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Thomas Paine

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • U.S.: Families Sue Over Guantanamo Deaths

    NEW YORK, Mar 19 (IPS) - The families of two prisoners who died at the U.S. Navy Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, are asking a federal court to reconsider its ruling dismissing their lawsuit, which seeks to hold federal officials and the U.S. government accountable for their sons' torture, arbi ...
  • NIGERIA: Acting President Consolidates Power Amid ...

    WASHINGTON, Mar 19 (IPS) - This week, acting Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan dissolved his cabinet, further securing his tenuous hold on the country's top post amidst rising unrest in the Niger Delta and flaring religious tensions in the central region of the country.
  • CLIMATE CHANGE: A Year On, Little Change in Polit ...

    WASHINGTON, Mar 19 (IPS) - This time last year, United States federal legislation on climate change was starting to take shape, seemingly more pressing matters were taking up the bulk of U.S. policymakers' time, and a major climate conference was looming at the end of the year.
  • LATIN AMERICA: Still a Long Way to Go, for Black ...

    HAVANA, Mar 19 (IPS) - At the age of 17, Meybelin Bernárdez is clear about the future: "When I finish my studies, I'll return to help my community get on its feet," the young Garifuna woman from Honduras, who is studying medicine in Cuba, says without hesitation.
  • ZAMBIA: School Policy for Teen Mothers a Partial ...

    LUSAKA, Mar 19 (IPS) - Naomi Mulenga is determined to beat the odds by finishing her school education and becoming a nurse – despite being a teenage mother.

Scoop - NZ

  • Greenpeace's Kit Kat campaign goes viral

    Well, great work everyone! You've taken our Kit Kat campaign and made it your own and we have stood back in awe of it all. In only 20 hours 13 or more versions of the video uploaded by you have had 40,000 views on Youtube.com and another 104.000 on Vimeo! ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • Ashcroft's marginal seat campaign

    The Birmingham Edgbaston Labour office is a place kept cosy by conviction - and a small heater. Four of the volunteers are still wearing their coats. Caroline Badley, the enthusiastic campaign coordinator, who is also a volunteer, is even wearing a woolly hat. Two young men are stuffing envelopes, a ...
  • Urban Resilience for Dummies 1.

    With all the efforts going into urban climate action plans and carbon reduction, will many cities and suburbs be caught unprepared for other sustainability crises, such as acute water or energy shortages? In carbon reduction management, should efforts such as focusing on renewable energy and energy ...
  • The Eichmann Files: released after 50 years ?

    Fifty years have passed since Adolf Eichmann's arrest, but the German foreign intelligence agency, the BND, is still hoping to prevent the release of files detailing his post-war movements. A Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig is currently examining almost 4,500 pages of secret documents on Eic ...
  • New round of foreclosures threatens US housing mar ...

    The housing market is facing swelling ranks of homeowners who are seriously delinquent but have yet to lose their homes, and this is threatening a new wave of foreclosures that could hit just as the real estate market has begun to stabilize. About 5 million to 7 million properties are potentially ...

Independent ( London )

  • 1,500 rally against Putin in Russian Far East

    At least 1,500 people rallied against the government of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the Far East city of Vladivostok in the first of a string of opposition rallies planned across Russia on Saturday.
  • Thai protesters target "hearts and minds" of Bangk ...

    Tens of thousands of opposition activists pressed ahead with anti-government protests on Friday, preparing for a new drive to win over Bangkok's politically powerful middle classes.
  • Anna Nicole Smith's estate loses oil fortune

    Anna Nicole Smith's estate will receive none of the more than £200m she claimed her late billionaire husband had promised her, a US federal appeals court said yesterday. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals is the latest stop in the 15-year legal battle over the £1bn estate that oil magnate J Howard ...
  • Srebrenica massacre was 'fault of gay troops'

    It was one of the most shameful episodes in the history of military peacekeeping. As Dutch troops stood by, Bosnian Serbs overran the "safe" United Nations enclave of Srebrenica in 1995 and massacred some 8,000 Muslim men and boys.
  • The attraction that may prove fatal to leader's ch ...

    South Australians vote today in a state election that would ordinarily be a bit of a yawn for the rest of the country. Then again, a state Premier is not normally stalked throughout the campaign by a waitress claiming she had a steamy affair with him.

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • Disappearing act

    (Courtesy of Frontier magazine, University of British Columbia)   A commitment to both discovery and education places the Beaty Biodiversity Centre in a unique position to safeguard our natural heritage by bringing together outstanding researchers, exceptional facilities, and the public to better un ...
  • Particle accelerating … in high school

    For Palak Suryavenshi, the grade-12 science lab was the first step in a journey that led to a chance to test a hypothesis on one of North America’s most advanced particle accelerators. In 2007, Suryavenshi and her classmates from Saskatoon’s Centennial Collegiate worked with researchers at the Unive ...
  • Nose jobs

    (Courtesy of Carleton University Magazine) People around the world ask the same question on a daily basis: “Is the milk bad?” A quick sniff gives us a fast and reliable answer. The sense of smell is very powerful and often taken for granted. We simply follow our nose, because it always knows…but so ...
  • Snow fall

    To the average Canadian, a research station getting completely buried in snow more than 1,500 metres high in the Cariboo Mountains might indicate that snow levels at this altitude are not at risk from global warming. But University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) professor Stephen Déry says look ...
  • 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 ...

Signs of the times

  • Oy vey! General David Petraeus tipped as Republica ...

    Speculation is mounting that Gen David Petraeus could run as the Republican presidential candidate in 2012. The shrewd and articulate military commander, credited with turning around the Iraq war, will deliver a speech at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire next week, a traditional staging post ...
  • UK: Rapist jailed 20 years after committing crime ...

    A rapist who attacked a woman 20 years ago has been jailed for eight years after police traced his DNA from a sample taken from his daughter for an unrelated crime. Keith Davison, from Ryde on the Isle of Wight, was found guilty of the rape of a 24-year-old woman on August 4 1990 by a jury at Ports ...
  • Unbelievable! Paedophile babysitter in UK, raped g ...

    A paedophile was able to rape a five-year-old girl he was babysitting because agencies failed to tell her mother he was a convicted sex offender. A serious case review revealed a number of agencies failed to provide adequate protection for the child. At the time of the attack, the man was receivin ...
  • In UK, air and rail strikes threaten travel plans ...

    Britain is facing the most disruptive wave of industrial action since Labour came to power, as strikes by British Airways staff and rail workers threaten to throw the travel plans of millions of people into chaos. In a move that represents a "nightmare scenario" for the Gordon Brown's general elec ...
  • FLASHBACK: C.I.A. Is Still Cagey About Oswald Myst ...

    Is the Central Intelligence Agency covering up some dark secret about the assassination of John F. Kennedy? Probably not. But you would not know it from the C.I.A.'s behavior. For six years, the agency has fought in federal court to keep secret hundreds of documents from 1963, when an anti-Cast ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Dear Frank

    Good letter from Fern to Frank over at Dammit Janet : My Letter to the Hon. Frank Iacobucci Dear Sir, I am writing to you as one private citizen of Canada to another. As a former Supreme Court Justice and upholder of the Constitution, you must recognize that the government's move to employ you to ...
  • Guergis to sue Air Canada employees?

    For "slander", apparently, and "breach of privacy" for reporting her manic meltdown at Charlottetown Airport "They" will never let Helena "hell hole" Handbasket go through with it of course. Pity. h/t Buckdog
  • That could be on rye . . .

    WIRED MAGAZINE has a very disturbing report by Brendan I. Koerner, "Red Menace: Stop the Ug99 Fungus Before Its Spores Bring Starvation" . It's about a mutant fungus that originated in Uganda, discovered in 1999, that is starting to spread. Why should you care? Well, according to Mr. Koerner, Stem r ...
  • Srebrenica massacre?

    Blame it on the queers. So says a retired US general and frothing lunatic about the contentious showing of the Dutch army in the 1995 Serbian massacre of civilians in the former Yugoslavia.
  • Japan 1 Bluefin 0

    THE NEW YORK TIMES has a sad report, "U.N. Rejects Export Ban on Atlantic Bluefin Tuna" , by David Jolly and John Broder. If you're a polar bear, it's also a bummer, too. Delegates at a United Nations conference on endangered species in Doha, Qatar, soundly defeated American-supported proposals on T ...

Media Matters for America

  • Kitchen sink: Fox smears more Dems with baseless i ...

    Fox continues to smears Democrats who plan to vote for health care reform bill, concocting baseless allegation of shady handouts in the legislation. Fox smears Dems with insinuations of shady special deals From the March 19 broadcast of Fox News' Special Report with Bret Baier : BRIAN WILS ...
  • Right-wing media's latest baseless vote-buying co ...

    In their latest baseless claim that the Obama administration is "uying votes" for its health care bill, right-wing media figures have alleged, citing no evidence, that a Department of the Interior announcement that California's Central Valley will receive greater water allocations was a "bribe ...
  • "News" or "editorial"? Fox's Kelly builds entire s ...

    Fox News reportedly draws a distinction between its "news hours," which it claims are objective, and its "editorial" programming. But on March 19, purported "news hour" anchor Megyn Kelly constructed an entire segment around "editorial" host Glenn Beck's criticism of New York's proposed restaurant ...
  • Kitchen sink: Fox's last-ditch effort to rally op ...

    With a possibile vote to finalize passage of health care reform approaching, Fox News has thrown everything but the kitchen sink to rally opposition, with guest host Laura Ingraham proclaiming, "Let's kill the bill." For example, Fox News personalities have portrayed the nonpartisan Congression ...
  • Fox responds to CBO score of health care bill by ...

    Following the Congressional Budget Office's score of the health care reform reconciliation package, Fox News has attempted to portray the nonpartisan CBO as untrustworthy and unreliable. By contrast, after the CBO gave a "favorable" score to the GOP health care plan, Fox praised the office as " ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • A Worried Postscript to the House Health Care Bill

    Nothing that's legislated is perfect and in my view the good that will come from passing health care legislation outweighs the bad, but be warned: the pending House bill (that will go to the Senate for a "reconcilation" vote) does not repeal the antitrust exemption for health insurers, nor does it c ...
  • Obama: AIPAC Is In Town, Hang Tough With Netanyahu

    I understand what is going on at AIPAC right now. I know it because I volunteered there for a year back in the 1970's and then had a senior job there in the 1980's. I left for a better job. But I left on great terms. My then-boss, Tom Dine, the Executive Director is a good friend and took me wit ...
  • The Common Medium of the Internet

    The internet is replacing over the air broadcast as the common medium for America. United States - Business - Federal Communications Commission - Broadcast - Arts and Entertainment
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  • Can House Democratic Committee Chairs Oppose the P ...

    As we wait to find out if the Democratic Party will round up enough votes to pass health reform, proving they can deliver on a priority they have declared for more than half a century, much of the media focus is on House members from swing districts who face tough re-election battles. But ...

TruthOut

  • Silent Spring Has Sprung

    Seasons change, yet some things remain the same. Nearly half a century ago, Rachel Carson debuted the first serial installment of what would eventually become one of the landmark works of the 20th century, " Silent Spring ." In that book, Carson famously argued that the pesticide DDT was responsible ...
  • President Barack Obama's Speech on Health Care in ...

    Part I:� Part II:� read more
  • Iran Protests: Is Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei Winn ...

    With Iran protests largely shut down, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has declared "victory." But as Iranians evaluate the past year during Norouz celebrations this weekend, he knows he's lost legitimacy, say close observers. read more
  • Five Yards and a Cloud of Dust

    Last week, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) made it clear to any and all that he was going to vote "No" on the health care reform package currently being considered by the House. His argument was simple, and on many levels, entirely correct: the current bill is half a loaf, does not contain any kind of ...
  • SEC Admits Flawed Oversight of Lehman Brothers

    In the wake of a 2,200-page report on how "misleading" accounting techniques led to Lehman Brothers' collapse, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Mary Schapiro would not comment on whether an investigation would commence, but acknowledged that the agency's oversight of Lehman was "ter ...

Planetsave

  • Paper or Plastic? Neither

    Green Cities California (GCC) announced today the release of its Master Environmental Assessment (MEA) on Single Use and Reusable Bags. The MEA, commissioned by GCC and developed by ICF International’s Sacramento office, summarizes existing studies on the environmental impacts of single use plastic ...
  • How to Help the Environment

    If you are reading this article, I think you are probably more concerned about the environment than most others. I assume that you keep up with environmental news a bit, reading more than the miniscule amount covered in the mainstream media. However, I cannot make any guess as to how much you actua ...
  • 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 agai ...
  • 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 d ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Public Meeting of South Texas Nuclear Project Envi ...

    NRC SEEKS PUBLIC INPUT ON DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR SOUTH TEXAS PROJECT NEW REACTORS MEETINGS SCHEDULED – May 6 from 1:30 – 4:30 p.m. and 7 – 10 p.m. at the Bay City Civic Center, 201 7th St. in Bay City Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff is seeking public comments on its prelimina ...
  • Birds of a Feather Feel the Heat from the Climate

    Humans are not the only ones feeling the change of the climate, according to a new study released by U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar called The State of the Birds: 2010 Report on Climate Change. Collaborating with experts from the nation’s leading conservation organizations, the U.S. Fish and Wi ...
  • A Solar Affair: Beats and Beers for Solar Power

    Environment Texas is throwing a SXSW party tomorrow called: A Solar Affair: Beats and Beers for Solar Power. Check out the flyer and blog below by Luke Metzger, director of Environment Texas — hope to see you there! In Texas, we have enough sun to power the entire state, and enough beats and beer t ...
  • Direct Action Against MTR at EPA

    Activists are risking arrest by demonstrating outside EPA national headquarters in make-shift tripod stands. They say they won’t go away until EPA administrator Lisa Jackson promises to make a fly-over of the Appalachian Mountain Top Removal coal mines to see first hand the destruction it is causing ...
  • Jim Hightower, Roger Duncan, Tom Smitty Smith, and ...

    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Florida vampire to run for President

    Self proclaimed vampire Jonathon "The Impaler" Sharkey is hoping to be the world's first vampire President. The 45-year-old is hoping to move to Washi...
  • Invisibility cloak created in 3-D

    Scientists have produced the first device able to render an object invisible in three dimensions. The device was able to hide an object from detection...
  • Man has 12 fingers and 14 toes

    A 24-year-old Indian man is in the record books for having 12 fingers and 14 toes due to a rare medical ailment. While his extra digits do have their ...
  • Temperate planet found in distant solar system

    Astronomers have discovered a Jupiter sized exoplanet that resembles planets in our own solar system. Most extrasolar planets discovered so far have b...
  • Jupiter's Great Red Spot reveals new secrets

    New thermal images of Jupiter's Great Red Spot have revealed new details of the solar system's greatest storm. The images have revealed a wide range o...

Grassroots

  • Combating Hunger by Reforesting Haiti

    � Last August, I stood in Haiti’s Artibonite valley with several peasant organizers and looked out at the mountains leading up to the Central Plateau. The older leaders in the group explained in depth how green the mountains once were, while the younger organizers and I listened in amazement. The tr ...
  • Demand Accountability and Transparency of US Aid t ...

    Haiti_eaction_pic_small.jpg Some say that the devastating earthquake in Haiti that killed more than 230,000 and displaced more than a million people has left Haiti with a "blank slate."��� read more
  • International Day of Action for Rivers

    domkhedi_protestors.jpg Cultures in different parts of�our�planet have long held rivers to be life-giving. Early human civilizations are even known by their connection to the river systems whose banks they arose from�like the Indus-Ganga, the ...
  • 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 ...

Climate

  • March 19, 2010

    Senate Climate Bill Tied to Health Issue, Graham Says (Bloomberg) Senate climate-change legislation won't be introduced until at least next month and prospects for action depend on lawmakers' "mood" following the debate on health care, said Sen. Lindsey Graham. Enviro Groups Hold 'Encouraging' ...
  • March 18, 2010

    Deal Nearing on Senate Climate Bill: Sen. Kerry (Reuters) The Senate is close to wrapping up talks ahead of introducing a compromise climate bill, said Sen. Kerry, after meeting with a coalition that represents automakers, forestry and paper companies, Big Oil, steel, mining, electricity and oth ...
  • March 17, 2010

    Renewable Energy Investment May Reach $200 Billion in 2010 (Bloomberg)  Renewable energy investment may rise by 23% this year to between $175 billion and $200 billion, as government stimulus funds mainly in the U.S. and Europe are spent, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. First Solar Jo ...
  • March 16, 2010

    White House Report Cites Gaps in Climate Change Strategy (Los Angeles Times) The federal government has "significant gaps" in its strategy to cope with the increasing effects of climate change on the country, according to a White House report scheduled to be released Tuesday. 29 Governors Seek ...
  • March 15, 2010

    Australia '0.7 Degrees Warmer Over Past 50 Years' (AFP) Australia's top science body said on Monday temperatures had risen about 0.7 degrees Celsius (0.44 Fahrenheit) in the last 50 years. They describe the finding as "significant evidence" of climate change. Money Spent on Tar Sands Projects ...

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

  • What's the Matter with Democrats?

    Note: This is my Creators Syndicate newspaper column out today. You can find the original here . We've been talking about the issue all week on my AM760 morning show , and I am scheduled to be on Dylan Ratigan's MSNBC show today at 4pm ET talking about this column. - D Ever since my friend Thomas Fr ...
  • Confronting the Politics of Rage

    In mid March, a bankruptcy examiner suggested that executives at Wall Street financial giant Lehman Brothers used "materially misleading" accounting gimmicks to delay its collapse. At the same time, the national press speculated about the evolution of the Tea Party movement . The juxtaposition of ...
  • We Held These Truths to be Self-Evident

    It's not that the facts don't speak for themselves. They are shouting. It's that the depth and complexity of the financial quagmire America finds itself in provides a dull, fuzzy cover of fog that medicates the panic. The sheer volume of growing problems, all malevolence and interrelated, has become ...
  • The Gitmo Distraction

    America's charade of change comes complete with national "debate" and a slight readjustment of the center to accommodate the Bush Lite policies of the Obama presidency. What matters is that any change President Obama proposes be symbolic rather than substantive. A furious battle then ensues over the ...
  • Health Care Reform Needs Media Reform

    American broadcasters, magazines, newspapers and other publishers take in more than four billion dollars a year in drug advertising. The drug money is a rare bright spot in an otherwise dismal downward revenue spiral for media of all types. Last year was a horrible year for advertising spending in ...

Ten Percent

  • Friday! Kids in the Hall- Wrong Number

    ‘..well it sounds like Frank’s voice…’ PS. And in case you haven’t seen this, the Four Lions Trailer that was released onto the web this week
  • Seventh Anniversary Of The Iraq Invasion

    And as this video from rethink Afghanistan demonstrates the meek response and internalisation of propaganda is working, the first minute is concerned with US military casualties, then it turns to Iraq casualties and tremulously announces -At least 95,639 confirmed civilian deaths. History is written ...
  • Potemkin’s R Us

    Fake businesses are to be used to lessen the impact of the recession on high streets in North Tyneside. With 140 empty shops in the borough, council bosses think they have come up with a unique way of ensuring shopping areas remain as vibrant as possible. The first empty shop unit to be given a make ...
  • Tangled Web, Deceive etc.

    Publication of an interrogation policy for Britain’s secret agents has been delayed because of concerns that it may lead to members of MI5 and MI6 breaking anti-torture laws, it was claimed last night. New guidance on the treatment and questioning of terror suspects held abroad had been expected ye ...
  • Economy Of Shame

    Now admittedly I saw these while -gulp- looking at the front page of the Daily Mail site, but it seemed these two disparate stories in comparison said something about the the ego and relative capacity for guilt between us regular people and the Great & the Good. Blair committed war crimes and even a ...

Booman Tribune

  • Late Friday Chaos

    Rumors are swirling like crazy tonight and the stuff is so deep down in the weeds that it's over my head. Pelosi is having a lot of success in rounding up members, but it looks like Stupak still has a gun to her head. What I can't tell you is whether she'll be able to get Stupak's support without ...
  • The False Luxury of Time To Wait

    If you believe the buzz in Washington, this week could very well be "make or break" for getting any kind of health care reform done — not just this year or next year, but for the foreseeable future. As a progressive, to me that means that no matter limited I believe the current reform package is, I ...
  • Pelosi, Abortion, and the Bishops

    I get the feeling that the anti-choice Democrats who initially followed Bart Stupak's lead are getting a little panicky that they've talked themselves into a corner. They are, after all, Democrats, and they don't want to look at that roll call on health care for the rest of their lives with their v ...
  • Krugman Supports Imperfect HCR Bill

    Paul Krugman, not always a fan of Obama, has decided not to be a slave to the perfect and an enemy of the good. His latest column comes out fully in support of the current health care reform bill before Congress despite the lack of a public option which he championed. He basically gives two reason ...
  • Rep. Broun Deserves an Official Rebuke

    Rep. Paul Broun, whose district includes the University of Georgia, went to the floor of the House of Representatives and said: "If ObamaCare passes, that free insurance card that’s in people’s pockets is gonna be as worthless as a Confederate dollar after the War Between The States — the Great W ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Cash for crime: monetizing anonymous street-art

    Pity poor Banksy for a moment. There can surely be no better icon of the noughties Zeitgeist in urban art… but how to convert that incredible reputation and kudos into decimal places that will pay the rent? Banksy and his street-art contemporaries are trapped by their medium, because it’s hard to se ...
  • Was Lamarck right along? Why evolution doesn’t wor ...

    I expect most Futurismic regulars, much like myself, think they understand the basics of Darwin’s theory of evolution: random mutations occur in each generation, natural selection culls the poor adaptations, repeat and rinse ad infinitum, and the life a creature lives doesn’t affects its genetic leg ...
  • Standing on the verge of an epic win: can gaming m ...

    Jane McGonigal’s recent TED talk is getting a lot of attention, and with good reason, because it’s a radical idea she’s pushing – radical in both senses of the word, in fact. Here’s the thesis: computer games give us a sense of being able to achieve greatness, of being able to attempt awesome things ...
  • Interview with Futurismic’s fiction editor Chris E ...

    Hard-workin’ Futurismic fiction editor Christopher East doesn’t post here very often; not only does he spend hours combing through the slush pile for this very organ, a lot of his time is taken up by, y’know, having a life, and a job and a family. That sort of stuff. Not that I’m jealous or anything ...
  • Autoplaying ads: an apology

    Hey, folks; I’ve had a few comments and emails from regular readers informing me that they were seeing ads on the site that were autoplaying video and audio, and which in some cases were hard or impossible to close down. I want to thank those of you who got in touch for doing so; Futurismic’s [...] ...

