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IPS - Inter Press Services

• HUMAN RIGHTS: UN Complains of Scant Progress by M ...
  MEXICO CITY, Mar 26 (IPS) - Mexico has failed to make significant progress on human rights issues like violence against women, abuses by military troops involved in policing work, and attacks on journalists, the United Nations Human Rights Committee stated Friday.
• CENTRAL AMERICA: Ousted President or Coup Leader ...
  GUATEMALA CITY, Mar 26 (IPS) - The Central American Parliament (Parlacen) has been caught up in the political confrontation in Honduras between Manuel Zelaya, the president who was ousted on Jun. 28, and the leader of the coup government, Roberto Micheletti, because the regional body is havi ...
• BIODIVERSITY: Trade Trumps Concern for Threatened ...
  WASHINGTON, Mar 26 (IPS) - As details emerge about the backroom politics and contentious votes that led to the failure to protect any of the several marine species up for international protection at a key conference the past two weeks, conservation advocates are looking ahead to influence re ...
• DEVELOPMENT: Mega-Inequality in Urban Mega-Region ...
  RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 26 (IPS) - Basic services that are collapsing or non-existent, overcrowding, pollution: these are big-city problems that are compounded in developing countries by poverty and inequality.
• /UPDATE*/POLITICS: U.S., Russia Nuclear Reductio ...
  WASHINGTON, Mar 26 (IPS) - When U.S. President Barack Obama accepted his Nobel Peace Prize last fall he said, "I'm working with [Russian] President [Dmitri] Medvedev to reduce America and Russia's nuclear stockpiles." Three and a half months later, that work has come to fruition.

Scoop - NZ

• For the Greater Good
  Adrian Leason was one of the three ploughshares activists acquitted by a jury recently in the Waihopi Spy base story. Following the verdict, Leason summed up what has been a long and proud history of non-violent direct action in New Zealand: we broke laws that protect plastic, in order to protect p ...
• Tegg: Coromandel mine claims rubbished
  A mining lobbyist has produced grossly inflated back of the envelope figures for the "value" of New Zealand's mineral resources. These have been used relentlessly by the Government and the media has quoted them almost unchallenged [this was written before TVOne got on to the job]. So I thought I wo ...
• Prevent future Ashcrofts: name Non-Doms
  The Conservatives failed this week to knock the Ashcroft tax saga on the head, and the release of more correspondence continues to provide a raucous pre-election row about William Hague's integrity. But what new has been discovered? The recent documents certainly confirm that the peer's low-tax stat ...
• Video: Someone Elsea4™s Country
  [PLAY] Alister Barry's vital documentary of the takeover of New Zealand's political and economic direction by the New Right in the 1980s. Available now free to view online here. Copies are available to purchase on DVD here. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
• A Primer on Information Theory and Privacy
  If we ask whether a fact about a person identifies that person, it turns out that the answer isn't simply yes or no. If all I know about a person is their ZIP code, I don't know who they are. If all I know is their date of birth, I don't know who they are. If all I know is their gender, I don't know ...

Independent ( London )

• Who do you think you are? Lewis Hamilton?
  Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton was forced to apologise yesterday after being arrested by police in Australia on suspicion of driving offences.
• Maliki beaten into second place in Iraq poll
  The Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, was last night poised to lose power as final election tallies showed that Iyad Allawi, the secularist challenger, had won most seats in the 325- member parliament.
• Welcome to Bhutan, the dragon kingdom of literary ...
  The Himalayan nation of Bhutan, famed for its natural beauty and government policy to spread gross national happiness, is to host its first literary festival. In what may be a further indication of the country's desire to open up to greater outside influence, the so-called Dragon Kingdom is to gathe ...
• Zimbabwe's leaders unite to dismiss gay rights
  During the years of struggles for power in their ailing country, Zimbabwe's feuding leaders have rarely found a topic on which they have been of the same mind.
• Vatican goes into battle for Benedict as sexual ab ...
  The Vatican yesterday fought a desperate battle to defend Pope Benedict from the latest child abuse scandal after reports linked him directly to a decision to allow a paedophile priest to take up a pastoral role in his former diocese.

Rogue Government.com

• Supply Fears Start To Hit Treasuries
• Tea partiers air doubts about Dick Armey
• New RFID Tag Could Mean the End of Bar Codes
  Lines at the grocery store might become as obsolete as milkmen, if a new tag that seeks to replace bar codes becomes commonplace.
• Israeli Tanks Enter Gaza
• CIA paper reveals plans to manipulate European op ...

Innovation Canada

• The power of autism
  (Courtesy of Le Devoir)   Montréal researchers have uncovered previously unsuspected intellectual potential in many people with autism, a discovery that opens doors to new approaches for education.   A new approach to research, which looks at the neural disorder not in terms deficits, but in terms o ...
• 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 ...

Signs of the times

• US and Russia agree nuclear deal
  Barack Obama, the US president, and Dmitry Medvedev, his Russian counterpart, have finalised the terms of a new nuclear arms reduction agreement. The two leaders approved the deal for a successor to the landmark Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (Start), which will cut the amount of missiles deployed ...
• Propaganda from a dead man - Ben Laden threatens A ...
  Here is the latst offering, a video and a transcript, purporting to be from Osama Bin Laden. It was shown on Al Jazeera TV
• Angela Merkel agrees on Greece rescue package - ...
  Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel, agreed for the first time yesterday on a "last-resort" rescue package for debt-stricken Greece, while pushing for a tough new regime of sanctions and penalties against European single currency countries whose fiscal misconduct endangers the euro. Prodded by Merk ...
• UK:Number in 'extreme debt' doubles in two year
  The number of adults in 'extreme debt' has almost doubled in just two years, it is revealed today. Redundancy, being forced to take a pay cut or working fewer hours in the recession has hit many people's income, worsening their debt situation. A person has 'extreme debt' if their debt to income ra ...
• Obama Pays More Than Buffett as U.S. Risks AAA Rat ...
  he bond market is saying that it's safer to lend to Warren Buffett than Barack Obama. Two-year notes sold by the billionaire's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. in February yield 3.5 basis points less than Treasuries of similar maturity, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Procter & Gamble Co., Johnson ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Red Libs vs. the Blue Dog and Bay Street Libs
  Cliff at Rusty Idols on the Libs' very very very bad week : About time for the Red Libs to realize the Blue Dog Libs and the Bay Street Libs are going to use them hard and put them away wet forever. They don't respect them, they plan to never respect them. They'll push them in front for the cameras ...
• Harper Conservative Jim Abbott believes in torture ...
  So long as a a whisper-fine technicality allows it . Let's put it another way. Despite the fact that the Canadian Forces and the Department of National Defence have absolutely vowed that the articles of the Geneva Conventions apply to all combatants in Afghanistan, Jim Abbott is defending the actio ...
• Online: 2628 pages of Afghanistan documents
  CBC is uploading all 2628 pages the Cons dumped in parliament yesterday. You can find links to the online viewer here . There's obviously quite a lot to sift through and much of blacked out. But even with censor's ink (a lot of it I might argue necessary especially where names of individuals and de ...
• Elephant Painting
  An amazing elephant that really paints. Not alone, either, apparently other pachyderms daub and dab, as well. News to me. The video is really impressive. Sentience at work. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He7Ge7Sogrk
• Opposition!(?)
  This could get interesting. I expect the Cons to come out at any moment and declare parliament treasonous or some such shit. Anything really that might distract or detract from the issue at hand.

Media Matters for America

• Fox advances "anti-free speech" attack on NLRB no ...
  Fox News advanced the attack that Obama nominee Craig Becker would be an "anti-democratic and anti-free speech" member of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) because he believed "employers should have no role in union-organizing elections at all." But during a congressional hearing on his ...
• Quick Fact: Beck distorts Obama to falsely claim h ...
  Glenn Beck again distorted President Obama's comments to falsely claim that he told tea party protesters to "get out of the way." However, in the speech Beck cited Obama was discussing "folks on the other side of the aisle" who created the financial "mess", not tea party protesters. Beck claims ...
• "You need to riot": Right-wing pushes violent rhe ...
  In the wake of reported threats on Democratic officials due to their health care votes, Media Matters for America takes a look back at the right-wing media's history of promoting violence. Right-wing media figures call for "riots," "revolution," and push other violent rhetoric Right-wing bl ...
• Wash. Times' tea partier who hasn't "see ...
  In an article noting reported racial epithets shouted at Democratic officials during a recent Washington, D.C., tea party protest, The Washington Times quoted Dale Robertson, founder of teaparty.org, as saying that Democrats are "trying to label the tea party, but I've never seen any racial sl ...
• Rove falsely claims "no Republican" supports repe ...
  Karl Rove claimed that Republicans were not "out there saying, 'Take away the $40 billion in small-business tax credits' " in the health care reform legislation. But one day earlier, 39 Republican senators cast votes in support of fully repealing the legislation, including the provisions pro ...

Global Research.ca

• Israel's Triumph to Disaster
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• NATO Toll to 134 This Year in Afghanistan
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Israel’s Provocation at al-Aqsa
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Cuba: Human Rights Again?
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• U.S. Plunges Central America Back To Era Of Coups ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• Heckuva Job, AIPAC
  I know what former President Bush would say if he had to comment on the results of AIPAC's conference this week. He would turn to Howard Kohr, its long time director, and say "heckuva job, Howie." AIPAC supposedly exists to promote US-Israel relations or, more precisely, to promote them to the p ...
• Why the President's Next Big Thing Should Be Jobs
  Few presidents get a second honeymoon of their own making. (George W. got one when terrorists attacked the United States.) Barack Obama's victory on health care reform has breathed new life into his administration, recharged the Democratic base, and given the rest of America a sense of someone who f ...
• Religion in Politics: Can't Live With It, Can't Li ...
  1. The more the Roman Catholic hierarchy resembles a Congregation for the Propagation of Fondling, the less credibly it clothes what the late Father Richard John Neuhaus called "the naked public square." The next time some politically presumptuous bishop says he won't give communion to a pro-choicer ...
• David Frum Purged
  The American Enterprise Institute is where the Conservative Counter-revolution was born. It is still the Politburo of Right Wing Republican politics with it's huge budget financed by corporate America. And they don't like dissidents within their halls. And so when David Frum went public with his opi ...
• Didi's Generation
  I had lunch with my friend Didi Remez a week ago Wednesday in Tel Aviv. We had been working on a document, remotely and fitfully--and given that it is a kind of democratic manifesto, a little hubristically--and figured we were due for a little face time. When we parted, Didi told me, among other thi ...

TruthOut

• Pentagon Wants $33 Billion More for War in Afghani ...
  Washington — The Pentagon wants $33 billion in additional funding to pay for the war in Afghanistan this year and train the Afghan military, but members of Congress want to make sure they’re not writing a blank check. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton appe ...
• Izzy Award Winner Jeremy Scahill: "We're At a Grou ...
  The winner of the second annual Izzy Award, named after muckraking journalist I.F. Stone, discusses independent media and this critical moment in journalism. read more
• Euro Zone Includes IMF in Backup Bailout for Greec ...
  �On Greece's independence day, leaders of 16 European nations hammered out a bailout mechanism for the financially troubled country that would hit its residents hard. Greece would only get the bailout if it could no longer borrow from financial markets. The interest rates on those bailout loans wou ...
• Allawi Wins Iraqi Election by Two Seats; Maliki De ...
  Secular Muslim politician Ayad Allawi Friday won Iraq's landmark parliamentary election by just two seats, defeating incumbent Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, who immediately repeated his demands for a recount and warned that the outcome “is not final.” read more
• Springtime in France Begins With a Broad Street Mo ...
  Paris - Only two days after the end of French regional elections, in which candidates associated with conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy took a drubbing, civil servants and other workers took to the streets to protest a broad range of neoliberal reforms that are contributing to growing social an ...

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 Meeting on Gas Drilling
  On Wednesday,  March 31 st, the Dallas United Methodist Church is sponsoring a public information me
• Will Certain Septic Permits Go on Hold for a Year?
  by jhwygirl Ravalli County Health Department is considering postponing the issuance of certain septi
• Istanbul's Water from Melen River, think again?
  Istanbul is one of the highly populated cites of the world. And, it has been facing water scarcity s
• 880 mn people lack access to clean water: Red Cros ...
  RARE PRIVILEGE: A villager bathes under a hose pipe in a rice field on the outskirts of Amritsar. Cl
• Come see ILE at World Water Days/Hydrology Day, CS ...
  Today is World Water Day 2010! Come visit ILE at CSU's World Water Day Fair on campus in the Lor

Public Citizen in Texas

• Week in Review
  After Week in Review’s SXSW hiatus, our weekly blog update is back in action, keeping you posted on Public Citizen’s energy advocacy work. Carol Geiger presented the interns a workshop on grant writing, providing an enormous amount of detail and critical distinctions between direct service, outreach ...
• Party In The Dark During Earth Hour
  Worried about your environmental impact? This Saturday, March 27th at 8:30pm is your chance to participate with millions of people around the world during Earth Hour. “What do I have to do?” Simply turn off the lights for one hour. During this hour we can universally flip the switch on dirty air, ...
• TCEQ Commissioners want Tax Breaks for Polluters, ...
  An eye opening story from KHOU earlier this week gave more insight into what’s the matter at TCEQ.  It’s worth your 5 minutes to watch the entire thing but here are the highlights: Valero installed a pollution scrubber to create lower sulphur fuels in one of their Houston refineries.  The problem? ...
• Licensing Board to Hear Oral Arguments on STP Appl ...
  An Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) panel will hear oral argument regarding a hearing in the South Texas Project Combined License (COL) proceeding on April 7 in Bay City, Texas. The ASLB is the independent body within the NRC that presides over hearings where the public can challenge propose ...
• NRG’s investment in STP contributes to stock downg ...
  According to the Wall Street Journal, Citigroup has downgraded shares of NRG Energy (NRG) to “Hold” from “Buy” and cut price targets to $25 from $27 on the stocks. Shares of NRG today are off 34 cents, or 1.6%, at $20.83. Citigroup analyst Brian Chin warns that NRG’s investment in the South Texas Pl ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• Dutch prisons hire psychics to help prisoners
  Prisons in the Netherlands are hiring psychics to help prisoners get in touch with their deceased loved ones. The move is aimed at providing guidance ...
• Astronomers find 90% more universe
  Astronomers may have underestimated the number of the stars in the universe by as much as 90 percent. A lot of the older galaxies may have been missed...
• Girl, 9, has half her brain removed
  A nine-year-old girl has undergone a miraculous recovery after having half of her brain removed. Major surgery had been needed to address a brain diso...
• UFO photographed over Sydney
  A woman in Australia took a photograph of an unusual object that 'buzzed' the Sydney skyline recently. Describing the object as 'calm and peaceful' it...
• Boy with 31 fingers and toes undergoes surgery
  A six-year-old boy with an incredible 15 fingers and 16 toes has undergone surgery to remove the extra digits. The peculiar number of digits is down t...

Grassroots

• Water Rights -- What's Wrong?
  bechtel-water.jpg Frankly,�a lot! read more
• 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 ...

Climate

• March 26, 2010
  Senators Outline U.S. Utility Carbon Market for Climate Bill (Bloomberg) Senators Lindsey Graham and Joseph Lieberman outlined U.S. climate legislation that would have power companies buy and sell pollution rights in a carbon market and force oil companies to pay fixed fees for emissions. ...
• March 25, 2010
  Senate Climate Update: Meetings and Meetings But No Text in Sight (The Hill) Senate meetings on planned climate legislation continued at a fast clip Wednesday but the bill’s architects are not far along enough to release a long-awaited draft before the Spring recess that begins Monday. ...
• March 24, 2010
  U.S. Senate Climate Bill Details Still Unfinished (Reuters) Senators negotiating climate and energy legislation struggled over details on Tuesday as lawmakers approached a two-week break without a full legislative proposal in hand. EPA to Seek More Data on Emissions (New York Times) ...
• March 23, 2010
  Democratic Senators Push for Climate Bill This Year (Bloomberg) Twenty-two Democratic senators urged that the Senate take up energy and climate legislation this year focused on "jobs and reduced dependence on foreign oil." Graham: Colleagues Will Be 'Risk Averse' Following Health Care D ...
• 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 ...

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

• The Party of No Class-No Change Strikes Out: Hawki ...
  Is "Repeal and Replace" what took a century to pass the real GOP-Shock Jock-Tea Party strategy for this year? Bring that one on. Total in the right's upsurge in vitriol, violence, and vituperation against the middle-class majority who will come to benefit from this starter health reform bill. The ...
• The F Word: Step Toward Justice for Jamie Leigh Jo ...
  Score one for Senator Al Franken. Thanks to him, Jamie Leigh Jones, a former KBR employee who alleges she was gang raped by her coworkers will get her day in court. I think we call that equal protection. In Jones' case, it took an amendment to the 2010 defense appropriations bill. That's right, fres ...
• Of Cutting Gas Lines
  Here in Virginia where we're addicted to the practice of killing people in order to teach them not to kill people, there are certain things that must not be said about the moron(s) who cut a gas line to a backyard grill at the home of the brother of a congressman who voted for a health insurance bil ...
• The New Dumb
  It's pretty much official now. The GOP, in whole and in part, has gone completely over the high side in the aftermath of the House's successful passage of President Obama's health care reform package. Angry, bitter and frustrated has made way for deranged, deluded and dangerous within the minds and ...
• Life after Healthcare: What's Next for Democrats?
  If there was every any doubt, the rowdy passage of the Healthcare Bill indicated we have begun the mid-term elections campaign. Building upon the momentum from their healthcare victory, Dems need to challenge Republicans with a series of bold initiatives to create jobs. No Republican voted for healt ...

Ten Percent

• Friday! BriTANicK- Academy Award Winning Movie Tra ...
  When formula becomes so obvious.
• UK Taser Use More Than Doubles
  …new statistics record the use of the devices for the third quarter of 2009 and show they were used 402 times by specially trained units from July to September, up from 169 in the previous quarter. Officers discharged them 67 times over the period, compared to 36 for the preceding period. Units ha ...
• New Labour’s Decade Of Torture
  And with Brown reneging on publication of SIS guidelines there is every sign this will continue, I would also add I have little hope any other party would not do likewise, a key aspect is the intel relationship with the US and clearly no accountability for torture is coming from that direction. The ...
• Joint Forward Interrogation -Torture- Team
  Fresh evidence has emerged that British military intelligence ran a secret operation in Iraq which authorised degrading and unlawful treatment of prisoners. Documents reveal that prisoners were kept hooded for long periods in intense heat and deprived of sleep by defence intelligence officers. The ...
• Support The BA Strikers
  The strange part is that BA cabin crews don’t generally come across as the selfish wrecking thugs they’re now portrayed as. They mostly smile and bring you stuff, so why would 80 per cent of them vote twice for a strike? Perhaps it’s because the company wants to bring in new staff on inferior terms ...

Booman Tribune

• Not a Lot of Protein Wisdom
  I don't really blame Jeff Goldstein for being indignant, but the problem is that he spends a whole lot of words when his final paragraph would have basically sufficed. Kiteley’s pretense of “alarm” leads me to believe that it isn’t ME he is worried about; rather, he seems alarmed by the possibi ...
• Frivolous Friday Open Thread
  What's the most important thing the Obama administration did today? Announce agreement with Russia on nuclear disarmament treaty. Announce new effort to stem foreclosure crisis. Add Michelle Obama's podcasts of live performances at the White House. Put the White House visitor's log online. ...
• Bibi's Got to Go
  If it's true that Obama and Netanyahu are at the point of no return, then it's clear that Netanyahu and his ultra-right allies must go. With the U.S. military flatly asserting that Israel is a security and diplomatic burden to our national interests in the Middle East, the Israeli government must r ...
• No Taxes Paid By Big Banks
  Big Corporations are people too. I know this because the Supreme Court told me so. They have all the rights that you and I have, and often more (they can afford more after all). For example, lots of big corporations rarely have to pay taxes. Corporations like -- well like Bank of America and Wel ...
• On the Path Back
  The Research 2000/Daily Kos Weekly Trending Poll is out with some post-health care numbers. Unsurprisingly, the president, the Democratic Party, Congressional Dems, and Nancy Pelosi are all enjoying a nice bump in public approval. Pelosi saw a three point jump, while Obama went up five points. Po ...

