression
    by Eric deCarbonnel If the economy was a person, then the producing sector (agriculture, manufacturing, mining, etc) would be its “income”. If the service sector is much smaller than the producing sector (like China today or the US one hundred years ago), then a country is living below its mea ...
  • Lahore Suicide Attacks:Indian Proxy War against Pa ...
    By Zaheerul Hassan On March 13, 2010, two suicidal bombers walked up to Pakistan military vehicles and exploded themselves in densely populated area RA Bazar of Lahore cantt. In these attacks 45 persons included five soldiers killed and more than 120 individuals sustained injures. This is the secon ...
  • 50 Facts About U.S. Nuclear Weapons
    The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project was completed in August 1998 and resulted in the book Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940 edited by Stephen I. Schwartz. These project pages should be considered historical. - Except where noted all [... ...
  • 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 ...

ecogeek

  • Bead-Filled Washing Maching Uses 90% Less Water
    A new washing machine design uses 90 percent less water and reduces utility bills by 30 percent by cleaning clothes with tiny plastic beads. The machine by UK company Xeros Ltd uses 3mm-long nylon beads that can get into all crevices and folds of clothing and absorb stains and dirt.  Stephen Burki ...
  • Concentrated Solar Power Isn't Just for Deserts, I ...
    Usually when you read about concentrated solar power, it's referring to some large project destined for the Mojave Desert, but Syracuse's Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems (SyracuseCoE) has set out to prove that this technology can be used in smaller, colder settings. Syracu ...
  • Transonic Combustion Improves Gas Engine Efficienc ...
    Conventional gasoline engines are terribly inefficient things. Only 13% of the energy of the fuel actually moves the car. 62% is lost in the engine as waste heat, and driveline losses, accessories, and idling also reduce the efficiency. Transonic Combustion is planning to build automobile eng ...
  • Google Maps Adds Bicycle Information
    Beginning today, Google has begun providing bicycle directions for its Google Maps service with directions for cyclists in 150 cities in the United States. Google already incorporates public-transit and walking directions in addition to automobile driving directions, and the bicycling community ...
  • 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 ...

Buzzflash

  • L.A. Puts the Public Back in the Public Interest
    BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Sue Wilson Broadcasters are licensed to serve the public interest.�� If a radio or TV station does not serve the public interest, the FCC can take its license to broadcast away, and give the opportunity to make millions using the public airwaves to someone else.� Ye ...
  • In BBC Program, Kids From Afghanistan Admit Facing ...
    In war-torn Kabul, life’s always on the line In a panicked way that’s grueling Which makes me think it’s a perfect place To introduce homeschooling .read more
  • Aren't We Cheneyed Out Yet?
    BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Laura Flanders At what point do we call them the family of mass intimidation and simply stop playing into the Cheney clan’s tired old terror tactics? Liz is the latest. Cheney child number one made the headlines this week, with an innuendo-laced video questioning the lo ...
  • Reader Poll: Is Glenn Beck Ignorant or Shameless?
    BUZZFLASH DISCUSSION We were having a discussion about right-wing nut jobs at BuzzFlash HQ the other day and it seemed that most of them could be divided into these two categories: ignorant and shameless. To test our theory, we turn today to our readers. And who better to start with but the crown pr ...
  • Karl Rove Wins BuzzFlash's Media Putz Award for Hi ...
    BUZZFLASH MEDIA PUTZ OF THE WEEK Karl Rove For reporting that is an embarrassment to the profession of journalism, and for being beholden to corporate paymasters rather than the citizens of America. Karl Rove hasn't ever had the honor of winning our coveted Media Putz Award, though he's been a mult ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • The Democrats' scam becomes more transparent
    (updated below) A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about what seemed to be a glaring (and quite typical) scam perpetrated by Congressional Democrats:  all year long, they insisted that the White House and a majority of Democratic Senators vigorously supported a public option, but the only thi ...
  • Carville/Greenberg strategists and national securi ...
    Earlier this week, a new poll and accompanying "strategic analysis" was released by Democracy Corps (the Democratic firm founded by James Carville, Stan Greenberg and Bob Shrum), co-sponsored by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner ("GQR") and the "centrist" Third Way.  It spat out decades-old, warmed-over, f ...
  • American elites abandon their faux regret over Ira ...
    The New York Times ' Tom Friedman, who did as much as any single individual to persuade large numbers of Democrats and "moderates" to support the invasion of Iraq, today writes : Former President George W. Bush’s gut instinct that this region craved and needed democracy was always right. It s ...
  • The majestic petulance of John Roberts
    The petulance and sense of self-importance on display here is quite something to behold: U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday the scene at President Obama's State of the Union address was " very troubling " . . . . Obama chided the court, with the justices seated before ...
  • 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 ...

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Whatever happened to the audiophile?
    Back in the 1970s my parents had friends who had stacks of hi-fi separates with gold contact wiring and speaker stands on metal spikes. They were only playing Perry Como on vinyl, but that was their idea of fun, so good luck to them. When the CD emerged on to the market with its claims [...] Whateve ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • CU and OCA Urge Action on Deceptive ‘Organic’ Labe ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 12, 2010 Consumer Advocates Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports, and the Organic Consumers Association (OCA), today filed a petition with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requesting action on the widespread and blatantly deceptive labeling pract ...
  • Indonesia: US Should Justify Training Counterterro ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 12, 2010 Human Rights Watch The US government should train members of Indonesia's elite special forces only if Indonesia takes sufficient steps toward accountability and reform to deter future abuses, Human Rights Watch said in two letters released today.   Ahead of Pres ...
  • CAF to Sen. Dodd: Call for Vote on Independent Con ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 12, 2010 Campaign for America's Future Senate Democratic leaders should conduct an up or down vote on the creation of an independent Consumer Financial Protection Agency on the Senate floor, the co-directors of the Campaign for America’s Future said Friday. read more
  • Amnesty International Calls on President Obama to ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 12, 2010 Amnesty International - USA Amnesty International called on President Obama today to quickly establish an Office of Maternal Health to lead government action to reduce soaring pregnancy-related complications and maternal deaths nationwide.  The human rights organ ...
  • Largest Peace Group-House Vote First Step to Remov ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 10, 2010 Peace Action Peace Action, the nation's largest grassroots peace group, supported a debate and vote today on legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives that would have removed all troops from Afghanistan this year. read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • Timetable for Health Bill Passage (w/o Public Opti ...
    by John Nichols The debate about health care reform is finally getting serious. How serious? President Obama, who rarely if ever allows anything to get in the way of his international sojourning, is delaying his trip to Guam. At the same time, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, is saying ...
  • Immigration Opponents Take a Turn for the Worse
    by Erin Rosa As grassroots support for the pro-immigration reform March for America grows, anti-immigration groups and their allies are trying to use racial tension to stop the momentum. Opposition groups like NumbersUSA and the Americans for Legal Immigration PAC announced plans this week to partne ...
  • Recognizing Female Personhood
    by Natasha Chart I'm delighted that Rep. Bart Stupak (D-USCCB) is getting a pro-choice primary challenger , Connie Saltonstall , to take him to task for shafting his constituents on health care in order to shaft the nation's entire female population on the question of their autonomy. read more
  • Palestinians Should Declare Statehood
    by César Chelala The unceasing building of settlements on Palestinian land underscores the need for Palestinians to take a more definite action regarding their future and their rightful desire to have their own state. They should declare statehood. read more
  • The Dangers of Deficit Reduction
    by Joseph E. Stiglitz NEW YORK - A wave of fiscal austerity is rushing over Europe and America. The magnitude of budget deficits -- like the magnitude of the downturn -- has taken many by surprise. But despite protests by yesterday's proponents of deregulation, who would like the government to remai ...

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

  • Molodva: Priority projects proposed for donor meet ...
    Moldovan government manages to set priority projects for Brussels donor meeting - economics minister "We have managed to establish a set of priority projects for the donor meeting due in Brussels," Deputy Prime Minister, Economics Minister Valeriu Lazar said at a 10 March meeting with the resident r ...
  • Nobel Prize winner in economic science speaks to c ...
    Elinor Ostrom, who in 2009 was the first female to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, came to Colton Chapel on March 4 to speak to the college community about the studies that led to her accolades. John Kincaid, Meyner Professor of Government and Public Service, suggested inviting Os ...
  • Nigeria : Cross River's Budget of Hope (AllAfrica. ...
    Lagos — The act of budgeting is an exercise that is traditional to governance and a whole lot of Non-Governmental Organizations.
  • North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) (Publi ...
    The North American Free Trade Agreement took effect on January 1, 1994. NAFTA opponents - including labor, environmental, consumer and religious groups - argued that NAFTA would launch a race-to-the-bottom in wages, destroy hundreds of thousands of good U.S. jobs, undermine democratic control of dom ...
  • Art Brodsky: A Little Rhetorical Trickery and Dish ...
    Every time a Congressional Committee has a hearing on the Comcast-NBC merger, the topic of regulating Internet access usually surfaces. The canard floated by those...

Guardian

  • Eurozone countries agree deal to bail out Greece
    Exclusive: Germany plays pivotal role in potential eurozone rescue package for Greek debts The eurozone has agreed a multibillion-euro bailout for Greece as part of a package to shore up the single currency after weeks of crisis, the Guardian has learnt. Senior sources in Brussels said that Berlin h ...
  • Nick Clegg calls for 10% bank tax
    Lib Dem leader condemns bankers as 'Scargills in pinstripes' and says electorate, not him, will decide who is next PM Nick Clegg is to call for a 10% tax on bank profits to fund a £2bn job creation programme to rescue victims of the recession. In a Guardian interview , the Liberal Democrat leader co ...
  • 43 dead as blasts shake Lahore
    Dozens killed as two suicide bombers try to blow up military convoy passing busy market A bombing in the eastern city of Lahore has killed at least 43 people – the fifth terrorist attack this week as extremists in Pakistan demonstrate their continued ability to strike. The bloodiest terrorist strike ...
  • Trailblazer of US civil rights dies alone
    Neighbours were oblivious that recluse who froze to death in her home was first black woman on South Carolina legislature The neighbours knew Juanita Goggins only as an elderly recluse with no friends and a family that was rarely seen. Goggins was so private that she instructed a neighbour who deliv ...
  • Putin strikes Indian nuclear deal
    Moscow signs agreement that will see Russia help construct up to 20 atomic plants India and Russia today signed a nuclear co-operation agreement, which paves the way for the building of about a dozen nuclear reactors in India, with Russian help, over the next few decades. The agreement came at the e ...

McClatchey

  • Cause of 2008 Lake Camanche plane crash will remai ...
    WASHINGTON — Wally Boeck's final flight ended, fatally and inexplicably, near the southern shores of Lake Camanche.
  • Commentary: Marc Thiessen still flogging case agai ...
    Vassar College graduate Marc Thiessen continues to whip along the muscular arguments about the "al-Qaeda Seven," his preferred term for Justice Department attorneys who once represented Guantanamo Bay detainees.
  • Suicide bombers strike Pakistani market, killing a ...
    ISLAMABAD — In the fifth terrorist attack this week in Pakistan, extremists set off twin suicide bombs Friday in the eastern city of Lahore, killing at least 43 people, a reminder of the continued threat to the country despite an overall fall in violence.
  • Witness: Shooter did a victory dance after deadly ...
    Jim Williams opened the door of the restaurant for Johnie Ray Johnson and his wife, Karen, on their way out of Mandango's four years ago, just before a wild-eyed man with a shotgun walked into their world and shattered it.
  • Commentary: Representing Gitmo inmates serves Amer ...
    Aryeh Neier was a Jewish refugee from Germany, but when a group of Nazis was barred from marching in Skokie, Ill., in 1977, he knew his duty. As head of the American Civil Liberties Union, he insisted on defending the Nazis' right to free speech, and the ACLU won the case.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Climate review seeks detatchment
    There's little doubt, I think, that the forthcoming review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) can make quite a lot of difference to the organisation itself. (This is the review that was demanded last month by ministers, and whose terms of reference and operating agency the UN h ...
  • 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 ...

The Wonk Room

  • How Long Can Treasury Hold Back On A Program To Cu ...
    Last week, during our blogger meeting at the Treasury Department, senior officials said that they expected Treasury to implement some sort of program for reducing mortgage principal (the total amount owed) for underwater homeowners (who owe more than their house is currently worth), similar to what ...
  • Top Insurance Lobbyist Says Industry Won’t P ...
    During the AHIP’s insurance conference on Tuesday, AHIP President and CEO Karen Ignagni claimed that health insurers were “very concerned about insurance premiums and the trajectory” of health care spending and promised that the industry remained committed to controlling costs. “We understand ...
  • Colorado Is The New Energy Frontier
    Our guest blogger is Michael Bowman, a fifth-generation Coloradoan and farmer from Wray. He serves on the National Steering Committee for the national agriculture energy working group 25x’25 and served as chair of Colorado’s New Energy Future in 2006. Colorado is emerging as an international player ...
  • Democrats Brush Stupak Aside, But Key Hurdles Rema ...
    Several news outlets are reporting that Democrats have decided to abandon their negotiations with Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) and take the risk that some small number of pro-life Democrats will vote against the Senate bill. Democrats reason that fixing the provision through reconciliation would be impos ...
  • The WonkLine: March 12, 2010
    Welcome to The WonkLine, a daily 10 a.m. roundup of the latest news about health care, the economy, national security, immigration and climate policy. This is what we’re reading. Tell us what you found in the comments section below. You can also follow The Wonk Room on Twitter.   Climate Change ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • We Won't Stop Them ...
    There's no real reason to get excited. Even if harper is sent packing, it'll be a Liberal minority. Just watch Michael "Internationalist" Ignatieff turn into harper-lite. Even if the NDP hold the balance of power, it'll be meaningless. Who could truly believe that the NDP wouldn't suddenly becom ...
  • No Matter How Thin You Slice It, It's Still Balone ...
    If I really cared, I could just go over to Brian's stupid blog and get the pro-war spin on NATO plans to bribe "moderate Taliban" to stop fighting. Or, I could go to Terry Glavin's stupid blog , and get the same thing with a load of self-satisfied self-praise and idiotic trashing of anti-war types ...
  • New Flash!!! Torture and Corruption Rampant in Afg ...
    I really don't know what else to say beyond what I've already said before: " Is it time to give up on Hamid Karzai? " Afghanistan is now the second most corrupt nation on earth, just after Somalia, according to Transparency International, a Berlin-based advocacy group. ... "This is not a governm ...
  • Olympic Hockey Gold ... and I couldn't care less
    So Canada's Olympic hockey team won the gold medal last night. I'm not sure why this is supposed to be meaningful to a sane person. If being Canadian stirs any sort of pride in me, it's for any of the good things that Canadians have done and not for a random series of victories attributed to stran ...
  • "Dear John" - - - deleted scenes
    Jeeziz-H-Kee-Rice!!! So the number one movie in the USA last week is some sappy flick called "Dear John" in which a young woman falls in love with a young man but their romance is punctured by his constantly being sent overseas as a special-forces soldier in the post-9-11 era??? It's never reveale ...