Therapy News

  • Reminder of Rejection’s Positive Power

    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline As scores of issues involving rejection, from difficulty in securing a job to denied lines of credit or foreclosed homes, are breaking into the lives of people throughout the United States and around the world, many may feel confused about their rejection or may devel ...
  • Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up – 3/19/2010

    A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up We are pleased to share with you ten of the week’s top news pieces related to mental health, psychology, and therapy. Happy reading! • Mother Is ‘More Essential’ to Orphans Than Breadwinner Father, Research Suggests • Basque Study Confirms Lin ...
  • Suicide Gains Greater Awareness as Major Cause of ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline While suicide is often thought of as a rare if regrettable occurrence, statistics have shown in the past few years that the issue is actually one of the leading causes of death within the United States, and is the second most prominent killer of people aged fifteen to ...
  • A Book Review of “The Shift” by Wayne Dyer

    A GoodTherapy.org Featured Column written by Sarah Jenkins, MC, LPC Click here to contact Sarah and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile I write this on the heals of just having driven to Flagstaff, AZ, an attempt to “wind down,” my soul craving down time, rest, and moments of pure “nothingness.” Yet, ...
  • Community Examines Appropriateness of Psychiatry i ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary The ample medication of people experiencing symptoms of a wide variety of psychological concerns has been heavily criticized in recent years, with many professionals working to push for greater attention to psychotherapy rather than pharmaceuticals. Amidst concerns ove ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • 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 ... Jeff Biggers: Clean-Coal Myth Buster New America Media Welcome to ...
  • Two days locked-down to the EPA campaigning to end ...

    Two days locked-down to the EPA campaigning to end mountaintop removal It's Getting Hot In Here (blog) Almost every person who passed through our 'Purple Mountain's Majesty' and underneath the banner “EPA: Pledge to End Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining in ... EPA Sleep-In: Lisa Jackson's Fundamental ...
  • Students in the driver's seat - Calvin News

    Calvin News Students in the driver's seat Calvin News The West Virginia group will explore the effects of mountaintop removal —a form of mining that removes the summit of a mountain and may be hazardous to the ...
  • EPA Sleep-In: Lisa Jackson's Fundamental Misunders ...

    EPA Sleep-In: Lisa Jackson's Fundamental Misunderstanding about Mountaintop ... AlterNet (blog) And yet, not one–count 'em–of Jackson's top officials in DC or herself have made any effort to actually visit a mountaintop removal site before making ... Activists Protest Mountaintop Removal Outside EP ...
  • Mountaintop Removal Hangs on One Vote - Knoxville ...

    Mountaintop Removal Hangs on One Vote Knoxville Metro Pulse (blog) A bill that would ban mountaintop removal in Tennessee is one vote ...

Memeorandum

  • Pro-Choice Caucus livid at talk of deal with Stupa ...

    The Hill : Pro-Choice Caucus livid at talk of deal with Stupak on abortion   —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Friday evening met with a visibly angry Pro-Choice Caucus amid rumors from Democratic aides that the Speaker was working on a last-minute deal with Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) to ...
  • Dems: Memo On Medicare Changes Isn't Ours - It's A ...

    Christina Bellantoni / TPMDC : Dems: Memo On Medicare Changes Isn't Ours — It's A GOP ‘Hoax’   —  Democrats today are accusing Republicans of circulating a fraudulent memo that claims to be sent to “Democratic health and communications staff” and which suggests the majority party leadership wants ...
  • Lynch: Why Obama Didn't Convince Me on Health Care ...

    Suzy Khimm / Mother Jones : Lynch: Why Obama Didn't Convince Me on Health Care   —  Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass), who switched from “yes” to “no” on the health reform bill, is insisting that his vote will not kill the legislation, noting that the House Democrats have the votes to pass the measure t ...
  • Kaiser Health Tracking Poll - March 2010 (kff.org)

    kff.org : Kaiser Health Tracking Poll — March 2010   —  The March Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds the public still divided on health reform legislation, with 46 percent of Americans backing the reform proposals on Capitol Hill, 42 percent opposing them and 12 percent saying they aren't sure.
  • AMA Supports House Passage of Health System Reform ...

    ama-assn.org : AMA Supports House Passage of Health System Reform   —  Will work with Congress and the administration to make critical changes that cannot be addressed through the reconciliation process  —  For immediate release:  —  Washington, D.C. - After careful review and consideration …

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China Dialogue

  • Who runs Richina?

    Richina Leather was sanctioned by China’s environmental authorities every year between 2004 and 2008, but little is known about its management. Xu Shuda looks at the faces behind the corporation. Residents in Shanghai’s Baoshan district have, for years, endured the ghastly smells produced by Shangha ...
  • Causing a stink in Shanghai (2)

    Angry residents have long been battling to rid their neighbourhood of foul odours caused by Richina Group tanneries. In the second instalment of a three-part article, Xu Shuda reports that change is in sight. I ask an official from the Baoshan Environmental Protection Bureau about the Richina Group ...
  • Causing a stink in Shanghai (1)

    A multinational leather company in eastern China has been breaching pollution standards and troubling locals with a pungent stench. Xu Shuda investigates. Fifty-six-year-old Feng Min had never smelt anything like it. “It’s like pitch mixed with cat’s urine,” she says, standing at the gate to the Juf ...
  • The urban dream

    David Owen is the author of a new book on the sustainability lessons of New York. In an interview with Jared Green, he argues the case for densely populated cities and says traditional environmentalists have got it wrong. Jared Green: In your new book, Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Cl ...
  • 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

Threat Level

  • Rich Get Richer in ‘Hot News’ Stock Tip Fight

    A well-known financial news aggregator is being ordered by a federal judge to delay publication of prominent financial analysts’ buy and sell recommendations to allow the well-to-do the first crack at capitalizing on that trading research. The 3-year-old litigation, brought by Barclays Capital, Merr ...
  • Unprecedented 25-Year Sentence Sought for TJX Hack ...

    Computer hacker Albert Gonzalez deserves a quarter-century behind bars for leading a gang of cyberthieves who stole tens of millions of credit and debit card numbers from a transaction processor and several giant retail chains, federal prosecutors argued in a court filing Thursday night. “[T]he sent ...
  • Accusations Fly in Viacom, YouTube Copyright Fight

    Google deliberately weakened its copyright compliance standards after it acquired YouTube in 2006 so it “would profit from illegal downloads,” Google co-founder Sergey Brin once said, according to a Friday filing by Viacom in its infringement suit against the company. YouTube, in its own Friday fili ...
  • Court: Cyberbullying Threats Are Not Protected Spe ...

    A California appeals court ruled this week that threatening posts made by readers of a website are not protected free speech, allowing a case charging the posters with hate crimes and defamation to proceed. The case raises fundamental questions about cyberbullying and the line between online speech ...
  • Court Slaps Prosecutor Who Threatened Child-Porn C ...

    A Pennsylvania appellate court upheld a preliminary injunction on Wednesday barring local prosecutors from filing felony child-porn charges against a teenage girl who took a partially nude photo of herself with her cellphone. The court said prosecutors were using the threat of charges as retaliatio ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • House Democrats see momentum on health bill

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives lobbied undecided members for support and voiced growing confidence on Friday they will win a close vote on final passage of a sweeping healthcare overhaul.
  • Putin offers U.S. hints of support

    MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin offered hints he could support the United States on two key issues -- an arms pact and Iran -- after a meeting on Friday with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
  • States take aim to block healthcare plan

    WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - As the Congress once again rallies to pass healthcare reform legislation, momentum is growing in many states to pass laws to block the changes -- a move that could lead to a legal battle over states' sovereignty.
  • For Google stock, China could mark turning point

    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - An exit from China's search market could mark a setback not only for Google Inc's global business strategy but for a stock that has long been synonymous with virtually limitless growth opportunities.
  • ACORN on verge of bankruptcy: report

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. liberal grass-roots group ACORN is on the brink of bankruptcy and its leaders will hold a teleconference this weekend to discuss the group's future, The New York Times reported on its website on Friday.

Equality Trust

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  • Inequality: a threat to social cohesion

    As Edmund Conway comments in today's Daily Telegraph : "It is not merely, as Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett point out in their book The Spirit Level, that this damages health and encourages crime; in times of austerity, inequality can tear apart the social fabric."
  • Labour is running up a down escalator to tackle in ...

    Tackling society's inequalities is what Labour governments are supposed to be about, and this one has quietly redistributed billions worth of tax since 1997, much of it paid by those fatcat bankers, to alleviate the plight of the poorest. How much has it got to show for it? Read Michael White's ...
  • The five-star lifestyle: "horrible, soulless and w ...

    Austrian millionaire Karl Rabeder is giving away every penny of his £3 million fortune after realising his riches were making him unhappy. Read more here...
  • Lynda Gratton: The business case for greater incom ...

    Read Lynda Gratton in the Financial Times [Wilkinson and Pickett's] argument is that societies which are very unequal have all sorts of problems, and I have a feeling that the same is true for companies,” she says. “I think one has to be very careful about what you pay people ... We’ve put far t ...

PDA AMERICA

  • PDA Field Report 3/12/10 – 3/19/10

    From Conor Boylan | PDA Field Director ������ Important: We had 89 Brown Bag Lunch Vigils this pastWednesday. Read a great article by our Healthcare NOT Warfare co-chair Donna Smith which was posted on Common Dreams ...
  • A Kafka moment

    By Laura Bonham | PDA Deputy Director I hope you had a chance to read my article on the PDA home page yesterday entitled “Healthcare Torture.” It’s a short analysis of the history of the current ...
  • Conyers, Dean, Urge Passage of “Lousy” ...

    by Mike Hersh | PDA Blog Contributor Washington, DC—On St. Patrick’s Day in the Rayburn House Office Building, both Congressman John Conyers, Jr., and former Governor Howard Dean urged the assembled staffers, activists and others ...
  • Video: Richmond Virgina Health Care Town Hall

    HEALTH CARE TOWN HALL ON HEALTH CARE REFORM RICHMOND VA. MARCH 18 2010 Zeta Beta Sorority Sigma Delta Chapter Dr. Rick Mays, Andrea Miller, Dr. Flowers PNHP Martin Images News 2010
  • No Insurance Company Left Behind

    By Katie Robbins – | HealthCareNOW.org On Tuesday, the Health Care for America Now (HCAN) coalition performed a “citizen’s arrestâ€� of the insurance industry at a meeting of Americas Health Insurance Plans, the private health ...

Marler Blog

  • Pasteurized Milk Outbreaks do happen despite what ...

    A while ago I posted, "Raw Milk Outbreaks do happen despite what the Weston A. Price Foundation and The Complete Patient (a.k.a. David Gumpert) say," and rightly got slapped for being a bit too harsh.� I tend to be remembered, and reviled, by sellers and consumers of raw milk (affectionately, a.k. ...
  • No, This is Not a Raw Milk Dairy Blog - It just se ...

    Campylobacter Outbreak in Michigan Linked to Consumption of Raw Milk Products The Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) is issuing a public health alert regarding illness from Campylobacter infections among people who have reported consuming raw milk products obtained from the Family Farms ...
  • I read Meating Place Daily - USDA FSIS to mandate ...

    According to Meating Place : USDA plans to propose rules that would mandate test-and-hold practices at meat plants as well as labels alerting consumers when they are buying non-intact meat subjected to mechanical tenderization, according to Deputy Assistant Administrator for USDA's Food Safety and ...
  • Raw Milk Cow, Goat and Sheep Share Expanded in Ida ...

    The House Agricultural Affairs Committee approved a proposal Thursday that would make it clear that anyone owning a cow, goat, or sheep, or sharing ownership of those animals could legally drink or consume its raw milk. Selling raw milk would still be illegal, but dairies could keep seven cows or 15 ...
  • FDA Seeks Permanent Injunction Against Sprout Grow ...

    The Department of Justice, in an action initiated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, is seeking a permanent injunction against A Chau Sprouting Co., a sprout grower in Gretna, La., company owner and manager Quang “Mike” Trinh, and Hue Nguyen, the company production manager. The complaint, fi ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 03.19.10

    Greenlings: What realistic electric vehicle recharge options are there for apartment dwellers? We found four, five if you count moving. Kuwaiti study: Conventional oil to peak in 2014 Who's wo ...
  • Valentin Technologies releases teaser images of 17 ...

    Filed under: Hybrid , Wagon , Hatchback , Specialty , Design/Style Valentin Technologies IngoCar - Click above for high-res image gallery Interested in a five-seat, four-door, sportwagen that "is brimming with innovation" and was designed in Elm Grove, WI? How about if the car were to get 170 m ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 03.18.10

    Why California's new electric vehicle rebates are good, and why they're not so good When $5,000 isn't the same as $5,000. Video: General Motors continues to develop fuel cell toward 2015 production ...
  • Report: Nissan Leaf priced at U.S. $38,500+ in Jap ...

    Filed under: Concept Cars , Japan , Nissan , Electric Nissan Leaf - Click above for high-res image gallery Interest in, and " pre-orders" for , the Nissan Leaf remains high, but a report from the Japanese newspaper the Mainichi Shimbun might put a damper on things. Apparently, the price for the al ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 03.17.10

    Valentin Technologies releases teaser images of 170 mpg IngoCar The claim is it can go 1,000 miles on six gallons. Is it possible - or a good idea - to make good jokes about a speeding Prius? ...

Rafe's Radar

  • Reporters' Roundtable podcast: Maps and mapping

    Who doesn't love a good map? But maps aren't what they used to be. Today's "maps" do more than show us what's where: They tell us where we are and how to get where we want to go. Mapping is also now a privacy and security issue. Criminals are using public satellite imagery and street-view pho ...
  • 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

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!

  • Allan Nairn: Obama Administration Mulls Ending Tra ...

    Tune in on Friday for a special report from investigative journalist Allan Nairn on the White House’s proposal to lift a ban on U.S. training of a controversial elite Indonesian military unit known as Kopassus. The special forces unit has been linked to scores of human rights abuses in East Timor, ...
  • NYC’s Jihad Against Debbie Almontaser

    Debbie Almontaser has won a victory in her battle against discrimination. She was the founding principal of the first Arabic-language public school in the United States, until a campaign of hate forced her out. She is well known for her success in bridging cultural divides, bringing together Muslim ...
  • Right Now: Amy Goodman Taking Online Questions at ...

    Visit FireDogLake to ask Amy a question. Amy will be taking questions until 7 p.m. EST on Sunday.
  • 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

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

  • Scientists Create Sex-Crazed Bugs as a Toxin-Free ...

    A new method for sustainable pest control using “super-sexed” sterilized male insects to copulate with female in the wild is being developed by agricultural researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The scientists are hoping to provide a new way of eliminating pests without the use of chemi ...
  • Their Own Worst Enemies - Climate Scientists and t ...

    It's a safe bet that the millions of Americans who have recently changed their minds about global warming—deciding it isn't happening, or isn't due to human activities such as burning coal and oil, or isn't a serious threat—didn't just spend an intense few days poring over climate-change studies and ...
  • Seminal ’70s Environmental TV Series Now Online

    Every episode of what was probably the environmental movement's first television series is now available on the web.
  • "Neuroframing" the global warming issue won't win ...

    Basically, this was a brainstorming session on how to market “solutions” to global warming more effectively. The emphasis on packaging reminded me of the controversial proposal... that scientists need to become more adept at “framing” issues such as global warming to win the debate.
  • 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.

Invisible Opportunity

  • The Music and the Dissonance of the Spheres

    By Les Visible It is amazing how much divergence there is between official, state approved history and occult history. Not much happened the way we’ve been told and the point of that is to keep us uniformed and confused, as well as to make us accept present day injustices, justified by previous even ...
  • ATTORNEY GENERAL HOLDER HINTS AT BIN LADEN DEATH, ...

    By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor The scandals from the Bush era seem endless, endless and never dealt with. One of the biggest is the hunt for Osama, a hunt that cost hundreds of lives and, literally, billions of dollars, a hunt that unofficially ended with Osama bin Laden’s death on Decem ...
  • ClimateGate: What Will Television Do With All Thei ...

    By James Hudnall There was a vast left wing conspiracy in other words. One designed to scare people into giving more power and wealth to statist bureaucrats who were employing the oldest trick in the book. Using fear and guilt to manufacture consent. They began by locking down major institutions lik ...
  • Climategate: two more bricks fall out of the IPCC ...

    By Gerald Warner, UK Telegraph Oops! There go another two bricks, tumbling out of the IPCC wall of deceit on man-made global warming – there is not a lot left now; even the Berlin Wall (to which the AGW construct is ideologically allied) has survived better. Unhappily for Al, Phil, Michael, George a ...
  • Farmers Speak: Bust Up Big Ag

    There are 2 million farmers and 300 million consumers in the US. Standing in between are a handful of companies who control how food gets from one side to the other. In 2010, the USDA and Dept of Justice are holding a series of hearings on this issue — the matter of [...]

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away

    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware. George Green will be a featured speaker. September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CA Click here for Tickets & Reservations  
  • The Georgia Guidestones

    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the Ame ...
  • The Creation

    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to put an ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catas ...

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

    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to focus ...

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Twilight Earth

  • Fix a Leak Week Could Save 1 Trillion Gallons of W ...

    Across the country, household leaks are wasting more than 1 trillion gallons of water per year—enough water to supply every home in Texas with its annual water needs. Related posts: 1,000 Gallons of Water for 1 Gallon of Ethanol – How Green is That? In Hot Water – Turn it Down and Save Energ ...
  • Green Social Media Event – Driving Sustainable Pro ...

    A lively discussion moderated by Kate Sheppard of Mother Jones Related posts: Simple Earth Media Website and Social Media Information Dirt – The Movie – DVD Giveaway 10 Ways to Support Charity Through Social Media
  • Dirt – The Movie – DVD Giveaway

    DIRT! THE MOVIE is an astonishing, humorous and substantial look at the glorious and unappreciated ground beneath our feet. Related posts: Win a Copy Of Disney Natures EARTH DVD – Twilight Earth Giveaway Disneynature “Earth” Movie Plants a Tree in Brazilian Rainforest for Each Ticket How th ...
  • International World Water Day 2010- March 22nd

    Billions of people live in the kind of squalor that was eradicated long ago in the rich world. It is a global water and sanitation crisis that deserves our undivided attention NOW Related posts: Toilets Help Stop Overpopulation – Heres How Pope Benedicts 2010 Message to the World: Environmenta ...
  • 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 ...

Inhabitat

  • Discovery Channel Premiers Life

    Survival, instinct and adaptation in the natural world are unveiled in Life, a stunning documentary brought to viewers by the BBC and the Discovery Channel. A fitting follow-up to their 2007 collaboration, Planet Earth, Life will leave viewers with a new perspective of more than 30 million differ ...
  • Modular Neuroid: A Personal Pollutant Sensor

    What if your five senses included the ability to detect carbon monoxide, methane gas and smoke? What if you could record and upload your exposure to these elements to a network of other users? What if this beautifully nerdy network could help us determine the collective burden of toxic exposure? Wel ...
  • A Barcode That Recedes With a Veggie’s Freshness

    Walking through the produce aisle shouldn’t be as mysterious as the ingredients on the back of a bag of Cheetos, but sometimes picking out fresh produce can be a befuddling task even for the most seasoned herbivore. Fresh Code, by designers Sisi Yuan, Yiwu Qiu, Lei Zhao, Qiulei Huang, Lijun Zhang & ...
  • Inhabitat is Looking For Writers to Cover the Mila ...

    Hey European design fans! The Milan Furniture Fair is coming up quick from April 14th-19th, and Inhabitat is looking for a few great writers/photographers/design aficionados to cover this year’s event! We’re on the hunt for best and brightest in contemporary sustainable design from this year’s show ...
  • Sustain Design Studio’s Affordable TRIO Prefab Lan ...

    Sustain Design Studio’s newest prefab home, the 12×36 TRIO, recently landed in Brighton, Ontario. With its butterfly roof and passive solar design, the California Edition of the Trio is energy-efficient, has a small environmental footprint, and it is available at an affordable price. Read the rest ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Shark-Bitten Crocodile Poop Fossils Found (No, Rea ...

    Paleontologists have stumbled across a scientific first that’s sure to inspire both fascination and disgust: coprolites, or fossilized fecal matter, bearing the distinct impressions of a creature’s teeth. The coprolites — one chunk of rock is fist-sized, the other is about 30 percent larger — were ...
  • Large Hadron Collider Triples Its Own Record

    The Large Hadron Collider set a new record for the creation of energetic particle beams this morning. The particle accelerator, which surpassed Fermilab’s Tevatron in December as the baddest atom smasher of them all, smashed its own record, charging particles to 3.48 trillion electron volts. That’s ...
  • Evolution of Fairness Driven by Culture, Not Genes

    Human behaviors are often explained as hard-wired evolutionary leftovers of life on the savannah or during the Stone Age. But a study of one very modern behavior, fairness toward total strangers one will never meet again, suggests it evolved recently, and is rooted in culture rather than biology. I ...
  • Op-Ed: Why the Internet Should Win the Nobel Peace ...

    This year, a Chinese dissident and a Russian human rights advocate — recent nominees for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize — are joined by an unlikely, nonhuman contender: the internet. From the Fields is a periodic Wired Science op-ed series presenting leading scientists’ reflections on their work, soci ...
  • Cosmic Dust Gives Millky Way a Fiery Mane

    The Planck space telescope, which is surveying the entire sky in four massive sweeps, has nearly finished its first scan. Rotating in orbit, Planck takes data of the sky in strips, almost the reverse of a chef peeling an apple in one long, thin strip. This image, taken from the scan, shows the str ...

The Progressive Realist

  • The KSM Trap

    According to the Wall Street Journal , the White House is getting close to a deal with Lindsey Graham and two other Republicans it won't name to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed and the other alleged 9/11 conspirators in military commissions in exchange for the funding to close Guantanamo Bay. Take with t ...
  • Allawi’s Gains Evidence of Non-Sectarian Constitue ...

    In the coverage of Iraq’s recent parliamentary election, former interim prime minister Iyad Allawi and his Iraqiya bloc has been characterized as, in the words of reporter Anthony Shadid , “a default leader for Sunnis� and, in the words of fellow reporter Leila Fadel , “the candidate of choi ...
  • A Belligerent Silence

    Any national-secuirty related bill sponsored by John McCain and Joe Lieberman should be assigned a presumption of doubt as a matter of course considering the sponsors and their respective track records.  Well, the Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010 doesn’t exact ...
  • Does Taliban Leader Baradar's Arrest Hurt Reconcil ...