European Tribune

• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 27 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1920 – Birth of...
• Friday Open Thread
  Thread, open....
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 26 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1949 – Patrick Süskind,...
• Thursday open thread
  Welcome to Thursday....
• Nuclear Ratings Agencies
  FT.com / UK - ECB must re-examine its dependence on rating agencies ...until the end...

Futurismic

• It’s a man’s life in the global pseudocorporate cy ...
  PC Pro has an interesting insight into the daily goings-on at a defunct scareware corporation from Ukraine [via SlashDot], which – if it’s to be taken at face value – demonstrates how similar such blackhat operations are to many (arguably more legitimate) organisations, at least as far as flim-flamm ...
• A dialogue with a book pirate
  Nancy Kress was tipped off about a website offering unlicensed ebook versions of her novels, and decided to get in touch with the person in charge. It’s an interesting insight into the mindset of the ideologically-motivated (but nonetheless confused) content pirate: … permit me to point out a fundam ...
• Destroying malaria… with frickin’ LASERS
  Malaria remains one of the great unsolved health problems of the developing world, with the disease stubbornly resisting all attempts at eradication. So why not focus on the vector instead: the blood-hungry mosquitoes that spread malaria around? And why not use an idea straight from the science fict ...
• Black Cloud Computing: botnets dwarf legitimate cl ...
  Via SlashDot, another reminder of the sheer scale and clout of botnets, all just sitting out there waiting to be rented, no questions asked: … the biggest legitimate cloud provider is Google, based on Joffe’s information, made up of 500,000 systems, 1 million CPUs and 1,500 gigabits per second (Gbps ...
• Blue genes: poetry encoded in DNA
  Via Lauren Beukes comes the news that Canadian poet Christian Bök has thought of a way to transcend Keats’ epitaph of being “one whose name was writ on water”; he seeks a poetic immortality that could outlive the human species itself, by the expedient of encoding some of his work into the DNA of a ...

Therapy News

• Boys Being Pushed Too Hard in Early School, Expert ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline As the medication of young children for psychiatric concerns becomes a greater issue around the world, interest in how and why some children exhibit certain undesirable behaviors is growing. Part of the underlying cause of such behaviors may be rooted in the early sch ...
• Turn A Problem On Its Head: Use Self-Compassion
  By Lindsey Antin, M.A., MFT, Solution Focused Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Lindsey and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile OK, so people who come to therapy are not ready to take it easy. They are interested in problem-solving and usually frustrated by what they perceive to ...
• Spanish Researchers Create New Work Addiction Scal ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary While most people probably call to mind certain substances like alcohol or habits involving gambling or smoking when thinking about addiction, there are some addictive behaviors that might be mistaken for positive in certain situations. Certainly among these, work addi ...
• Study Finds Insecure Attachment Among Boys Leads t ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline The presence of insecure attachment, or the discouragement of or inconsistent response to requests for affection, during the course of childhood has long been suspected as leading to a declined quality of life for children, though further research has been called for ...
• Self-Love: An Overview
  By Teresa Trower, LMHC, Self-Love Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Teresa and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile I welcome the opportunity to write about self-love because I believe when we cut to the chase, self-love is the engine that determines the quality of our lives. Many of us h ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Two days locked-down to the EPA campaigning to end ...
  Charleston Gazette (blog) Two days locked-down to the EPA campaigning to end mountaintop removal It's Getting Hot In Here (blog) Almost every person who passed through our 'Purple Mountain's Majesty' and underneath the banner “EPA: Pledge to End Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining in ... EPA Sleep-In: ...
• EPA Proposes Veto of Permit for Major Mountaintop- ...
  The Washington Independent EPA Proposes Veto of Permit for Major Mountaintop-Removal Coal Mine New York Times US EPA proposed a veto today of the Clean Water Act permit issued for one of Central Appalachia's largest mountaintop-removal ... EPA Denies Arch Coal Permit Wall Street Journal EPA propose ...
• Lisa Jackson's Reaction To Mountaintop Removal Act ...
  San Francisco Chronicle (blog) Lisa Jackson's Reaction To Mountaintop Removal Activist Lock Down At EPA It's Getting Hot In Here (blog) The message on the banner calls on the EPA to pledge to end mountaintop removal coal mining in 2010. But there's a catch—the banner and two of its holders ... Impo ...
• Film Festival Sounds Alarm on Environment - Voice ...
  Film Festival Sounds Alarm on Environment Voice of America Chuck Nelson is a retired union coal miner who lives in an area affected by mountain top removal . That's not the case with West Virginia's coal country. ...
• Breaking news: EPA issues 'proposed determination' ...
  Charleston Gazette (blog) Breaking news: EPA issues 'proposed determination' to block Clean Water Act ... Charleston Gazette (blog) 1 Mine in Logan County, the largest mountaintop removal permit in West Virginia history. EPA has reason to believe that the Spruce No. ... EPA Proposes Veto of Mine Pe ...

Memeorandum

• TN Man Enraged By Obama Sticker Slams SUV Into Car ...
  Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars : TN Man Enraged By Obama Sticker Slams SUV Into Car With 10 Year Old Child Inside   —  As hate radio, corporate right wing media and GOP politicians ramp up the violent rhetoric against Democrats, the nutjobs who follow them like zombies are becoming more and more ...
• A Bold U.S. Plan to Help Struggling Homeowners (Da ...
  David Streitfeld / New York Times : A Bold U.S. Plan to Help Struggling Homeowners   —  Will it work this time?  —  Once again, the federal government is adding to its arsenal of programs for troubled homeowners, seeking to help those who urgently need it while neither angering nor creating pervers ...
• Hospital wards to shut in secret NHS cuts (Telegra ...
  Telegraph : Hospital wards to shut in secret NHS cuts   —  Tens of thousands of NHS workers would be sacked, hospital units closed and patients denied treatments under secret plans for £20 billion of health cuts.  —  The sick would be urged to stay at home and email doctors rather than visit surge ...
• Coburn blocks extension of unemployment benefits, ...
  Alexander Bolton / The Hill : Coburn blocks extension of unemployment benefits, threatens start of recess   —  Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has blocked passage of a crucial package of expiring provisions, including extended unemployment insurance benefits that are scheduled to run out on April 5.
• Benefits extension on hold for recess (Manu Raju/T ...
  Manu Raju / The Politico : Benefits extension on hold for recess   —  Both parties insist that unemployment benefits for the nation's most vulnerable are a top priority on Capitol Hill.  —  Just don't let that sentiment collide with a congressional recess.  —  Exhausted lawmakers are on the road … ...

Energy & Environment News

• Seoul Mayor Pins Political Hopes on Green Growth
  The mayor of Seoul, Oh Se-hoon, is seeking to build defining legacy for his mayoralty, and has sought to improve his city’s environment.
• Tracing the Demise of Cap and Trade
  The market-driven system was the preferred policy for tackling climate change a year ago, but now it is in wide disrepute.
• Audit Finds Vulnerability of EnergyStar Program
  Congressional auditors posing as companies found it easy to win the official stamp of approval for energy-saving products.
• Average Con Edison Bill to Rise by $10 Over 3 Year ...
  Higher rates were approved by the New York State Public Service Commission.
• E.P.A. to Seek More Data on Emissions
  The agency has proposed requiring petroleum facilities that inject carbon dioxide into the ground to report their emissions.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.0, Molucca Sea
  Thursday, March 25, 2010 17:53:48 UTC Friday, March 26, 2010 02:53:48 AM at epicenter Depth : 39.10 km (24.30 mi)
• M 5.4, Kepulauan Barat Daya, Indonesia
  Thursday, March 25, 2010 15:13:20 UTC Friday, March 26, 2010 12:13:20 AM at epicenter Depth : 166.50 km (103.46 mi)
• M 5.0, offshore Bio-Bio, Chile
  Wednesday, March 24, 2010 11:30:13 UTC Wednesday, March 24, 2010 07:30:13 AM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
• M 5.1, Tonga
  Wednesday, March 24, 2010 09:11:49 UTC Wednesday, March 24, 2010 10:11:49 PM at epicenter Depth : 8.80 km (5.47 mi)
• M 5.4, south of the Kermadec Islands
  Tuesday, March 23, 2010 06:33:26 UTC Tuesday, March 23, 2010 06:33:26 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

China Dialogue

• A personal one-child policy?
  Family size is the great unmentionable of the campaign for greener lifestyles, writes Oliver Burkeman. Westerners need to consider that babies are consumers, too, with their own carbon footprints. Twelve years ago, the American author Bill ­McKibben published a short book entitled Maybe One: A Perso ...
• Security alert
  The US government’s recent defence review shows new levels of attention being given to climate change. Xie Yanmei talks to two experts about the implications. The United States’ Department of Defense has started studying the implications of climate change for national security and military planning. ...
• Sorrows of Sumatra
  Intensive deforestation in Indonesia – fuelled by corruption – is scarring the landscape and wrecking a vital resource. Andre Vltchek went to see the devastation. Tin-mine pits are like enormous open wounds dominating the landscape of island Bangka , near Sumatra and only 40 minutes flight from the ...
• Dissecting the sceptics (2)
  An appreciation of human nature – not just hard science – is needed to fight the rising tide of climate-change denial, argues Bill McKibben. The climate deniers come with a few built-in advantages. Thanks to Exxon Mobil and others with a vested interest in debunking climate-change research, their ...
• 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• The Staggering Cost of Mass Deportation
  The Center for American Progress estimates that a mass deportation strategy for the 10.8 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. would cost $285 billion.
• Marijuana Legalization on the CA Ballot: Separatin ...
  Brace yourself for a blast of alarmist hot air from the drug war status quo, a nine-month onslaught of distortions, half-truths and real whoppers.
• Homegrown Heroes: What Jamie Oliver Needs for His ...
  As Oliver attempts to bring his "food revolution" to a dietarily disastrous town in West Virginia, he garners more sneers than cheers. But here's why he may succeed.
• Remembering Mendez: A Building Block for Brown v. ...
  Friday morning on NPR, a segment featured Sandra Mendez Duran and her sister, Sylvia Mendez discussing the court case their parents brought against the school district in Orange County, California in 1945 that was a critical building block in the legal foundation that lead to the landmark Supreme Co ...
• The Clock Is Ticking for Climate Legislation
  Seven months out from the midterms, electoral anxieties are hampering potential climate change legislation. Election years are a time to pass easy, politically popular policies, and climate change legislation does not fit that bill. For the Senate’s climate change legislation to have a chance, ...

Threat Level

• Check the Hype — There’s No Such Thing As ‘Cyber’
  How can you tell the difference between a real report about online vulnerabilities and someone who is trying to scare you about the security of the internet because they have an agenda, such as landing lucrative, secret contracts from the government? Here’s a simple test: Count the number of times ...
• Hacker Sentenced to 20 Years for Breach of Credit ...
  BOSTON — Convicted TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez was sentenced to 20 years on Friday for his role in breaches into Heartland Payment Systems, 7-Eleven and other companies. The sentence will run concurrently with a 20-year sentence he received on Thursday in two other cases involving hacks into TJX, Of ...
• TJX Hacker Gets 20 Years in Prison
  BOSTON — Convicted TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursday for leading a gang of cyberthieves who stole more than 90 million credit and debit card numbers from TJX and other retailers. The sentence for the largest computer-crime case ever prosecuted is the lengthi ...
• WIPO: Dope-Vaporizer Seller Not Bogarting Domain N ...
  The German producer of a popular device used to vaporize marijuana is claiming a North American dealer is bogarting its domain names. But the World Intellectual Property Organization on Thursday sided against Storz & Bickel, the maker of the Volcano Vaporizer, ruling that MSI Imports’ four dozen Vol ...
• ACTA Draft: No Internet for Copyright Scofflaws
  The United States is nudging the international community to develop protocols to suspend the internet connections of customers caught downloading copyrighted works, according to a leaked draft of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The United States is leading the 2-year-old, once-secret negoti ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• South Korean navy ship sinks; North link "unlikely ...
  SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's president ordered an investigation on Saturday into the cause of the sinking of a navy ship near the disputed North Korea border but officials said it was unlikely to have been the result of an attack by Pyongyang.
• Ailing Dennis Hopper gets Hollywood star
  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A frail but smiling Dennis Hopper was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Friday, belying reports that the "Easy Rider" actor was on his deathbed.
• Sex toy startup has some big backers
  SAN FRANCISCO (Private Equity Week) - JimmyJane, a startup that makes vibrating sex toys, raised $2 million from investors, according to a recent regulatory filing.
• Violence clouds efforts on Middle East peace
  JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israelis and Palestinians fought their worst clash in a year and Israel said it would not stop the building in occupied East Jerusalem that is blocking a relaunch of talks.
• AT&T sees $1 billion healthcare related charge
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T Inc said on Friday it would record a $1 billion non-cash charge for the current quarter related to the new U.S. health care reform law, as lawmakers called on the company and three other large employers to testify about expected cost hikes.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

• Podcast: Focus 2/21/10 Leo Maley with Tim Carpent ...
  Union organizer, PDA-member, and progressive radio host Leo Maley interviews PDA’s Tim Carpenter about the growing national movement of "Brown Baggers" calling for an end to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and for single-payer ...
• Lies, Damn Lies, and the Media
  Lies, Damn Lies, and the Media By David Swanson ACORN is shutting down because of a fraudulent video pimped by the corporate media. U.S. forces in Afghanistan have heroically laid seige to and conquered a fictional ...
• Healthcare Reform has just begun— next steps for M ...
  The health reform bill passed by the 111th Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama does far more than fall short of extending healthcare to all. See Rose Ann DeMoro’s analysis of the ...
• Getting into Massa’s Drawers: Truly Creepy D ...
  Getting into Massa’s Drawers: Truly Creepy Details about the Congressman Tuesday, March 23, 2010 Exclusive for Buzzflash.com by Greg Palast For the two weeks before tickle-and-grope charges busted open on him, and before his resignation from Congress, our BBC Television ...
• Barack Obama, I Want a Divorce
  By Clancy Sigal, Comment Is Free Posted on March 20, 2010, Printed on March 23, 2010 http://www.alternet.org/story/146107/ My honeymoon with the Democrats has long since passed. Our relationship has turned sour, and I’m in no mood to marry ...

Marler Blog

• Thank you President Obama and Senate and House Dem ...
  For all my clients who suffered severe illness due to food poisoning, like Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome , Guillain-Barre Syndrome or Reiter's Syndrome , Thank you President Obama and Senate and House Democrats for passing a comprehensive Health Care Bill.� My clients facing being dropped from insurance ...
• Seattle Times - "Is raw, unpasteurized milk safe?"
  And, I do not even get quoted in "Is raw, unpasteurized milk safe?"� The pictures are worth a few millions of words: Interesting article on raw milk risks, politics and emotions.
• Grocery Manufacturers Association Litigation Confe ...
  Looking forward to speaking at the Grocery Manufacturers Association Litigation Conference on April 7 and 8, 2010 in Washington DC.
• Over one year after sickening over 700 and killing ...
  Here is a three part series by ABC Channel 13: �
• Pasteurized Milk Outbreaks do happen despite what ...
  A while ago I posted, "Raw Milk Outbreaks do happen despite what the Weston A. Price Foundation and The Complete Patient (a.k.a. David Gumpert) say," and rightly got slapped for being a bit too harsh.� I tend to be remembered, and reviled, by sellers and consumers of raw milk (affectionately, a.k. ...

AutoblogGreen

• AutoblogGreen for 03.26.10
  Hummers are for Horses: Artist reimagines the monsterous SUV [w/video] Gives "Futurama" a new meaning. Infiniti EV to be built on Leaf platform, release scheduled for 2014 One more step in Nis ...
• AutoblogGreen for 03.25.10
  GM unveils three futuristic, urban EN-V concepts A typical GM vehicle this is not. Customer ignorance convinces BMW that front-drive is OK Eighty percent of 1 Series drivers thought the car ...
• AutoblogGreen for 03.24.10
  Mitsubishi announces UK pricing for i-MiEV: �33,699 Early adopters are helping to subsidize the future... if they can afford the present. Local police agree, runaway Prius in NY caused by driver error ...
• AutoblogGreen for 03.23.10
  Ford to attempt 1,000-lap challenge at Bristol Speedway with V6 Mustang You can even place bets on how many laps the car will be able to do. Hold the Hybrids: Two-mode Ram officially dead Fia ...
• 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 . ...

Rafe's Radar

• Demo debrief: Rafe and Josh's favorites
  This year's Demo Spring conference has come to a close, and we take a minute to look back at some of our favorites. Originally posted at Webware ...
• Neverend Media builds smart new e-book format
  It's arguably a better format than PDF for electronic books. But is it better enough to get traction?
• At Demo, three examples of why the iPhone needs ba ...
  These apps would probably be on the iPhone if it had background capabilities.
• Medl Tech portable monitor gives idea for iPad
  Company at Demo presents a 13-inch, battery-powered, USB-driven portable computer monitor. Is there a market for it?
• Motolingo brings telematics to clunkers
  Motoriety combines car diagnostics data with your smartphone's GPS to give you more data than you thought possible about how you use your car. ...

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!

• Indonesian Media Reports Journalist Allan Nairn Fa ...
  A leading TV news network in Indonesia is reporting the Indonesian military is planning to charge journalist Allan Nairn with “smearing [its] good name.” In an appearance on Democracy Now! last week, Allan exposed that US-backed Indonesian armed forces assassinated a series of civilian activists ...
• Obama’s Bad Prescription for Indonesia
  President Barack Obama dedicated the signing of health care legislation to a number of people, including his mother, S. Ann Dunham Soetoro, who, he said, “argued with insurance companies even as she battled cancer in her final days.” The health care legislative process and its frenetic endgame prom ...
• Amy Goodman on CNN's _John King, USA_
  Click here to see Democracy Now! ’s award-winning host Amy Goodman talking about health care on CNN’s new program, John King, USA , on Tuesday, March 23rd.
• Part II: Scholar Norman Finkelstein on Next Steps ...
  Norman Finkelstein is author of several books on the Israel Palestine conflict. His latest is This Time We Went Too Far: Truth & Consequences of the Gaza Invasion. In Part II of our conversation, Finkelstein discusses lessons he learned from Gandhi, the role of public opinion in politics, and mo ...
• 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.

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

• The Magnificently Captured Beautiful Places On Ear ...
  Earth Hour 2010 will take place on March 27, 2010 from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., local time and we are trying to showcase few of the millions stunning photographs to give a tribute to Earth Hour and to create some awareness about this event. Climate Change is not about what country you are from… It’s ...
• Imperial Valley: One of the US's Most Polluted Are ...
  In the burning fields of Southern California’s Imperial Valley, the honey bee population is dying, and so are millions of fish in the Salton Sea. Meanwhile, the squatters of Slab City try to live off the grid and hold on to what’s left of the American Wild West.
• Canadian Cement Plant Becomes First to Capture CO2 ...
  A Canadian company called Pond Biofuels is capturing CO2 emissions from a cement plant in algae -- algae the company plans on using to make biofuel.
• Scientific Reasons for Earth's Seasons
  It's time for a change of seasons but what determines when winter ends and spring begins? Get the scientific reasons.
• WWF hopes to find $60 billion growing on trees - T ...
  The carbon credits scheme would make WWF and its partners much richer, but with no lowering of overall CO2 emissions, writes Christopher Booker.

Invisible Opportunity

• Nassim Haramein – At Rogue Valley 2003
  This is long but well worth your viewing.  If you want to save some time, the second video has a lot more interesting info… If you are not yet familiar with Nassim Haramein’s exciting work, prepare yourself for an exhilarating odyssey into hyperspace and beyond. Haramein, who has spent his lifeti ...
• It’s not a Total Wasteland Yet
  By Les Visible It’s some kind of a trend. I’ve been noticing it for awhile; a year or two, maybe more. Lately the incidents have been getting more frequent. Is it a population increase or are they just getting louder? Someone showed up at my seldom visited Facebook page last night, wishing to harang ...
• 9/11 The Military Knows Israel Mossad and rogue US ...
  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 http://thy-weapon-of-war.blogspot.com… Very important info, our government leaders have dual citizenship to Isra ...
• 911 Clues EVERYONE MISSED
• Future News: Massachusetts makes disobedience vacc ...
  By Mike Adams (Editor’s Note: This story is a fictional future news story that depicts one possible future under an American medical dictatorship.) Taking aim at the growing spread of Obedience Defiance Disorder (O.D.D.) — a mental disease striking both children and adults — Massachusetts health aut ...

