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IPS - Inter Press Services

• MIDEAST: Israel Lands in Public Relations Night ...
  JERSUSALEM, Mar 14 (IPS) - Israeli riot police and soldiers have, since Friday, sealed off the Al Aqsa mosque, Islam’s third holiest shrine, restricting entry to women and Palestinian men over 50.
• THAILAND: In Convoys of Red, Rural Masses Stage ...
  BANGKOK, Mar 14 (IPS) - An unprecedented show of force by men and women from Thailand’s rural hinterland was on display over the weekend as they poured into Bangkok in the tens of thousands to stake a claim on having a voice in shaping this South-east Asian kingdom’s national agenda.
• RIGHTS-MALAWI: Country Not Safe for Homosexuals
  LILONGWE, Mar. 13 (IPS) - Malawi is quickly becoming unsafe for homosexuals as the country’s police service recently launched a campaign to hunt down and arrest prominent people who are suspected of being gay.
• US-ISRAEL: Tiff or Tipping Point?
  WASHINGTON, Mar 13 (IPS) - "Condemn" is not a word that rolls trippingly off the tongue of a U.S. politician addressing anything having to do with actions, however objectionable, by Israel.
• RIGHTS-GUATEMALA: 'Our Lives Are Cut Short at a S ...
  GUATEMALA CITY, Mar 13 (IPS) - "This is a time of great tension because we know that at any moment, when we least expect it, our lives can be cut short at a stroke," Tito Gálvez, a leader in the Resistance Front for the Defence of Natural Resources and Rights of the Guatemalan Peoples (FRENA ...

Scoop - NZ

• Geithners NY Fed implicated in Lehman fraud
  Quite a few observers, including this blogger, have been stunned and frustrated at the refusal to investigate what was almost certain accounting fraud at Lehman. Despite the bankruptcy administrator's effort to blame the gaping hole in Lehman's balance sheet on its disorderly collapse, the idea that ...
• Nats resort to plants to help Tolley
  Interesting public meeting in Onehunga Thursday night, with Minister of Ed Anne Tolley seeking to sell her controversial National Standards policy. About 80 people there, seemed to be quite a lot of parents and those involved in education locally. Trevor Mallard and Carol Beaumont present, Robert Ra ...
• The Lomborg Deception
  Bjorn Lomborg has been allowed to exercise a huge amount of sway in the climate change debate so it was way past time for someone to debunk his arguments systematically and thoughtfully ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
• UK polls: Labour draws ahead of Conservatives
  A Conservative political adviser described how he walked into a supermarket last week, took one look at the words running across the front of a newspaper and gasped. "I just thought, my God," he said. He was staring at a headline - "Gordon Brown on course to win election". The article, which reveal ...
• Ashcroft: from Tory saviour to electoral liability
  The car park outside the office of Hove and Portslade Labour party in Sussex is jam-packed and there is no space left for the MP, Celia Barlow. "Jump out. You go ahead and see what is going on," she says. "I'll find somewhere else, and be in in a second." The cramped room at the back of the buildin ...

Independent ( London )

• British pair challenge Dubai 'kiss' sentence
  A British pair will appear in court in Dubai today accused of kissing in public.
• 'Agreement soon' on nuclear arms reduction treaty
  President Barack Obama had what the White House described as an "encouraging" phone conversation with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev as the two countries sought to work out the remaining issues on a treaty to significantly reduce nuclear arsenals.
• Chavez calls for curbs on internet
  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called for regulation of the internet while demanding authorities crack down on a critical news website that he accused of spreading false information.
• Thousands of protesters converge in Bangkok
  Tens of thousands of protesters converged in Bangkok on today and gave Thailand's military-backed government an ultimatum: call elections in 24 hours or face crippling demonstrations across the capital.
• Tens of thousands of protesters call for Thai elec ...
  Tens of thousands of protesters converged in Bangkok on today and gave Thailand's military-backed government an ultimatum: call elections in 24 hours or face crippling demonstrations across the capital.

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

• "Dark Flow" of Billions of Stars Racing Away from ...
  "Dark Flow" sounds like a new SciFi Channel series. It's not! Back in the Middle Ages, maps showed terrifying images of sea dragons at the boundaries of the known world. Today, scientists have observed strange new motion at the very...
• Will "Intelligence" be an Evolutionary Constant Th ...
  Charley Lineweaver, a cosmologist with The Australian National University, believes the "Planet of the Apes Hypothesis" -a theory subscribed to by Carl Sagan and the astronomers involved with the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), that human-like intelligence is a convergent...
• The Galaxies of Observable Universe Validate Gener ...
  An analysis of more than 70,000 of the estimated one trillion galaxies in the universe demonstrates that the universe - at least up to a distance of 3.5 billion light years from Earth - validate the rules set out 95...
• On the Brink of Detecting Space-Time Distortions ...
  The universe’s smallest known binary, with by far the shortest known orbital period, has been confirmed by an international team of astronomers, and they likely hold the key to directly detecting space-time distortion for the first time ever. The two...
• Earth's "Alien" Atmosphere: What You're Breathing ...
  Some scientists say that there really is something Kryptonian among us, brought to Earth by impacting objects from outer space – only it's the noble gas, not a noble hero, because there's nothing more Kryptonian than Krypton itself. A new...

Natural News

• Dr. Julian Whitaker speaks out about health freedo ...
  (NaturalNews) Dr. Julian Whitaker is one of the best-known pioneers of health freedom in the United States of America. Through his Health and Healing newsletter (www.DrWhitaker.com) and his Whitaker Wellness Center (www.WhitakerWellness.com), he has helped teach literally millions of people with cru ...
• "Healthy" Snacks Loaded with Sugar and Salt
  (NaturalNews) Many children's snacks marketed as healthy alternatives are actually full of unhealthy ingredients like sugar, salt and fat, according to an analysis conducted by the consumer watchdog organization Which?. "Parents should be able to pick out healthy products for their kids' lunchboxes, ...
• Russia may ban chicken imports from U.S. due to ch ...
  (NaturalNews) Beginning on January 1, 2010, Russia has officially banned imported poultry products from countries that use chlorine in their processing methods. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced that Russia will no longer allow chicken imports from the U.S. because the chlorine baths u ...
• 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 ...

Webhosts

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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

• Quick Fact: Perino falsely claims health care bene ...
  On March 12, Fox News contributor Dana Perino falsely claimed that people would "not see benefits for four to five years after" the health care reform bill passes. In fact, numerous benefits contained in the Senate bill would become available in the first year after the bill is enacted. Perino fals ...
• Beck attacks social justice
  Glenn Beck has repeatedly attacked the concept of social justice and churches that promote it, asserting that it is "code language for Marxism" and warning that "when you see those words, run." In fact, numerous churches and religious faiths, as well as prominent religious scholars, espouse social ...
• Doocy falsely suggests Byrd opposes reconciliatio ...
  Fox & Friends' Steve Doocy falsely suggested that Sen. Robert Byrd opposed using reconciliation to pass health care reform, citing comments Byrd made in 2001. However, Byrd recently defended use of reconciliation to complete passage of health care reform legislation already passed by both the ...
• 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 ...

Global Research.ca

• The financial system in America is on the edge of ...
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• Life is Great ... But Only If You Are Already Mega ...
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• Canadian Politics: The Newly Benevolent Stephen Ha ...
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• Realpolitik Rules in Sri Lanka
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• For Some, the Search for What Happened on 9/11 Isn ...
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TPM Cafe

• That Pointy-Headed Pragmatist
  What is Barack Obama trying to do, and why? David Brooks has his answer, and I have mine. Brooks' Friday column was prompted by theories of Obama that have taken hold on the right and left -- the latter viewing him as an over-cautious empty vessel of a politician who doesn't stand for anything. ...
• The Internet: The new common medium
  This speech was delivered at Columbia University, on March 11th, 2010. Columbia University - Education - New York - United States - Colleges and Universities
• VIDEO UPDATE: Biden Condemns Settlers While Settle ...
  First, this video of Jewish settlers commemorating, with song, the slaughter of 29 Palestinians by an Israeli settler while at prayer. The murderer's grave is a shrine for far right-settlers. (h/t Andrew Sullivan) *** The Netanyahu government has enjoyed treating our President as a pats ...
• The US-Israeli Crackup
  The New York Times reports today that the Secretary of State really let Netanyahu have it in a 43 minute conversation yesterday. She told him, among other things, that Israel's latest actions and insults constituted a "deeply negative signal" that put the "bilateral relationship at risk." Netanyah ...
• The Sham Recovery
  Are we finally in a recovery? Who's "we," kemosabe? 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 it. B ...

TruthOut

• Please, Enough With the Partisan Chain E-mail
  For five years, Joyce and John Good silently tolerated angry partisan e-mails forwarded by family and friends. They even ignored the steady vitriol flowing from the husband and wife they'd known for 40 years. "We'd raised our children together," Joyce said of the couple. "We never talked politics. ...
• As Biden Visits, Israel Keeps Iran Fears in Mind
  Jerusalem - Israeli leaders would like nothing better than to smash Iran’s putative nuclear capability with a swift bombing raid. Trouble is, most Israeli military and political chiefs are doubtful it could be done and fear the broader consequences of any attempt. That might make for uncomfortable ...
• New Hope for Progress on US Ratification of CEDAW
  Women have been stymied for years in efforts to achieve U.S. ratification of CEDAW, the UN treaty to eliminate discrimination against women. Now, meeting at the UN, U.S. women hope to regain influence in establishing rights for women around the world. read more
• US AIDS Fund Flat-Lining, Groups Complain
  Washington - The debate between those who favour investment in AIDS treatment and those who favour investment in its prevention came to the forefront Thursday at a U.S House of Representatives hearing on U.S. investments in HIV/AIDS in Africa. International health organisations working to help chec ...
• Robert Scheer | An Oscar for America's Hubris
  What a shame that the one movie about the Iraq war that has a chance of being viewed by a large worldwide audience should be so disappointing. According to press reports, members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences finally found a movie about the Iraq war they liked because it is "ap ...

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

• Planning Commission postpones College Cove decisio ...
  The Times-Standard has the story.
• SRBC’S REAL-TIME WATER QUALITY DATA AVAILABLE ONLI ...
  Water Managers and Public Can Track if Streams Are Impacted by Pollution HARRISBURG, Pa. – The Susqu
• College Cove subdivision proposal – Planning Commi ...
  From Friends of College Cove, a neighborhood group in the Trinidad area concerned about potential de
• Partnership Receives National Award
  DEP NEWS: Partnership Receives National Award- Lower St. Johns River Tributary Assessment Team Recog
• Water Pollution
  As we know,water is the most important thing in our life. But now, water in this earth polluted by a

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

• DNA extracted from extinct bird eggshells
  For the first time scientists have succeeded in extracting DNA from the eggshells of extinct birds. The research is a big step towards understanding l...
• Obama Nasa plans
  Former astronauts who set foot on the Moon have expressed their disappointment in the recent Moon program cancellations. Jim Lovell who commanded Apol...
• 'Psychic' computer invented that can read your min ...
  Scientists in the UK have developed a machine that can scan and interpret brain patterns in order to read minds. By scanning volunteers while they wat...
• Chief exorcist says Devil is in Vatican
  The Vatican's chief exorcist has given the recent attack on the Pope as evidence that the Devil is in the Vatican. He stated that anyone possessed by ...
• Russia to build Aerostat "flying saucers"
  Russia are embarking on a 5-year program to construct a series of "flying saucer" style flying vehicles. The "aerostatic thermoballasted vehicle" is a...

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 ...
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Climate

• March 14, 2010
  China Alleges Diplomatic Snub at Copenhagen Summit (AP) Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said he was snubbed at last year's Copenhagen climate conference and fired back Sunday at critics who accuse China of arrogance. Japan Faces Rocky Path to Emissions Trading System (Reuters) Japan f ...
• 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 ...

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

• From Wall Street to Skank Street: Poking the frog ...
  If you have the balls to stand up to Gunther Gatlin, and pay in cash, you just might manage to get him to do his job, which is fixing cars. Gunther's Garage is jammed in between an unpainted shotgun shack and a weedy vacant lot on a skanky little side street in Winchester, Virginia. The place is rea ...
• The Complete Idiot's Guide To Governing
  It would be a gigantic mistake to believe that Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid or anyone else of prominence in today's Democratic Party actually gives a damn about the fate of the American people. But it's not such a stretch to imagine that they might care about their own political careers. ...
• Every Soldier Has a Story You Do Not Want to Hear
  Would the United States military lie about how four Marines were killed? Would abuse continue at Abu Ghraib after the scandal exploded? Any soldier you talk to has a story you may not want to hear. I recently had occasion to speak with two that were particularly troubling. Part I: Snipers Dead in Ra ...
• Senate should pass a compromise public option by m ...
  The president has left the public option decision up to Senate Democrats, who should fight for and win a compromise public option that would be open to states that opt in, and would return budget savings from the public option back to participating states to finance jobs programs. In short, states t ...
• Second Mistrial for Shock Jock Hal Turner
  Internet shock jock and F.B.I. confidential informant Hal Turner beat the rap again when his second federal " Death-Threat Trial ," ended in yet another mistrial. Turner, charged with threatening the life of three federal judges who issued rulings supporting gun control, claims federal agents enco ...

Ten Percent

• Tutu Calls Burma Election A ‘Charade’
  In a message of encouragement to Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, South African Archbishop Emeritus and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu said he looks forward to traveling to Rangoon “to join you in your celebrations when you, my sister, are inaugurated as the true, freely elected ...
• Friday! The Fall- There’s A Ghost In My House
  A bloomin’ corker. Also works too if you replace ‘Ghost’ with ‘Cat’ (or use your own substitution).
• 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 ...

Booman Tribune

• Talking Sanity to the Sanity-Impaired
  Mad props to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood for trying to talk some sanity to his Republican brethren. If I were still a member of Congress, I would proudly vote for the bill that President Barack Obama is championing and I would urge my colleagues to do the same, not because I don't believe ...
• AIPAC Conference is Next Week
  I can't wait for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's annual conference next week. It's always such a joyous occasion. You get to practice pronouncing Ah-mad-i-ne-jad. You get to hear one politician after another genuflect to our bestest ally ever. Bibi Netanyahu shows up and graces us ...
• Finn in a Swing
  Here's some video I shot today of the FinnMan showing his dissatisfaction with his circumstances. Loading it to YouTube pretty severely degraded the quality of the video. Maybe I'm just a novice. After I shut off the camera, he got his lunch. Update [2010-3-13 18:19:28 by BooMan]: H ...
• Teaching Conservatism
  As if Texans weren't generally conservative enough, now they will be indoctrinated in the public schools. AUSTIN, Tex. — After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics ...
• He Said, She Said Horsecrap
  How do you feel about the quality of this reporting on the front-page of the New York Times? Some issues that could swing blocs of votes, like insurance coverage for abortions, remain unresolved. House Democratic leaders said they had suspended their efforts to reach a compromise with party membe ...

European Tribune

• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 14 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1853 – Ferdinand Hodler,...
• Saturday Open Thread
  The weekend is underway...
• We really don't understand
  Judging by the number of new tycoons, the rich have rebounded from the 2009 doldrums....
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 13 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1936 – Birth of...
• Jukebox Friday Open Thread
  High Voltage Included...