    I was never a huge fan of Kai Eide, the recently-departed United Nations envoy in Afghanistan -- his rush to declare the obviously-stolen election a success, in particular, rubbed me the wrong way -- but I can't argue with the man's assessment of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar's arrest. The intent ...
  • New Estimate of Winners and Losers in Iraq’s Elect ...

    McClatchy Newspapers’ Inside Iraq Blog has a new estimate of the seat distribution in Iraq’s parliament. So far 89% of the polling stations have had their votes tallied, along with 70% of the special voting that occurred a few days before. The Iraqi Election Commission has still not counted the ball ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: Health Care, Health Care, Health ...

    Last month, Jon Chait predicted a conservative freakout over health-care reform, once they realized that the election of Scott Brown was insufficient to kill the legislation. In the final days leading up to a close vote in the House on Sunday, the freakout has begun. The mood at The Corner is a com ...
  • Discovering Tocqueville.

    Sean Wilentz on how Tocqueville didn't get everything right about Americans, but understanding him as a real, flawed observer makes his achievement more impressive. When the energetic, young French liberal aristocrats Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont toured the United States in 1831 an ...
  • The Little Picture: Fighting for Health Care.

    Marcelas Owens, 11, lost his mother to a chronic condition after she was fired from her job as an assistant manager at a fast-food restaurant and subsequently lost her health insurance. Owens has been speaking in favor of health care reform, and now he and his family are the targets of some pretty ...
  • Public Remains Confused on Health Care Reform.

    There's a new poll out from the Kaiser Family Foundation on health care reform, and it shows pretty much what you'd expect: the public is closely divided, and extremely misinformed. But they aren't randomly misinformed, they're systematically misinformed. Democrats are slightly misinformed, independ ...
  • The KSM Trap.

    According to the Wall Street Journal , the White House is getting close to a deal with Lindsey Graham and two other Republicans it won't name to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed and the other alleged 9/11 conspirators in military commissions in exchange for the funding to close Guantanamo Bay. Take with th ...

Andy Worthington

  • Trailer for “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantán ...

    I’m pleased to announce that, via YouTube, a short trailer (1:16) is available for the new documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” co-directed by filmmaker Polly Nash and journalist Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files: The film was launched in October 2009, and ha ...
  • Vindictive judge gives Muslims prison sentences fo ...

    Getting even vaguely carried away at a political protest has always had a tendency to attract the wrath of judges in the UK, but recent activities by the British police, and by a judge in a courtroom in Isleworth, are nothing short of despicable. In response to a protest about the Israeli attack on ...
  • Republican Witch-hunters Embrace Dictatorship

    Are there no depths to which the Republican Party will not sink in its unprincipled assaults on President Obama’s counter-terrorism policies? The latest unconstitutional monstrosity from the right’s lunatic fringe came courtesy of Keep America Safe, a toxic organization headed by Liz Cheney, the dau ...
  • Six New UK Screenings of “Outside the Law: Stories ...

    Throughout this year, I’m touring the UK with former Guantánamo prisoner Omar Deghayes, showing the new documentary, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (which I co-directed with filmmaker Polly Nash). In the last few weeks, Omar and I (often accompanied by Polly) have screened the film in Lo ...
  • Abu Zubaydah’s Torture Diary

    To coincide with the publication of my article, “What Torture Is, and Why It’s Illegal and Not ‘Poor Judgment,’” in which I revisited the scandalous whitewash of the Justice Department report into the conduct of John Yoo and Jay Bybee (the lawyers who sought to redefine torture in the notorious “tor ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • The view from here...

    Pretty sure you can guess where I am, Hope you had a nice green beer kind of weekend, :)
  • 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 ...

SPL Center

  • Local Clubs the Answer for Racist Group’s Conferen ...

    Fresh off American Renaissance’s embarrassing debacle last week in which it was forced to cancel its biannual confab of academic racists and other extremists, one of the white nationalist group’s members has proposed a solution that can circumvent nervous hoteliers in the future. Chicago lawyer and ...
  • Austin Killer Becoming a Hero to the Radical Right

    In the hours since a man enraged at the government slammed his small plane into an Austin, Tex., IRS building, white supremacists and their fellow travelers have elevated Joseph Andrew Stack into an icon of resistance to tyranny. “The Guy is a true HERO!!!” wrote “northroad” on Stormfront.org, the l ...
  • FBI Informant’s Retrial for Neo-Nazi Threats Opens ...

    Jury selection and opening statements are scheduled to begin today in the second federal trial of hate blogger and former FBI informant Hal Turner. Turner’s first trial ended in a mistrial on Dec. 7, with jurors leaning 9-3 in favor of acquittal. He is charged with threatening to assault and murder ...
  • Conspiracy Buff Triumphs Over Marital Troubles, Sa ...

    OK, the marital split of Dave vonKleist and Joyce Riley didn’t generate the national buzz of Tom and Nicole or Lucy and Desi. But devoted listeners of the far-right, conspiracy-laced “The Power Hour” certainly noticed last year when Dave departed as suddenly a patriot whisked away to a detention cam ...
  • Nativists Work to Counter Sunday’s Pro-Immigrant M ...

    As thousands of people prepare to rally in Washington, D.C., this Sunday for immigration reform, nativist extremist groups are unleashing their own campaigns to counter the event. NumbersUSA today launched “S.T.O.P. Amnesty in Four Days,” a drive to derail any immigration reform package that include ...

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  • Michigan Supports Meatout, Then Takes It Back

    Michigan's Governor Granholm proclaimed  March 20, 2010 "Michigan Meatout Day," to "encourage the residents of this state to choose not to eat meat." Granholm is not a vegetarian, but she appreciates the health benefits a diet based on vegetables, fruits, and whole grains. It was a bold statement fo ...
  • Sexual Harassment Hurts Other Men's Chances of Get ...

    Hello, male readers who are interested in women. How's it going? Say, did you know that sexual harassment of women by other men is hurting your chances of getting lucky, striking up a friendship, or making a date with that gal who caught your eye on the street? Yes, even if you're not doing anything ...
  • When Children Harsh on Gay Adoption Bans

    In November 2008, while a certain future President was celebrating a victory before millions on a warm Chicago night, many other folks were reeling at the fact that four anti-gay ballot measures passed. The most famous reindeer of all of these initiatives, of course, was Proposition 8 in California. ...
  • Obama Administration Stalls EPA Action on Toxic Co ...

    Coal ash is the nastiest industrial waste you've never heard of. OK, maybe not, but it's pretty bad. On top of spewing greenhouse gases and pollutants into the air, burning coal yields an ashen residue laced with such toxic delicacies as arsenic, cadmium, and mercury . Some of this gunk is safely r ...
  • Obama Administration Stalls EPA Action on Toxic Co ...

    Coal ash is the nastiest industrial waste you've never heard of. OK, maybe not, but it's pretty bad. On top of spewing greenhouse gases and pollutants into the air, burning coal yields an ashen residue laced with such toxic delicacies as arsenic, cadmium, and mercury . Some of this gunk is safely r ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Gazans Wounded in Israeli Strike

    At least 11 people have been injured in an Israeli air strike at an airport in southern Gaza, Palestinian medical officials and witnesses said. The strike targeted Gaza's defunct international airport, located near the town of Rafah, late on Friday, witnesses said. ...
  • Protesters Prepare for Saturday's Antiwar Demonstr ...

    by Michael E. Ruane Maggie Pondolfino has a 24-year-old son who is a soldier serving in Afghanistan -- "he's honorable, courageous, has a lot of integrity and he loves his mother," she said. Which is why, in part, she said she will be marching in an antiwar demonstration Saturday to bring him and ot ...
  • Rice Admits Iraq Regrets, Says US Eventually 'Got ...

    HONG KONG - Former top US diplomat Condoleezza Rice voiced regret on Friday at the bloody aftermath of the 2003 invasion of Iraq but said the Bush administration had in the end "got it right" in the country. Rice, who served as national security advisor during the Iraq invasion and later as secretar ...
  • Senate Democrats, States Wary of Draft Climate Bil ...

    by Robin Bravender Some Democratic senators and state and local air regulators are concerned that the latest draft of a Senate climate and energy bill would unduly strip authority from U.S. EPA and states. Details emerged earlier this week that draft legislation from Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Lind ...
  • More Fertile Imagination: 'Nature Deficit Disorder ...

    by Peter Ker Revealing the inspiration behind his latest epic, Avatar , legendary filmmaker James Cameron recently described himself as a ''nature geek'', and said modern humans were suffering a degree of ''nature deficit disorder''. It may not be a medically recognised condition, but '' ...

Lifehacker

  • Plan for Interruptions to Minimize Their Impact [I ...

    Interruptions are a natural part of any work flow in any work place. How big of a disturbance they create is often a consequence of how you handle them. Minimize the impact of interruptions with these tricks. More��
  • TestDrive Virtualizes Brand-New Ubuntu Builds for ...

    Ubuntu: Want to try out the latest build of the next Ubuntu release with almost no hassle at all? TestDrive is a one-shot tool that downloads, virtualizes, and keeps daily Ubuntu builds up to date. More��
  • How to Launch the Recycle Bin from the Start Menu ...

    If you've started using the Start Menu search box as your primary application launcher, you may have come across a weird annoyance: By default, you can't open the Recycle Bin from the search box. More��
  • Store Batteries in the Freezer to Retain Charge Lo ...

    Storing batteries at freezing or near freezing temperatures will greatly extend the amount of time they hold a charge, but only for some kinds of batteries. Read on to see which batteries don't need the meat locker treatment and which benefit. ...
  • How to Use Symlinks in Windows [Windows Tip]

    Technology blog Tested goes in depth to explain Windows symlinks (symbolic links that let you do all sorts of cool things like sync files and folders outside your Dropbox folder ), detailing what they are and how to use them. More�� ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

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  • 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 ...

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Afghanistan Sun

  • Clinton To Host Top-level Strategic Talks Between ...

    WASHINGTON (RFE/RL) -- The United States and Pakistan will hold a round of strategic talks next week in the U.S. capital, with top government ministers from both countries participating for the first ...
  • 3 Taliban Militants Arrested

    KARACHI, Pakistan - Police arrested three Taliban militants Saturday and seized a bomb-making factory in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi, a counterterrorism official said.
  • Pakistan Tribes Plan Anti-taliban Strategy At Jirg ...

    March 20 (Bloomberg) -- Pakistan’s tribal leaders began their biggest meeting since the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001 and removed the Taliban from power, to discuss a strategy to end support ...
  • Afghan Detainee Releases Aimed At Earning Goodwill

    The community-release program is part of a U.S.-led effort to redress a major Afghan grievance over suspected insurgents being held for months with little or no opportunity to make their case.
  • Roadside Bomb Kills Afghan Soldier

    An Afghan soldier was killed as a roadside bomb struck a military vehicle in Paktia province on Friday, a press release of Defense Ministry issued here Saturday said."A unit of soldiers was on ro...

Futurismic

  • Cash for crime: monetizing anonymous street-art

    Pity poor Banksy for a moment. There can surely be no better icon of the noughties Zeitgeist in urban art… but how to convert that incredible reputation and kudos into decimal places that will pay the rent? Banksy and his street-art contemporaries are trapped by their medium, because it’s hard to se ...
  • Was Lamarck right along? Why evolution doesn’t wor ...

    I expect most Futurismic regulars, much like myself, think they understand the basics of Darwin’s theory of evolution: random mutations occur in each generation, natural selection culls the poor adaptations, repeat and rinse ad infinitum, and the life a creature lives doesn’t affects its genetic leg ...
  • Standing on the verge of an epic win: can gaming m ...

    Jane McGonigal’s recent TED talk is getting a lot of attention, and with good reason, because it’s a radical idea she’s pushing – radical in both senses of the word, in fact. Here’s the thesis: computer games give us a sense of being able to achieve greatness, of being able to attempt awesome things ...
  • Interview with Futurismic’s fiction editor Chris E ...

    Hard-workin’ Futurismic fiction editor Christopher East doesn’t post here very often; not only does he spend hours combing through the slush pile for this very organ, a lot of his time is taken up by, y’know, having a life, and a job and a family. That sort of stuff. Not that I’m jealous or anything ...
  • Autoplaying ads: an apology

    Hey, folks; I’ve had a few comments and emails from regular readers informing me that they were seeing ads on the site that were autoplaying video and audio, and which in some cases were hard or impossible to close down. I want to thank those of you who got in touch for doing so; Futurismic’s [...] ...

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Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Australian government makes plan for whistleblower ...

    The administration of Australia's Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, announced plans this week for a new whistleblower law to protect Commonwealth employees. In 2008, the Rudd administration asked Australia's House of Representatives Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs (the Committee) to ...
  • OSHA orders reinstatement and $2 million for TNCC ...

    George Fort has won over $2 million in damages and an order of reinstatement to his position as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Tennessee Commerce Bank. Under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), the reinstatement order has immediate effect and will not be stayed while the bank appeals. 18 USC � 1514A(b)( ...
  • Will Supreme Court take a swipe at the "cat's paw" ...

    A growing trend in employer attempts to evade liability for discrimination is to find a manager with no record of discrimination and use that manager to be the official "decision maker" for firing the employee. Civil rights and whistleblower advocates use the "cat's paw" theory to argue that the off ...
  • Federal judge awards truck driver $153,870 plus re ...

    Federal Administrative Law Judge Daniel Leland issued an order yesterday reinstating truck driver Cynthia Ferguson to her job with New Prime, Inc. He also awarded her $26,601 in back pay, $2,269 in compensation for her personal property, $50,000 in compensatory damages, and $75,000 in punitive damag ...
  • NWLDEF to Host Training Seminar April 1, 2010

    JOIN OUR LAWYERS & THE MEDIA TRAINING SEMINAR Thursday, April 1, 2010 12:00 - 2:00 pm EST Sponsored by the National Whistleblowers Legal Defense & Education Fund Lawyers & the Media: Strategies that Work and Pitfalls to Avoid in Whistleblower Cases Whistleblowers who come forward to exp ...

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

  • Irish Collection Society Wants Hotels To Pay Perfo ...

    We've seen all sorts of ridiculous claims by performance rights collection societies trying to demand performance rights for things that clearly were not intended as "performances." There was the woman stocking shelves in a store who was singing without paying. There was the owner of a horse stabl ...
  • Hot News Is Back: Court Blocks Website From Report ...

    In the last few years, there's been a push by some companies to bring back the immensely troubling "hot news doctrine," that appears to violate everything we know about the First Amendment and copyright law. Basically, the "hot news doctrine" says that if someone reports on a story, others are not ...
  • Would UK Politicians Support The Digital Economy B ...

    The entertainment industry always likes to take the digital world and compare it to the physical world as if the two were the same -- often making claims like unauthorized downloading is "just like stealing a CD from a store." However, they don't seem to like it when you do that back to them to pro ...
  • Nestle Discovers The Streisand Effect... But Only ...

    Earlier this week, reader Jorvay sent over the news of how food giant Nestle had massively overreacted to an (admittedly disgusting) anti-Nestle video put together by Greenpeace and posted to YouTube. The thing was, this video was getting no attention . It had less than 1,000 views... but someone ...
  • More ACTA Leaks: Would Create Special Organization ...

    The more of ACTA that leaks, the worse it seems. KEI has the details on another portion of ACTA that had not leaked yet, which focuses on setting up new institutions that would manage ACTA after it was implemented . Basically, it would be an ongoing organization tasked with continuing to update AC ...

VacTruth

  • CoMeD Files Evidence of Miscarriage after Thimeros ...

    . . . . . CoMeD’s Website… PRESS RELEASE CONTACTS: For Immediate Release CoMeD President [Rev. Lisa K. Sykes (Richmond, VA) 804-364-8426] March 18, 2010 CoMeD Science Advisor [Dr. Paul G. King (Lake Hiawatha, NJ) 973-997-1321] Washington, DC – In its pursuit of banning all use of mercury in medicin ...
  • Dr. Russell Blaylock on Who Created Orthodox Medic ...

    “Who Created Orthodox Medicine?” Dr. Russell Blaylock: “Who created orthodox medicine? Where did that come from?” “Well, it actually came from the Rockefeller Foundation back in 1901.” “The Rockefellers at the time . . . because of the Standard Oil scandals, no one wanted to be called a Rockefelle ...
  • Ex-Pfizer Worker Cites Genetically Engineered Viru ...

    By EDMUND H. MAHONY The Hartford Courant March 14, 2010 Medical experts will be watching closely Monday when a scientist who says she has been intermittently paralyzed by a virus designed at the Pfizer laboratory where she worked in Groton opens a much anticipated trial that could raise ques ...
  • Is the FDA About To Eat Their Words on the Safety ...

    March 12th 2010 saw six very special women from around the world, present documents and research about the HPV vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix to the FDA by request. Never before have the FDA turned to members of the public regarding vaccine safety but in an extraordinary move this is exactly what ...
  • 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 ...

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed

    Just making arrangements for next month’s anarchist book fair in New York.  If any of you are going to be there, drop me an email (mel@broadsnark.com). Lots of people refer to Gandhi as a “philosophical anarchist.”  Josh Fattal looks at the evidence. In Anarchist Out and Proud, welshboi contradict ...
  • On Politics and Picking a Team

    Politics are like team sports. You pick a team based on some random fact like an accident of birth or the personal charisma of one of the team players.  Then, knowing little about the lives or beliefs of the people on your team, you put all your energy and quite a bit of your money into [...]
  • 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 [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

  • US Sanctions Iran Based al Qaeda, Zawahiri Promise ...

    The US Treasury Department placed financial sanctions on Saad bin Laden, thought to be in Pakistan, and three alleged al Qaeda operatives in Iran including a Yemeni. The terrorist designation Friday froze their assets within US jurisdictions and prohibits Americans from financial dealings with the ...
  • Arabian Peninsula al Qaeda groups merge

    In the face of Saudi Arabia’s success against the al Qaeda organization, many Saudi operatives have fled to the more hospitable climate in Yemen, joining others who recently arrived from Iraq, Somalia, and Pakistan. Al Qaeda in Yemen announced its merger with Saudi Arabia’s al Qaeda organization to ...
  • Yemen strikes multi-faceted deals with al Qaeda

    Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh recently struck a deal with Ayman Zawahiri, and Yemen is in the process of emptying its jails of known jihadists. The Yemeni government is recruiting these established jihadists to attack its domestic enemies as it refrains from serious counter-terror measures aga ...
  • Yemen’s Multi Faceted Deals with Al Qaeda (A ...

    اليمن تعقد صÙ�قات متعددة الوجوه مع القاعدة كتبت: جين نوÙ�اك – Ù�براير/ 2009 عبدالله عبدالوهاب ناجي- ترجمة خاصة بالمستقلة عقد الرئيس اليمني علي عبدا لله صالح مؤخرا صÙ�قة مع ...
  • Yemen’s three terror fronts

    By Jane Novak March 28, 2009 3:18 PM Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula took credit in an internet statement Friday for a pair of suicide attacks that targeted South Koreans in Yemen. A teen-aged suicide bomber killed four South Korean tourists in Shibam, Hadramout on March 15. A second terror att ...

Dark Politricks

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

  • ESPN's Tony Kornheiser on Cyclists: "Run 'em down! ...

    Hate Speech Against Cyclists? Did ESPN's Tony Kornheiser forget to take his medication before a recent show? I don't know what happened, but he ended up spewing hate against Washington DC cyclists, telling his listeners and co-hosts that he could barely contain himself from "running them down" ...
  • Taking out the Trash...From Ocean Garbage Patches ...

    Trash collected by the North Atlantic expedition. Image credit: 5 Gyres We have all heard that there is a swirling mass of plastic trash in the Pacific Ocean . What many people still don't know, however, is that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is not alone. In fact, there are five s... Read the ...
  • AT&T Launches Cell Phone Charger with Zero Vampire ...

    Image via AT&T AT&T has announced a new charger coming to market soon, one that solves the problem of excess power consumption during charging. As we know, phone chargers - and most charger - draw a small amount of power from the outlet even when the connected device is done charging. Concept d ...
  • Wearable Windmill to Harvest the Breeze Looks A Li ...

    Image via Mary Huang A windmill. That you wear. Oh, that we were joking. But it's not April Fool's Day yet, and this thing is real. It's a harness that you wear, so you can harness the wind. Like a functional fairy suit. It's called the Dandelion, and it's quite the fashion statement. Check out ...
  • It's not God, it's Climate Change

    Constance Okolett at entrance to her kitchen in eastern Uganda Asinget village Osukuru sub county Tororo district. Image credit: Oxfam International /Flickr This post was written by Constance Okolett, a farmer from Tororo district in Eastern Uganda and a mother of seven. She is also a community ...

Biosingularity

  • Researchers develop dietary formula that maintains ...

    Researchers at McMaster University have developed a cocktail of ingredients that forestalls major aspects of the aging process. “As we all eventually learn, ageing diminishes our mind, fades our perception of the world and compromises our physical capacity,” says David Rollo, associate professor of ...
  • Chocolate lovers could be lowering their risk of s ...

    Giving chocolates to your Valentine on February 14th may help lower their risk of stroke based on a preliminary study from researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital. The study, which is being presented at the American Academy of Neurology in April, also found that eating chocolate may lower the risk of ...
  • Scientists synthesize unique family of anti-cancer ...

    Yale University scientists have streamlined the process for synthesizing a family of compounds with the potential to kill cancer and other diseased cells, and have found that they represent a unique category of anti-cancer agents. Their discovery appears in this week’s online edition of theJournal o ...
  • Mediterranean Diet May Prevent Stroke-Related Brai ...

    Avoiding potentially dangerous silent strokes may be another health benefit of following a Mediterranean diet. A new study shows people who most closely followed a Mediterranean-style diet were 36% less likely to have areas of brain damage linked to silent strokes than those who least closely follow ...
  • An Early Warning System for Cancer

    A new screening tool developed by scientists in Denmark may help detect the earliest stages of cancer by taking advantage of the body’s own defenses. The researchers constructed a microarray system that analyzes patients’ blood for a specific class of immune agents called autoantibodies. These are a ...

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Pruning Shears

  • Will Bloggers Rescue the Lehman Story?