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 ...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

• You Can't Understand Drug War Bloodbath in Mexico ...
  "Living on the border can cripple a person's emotional range. I grow more numb with each passing day."
• Not Feeling Well? Perhaps You're 'Marijuana Defici ...
  Scientists have begun speculating that the root cause of disease conditions such as migraines and irritable bowel syndrome may be endocannabinoid deficiency.
• The Future of Drug Reform Is Bright
  The Students for a Sensible Drug Policy conference in San Francisco was a major demonstration of youthful, activist energy to change the drug paradigm.
• My Experience with a Psychedelic Plant That Thousa ...
  "The first sign that ibogaine is working is generally a loud buzzing or ringing in the ears ... Soon after that I begin to feel warm and things take on a light golden glow."
• How Many Mexican Drug War Deaths Can We Attribute ...
  It's time to remove the production and distribution of marijuana out of the hands of violent criminal enterprises and into the hands of licensed businesses.

Twilight Earth

• Win a Trip to Washington DC for Earthday!
  Our friend Nathan Winters just told us about an exciting contest where you can sign up for a chance to win a trip for two to the Earth Day Celebration in Washington DC. Related posts: Solar Decathlon on the Mall in Washington DC Photo Sunday – Washington DC Fireworks Was George Washington G ...
• We Live Inside Borders – But Have We Bordered Up O ...
  We live in a land of borders, but have we bordered up our minds? Do we care about what happens next door? Related posts: Coal Country Film: Inside Modern Coal Mining John McCain Quotes Live From The RNC Convention Floor Speech Live Dispatch from the Climate Express : The IPCC is not the Univ ...
• 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 ...

Inhabitat

• EARTH HOUR 2010 IS TONIGHT!
  Earth Hour 2010 is tonight, and you’ve got a V.I.P. invitation to the hottest event on the planet! Now in its fourth year, the event organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature asks everyone to take a stand against climate change and turn off their lights for a solid hour begining at 8:30 P.M. [...]
• Bug Infested Wood Transformed into Sleek Modern Fu ...
  In recent years global warming has lent a hand in increasing the population of the Mountain Pine Beetle, which has been wreaking havoc on acres of woodland area, giving way to a surplus of diseased, buckling, blue-stained pine wood. Seeking an inspired use for this damaged wood, Straight Lines Desig ...
• Gimme Shelter Project: Creating a Green Home on Sh ...
  Leslie Hoffman — the President and Executive Director of Earth Pledge — is a trained architect and skilled green builder. When she decided that her little house in Shelter Island, New York needed a renovation, she decided to go all out with the green features. In an effort to educate the community a ...
• FabCab: A Most Fabulous Timberfame Prefab Cabin
  It’s another prefabulous day, this time with the help of the FabCab, short for “Fabulous Cabin”. This cute timberframe home made its debut at the 2010 Seattle Home Show and is more of a prefabricated kit than a modular house. The timberframe construction is what sets it apart and is sent to the hom ...
• New Shock System Harnesses Energy from Bumpy Roads
  Driving on bumpy roads may not be quite so unpleasant anymore. A pair of former MIT students are working on a new shock system for vehicles that retains the energy generated when a car bounces up and down. The device, dubbed the GenShock, can yield significant gas savings and help power onboard elec ...

Pogue's Posts

• A Bigger Sensor for a Coat-Pocket Camera
  Samsung's NX10 takes the necessary next step in the development of a small camera that takes SLR-quality photos.
• A Tech-Filled Life, Without Power
  My family has now been without electricity, heat or hot water for five days. I gotta tell you: it's getting old.
• Photo Tip: Slowing a Babbling Brook
  Try photographing a babbling brook on a sunny day. Here's the trick to avoiding an overexposed shot.
• Why I Prefer External Chargers
  Is it better to have in-camera battery rechargers or external recharges?
• Microsoft's Free Sync Service
  Live Sync, offered for free from Microsoft, allows you to sync your computers with each other, magically, over the Internet, with no effort on your part.

WIRED Magazine | Science

• New RFID Tag Could Mean the End of Bar Codes
  Lines at the grocery store might become as obsolete as milkmen, if a new tag that seeks to replace bar codes becomes commonplace. Researchers from Sunchon National University in Suncheon, South Korea, and Rice University in Houston have built a radio frequency identification tag that can be printed ...
• What’s It Like to Fly the Space Shuttle? We Find O ...
  As a person who really enjoys flying airplanes, I never thought I would ever say this, but flying a simulator can be as much fun as flying the real thing. Of course it helps when the simulator is a replica of the space shuttle cockpit at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. On a recent assignment [ ...
• Lab-Quality Booze Detector Fits in a Suitcase
  Ever found yourself staring down a punch bowl at a frat party and wondering just how spiked it might be? What you needed was the AlcoQuick 4000, a briefcase-sized infrared spectrometer that can accurately determine the alcohol content of a wide variety of beverages in just 60 seconds, according to ...
• Ron Howard Was Wrong: Apollo 13 Would Have Burned, ...
  The Apollo 13 module, had it not been for NASA’s heroic efforts to get it back on course, would have missed Earth and tumbled into the depths of cold, lonely space. At least that’s been the story repeated in popular, academic, and cinematic accounts of the ill-fated mission, like Ron Howard’s Apoll ...
• Laser-Guidance Adds Power to Wind Turbines
  The wind industry may soon be dependent on a different kind of environmental awareness that has more to do with lasers than ecology. A new laser system that can be mounted on wind turbines allows them to prepare for the wind rushing towards their blades. The lasers act like sonar for the wind, boun ...

The Progressive Realist

• Nuclear Treaty a New START
  The United States and Russia have agreed to reduce their nuclear arsenals by a third.  This is not only good political theater but actually useful. UPI gives a useful overview of the agreement and rollout: U.S. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev announced agre ...
• White House: Drones Are Legitimate Self-Defense
  Ken Anderson testified before the House Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs earlier this week and argued that the Obama Administration must publicly justify its use of drones in Pakistan. Yesterday he got his wish when State Department Legal Advisor Harold Hongju Koh issued this s ...
• Democracy in Iraq: Maybe!
  Wow. When the unexpected happens in an election, it's a good market test of whether balloting really does serve as a credible system of expressing the public's will. Incumbents hardly ever lose -- particularly in the Middle East. Despite Hamas winning the elections in Palestine a few years ago, P ...
• Naval Skirmish Between the Two Koreas in Yellow Se ...
  Details are extremely sketchy , but it looks as if a skirmish in the Yellow Sea has resulted in the sinking of a South Korean patrol boat with 104 aboard. The latest report indicated that 58 of the sailors had been picked up as of an hour and a half ago. See also CDR Salamander and Bubblehead. If ...
• South Asia and the Middle East: Regional Solutions ...
  If you're familiar with the conventional wisdoms of the Indian national security community, you'll know that it is characterized by a heightened sensitivity to anything remotely resembling U.S. support --� let alone favoritism -- shown to Pakistan. And not surprisingly, the same holds for Pakistani ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Lightning Round: When Contrarian Ideas become Conv ...
  A very strange conversation between four Brookings senior fellows, alluded to yesterday. Jonathan Rauch starts with the observation that despite ideological calcification, the country's problems are too big for one party to handle alone, and thus what President Obama really needs is "Speaker Boehne ...
• A Failure in Communications.
  The Hill reports that in response to a probing letter sent from the ranking Republican on the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet Cliff Stearns , the head of the FCC, Julius Genachowski revealed that the flawed National Broadband Plan he recently delivered to ...
• Why the President's Next Big Thing Should Be Jobs.
  Few presidents get a second honeymoon of their own making. Barack Obama ’s victory on health-care reform has breathed new life into his administration, recharged the Democratic base, and given the rest of America a sense of someone who fights for average working people. The question now is: What ...
• More Than Green.
  Justin Charity talks to Joan Fitzgerald about making cities more sustainable: The stimulus package passed by Congress last year included $43 billion in sustainable-energy investments, and a bill meant to reduce the country's contribution to climate change now waits in the Senate. But is national po ...
• The Little Picture: Roses for Nancy.
  Today, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi turns 70. Liberal supporters sent thousands of roses to her office to celebrate her birthday. The speaker split the roses between the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and hill staffers to "thank them for all their hard work on the health reform legislation." (Flic ...

Andy Worthington

• Video: Omar Deghayes Discusses British Complicity ...
  I’ve just returned from a week-long tour of Scotland, showing the new documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (directed by filmmaker Polly Nash and myself), with former prisoner Omar Deghayes. I’ll be writing up a report soon, describing how Omar and I had a wonderful time trave ...
• When Rhetoric Trumps Good Sense: The GOP’s Counter ...
  In the dark farce that is the Obama administration’s counter-terrorism policy, decisions are now, it seems, being made by whoever makes the most noise, regardless of whether what they are shouting for actually makes sense. Since last November, when Attorney General Eric Holder first announced that ...
• 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 ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Texas Pioneers Energy Storage in Giant Battery
  Uniquely prone to electrical outages, Presidio, Texas, deploys a first-of-its-kind solution.
• Global Warming Making People More Aggressive?
  Forget anger over leaked emails: Murders and assaults could jump by a hundred thousand cases a year in a warmer world, a new study says.
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• Gorillas Extinct in Ten Years in Central Africa?
  Gorillas may soon go extinct across much of central Africa, due in part to Chinese timber demand, the ape-meat trade, and mining, a new study says.
• Polar Algae Forests Explored
  In cold Antarctic waters, explorers comb lush seaweed forests filled with rarely seen creatures to find potential new cancer treatments. Video.

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

• Welcome Back To The New and Improved New Milford B ...
  This is just a switch over to the new Blogger In Draft Templates ... But I plan on overhauling the place more, installing some better vats, dusting off the mugs and shot glasses. Be careful as you wander around and try not to knock over the cases of empties over on the side bar because recycling bro ...
• Eric Cantor: "Dem Thugs Did This To Me!"
  From Jed Lewison : It's clear from the Richmond police statement that Cantor's office was not directly targeted. Rather, an office that he has used in the past (but not his main campaign office) was randomly struck by a bullet that had been fired into the sky. I'm not minimizing the dangers of ran ...
• 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 ...

SPL Center

• IRS Long a Target of Antigovernment Extremists
  This morning’s attack by Joseph Andrew Stack against an IRS office building in Austin, Tex., is a reminder again of how extreme hatred of government can morph into violence. Since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has documented 75 domestic terrorist plots, ...
• 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 ...
• Racists Holding Event at Former Justice Roy Moore’ ...
  This coming Saturday, the Foundation for Moral Law (FML) in Montgomery, Ala., will be the site of the 2010 Alabama Secession Day Commemoration , featuring speakers tied to the League of the South , a neo-Confederate hate group that considers slavery “God-ordained” and advocates for “the cultural dom ...
• American Renaissance Finds New Venue for D.C. Conf ...
  After being cancelled because its organizers couldn’t find a venue willing to host it, this weekend’s white nationalist American Renaissance conference is back on again — this time at a Washington D.C. hotel where two similar events were recently held. Jared Taylor , who heads American Renaissance, ...
• 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.

change: org.

• Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine Permit Blocked, For ...
  For the first time in almost 40 years , the EPA has announced that it will not grant a permit to a new mountaintop removal coal mining project. Or, more accurately speaking, the EPA has issued a “proposed determination” to block the Clean Water Act permit for Arch Coal’s Spruce No. 1 coal mine, whic ...
• Friday Unwind: What Do Dogs Have Against Cops?
  If you ask me, this week's best video was the one featuring a stubborn, feisty bulldog who decided last Sunday that a Chattanooga police cruiser looked like a chew toy. He gets a hold and doesn't give up until he's got that bumper. Have you ever noticed that dogs sometimes have a sixth sense about t ...
• Man Up: Vegan Not Hegan
  The Boston Globe has coined a new word to describe male vegans: "Hegans." The article that featured this new word — Men Leave Their Own Mark on Veganism  — was the most e-mailed article at The Boston Globe's website yesterday. All the blogs are atwitter about the new word. The article focuses on mid ...
• Slamming the Door on Foreclosures
  Yes we can -- get long-awaited help to quell a foreclosure crisis that continues to ravage the country. A  new plan announced by the Obama administration today will help an estimated three to four million unemployed borrowers keep their homes. Basically, the Treasury Department is going to muscle le ...
• Commercial Banks Kicked Out of the Student Loan Ga ...
  Students won a victory over lobbyists this week with Congress' passage of a student loan overhaul . Three cheers for youth power! In the past, the federal government has subsidized private loans from banks while accepting virtually all the responsibility for said loans, lining the pockets of bank fa ...

Common Dreams -News

• Protestors Demand Bank of America Freeze Foreclosu ...
  by Brian Kelly ST. LOUIS, MO - About 60 people kicked off what they say will be five days of anti-coporate power protests Wednesday, by staging a demonstration in the Bank of America building at 8th and Market downtown. They pitched a tent in the lobby, sang songs and repeated chants They also dema ...
• Economist Who Foretold First Housing Bubble Says, ...
  WASHINGTON - Dean Baker released the following statement today regarding the Obama Administration's overhaul of its foreclosure prevention program: The latest Obama Administration initiative aimed at easing the nation's foreclosure crisis may be well-intentioned, but fails to give proper considerati ...
• Afghanistan Experts at USF Symposium Agree on One ...
  by Susan Taylor Martin TAMPA - Almost nine years into the war in Afghanistan, there's still no guarantee of success or even much agreement on how to achieve it. That was the often gloomy take of experts meeting Wednesday at the start of a three-day symposium on Afghanistan and Pakistan at the Univer ...
• Top U.S. General in Afghanistan Gives Order: Close ...
  by Dion Nissenbaum KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — By American standards, the boardwalk at Kandahar Airfield isn't much to write home about. There's no roller coaster, mirror maze or carousel with unicorns. There's no cotton candy to buy, no candied apples, and no anno ...
• School Lunch Boosts Mean Painful Cuts
  by Carolyn Lochhead Washington - Senate lawmakers moved Wednesday to make school lunches more healthful by cutting farm conservation programs, while leaving intact the crop subsidies that many experts say contribute to the high fat and starchy diets behind the obesity epidemic. A costly remake of th ...

Lifehacker

• From the Tips Box: Demoted Comments, French Press ...
  Readers offer their best tips for viewing demoted Gawker comments in black instead of grey, making French press coffee without the mess, and centering your Windows 7 taskbar, dock-style.. More��
• This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights]
  This week we helped you decide between Firefox and Chrome, highlighted some of the best tools available for controlling your computer while you're away from it, and rounded up the best tools for backing up your computer offline. More�� ...
• Best Online File Sharing Service? [Hive Five Call ...
  Not everyone has the bandwidth or desire to run their own server, and sharing files over email presents all sorts of problems. Online file sharing services make it easy to upload files to share with friends, access remotely, or store for later ...
• Remains of the Day: Chrome's the Only Unhacked Bro ...
  Chrome's the only browser left standing so far in this year's Pwn2Own browser-hacking competition, the discs that'll let you stream Netflix to your Wii are in the mail, and HTML5 still doesn't match up to Flash when it comes to browser-based a ...
• The Focused Email Flowchart Helps You Power Throug ...
  Can't seem to get a handle on your email inbox no matter how hard you try? This simple flow chart offers a set of rules designed to help you power through your inbox in no time. More��

Newshoggers - AfPak

• NATO Tries to Silence a Truth-Teller in Afghanista ...
  By Derrick Crowe Q: Why would U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan go out of their way to smear a journalist? A: Because he told the truth about a night raid that killed Afghan civilians, including pregnant women. Last week, I spoke with Afghanistan-based journalist Jerome Starkey about his reporti ...
• 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 ...

Water Wars

• Way too watery (The Telegraph)
  He may have toned down over the years, the stone throw might have been replaced by a soft knock, the war cry traded for a sarcastic chuckle — but there’s no denying the fact that a Shyam Benegal release is as much an event for us as a Martin Scorsese or Clint Eastwood film in Hollywood.
• Africa : Screening of Film At Sundance Spotlights ...
  The first Kenyan sci-fi film PUMZI screened at the Sundance film festival from 22 to 30 January. The film was part of the New Africa Cinema Program funded by Focus Features' Africa First short film program.
• Regional Happenings: Egg hunt, film festival, fidd ...
  Here's a look at local and regional happenings.
• Water worries lead group to discuss tri-state war ...
  The skirmishes of the tri-state water war have been a force in Georgia politics for years, and today, students will begin work on the peace process. “Essentially, the states are arguing over Atlanta taking an increase of water from Lake Lanier, which affects the flow downstream to users in Florida a ...
• Stakeholders meet down by their river (The Apalach ...
  A newly-formed group of stakeholders in the use of water from the Apalachicola, Chattahoochee and Flint rivers got a chance late last month to see what life’s like where those rivers meet the sea. Apalachicola’s Cotton Exchange played host to a...

WordPress | Economics

• Obama Crushing Economy; Debt will be 90% of GDP
  Mr Obama and Congress sure have a lot to be happy – since they believe in socialism.  A new re
• Texas Pulls Ahead of California
  A video commentary by AFP’s Peter Foy:
• Losing touch with the ability to resonate with wha ...
  I rarely post things written by other people, but the following item by P C Roberts appears to have
• Greece Debt Crisis To Trigger Financial Tsunami Ac ...
  I think the sovereign debt crisis still has at least a year to play out. The Illuminati want to buil
• Judge Napolitano: ObamaCare, Fascism And The Comin ...
  Part   5

Electronic Intifada

• Restaurant attacked for barring armed Israeli sold ...
  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 unifo ...
• Lebanese army encircling Baddawi refugee camp
  The relationship between the Lebanese government and the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon is changing. The process of redefining the old relationship began explosively with the ...
• Visions of Palestine's present and future in "Invi ...
  The recent Hollywood films Invictus and Avatar inspire reflection on the past, present and future hopes of the Palestinian nation. The response to these movies among audiences arou ...
• Rights groups dispute Israel's story in Hebron kil ...
  RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) - In early February, 41-year-old Fayez Ahmed Faraj, a father of nine from the city of Hebron, 30 miles south of Jerusalem, in the southern West B ...
• Israel's inclusion in economic organization a thre ...
  Membership in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which includes 30 of the world's most developed countries, does not provide money or any special eco ...

Afghanistan Sun

• UN envoy speaks to Afghan rebels
  A UN envoy, Staffan de Mistura, has met with a representatives of Afghan warlord Gulbudin Hekmatyar's Hizb-e-Islami party.
• Beijing, Kabul Plan Closer Partnership As Karzai E ...
  BEIJING (NNI): Afghan President Hamid Karzai has concluded a three-day state visit to China during which deals on aid, tax reduction and training were inked to cement bilateral comprehensive cooperati...
• Ieds Take Toll On Civilians
  KABUL (NNI): Hidden on roadsides, behind boulders or on cultivated land, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are killing or maiming dozens of civilians every month, according to rights groups and gove...
• Pentagon Revamps Afghanistan Deployments
  WASHINGTON (Agencies): The Pentagon is revamping the way it deploys troops to Afghanistan, putting in place a new system that will return units to the same parts of the country so they can develop bet...
• Peoples Support Sought For Kandahar Offensive
  KANDAHAR CITY (NNI): Top security officials say they will consult residents and seek their support for an imminent military offensive, codenamed as Umeed (Hope), in southern Kandahar province. The re...

