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Thomas Paine

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • TRINIDAD: Last Chance for Stalled Smelter Plant
    PORT OF SPAIN, Mar 22 (IPS) - The full-page newspaper advertisements touting the benefits of a controversial aluminium smelter plant appeared here just as the court of appeal is preparing to rule on whether such a facility is ever built in Trinidad and Tobago.
  • RIGHTS-MALAWI: Full Court Trial for Gay Couple
    BLANTYRE, Mar 22 (IPS) - Two men who married each other in a traditional engagement ceremony will have to undergo trial and face years of imprisonment if found guilty of having a homosexual relationship.
  • BRAZIL: Fewer Slum Dwellers Thanks to Upgrading
    RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 22 (IPS) - A United Nations report published ahead of the Fifth World Urban Forum in Brazil says the proportion of the population of this country living in "favelas" or shantytowns was reduced 16 percent between 2000 and 2010.
  • U.S.: Water Crisis High on Policy Agenda, Clinton ...
    WASHINGTON, Mar 22 (IPS) - On a rainy morning here Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton emphasised the centrality to U.S. foreign policy of addressing the world's water challenges.
  • DEVELOPMENT: Haiti Must Destroy Before Rebuilding
    PORT-AU-PRINCE, Mar 22 (IPS) - When the Jan. 12 earthquake struck this mountainous country, in less than a minute, it transformed it from one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere to the largest construction site this side of the Atlantic.

Scoop - NZ

  • UK: Labour to replace House of Lords
    Ministers are working on proposals to transform the House of Lords into a democratically elected second chamber based loosely on the US Senate. The transport secretary, Lord Adonis, who would lose his seat in the Lords and his post in government under the plans, confirmed today that they would be p ...
  • Jerusalem expansion way beyond current U.S.-Israel ...
    Laura Rozen reports that both the Obama administration and the Netanyahu government are trying to climb down from the past week's diplomatic acrimony. But the acrimony started when the Israelis announced an expansion of settlements in east Jerusalem, an act that broke faith with the Obama administra ...
  • Pressure on Hague over secret Ashcroft deal.
    William Hague was said to be aware 10 years ago of a deal struck by senior Tories that eventually resulted in Lord Ashcroft secretly remaining a non-dom after obtaining his peerage, according to official documents released today. Hague, the former leader of the Conservative party who had been lobby ...
  • Ashcroft: The Peer's Entrance
    Lord Ashcroft once spoke in a Lords debate in favour of "openness and transparency". If only he had applied that good advice to his own affairs. Instead, for a decade, the peer and his party have been dodging the truth about the circumstances surrounding his ennoblement. They have relied on awkward ...
  • Drones, Pilots, & 'War Porn'
    US defense expert P.W. Singer from the Brookings Institution talks to SPIEGEL ONLINE about the stresses that drone pilots are subjected to and the risk of emotional exhaustion and burnout. The whole experience of war is being changed by the new technology, he argues. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNew ...

Independent ( London )

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

  • Canadian cashier says she'll keep working after wi ...
    Despite winning more than $20 million Ontario's newest multi-millionaire has no plans to quit her job as a grocery store cashier. The woman, identified only as Bonnie, won half the jackpot in Saturday's $41-million draw. She works at a No Frills outlet in London, Ont., and dropped off doughnuts an ...
  • US woman sentenced to life for killing 2 daughters ...
    Rockville, Maryland. - A woman convicted of killing two adopted daughters and storing their bodies in a freezer in her home has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. Judge Michael J. Algeo handed down 44-year-old Renee Bowman's sentence Monday. She had been convicted of two counts of fir ...
  • English Defence League and anti-fascist protesters ...
    Dozens of people were arrested and several injured after violent clashes between anti-Muslim militants and anti-fascist protesters and police during a demonstration in Bolton. The controversial Right-wing group The English Defence League (EDL) organised the rally. A counter-demonstration by Unite ...
  • SOTT FOCUS: Legislating Away Your Freedoms - One ' ...
    Two weeks ago Senators John McCain and Joseph Lieberman introduced a stunning piece of draconian diatribe euphemistically called the bipartisan Senate Bill 3081, or the 'Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010'1. The bill is 'bipartisan' in the sense that it is the ...
  • US: The homeless pay the price
    Recently, I wrote about public education in crisis. But two other vital public services are also being hit hard by budget cuts: mental health care and assistance to the homeless. Education is at least partly buttressed by the fact that almost everybody supports the idea of public schools. Cuts gene ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • The Epic [Fail] of Guergis...[update x 2]
    ... continues: Blogger A BCer in Toronto today posted an item regarding a claim on embattled Minister Helena Guergis’s official website that she holds an MBA from the University of Alberta. Apparently last year a community paper looked into the matter and after a little pressing a Guergis staffe ...
  • IP Nails It . . . .
    Idealistic Pragmatist has the definitive post on the US dems, health care "reform" and the sorry condition of the Excited States here . Go, read and hope the situation doesn't creep across the 49th . . . .
  • Missed statistics class that day, did we Steve?
    I don't know of any post-secondary education in things involving the exchange of goods and services, the movement of money or the creation and stability of wealth that doesn't involve a healthy dose of the science of statistics. That would include, even at a basic level, an education in economics. ...
  • From the chamber of sober second thought
    Senator Mike Duffy, formerly of Corporate Television Vehicle ™ , has figured out what's wrong with modern journalism : "When I went to the school of hard knocks, we were told to be fair and balanced," Duffy was quoted from his speech in yesterday’s issue of the Amherst Daily News. "That school does ...
  • Rock on!
    With none other than Lindsay Stewart , resident at Canadian Cynic and a regular commenter here at TGB. Way to go, PSA!

Media Matters for America

  • Conservative media still falsely claimin ...
    Following the announcement that President Obama agreed to issue an executive order reaffirming that the recently passed health reform bill maintains current law on federal funding for abortion, conservative media continued to falsely claim that the bill contains federal funding for abortion. In ...
  • Under Frederick, LV Review-Journal has be ...
    Since 2008, Las Vegas Review-Journal publisher Sherman Frederick has written numerous blog posts and columns advancing conservative attacks on President Obama, Sen. Harry Reid, and other Democrats. These blog posts and columns are rife with smears, factual errors, and conspiracy ...
  • Right-wing media's latest smear: Stupak bribed wi ...
    Right-wing media seized on Rep. Bart Stupak's (D-MI) recent announcement that three airports in his district received federal grant money in order to baselessly claim the Obama administration bribed him for his vote on health care reform. In fact, there is absolutely no evidence that the airpor ...
  • Conservative media channel history to portray hea ...
    Right wing media figures have compared the passage of landmark health care reform legislation to historical events including the Black Plague, the attack on Pearl Harbor, Bloody Sunday, the passage of the Stamp Act, the federal government's refusal to bail out New York City in the 1970's, the Jones ...
  • Flashback: Media repeatedly declared health care ...
    While reporting on the special Massachusetts Senate election in January, numerous media figures declared or suggested that health care reform was or would be "dead" should the Republican candidate, Scott Brown, win the election -- a media meme that continued following Brown's victory. Reporting ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Wireless: The common medium of conversation, selec ...
    Here's the history of how the FCC selected wireless as the common medium of conversation -- instead of fixed line telephony- in 1994, and how that has made a lot of difference. Wireless - Federal Communications Commission - FCC - Landline - Business
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  • Health Care Reform: Deep Twitter Thoughts on The H ...
    * John Boehner looks like a naughty frat boy showing off in front of "bro's" when he shouts "Hell's no" * Less than ten votes btwn civilization & Nazi Communist Black Panther Muslim Socialist government takeover! * "No You Can't" should be GOP slogan * "It is the responsibility of this house ...
  • Health Care Reform: Deep Twitter Thoughts on The H ...
    * John Boehner looks like a naughty frat boy showing off in front of "bro's" when he shouts "Hell's no" * Less than ten votes btwn civilization & Nazi Communist Black Panther Muslim Socialist government takeover! * "No You Can't" should be GOP slogan * "It is the responsibility of this house ...
  • Ground Shifts at AIPAC
    I'm not going to do a major post until after Prime Minister Netanyahu speaks. I'm worn out from yesterday which was one of the most exciting and best political days in my life. I don't remember the last time I was so excited about anything the Democrats in Congress has done. But i want to post P ...

TruthOut

  • ACORN to Permanently Shut its Offices
    Following months of relentless attacks by Republicans over a manufactured scandal that its employees doled out illegal advice to a conservative filmmaker and his colleague, grassroots organization ACORN announced Monday that it will permanently shut it's doors. According to a statement released by ...
  • India: Protective Laws Fall Short for Women Charge ...
    Chhattisgarh, India: Mita Bai, 34, will never forget the morning of May 6, 2005. It was 8 a.m. in the morning when a group of three men and six women came to her house with their allegations, branding her as, “a witch.” As an attack against her broke out, she cried out for help, but no one heard or ...
  • Is Mass Violence Justified if it Brings About a Be ...
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  • Though LandAmerica Clients Lost Millions, No Bailo ...
    Washington - As LandAmerica Financial Group lurched toward bankruptcy in late 2008, its leaders looked to the one place they thought could help: Washington. Congress had just passed the controversial $700 billion bank bailout bill. The country's biggest banks either had failed or were in danger of ...
  • The Final Health Care Vote and What it Really Mean ...
    It's not nearly as momentous as the passage of Medicare in 1965 and won't fundamentally alter how Americans think about social safety nets. But the likely passage of Obama's health care reform bill is the biggest thing Congress has done in decades, and has enormous political significance for the fut ...

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

  • Increasing Attacks Against Science
    Ya’ll have heard of the “climategate” and other recent, escalating attacks against global warming science, and the scientists behind it. Though these attacks are getting more frequent and belligerent in nature some people are fighting back with cool heads and cold hard facts. Deniers rely on misinfo ...
  • Nukes in Texas are heating up again!
    Exelon Nuclear plans to file a 6,000-plus-page document that would give it as many as 40 years to begin work on a power plant in Victoria. Exelon has looked at building a plant in this area of Texas since 2007. It plans to file an early site permit application with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ...
  • Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up
    The Texas Progressive Alliance’s weekly blog roundup will reach 32 million more Americans regardless of their pre-existing conditions. Last week, TXsharon made a video statement at the EPA Public Hearing on the proposed ozone standards. Who Needs a Proctologist when you have former State Representa ...
  • 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 ...

Unexplained Mysteries

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 22, 2010
    Obama May Pay Price By Pushing 'Political Chips' on Health Care (Bloomberg) The U.S. House finally passed a health-care overhaul, but Pres. Obama and his party could pay a price for the victory, including scaling back energy and climate legislation. Colo. Poised to Raise Renewable Energ ...
  • March 21, 2010
    Senate Climate Bill to Give Free Permits: Sources (Reuters) U.S. power generating companies would get free pollution permits, at least initially, as part of a compromise climate bill being written in the Senate that also would give the coal industry $10 billion to develop "clean" technology, ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • We Won!
    "When in the course of human evens, it becomes necessary for one" group of beaten-down, oppressed people to STAND UP to an arrogant mob of power-drunk, lying, ruling thieves, and STOP them from ROBBING the oppressed group of their right to "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" ... hey, you j ...
  • New York Times Admits Getting Duped on ACORN
    The New York Times admits, sort of, that it got duped by right-wing propagandists who appear to have succeeded in a plot to destroy ACORN, an organization that has aided and defended the poor and powerless across the United States for four decades. In an op-ed column Sunday, the Times Public Edi ...
  • Stewart Udall, RIP
    I cannot claim to be an expert on Stewart Udall, the Arizona Congressman, conservationist, supporter of environmentalist casandra Rachel Carson, and interior secretary under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson who died this week at the age of 90. I can say, from personal experience, though, that he was a ...
  • Zach Galifianakis Is A Plagiarist Hack. If You Thi ...
    Every day I make the same mistake: reading other people's errors. Today's Error: "Zach Galifianakis is funny." They've even named him the " 2nd Funniest Actor In Hollywood ." Zach Galifianakis is not funny. And if you think he is, you must stop thinking immediately. (See Below for Instructions.) Zac ...
  • Tomgram: Pratap Chatterjee On Failing Afghanistan' ...
    — from TomDispatch Police training has been a crucial part of American counterinsurgency warfare and global policy for a long, long time. During the American occupation of Haiti, which began in 1915, the establishment and training of an American-led Gendarmerie d’Haiti would contribute to the sad, b ...

Ten Percent

  • Wales- Built By Migrants
    This is re-posted from No Borders South Wales written by Tom Fowler, it’s a great read, a great tonic to notions of exclusive nationalism & xenophobia- The following article written by one of our group first appeared on Waleshome.org last week, where it has already the 2nd highest number of comment ...
  • A Sorry Apology
    Colm O’Gorman:- On Saturday Pope Benedict XVI published his letter to the Irish Church on the issue of child abuse. What was necessary seemed clear. As Pope, acknowledge the cover up by Roman Catholic Church of the rape and abuse of children by priests, take responsibility for it, and show how you w ...
  • Happy Norooz!
    Yes that is my favourite spelling! Admittedly as Naj also recounts it is a bittersweet affair, the revolutionary establishment have embraced tyranny, the Iranian people caught amidst international intrigue, power games and domestic repression. I think Juan Cole is far too generous in accepting Obam ...
  • 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 ...

Booman Tribune

  • Oh, Yes, We Did!!
    During his campaign for the presidency, the signature of Barack Obama's rallies was the "Yes, We Can!" chant from his supporters. "Yes, we can responsibly end the war in Iraq." "Yes, we can repair our reputation in the world." "Yes, we can provide access to health care to all Americans." And so ...
  • Don't Get Cocky about HCR Passing
    I was very ill yesterday with a flare up of my auto-immune disorder and spent most of the day in bed. Then last night my wife was taken to the emergency room with chest pain and a fever where it was discovered that she has bronchitis. So I guess I missed all the hullabaloo about the HCR bill passi ...
  • Most Progressive Legislation in My Lifetime Passes
    Here's the Roll Call for the Health Care bill that passed tonight with a 219-212 tally. Thirty-four Democrats voted against it and no Republicans voted for it. The Republicans are totally steamed. One, as yet unidentified, member of Congress yelled 'Baby-Killer' at Bart Stupak on the House floor ...
  • Waterloo Bounces Off Us, Sticks to You
    David Frum is feeling glum. Former Bush speechwriter David Frum says Republicans bet that the health care reform bill would be President Obama's Waterloo -- "just as health care was Clinton's in 1994." "Only, the hardliners overlooked a few key facts: Obama was elected with 53% of the vote, no ...
  • Over/Under
    What's your bet on the final tally? We need 217 to win. I'm going to be optimistic and guess 223. As of now, it looks like it will be 220 if Stupak gets language in the executive order that doesn't make pro-choicers bolt. But I think there will be a few more that come over at the last moment. W ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Remembering Mac Tonnies
    Almost exactly five months ago, I had to pass on the news that writer, UFOlogist and former Futurismic columnist Mac Tonnies had been found dead in his apartment of natural causes. While we weren’t astonishingly close, I always enjoyed Mac’s outlook on the universe he found himself inhabiting, and I ...
  • Quicklinkage: writers on writing, Godin on slush
    Some quick links collected in a spare segment of a manic Monday, in lieu of our usual fare (i.e. me waffling on about stuff): here are some science fiction writers going all meta on our arses and writing about writing: Gareth L Powell on the difference between science fiction and fantasy (excerpted ...
  • Personal Information: episode 5
    Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 5 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 ...
  • 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 ...