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

• UK Experiencing Embrace, Awareness of Positive Psy ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline While the ideals behind positive psychology have been popular in the United States for some time, other countries have experienced a slower relationship pace with concepts involving non-pathologizing, optimistic treatments. In particular, the UK has somewhat slowly pi ...
• Study Suggests Sexism Still Prominent in Writing
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline In much of modern society, a retreat from sexist ideologies and practices in the past has been cause for celebration for several years. Many people from all walks of life are likely to have noticed a greater sense of equality in the workplace and in their private live ...
• 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 ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Governor's candidates would stick with Bredesen ec ...
  Governor's candidates would stick with Bredesen economic strategies Memphis Commercial Appeal The candidates also had some sharply divergent views on the question of whether the state should ban " mountaintop removal " coal mining techniques, ... and more��
• Community Cinema: Dirt! The Movie - Nashville Scen ...
  Nashville Scene Community Cinema: Dirt! The Movie Nashville Scene ... the tops off the blockheads who insist, all evidence to the contrary, that mountaintop removal is somehow no big threat to Tennessee's environment). ...
• Mountaintop Removal Redux: Bobby vs. Blankenship I ...
  Mountaintop Removal Redux: Bobby vs. Blankenship II Huffington Post (blog) In a reprise of the debate between NRDC's Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Massey Coal CEO Don Blankenship over mountaintop removal coal mining, the Washington ... Welcome to San Francisco: A Coal-Free City Eco-Tourism Campaign? ( ...
• Bees hurt by mountaintop removal coal mining - Bus ...
  Daily Yonder (blog) Bees hurt by mountaintop removal coal mining BusinessWeek In doing so, Horn called attention to a problem that has received little attention in the debate over so-called mountaintop removal mining: how it affects ... Mountaintop Removal Mining: Why There's No Such Thing as 'Clea ...
• Jeff Biggers: Clean-Coal Myth Buster - New America ...
  Jeff Biggers: Clean-Coal Myth Buster New America Media Strip mining in Appalachia is called mountain-top removal , where you blow up the mountain top, push the rubble into the valleys, and scoop out the coal. ... and more��

Memeorandum

• Kill the Bill! - The Minneapolis Star Tribune head ...
  John / Power Line : Kill the Bill!   —  The Minneapolis Star Tribune headlines tonight: Thousands rally at State Capitol to kill health care bill.  The crowd, gathered on short notice on a cold March day, was impressive: … I'm no expert, but the photos certainly seem to indicate a crowd in the tho ...
• Obama pollster: U.S. will like healthcare bill, de ...
  Walter Alarkon / The Hill : Obama pollster: U.S. will like healthcare bill, despite poll numbers   —  President Barack Obama's pollster said the healthcare bill will win over public support once it becomes law despite polls showing Americans against the plan.  —  The argument by Joel Benenson, Obam ...
• Obama Calls for Sweeping Overhaul in Education Law ...
  Sam Dillon / New York Times : Obama Calls for Sweeping Overhaul in Education Law   —  The Obama administration on Saturday called for a broad overhaul of President George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind law, proposing to reshape divisive provisions that encouraged instructors to teach to tests, nar ...
• Conservative Blogger: "Isn't It Time To Euthanize ...
  Alan Colmes' Liberaland : Conservative Blogger: “Isn't It Time To Euthanize Reid's Wife?”   —  Right-wing blogger Dan Riehl wonders if the left wants to abort babies, why care about someone who has a broken back and neck at age 69?  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife and daughter were in an ...
• Beyond politics - Why Republicans should support h ...
  Ray LaHood / Chicago Tribune : Beyond politics   —  Why Republicans should support health care reform  —  I've been a Republican all my life, when I served in the Illinois legislature, when I worked for members of Congress and when I served in Congress.  During the 2008 presidential election, I sup ...

Energy & Environment News

• Business Briefing | Corporations: Increase Expecte ...
  Komatsu, the Japanese heavy equipment maker, said Friday it expected sales in China to rise by half as the country’s 10 percent growth rate drives demand for resources like coal.
• BP to Buy Licensed Oil Blocks From Devon Energy
  The deal would give BP access to an area off the coast of Brazil that analysts expect to have great potential for oil discoveries.
• Board Extends Deadline for Everglades Land Deal
  A vote kept a deal alive to pay $536 million for land from United States Sugar, but officials said they continued to struggle with whether the agency could afford it.
• Book Review | 'About a Mountain,' by John D&#x2019 ...
  A slim but powerful meditation on Yucca Mountain in Nevada, long the proposed site for storage of America’s nuclear waste.
• Planned Electric Rate Increase in Los Angeles May ...
  Proceeds from an electric rate increase would be earmarked for renewable energy purchases and programs.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 6.4, Kepulauan Obi, Indonesia
  Sunday, March 14, 2010 00:57:45 UTC Sunday, March 14, 2010 09:57:45 AM at epicenter Depth : 52.40 km (32.56 mi)
• M 5.0, Mendoza, Argentina
  Saturday, March 13, 2010 16:33:17 UTC Saturday, March 13, 2010 01:33:17 PM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
• M 5.1, Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins, Chil ...
  Saturday, March 13, 2010 15:22:39 UTC Saturday, March 13, 2010 12:22:39 PM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
• M 5.7, Nias region, Indonesia
  Saturday, March 13, 2010 14:59:03 UTC Saturday, March 13, 2010 09:59:03 PM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
• M 5.6, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
  Saturday, March 13, 2010 12:46:26 UTC Saturday, March 13, 2010 09:46:26 PM at epicenter Depth : 72.60 km (45.11 mi)

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

• The Video That Will Put Geithner Behind Bars
  The NY Fed, and likely Geithner himself, undermined, perhaps even violated, laws designed to protect investors and markets.
• Weekly Diaspora: Immigration Opponents Take a Turn ...
  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.
• Huckabee Inadvertently Argues For Health Insurance ...
  This post first appeared on Think Progress. Included in both the House and Senate health care reform bills each chamber passed last year is a mandate for individuals to buy health insurance. Offering support for the measure, President Obama has compared the idea to states’ requirements that those wh ...
• Massive Gap Widens Between Republican and Democrat ...
  This post first appeared on Treehugger. All charts and graphs via EnviroKnow I’ve written before about the ever-increasing politicization of climate change–the thesis that the scientifically backed consensus that human activity is warming the planet is now treated as a political belief isn’t a hard ...
• Mississippi School Cancels Prom Rather Than Let Le ...
  Last week, headlines were made after a school in Mississippi cancelled its senior prom rather than let a lesbian couple attend. The school, Itawamba Agricultural High School, released a statement that explained prom was off, “due to the distractions to the educational process caused by recent even ...

Threat Level

• FBI Hoaxes Boost Online Fraud
  Online fraud in the United States doubled to a reported $560 million in losses last year as illicit phishing expeditions by thieves posing as the Federal Bureau of Investigation represented the biggest consumer complaint, according to a Friday government survey. The e-mail phishing scams represented ...
• NetFlix Cancels Recommendation Contest After Priva ...
  Netflix is canceling its second $1 million Netflix Prize to settle a legal challenge that it breached customer privacy as part of the first contest’s race for a better movie-recommendation engine. Friday’s announcement came five months after Netflix had announced a successor to its algorithm-improve ...
• 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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Blast kills Pakistani national in Afghanistan: pol ...
  KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A roadside bomb killed a Pakistani construction worker and wounded six of his compatriots on Sunday in Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar, police said.
• China's Wen pushes back against yuan rise calls
  BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Sunday spurned foreign calls for the yuan to rise and showed no let up in scolding the United States over recent bilateral tensions.
• Venezuela's Chavez calls for internet controls
  CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, who is criticized by media freedom groups, called on Saturday for regulation of the Internet and singled out a website that he said falsely reported the murder of one of his ministers.
• "Insulted" by Israel, U.S. scrambles to save talks
  JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's relationship with the United States, a defining feature of the troubled Middle East, was under severe strain as diplomats scrambled on Saturday to save newborn U.S.-brokered peace talks with the Palestinians.
• How free markets sank the U.S. economy
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two years ago, a poisonous brew of bad economics, lax regulation, and egregious behavior boiled over, scalding the financial system and pitching the United States into its steepest downturn since the Great Depression.

Equality Trust

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

IntelNews

• News you may have missed #308
  CIA boss warns of al-Qaeda changing tactics. New US TSA boss is a counter-intel specialist.
• 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.

After Downing Street.org

• Senators Versus Students
  By David Swanson As long as we're going to dump most of our money into wars and the military and Wall Street and health insurance bailouts, students are going to have to go into debt to afford college. But it would cost the students less and the government less, if private companies were not permit ...
• Six Democratic senators poised to kill student loa ...
  Facing South 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 . Reforming the for-profit student loan system, which allows finance giants like Vir ...
• Judge Bybee Gets an Earful
  By Cynthia Papermaster, National Accountability Action Network & CODEPINK Susan Harman and I sat in Courtroom 2 at the Ninth Circuit for three hours on Wednesday morning in order to speak to Judge Jay Bybee and his two fellow judges at the conclusion of their hearing. I quietly held up a Bybee "wan ...
• Deadly Blasts Rock Southern Afghanistan
  Deadly Blasts Rock Southern Afghanistan | CNN A series of explosions rocked southern Afghanistan's volatile Kandahar province on Saturday, killing at least 35 people and wounding 47 others, local officials said. Provincial Gov. Toryalai Wesa confirmed the blasts hit four locations. One of the ...
• Palestinian Dispossession in East Jerusalem
  Palestinian Dispossession in East Jerusalem By Stephen Lendman For Jews, Jerusalem is its historic capital. Muslims also claim it for the third holiest site in Islam, containing the 35 acre Noble Sanctuary (al-Haram al-Sharif), including the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock. The 1947 UN Parti ...

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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Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

• Mavericks Win Streak Goes Down In Flames
  The Mavericks saw their streak come to an end against the Knicks, of all teams. Mark Cuban is probably not happy about this one.
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  Marc Savard may be the impetus for a new rule change in the National Hockey League, and all he had to sacrifice for it was the rest of the season - and maybe even his career.
• Utah Valley Reaches Summit of Great West
  The Utah Valley Wolverines have gone from a junior college to champions of their first collegiate tournament in less than eight years.
• Bassett Hounds Zips, Takes MAC Title
  Armon Bassett has come a long way since getting kicked out of Indiana University, and now he's back in the NCAA tournament.
• Another Republican Falls To A Sex Scandal
  This time it's Utah's Kevin Garn, whose sexual skeletons from the '80s were brought back to life.

Time - Top Stories

• Amnesty International Report on U.S. Maternal Heal ...
  In a new report on pregnancy andchildbirth care in the U.S., Amnesty details the maternal health care crisisin this country as part of a systemic violation of women's rights
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• 10 Ideas for the Next Ten Years: Bandwidth Is the ...
  10 Ideas for the Next Ten Years: Bandwidth Is the New Black Gold
• HBO's The Pacific: What Fresh Hell
  The Pacific makes painfully clear in its early episodes, the Marines that it follows had no idea what they were getting into.
• Giving Afghans (and More) a Vote in Britain's Elec ...
  As part of a new project, U.K. residents are allowing people in developingcountries to tell them how to vote in parliamentary elections. The aim: togive poorer countries a say in elections that could end up impacting them

Washington Independent

• What’s That Word for People Who Will Do Anyt ...
  David M. Herszenhorn at The New York Times points out a curious thing happening in the midst of the debate over student lending reform: Although the plan to eliminate billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies to private lenders originated, by some accounts, with President Bill Clinton, it’s now form ...
• Tea Party Signs, Sponsored by the RNC
  Alex Pappas reports: The Republican National Committee is paying for signs and political buttons used by Tea Party groups — despite widespread disagreement among the conservative, grassroots activists on whether the movement should work to elect candidates within the Republican party or steer clear ...
• Family Research Council: Help Us Kill ObamaCare
  Here’s the flip side of Ben Smith’s report today on evangelicals and Tea Parties — direct mail from the social conservative Family Research Council that tees off on health care reform and delivers, by and large, a message that could appeal to anyone in the Tea Party Movement.
• The Week in Immigration News
  A roundup of the top immigration stories of the week: - After hosting immigration reform advocates at the White House yesterday, President Obama met with Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to discuss plans for comprehensive immigration reform. The two senators have been wo ...
• Clinton Losing Patience With Netanyahu
  A recap: Vice President Biden flies to Israel this week and gets hit with word that Israel will expand settlements into Arab areas of Jerusalem. It’s widely seen as an insult. This afternoon, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley let it be known that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton calle ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

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

Suzie-Q

• “We Have 51 Senate Votes for Public Option&# ...
  Rob Kall | OpEdNews | March 13, 2010 Adam Green, of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, told Ed Schultz yesterday that he counts 51 votes in the senate for the public option, and cites details on senators who have not yet signed the letter, but who have clearly publicly stated that they will ...
• The video that will put Geithner behind bars
  OpEdNews: Mike Whitney March 13, 2010 You gotta see this! If this doesn’t convince you that the Timothy Geithner knew about the securities shenanigans that were going on at Lehman, than I don’t know what will. Keep in mind, that Geithner ran Lehman through 3 “stress tests” prior to bankruptcy; all ...
• Bill Maher: Environment ‘Ultimate Health Car ...
  Bill Maher: The Environment Is The Ultimate Health Care Issue (VIDEO) Huff Post- First Posted: 03-13-10 03:56 AM   |   Updated: 03-13-10 05:49 AM Bill Maher called the environment the “ultimate health care issue” Friday night during “Real Time” and argued that our future depends on our a ...
• Dennis Kucinich, Markos Moulitsas, and Health Care ...
  Some articles and comments on Kucinich’s stance on health care reform: LIMBUAGH PRO-HEALTH REFORM PROTESTERS KUCINICH & A TELLING NEW HEALTH CARE POLL thevirtueallliberal | YouTube | 10 March 2010 Kucinich is a really good guy .However, I have to admit his purist stand on the public option is piss ...
• 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 ...

Solari

• The Oil Card: Global Economic Warfare in the 21st ...
  On this week’s Solari Report, I will be speaking with James R. (”Jim”) Norman, author of The Oil Card: Global Economic Warfare in the 21st Century, from his office in New York. Jim is a veteran business journalist and energy reporter. He writes for McGraw-Hill’s Platts Oilgram News. He has be ...
• Rep. Grayson Introduces Bill to Allow Anyone to Bu ...
  View the video at YouTube. . .
• Democrats Forcing Mandatory Health Care “Tax ...
  By Jason Leopold Nearly a year after Democrats introduced legislation to reform the health care industry - first by flirting with the prospect of having a government-run program to compete with private insurers and then floating a proposal to expand Medicare to a younger demographic - House Speaker ...
• 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. . .

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• The Georgia Guidestones
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• The Creation
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• The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catas ...
  In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-openin ...
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AlterNet - DrugReporter

• If the NFL Were More Lenient About Pot, Would the ...
  This is the NFL's policy: Go to a club and drink – no problem; Stay at home and enjoy a little marijuana – get suspended.
• Ban the Box: People with Convictions Deserve a Sec ...
  New Mexico lays the groundwork for other states to proactively help people being released from jail and prison to find work and truly rebuild their lives.
• Commission on Narcotic Drugs: Progress Towards a P ...
  A US resolution at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs conference could mean that governments that currently do not offer access to these drugs will sit up and take notice.
• How Can We Stop Drug Gangs From Growing Pot in the ...
  The media complain about the explosion of illegal outdoor cultivation in our national parks, but have zero diagnosis about why it's happening.
• How the War on Drugs Gave Birth to a Permanent Ame ...
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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 ...
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• Photo Sunday – Water – Wild and Wonderful
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Inhabitat

• Win an $8,500 Laundry Room Makeover by Method!
  HEY READERS! Want to win a new washer and dryer and a year’s worth of laundry supplies? Inhabitat is teaming up with Method to give you an incredible green laundry room renovation worth $8,500! One lucky reader is set to win a brand new energy efficient washer and dryer duo, some eco-friendly laun ...
• REVERSE GRAFFITI: South African Artists Tag Walls ...
  Reverse graffiti is a type of street art that effaces – not defaces – public property. That’s right, the taggers or “scrubbers” that practice this art form actually remove filth from their canvases instead of adding it to create their imagery. We’ve been following reverse graffiti for a long time no ...
• Hongtao Zhou Creates Frozen Furniture From Snow
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• 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 ...