Futurismic

• It’s a man’s life in the global pseudocorporate cy ...
  PC Pro has an interesting insight into the daily goings-on at a defunct scareware corporation from Ukraine [via SlashDot], which – if it’s to be taken at face value – demonstrates how similar such blackhat operations are to many (arguably more legitimate) organisations, at least as far as flim-flamm ...
• A dialogue with a book pirate
  Nancy Kress was tipped off about a website offering unlicensed ebook versions of her novels, and decided to get in touch with the person in charge. It’s an interesting insight into the mindset of the ideologically-motivated (but nonetheless confused) content pirate: … permit me to point out a fundam ...
• Destroying malaria… with frickin’ LASERS
  Malaria remains one of the great unsolved health problems of the developing world, with the disease stubbornly resisting all attempts at eradication. So why not focus on the vector instead: the blood-hungry mosquitoes that spread malaria around? And why not use an idea straight from the science fict ...
• Black Cloud Computing: botnets dwarf legitimate cl ...
  Via SlashDot, another reminder of the sheer scale and clout of botnets, all just sitting out there waiting to be rented, no questions asked: … the biggest legitimate cloud provider is Google, based on Joffe’s information, made up of 500,000 systems, 1 million CPUs and 1,500 gigabits per second (Gbps ...
• Blue genes: poetry encoded in DNA
  Via Lauren Beukes comes the news that Canadian poet Christian Bök has thought of a way to transcend Keats’ epitaph of being “one whose name was writ on water”; he seeks a poetic immortality that could outlive the human species itself, by the expedient of encoding some of his work into the DNA of a ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

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

• Stephen M. Kohn breaks down S. 372 on Boiling Frog ...
  Last week, Stephen M. Kohn was invited by Sibel Edmonds’ Boiling Frogs Post to debate Norman L. Eisen, Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform on the controversial “Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act” (S. 372). In Mr. Eisen’s absence (he declined the invitation to par ...
• Fred Whitehurst converses on his legacy at the FBI ...
  Fred Whitehurst is the whistleblower who revealed that the crime lab at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) failed to live up to its reputation for scientific integrity, and sometimes even resorted to falsifying results. Today Jeff Stein of the Washington Post's Spy Talk blog calls Whitehurst ...
• RCG dialysis company pilfered $19.4 million
  A federal judge in Tennessee has found that a dialysis company bilked the federal government out of $19.4 million. U.S. District Judge William J. Haynes Jr. issued the order against Renal Care Group, Renal Care Group Supply Co. and Fresenius Medical Care Holdings Inc. The order concluded that the co ...
• Whistleblower complaint prompts DaimlerChrysler to ...
  The Detroit Free Press is reporting that DaimlerChrysler and U.S. government attorneys have reached an agreement in which the company will pay $185 million to settle charges that it paid bribes to foreign officials to obtain at least $50 million in business profits. Company auditor David Bazzetta ob ...
• Maryland Senate passes watered-down state False He ...
  The Maryland Senate yesterday passed a state version of the False Claims Act (FCA) by a vote of 37 in favor and 8 against. Before passing this bill, however, the Senate watered it down with an amendment. The Maryland False Health Claims Act of 2010, SB 279 , as amended, no longer allows the state (o ...

Science Express

• Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratospheric ...
  The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the glo ...
• After growth spurt, supermassive black holes spend ...
  Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
• Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
  A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20th c ...
• 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.

TechDirt

• Hollywood Seeks To Kill Off 3D Golden Goose With M ...
  Ah, Hollywood. While the movie business has been doing quite well at the box office lately, many in the industry still haven't quite realized why . Obviously the rise of 3D flicks has given people a reason to actually leave the home and go to the theater -- in part because the experience is much b ...
• EA's Own Employees Annoyed At Pointless DRM Soluti ...
  We were among those who were disappointed that EA -- a company that has tried to suggest it had learned that DRM was bad -- decided to move forward with a required internet connection on Command & Conquer 4 , even after many people had complained last summer, when such plans were leaked. Howeve ...
• Mardis Gras Indians Claim Copyright Protection Ove ...
  A bunch of folks have sent over the recent NY Times article about the "Mardis Gras Indians" -- a group of folks in New Orleans who create elaborate costumes that they wear to a few events each year (with Mardis Gras being a big one, obviously). With the costumes being so elaborate, they're often ph ...
• Is A Moron In A Hurry Confused Between Plastic Bui ...
  Tom Kintop was the first of a few of you to send in the news that LEGO, makers of the plastic bricks -- and rather well known for its overly aggressive intellectual property enforcement attempts, which often get shot down -- has sued a small non-profit organization in Minneapolis called Project Leg ...
• Fixing Class Action Lawsuits
  For a long time, we've noted that while class action lawsuits do serve a useful purpose, it seems like all too often they're abused. Quite frequently, we see the only "class" that really benefits from such lawsuits are the lawyers who file the lawsuit, who end up taking the bulk of any "settlement. ...

VacTruth

• GSK Push Tastless Propaganda Ad for Cervical Cance ...
• Rotarix vaccine banned by UAE
  . . . Kamilah Qasimi TopNews Arab Emirates 03/25/2010 On Wednesday, Dr Amin Al-Amiri, CEO for Medical Practice and Licensing at the Ministry announced the UAE Ministry of Health has taken the decision to suspend utilization of GlaxoSmithKline’s Rotarix vaccine for some time. The vaccine was found t ...
• Revenues from global vaccine market register UD$27 ...
  Global Vaccine Market Forecast to 2012 03/25/2010 Vaccine has emerged as one of the most profitable business segments in the healthcare industry. The segment registered revenues of around US$ 27 Billion in 2009. The growth has been driven by the emergence of some new chronic diseases and increasing ...
• Motsoaledi warns MPs about vaccination rumours
  TAMAR KAHN Business Day 03/25/2010 Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi yesterday appealed to MPs to support the government’s vaccination campaigns, warning them not to stir up anxiety by propagating unsubstantiated claims of dangers associated with the shots. The department will run a national measles ...
• Researchers Turn Mosquitoes Into Flying Vaccinator ...
  . . . Martin Enserink Science Now March 18th, 2010 Here’s a study to file under “unworkable but very cool.” A group of Japanese researchers has developed a mosquito that spreads vaccine instead of disease. Even the researchers admit, however, that regulatory and ethical problems will prevent the cr ...

BroadSnark

• Why the Legal System Does Not Work For You
  On Monday I wrote about how car contracts work and how people end up getting screwed.  The logical question, and the one that started this all, is why doesn’t the legal system work for you?  And the answer is…it isn’t meant to. Who writes the laws?  Legislators.  Who are the legislators?  They ...
• Watts Towers Closing Down
  I don’t usually post on Thursdays, but I just heard that they are closing the Watts Towers (and a bunch of other art centers in L.A.) and it really bums me out. You’ve may have heard of the Watts riots or seen Menace to Society.  But even if you live in L.A., you probably haven’t actually [...]
• Things You Might Have Missed
  I spent my lunch hour (o.k., several hours) over at CATO watching a premier of 10 Rules For Dealing with Police.  Very useful info.  Usually, CATO puts up podcasts of their events.  Nothing up there yet, but I’ll give you the link here, in case they put it up. Another video I would highly recomme ...
• Car Contracts 101
  A recent post over on Aretae got me thinking about the law.  Considering that I worked in it for ten years, it’s a bit odd that I don’t spend more time on it.  So let me dive in with a little 101 on my experiences with contract law. For about four and a half years, I [...]
• 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 ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• The Only Thing Obama Fears Is Lyndon LaRouche
  By Debra Freeman Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 26, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 12
• LaRouche to Private Washington Seminar: Sovereign ...
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 26, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 12
• LaRouche Webcast: The Ides of March 2010
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 26, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 12
• London's `Our Men' in Moscow Keep Poisoning Russia ...
  By Rachel Douglas Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 26, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 12
• Russia: What Comes Next?
  Editorial, by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 26, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 12

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

• Leaked CIA Report: "Public Apathy Enables Leaders ...
• Reading List
  There are several books which I can’t wait to read, written by people I greatly respect. But I’ve been too busy to read them yet. Here’s my reading list (in alphabetical order): 13 Bankers, by Simon Johnson and James Kwak Bailout Nation, by Barry Ritholtz EConned, by Yves Smith The New Empi ...
• GORDON DUFF: RESURRECTING THE GHOST OF ERNIE PYLE
  FROM WAR CORRESPONDENTS TO EMBEDDED REPORTERS TO PAID PUNDITS TO RODEO CLOWNS WARTIME JOURNALISM ENTERS AN ABYSS By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor The best known and most famous war correspondent in US history is Ernie Pyle.  Killed in combat on Okinawa in 1945, Pyle personified the perfect ...
• A PREDATORY IDEOLOGY IN DENIAL
• U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contra ...
  No. 236-10 ——————————————- CONTRACTS: ARMY                   AM General, LLC, South Bend, Ind., was awarded on March 22 a $317,961,404 firm-fixed-price contract to add 2,122 high mobility multi-purpose wheeled vehicles to contract.  Work is to be performed in Mishawaka, Ind., with a ...

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

• The Week in Pictures: Poacher Devoured by Lions, G ...
  From the news that a poacher, with the intent of illegally hunting animals, was found dead in Kruger National Park, South Africa, to the invincible McDonald's Happy Meals that fail to decompose after one year, a lot happened this week in green. Ford announced they are saving an estimated $1.2 mi ...
• Gorgeous Radiators From Jaga Save Energy And CO2
  Very few houses have hydronic (hot water radiator) heating in North America; most have forced air systems with ductwork that does double duty as heating and air conditioning, supplying air to the wrong place at least half of the year. Almost everyone in Europe and those of us in older houses hav ...
• PETA and Octomom, Together At Last!
  Image by graymalkn via Flickr The woman currently known as Octomom has agreed to place a PETA sign on her lawn urging passersby to spay or neuter their pets to ensure they don't become octomoms themselves. That's right, she's agreed to advertise the fact that even animals that have evolved to ...
• Do You Need an Eco-Sex Guide?
  Over at Planet Green we've covered the basics for greening the more erotic parts of your life, with biodegradable condoms, recyclable dildos and a more environmentally sensitive approach to love making. If you want more, there's a new handbook called Eco-Sex coming out at the end of this month f ...
• Guerrilla Knitters Invade the Streets of London
  All images from Knit the City We have heard of guerrilla gardeners , planting gardens in public spaces under the cover of night. Now we have guerrilla knitters and bring them on. They are a clandestine group of "woolly warriors" who decorate London landmarks with their knitted goods. They ...

Biosingularity

• Antioxidants aren’t always good for you and ...
  Antioxidants increasingly have been praised for their benefits against disease and aging, but recent studies at Kansas State University show that they also can cause harm. Researchers in K-State’s Cardiorespiratory Exercise Laboratory have been studying how to improve oxygen delivery to the skeletal ...
• To restore vision, implant preps and seeds a damag ...
  Researchers trying to restore vision damaged by disease have found promise in a tiny implant that sows seeds of new cells in the eye. The diseases macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa lay waste to photoreceptors, the cells in the retina that turn light into electrical signals carried to the ...
• Gene function discovery: Guilt by association
  Scientists have created a new computational model that can be used to predict gene function of uncharacterized plant genes with unprecedented speed and accuracy. The network, dubbed AraNet, has over 19,600 genes associated to each other by over 1 million links and can increase the discovery rate of ...
• Craig Venter talks about creating synthetic life
• What you eat after exercise matters
  Many of the health benefits of aerobic exercise are due to the most recent exercise session (rather than weeks, months and even years of exercise training), and the nature of these benefits can be greatly affected by the food we eat afterwards, according to a study published in the Journal of Applie ...

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

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

Ria Novosti Online News

• Smoke in Moscow subway forces evacuation of 600 pa ...
  Several hundred people were safely evacuated early on Saturday from a subway train in eastern Moscow after smoke appeared in the tunnel, a spokesman for the Russian capital's emergency service said.
• Rescue operation on sunken S.Korean naval ship con ...
  South Korea is continuing the rescue operation on its naval ship that sunk in the Yellow Sea near the border with North Korea late on Friday, with 46 sailors still missing, the Yonhap news agency reported Saturday.
• Philip Crowley praises new Russia-U.S. arms reduct ...
  A U.S. State Department spokesman has praised the new arms reduction treaty Russia and the United States are to sign in April
• Mexico simplifies visa issuance to Russians to boo ...
  Mexican President Felipe Calderon announced on Friday new measures to simplify visa issuance for Russian nationals in an urge to give a boost to the country's tourism industry.
• Mexico simplifies visa issuance for Russians to bo ...
  Mexican President Felipe Calderon announced on Friday new measures to simplify visa issuance for Russian nationals in an urge to give a boost to the country's tourism industry.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• NASA sets shuttle Discovery launch for April 5
  NASA has given the final go-ahead for the launch of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery to the International Space Station (ISS) scheduled for April 5, NASA said on its website on Saturday.
• Russia to boost share in global space market
  Russia wants to increase its share in the global space market by building a new space center, the head of Russia's Energia space corporation said on Friday.
• Russian Volga region moves to produce flying sauce ...
  The government of the Ulianovsk Region in the Volga area has approved a five-year program to produce so-called "flying saucers" - a bizarre hybrid of a helicopter and an aerostat.
• Putin allocates $37 million to build supercomputer ...
  Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has allocated 1.1 billion rubles ($37 million) to develop supercomputer technologies in Russia.
• CERN sets date for first 7 TeV particle smashes in ...
  The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will for the first time collide particles at an energy of 7 tera-electron volts (TeV), or 3.5 TeV per beam, on March 30, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) said on its website.

Pruning Shears

• Political Rehabilitation and Financial Reform
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Republicans may be at their lowest point since 1964. Sure, they got walloped in 2006 and again in 2008, but afterwards seemed to project an attitude of “beaten but unbowed.” Now though, there is an air of capitulation about them, w ...
• 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 ...

Natural Health News

• How to Prevent Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Natur ...
  Studies have found that vitamin D plays an important role in mediating immune function via a number of pathways, including enhancing the release of antimicrobial peptides in your skin. � New research now shows that low serum vitamin D levels increase the risk of nasal carriage of methicillin-re ...
• High Fructose Corn Syrup Linked to Liver Scarring
  High fructose corn syrup, which some studies have linked to obesity, may also be harmful to your liver, according to research. Increased consumption of high fructose corn syrup was associated with scarring in the liver, or fibrosis, among patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).  A ...
• Should You Eat Many Small Meals Each Day?
  The notion behind eating smaller, more frequent meals is simple -- the notion is that spreading out your daily calories over six meals stimulates your metabolism, keeping it going at a faster pace and thereby burning more calories. Some studies have found modest health benefits to eating smaller m ...
• Spice Up Your Health
  A new study finds that the sauces you use to marinade your meat may provide unforeseen health benefits -- especially if you never fire up the barbecue. Common marinades may be more than just tasty sauces -- they can also provide a major source of natural antioxidants. Foods rich in antioxidants pla ...
• Caesarean Births Hit Record High in 2007
  Nearly 1.4 million babies born in the United States in 2007 were delivered by Caesarean section, a record U.S. high and a larger number than in most other industrialized nations. In 2007, nearly one-third of all births were Caesarean deliveries, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention s ...

Antemedius

• Lies, Damn Lies, and the Media
  By David Swanson ACORN is shutting down because of a fraudulent video pimped by the corporate media. U.S. forces in Afghanistan have heroically laid seige to and conquered a fictional city, helping build the case for further escalation. A cable news channel has created a right-wing mass movement b ...
• 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 ...
• Espresso Party USA
  ESPRESSO PARTY MISSION STATEMENT: The Espresso Party Movement gives voice to Americans who are fed up to fcuking here with the bullsh*t in government. We recognize that the federal government is the enemy of the people, not the expression of our collective will, and that we must all participa ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...

Son of Alex Constantine's Blacklist

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• If Harold Koh Says It, It Must Be True: The U.S. I ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The full text of U.S. State Department Legal Adviser Harold Koh’s speech at ASIL can be found here.  Ken has already praised it, Kevin (along with Marko Milanovic) have rejected it, and others are staying neutral or reserving judgment. Here is what I took away from the ...
• When Bad Things Happen to Good Scholars (Koh and t ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller I've long thought that any scholar who wants to maintain his or her credibility should stay far away from the US government, no matter which party is in power.  Harold Koh is a case in point.  Others have highlighted his problematic testimony about targeted killing, wh ...
• UK: Send Burma to the ICC
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Every time that I teach international criminal law, at least one student writes on whether you could prosecute the Burmese junta for crimes against humanity.  As a matter of substantive ICL, the answer is clearly yes.  The problem is jurisdictional — who ...
• Bleg for Harold Koh’s ASIL Speech
  by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson I couldn’t cancel classes tonight after so many snow days, so I unfortunately had to miss the Legal Adviser’s keynote at ASIL - I’m doing this from a mobile, but after rumors that the speech would address drone warfare and targeted killing at least in part, ...
• The Obama Mambo
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I love Glenn Greenwald.  He catches Obama in a remarkable — and shameless — act of hypocrisy.  Obama on why America can’t investigate the systematic human-rights abuses that were ordered at the highest levels of its government: I’m a strong believer that ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• So much for acid ocean theory
  This news just in: In discussing their findings, the seven scientists say they indicate that "the survival of coral larvae may not be strongly affected by pH change," or "in other words," as they continue, "coral larvae may be able...
• And the award for irony goes to...
  I found this post from No Right Turn both informative, but also hilarious. His 'friend' is clearly an idiot but not a savant for financially supporting Greenpeace - a bad habit I myself grew out of in the 90s, but...
• London Science Museum backs down on climate change
  This from the Times: The Science Museum is revising the contents of its new climate science gallery to reflect the wave of scepticism that has engulfed the issue in recent months. The decision by the 100-year-old London museum reveals how...
• GUEST POST: End Phase of the Climate Wars?
  BY BARRY BRILL History may see the interview of CRU's Professor Phil Jones by the BBC's Roger Harrabin on 12 February 2010 as the opening of the end-phase of the long-running "alarmists versus sceptics" debate. The gap between these two...
• How to fake a warmer Arctic
  Regular readers will be well aware of my strong criticisms of the way climate scientists handle surface temperature measurements. Now, Accuweather's Joe Bastardi has set out in simple terms why the current practice of divvying up the world into 1200...

Public News Service

• Low Profile, High Impact AZ Arts Group Celebrates
  Low Profile, High Impact AZ Arts Group Celebrates Phoenix, AZ – Actors Theatre of Phoenix begins its 25th season this fall. The company gets little publicity, but enjoys a reputation for staging quality plays that generate thoughtful discussion about the hot issues of the day. Comments from Matthew ...
• National Broadband Plan Aims to Send Dial-Up the W ...
  National Broadband Plan Aims to Send Dial-Up the Way of Dinosaurs Washington, D.C. – The FCC released its much-anticipated National Broadband Plan last week. The plan aims to connect all Americans to high-speed Internet, and that aim is being praised by some as a victory in itself. Comments from Ama ...
• Health Article Blames "Cheap Food" For Overweight ...
  Health Article Blames "Cheap Food" For Overweight AZ Kids Phoenix, AZ – Cheap food policies could play a major role in Arizona childhood obesity, according to a new article in Health Affairs Journal. The article states that the decades-old “cheap food” policy has helped create a broken U.S. food sys ...
• Study: Kids Access to Dental Care Lags in AZ
  Study: Kids Access to Dental Care Lags in AZ Phoenix, AZ — Arizona gets a “C” on its dental policies for kids, according to a new national study. A pediatric dentist says too many kids, especially those from low-income families, aren't getting the preventive care they need. Comments from Dr. Jessica ...
• Study: Women's Stroke Risk is Almost Triple Men's
  Study: Women's Stroke Risk is Almost Triple Men's Phoenix, AZ - For a few years now, medical research has pointed to women's increased risk of stroke as they age. A new study of 2200 adults ages 35-64 (from University of Southern California) has quantified it: women are 2.9 times more likely to have ...