Financial Sense Editorials

  • Doug Casey on Surviving Financial Apocalypse Now
    by Louis James. "Doug, last time we spoke, you said quite a bit about debt, in the context of your expectation that the euro is on its way out. At the end of that conversation, you mentioned, of course, that the problem is not limited to Greece, nor the eurozone. America as a country has become a wo ...
  • Is Money a Store of Value?
    by John Butler & Jon Boylan. "Perhaps it is a sign of the times we live in that we feel the need to ask ourselves this question. The answer might appear simple, in that textbook definitions normally list the following three properties of money. 1. A medium of exchange 2. A unit of account 3. A store ...
  • Market Observation: Getting the Story Right
    by Chris Martenson. "I recently traveled to the United Kingdom, where I had the opportunity to present the main story of the Crash Course at Parliament, at London School of Economics, and to councillors and members of the Scottish Parliament. I've come away with an even stronger sense of the true di ...
  • Market Observation: Option ARM-ageddon - Part 1
    by Richard A. Eckert, CFA. "ARM-ed but under siege... By the middle of 2003, the GSEs and the capital markets (agency MBS and private ABS investors)—along with an extended period of low long-term interest rates—had rendered the savings and loan (thrift) industry nearly obsolescent. The ARMs in which ...
  • Competition for the IMF’s Gold?
    by Jeff Clark. "On February 24, Reuters reported that the Reserve Bank of India was “set to be a buyer” of the 191.3 tonnes (6.74 million ounces) of gold the IMF is selling. Although the bank wouldn’t comment directly on the possibility, they did say, “We are closely looking at the gold market... go ...

on Government Oversight

  • DCAA Looking for a New Director for the Western Re ...
    So it seems like this blog is becoming a career development office (look at this entry if you don't know what I'm talking about). A reader just alerted us that there is now a job opening to be Regional Director...
  • Are Taxpayers Paying for Independent Cost Analysis ...
    Yesterday's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) hearing, requested by Senator John McCain (R-AZ), revealed that the program is at risk of not delivering the promised number of aircraft, in part because the costs of the program have risen approximately 50...
  • Morning Smoke: Price Tag for Deepwater Up $1 Billi ...
    CG: Deepwater costs rise to $27.4 billion by Susan Schept [Navy Times] Lockheed F-35 at Risk of Missing Goals, GAO Says by Tony Capaccio [Business Week] 6 Things to Look For in Dodd's Wall St. Bill by Andy Kroll [Mother...
  • Defense Department Hiring Whistleblowing and Trans ...
    The Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DoD OIG) has just created a new position. In a recent job posting, the DoD IG announced that they are currently soliciting applications for a “Whistleblowing and Transparency Manager.” According to the...
  • Changing of the Guard -- Two Longtime GSA Acquisit ...
    Change is in the air at the General Services Administration — at the top of the week, David Drabkin, the agency's former deputy chief acquisition officer, began his new job at Northrop Grumman. And then Tuesday brought news that Jim...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • The Media Loves Business Class Homelessness
    Whether or not you believe that homeless can happen to anybody , it does occasionally strike someone who had previously been raking in six figures. The media loves this. A person may not be able to find a new job or keep his home, but he can become a minor celebrity. The latest example is 46-year-ol ...
  • A Homeless Shelter Is a Home, In Legal Terms
    A homeless shelter is a person's home, and homeless citizens are entitled to the same privacy protection as those in our country who have housing, a Massachusetts court has ruled . The case resulted from the prosecution of a 16-year-old boy based on evidence obtained by police during a search of the ...
  • City Arrests Homeless Man and Locks Up His Dog
    Police in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania seem to think that arresting a homeless man and then kidnapping his dog is the appropriate response to homelessness. After arresting disabled veteran Timothy Thomas for public intoxication, they also incarcerated his dog and companion of 10 years, B.C. (short for ...
  • State of the Homeless: More Need, Less Funding
    This past week Coalition for the Homeless released its State of the Homeless 2010 report and Rich attended the press conference. Coalition, for short, is an advocacy and direct service nonprofit serving homeless men, women and children in New York City. (Disclosure: Rich has worked at Coalition sinc ...
  • Why Are Cops Pretending to Be Homeless?
    Think of every reason you can for why someone would dress up and pretend to be homeless on the side of the road. To make money? To get attention? To test a community's level of compassion? I bet you could try all day and never guess why police officers in Maplewood, Minnesota are playing make believ ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Ban nuclear weapons from Arctic: Report
    Arctic and nuclear weapon states need to work together to rid the Arctic region of nuclear weapons, finds a new report by security analysts Michael Wallace and Steven Staples. Ridding the Arctic of Nuclear Weapons: A Task Long Overdue was released today by the Rideau Institute and the Canadian ...
  • 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 ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • NYC Pols Attempt to put an End to City’s Sto ...
    March 12, 2010 Daily News By Rocco Parascandola and John Lauinger Two influential City Council members took dead aim at the NYPD’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy on Wednesday, saying there is “serious concern” privacy rights are being violated. In a letter to Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, ...
  • Mexican Military Crosses US Border
    March 12, 2010 InfoWars By Paul Joseph Watson While the U.S. government and federal authorities busy themselves targeting American citizens as domestic terrorists, it seems they couldn’t care less about the fact that the military of a foreign power is flying around American airspace with wanton aban ...
  • NY Times Online Debates Charging Readers
    March 12, 2010 The Raw Story By AFP With The New York Times and Rupert Murdoch poised to start charging for newspapers online, media heavyweights sparred on Thursday over whether readers will pay for news on the Web. The Times plans to require payment for full access to NYTimes.com in early 2011 and ...
  • Cries for Wall Street Regulation
    March 12, 2010 Reuters By David Morgan The findings suggest that 82 percent of Americans want the government to clamp down more strongly on Wall Street excesses, with a particular emphasis on bonus schemes that have rewarded employees at loss-making companies such as American International Group. A ...
  • HIV/AIDS Rises Among Girls and Women
    March 12, 2010 Top News By Jason Ramsey Women are encouraged to get tested for HIV/AIDS regularly —every six months — and participate in National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NWGHAAD). NWGHAAD is celebrated with an aim to raise awareness of the rising effect of HIV/AIDS on women and girls ...

Pambazuka News

  • Global: Guadeloupe paralyzed by widespread strikes
    Riot police from mainland France have arrived on the French Caribbean islands as protests threaten to paralyse tourism and spread further afield. Strikes on Guadeloupe and Martinique have closed shops and schools and the reinforcements will help loca...
  • Brazil: The high price of clean, cheap ethanol
    Brazil hopes to supply drivers worldwide with the fuel of the future - cheap ethanol derived from sugarcane. It is considered an effective antidote to climate change, but hundreds of thousands of Brazilian plantation workers harvest the cane at slave...
  • Haiti: Open Letter to Barack Obama - pre-election
    We - citizens of Haiti, political militants and unionists of the grassroots movement for democracy in our country - solemnly address ourselves to you on the eve of the election that will most likely make you the next president of the United States....
  • US: System owes Troy Davis another day in court
    It is wrong to execute an innocent man. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit will now consider whether it is constitutional. Troy Anthony Davis, convicted of murder, is asking the courts to hear evidence that key government witnesses have r...
  • Caribbean: Civil society demands Haiti debt cancel ...
    Organizations representing Caribbean civil society organizations and social movements have written to G8 finance ministers, the World Bank, and the IMF, to demand an immediate and unconditional cancellation of Haiti's external debt....

War in Context

  • Time for George Mitchell and the US to step aside
    Among commentators unable to see beyond the bankrupt perspective that the United States has the indispensable role of mediating a Middle East peace agreement (if such an agreement is ever to be reached), much is being made about Joe Biden’s tough words “behind closed doors”. Laura Rozen quotes from ...
  • Cornel West points out Obama’s hypocrisy on Israel ...
    Watch the clip above as Cornel West responds to this question: The Obama administration talks about a new era of engagement. You spoke earlier about a “friendlier face of empire”. What does that mean? Is that just marketing? Or is there actually a change in US foreign policy these days? Watch the ...
  • The peace-process masquerade falls apart
    It turns out that at least when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict the difference between the Bush administration and the Obama administration is this: team Bush had better choreography. The Guardian now reports: The US vice-president, Joe Biden, today attempted to salvage the Middle Eas ...
  • East Jerusalem in a Jewish stranglehold
    Isn’t it time that the “two-state solution” be regarded as an object of the imagination no more real than the Tibetan kingdom of Shambala? At the heart of this Middle Eastern fable is another Shangri-La: Jerusalem, capital of the Jewish state and a Palestinian state. In reality, Jews in an unremit ...
  • The wrong kind of green
    Johann Hari writes: Why did America’s leading environmental groups jet to Copenhagen and lobby for policies that will lead to the faster death of the rainforests–and runaway global warming? Why are their lobbyists on Capitol Hill dismissing the only real solutions to climate change as “unworkable” ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Climategate.com shuts down
    From the Facebook page of the Climategate.com operator: Climategate is closing down I am very sorry to bring you the news today that climategate.com is shutting down. It started out as a minor little “hour a day” hobby last December after I purchased the domain name, and it turned into a monster of ...
  • Gallup: Americans’ Global Warming Concerns C ...
    Multiple indicators show less concern, more feelings that global warming is exaggerated by Frank Newport, Gallup News PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup’s annual update on Americans’ attitudes toward the environment shows a public that over the last two years has become less worried about the threat of global w ...
  • Another WWF assisted IPCC claim debunked: Amazon m ...
    Via Eurekalert – New study debunks myths about Amazon rain forests – They may be more tolerant of droughts than previously thought (Boston) — A new NASA-funded study has concluded that Amazon rain forests were remarkably unaffected in the face of once-in-a-century drought in 2005, neither dying nor ...
  • A UHI Tale of Two Cities
    By Steven Goddard and Anthony Watts Fort Collins, Colorado is most famous for Balloon Boy, and Boulder, Colorado is most famous for Jon Benet and Ward Churchill. Both are hotbeds of Climate Science, with familiar names like Roger Pielke (Jr. and Sr.) Walt Meier, William Gray, Kevin Trenberth and Mar ...
  • Big G panics
    By Harold Ambler A new editorial in Nature is startling for what it reveals, especially the fact Paul Ehrlich is a go-to figure about how hard scientists have it when it comes to media access. Ehrlich is an individual who became an international celebrity by spinning one frightening story after a ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Best Picture No Shill for War Hubris, Invasion or ...
    By Robert S. Becker Featured Writer Dandelion Salad rbecker@cal.net March 12, 2010 Too bad neither art, nor life answers to misdirected pigeonholing from admirable leftwing voices like Robert Scheer.  Must outstanding movies to be reduced to partisan “messages” or platforms that reinforce ou ...
  • Party Hack Moulitsas Threatens Kucinich by Sean Fe ...
    by Sean Fenley Dandelion Salad The Anything and Everything March 11, 2010 Perhaps Eric Massa’s been discredited at this point, but I did think that he was right in his assessment that Rahm Emanuel would essentially tie Massa’s children to railroad tracks in order to whip up a vote in Rahm’s f ...
  • Will Democrats Stop War? Answer Remains No For Now ...
    by Bruce Gagnon featured writer Dandelion Salad Organizing Notes March 11, 2010 The House of Representatives voted yesterday to deny the resolution put forward by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) that called for Obama to bring the troops home from Afghanistan. The vote was 356 against the resolut ...
  • CrossTalk on 9/11: Whodunit? + Dr. David Ray Griff ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ RussiaToday March 10, 2010 In this edition of CrossTalk host Peter Lavelle asks his guests why discussion of the events of 9/11 continue to attrack so much attention but is all but banned in the media mainstream. more about “CrossTalk on 9/11: Whodunit?“, po ...
  • Dennis Kucinich: Afghanistan Debate Begins in U.S. ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ electdennis March 10, 2010 more about “Dennis Kucinich: Afghanistan Debate B…“, posted with vodpod *** Afghanistan Debate Begins in U.S. House Early This Afternoon by Dennis Kucinich kucinich.us 10 March 2010 Today’s the day. This afternoon we’re going to h ...