    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Last year I wrote about Mark Mitchell’s story of Deep Capture , a complex tale of financial corruption centered around the use of illegal naked short selling and phantom stock. It was (and is) a difficult story to write about becaus ...
  • This Week In Tyranny

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

Natural Health News

  • Managing Your Child's Asthma with Natural Medicine

    Natural medicine can significantly strengthen immune function, preventing asthma attacks and even curing the underlying cause of symptoms. Oriental medicine and Chinese herbs have the ability to directly strengthen immune function. The disadvantage of herbs is their bad taste, and the most effecti ...
  • More Proof Flu Shots Don't Work

    A new Canadian-led study concludes that immunizing nursing-home workers does nothing to cut the number of confirmed influenza cases among the homes' elderly residents. Coming at the end of the largest flu-vaccination campaign in Canadian history, the review of previous studies calls for stepped-up ...
  • Zinc Does Little for Ear Infections

    As parents know, middle-ear infections are one of the most common and painful afflictions of childhood, striking three-quarters of children. One suggested remedy is zinc, which has a long history as a cold-fighting supplement. Zinc is said to help strengthen the immune system and to help ease and ...
  • Plavix Gets New FDA Warning

    The blockbuster anti-clotting drug Plavix will carry a new warning about patients who have a poor response to the drug because they do not break it down well. The Food and Drug Administration said it was adding a new boxed warning to Plavix, an $8-billion-a-year drug.  Poor metabolizers are people ...
  • Fructose Sweeteners Associated with Kidney Disease

    Intakes of sugar-sweetened beverages may increase levels of uric acid, a compound linked to decreased kidney function, says a new study. A cross-sectional analysis of data from almost 16,000 people found that the risk of chronic kidney disease increased by over 150 percent in those who more than o ...

Antemedius

  • Premature Withdrawal: Washington’s Cult of Narcis ...

    Originally published at TomDispatch.com 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?� In Afghanistan, where on ...
  • Supporting Policy, Governance, and Democracy with ...

    Cross posted from Border Jumpers , Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. While in Harare, Zimbabwe, we met with the Labour and Economic Development Research Institute of Zimbabwe (LEDRIZ), an initiative of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) which started operating in September of 2003. ...
  • Innovation of the Week: Providing an Agricultural ...

    Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet . It’s hard to believe, but an estimated 2.6 billion people in the developing world—nearly a third of the global population—still lack access to basic sanitation services. This presents a significant hygiene risk, especially in dense ...
  • How FDR Would Have Handled Tea Bag Obstructionism

    It was a different era and a different style of leadership, occasioned by a Great Depression paradigm shift. This was when FDR came to power with a mandate for change. We had a strong grassroots union movement that helped forge the way and the progressive coalition was gradually strengthened under ...
  • 1,000 Words About Uganda

    Cross posted from Border Jumpers , Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. When we arrived by bus at the HIV/AIDS Resource Center in Katuna, Uganda (the border between Rwanda and Uganda), twenty men were intently watching a match between Manchester United and Chelsea on a small television. Along wi ...

Son of Alex Constantine's Blacklist

  • UnderpantsGate: Big Oil, the CIA and the Attempted ...

    Also see: American Sponsorship of Global Terrorism By Alex Constantine (Supplementary revisions, 12-30-09, 1:29 pm) It’s All, Once Again, About Big Oil and a Pipeline … Abdulmutallab’s exploding unmentionables “Why Was Umar AbdulMutallab in Houston in August 2008? Whom Did He Visit There? What Did H ...
  • Celebrities Lead Charge against Scientology

    Hollywood figures quit ‘rip-off’ church as Australian prime minister threatens parliamentary inquiry into its activities Peter Beaumont in London, Toni O’Loughlin in Sydney, and Paul Harris in New York The Observer | 22 November 2009 The security at the red-brick and glass-walled horseshoe of the Jo ...
  • Baltimore: Cultist Withdraws Guilty Plea in Baby&# ...

    BALTIMORE — A former member of a defunct religious cult has backed out of a plea deal and will face trial on charges he and others starved a toddler to death. Marcus Cobbs had agreed to plead guilty to a lesser charge of accessory after the fact. But his attorney abruptly withdrew the plea Friday mo ...
  • What’s Wrong with this RFID Chip?

    RFID chip brought to you by the Carlyle Group and Matrics, Inc.
  • Will Donor Scandals Doom Crist’s Senate bid?

    ” … Three of Crist’s top fund-raisers have been hamstrung by federal investigations in the past nine months, and a fourth, Jupiter sports agent and real estate investor Marc Roberts, is facing a federal lawsuit alleging he defrauded a business partner out of $100 million to support his own ‘lavish p ...

Climategate

Opinio Juris

  • Turkey to the World: Use the Word Genocide and We’ ...

    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller You just can’t make this stuff up: Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan has taken a harsh position against undocumented Armenian workers in Turkey, threatening to expel thousands amid tensions over allegations that Armenians were victims of “genocide†...
  • Conference Announcement: The Responsibility to Pro ...

    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Our friends at the University of Amsterdam’s Center for International Law have asked us to announce the European Science Foundation’s upcoming conference, The Responsibility to Protect: From Principle to Practice.  Here is the description of the conference ...
  • CITES Parties Reject Bluefin Tuna and Polar Bear T ...

    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Japan triumphs in a big way at the CITES meeting in Doha, as the U.S. proposed ban on bluefin tuna trade goes down 20-68. The rejection of the bluefin proposal was a clear victory for the Japanese government, which had vowed to go all out to stop the measure or else exem ...
  • CITES Parties Reject Bluefin Tuna and Polar Bear T ...

    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Japan triumphs in a big way at the CITES meeting in Doha, as the U.S. proposed ban on bluefin tuna trade goes down 20-68. The rejection of the bluefin proposal was a clear victory for the Japanese government, which had vowed to go all out to stop the measure or else exem ...
  • Congress Proposes to Take Over Negotiations of U.S ...

    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I am not a huge fan of restrictive and protectionist trade policy, but I can’t offer any serious legal quarrel with the recently proposed Trade Reform, Accountability, Development and Employment Act by the growing anti-trade bloc in the U.S. Congress.  As Lori Wallach ...

Investigate - Breaking News

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  • 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...

Public News Service

  • Arizona Bucks Trend of Fewer State Prison Inmates

    Arizona Bucks Trend of Fewer State Prison Inmates Phoenix, AZ – For the first time since 1972, the number of state prison inmates in the U.S. has gone down, according to a new report from the Pew Center on the States. But Arizona’s inmate population continues to rise. Comments from Adam Gelb, Pew’s ...
  • Center Offers Families Break from 24-7 Care of Lif ...

    Center Offers Families Break from 24-7 Care of Life-Threatened Kids Phoenix, AZ – Families caring full-time for a child diagnosed with a life-threatening condition will be able to get a needed break when Ryan House opens later this month in central Phoenix. The facility will focus on making kids com ...
  • Lawmaker: Single People Deserve Equal Chance to Ad ...

    Lawmaker: Single People Deserve Equal Chance to Adopt Phoenix, AZ – A bill giving adoption priority to married couples has passed the Arizona House and awaits a hearing in the Senate. One lawmaker rejects the idea that a mom and dad are always the ideal situation for an adopted child. Comments from ...
  • Program Promises Lower Energy Bills for Low-Income ...

    Program Promises Lower Energy Bills for Low-Income Arizonans Phoenix, AZ – Arizona is getting 57-million dollars in federal stimulus money to weatherize more than six-thousand low-income Arizona households. Those families stand to save up to 25-percent each year on heating and cooling. Comments from ...
  • Time Out Called to Protect Abused Arizona Creek

    Time Out Called to Protect Abused Arizona Creek Prescott, AZ – Since being restored to a free-flowing stream five years ago, central Arizona’s Fossil Creek has become a recreation magnet, attracting not only people, but also trash and vandalism. New regulations taking effect today (Monday) are the ...

My Care2 Picks

  • ACTION ALERT: Stop Factory Farming Now!

    Animals raised in factory farms are living in deplorable conditions. They stand in their own (and in other's) feces which makes them susceptible to many diseases Submitted by Simone D. to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Inside the new recalibrated Afghan committee

    Back in 2007 the Cons claimed that all the Geneva Conventions do not apply in Afghanistan because we are not officially at war in Afghanistan ( see my backgrounder comment 5 as opit : today's update indicates filibuster ) Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The Insufferable Truth About Eating Animals

    Last week, Jonathan Safran Foer made his second appearance on Ellen Degeneres' show to promote his book Eating Animals. Written with the same vitality of his novels, Eating Animals is the story of Foer's three year long exploration of the meat industry. Submitted by Simone D. to Green Lifestyle �|� ...
  • Zionism, a Conspiracy Against Jews

    In 1935 the steamer "Tel Aviv" made its maiden voyage from Nazi Germany to Haifa with Hebrew letters on its bow and a Nazi flag fluttering from its mast. The Captain of the Zionist-owned ship was a member of the Nazi Party. By Henry Makow Ph.D. Submitted by Ellyn S. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • Sibel Edmonds Speaks Out on Whistleblower 'Protect ...

    FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds on S.372, a bill making its way through the Senate that would allow the FBI and other "national security" agencies to dismiss whistleblowers' claims without any form of oversight Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Makeshift Bomb Causes Severe Damage to Office of G ...

    www.transworldnews.com/: "The office of a Greek far-right party has been severely damaged after a makeshift bomb packed in a shoe box detonated at their Athens building.According to reports a local... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Colombian Human Rights Activist Murdered, Calls

    www.transworldnews.com/: "A Colombian human rights activist who recently spoke out against abuses in the area he lived was gunned down at his farm on Monday, sparking demands from other activists... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • The Gay Terrorist | The New York Observer

    The Gay Terrorist | The New York Observer: "Now, as those political battles roll on, a new story about the run-up to 9/11 has emerged—a previously undisclosed, covert C.I.A. effort to recruit a spy... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Dismantling of Saudi-CIA Web site illustrates need ...

    Dismantling of Saudi-CIA Web site illustrates need for clearer cyberwar policies - washingtonpost.com: "'We knew we were going to be forced to shut this thing down,' recalled one former civilian... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Abuse Cases Coming to Light in Other Institutions

    Ore. lawsuit claims Boy Scouts sex abuse coverup - Yahoo! NewsPORTLAND, Ore. – The Boy Scouts of America has long kept an extensive archive of secret documents that chronicle the sexual abuse of... [[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

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Genetically modified mosquitos could be used to sp ...

    A genetically engineered mosquito that vaccinates as it bites has been developed by scientists . Experts believe "flying vaccinators" could eventually be a radical new way of tackling malaria. The new approach targets the salivary gland of the Anopheles mosquito. Scientists in Japan have enginee ...
  • Obama effigy hung at RI school with fired teachers

    A teacher at a failing school where he and all his colleagues are being fired hung an effigy of President Barack Obama in his classroom, apparently in reaction to Obama's support of extreme measures to ensure accountability in schools. The teachers union on Thursday condemned the effigy, discove ...
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Mondoweiss

  • Times watch

    There’s a disappointing story in the New York Times today about that fatal rocket attack on Israel yesterday. It plays pretty big, on page three. In the first paragraph we are informed that the rocket was fired from "Hamas-controlled" territory. It isn’t till we reach the fifth or sixth paragraph ...
  • Obama could study Reagan and grow a pair

    MJ Rosenberg at media matters lays out the power an American president can exercise over Israel, and the lobby’s fear of his doing just that. Rosenberg doesn’t fully explore the hidden dimension here– of course it’s our national interest and of course Obama has power, why hasn’t he exercised it? My ...
  • Is Israel’s crackdown on free speech coming ...

    Mohammed Omer, the Gaza journalist who was beaten by Israeli forces at immigration after he accepted a prize for his reporting in Europe last year, is apparently now being blocked from doing a speaking gig in Chicago, with Ali Abunimah. His support group has called for the U.S. to let him in and rep ...
  • Israel lobbyist warns Obama, he’ll pay on he ...

    At TPM, Justin Elliott has tracked David Schenker, of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, doing some highlevel horsetrading, suggesting on Alhurra, the US-sponsored Arabic station, that Obama has to back down on his fight with Netanyahu because of his need for votes on the health-care bil ...
  • Oren’s historical fiction about Lebanon war ...

    Michael Oren has an op-ed in Thursday’s NY Times about the Bibi-Biden flap. While a comprehensive dissection would consume many times the length of the original, my attention was drawn to a very narrow issue that appears in the following sentence: "Previous withdrawals, from Lebanon and Gaza, brough ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: Media Spin & Swine Flu Hysteria

    “Canada’s vaccine uses an adjuvant, which consists of squalene (shark liver oil), DL-alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E) and polysorbate 80 (an emulsifier also used in ice cream). An adjuvant is a chemical product that boosts the immune response. There were claims that squalene, used in the anthrax vac ...
  • Petition: Parents of Vaccine Damaged Children say ...

    A UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF RESISTANCE TO MANDATORY VACCINATIONS We the undersigned, as Freemen & Freewomen, do not recognize the authority of The World Health Organization (WHO) to mandate general forced vaccinations. Our bodies are sovereign territory and subject to our exclusive self-de ...
  • Petition: Doctors & Nurses Say NO To Mandatory Vac ...

    A UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF RESISTANCE TO MANDATORY VACCINATIONS We the undersigned, as Freemen & Freewomen, do not recognize the authority of The World Health Organization (WHO) to mandate general forced vaccinations. Our bodies are sovereign territory and subject to our exclusive self-determ ...
  • VRM: Photo Gallery

    ‘We the undersigned, as Freemen & Freewomen, do not recognize the authority of The World Health Organization (WHO) to mandate general forced vaccinations. Our bodies are sovereign territory and subject to our exclusive self-determination. Any attempted violation of this trust must be construed a ...
  • VRM: Your Testimonials On Vaccine Carnage – ...

    Vaccine Damage Updates: An opportunity to contribute your testimonials from around the world: Charting Physiological & Neurological reactions, including all related trauma to the H1N1 shot & other vaccines. Charting miscarriages resulting from vaccines – Pregnant women are at a heightened risk o ...

B.C. Preppers Network

  • A Reader Asks How to Pay Off Student Loans

    A� Next Best West reader posted this in the comments which I think deserves a post of it's own as a reply: "I borrowed 12,250 for my college education to become a Registered Nurse. I took out these loans in the early 90s and after three deferments and consolidation I owe 30,000. I want to go ...
  • The Ladies Will Be On the Family Preparedness Guid ...

    Last Saturday American Prepper , WVSanta , Matt and Bob were interviewed on James Stevens' Family Preparedness Guide radio show on Blog Talk Radio. They did a great job explaining the ins and outs of prepping and why we do it. Kudos guys!!! If you missed the show, you can download it here . This Sa ...
  • Riverwalker's Back!!!

    It's like the best teaming up since Lewis & Clark!!! Riverwalker & the CPN!!! Riverwalker, usually found "staying above the water line" over at Stealth Survival , is coming to Canada and bringing lots of holiday gifts!!! Stay tuned for more details!!!
  • 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 ...

Michael Yon

  • Man Dogs

    Kandahar, Afghanistan 15 March 2010 In David Galula’s 1964 book, Counterinsurgency Warfare, THEORY AND PRACTICE , he states: “The ideal situation for the insurgent would be a large, land-locked country, shaped like a blunt-tipped star, with jungle-covered mountains along the borders and scattere ...
  • Army to Army

    American Colonel Writes to Spanish Colonel 15 March 2010 Kandahar, Afghanistan Responding to a document first published here on 08 March, U.S. Army Colonel Robert J. Ulses writes to Spanish Army Colonel Jesus De Miguel Sebastian. The letter from Colonel Ulses contradicts the previous memo by a U. ...
  • Moon Over Kandahar

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  • Colonel (R) Robert L. Howard

    24 Feburary 2010 From: Mellinger, Jeffrey J CSM MIL USA Classification:  UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Today, at Arlington National Cemetery, we lay to rest COL(R) Robert L. Howard.  The link for the interview is at the end of this email. Read a bit about Howard at one of these links: The Robert ...
  • 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 ...

The Killing Train

  • Slumdogs vs. Millionaires: Sainath in Toronto

    The lecture hall slowly filled up as slides of families of the 200,000 farmers who committed suicide in India between 1997-2005 played on the flat screens on the side of the room. P Sainath, the day's speaker, was the journalist who brought the farmer suicides to wide attention. He opened his talk b ...
  • Implementing the Bolivarian Revolution: Julio Chav ...

    On October 10/09 Venezuelan former mayor, now state legislator Julio Chavez spoke at the University of Toronto sponsored by Hands off Venezuela and the Louis Riel Bolivarian Circle. He came in sporting the unassuming Bolivarian fashion: red T-shirt, red baseball cap (with a Canada logo on it), jeans ...
  • Realclimate on the hacked climate change emails

    A friend asked me for my take on the hacked climate change emails. Before formulating my thoughts I went to realclimate.org to see if they had anything. They do... and it's indispensable as usual .
  • If you are thinking of donating to Haiti relief ef ...

    If you are thinking of donating to Haiti relief efforts I would recommend either of these two organizations: The Haiti Emergency Relief Fund or Partners in Health
  • Haiti Earthquake Context

    I recorded this video last night (using my new flip HD and PiTiVi editing suite). Part 1 Part 2 read more

treehugger

  • ESPN's Tony Kornheiser on Cyclists: "Run 'em down! ...

    Hate Speech Against Cyclists? Did ESPN's Tony Kornheiser forget to take his medication before a recent show? I don't know what happened, but he ended up spewing hate against Washington DC cyclists, telling his listeners and co-hosts that he could barely contain himself from "running them down" ...
  • Taking out the Trash...From Ocean Garbage Patches ...

    Trash collected by the North Atlantic expedition. Image credit: 5 Gyres We have all heard that there is a swirling mass of plastic trash in the Pacific Ocean . What many people still don't know, however, is that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is not alone. In fact, there are five s... Read the ...
  • AT&T Launches Cell Phone Charger with Zero Vampire ...

    Image via AT&T AT&T has announced a new charger coming to market soon, one that solves the problem of excess power consumption during charging. As we know, phone chargers - and most charger - draw a small amount of power from the outlet even when the connected device is done charging. Concept d ...
  • Wearable Windmill to Harvest the Breeze Looks A Li ...

    Image via Mary Huang A windmill. That you wear. Oh, that we were joking. But it's not April Fool's Day yet, and this thing is real. It's a harness that you wear, so you can harness the wind. Like a functional fairy suit. It's called the Dandelion, and it's quite the fashion statement. Check out ...
  • It's not God, it's Climate Change

    Constance Okolett at entrance to her kitchen in eastern Uganda Asinget village Osukuru sub county Tororo district. Image credit: Oxfam International /Flickr This post was written by Constance Okolett, a farmer from Tororo district in Eastern Uganda and a mother of seven. She is also a community ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Myanmar authorities release jailed US rights activ ...

    [JURIST] Myanmar authorities on Thursday released [advocacy press release, PDF] jailed democracy activist Nyi Nyi Aung [advocacy profile], ordering him to leave the country. Aung, a US citizen, had been sentenced to three years in prison [JURIST report] after being convicted on fraud and forgery cha ...
  • China appeals court upholds life sentence for form ...

    [JURIST] The Hebei Province People's High Court in northern China on Wednesday upheld [China Daily report] a life sentence for former vice president of China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) [official website, in Chinese] Huang Songyou. Huang was convicted [JURIST report] in January of bribery and emb ...
  • US state prison population dropped in 2009: report

    [JURIST] The number of inmates in US state prisons has dropped for the first time in 40 years, according to a report [text] released Wednesday by the Pew Center on the States [advocacy website]. Led by California and Michigan, the state prison population decreased by 0.4 percent during 2009. Because ...
  • Senate passes bill to reduce cocaine sentencing di ...

    [JURIST] The US Senate [official website] unanimously passed legislation [S 1789 materials] Wednesday to reduce sentencing disparities for powder and crack cocaine [JURIST news archive] offenses. The Fair Sentencing Act, introduced by Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) [official website], would amend existi ...
  • Idaho governor first to sign law barring federal h ...

    [JURIST] Idaho Governor CL "Butch" Otter (R) [official website] on Wednesday became the first governor to sign a bill [H 391 text] into state law banning any federal mandate for individuals to have health insurance. The Idaho Health Freedom Act orders the state attorney general to file a lawsuit aga ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Dems Self-Execute Themselves in the Foot

    I've argued that the use of a self-executing rule is constitutionally and legislatively valid. Now I'll argue that the Democrats seem to have completely bungled the very legit procedure they hope to use to give wavering moderates some cover. Quite simply, no one seems to have explained the rule to t ...
  • There Will Be an Up or Down Vote on Health Care

    The Wall Street Journal's particularly caustic editorial on the self-executing maneuver that might allow Democrats to pass health care reconciliation legislation without having to first vote on that putrid Senate bill is full of absolutes and adjective constructions: it is an "amazing procedural rus ...
  • Top 3 Reasons Why Republicans Might Win the House

    (To be followed tomorrow by three reasons they they might not .) Will Republicans win back the House? Charlie Cook thinks it's a safe bet. David Brooks is doubtful. Larry Sabato's model predicts a 27-seat gain. Stu Rothenberg has yet to make a prediction. Gary Jacobson of UCLA wants to wait until he ...
  • 3 Reasons Why Republicans Might Not Take Over the ...

    A companion piece to " Top 3 Reasons Why Republicans Might Win the House ." Which arguments are more persuasive? Hard to say. It's conceivable that Republicans could win the House, but the wave metaphor that so many prognosticators tend to use is not very apt. There is plenty of enthusiasm among Rep ...
  • When A Schedule Is More Than A Schedule

    Close observers of the State Department noticed something different this afternoon: on the daily schedule distributed by the department includes, for the first time, information on Deputy Secretary of State Jim Steinberg's appointments. Until recently, the daily release included Secretary of State ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran Is Paranoid and Israel Is Not (You're Kidding ...

    Summary: "A country whose political culture is characterized by paranoia." What country would that be? Israel, which has claimed victim status through seven decades of vicious land grab? The United States, which has devastated Iraq pretending to look for imaginary weapons of mass destructio ...
  • Powell Says New Sanctions on Iran Won’t Stop Nucle ...

    Summary: Powell Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said new sanctions on Iran to persuade it to stop enriching uranium won’t work because the Islamic republic is “determined to have a nuclear program.”. He made the distinction between nuclear programme and nuclear weapons and called fo ...
  • Israel attack on Iran could ignite Middle East: He ...

    Summary: Violence could spread across the Middle East with Israel paying a "heavy price" if it launched military action against Iran, the deputy leader of Hezbollah said on Thursday. source: Reuters read more
  • Will There Be A False Flag Operation To Implicate ...

    Summary: Roberts The next step will be a staged "terrorist attack," a "false flag" operation as per Operation Northwoods, for which Iran will be blamed. As Iran and its leadership have already been demonized, the "false flag" attack will suffice to obtain U.S. and European public support for bo ...
  • Iran’s Natural Gas Riches: US Knife to the Heart o ...

    Summary: A major realignment in the world’s energy economy – one where there will be a continuing diminished role for the US – Washington’s blustering rhetoric about democracy and peace and war on terror or alleged Iranian nuclear weapons can be seen as a desperate attempt to conceal its fear t ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • You Create the Caption

  • NASA Discovery At Bottom of World Points to Possib ...