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: Tell President Obama To Keep Dangero ...
  In 2002 the Bush administration created a loophole to the Clean Water Act that allows mining companies to dump untreated mining wastes in America's lakes and streams. From mountaintop removal coal mines in Appalachia to gold mines in Alaska, untreated Submitted by Simone D. to Environment �|� �Note ...
• Canada's Role in Haiti's 2004 Coup-Top 10 Ways Can ...
  Things went from bad to worse after Canada's Liberal government helped plan and carry out the 2004 regime change that illegally ousted President Aristide's democratically-elected government. Canada then helped empower and entrench an illegal coup-install Submitted by Cheryl Benson to World �|� �No ...
• Punditry at TPM Cafe - Iran,Israel & Nukes
  There are other related stories here. I was having fun as Opit and thought you should get a chance to experience the fray. Note the 'trolls' out to lie and deceive without being challenged. Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

• US healthcare expansion means big business for Ind ...
  hindustantimes.com: While the contentious political battle over the new healthcare law continues in the United States, here in India, the outsourcing industry is seeing it as a boon for business and... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Maori land claim taken to UN: Opinion – Annette Sy ...
  Maori land claim taken to UN: Opinion – Annette Sykes | TangataWhenua.com: "This move however is not unexpected and is welcomed by many of us who are engaged in this process and are feeling as if we... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Is being anti-Zionist a crime in Israel? � Antony ...
  Is being anti-Zionist a crime in Israel? � Antony Loewenstein: "Following the recent arrest in the West Bank of an Australian activist, Israeli blogger Noam Sheizaf comments on the ominous, largely... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Guatemala must suspend mining operations on Mayan ...
   Intercontinental Cry: Several Mayan communities and organizations have presented a Constitutional Petition to the government of Guatemala, calling for the immediate suspension of all mining... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Taki’s Magazine, edited by Taki Theodoracopulos
  Taki’s Magazine, edited by Taki Theodoracopulos: "BBC correspondent John Simpson reported on March 4 that the number of defects in newborn babies in the Iraqi town of Fallujah had risen dramatically... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• What in the World Are They Spraying? Part II
  At the same time as finding decreased solar power, Wigington also began to witness dramatic changes on his property as the trees, grass, insects and wildlife started dying. This led him to get his first rain test just four years ago. The results were shocking as they found aluminum levels at 7 ug/l ...
• 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.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• OpEd: The China Problem (kyle-brady.com)
  Noted by Kyle Brady on March 27, 2010 1:03 AM
• Increased pitching distance will impact softball t ...
  Noted by Bob Cook on March 27, 2010 1:03 AM
• Sandlot Day - Baseball Without Adult Interference ...
  Noted by Bob Cook on March 27, 2010 1:03 AM
• Ignatieff backs Quebec veil ban (The Globe and Mai ...
  Noted by Colin Horgan on March 26, 2010 6:03 PM
• Detainee secrecy threatens Tory agenda (thestar.co ...
  Noted by Colin Horgan on March 26, 2010 6:03 PM

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• KBR Bills $5 Million For Mechanics Who Work 43 Min ...
  By Adam Weinstein The Department of Defense agreed to pay the megacontractor KBR $5 million a year to repair tactical vehicles, from Humvees to big rigs, at Joint Base Balad, a large airfield and supply center north of Baghdad. Yet according to a new Pentagon report , what the military got was ...
• GOP: We'll Kill the Liars Who Say We Are Inciting ...
  'Where does it say in the Constitution that you can't use the 'n-word?' Satire by R J Shulman Republican leaders are vehemently denying their tactics and rhetoric have been responsible for the major recent increase in political violence... "The liberal press has it all wrong when they accuse me ...
• FBI: NY congressman gets 'threatening' letter with ...
  The office of Representative Anthony Weiner received a letter that "could be interpreted as threatening," the FBI said on Thursday, and local media reported the letter contained an unidentified white powder. Authorities were responding to the office of the Democratic Congressman in the New York ...
• Death threats plague Democrats who supported Barac ...
  Democrats who supported sweeping changes to America's health care system have been subjected to death threats and vandalism as the tide of anger and outrage over the bill grows . The FBI has been called in to investigate after bricks were thrown through Democrats' windows and menacing phone mess ...
• Georgia Attorney General Faces Impeachment Threat ...
  Georgia lawmakers reacted to Wednesday's news that their Attorney General, Democrat Thurbert Baker, would not sign on to a multi-state lawsuit to block the health care bill in his state by filing papers to have him impeached. The blog Peach Pundit reports that the resolution to impeach Baker , ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• So much for acid ocean theory
  This news just in: In discussing their findings, the seven scientists say they indicate that "the survival of coral larvae may not be strongly affected by pH change," or "in other words," as they continue, "coral larvae may be able...
• And the award for irony goes to...
  I found this post from No Right Turn both informative, but also hilarious. His 'friend' is clearly an idiot but not a savant for financially supporting Greenpeace - a bad habit I myself grew out of in the 90s, but...
• London Science Museum backs down on climate change
  This from the Times: The Science Museum is revising the contents of its new climate science gallery to reflect the wave of scepticism that has engulfed the issue in recent months. The decision by the 100-year-old London museum reveals how...
• GUEST POST: End Phase of the Climate Wars?
  By Barry Brill History may see the interview of CRU’s Professor Phil Jones by the BBC’s Roger Harrabin on 12 February 2010 as the opening of the end-phase of the long-running “alarmists versus sceptics” debate. The gap between these two schools has never yawned as widely as media reports often su ...
• How to fake a warmer Arctic
  Regular readers will be well aware of my strong criticisms of the way climate scientists handle surface temperature measurements. Now, Accuweather's Joe Bastardi has set out in simple terms why the current practice of divvying up the world into 1200...

Mondoweiss

• When it comes to E Jerusalem, ‘NPR’ mi ...
  It’s been almost two weeks since I wrote to National Public Radio’s senior Washington editor, Ron Elving, and to the network’s ombudsman, Alicia Shepard, to ask why Elving used an Israeli formulation – "disputed" area – to characterize East Jerusalem, instead of calling it "occupied," the term used ...
• Netanyahu ‘humilated,’ but the ’ ...
  It’s satisfying to read reports like this one from the UK-based Times that show the Obama administration “humiliated” Benjamin Netanyahu when he came to the White House this past week. But other events that also transpired this week show that the “special relationship” between the United States and ...
• Int’l Relations 101: Harvard’s David G ...
  As an addendum to Henry Norr’s post about NPR above, I’d register the fact that tonight I heard Tom Ashbrook’s show On Point, in which David Gergen of the Kennedy School, Jack Beatty of the Atlantic, and a fellow from the Dallas Morning-News called Bill McKenzie discussed the Netanyahu contretemps. ...
• When will the Democratic Party break?
  An important recent poll by John Zogby on American opinion and I/P was rolled out yesterday at the New America Foundation. The striking finding was the partisan divide. Democrats have negative views of Netanyahu and the settlements, and are increasingly lukewarm on Israel. 63 percent of Dems agre ...
• This is creepy
  The Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces, which raised $20 million, tax deductible, at a recent NY fundraiser, just sent out a note to friends, and in one of the little sidebars, at the bottom on the right, you will see a headline with a (to my ear anyway) Nazi echo, "The Triumph of Will [...] Re ...

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

• More Tips My Wife Hates
  People seemed to get a kick out of my post about tips that my wife hates so I thought I'd keep it. I should let you know though that she doesn't hate all these things. �She seems to range from strong dislike to tolerance with a dash of "my husband is odd". �I should create a "Spousal Colour ...
• 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!!!

Michael Yon

• The Scent of Weakness
  Kandahar Province, Afghanistan 25 March 2010 Dogs have been trained to carry bombs to attack enemies for decades.  The Soviets and others have used dogs as low-tech smart bombs.  Yet canine platoons likely would rebel if they caught scent they were being duped to die. Today, more sophisticated p ...
• Jungle Law
  Mosul, Iraq The first person to use a shield might have been a hairy man who, days earlier, barely survived a barrage from the stone-throwing man in the cave next door. As the use of weaponized sticks and stones spread, improved shields probably were not far behind. Throughout recorded history, b ...
• Gates of Fire
  Mosul, Iraq Combat comes unexpectedly, even in war. On Monday, while conducting operations in west Mosul, a voice came over the radio saying troops from our brother unit, the 3-21, were fighting with the enemy in east Mosul on the opposite side of the Tigris River. Moments later, SSG Will Shockley ...
• Be Not Afraid
    Be Not Afraid You shall cross the barren desert, but you shall not die of thirst. You shall wander far in safety though you do not know the way. You shall speak your words in foreign lands and all will understand. You shall see the face of God and live. Be not afraid. I go before you always; ...
• Warthog
  Kandahar, Afghanistan 23 March 2010 The mission required crossing a bridge that had been blown up a couple hours earlier by a suicide car bomber.  The attacker hit a convoy from the 82nd Airborne, killing American soldier Ian Gelig.  Now with a hole in the bridge and recovery operations underway, ...

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

• The Week in Pictures: Poacher Devoured by Lions, G ...
  From the news that a poacher, with the intent of illegally hunting animals, was found dead in Kruger National Park, South Africa, to the invincible McDonald's Happy Meals that fail to decompose after one year, a lot happened this week in green. Ford announced they are saving an estimated $1.2 mi ...
• Gorgeous Radiators From Jaga Save Energy And CO2
  Very few houses have hydronic (hot water radiator) heating in North America; most have forced air systems with ductwork that does double duty as heating and air conditioning, supplying air to the wrong place at least half of the year. Almost everyone in Europe and those of us in older houses hav ...
• PETA and Octomom, Together At Last!
  Image by graymalkn via Flickr The woman currently known as Octomom has agreed to place a PETA sign on her lawn urging passersby to spay or neuter their pets to ensure they don't become octomoms themselves. That's right, she's agreed to advertise the fact that even animals that have evolved to ...
• Do You Need an Eco-Sex Guide?
  Over at Planet Green we've covered the basics for greening the more erotic parts of your life, with biodegradable condoms, recyclable dildos and a more environmentally sensitive approach to love making. If you want more, there's a new handbook called Eco-Sex coming out at the end of this month f ...
• Guerrilla Knitters Invade the Streets of London
  All images from Knit the City We have heard of guerrilla gardeners , planting gardens in public spaces under the cover of night. Now we have guerrilla knitters and bring them on. They are a clandestine group of "woolly warriors" who decorate London landmarks with their knitted goods. They ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Human Rights Watch call on the G8 to discuss Burma
  Ahead of a planning meeting before the June summit of the G8 group of industrialised countries New York based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged ministers to include Burma on the agenda.
• ‘Frankenstein’s’ state?
  One spectre threatens to over shadow the junta's experiment with 'democracy' and in turn the country; a spectre that threatens to dominate the nation and define power within for years to come.
• India looks east, prepares to arm junta navy
  As western governments gathered to condemn the junta’s election at the UN, India undeterred welcomes Lt Gen Thar Aye to the eastern city of Kolkatta with talks of naval deals.
• Junta urged to free political prisoners
  Burmese military rulers must free all political prisoners, including Aung San Suu Kyi, and ensure that upcoming polls are inclusive and transparent, a group of UN member states said Thursday.
• Malaysia criticised for migrant treatment
  The international human rights group, Amnesty International has released a damning report on Malaysia's treatment of migrant workers in the country with workers apprently exploited and lured into jobs with false promises.

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Government accused over taking credit after greenh ...
  The Government has been accused of using the economic downturn to gain green plaudits after new figures showed the recession has led to record cuts in greenhouse gases.
• Record fall in UK greenhouse gases
  The Government has been accused of using the economic downturn to gain green plaudits yesterday after new figures showed the recession has led to record cuts in greenhouse gases.
• Home owners at risk of coastal erosion should be c ...
  Homes at risk of coastal erosion should be given compensation, according a new report by MPs that calls on the Government to double spending on flood protection to £1 billion every year.
• Disputed Bay of Bengal island disappears into sea
  An island that has been at the centre of a dispute between India and Bangladesh for three decades has disappeared beneath rising seas
• Green investment bank boosts wind power
  A new green investment bank has been set up by the Government to encourage investment in wind farms and solar panels.

National Geographic | Environment

• Texas Pioneers Energy Storage in Giant Battery
  Uniquely prone to electrical outages, Presidio, Texas, deploys a first-of-its-kind solution.
• Global Warming Making People More Aggressive?
  Forget anger over leaked emails: Murders and assaults could jump by a hundred thousand cases a year in a warmer world, a new study says.
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• Gorillas Extinct in Ten Years in Central Africa?
  Gorillas may soon go extinct across much of central Africa, due in part to Chinese timber demand, the ape-meat trade, and mining, a new study says.
• Polar Algae Forests Explored
  In cold Antarctic waters, explorers comb lush seaweed forests filled with rarely seen creatures to find potential new cancer treatments. Video.

Jurist - Legal Research

• Federal judge hands down 20-year sentence in large ...
  [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts [official website] on Thursday sentenced [DOJ press release] a computer hacker to 20 years in prison for his role in the one of the largest identity theft cases in US history. Judge Patti Saris also ordered Albert Gonzalez ...
• Rwanda opposition politician pleads guilty to geno ...
  [JURIST] A Rwandan opposition politician pleaded guilty Thursday to charges connected to the 1994 genocide [HRW backgrounder] and was sentenced to 17 years in prison. Joseph Ntawangundi, an aid to Hutu opposition leader Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, was convicted in absentia [New Times report] in 2007, ...
• Holder plans to appeal order releasing 9/11 suspec ...
  [JURIST] US Attorney General Eric Holder [official profile] said Thursday that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) would appeal a judge's order to release a Guantanamo Bay detainee suspected of involvement in the 9/11 [JURIST news archive] World Trade Center attacks. In a decision released Monday, US ...
• Zimbabwe leaders deny new constitution permits hom ...
  [JURIST] Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] and President Robert Mugabe [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] agreed at belated International Women's Day Celebrations on Friday that gay rights should not be constitutionally protected [AFP report]. While Zimba ...
• Indonesia constitutional court rejects challenge t ...
  [JURIST] The Indonesian Constitutional Court [official website, in Bahasa] on Thursday rejected [press release, in Bahasa] a challenge to a controversial anti-pornography law. The law [text, in Bahasa] was purportedly designed to protect younger generations from pornographic and lewd materials. Crit ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• Department of Corrections and Amplifications
  My errors this week. 1. In a post about the Republican Attorneys General lawsuit against health care reform legislation, I made the non-lawyer's common mistake of presuming that absence was ... evidence. I noted that a reader noted that the complaint contained no case citations .. as if that w ...
• Issa's Call for a Special Prosecutor -- Does It Ha ...
  Is there merit to the call by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) for a special prosecutor to investigate whether White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel broke the law by offering Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) an administration appointment in exchange for Sestak's not challenging Sen. Arlen Specter in the Pennsylv ...
• Now, Political Fodder For The Courts
  Moments after President Obama signs the health reform bill today, mostly Republican aspiring governors -- AGs -- er, attorneys general in at least 12 states plan file suit to prevent the legislation from taking effect.� The chances of success in the Supreme Court are low, but the point of the lawsui ...
• 'Good Luck with That'
  Hours after Scott Brown's upset victory in the Massachusetts Senate race, that was my response to the notion that the House would ever pass the Senate bill. Whoops! How I'd get it wrong?� Well, I was interpreting the future through the lens of the last major event -- a basic cognitive error that i ...
• 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 ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] James Bond vs CIDA in Haiti: Voodoo Power & ...
• [COAT] Making a Killing on War! Cancel CANSEC, Can ...
• [COAT] Canada's Arms Exports to Israel: Aiding & A ...
• [COAT] Myths for Profit: New Cdn anti-War film: 35 ...
• [COAT] Canada's Iraq War Profiteers at CANSEC: War ...

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

• Climate Hackers Want to Write Their Own Rules | Wi ...
• Q&A: Geoengineering Is "A Bad Idea Whose Time Has ...
• Senegalese Government Considering Building Nuclear ...
• World has much at stake in nuclear power decision ...
• Senate votes to lift ban on building new nuclear p ...

Tikun Olam

• Teabaggers Lament
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• Maariv Satirizes Anat Kam Gag Order
  Let it not be said that in a nation in which democracy is honored only in the breach (or not at all), there is not a sharp sense of satire.  The Soviet Union was like this, and now Israel.  Hence this hilarious, knowing and merciless skewering of the cowardice of the Israeli press in regards [...] ...
• Eric Cantor Dissembles About Anti-Semitic Attacks
  Eric Cantor is one piece of work.  No sooner do the Teabaggers go ballistic and throw bricks through Democratic Congressmembers’ office windows and shouting ‘Baby Killer’ and other choice racial epithets, than all of a sudden the House’s number 2 Republican tells the world about the anti-Semitic at ...
• IDF Kills 4 Teenage Palestinians, Wounds 23 During ...
  When you write a blog as long as I’ve written this one and you cover a subject as tragic as the one I do, you are bound to write posts like this one that are full of tragedy, violence and pure waste of human life.  While the IDF and Israeli government have been cracking down [...] Related posts: ...
• Doug Pike Takes J Street Endorsement and Funding, ...
  Every so often, something happens in politics which totally mystifies.  Today brings news that Doug Pike, Democratic candidate for Congress in PA’s 6th District, and a J Street endorsee, has rejected the group’s support and returned the $6,000 it gave him.  Why?  Do you want the real reason or th ...

  Blacklisted News

• American Terror Suspect Worked for D.E.A.
  An American charged with helping plan the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India , moved effortlessly between the United States, Pakistan and India for nearly seven years, training at a militant camp in Pakistan on five occasions, according to a plea agreement released by the Justice Department las ...
• Sources: Iran-Contra operative linked to questiona ...
  Duane "Dewey" Clarridge -- who was pardoned for his alleged role in the Reagan-era scandal by President George H. W. Bush in the waning hours of his presidency in 1992 -- is using contacts in Afghanistan and Pakistan to obtain information for the Pentagon, according to former government officials fa ...
• N. Korea suspected in ship sinking
  N. Korea vows 'nuclear strikes' in latest threat SKorean ship sinks, deaths among sailors FLASHBACK - March 10 - US and S Korea begin war games
• The coming of an American Reichstag?
  According to this source, who agreed to speak to this writer under the strict condition of anonymity, “a ‘watch list’ has already been created that specifically names and turns their focus on various pro-life and tea-party organizations and individuals who are considered a threat to domestic securit ...
• EU draws up plans for single 'economic government' ...
  Officials are concerned that the language calling for an "economic government" could be another attempt at a power-grab in the wake of the Lisbon Treaty.

The Intelligence Daily

• Full Circle: NATO Completes Takeover Of Former Yug ...
  By Rick Rozoff (The Intelligence Daily) — In 1991 the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was... For more details, please click on the link to read the article
• Acting Nigerian President Moves Quickly, Decisivel ...
  by Gregory Copley (The Intelligence Daily) — Acting Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has... For more details, please click on the link to read the article
• If The Money Supply Is Exploding Why Are We Not Se ...
  By Michael T Snyder (The Intelligence Daily) — The U.S. money supply has been expanding at an... For more details, please click on the link to read the article
• The Afghan ant hole
  (The Intelligence Daily) — NATO plans for Afghanistan this year are shaping up nicely:... For more details, please click on the link to read the article
• Venezuela in Washington’s Crosshairs
  By Stephen Lendman (The Intelligence Daily) — Washington fears Hugo Chavez for good reason.... For more details, please click on the link to read the article

My AntiWar

• Kandahar Becomes Battlefield Before a US Offensive
• Friday: 55 Iraqis Killed, 112 Wounded
• Pakistan Says 39 Militants, Five Soldiers Killed i ...
• Napolitano Says Airport Full-Body Scanners ‘ ...
• Official: US Not ‘Watering Down’ Terms ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Insight: U.S. should take Iran's nuclear counter-o ...
  Summary: Afrasiabi Instead of dismissing Iran's counter-proposal, the Obama administration should seriously examine the advantages of a nuclear swap, with the International Atomic Energy Agency assuming control of Iran's low-enriched uranium, but on Iranian soil, until the fuel rods are delivere ...
• Iran, the NPT and American hegemony
  Summary: non NPT states While the U.S. continues to erode the significance of the NPT by funding illegal nuclear weapons programs in India, Pakistan and Israel, Iran is following international law and will soon likely receive harsh economic sanctions that will cripple them. source: The Manitob ...
• Obama and Iran: Dialogue or Sanctions?
  Summary: Obama On the eve of Nowruz 1389 (the Iranian New Year), U.S. President Barack Obama's main foreign policy challenge remained Iran's nuclear program and choosing between a direct strategic dialogue or new rounds of sanctions, combined with exploiting Iran's domestic political situation i ...
• War With Iran by Any Other Name
  Summary: NIAC This week may be looked back on as the pivotal moment when war with Iran entered the mainstream of political thought in the Obama era. At a time when Iranians are standing up to an Iranian government that has been deprived of the Bush-era shadow of war, that shadow is again emergin ...
• Israel to ask US for bombs in the fight against Ir ...
  Summary: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will use a visit to Washington this week to press the U.S. to release advanced weapons needed for a possible strike on Iran's nuclear sites, the Sunday Times reported. source: The Sunday Times read more

The Daily Galaxy

• "X-Woman" Discovered -Shared Ancestry with Neander ...
  Scientists say a third hominin group may have co-existed with early Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. A DNA sample taken from an ancient pinky bone that belonged to a child who died between 48,000 and 30,000 years ago, suggests that a...
• New Artificial Intelligence Helps Mars Rover Make ...
  Software uploaded this winter is the latest example of NASA taking advantage of the twin Mars rovers' unanticipated longevity for real Martian test drives of advances made in robotic autonomy for future missions. Now in its seventh year on Mars,...
• 3D Video of Mission to Explore Jupiter's Europa
  "There's nothing saying there is life there now. But we do know there are the physical conditions to support it." Richard Greenberg, University of Arizona. world's leading expert on Europa. New research suggests that there is enough oxygen available in...
• Will NexGen AI Have Unintended Consequences? (A Ga ...
  What could a criminal do with a speech synthesis system that could masquerade as a human being? What happens if artificial intelligence technology is used to mine personal information from smartphones? AI is becoming the stuff of scifi reality: The...
• Why Some Minds Stay Razor Sharp Despite Aging
  The brains of some elderly people with super-sharp memory seem to escape the formation of destructive "tangles" that increase with normal aging and peak in people with Alzheimer’s. A study of the brains of people who stayed mentally sharp into...