Your New Reality

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    Lord Of The Lies Tony Blair has a memoir on the way, and you can smell the wretched stink of its bullshit even before the plastic wrap is peeled off the first copies. Look at this what this enormous lying cock has to say about the book he was paid, incredibly, as much as £5 million to write : "I h ...
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    A New Jersey family created something beautiful from the snow : And a policeman came and told them (reluctantly) that they had to cover it up, after someone complained. About the nudity. The Full Story Is Here
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    When She Stops Writing On Her Hand, You'll Know They've Wheeled Out The Robot Sarah Palin Sarah Palin tells the people what they want to hear and gets the expected reaction. She all but admits she made sure the notes she wrote on her hand would become a media freakout, and important talking point f ...
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    Like Scenes From The Game 'Earthquake Wars', If It Existed A massive earthquake strikes Chile, leaving monumental scenes of death and destruction. The Boston Globe's always excellent The Big Picture rounds up images from three days later. Broken brick stone masonry everywhere, fishing boats dumped ...
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    Without The Mo, He Kind Of Looks British Would you do business with this man? Some of America's biggest corporations of the 1930s and 1940s did . Redditers find other examples of Hitler after a makeover, including Emo Hitler. UPDATE : Now he's ready to run for the Republicans. Or the Democrat ...

Wired - Science

  • Big Earthquakes Cause Premature Births
    A new study of a 2005 earthquake in Chile supports the surprising hypothesis that pregnant women who experience earthquakes during the first trimester of their pregnancies have increased risk of premature birth and slightly smaller babies. While the drops in birth weight and gestation time are rela ...
  • Video: Cold, Little Comet Is No Match for Big, Hot ...
    A small, newly discovered comet will not get a chance to enjoy its fame for long. As you can see in this image sequence obtained by NASA’s Solar and Heliosopheric Observatory, the comet is on a collision course with the sun. Things will not end well for the comet, which will burn. The comet is beli ...
  • Solar Slumber May Have Been Caused by Magnetic Flo ...
    Newly reported observations of gas flows on the solar surface may explain why the sun recently had such an extended case of the doldrums. From 2008 through the first half of 2009, the sun had a puzzling dearth of sunspots, flares and other storms, extending the usual lull at the end of the 11-year ...
  • Desperate Efforts to Save Endangered Bats May Fail
    A desperate attempt to keep endangered Virginia big-eared bats alive in captivity has shown just how difficult that noble task may be. The effort was prompted by the discovery of White Nose Syndrome, an extremely virulent disease that has killed more than one million bats since 2007, in one of the ...
  • The ’70s Photos That Made Us Want to Save Earth
    > Two years after Richard Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency, the new institution sent out 100 photographers to document the nation’s environment writ large. Now, those photos have made it out of the root cellar of the National Archive and onto F ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Child’s testimony incriminates soldiers
    "I thought they would kill me. I became very scared and wet my pants. I could not shout or say anything because I was too afraid… He pushed me towards the small corridor in front of the bathrooms. He... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Poll: Half of Israeli high schoolers oppose equal ...
    Nearly half of Israel's high school students do not believe that Israeli-Arabs are entitled to the same rights as Jews in Israel, according to the results of a new survey released yesterday. The same... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Akiva Eldar: US gave Israel green light for East J ...
    To wipe the spit off his face, Biden had to say it was only rain. Therefore, he lauded Netanyahu's assertion that actual construction in Ramat Shlomo would begin only in another several years. Thus... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Ashkenazi raises over $20m. at IDF fundraiser in N ...
    “The idea that there’s a 501c3 non-profit that raises money for a foreign army seems a little odd,” said Nancy Kricorian, coordinator of CODEPINK in New York, who said “there was something about Cast... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • 2010 Video Selections – updated 11 March 2010
    A selection of video clips: 2010 – news, history, and more. Latest addition: Protest at The Waldorf Astoria - Friends of the IDF fundraiser, 9 Mar 2010 Al Jazeera: Inside Story - Israeli... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestin ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Physiotherapy Associates and LifeBridge Health Spo ...
    Physiotherapy Associates and LifeBridge Health Sports Medicine announced today they have formed a partnership to become the Baltimore area's leading outpatient physical therapy service company. LifeBridge Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation powered by Physiotherapy Associates provides sports medicine s ...
  • Team Approach Provides Better Care for Children wi ...
    Children with a cleft lip or cleft palate are more likely to receive recommended age-appropriate health care when that care is provided by an interdisciplinary team rather than an individual provider. In a study encompassing three states, 24% of participants were not receiving team care.
  • Surgeons Meet Challenge of Treating Combat Injurie ...
    The ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have resulted in uniquely destructive patterns of combat injuries, including limb-threatening injuries to the knee. In the March special issue of Techniques in Knee Surgery (www.techknee.com), military surgeons serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation ...
  • Coachtalk: Research on Post-Game Comments
    Whether they win or lose in the upcoming NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, one outcome is certain: coaches will follow predictable patterns in what they say after the game. Wake Forest professor John Llewellyn has studied those patterns for years and calls it coachtalk.
  • Gone With the Galactic Wind: 10 Years of Chandra
    The 10th anniversary of NASA's Chandra X-ray observing telescope hails new knowledge about multi-million-degree gas clouds, or galactic wind, streaming out from galaxies like ours. Chandra data at last explain how galaxies lose mass and energy, says UMass astronomer Daniel Wang in PNAS this week.

Intel Trends

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • Farmers Face Severe Penalties When Trying to Conve ...
    If you've stood in line at a farmers' market recently, you know that the local food movement is thriving, to the point that small farmers are having a tough time keeping up with the demand. Click here to read this article
  • MoveOn Takes Step in Right Direction, but More Dem ...
    Positive reinforcement for MoveOn's efforts to democratically engage members, and encouragement to build a much more democratic and decentralized structure. Click here to read this article
  • Media Coverage of the OCA Sludge Dump in San Franc ...
    Media Coverage of the OCA Toxic Sludge Dump Click here to read this article
  • South Korea Does What the US Refuses to Do: Restri ...
    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, the limitation ...
  • Over 130,000 Cases of Diabetes Linked to Soda Cons ...
    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 ...

fotoFrontera

  • Increíble colección de fotografías aéreas (88 foto ...
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. La fotografía aérea es realmente fascinante pues se descubren -sin querer-, otros elementos que en ocasiones pasan desapercibidos ante nuestra mirada. Dado ese principio, el día de hoy deseo compatir con ustedes una cole ...
  • Excelente página rusa con imágenes muy bonitas
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. No me canso de repetir que unas de las páginas que mejores fotografías tienen, son las de Rusia . Y aunque sé que muchos no estarán de acuerdo conmigo, siempre podré darles una pequeña muestra que confirma mis argumentos ...
  • Navega despacio por lo más nuevo del sitio DPChall ...
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. DPChallenge , es otra de esas páginas de visita obligada. Lo digo, porque cada vez que se me ocurre o me acuerdo de entrar, siempre encuentro material fresco que revive mis sentidos y me hace viajar más allá de los límit ...
  • Tributo a las máquinas que vuelan by TBP (40 fotos ...
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Interesante recopilación de imágenes que hace el de por sí famoso sitio The Big Picture sobre las máquinas que vuelan. Aviones de guerra, elicópteros, aeroplanos, avionetas y mucho más, son parte de esta hermosa colecció ...
  • Bonitos fondos para tu computadora by eWallpapers
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. No recuerdo que alguien me haya recomendado eWallpapers.Eu. Y ayer que una amiga me lo presentó, quedé fascinado ante la enorma cantidad de fondos que tiene para la PC o Laptop. Incluso tiene wallpapers para monitores du ...

Executive Intelligence Review

Center for a Livable Future

  • CLF provides House testimony on Maryland Bill 953 ...
    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 ...
  • “Animal Factory” Book Tour Stops at JHSPH
    When you hear Author David Kirby tell the stories behind the people in his latest book, you can’t help but to get caught up in his emotions. Tears welled up in his eyes several times last night as he described-often in graphic detail-to a riveted Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health audie ...
  • 2 School Farms: A Weekend of Community
    This past weekend, I witnessed hundreds of volunteers working in a very tangible way to take back the food system for a community. The ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu said, “the journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” This was a stride. Two high schools in Richmond, Calif in the [. ...
  • Missouri Jury Awards $11 Million to CAFO’s Neighbo ...
    Media outlets were buzzing this morning with the news that a Jackson County, MO, jury had awarded an $11 million verdict to farmers affected by a CAFO owned by Premium Standard Farms. This is the second time in the last 11 years that Premium Standard Farms has been sued for the noxious odors coming ...
  • Struck by a Helicopter Toilet: Reflections on Hum ...
    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 ...

Norwegianity

  • Links’n’stuff
    What you come here for: Krugman with another list of healthcare myths Clarence Thomas, still sticking it to the weak and powerless Insurance fraud Driftglass calls out Tom Brokaw (sadly, I doubt Brokaw has any reportorial instincts left in him) Who’s paying Bart Stupak’s rent? Lehman Bros. autopsy m ...
  • Boehner, Dobson & the rest of the wienerlist
    Do you now or have you ever known an asshole? John Boehner thinks knowing assholes is tantamount to criminal behavior. But not really. He’s just being an asshole which is just another term for being the House minority leader. I’m not terribly fond of anyone in Congress right now, but a few people I ...
  • You call this an economy?
    It’s a dark and rainy morning, and I have links to go with the weather. - Moody’s Economy says the recession is abating. It should be pointed out that “recovery” means no longer at the low point, not a restoration to where we were before. I experienced severe depression in 1982. I was recovering fr ...
  • $13 fucking trillion dollars
    We finally have a number. Ever wonder how much we lost when the market crashed? Try $13 fucking trillion dollars. Fifteen percent of our nation’s net worth. There’s something wrong with a system that punishes worker ants for saving for their retirement, then takes it all away and leaves them no bett ...
  • I didn’t know Priuses could go 90mph
    So much for the “stepping on the gas instead of the brake” bullshit: Before he called 911, James Sikes says he reached down with his hand to loosen the “stuck” accelerator on his 2008 Toyota Prius, his other hand on the steering wheel. The pedal didn’t move. Same story as yesterday, with an AP wri ...

The Seferm Post

  • Links for 2010-02-27 [del.icio.us]
    Here Are 10 Things Not to Share with Your Co-Workers There are certain things co-workers need not know about each other, including religious and political views as well as personal issues, but some folks just can't seem to keep their mouths shut. And don't forget -- a casual conversation can eas ...
  • Links for 2010-02-24 [del.icio.us]
    10 Top Things You Need To Know About 'Up In The Air' Movie The film is an adaptation, co-written by Juno director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Sheldon Turner, of a novel by Walter Kirn published in 2001, though Reitman tried to claim sole credit for writing it initially, until the Writer’s Gui ...
  • Links for 2010-02-11 [del.icio.us]
    Here Are 10 Things Not To Include In Your Resume And Why Employers don't have the time or the patience to sift through irrelevant information like your hobbies, interests or how many grandchildren you have. Just stick to the basics and you're good to go. Here are 10 things to leave off your résu ...
  • Links for 2010-02-10 [del.icio.us]
    Get Rid Of Browser Hijackers, Spyware, Malware Once And For All They're intrusive and often difficult to delete. Sometimes, people actually wipe their hard drives clean and start over again just to get rid of them. It's time to act! Winter Driving Safety Tips: How To Take Control Of Your Car ...
  • Facebook A Big Threat To Israeli Soldiers
    The military's added it is cracking down on soldiers' use of social networking Web sites and has launched a campaign warning of the dangers of sharing military classified information online.

The World We Live In

  • Israeli tanks cross technical fence near Lebanon
    Two Israeli tanks have crossed their technical fence near the border with Lebanon two kilometers south of the disputed Ghajar village. The United Nations peacekeeping forces in Lebanon, also known as the UNIFIL, were present in the area along with Lebanese Armed Forces to make sure that the Israeli ...
  • Colonel Imam: ‘I have the Green Beret but the Tale ...
    Perhaps no man alive knows Mullah Omar, his Taleban insurgents and the American military quite so well as “Colonel Imam”, a battle-creased Pakistani officer who wears a faded British paratrooper’s jacket and a turban. As a top agent for the Pakistani intelligence agency, the ISI, Colonel I ...
  • Muslims Are Their Own Worst Enemy
    Muslims are numerous but powerless. Divisions among Muslims, especially between Sunni and Shi’ites, have consigned the Muslim Middle East to almost a century of Western control. Muslims cannot even play together. The Islamic Solidarity Games, a regional version of the Olympics, which were to be he ...
  • A series of setbacks for the coalition in Afghanis ...
    Less To Cheer STANLEY MCCHRYSTAL, the famously self-controlled commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, could be forgiven if he let off an expletive when he heard that soldiers under his command had killed 27 civilians on Sunday February 21st. A missile strike on a three-vehicle convoy in an isolat ...
  • MQM Caught Spying On Pakistan
    Guest post sent in by Truth Seeker MQM caught spying red-handed for foreign nationals and smuggling classified state material outside Pakistan and violated Official Secret Act.  According to a report published in the press Waseem Akthar (MNA) and former advisor to the Chief Minister on poli ...