Therapy News

  • Harvard Psychologist Proposes “Supernormal Stimuli ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary The notion of a supernormal stimulus may seem fairly foreign to some, yet a quick look at modern Western society can readily yield recognizable examples. Artificial foods and clothing, beauty treatments, even objects presented as sexual desire online or in a magazine h ...
  • Therapist-Client Privacy Privilege Defeated in Cou ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline One of the most important issues to many peope within the field of therapy, and to many of their clients, is that of the therapist-client privacy privilege, which prevents records from being released and accords clients a degree of privacy when divulging potentially d ...
  • Cornell University Reacts to String of Suicides
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Suicide has recently been highlighted in many publications and community discussions; as a major concern among young people and among the population at large, the issue is forcing some family members and professionals to take a closer look at prevention and interventio ...
  • Experts Explore Psychological Aspect of Aesthetic ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline When examining modern ideas about the process of aging in terms of female beauty, people are likely to find a rather dichotomized set of camps. Some posit that women should embrace the process, allowing themselves to find new ways to look and feel beautiful. Others fo ...
  • 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 ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Time Magazine Turns Attention to Mountaintop Remov ...
    AlterNet (blog) Time Magazine Turns Attention to Mountaintop Removal Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) In case you missed it, Time magazine recently published a story (March 12) spotlighting the battle in West Virginia over mountaintop removal coal mining. ... Two words: MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL ...
  • Judge Gives EPA Until Friday to Rule on Arch Coal ...
    Judge Gives EPA Until Friday to Rule on Arch Coal Mine Clean Skies News The EPA now has until Friday to decide if it will overturn the largest mountaintop removal mining permit in West Virginia history. ... and more��
  • Enviros cut deal with Obama on buffer zone - Charl ...
    Charleston Gazette (blog) Enviros cut deal with Obama on buffer zone Charleston Gazette (blog) This entry was posted on Monday, March 22, 2010 at 12:28 pm and is filed under Legal actions, Mountaintop Removal . You can follow any responses to this ...
  • Greening State Budgets - The State Column
    Greening State Budgets The State Column In Tennessee the issue of mountain-top removal has garnered opposition from both Democrats and Republicans. As coal companies continue to mine the ...
  • Alert: Call to end mountain top removal coal minin ...
    The People's Voice (blog) Alert: Call to end mountain top removal coal mining March 9, 2010 Examiner.com This week hundreds of activists are in Washington, DC taking action to end mountaintop-removal coal mining. You can be part of the action by picking up the ... Mountaintop Removal Concert Signal ...

Memeorandum

  • U.S. may expand use of its prison in Afghanistan ( ...
    Los Angeles Times : U.S. may expand use of its prison in Afghanistan   —  The White House is considering housing international terrorism suspects at Bagram air base, as is done at Guantanamo Bay.  —  The U.S. military recently opened this new prison at Bagram air base, north of Kabul, but the faci ...
  • News Analysis: Obama's Health Care Victory Carries ...
    David E. Sanger / New York Times : News Analysis: Obama's Health Care Victory Carries a Cost   —  WASHINGTON — The House's passage of health care legislation late Sunday night assures that whatever the ultimate cost, President Obama will go down in history as one of the handful of presidents who fo ...
  • Through Tears, Tea Party Activists Vow to Keep Fig ...
    David Weigel / The Washington Independent : Through Tears, Tea Party Activists Vow to Keep Fighting Health Care Reform   —  Health Care Win Took Activists by Surprise  —  The Tea Party activists huddled on the south lawn of the Capitol got the news of health care reform's passage in the cruelest w ...
  • Attorneys general in 12 states poised to challenge ...
    Warren Richey / Christian Science Monitor : Attorneys general in 12 states poised to challenge healthcare bill   —  As soon as President Obama signs the healthcare bill into law, the attorneys general say they will challenge its constitutionality.  The mandate to buy insurance is at the center of ...
  • McCain: Don't expect GOP cooperation on legislatio ...
    Michael O'Brien / The Hill : McCain: Don't expect GOP cooperation on legislation for the rest of this year   —  Democrats shouldn't expect much cooperation from Republicans the rest of this year, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) warned Monday.  —  McCain and another Republican senator decried the effect ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Dissecting the sceptics (1)
    As global warming science has strengthened, so too has the powerful – and often vicious – lobby of deniers. Bill McKibben analyses the phenomenon. Twenty-one years ago, in 1989, I wrote what many have called the first book for a general audience on global warming. One of the more interesting reviews ...
  • 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Prochoicers Took a Hit to Help Pass Heathcare Refo ...
    The Democratic Party and the Obama administration owe supporters of women's rights a huge payback for cooperating on its signature issue. Here are some suggestions.
  • Celebrate World Water Day: Watch “The Story ...
    Annie Leonard, creator of the hit internet film “The Story of Stuff” has done it again — she’s put together another great film about the “Story of Bottled Water,” which couldn’t be more useful right now. Today is World Water Day — time to stop and think about the billions without safe drinking water ...
  • Help Rush Limbaugh Remember to Leave the Country
    Since Rush Limbaugh has mere hours before the Health Care Secret Police drag him to the Health Care Gulag, a nice Facebook group helpfully reminds the talk show host to “remember to leave the country” now that the health bill has passed the House. Last week, Limbaugh swore he’d move to Costa Rica if ...
  • World Water Day 2010: A Trip Through One of the Wo ...
    I've seen some of the poorest parts of the world, but even for me, what I saw today was a shocking reminder of the wretched conditions that literally billions of people face.
  • American Ugly: Health care protesters yell Nigger, ...
    In the fight for health care reform, Democrats have been called many things: Tyrants, socialists, corrupt. The ugliest part of this debate (even when you consider all the Obama witch doctor nonsense) they saved for last. Right before the passage of health care reform, during the passage of health ca ...

Threat Level

  • Russia Arrests Alleged Mastermind of RBS WorldPay ...
    Russian authorities have nabbed a man allegedly responsible for masterminding a coordinated global ATM heist that stole $9.5 million from Atlanta-based card processing company RBS WorldPay. Viktor Pleshchuk, 28, of St. Petersburg, was arrested by the Russian Federal Security Service, or FSB, accordi ...
  • Secret Service Paid TJX Hacker $75,000 a Year
    Convicted TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez earned $75,000 a year working undercover for the U.S. Secret Service, informing on bank card thieves before he was arrested in 2008 for running his own multimillion-dollar card-hacking operation. The information comes from one of Gonzalez’s best friends and conv ...
  • 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 ...

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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

  • Video: Hollywood War Protest
    Ron Kovic, Vietnam War veteran, and author of the book “Born on The Fourth of July” led a protest march in the streets of Hollywood, California – Wonderfully, a lot of people joined him to ...
  • 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

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AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 03.22.10
    Survey says: Only one-quarter of Americans would consider an electric car Would you? Once lowly four-cylinder gains market dominance over bigger engines Vrooooo ooom . ...
  • 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 ...

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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!

  • Amy Goodman to appear on CNN's _John King, USA_
    Democracy Now! ’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will be a guest on CNN’s new program, John King, USA , on Tuesday, March 23rd at 7pm Eastern Time. Amy will be discussing the news of the day.
  • 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.

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • George Benson – The Greatest Love of All
    I first heard this song on a PBS show called “Soundstage” back in the late 70’s.  It still moves me deeply. George Benson really found a way to my soul with this one… I believe the children are our future Teach them well and let them lead the way Show them all the beauty they possess inside Give ...
  • NO ONE TO VOTE FOR: The American Military now KNOW ...
    Gosh? Dr. Alan Sabrosky, former director of studies at the US Army War College says that the military brass now know that Israel “and those traitors within our nation” committed the 911 attack. This is very heartening. This here is a very serious man. Look at his credentials. He talks about how Moss ...
  • The multiple ways Monsanto is putting normal seeds ...
    Linn Cohen-Cole – Writer People say if farmers don’t want problems from Monsanto, just don’t buy their GMO seeds. Not so simple. Where are farmers supposed to get normal seed these days? How are they supposed to avoid contamination of their fields from GM-crops? How are they supposed to stop Mons ...
  • Know the TRUTH about the Government Health Care Bi ...
  • Fact Sheet: The Truth About the Health Care Bill
    By Jane Hamsher A middle class family of four making $66,370 will be forced to pay $5,243 per year for insurance. After basic necessities, this leaves them with $8,307 in discretionary income — out of which they would have to cover clothing, credit card and other debt, child care and education costs ...

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

  • SweatFree DC – Calling on DC to Stop Sweatshop Pur ...
    The DC Sweatfree campaign is calling on Mayor Fenty and local elected officials to join the Sweatfree Purchasing Consortium. Related posts: Green Wont Be The Norm, Until We Stop Calling Things Green Toilets Help Stop Overpopulation – Heres How Dont Stop the Drilling to Save the Polar Bears ...
  • First Day of Spring – 2010 (Photo Essay)
    It's been a hard winter for many of us, and that makes Spring smell so much sweeter. The birds are singing and the world (at least in the Northern Hemisphere) is going through a renewal. Related posts: The First Day of Spring, 2009 – Photo Sunday Photo Sunday – Sounds of Nature Permafrost, Me ...
  • 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 ...

Inhabitat

  • GlidArc Uses Plasma TV Tech to Produce Super-Clean ...
    Plasma televisions are energy-sucking monsters — a 48-inch screen uses more power than a large refrigerator — which is why they have been largely replaced with LCD and LED screens. But the technology used to light up plasma TVs has a hidden application: creating clean fuel. Albin Czernichowski, a pr ...
  • How to Green Your Spring Cleaning with Technology
    It’s that time of year again! Spring is the perfect time to brush away the dustbunnies, thrust open the windows and refresh your whole house. But as you may know, the tools and cleansers available to help you do that aren’t always the most environmentally friendly. Luckily, we’ve got some great tips ...
  • Scientists Create New Super-Insulating Smart Roof ...
    Scientists just announced that they’ve found a great new use for used cooking oil — and it doesn’t have anything to do with a VW bus. They’ve figured out how to turn the waste from your favorite greasy foods into a “bio-coating” for roofs that regulates temperature in hot and cold weather. Previousl ...
  • DARPA Unveils Speedy Solar-Powered Smart Blimp
    The military often gets to check out exciting green technology before the general public. Case in point: DARPA’s new smart blimp, an automated, unmanned airship featuring an advanced radar system, solar cells, and a fuel cell to store energy at night. Dubbed The Integrated Sensor Is the Structure (I ...
  • Top 5 Green Gas Station Designs of the Future
    Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | diggPost tags: alternative transportation, batteries, charging stations, Design Competition, eco design, electric vehicles, gas stations, gas stations of the future, GOOD, green design, low carbon technology, mass transit, public transportation, sustainable design

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Why Dark Coffee Is Easier on Your Stomach
    SAN FRANCISCO — Roasting coffee beans doesn’t just impart bold, rich flavor. It also creates a compound that helps dial down production of stomach acid, according to research presented on March 21 at the spring meeting of the American Chemical Society. The discovery may explain why dark-roasted br ...
  • Channeling Earth: Rivers Seen From Space
    > Rivers connect Earth’s mountains and lakes to its oceans, creating lifelines that provide water, food, transportation and recreation along the way. Some rivers, like the Nile, bring life to barren landscapes that would otherwise be uninhabitable. Others, like the Mississippi, ...
  • 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 ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Clinton: New Israeli Settlement Construction Under ...
    Speaking this morning at the 2010 policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reiterated the Obama administration’s support for Israel, declaring that, “ for President Obama, for me, and for this entire administration , our commitment ...
  • The Case for Taking Pakistan's About-Face Seriousl ...
    Pakistan's decades-long Afghan policy has undergone a radical change. Strategically, Afghanistan is no longer considered part of Pakistan's "western defense in depth" should India attack Pakistan from the east. The country's defense doctrine also included covert assistance for the Taliban insurgency ...
  • Misreading Khamenei’s Approach to the United State ...
    Most of the Western media failed to report on Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s annual, live Nowruz (Persian New Year) address yesterday in his hometown of Mashhad .  Instead they took conventional snippets from his earlier pre-recorded message for state television .  In doing so, the Western ...
  • Cambodia Announces Corporate Sponsorship for Armed ...
    Simmering tensions along Cambodia's border with Thailand has prompted Prime Minister Hun Sen to deploy a series of new initiatives to bolster his country's military. The moves range from an old-fashioned show of muscle in the form of missile tests and military exercises, to corporate sponsorship of ...
  • Domestic vs. Foreign Policy; India and Iran
    I want to again clarify a point I raised in Friday's World Politics Review column. I am not arguing that there was or is a clear quid pro quo arrangement (cotton subsidies in return for sanctions on Iran). What I am arguing against is the willful blindness of policymakers who decide that there can b ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • What HCR Means for Employers.
    Now that the health care reform bill will most likely be signed into law soon, many are trying to figure out what it means for them. The New York Times has plenty of graphs up to break it down, but a great blog called the Connecticut Employment Law Blog, run by Daniel Schwartz , explains what it mea ...
  • A Manifesta Revisited.
    Courtney Martin reflects on Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards ' breakthrough work: "Babies born on this day are automatically given their father's name…The only prestigious physical activity for girls is cheerleading or being a drum majorette…If a pregnancy happens, an enterprising gal can get ...
  • The First Step is Acceptance.
    Maybe it's wishful thinking, but there are signs that we're starting to see a questioning of the consensus that the national broadband plan released by the Federal Communications Commission last week was all that it could have been. I've argued that the plan does little to encourage competition. An ...
  • The Louisiana Purchase(s): Two Good Ideas.
    Katie Connolly took the time to look into one of the "backroom deals" that conservatives criticized in the health care reform bill and discovered that the "Louisiana Purchase" isn't that bad after all. Turns out the controversial adjustment to the state's Medicaid funding was more about making up ...
  • A Diversity Win.
    ( Flickr/ Obama-Biden )When I was dealing with the racial culture shock of moving from a public high school in DC to Vassar College, my brother told me a story about going to summer camp when he was nine. He was the only black kid at the whole camp, and on the first day when they began picking teams ...

Andy Worthington

  • Seven Years of War in Iraq: Still Based on Cheney’ ...
    Friday marked the seventh anniversary of the illegal invasion of Iraq, but by now, it seems, the American people have become used to living in a state of perpetual war, even though that war was based on torture and lies. Protestors rallied across the country on Saturday, but the anti-war impetus of ...
  • “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”: 500 tu ...
    If you’re looking for confirmation that discussions of torture and imprisonment without charge or trial can galvanize the public, then a crowd of 500 students in Kent watching a film about Guantánamo on Thursday evening ought to provide conclusive proof. The film in question is the new documentary f ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Ally: Minutemen Leader Knew Defamatory Video Was F ...
    To hear San Diego Minutemen leader Jeff Schwilk’s crony and fellow nativist extremist Ray Carney tell it, Schwilk’s alleged defamation in December – for the second time – of a civil rights activist was no case of mistaken identity. In fact, Carney says, he warned Schwilk that a video in which a woma ...
  • Answering Our Critics: SPLC ‘Smear’ Dissected
    This Thursday, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) — a Washington, D.C., think tank that describes itself as “pro-immigrant” but pumps out an endless stream of papers claiming that immigration is hurting America in a myriad of ways — plans to issue a “report” attacking the Southern Poverty Law ...
  • Year in Hate and Extremism Webcast
    Southern Poverty Law Center President Richard Cohen and Intelligence Project Director Mark Potok discuss the recently released annual count of hate and extremist groups.
  • Leading Holocaust Denier Leaves German Prison
    Longtime Hitler enthusiast and Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel was released from a German prison on Monday after serving five years for the crime of inciting racial hatred. Zundel, who turns 71 next month, said he would be heading to his home in the Black Forest to regain his health. “It’s kind of a s ...
  • Mississippi House Again Backs Supremacist’s Resolu ...
    Mississippi lawmakers have short memories. That, at least, may be the kindest explanation for their latest decision to laud an occasion organized by a staunch white supremacist. In what has become an absurd yearly tradition , the Mississippi House voted last month to approve a resolution honoring hi ...

change: org.