Natural News

• Sugary soft drinks linked to pancreatic cancer
  (NaturalNews) A 14-year study of 60,000 people in Singapore found that those who consume two or more sweetened soft drinks per week have an 87 percent higher risk of pancreatic cancer .Published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention , the study was led by Mark Pereira of the ...
• Reproduction industry risks: infertility treatment ...
  (NaturalNews) The multi-billion dollar medical reproductive technology industry has resulted in the births of millions of kids. They were conceived through non-natural procedures including in vitro fertilization (IVF), also known as the process that produces "test tube" babies, and intracytoplasmic ...
• Mediterranean diet protects against stomach cancer
  (NaturalNews) A study conducted by the Catalan Institute for Oncology in Barcelona has concluded that eating a "Mediterranean" diet significantly reduces the risk of developing stomach cancer. Published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition , the study focused specifically on gastric cancer ...
• Future News: Massachusetts makes disobedience vacc ...
  (NaturalNews) ( Editor's Note: This story is a fictional future news story that depicts one possible future under an American medical dictatorship. ) Taking aim at the growing spread of Obedience Defiance Disorder (O.D.D.) -- a mental disease striking both children and adults -- Massachusetts health ...
• Hospital superbugs kill 48,000 patients a year
  (NaturalNews) A new study just published in the Archives of Internal Medicine shows that an alarming number of Americans are dying in the hospital from two infectious diseases: sepsis (also known as systemic inflammatory response syndrome, it causes widespread inflammation and blood clotting and can ...

Threat Level

• Check the Hype — There’s No Such Thing As ‘Cyber’
  How can you tell the difference between a real report about online vulnerabilities and someone who is trying to scare you about the security of the internet because they have an agenda, such as landing lucrative, secret contracts from the government? Here’s a simple test: Count the number of times ...
• Hacker Sentenced to 20 Years for Breach of Credit ...
  BOSTON — Convicted TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez was sentenced to 20 years on Friday for his role in breaches into Heartland Payment Systems, 7-Eleven and other companies. The sentence will run concurrently with a 20-year sentence he received on Thursday in two other cases involving hacks into TJX, Of ...
• TJX Hacker Gets 20 Years in Prison
  BOSTON — Convicted TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursday for leading a gang of cyberthieves who stole more than 90 million credit and debit card numbers from TJX and other retailers. The sentence for the largest computer-crime case ever prosecuted is the lengthi ...
• WIPO: Dope-Vaporizer Seller Not Bogarting Domain N ...
  The German producer of a popular device used to vaporize marijuana is claiming a North American dealer is bogarting its domain names. But the World Intellectual Property Organization on Thursday sided against Storz & Bickel, the maker of the Volcano Vaporizer, ruling that MSI Imports’ four dozen Vol ...
• ACTA Draft: No Internet for Copyright Scofflaws
  The United States is nudging the international community to develop protocols to suspend the internet connections of customers caught downloading copyrighted works, according to a leaked draft of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The United States is leading the 2-year-old, once-secret negoti ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• Newt Gingrich Blames Democrats for Violence. Agai ...
  16 years and one wife ago, Newt Gingrich blamed Democrats for Susan Smith's notorious murders of her two small children. Now, a decade and a half after blaming "Lyndon Johnson's Great Society" for Smith's drowning of her sons, the former Speaker of the House is back to declare that "the Democratic ...
• Newt Gingrich Blames Democrats for Violence. Agai ...
  16 years and one wife ago, Newt Gingrich blamed Democrats for Susan Smith's notorious murders of her two small children. Now, a decade and a half after blaming "Lyndon Johnson's Great Society" for Smith's drowning of her sons, the former Speaker of the House is back to declare that "the Democratic ...
• The Bipartisanship Scorecard
  After a year of rancorous debate, Congress has given its blessing to the final health care reform bill. As expected, the reconciliation fixes to the $940 billion package received exactly zero Republican votes, passing the House 220 to 207 and 56 to 43 in the Senate. In theory, the born-again defic ...
• 10 Years After Bush's Worst Speech, GOP Offers Onl ...
  I've long felt that George W. Bush's acceptance speech at the 2000 Republican National Convention was among the most arrogant and reprehensible in the annals of American political oratory. But now that his party's overheated rhetoric on health care has helped foment threats and violence, Bush's add ...
• The 5 Signs of Republican and Tea Party Unity
  After a year of denying the obvious, the American media is finally coming to the conclusion that the supposed Tea Party movement is simply a continuation of the failed 2008 Republican presidential campaign by other means. As the data show, the vast majority Tea Baggers don't merely identify themsel ...

Blackspot News Feed

• Fourier’s Algorithm
  I’m partway through the first track on FOURIER’S ALGORITHM by connect_icut (free download). A Fourier algorithm is a mathematical operation to do with (I think) signal processing that I do not understand. It’s entirely possible that I’m missing something crucial because of this lack of mathematical ...
• The Universe is Expanding! Faster Every Day!
  I was doing my usual morning routine, compulsively browsing the news, paying special attention to the U.S. – Israel relationship, when I came across this report in the “Security Industry” section of the UPI website: “The two-year delay in the production of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Joint Strike F ...
• Revealed: Monitoring of Organic Food a Travesty
  The USDA's own Office of the Inspector General came out with a formal report on its monitoring of its organic program during the Clinton and Bush years and it's scathing.
• Tea Party Hypocrites Hate Socialism Except When Th ...
  Oh, the hypocrisy, it burns … The Washington Post today has a profile of Mike Vanderboegh, the 57-year-old former militiaman from Alabama who last week posted a call for people to throw bricks through the windows at Democratic offices around the country to protest their votes for Health Care Reform… ...
• Mississippi School District Found to Have a Homoph ...
  Just three days after a federal judge ruled that Itawamba Agricultural high school in Fulton, Miss. violated Constance McMillen’s constitutional rights by not allowing her to attend prom in a tuxedo with a female date, new revelations have surfaced about the school district’s homophobic past. Turns ...

Consortium News

• The Right Finds Virtue in Extremism
  By whipping the Right into a frenzy over health care, Republicans risk a replay of past violent extremism, writes Lisa Pease. March 26, 2010
• The Politics of 'Corrections'
  Who wields political clout in the United States can be gauged by how big news outlets hand out "corrections," says Robert Parry. March 25, 2010
• El Salvador's Ghosts at the Polls
  From the Archive: Three decades ago today, El Salvador's Archbishop Romero was slain, sending shock waves across the ages. By Don North
• The Politics of Media
  NBC News and the Washington Post see Republican rejection of health reform as only a matter of principle, writes Robert Parry. March 24, 2010
• Making Unneeded Enemies in Somalia
  The ham-handed "war on terror" has led to unintended consequences by strengthening Islamists in Somalia, says Ivan Eland. March 23, 2010

CounterPunch

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

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• By the Maps: Understanding Israel's Increasing Gri ...
• Either, or. (The Joedan Times)
  The proof is always in the pudding. Right now, the icing looks good, and the international community appears to be finally serious about not allowing Israel to behave with impunity. Brita ...
• What are the Palestinians Counting On? (Osman Mir ...
  Those who had initially thought that the crisis between Washington and Tel Aviv over Israel's announcement of a new settlement project in Jerusalem might result in a shift in Israeli gove ...
• Palestinian security forces walk a careful line ( ...
  As the highest-ranking commander of nearly 8,000 Palestinian security troops, Maj. Gen. Diab Ali is accustomed to being top gun. But the salutes often stop when he leaves the military bas ...
• Israel's provocation at al-Aqsa: rabbi plans 'mira ...
  The Israeli government has indicated that it will press ahead with a plan to enlarge the Jewish prayer plaza at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, despite warnings that the move ri ...

Water - AlterNet

• Coal-Fired Plants Drink 1.5 Trillion Gallons of Wa ...
  In many respects, some folks might use more water flicking on their lights, than chugging back a glass of that wondrous stuff.
• Meet the Celebrities Who Climbed Kilimanjaro to Aw ...
  Grammy-nominated recording artist Kenna has personal drive behind his mission to increase awareness about the global water crisis.
• The Looming Water Disaster That Could Destroy Cali ...
  There's a disaster waiting to happen in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, and a handful of wealthy farmers seem to like it that way.
• Conservation Counts on World Water Day and Every D ...
  The facts are clear: America and the world are running out of the fresh water we all need to survive. Here's what we need to do to conserve.
• 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.

TruthHugger

• 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 ...

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• NWC’s Stephen Kohn Takes on the Absentee White Hou ...
  by Peter B. Collins and Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad originally published by Boilin
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• Transcript of Cindy Sheehan's Interview with Hugo ...
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• More Change: A Bill Written by the Health Insuranc ...
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Axis of Logic

• China's Report on U.S. Human Rights Record in 2009
• Pakistan Must Strengthen Relations With Russia
• Greece: The Curse of Three Generations of Papandr ...
• On the anniversary of the invasion. The crisis of ...
• Interamerican Court of Human Rights caught conspir ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• The Nightowl Newswrap
  One of these things is not like the other In an unsigned editorial in today's Washington Post, the false equivalency between the bona fide threat of a cut gas line at the residence of what was thought to be a Democratic member of Congress and a bullet shot into the air that managed, by coincidence, ...
• This is Why Incitement is a Crime
  Attempted murder of a federal official. for wanting to make health care more affordable and accessible. Terroristic threats with unknown white powder sent to another federal official for outspokenness in favor of progress. Trying to kill a 10-year-old girl and her father for displaying a bumper stic ...
• Energy Self-Destructiveness
  Economy-saving renewable energy can't get the time of day from the Big-Coal-owned Kentucky General Assembly, but legislators are publicly ejaculating over nuking the Bluegrass. A proposal to end Kentucky's 26-year ban on building nuclear power plants is moving again in the state legislature. The Sen ...
• A big step on the path to total disarmament
  This is the sort of news I live for. That is because I spent a large chunk of my adult life living in very close proximity to nuclear warheads. My husbands military career field was in maintaining the electronics and guidance systems in our nuclear arsenal. Knowing those beasts as intimately as I d ...
• Losers, losers, everywhere...
  I guess it was "Profile a Douchebag" day at the Washington Post. Randy Millam wasn't the only fatassed, disaffected, freeloading loser they profiled today. They also gave us a look into the twisted psyche of Mike "Kristallnacht" Vanderboegh. He is the militia idiot in Alabama that sent out the clar ...

Care 2

• “ZERO MORTALITY” CHALLENGE FOR JAPAN
  Activists and preservation have long demanded that scientists find a way to collect their data that leaves animals alive, healthy and functional. As it is not a legal issue, the pressure for these practices to change must come from elsewhere. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
• NAMIBIA: THE MODEL FOR CONSERVATION
  While the rejection of a proposal to reopen the ivory trade for one-off sales by Tanzania and Zambia was hailed as a victory for conservationists, the reasons behind its rejection are generally bad news for the wildlife of Africa. In order to find a Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
• Tiger cub's survival still uncertain
  A Sumatran tiger cub, a surprise arrival at a California zoo, is being given supplemental feedings because she has failed to gain weight, officials say. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Save the Critically Endangered Mexican Gray Wolves ...
  Mexican gray wolves, also know as lobos, are the one of the most endangered wolf populations in the world. Lobos have been protected under the Endangered Species Act since 1976, but are still on the brink of extinction. Mismanagement, criminal wolf Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
• Take Action- Help Protect Wildlife Habitat from Cl ...
  Animals like grizzly bears, salmon, and panthers will face a race for life as their food sources and habitat change. We need to help them survive. You can make a big difference by sending a simple message to the Obama administration that we need to keep o Submitted by Daphna Yanez to Environment �| ...

GreenBiz

• 300 Gallons for $1 of Sugar and Other Hidden Water ...
  New research from by Carnegie Mellon University� and his colleagues provides the first industry-specific estimates of annual water use in almost 30 years.
• Top Water-Saving Rebates and Incentives for Your B ...
  From paying businesses to replace water-guzzling grass to simply paying companies to save hundreds of thousands of gallons, water agencies around the country offer commercial customers a slew of free money opportunities to help them reduce water use.
• Cleantech Companies Not Always Clean, Study Finds
  Three German solar companies took the top spots in the first Solar Company Scorecard, which analyzed companies' supply chain, chemical, recycling and social performance. �
• When Cleantech Meets Water
  Although cleantech and cleantech funding have largely focused on renewable energy technologies, a set of awards handed out this month to startups focusing on water efficiency highlights even further how water is becoming the next carbon.
• Washington Imposes Mercury Recycling Fee on CFL Pr ...
  Washington state has passed a law requiring makers of compact fluorescent light bulbs to pay for the recycling of lighting products that contain mercury. Maine, which already has a similar program, has set up a process for expanding its producer responsibility rules. �

Reuters Global

• India and Pakistan on the U.S. see-saw
  The changing fortunes in Washington of India and Pakistan were starkly illustrated last week; while the Pakistanis held talks there, India was complaining about lack of access to a Chicago man accused of planning the Mumbai attacks.
• Burying the Powell doctrine in Afghanistan
  Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivered what military experts are saying was the final nail in the coffin of the Powell doctrine, a set of principles that General Colin Powell during his tenure as chairman laid out for the use of military force.
• Australian voters worming to PM Rudd
  If Australia's election worm has its way, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will be re-elected in a landslide victory later in 2010. Rudd on Tuesday won the first of three televised debates, say political analysts, kick starting what will likely be a drawn-out eight-month campaign ahead of elections tipped ...
• 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.

Paul Krugman

• Perspective On Interest Rates
  Overblowing a small upward jog.
• Greeks, Romans, and Financial Reform
  Will reform survive mediocrity?
• David Frum, AEI, Heritage And Health Care
  Obamacare: it's a conservative plan (but they don't want you to know.)
• Delays and Delays (Not Tom)
  Delays in the health care plan aren't hiding any deficit gimmicks.
• Will Republicans Support Financial Reform?
  Don't bet on it.

No Quarter

• CIA, Stabbed in the Heart?
  Regular readers of this blog will have a deja vu moment if they read Robert Baer’s latest in GQ, “A Dagger to the CIA,” an account of the suicide bomber who took out almost a dozen CIA officers in Afghnistan a few months ago. Why deja vu? Because I provided the same analysis [...]
• Want a Lapdance? Not in Iceland!
  Iceland just made it illegal for any business to profit from the nudity of its employees. No more lapdancing. No more topless waitresses in bars. But these bans are not for the reason you might think. According to an article by Julie Bindel in the UK Guardian, Iceland is now among the top [...]
• Barack Really is Going to Pay Her Mortgage
  My blood is boiling. Why? The assault on the principles of free market capitalism is escalating with news that banks are poised to start reducing principal balances on certain mortgages. I empathize with those who are strapped, but I have never felt more strongly on a topic than this principal reduc ...
• “Are You Threatening Me?”
  If you mean the White House and some unions, the answer would be a resounding, YES! W.H., Labor To Vote-Switchers: We Won’t Forget. You may recall that I wrote about this very real possibility recently in, “Toddler in Chief Throws A Temper Tantrum,” based on a story from The Telegraph (U.K.). Now, ...
• News Of The Day **Open Thread**
  This day has been jam packed with some mighty interesting news stories, some, once again, offered by our intrepid readers. First up is Rep. Issa claiming there is a “credible allegation” that the White House committed a felony. The allegation stems from Democrat Rep. Joe Sestak: Watch the latest ne ...

Environmental Graffiti

• Happy World Water Day
• This is How Environmental Graffiti is About to Shi ...
• Paradise is a Land Called Kissimmee
• 13 Incredible Arcus Clouds
• Amazing Tape Graffiti by Buff Diss

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Ghosts Threaten to Return to Haiti
  Development experts are about to give Haiti the same disastrous prescription for reform. But Haitians could still build a very different post-earthquake society.
• Genocide in Burma
  Mac McClelland, author of the new book 'For Us Surrender is Out of the Question,' talks about why the media is missing a major story in Burma.
• The Case for a Union
  A majestic region-wide union may well transform the strategic calculus of the sceptics and the spoilers.
• 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.
• The Travails of a Client State: An Okinawan Angle ...
  For a country in which ultra-nationalism was for so long a problem, the weakness of nationalism in contemporary Japan is puzzling.

Global Elite

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

Al Jazeera

• Mubarak set to return to Egypt
  President to return home in next two days following surgery in Germany, paper says.
• BA crew members begin second strike
  A second four-day walkout is part of dispute over pay and conditions.
• Allawi's bloc wins most Iraq seats
  Iraqiya won 91 seats while Maliki's State of Law won 89.
• South Korean navy ship sinks
  Emergency security meeting being held in Seoul to investigate the incident.
• EU sets economic reform strategy
  Bloc aims to boost growth in a bid to prevent a repeat of Greece's debt crisis.

Green Inc. - NYT

• High School Gardening - for Credit
  Beginning this week, students at Princeton Public High School can earn physical education credit by working in one of several on-site gardens.
• California Climate Law Would Add Jobs, Study Sugge ...
  The law would create modest job growth over the next 10 years according to state regulators. But opponents of the law want it suspended.
• Taxing CO2 Emissions at Europe's Borders
  The European Union is already on track to put in place a form of extraterritorial carbon tax beginning 2012 on airlines.
• Of Water, Electricity and the Time of Day
  A California study suggests that if people are trained to use less water in the late afternoons, electricity savings result -- and overall water usage falls.
• Transportation Department Embraces Bikes and Busin ...
  Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced a "major policy revision" that aims to elevate the import of bicycling and walking. Not everyone is pleased.

Dot Earth News

• In Canada, TV Goes Deep on Climate
  A rare thing: five hours of television on climate modeling, science, politics, media coverage and more.
• Heat-Toting Ocean Currents Chugging Along
  New findings boost confidence that Atlantic Ocean currents are not at risk from climate change.
• New Ways to Gauge the Finite Atmosphere
  An illustrator finds ways to bring to life largely invisible environmental conditions and trends.
• A Physics Maven's Take on Skeptical Science
  An Australian blogger takes on climate skeptics' arguments, one by one.
• Art Clues to Trends in Diet, Ice, Quakes
  Scientists probe artwork for evidence of growing human appetites, shrinking glaciers and past disasters.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• Oh noes: Epic FBI white supremacist troll Hal Turn ...
  Alright here's a bizarre story about a strange man from New Jersey, Hal Turner, who rose to fame as a racist, anti-semitic blogger and radio talk show host whose violent rhetoric upset many people. Alex Jones to his credit accurately flagged Turner years ago as an FBI informant/operative. No mainstr ...
• 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 ...