Pogue's Posts

• Why I Prefer External Chargers
  Is it better to have in-camera battery rechargers or external recharges?
• Microsoft's Free Sync Service
  Live Sync, offered for free from Microsoft, allows you to sync your computers with each other, magically, over the Internet, with no effort on your part.
• A Closer Look at Windows Live
  There are a couple of whopping great features Windows Live, available to everyone (even non-Windows people), that are totally underpublicized.
• Marketers on Facebook Find Photo Tagging
  Marketers are making inroads into Facebook.
• Photoshop and Photography: When Is It Real?
  If you were running a photography contest, at what point would you draw the line and say "That's not photography anymore?"

Open Your Eyes News

• A Detention Bill You Ought to Read More Carefully
  Atlantic – Why is the national security community treating the “Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010,” introduced by Sens. John McCain and Joseph Lieberman on Thursday as a standard proposal, as a simple response to the administration’s choices in the aftermath of ...
• Central Figure in CDC Vaccine Cover-Up Absconds Wi ...
  Huffington Post – A central figure behind the Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) claims disputing the link between vaccines and autism and other neurological disorders has disappeared after officials discovered massive fraud involving the theft of millions in taxpayer dollars. Danish police are inve ...
• Germany fights to keep Holocaust organiser’s files ...
  Telegraph – Those hoping to have a 50-year secrecy order overturned believe the government is embarrassed by details within that may prove German and Vatican officials colluded in his escape and freedom. The secrecy order is being challenged in a benchmark court case against the BND, Germany’s domes ...
• Bank reform talks fail, Dodd to go solo
  Reuters – Chances of a broad overhaul of U.S. financial regulation dimmed on Thursday after bipartisan Senate talks collapsed, jeopardizing a top Obama administration priority and boosting bank share prices. Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd warned that time was running out to pass ...
• Australian archaeologists uncover 40,000-year-old ...
  AP — 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 fire ...

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

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

ecogeek

• 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

• Roy Ashburn Wins BuzzFlash's GOP Hypocrite of the ...
  Roy Ashburn Welcome back to BuzzFlash's GOP Hypocrite of the Week. It all started last week when California state Senator Roy Ashburn (R-Bakersfield) was picked up by police for drunk driving . Later it came out that he was leaving a gay club in the company of an unidentified man. Three days later, ...
• Is the FOX Host Trying to Create a Church of Glenn ...
  BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT by Jeffrey Joseph After having already tried to influence his fans to abandon broad Christian humanitarian efforts, Beck hardly waited long to show how he might fill the void those Christians otherwise filled with their churches -- he appears to be creating a faith all his own. ...
• Mainstream Corporate Media Works in the 'Dog That ...
  BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION by Stephen Pizzo Thanks to my trusty dog, Buster, I don’t have sleep with one eye opened or with one ear cocked for trouble. If someone decides to lurk anywhere near my house he lets me know -- loudly and persistently.� More times than not it’s just a neighbor or the UPS ...
• Glenn Beck, C-Streeters and Other Anti-Social Just ...
  BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZFLASH MINUTE When a country embarks on utterly evil actions in foreign lands, it will spill over to include the American�population. The days of domestic brutality have begun, with all thanks to the Bush Administration's green light on torture and abuse :CHICAGO... A federal j ...
• A New Hip-Hop Star Is Born -- Verse-Case Scenario
  He’s a pro-life Democrat His career is set, for sure: Put your hands together For … Stupak Shakur .read more

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• The warped platitude of DC "centrism"
  (updated below) The Washington Post 's Dana Milbank dresses up in idiotic costumes , and the overriding attribute of his commentary is adolescent, above-it-all snideness , and he's thus deemed a wild, unpredictable, creative "contrarian" in Beltway media circles. �In reality, he's one of ...
• 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 ...

The BiPartisan Report

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

Sciencebase

• 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

• US Billions to Israel
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 11, 2010 Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) Wednesday, Vice President Joe Biden said: "I condemn the decision by the government of Israel to advance planning for new housing units in East Jerusalem." He also stated that the U.S. will hold Israel "accountable for any stat ...
• Senate Votes to Undermine Obama Effort to Cut Foss ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 11, 2010 Friends of the Earth Yesterday, the Senate passed a bill (H.R. 4213) that would retroactively extend many harmful subsidies for polluting corporations if it becomes law.  The Senate bill differs significantly from a similar bill that passed the House of Repres ...
• Task Force: Amend the Fair Housing Act to Ban Hous ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 11, 2010 National Gay and Lesbian Task Force National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Action Fund Executive Director Rea Carey today called on federal lawmakers to amend the Fair Housing Act to ban discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. ...
• New Bill Makes Georgia a National Leader in Water ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 11, 2010 American Rivers Georgia took an important step today toward ensuring more reliable and predictable clean water supplies for today's communities and future generations. The senate unanimously passed the Georgia Water Stewardship Bill, and the house passed the bil ...
• NATO Statement Endangers Patients in Afghanistan
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 11, 2010 Doctors Without Borders (MSF) The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today strongly objected to a recent statement by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, in which he implied that nongov ...

Common Dreams-Views

• Democrats Continue War Against the Public Option
  by Jon Walker The good news is that Democrats might have to include some form of student loan reform in the reconciliation bill to meet the cost-saving requirements of their reconciliation instructions. From Politico : The Senate parliamentarian notified Democratic leaders that, in order to meet the ...
• In Kansas City, School's Out
  by Sasha Abramsky Twenty-nine out of 61 Kansas City, Missouri, schools will soon be shuttered in a desperate bid by the struggling school district to stave off bankruptcy. At the same time, close to one-quarter of the city's school employees will lose their jobs. read more
• Citizens take on DC Government over Tax Giveaways ...
  by Medea Benjamin “I originally supported the $25 million offer to Northrop Grumman, but I have since had second thoughts. With the city facing a $200-300 million deficit, I see no reason to subsidize a multi-billion-dollar war machine.” --DC City Councilman Marion Barry, March 10 in a telephone in ...
• Palestinians Should Now Declare Their Independence
  by Johann Hari Could the Israeli government make it any more obvious they have no intention of sharing the Over-Promised Land with its other inhabitants? read more
• Welcome to America, Sucker
  by Andy Kroll Every great American boom and bust makes and breaks its share of crooks. The past decade -- call it the Ponzi Era -- has been no different, except for the gargantuan scale of white-collar crime. A vast wave of financial fraud swelled in the first years of the new century.  Then, in 200 ...

Karl Burkart

• MTV to air Summit on the Summit
  Celebrity trek up Mt. Kilimanjaro will be aired on MTV Sunday to raise awareness of an emerging global water crisis.
• 2nd step to save the world: Wear condoms
  EndangeredSpeciesCondoms.com is hoping to encourage birth control as a means to slow extinction rates of thousands of animal species.
• Capture wind underground not carbon!
  4 new projects show the viability of storing captured wind energy underground. So why are we still investing in far more expensive carbon capture?
• 360Cities provides immersive experience of nature
  A growing number of virtual reality photographers are building an interactive natural world online.
• Cost2drive widget tracks the real cost of driving
  Type in your destination, and Cost2drive figures out your gas costs and CO2 emissions.

Water Privatization

• ‘Green’ advocates hit water, energy policies (Mani ...
  Green advocates said Sunday that the government’s water and energy policies as the cause of the current water shortage in the country, particularly in provinces hit by long dry spell and water scarcity. At the commemoration of the International Day of Action Against Dams: For Rivers, Water, and Life ...
• Gov’t told to stop blaming El Niño for power, wate ...
  A day after a state of calamity was declared in Mindanao due to long brownouts in the region, environmentalists said the Arroyo government should not blame El Niño, a periodically recurrent phenomenon, for causing the power and water shortages.
• River clean-up brings back past (Sun Star)
  A CLEAN-UP along Davao River will be spearheaded Monday by Panalipdan and Katribu Patry-List as a belated celebration of the International Day of Action Against Dams and for Rivers, Water and Life on read more
• Legal eye (Business Mirror)
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• Lake Lanao’s low level threatens more power plant ...
  (UPDATE) The shutdown of all the power generating plants in the Agus complex is now imminent after the water level of Lake Lanao went down to 698.9, National Power Corp. officials said Saturday.

Guardian

• Pope 'did not cover up abuse claims'
  Benedict XVI's spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi, suggests 'tenacious' plot to implicate pontiff in cover-up The pope's spokesman has launched a vigorous counter-attack against a report linking Benedict XVI to a sex abuse cover-up while he was archbishop of Munich from 1977 to 1981. Father Federic ...
• My life as a Trotskyist agitator
  For four years, Officer A lived a secret life among anti-racist activists as they fought brutal battles with the police and the BNP. Here he tells of the terrifying life he led, the psychological burden it placed on him and his growing fears that the work of his unit could threaten legitimate protes ...
• Chelsea go top after comfortable win
  Three days before the man himself returns to Stamford Bridge, Chelsea put on a performance that was classic Mourinho. There was no great need to exert themselves and, against a pedestrian West Ham side, they plucked the three points necessary to regain position at the top of the Premier League table ...
• Waitrose plans to sell food elsewhere
  Managing director Mark Price aims to keep fast-growing upmarket grocer ahead of rival M&S Waitrose boss Mark Price is drawing up plans to transform the upmarket food chain into a consumer brand available in thousands of non-Waitrose shops in the UK and overseas. He believes the Waitrose label has th ...
• A day in the smokehouse
  Nigel Slater visits Suffolk – and returns with a batch of smoked food recipes Even before you turn into the narrow opening that is Baker's Lane, you spot the winding trail of grey smoke against Orford's white winter sky. Turn sharp right, and you see the rickety smokehouse, as black as tar, leaning ...

McClatchey

• Anti-earmark forces have ally in Washington state ...
  WASHINGTON — As the new chairman of the House Appropriations Committee's defense subcommittee, Rep. Norm Dicks will write a $700 billion Pentagon funding bill that has traditionally been crammed with more earmarks than any of the other dozen annual spending measures.
• Obama's health care legacy hangs on 216 House vote ...
  WASHINGTON — The looming vote for final passage of the historic health-care bill is the stiffest challenge House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn has faced in his three-plus years as the lawmaker responsible for counting heads and ensuring passage of major legislation.
• We've met the enemy in Afghanistan, and he's chang ...
  KABUL — A decade ago, when the Taliban controlled the Afghan government, their militiamen — barely motivated, untrained conscripts — tried for five years to seize control of the entire country from more moderate forces but didn't succeed, even with the help of Osama bin Laden's Arab and other foreig ...
• Local Taliban officials may ignore leader's ethics ...
  KABUL — The two Afghan security personnel were killed gangland-style. They were shot in the head, their stomachs were riddled with bullets and their bodies were dumped by the side of the road.
• IRS agents storm California car wash — to co ...
  It was every businessperson's nightmare.

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

• McCain Campaign Continues Slamming J.D. Hayworth&# ...
  Last month, Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) reelection campaign called on challenger and former Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ) to disavow the endorsement of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC), an anti-immigrant group that the Anti-Defamation League accuses of promoting “virulent anti- Hispanic and an ...
• Pelosi And Miller Affirm That Student Loan Overhau ...
  ast year, the House passed the the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act (SAFRA), which would end the senseless subsidies that the federal government gives to lenders to originate student loans. But thanks to intense lobbying by the lenders, blanket opposition from Republicans, and hesitant Demo ...
• Employers Preparing To Shift More Health Costs To ...
  I’ve been arguing that the GOP’s health care proposals would shift the risk and the cost of insurance from the employer and the government to the individual. It’s what Jacob Hacker calls The Great Risk Shift. By relying on high deductible plans in the individual health insurance market and health ...
• Foxman Scolds Biden For Stating The Obvious
  Via Laura Rozen, Israel’s Yediot Ahronoth reported yesterday that Vice President Biden had some very strong words for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu behind closed doors: People who heard what Biden said were stunned. “This is starting to get dangerous for us,” Biden castigated his interlocutor ...
• Right Wing Plots Obstruction Of Obama Nominee Due ...
  A coordinated right-wing effort has been mounted to obstruct Philip Coyle, the President’s nominee to become an Associate Director at the Office of Science and Technology. Coyle’s offense? He had the temerity to accurately point out that ground-based long-range missile defense is scientifically and ...

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

• Market Observation: Dow Theory Update
  by Tim W. Wood. "As equities moved into their January highs, a very short-term Dow theory non-confirmation developed. The Transports made their January closing high on January 11th at 4,262.86 while the Industrials pressed higher marking their January closing high 5 trading days later at 10,725.43. ...
• The Fall of the Roman Republic
  by J. R. Nyquist. "A couple of years ago Cullen Murphy wrote an elegant little book titled with the question, "Are We Rome?" He was not specifically referring to the Roman republic, but to the late Roman Empire. It is a distinction worth making, because Rome lost its freedom and its greatness long ...
• The Big Dead-Cat Bounce
  by Doug Hornig. "It’s now been a year since the dark days of early March 2009, when, although no one knew it at the time, the stock market hit rock bottom. From there, all of the indexes went on a tear through the rest of the year, moving almost uninterruptedly higher before easing slightly in the f ...
• Sultans of Swap: Smoking Guns & the Sting!
  by Gordon T Long. "There are 7 stages to executing a successful sting operation. Whether this is the modus operandi behind the Sultans of Swap operating in the $605 Trillion OTC Derivatives market or just simple coincidence, I will leave it to you shrewd reader to determine. The seven stages do how ...
• 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 ...

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

• Tamils to drop separatist demands, vow civil disob ...
  The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) party of Sri Lanka will drop its demands for an independent state and impose regional self-rule. The Tamils have also vowed civil disobedience in a campaign that was similar to Ghandi's.
• Ontario man invents Strand Windjammer
  Ontario's Carl Strand has invented a wind turbine that could easily fit on the roof of apartment and condo buildings bringing clean energy production.
• Daylight saving time returns
  It's March and daylight saving time is upon us once again. It's time to spring forward in most of Canada and the United States.
• Toronto city worker killed in traffic accident
  A Toronto city worker was killed today when the garbage truck he was driving flipped on a ramp near Bloor Street and the Don Valley.
• Non-working smoke alarm cited in fatal Toronto fir ...
  A house fire that claimed the lives of two people last weekend in Toronto was the result of a pot of oil left unattended. The home had a smoke alarm but no battery in it.

End Homelessness | Change.org

• The Need to Modernize Data Collection in Homeless ...
  The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness is taking public comment on what the federal government should do to improve homeless services. While I applaud the USICH's effort to get the public's input, in the past the federal government has ignored the complaints of homeless service agenci ...
• 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 ...

Ceasefire.ca

• Stop-and-go on START treaty
  U.S. and Russian efforts to finalize a new strategic nuclear arms control agreement to replace the 1991 START treaty, which expired in December 2009, continue to drag on (Peter Baker and Mark Landler, “Delay on Arms Pact Slows Rest of U.S.-Russia Ties,” New York Times, 9 March 2010; see also Peter B ...
• 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 ...

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

• 45 years after the assassination of Malcolm X
  Malcolm X was assassinated 45 years ago this weekend. Earlier this year, WNYC Radio unearthed a 1960s interview between the civil rights leader and a reporter named Eleanor Fischer. On this somber anniversary, we consider Malcolm X’s legacy through t...
• Haiti: Private contractors 'like vultures coming t ...
  Critics are concerned that private military contractors are positioning themselves at the centre of an emerging "shock doctrine" for earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Next month, a prominent umbrella organisation for private military and logistic corporation...
• How NGOs are profiting off a grave situation
  It's now more than a month since the earthquake that laid waste to Port-au-Prince, killing more than 200,000 people and thrusting millions of people into the most desperate conditions. But according to the U.S. government, Haitians have a lot to be ...
• Global: New murders and fumigations in ancestral A ...
  In only two weeks, four Afro-Colombian leaders have been murdered, and several subjected to death threats. Fumigations have caused the internal displacement of more than 100 Afro-Colombians. The violation of Afro-Colombian fundamental rights continue...
• Katrina victims face eviction
  Following reports of federal government plans to repossess temporary housing from Katrina victims, the US Human Rights Network - http://www.ushrnetwork.org has called for the Obama administration to reverse this decision and provide those affected with substantive directive support.