  • California Against Slavery Anti-Trafficking Initia ...
    California Against Slavery (CAS) has been pounding the pavement for weeks, gathering signatures to put its initiative for tougher human trafficking laws on the state ballot. The group needs 600,000 names by Mar. 31, 2010. If you’re a California resident, have you signed yet? Have you told everyone y ...
  • Roy Beck's Bodyguard Assaults Female Mimes, Pops T ...
    Roy Beck, director of the immigration restrictionist group NumbersUSA, which has ties to hate groups and white supremacists, decided to drop by yesterday's March FOR America immigration rally to report on the gathering of over 200,000 supporters. Some immigrant rights advocates were concerned that B ...
  • A Law School Assault on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
    What do you get when you combine five Deans from some of the top law schools in the country?  Well, most likely a really bad bowling team. But also, and way more importantly, a small army of powerful folks calling for a repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Deans from Harvard Law School, New York Law S ...
  • The Social Investor Conundrum
    Almost none of the social venture investors involved in early funding for social enterprises today made their money from social enterprises. That simple fact leaves our nascent field with a big hole in expertise. As a "field," social investment is still in its infancy. On the one hand, this means th ...
  • Egg Donation in Canada Puts Donors At Risk
    The Canadian magazine The Walrus recently featured an article entitled " The Human Egg Trade ," which discusses the lack of regulation behind Canadian laws prohibiting payments to egg donors. The Assisted Human Reproduction Act prohibits the purchase of human eggs, but allows egg donation for altrui ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Whole Foods, United Natural Foods Muscle Suppliers ...
    The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) carries a big public interest stick. It can mobilize the 850,000 people in its network to pressure corporations and governments. The goal – clean, safe, organic foods and products for America. One way that OCA raises money – it charges for ads on ...
  • Thousands Rally on Anniversary of Invasion of Iraq
    by Matthew Barakat WASHINGTON - Thousands of protesters - many directing their anger squarely at President Barack Obama - marched through the nation's capital Saturday to urge immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. At least eight people, including activist Cindy Sheehan, were arre ...
  • Pelosi Shuts Down Talk of Abortion Vote
    by Tory Newmyer WASHINGTON - Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has put the kibosh on Rep. Bart Stupak's (D-Mich.) push for another vote on his anti-abortion amendment to the health care reform package. Pelosi told reporters on Saturday there will be no separate votes on any proposed changes to the pac ...
  • Russian 'Day of Anger' Rallies Tests Putin's Rule
    MOSCOW  - Thousands of protesters rallied in dozens of Russian cities on Saturday against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's government as opposition groups mobilised anger over economic woes. Riot police in Moscow massively outnumbered some 100 activists who took to the streets for an unsanctioned ral ...
  • I'm Not the Messiah, Says Food Activist... but His ...
    by Bobbie Johnson in San Francisco The trouble started when Raj Patel appeared on American TV to plug his latest book, an analysis of the financial crisis called The Value of Nothing .The London-born author, 37, thought his slot on comedy talkshow The Colbert Report went well enough: the host made a ...

Lifehacker

  • The Complete Guide to Ripping and Converting Flash ...
    Whether you want to save and watch a Flash video offline, convert a Flash music video for your MP3 player, or do something else entirely, learning how to rip and convert Flash videos is a useful skill. Here's how it works. More�� ...
  • Shop European-Style for Fresher, Cheaper Food [Sho ...
    Infrequent bulk shopping is a common way for people to get groceries. Stock up on Saturday, restock on the next Saturday, and hope everything keeps well through the week. European-style shopping increases your access to fresh and inexpensive f ...
  • ThickButtons Predicts and Enlarges Letters for Bet ...
    Android: One of Android's biggest weaknesses, at least compared to the iPhone, is its on-screen keyboard. ThickButtons tries to improve Android's typing experience by guessing what words you might be typing and enlarging the next letter you'll ...
  • How the Health Care Reform Bill Will Affect You [N ...
    Before it was passed last night, you made sure to read all the details on the health care reform bill, right? Shocked as we are, we'll point out a quick explainer on what the health care changes mean for your own situation. More�� ...
  • Print a Lens Hood for On-The-Cheap Sun Blocking [C ...
    If you rarely need a lens hood, it hardly seems worth it to shell out the money for the few times a year when you need it. Print off a lens hood template and shield your lens on the cheap. More��

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Paying not to quake in our boots
    at Chinese defense spending trends. 
  • U.S., Allies Responsible for Most Marjah Civilian ...
    By Derrick Crowe According to the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, U.S. and Allied forces have killed and injured more civilians than have the insurgents during Operation Moshtarak. Incredibly, the Pentagon continues to insist that this operation "protects the people." AIHRC's Feb. 23 pre ...
  • One in Three Killed By Drones in Pakistan Is a Civ ...
    By Derrick Crowe A new report from the New America Foundation states that one of every three people killed in the U.S.'s not-so-secret drone war in Pakistan is a civilian. The report also discloses that none of the strikes in 2009 targeted Bin Laden, and that they have had little impact on the Talib ...
  • Reeling in the proxy rebels?
    By Dave Anderson: I'm coming late to this party, but I want to highlight a couple of things. First, from Yorkshire Ranter from last week: Well, this is unusual; Londonstani confirms that the Pakistanis just arrested 50% of the Taliban high command, in so far as such a thing matters. Not only that, t ...
  • US and Pakistan Heading For A Clash Over Terror Ai ...
    By Steve Hynd Despite US analysis that has veared from optimistic to wildly over-optimistic, there's still a serious cloud over US/Pakistan relations in the form of reimbursement for Pakistani expenditure claims in pursuit of American objectives in the "War on Terror (tm)". Yesterday, Pakistani news ...

Water Wars

  • Another week of GW News, March 21, 2010 [A Few Thi ...
    Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor . Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
  • Planet Ark (Planet Ark)
    Federal limits on water that can be pumped out of a major river delta for California farmers are scientifically justified, a much-anticipated report said on Friday, a finding hailed by environmentalists in the state's epic water wars.
  • Drought, refugees, revolution and war – military p ...
    MILITARY chiefs are holding "back room" discussions on how to cope with the threat of a world ravaged by wars provoked by uncontrolled climate change, an expert has w
  • DNR right to ask for gray wolf off endangered list ...
    We are pleased to see the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources file a petition with the federal government to take the endangered species tag off of the gray wolf in Minnesota.
  • CA Democrat Denies Swapping Health Care Vote For I ...
    What's Your Reaction? Did the Obama administration swap the fate of the Delta's endangered salmon for a couple of votes for the president's health care overhaul?

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Electronic Intifada

  • Gaza civil society to UN chief: siege more than "u ...
    UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described the blockade of Gaza "unacceptable" on 27 December 2009. Palestinian civil society organizations in Gaza assert that this "consti ...
  • The trials of making a film in Gaza
    I am on a plane, on the way back from Palestine to my apartment -- a quiet, private place set in rainy Amsterdam. It is there where I will edit my film, a love story set in the Gaz ...
  • House rental in Israel: Arabs need not apply
    The Zakai and Tarabin families should be a picture of happy coexistence across the ethnic divide, a model for others to emulate in Israel. But Natalie and Weisman Zakai say the pas ...
  • Protest the US' silencing of Palestinian journalis ...
    Effectively canceling a planned speaking tour, the US consulate in the Netherlands has put an extended hold on the visa application of award-winning Palestinian journalist ...
  • Time to bury dead ideas about Palestine
    There is a growing recognition that the Israeli settlement enterprise in the Occupied Palestinian Territories is, in practical terms, irreversible. The two-state solution, ...

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Futurismic

  • Remembering Mac Tonnies
    Almost exactly five months ago, I had to pass on the news that writer, UFOlogist and former Futurismic columnist Mac Tonnies had been found dead in his apartment of natural causes. While we weren’t astonishingly close, I always enjoyed Mac’s outlook on the universe he found himself inhabiting, and I ...
  • Quicklinkage: writers on writing, Godin on slush
    Some quick links collected in a spare segment of a manic Monday, in lieu of our usual fare (i.e. me waffling on about stuff): here are some science fiction writers going all meta on our arses and writing about writing: Gareth L Powell on the difference between science fiction and fantasy (excerpted ...
  • Personal Information: episode 5
    Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 5 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 ...
  • 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 ...

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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

  • Doctors Told Not To Use Social Networks, As It Cou ...
    Just as we were seeing doctors who were embracing social media to do more for patients, it appears that some are trying to clamp down. As in the legal profession , it appears some old-timers are over-reacting to things like Facebook. mhh5 points us to the news that an article in the Journal of Med ...
  • Hollywood Continues To Make Up Facts; AP Continues ...
    So, the MPAA's latest target for crackdowns on camcording appears to be India. You may remember that it went through a series of questionable claims about camcording in Canada and the US, where if you looked at the math, none of it added up. Apparently, the same thing is happening in India and the ...
  • Viacom's Real Intent? To Pretend The DMCA Requires ...
    We're seeing more and more analysis of the summary judgment motions filed by both sides in the YouTube lawsuit between Google and Viacom. Unfortunately, many sites are basing their analysis on the out of context quotes Viacom pulled out of some emails -- despite the fact that the evidence doesn't a ...
  • Switzerland So Neutral It Won't Even Let In Violen ...
    An anonymous reader sends in word that Switzerland appears to be following in the footsteps of Venezuela by getting close to banning all violent video games in the country (yes, even for adults). It's not quite there yet -- as the Swiss National Council has basically just given itself the right to ...
  • ACS:Law Now Using Dubious Legal Theories To Threat ...
    Just last week, we were talking about how UK firm ACS:Law, who has been condemned by UK politicians and ISPs, was still pushing forward with its efforts to send out tens of thousands of threatening "pre-settlement" letters. These letters attempt to scare recipients into paying up to avoid a potenti ...

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

  • American Legion Says Health Care Reform Won’t Harm ...
  • Potential Trade War Brewing With China?
    From Uncommon Wisdom: by Sean Brodrick I don’t think we’ll see a trade war anytime soon, for the simple reason that the wheels of politics turn slowly (usually). And it may not happen at all — this may be sound and fury to please the plebes in an election year. But these two stories bear watching si ...
  • Another Gulf War Syndrome?
    From Beth Hawkins at Mother Jones: Before her last deployment, 31-year-old Staff Sergeant Danielle Nienajadlo [1] passed her Army physical with flying colors. So when she started having health problems several weeks after arriving at Balad Air Base [2] in Iraq, no one knew what to make of her sympto ...
  • Chimerica is Breaking Up: China Likely to go From ...
    In a command economy, the government decides what numbers it wants, and then instructs its economists and government agencies to arrive at those numbers. If they don’t, they’re killed or thrown into prison. So when China’s official daily newspaper – China Daily – writes that China will probably run ...
  • Military Order of the Purple Heart Salutes the Bli ...
    The Military Order of the Purple Heart is pleased to recognize the Blinded Veterans Association and its Members on the 65th Anniversary of their founding on March 28, 1945, when 100 blinded World War II veterans at the Avon `Old Farms’ Army Convalescent Hospital in Connecticut joined together to for ...

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

  • Today on Planet 100: EU Carbon Markets Collapse (V ...
  • Is the Internet a Threat for Endangered Animals? Y ...
    Don't worry, this one is not actually for sale. Photo: Flickr , CC Some conservationists at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) in Doha, Qatar, said that the Internet created some new threats for protected animals. "The internet is becoming the dominant factor ...
  • Fiskars Momentum Reel Mower Doubles Your Effort wi ...
    Image: Fiskars If it's true that gas-powered lawn mowers crank out 5% of the nation's air pollution, then it's truly time to consider workable alternatives. If we haven't convinced you to replace your lawn with a xeriscape or food forest, you might want to take a look at the elegant Fiskars Moment ...
  • Eco Electric ATV: Can It Actually Be Green?
    My original title for this post was going to be "Just what we needed dept: an electric ATV" when editor Meg pointed out that ATVs are used by many as working tools around farms and in the forests, and that they are not all noisy smelly horrible things that tear up the countryside and can be big ...
  • Canada Has Warmest (7.2 °F Above Normal) and Dries ...
    Image: Environment Canada Warm & Dry The preliminary numbers are out for the winter of 2009-2010 in Canada, and it turns out that it was the warmest and driest winter since records began in 1948. "The national average temperature for the winter 2009/2010 was 4.0°C (7.2 °F) above normal [...] T ...

Biosingularity

  • Crafting Light-Sensing Cells from Human Skin
    Think twice the next time you wipe a few flecks of dandruff from your shoulder. You might be shedding cells that may someday restore human vision. Thomas Reh and colleagues at the University of Washington, in Seattle, have generated light-sensing retinal cells, called photoreceptors, from adult huma ...
  • Medpedia launches new clinical trial platform
    The Medpedia Project today announced Medpedia Clinical Trials, a platform for patients and physicians to receive information about the thousands of clinical trials that are in process or about to begin. Other online sources already allow for searching clinical trials, but the Medpedia platform allow ...
  • Coffee Break Boosts Memory
    - A coffee break after an important meeting or class may be just the thing your brain needs to digest new information and improve memory. A new study suggests that resting while awake aids in memory consolidation and improves memory recall, much like getting a good night’s sleep has been shown to ...
  • Monitoring Cell Death Could Help Cancer Treatment
    When it comes to aggressive cancers, in the brain or lung for example, oncologists know that the sooner they can determine whether a treatment is unsuccessful, the sooner they can reevaluate and, if necessary, prescribe a new course of action. But typically, it takes two months or more to do the bef ...
  • The incredible beauty in the life of cells

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Pruning Shears

  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. I don’t want the military to be above criticism, so I don’t have a problem with this . It is worth noting, though, that a similarly sharp cr ...
  • Will Bloggers Rescue the Lehman Story?
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Last year I wrote about Mark Mitchell’s story of Deep Capture , a complex tale of financial corruption centered around the use of illegal naked short selling and phantom stock. It was (and is) a difficult story to write about becaus ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The ACLU asked the president about his commitment to the rule of law. It probably cost more than $1000, but the lack of of a wingnut welfare shop’s imprimatur prevented it from getting any traction. Our image in the Muslim world wou ...
  • 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 ...

Natural Health News

  • Low Levels of Vitamin D Linked to Higher Rates of ...
    Researchers have discovered that African American children with asthma in metropolitan Washington, DC, are significantly more likely to have low levels of vitamin D than healthy children. This study supports recent research that suggests vitamin D plays a greater role in the body than just keeping ...
  • Omega 3 Curbs Precancerous Growths
    A purified form of an omega 3 fat cuts the number and size of precancerous bowel growths (polyps) in people who are predisposed bowel cancer. Furthermore, this particular omega 3 (eicosapentaenoic acid or EPA) seems to be as effective as the prescription medicine used to treat familial bowel polyps ...
  • Indian Spices and Powders Linked to Lead Poisoning
    A study shows that young children who regularly ingest some imported Indian spices may be exposed to lead -- a dangerous neurotoxin. The study followed patients from the Pediatric Environmental Health Center at Children's Hospital in Boston who had ingested or been exposed to Indian spices and pow ...
  • 7 Drugs That Can Kill Children with a Single Pill
    Even parents who keep medicines out of their children's reach are at risk of an emergency; the Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America notes that in 50 percent of all childhood accidental poisonings, the medication bottle was only "out" for a short amount of time as it was being used. � Her ...
  • Could the U.S. Surgeon General be the Real cause ...
    A researcher who authored one of the first articles connecting aspirin to Reye’s Syndrome, a lethal disease that attacks the liver and brain, is suggesting that aspirin also could be to blame for a significant portion of deaths in the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic. � In an article in Clinical Infec ...