Daily Censored

• Jon Stewart, Dylan Ratigan: videos to understand f ...
  2 videos at source. The last professional polling numbers show that the most knowledgeable of Americans watch Jon Stewart’s Daily Show. The following two brief videos of Stewart and financial analyst Dylan Ratigan walk people through what is now disclosed legal investigation of the dark core of Wall ...
• Paul Craig Roberts’ final essay: Corporate media i ...
  *Feel free to observe and engage in comments with Operation Mockingbird assets at source.* Paul Craig Roberts, one of the sanest voices of the Reagan administration and lauded academic and government professional, is retiring his public essays. His last, reprinted below, summarizes his observation o ...
• Feds investigate Los Angeles Unified School Distri ...
  US Department of Civil Rights to  investigate the Los Angeles  Unified School District In 1987 I began work for the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) as a bilingual second grade teacher Los Angeles. The school was PS 122, in South Central LA.  This was a time of increased immigration to th ...
• SAVE OUR CITY! SAVE OUR SCHOOLS!
  Stop Bobb and Bing from Privatizing Public Education and Public Services Stop the School Closings—No More Charters If We Unite and Fight We Can Win! Detroit Mass Meeting to Organize and Spread the Campaign of Resistance Against Dismantling Detroit THURSDAY, MAR. 25, 5:30PM Gracious Savior ...
• California Community Colleges, their faculty and s ...
  The week may be just getting started, but it has been a remarkable one for California’s community colleges.  On Sunday, March 21st, the House of Representatives passed both the largest investment in financial aid and the largest investment in community colleges in history. The United States Senate ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• Incumbents Beware
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Institute for Policy Studies

• Enabling Wall Street's Gambling Problem
  Thought bankers had learned their lesson in 2008? Think again.
• Advice for the Blue Ribbon Commission
  Hopefully Obama's new commission will motivate the country to finally deal with the toxic legacy of the nuclear age.
• The New U.S.-Mexico War
  Sanho Tree discusses the significance of U.S. officials in Mexico, and whether the new plan is an adequate one.
• Flying and Excess Radiation
  The doses of radiation experienced in everyday life, especially flying long distances in jet aircraft, pose risks we should carefully heed.
• Velvet Imperialists
  The Obama administration is hearing, but not listening, when it comes to U.S. military bases.

Pine River World News

• Paul Craig Roberts: Truth Has Fallen and Has Taken ...
  The following column is reprinted with permission from Paul Craig Roberts. Truth Has Fallen and Has Taken Liberty With It � �Paul Craig Roberts March 24, 2010 During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. - George Orwell There was a time when the pen was mighti ...
• Gordon Duff: America and Israel - A Health Care Co ...
  The following column is reprinted with permission from Gordon Duff, staff writer and Senior Editor at Veterans Today . America and Israel: �A Health Care Comparison � �Gordon Duff Source: �Veterans Today March 23, 2010 * � Dialog In A Madhouse, Mob Rule In The Health Care Debate Editors note: �Ru ...
• 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. ...

IntelNews

• News you may have missed #315
  British nuclear bunker spy comes out of hiding. Aussie spy agency spied on little girls. Analysis: Under Panetta, a more aggressive CIA.
• Latest from Hungary and Turkey on Budapest assassi ...
  Despite the overwhelming silence in Western media about last week’s suspicious murder in broad daylight of a Syrian man in Hungary, the story continues to make headlines in Israel, the Arab world, Turkey and Hungary.
• Breaking news: UK expels Israeli diplomat over Dub ...
  While Israel continues to insist that “there is no proof” of its involvement in January’s assassination of a top Hamas military official, Britain has announced the pending expulsion of an Israeli diplomat over the killing.
• News you may have missed #314
  Canadian spy agency to display cold war spy tools. Why planespotting in Egypt is a bad idea.
• 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.

After Downing Street.org

• Obamacare's Passage: A Full-Scale Retreat
  Obamacare's Passage: A Full-Scale Retreat By Stephen Lendman After eight years under George Bush, people demanded change. Obama and congressional Democrats promised it, then disappointed by accomplishing the impossible - governing worse than skeptics feared, worse than Republicans across the boar ...
• Senate Hearing Today On Pacific Military Expansion ...
• NATO Tries to Silence a Truth-Teller in Afghanista ...
• A National Conference to Bring the Troops Home Now
  AN INVITATION FROM : After Downing Street, Arab American Union Members Council, Black Agenda Report, Campaign for Peace and Democracy, Campus Antiwar Network, Code Pink, Iraq Veterans Against the War, National Assembly to End the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and Occupations, Peace of the Action,   Pr ...
• Executive Director of Greenpeace Joining Reality-B ...
  FROM THE DESK OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR March 25, 2010 I cannot believe that I am writing you this letter... The international ban on commercial whaling, which Greenpeace fought tirelessly to pass in the 1980ís, is now in critical danger of being overturned. A proposal has be ...

Grist - News

• Whoops: Energy Star approves gas-powered alarm clo ...
  by Jonathan Hiskes This (ahem) "space heater" earned a government Energy Star rating.Photo: Government Accountability OfficeWell this is embarrassing: Federal monitors granted the Energy Star stamp of approval to a number of bogus appliances, including a gas-powered alarm clock and an electri ...
• Reminder: the U.S. already has cap-and-trade&#8212 ...
  by Jonathan Hiskes The Center for American Progress offers a reminder that we already have a cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions up and running in the U.S.— it's called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, it operates in 10 northeastern states, and it works fairly well, according to ...
• From Pyramids to Paris, landmarks to go dark for E ...
  by Agence France-Presse A darkened "Birds Nest" Olympic stadium in Beijing during the 2009 Earth Hour.Photo courtesy Earth Hour Global via FlickrSYDNEY -- World-famous landmarks including the Pyramids, the Eiffel Tower, and Beijing's Forbidden City will go dark Saturday as millions turn out the ...
• New homes are cropping up in cities, not suburbs
  by Jonathan Hiskes Today in conventional wisdom–busting news, we learn that grimy old cities are attracting more residential construction than the bright suburban frontier. Urban redevelopment is outpacing fringe sprawl by a solid margin, according to a new EPA study of the nation’s 50 largest ...
• China overtakes U.S. in green investment, study fi ...
  by Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON - China has surpassed the United States as the top investor in clean energy, with the rising Asian power becoming a "powerhouse" in the emerging field, according to a new study led by the Pew Charitable Trusts. The report said that China has shown determinati ...

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Time - Top Stories

• Pakistan's Chief Justice Takes on its Political Cl ...
  Iftikhar Chaudhry is making life difficult for Pakistan's political leaders in a battle whose outcome could have have profound implications for the country's fledgling democracy
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• For Jamie Oliver, Lunch is a Battlefield
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• Beta Blockers May Reduce Spread of Breast Cancer
  Should future inquiries yield similar results, it could mean a significant change in breast cancer treatment protocols.
• New Media Shaking Up Italy's Media Landscape
  Italians are increasingly turning to the Internet to challenge thetraditional media outlets long dominated by Prime Minister SilvioBerlusconi's government

Washington Independent

• Into the Guts of New START: How to Get From Here t ...
  So we knew earlier today that the U.S.-Russia New START nuclear reductions treaty caps deployed warheads at 1,550, a 30 percent reduction from the Bush-Putin “Moscow Treaty” of 2002, and sets a limit of 700 deployed intercontinental and submarine-launched ballistic missiles and heavy bombers. What w ...
• Djou: Yes, I’ll Join GOP Effort to Repeal He ...
  I followed up with GOP congressional candidate Charles Djou to clear up what he meant when he said Republicans should “try to work on dramatic reform first” before moving to repeal the health care bill. In an email, I asked Djou whether he’d sign the Club for Growth’s “Repeal It” pledge — he hasn’t ...
• How to Discredit Afghan Women, Courtesy of the CIA
  Wikileaks obtained and published (PDF) a CIA “Red Cell” analysis — that’s what the agency presents either to counter received wisdom or to be deliberately provocative — on bolstering support for the Afghanistan war among skeptical European publics. (Hat tip to Jeremy Scahill.) Among the strategies e ...
• Mountaintop Mining Addendum
  It’s worth noting: Despite the new EPA scrutiny (and potential repeal) of the Bush-era permit approving the largest mountaintop coal mine in West Virginia’s history, a part of that project will continue its operations during the public comment and review process. The Spruce No. 1 Mine — a 2,300-acre ...
• Palin: Anti-HCR Violence Stories Are ‘Ginned ...
  At a rally for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Sarah Palin — who I do think has been unfairly attacked as a source of “violent” backlash against health care — dismissed outright the idea that opponents of reform were reacting violently. Palin called it a “ginned-up controversy about us common-sense cons ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

• Change, They Say, Is Good. But Is It?
  It's said that Alexander the Great wept when he realised there were no more lands left for him to conquer. In other words, there was nothing new to challenge him; there was no raison d'être. It's a laughable thought today, isn't it? Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture ...
• Teacher breaks 4th grader’s arm for ‘forgetting Iq ...
  LAHORE: A female teacher of a private school thrashed Muhammad Jahanzeb, a fourth grade student when he was unable to explain a poem by Allama Iqbal, causing multiple fractures in his arm. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Skeptics claim global warming is fake after top sc ...
  Hackers recently broke into thousands of emails and internal documents from a leading climate research center and dumped them onto an anonymous Russian server. The hacked emails (160 MB worth, unzipped) came from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic R Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to ...
• We're expanding, while economy shrinks
  Americans now have another excuse for hitting the fast food establishments and getting farther out of shape by adding unwanted weight, and it's allegedly not their fault. The latest health discovery is called "recession pounds," and some researchers Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to So ...
• Reports call for radical rethink on food policy to ...
  The food and farming sector is not pulling its weight when it comes to tacking climate change and food shortages could be the consequence if we fail to make fundamental changes to the way we farm, process, distribute and eat our food over the next 20 year Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to ...

Suzie-Q

• The Heat Is On: Tea Partiers Denounce Violence
  Feeling The Heat, Tea Partiers Denounce Violence TPM Muckraker Zachary Roth | March 26, 2010, 1:12PM Tea Partiers and others on the right are starting to distance themselves from the recent spate of violence and racism that has characterized the opposition to health-care reform. In a letter t ...
• 7th anniversary of war in Iraq slips by unnoticed ...
  ������������ MSNBC:�� Little fanfare for 7th anniversary of war in Iraq
• US House & Senate speak with one voice on Israel: ...
  Top Congressional leadership reaffirmed their support for the U.S.-Israel relationship. House Speaker, Republican Leader Praise Netanyahu AIPAC March 25, 2010 After meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Republi ...
• Anti-Semitism – What is it?
  By Jeff Gates, Information Clearing House, March 23, 2010 Several of us among the incurably curious asked ourselves a simple question: what is anti-Semitism? That it must be written with a capital “S” says a lot. Then we realized it also morphs. To that [...]
• American Drone Wars, Without Any Rules
  Dan Froomkin, The Huffington Post, March 24, 2010 The CIA’s extensive use of unmanned drones to kill alleged terrorists in Pakistan and elsewhere is arguably against international law and raises the possibility that top U.S. officials will someday be tried at the Hague for [...]

Solari

• Gardening in a Nutshell
  By Anais Starr The image above comes from a wonderful book I’m reading titled “Carrots Love Tomatoes” by Louise Riotte. The book’s byline is “Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening.” I’ve been gardening (or have been a ‘gardener’s assistant’) for most of my life. In my younger days, ...
• The Solari Report Digest ~ New Podcast Available!
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• Money & Markets Charts ~ 3.25.10
  View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report on Thursday, April 1, 2010. Click here to view all charts as a pdf file. See previous Money & Markets Charts blog posts here. Currency charts are ...
• The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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• Community Call to Prayer
  Sent by a reader Happy moments, PRAISE GOD. Difficult moments, SEEK GOD. Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD. Painful moments, TRUST GOD. Every moment, THANK GOD. ~Author unknown Everyone is welcome to join this weekly fifteen-minute Thursday gathering, live on the conference line or from wherever you are ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• Did a White Sheriff and District Attorney Orchestr ...
  African American mayor and police chief assert that they have been forced from office and arrested as part of an coup carried out by white politicians and their followers.
• There Will Be Blood Spilled If the Republicans Kee ...
  Rather than recoil at violent language, GOP leadership seems to see it as a chance to turn out votes. The consequences could be deadly.
• Texas Lawmakers Urge Gov. Perry to Stop Execution ...
  State Sen. Rodney Ellis, and Rep. Elliott Naishtat have sent Gov. Rick Perry letters urging him to grant a 30-day reprieve for Skinner to test DNA evidence in his case.
• Vile Health Care Protests in Congress Exposed Repu ...
  A party that promotes ignorance and provides a safe house for bigotry cannot serve the best interests of our country.
• Arundhati Roy: "We May Not Need Peace in This ...
  World-renowned author and global justice activist Arundhati Roy discusses U.S. wars, the occupation in Kashmir, and her time spent with Maoist rebels in India.

Sideways News

• London Eye – a revolution
  It’s 10 years since the London Eye opened, offering visitors unparalleled views of the UK capital from a monument which quickly became a landmark.� The structure, first dubbed the Millennium Wheel and opened by Tony Blair on the eve of the 21st century, did not start accepting passengers until March ...
• UN seeks to erase modern day slavery
  Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, called yesterday for the international community to make a renewed effort to ensure all forms of modern day slavery are eradicated once and for all. Speaking in a message commemorating the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Sl ...
• Oliver takes food fight to White House
  Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, currently attempting to overhaul the unhealthy diet of Americans in a West Virginia community for ABC television, wants to takes his healthy eating campaign to the White House. Oliver hopes to deliver a petition to the home of President Barack Obama, calling for action t ...
• Fix the Food Chain
  Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall called on whoever wins the next general election to Fix the Food Chain yesterday. His views were released in a video made public by Friends of the Earth (FoE) in support of their Election 2010 campaign. The video shows the chef explaining his reasons for supporting the c ...
• How news organisations use Twitter
  This week saw Twitter celebrate its fourth birthday. For some of the users, who sent nearly 50 million daily messages - or tweets - from around 80 million accounts, it’s hard to imagine life before the 140 character updates. The greatest strength of the microblogging site is that there are few rule ...

Fabius Maximus

• FM newswire for March 27, 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. About the new society being shaped by new media:  “The Social Media Bubble“, Umair Haque, blog of the Harvard Business Review, 23 March 2010 “Exporting ...
• Some thoughts about Stratfor
  Some  thoughts about Statfor from a long-time subscriber. Their reporting is first-rate, among the best available from public sources.  It and The Economist  are among the best English-language sources of information about political developments in the 3rd world. The analysis of events is usually e ...
• The similar delusions of America’s Left and ...
  Summary:   Another post describing the distortions in our thinking resulting from our growing susceptibility to propaganda, a weakness eagerly exploited by elites of both left and right (i.e., both factions of our ruling class).  For the Republic to prosper — perhaps even survive – I suspect we ...
• FM newswire for March 25, 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. “Torture Fatigue“, David Schaengold, League of Ordinary Gentlemen, 23 February 2010 — “The GOP seems to becoming a party whose considered, institutional p ...
• Violence, the inevitable consequence of political ...
  In the past decade both Left and Right have ratched up the doomster fear-mongering as a device to mobilize the faithful.  The world is at stake, or our Freedoms, or the nation.  Violence is an inevitable consequence of this, if it continues long enough.  We may be seeing the first signs of violence ...

Open Your Eyes News

• N.Korea vows nuclear strike against US
  Press TV – North Korea has accused the US and South Korea of seeking a regime change in the country, threatening to launch nuclear strikes to counter any provocations by the two. “Those who seek to bring down the system in the DPRK (North Korea)… will fall victim to the unprecedented nuclear strikes ...
• Now Bernanke Wants To Eliminate Reserve Requiremen ...
  Business Insider – Up until now, the United States has operated under a “fractional reserve” banking system. Banks have always been required to keep a small fraction of the money deposited with them for a reserve, but were allowed to loan out the rest. But now it turns out that Federal Reserve Cha ...
• NATO rejects Russian call for Afghan poppy sprayin ...
  Reuters – NATO Wednesday rejected Russian calls for it to eradicate opium poppy fields in Afghanistan, saying the best way for Moscow to help control the drug would be to give more assistance against the insurgency. Russia’s anti-drugs czar, Victor Ivanov, met NATO ambassadors in Brussels and propo ...
• Review all anti-terrorism laws, say UK MPs
  BBC – All counter-terrorism laws passed since 11 September 2001 should be reviewed to see if they are still necessary, says a committee of MPs and peers. It questioned whether ministers could legitimately argue, nine years on, that a “public emergency threatening the life of the nation” remained. An ...
• China’s commerce minister: U.S. has the most to lo ...
  Washington Post – China’s commerce minister warned the United States on Sunday that if it launches a “trade war” against China by levying punitive tariffs on Chinese imports, the United States will suffer the most. Read Article

Monkey Smashes Heaven

• People’s War is not armed reformism
  Filed under: ..Shubel Morgan, Communism, Maoism, Maoism Third Worldism, Maoisme, Maoismo, People's War
• Africa in crisis.. hundreds of millions lack acces ...
  Africa in crisis.. hundreds of millions lack access to water, suffer from “sick water,” and food shortages (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Africa, especially West and Central Africa, is in crisis. According to a recent UNICEF report, more than 155 million, roughly 40 percent of the population i ...
• 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 ...

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

• Recyclable Plastic Boat Sets Sail
  A boat aptly called the Plastiki, made out of 12,500 recyclable plastic bottles filled with carbon dioxide, has set sail for a great voyage through the Pacific.  While it seems like an extreme stunt, the journey has more of a purpose than just seeing if a plastic boat can make the trip. By now, ma ...
• The Hypocritically Bold Look of Kohler
  Taryn, an EcoGeek reader, received her subscriptions to Wired Magazine as well as National Geographic this week. A very EcoGeek combination, I must say, keeping up on the beauty and diversity of our world as well as cutting technology. But what she found surprised her. Each magazine had an ad from t ...
• Vortex-Creating Wind Turbines Could Double Wind Fa ...
  An egg-beater-like vertical wind turbine design could potentially double the output of wind farms by using the space between larger, horizontal turbines. Wind farms take up a lot of land because the large rotating blades of the turbines need a lot of space in between them to operate safely and eff ...
• 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 ...

Buzzflash

• Media Putz Tom Shales of WaPo Breaks Out His Own B ...
  BUZZFLASH MEDIA PUTZ OF THE WEEK Tom Shales (Washington Post) For reporting that is an embarrassment to the profession of journalism, and for being beholden to corporate paymasters rather than the citizens of America. As we're getting a little sick and tired of the focus on the nation's capital -- ...
• Are 15% to 20% of Americans Genuinely, Provably an ...
  STEPHEN PIZZO FOR BUZZFLASH.COM After six and half decades on this planet I’ve come to some conclusions. One of them is that roughly 15% to 20% of Americans are genuinely, provably and incurably, stupid.�And, while beauty may only be skin deep, stupid goes all the way to the bone. After a decade ...
• Chicago Public School Students Stand up for Health ...
  BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Meg White The collective giggle-fest over Vice President Joe Biden's true but censorable comment at the president's signing of healthcare reform struck me as pretty sophomoric. But then again, that's not very fair to sophomores. Meanwhile, right in my own backyard, real ...
• Viva la Student Loan Revolution: One Part of Healt ...
  BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Meg White There are a lot of elements to President Obama's healthcare reform bill that are complete and total hand-outs to megacorporations that feed off of the misery of the American people .Now that the ping-pong-like process of legislative action on the measure is f ...
• News Update #17 -- Verse-Case Scenario
  New jobs and home sales are both still down But experts may have to revise Previous estimates of Democrat death threats Which are notably on the rise. read more

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• The horrible prospect of Supreme Court Justice Cas ...
  A media consensus has emerged that the retirement of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, the 90-year-old Ford-appointee who became the leader of the Court's so-called "liberal wing," is now imminent.  The New York Times ' Peter Baker has an article today on Obama's leading candidates to replace ...
• When presidential sermons collide
  President Obama gave an interview earlier this week to an Indonesian television station in lieu of the scheduled trip to that country which was canceled due to the health care vote.  In 2008, Indonesia empowered a national commission to investigate human rights abuses committed by its own government ...
• WashPost: Christiane Amanpour can't be "objective"
  To its credit, ABC�News recently announced that Christiane Amanpour would replace George Stephanopoulos as host of its Sunday morning This�Week program.� Today in The Washington�Post , TV�critic Tom Shales condemns this decision on several grounds, including the fact that she is viewed by Far Right ...
• More on those "neutralized" special interests
  On Saturday, I wrote about the painfully absurd propagandistic attempt by the administration and its most loyal cheerleaders to depict the health care bill as some sort of bold act of "standing up to special interests" -- or, as Ezra Klein put it , the�White House, with this bill, has "neutralized" ...
• A stark truth
  One does not normally see this truth stated so starkly in places like Time Magazine -- from Michael Scherer's interesting article on AIPAC's current strategy to "storm Congress": The third "ask" that AIPAC supporters will make of Congress on Tuesday is to once again pass the $3 billion in U ...