War in Context

• Washington’s cult of narcissism and Iraq
  Tom Engelhardt writes: Hubris? We’re bigger than that! We’ve now been at war with, or in, Iraq for almost 20 years, and intermittently at war in Afghanistan for 30 years. Think of it as nearly half a century of experience, all bad. And what is it that Washington seems to have concluded? [...] ...
• Why did Joe Biden insult America’s friends?
  In an interview on CNN, Hillary Clinton was refreshingly blunt in saying that Israel insulted the US: But now that’s been clearly stated, why did Joe Biden have to cap the first insult by adding another when he said: “the United States has no better friend in the community of nations than Israel” ...
• Poll: Half of Israeli high schoolers oppose equal ...
  Haaretz reports: 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 poll revealed that more than half the students would deny Arabs the right to be el ...
• CIA drone attacks produce America’s own unlawful c ...
  Gary Solis, an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, writes: 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 zo ...
• Afghan tribal rivalries bedevil a U.S. plan
  The New York Times reports: Six weeks ago, elders of the Shinwari tribe, which dominates a large area in southeastern Afghanistan, pledged that they would set aside internal differences to focus on fighting the Taliban. This week, that commitment seemed less important as two Shinwari subtribes too ...

Watts Up With That?

• UK ads banned for overstating climate change
  From The Times by Jonathan Leake, Environment Editor TWO government advertisements that use nursery rhymes to warn people of the dangers of climate change have been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for exaggerating the potential harm. The adverts, commissioned by Ed Miliband, th ...
• IOP fires back over criticism of their submission ...
  WUWT reported on Feb 27th of the IOP submission here:Institute of Physics on Climategate IOP issued a no holds barred statement on Climategate to the UK Parliamentary Committee. Some criticism ensued. Now IOP fires back: Concerns raised over Institute of Physics climate submission A statement su ...
• Quote of the week #30
  From an AP story interview, we have a what I’ll call a “Lubchencoism”. “There is a well-orchestrated and fairly successful effort under way to confuse and sometimes cherry-pick information,” Lubchenco said. Heh. Apparently she’s never reviewed how USHCN and GHCN came to have their station lists. ...
• Hathaway on the solar conveyor belt and deep solar ...
  From NASA News: Solar ‘Current of Fire’ Speeds Up What in the world is the sun up to now? In today’s issue of Science, NASA solar physicist David Hathaway reports that the top of the sun’s Great Conveyor Belt has been running at record-high speeds for the past five years. “I [...]
• Aquatic ‘dead zones’ contributing to c ...
  This alarming missive just in from the: University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science As oxygen-deprived waters increase, they emit more greenhouse gasses into atmosphere Above graphic from NOLA.COM click for details. Cambridge, Md. (March 11, 2010) – The increased frequency and intensi ...

Dandelion Salad

• Eric Margolis: Wars sending U.S. into ruin
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ http://therealnews.com Eric Margolis: Obama the peace president is fighting battles his country cannot afford Eric Margolis is a journalist born in New York City and holding degrees from Georgetown the University of Geneva, and New York University. During the ...
• Cornel West on Barack Obama, Racism, The Tea Party ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ AlJazeeraEnglish March 11, 2010 Avi Lewis talks to Cornel West, professor of African American Studies at Princeton, hip hop artist, and one of the most controversial academics in the US about the state of democracy for African-Americans in the US today, US f ...
• Clinton’s Latin American tour
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ TheRealNews March 12, 2010 Mark Weisbrot: Clinton tries to repair US image while urging recognition of controversial Honduran gov’t more about “Clinton’s Latin American tour“, posted with vodpod see Where seldom is heard a discouraging word … like “bribe ...
• Somali pirates tell their side
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ TheRealNews March 12, 2010 Shashank Bengali talks about his interviews with Somali pirates more about “Somali pirates tell their side“, posted with vodpod see wsws- Somalia: US backs puppet government’s planned military offensive AFRICOM’s First War: U.S ...
• Investigative journalist Greg Palast on bloodsucki ...
  with Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com 12 March, 2010 thomhartmann March 12, 2010 more about “Investigative journalist Greg Palast …“, posted with vodpod see Vultures In Liberia by Greg Palast (transcript) Palast hunts the vultures for BBC Liberian leader u ...

Your New Reality

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  "Copying The Past....How's That Rock N' Roll?" Yes, John Lennon is being used to sell cars, but what a fantastic message to get out to a new generation who don't really know what he was about : Hopefully when teenagers see the ad and curiously google John Lennon, they'll come across this song : ...
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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 ...

Wired - Science

• Research Reveals Early Signs of Autism in Some Kid ...
  BALTIMORE — Some infants headed for a diagnosis of autism, or autism spectrum disorder as it’s officially known, can be reliably identified at 14 months old based on the presence of five key behavior problems, according to an ongoing long-term study described March 11 at the International Conferenc ...
• 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Gideon Levy: Israel’s Arabs have been misbehaving ...
  The ultimate Israeli dream is that the Coptis and Tibis will disappear from sight. If the so-called demographic problem can't be solved by driving Arabs out, we'll try to get rid of them another way:... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
• Zvi Barel: Israel demands peace from Palestinians ...
  The Strategic Affairs Ministry [General Yaalon] never ceases to bring us peace of mind. How nice to know that someone in Israel is monitoring Palestinian incitement, ensuring they "create an... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in ...
• Jonathan Cook: The Decline of Israel and the Prosp ...
  [Israel] is a democracy that historically gerrymandered its electoral constituency by expelling most of the indigenous population outside its borders – now referred to as the Palestinian refugees –... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Jerome Slater: The Failure of the American and Isr ...
  [T]he failure of the peace groups is not simply a strategic one but one of understanding and analysis as well: an inability to fully confront the overwhelming evidence that demolishes the most... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
• Abe Hayeem: Israel’s unfair ‘law of return’
  Today there are more than seven million Palestinian refugees around the world. Israel denies their right to return to their homes and land – a right recognised by UN resolution 194, the Geneva... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Thousands of explosives disarmed every year by Rus ...
  Russian army sappers render harmless some 100,000 mines and other forms of ammunition every year, an Armed Forces official said on Saturday.
• Russian government approves draft deal on joint mi ...
  The Russian government has approved a draft agreement on a joint military base in the former Georgian republic of South Ossetia
• Russia against developing military ties with Pakis ...
  Russia is not developing military cooperation with Pakistan, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Friday
• Russia signs $1.5-bln fighter jet contract with In ...
  Russia and India have signed a $1.5-billion contract on the supplies of 29 more MiG-29K carrier-based fighter jets to New Delhi
• Russia-India military transport plane could be rea ...
  A new Russian-Indian military transport plane could make its maiden flight by 2018, the head of the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) said

NewsWise

• Pharmacy Law Group Elects University of Maryland's ...
  American Society for Pharmacy Law helps educate pharmacist-attorneys, pharmacists, attorneys and other interested parties on legal issues as they affect pharmacy.
• Mathematical Model Can Help Communities Better Eva ...
  A new mathematical model developed by Indiana University Bloomington and Arizona State University geographers could help communities that are in the midst of passing or reforming sex offender laws. The researchers describe the model and report its first test in an Early View edition of Papers in Reg ...
• Researchers Find Younger, More Diverse Patients Ha ...
  A research team led by Mayo Clinic has found a national trend toward younger, more diverse patients having total knee replacement surgery.
• 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.

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 ...

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Executive Intelligence Review

• Move to Safe Ground; Build the Nation of Haiti
  By Marcia Merry Baker Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 12, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 10
• How Many Haitians Must Die Before We Impeach Obama ...
  By Dennis Small Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 12, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 10
• Chancellor Merkel's Moment of Truth: What About th ...
  By Helga Zepp-LaRouche Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 12, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 10
• Rogers Victory in Texas: Impeachment Is Now on the ...
  By Harley Schlanger Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 12, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 10
• 22nd District in Texas: Kesha's Victory
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 12, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 10

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

• Saturday night pot blogging
  It occurred to me today that after years of every other blog doing cat blogging, it’s way past time for some serious pot blogging. Or at least acknowledging if I’m blogging while stoned. It’s been known to happen. This should go up at the other blog but you fuckers don’t read it. (And if you’re read ...
• Cash and bash politics
  I’m feeling hopeful today. Not because things are going well, but because the cover ups are unraveling and the propaganda has shifted from the outrageous to the absurd. Big Rock Capitalist Mountain is being exposed as little more than a sugar coating on the world’s biggest shitpile. Click the links ...
• Sticking it to the little guy, cont.
  Over a dozen owners of ‘96 Camrys have stepped forward on Koua Fong Lee’s behalf, and are ready to testify as to the Camry’s psychotic penchant for sudden acceleration. Lee’s lawyer doesn’t want to wait for the car to be examined by new experts and says there’s more than enough evidence to release L ...
• There’s hardly any snow left
  It might as well be fucking spring. Rain, puddles, the smell of rotting vegetation thawing . . . it’s spring in Minnesota and I’m going green for a while. Don’t whine about it in the comments or I’ll take you off the mailing list.
• Clay Shirky videos and other brainsmacks
  There are very few thinkers out there who command my immediate attention. I respect and admire Noam Chomsky but I don’t always understand what he’s saying (although I invariably agree with his bottom line). I love to read Juan Cole but his topics so depress me I have to ration my visits to Informed ...

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

• Clayton Thomas-Muller-Speaking at the Green Jobs C ...
  Clayton Thomas-Muller from Glen Richards on Vimeo . Speaking at the Green Jobs Conference, Toronto
• Guest Editorial: RevolutionaryBrotha: Open Letter ...
  Queer. Black. Revolutionary: I have watched you on your so called "battlefield" for months and wondered why I desired to have no part in this movement. I have sat and wondered why my passion for the student struggle continues to decrease. I have wondered where the people who look like me belong am ...
• 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 ...

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

• Environmental News - 12/03/10
  Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html)   Climate debate: opinion vs evidence-What exactly is "balance"? Our society rightly strives for balance, and many issues are deservedly considered by presenting a balanced set of opinions.  T ...
• Environmental News - 10/03/10
  Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html)   Housing sustainability declaration now in force -Queenslanders selling their homes can now be fined up to $2,000 if they do not fill out compulsory sustainability declarations.  Real estate ...
• Environmental News - 08/03/10
  Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html)   Geothermal energy strike is close: Panax -A geothermal energy company is just weeks away from striking what could be the environmentally-friendly equivalent of oil in South Australia's so ...
• How Far Are You Willing To Go?
  Alicia Silverstone pondered this and found she was willing to go the whole way – and found a kind life…
• Environmental News - 05/03/10
  Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html)   Bell frog thought to be on last legs spotted alive and kicking-In the world of amphibians, it is the equivalent of finding the Tasmanian tiger. A species of frog presumed extinct for nearl ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Munawar blames Blackwater for Lahore bombings
  Jamaat-e-Islami Amir Syed Munawar Hasan Friday alleged that infamous US security firm Blackwater was behind all terror attacks in Pakistan under the supervision of Interior Minister Rehman Malik. The JI leader alleged that Karachi target killing and Lahore bombings were carried out by Blackwate ...
• Another blast in Pakistan: 14 killed in Swat
  At least 14 people were killed and 52 wounded when a suicide bomber targeted a security checkpost in Pakistan's Mingora town in restive Swat Valley on Saturday, a day after twin blasts claimed 57 lives in Lahore. Three security personnel were among those killed in the blast.
• Dozens Killed as Blasts Rock an Afghan City
  At least four strong explosions rocked Kandahar on Saturday evening, causing buildings to collapse and killing dozens of people, according to Afghan and American officials. Two of the attacks occurred near the city's police headquarters and the Kandahar prison. The other targets were still uncl ...
• US troops kill Iraqi reporter, her husband
  American forces occupying Iraq have opened fire on a car in Baghdad, killing an Iraqi reporter and her husband , a police official announces. Aseel al-Obeidi, the reporter of Dijla television, an independent Baghdad station, was killed by the US troops on Wednesday as she was travelling with he ...
• Canada wanted Afghan prisoners tortured: lawyer
  Federal government documents on Afghan detainees suggest that Canadian officials intended some prisoners to be tortured in order to gather intelligence, according to a legal expert. If the allegation is true, such actions would constitute a war crime , said University of Ottawa law professor Am ...

Daily Loaf

• Capricorn Studios: Ybor’s new red-light erotic art ...
  Erotic art is one of the oldest forms of human expression. Paleolithic cave dwellers carved nude forms in wood and stone. Ancient Greeks depicted sex acts on pottery which could get them arrested today.  Hindus illustrated and catalogued sex positions in the ancient text of the Kama Sutra which are ...
• Diary of the Newly Employed Housewife: Sick as a d ...
  It was bound to happen: I shook so many hands my first week back to work who knows where I picked up the latest bug. All I know is I came home on Monday (after driving right past the street where I have lived for the past seven years, yeah it was that bad) and [...]
• SXSW Interactive – Day 1 & 2 diary (with photos)
  Today I'm hitting up a bunch of Interactive panels the next five days, all all dealing with social media and journalism in the era of new media --the past, present and future of the Internet. Here's coverage of day 2.
• Learn how to drive or get off the road: 5 ways to ...
  Catherine Durkin Robinson is a handful, creating quite a scene over at Out in Left Field. For some people, driving has become a bit of a challenge. Blame it on Toyota or multi-tasking failures everywhere, but we now hear daily about too many people killing themselves or others in an attempt to ...
• Movie Review: Paul Greengrass’ Green Zone, starrin ...
  It's too bad nobody wants to see Iraq war movies, because Green Zone , the latest aggro action-adventure flick from director Paul Greengrass ( The Bourne Supremacy, Flight 93 ) and actor Matt Damon, is a good one. Joe Bardi has the CL review …

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

• Tom Friedman to Israel. You’re driving drunk
  Message from America to the Israeli government: Friends don’t let friends drive drunk. And right now, you’re driving drunk. You think you can embarrass your only true ally in the world, to satisfy some domestic political need, with no consequences? You have lost total contact with reality. Call us w ...
• Thinking big
  China wants to connect its high-speed rail to Europe. It would be largest infrastructure project in history Meanwhile, the US limps far behind on high speed rail (as well as on mass adoption of renewable energy, internet infrastructure and speed, and too many other criteria)
• A new twist on Potemkin villages
  Fake storefronts for shopping areas with many empty shops
• Lehman bankruptcy fraud report. Massive explosions ...
  We may actually see some banksters go to prison on the apparent massive Lehman fraud as detailed in the 2000 page report by the bankruptcy examiner. Not only does the report say then-CEO Dick Fuld was “at least grossly negligent,” it says their auditor Ernst & Young could be accused of “professiona ...
• Catholic Church sex abuse scandal ‘has now reached ...
  HuffPo His former archdiocese disclosed that while [Benedict] was archbishop a suspected pedophile priest was transferred to a job where he later abused children. The pontiff is also under increasing fire for a 2001 Vatican document he later penned instructing bishops to keep such cases secret. Co ...