Antemedius

  • To Improve Competitiveness of Rural Businesses, Li ...
    Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet . The U.S. Agency for International Development’s Production, Finance, and Technology (PROFIT) program in Lusaka, Zambia, is different from other development projects, according to Rob Munro, the program’s senior market development ad ...
  • Congratulations! We Passed The Start Line!
    Last night the House passed the Senates version of the HCR bill and the reconciliation fixes that they had bargained for. With that we crossed a line, but it was not the finish line, not by a long shot. While the bill has a lot of things in it that will measurably improve the amount and availability ...
  • Kucinich tells his side of the story on Democracy ...
    In a lengthy interview on Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman , Congressman Dennis Kucinich explained why he would not vote for the present health care bill and defended his position against attacks from people on the left like Markos Moulitsas . He also spoke about the subjects of Afghanistan, campaig ...
  • Brazil Steps Between Israel And Iran
    Originally published at Asia Times Talk about a Via Dolorosa. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is the first Brazilian president to visit Israel officially. Lauded for his charisma, swing and formidable negotiating powers - United States President Barack Obama refers to him as "the man" - little did Lula kn ...
  • Meet Shayna Bailey, Slow Food International
    Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet, www.nourishingtheplanet.com Name: Shayna Bailey Affiliation: Slow Food International Location: Bra, Italy “Meet the Nourishing the Planet Advisory Group” is a new regular series where we profile advisors of the Nourishing the Plane ...

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

  • What will a U.S.-China BIT do to Investor-State Ar ...
    by Duncan Hollis Today's Financial Times has a story on how unhappy U.S. businesses have become about Chinese government restrictions interferring with their access to Chinese markets.  So, one can understand how U.S. exporters would welcome news that the United States and China are getting closer ...
  • Bangladesh Becomes Lucky Number 111
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Bangladesh has ratified the Rome Statute, making it the 111th member of the International Criminal Court.  Bangladesh was the first country in South Asia to sign the Statute, which it did on July 17, 1998.  I don’t know what explains the 12-year gap betwe ...
  • A Healthcare Vignette…
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller FADE IN: INT. KEVIN’S OFFICE — DAY KEVIN (obscenely young, ridiculously handsome) sits at his desk, poring through archival material.  An AUSSIE STUDENT (even younger, not as handsome) enters. AUSSIE: Hey, sorry to interrupt.  Just wanted to say congratul ...
  • Book Review, Oxford Companion to International Cri ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller My book review of the Oxford Companion, edited by Antonio Cassese and many others, has just been published in the new issue of the American Journal of International Law.  It’s a decent-sized review, almost 5,000 words, as befits a book that checks in at mo ...
  • Does the U.S. Really Need The Law of the Sea Treat ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Here is another persuasive account of why the U.S. is disadvantaged by not joining the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.  The case is fairly simple: There is a lot of oil and natural gas up there, and the U.S. can’t negotiate with other countries to divvy it up until ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • WWF caught in $60 billion conflict of interest
    This from Christopher Booker: If the world’s largest, richest environmental campaigning group, the WWF – formerly the World Wildlife Fund – announced that it was playing a leading role in a scheme to preserve an area of the Amazon rainforest...
  • Test
    Has this improved the ability to open links?
  • 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...

Public News Service

  • AZ Activists Take Immigration Reform Message to DC
    AZ Activists Take Immigration Reform Message to DC Phoenix, AZ – Twenty members of Arizona-based Border Action Network will join the March for America Sunday in Washington, D.C. They’ll join an estimated 100,000 people in calling for Congress to reform U.S. immigration policy. Comments from Jennifer ...
  • Arizona “Transportation Freedom Days” ...
    Arizona “Transportation Freedom Days” are Here Phoenix, AZ – Over the next few weeks, Arizona cities will be celebrating “Transportation Freedom Days,” where a typical household has earned enough to cover its transportation expenses for the year. For Phoenix, that day is tomorrow (Saturday). Comment ...
  • Int’l Committee Considers Trade Ban on AZ Su ...
    Int’l Committee Considers Trade Ban on AZ Sushi Delicacy Phoenix, AZ – Catch one fish and win $100,000. That’s the prize right now for fisherman hauling in Atlantic Bluefin tuna – a premium-priced dish for Arizona sushi bars, and restaurants around the world. The Convention on International Trade in ...
  • Advocates Go to Bat for Employers and Unemployed
    Advocates Go to Bat for Employers and Unemployed Phoenix, AZ – Social service advocates are urging changes to Arizona’s unemployment benefit laws to get the state $150-million in federal stimulus money. The only other option is borrowing money so that unemployment checks can continue, but employers ...
  • Report: Forest Beetles Not to Blame for Big Wester ...
    Report: Forest Beetles Not to Blame for Big Western Fires Phoenix, AZ - The West continues to see one of the worst outbreaks of forest beetles in centuries. The conventional wisdom has been that those diseased trees should be cut down to reduce fire risk. But a new scientific report questions that ...

My Care2 Picks

  • Top Military Official Who Oversaw Detainee Torture ...
    Atrocities were the work of American Special Forces, working in conjunction with “specially trained” (by the US) units of the Afghan Army.Eight high school students,Afghan police commander, a government prosecutor, two of their pregnant wives and a teenag Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Not ...
  • 1984 & 'Brave New World' | Orwell & Huxley
    These novels I associate with my father : warrior and priest. My teen years were stimulated with some college-level reading : the books helped inform an attitude of cynicism towards the military and truthfulness...rather systemic deception Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it ...
  • 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 �|� ...

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

  • Fact Sheet: The Truth About the Health Care Bill
    By Jane Hamsher [We] ...have come up with 18 often stated myths about this health care reform bill. Real health care reform is the thing we've fought for from the start. It is desperately needed. But this bill falls short on many levels, and hurts many people more than it helps... 2. Insurance c ...
  • Bagram prison in Afghanistan may become the new Gu ...
    The American detention centre at Bagram in Afghanistan could be expanded into a Guantánamo-style prison for terrorist suspects detained around the world. This is one of the options being considered as US officials try to find an alternative to Guantánamo Bay, which President Obama promised to close ...
  • Afghan group in 'secret mission'
    A senior delegation representing one of the main Afghan anti-government movements is in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, with a plan for peace talks with the Afghan government, a government official has said. The Hezb-i-Islami group sent a delegation headed by Qutbuddin Helal, a former prime minis ...
  • U.S. Turns a Blind Eye to Opium in Afghan Town
    The effort to win over Afghans on former Taliban turf in Marja has put American and NATO commanders in the un usual position of arguing against opium eradication, pitting them against some Afghan officials who are pushing to destroy the harvest. From Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal on down, the milit ...
  • CIA chief authorizes every drone strike
    CIA Chief Leon Panetta has said the US counter terrorism polices in Pakistan are legal and highly effective and that he is acutely aware of the gravity of some of the decisions thrust upon him. In an interview Wednesday at CIA headquarters, Panetta refused to directly address the matter of Preda ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • WWF caught in $60 billion conflict of interest
    This from Christopher Booker: If the world’s largest, richest environmental campaigning group, the WWF – formerly the World Wildlife Fund – announced that it was playing a leading role in a scheme to preserve an area of the Amazon rainforest...
  • Test
    Has this improved the ability to open links?
  • BREAKING NEWS: Top Aussie climate scientist goes f ...

  • Are glaciers uniformly receding?
    It's often claimed that glaciers are receding, and this is supposed to be taken as proof of human-caused climate change., not all glaciers are receding at all, and not all glaciers are monitored by the World Glacier Monitoring Service... 
  • STUDY: Amazon much tougher than IPCC report claime ...
    A new peer reviewed study based on satellite imagery has found the Amazon jungle shrugged off "the drought of a century" in 2005 and may be much more resistant to drought than the IPCC has claimed. Pic: The Amazon, Brazil...

Mondoweiss

  • Hillary tells AIPAC, the occupation is hurting the ...
    I think there was much to celebrate in Hillary Clinton’s speech to AIPAC. Couched in the usual pandering of the special relationship forever, and sanctions that "bite" Iran, she made a point of breaking the news to American Jews that the "status quo is unsustainable." Yes, she said this had to do wi ...
  • The shootings and arrests last Friday in a West Ba ...
    Palestinian-American lawyer Huwaida Arraf sent out the following note to friends yesterday after her release from detention: I was arrested on Friday at around noon as I tried to get the Israeli soldiers to stop shooting at people in Nabi Saleh (a small village of about 400 people), especially aft ...
  • AIPAC punked by false press release saying it pres ...
    Is J Street finally getting traction? Brilliant fake AIPAC press release showed up on Al Jazeera and all over CSPAN during Hillary’s speech to the policy conference. I bought it! This just drives the wedge between AIPAC and J Street and gives AIPAC a stinko headline when it’s trying to affirm the sp ...
  • Lawrence Wright boldly challenges NY audience with ...
    If you want to know anything about what is really going on between Israel and the Palestinians in Gaza or elsewhere, do not go to Lawrence Wright’s new play, “The Human Scale.” Like Wright’s New Yorker pieces, it is bookended by the plight of Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier held by Hamas—as if som ...
  • AIPAC… Obama… Nazi Germany (fill in th ...
    Jennifer Rubin at Commentary passes this report on with credulity (maybe because it reflects the Podhoretz family’s views?): An elderly couple from Florida were agitated by recent events. The wife explained she that had fled Nazi Germany as a child for Shanghai. “There are parallels,” she said. ...

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

  • Princess Salerno
    Published: 22 March 2010 MAJ JF Sucher, MD FACS USAR MC Surgeon, 909th FST The 909th FST saw many children during their first deployment of 2002-2003 in Salerno, Afghanistan, Paktya province, but one beautiful child gripped their hearts. Anyone who saw her then, or sees her image now can't help b ...
  • 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 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

  • Today on Planet 100: EU Carbon Markets Collapse (V ...
  • Is the Internet a Threat for Endangered Animals? Y ...
    Don't worry, this one is not actually for sale. Photo: Flickr , CC Some conservationists at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) in Doha, Qatar, said that the Internet created some new threats for protected animals. "The internet is becoming the dominant factor ...
  • Fiskars Momentum Reel Mower Doubles Your Effort wi ...
    Image: Fiskars If it's true that gas-powered lawn mowers crank out 5% of the nation's air pollution, then it's truly time to consider workable alternatives. If we haven't convinced you to replace your lawn with a xeriscape or food forest, you might want to take a look at the elegant Fiskars Moment ...
  • Eco Electric ATV: Can It Actually Be Green?
    My original title for this post was going to be "Just what we needed dept: an electric ATV" when editor Meg pointed out that ATVs are used by many as working tools around farms and in the forests, and that they are not all noisy smelly horrible things that tear up the countryside and can be big ...
  • Canada Has Warmest (7.2 °F Above Normal) and Dries ...
    Image: Environment Canada Warm & Dry The preliminary numbers are out for the winter of 2009-2010 in Canada, and it turns out that it was the warmest and driest winter since records began in 1948. "The national average temperature for the winter 2009/2010 was 4.0°C (7.2 °F) above normal [...] T ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Nepal rights groups praise court rulings against c ...
    [JURIST] Nepalese rights groups on Sunday praised [press release, PDF] two recent judgments by the District Court in Baitadi against caste-based discrimination. Earlier this month, the court sentenced a man accused of assaulting the father of the groom during a July 2009 wedding for practicing "ritu ...
  • Supreme Court declines to rule on Guantanamo detai ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Monday declined to rule [order list, PDF] in the case known as Kiyemba II, in which the court was asked to consider issues surrounding the transfer of Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees. Lawyers for four Chinese Mus ...
  • UK MPs, rights groups call for torture inquiry
    [JURIST] Human rights groups including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Liberty, and Reprieve [advocacy websites] on Monday joined with members of British parliament in calling for an inquiry into the UK role in torture [JURIST news archive] and rendition during the war on terror. In an op ...
  • US House passes health care reform legislation
    [JURIST] The US House of Representatives [official website] on Sunday voted 219 - 212 [roll call] to approve a health care reform bill passed by the Senate in December, sending it to President Barack Obama for final approval. The bill, HR 3590 [text, PDF; materials] was passed after two hours of deb ...
  • Mumbai terror suspect pleads guilty in US court
    [JURIST] US citizen and Chicago resident David Headley pleaded guilty [press release] to 12 counts of federal terrorism Thursday, including charges related to the 2008 Mumbai terror attack [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] and an alleged plot against the Danish creator and publishers of contr ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Has Romney Lost The RomneyCare = ObamaCare Argumen ...
    Last night, Patrick Ruffini , a conservative digital superstar with a top-notch mind to boot, tweeted to his 10,000+ followers: "Those given to hyperbole on both sides of this should remember one fact: This is Romneycare, writ large. Nothing more or less. "� Ruffini helped to set up Gov. Tim Pawlent ...
  • Republicans in Disarray
    A week ago, Republicans were united and on the verge of completely commanding the political narrative between now and November. Now, with their entire strategy having been upended by the Democratic health care victory, the party is in disarray. There is no fallback on health care -- none -- except ...
  • Watch This Guy: Ben Mizer
    Today, the Supreme Court did something very important: in a victory for the government, it refused to review a lower court's decision giving the executive branch sole authority to determine when Guantanamo detainees are released and whether they get to come in to the United States. But I'm intereste ...
  • Top Secret Warfare and the Law
    There are now three armies in America: the regular volunteer force, the secret volunteer force -- the folks at the Joint Special Operations Command -- and the paramilitaries and contractors used by the CIA.� Three armies, a welter of conflicting laws, domains and territories. The scariest part of th ...
  • 219 to 212.
    After a year of intense vivid and vehement debate, false deaths, and death panels, arms twisted, heads counted and brains whipped, with the fate of their majority in Congress in the balance, Democrats sent to President Obama Sunday night the largest revision to the American health care system in hal ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Is the U.S. "Offer" to Iran on Medical Isotopes a ...
    Summary: Earlier this week, journalists highlighted U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Dan Poneman's statement that the Obama Administration had "offered to facilitate Iran's procurement through the world markets of the medical isotopes its citizens need," but that "Iran's leaders apparently pref ...
  • In Iran, Leader assails hypocrisy in US approach
    Summary: Ayatollah Khamenei lashed out at the US president for supporting the unrest erupted after last year's June presidential election, saying the enemies had plans to start a "civil war" in the country. source: Press TV read more
  • The myth of Obama engaging Iran
    Summary: So on occasion of Obama's Persian New Year (NoRuz) message to Iran, it is claimed that Obama offered an "open hand" to Iran only to be met by a "clenched fist". Rubbish. In fact, Khamenei responded to his letter by stating plainly that Iran would judge Obama's offer of engagement on the ...
  • 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 ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • The Coming Commercial Space Era
    Image Credit: With thanks to SpaceKraft by jrtce1 http://www.flickr.com/photos/26405687@N08/
  • The New Tech & UFO Sighting Timeline Link
    Image credit: With thanks to our friends at gizmodo.com
  • The Daily Flash -Eco, Space, Tech (3/19)
    Discovery could pave the way for quantum computing Two experimental systems at the forefront of modern physics research -- a single trapped ion and a quantum atomic gas -- have been combined for the first time by researchers at Cambridge....
  • Large Hadron Collider Smashes World Energy Record ...
    The Large Hadron Collider set a new record for the creation of energetic particle beams this past week. The particle accelerator, which surpassed Fermilab’s Tevatron in December, smashed its own record, charging particles to 3.48 trillion electron volts, or three...
  • Image of the Day: The Weirdness of Eta Carinae (We ...
    Situated just East of the Keyhole Nebula in the Southern Sky, lies the super-luminous eruptive star eta Carinae at a distance of only about 7500 light years from Earth. This strange star is is over one million times brighter than...