Center for Food Safety

  • More Than 200,000 NGOs, Farmers, Consumers, and Or ...
    Resulting contamination of non-GE and organic alfalfa hay and seed would devastate livelihoods and organic industry The National Organic Coalition (NOC) today announced that more than 200,000 people submitted comments to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) critiquing the substance and ...
  • Lawsuit Filed to Bar GE Crops from National Wildli ...
    Delaware’s Bombay Hook Lacks Required Environmental Review and Justification A lawsuit filed today in federal court against the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service seeks to compel the Service to uproot genetically engineered (GE) crops from its Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge in Delaware. As many as 8 ...
  • Food Safety and Health Organizations Criticize Ela ...
    Food safety, consumer and health advocacy organizations blasted Eli Lilly subsidiary Elanco for claiming that prominent health organizations had endorsed use of the controversial artificial growth hormone rbGH,(rbST) on dairy cows when, in fact, they have not. Elanco’s report, from eight experts and ...
  • Farmers and Conservation Groups Seek to Halt Plant ...
    Earlier Court Decision Found Federal Approval of GE Sugar Beets to Be Unlawful Earthjustice and Center for Food Safety announced today that they filed court papers seeking a ban on genetically engineered (GE) sugar beets and sugar beet seeds. The motion was filed in Federal Court on behalf of a coal ...
  • Supreme Court to Hear First Genetically Engineered ...
    Monsanto Takes Center for Food Safety Legal Victory to Highest Court Today, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to hear a first-time case about the risks of genetically engineered crops. Named Monsanto v. Geertson Seed Farms, No. 09-475, the case before the high court will be yet another step in an ongoi ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Lex Wotton on Palm Island
    On August 9th 2008 Lex Wotton, invited by Indigenous Social Justice Association Melbourne, spoke at the Solidarity Fiesta at the MUA Auditorium prior to his trial relating to the riots in Palm Island. He was charged with "riot with destruction" and describes in his own words the events that da ...
  • Corporate Iwi: Doing business with human rights ab ...
    G4S, another private prison operator, was criticised by the W.A. Deaths in Custody Watch Committee over the death of prominent Aboriginal elder, Mr Ward. Mr Ward died in January 2008 after being transferred across the West Australian outback, from Laverton to Kalgoorlie, in a private prison van ...
  • Obama, Severus and Tip: Or, Why Do the Most Influe ...
    By The Angryindian, 03.05.2010 “Come, lieutenant, I have a stoup of wine, and here without are a brace of Cyprus gallants that would fain have a measure to the health of black Othello” -- Lago to Cassio in Act 2, Scene 2 of Othello . White people in the United States need to come to grips with ...
  • Repression "progressive" against the Mapuche / Rep ...
    Columna Negra: El año 2009 puede pasar a la historia como el de la mayor ofensiva de un gobierno “progresista contra un pueblo originario. El gobierno de Michelle Bachelet intenta frenar la recuperación de tierras del pueblo mapuche amedrentando a comunidades enteras con un estilo represivo que recu ...
  • CAPITALISM IS THE CATASTROPHE
    Hommodolars.org : Tras 25 años de acumulación de tensión, las placas sobre las que se encuentra situado físicamente este territorio llamado Chile han liberado una cantidad impresionante de energía, en aquello que para los humanos constituye un terremoto, "catástrofe natural" por excelencia. Pero no ...

Pensieve

  • Strong Aftershock Strikes Chile
    This morning a very strong aftershock has struck very close to the epicenter of last month’s earthquake in Chile. The USGS is reporting it’s magnitude as 7.2 in the Richter Scale. There is very little data yet in the international media. I’ll be publishing more as I know more. Since the Richter Sca ...
  • Carol Cabrera Survives Second Murder Attempt
    Politically-motivated murders have been the grisly aftermath of the 2009 constitutional crisis in Honduras. Journalists, both in favor and against former President Manuel Zelaya have been killed in the last few months. Enzo Micheletti, the nephew of former President Roberto Micheletti was murdered a ...
  • Jobs Sues Google Through HTC
    Photo by acaben Steve Jobs could be on the verge of a self-destructive move that would ruin Apple. Again. The idolized CEO’s leadership led to his dismissal many years ago, from the company he founded. The buildup to this was aggravated by  his arrogant and unfriendly manner, and unwillingness to ...
  • Clinton Hails Honduras as Success
    Today Secretary of State Clinton called Honduras a success story, making explicit what some socialist critics have been denouncing since the crisis began. Whatever his leanings at home, Obama’s international policy is not leftist at all. “The Honduras crisis has been managed to a successful conclusi ...
  • Major Earthquake Rattles Chileans
    A major earthquake struck Chile early this morning, followed by a many aftershocks. The US Geological Survey has stated its magnitude as 8.8 in the Richter scale. Chile is much more prepared for earthquakes than Haiti, for its economy is first among emerging nations, approaching the level of a firs ...

Green Times

  • Bluesfest – Fun and Green
    The Bluesfest is coming soon to shake and rattle Byron Bay with great music, fantastic performances and a green footprint!
  • Environmental News - 11/03/10
    Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html)   Carr push to save red gums-Former NSW premier Bob Carr will today launch a national protest against the NSW Labor government's proposal to allow logging of the giant river red gums, in sou ...
  • One Man’s Opinion
    It is all too easy to get depressed about our chances in a future that very few of our leaders seem to care about…
  • Environmental News - 09/03/10
    Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html)   Businesses will save $700m by cutting emissions: report -CLAIMS that even small greenhouse gas targets will hurt big industry have been undermined by a government report that found basic e ...
  • Electric Bike Making A Quiet Buzz
    Australia is in the grip of a bicycle boom, and it’s not just the super-fit and healthy who can go fast, without making any noise…

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • USGS: 7.2-magnitude quake SW of Santiago, Chile
    A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Chile again at 11:39 a.m. local time Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter was 95 miles southwest of the capital, Santiago. Chile, which was struck by an 8.8-magnitude quake on Feb. 27, continues to suffer from a series of strong aftershocks.
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  • 'US might manipulate Iraq election results'
    A member of Iraq's National Alliance (INA) has warned that the US is possibly attempting to manipulate the results of the country's general elections as the release of the vote tally was postponed again. INA candidate, Entifadh Qanbar told press TV that the United States might try to intervene ...

Daily Loaf

  • Movie Review: Remember Me, starring Robert Pattins ...
    CL Contributor Amanda Allwood has been pretty stoked about Remember Me since she saw the trailer, giving it her "two thumbs up based upon preview alone" review. The movie stars Robert Pattinson ( Twilight ) and Emilie de Ravin ( Lost ), mashing a pair of Amanda's true loves into one glorious two-ho ...
  • American Idol top 16 recap: The sweet sixteen… kin ...
    This week on American Idol, some people sang and some of them were even like… good. Ladies night!!!! Tuesday the girls continued their journey of underwhelmingness with the opening act, the “why the hell is she here?” star of the season, Katie Stevens. She’s like 12 years old, her pants looked d ...
  • This weekend’s best bets in Bay area music: NeedTo ...
    Tons of bands in town, many on their way to or from Harvest of Hope in St. Augustine. Choose wisely...
  • Thank Heaven for Little Girl Scouts Samoa Cheese T ...
    It’s cookie time, folks! Girl Scout Cookies, that is. Thin Mints, Do Si Dos, Trefoils and my most favorite GS cookie of them all — Samoas. They’re everywhere! You couldn’t escape them, even if you wanted to. But, why would you want to? Who doesn’t love Girl Scout Cookies — or Girl Scouts, ...
  • Get ready to fist-pump! Jersey Shore’s “The Situat ...
    I thought his 15 minutes had passed but I was clearly wrong. How could they have? With those abs and a name like “The Situation” he is totally here to stay. Luckily, he has found time in his busy schedule of tanning, lifting and sexing to pay a visit to Tampa Bay. That’s right, Jersey [...]

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Secular, Religious Israeli Students Hold Different ...
    Last month we posted an article about Israel’s increasing rejection of democracy as a preferred form of government.  On the question of equal rights for Arab citizens, about half of those surveyed opposed such equality. A new poll of Israeli high-school students reveals that nearly half of them ...
  • New Profile Urges UN to Hold Israel Accountable
    By Rela Mazali. On January 28th 2010, New Profile, a feminist movement working to demilitarize society and state in Israel, dispatched a letter to a list of top U.N. officials urging the U.N. General Assembly and the U.N. Security Council to intervene to ensure implementation of the recommendations ...
  • Beit Sahour Professor Faces Arrest by Israeli Mili ...
      Mazin Qumsiyeh reports on his likely arrest next week by the Israeli military when he returns from a lecture tour in the U.S.  to his village in Beit Sahour near Bethlehem.  His crime?  Participation in nonviolent protests against the military  takeover of the only remaining  open land in Bethlehe ...
  • Fear makes us hypocrites: Israel’s new conve ...
    By Jesse Bacon Israel’s new proposed conversion law provides a nice insight into the state of Israeli politics, 2010. It has drawn outrage, even among my right wing friends who would not ordinarily criticize the Israeli government, or support others right to do so. The obvious problem for opponents ...
  • Why We’re Concerned About Sheikh Jarrah, and ...
    Jeremy Siegman, an activist in the Sheikh Jarrah movement, explains why the violent evictions of Palestinian residents from their homes in the Sheikh Jaraah neighborhood of East Jerusalem, and the immediate takeover of these homes by extremist Jewish-Israeli settlers,  must be of concern to all wh ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Econned. How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermine ...
    > Econned by Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism. Video by a friend of hers!
  • Aquatic dead zones create potent greenhouse gases
    Not only do aquatic dead zones kill most everything in them, they also produce high levels of nitrous oxide, a GHG 300x more potent than CO2. Most such dead zones are caused by human pollution.
  • The Lehman Disclosure Hits just keep on coming
    Here’s the background on this escalating story of greed, lying, and cover-ups. The bankruptcy examiner for the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy says then-CEO Dick Fuld “was “at least grossly negligent” for letting Lehman file financial reports in which a key gauge of strength was ‘reverse-engineered’ t ...
  • Solar thermal power. Recent advances
    Solar Thermal captures heat from the sun to create power. The heat can also be stored and used later. R&D now is focusing on computer-controlled reflector mirrors and more efficient ways to store the heat. More from Ecogeek.
  • NY Fed under Geithner implicated in Lehman account ...
    Emphasis added. This is a bombshell. Obama needs to fire Geithner or be assumed culpable himself. Indeed, it was such common knowledge in the Lehman flailing about period that Lehman’s accounts were sus that Hank Paulson’s recent book mentions repeatedly that Lehman’s valuations were phony as if it ...

Coteret

  • Sara Benninga’s rousing speech at the Sheikh ...
    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 ...
  • Yediot’s Barnea outlines the nightmare that ...
    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.  ...
  • Kahanist MK supports Ayalon on J Street congressio ...
    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- ...
  • Yediot’s Misgav on Ayalon and J Street: &#82 ...
    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 ...
  • Yediot’s Gvirtz: ‘Ayalon has outdone e ...
    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 ...

Deadline Live

  • March 12: World Day Against Cyber Censorship / Jay ...
    Jay Rockefeller “Internet should have never been invented” Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList
  • More talk of requiring black boxes in all cars
    kvue.com You’ve heard of black boxes in airplanes and chances are pretty good your car has one too. You just may have to wait a few years before the manufacturer tells you. A rule by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will require car manufacture ...
  • Greece – 60,000 people protest against the g ...
    dailymail.co.uk Street clashes broke out between rioting youths and police in central Athens today as tens of thousands demonstrated during a nationwide strike against the cash-strapped government. Hundreds of masked and hooded youths punched and kicked motorcycle police, knocking several off their ...
  • Gas Prices Surge
    By Mark Huffman ConsumerAffairs.com The price of gasoline continues to move higher, establishing a new high for the year on Friday. The national average price of self-serve regular is $2.783 a gallon, up more than six cents from last Friday, according to AAA. The price is nearly 14 cents a gallon hi ...
  • Blowback – CIA drone attacks produce America ...
    By Gary Solis washingtonpost.com In our current armed conflicts, there are two U.S. drone offensives. One is conducted by our armed forces, the other by the CIA. Every day, CIA agents and CIA contractors arm and pilot armed unmanned drones over combat zones in Afghanistan and Pakistan, including Pak ...

    Blacklisted News

  • Earth under attack from an invisible star?
    According to NASA scientists, the brown dwarf star is up to five times the size of Jupiter and could be responsible for mass extinctions that occur on Earth every 26 million years.
  • Russia criticizes U.S., NATO over Afghan drug traf ...
    Gen. Stanley McChrystal's new policy of trying to win the support of the population means that these farmers are now left alone, enabling them to tend crops that produce 90% of the world's heroin .
  • UK voted worst place in developed world to bring u ...
    Britain was rated the lowest of the six countries examined. The list, from best to worst, read Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, United Arab Emirates, the U.S. and the UK.
  • British Airways computer expert 'planned suicide b ...
  • Industries hoarding greenhouse gas emission permit ...
    Companies across Europe are hoarding permits to produce greenhouse gas emissions worth hundreds of millions of pounds, the Guardian can reveal.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

  • Study: Median Wealth for Single Black Women: $100, ...
    The Insight Center for Community Economic Development released a report on the gender wealth gap to mark International Women’s Day. The report found nearly half of all single black and Hispanic women have zero or negative wealth, meaning their debts exceed all of their assets. The median wealth for ...
  • Part II: Michelle Alexander on ?The New Jim Crow: ...
    Part II of our interview with legal scholar, civil rights advocate and author Michelle Alexander. Her book is The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Alexander argues that although Jim Crow laws have been eliminated, the racial caste system it set up was not eradicated. It ...
  • Judge Instructs Fed Agencies to Resume ACORN Fundi ...
    A federal judge has reaffirmed her earlier ruling blocking the congressional effort to de-fund the anti-poverty group ACORN. On Wednesday, Judge Nina Gershon cemented a decision from last year that such action amounted to an unconstitutional ?bill of attainder.? Judge Gershon has asked all federal a ...
  • Headlines for March 12, 2010
    Ground Zero Workers, NYC Reach Settlement on Toxic Exposure, 39 Killed in Pakistan Bombings, Israel Imposes West Bank Closure Hours After Biden Departure, British Journalist Freed in Gaza, UN: Millions Face Starvation in Yemen, Scores Killed in Somalia Clashes, Greeks Hold National Strike Against Au ...
  • Pakistan Navy Tests Missiles in Arabian Sea

    Rogue Government.com

  • Pope knew priest was paedophile but allowed him t ...
    The Pope was drawn directly into the Roman Catholic sex abuse scandal for the first time tonight as news emerged of his part in a decision to send a paedophile priest for therapy. The priest went on to reoffend and was convicted of child abuse but continues to work as priest in Upper Bavaria.
  • 20 Signs That The United States Is Rapidly Becomi ...
    Due to the fear of a boogeyman living in a cave somewhere or some guy with explosive powder in his underwear we are all being forced to give up our freedoms and learn to live in a Big Brother police state.
  • Israeli army to seal off West Bank as tensions ri ...
    The action was taken "for security reasons" including a risk of attacks, the spokesman said. The area was sealed off at midnight on Thursday.
  • Doomsday man "raped five daughters to save b ...
    A “depraved” man said to believe that only he and his offspring would survive the end of the world is to go on trial charged with fathering six children with his own daughters.
  • Russia criticizes U.S., NATO over Afghan drug tra ...
    Russia 's envoy to NATO has sharply criticized the alliance's shift away from fighting drug trafficking in Afghanistan , saying the resulting surge in heroin smuggling is endangering Russia's national security.