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

• International Effort to Grab Your Guns
  International Effort to Grab Your Guns Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList
• IRS visits Sacramento carwash in pursuit of 4 cent ...
  It was every businessperson’s nightmare. Arriving at Harv’s Metro Car Wash in midtown Wednesday afternoon were two dark-suited IRS agents demanding payment of delinquent taxes. “They were deadly serious, very aggressive, very condescending,” says Harv’s owner, Aaron Zeff. The really odd part of ...
• Study shows high rate of heart problems among Grou ...
  New York (CNN) — Exposure to debris at Ground Zero may be linked to heart problems in police officers, according to a new study announced Saturday. The study revealed that police officers who worked at the World Trade Center site in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks had unu ...
• Deadline Live – March 12 2010
  Friday – Hour Won: March 12: World Day Against Cyber Censorship / Jay Rockefeller – “Internet should never have been Invented” More talk of requiring black boxes in all cars Greece – 60,000 people protest against the government Gas Prices Surge Blowback – CIA drone attacks produce America’s own unl ...
• POLICE STATE 2010: Homeland Security Unveils Mobil ...
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The Air Vent

• Global Gridded GHCN Trend by Seasonal Offset Match ...
  This post employs global gridded data using Seasonal Offset Matching.  RomanM’s recent posts on the topic might even become standard method in climate science.   Certainly the Met office should at least pay attention to his methods if they are planning on redoing the dataset.  Of course this exa ...
• Evil Denialist Blog Polls
  I’m curious what the readers here think about the effect of CO2 on global warming.  Writing a poll which will please a bunch of natural skeptics is about as likely as the moon exploding tomorrow but I’m going to write one anyway.  The purpose of this isn’t to pick which item exactly fits your view ...
• EE Editor Submission to UK Parliament
  Dr. Peiser’s complete submission to the UK Parliamentary Committee is complete below.  Dr. Peiser was editor of the journal which handled the fraud allegations on the urban warming papers by Jones and Wang. These papers were used to present urban warming as having a minimal effect on the surface te ...
• UEA Culture of Corruption
  After reviewing some of the links people have left here, my opinion on this is that Lulu is probably unable to substantiate his accusations.  This Parliament comment should probably be ignored until some substantiation is offered. —- It appears the Parliamentary submissions are heating up.  Reader ...
• A Half Hour of Wrongthink by Michael Mann
  I couldn’t finish this, there is an MP3 at the bottom of the page linked below.  Michael Mann defends……well everything ….the team has done.  Listen to it at your  own risk, I linked it here with the warning that you must understand it will cost you IQ points and you will be dumber than when [...]

Focal Point

• Welcome to Focal Point
  Hello, Big Think. Welcome to Focal Point, a blog about politics, ideas, photography, media, feminism, and more. I'm a freelance journalist in Brooklyn, New York. I do both print and photojournalism, hence the name of the blog.� I didn't set out to become a blogger. I started in 2004 while I was app ...
• Is Depression an Adaptation?
  Jonah Lehrer argues in the New York Times Magazine that depression might be good for us . He's popularizing a theory advanced by two Virginia researchers who claim that depression is an adaptive mechanism that compels us to withdraw from the world and focus intently on our problems. The fact that d ...
• Illegal Abortion Kills Kenyan Women
  Botched illegal abortions kill thousands of Kenyan women every year, according to a report released today by the Center for Reproductive Rights , a New York-based NGO dedicated to advancing reproductive freedom through U.S. and international law. The report is based on interviews with dozens of Keny ...
• Untreated Chronic Pain Violates International Law
  Untreated chronic pain is not only an epidemic, it's a crime. According to a groundbreaking new report by Human Rights Watch, the majority of the world's population lacks adequate access to narcotic pain relief. Governments are letting their own people suffer needlessly and flouting international la ...
• "The Ethicist" Befuddled by Ritalin and Little Lea ...
  The New York Times' resident ethicist, Randy Cohen, had some confused but caustic advice for a parent who wrote in with the following quandary: My 9-year-old son, who has attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (A.D.H.D.), was prescribed medication and is doing much better in school and plays mu ...

  Blacklisted News

• 'Minority Report' digital billboard 'watches consu ...
  A “Minority Report” styled digital billboard that targets consumers using customised advertising based on their demographics is being developed by Japanese researchers.
• Obama Supports DNA Sampling Upon Arrest
  When it comes to civil liberties, the Obama administration has come under fire for often mirroring his predecessor’s practices surrounding state secrets , the Patriot Act and domestic spying . There’s also Gitmo , Jay Bybee and John Yoo .
• Mexican military copter over U.S. neighborhood
  The Zapata County sheriff Thursday was questioning why a Mexican military helicopter was hovering over homes on the Texas side of the Rio Grande.
• Lehman Fraudulently Cooked Its Books, Accounting G ...
• Why the U.S. can't inflate its way out of debt
  "Many countries have tried this and they've all failed," said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Economy.com.

The Intelligence Daily

• UK: Patients’ confidential medical records go onli ...
  Patients’ confidential medical records are being placed on a controversial NHS database without... For more details, please click on the link to read the article
• Papal aide linked to Vatican gay prostitution ring
  “AT WHAT time does he have to be back in the seminary?” The question might seem innocent enough,... For more details, please click on the link to read the article
• Scientologists try to ban critical German feature ...
  The Church of Scientology is trying to block the broadcast of a German feature film that depicts... For more details, please click on the link to read the article
• David Kimche dies; Israeli spy involved in Iran-co ...
  David Kimche, 82, the Israeli spymaster-turned-diplomat who engineered the swap of American... For more details, please click on the link to read the article
• Reporters Without Borders: The Enemies of the Inte ...
  (RSF) — The fight for free access to information is being played out to an ever greater... For more details, please click on the link to read the article

My AntiWar

• Troops Kill Seven Militants in Philippines
• Children of Gaza: Scarred, Trapped, Vengeful
• Defusing 139 Taliban Bombs Was Nothing Special, Sa ...
• Jail Ordeal of Hundreds of Palestinian Children Ar ...
• The Amazing True Story of Zeitoun

Open ID

• Yahoo - Gallery

Rogue Government.com

• Nazis In Massachusetts Senate Approve Of School S ...
  T he Massachusetts Senate has approved a bill designed to ban the sale of high-calorie sodas and salty and sugary snacks in elementary and high schools.
• China warns Google to comply with censorship laws ...
  China's top internet official has warned that Google will "pay the consequences" if it continues to go against Chinese law.
• Kissinger Hospitalized in South Korea
  Henry Kissinger , the former United States secretary of state, was hospitalized here because of stomach pains on Saturday. But his condition has quickly improved, said a spokesman for Yonsei University’s Severance Hospital in Seoul.
• Vladmir Putin forging ahead with vision of Eurasi ...
  The Soviet Union is gradually being rebuilt as Vladimir Putin eyes a return to the Kremlin. The man who declared the collapse of the Communist state to be the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century” appears determined to forge a new empire.
• 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

• New Zealand - South Island Magnitude 5.0 Earthquak ...
  Date-Time: Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 1955 UTC Location: 45.50°S, 166.64°E Depth: 7 km (4.35 miles) Distances: 80 km (49.7 miles) west of Te Anau, South Island, 110 km (68.4 miles) north-west of Tuatapere, South Island, 170 km (105.6 miles) north-west of Invercargill, South Island, 300 ...
• House Democrats looking at 'Slaughter Solution' to ...
  Would House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her fellow House Democratic leaders try to cram the Senate version of Obamacare through the House without actually having a recorded vote on the bill? Not only is the answer yes, they would, they have figured out a way to do it, according to National Journal's C ...
• At least 75 killed in fighting in Somali capital
  At least 75 people have been killed in clashes in the Somali capital of Mogadishu since fighting broke out earlier this week between government forces and Al-Shabaab rebels, medical sources and a witness said Saturday. At least 30 people died on Wednesday, and another 35 died on Thursday, the city' ...
• Indonesia: Earthquake Magnitude 6.4 - Kepulauan Ob ...
  Date-Time: Sunday, March 14, 2010 at 00:57:45 UTC Sunday, March 14, 2010 at 09:57:45 AM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location: 1.710°S, 128.051°E Depth: 52.4 km (32.6 miles) Distances: 220 km (135 miles) N of Ambon, Moluccas, Indonesia 285 km (180 miles) SSE of Terna ...
• Mummy of Egypt's monotheist pharaoh to return home
  The DNA tests that revealed how the famed boy-king Tutankhamun most likely died solved another of ancient Egypt's enduring mysteries - the fate of controversial Pharaoh Akhenaten's mummy. The discovery could help fill out the picture of a fascinating era more than 3,300 years ago when Akhenaten ...

Threat Level

• FBI Hoaxes Boost Online Fraud
  Online fraud in the United States doubled to a reported $560 million in losses last year as illicit phishing expeditions by thieves posing as the Federal Bureau of Investigation represented the biggest consumer complaint, according to a Friday government survey. The e-mail phishing scams represented ...
• NetFlix Cancels Recommendation Contest After Priva ...
  Netflix is canceling its second $1 million Netflix Prize to settle a legal challenge that it breached customer privacy as part of the first contest’s race for a better movie-recommendation engine. Friday’s announcement came five months after Netflix had announced a successor to its algorithm-improve ...
• 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• The Bizarro World of the Bush Torture Apologists
  With each passing day, the apologists for the Bush administration's regime of detainee torture resemble more and more characters from an episode of Seinfeld . After narrowly escaping a recommendation of disbarment last month, its legal architect John Yoo offered what might be deemed the George Cost ...
• Tom Delay Insists Jobless Choose Unemployment
  Back in 2007, former House Majority Leader Tom Delay explained the Republican emergency room health care plan to a British audience. "There's no one denied health care in America," he announced to laughter, "there are 47 million people who don't have health insurance, but no American is denied heal ...
• 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 ...

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

• How Reagan's Propaganda Succeeded
  New documents from Ronald Reagan's Library show how the Republican propaganda apparatus took root, reports Robert Parry. March 8, 2010
• Did US Coddle an Anti-Iranian Terrorist?
  Iranians welcomed the capture of a reputed Sunni terrorist, but suspicions remain about a US tie, say Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett. March 7, 2010
• Tearing Down the Church-State Wall
  A key goal of Christian fundamentalists is to eradicate the Founders' separation of church and state, says Rev. Howard Bess. March 7, 2010
• Mullen Wary of Israeli Attack on Iran
  Joint Chief Chairman Mike Mullen looks nervously at rising military tensions between Israel and Iran, reports Ray McGovern. March 6, 2010
• Will Fear Again Be GOP Trump Card?
  Republicans are licking their chops over Democratic vulnerabilities in 2010, but fear may be the winning card, says Michael Winship. March 6, 2010

CounterPunch

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

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Israeli extremism exposed (Ahmad Tibi, The Washin ...
  With little surprise, I learned of the recent refusal of Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon to meet with members of the U.S. Congress, whose institution provides Israel with the ...
• Child's testimony incriminates soldiers (Ynet)
  "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 b ...
• UN humanitarian chief criticises Israel over Gaza ...
  The UN's top humanitarian official, John Holmes, has criticised Israel for linking the 2006 capture of an Israeli soldier to its blockade of Gaza. Mr Holmes also said Israeli actions in E ...
• Israeli settlements plan angers archbishop of Cant ...
  The archbishop of Canterbury has waded into the row over Israeli plans to build hundreds of homes on occupied territory, saying the proposals left him feeling "baffled and angry". Rowan W ...
• Clinton call to Netanyahu: Israel settlement move ...
  A day after Vice President Joe Biden ended a fence-mending trip marred by the Israel settlement issue, tension hung over the embattled city of Jerusalem both in the streets and in governm ...

Water - AlterNet

• 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.
• Why Do We Treat Our Seas, Lakes and Rivers Like Se ...
  Nobody wants to wallow in somebody else's waste -- or our own, for that matter. So why do we continue to use our valuable freshwater resources as a dumping ground?
• Big Oil Wreaks Havoc in the Amazon, But Communitie ...
  This time it's not Chevron in Ecuador but Occidental Petroleum in Peru. And the local community has had enough of giveaways to corporate polluters.
• Want to Be Sustainable? Ditch the Bottled Water
  Bottled water has become so ubiquitous that even a notable critic of bottled water found one on his podium at a recent lecture at Columbia University.
• Billionaires and Mega-Corporations Behind Immense ...
  20+ African countries are selling or leasing land for intensive agriculture on a shocking scale in what may be the greatest change of ownership since the colonial era.

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.

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Capitalism cut adrift – Part 2: Looking Sideways B ...
  By William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Creative-i 14 March, 2010 Crossposted at Strategic
• Sibel Edmonds Speaks Out on Whistleblower "Protect ...
  by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 13 March, 2010 tweetmeme_url = 'http://wordpress.co
• John Young challenging the governments’ self-servi ...
  with Peter B. Collins and Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad originally published by Boil
• NATO chief: Our deterrence must continue to be bas ...
  Propaganda Alert compiled by Cem Ertür Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 13 March 2010 1) NATO chief R
• Investigative journalist Greg Palast on bloodsucki ...
  tweetmeme_url = 'http://wordpress.com/blog/2010/03/12/investigative-journalist-greg-palast-on-bloods

Axis of Logic

• Rebuilding Public Education: An Essential Task of ...
• US – China: Provoking the Creditor, Hugging the H ...
• U.S. sandwiched in Afghanistan between India's Col ...
• Poverty in Venezuela fell from 70% in 1996 to 23% ...
• A Day of Action Journal

They Gave Us a Republic

• The Nightowl Newswrap
  saigon, 1965 "At least 30 people have been killed and 40 wounded in four suspected suicide bombings in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, hospital officials say. The first blast happened at about 2000 (1530 GMT). Police said the attackers struck near a prison, a hotel, a mosque and at a city cent ...
• A Chief of Staff We Can Believe In
  Unlike the fake-dem, wimp-ass "progressives" who find Michael Moore an embarassment, I think he's a national treasure. So I apologize for the delay in bringing to you his lastest display of creative genius. Dear President Obama, I understand you may be looking to replace Rahm Emanuel as your chie ...
• In the Zero-Tolerance Police State, Children are C ...
  If you know anyone who teaches, you've heard the horror stories: second-graders suspended for bringing antihistamines to class; fifth-graders sentenced to juvenile detention for daring to talk back to an adult. It's just one aspect of the slow-motion police state, as Digby explains: Allison Kilkenny ...
• Let Nature Take Its Course, Says GOP
  When I first read in Jon Chait's New Republic profile that GOP fiscal wunderkind Paul Ryan was an Ayn Rand acolyte, my first thought was of all those Cape Cod beach houses which periodically fall into the sea. Quite a leap, I know, but hear me out. Years ago, when I worked for the Massachusetts env ...
• Public Education and Our Long-Term Success
  President Obama's weekly address: "Lost in the news of the week was a headline that ought to be a source of concern for every American. �It said, "Many Nations Passing U.S. in Education." � Now, debates in Washington tend to be consumed with the politics of the moment: who's up in the daily polls; w ...