Natural News

  • Health care reform bill dooms America to Pharma-do ...
    (NaturalNews) Today the medical mafia struck another devastating blow to the health and freedom of all Americans. With the support of an inarguably corrupt Congress that has simply abandoned the real needs of the American people, the sick-care industry has locked in a high-profit scheme of disease a ...
  • Gerson, Whitaker, Horowitz, Juice Daddy, Health Ra ...
    (NaturalNews) We just wrapped up our "Healing Miracles LIVE" event in Los Angeles this weekend, where many of the best-known champions of health freedom spoke out about healing, juicing, cancer and many other topics. We'll be posting some short video excerpts from the event in a few weeks to give yo ...
  • Proposed vitamin supplement limits scientifically ...
    (NaturalNews) The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Commission (EC) have been working on establishing dosage limits on vitamins and supplements within the European Union (EU) using flawed toxicology risk assessment methods to make such determinations. A recent paper published in ...
  • Home Insecticides Linked to Autoimmune Disorders
    (NaturalNews) Using pesticides in the home may significantly increase women's risk of developing autoimmune disorders, according to a study conducted by researchers from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Rheumatolog ...
  • Natural compound in bananas could hold key to stop ...
    (NaturalNews) University of Michigan (U-M) Medical School scientists have found a potent substance that could block the sexual transmission of HIV, the virus believed to cause AIDS. This HIV preventative isn't a potent new drug or chemical-laden vaccine. Instead, it's a natural substance derived fro ...

Threat Level

  • Russia Arrests Alleged Mastermind of RBS WorldPay ...
    Russian authorities have nabbed a man allegedly responsible for masterminding a coordinated global ATM heist that stole $9.5 million from Atlanta-based card processing company RBS WorldPay. Viktor Pleshchuk, 28, of St. Petersburg, was arrested by the Russian Federal Security Service, or FSB, accordi ...
  • Secret Service Paid TJX Hacker $75,000 a Year
    Convicted TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez earned $75,000 a year working undercover for the U.S. Secret Service, informing on bank card thieves before he was arrested in 2008 for running his own multimillion-dollar card-hacking operation. The information comes from one of Gonzalez’s best friends and conv ...
  • 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • You're Welcome!
    From the beginning, two great, largely unmentioned ironies hung over the contentious health care debate . The first elephant in the room (pun intended) is that health care is worst in those states where Republicans poll best . The second is that it will be blue state taxpayers helping fund the imp ...
  • What the Health Care Debate Was Really About
    After a year - decades, really - the debate over health care reform came down to a climactic vote in the United States House of Representatives. Many people of good faith in both political parties were separated by a genuine - and fundamental - ideological divide. But as their ferocity revealed, f ...
  • GOP Leaders Embrace Tea Party Bigotry
    Rule #1: No one displaying the Confederate flag gets to lecture any American about patriotism. Rule #2: For a Republican Party intent on co-opting the Tea Party protests it helped foster, silence is golden. So while Democrats Tim Ryan (D-OH), Steny Hoyer (D-MD) and Barney Frank (D-MA) rushed to de ...
  • The 10 Republican No's on Health Care
    When it comes to the health care reform bill, perfect is the enemy of good. But Republicans are the enemy of everything. And on Sunday , every member of the House GOP will likely vote against the final health care reform bill that will bring coverage to 32 million more Americans, end insurance com ...
  • 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 ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • 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

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

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  • Note to readers
    I’m om a hiatus again.  Check back now and then, I may surprise you. Tagged: Personal Note
  • Texas Progressive Alliance Monday, February 22, 20 ...
    Monday, February 22, 2010 Texas Blog Roundup The Texas Progressive Alliance reminds you that early voting runs through this Friday at 7 PM for the primaries as it brings you this week’s blog highlights. BossKitty at TruthHugger is amazed that anger is directed toward the Internal Revenue Servic ...
  • Tax and Defiance – Short Sighted Protester, Joe St ...
    Income Tax is Public money that is managed by our elected politicians, who also design the rules for how to use that money. The American Voter is where the ultimate responsibility lies. If the American voter cannot recognize they are complicit in creating a monster taxation system, they can throw ...
  • Military Sexual Offenses, Nothing New – Don’t Ask, ...
    How American’s deal with their sexual drives has a long twisted history of abuse and disinformation
  • Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up Feb 8, ...
    The Texas Progressive Alliance congratulates the city of New Orleans for the Saints’ stirring Super Bowl victory, and reminds them that the “hair of the dog” trick doesn’t really help with the hangover. The Texas Cloverleaf highlights the sentencing of GOP Denton County Constable Ken Jannereth. P ...

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  • Thank You, Democrats: Health Care Reform Passes, 2 ...
    No, it's not the bill I would have wanted. I've advocated universal single-payer for decades. But, thanks to 220 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives (first reported as 219, but early reports were apparently wrong), soon I probably won't have to worry about losing my health insurance if my ...
  • Don't You Just Hate Guys Like Me?
    I realize everyone is glad that the bill passed and that we can all take a breather from that particular fight for a while until we're ready to start going after the stuff we missed. �Me too. � Believe me, nobody is gladder than I am that we got something done, something of major significance to the ...
  • Basking in the afterglow
    I used to have hangovers after nights as big as last night. �Now I am older and more sensible and rarely, if ever, poison myuself like that. But god-damnit, we sure have reason to celebrate! And you know what? I am going to do just that...intermingled with all the laundry that has piled up and house ...
  • Liberalism Marches On
    Add Health Care Reform to this list from Steve Gilliard in 2003. I'm a fighting liberal You know, I've studied history, I've read about America and you know something, if it weren't for liberals, we'd be living in a dark, evil country, far worse than anything Bush could conjure up. A world where ch ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Bell tolls for French conservatives "President Sarkozy's centre-right UMP party has suffered a heavy defeat in the French regional elections, partial results of the voting show. With over 90% of votes counted, the Socialist-led opposition alliance took 52% of the vote with the UMP on 35%. Prime Mini ...

Care 2

  • Rare Worthen's sparrow nest sites found in Mexico
    Three new breeding sites of one of the world's rarest birds, the Worthen's sparrow of Mexico, have been found. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Drugs A-Z
    Find information on more than 24,000 prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications, and natural products, including possible side effects and drug interactions. Submitted by Tonya B. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Why there will never be more than 1,411 tigers in ...
    Only 1411 tigers left. So says the latest advertisement campaign of a new telecom company in India and the WWF. It is powerful. It plays to our emotions. But it does not tell us what is being done, or should be done. It does not tell us how we, the Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • Tracking down the elusive Knysna elephants
    There has not been a confirmed sighting of an elephant in the Knysna forests of South Africa for decades, after they were hunted to the brink of extinction in the early 1900s. But signs of their survival can still be found, Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Strategy for the tiger
    Vladivostok last week discussed a new edition of the state of Russia's strategy for the conservation of the Amur tiger inhabiting Primorye and Khabarovsk regions. The strategy became one of the main themes of the international conference "Amur tiger in Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! ...

GreenBiz

  • World Water Day Brings More Pledges from Dole, Coc ...
    On the 17th annual World Water Day, a number of companies touted innovations and commitments to improving and conserving the world's water resources.
  • 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

  • Frustrated Greeks
    The Greek debt crisis appears to be entering a new phase, in which the country is no longer just waiting to get needed help but getting concerned that others -- including euro zone powerhouse Germany -- may actually be making it hard for them to recover.
  • China holds Rio trial behind closed doors
    The trial of four Rio Tinto employees began early on a chilly, gray Monday morning in Shanghai, when four police vans in a convoy led by a cruiser with flashing lights swept the defendants to the courthouse well before 7 am.
  • General Kayani in Washington; Pakistan’s mos ...
    When a Pakistani delegation meets U.S. officials in Washington this week, the leading role will be played by its army chief, General Ashfaq Kayani
  • 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.

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Barack Obama, Bush Too (er … II)
    I thought George Bush would be the last President in my lifetime to squander an historical opportunity but leave it to Obama to out Bush Bush. George W. Bush in the aftermath of 9-11 enjoyed almost universal support of the American people and, more remarkable, the world. And what did he do with [. ...
  • John Brown Rising
    From the blog for the syndicated nightly John Batchelor Show. Executive Order. � Late in the day, POTUS issues an Executive Order that satisfies Bart Stupak of Michigan and the handful of votes that he can deliver to put Mrs. Pelosi over 216 for the [...]
  • Larry Johnson Will Talk Health Care Bill on The Jo ...
    (I RECOMMEND YOU TUNE IN NOW. THE POLITICAL PANEL IS DISCUSSING THE VOTES ONGOING. Go below the fold for instructions on how to tune in now.) TONIGHT AT 11:05 PM ET: Tune in to John Batchelor’s syndicated radio show when Larry Johnson joins the experts’ panel every Sunday. Instructions to listen v ...
  • OPEN THREAD: Obama’s “Do or Die” [Update]
    UPDATE: Larry called me from the road. He wants to insert these points: The House is likely to vote and pass the resolution, but that’s not the end of it because the bill has to go to the Senate. If the Senate makes any changes, the bill has to go back to [...]
  • “Demon Pass”?
    Whooey, this is some article Peggy Noonan had in the Wall Street Journal, Now For The Slaughter; On the road to Demon Pass, our leader encounters a Baier. As is obvious from the subheading, she references the recent interview with President Obama conducted by Fox News, Brett Baier. (If somehow you ...

Environmental Graffiti

Foreign Policy in Focus

  • Haiti: Recovery Bill Estimated at 11.5 Billion Dol ...
    Two weeks before a major donors conference, the Haitian government has estimated that the country will need some 11.5 billion dollars over the next three years to recover from the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake.
  • Ethiopia: Licensed to Steal
    Two former leaders of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front have alleged in a BBC radio program that the TPLF leadership – which included Meles Zenawi – used millions of dollars earmarked for famine relief in the 1980s to buy weapons and enrich themselves.
  • Do the Military and Development Mix?
    Measuring economic development in Afghanistan by the same yardstick as a Pentagon mission is a recipe for disaster.
  • Music is Still the Weapon
    Hope isn't lost for those who believe that art can transform our world
  • Responding to the Honduran Coup
    Activists, both in and out of Honduras, continue to work for justice.

Global Elite

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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

  • The US-Mexico border: where the drugs war has soak ...
    The narcos have penetrated the US embassy in Mexico City (as they had previously the one in Colombia’s capital, Bogota), their funds allowing them to siphon out a stream of intelligence about future operations against the narcos.  The Independent, March 21  (Image) Cartels have murdered ...
  • BRAINWASHING IN OUR CHARTER SCHOOLS
    As the privatization of education moves with unprecedented zeal, under the blind eyes of the nation’s corporate media, more and more one can begin to see the ideological threats to American students and American social culture.  As Texas wrangles with new textbooks that substitute John Calvin for Th ...
  • Rank and file members of the Detroit Federation of ...
    Rank and file members of the Detroit Federation of Teachers and civil rights activists from BAMN (the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary) have initiated what they intend as a first national action to stop the push ...
  • No title
    Rank and file members of the Detroit Federation of Teachers and Civil Rights Activists from BAMN initiate the first national action to stop the push to privatize education Rank and file members of the Detroit Federation of Teachers and civil rights activists from BAMN (the Coalition to Defend Affi ...
  • Vets, families, states’ law enforcement: Prosecute ...
    two videos and engage with pro disinfo agents in comments at source. All reasons to go to war with Iraq were lies, and known to be lies at the time they were told. We know this because the evidence is disclosed by our own government and proves beyond doubt that the reasons were known lies. If [...]

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Pine River World News

  • The Age of the Man-Gods
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Stanislav Mishin, a frequent contributor to Russian newspaper Pravda. The Age of the Man-Gods � �Stanislav Mishin Source: � Mat Rodina March 20, 2010 What a sorry state we live in, or rather that of the rotting and dying West. A people without ...
  • Steve Lendman: America's "Houdini Recovery" under ...
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Steve Lendman. America's "Houdini Recovery" under IMF-Type Austerity � �Stephen Lendman March 19, 2010 It's what economist David Rosenberg calls recovery given plenty of supportive evidence, including: � �over five million homeowners behind o ...
  • 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 ...

IntelNews

  • West German spy service employed former Nazis, doc ...
    West Germany’s intelligence service employed hundreds of former Nazi criminals from 1956 until at least 1971, according to internal documents.
  • News you may have missed #313
    British spies operated 'renegade torture unit' in Iraq. Poland's Jaruzelski was counter-intel officer.
  • More information on alleged Mossad hit in Budapest
    Late on Friday, Reuters news agency reported the dead Syrian-born man's name as Bassam Trache, 52. Meanwhile, Hungarian officials continue to deny any link between Trache's murder and the alleged Israeli spy planes. Hungarian government spokesman, Domokos Szollar, said the overflight was "routine" t ...
  • 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 ...

After Downing Street.org

  • The Health Care Hindenburg Has Landed
    The Health Care Hindenburg Has Landed By Chris Hedges | Truthdig Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s decision to vote “yes” in Sunday’s House action on the health care bill, although he had sworn to oppose the legislation unless there was a public option, is a perfect example of why I would never be a politicia ...
  • 5 Reasons U.S. Strategy to Train Afghan Police Isn ...
    5 Reasons U.S. Strategy to Train Afghan Police Isn’t Working, Despite Billions Spent by Marian Wang | ProPublica If you missed it this weekend, we co-published a cover story in Newsweek on the State Department’s disastrous, $6 billion attempt to create an effective Afghan police force, and how tha ...
  • Michael Moore: The Great Thing About the Health Ca ...
    The Great Thing About the Health Care Law That Has Passed? It Will Save Republican Lives, Too (An Open Letter to Republicans from Michael Moore) To My Fellow Citizens, the Republicans: Thanks to last night's vote, that child of yours who has had asthma since birth will now be covered after sufferi ...
  • Big Pharma a Big Winner in Health Care Reform
    Big Pharma a Big Winner in Health Care Reform By James Ridgeway | Mother Jones The Republicans look a sour lot this morning, but the pharmaceutical industry appears more than content with the health care legislation passed by the House, and with its Democratic friends in the White House and on the ...
  • U.S.-Led Forces In Afghanistan Are Committing Atro ...
    U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan are committing atrocities, lying, and getting away with it By Jerome Starkey, Times of London correspondent | Nieman Watchdog Jerome Starkey recently reported for The Times of London about a night raid on Feb. 12 in which U.S. and Afghan gunmen opened fire on two preg ...