    In a discovery at the bottom of the world that could have implications on the search for extraterrestrial life, researchers were astounded to find an amphipod swimming beneath a massive Ross Ice Shelf, about 12.5 miles away from open water....
  • Mars 3D "Drone" FlyOver -An Awesome Video

    This 4:50 3D flyby over the surface of Mars—created by British 3D guru Doug Ellison—is the most accurate to date. You'll feel like you're there! Think of it as a personal drone flight over some of Mars most spectacular landscape.
  • Unlocking the Secrets of Jupiter's Giant Red Spot

    New thermal images from powerful ground-based telescopes show swirls of warmer air and cooler regions never seen before within Jupiter's Great Red Spot, which has persisted for as long as 200 to 350 years, based on early telescopic observations, enabling...
  • Mystery: How Could a White Dwarf Supernova Exceed ...

    An international team led by Yale University has, for the first time, measured the mass of a Type Ia supernovae and confirmed that it surpasses what was believed to be a possible upper mass limit. Their findings could affect the...

Natural News

  • Cordyceps mushroom is an effective cancer treatmen ...

    (NaturalNews) Researchers from the University of Nottingham have found that a rare, wild mushroom called cordyceps is an effective treatment for cancer. Commonly used in Chinese medicine, the cordyceps fungi inhibits the growth, division, and proliferation of cancer cells in the body. Cordyceps was ...
  • Placebo Effect Breakthrough: It's Not Just in the ...

    (NaturalNews) The placebo effect can be traced in part to physical changes that take place in the spine when a fake drug is taken, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany, and published in the journal Science .The placebo effect r ...
  • Mammograms cause 7,000 women to receive false posi ...

    (NaturalNews) Experts from the Nordic Cochrane Centre (NCC) in the U.K. have estimated that about 7,000 British women are improperly diagnosed for breast cancer each year because of mammography. The group is urging the National Health Service (NHS) to reevaluate its breast cancer screening program, ...
  • Behind the scenes video preview of the Healing Mir ...

    (NaturalNews) The "Healing Miracles LIVE" event is underway this Friday and Saturday in Southern California, where some of the best-known authorities in natural health and health freedom have gathered for a once-in-a-lifetime live event. Today, Jonathan Landsman and I filmed a behind-the-scenes look ...
  • Dr. Nicholas DiMartino reveals ways to eliminate f ...

    (NaturalNews) This week's NaturalNews Talk Hour features Nicholas DiMartino, D.O., ND talking about how to "Eliminate Fatigue -- New Ways to Energize YOUR Health". Low energy is the first sign of poor health... stop the damage before it's too late. Our program runs this Thursday evening at 6pm Pacif ...

Threat Level

  • Rich Get Richer in ‘Hot News’ Stock Tip Fight

    A well-known financial news aggregator is being ordered by a federal judge to delay publication of prominent financial analysts’ buy and sell recommendations to allow the well-to-do the first crack at capitalizing on that trading research. The 3-year-old litigation, brought by Barclays Capital, Merr ...
  • Unprecedented 25-Year Sentence Sought for TJX Hack ...

    Computer hacker Albert Gonzalez deserves a quarter-century behind bars for leading a gang of cyberthieves who stole tens of millions of credit and debit card numbers from a transaction processor and several giant retail chains, federal prosecutors argued in a court filing Thursday night. “[T]he sent ...
  • Accusations Fly in Viacom, YouTube Copyright Fight

    Google deliberately weakened its copyright compliance standards after it acquired YouTube in 2006 so it “would profit from illegal downloads,” Google co-founder Sergey Brin once said, according to a Friday filing by Viacom in its infringement suit against the company. YouTube, in its own Friday fili ...
  • Court: Cyberbullying Threats Are Not Protected Spe ...

    A California appeals court ruled this week that threatening posts made by readers of a website are not protected free speech, allowing a case charging the posters with hate crimes and defamation to proceed. The case raises fundamental questions about cyberbullying and the line between online speech ...
  • Court Slaps Prosecutor Who Threatened Child-Porn C ...

    A Pennsylvania appellate court upheld a preliminary injunction on Wednesday barring local prosecutors from filing felony child-porn charges against a teenage girl who took a partially nude photo of herself with her cellphone. The court said prosecutors were using the threat of charges as retaliatio ...

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  • Broun: Health Care for Red States a "War of Yankee ...

    For many Republicans from Dixie , the old times there are not forgotten. But in equating the health care reform bill to the "Great War of Yankee Aggression," Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) has served up a double irony. For starters, Broun is among the growing legion of Congressional Republicans trying to k ...
  • CBO Highlights Republican Deficit Posturing

    The Congressional Budget Office ( CBO ) estimates for the final health care bill are bringing smiles to Democratic faces. Over 10 years, the $940 billion package will cover 32 million more Americans while ending insurance abuses including rescission and the use of pre-existing conditions to deny co ...
  • Before Badgering Obama, Bret Baier Compared Bush t ...

    The conservative blogosphere is abuzz over the Bret Baier's contentious interview Wednesday with President Obama . Of course, Baier's repeated interruptions and confrontational tone should come as no surprise. After all, the Fox News hatchet man established his partisan bona fides two years ago in ...
  • Liz Cheney Fails David Rivkin's Crazy Test

    That former Clinton inquisitor Ken Starr admonished Liz Cheney for her stunning and shameless attack on the Obama Justice Department tells you all you need to know about her " Al Qaeda 7 " and "Department of Jihad" slanders. But to truly appreciate the depth of Cheney's descent into the political g ...
  • Republicans Sick and Tired of the Sick and Tired

    As the health care reform debate heads into its final days, the Republican opposition is turning on the sick themselves. This week, the right-wing echo chamber blasted an 11 year old boy whose mother passed away due to lack of health insurance. And a day after the conservative blogosphere proteste ...

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  • The Youth by Cindy Sheehan + Peace of the Action T ...

    by Cindy SheehanFeatured WriterDandelion SaladCindy Sheehans Soapbox BlogCindy Sheehans SoapboxMarch 16, 2010Almost everywhere I go to speak, during the Q and A portion, someone asks me where are The Youth?Well, I have good news for all these people who have been lamenting over the lack of young peo ...
  • Countdown: Michael Moore on Wall Street and Health ...

    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/mmflintMarch 15, 2010“[Chris Dodd] said today, well we don’t want to ‘punish’ Wall Street. Yes we do. Yes, that’s exactly what we need to do, because if we don’t do it, they won’t do anything to change. … Instead what we did was, we wrote them more checks and said ...
  • Sweatshops Won't Save Haiti

    The United Nations will host a Haiti donors' conference at the end of March. This conference will be quite different from last year's event, of course, coming as it does on the heels of the worst earthquake to strike Haiti in two centuries. An agenda has already begun to take shape: It's already cle ...
  • What We Need to Do to Counter Our Man-Made Apocaly ...

    We are finding a faith inside “Environmentalism” and “Earth Justice” and “Climate Change Activism.” A faith can support multiple movements, and carry hundreds of issues. A single belief system can sweep across culture and change us all. Christianity did this, and Marxism. And in the 60’s we witnesse ...
  • Increasing Evidence That Recession Has Caused Numb ...

    According to a new DHS report, 11.8 million unauthorized immigrants lived in the United States as of January 2007. By January 2009, that number had fallen to 10.8 million.

Consortium News

  • Israel's Troubling Tilt Toward Apartheid

    Israel's Housing Minister wants to exclude Arabs and secular Jews from ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods, reports Robert Parry. March 19, 2010
  • The Death and Life of Bishop Romero

    Three decades ago, a U.S.-trained military officer ordered the murder of El Salvador's Archbishop Oscar Romero, recalls Gary G. Kohls. March 18, 2010
  • Torture Lawyer Gets His Say at UVA

    Ex-Justice Department lawyer John Yoo gets a prestigious platform while his critics are left in the street, notes David Swanson. March 18, 2010
  • WPost Blames Obama First, on Israel

    The Washington Post is blaming President Obama for enflaming a dispute with Israel on settlement expansion, writes Robert Parry. March 16, 2010
  • Yoo Besmirches Jefferson's Legacy

    Torture enabler John Yoo's speech at UVA will be juxtaposed against Thomas Jefferson's ideals of liberty, says Ray McGovern. March 15, 2010

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    I’m om a hiatus again.  Check back now and then, I may surprise you. Tagged: Personal Note
  • Texas Progressive Alliance Monday, February 22, 20 ...

    Monday, February 22, 2010 Texas Blog Roundup The Texas Progressive Alliance reminds you that early voting runs through this Friday at 7 PM for the primaries as it brings you this week’s blog highlights. BossKitty at TruthHugger is amazed that anger is directed toward the Internal Revenue Servic ...
  • Tax and Defiance – Short Sighted Protester, Joe St ...

    Income Tax is Public money that is managed by our elected politicians, who also design the rules for how to use that money. The American Voter is where the ultimate responsibility lies. If the American voter cannot recognize they are complicit in creating a monster taxation system, they can throw ...
  • Military Sexual Offenses, Nothing New – Don’t Ask, ...

    How American’s deal with their sexual drives has a long twisted history of abuse and disinformation
  • Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up Feb 8, ...

    The Texas Progressive Alliance congratulates the city of New Orleans for the Saints’ stirring Super Bowl victory, and reminds them that the “hair of the dog” trick doesn’t really help with the hangover. The Texas Cloverleaf highlights the sentencing of GOP Denton County Constable Ken Jannereth. P ...

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  • Will Bloggers Rescue the Lehman Story?

    Last week an explosive report on the fall of a Wall Street titan was released to relative silence in large outlets. �Will they give it the attention and analysis it deserves, or will the recent tendency to miss big stories reassert itself? For more on pruning back executive power see Pruning Shears ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap

    Keep the pressure on. "The international Quartet of Middle East peace mediators has urged Israel to freeze all settlement activity. Speaking for the Quartet, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned Israel's announcement of plans to build new homes in disputed East Jerusalem.That move undermined e ...
  • Don't Call It Journalism Yet

    As a former reporter, one inspired to join the profession by Woodward and Bernstein and who left it before it became a Village of repug-dick-sucking transcribers, I am all in favor of reporters rhetorically beating politicians - especially the president - about the head and shoulders to demand hones ...
  • Seven Years Ago Today

    Following Michael's excellent post commemorating the start of the Mess in Mesopotamia . Seven years ago today, George Bush's vanity war got underway. But honestly, I don't think I can improve on the post I wrote on the five-year anniversary of this clusterfuck, so without further ado, what I conside ...
  • Seven years ago

    March 20, 2003 We left Warrensburg at 4:30 p.m. and made it to the J.C. Nichols fountain at 47th and Main in Kansas City by 5:30 p.m. The organizers had planned for some time to have a 6:00 p.m. protest on the Plaza if hostilities broke out. I had been ambivalent about attending given the ugly rheto ...

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  • 3 SoCal men suspected of Indian stealing artifacts

    VENTURA, Calif.—Three men have been arrested on suspicion of stealing artifacts from a Native American burial site in the Santa Monica Mountains in Ventura County. Sheriff's spokesman Ross Bonfiglio said Thursday that 22-year- Submitted by Lone Wolf to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Ad ...
  • OSU rescues entangled sea lion at Sea Lion Caves

    An entangled but aggressive sea lion stuck on rocks at the Sea Lion Caves was saved on Thursday by an Oregon State University team Submitted by Lone Wolf to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • American Indians Rally at Capitol for HIV/AIDS Awa ...

    The Florida Capitol courtyard was filled with American Indian song and dance, as several tribes from around the Sunshine State came to speak out on health issues Submitted by Lone Wolf to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Ron Paul: Fed’s Price Fixing Not Compatible With a ...

    Ron Paul attacks the Federal Reserve’s price fixing activities in his opening statement at the House Financial Services Committee hearing on bank supervision and monetary policy Submitted by Lone Wolf to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Facebook has 'no objection' to pedophile panic but ...

    SOCIAL networking site Facebook said after a meeting with the UK home secretary Thursday that it had "no objection" to installing a panic button to report abuse by pedophiles. "We had a frank exchange of views in which I emphasized that including the CEOP Submitted by Lady Xanadu to Offbeat �|� �No ...

GreenBiz

  • Three Simple Checkpoints on the Road to a Clean En ...

    In the midst of a gold rush of clean technologies, some observers believe we're still years from making a dent in the national carbon footprint. But these three shovel-ready technologies show a low-carbon future is already within sight.
  • Energy Star, Shining Bright?

    This report from EcoAlign's EcoPinion series of surveys explores how the Energy Star label is fading in its impact, and suggests ways that Energy Star -- or any green brand -- can help strengthen its reputation.
  • Is the Energy Star Brand Losing its Edge?

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of Energy announced efforts to bolster the Energy Star program Friday, days after a survey suggested the brand could be losing its edge in the marketplace.
  • United Biscuits Meets Water Goal 10 Years Early

    U.K. snack company United Biscuits has met some of its environmental goals early, leading it to set even more aggressive targets and shorten its deadlines. �
  • Embrace Sustainability or Put Your Business at Ris ...

    Smart companies like Nike, Coca-Cola and Nestle have figured out that if you don't change the way you operate -- and the way your supply chain operates -- you're potentially putting your entire business model at risk. If a company loses its societal mandate to do business then it faces as much ri ...

Reuters Global

  • Safe landing? Airliner just had apricot face mask

    Apricot face masks can hydrate the skin, shrink your pores and strip the paint off your average Airbus passenger jet. Next time you buckle up for landing, take a moment to find out when your plane was last blasted with ground apricot pits.
  • Want to make clean money in Nigeria? Trade stocks.

    Nigeria is the quintessential frontier market, with its mix of promising opportunity, political instability, a reputation for dubious financial practices, a resource curse and reform ambition.
  • Did the manufacture of your iPhone make someone si ...

    This story is part of an ongoing GlobalPost investigation into the supply chains that make some of your favorite electronic gadgets. In this installment, GlobalPost examined the fallout after a factory that supplies Apple and Nokia used the toxic solvent n-hexane in violation of local codes and wit ...
  • Head scratching over EU plans for EMF, helping Gre ...

    IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn has made clear that he finds proposals on the creation of a European monetary fund somewhat vague. EU leaders are also being vague when talking about a standby plan to help Greece. What's behind the secrecy over plans that EU leaders hope never to have to ...
  • Thailand’s bloody protests

    CHAIWAT SUBPRASOM/Reuters. Supporters of former premier Thaksin Shinawatra splash human blood on the gates of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva's home after they broke a police cordon in Bangkok March 17, 2010

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  • Wouldn’t This Be Funny **OPEN THREAD**

    If it was true? I refer to another video from those very funny people at The Onion. Yes, in this one, the White House scrambles to cover Obama’s being busted on the one thing he can actually do – read a teleprompter: Obama Caught Lip-Syncing Speech I love the part where they show what Obama’s [... ...
  • And the Lies of Barack Obama . . .

    Please read and appreciate the truth Mel Goodman is reporting below (here) about the lies of Bush and Rove and then appreciate that the same phenomena is underway again in Washington in the person of Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress. Flat learning curve in Washington (i.e., NO ONE LEARNS ...
  • The Lies of Karl Rove

    Editor’s Note: Republished from Truthout.org with the express permission of Mel Goodman, whose biography is at the end of this post. Karl Rove. (Photo: chicagopublicradio) Joseph Goebbels, the leading propagandist of the Third Reich, believed in the power of the lie; the greater the l ...
  • Blog Upgrade Notice

    FRIDAY MORNING UPDATE: The upgrade went very smoothly. You should be able to post comments normally. If you can’t yet, it’s very likely that your ISP hasn’t switched over to the new servers that NoQuarter is now running on. If you encounter any other issues, please e-mail me and describe your pro ...
  • Hidden Costs Of the Healthcare Bill You Will NOT B ...

    I was shocked to discover more of what is hidden away in this horrible bill the Democrats are trying to ram down our throats to protect Obama’s presidency. Sorry, Obama – this isn’t ABOUT you! It is about the American people, who have been telling you and your hench people that we do [...]

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  • War on WikiLeaks? Nasty intelligence plan to destr ...

    Well this is grim! The ACIC or Army Counterintelligence Center published in March 2008 a National Security Information Special Report, under the auspices of the Department of Defense Intelligence Analysis Program (DIAP). Michael D Horvath of the Cyver Counterintelligence Assessments Branch d ...
  • Restored 1927 "Metropolis" adds new subplots on wo ...

    Frame by frame, the lost almost-complete version of Metropolis is coming out. METROPOLIS2710 It's an amazing & essentially perfect film, which created the bases for epic pop culture characters like Doc Brown, C3PO, as well as a powerful vision of utopian urbanism -- the film itself created a huge c ...
  • Young: "The Internet is a giant spying machine rig ...

    Got BitLocker? Feel a bit r00ted??? [It was later posted that this full Windows 7 law enforcement pack was actually originally posted on the very cool newer site PublicIntelligence.net: Microsoft Windows 7/Vista Advanced Forensics Guides for Law Enforcement | Public Intelligence ] In a continuation ...
  • Viddy Still from Michael Ruppert appearance in Min ...

    Its taking a while but I have a lot of footage from Michael Ruppert's visit to St Anthony Main for the screenings of Collapse last week... Overall it was quite awesome, with new items of geopolitics and a lot of jokes. Plus the lighting looks like the movie which is neat :) Standby on that one, I th ...
  • 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 ...

Daily Censored

  • Chris Dodd’s wife and derivatives trading – “all i ...

    It’s all in the family! Senator Chris Dodd writes a financial reform bill but forgets to regulate derivatives, “financial weapons of mass destruction.â€� Then we find out that his wife works for the owners of two exchanges that will very likely benefit from Dodd’s “reformâ€� legislati ...
  • Do You Want to Stop the Health Insurance Mandate?

    If you really want to stop the health insurance profit promotion bill, then let Congress know that we will use our most powerful right to hold government accountable. This is our right to present evidence indicating the commission of a crime to a grand jury and ask for an investigation and an indic ...
  • Public Humiliation of Children as Education Policy

    Once again Paul A. Moore says it quite succinctly in what follows in his essay on Florida and the FCAT tests. The new assembly line of despair we now call education in this country is exposed in dynamic terms by Paul for what it is — a nightmarish form of Dickensian public policies that harken [...]
  • Federal Reserve turned a blind eye to Wall Street ...

    Bernanke & Gaithner, always one excuse after another when it comes to their share of the mess that we are in now. Complete disconnect, no shame. There were things that they knew they should have done; instead they chose to turn a blind eye. Bernanke tried to give himself a pat on the back in fron ...
  • Dodd’s Dud

    “That said, the thing which disgusts me the most, when we know the #1 cause of the financial crisis was derivatives, is how there isn’t any meaningful derivatives reform and that includes the House bill too. “ Robert Oak, Economic Populist By Robert Oak You may be wondering why you haven’t seen a ...

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  • Paul Craig Roberts: American Naifs Bringing Ruin t ...

    The following column is reprinted with permission from Paul Craig Roberts. American Na�fs Bringing Ruin to Other Lands � �Paul Craig Roberts March 17, 2010 According to news reports, the U.S. military is shipping "bunker-buster" bombs to the U.S. Air Force base at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. ...
  • Obama's cynical pursuit of health care "reform"

    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from World Socialist Web Site. Obama's cynical pursuit of health care "reform" � � World Socialist Web Site By Kate Randall March 17, 2010 For the third time in a week, Barack Obama took to the stage to stump for his health care overhaul, this ...
  • Georgia: Simulating War Or Provoking It?

    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Rick Rozoff. Georgia: �Simulating War Or Provoking It? � � Rick Rozoff March 16, 2010 On the evening of March 13 Georgia's Imedi television channel ran a 30-minute prime time "simulated" newscast about a Russian invasion of the South Cauca ...
  • Gordon Duff: Terrorism And The Fleecing Of The Fai ...

    The following column is reprinted with permission from Gordon Duff, staff writer and Senior Editor at Veterans Today . Terrorism And The Fleecing Of The Faithful � �Gordon Duff Source: �Veterans Today March 14, 2010 The "war on terror" has been like no other. America has kidnapped and tortured doz ...
  • 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 ...

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #312

    Pentagon official behind 'rogue ops' gives interview. Kiwi external spies to focus on domestic intel. CIA's European secrets: Clandestine prisons investigated.
  • Another Mossad assassination, this time in Hungary ...

    IntelNews got word last night that an unidentified Syrian man was shot dead in Budapest early on Wednesday morning, as he was driving his car. Witnesses reported that the assailant stole a small black briefcase from the 52-year-old victim’s vehicle, before fleeing the scene of the crime on foot. A f ...
  • News you may have missed #311

    Al-Qaeda technical expert believed killed. Al-Qaeda on the run, claims CIA director. UK government defends use of foreign intel.
  • Senate bill proposes closer links between US spies ...

    A bipartisan bill, unveiled yesterday in the US Senate, proposes closer links between US intelligence agencies and private sector companies active in areas of “critical infrastructure”.
  • News you may have missed #310

    CIA's Kiriakou authors new book. White House threatens veto on intelligence bill. Analysis: Outsourcing Intelligence.

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  • Greenpeace won’t give Nestle a break from pa ...

    by Ashley Braun Related Links: Why we shouldn’t bury bluefin tuna just yet Performance issues in Chicago men’s room reek havoc on water conservation Nations now free to fish bluefin tuna to extinction
  • Performance issues in Chicago men’s room ree ...

    by Ashley Braun Sustainable Sanitation via FlickrThe backup in the bathrooms of Chicago's City Hall is so foul that no amount of Pepto Bismol is going to help. Well-meaning politicians installed waterless urinals in the public men's room to save a little water, but they were pissed to learn ab ...
  • Nations now free to fish bluefin tuna to extinctio ...

    by Tom Laskawy Well, bluefin tuna, it was nice knowing you : A proposal to ban the export of Atlantic bluefin tuna prized in sushi has been rejected by a U.N. wildlife meeting. Thursday's decision occurred after Japan, Canada and scores of poor nations opposed the measure on the grounds tha ...
  • If it does matter where CO2 is released, cities ar ...

    by Jonathan Hiskes There’s some fascinating new research about “CO2 domes,” invisible clouds of carbon pollution that hover above urban areas. Bradford Plumer at The New Republic does a great job setting the context : Does it matter where carbon dioxide is emitted? From a climate perspective ...
  • Bolivia summit to seek global climate change refer ...

    by Agence France-Presse Bolivian President Evo MoralesLA PAZ -- An alternative "people's conference" on climate change in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba in April will seek to advance an international global warming referendum, organizers said Tuesday. "The only thing that can save mankind fro ...