Innovation Canada

  • Particle accelerating … in high school
    For Palak Suryavenshi, the grade-12 science lab was the first step in a journey that led to a chance to test a hypothesis on one of North America’s most advanced particle accelerators. In 2007, Suryavenshi and her classmates from Saskatoon’s Centennial Collegiate worked with researchers at the Unive ...
  • Nose jobs
    (Courtesy of Carleton University Magazine) People around the world ask the same question on a daily basis: “Is the milk bad?” A quick sniff gives us a fast and reliable answer. The sense of smell is very powerful and often taken for granted. We simply follow our nose, because it always knows…but so ...
  • Snow fall
    To the average Canadian, a research station getting completely buried in snow more than 1,500 metres high in the Cariboo Mountains might indicate that snow levels at this altitude are not at risk from global warming. But University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) professor Stephen Déry says look ...
  • 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 ...

Signs of the times

  • Seismic Trends in South Iceland Still Monitored
    There was more seismic activity underneath the volcano in Eyjafjallajökull glacier in south Iceland last night than the night before, although it is significantly lower than during last weekend. The Civic Protection Department keeps monitoring the area. A sharp earthquake measuring three points o ...
  • The Big GMO Cover-Up
    Something doesn't quite add up about genetically modified (GM) foods. Big biotech claims that genetic engineering is a necessary step towards feeding the world's growing population. And yet debate still rages as to whether GM crops actually increase yields at all. Furthermore, the UN recently sta ...
  • Australian archaeologists uncover 40,000-year-old ...
    Sydney - Australian archaeologists have uncovered what they believe to be the world's southernmost site of early human life, a 40,000-year-old tribal meeting ground, an Aboriginal leader said Wednesday. The site appears to have been the last place of refuge for Aboriginal tribes from the cannon f ...
  • Food & Water Europe Welcomes U.S. Court Ruling: Ba ...
    Statement of Food & Water Europe Executive Director Wenonah Hauter Brussels - "We welcome the Woodruff County, Arkansas court finding that German corporation Bayer CropScience 'intentionally' contaminated US rice supplies. We applaud the decision requiring the company to pay Lennie Joe Kyle, the fa ...
  • "Disgraceful and Scandalous": Amnesty report conde ...
    Those from poor, African American and Native American backgrounds most at risk. The death rate of women giving birth in the US is worse than in 40 other countries, including nearly all the industrialised countries, Amnesty International said today in a report that describes the country's approach ...

Threat Level

  • China Warns Google Over Search Censorship
    BEIJING (Reuters) - China warned Google against flouting the country’s laws on Friday, as expectations grow for a resolution to a public battle over censorship and cybersecurity. The chief executive of Google, Eric Schmidt, said this week he hoped to announce soon a result to talks with Chinese auth ...
  • TJX Hacking Conspirator Gets 4 Years
    Humza Zaman, a co-conspirator in the hack of TJX and other companies, was sentenced Thursday in Boston to 46 months in prison and fined $75,000 for his role in the conspiracy. The sentence matches what prosecutors were seeking. Zaman, a 33-year-old former programmer at Barclays Bank, was charged wi ...
  • Hate Blogger Wins Second Mistrial
    Deadlocked jurors in the Hal Turner hate blogger case were excused late Wednesday after deliberating two days. It’s the second mistrial in the government’s case to prosecute the New Jersey man for allegedly threatening to kill judges. Assistant U.S. Attorney William Hogan said a new trial was “highl ...
  • Pink Floyd Beats EMI In Creativity Flap
    Pink Floyd prevailed Thursday in a legal brawl with its label when a British judge ordered EMI to stop selling individual downloads of the acid-inspired group’s songs without permission. The artists behind The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall, and other top sellers claimed its decade-old contract ...
  • Feds: TSA Worker Tried to Sabotage Terror Database
    A former Transportation Security Administration contractor is being charged in Colorado for allegedly injecting malicious code into a government network used for screening airport security workers and others. The malicious code, a logic bomb installed last October, was designed to cause damage and ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Employers Rapidly Shifting Health Care Costs to Wo ...
    As the year-long health care debate approaches its end game in Washington, opponents of reform are being buffeted by a double-whammy of bad news. Last week, a Goldman Sachs analysis documented insurance rates for individuals jumping by up to 50% in some markets . Now, a new survey of large employe ...
  • Distant Obama Cousin Slams Health Care Plan
    As Ron Reagan Jr. made clear to Frank Gaffney and Pam Geller , the relatives of political icons don't always echo their views. (Gaffney went so far as tell Reagan, "Your father would be ashamed of you.") Now, as the health care debate nears it climax, the Washington Times has trotted out Dr. Milto ...
  • Romney vs. Pawlenty on the GOP's ER Health Care Pl ...
    For years, Republican leaders including President George W. Bush, former House Minority Leader Tom Delay and current Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have insisted that "no American is denied health care in America" because " you just go to an emergency room ." But while Mitt Romney reminded ...
  • Rove Book: No Pushback on Iraq WMD My Bad
    Next week, Karl Rove's memoir Courage and Consequence hits the bookshelves. But as the previews make clear, you won't have to wait until March 9th to appreciate Rove's gift for fiction. According to the AP , his revisionist history claims that "many of the controversies that weakened his presidenc ...
  • 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 ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

CounterPunch

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TruthHugger

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

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Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Glenn Beck, Prosperity Theology and Social Darwini ...
    Do you ever get the feeling that some of the more militant members of the Christian right would like to exorcise their faith of that dirty fucking hippie Jesus? He was forever going on about humility, charity, brotherly love and social justice, even explicitly commanding his followers to fulfill the ...
  • Pardon the Slave-Stealers
    Hard as it is to imagine anyone could object to this , you know they're out there. If only they had to wear facial tattoos identifying them as irredeemable scumbuckets. The Rev. Calvin Fairbank spent 17 years in a Kentucky prison - suffering beatings and brutal labor - for committing the felony of h ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Very bad omen, dude. "Sebastian Pinera has been sworn in as president of Chile, minutes after it was hit by the largest aftershock since last month's devastating earthquake. The 6.9-magnitude tremor was centred in O'Higgins Region, some 140km (90 miles) south of the city of Valparaiso, where the ina ...
  • Bart Stupak, Your 15 Minutes Are Up
    Truth-telling, call-out-the-motherfuckers journalism is not dead, though you won't find it in Judy Miller's New York Times or David Broder's Washington Post. It lives, thrives and thrills on cable, where TV news' biggest names are being left in the dust by ... a girl. Last night, Rachel Maddow naile ...
  • Torturing Whistle-Blowers
    Nicole Belle at Crooks and Liars has a story we haven't seen anywhere else, but that cries out for publicity. Funny how this hasn't shown up on any American news show--not one mention on the Sunday shows-- isn't that interesting? According to the complaint filed against former Defense Secretary Don ...

Care 2

  • Ancient secrets uncovered
    A STUNNING archaeological discovery at Brighton could change scientific understanding of human occupation. Submitted by Marty Powell to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • LIFE LEARNING: 50 Little Things You Can Do to Em ...
    We are all in this life together, and helping others achieve their goals can get our own on track. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Land Acquisition Benefits North Country Wildlife & ...
    280 acres added to Silvio O. Conte National Fish & Wildlife Refuge, Mohawk River Division. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • There’s something in the water
    That “something” is a class of chemicals called endocrine disruptors, and Dr. Vicki Bl, a fisheries biologist at the United States Geological Survey, thinks the chemicals are responsible for the high concentrations of intersex fish found Submitted by James Anderson to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • Thalidomide effect mystery solved
    Scientists have discovered the primary mechanism by which thalidomide causes malformed limbs in developing embryos. Submitted by Sophie Smith to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

GreenBiz

Reuters Global

  • U.S. public servants sacrifice cash prizes
    Dr. Francis Collins, who cannot accept the cash from Albany Medical Center prize, says:"But it's good to be a public servant."
  • Can a European diplomatic service really work?
    The European Union is creating a foreign service designed to represent the unified foreign policy of its 27 member states. It's an ambitious goal and one that is all but guaranteed to involve infighting among nations, the European Parliament and the European Commission. Is it going to work?
  • General Odierno gives “The Hurt Locker&#8221 ...
    U.S. military commander in Iraq praises Oscar-winning film "The Hurt Locker" for its portrayal of the dangerous mission of bomb disposal soldiers.
  • 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?

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Dick Fuld Unaware of Lehman’s ‘Cooking the Books’? ...
    Reports that Lehman was effectively ‘cooking its books’ prior to its ultimate demise are not a surprise. Reports that Dick Fuld, then CEO of Lehman, was not aware of the nature of this cooking are both ridiculous and pathetic. The lifeblood of every financial institution on Wall Street is access to ...
  • Obama, The Great RENEGER
    This is true and funny. And you know what I am thinking? Pronounce the second “e” in “RENEGER” in a different way and the song is racist. I think the singer was keenly aware of this risk and made sure he pronounced it “REE NAY GAR. Michael Fischer, the singer, has a website: www.thefischers.net
  • Pelosi and Health Care Reform: A Pig in a Poke?
    You remember the old saying from the middle ages about a confidence game played on hapless peasants. The con would hoodwink buyers into purchasing a burlap bag (“poke”) that had something moving inside. The potential victim was told that it was a pig. When the bag was later opened, the mark foun ...
  • Throw the Book at Steven Rattner
    Does crime pay on Wall Street? When those implicated in ‘pay to play’ schemes on Wall Street are not dealt with in truly appropriate fashion, everybody loses. Why? We end up with a loss of confidence not only in the markets, but even moreso a loss of confidence in our judicial system. I am not [...]
  • Senators Blocked Clinton, But Will They Block Obam ...
    Recently, I had a post aboutSenator Robert C. Byrd, and his opposition to using Reconciliation to pass Healthcare. Recently, he seemed to leave the door open for Reconciliation in a recent letter to the Charleston (WVA) Daily Mail. Given his inimitable performance on the Senate Floor during Bill Cl ...

Environmental Graffiti

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

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Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Restored 1927 "Metropolis" adds new subplots on wo ...
    Frame by frame, the lost almost-complete version of Metropolis is coming out. METROPOLIS2710 It's an amazing & essentially perfect film, which created the bases for epic pop culture characters like Doc Brown, C3PO, as well as a powerful vision of utopian urbanism -- the film itself created a huge c ...
  • Young: "The Internet is a giant spying machine rig ...
    Got BitLocker? Feel a bit r00ted??? [It was later posted that this full Windows 7 law enforcement pack was actually originally posted on the very cool newer site PublicIntelligence.net: Microsoft Windows 7/Vista Advanced Forensics Guides for Law Enforcement | Public Intelligence ] In a continuation ...
  • Viddy Still from Michael Ruppert appearance in Min ...
    Its taking a while but I have a lot of footage from Michael Ruppert's visit to St Anthony Main for the screenings of Collapse last week... Overall it was quite awesome, with new items of geopolitics and a lot of jokes. Plus the lighting looks like the movie which is neat :) Standby on that one, I th ...
  • 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!

Daily Censored

  • Americans to be punished for government incompeten ...
    Illegal immigration has been a problem for the United States for over a century. It’s a political hot topic and measures put into place to prevent it fail on a regular basis. Senators Schumer and Graham have introduced a bill that they hope will prevent illegal immigration. The major problem with ...
  • Haitian Voodoo Economics
    By Christopher McManus On January 7th, President Rene Preval of Haiti put the final touches on the privatization of Haiti’s public telephone company, TELECO. Five days later the horrific earthquake leveled Haiti, killing over 200.000 people. The selling off of assets, the International Monetary Fund ...
  • STRANGE RECIPROCITY!
    Miami, 2008 Antonio Veciana described three failed assassination plots he directed against Fidel Castro – with the help and encouragement of the CIA. In 1960, Maurice Bishop, aka David Atlee Phillips, had recruited Veciana for CIA dirty trick operations in Havana. Veciana described how the Agency, w ...
  • Senators McCain, Liebermann: indefinitely detain A ...
    Videos live at source: The word “dictatorship” means law is whatever “leadership” dictates; literally the diction of the leader (leader = Fuhrer in German). Senators McCain and Liebermann introduced the “Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010” (full bill ...
  • Economic Warfare? Europe versus Wall Street
    Michael Collins (March 10) Wall Streets is headed toward international pariah status thanks to two recent actions by the European Union (EU). On Tuesday, the EU announced that it was banning Wall Street banks from the lucrative government bond business in Europe.   They didn’t express official co ...

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Pine River World News

  • Eva Golinger: Permanent Aggression - War on the ho ...
    [The following article is reprinted with permission from Eva Golinger. She is the author of "The Ch�vez Code: Cracking U.S. Intervention in Venezuela" (2006 Olive Branch Press) and "Bush vs. Ch�vez: Washington's War on Venezuela" (2007, Monthly Review Press).] PERMANENT AGGRESSION: �War on the hori ...
  • Ramzy Baroud: An Alternative Reading of Murder in ...
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Ramzy Baroud. An Alternative Reading of Murder in Dubai � �Ramzy Baroud March 10, 2010 The killing of Palestinian activist Mahmoud al-Mabhouh on January 19, 2010 was clearly a well-planned, violent and sadistic act, committed by Israeli assass ...
  • 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 ...