Grist - News

  • 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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Washington Independent

  • Geithner’s New York Fed Took Trash Off Lehma ...
    The Lehman Brothers bankruptcy examiner’s report is the gift that just keeps on giving to critics of the administration, the bank bailout and the current efforts at financial market reform. Today, Ryan Grim of the Huffington Post reports that Tim Geithner, already under fire for encouraging Goldman ...
  • New Poll Shows Mideast Is Increasingly a Partisan ...
    You wouldn’t know from the U-N-I-T-Y themes of this year’s AIPAC conference, but a big partisan gap is opening on how Americans view the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. That’s according to a soon-to-be-released poll by the Arab-American Institute. In a capsule summary ahead of the full release of the ...
  • Bachmann Introduces Health Care Repeal Bill
    The Minnesota congresswoman, who’s promised to introduce “repealer bill after repealer bill” if Republicans win a majority in 2010, introduces a one-page bill aimed at repealing health care reform. The goal — Bachmann introduced this idea at last night’s rally outside the Capitol — is to get every R ...
  • Moving to The Washington Post
    Michael Calderone has the story — next month I’ll be taking my reporting from TWI to The Washington Post. I want to take a moment to point out that the sort of journalism I do wouldn’t have been possible without TWI. There’s more coverage of conservative politics (especially movement politics) than ...
  • Israeli Opposition Leader Tells AIPAC of ‘Fi ...
    “I didn’t come here to speak with you as the head of the opposition in Israel,” said Tzipi Livni, leader of Kadima, to the AIPAC annual conference. “It’s not the time and the place” to draw distinctions between herself and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, she added to applause. And then sh ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

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

Suzie-Q

  • Israel Prepares for War With Iran
    CNN VIDEO Report: PM to ask US for bombs against Iran Sunday Times reports Netanyahu will press Obama administration during upcoming Washington visit to release sophisticated bunker-busting bombs needed for possible strike on nuclear sites ynet Published: 03.21.10, Israel News Prime Minister Benj ...
  • Health Care Vote Passed
    Health Care Bill PASSES HuffPost- First Posted: 03-21-10 10:59 PM   |   Updated: 03-22-10 09:12 AM With additional reporting by Sam Stein. After more than a year of virulent debate, Democrats marched through a throng of jeering protesters, whose slurs recalled a Washington of the 1960s — ...
  • US ‘Victory’ in Settlements Row Short-Lived
    Netanyahu Vows to Continue East Jerusalem Construction by Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com, March 21, 2010 Last week’s declaration of victory in the ongoing Israel row by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appears to have been a short-lived win, and media claims that Prime Minister Benjamin Netany ...
  • USA: Thousands rally on anniversary of invasion of ...
    By MATTHEW BARAKAT (Associated Press Writer) The Washington Post,  March 21, 2010 WASHINGTON — Thousands of protesters – many directing their anger squarely at President Barack Obama – marched through the nation’s capital Saturday to urge immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq and Afghanis ...
  • Health Care Vote
    The chairman of the Democratic caucus in the House said Sunday his party has the 216 votes needed to pass President Barack Obama’s historic health care bill. Other House Democrats were not as optimistic heading into a rare Sunday session to vote on one of the most significant legislative initiat ...

Solari

  • The Truth About the Health Care Bill
    By Jane Hamsher The Firedoglake health care team has been covering the debate in congress since it began last year. The health care bill will come up for a vote in the House on Sunday, and as Nancy Pelosi works to wrangle votes, we’ve been running a detailed whip count on where every member of Congr ...
  • Dave Eggers’ Wish: Once Upon a School
    View Dave Eggers’ Wish: Once Upon A School at YouTube
  • Rasmussen Polls Health Care Reform
    In his new book, In Search of Self-Governance, Scott Rasmussen observes that most Americans “have come to believe that the political system is broken, that most politicians are corrupt, and that neither major political party has the answers.” He adds that “the gap between Americans who want to gove ...
  • Insurance Pigs
    View Insurance Pigs at YouTube
  • Wachovia Bank Laundered Millions In Mexican Drug M ...
    Wachovia bank executives have admitted that the banking giant laundered millions of dollars for Mexican drug lords between 2003 and 2008, prosecutors announced in Miami this afternoon. The bank has promised to pay $160 million in fines and penalties and to set up new safeguards within a year to pre ...

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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Sideways News

  • Pimp your pavement
    Guerrilla gardener Richard Reynolds has called for local councils to allow public-spirited gardeners to be allowed to help maintain street flower beds and tree pits. His comments were made as he launched the Pimp Your Pavement campaign. This has been set up to help local people get involved and look ...
  • £2bn funding boost for eco sector
    This week's Budget will contain a plan to invest £2 billion in green projects, reports have said. The move is among a number of measures set to be announced on Wednesday aimed at stimulating economic growth, according to sources at the Treasury. Chancellor Alistair Darling and Prime Minister Gordon ...
  • Obama triumphs in healthcare struggle
    US politicians have ended a 100-year battle over universal health coverage by accepting President Barack Obama's healthcare reform bill. The proposal, which will benefit around 32 million Americans and crack down on the country's insurance providers, was passed by 219 votes to 212 in the House of Re ...
  • Week in pictures: 22nd March 2010
    A picture for every day, taking a snapshot view of what is happening in the world around us. Come and browse through our gallery of this week's most inspiring images.
  • Ring your sorrows away
    Thought a face mask was the best treatment for healthy-looking skin and a Virgin Mary the best cure for a hangover? Think again - therapeutic ringtones might be just what you need. Japanese teenagers are going crazy for this innovation. A list of special tunes on a mobile phone, and suddenly such pr ...

Fabius Maximus

  • A note about practical propaganda
    Summary:  A brief note foreshadowing the next post. Propaganda has become a powerful tool used by both Left and Right to shape American’s views about the world.  Slowly we recognize this.  Republicans do so by their adoption of it as a primary policy tool, as seen in the health care debate.  Pol ...
  • Reading about American torturers is a bummer. Let ...
    Today’s reading provides another example of why I consider the New York Review of Books to be one of the best American magazines.  This excerpt gives only a snippet of the full subscription-only article.  It relates the latest chapter in our embrace of evil.  Please read it. They Did Authorize T ...
  • Stratfor: “Jihadism: The Grassroots Paradox ...
    Here’s a typically wonderful analysis by Stratfor of al Qaeda.  Except of course, for one detail:  does al Qaeda exist in any substantial form?  As I asked in 2005: Is al Qaeda a powerful stateless global conspiracy, like SPECTRE in Ian Fleming’s James Bond stories? Or COBRA in the GI Joe comi ...
  • Today’s reading: “Let Them Eat Dogma&# ...
    This excerpt is just an hors’ dourves.  I recommend reading the article in full, a valuable perspective on today’s events:  “Let Them Eat Dogma“, Chris Lehmann, The Baffler, 25 January 2010 — Excerpt: Not so long ago, the lead theorists of America’s conservative revolution hymned it as a thing o ...
  • FM newswire for March 20, 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. “Invitation to a Stoning – Getting cozy with theocrats“, Reason, Walter Olson, November 1998 Racism pretending to be libertarianism:  “Who Wrote Ron Paul ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Antiwar coalition fined by US government
    Press TV – A US antiwar organization says it has been targeted by the government because it wants US troops to immediately return from Afghanistan and Iraq. The ANSWER Coalition, which stands for “Act Now to Stop War and End Racism,” has been a staunch critic of the Bush and Obama administrations fo ...
  • Shock Wave Therapy Gives Golfer Back Her Swing
    BBC – When keen golfer Marlene Evans started to suffer excruciating pain in her hips she feared the worse. “Even if I turned over slightly in the night, a shooting pain from my hip would wake me,” she said. Read article
  • Legality of drone attacks challenged
    UPI – The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit demanding the U.S. government prove its legal basis for targeted drone attacks overseas, documents show. Tuesday’s lawsuit seeks to press the departments of State, Defense and Justice on the ACLU’s initial January Freedom of Information Act request ...
  • Powel: Sanctions against Iran ineffective
    Press TV – Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell says sanctions against Iran will be to no avail as Tehran is “determined to have a nuclear programâ€� not a “nuclear weapon.â€� “I don’t see a set of sanctions coming along that would be so detrimental to the Iranians that they are going to [ ...
  • Lung cancer gene found in non-smokers
    BBC – A gene that could help explain why some non-smokers develop lung cancer has been pinpointed by US researchers. But Cancer Research UK said more work was needed to work out the exact reason for the link. Read article

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Part 1: Response to the Amerikan Party of Labor: I ...
    Part 1: Response to the Amerikan Party of Labor: It’s too bad word processors don’t have a factcheck (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) The American Party of Labor (APL) is a First Worldist, Hoxhaist organization. Recently, they  wrote an article that purports to “refute Maoism-Third Worldism.â ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Obama's Hyde Amendment Compromise Makes an Undeser ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Meg White The healthcare bill that passed in the House late Sunday is one small step for man and one giant leap backward for womankind. No doubt you've heard the media's breathless line about how the only way that President Obama got this bill through the House was by ...
  • What's Next for Congress after Healthcare?
    BUZZFLASH DISCUSSION Now that healthcare reform has finally passed the House and will likely get signed into law within a few days, what's the next big thing Congress needs to work on for the nation? Adding a supplementary bill with real reform including a public option? Focusing on jobs? Working on ...
  • Tea Party Protesters In Public Call Rep. Lewis 'N* ...
    I think for these red-blooded Americans The wind now seems to be blowing In a way that makes them face the fact That their white sheets are showing. read more
  • Jon Stewart Turns Glenn Beck's Anti-Progressive Ra ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Meg White It's no secret that progressives have had a tough time of late. The internecine squabbling over the flawed healthcare bill is but one manifestation of the recent trouble. That's part of the reason why Jon Stewart's unconventional intro to The Daily Show Thurs ...
  • The Constitution Up For Grabs
    Body � Why are matters of rather small import catapulted into fiery public rhetoric as if they defined the spirit of America? In a world of complex relationships and violent conflicts public debate rages over gun control, abortion and opposition-induced paranoia that big government is ...

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

  • Periodioc table of science blogs
    Many, many thanks to everyone who joined in the fun and frolics in helping create the Periodic Table of Science Bloggers. I cannot quite believe how quickly it got filled – 118 elements – having only started it on Friday after a spate of periodic posts. Thanks for all the tweets, suggestions, retwee ...
  • Chemical science, night sky, scientific trust
    Delicious links March 16-18 Chemical Science – Building linear polymers from monomers, inaugural paper in RSC's new journal Bing maps now let you scan the nighttime sky – The stars are coming out tonight…even when it's cloudy Sex and social networking – Patterns of prostitution revealed by analysis ...
  • The Periodic Table of David Bradley
    Given the intense interest and heated debate surrounding an old Sciencebase post about novel periodic tables, I thought I’d have a bit of fun with one of my own…click on an orange element to visit one of my links. If you’ve got a chemistry/science blog and your initials or its initials fit one of t ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Amnesty International Urges Congress to Turn Atten ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 22, 2010 Amnesty International - USA Now that health insurance reform legislation has passed, President Obama and Congress must urgently turn their attention to ensuring quality maternal care for every American woman to reduce rising deaths and complications during pregna ...
  • Health Care Bill Enhances Whistleblower Protection ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 22, 2010 National Whistleblowers Center As part of the anti-fraud provisions of the health care legislation passed yesterday, Congress strengthened the False Claims Act - one of the most effective whistleblower laws in the United States - in order to ensure that whistlebl ...
  • Wall Street Reform Must Protect Military, Civilian ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 22, 2010 Public Citizen As the Senate banking committee prepares to consider financial protection reform legislation, Public Citizen and Consumers for Auto Reliability and Safety (CARS) call on Congress to protect the military from predatory auto dealer financing  – an en ...
  • EPA Solicits Input on Ocean Acidification and Carb ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 22, 2010 Center for Biological Diversity The Environmental Protection Agency launched an effort today seeking public input on how to address ocean acidification under the Clean Water Act. The notice , published in the Federal Register, comes in response to a settlement ...
  • Coca-Cola Liable for US$ 48 Million for Damages – ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 22, 2010 India Resource Center   In a major development, a High Power Committee established by the state government of Kerala in India has recommended today that Coca-Cola be held liable for Indian Rupees 216 crore (US$ 48 million) for damages caused as a result of the co ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • The Sober Reality of Health Care Reform
    by Jane Hamsher The country turned an important corner last night when Congress affirmed the moral imperative of providing quality health care to more Americans and passed the President's sweeping health insurance reform bill. It is to President Obama's credit that he was willing to commit his offic ...
  • Signed, Sealed, but Not Delivered: Six Big Flaws N ...
    by Jon Walker This health care reform bill passed late last night and soon to be signed into law is a seriously flawed piece of legislation, for it fails to achieve the goals of real health care reform. Now that it is essentially the law of the land, the country needs to work diligently at the f ...
  • Seven Years of War in Iraq: Still Based on Bush an ...
    by Andy Worthington Friday marked the seventh anniversary of the illegal invasion of Iraq, but by now, it seems, the American people have become used to living in a state of perpetual war, even though that war was based on torture and lies. read more
  • The GOP's Newfound Defense of 'Consent of the Gove ...
    by Glenn Greenwald One Republican leader after the next stood up yesterday to depict the health care bill as a grave threat to democracy because it was enacted in the face of disapproval from a majority of Americans.  Minority Leader John Boehner mourned :  "We have failed to listen to America.  ...
  • As Glaciers Melt, Bolivia Fights for the Good Life
    by Jessica Camille Aguirre Don Alivio Aruquipa is smiling as he gestures around his community. Behind him, groups of yelping children kick a soccer ball around a sloping green plaza. Every so often, the ball goes flying off the mesa into a plot of cultivated land below, and the children send some ...

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

  • Group bucks water facilities privatization (Malaya ...
    The Water for the People Network (WPN), a nationwide multi-sectoral alliance campaigning for people’s control over water resources, is calling on government to abandon its plan to privatize water facilities like the Angat dam.
  • Govt urged to abandon Angat dam's privatization pl ...
    The Philippines’ was urged to abandon a plan to place Angat dam — Metro Manila’s primary water source — under private management.
  • Eastern Petroleum, Petron to slash fuel prices Tue ...
    Two oil companies - an independent one and a major player - on Monday said they would slash their petroleum prices on Tuesday.
  • Africa : (AllAfrica.com)
    Goodluck Jonathan - Business As Usual? For the past three months now, Nigeria's political stability has been on a cliff-edge as a result of the succession crisis occasioned by the illegal absence of the country's president, Umaru Yar'Adua, due to ill health.
  • Private Public Partnerships Have Merit in the GCC ...
    Dubai, 22 March - As GCC countries look to expand and fast track economic development, governments and industries are consistently driven to identify effective ways to catalyze and finance this progress.

Guardian

  • Google China stops censoring its results
    Google China dedicated site is shut down and millions of users are redirected to uncensored Hong Kong version Google has stopped censoring its site in China and is redirecting millions of users to an uncensored site via its servers in Hong Kong .The move follows sophisticated cyber attacks originati ...
  • Byers 'did not influence ministers'
    There was no government impropriety, says deputy Labour leader in response to former minister's claims to undercover journalists Harriet Harman, the deputy Labour leader, insisted today there had been no "impropriety" in ministerial decision-making after claims by the former transport secretary Step ...
  • Second BA strike 'will go ahead'
    Unite joint leader says talks are needed now to avert next weekend's four-day planned stoppage A four-day strike by British Airways cabin crew will go ahead on Saturday unless talks begin soon, the joint general secretary of the Unite union warned today. Tony Woodley said he expected Brendan Barber, ...
  • Obama takes reforms on the road
    President will have backing of trade unions but Republicans are preparing to mount constitutional challenge to block it Barack Obama is set to sign his sweeping overhaul of US healthcare into law at a highly publicised ceremony at the White House tomorrow before embarking on a series of trips across ...
  • Les Rosbifs 'better chefs than French'
    • Survey says Rosbifs spend more time in kitchen • Findings prompt disbelief and Gallic soul-searching It is one of the pillars of the French "exception culturelle": haute cuisine so lofty that the president, Nicolas Sarkozy, wanted the United Nations to declare it a "world treasure". Those perfidio ...