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  • Court to Wrangle Documents From the Fed’s Co ...

    Bloomberg’s long-standing Freedom of Information Act request for a look at who in the financial system took part in the Fed’s now-secret $2 trillion loan program has been granted by a second court on the basis that there exists no exemption to FOIA rules for the continued economic health of private ...
  • Congressman Pushes Unsourced Rumors of Dems Tradin ...

    On March 17, Connie Hair of Human Events shared an unsourced rumor with her readers: Most interesting rumor from the Hill yesterday: Rep. Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.) who announced his retirement from Congress has been promised the job of NASA administrator in exchange for his vote, and Rep. John Tanner (D ...
  • $153,000 Later, Titus Is a ‘Yes’

    In just the last seven days, third-party groups spent $153,000 on independent expenditures to buy commercials, make phone calls and fund other activities to pressure Rep. Dina Titus (D-Nev.) to vote against the health care plan, according to the Federal Election Commission. $153,000 later, Titus say ...
  • GOP Leaders Back Away From Fishy ‘Democratic ...

    Shortly after Politico reported on an “internal Democratic memo” telling members to spin away the looming cost of a “doc fix,” Republicans began pointing reporters to the story. But two hours after the story went up, TPM reported that Democrats were calling the memo a “hoax,” and Politico pulled the ...
  • Five More Ways Obama’s Mortgage Modification ...

    For an administration that once said that it would pay more attention to Main Street than Wall Street, the failure of the its signature initiative for Main Streeters — the mortgage modification program — should be a wake-up call that it’s far past time to pay attention to the problems facing the eve ...

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  • Change, They Say, Is Good. But Is It?

    It's said that Alexander the Great wept when he realised there were no more lands left for him to conquer. In other words, there was nothing new to challenge him; there was no raison d'être. It's a laughable thought today, isn't it? Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture ...
  • Teacher breaks 4th grader’s arm for ‘forgetting Iq ...

    LAHORE: A female teacher of a private school thrashed Muhammad Jahanzeb, a fourth grade student when he was unable to explain a poem by Allama Iqbal, causing multiple fractures in his arm. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Skeptics claim global warming is fake after top sc ...

    Hackers recently broke into thousands of emails and internal documents from a leading climate research center and dumped them onto an anonymous Russian server. The hacked emails (160 MB worth, unzipped) came from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic R Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to ...
  • We're expanding, while economy shrinks

    Americans now have another excuse for hitting the fast food establishments and getting farther out of shape by adding unwanted weight, and it's allegedly not their fault. The latest health discovery is called "recession pounds," and some researchers Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to So ...
  • Reports call for radical rethink on food policy to ...

    The food and farming sector is not pulling its weight when it comes to tacking climate change and food shortages could be the consequence if we fail to make fundamental changes to the way we farm, process, distribute and eat our food over the next 20 year Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to ...

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  • Jon Stewart: Skewers Glenn Beck- 3/18/10 (VIDEO)

    Jon Stewart’s Spends Half His Show Skewering Glenn Beck HuffPost– First Posted: 03-19-10 02:16 AM   |   Updated: 03-19-10 08:50 AM Jon Stewart gets a lot of material from Glenn Beck, but the Daily Show host went all-in on Thursday night with a whopping 15-minute parody of the Fox News hos ...
  • Health Care Reform Costs

    CBO Score On Health Care Bill Released: Boosts Democrats’ Hopes Of Passing Reform HuffPost- Ryan Grim– First Posted: 03-18-10 09:20 AM   |   Updated: 03-18-10 05:40 PM Comprehensive health care reform will cost the federal government $940 billion over a ten-year period, but will increase ...
  • Evening Jukebox- Ruby Tuesday

    The Corrs & Ron Wood – Ruby Tuesday (Live in Dublin 2002)
  • ~THE GOOD NEWS & THE BAD NEWS~

    China’s view of Joe Biden’s visit to Jerusalem The good news is that Obama has canceled his trip to Australia to address the ongoing Health Care fiasco. The bad news is that Hillary is in Moscow talking to Pootie about Russia’s plan to complete a nuclear power plant in Iran. [...]
  • Revealed: Ashcroft, Tenet, Rumsfeld warned 9/11 Co ...

    Sahil Kapur, Raw Story, March 17, 2010 Senior Bush administration officials sternly cautioned the 9/11 Commission against probing too deeply into the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, according to a document recently obtained by the ACLU. The notification came in a letter [...]

Solari

  • Federal Reserve Must Disclose Bank Bailout Records

    By David Glovin and Bob Van Voris The Federal Reserve Board must disclose documents identifying financial firms that might have collapsed without the largest U.S. government bailout ever, a federal appeals court said. The U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan ruled today that the Fed must release reco ...
  • GATA Chairman Murphy’s Planned Testimony

    Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: The formal statement GATA Chairman Bill Murphy plans to submit as a witness at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s hearing next week on position limits in the precious metals futures and options markets has been posted at GATA’s Internet site, complete with ...
  • To Eat Local, Kill Local

    By Heather Smith With just one slaughterhouse remaining within 80 miles of San Francisco, we stand to lose not only our local beef industry, but our grazing lands as well. Now a thick-skinned herd of ranchers and environmentalists are determined to keep the cows close to home. In this era of the lo ...
  • Domestic Dogs Ancestry

    By Steve Gorman From French poodles to German shepherds, domestic dogs likely trace most of their ancestry to the Middle East, as opposed to East Asian origins suggested by previous research, a genetic study reported on Wednesday. The findings, published in the online edition of the scientific jour ...
  • 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 been a ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum

    Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan , Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban . ... and more��
  • Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afg ...

    BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency ? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in Afghanistan Sri Lanka ...
  • Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United Press ...

    Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan , Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more��
  • Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA new ...

    Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more��
  • An Evolving Afghan Policy - American Chronicle

    An Evolving Afghan Policy American Chronicle ... triumph for the forces of Islamic extremism, al-Qaeda would once again gain a foothold, and the return of the Taliban would likely destabilize Pakistan . ...

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  • Higher education research ringfenced

    The government has protected grants for teaching and research in higher education, while reducing capital funding in figures announced yesterday. Expenditure on teaching and research received a modest boost of nearly 1% for the next academic year while spending on capital projects has been cut by a ...
  • Meet the malaria-busting mosquito

    A mosquito that vaccinates as it bites has been genetically engineered by scientists in Japan. Researchers hope the so-called "flying vaccinators" could one day become an important weapon in the fight against malaria. The disease is caused by a single-celled parasite spread by the Anopheles mosquito ...
  • A new golden standard: Fairtrade gold

    We’ve become accustomed to Fairtrade coffee, tea and more recently clothes. Now gold is added to the list. Fairtrade Labelling Organisations International (FLO) and the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM) launch the first ever third party independent certification for gold, opening up market oppor ...
  • Plummeting uni places: time for trade skills?

    The new head of UCAS, Mary Curnock Cook, announced on Thursday that 50,000 more students, with good grades, will fail to gain a place at university compared to last year. UCAS applications are already up 32%, yet the number of places has been cut by 6,000. Curnock Cook’s reaction has been matter of ...
  • Child poverty will end by 2020

    The Child Poverty Bill passed its third reading in the House of Lords yesterday, meaning it is all but guaranteed to pass into law before the General Election. The bill makes it a legal requirement for the UK government to eradicate child poverty by 2020. The measures have attracted cross-party sup ...

Fabius Maximus

  • American is the arsenal of democracy. And the arse ...

    Summary:  This discusses an often unsavory aspect of one the few remaining American export industries.  We close our eyes to it.  The people of the nations on the side of this trade often find it difficult to do so. Contents An introduction by George Bernard Shaw Introduction by Tom Englehardt: ...
  • Of course Iran aids our enemies! Otherwise why wo ...

    This “Iran supplying our foesâ€� story was a staple of the Iraq War.   After all, how could we be having so much trouble with a ragtag insurgency, if they were not supplied by a nation-state?  Now that we’re fully engaged in Afghanistan it reappears again: “Iran supplies weapons to Taliban“, Ch ...
  • FM newswire for March 19, 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. From one of the world’s few real futurists:  “The Next Big Thing: Anger Management“, Martin van Creveld, Foreign Policy, 15 April 2009 — “Big Brother is ...
  • Will Obama attack Iran?

    Summary:  New rumors plus a deteriorating political situation for Obama and the Democratic Party raise (again) concerns about a strike by the US against Iran. Elements of the US military and elites have long wanted to attack Iran.  Like the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, the reasons are nebulous ...
  • About models, increasingly often the lens through ...

    Here is one of Paul Krugman’s many brilliant essays.  It’s one with broad applicability today, as we grow increasingly dependent on mathematical models.  Such as science, public health, banking, and public finance.  Yet both practitioners and laypeople too-seldom understand their strengths and w ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Uranium sale ‘will weaken nuclear safeguards’

    ABC – The Federal Government has paved the way for Australia to sell uranium to Russia. An agreement was signed in 2007 by the Howard government but it is yet to be ratified. In 2008 a Labor-dominated parliamentary inquiry recommended the deal be scrapped unless eight stringent conditions were met, ...
  • Report finds mercury emissions still high in U.S.

    The Philadelphia Inquirer – Blaming delays by the federal Environmental Protection Agency and the coal-fired power industry, an environmental group yesterday said mercury emissions nationally had declined by only a paltry amount – 7 percent – from 2000 to 2008. In a report analyzing EPA emissions da ...
  • U.S. history textbooks could soon be flavored heav ...

    Yahoo News – The nation’s public school curriculum may be in for a Texas-sized overhaul, if the Lone Star state’s influential recommendations for changes to social studies, economics and history textbooks are fully ratified later this spring. Last Friday, in a 10-to-5 vote split right down party ...
  • US drone strike in Pakistan ‘killed key al-Qaeda m ...

    BBC – A key al-Qaeda figure wanted for a deadly attack on a CIA base in Afghanistan has been killed in a US drone strike, US officials believe. Hussein al-Yemeni, a top al-Qaeda planner, died in the strike in the city of Miranshah in Pakistan, they said. He was believed to have helped plan an [...]
  • Aid agency pans NATO Afghanistan plan

    ABC – An international aid agency is rejecting the NATO secretary-general’s call for non-government organisations (NGOs) to work alongside military forces in Afghanistan. The United Nations Security Council will consider the proposal when it meets today to renew the mandate for its mission in Afghan ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Reactionaries close John Brown park

    Reactionaries close John Brown park (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) In 1859, a handful of revolutionaries, White and Black, declared war upon the United Snakes in order to liberate the enslaved Black Nation from Amerika’s murderous clutches. The leader of this small army was John Brown, a White ...
  • Mga punto sa Digmang Bayan

    Mga punto sa Digmang Bayan (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) (english) 1. Ang digmang bayan ay kailangang itaguyod hanggang wakas. Ang digmang bayan ay hindi maaaring ibukas-sara. Kapag nasimulan, dalawang kahihinatnan ang maaari lamang mangyari. Maski ang digmang bayan ay magtagumpay at malu ...
  • Runda 3: Pierwszoświatowi hodżaiści kontra trzecio ...

    Runda 3: PierwszoÅ›wiatowi hodżaiÅ›ci kontra trzecioÅ›wiatowi maoiÅ›ci o pierwszoÅ›wiatowej “klasie robotniczej” i czytaniu Marksa Ostatnio odbyÅ‚a siÄ™ debata pomiÄ™dzy pierwszoÅ›wiatowymi hodżaistami i trzecioÅ›wiatowymi maoistami. Dyskusja objęła szereg tematów. Dwa główne tematy w niej po ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • California Considers Mandated Grid Storage

    Legislators in California have introduced a bill that would require electric utilities to provide grid-scale energy storage in their operations. The bill would call for a capacity of 2.25% of daytime peak demand by 2014 and 5% of peak demand by 2020. A variety of technologies could be included ...
  • High-Efficiency Hydraulic Hybrid Car Could Get 170 ...

    INGOCAR is a developmental concept for a 5 passenger car with a hydraulic drive system in place of a conventional powertrian. With the weight reduction this offers and other efficiencies in the systems, the designers say their vehicle could get 170 mpg. The INGOCAR is a hydraulic hybrid vehicle ...
  • Finally, A No-Draw Charger

    AT&T has just announced a USB-based telephone charger that does not pull electricity from the wall when it's not charging a phone. I don't know about you, but my charger is plugged in 100% of the time. That charger pulls a tiny amount of energy from the wall 24 hours a day 365 days a year. Multipy t ...
  • LED Lighting Would Save America $120 Billion

    A Department of Energy report on light emitting diode (LED) technology has some pretty startling numbers to digest. First, 7% of America's electricity is used to light our homes and businesses. That number is down significantly in the last few years because of the adoption of efficient lighting. Bu ...
  • China Planning Massive Asia-Europe Rail System

    China's high-speed rail plans get more ambitious by the day.  Not satisfied with having the world's most advanced and extensive rail line in the world, China is now planning to connect its rail system to 17 other countries in Asia and Eastern Europe where it will join the European rail network. Ch ...

Buzzflash

  • Glenn Beck Puts on ‘Mask of Christianity’ While Be ...

    BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT by Jeffrey Joseph It took Glenn Beck just a few days to respond to all the blow back he received for telling people to "leave their church" if it mentioned social justice , a tenet prominent in many Christian circles. In so doing, he took the only route he felt comfortable appro ...
  • Zero Public Option + One Mandate = Disaster

    BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Norman Solomon Not long ago, the most prominent supporters of the public option were touting it as essential for healthcare reform. Now, suddenly, it’s incidental. In fact, many who were lauding a public option as the key to a better healthcare future are now condemning ...
  • The Gitmo Distraction

    BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Media Services America’s charade of change comes complete with national “debate” and a slight readjustment of the center to accommodate the Bush Lite policies of the Obama presidency. What matters is that any change President Obama proposes be ...
  • Pick Up the Phone: Don't Let the GOP/Tea Party Mob ...

    BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZFLASH MINUTE Call your Congressmen/women, call your Senators, tell them we the people want healthcare. We want the healthcare reform bill to pass! Let them know how we the people really feel! Don't let the Repuglicans and the tea party mobs get away with fabricating our wants, ne ...
  • Will the Democrats Pass HCR by Using "The Republic ...

    NEIL WOLLMAN FOR BUZZFLASH.COM To their benefit, Republicans and conservative media have long been good at using euphemistic names to frame political issues. Terms like “the death tax” to describe the inheritance tax have caught the public and media attention. During the health care debate, there ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • Those authoritarian, torture-loving French

    French documentarians conducted an experiment where they created a faux game show -- with all the typical studio trappings -- and then instructed participants (who thought it was a real TV�show) to administer electric shock to unseen contestants each time they answered questions incorrectly, with ...
  • Obama threatens to veto greater intelligence overs ...

    (updated below) One of the principal weapons used by the Bush administration to engage in illegal surveillance activities -- from torture to warrantless eavesdropping -- was its refusal to brief the full Congressional Intelligence Committees about its activities.  Instead, at best, it wou ...
  • U.S.-Israel rift undermining some long-standing ta ...

    (updated below) The rather extraordinary dust-up between the U.S. and Israel has, among other benefits, shined a light on two of the most taboo yet self-evidently true propositions:    (1) our joined-at-the-hip relationship with Israel is a significant cause of anti-American sentiment in ...
  • Salon Radio: Manipulative use of the term "Terro ...

    There's a great paradox in the American political landscape:��the word that is used most frequently to justify everything from invasions and bombings to torture, indefinite detention, and the�sprawling Surveillance�State -- Terrorism -- is also the most ill-defined and manipulated word . �It has n ...
  • Salon Radio: Remi Brulin Transcript

    To read about and listen to this podcast discussion, go here . Glenn Greenwald : My guest today on Salon Radio is R�mi Brulin, who teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at NYU, and is currently working on and close to finishing his Ph.D. dissertation, entitled The US Discourse on Terrorism S ...

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Chemical science, night sky, scientific trust

    Delicious links March 16-18 Chemical Science – Building linear polymers from monomers, inaugural paper in RSC's new journal Bing maps now let you scan the nighttime sky – The stars are coming out tonight…even when it's cloudy Sex and social networking – Patterns of prostitution revealed by analysis ...
  • The Periodic Table of David Bradley

    Given the intense interest and heated debate surrounding an old Sciencebase post about novel periodic tables, I thought I’d have a bit of fun with one of my own…click on an orange element to visit one of my links. If you’ve got a chemistry/science blog and your initials or its initials fit one of t ...
  • Real chemistry at the periodic table party

    Teaching chemistry has changed so much since my day. This classic Youtube clip highlights the way the elements might interact at a periodic table party. Carbon is popular with the hydrogens, the noble gases are the emo wallflowers, but it’s the fight that breaks out between potassium water that even ...
  • What causes the seasons?

    Outside the tropics we experience four seasons – Spring, Summer, Autumn, or Fall, and Winter. These occur because the Earth’s axis about which it rotates once a day is tilted at an angle relative to the Earth’s orbit around the sun. Because the axis always points towards the north star throughout th ...
  • Antimony, x-rays, childhood obesity

    Science news links for March 12-15, including the latest on my SpectroscopyNOW.com column: Feverish New World X-ray – X-ray crystallography has allowed US researchers to discover exactly how one type of New World hemorrhagic fever virus latches on to and infects human cells. The work offers a much- ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • New Report: States Well-Position to Have Automatic ...

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 19, 2010 Demos Public assistance agencies are generally well-positioned to help modernize our voter registration process by moving toward automatic registration of eligible persons who use agency services, according to a new report released by Demos. read more
  • Healthcare: Repeating Massachusetts' Mistakes?

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 19, 2010 Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) TRUDY LIEBERMAN Lieberman is a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, where she regularly writes for its Campaign Desk on healthcare. read more
  • Planned Parenthood Applauds Congresswoman Nita Low ...

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 19, 2010 Planned Parenthood Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) today commended Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY) for introducing the Global Democracy Promotion Act of 2010 to bar future administrations from reinstituting the so-called Mexico City policy, also k ...
  • Immigration Reform Must Respect Civil Liberties, S ...

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 19, 2010 ACLU Senators Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) have outlined a framework for immigration reform that they shared with the president last week, according to news reports. The senators have built the framework around four main issues: mandatory biom ...
  • The $285 Billion Nonsolution: The Cost of Deportat ...

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 19, 2010 Center for American Progress It has been almost three years since Congress tried to reform the nation’s broken immigration system. Since then, Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama have each greatly increased spending to deploy new enforcement strategies, bu ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Has Rahm's Assumption about Progressives been Vind ...

    by Glenn Greenwald Politico 's Ben Smith yesterday suggested that one important aspect of Rahm Emanuel's health care strategy -- to ignore the demands of progressives on the ground that they would fall into line at the end no matter what -- has been vindicated.  Smith points to a new poll showin ...
  • The Pentagon Church Militant and Us

    by William Astore When it comes to our nation's military affairs, ignorance is not bliss.  What's remarkable then, given the permanent state of war in which we find ourselves, is how many Americans seem content not to know. read more
  • Expecting Gen. McChrystal to Cut Afghan Civilian D ...

    by Dave Lindorff Three months after it initially lied about the murder by US forces of eight high school students and a 12-year-old shepherd boy in Afghanistan, and a month after it lied about the slaughter by US forces of an Afghan police commander, a government prosecutor, two of their pregnant wi ...
  • Nuclear Industry to Vermont: 'Drop Dead'

    by Harvey Wasserman The nuclear power industry is sending a clear and forceful message to the citizens of Vermont: "Drop Dead."  The greeting applies to Ohio, New York, California and a nation under assault from a "renaissance" so far hyped with more than $640 million in corporate cash.  The Ve ...
  • Everybody Knows The Deal Is Rotten

    by Christopher Cooper I don't want to do this. I shouldn't have to do this. But the burden is well-settled upon me; the letters and telephone calls and E-mail messages from the several hundred mostly strangers who have given numerous of my previous essays their praise and who have told me th ...

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

  • Calendar (Pensacola News Journal)

    Calendar: March 20
  • Council of Canadians celebrates World Water Day (W ...

    The Williams Lake Chapter of the Council of Canadians will join 67 other cross-Canada chapters in a tribute to World Water Day on March 22.
  • Let the clean water flow (The Japan Times)

    LONDON — The 18th annual World Water Day (March 22) offers the same old problems and rejects the practical solutions. On Monday, 1 billion people will, as usual, spend the day without clean water and a third of humanity without adequate sanitation. As usual, some 3.5 million men, women and children ...
  • Fire Privatization Dies Down (Journal & Topics)

    Although ultimately choosing not to examine if the city could save money by privatizing the fire department, the Rolling Meadows Committee of the Whole on Tuesday, Mar. 16 used the exercise in democracy to point out how government works and thank residents for participating.
  • This is a Backgrounder On Smart Growth (Heritage F ...

    Abstract: President Barack Obama has committed the United States to building at least 13 high-speed rail (HSR) lines, one of the most expensive forms of transportation that a nation could choose.

Guardian

  • Pope apologises for Irish priests' child sex abuse

    Pastoral letter to victims expresses shame and remorse of Catholic church and calls on priests to face justice The pope today apologised to the victims of child sex abuse by Catholic priests in Ireland, saying he was "truly sorry" for their suffering. In a pastoral letter to Irish Catholics, Benedic ...
  • BA cabin crew strike begins

    Picket lines and standby queues grow at Heathrow after last-ditch talks between BA and Unite union collapse British Airways cabin crew today began three days of strike action which will cause severe disruption for tens of thousands of the airline's passengers. Last-ditch talks between BA and the Uni ...
  • Cameron makes bank tax pledge

    Conservative party would impose unilateral tax on banks to recover taxpayers' billions if elected, says David Cameron The Conservative party would impose a unilateral tax on banks to claw back the billions of pounds of taxpayers' money used to prop up financial institutions during the economic crisi ...
  • How killer heels conquered fashion

    He turned shoes into fetish objects, brought back the stiletto and counts�Lady Gaga, Madonna and Oprah Winfrey as fans. But does he really think Barbie has fat�ankles? God forgive me, I interviewed Christian Louboutin while wearing a pair of trainers. Not fancy sci-fi ones either, but properly old a ...
  • US envoy prepares for Israel talks

    • Mitchell's trip to region back on after concession • Blair expects resumption of indirect negotiations The US special envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, is due to fly to the region on Sunday to try to secure a resumption of Israeli-Palestinian talks amid optimism about a breakthrough. Mitc ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Tuna defeat's hypocritical roots

    The frustration of conservation groups at the outcome of Thursday's tuna trade discussions was almost palpable. The proposal to ban international trade in the Atlantic bluefin discussed at the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meeting - tabled by Monaco and backed b ...
  • Climate ads far from divine

    Some interesting perspectives on communication, information and climate change emerge this week from Africa and the UK. A survey for the BBC World Service Trust (the corporation's international charitable arm) shows that although many Africans are noticing progressive changes to their weather, they ...
  • Can rhinos cure cancer?