Care 2

• Scores of Starlings Fall Out of the Sky and Die
  It was like a grisly scene from a horror film. On Sunday night, over a quiet Somerset (England) house, scores of swooping starlings tumbled out of the sky and fell, dead, into a single front garden. Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• The Conscious Kitchen Challenge - Self Exam - Week ...
  What does it mean to have a Conscious Kitchen? It's a little different for every person, but at its heart, it means knowing where your food comes from, what it is, and how good it is (or isn't) for you and for the environment. It also encompasses the ener Submitted by Daphna Yanez to Green Lifestyle ...
• Genetically Modified Food - GMO Seeds - Monsanto G ...
  Unless it's organic, there's a good chance that corn syrup or soy is genetically modified, and the price is being set by one company on its own terms. If you want to know what's really happening in the world of food and nutrition, the business section Submitted by Daphna Yanez to Business �|� �N ...
• Newt Gingrich has a New Contract with America
  After the massive failure of the 1994 Contract with American you might think this guy would give it a rest, but nope he is Back and looking for a job in DC. And why not, free chauffeur limousines, life time golden retirement and great healthcare. and $$! Submitted by Kit B. to US Politics & Gov't ...
• China's elephants jostle for a little room
  The country only has 300 wild elephants left, squashed into a patchwork of ever-smaller spaces. A wildlife park, and programs to help villagers view them more kindly, may help stave off extinction. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

GreenBiz

• P&G Reformulating Herbal Essences to Limit Toxins
  Procter & Gamble is reformulating its Herbal Essences shampoos to reduce the amount of a carcinogenic chemical in them. �
• Water-Saving 'No-Mix Toilets' Get Rave Reviews in ...
  An innovative new toilet system that helps to reduce pollution and save water has gotten widespread support in seven European countries, according to a new study.
• How to Embed Sustainability Into Your Company's DN ...
  "The 21st Century Corporation: The Ceres Roadmap for Sustainability" makes the business case for why companies should be rethinking their corporate structures, processes and performance, while also offering advice and case studies of how companies are putting these practices to work.
• NASA's Latest 'Launch' Focuses on Water Sustainabi ...
  NASA will conduct its first-ever water sustainability forum next week at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and is singling out 10 firms from around the world to showcase innovative solutions to water management.
• Zero Net Energy Live/Work Showcase Opens Doors to ...
  A LEED-Platinum rated zero net energy live/work unit opens its doors to the public today before a deal closes to buy the unique property near the Oakland Estuary. �

Reuters Global

• Pakistan: winning over Tehran and Kabul
  Improved relations between Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan could play a major role in shaping the regional battle for influence.
• 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.

Paul Krugman

• Stupid Smelly Mutants
  Don't know much about Latin.
• Israel, China, America
  Right now, China's dollar holdings don't give it any leverage over the United States.
• Saving Ryan's Privatization
  Ryan's attempt to deny that what his own movement used to call privatization is, in fact, privatization should settle the question of his sincerity.
• Beck in the U.S.A.
  Son don't you understand.
• Debt And Transfiguration
  Debt history, around the world.

No Quarter

• Has Tom Hanks Lost His Mind?
  Maybe we can blame this on Castaway? Did Tom Hanks spend too much time in the Sun followed by extended period of having his head underwater? You know, oxygen deprivation. Heretofore I have admired Hanks for what he did with Saving Private Ryan followed by the HBO series, Band of Brothers. [...]
• Courage and Consequence: Less Memoir Than Hoax
  Reprinted from The Huffington Post with the express permission of Joe Wilson. Karl Rove’s book Courage and Consequence is less memoir than hoax. The chapters that relate to the CIA leak scandal are yet another attempt to deflect attention from his central role in the betrayal of Valerie Plame Wilson ...
• Democratic Jihad
  Remember the old saw, “A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words?” Well, here you go: Obama Akbar? That’s hysterical. (Cartoon by Michael Ramirez.) What else do you call the Democrats insistence on passing a comprehensive health care bill that does not provide universal coverage, lets the pharmaceutica ...
• Amending The Health Care Ghost
  How do you amend a law before it exists? Lawrence O’Donnell, on Morning Joe, gives an every man’s explanation of how the parliamentary procedure of Reconciliation works, where the current health care legislation stands now, and why Reconciliation can’t be used to pass it. Visit msnbc.com for breaki ...
• A New Hero?
  This article caught my eye the other day, and seems like an uplifting piece to kick off the weekend (or at least as a TGIF day): “Gregory Kane: Character More Important Than Winning.” Nick Romero is my new hero. It is at this point many readers might be saying, “I don’t know Nick Romero from a tree ...

Environmental Graffiti

• The Siege of Acre Through the Eyes of a Foot Soldi ...
• Monkeys Fighting!
• Meat Ants Devour Venezuelan Cane Toad
• 7 Most Incredible Sunken Forests on Earth
• Sand Art Like You’ve Never Seen It Before

Foreign Policy in Focus

• The Travails of a Client State: An Okinawan Angle ...
  For a country in which ultra-nationalism was for so long a problem, the weakness of nationalism in contemporary Japan is puzzling.
• Premature Withdrawal
  We’ve now been at war with, or in, Iraq for almost 20 years, and intermittently at war in Afghanistan for 30 years.
• The Iranian Tsunami
  The real discontent in Iran, reports columnist Conn Hallinan, is at the workplace.
• Obama and the Denial of Genocide
  The Obama administration is trying to bury the Armenia genocide resolution -- just like every previous administration.
• Sudan's Divorce Proceedings
  The United States is scrambling to make sure that the looming break-up of south and north Sudan in 2011 is as peaceful as possible.

Global Elite

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

Al Jazeera

• Nigeria vows to tackle violence
  Security officials will be held responsible for future massacres, says police chief.
• Colombians set for congress vote
  Ruling conservatives likely to retain majority in both houses following Sunday's polls.
• Jumblatt apologises to al-Assad
  Lebanese MP regrets past criticism of Syrian president and seeks new beginning.
• China defends currency policy
  Wen Jiabao rejects calls for yuan appreciation and blames US for worsening ties.
• Israel to probe 'Biden fiasco'
  Netanyahu orders investigation into timing of announcement for new housing plans.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Health Costs of California Air Pollution
  Air pollution in California cost federal, state and private health insurers $193 million in hospital costs, according to a RAND Corp. study released last week.
• Made in the U.S.A.: Efficiency Materials
  A recent study by an energy efficiency nonprofit found that more than 90 percent of caulking and insulation is made in the United States.
• Executive Departures at Clean Energy Firms
  The past week has seen the president of SolarReserve and the chief executives of Clipper Windpower and Aurora Biofuels stepping down.
• Is Green Insurance Worth the Price?
  Necessity or marketing gimmick? The Bucks blog helps consumers decide whether green insurance is worth it.
• Five Countries Fall Behind on European Renewable E ...
  The European Commission said on Thursday that five countries were failing to meet goals for renewable energy but that they could make up their quotas by buying electricity from North Africa and the Balkans.

Dot Earth News

• A New Unit for (Saved) Power
  A pioneer in energy efficiency is poised to have an energy unit named for him.
• Your Dot: A Bison Encounter
  A reader's account of a powerful bison encounter.
• New U.N. Climate Change Group is All Male
  A group of women are upset that a new United Nations climate change financing group has 19 members, but no women.
• A New Unit for (Saved) Energy
  A pioneer in energy efficiency is poised to have an energy unit named for him.
• Arguments Against Dolphin Slaughter
  An Oscar-winning filmmaker describes his goals in revealing details of the ongoing dolphin slaughter in a Japanese town.

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

• Economic fascism: corporate-directed health care i ...
  two videos live at source. Three out of five Americans want universal health care, as do three out of five US physicians. If corporate media were to communicate the cost-benefit analyses accurately, those numbers would increase because these studies assert that Americans would save between $100 bill ...
• Minneapolis Schools: Lock Down!
  As one commentator immediately above noted, it would be worth our time to ‘stop and frisk’ our society and try to critically examine what’s causing the social despair, capitulation to “lock-down” policies, calls for military tribunals and the outsourcing of fear to law enforcement. If we don’t, we ...
• Abandon All Hope – The Lehman Bros. Report
  Numerian has a new article out that will help interested parties understand the 2200 page report on the Lehman collapse. The report was produced by a court-appointed examiner. It’s 2200 pages and cost over $40 million to produce. The results are devastating for Lehman, the Bush administration (w ...
• Technology and Teachers: The Fun They Had
  By Guest Blogger George, Many educators feel that the so-called “21st Century Learning” which advocates a more technology based and supposedly student-centered curriculum for the future is the magic bullet of educational reform. In this, they find themselves in perfect agreement with the companies w ...
• Kansas city Schools: Latest in the race to the bot ...
   Massive school closures in KC to be done by fall: The politics of ‘compassionate conservatism” You’ve no doubt heard the dismal news out Wednesday, March 12, 2020.  Kansas City’s school superintendent said he is going to shutter nearly half the district’s schools due to plummeting e ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• Texas approves radical right-wing history books
• Vatican struggles against Pope’ ...
• Second NOLA police officer pleads guilty in post-K ...
• Right-wing blogger: Reid should â€&tild ...
• Video: Al Franken uses SNL skit in bid for Google ...

Institute for Policy Studies

• Time-Lapse Foreign Policy
• Why I'm Breaking the Law for Health Care
• DoD: The Biggest Corporation of All
• Africa: C
• Can Japan Say No to Washington?

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 ...

MSM Blogging

• Knox News Blogs
• Knoxville Blog Buzz

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

• Whole Foods to Stop Raw Milk Sales in Several Stat ...
  My friend David Gumpert over at The Complete Patient broke the news tonight that Whole Foods will be stopping raw milk sales in its stores in several states - "Another Body Blow to Food Choice As Whole Foods Discontinues Raw Milk Sales in At Least Four States."   I am sure that the cessation of sale ...
• Lombard Subway Sickens 50 with Shigella
  According to Chicago press reports , the number of people sickened by the Shigella outbreak traced to a Lombard sandwich shop is now at 50, DuPage County Health Department spokesman David Hass said this afternoon. Thursday's count was 49.� Hass added that all 10 people who were hospitalized for the ...
• WSU Professor Tom Besser gets $1,000,000 to protec ...
  � � � � � � Go Cougs.
• Update on Daniele Black Pepper Salmonella Montevid ...
  249 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Montevideo, which displays either of two closely related pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) patterns, have been reported from 44 states and District of Columbia since July 1, 2009. The number of ill persons identified in each state ...
• Food Safety News App is up on IPhone App Store

AutoblogGreen

• Report: Unintended acceleration Prius case gets tw ...
  Second-gen Toyota Prius - Click above for high-res image gallery The unintended acceleration case of the second-generation Prius belonging to James Sikes now officially has an interesting backstory. Apparently, according to USAToday , Sikes' "case against Toyota is starting to look shaky." Why? T ...
• 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. ...

Rafe's Radar

• Reporters' Roundtable podcast: Future of laptops
  It's been four years since laptop computers passed desktop in unit sales in the U.S. But laptop vendors can't rest. The Netbook phenomenon swept the tech world in 2009, changing the rules for the category. And this year, tablets like the iPad might change the nature of personal computing yet agai ...
• 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 ...

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

• Hailing the arrival of alien predators
  Europe is set to release its first non-native "biological control" species to curb the spread of Japanese knotweed.
• Wind Farms can aid Global Warming : MIT
  MIT analysis suggests generating electricity from large-scale wind farms could influence climate — and not necessarily in the desired way.
• All-black penguin discovered | Yahoo! Green
  An extremely rare sight in Antarctica makes one bird appear underdressed.
• Google Adds 'Bike There' Feature to Google Maps
  They've been plugging away for awhile now on ways to get directions for cyclists that avoids hills, excessive traffic, and points you in the best directions for pedaling to your destination. Now it's live!
• Which is Better? Recycling or Burning Household Wa ...
  Why bother to recycle? Advocates say recycling is essential for a healthy planet, but others say recycling has more to do with conspicuous 'good citizenship' than good waste management. Thomas Deichmann believes the best way to dispose of household waste, he says studies show, is to burn it.

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 ...

Cognitive Research - Sciences

• Trends in Cognitive Sciences

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

• Redefining "Racist" in the Rather Compli ...
  Why does it seem that every time we turn around there is another "racist" being outed?
• If the NFL Were More Lenient About Pot, Would the ...
  This is the NFL's policy: Go to a club and drink – no problem; Stay at home and enjoy a little marijuana – get suspended.
• 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.
• Deportations & Mosque Closings: The War on Ter ...
  The War on Terror has ravaged many Muslim communities in the United States. Clerics and other community leaders are deported with no due process.
• Was "Jihad Jane" a Real Terrorist Threat ...
  No one knows quite what to make of Colleen LaRose. But get ready to hear a lot more about "homegrown terrorism" -- and why we need more surveillance to stop it.

Sideways News

• BBC – should we scrap the licence fee?
• 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 ...

Fabius Maximus

• FM newswire for March 14, 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. “Does James Bond Have a License To Kill? The rules and regulations of British intelligence, explained“, Justin Shubow, Slate, 16 November 2006 “Blackwater ...
• What’s the big lesson for American from the ...
  Here is an excerpt from an article that deserves to be read in full.  You’ll see in Hayes’ recommendation the vagueness that results from unwillingness to say that we’re responsible for our problems — and only we can fix them.  Instead he resorts to abstractions like “democratization”, long word ...
• The US government at work, doing dark deeds in our ...
  Please read this.  These deeds were done in our name, and we bear the final responsibility for them.   They will echo down our future, with effects we cannot foresee — but probably will regret. “Waterboarding for dummies“ By Mark Benjamin, Salon, 9 March 2010 — “Internal CIA documents reveal a m ...
• 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 ...

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  sibeledmonds: Boiling Frogs Show Presents John Young (Cryptome.Org). Listen to the interview here: http://boilingfrogspost.com
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  sibeledmonds: Just Out by Armenia Weekly: Dennis Hastert, Richard Armitage & alike, and their MSM gate keepers http://www.armenianweekly.com/opinion/
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WIRED Magazine | Science

• Research Reveals Early Signs of Autism in Some Kid ...
  BALTIMORE — Some infants headed for a diagnosis of autism, or autism spectrum disorder as it’s officially known, can be reliably identified at 14 months old based on the presence of five key behavior problems, according to an ongoing long-term study described March 11 at the International Conferenc ...
• 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 Progressive Realist

• Pondering the Interplay between Domestic and Inter ...
  As a general matter, I'm way too smart (or cowardly or prudent or chicken) to say very much publicly on Israel and the Palestinians. The progressive foreign policy wonk community has many genuine Middle East experts to do that, including on this blog. Speaking of which, a few weeks ago Joel Rubin s ...
• About That Greek Public Sector
  Charlemagne, over at the Economist blog, can be… uneven. But this recent post about Greece’s public sector is IMO top notch. It puts the creation of Greece’s huge, poorly paid, inefficient public sector in historical context: Take the painful question of the huge public sector, and all those civil ...
• Allies Call for Withdrawal of U.S. Tactical Nuclea ...
  Max Bergmann reports : This month five European foreign ministers from Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, and Luxembourg called on NATO to take steps to remove US tactical nuclear weapons from European soil . The US has between 150 and 225 nuclear gravity bombs – which are essentially old-sc ...
• 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 ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Lightning Round: Friday Meta-Politics for the Peop ...
  Whatever one thinks of David Brooks , I think his column today on Barack Obama pretty much describes the reality of his governing style. And while it is frustrating to liberals who want a little more fight out of Mr. Obama, there is something noble about the president's unflappability in the face o ...
• 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 ...

Andy Worthington

• A Tribute to Sarah Meyer, human rights activist
  I have just been informed that Sarah Meyer, a wonderfully supportive friend in the struggle for a better world, recently died of cancer. A retired UK registered homoeopath, Sarah had studied Jungian psychology for 30 years, while simultaneously studying Tibetan Buddhism, and, after retiring, worked ...
• “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, ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Earthquake Baptism Saves Chile Family
  A christening celebration saved a Chilean extended family from the devastation of the February 27 Chile earthquake. Video.
• Time-Lapse: Mountaintop Mine Spreads Across Forest
  Time-lapse satellite views of a West Virginia coal mine show how long-term mountaintop mining can wipe out swaths of forest.
• Sea Spray Detected 900 Miles Inland
  Sea spray has been detected in the middle of the United States, some 900 miles (1,400 kilometers) from any ocean—and it may be contributing to air pollution, a new study says.
• "Cove" Movie Assails Dolphin Hunt, Gets Oscar Boos ...
  With its 2010 Oscar win for best documentary, the movie The Cove has reignited debate over annual dolphin hunts in Taiji, Japan.
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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

• Second Hal Turner Trial Ends in Mistrial
  The federal trial of hate blogger Hal Turner ended in a mistrial late this afternoon — for the second time. After deliberating for three days in Brooklyn’s U.S. District Court, jurors decided they would not be able to reach a verdict, according to The Associated Press . Judge Donald Walter declared ...
• He’s Back: Robert Stacy McCain and the Washington ...
  Robert Stacy McCain, a former key Washington Times editor who has suggested that “perfectly rational people” react with “altogether natural revulsion” to interracial marriage, apparently has returned as a free-lancer to the newspaper he left in January 2008. In a “Special to The Washington Times†...
• American Renaissance Conference Cancelled
  According to an E-mail sent today and signed by Jared Taylor , head of the white nationalist American Renaissance , the group will not be holding its 2010 conference. The conferences are usually a major hit in white nationalist circles and feature as speakers prominent white supremacists, academic r ...
• 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 ...

change: org.