    PDA AMERICA

  • No Insurance Company Left Behind
    By Katie Robbins – | HealthCareNOW.org On Tuesday, the Health Care for America Now (HCAN) coalition performed a “citizen’s arrest” of the insurance industry at a meeting of Americas Health Insurance Plans, the private health ...
  • More Healthcare, Less Warfare!
    Healthcare and warfare have been on the front burner this past week—for PDA and Congress. While Congress continues to dither on health insurance reform, I represented PDA at the “Labor Campaign for Single-Payer” conference in Washington, ...
  • IOT: Accountability and Justice March Call
    Accountability and Justice Issue Organizing Team conference call, 3/10/10 Over 80 PDA members joined this special call with Guest David Cobb, attorney and Green Party activist and a founder of Move to Amend, which has as ...
  • The Agitator: Voices of PDA Episode 3
    In the third installment of the Agitator Voices of PDA, Tim Carpenter interviews two PDA Advisory board members. Get the lowdown from the always witty and cheeky Jim Hightower. Following Jim, hear Rep. Donna ...
  • 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 ...

Marler Blog

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 03.12.10
    Scoripion King: 2011 Ford F-Series Super Duty Power Stroke Diesel is cleanest ever How does an 18-25 percent fuel economy boost sound? Report: Japan's fuel cell market could grow 99-fold by 2025 ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 03.11.10
    Report: Porsche intent on building 918, if it's profitable Don't rush to your dealer, as it could still take five years. Fisker says 100,000 plug-in hybrids a year could be built at Delaware plant ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 03.10.10
    eBay find of the Day: all-electric 1966 Chevrolet Corvair Corsa conversion So close to awesome. Report: Feds probing Prius' unintended acceleration incident, no new recall issued One car in Ca ...
  • 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 ...

Rafe's Radar

  • Springpad bookmarks the world
    Neat little clipping and saving service works on Web and iPhone.
  • 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 ...

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Part II: Michelle Alexander on “The New Jim ...
    After our broadcast interview with legal scholar and civil rights advocate, Michelle Alexander, Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez continued the conversation. Be the first to watch it here.
  • Rachel Corrie’s (Posthumous) Day in Court
    An unusual trial begins in Israel this week, and people around the world will be watching closely. It involves the tragic death of a 23-year-old American student named Rachel Corrie. On March 16, 2003, she was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer. More
  • 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 ...

Farming Pathogens

  • 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 ...

Digg Green

  • S.Korea Unveils 'Recharging Road' for Eco-Friendly ...
    "South Korean researchers Tuesday launched an environmentally friendly public transport system using a 'recharging road' -- with a vehicle sucking power magnetically from buried electric strips."
  • 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.
  • 8 Cool Ideas For Collecting Wind Energy
    Luckily people continue to imagine and design new ways to capitalize on the power of the wind. Let’s take a look at some of the “standard” and not-so-standard ideas for catching the power of the wind..
  • Great White Sharks Migrate to Battle Giant Squids
    In what could be the ultimate marine smack-down, great white sharks off the California coast may be migrating 1,600 miles west to do battle with creatures that rival their star power: giant squids.
  • Endangered Species by Country (INFOGRAPHIC)
    About 900 species of plants and animals have gone extinct in the last five centuries, and more than 10,000 others are now on the verge of joining them as endangered species, threatened species or vulnerable species. Here's a look at some of the countries

Invisible Opportunity

  • The Solution Video
    The Solution Video, putting government back into the hands of We the People. If you could find a way to end corruption in government and give the power back to the People, without violence, or spending much money, or lobbying for new laws, or electing any candidates, when would you want the informat ...
  • Ron Paul: Christian Just War Theory
  • Jenny McCarthy: Who’s Afraid Of The Truth Ab ...
    By Jenny McCarthy Parents of recovered children, and I’ve met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature’s course. We all know better, and frankly we’re too busy helping other parents to ...
  • Over 130,000 cases of diabetes now linked to soda ...
    By Mike Adams 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 caus ...
  • Japanese Have Washington Post Running Scared over ...
    By David Martin The giveaway as to how frantic The Post is over this matter is that they are editorializing before reporting. That Fujita, who as a graduate of Keio University is about as plugged in to Japan’s ruling “old boy” network as it is possible to be, has abandoned the 9/11 sinking ship was ...

    Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

  • Researchers develop 'psychic' software
    Sounding like it comes straight from the realms of science fiction, British researchers claim to have created a "mind-reading" computer program that uncovers memories just by analysing brain activity. The scientists asked 10 volunteers to watch three seven-second movie clips, remembering as much as ...
  • Roads need to be 'amphibian-friendly'
    A campaign group looking to save 40,000 toads from being killed by traffic this spring has said that roads need to be more "amphibian-friendly". Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (Arc) has called for lowered curbs, wildlife bridges and toad tunnels to be put across roads as the migrating toads head ...
  • BBC – should we scrap the license fee?
  • Electrified roads: the future?
    Researchers in South Korea have developed the technology for a transport system akin to a giant Scalextric set. They have formulated a plan in which embedded magnets in roads would charge electric vehicles inductively as they drive over them. The system, developed by scientists at the Korea Advanced ...
  • GM crops: consumers vs the multinationals?
    GM plants, produced by inserting novel genes into individual plants' cells and then growing the cells into whole plants in the laboratory, have provoked debate and disapproval. The "Frankenstein's monster" reputation of modified foods has put off the consumer, while the ethical dilemma of "man playi ...

Fabius Maximus

  • Question of the Day, about reforming America
    Questions are esp welcome to the FM website’s email at fabmaximus at hotmail dot com.  Today’s email questions the premise underlying the many posts about reforming America. You’re imploring Americans to get more involved in their political system without deeply examining the reasons why they are ...
  • Good news: air quality in the US has improved!
    Althought a disappointing for “the environment is going to hell” greens, the rest of us can rejoice in this good news.  Contents Air quality It’s not just air quality that’s improving Intensive propaganda convinces many people that the US environment grows worse Foolish quotes by greens predicting ...
  • Quote of the day, about the birth of a new world
    The post-WWII era draws to a close, ushering in a period of large-scale geopolitical change.  Most people greet this new era with hope, and equanimity about the transitional period.  Perhaps people’s confidence in an orderly evolution of new world rests on a weak foundation:  a belief in the ...
  • France gives us tips for the Afghanistan War, from ...
    There have been few victories by foreign troops fighting insurgencies since Mao brought the art of 4th generation war to maturity after WWII.  The few grey cases are those conducted with a legitimate local partner (e.g., Malaysia) or those not substantially foreign (e.g., Northern Ireland).  To find ...
  • FM newswire for March 10, interesting articles abo ...
    Today’s links to interesting news and analysis, collected from around the Internet. If you find this useful, pass it to a friend or colleague. The US is not the only nation going broke in part from maintaining a large military:  “Greek Crisis: Ending (at last) the Trojan War“, Jacques Delpla (me ...

sibeledmonds - tweets

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Big Earthquakes Cause Premature Births
    A new study of a 2005 earthquake in Chile supports the surprising hypothesis that pregnant women who experience earthquakes during the first trimester of their pregnancies have increased risk of premature birth and slightly smaller babies. While the drops in birth weight and gestation time are rela ...
  • Video: Cold, Little Comet Is No Match for Big, Hot ...
    A small, newly discovered comet will not get a chance to enjoy its fame for long. As you can see in this image sequence obtained by NASA’s Solar and Heliosopheric Observatory, the comet is on a collision course with the sun. Things will not end well for the comet, which will burn. The comet is beli ...
  • Solar Slumber May Have Been Caused by Magnetic Flo ...
    Newly reported observations of gas flows on the solar surface may explain why the sun recently had such an extended case of the doldrums. From 2008 through the first half of 2009, the sun had a puzzling dearth of sunspots, flares and other storms, extending the usual lull at the end of the 11-year ...
  • Desperate Efforts to Save Endangered Bats May Fail
    A desperate attempt to keep endangered Virginia big-eared bats alive in captivity has shown just how difficult that noble task may be. The effort was prompted by the discovery of White Nose Syndrome, an extremely virulent disease that has killed more than one million bats since 2007, in one of the ...
  • The ’70s Photos That Made Us Want to Save Earth
    > Two years after Richard Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency, the new institution sent out 100 photographers to document the nation’s environment writ large. Now, those photos have made it out of the root cellar of the National Archive and onto F ...

The Progressive Realist

  • China Not the Only Country Opposed to Sanctions on ...
    Despite China’s continued opposition to sanctions, the UK Ambassador to China reports that he is optimistic China will eventually come around because it fears “diplomatic isolation.” This argument is problematic because clearly China is not isolated in its opposition to sanctions. In fact, Turkey ...
  • Off-the-Radar News Roundup
    - ASEAN's secretary-general will visit China next week at the invitation of the Chinese foreign minister. The visit comes in the context of increasing concerns in Southeast Asia over effects of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement, which took effect on Jan. 1. - Ukraine's parliament formed a governm ...
  • Iraqi Parties Maneuver to Form New Ruling Coalitio ...
    As Iraq’s parties complain and contest the counting of the votes that were cast on March 7, 2010 for the country’s next parliament, those same parties are already hard at work trying to put together a new ruling coalition. On March 9 for example, former Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari of the Iraqi ...
  • Enemies Into Friends
    One of the biggest challenges that those of us proposing strategic rapprochement as a solution to the United States' diplomatic standoff with Iran face is the fact that many Americans cannot imagine how such a rapprochement would actually play out. Fortunately Georgetown University Professor and Co ...
  • Fallout from Biden's Visit to Israel: West Bank Se ...
    U.S. vice president Joe Biden is wrapping up his Middle East trip with a visit to Petra, in Jordan. A little sightseeing might be a welcome relief after a tumultuous week in Jerusalem and Ramallah. The phrase "turning point" is grossly overused, but this week really feels like a watershed in the ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Science and the President.
    The Union of Concerned Scientists, growing impatient, criticizes the Obama administration for taking too long on needed reforms. The director from the group's scientific integrity program, Francesca Grifo , notes that President Obama promised as a candidate to end political interference with science ...
  • Rove's Pride.
    So Karl Rove is " proud " of waterboarding, which means he's proud of the fact that his administration disgraced the United States with torture. I'm not sure what else he was supposed to say -- the only possible justification he has is that some good might have come out of his administration breakin ...
  • The Little Picture: The Sage of Monticello.
    In Texas , Thomas Jefferson is no one's favorite Founding Father . (Flickr/ theqspeaks )
  • The Sham Recovery.
    Are we finally in a recovery? Who’s “we,” Ke-mo sah-bee? Big global companies, Wall Street, and high-income Americans who hold their savings in financial instruments are clearly doing better. As to the rest of us – small businesses along Main Streets, and middle and lower-income Americans – forget i ...
  • Gallup: Taliban Increasingly Unpopular In Pakistan ...
    Gallup has a new poll showing that Pakistanis like the Taliban even less than they used to. That's despite the Obama administration's copious use of drone strikes. The Federally Administrated Tribal Areas were not included in the poll. That 10-point drop in approval mirrors a poll taken by Pew ...

Andy Worthington

  • “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”: Report ...
    Former Guantánamo prisoner Omar Deghayes and I have just returned from a successful two-day trip showing the new documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (directed by Polly Nash and myself) in Bradford and Norwich, as part of an ongoing UK tour. As with recent screenings — ...
  • 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 ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • 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 ...

SPL Center

  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 “ ...
  • Extremist Groups Surge in 2009
    Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released its annual “Year in Hate and Extremism” report . Broad-based populist anger at political, demographic and economic changes in America ignited an explosion of new extremist groups and activism across the nation. The SPLC documented a 244 per ...

change: org.

  • A 400-Year-Old Bias Against Non-Parents
    Reader Desiree Michaels made an excellent point in response to my post last week about how men are underserved by government aid programs during the recession. "How about we talk about ALL of the stereotypes in such programs," she wrote. "Not all who are poor ARE families in the sense of parent(s) w ...
  • Does a Park Have the Right to Discipline Your Dog?
    The City of Chandler, Arizona wants to use high frequency sound devices to take the bark out of the Bark Park. In response to complaints from neighbors, the city bought four Dog Silencer Pros from Good Life LLC. The Dog Silencers pick up barking within a 75 foot radius, then they emit a sound that t ...
  • How Much Is Biodiversity Worth to You?
    Is it possible to place a dollar amount on natural habitats and the species that call them home? Ecosystem Marketplace thinks it is. And according to "State of Biodiversity Markets: Offset and Compensation Programs Worldwide,” a study the group recently published, the worldwide market is somewhere b ...
  • Grenade Attacks and Election Season in Rwanda
    Grenade explosions in Kigali in recent weeks have set off a flurry of speculation about who is responsible, and reignited a discussion about political freedom (or lack thereof) in Rwanda as the highly anticipated presidential elections approach this summer. The surprising thing I found in conversati ...
  • The Two Sides of Food Safety Regulation
    As the issue of food safety has shoved itself into the spotlight yet again with a series of massive recalls, we're seeing the divisions that exist over how to legislatively deal with this problem. To oversimplify, one side supports more regulation, and another side believes in less — or at least bet ...