    Last June, a group of five men drove into South Africa's Addo National Park and held up the rangers' station at gunpoint . They emerged with a small consignment of ivory and rhino horn worth an estimated 850,000 rand - about £75,000, or $114,000. The rhino horn - which came from animals that had d ...
  • 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 ...

The Wonk Room

  • Republicans Should Have Listened To Grassley, CBO ...

    Ezra Klein has a good thorough take down of the GOP’s attacks against the CBO, which I’ve tried to present in video form below. Basically, Republicans are trying to argue that the CBO numbers are invalid because Democrats fooled the agency with legislative trickery. Rather than reducing the deficit ...
  • Next Health Care Battle: The Clean Air Act And Car ...

    The Clean Air Act requires the Environmental Protection Agency to set standards for plants, cars, and factories that emit greenhouse gas pollution. Because global warming is by definition a global problem, there is support for scrapping individual source standards for a national cap-and-trade system ...
  • Three Senators Call For Bipartisan Action On START

    With Secretary of State Clinton in Moscow today pushing to wrap up a new START treaty, three Senators – Robert Casey, Al Franken, and Ted Kaufman – took to the floor of the Senate last night to lend support to the treaty effort. The Senators sent a clear signal that, despite some reported chatter [ ...
  • Boehner: Student Loan Reform Will ‘Eliminate ...

    This weekend, Democrats plan to vote on their health care reform reconciliation package, which also includes student loan reform. The Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act (SAFRA), which would cut billions of dollars in senseless subsidies to private student lenders, passed the House last year. ...
  • Allawi’s Gains Evidence Of Non-Sectarian Con ...

    In the coverage of Iraq’s recent parliamentary election, former interim prime minister Iyad Allawi and his Iraqiya bloc has been characterized as, in the words of reporter Anthony Shadid, “a default leader for Sunnis” and, in the words of fellow reporter Leila Fadel, “the candidate of choice for Sun ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • The monster Goes Back to Work

    So, let's see now, he's demonstrated cynical contempt for his own system of government, OUR system of government (by calling the proposed Liberal-NDP coalition a "coup"). He's demonstrated inarguable hypocrisy because he had intimated forming a coalition/coup himself when he was Leader of the Oppos ...
  • Oh Those Fucking Liberals!!

    This isn't a very topical issue. It's just that a Liberal blogger who I've only recently encountered and had high hopes for appears to have gone completely off the rails. Eugene Forsey: Liberal has been babbling away lately about "TOTs" ... by which he appears to mean NDP "zombies" ... and how we' ...
  • Random Thoughts on Violence

    Thanks to the failure of my career I'm home a lot more! So why haven't I been blogging as much with all the free time? Simple. There's a very gregarious two-and-a-half-year-old in my house with me who takes up most of my time and energy. While I was often able to spend half-an-hour at work on bl ...
  • John Ibbitson's Amoral Analysis

    Who thinks John Ibbitson really is an amoral freak and that's why he gravitates towards supporting the harpercon party of Canada, and who thinks that Ibbitson is just a pathetic suck-up and displays of sickening amorality are what he imagines is the price of admission to their smelly ranks? In his ...
  • This Might Be My Post For the Day

    It's not a bad use of a few minutes. Check out the bopping audience! (Although today they'd probably all be ignoring him or shouting over him, not even bothering to applaud at the end of each song.)

Financial Sense Editorials

  • Market Observation: Option ARM-ageddon - Part 2

    by Richard A. Eckert, CFA. "The "Dirty Half Dozen"... Although many thrifts had already started ramping up option ARM production in the 2nd half of 2003—capitalizing on steady short-term rates, a sharp bounce off cyclical lows in long term rates in June 2003, and a nascent affordability crisis—Chair ...
  • What To Do With Your Pension Plan

    by Elliott Wave Int. "There is no question that Robert Prechter’s Conquer the Crash foresaw and explained nearly every chapter of today's financial crisis, years before it happened. Enjoy your 8 free chapters from the book with this free Club EWI report; here's a quick excerpt from chapter 23, "What ...
  • 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 ...

on Government Oversight

  • Excessive Costs, Not Funds in Joint Strike Fighter ...

    Ok, so the important thing about today's Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) is that the program is way over cost (62 percent, almost as bad as Deepwater), that there is still substantial program...
  • Court of Appeals Orders the Fed to Disclose Names ...

    As Sunshine Week comes to a close, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan has just issued a ruling that could add a much-needed dose of transparency to the Federal Reserve’s bailout programs. Bloomberg is reporting that the Court has...
  • Morning Smoke: Don't Miss Today's Sunshine Week We ...

    The 5th annual Sunshine Week concludes today with "Building Governmental Transparency," a three-panel discussion on the White House's open government initiatives. The event will be webcast live starting at 12:00 p.m. CIA Censors Cry Uncle After Declassified Posting by Michael...
  • Number of the Day: The Cost to Obtain a Descriptio ...

    How much does it cost to obtain a description of a government database? One answer: $111,930, or, 861 man hours billable at $130 per hour. That's what TRAC, a research and data distribution organization at Syracuse University, found out earlier...
  • Poor Performance is Often Rewarded

    Today, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a hearing titled “Rewarding Bad Actors: Why do Poor Performing Contractors Continue to Get Government Business?” This is not the first time Congress has looked into bad actors and failures of...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Newsflash: Homeless People Can Be Attractive

    It's well-established that homeless people, or rather, fabricated media amalgamations of homeless people, occasionally provide "inspiration" to fashion designers. We've covered everything from Vivienne Westwood's homeless chic menswear line to Barneys dumb mannequins-sleeping-under-newspapers store ...
  • When It Comes to Evaluating Results, Homeless Serv ...

    Homeless service providing organizations are regularly pressured to prove their services actually work. We tend to gauge the effectiveness of agencies based on indicators like the number of persons employed and the number of families transitioned into housing. However, not every demographic subs ...
  • How to Make the Homeless Hungry to Improve Their L ...

    Whenever I catch up with a homeless person I haven't seen in a while, I take him out for a steak dinner or a really decent meal of his choice (pancakes are also popular). In our shelter, the residents do the cooking and we decide the menu together. Often it's a family-style roast dinner with all the ...
  • How Homelessness Causes Psychiatric Disorders

    A friend of mine we'll call "O." just told me this morning that after 10 years of chronic homelessness he's finally decided to go crazy. I realize that could sound strange, but here's how it works: 1.) If you're not diagnosed by a psychiatrist, and not addicted to alcohol or drugs, there's little to ...
  • Why Do So Many Female Veterans End Up Homeless?

    With the recent decision by military officials to allow women to serve on Navy submarines, women in the armed forces have now broken through every barrier -- the camouflage ceiling -- except for SEAL teams and traditional frontline combat roles .  While these are amazing accomplishments for women se ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • CADSI calls for defence industrial strategy

    The Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries (CADSI) released a report last week on the challenges and opportunities facing the Canadian defence industry with respect to military procurement. Canada’s Defence Industry: A Vital Partner Supporting Canada’s Economic and National Interest ...
  • Close Combat Vehicle project revived?

    The Close Combat Vehicle project, which was recently reported to have been shelved, is now said to be back on the Army’s priority list: David Pugliese, “Plans for new fleet of armoured vehicles back on track,” Ottawa Citizen, 14 March 2010.
  • 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 ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Caterpillar Inc Says Health Bill Would Cost Compan ...

    March 19, 2010 Dow Jones Newswires Caterpillar Inc. said the health-care overhaul legislation being considered by the U.S. House of Representatives would increase the company’s health-care costs by more than $100 million in the first year alone. In a letter Thursday to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D- ...
  • Idaho First to Sign Law to Sue Fed Government Over ...

    March 18, 2010 Associated Press By: John Miller Idaho took the lead in a growing, nationwide fight against health care overhaul Wednesday when its governor became the first to sign a measure requiring the state attorney general to sue the federal government if residents are forced to buy health insu ...
  • 100,000 Federal Employees Owe $962 Million in Back ...

    March 18, 2010 ABC News By: Devin Dwyer Working for Uncle Sam comes with some great perks, like job stability, posh benefits packages, and in many cases, average salaries that are higher than what the same job pays in the private sector. That’s why Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, is irked th ...
  • High-Dose Vitamin C Therapy Proven Effective

    March 18, 2010 Natural News By: E. Huff There is a double standard in Western medicine when it comes to assessing the efficacy of vitamins compared to pharmaceutical drugs. While medical science recognizes that dose levels affect how well a drug works, the same principle is not considered valid for ...
  • Study Shows That Junk Food Is Nearly as Addictive ...

    March 18, 2010 Natural News By: David Gutierrez Junk food appears to be almost as addictive as heroin, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Scripps Research Institute and presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. “This is the most complete evidence to date th ...

Pambazuka News

  • Global: US city opens doors to Cuban 5

    On Saturday March 13, in the auditorium of the Lavonya DeJean Middle School, in the City of Richmond California, a large number of people gathered to commemorate International Women's Day for the third consecutive year. Under the title "Women in Soli...
  • Global: Guadeloupe paralyzed by widespread strikes

    Riot police from mainland France have arrived on the French Caribbean islands as protests threaten to paralyse tourism and spread further afield. Strikes on Guadeloupe and Martinique have closed shops and schools and the reinforcements will help loca...
  • Brazil: The high price of clean, cheap ethanol

    Brazil hopes to supply drivers worldwide with the fuel of the future - cheap ethanol derived from sugarcane. It is considered an effective antidote to climate change, but hundreds of thousands of Brazilian plantation workers harvest the cane at slave...
  • Haiti: Open Letter to Barack Obama - pre-election

    We - citizens of Haiti, political militants and unionists of the grassroots movement for democracy in our country - solemnly address ourselves to you on the eve of the election that will most likely make you the next president of the United States....
  • US: System owes Troy Davis another day in court

    It is wrong to execute an innocent man. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit will now consider whether it is constitutional. Troy Anthony Davis, convicted of murder, is asking the courts to hear evidence that key government witnesses have r...

War in Context

  • Netanyahu threatens American interests

    Christopher Dickey writes: Netanyahu summed up his core thinking in his 1993 book, A Place Among the Nations: Israel and the World, when he said it was naive for Israelis to believe that “Arabs loathed war as much as they themselves.” He derided Israelis who thought of peace as “a kind of blissful ...
  • The American backbone deficit

    Gideon Levy writes: Israel has no real intention of quitting the territories or allowing the Palestinian people to exercise their rights. Israel does not truly intend to pursue peace, because life here seems to be good even without it. The continuation of the occupation doesn’t just endanger Israel ...
  • No nation can endure when built on hatred

    Writing from Jerusalem on Tuesday as rioting left dozens injured, Bradley Burston said: Hamas has designated this day, in this place, its Day of Rage. Why, then, the smiles on the faces of Mahmoud Zahar and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? Perhaps it’s because after more than 22 years of costly trial and err ...
  • Talking to terrorists

    The Washington Post has a passage from Mark Perry’s new book, Talking to Terrorists: Why America Must Engage With Its Enemies. As Perry notes, talking to groups that the US government has labelled as “terrorists” is not only necessary but is a choice that has already been pursued and shown highly e ...
  • A trial for Saddam and a bomb for bin Laden

    The Associated Press reports: Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress on Tuesday that Osama bin Laden will never face trial in the United States because he will not be captured alive. In testy exchanges with House Republicans, the attorney general compared terrorists to mass murderer Charles Ma ...

Watts Up With That?

  • ’science’s dirtiest secret: The “scientific ...

    The quote in the headline is direct from this article in Science News for which I’ve posted an excerpt below. I found this article interesting for two reasons. 1- It challenges use of statistical methods that have come into question in climate science recently, such as Mann’s tree ring proxy hockey ...
  • Gore: Making it personal

    I was sent this email (below) from Al Gore’s Repower America Campaign, with a request to “make it personal” by writing to every representative. Apparently they are worried about that dastardly oil lobby again. This paragraph caught my eye: “Writing these letters is easy and important — and we’ll sh ...
  • New GOES-15 weather sat reaches orbit

    From NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: NASA and NOAA’s Environmental Satellite Now GOES-15 CLICK IMAGE FOR VIDEO (Windows Media Player) Image above: A Delta IV launch vehicle lifts off carrying GOES-P into orbit. Image credit: NASA/Kenny Allen GREENBELT, Md. — Twelve days after a flawless launc ...
  • It’s the blob (anomaly)!

    With apologies to Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. and Steve McQueen, I offer this advice: run ! A giant temperature anomaly is attacking Canada and Greenland. An Example Of Why A Global Average Temperature Anomaly Is Not An Effective Metric Of Climate Roy Spencer and John Christy of the University of Alaba ...
  • Devastating non-trends in US Climate

    From Warren Meyer, who was discussing the recent announcement from the White House Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force. If one wonders why the climate alarmist movement is suffering from a credibility problem, one only needs to read some of the claims: Climate change is already having ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Camp Out Now To Take Legal Stand On 7th Anniversar ...

    by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox March 20, 2010 CONTACTS: Joshua Smith: 817 751 5890 (National Operation’s Director, Peace of the Action) Or Cindy Sheehan: 707 301 6177 March 20th, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On Monday, Ma ...
  • Iran’s Natural Gas Riches: US Knife to the Heart o ...

    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Finian Cunningham Global Research, March 18, 2010 The scheduled start of drilling this month by China National Petroleum Company (CNPC) in Iran’s South Pars gas field could be both a harbinger and explanation of much wider geopolitical developments. First ...
  • “The 15% Solution,” Serialization, 2nd Installment ...

    by Jonathan Westminster, Ph.D. aka Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted on Buzzflash.com March 20, 2010 This is the third installment of a project that is likely to extend over a two-year-period from January, 2010.  It is the serialization of a book entitled The 15% ...
  • On Thinner Ice – Melting Glaciers on the Roo ...

    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ asiasociety March 18, 2010 Global warming is melting the 18,000 Himalayan glaciers, the largest concentration of glaciers outside the polar ice sheets. Their melting spells trouble for not only 2 billion Asians, but the whole world. Mountaineer David Breas ...
  • Kucinich backs Obama, II by Michael Carmichael

    by Michael Carmichael Featured Writer Dandelion Salad PlanetaryMovement.org March 19, 2010 The American people have invested a huge amount of political capital in health care reform. Now ranked 37th by the World Health Organization, America’s highly vaunted health care system is plummeting dow ...

Your New Reality

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    "Different Scares Go In And Out Of Fashion" The glossy corporate news media creates a shiny product, loaded with shock tactics, emotional manipulation and fearmongering. Nothing new there. But every new generation has to learn what they are seeing, and being told to believe, really is. Charlie Bro ...
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    Another Lost Boy :
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    Stories I've Reading Instead Of Posting Stories Here : Murdoch Journalists Hacked "The Police, The Military, The Royals, Government Ministers...On A Near Industrial Scale" Australian Official : "Israel Has Got Us By The Balls" The 'Mirror Man' - One Of The Strangest Mental Disorders Ever Record ...
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    ABC News Disappointed To Find No Ranting Violent Wackos At 9/11 Truth Convention By Darryl Mason The ABC News story turns out be more balanced than many were expecting, though it seems primarily focused on trying to find Truthers who spout violent, ant-government rhetoric, so as to forge a neat li ...
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    9/11 Truthers Are Dangerous Former members of the US Air Force, the Marines, senior officials of the CIA, the FBI, firefighters, police officers, pilots, engineers, architects, Republican and Democrat congressmen and former members of the 9/11 Commission have all expressed doubts about the Bush ad ...

Wired - Science

  • Shark-Bitten Crocodile Poop Fossils Found (No, Rea ...

    Paleontologists have stumbled across a scientific first that’s sure to inspire both fascination and disgust: coprolites, or fossilized fecal matter, bearing the distinct impressions of a creature’s teeth. The coprolites — one chunk of rock is fist-sized, the other is about 30 percent larger — were ...
  • Large Hadron Collider Triples Its Own Record

    The Large Hadron Collider set a new record for the creation of energetic particle beams this morning. The particle accelerator, which surpassed Fermilab’s Tevatron in December as the baddest atom smasher of them all, smashed its own record, charging particles to 3.48 trillion electron volts. That’s ...
  • Evolution of Fairness Driven by Culture, Not Genes

    Human behaviors are often explained as hard-wired evolutionary leftovers of life on the savannah or during the Stone Age. But a study of one very modern behavior, fairness toward total strangers one will never meet again, suggests it evolved recently, and is rooted in culture rather than biology. I ...
  • Op-Ed: Why the Internet Should Win the Nobel Peace ...

    This year, a Chinese dissident and a Russian human rights advocate — recent nominees for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize — are joined by an unlikely, nonhuman contender: the internet. From the Fields is a periodic Wired Science op-ed series presenting leading scientists’ reflections on their work, soci ...
  • Cosmic Dust Gives Millky Way a Fiery Mane

    The Planck space telescope, which is surveying the entire sky in four massive sweeps, has nearly finished its first scan. Rotating in orbit, Planck takes data of the sky in strips, almost the reverse of a chef peeling an apple in one long, thin strip. This image, taken from the scan, shows the str ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Bashir Abu-Manneh: Notes on Israel’s Triumph to Di ...

    international public opinion would welcome a mass Palestinian revolt. Voices for boycott and sanctions against Israeli apartheid would grow. Voices to lift the siege on Gaza would strengthen. And... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
  • Dr. Barghouthi Pledges Support To Beleaguered Jeru ...

    Mustafa Barghouthi: “I do not have any permission issued by the Israeli authorities to enter East Jerusalem, and I do not recognise the fact that Israel has the power to issue permits to Palestinians... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Report: Petraeus Warns Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair ...

    DemocracyNow!: Veteran military and foreign affairs analyst and author Mark Perry reports that CENTCOM commander General David Petraeus dispatched a team of senior military officers in January to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Jordan king says Jerusalem is ‘red line’

    Jordan’s King Abdullah II: “Jerusalem is a red line and the world should not be silent about Israel’s attempts to get rid of Jerusalem’s Arabs residents, Muslims or Christians,” the king told... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  • Images: “Arabized” Israeli units suppressing Pales ...

    Images of special "Arabized" units [Arabic: "مستعربون"; Hebrew: "מסתרעבים"] of the Israeli occupation forces suppressing Palestinian protest in Jerusalem and the West Bank. "Arabized" units are... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Sleep Deprivation Influences Drug Use in Teens' So ...

    Recent studies have shown that behaviors such as happiness, obesity, smoking and altruism are "contagious" within adult social networks. In other words, your behavior not only influences your friends, but also their friends and so on. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego and Harvar ...
  • "Know Your Family's Autoimmune Quotient (AQ)" Camp ...

    In honor of the designation of March as National Autoimmune Disease Awareness Month by the U.S. Senate on March 4, 2010, the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association (AARDA) wants to help you learn your family's AQ. AQ is a play on IQ that stands for Autoimmune Quotient. It's about knowing ...
  • Treating Blood Infections Tops Annual Hospital Cos ...

    The hospital costs for treating septicemia increased by an average of nearly 12 percent each year from 1997 to 2007, increasing from $4.1 billion in 1997 to $12.3 billion in 2007.
  • Prepared Patient: On Your Own With Multiple Meds

    Overwhelmed by the vials, bottles and inhalers bulging from your medicine cabinet ? Confused about which drug is which, or when to take what?
  • NCAA-Related Sports Medicine News Tips from Johns ...

    Listed in this article are story ideas from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine with a partial focus on the upcoming NCAA Basketball tournaments.

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

  • Charlotte Gerson Speaks Out About the Cancer Indus ...

    Dr. Max Gerson is known around the world as the father of natural cancer cures. Through his innovative and far-ahead-of-his-time natural healing therapies, many tens of thousands of people have cured their own cancers going all the way back to the 1930's. Today, the daughter of Dr. Gerson, Charlotte ...
  • Eli Lilly's Desperate, Deceptive Campaign to Boost ...

    With sales and public perception of bovine growth hormone dropping fast in the U.S., it’s not easy to find reputable scientific organizations willing to endorse such a controversial genetically modified additive. So, in a shameless and desperate maneuver, Eli Lilly (LLY) decided to make some up. Cli ...
  • Our Obsession With Stuff Is Trashing the Planet, O ...

    This following is an excerpt from The Story Of Stuff: How Our Obsession With Stuff Is Trashing The Planet, Our Communities, And Our Health - And A Vision For Change by Annie Leonard. Excerpted with permission by Free Press, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Copyright © 2010 by Annie Leonard. Clic ...
  • Court Rules in GMO Sugar Beet Case

    A federal district Judge Jeffrey White of the Northern District of California denied a request by a coalition of organic seed growers, and conservation and food safety groups seeking a temporary ban on genetically engineered (GE) sugar beets and sugar beet seeds. Click here to read this article
  • The Water Wars: California's Salmon vs. Agribiz In ...

    I've been selling fish for 30 years, and I'm pleased that my store, the Monterey Fish Market, has a reputation for exceptionally fresh and sustainably sourced seafood. We're lucky in that our customers support us in our mission to provide the best possible product that doesn't contribute to the dest ...

fotoFrontera

  • Miradas de Kenya (40 fotos en total de la situació ...

    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Como ya es costumbre en el Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas, una vez más reconocemos la calidad de cada post que ofrece The Big Picture . En esta ocasión, son 40 imágenes en alta resolución de Escenas de Kenya . Una mirada a ...
  • 30 increíbles fotomanipulaciones en animales

    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Cuando se tiene el tiempo necesario, las herramientas y un poco de imaginación, se pueden lograr grandes obras artísticas. Dicen que para muestra, basta un animal botón y aquí les dejo el acceso directo a 30 fascinantes ...
  • Más de 40,000 wallpapers en Fondos Copados

    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Hasta hace unos minutos, no había yo tenido el privilegio de conocer uno de los más grandes bancos de wallpapers que actualmente existen en Internet. Fondos Copados , es sin duda alguna un extraordinario almacén de imáge ...
  • Felices fiestas de pascua. (Happy Easter Pictures)

    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Ya estamos a la vuelta de la esquina para recibir las merecidas vacaciones de Semana Santa . Muchas personas en el mundo, celebran el Happy Easter o Felices Pascuas . Una tradición que consiste en encontrar los huevos qu ...
  • La magia de la fotografia urbana. (pasarela de la ...