• More Than Two Women Die Every Day From Pregnancy-R ...
  If the United States is spending more money on health care than any other country on Earth, where exactly is that cash going to? Certainly not to combating maternal mortality, given that women in America are more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than expectant mothers in some 40 ot ...
• Turdblossom for Torture: Investigating and Prosecu ...
  Karl Rove, the former White House Senior Adviser during the Bush Administration, had a few choice words yesterday for the BBC on the issue of torture. “I’m proud that we kept the world safer than it was, by the use of these techniques," Rove said. "They’re appropriate, they’re in conformity with our ...
• Three Reasons Rape on Campus Is Still a Problem
  The Center for Public Integrity recently released another installment from it's year-long investigation into sexual assault on college campuses. They found that despite the laws, the Lifetime movies, and the lectures during Freshman orientation week, very little has changed in terms of how rape vict ...
• Bank of America Changes Locks, Takes Pet From Wron ...
  Bank of America foreclosed on Angela Iannelli's house, locking her out and taking her 11-year-old Blue and Gold Macaw. Iannelli wasn't behind on her mortgage payments. An employee thought the house had been abandoned and sent a contractor to secure the property. It was quite a shock for Ms Iannelli ...
• "But He Is an Illegal Immigrant..." Ruled Inadmiss ...
  Think that undocumented immigrants have no right to due process in the United States? The Texas Supreme Court disagrees and has overturned a $15.8 million verdict on grounds that the jury was prejudiced against an undocumented immigrant due to his status. In TXI Transportation Company v. Hughes , th ...

Common Dreams -News

• Obama's Reluctant Populism Irks Left
  by Carol E. Lee Sometimes in the fight for health reform or tighter rules on Wall Street, President Barack Obama unleashes his podium-pounding, “yes we can” side. And sometimes, critics say, Obama’s just a part-time populist. read more
• UN Appeal for Haitian Quake Relief Only Half Funde ...
  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Two months after the ruinous January 12 earthquake in Haiti, the United Nations' $1.44 billion revised humanitarian appeal for the country is only 49 percent funded, UN officials said today. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, OCHA, says humanitarian w ...
• Israel Seals off West Bank
  Israel has imposed a full closure of the occupied Palestinian territory of West Bank, announcing that no one will be allowed in or out for 48 hours. Ehud Barak, the Israeli defence minister, made the move amid reports of possible protests by Palestinians around the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem after ...
• The Left's Answer to Tea Parties? A Cup of Joe
  by Sean J. Miller A burgeoning netroots movement has emerged from what its founder characterized as "ranting on my Facebook page." Several weeks ago, filmmaker Annabel Park posted a note on her Facebook profile expressing "frustration ... listening to news coverage that made it seem like the Tea ...
• Bank Reform Talks Fail, Dodd to Go Solo
  by Karey Wutkowski and Rachelle Younglai WASHINGTON - Chances of a broad overhaul of U.S. financial regulation dimmed on Thursday after bipartisan Senate talks collapsed, helping boost bank share prices and jeopardizing a top Obama administration priority. Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christoph ...

Lifehacker

• Fix Uneven Skin Tones in Photoshop Elements [Photo ...
  Adjusting skin tones in photos can often be harder than adjusting for other colors, but Photoshop guru Helen Bradley has some quick tips for smoothing skin tones as effectively as possible. More��
• Google Wave Extensions Gallery: A Single Place to ...
  One of Google Wave's more powerful features is its extensions—small gadgets and doodads you can embed or include in waves to add great functionality. They used to be particularly difficult to hunt down and install, but no more. More » ...
• Enjoy Fresh Bread with One Minute of Prep [Food Ha ...
  If you've been trying to incorporate more oven-fresh and less store-bought into your diet, this simple bread recipe will have you eating fresh bread every day. More��
• Trendsmap Highlights Local Twitter Trends [Trends]
  It's interesting to look at trending topics on Twitter to see what's new and has captured public interest, but Twitter is a big place with millions of tweets flying around. Trendsmap drills down through the data to see local trends. More�� ...
• Enable Variable Speed Playback in YouTube [YouTube ...
  If your browser supports HTML5 you can opt into the experimental HTML5 video playback on YouTube. Not only will you get smoother video playback—goodbye Flash!—but you'll be able to speed up and slow down your videos. More » ...

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

• Deceptive arguments are being made in California's ...
  Who needs absinthe, vodka or even a six-pack of beer? Judging from the quality of our debate on natural resource policy, all it takes to addle the political mind in California is water.
• Tomato king see his empire crumble (The Sacramento ...
  The seemingly humble heirto a brawling farm family'sfortune sits in jail awaitingtrial for what his accusers callone of the most audaciousfood industry schemes ever.
• Free screening of `World Water Wars' today (Whitti ...
  Enjoy a free screening of "Blue Gold: World Water Wars" at 7 p.m. today at the Harmony Center for Spiritual Living, 12907 Bailey St.
• Pennington Library to screen green films throughou ...
  Aptly named “Sustainable Sundays,” the month-long film series will feature four documentaries and reps from local organizations.
• Conference brings together leaders of nine-county ...
  SPANISH FORT, Ala. -- The region already exists. The nine Gulf Coast counties spanning from Pensacola to western Mississippi already are economically intertwined, drawing on each other's workers, researchers, capital and more. The question is how the various governments, industrial leaders and other ...

WordPress | Economics

• Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps
  The trailer to the sequel of the critically-acclaimed 1987 hit Wall Street starring Michael Douglas
• Economic and Business Intelligence: The Red Shirt ...
  I rather not do anything in Siam By Pooky, this blog economics journalist Macro from EIU The Economi
• Where Google Doth Trod
  What are the chances of a Google like me and a China like you? One out of a thousand? So you’r
• Dragon at Sea: A Brief History of Chinese Navies
  The strategic arena of East Asia. SINCE THE END OF THE COLD WAR, American naval supremacy has been u
• BOOKS YOU DON'T NEED IN A PLACE YOU CAN'T FIND
  A Photo Tour of the Montague Bookmill – ShelfTalker: A Children’s Bookseller’s Blo

Electronic Intifada

• Harvard students condemn center's defense of fello ...
  We students at Harvard University are disturbed by the racist and inhumane comments of Martin Kramer, Visiting Scholar at the National Security Studies Program at the Weath ...
• Interview: Education and resistance at the Ann Arb ...
  The second annual Ann Arbor Palestine Film Festival opened on Wednesday, 10 March with the feature film Pomegranates and Myrrh . Such festivals are a growing phenomenon wit ...
• Flouting its own laws, EU accommodates "Made in Is ...
  In 2008 Britain expressed concern about how goods originating from Israeli settlements in the West Bank may be benefiting illegally from European Union trade preferences th ...
• Sending a laptop to Gaza
  I sat outdoors at a cafe on the Mediterranean Sea in al-Arish, a dusty seaside town in Egypt's northern Sinai. I drank a tea and smoked a water pipe; it gave me something t ...
• Second annual Ann Arbor Palestine film fest opens ...
  The second annual Ann Arbor Palestine Film Festival opened on 10 March 2010 at the Michigan Theater with hundreds of attendees for Najwa Najjar's Pomegranates and Myrrh . T ...

Afghanistan Sun

• Afghan suicide bombs kill 30 people in Kandahar C ...
  Suicide bombers have killed around 30 people in Kandahar City, Afghanistan.
• Taliban attacks kill 35 in Kandahar
  A series of five explosions and gunfire killed at least 35 people, including police forces in southern city of Kandahar, an interior ministry spokesman said Sunday.
• Tobey Maguire's tough transformation from Spi ...
  Tobey Maguire has come a long way from his Spiderman days to the role of a Taliban captive in war drama Brothers.
• Pak intelligence claim India used Afghan soil to p ...
  Pakistani intelligence agencies have claimed nabbing the mastermind of the Lahore serial blasts and one of his close associates in a raid in southern Punjab province, and the extremists have reportedly revealed that the strikes were planned at an Indian consulate in Afghanistan two months ago.
• Over 30 killed in serial suicide attacks in Afghan ...
  Four suicide bombers attacked different parts of southern city of Kandahar Saturday, killing more than 30 people, and injured at least 40, officials said.

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

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

• 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

• When You Try To Figure Out Who Owns Imaginary 'Pro ...
  We've discussed in the past how copyright isn't really "property" at all, and trying to compare it to regular property leads to all sorts of confusing problems. Take, for example, this lawsuit, found via Michael Scott , over who owns the rights to thousands of songs . The actual mess is a bit comp ...
• Williams Sonoma Nastygrams Blogger Who Helps Peopl ...
  Brad Hubbard writes "I regularly read a blog called "Knock Off Wood" -- a site where a woman teaches readers how to build various designer-looking pieces of furniture at home for a lot less. It's the best kind of "maker" site - someone who is passionate about crafting, freely sharing their passion w ...
• Google, Facebook Sued Because Without Some Random ...
  Wireless Ink was a company that I remember getting some buzz back in the 2005/2006 timeframe... and then they dropped completely off my radar. Honestly, I had thought they had gone out of business. So I was a bit surprised to see them suddenly pop back up with a patent (of course) and a lawsuit ag ...
• Irony Alert: Hollywood Howard Berman To Introduce ...
  Earlier this year we noted this was likely , but now it appears that Rep. Howard Berman is getting ready to introduce an "Internet Freedom Bill," that would limit how US companies could operate in "internet-restricting countries." Now, we've already pointed out that it's odd to see politicians push ...
• Viral Video Producers Want To Charge You To Embed ...
  You may have seen some of the rather popular videos by Common Craft, which has built a rather large following based on these videos about technology and social media using paper diagrams on whiteboards. What the videos are really good at is simplifying things in a way that's easy for people to unde ...

VacTruth

• The Roast of a Science Based Vaccine Skeptic
  . . . . . . . —–Original Message—– From: Jennifer Craig Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 11:58 AM To: Harriet Hall Subject: smallpox Would you please provide the mortality stats for smallpox in the UK in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and explain how smallpox vaccination affected those. The sma ...
• 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 ...

BroadSnark

• Are Atheist “Evangelizers” Feminists?
  I read an interesting letter by Jim Davidson that got me thinking (HT to @BradSpangler and Diana Culda).  In a nutshell, the letter asserts that abortion is indeed homicide, but that it is justifiable homicide.  I’ll let you read the letter and ponder his arguments on your own time.  Because that ...
• 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.

Executive Intelligence Review

• Move to Safe Ground; Build the Nation of Haiti
  By Marcia Merry Baker Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 12, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 10
• How Many Haitians Must Die Before We Impeach Obama ...
  By Dennis Small Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 12, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 10
• Chancellor Merkel's Moment of Truth: What About th ...
  By Helga Zepp-LaRouche Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 12, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 10
• Rogers Victory in Texas: Impeachment Is Now on the ...
  By Harley Schlanger Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 12, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 10
• 22nd District in Texas: Kesha's Victory
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 12, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 10

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

• Life is Great … But Only If You Are Already ...
• Harry Dent: Rally Will Continue Until Mid-April to ...
  Harry Dent just released a short 5-minute video update, saying that the technical indicators show that the rally will continue to mid-April at the earliest, to late May at the latest: View the original article at Washingtons Blog
• We Can’t Inflate Our Way Out of the Debt Cri ...
  As I wrote last August: Commonly-accepted wisdom says that we can inflate our way out of our debt crisis. *** But as I have previously noted, UBS economist Paul Donovan has demonstrated that governments can’t inflate their way out of debt traps, saying: The problem with the idea of governments infla ...
• Lehman Fraudulently Cooked Its Books, Accounting G ...
  As William K. Black said a year ago, the government’s entire strategy now – as in the S&L crisis – is to cover up how bad things are (“the entire strategy is to keep people from getting the facts”). Paul Krugman and others pointed out that Geithner has been trying to artificially prop up [...]
• Congress Calls for New Investigation Into Anthrax ...
  The FBI says that the anthrax case is closed, and that they have proved that Dr. Bruce Ivins did it. But Congress is not convinced. On March 3, 2010, Representative Holt called for a new investigation: Last week, [Congressman Holt] succeeded in including language in the 2010 Intelligence Authoriza ...

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

• College Students Listen Up: Enter The Arbor Day No ...
  photo: Arbor Day Now Are you an amateur videographer at heart just waiting for your time to shine? Well, now's your chance. The Arbor Day Foundation is looking for compelling videos to get people planting trees. And the top contest winner will receive $2,500 in free trees to shade their neighb ...
• 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 ...

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

• Plastic bags withstand the test of time ... and po ...
  The notion that plastic bags pose a threat to waterborne wildlife is as fashionable as it is false.
• Health scare surrounding BPA still lacks scientifi ...
  Well-orchestrated health scares against beneficial products and technologies have become all too common.
• With Adversaries Like This – You Don ...
• CFACT continues their mission in Cancún
  CFACT students deliver laptops and hope to la Ciudad de la Alegria.
• Greenpeace Opts for Millions of Blind Kids
  We can't prevent earthquakes, but we can prevent blindness.

Ria Novosti Online News

• Ukraine's foreign minister to visit Russia on Marc ...
  Ukraine's Foreign Minister Kostyantyn Hryshchenko will arrive in Russia on March 16 for a two-day working visit, Ukrainian UNIAN news agency reported on Sunday, citing a Russian diplomatic source.
• Animal News: Spring baby boom in the world’s zoos
  An elephant calf, baby capybara and penguin chick are growing quickly, white tigers and American Tai Shan panda are settling at their new homes, while a “cow beauty pageant” is held in France
• Georgian opposition to sue TV channel over fake in ...
  A leading Georgian opposition party said on Sunday it was preparing a lawsuit against a Georgian television channel over a fake news report about a supposed Russian invasion and murder of President Mikheil Saakashvili.
• Strong earthquake rocks northern Japan
  A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 points hit northern Japan on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
• Millions of Russians vote in regional elections
  Millions of Russians went to the polls on Sunday to vote in regional elections seen as a popularity test for the ruling United Russia party amid rising unemployment and housing and utilities prices.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Shuttle Endeavour to undock from ISS Saturday
  NASA's Endeavour space shuttle will undock from the International Space Station (ISS) on February 20 after a 9-day mission, NASA reported on Friday.
• Endeavour shuttle to undock from ISS Saturday
  NASA's Endeavour space shuttle will undock from the International Space Station (ISS) on February 20 after a 9-day mission, NASA reported on Friday.
• NASA delays next shuttle launch until April
  The launch of the next space shuttle to the International Space Station was postponed until April 5 due to cold weather.
• Kazakhstan says Russian Proton launches to continu ...
  Kazakhstan has no objection to launches of Russia's Proton carrier rockets from its territory while a new environmentally-friendly launch pad is being put into operation, the head of the Kazakh space agency said on Wednesday.
• NASA astronauts complete 2nd spacewalk to hook up ...
  Endeavour shuttle astronauts successfully completed their second spacewalk early on Sunday to install plumbing for a new technological module of the International Space Station, NASA officials said.