Common Dreams -News

  • The 'Public Option': Democrats' Scam Becomes More ...
    by Glenn Greenwald A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about what seemed to be a glaring (and quite typical) scam perpetrated by Congressional Democrats:  all year long, they insisted that the White House and a majority of Democratic Senators vigorously supported a public option, but the only thing ...
  • Leaders in House Block Earmarks to Corporations
    by Eric Lichtblau WASHINGTON — House Democratic leaders on Wednesday banned budget earmarks to private industry, ending a practice that has steered billions of dollars in no-bid contracts to companies and set off corruption scandals. The ban is the most forceful step yet in a three-year effort i ...
  • Judge Says Gov’t Must Allow Funding for ACORN
    by Andrew McLemore A federal judge retained her position that it is unconstitutional for Congress to prevent funding for the activist group ACORN after a government request that she reconsider. U.S. District Judge Nina Gershon cemented her earlier decision in December and made the injunction aga ...
  • Appeals Court says 'Under God' Not a Prayer
    by Bob Egelko The federal court that touched off a furor in 2002 by declaring the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance to be an unconstitutional endorsement of religion took another look at the issue Thursday and said the phrase invokes patriotism, not religious faith. The daily schoolroom ...
  • House Rejects Call for Withdrawal From Afghanistan
    by Jim Abrams WASHINGTON - The House on Wednesday soundly rejected an effort by anti-war lawmakers to force a withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year. The outcome of the vote, 356-65 against the resolution, was never in doubt. (click here for the roll call) But the 3 1/ ...

Lifehacker

  • Stretch Your Phone's Battery Life by Choosing the ...
    We've offered our best tips for getting the most from your smartphone's battery , but The New York Times revisits the mobile users' favorite topic. While most of the tips are familiar, he did suggest one somewhat drastic idea we'd never highli ...
  • Google Voice Turns One; Here's How to Get the Most ...
    Google Voice turned one yesterday , and in the year since Google reopened the service previously known as GrandCentral, we've: Helped you decide if Google Voice is a good fit for you Eased your transition to Voice Showed you how to make free ...
  • GoPetFriendly Finds Pet-Friendly Hotels, Campgroun ...
    We love traveling with our pets, but we don't like gambling on whether the hotel where we want to stay allows animals. Web site GoPetFriendly helps figure out where to rest your head without leaving Rover behind. More�� ...
  • The Business Card Is Alive and Well After All [Wha ...
    Earlier this week we asked if you still carried business cards , pointing out that the business card feels more and more outdated in a digital age. Your response: Digital age be damned! Around 70 percent of you still carry business cards—37 pe ...
  • Screwpop 4-in-1 Keychain Tool [Stuff We Like]
    We're a little obsessed with great tools that fit on our keychains , so it's no wonder the Screwpop 4-in-1 keychain multi-tool caught our eye. It's a Phillips-head screwdriver, flat-head screwdriver, a hex nut driver, and a bottle opener in a ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Paying not to quake in our boots
    at Chinese defense spending trends. 
  • U.S., Allies Responsible for Most Marjah Civilian ...
    By Derrick Crowe According to the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, U.S. and Allied forces have killed and injured more civilians than have the insurgents during Operation Moshtarak. Incredibly, the Pentagon continues to insist that this operation "protects the people." AIHRC's Feb. 23 pre ...
  • 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 ...

Water Wars

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Electronic Intifada

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

  • Downtime
    Just a quick note to say that there’ll be no posts from yours truly here at Futurismic for the rest of this week, as I’m off for a long weekend away from the computer in the company of The Lady and a fistful of books I’ve been itching to read for ages. I’ll be doing my [...] Project Wonderful - You ...
  • New business models in transmedia storytelling
    The TechDirt gang have pointed out an interesting experiment in monetizing storytelling across multiple media platforms from movie house Zen Films: It’s not a requirement for the audience to consume all media – only that they enjoy whichever one they have right now. Now, given all the attention we’r ...
  • ereaders: an ecological argument
    From Sam Jordison of The Guardian: what difference do ebooks make to a reader’s carbon footprint? I’ve only managed to find one report – on the Kindle (by The Cleantech Group) – but it backs up suggestions that so long as e-readers are used as book replacements rather than supplements, they soon ...
  • Downsizing Detroit: agriculture in the inner city
    We mentioned last summer that there was a chance some of the American cities affected worst by the changing economic climate deliberately “downsizing” themselves in order to consolidate what remains and cauterise the wound, and it seems that the decision has been made in the case of Detroit. With th ...
  • We are all Ponce: The Quest for Longevity
    When I was very little, some early-grade teacher lost in the mists of memory told me the story of how Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon spent much of his life searching for the Fountain of Youth. Now that I’m approaching one of those decade birthdays, I can finally relate. Besides, as the [...] ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • New Jersey Supreme Court poised to punish for purl ...
    The New Jersey Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday in a case where whistleblower Joyce Quinlan is asking for reinstatement of her $10 million jury verdict. An appellate court had vacated the verdict finding that Curtiss-Wright was justified in firing Quinlan for taking company documents for use ...
  • North Syracuse, New York, pays $260,000 to settle ...
    The Village of North Syracuse, New York, has agreed to pay former police officer Michael Stassi $260,000 to settle his whistleblower retaliation lawsuit.� Stassi had to blow the whistle in 2005 on time card cheating by his superiors. Syracuse.com reports that former Sgt. Daniel Keefe plead guilty to ...
  • Metro report finds "shoot the messenger" phenomeno ...
    Today's Washington Post (Metro page B-1) reports on "a blunt assessment" of Washington DC's Metro transit administration.� Retired Metro manager David L. Gunn wrote the report.� Among other problems, it finds a "shoot the messenger" phenomenon "that discourages employees from raising safety concerns ...
  • OSHA Listened, and now Celeste Monforton does too
    Public health researcher Celeste Montorton (of George Washington University's School of Public Health) has posted an extensive commentary on the whistleblower issues raised during last week's OSHA Listens public hearing.  Through her The Pump Handle blog, she appreciates the criticism of OSHA's whis ...
  • Maryland "Little FCA" moving forward
    WBAL-TV of Baltimore reports that the Maryland legislature is moving forward with a bill to create a "Little FCA" in Maryland.� Modeled on the federal False Claims Act (FCA), and looking for the benefits of the Grassley Amendment, Little FCAs provide financial rewards to whistleblowers who file seal ...

Science Express

  • 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 ...

TechDirt

  • UK Paper Ghost Wrote Blatantly False Facebook Atta ...
    Not too long ago, we wrote about a bizarre situation where a UK newspaper was caught flat out making up a story that was completely wrong. It had interviewed an American professor whose findings were the exact opposite of what the newspaper wanted to print, so it just pretended his research said wh ...
  • Australian Trademark Tribunal Tells Apple That It ...
    Late last year we noticed that Apple seemed to be getting needlessly (and at times ridiculously) aggressive over its trademarks in Australia. There was the software developer who had a product named iPodRip, which had been around for years, which Steve Jobs suddenly decided needed to change its nam ...
  • MPAA Brags About How Awesome The Movie Business Is ...
    You gotta love the MPAA for the sheer Hollywood brashness of two recent press releases, that the Washington Post's Rob Pegoraro decided to compare and call the MPAA on its blatant dishonesty . The first press release, from back in December, was all about how the internet and file trading were killi ...
  • James Murdoch Is Very, Very Confused About Copyrig ...
    TorrentFreak has an article about how Ari Emanuel, brother of Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and the "inspiration" for Jeremy Piven's "Ari Gold" character in the show Entourage , is claiming that he's talking to President Obama about implementing a three strikes law in the US . While I'm sure he ...
  • Unwilling To Compete, Canadian Booksellers Associa ...
    jprlk was the first of a few of you to send in the news that the Canadian Booksellers' Association is apparently so afraid of competition from Amazon, that it's asking the government to block the company from building a distribution center north of the border. Apparently, they're relying on some ri ...

VacTruth

  • Cervical Cancer Vaccine Documents Presented to FDA ...
    Documents Reviewed by the FDA on HPV Vaccines.
  • Merck to Build New Vaccine Plant With IBM, GM, UPM ...
    Press Release CONTACT: Wendy Zellner PHONE: (412) 586-9777 E-MAIL: ZellnerWL@upmc.edu Battelle, IBM, Merck Join UPMC’s Effort to Produce Vaccines to Protect Public Health 21st Century Biodefense Offers Innovative Solution to President Obama’s Call for Improved Response to Bioterrorism and Infectiou ...
  • Henrietta Lacks, HeLa Cells, and Cell Culture Cont ...
    . . . . . Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Brendan P. Lucey, MD, Walter A. Nelson-Rees, PhD, and Grover M. Hutchins, MDFrom the Department of Neurology, Michael O’Callaghan Federal Hospital, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada (Dr Lucey); and the Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Ho ...
  • Hypogammaglobulinemics Estimated 10,000 Times More ...
    . . . . Poliomyelitis in Hypogammaglobulinemics Author(s): H. V. Wyatt Source: The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 128, No. 6 (Dec., 1973), pp. 802-806 Published by: The University of Chicago Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/30061657 (excerpt) “The incidence of natural poliomyelit ...
  • 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 ...

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    First off, I’ve started an anarchist meetup group in DC.  If you are in the area, or know someone who is, check it out.  Our first meetup will be on March 28th. Second, I must apologize to all the women who responded to my post about a women focused gathering.  I wasn’t able to get a [...]
  • 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 [...]

Executive Intelligence Review

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • $650 Million Payout Proves Government Conspired To ...
  • While Government Treats Citizens As Terrorists, Me ...
    Navy chopper with armed troops conducts surveillance in south Texas border town, authorities couldn’t care less Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Friday, March 12, 2010 While the U.S. government and federal authorities busy themselves targeting American citizens as domestic terrorists ...
  • Alex Jones On Russia Today: Free speech under fire
    Youtube March 12, 2010 Alex Jones’ Web sites were assaulted in a massive, organized and sustained attack, which is still ongoing. He claims that zombie computers around the world were used to launch denial of service attacks against him. Alex also weighs in on attacks against Jesse Ventura — is he a ...
  • Federal Regulator Weighs Making Black Boxes Mandat ...
    Kevin Krolicki and John Crawley Reuters March 12, 2010 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration chief David Strickland told a congressional hearing on Thursday that the regulator is considering whether to make “black boxes” mandatory for all new vehicles. [ID:nN11246251] The devices can captur ...
  • $650m compensation settlement for heroes of Septem ...
    Nico Hines London Times March 12, 2010 Rescue and recovery workers who were exposed to a toxic brew of smoke and dust in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks have been awarded $650 million in a compensation deal struck in New York. Thousands of 9/11 heroes, including firefighters, pol ...

food and water watch

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

treehugger

  • And Now For The Best Argument Against Global Warmi ...
    Image via SF Gate Over at the San Francisco Chronicle, Dr. Peter Gleick, the president of the Pacific Institute has come up with the most believable argument against global warming that I've yet encountered. And so, I'll close out my Friday by sharing it.... Read the full story on TreeHugger ...
  • Global Warming's Evil Twin: Ocean Acidification - ...
    Acid ocean "SOS." Image credit: Alaska Marine Conservation Council US EPA has decided to consider ways that US states can, under already delegated authorities, curb pollutants that may otherwise add to the power of global warming's evil twin: Ocean Acidification . (Note: many US States regula ...
  • Confirmed: LG Chem to Build $303 Million Lithium-I ...
    Image: LG Chem The Supply Chain for Electric Cars is Growing About 6 months ago we wrote that LG Chem was thinking about building an advanced lithium-ion battery plant in Holland, Michigan, to supply battery packs to GM for the Volt PHEV. Now it's confirmed, everything's official and the groun ...
  • Chicken vs Egg: Does Suburban Sprawl Represent the ...
    Postwar suburban sprawl, courtesy of George Bailey and his Savings and Loan A lot of the Libertarian types think that those of us promoting higher densities and urban life are trying to limit freedom of choice. Joe Mysak wrote in Bloomberg about us: The notion appeals especially to people wh ...
  • Infographic: "How Cars are Killing Us Around the W ...
    Image: Infrastructurist Risk assessment is hard. We humans are hard-wired with many cognitive biases that can often distort our perception of reality and make us fear the wrong things. For example, on average, people will be more afraid of something with which they are unfamiliar compared to so ...

Biosingularity

  • Life’s smallest motor, cargo carrier of the ...
    Life’s smallest motor, a protein that shuttles cargo within cells and helps cells divide, does so by rocking up and down like a seesaw, according to research conducted by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Brandeis University. The researchers crea ...
  • Further doubt cast on virus link to chronic fatigu ...
    Researchers investigating UK samples have found no association between the controversial xenotropic murine leukaemia virus-related virus (XMRV) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Their study, published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Retrovirology, calls into question a potential link descr ...
  • Child Obesity Risks Death at Early Age, Study Find ...
    A rare study that tracked thousands of children through adulthood found the heaviest youngsters were more than twice as likely as the thinnest to die prematurely, before age 55, of illness or a self-inflicted injury. Youngsters with a condition called pre-diabetes were at almost double the risk of d ...
  • How to Change A Skin Cell Into A Nerve Cell or Cel ...
    Eyeballs just don’t become toenails — even though the same genome sits in the nucleus of every cell. The difference is in the parts of the genome that are expressed — a cell’s identity is determined by the specific genes that are active within that cell. The differentiation of a cell, and a cell’s c ...
  • Think Twice: How the Gut’s “Second Bra ...
    As Olympians go for the gold in Vancouver, even the steeliest are likely to experience that familiar feeling of “butterflies” in the stomach. Underlying this sensation is an often-overlooked network of neurons lining our guts that is so extensive some scientists have nicknamed it our “second brain”. ...

CFACT

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Pruning Shears

  • History, Ben Smith Style
    Smith : Barack Obama became president at some point before October 3rd, 2008 .  And for some truly superb hackery, the “massive bank bailout” hyperlink in “Obama administration’s massive bank bailout” points to the site “illegal-url-1”. UPDATE: Smith has changed it to simply “massive bank bailout” a ...
  • Strange Signals From Bair and Warren
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Two recent financial reform developments jumped out at me for the cognitive dissonance they caused. First, the Senate released a proposal to create a resolution authority for large financial firms. Yves Smith had previously dismiss ...
  • 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 ...