McClatchey

  • Will immediate health care benefits help elect Dem ...
    WASHINGTON — Obama administration officials and wonks call them "early deliverables." They're the benefits of the health care legislation that would kick in this election year.
  • As U.S. winds down in Iraq, troops to stay home mo ...
    WASHINGTON — Beginning this fall, the Marine Corps will guarantee nearly all Marines 14 months at home for every seven months they spend in war zones, the first payoff for service members of the United States' diminishing military presence in Iraq.
  • Water regulator failed to disclose husband's ties ...
    The leader of California's largest water pollution regulator is married to a lobbyist for agencies it regulates, a potential conflict of interest she did not disclose publicly until an ethics complaint was brought against her.
  • Even secure workers thinking of new jobs
    More than two-thirds of U.S. workers say they feel as stable or more stable in their jobs than in 2009, but many of those same employees also say they're looking for greener pastures.
  • Will immediate health care benefits help elect Dem ...
    WASHINGTON — Obama administration officials and wonks call them "early deliverables." They're the benefits of the health care legislation that would kick in this election year.

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

  • McCain Scares C-SPAN Callers About Cadillac Tax, F ...
    This morning, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) took his ‘repeal the bill’ tour to C-SPAN’s Washington Journal. McCain began the program by reciting the usual talking points about the bill, but when a caller described his health care plan and asked the senator how he would be affected by reform, McCain assure ...
  • Clinton: New Israeli Settlement Construction Under ...
    Speaking this morning at the 2010 policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reiterated the Obama administration’s support for Israel, declaring that, “for President Obama, for me, and for this entire administration, our commitment t ...
  • Anti-Immigrant Leader’s Bodyguard Arrested F ...
    Yesterday, approximately 200,000 people gathered at the National Mall to show their support of comprehensive immigration reform. Roy Beck, director of the immigration restrictionist group, NumbersUSA, decided to add himself to the mix and report on the event via a live stream that was available on ...
  • David Koch Bought Smithsonian Greenwashing For The ...
    What normal people can buy from the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History for 1/1000th of their net worth. David H. Koch, the right-wing scion of the Koch Industries pollution fortune, has purchased a permanent exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History bearing his name for the equivalent ...
  • Why The Republicans’ Efforts To Invalidate H ...
    Republicans are responding to last night’s historic passage of health care reform legislation by threatening to run a campaign to repeal it. In fact, moments after the House passed the bill, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) told protesters, “tomorrow, we’re going to file a discharge petition at the de ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Still more violence ...
    A couple more observations on violent protest, on top of this post and this post . By not condemning violence if it is employed in the interest of causes that I support, don't I leave myself open for the chaos that will result if other people, whose causes I reject, also resort to violence? To a d ...
  • Obama Care and Deficit Hysteria
    Well, Obama passed his "health care reform." I've never been taken in by Obama's neoliberal bullshit and I think that this health care bill is a piece of shit. The most that I'll say it might be is a health care version of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 . Because of opposition and amendment of The C ...
  • The harpercons CAN be defeated
    Sentiments have been expressed numerous places that it would be unwise to force an election over the harpercons' complicity in torture and contempt for parliamentary democracy. I disagree. I believe that the Canadian electorate CAN be energized on these issues, if the opposition parties put them f ...
  • The Whole Stupid Little "Dosting" Thing
    Maybe harper was trying to pretend he was sensitive to women's rights. And/But/Or Maybe harper was trying to pretend that he was responsive to public opinion. And/But/Or Maybe harper now gets to say that Canadians don't go in for "political correctness." And/But/Or harper didn't tell his cabin ...
  • More Random Thoughts on Violence
    Continuing from yesterday's post , I shall offer yet more of my disconnected thoughts on the issue of violent protest! My first commentator on that post was a banned right-wing blogger who no doubt googled some random quote about non-violence and cut and pasted it here. My response to the dip-shit ...

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

  • Riding the Oversight Wave from California
    POGO was delighted when the Mayor of Rancho Cordova, CA, Ken Cooley stopped by our office last week to purchase three copies of The Art of Congressional Oversight: A User's Guide to Doing It Right. Cooley, who also wears the...
  • Morning Smoke: Good News and Bad News from the GAO ...
    JSF - The GAO Weighs In by Bill Sweetman [Ares] JSF Price Jumps to $135 Million by Greg Grant [DoD Buzz] Ex-New York Fed chairman's Goldman Sachs investment gets more scrutiny by Ryan Holeywell [BailoutSleuth] Senators Plan To Flood Financial...
  • Caught on Tape: C-SPAN Posts 160,000 Hours of Foot ...
    Looking for a good lazy Sunday activity? Look no further than C-SPAN's new video library archive -- last week the network released over 160,000 hours of footage, some of it dating all the way back to 1983. This means that...
  • 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...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • The Finish Line Is Just the Beginning for Homeless ...
    More than 37,000 runners will compete in Saturday's Monument Avenue 10k in Richmond, Virginia. For at least 19 participants, crossing the finish line represents something extra special. They're all homeless, in various stages of transition, from living in shelters and unemployed, to working full-tim ...
  • How to Influence Government Policy to End Homeless ...
    Earlier this month, th e Rutgers University School of Social Work and the New Jersey Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers hosted the 2010 Symposium on Influencing Government Policy . Rich was a presenter and focused on the movement to end homelessness. He discussed the history of mo ...
  • Venice Residents Blame Crime on Homeless "Addicts" ...
    Many Venice, California residents see their street homeless and think "degenerates." These folks low on the compassion totem pole have taken their disdain a step further, going on for weeks with a letter writing campaign to ask the Mayor and LAPD to get rid of the Venetian "bums." And that's the ki ...
  • 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 ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Staples headed to Afghanistan?
    Rideau Institute President Steve Staples has asked the Department of National Defence to include him on the next stakeholders’ tour of the Canadian mission in Afghanistan. DND has organized several tours of the Afghanistan mission for Canadian academics, defence lobbyists, journalists, and other “op ...
  • 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 ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Exclusive Insider Information on John Edwards
    This Tuesday, Kevin welcomes Andrew Young, author of The Politician, to discuss what it was like being John Edwards right-hand man.  He has seen some things behind closed doors you would not believe! Wednesday, continuing uncovering the John Edwards scandal, Kevin talks to Rick Egusquiza, who is a s ...
  • US Firms Not Welcome in China
    March 22, 2010 BBC News US companies feel increasingly unwelcome in China because of what they see as discrimination and inconsistent legal treatment, according to a survey. The American Chamber of Commerce in China (ACCC) found 38% of its members felt unwelcome, from 26% last quarter. Inconsistent ...
  • Internet a Threat to Rare Species?
    March 22, 2010 BBC News Conservationists say the internet has emerged as one of the biggest threats to endangered species. Campaigners say it is easier than ever before to buy and sell anything from live baby lions to polar bear pelts on online auction sites and chatrooms. The findings were presente ...
  • USA To Build Tanks for UK
    March 22, 2010 BBC News US defence firm General Dynamics has won a contract to build a new light tank for the British army. The firm, which plans to manufacture most of the new tank in the UK, beat rival bidder BAE Systems – where 500 jobs will now be lost. The news is a blow for BAE’s factory [...]
  • Bananas Used to Treat HIV?
    March 22, 2010 Natural News By Sherry Baker University of Michigan (U-M) Medical School scientists have found a potent substance that could block the sexual transmission of HIV, the virus believed to cause AIDS. This HIV preventative isn’t a potent new drug or chemical-laden vaccine. Instead, it’s a ...

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

  • Hamas says rocket attacks are helping Israel
    Once a strongman, always a strongman… I don’t remember Ariel Sharon — or any other Israeli leader — being referred to as a “strongman”. I guess it’s a term reserved for men on the other side. Still, it’s funny (yet predictable) that a Hamas leader such as Dr. Mahmoud al-Zahar will be referred to as ...
  • The most racist “democracy” in the world
    As the process of ethnic cleansing continues in Jerusalem — Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed today that there will be no interruption — those outside Israel who are calling most loudly for the swift implementation of a two-state solution, frequently do so on the basis that this is what is urgently neede ...
  • 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 ...

Watts Up With That?

  • The Guardian sees the light on wind driven Arctic ...
    First, we pointed this out quite some time ago. See: Winds are Dominant Cause of Greenland and West Antarctic Ice Sheet Losses and also NASA Sees Arctic Ocean Circulation Do an About-Face Second I’m pleased to see the Guardian finally catching on.You can watch wind patterns in this time lapse ani ...
  • Flowers Losing Scent Due to Climate Change
    This is a bonus Climate Craziness of the Week. It seemed that while Climategate was raging, we saw an end to bizarre claims such as this.  Now they seem to have resumed again as we saw in yesterday’s story claiming global warming causes more violence. What’s hilarious about this story is that is ci ...
  • Quote of the week #31: Bubba disses the Goreacle
    I never thought I’d find myself agreeing with and laughing along with form President Bill Clinton. But when his former boss disses the Goreacle, perhaps it is time to rethink some views. From the Wall Street Journal, this gem of a sound bite: Former President Bill Clinton made a return to Washing ...
  • Find the weather station in this photo
    Above: The Cunderdin Australian Climate Reference Network station, a BoM official photo. Source: http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/change/map/stations/010035.shtml There’s an effort to the surfacestations.org project underway in Australia to have a look at the quality of siting of stations, see here. T ...
  • Climate craziness of the week: global warming &#82 ...
    UPDATE: WUWT commenter P Wilson points out one single map that refutes this entire theory, see below the “read more” at the end of the post. – Anthony To add to the Numberwatch big list of things supposedly caused by global warming, there’s now an oddball “irrefutable” (their words) story circulatin ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Turning “a Blind Eye” to the Afghan Opium Problem ...
    by Jeremy R. Hammond Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Foreign Policy Journal 22 March, 2010 The New York Times has an illuminating article regarding the opium trade in Afghanistan. The title is “U.S. Turns a Blind Eye to Opium in Afghan Town“, and it begins (emphasis added): The effort to w ...
  • Cindy Sheehan Arrested At War Protest In D.C.
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ PigMine March 20, 2010 From: http://www.youtube.com/user/Associate… March 20, 2010 Thousands of protesters, many directing their anger squarely at President Barack Obama, marched through the nation’s capital Saturday to urge immediate withdrawal of troops f ...
  • “The 15% Solution,” Serialization, 3rd 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% ...
  • William Black: To rob a country, own a bank
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Updated: added Pt 2-4 TheRealNews March 19, 2010 William Black, author of “Best way to rob a bank is to own one” talks about deliberate fraud on Wall St. To rob a country, own a bank *** Updated William Black: The finance sector is a huge parasite, it transf ...
  • 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 ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    George Lucas has been a good sport in not demanding YouTube take down the massive number of Star Wars re-edit clips. Some are instant classics : (via Reddit )
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    Drugs : "A Brief Holiday From Society's Unrelenting Bullshit" Charlton Brooker warns of a dangerous, powerful, legal drug : It's perhaps the biggest threat to the nation's mental wellbeing, yet it's freely available on every street – for pennies. The dealers claim it expands the mind and bolsters t ...
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    Christopher Nolan's brilliant reality-redefining movie Memento, in six minutes :
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    A wondrous, beautiful ride on a Market Street, San Francisco, tram in the early 1900s. Utterly hypnotic : It's widely claimed the film was made shortly, a matter of days, befor e a massive earthquake struck San Francisco in 1906 , killing some 3000 people. It's easy to assume that some of those w ...
  • No title
    "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 ...

Wired - Science

  • Why Dark Coffee Is Easier on Your Stomach
    SAN FRANCISCO — Roasting coffee beans doesn’t just impart bold, rich flavor. It also creates a compound that helps dial down production of stomach acid, according to research presented on March 21 at the spring meeting of the American Chemical Society. The discovery may explain why dark-roasted br ...
  • Channeling Earth: Rivers Seen From Space
    > Rivers connect Earth’s mountains and lakes to its oceans, creating lifelines that provide water, food, transportation and recreation along the way. Some rivers, like the Nile, bring life to barren landscapes that would otherwise be uninhabitable. Others, like the Mississippi, ...
  • 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Avi Shlaim: Cut off the cash and Israel might beha ...
    America subsidises Israel to the tune of $3bn a year. America is Israel's principal arms supplier, enabling it to retain the technological edge over all its enemies, near and far. In the diplomatic... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Udi Aloni: Israelis are behaving like spoiled rich ...
    The majority of Jewish Israelis are complicit in the perpetuation of the current state of affairs. When growing groups of conscientious people refuse to play the game of building a fictitious... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now i ...
  • ‘Current Knesset is the most racist in Israeli his ...
    The current Knesset is the most racist Israeli parliament since the country's founding, according to a report published Sunday by the Coalition Against Racism and the Mossawa Center, which works to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Arab family denied right to rent home
    Jonathan Cook: Israel has nationalised 93 per cent of the country’s territory, confining most of its 1.3 million Arab citizens, one-fifth of the population, to 120 or so communities that existed at... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Haifa divides over restaurant’s ban on Israeli sol ...
    Jonathan Cook: An Arab-owned restaurant in the Israeli city of Haifa has been caught in a whirlwind of legal action and threats of violence after staff refused to serve a soldier in military uniform,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • A Dangerously Tasty Treat: the Hot Dog Is a Chokin ...
    Hot dogs, those ubiquitous and savory symbols of the American diet, have caught the attention of pediatricians at Johns Hopkins Children's Center and elsewhere for a decidedly unappetizing reason -- they are a choking hazard for young children.
  • Genes May Exert Opposite Effects in Diabetes and I ...
    Pediatric researchers analyzing DNA variations in type 1 diabetes and inflammatory bowel disease have found a complex interplay of genes. Some genes have opposing effects, raising the risk of one disease while protecting against the other. In other cases, a gene variant may act in the same direction ...
  • Sandia to Break Ground for New Computational Labor ...
    A groundbreaking ceremony for a new facility - the Combustion Research Computation and Visualization (CRCV) building, part of the Combustion Research Facility (CRF) - will take place at 2 p.m., Wednesday, March 24, on the grounds of Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore.
  • Constitutional Objections to Federal Health Reform ...
    Michael C. Dorf, professor, Cornell University Law School, discusses potential constitutional issues raised by Sunday's passage of health reform legislation in the House of Representatives.
  • Author Tells Experiences as "White Boy" Baseball P ...
    Candid and engaging memoir recounts player's two seasons as "Jackie Robinson in reverse".