Pruning Shears

• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The ACLU asked the president about his commitment to the rule of law. It probably cost more than $1000, but the lack of of a wingnut welfare shop’s imprimatur prevented it from getting any traction. Our image in the Muslim world wou ...
• 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 ...

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

• Nourishing the Planet Featured on Eco-Chick
  Check out this interview featured in Eco-Chick about the Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet 's on-the-ground research in Africa by Stephanie Rogers: If it’s true that there are sayers and there are doers, Danielle Nierenberg falls firmly into the latter camp. Danielle is currently travelin ...
• What the American People Want in Health Care
  ( From The Paragraph .) “[The American people] … have rendered a judgment about what we have attempted to do so far,” said Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) at the president’s big health care meeting last week. 30 +31 “[P]ut that on the shelf and … start over with a blank piece of paper and go step by ...
• Kucinich tells his side of the story on Democracy ...
  In a lengthy interview on Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman , Congressman Dennis Kucinich explained why he would not vote for the present health care bill and defended his position against attacks from people on the left like Markos Moulitsas . He also spoke about the subjects of Afghanistan, campaig ...
• How to Fight a Better War (Next Time): Three Fixes ...
  Originally published at TomDispatch.com Iraq remains a mess from which the U.S. military seems increasingly uninterested in withdrawing fully and Afghanistan a disaster area, but it’s never too soon to think about the next war .� The subject is already on the minds of Pentagon planners.� The questio ...
• Unemployment Benefits Keep People From Looking For ...
  Okay the Dog has had it right up to here with Republicans saying that unemployment assistance keeps people from finding work. Only a party that is the refuge of scoundrels and the ultra-rich could possibly think this. As one of those folks who is trying (and failing) to get by on the unemployment be ...

Son of Alex Constantine's Blacklist

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• US Government Contractors, Battlefield Tort Liabil ...
  by Chris Jenks by Chris Jenks The following is a guest post by Lt. Col. Chris Jenks, the Chief of the International Law Branch in the U.S. Army’s Office of the Judge Advocate General. Lt. Col. Jenks is posting in his personal capacity. On March 8th, the Supreme Court “invited” the Solicitor G ...
• 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 ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• BREAKING NEWS: Top Aussie climate scientist goes f ...
  One of Australia's most outspoken scientists has this week rubbished the team behind the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, describing the project as nothing more than a "nuclear billiards machine" and saying the money should be devoted to paying for...
• 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....

Public News Service

• Study: Kids Access to Dental Care Lags in AZ
  Study: Kids Access to Dental Care Lags in AZ Phoenix, AZ — Arizona gets a “C” on its dental policies for kids, according to a new national study. A pediatric dentist says too many kids, especially those from low-income families, aren't getting the preventive care they need. Comments from Dr. Jessica ...
• Study: Women's Stroke Risk is Almost Triple Men's
  Study: Women's Stroke Risk is Almost Triple Men's Phoenix, AZ - For a few years now, medical research has pointed to women's increased risk of stroke as they age. A new study of 2200 adults ages 35-64 (from University of Southern California) has quantified it: women are 2.9 times more likely to have ...
• Soup Leads to Independence for Arizonans with Auti ...
  Soup Leads to Independence for Arizonans with Autism Phoenix, AZ – Soups by famous chefs will soon be made and sold by adults with autism in Central Arizona. It’s part of a training program aimed at providing jobs and a better quality of life. Comments from Jeri Kendle, interim president for the Sou ...
• Tax Preparer Scammer Alert from the IRS
  Tax Preparer Scammer Alert from the IRS Phoenix, AZ – It’s income tax season and, for some people, the only thing worse than rounding up all their receipts and documentation, is finding out too late that they hired someone to do their taxes who was either unqualified – or simply trying to rip them o ...
• Watchdogs: Stop Playing Chicken with Industrial Fa ...
  Watchdogs: Stop Playing Chicken with Industrial Farm Antibiotics Pressure is being stepped up on Congress and federal agencies to limit the overuse of antibiotics on industrial farms, as these lifesaving drugs are becoming increasingly ineffective in fighting bacterial infections. The medications a ...

My Care2 Picks

• War Is Sin
  War is neither glorious nor noble. And we carry within us the capacity for evil we ascribe to those we fight.Those who return to speak this truth are our contemporary prophets. But like all prophets they are condemned and ignored for their courage. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� ...
• Néjàd Vu all over again: The Media,'Pretext','Cont ...
  Ahmadinejad resurfaced amidst reports that he called the attacks of September 11, 2001 "a big lie." As with other mistranslated statements, this new claim hardly stands up to even the most cursory scrutiny,reported with little context and comparison Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �| ...
• Don't let U.S. corporations off the hook
  Don't let U.S corporations of the hook. A new bill called Civil Liability is being tabled in India, If there was a nuclear accident in India, U.S. corporations would be immune from liabilities. Take Action!! Submitted by Beth Stephens to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Jewish settlers attempt to seize water spring in P ...
  ens of armed Jewish settlers on Monday attacked Palestinian citizens' lands in Qarawat Bani Hassan village, Salfit district, and started bulldozing an area where a water spring is located, the municipality chief of the village said. Submitted by Cheryl Benson to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comme ...
• How the War on Drugs Gave Birth to a Permanent Ame ...
  There are more African Americans under correctional control today than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

• Antinuclear rally in Minsk
  On February 20th 2010, Anarchist group "Antiatomic Resistance" held an unauthorized picket against the construction of nuclear power plant in Belarus Anarchist iniciative "AntiNuclear Resistance"... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Pope backed sex abuse priest transfer when archbis ...
  Reuters: "(Reuters) - Pope Benedict was involved in a decision to move a priest suspected of child abuse to his diocese for therapy when he was an archbishop in 1980, his former diocese in southern... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Fox and National Public Radio Have Something in Co ...
  Electronic Frontier Foundation: "The Fox News Channel boasts that it takes a different approach to news coverage than, say, CBS, NBC, or NPR. But it appears Fox takes the same approach as its... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• A Tale of Two D.A.s
  Prisonmovement's Weblog: "By Natasha Minsker | ACLU of Northern CaliforniaRobertson County, Texas, November, 2000. A 24 year-old single mother of four,Regina Kelly , is caught up in a drug... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Second NOLA Officer Pleads Guilty in Bridge Shooti ...
  Democracy Now! | Headlines for March 12, 2010: "In New Orleans, a second former police officer has pleaded guilty in the cover-up of the police killing of two unarmed African Americans in the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• Vaccine Safety Testing
• 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 ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• Op-Ed Columnist - Driving Miss Saudi (The New York ...
  Noted by Nathan Deuel on March 14, 2010 5:03 AM
• Rosario Tijeras Colombians outraged by narco soaps ...
  Noted by Lorraine Murphy on March 13, 2010 6:03 AM
• Red Road deaths: a tragedy of asylum, mental healt ...
  Noted by Lorraine Murphy on March 13, 2010 6:03 AM
• Can you use Botox – and still act? (guardian.co.uk ...
  Noted by Lorraine Murphy on March 13, 2010 6:03 AM
• CSI Shebeen Club: Monday, March 15th (raincoaster. ...
  Noted by Lorraine Murphy on March 13, 2010 6:03 AM

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Munawar blames Blackwater for Lahore bombings
  Jamaat-e-Islami Amir Syed Munawar Hasan Friday alleged that infamous US security firm Blackwater was behind all terror attacks in Pakistan under the supervision of Interior Minister Rehman Malik. The JI leader alleged that Karachi target killing and Lahore bombings were carried out by Blackwate ...
• Another blast in Pakistan: 14 killed in Swat
  At least 14 people were killed and 52 wounded when a suicide bomber targeted a security checkpost in Pakistan's Mingora town in restive Swat Valley on Saturday, a day after twin blasts claimed 57 lives in Lahore. Three security personnel were among those killed in the blast.
• Dozens Killed as Blasts Rock an Afghan City
  At least four strong explosions rocked Kandahar on Saturday evening, causing buildings to collapse and killing dozens of people, according to Afghan and American officials. Two of the attacks occurred near the city's police headquarters and the Kandahar prison. The other targets were still uncl ...
• US troops kill Iraqi reporter, her husband
  American forces occupying Iraq have opened fire on a car in Baghdad, killing an Iraqi reporter and her husband , a police official announces. Aseel al-Obeidi, the reporter of Dijla television, an independent Baghdad station, was killed by the US troops on Wednesday as she was travelling with he ...
• Canada wanted Afghan prisoners tortured: lawyer
  Federal government documents on Afghan detainees suggest that Canadian officials intended some prisoners to be tortured in order to gather intelligence, according to a legal expert. If the allegation is true, such actions would constitute a war crime , said University of Ottawa law professor Am ...

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• 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....

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• Inside the Lawfare Project: Netanyahu’s atta ...
  As the anti-Goldstone, human rights-bashing Lawfare Project’s opening event on March 11 wrapped up, I asked its chairman, Columbia University Law School Dean David Schizer, for an interview. Schizer, who had just attacked the Goldstone Report from the podium, pointedly refused to speak to me and loo ...
• ‘The New York Times’ sanitizes Israeli ...
  One of my themes on this site is that Israel is experiencing a dark night of the soul due to the racism that pervades that society, but that Americans are still in the dark about this reality because of our media, which refuses to do the story. And so while Haaretz does the story every [...] Relat ...
• Is Hillary’s ‘deeply negative signal&# ...
  The Obama Administration finally realized its credibility was in tatters after the shenanigans of this week in Israel. With the President apparently sedated and the Vice President hoarse from crooning love songs to Israel, it was decided to have the top wimps step aside and let the only one in the A ...
• Pressure mounts on Swedish clothing chain that fin ...
  The boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement is turning up the heat on Swedish clothing store H&M. A new H&M store opened in Tel Aviv March 11 to hundreds of Israeli shoppers, Haaretz reported. H&M plans to open seven stores in total in Israel, with the next store opening on March 16 in Je ...
• Golda is hero to Texas right
  Huffpo reports on Texas Education Board approving far-right curriculum changes: Conservative Republican Terri Leo, a member of the powerful Christian conservative voting bloc, called the standards "world class" and "exceptional." Board members argued about the classification of historic periods ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

• VRM: Council On Foreign Relations 09/16/09- Major ...
  On October 16th, 2009 the Council on Foreign Relations, a powerful Globalist think tank met in New York to discuss policy advisement measures on the Government’s H1N1 program. The minutes of the symposium reveal various techniques employed behind the scenes to influence the ‘herd’; including usi ...
• 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
  REALITY CHECK: YOU ARE NOW BREATHING ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE, NANO-PARTICULATES OF ALUMINUM AND BARIUM AND CATIONIC POLYMER FIBERS WITH UNIDENTIFIED BIOACTIVE MATERIAL. LONG TERM CHRONIC EXPOSURE TO SUCH TOXINS IN ADDITION TO THE HAZARDS OF VACCINES DESTROYS THE BODY’S IMMUNE SYSTEM LEAVING YOU VULNERABL ...
• VRM: Health Matters
  A compromised immune system is more susceptible to infection. Some areas of concern - Anyone with Hyper-Thyroid needs to double their efforts to rapidly cleanse the system. The Thyroid Gland is key to overall health. Iodine is required by the Thyroid in order to synthesize T3 hormone from T4 which h ...

B.C. Preppers Network

• The Ladies Will Be On the Family Preparedness Guid ...
  Last Saturday American Prepper , WVSanta , Matt and Bob were interviewed on James Stevens' Family Preparedness Guide radio show on Blog Talk Radio. They did a great job explaining the ins and outs of prepping and why we do it. Kudos guys!!! If you missed the show, you can download it here . This Sa ...
• Riverwalker's Back!!!
  It's like the best teaming up since Lewis & Clark!!! Riverwalker & the CPN!!! Riverwalker, usually found "staying above the water line" over at Stealth Survival , is coming to Canada and bringing lots of holiday gifts!!! Stay tuned for more details!!!
• Riverwalker/Stealth Survival Holiday Give-a-way!
  Check out this post at the CPN for a message from Riverwalker of Stealth Survival for a great holiday give-a-away! Make sure to leave a comment and you could be the winner of a fireplace accessory of your choice!!!
• The Do 1 Thing Program
  If you haven't already checked out Scarecrow's posts at the Ontario Preppers Network (OPN) - you really should! Scarecrow has some of the best Canadian-specific, prepping information available on the net!!! Below are links to Scarecrow's latest masterpiece - his summary of The Do 1 Thing Program wh ...
• Children and Disasters
  (originally posted at the OPN by Scarecrow) While reading this article from a US source, Canadians should substitute their appropriate local authorities and agencies as required... It's called prepping for a reason. Being prepared requires you to takes steps before trouble arrives, not during or a ...

Michael Yon

• The Bridge
  Shah Wali Kot, Afghanistan 11 March 2009 The military axiom that “amateurs talk strategy while professionals talk logistics” has special meaning in Afghanistan. During the Soviet war, though the Bear comprised Afghanistan’s entire northern border, the Afghan resistance was frequently able to bloc ...
• Great Britain Loses one of its Finest
  03 November 2009 British soldiers at war are an incredible group.  Courageous, competent, and committed in very difficult conditions.  An email came today from London, from a BBC correspondent who has been to Afghanistan saying that Staff Sergeant Olaf Schmid had been killed. To see the arti ...
• Arghandab & The Battle for Kandahar
  13 December 2009 Kandahar, Afghanistan People are confused about the war.  The situation is difficult to resolve even for those who are here.  For most of us, the conflict remains out of focus, lacking reference of almost any sort.  Vertigo leaves us seeking orientation from places like Vietnam—w ...
• Into Thine Hand I Commit My Spirit
  Arghandab, Afghanistan New Year's Eve, 2009 On this small base surrounded by a mixture of enemy and friendly territory, a memorial has been erected just next to the Chapel.  Inside the tepee are 21 photos of 21 soldiers killed during the first months of a year-long tour of duty.  The fallen will ...
• Spitting Cobra
  15 January 2010 Cobra Battery at FOB Frontenac Arghandab, Afghanistan Artillery is called “The King of Battle.”  When it comes to the delivery of force, probably nothing outside of nuclear weapons can outmatch the sustained delivery of extreme brutality.  Cannons also can deliver small atomic we ...

The Killing Train

• Implementing the Bolivarian Revolution: Julio Chav ...
  On October 10/09 Venezuelan former mayor, now state legislator Julio Chavez spoke at the University of Toronto sponsored by Hands off Venezuela and the Louis Riel Bolivarian Circle. He came in sporting the unassuming Bolivarian fashion: red T-shirt, red baseball cap (with a Canada logo on it), jeans ...
• Realclimate on the hacked climate change emails
  A friend asked me for my take on the hacked climate change emails. Before formulating my thoughts I went to realclimate.org to see if they had anything. They do... and it's indispensable as usual .
• If you are thinking of donating to Haiti relief ef ...
  If you are thinking of donating to Haiti relief efforts I would recommend either of these two organizations: The Haiti Emergency Relief Fund or Partners in Health
• Haiti Earthquake Context
  I recorded this video last night (using my new flip HD and PiTiVi editing suite). Part 1 Part 2 read more
• Limited Compassion for Haiti
  Everyone agrees that the Haiti earthquake is a serious situation. Serious enough for the US to send thousands of Marines, to take over the airport, to suspend Haiti's sovereignty and take over the operation. Serious enough to unify the bitter partisan divide and put Bush, Clinton, and Obama together ...

treehugger

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  photo: Arbor Day Now Are you an amateur videographer at heart just waiting for your time to shine? Well, now's your chance. The Arbor Day Foundation is looking for compelling videos to get people planting trees. And the top contest winner will receive $2,500 in free trees to shade their neighb ...
• 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 ...
  
  

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