    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Bonita colección de fotografías durante una pasarela en la vida real. Descubra instantes que fueron y que jamás serán. Esa es la verdadera magia de la fotografía urbana, momentos paralelos donde a veces todos hacemos lo ...

Executive Intelligence Review

Center for a Livable Future

  • AVMA leadership missing key facts on antibiotics i ...

    Dr. Ron DeHaven, CEO and Executive VP of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA)*, spoke last week to the pork industry in Kansas City, MO. DeHaven opposes legislation to ban the use of non-therapeutic (growth promoting) antibiotics and antibiotics with human uses from food animal produc ...
  • Beyond “Museum” Gardens

    This post was originally published in the spring 2010 issue of Edible: East Bay. For the link to this article from that magaize - http://www.ediblecommunities.com/eastbay/spring-2010/food-for-thought.htm Beyond “Museum” Gardens With all of the coverage of Michelle Obama in the news lately, you wo ...
  • 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 [. ...

Norwegianity

  • Links (for non-bb fans)

    I had to shut off the NCAAs once it was clear the Gophers were done for. I simply cannot bear the way CBS jacks up the volume on the commercials, or the extraordinary volume of commercials they run during a game. By comparison their in-the-bag for any eastern team bias is only mildly irritating. - T ...
  • Text with some links

    - Krugman on the coming vote. Reuters published an investigative report this week that powerfully illustrates the vileness of our current system. The report concerns the insurer Fortis, now part of Assurant Health, which turns out to have had a systematic policy of revoking its clients’ policies ...
  • Who knew that melting down was so noisy?

    Atrocities: CORPORATE Wachovia pays $160 million to stop probe of their money-laundering operations Chamber of Commerce preparing to dump more campaign ads on us than ever (and I sincerely think that this will drive people from b’cast and cable/dish TV much like Clear Channel killed the audience for ...
  • Thai dies, Gazans to surely follow

    I see headlines like, Stocks climb after Fed pledges to hold rates low, and it’s hard not to think that the real hed should have been, Hostages released after the terrorists’ demands were met. - Kucinich did what the prOg bloggers wanted him to do, so today they’re beating him up all over again for ...
  • Rancor sores

    I think I’ve managed to pin down the source of my anger. Barack Obama is Jimmy Carter II (or Jimmy III, depending on how you see Bill Clinton). After years of horribly shitty authoritarian leadership, the Democrats, faced with an opportunity to take power, once again shifted to the center and told t ...

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

  • Court Rules in GMO Sugar Beet Case

    Today, federal district Judge Jeffrey White of the Northern District of California denied a request by a coalition of organic seed growers, and conservation and food safety groups seeking a temporary ban on genetically engineered (GE) sugar beets and sugar beet seeds. While Judge White denied the pr ...
  • More Than 200,000 NGOs, Farmers, Consumers, and Or ...

    Resulting contamination of non-GE and organic alfalfa hay and seed would devastate livelihoods and organic industry The National Organic Coalition (NOC) today announced that more than 200,000 people submitted comments to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) critiquing the substance and ...
  • Lawsuit Filed to Bar GE Crops from National Wildli ...

    Delaware’s Bombay Hook Lacks Required Environmental Review and Justification A lawsuit filed today in federal court against the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service seeks to compel the Service to uproot genetically engineered (GE) crops from its Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge in Delaware. As many as 8 ...
  • Food Safety and Health Organizations Criticize Ela ...

    Food safety, consumer and health advocacy organizations blasted Eli Lilly subsidiary Elanco for claiming that prominent health organizations had endorsed use of the controversial artificial growth hormone rbGH,(rbST) on dairy cows when, in fact, they have not. Elanco’s report, from eight experts and ...
  • Farmers and Conservation Groups Seek to Halt Plant ...

    Earlier Court Decision Found Federal Approval of GE Sugar Beets to Be Unlawful Earthjustice and Center for Food Safety announced today that they filed court papers seeking a ban on genetically engineered (GE) sugar beets and sugar beet seeds. The motion was filed in Federal Court on behalf of a coal ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Jessica Yee: Why I’m a REALLY angry Native in Cana ...

    - Required Reading - By Racialicious Special Correspondent Jessica Yee: -- http://www.racialicious.com/2010/03/16/why-im-a-really-angry-native-in-canada-right-now/ Right now I’m owning the title/stereotype/image/whatever you conjure up in your mind about “angry Natives” because along with the usual ...
  • When Victims Become Victimisers: Zionism’s Angry X ...

    Editor's Note : These references are related to a ten-part series on the political abuse of the term "Anti-Semitism" by The Angryindian, Editor-in-Chief, Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo. The first installment of this work may be found here ... -- 1- “History has shown that wherever anti-Semitism ...
  • When Victims Become Victimisers: Zionism’s Angry X ...

    Editor's Note : This is the final installment of a ten-part series on the political abuse of the term "Anti-Semitism" by The Angryindian, editor-Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo. -- I don’t mind honest criticism, in fact I encourage it. Indigenist dialectics* demand that I consistently challenge ...
  • When Victims Become Victimisers: Zionism’s Angry X ...

    Editor's Note : This is a selection from a ten-part series on the political abuse of the term "Anti-Semitism" by The Angryindian, Editor-in-Chief, Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo -- It doesn’t stop there. A German pro-Nordic eugenicist named Alfred Ploetz went even further. His particular concept ...
  • When Victims Become Victimisers: Zionism’s Angry X ...

    Editor's Note : This is a selection from a ten-part series on the political abuse of the term "Anti-Semitism" by The Angryindian, Editor-in-Chief, Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo -- While this may be dismaying to his many legions of fans the fact remains that Gandhi did not regard issues of social ...

Pensieve

  • Ted Williams Show Launches Website

    The Ted Williams Show, a Monterrey rock band I play keyboards for, has released a new website, in Spanish, called “El Show de Ted Williams“. It is a very modest embryo of a website, but hopefully I’ll be able to expand it to include bios, a blog, a lyrics section, and who knows what else. The [...] ...
  • 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 ...

Green Times

  • Book Review: No Impact Man

    Find out what possesses a man to go off the gird – literally – in New York City. A radical, experimental family journey to full-on eco-living…
  • New Energy Efficiency Ratings Set To Impact Buildi ...

    Approximately twenty per cent of Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions come from buildings, with commercial buildings accounting for ten per cent of those emissions…
  • Environmental News - 25/02/10

    Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html)   - (http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1964085,00.html?xid=huffpo-direct)British Airways and the US bioenergy company Solena are to establish Europe's first green jet fuel plant in ...
  • Environmental News - 23/02/10

    Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html) Climate scientists 'under cyber attack' (http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/22/2826417.htm)- (http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1964085,00.html?xid=huffpo-direct)An organised ...
  • Environmental News - 20/02/10

    Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html) New York Fashion Week tries on "green" (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61H6TN20100218)- (http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1964085,00.html?xid=huffpo-direct)New York Fashion We ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Genetically modified mosquitos could be used to sp ...

    A genetically engineered mosquito that vaccinates as it bites has been developed by scientists . Experts believe "flying vaccinators" could eventually be a radical new way of tackling malaria. The new approach targets the salivary gland of the Anopheles mosquito. Scientists in Japan have enginee ...
  • Obama effigy hung at RI school with fired teachers

    A teacher at a failing school where he and all his colleagues are being fired hung an effigy of President Barack Obama in his classroom, apparently in reaction to Obama's support of extreme measures to ensure accountability in schools. The teachers union on Thursday condemned the effigy, discove ...
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Daily Loaf

  • Read all about it: The 2010 Gasparilla Internation ...

    If you've hit Daily Loaf at all this week, you've probably caught some of our coverage of the 2010 Gasparilla International Film Festival. Hell, with over a dozen posts on the fest in the last four days, I can't keep track of it all myself. Here's an index of everything Creative Loafing has to offe ...
  • Gasparilla International Film Festival (GIFF) movi ...

    Political Editor Mitch Perry reviews Full Signal , playing this Saturday at the Gasparilla International Film Festival. (With trailer video)
  • Tampa City Council approves zoning for 150-foot mo ...

    Residents and business owners of Sunset Park are surprised and outraged at the 4-2 passing of the Tampa City Council vote on the 150-foot zoning law for a new monopole tower in South Tampa. The tower will be built in a community strip on the edge of the neighborhood just off of Henderson, just 30- ...
  • Gasparilla International Film Festival (GIFF) movi ...

    Political Editor Mitch Perry reviews Breaking News Breaking Down , playing this Saturday at the Gasparilla International Film Festival. (With trailer video)
  • HIllsborough Republicans want to impress RNC on ha ...

    After being also-rans in the competition to host the Republican National Convention in both 2004 and 2008, local Republican officials really hope that the third time will be the charm – and they may be correct. With only Salt Lake City and Pheonix as its competition, Tampa will put on its best fac ...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Sheikh Jarrah Speaker Breaks it Down Further

    By Sara Benninga I am a Jerusalemite, and have been involved in the struggle to free Sheikh-Jarrah. Sheikh-Jarrah is a neighborhood in East-Jerusalem, beyond the ‘67 lines. Until recently it was a Palestinian neighborhood. Palestinian refugees from the ‘48 war, who owned property in Israel (Jaffa, ...
  • Live from The Only Democracy? Part 3: Not This Wee ...

    By Libby Amit After all the fuss, all the speculations and media coverage, local and international interest, internet buzz and adrenaline – nothing out of the ordinary happened in Bil’in or Ni’lin today. The Israeli military raised our expectation and craving for confrontation by widely publicizing ...
  • Winter in Gaza: Overflowing Sewage But the Strawbe ...

    From Gisha’s Gaza Gateway, Gaza Behind the Lens With the arrival of spring, we decided to present a selection of photographs taken during the past winter in Gaza. The winter brought with it terrible storms. Restrictions on the entry of supplies made it difficult for Gaza’s infrastructure to cope. ...
  • Live from The Only Democracy? Part 2: An Opposite ...

    By Libby Amit. It was clear to most activists and supporters of the joint Israeli-Palestinian demonstrations in the West Bank that this week’s declaration by the Israeli army that the entire villages of Bil’in and Na’alin would be closed military zones on Fridays for the coming six months was more ...
  • Live from The Only Democracy?, It’s Friday D ...

    by Libby Amit. When the Israeli army declared the villages of Bil’in and Ni’lin closed military zones on Fridays all day for the next six months, many seasoned Israeli activists shrugged and said “big deal.” This military order does not reflect a major change in policy on the ground, the villages a ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Corporations may be people but they aren’t citizen ...

    Email from a reader Larry Lessig is still working to push a Constitutional Amendment, but he’s got a new idea that’s really interesting: pass an amendment that doesn’t deny corporations are people, it just says they aren’t citizens. This would go a long way to allowing Congress to prevent unlimited ...
  • Catholic Church. Just when you think it can’t get ...

    Clerical sexual abuse of blind children
  • Scotland plans to be “Saudi Arabia of Marine Energ ...

    By 2020, Scotland expects to power 750,000 homes with commercial-scale wave and tidal power Discover Magazine has a slideshow of the wave and tidal devices that will be used, such as the pictured tidal turbine. PS These devices do not include Scotland’s vast potential amount of offshore wind power. ...
  • Seven banks seized by FDIC today

    Georgia leads the list, as usual. They’ve had way more failures than any other state. Incompetence? Corruption?
  • Socialist Arizona

    Marc Cooper reports from a Tea Party meeting in Arizona in support of Republican primary challenger J.D. Hawyorth against that well-known commie, Marxist McCain. Heading this evening to a meeting of local Tea Party folks where J.D. will be the guest speaker. If there are any plans for credibile res ...

Coteret

  • Elliot Abrams and local neoconservatives to Israel ...

    In a Tuesday (March 16 2010) interview with the Jerusalem Post, the Anti-Defamation League’s Abe Foxman took criticism of the US administration’s handling of the current confrontation to a new frontier Israel should immediately battle a charge emerging in the US that its actions are endangering the ...
  • Yediot exposes police lying on suppression of East ...

    After an interlude, the Jerusalem police resumed arrests of Sheikh Jarrah protesters last Friday (March 12 2010.) On Sunday, the Jerusalem Post, like many other Israeli media outlets, ran the police statement on the incident nearly verbatim Earlier on Friday, about 250 locals and left-wing protester ...
  • Einat Weizman: A Jewish and demographic state

    Einat Weizman is an actress living in Tel Aviv. She has a Masters in Culture Research and Political Communications from Tel Aviv University and writes regularly for Maariv. —– DNA politics [Hebrew version here.] Earlier this month (on March 3 2010) an expanded panel of High Court of Justice ju ...
  • Yediot’s Kadmon on Sheikh Jarrah, 1948 and t ...

    Yediot’s Sima Kadmon is second in stature only to Nahum Barnea and this Friday (March 12 2010) her column opened the paper’s influential weekend Political Supplement. Writing in the context of of the current US-Israeli crisis on East Jerusalem, she puts the symbolic, and more importantly, strategic ...
  • 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 ...

Deadline Live

  • American: The Bill Hicks Story: SXSW 2010 Accepted ...

    Much more than a comedian, Bill Hicks was and still is an inspiration to millions. His timeless comedy tackled the contradictions of America and modern life head on, as he skewered organized religion, railed against the hypocrisies of his government and exposed the collusion of the mainstream media, ...
  • Hannity Steals From Veterans Charity!

    March 19, 2010 MSNBC The ED Show Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList
  • Dennis Kucinich Loses His Nerve on Air Force One

    I doubt very much that anyone has ever accused me of being a Democrat. I don’t know of too many Democrats that adhere to the principles of freedom and individualism as I do. Sure, I share their anti-war views for the most part, but that’s just one issue. And the Democrats actually have a history [.. ...
  • Ron Paul-Great Interview With CNN John King-Health ...

    Dr Paul has a sit down interview with CNN John King One on One..IMO Dr No is at his best-explaining government job is protect our rights of Liberty-Sound Money Health Care and how he is a internet superstar!!! Ron Paul 2012!!! Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | [...]
  • Protesters Cook Up Rally Against School Bake Sale ...

    Education advocates, parents and students held a “bake-in” rally at City Hall Thursday to protest the Department of Education law that bans the sale of homemade food during school fundraisers. DOE officials said that the ban is part a larger movement to control childhood obesity, as it only allo ...

The Air Vent

  • Butterflies – flews?

    In case you thought Climategate would settle down the fear mongering, guess what!! Early butterflies linked to global warming Researchers say they have proven for the first time that man-made global warming is changing an animal’s life-cycle. I guess they didn’t read about shrinking fish or sheep ...
  • Roman on Anomaly Trend Regression

    I’ve been spamming Roman M’s thread on the correct method to calculate anomaly trend.  It’s a correction for an error in anomaly slope calculations by least square fit.  The method of correction is laid out mathematically and in code.  I do enjoy math threads, but when skeptics of AGW (If Roman e ...
  • Anomaly Aversion

    This is just a short post on why people like Roman and Tamino are interested in calculating the offset for temperature anomaly calculation and why I’m interested in applying it to global temperature.  I hope it can put to rest some of the anomaly aversion that exists in skeptics. I’ve already finis ...
  • Science be Damned

    Ok, the math post which seems to suck hours of time isn’t done yet.  It’s not even that amazing, except that it’s fun to try and improve a temperature series.  I found this on line from a link in email, I don’t agree with some of Lord Monkton’s science, it seems to me that he’s [...]
  • Wierd Review Literachur

    More wierd review literature in this guest post from Climatequotes. ———————– IPCC coordinating lead author’s own paper falsely cited in AR4 Adil Najam Yesterday I posted about a contributing author’s own paper being incorrectly cited in the AR4. However, I have now found something worse than th ...

Focal Point

  • "Jihad Jane" is Not A Feminist

    On Slate's XX Factor blog, Hanna Rosin argues that "Jihad Jane" (aka Colleen LaRose) is a feminist because she's part of a cohort of female terrorist wannabes who have been pushing al Qaeda for a larger role in murder and mayhem.  Rosin writes: "Even the [original Daily Beast ] headline [" Femin ...
  • Community Papers Launch Bitter, Bitter PR Campaign

    Print is officially dead. I held out hope longer than most, but I knew it was all over yesterday when this ad appeared at my New York City subway stop: � The art shows the back of a skinny kid negotiating a hospital corridor on crutches. The copy reads: " Football? Nope. Broken sidewalks. Broken ...
  • "Femivores"? Spare Me

    The other day my Triscuits came with a package of basil seeds glued into the box. According to the instructions, these could be used to start my very own "home farm" (sic): "Let’s all join in and help grow the Home Farming movement together. It can all begin when you plant your free basil and dill ...
  • CSI Microbiology: Germ Fingerprints Could Help Cat ...

    Each of us is unique and special. So too are the bacterial communities infesting our grimy palms. As we move through the world, we deposit a potentially incriminating microbial film on everything we touch. Scientists at the University of Colorado at Boulder hope that our individual germ prints will ...
  • 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 ...

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Employee Count Rising this Year, Up Past ...

    Facebook already has more than 1000 employees, and it said it plans to increase that by at least 50% this year, according to previous reports. That number has been growing fast, from what we’ve gathered. It is now past 1300, according to sources, although Facebook is only confirming that it is above ...
  • Facebook Roundup: FTC, Design Changes, Nestlé, URL ...

    FTC to Facebook: ‘Step Up’ Privacy Protections – The fallout from Google Buzz continues as the Federal Trade Commission turned its attention to Google, Microsoft and Facebook during a recent privacy workshop. Specifically, Facebook as criticized for its recent privacy changes. “I am especially ...
  • Budweiser Stocks Up on Facebook Pages for Regions ...

    Budweiser is one of the most ubiquitous brands in the U.S. — and the company seems to be doing its best to make this true on Facebook too. It has over a dozen Facebook Pages for its products, including Pages for specific products, and smaller areas like Denver and Quebec. While we’ve previously re ...
  • Simple Quizzes Once Again Sweep the List of Top Em ...

    LOLapps is on a roll with its quizzes. Last week, the company had four quizzes on our list of the top 20 emerging Facebook apps, counted as those still under a million monthly active users. This week LOLapps has raised the stakes to five quiz apps — all but one is different [...]
  • Facebook’s Beacon Settlement Approved by Judge

    In what appears to be the last of several conclusions to a drawn-out class action lawsuit regarding Facebook’s now- defunct Beacon advertising program, a judge has approved a contested settlement, as Wired reports. Facebook will provide $9.5 million to create a “Digital Trust Fundâ€� dedicated to ...

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ReDress News

  • Anti-Semitism – what is it?

    Jeff Gates considers how the definition of “anti-Semitism” has been broadened to an extent where any questioning of Israel’s relationship with or penetration of the United States political system, or of anything pertaining to 9/11 or the US’s war on Iraq, is deemed “anti-Semitic” and may pose a risk ...
  • Anti-Semitism – Zionist myth vs truth and reality

    Alan Hart views the myth and reality of anti-Semitism and argues that the myth, created and propagated by Israel and Zionism, is the single biggest potential threat to Jews the world over.
  • Anti-Semitism: Zionism’s indispensable alibi

    Maidhc Ó Cathail considers the symbiotic relationship between Zionism and anti-Semitism – real or imagined – and how Israel and other Zionists have at times faked instances of “anti-Semitism” in order to promote their cause.
  • Anti-Semitism: silencing the messenger of truth wi ...

    William A. Cook recounts how Canadian Zionists, in the form of B’nai B’rith of Canada, cast aspersions on his personal and professional character because he had dared to highlight the genocidal actions of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his successors.
  • Who’s to blame for the Iraq war? A not-so-trivial ...

    Maidhc Ó Cathail names and shames the top 19 politicians, academics and policy makers – all con men and all Zionist Jews – who lied and conspired to steer the US towwards aggression against the Iraqi people.

Amazon Rainforest

  • Austria: Call for OPEC and Latin UNASUR cooperatio ...

    Ecuadorian Germanico Pinto, current chairman of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has called for the development of South-South talks and cooperation with the Union of South American Nations(UNASUR). Pinto, who is also Ecuadorian minister of Non-Renewable Natural Resources, s ...
  • New study: Air pollution as a possible inhibitor o ...

    In the world of climate change there is much debate over the reality of greenhouse gases and the volatile nature of toxic chemical emissions. However, in a new study, published February 17, 2010, scientists are beginning to look at air pollution as a possible inhibitor of global warming. The thick b ...
  • Amazonia!

    The Amazonia represents over half of the planet’s remaining Rainforests, and it comprises the largest and most species-rich tract of tropical Rainforest in the World. The Amazon River stretches more than 6.4oo km. The tropical Rainforest of its watershed is home to millions of species of plants and ...
  • The first systematic study of surveillance techniq ...

    The first systematic study of surveillance techniques for the insect vector of Chagas disease in Amazonia, conducted by researchers from the Fiocruz Instituto Leônidas e Maria Deane, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and colleagues, concl ...
  • Amazonia- Chevron refused to receive 325.ooo petit ...

    On Sunday, Emergildo Criolo, an Indigenous leader of the Cofan people in Ecuador, traveled from his home in the Amazon rainforest to personally deliver a message to the oil giant’s new CEO John Watson. Yesterday, Emergildo Criollo (with international group of supporters) boarded a donated bio-diesel ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • The Turkish Lobby & the Congressional Black Caucus

    Would former icons of the civil rights movement sell out their principles for foreign cash? A February 13 New York Times article exposed the degree to which the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), a group composed of African Americans in the U.S. House of Representatives, used loopholes in political f ...
  • Podcast Show #24

    The Boiling Frogs Presents Philip Weiss Phil Weiss provides us with his experience and analysis of the US media’s stand, and their one-sided coverage and one-sided censorship on issues and cases related to Israel and the Israel lobby. He discusses the parallels between the tactics used in Gaza by ...
  • Updates & Weekly Round Up for February 21

    The Ending of Dubious Anthrax Investigations, Testing US Anti-Terrorism Law, Indefinite Detention & More This coming week will mark the fourth month of our website’s operation. During the last two weeks I’ve been talking with our team members and friends in the online forums and activism community, ...
  • The New Phase for Sibel Edmonds’ Boiling Frogs Pos ...

    Beginning the Countdown to Continue & Expand In October 2009 I launched Boiling Frogs Post  with one purpose in mind: To establish a venue for investigative articles, editorials, analyses, discussions, and interviews on issues largely censored and blacked out by the media. After four months of a suc ...
  • Week 1 Countdown Update & Noteworthy News

    BFP Countdown, NATO & Drug Smuggling, Holbrook’s Stan(s), Ron Paul & More Today marks the end of week 1 of our online fundraising campaign. I am thankful to those of you who have kindly donated and helped with getting the word out. We have had contributions from 235 of you; thank you! We still have ...

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