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

  • Procter & Gamble to Reduce Toxic Contaminant in He ...
    P&G will reformulate its top-selling Herbal Essences brand to reduce levels of the carcinogenic contaminant 1,4-dioxane. Click here to read this article
  • 20 Principles for Successful Community Organizing
    I've been a rabble-rouser and social activist for 45 of my almost 66 years, and have made my living as a professional civil rights, labor, and community organizer, as well as a performer. In my new political memoir, Creative Community Organizing: A Guide for Rabble-Rousers, Activists, and Quiet Love ...
  • Organic Foods Growth Has Slowed Considerably
    Organic foods and beverages are pulling back from startling growth levels in recent years and settling into a small niche space at mainstream retailers, food industry executives and analysts said this week. Click here to read this article
  • Junk Food Nearly as Addictive as Heroin
    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. Click here to read this article
  • LA County Ask U.S. Supreme Court to Reverse Kern C ...
    The next hearing in Los Angeles' battle to overturn Kern County's 2006 ban on the land application of treated human and industrial waste may be before the U.S. Supreme Court. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

  • Nueva York iluminada (bonitas fotografías nocturna ...
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Joergen Geerds , es un excelente fotógrafo que ha coleccionado al paso del tiempo una serie de fotos bien guapas sobre la ciudad de Nueva York . Se trata de una extraordinaria recopilación de fotos nocturnas que él ha ti ...
  • Fotografías de caídas fatales, accidentes y tropie ...
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Si deseas ver todas las imágenes de caídas fatales o Fatal Falling , haz click aquí . Si prefieres regresar a la página principal , haz click acá . Gracias.
  • Los rostros del poder (presidentes del mundo)
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Interesante recopilación de fotografías la que ha logrado reunir Corcholat donde nos ilustra un poco sobre los personajes que tienen el poder sobre las naciones. Esta colección, incluye fotos de los presidentes y preside ...
  • Paisajes de la República Checa by Wild-Landscape.C ...
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Hermosa colección de imágenes donde predominan los paisajes naturales, paraísos terrenales y escenarios campestres. En esta ocasión y estrenando nuevo estilo en la presentación de nuestras galerías, le ofrecemos dos pági ...
  • Fotografías, imágenes y dibujos de osos polares (+ ...
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. El día de hoy, miré un documental sobre los hermosos y tiernos osos polares . Eso fue lo que me dio la idea de traer ante ustedes el acceso directo para ver más de 5,000 imágenes, fotos y dibujos de estos simpáticos anim ...

Executive Intelligence Review

Center for a Livable Future

  • JHU’s Ambitious Sustainability Plan Needs Help fro ...
    Johns Hopkins University reached a major sustainability milestone March 11 when President Ron Daniels announced a commitment to reduce the University’s carbon footprint by more than half by 2025 - which will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 81,000 metric tons a year. That is equivalent to the annu ...
  • AVMA leadership missing key facts on antibiotics i ...
    Dr. Ron DeHaven, CEO and Executive VP of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA)*, spoke last week to the pork industry in Kansas City, MO. DeHaven opposes legislation to ban the use of non-therapeutic (growth promoting) antibiotics and antibiotics with human uses from food animal produc ...
  • 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 ...

Norwegianity

  • Disgruntled, with links
    Funny, I don’t feel insured. But I do feel like some large, cancerous corporation is about to entitle itself to part of my wallet. This is not what anyone outside of the Beltway or Wall Street wanted. The Dow Jones is not crashing this morning, and that’s all the proof I need that we just got hosed. ...
  • Taking my scofflawry to a new level
    Shit. Screw it. Just another law I won’t be paying any attention to. More: TBogg Yes, Cigna will get more customers because of this bill TBogg TBogg Catching up to the Iranians Note: As of this posting a procedural vote has passed 224-206 and it looks like this is a done deal. Assuming our vain and ...
  • Times retracts, Strib doubles down
    She whom I am not linking to wrote about DOJ attorneys being terrorist lovers today. No link for wicked liars, but the comments are gratifying on this one. She’s lost all but the most hate-filled portion of her base, and the comments are overwhelmingly disapproving. The right to an attorney is an a ...
  • Free Koua Fong Lee now!
    The state settles its $37 million lawsuit against URS for $5 million, avoiding “a trial that could have shed light on who was to blame for the disaster that killed 13 people and injured 145.” “There’s a close relationship between the state and URS, and [the state] didn’t want to sue them to start ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Re Leonard Peltier. Official Submission for the Cl ...
    United Nations Universal Periodic Review: Official Submission for the Cluster Report on “U.S. Political Prisoners and Domestic Repression”. 15 March 2010 The United States claims to be a government of law, promoting within its integral processes guarantees of fairness and justice. Through the U.S. ...
  • Simon Power at the UN: bullshit and subterfuge
    By Kittyhawk Source New Zealand’s minister for justice, Simon Power, fronted up before the United Nations Human Rights committee this week to give the annual report about the state of NZ’s human rights. He tried to cover up the government’s assault on fundamental freedoms, basic human rights and ...
  • 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 ...

Pensieve

  • My Site Was Hacked, sorry
    Apparently my site was hacked. I removed 17 links to malware and have resubmitted this site to Google, hopefully everything will be ok soon. Related posts:Presidential Island, by El Chigüire Bipolar What! (Google Suggest oddity) Here Comes Another Bubble Related posts: Presidential Island, by E ...
  • Presidential Island, by El Chigüire Bipolar
    El Chigüire Bipolar is a Venezuelan spoof news website inspired by The Onion and the Colbert Report. It has probably been the cause of Hugo Chavez’s latest attack on the freedom of Venezuleans, his threat to censor the internet. Thanks Gringa for leading me to find this! If your browser is warning ...
  • Ted Williams Show Launches Website
    The Ted Williams Show, a Monterrey rock band I play keyboards for, has released a new website, in Spanish, called “El Show de Ted Williams“. It is a very modest embryo of a website, but hopefully I’ll be able to expand it to include bios, a blog, a lyrics section, and who knows what else. The [...] ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Fact Sheet: The Truth About the Health Care Bill
    By Jane Hamsher [We] ...have come up with 18 often stated myths about this health care reform bill. Real health care reform is the thing we've fought for from the start. It is desperately needed. But this bill falls short on many levels, and hurts many people more than it helps... 2. Insurance c ...
  • Bagram prison in Afghanistan may become the new Gu ...
    The American detention centre at Bagram in Afghanistan could be expanded into a Guantánamo-style prison for terrorist suspects detained around the world. This is one of the options being considered as US officials try to find an alternative to Guantánamo Bay, which President Obama promised to close ...
  • Afghan group in 'secret mission'
    A senior delegation representing one of the main Afghan anti-government movements is in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, with a plan for peace talks with the Afghan government, a government official has said. The Hezb-i-Islami group sent a delegation headed by Qutbuddin Helal, a former prime minis ...
  • U.S. Turns a Blind Eye to Opium in Afghan Town
    The effort to win over Afghans on former Taliban turf in Marja has put American and NATO commanders in the un usual position of arguing against opium eradication, pitting them against some Afghan officials who are pushing to destroy the harvest. From Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal on down, the milit ...
  • CIA chief authorizes every drone strike
    CIA Chief Leon Panetta has said the US counter terrorism polices in Pakistan are legal and highly effective and that he is acutely aware of the gravity of some of the decisions thrust upon him. In an interview Wednesday at CIA headquarters, Panetta refused to directly address the matter of Preda ...

Daily Loaf

  • RIB-OFF! Welcome to the Savory Sixteen in CL’s Tou ...
    It's an old fashioned Rib-Off!
  • RIB-OFF! Savory Sixteen voting: Kojak’s House of R ...
    We’re pitting Tampa Bay’s best ribs against each other in our RIB-OFF! 2010 Tournament of Ribs. Follow the tournament, see the competitors and brackets, and vote in head-to-head matches at cltampa.com/ribs. Voting for this Savory Sixteen match will end at 8 p.m. on Thursday, March 25!
  • RIB-OFF! Savory Sixteen voting: Jaymer Que BBQ ver ...
    We’re pitting Tampa Bay’s best ribs against each other in our RIB-OFF! 2010 Tournament of Ribs. Follow the tournament, see the competitors and brackets, and vote in head-to-head matches at cltampa.com/ribs. Voting for this Savory Sixteen match will end at 8 p.m. on Thursday, March 25!
  • RIB-OFF! Savory Sixteen voting: Uncle Rodney’s Rib ...
    We’re pitting Tampa Bay’s best ribs against each other in our RIB-OFF! 2010 Tournament of Ribs. Follow the tournament, see the competitors and brackets, and vote in head-to-head matches at cltampa.com/ribs. Voting for this Savory Sixteen match will end at 8 p.m. on Thursday, March 25!
  • RIB-OFF! Savory Sixteen voting: Spoto’s Steak Join ...
    We’re pitting Tampa Bay’s best ribs against each other in our RIB-OFF! 2010 Tournament of Ribs. Follow the tournament, see the competitors and brackets, and vote in head-to-head matches at cltampa.com/ribs. Voting for this Savory Sixteen match will end at 8 p.m. on Thursday, March 25!

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Declaration of Human Rights Too “Problematic ...
    In a related post, below, we learned about the militarization of education for Israeli children, including homework sheets filled with sketches  of tanks and other weaponry as a method of learning to count and be  indoctrinated at the same time.  Now we learn that  the same  Israeli D ...
  • Two Youths Killed by Israeli Military, WARNING: Gr ...
    by the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Israeli Army Kills Youth Demonstrators in Iraq Burin Village Near Nablus. Mohammed Ibrahim Qaddous, 16, was shot dead with live ammunition when a Border Police force raided his village of Iraq Burin near Nablus to quash a demonstration this aftern ...
  • Schoolchildren Learn to Count with Tanks
    By Sergeiy Sandler In January 2010, an official UN body determined for the first time that the militarization of Israel’s government-run school system was in violation of the International Convention of the Rights of the Child and, in particular, of Israel’s implementation of the Optional Protoc ...
  • 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Building your business using Google Adwords
    Need to generate some extra income or thinking about how to use the net to build your business? Google Adwords can help. I’ve used it for years to generate leads for one of computer programming specialties, converting Clipper database programs from DOS to Windows. (Yes, there are zillions of Clipper ...
  • Money-laundering drug money on this side of the bo ...
    Wachovia pays $160 million fine for money-laundering $420 billion in drug money. Avoids criminal prosecutions. Western Union pays $94 million fine over money-laundering assumed drug and human smuggling money. Avoids criminal prosecutions. Apparently none of the executives in either company had any ...
  • Health Care win
    While I have doubts about the plan, Obama did get it done, and this is something no other president has been able to do. And this It looks like Prime Minister Netanyahu is capitulating to US demands over Jerusalem. The battle is not over. But with health care passing, Obama’s Presidency is rejuven ...
  • Understanding the Health Care Bill. Or Not.
    DJ reads the health care bills (there are three of them), grinds the numbers, finds it all unduly complicated, deliberately evasive, and agrees with his House representative who is voting against it because it does little to cut costs or stop premiums from rising.
  • Bernanke says large bank bailouts “unconscionable, ...
    Then stop giving them money, Ben, and also stop protecting them, running interference for them, and refusing to release emails and documentation about them. Then people might think you actually mean what you say. Sheesh. He sounds like the Pope talking about priestly pedophilia, we are deeply anguis ...

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

  • A sweet problem: Princeton researchers find that h ...
    A Princeton University research team has demonstrated that all sweeteners are not equal when it comes to weight gain: Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same. In addit ...
  • States launch lawsuits against healthcare plan
    (Reuters) – Republican attorneys general in at least 12 states warned on Monday that lawsuits will be filed to stop the federal government’s healthcare reform bill from encroaching on states’ sovereignty. The lawsuits were widely expected with announcements coming from the states’ top legal official ...
  • USA Today: Trucks with Bombs Detonated when planes ...
    USA today reporter, Jack Kelley says FBI investigated explosives detonated under the Twin Towers as the planes struck the building. But despite the FBI action to investigate the explosives the NIST investigators remain determined to ignore the possibility that explosives were used to destroy 3skysc ...
  • TSA Discriminates against disabled people then vio ...
    TSA Discriminates against disabled people then violates rights to privacy Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList
  • Recap: TX Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth Co ...
    Matthew Medina recaps the TX A&E 9/11 Truth Press Conference & Seminar Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList

The Air Vent

  • Definitions
    Left foot forward, a blog for communists I guess, has a new thread which discusses the Air Vent.  Apparently they commissioned a research group to discuss the release of climategate emails.   You can see the little tiny ball they gave the Air Vent as a link to other blogs.  Of course they labeled th ...
  • People Dependent are People Enslaved
    If you think health care had anything to do with providing improved services, you are wrong. America is being systematically robbed and destroyed from inside by criminal elements in charge of banks, insurance agencies and now our government. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Cons ...
  • Demonstration of Improved Anomaly Calculation
    This post is an application and further explanation of  Roman’s work on improved anomaly trend analysis.  At this post, Roman gave an example of a perfect sine wave with a trend of 0.2C added to it.  By taking the monthly anomaly of the data, steps are introduced on an annual basis.   These ste ...
  • 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 ...

Focal Point

  • House Passes Sweeping Health Care Reform Bill
    Last night, House Democrats passed comprehensive health care reform legislation. After decades of fruitless struggle, the U.S. is finally poised to extend insurance to 32 million people and curb the worst abuses of the health insurance industry. President Obama is expected to sign the bill tomorrow. ...
  • "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 ...

Inside Facebook

  • Notifications from Application Wall Posts Not Bein ...
    Three weeks ago, Facebook formally removed application content from its notifications channel altogether. However, even after March 1st, Facebook still delivered “wall post” notifications to recipients when an application was used to create a post on a friend’s wall. However, since last week, it app ...
  • Zynga: PayPal’s Second-Largest Merchant in 2009
    A surprising fact came up at last week’s 2010 Media Summit in New York. An eBay spokesman said that Zynga was PayPal’s second-largest merchant in 2009, following eBay itself. Overall, PayPal processed about $500 million in virtual goods payments last year, according to the estimate of Citi analyst M ...
  • SXSW Music Increases Reliance on Facebook Events
    Many event promoters at last week’s South By Southwest Music Festival used Facebook Events to replace or complement event listings on their websites. The annual showcase of upcoming musical artists presents a challenge to bands, promoters and venues who must compete with dozens of concurrent eve ...
  • Levi’s Sees Early Traction with Facebook Campaign ...
    Levi’s has made its biggest effort yet to reach Facebook users, by using its Page and other features to popular live music venue, Fader Fort, at the South by Southwest Music conference and festival last week in Austin, Texas. The move builds on its long-standing partnership with The Fader music pub ...
  • Quizzes and Basketball Brackets Reach This Week’s ...
    Growth is remarkably low on this week’s AppData list of fastest-gaining Facebook apps by monthly active users. Where last week the top set of apps had all gained over five million new users, this week there’s only one with over a million, and it’s a game: Social City, by Playdom. [...]

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ReDress News

  • The complicated faces of anti-Semitism
    Alan Sabrosky considers the different forms of anti-Semtitism – the irrational, the criminal and that whose roots lie within Jewish culture and religion, in the form of the bloodthirsty “anti-Gentilism” that takes shape when “Jews collectively behave in an organized polity”.
  • 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.

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

  • Boiling Frogs Post Takes Obama White House to Task ...
    Boiling Frogs Will Host a Public Debate on the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act Boiling Frogs Post has invited Mr. Norman L. Eisen, Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform, and Mr. Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center, to publ ...
  • 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 ...

Afro Spear

  • “Yar’Adua needs to be freed from Turai and C ...
    Reports that Nigeria ailing president was on 24 Feb., smuggled into Nigeria at small hours without acting President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan being aware are disgusting. To add salt to injuries it’s said Jonathan did not even authorize the army to line up Abuja streets at the time his boss was secret ...
  • “Kagame must reconcile with Rwandans” ...
    What betided Rwanda recently shows that Rwandan President Paul Kagame is slowly losing his grip on power and Rwandans. Reports that former chief of staff Lt. Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa fled Rwanda to South Africa will have telling effects and have a lot to do with the weathering of Kagame’s power. Howev ...
  • sat’day riddymz
  • Breaking News: Killing Black Folks Is Legal!
    Now hear THIS: Black people, in a precedent setting move, have been ruled “legal recipients of lead with white- faced impunity” by the beige, badge-wearing Portland (Oregon) Police Bureau and a Grand Jury of their epidermis.  The decision came after black Aaron Campbell, grief stricken by the death ...
  • Valentine’s Day Riddymz
    Something for the fellows! Something for the ladies!

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