Natural Health News

  • Soft Drinks Firms Claim Sugary Sodas Cut in School ...
    The U.S. soft drinks industry says it has dramatically cut the number of high-calorie soft drinks sold in schools as part of a drive to tackle obesity.  The American Beverage Association said shipments of full-calorie drinks to schools were down 95 percent. Nearly one in three children and teenage ...
  • There are Too Many Preventable Deaths Among New Mo ...
    Pregnancy-related deaths appear to have risen in the U.S. over the past decade, nearly tripling in California, the state with the most careful count. The maternal mortality rate is four times higher than a goal the federal government set for this year. Maternal mortality gets little public attentio ...
  • Traffic Accidents are a Major Killer
    The World Health Organization global status report on road safety makes for shocking reading. Over 3000 people die on the world's roads every day -- and over 90 percent of the deaths occur in low-income and middle-income countries, which have only 48 percent of the world's registered vehicles. Tens ...
  • Healthier Men Want More Sex for More Years
    According to a new study, healthier men, no matter their age, have better sex more frequently and desire it more often than healthier women -- and a healthier sex life could mean a longer life. The paper's findings have wide implication for attitudes toward public health and how patients respond to ...
  • Why People are More Likely to Steal When Its Dark ...
    There has always been a correlation between how ethically people behave and how brightly their surroundings are lit; most evil deeds are done under cover of darkness. A new study suggest that this is not only because of the threat of discovery. Researchers recruited 84 students and divided them bet ...

Antemedius

  • Capitalism Driving Humanity's Downfall
    Raw Story, March 6th, 2010 In his film Capitalism: A Love Story [set to be released on DVD and Blu-ray Monday], Michael Moore squares off with the free-market system for its role in leveraging the United States's wealth into the hands of a few. But in one clip cut from the documentary [Moore] inte ...
  • 1,000 Words About Malawi
    Cross posted from Border Jumpers , Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. We spent a couple of amazing days in Lilongwe, Malawi - although it was cut short because we took an emergency flight back to Canada for the funeral of Bernard's grandmother (by the time you are reading this, we are back in ...
  • New Heroine Sparks Movement
    Harry Hanbury has a story that any videographer or blogger would love. He created a video of Congresswoman Donna Edwards taking steps to amend the Constitution to restore our democracy following assault by the Supreme Court. A woman you've never heard of named Jessica Sharp saw the video and decid ...
  • 244% Increase In "Patriot" Militia Groups In One Y ...
    As an avowed Dirty Freaking Hippy the Dog is often stunned by the level of vitriol on the Right. It is not that you can not find some folks on the political Left that are, well, on the fringe. You can on almost any political blog you look at and more if you really go digging in the backwaters of the ...
  • In Zimbabwe, the Voice of the Worker
    Cross posted from Border Jumpers , Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. Imagine being one of only five opposition voices in a country of thirteen million people, where all radio, print and television is strictly controlled by the government. That's Ben Madzimure’s uphill battle everyday as edito ...

Son of Alex Constantine's Blacklist

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

Climategate

Opinio Juris

  • Using Arbitration to Promote Due Process and Chall ...
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford In the long-running battle between Chevron and Ecuador over environmental damage, a federal court in New York has denied Ecuador’s motion to stay arbitration of a Ecuador-U.S. BIT claim. In September 2009, Chevron filed a notice of arbitration alleging, among othe ...
  • Brazil Gets Ready to Punish the U.S. for Violating ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku It is always unpleasant to get lectured by foreign governments about “violating international law”, but this is something U.S. government officials should be used to.  Still, it must be galling for the new U.S. administration to be lectured by Brazil’s president over U. ...
  • Brazil Gets Ready to Punish the U.S. for Violating ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku It is always unpleasant to get lectured by foreign governments about “violating international law”, but this is something U.S. government officials should be used to.  Still, it must be galling for the new U.S. administration to be lectured by Brazil’s president over U. ...
  • What were these “Secret Pacts” with Ja ...
    by Duncan Hollis Yesterday, the Japanese Government (now led by the Democratic Party after nearly five-plus decades of rule by the Liberal Democratic Party) confirmed that in the 1960s Japan and the United States entered into a series of secret defense pacts.  Specifically, a committee of scholars ...
  • Shocker: UN Special Rapporteurs Oppose Military Co ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I’m not exactly surprised to read this: 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 Hous ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • Are glaciers uniformly receding?
    It's often claimed that glaciers are receding, and this is supposed to be taken as proof of human-caused climate change.But as one essayist is pointing out, not all glaciers are receding at all, and not all glaciers are monitored by...
  • STUDY: Amazon much tougher than IPCC report claime ...
    A new peer reviewed study based on satellite imagery has found the Amazon jungle shrugged off "the drought of a century" in 2005 and may be much more resistant to drought than the IPCC has claimed. Pic: The Amazon, Brazil...
  • BOMBSHELL: NASA admits their world climate data no ...
    Global warming believers have tried to downplay the errors in the CRU world climate database by pointing to the other major datasets as untainted by the scandal. Now that alibi has come crashing down as newly released emails show NASA...
  • Clamatologists find proof of Medieval Warm Period
    Credit to WattsUpWithThat for the info and the "clamatology", but the essence of the story is this. Scientists have found a more accurate way of measuring past temperature changes than the controversial tree ring method - using old clam shells....
  • Are NZers the world's most sceptical on climate?
    The Climategate Country Club is building a worldwide network of people wanting info on climate change. NZ was running least on numbers in the top five, but an analysis shows a high per capita rate. Sign up and boost your...

Public News Service

  • Lawmaker: Single People Deserve Equal Chance to Ad ...
    Lawmaker: Single People Deserve Equal Chance to Adopt Phoenix, AZ – A bill giving adoption priority to married couples has passed the Arizona House and awaits a hearing in the Senate. One lawmaker rejects the idea that a mom and dad are always the ideal situation for an adopted child. Comments from ...
  • Program Promises Lower Energy Bills for Low-Income ...
    Program Promises Lower Energy Bills for Low-Income Arizonans Phoenix, AZ – Arizona is getting 57-million dollars in federal stimulus money to weatherize more than six-thousand low-income Arizona households. Those families stand to save up to 25-percent each year on heating and cooling. Comments from ...
  • Time Out Called to Protect Abused Arizona Creek
    Time Out Called to Protect Abused Arizona Creek Prescott, AZ – Since being restored to a free-flowing stream five years ago, central Arizona’s Fossil Creek has become a recreation magnet, attracting not only people, but also trash and vandalism. New regulations taking effect today (Monday) are the ...
  • 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 ...

My Care2 Picks

  • The Obama Killing Machine in Afghanistan
    The "under-reporting" of civilians killed by foreign forces ; consistent with http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2008/11/iraq-math-war Deaths from military actions http://my.opera.com/oldephartte/links/ or http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2010/03/mar-4 Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Cultu ...
  • Counter-Terrorism White Paper: Securing Australia ...
    HT Galloping Beaver Blogspot Counterpoint at http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/17/antiterror-laws-are.html from http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2009/08/police-state.html Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Take Action- War Is Not the Answer in Afghanistan!
    We, the undersigned, oppose U.S. escalation of the war in Afghanistan. Escalating war fighting risks the lives of U.S. troops and Afghans. Moreover, this strategy will bring neither peace nor stability to Afghanistan. Peace is possible through peaceful me Submitted by Daphna Yanez to World �|� �Not ...
  • The Iraq Water Project
    A project of Veterans for Peace, Inc. (VFP), principal partner for IWP's major water facility reconstruction projects was Life for Relief & Development. Now providing water filtration units, helping supply clean water for schools, hospitals,Iraqi people Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness ...
  • Depleted Uranium a tool to depopulate the world
    UC Regents lose control of nuclear weapons program: Research on population control, preventing future births, is now being carried out secretly by biotech companies. Depopulation is deliberate killing off of large segments of living populations : Eugenics Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech ...

Angry Indian News

  • Anarchist murdered by the police in Athens
    After the Greek Riots › #211: "35 year-old comrade Lambros Foundas was murdered by cops on Wednesday morning in the suburb of Dafni (south Athens).The police claims that he was a “terrorist” and that... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Protesters head for Thai capital
    Al Jazeera English: "Tens of thousands of supporters of Thaksin Shinawatra, the deposed Thai prime minister, are heading to Bangkok, Thailand's capital, preparing for mass rallies aimed at toppling... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Juanita Goggins Dead: Once-Revered South Carolina ...
    HuffPo: "COLUMBIA, S.C. — When Juanita Goggins became the first black woman elected to the South Carolina Legislature in 1974, she was hailed as a trailblazer and twice visited the president at the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Jewish extremists to model Bar Refaeli: Don't marr ...
    Israel News: "Jewish extremists have urged supermodel Bar Refaeli not to marry her actor boyfriend, Leonardo DiCaprio, because it would dilute the Jewish race, according to media reports. In a letter... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • 'People are laughing at you': U.K. expert on Israe ...
    Israel News: "Conventional marketing wisdom has it that even bad news is good news, as long as people talk about you. But Jonathan Gabay, a leading London-based marketing and branding expert,... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • GMO Quality Control
    Ever wonder how they determine if GMOs are safe? Look no further, here is the answer.
  • Christopher Walken: How to complete a census
    Thank you Ed, for this hilarious video!
  • 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?

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • USGS: 7.2-magnitude quake SW of Santiago, Chile
    A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Chile again at 11:39 a.m. local time Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter was 95 miles southwest of the capital, Santiago. Chile, which was struck by an 8.8-magnitude quake on Feb. 27, continues to suffer from a series of strong aftershocks.
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    Readers, we need your support! Please click HERE to donate. Or, please mail a check or money order to the CLG: Citizens for Legitimate Government (CLG) P.O. Box 1142 Bristol, CT 06011-1142 To allow us complete freedom in tackling bad government, CLG is not an IRS Section 501 C-3 ch ...
  • 'US might manipulate Iraq election results'
    A member of Iraq's National Alliance (INA) has warned that the US is possibly attempting to manipulate the results of the country's general elections as the release of the vote tally was postponed again. INA candidate, Entifadh Qanbar told press TV that the United States might try to intervene ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • Are glaciers uniformly receding?
    It's often claimed that glaciers are receding, and this is supposed to be taken as proof of human-caused climate change., not all glaciers are receding at all, and not all glaciers are monitored by the World Glacier Monitoring Service... 
  • STUDY: Amazon much tougher than IPCC report claime ...
    A new peer reviewed study based on satellite imagery has found the Amazon jungle shrugged off "the drought of a century" in 2005 and may be much more resistant to drought than the IPCC has claimed. Pic: The Amazon, Brazil...
  • BOMBSHELL: NASA admits their world climate data no ...
    Global warming believers have tried to downplay the errors in the CRU world climate database by pointing to the other major datasets as untainted by the scandal. Now that alibi has come crashing down as newly released emails show NASA...
  • Clamatologists find proof of Medieval Warm Period
    Credit to WattsUpWithThat for the info and the "clamatology", but the essence of the story is this. Scientists have found a more accurate way of measuring past temperature changes than the controversial tree ring method - using old clam shells....
  • Are NZers the world's most sceptical on climate?
    The Climategate Country Club is building a worldwide network of people wanting info on climate change. NZ was running least on numbers in the top five, but an analysis shows a high per capita rate. Sign up and boost your...

Mondoweiss

  • Dear Congress: What the Purim video reveals about ...
    If granted one simple wish to raise awareness in the US Congress about where America’s annual Israel subsidy goes, it would be this: before the next pro-Israel vote, members of Congress would  sit down and watch YNET’s ninety second video of Israeli settlers holding a  Purim Party in East Jerusalem ...
  • Steinhardt and Khouri agree: it’s not about ...
    Rami Khouri, Lebanese editor, speaking on NPR, and Michael Steinhardt, the funder of several neoconservative outlets, writing in the Wall Street Journal, say that the big issue is not borders, it’s refugees. I can’t get the Steinhardt because it’s behind a fire wall, but it begins, "settlements are ...
  • Israeli insult to Biden should have been no surpri ...
    Max Blumenthal puts the lie to the claim that the interior minister surprised Netanyahu with his announcement of further settlements with this report on a hoedown with John Hagee and Netanyahu on the eve of Biden’s visit, in which there was endless talk of further settlements: Vice President Joe ...
  • ‘To wipe the spit off his face, Biden had to ...
    Akiva Eldar in Haaretz says that the US signed off on the East Jerusalem Judaization. To wipe the spit off his face, Biden had to say it was only rain. Therefore, he lauded Netanyahu’s assertion that actual construction in Ramat Shlomo would begin only in another several years. Thus Israel es ...
  • Palestinians not ready to play Broadway, need more ...
    The Dubai insult is at last breaking down the doors of the American discourse. Maybe those Palestinians aren’t so crazy? Israeli Palestinian Ahmad Tibi is printed in the Times. Oh: that’s The Washington Times, breaking the news about Jim Crow: We are entering a time period similar to that faced b ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: Squaline – Crime of the Century
    Adjuvants are pharmacological or immunological agents that modify the effect of other agents. The flu vaccine contains a muted or ‘heat-treated’ virus; supposedly not capable of infecting the system directly but sufficient to provide the RNA/DNA template to allow the immune system to combat the i ...
  • VRM: Aids & The WHO – Criminal Intent
    A 1972 report (Bulletin #47) issued by the World Health Organization referred to an immune virus requested which would selectively destroy the Human T Cell System, to be distributed in conjunction with a Nationwide vaccination program “to observe the results”. This coincided precisely with the exten ...
  • VRM: Morgellons Syndrome & Chemtrails
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