The BiPartisan Report

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

Sciencebase

• Awards, PTs, and green phones
  Awards – Research Blogging – Winners and finalists in the Research Blogging Awards 2010 announced today! A Clever Periodic Table from Sciencebase | Genome Alberta Education – It's official. My periodic table of science bloggers is clever, even if it maybe didn't include enough Canadians. Go Green! ...
• 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• Task Force: 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Policy Must En ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 25, 2010 National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Defense Secretary Robert Gates today announced changes aimed at easing enforcement of the discriminatory "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" military policy, which bans openly lesbian, gay and bisexual people from serving openly in the mil ...
• Christie Shreds New Jersey Climate Change Programs
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 25, 2010 Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has taken a wrecking ball to the state's touted Global Warming Response Act, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). In recent weeks, the Ch ...
• Unionization Substantially Improves the Pay and B ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 25, 2010 Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) A new report by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) documents a large wage and benefit advantage for immigrant workers in unions relative to their non-union counterparts. read more
• US-Russia Nuclear Reduction Agreement an “Importan ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 26, 2010 Nuclear Age Peace Foundation The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation today welcomed the announcement of a new treaty to replace the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) between the United States and Russia. While exact details of the new agreement are not y ...
• Statement on Obama Administration's Housing Initia ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 26, 2010 CEPR Dean Baker released the following statement today regarding the Obama Administration's overhaul of its foreclosure prevention program: The latest Obama Administration initiative aimed at easing the nation's foreclosure crisis may be well-intentioned, but ...

Common Dreams-Views

• Dreaming Bigger Dreams
  by Roberto Rodriguez How do you end a column after 16 years? With regrets and unfulfilled dreams? Perhaps, but truthfully, Column of the Americas as a deadline-based column ends with even bigger dreams. There indeed is disappointment with the ease in which the U.S. populace has accepted and no ...
• Diary of a Wimpy Health Care Bill
  by Rose Ann DeMoro Passage of President Obama's healthcare bill proves that Congress can enact comprehensive social legislation in the face of virulent rightwing opposition. Now that we have an insurance bill, can we move on to healthcare reform? As an organization of registered nurses, we have ...
• March Madness: Why Progressives Always Lose
  by John Atcheson Hurling Hail Mary's -- When is a victory more like a defeat? At the risk of being churlish, passing this health care bill was the palest of victories. Yes, it's better than nothing, but as the President himself has pointed out, it's largely made up of proposals the Republicans adv ...
• Food Riots or Food Rebellions?
  by Julia Landau Eric Holt-Giménez, Executive Director of Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy recently partnered with Raj Patel and Annie Shattuck to bring us Food Rebellions: Crisis and the Hunger for Justice .read more
• Moving Guantanamo to Bagram Could Evade Court Juri ...
  by Matthew Rothschild In President Obama's first week in office, he pledged to close down Guantanamo within a year. The year's been up for two months now, and Guantanamo still remains open. Making matters worse, it looks like the Obama Administration may simply move Guantanamo to Afghanistan. rea ...

Karl Burkart

• EPA gives us a day to celebrate
  Today the EPA moves to veto the largest mountain top removal proposal, Spruce No. 1.
• Climate Counterspin TV
  After more than a decade of anti-climate spin, the folks at DeSmogBlog say enough is enough with Climate TV.
• Bill Gates: billions for next-gen nuclear
  Bill Gates set to commit billions in a partnership between Toshiba and next-generation nuclear company TerraPower.
• Creative kids turn 'Trash to Treasure'
  PBS announces 2010 'Trash to Treasure' contest which will turn three kids into eco-design stars.
• Tapped: An expose of the water industry
  A new film goes inside the plastic bottle industry to reveal some dirty truths.

Water Privatization

• Another Proposed Dam, Likely Destruction of Waters ...
  (Bulatlat.com) DAVAO City — Indigenous group KATRIBU Partylist together with environmentalist group PANALIPDAN Southern Mindanao and Tamugan Farmers Association (TAFA) held a protest action as part of its commemoration of the Earth Hour (March 27) and the World Water Day (March 22) at the Ponciano R ...
• Letters to the editor: March 26, 2010 (Naples Dail ...
  Here are letters to the editor from Daily News editions of March 26, 2010.
• Looking below the surface of water-shortage debate ...
  others also read... Once again water – or, more precisely, the risk of water shortages – is in the headlines. Availability of potable water is a universal concern at international, national, municipal and personal levels.
• Pilot project attempts to save Herculane resort (N ...
  Black Sea hotel rates are big and will only drop if there is no demand, Regional Development and Tourism Minister Elena Udrea said yesterday.
• BCR Expert's Column (Nine O'Clock)
  Public employees’ unpaid leave has lowered personnel expenditures by 0.7 pc.

Guardian

• Don't mention the c-word
  She's an actor, producer and now director who has spent her whole life in the public eye. But call Drew Barrymore a celebrity at your peril Drew Barrymore, whose first film appearance was�as a three-year-old and who, at 35, is, by virtue of pedigree, productivity and insanely laconic vowels, the you ...
• The Motherhood of all film flops
  Motherhood's disastrous performance at the box office provokes bitter confrontation between producer and UK distributor It should have been a red carpet event. When just one British cinema was given exclusive permission to launch Uma Thurman's new film earlier this month, the film's producers presum ...
• Court orders Heathrow plans rethink
  High court rules that decision to expand Heathrow airport must be reconsidered in respect to UK climate change policy The government's plans for a third runway at Heathrow were dealt a blow today after a high court judge agreed with campaigners that climate change threats had not been taken seriousl ...
• Child abuse scandal is war of 'church and world'
  Allegations of cover-up reach Pope in case of abusive priest who was assigned pastoral work Pope Benedict was today accused of being involved in the mishandling of the case of a child-abusing priest in his former archdiocese of Munich, an allegation which directly links him to the burgeoning scandal ...
• Books podcast: Transatlantic literature
  How special is the relationship between the literatures of the UK and the US? Because we share a language, it's easy to assume we understand each other perfectly, but the results of a recent competition would suggest there is a growing gulf between the two traditions. Our panellists look at the diff ...

McClatchey

• New mortgage plan still has holes, White House con ...
  WASHINGTON — The White House Version 2.0 mortgage-relief plan announced on Friday is a recognition that the moribund housing sector poses a grave threat to the nation's economic recovery. By the administration's own admission, however, the effort may save at best only a third of the homes facing for ...
• EPA proposes blocking West Virginia mountaintop mi ...
  WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday proposed to halt the largest mountaintop mine in Central Appalachia, saying the project would pollute drinking water and harm wildlife in mountain streams, and that the damage to the mountains would be irreversible.
• With U.S.-Israel ties strained, Obama may make bol ...
  WASHINGTON — After 14 months of frustration over the moribund Mideast peace process and nearly three weeks of open confrontation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Barack Obama shows no sign of backing down — and may be about to double his bets.
• Q&A: Obama's mortgage-relief plan
  WASHINGTON — Problems in the nation's housing market are enormously complex, and the modest initiatives announced Friday by the Obama administration won't cover everyone in every situation, but it should help.
• Money may be owed for years after homeowners' defa ...
  SACRAMENTO -- Homeowners defaulting on mortgages today may be surprised to learn years from now that they still owe thousands of dollars -- and a collection agency is coming after them to get it.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

• CITES: Murky waters for marine conservation
  So, the once-every-three-years Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meeting has come to an end; and rather like the last time, conservationists are coming away with hands empty, apart from a few scrappy morsels of succour. I haven't been at the meeting in Doha, but I have ...
• Does healthcare win leave climate in better shape?
  The passage of President Obama's healthcare reform package prompts the question: what might it mean for climate change legislation? Will it clear the path for a climate bill this year , as some believe? Or has politicking over the healthcare bill poisoned the well of goodwill in Washington, as oth ...
• 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 ...

The Wonk Room

• Republicans To Introduce Legislation Strengthening ...
  As I note here, implementing the new health care reform law will provide conservatives with plenty of opportunities to fear monger about health care reform, but this new scandal about Congressional staffers being exempt from enrolling in the exchanges certainly isn’t one of them. Currently, the heal ...
• Virginia Governor Says Gays Don’t Need Legal ...
  Yesterday, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell — who recently issued an Executive Directive 1 stating that discrimination “based on factors such as one’s sexual orientation or parental status” will not be tolerated — said that gays and lesbians do not need protections against workplace discrimin ...
• California Gubernatorial Candidate Smears Opponent ...
  California gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner (R-CA) has been pulling out every stop to present himself as a conservative immigration hawk and convince California voters that his opponent, former eBay chief executive Meg Whitman (R-CA), is “no real Republican.” His most recent effort consists of ...
• Hatch: I Supported The Unconstitutional Individual ...
  Yesterday, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) admitted that he supported the individual mandate before he realized it was unconstitutional and now, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) has conceded that he too endorsed a policy that would have allowed the government “to tell you what you have to buy, even if you don’t w ...
• Shelby Fails To Heed Corker’s Advice, Keeps ...
  This week, Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) ripped his Republican colleagues for failing to negotiate with Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) on financial regulatory reform. Corker said that failure to work with Dodd — and subsequently allowing Dodd’s bill to pass out of committee with no Rep ...

thwap's schoolyard

• Canada & Torture & Law & Democracy: Where Do We St ...
  How depressing. The sub-title of this post started out as "Where We Stand," but seeing the long-term apathy (at best) about our present government regarding the possibility of complicity in the torture of innocent people, reading the detailed expressions of sympathy from conservative trolls on the ...
• A Bounty Paid For Arresting Tony Blair
  From George Monbiot . It sounds like a great idea! Encouraging citizens’ arrests of Tony Blair for the crime of aggression is perhaps the only remaining option we have, and the astonishing response to the campaign I launched last week shows that many people understand this. In 30 hours, before P ...
• Maybe Not ...
  A few days ago I typed that it was possible to defeat the harpercons in an election based on harper's blatant contempt for Canadian values and our system of government. But after the keystone kops impression the Liberals performed while trying to trash harper for his revolting exclusion of family p ...
• Why Did Rahim Jaffer Cross the Road?
  Because when he smashed his car into a telephone pole, his bag of cocaine flew out the driver-side window and landed on the other side. Why did Jim Flaherty spend $9,000 of our money to take a private plane to preach austerity at a Tim Horton's in London? Because he didn't want to risk having a pu ...
• Global Warming Readings
  I'm not scientifically inclined. I'm a very broad, sloppy thinker really. What I try to do to keep safe from justifiable ridicule is to stick close to subjects (such as foreign policy) that are more amporphous, while at the same time more based on clear, moral principles [ie., "don't slaughter inn ...

Financial Sense Editorials

• Natural Gas Bulls: Capitulation
  by Matthew Millar. "One obvious fact in the natural gas market is that inventory supplies have fallen to the 5 year average, after a huge 500 BCF overhang existed as recently as October (Figure 1). What isless obvious are the underlying mechanics of balance between supply and demand, after accountin ...
• Market Observation: U.S. Government Debt, U.S. Bud ...
  by Ron Griess. "The following chart shows Gross Federal Debt and the "Debt Ceiling" at the end of February, 2010."
• Battle for the Budget
  by Bud Conrad. "Recently the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) published its scoring of President Obama's budget for the next 10 years. It shows a budget deficit of $9.8 trillion. That is just shy of $4 trillion worse than the CBO’s baseline budget, a budget that includes only the laws as currently ...
• Bob Prechter Reveals the Most Dangerous Gold & Sil ...
  by Elliott Wave Int. "Right now, the gold BULL-ion bandwagon is more crowded than a New York subway train during rush hour. But before you squeeze your way into the crowd of passengers, you should know one thing: Those steering the course are using outdated maps based on ill-conceived notions and il ...
• If You Didn’t Like for the Movie You’ll hate the S ...
  by William Hecht. "In 2006 I wrote a piece for this most august website titled “Welcome to the New Economic Order, Goodbye Pluto.” The point of the piece was that in the face of the 2002 capital-spending recession we had had relied upon a very fast-acting and effective means of regenerating economi ...

on Government Oversight

• Congress Should Not Let Itself by Rolled Over by N ...
  Realizing that there is mounting doubt on the Hill in the wisdom of spending billions of dollars on four new buildings for the creation of new components for nuclear weapons, the directors of three national laboratories are going on the...
• Did Triple Canopy Instruct Its Guards to Lie to St ...
  Props to Dan Schulman at Mother Jones for finding an incredible footnote buried within the State Department IG’s audit on the shortcomings in State’s oversight of Triple Canopy, the contractor responsible for guarding the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. The footnote...
• Kabul Embassy Deja Vu
  Does the State Department have the capacity to effectively manage an embassy security contract in a war zone? It depends on your definition of effective. A previously unreleased report by the Department of State Office of Inspector General (IG), made...
• Morning Smoke: How to Prevent the Next Financial C ...
  Heading Off the Next Financial Crisis by David Leonhardt [The New York Times Magazine] U.S. Said to Widen Homeowner Aid, Subsidize Mortgage Reductions by Rebecca Christie and Kate Andersen Brower [Bloomberg] House kicks off caucus to push for open government...
• Congress Fighting for Its Ability to Conduct Overs ...
  The push to prevent the White House from curtailing congressional oversight of the intelligence community (IC) just gained a little momentum. In a letter sent Tuesday, three Senators and six Representatives urged President Obama to support a provision of the...

Digital Journal

• TTC approves $690 million subway suicide-preventio ...
  The Toronto Transit Commission has approved its plan to build subway suicide barriers, which is aimed at stopping suicides at subway stations. However, the cost will be $690 million.
• Inquiry into 2009 BC Sockeye salmon collapse is un ...
  Hearings for the inquiry looking into the collapse of the Fraser River Sockeye salmon fishery in 2009 got underway this week in Vancouver, British Columbia.
• New hope for sufferers of Relapsing Polychondritis
  March is National Autoimmune Diseases Awareness Month in the U.S. The designation was given to bring about awareness of autoimmune diseases. One of those diseases is a rare form of arthritis called Relapsing Polychondritis.
• Man who attacked woman on the loose, Toronto Polic ...
  Toronto Police are asking for assistance after alerting the public that a man who sexually assaulted a woman this week is on the loose.
• Swarming inside school gets three teens arrested i ...
  A Toronto student was swarmed this week inside his school by a group of adult male classmates. Before the principal and School Resource Officer could stop the assault the student, 19, was zapped by a stun gun.

End Homelessness | Change.org

• Only the Good and the Homeless Die Young
  The price of homelessness, for many, is premature death. Our homeless live about 36 percent shorter lives than our housed. And living is an even bigger luxury if you are a homeless Latina female, since you will likely only live half as long as the average housed person. To further depress you, about ...
• Shelters Cost More Than Apartments
  According to a report released today by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, every level of government (city, state, federal) could provide homeless families and individuals with permanent housing for less money than it costs to shelter them. "In almost all cases," the report concludes, ...
• Tough Love Shelters, Heavy on the Tough
  Despite all that New York City does right, it deserves a prominent place in the Hall of Shame of homeless services. Mayor Michael Bloomberg should get the brunt of the criticism. He pledged to dramatically reduce homelessness (don't they all?) with a five-year-plan he released in 2004. Six years lat ...
• Meet the Child Trying to End Child Homelessness
  Country singer Jimmy Wayne is not even halfway through his cross-country walk to raise awareness about children who, like he did, age out of the foster care system and aren't prepared to avoid homelessness, and already another activist has set off on a similar mission. But there's a key difference. ...
• HIV+ & Homeless, As If Things Couldn't Get Any ...
  It's been close to 30 years since the first patients with a rare skin cancer received treatment and were later found to have HIV, the virus that can cause AIDS. The history of HIV and AIDS is as frightening as the disease itself. Due to the moral implications, the general public and decision-makers ...

Ceasefire.ca

• Petition: Make Canada a UN Peacekeeper again
  Once the world's top contributor of troops for UN Peacekeeping, Canada has fallen far down the list as the military has turned away from the UN. Urge Prime Minister Harper, the political party leaders and your Member of Parliament to make Canada a proud UN Peacekeeeper once again.
• U.S. to ask Canada to keep troops in Afghanistan
  The Globe and Mail reported on Thursday that the United States will ask Canada to keep as many as 500 to 600 soldiers in Afghanistan following the scheduled end of the mission in July 2011 (John Ibbitson, “U.S. to press for Canada to keep troops in Afghanistan,” Globe and Mail, 25 March 2010).  Acc ...
• The power of protests: “When the public gets mad, ...
  Former Senator Douglas Roche on the power of protests (Douglas Roche, “Stand up and speak out for what’s right: Mass protests have the power to bring about social change,” Edmonton Journal, 24 March 2010): “When the public gets mad, politicians… back down. When the kitchen gets too hot, they run ...
• Canadian military quietly stops reporting wounded
  The Canadian military has quietly stopped reporting when soldiers are wounded on the battlefield (Murray Brewster, “Canada forbids reporting of battlefield wounded,” Globe and Mail, 23 March 2010).  In order to satisfy the public’s right to know what is going on in Afghanistan, the military says ...
• Dirty water bigger killer than war: UN
  Contaminated water is a bigger killer than all forms of violence, including war, says a new UN report. Sick Water? The Central Role of Wastewater Management in Sustainable Development was compiled by the UN Environment Programme and UN-HABITAT, the UN Human Settlements Programme. According to the r ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

• Soldiers Take Psychiatric Meds for Stress
  March 26, 2010 ABC News By: Martha Raddatz and Michael Murray After years on the battlefield or in the trenches, many American soldiers are showing signs of psychological distress. An increasing number of soldiers are turning to medication to alleviate their symptoms. From the isolated outposts of A ...
• Women Greater Hypochondriacs Than Men
  March 26, 2010 Telegraph A report from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) revealed that women are more likely to report illness than men, but are less likely to die from bad health. According to information provided by more than 750,000 people on national census forms completed in 2001, “Women ...
• Losing Breast May Not Be Best for Cancer Patients
  March 26, 2010 Breitbart By: Maria Cheng For some women, having a breast removed once they’re diagnosed with cancer doesn’t always mean they’ll live longer, a new study says. Researchers said that in women with breast cancer who also have genetic mutations that make them more susceptible to the dise ...
• Processed Food Leads to Depression
  March 26, 2010 Natural News By: David Gutierrez People who eat more processed foods are significantly more likely to suffer from depression, while those who eat more fruits and vegetables are significantly less likely to be depressed, according to a study conducted by researchers from University Col ...
• Mediterranean Diet May Protect Against Stomach Can ...
  March 26, 2010 Natural News By: E. Huff A study conducted by the Catalan Institute for Oncology in Barcelona has concluded that eating a “Mediterranean” diet significantly reduces the risk of developing stomach cancer. Published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the study focused specif ...

Pambazuka News

• USA: Black coalition to protest expanding U.S. war ...
  A newly-formed Black coalition has announced a rally and march on the White House to take place November 7, 2009 beginning in Washington, D.C.’s historic Malcolm X Park. The rally and march are to protest the expanding U.S. wars and other policy ini...
• Brazil: Bloggers on why there is still racism in t ...
  Two weeks ago, Global Voices Online reported the story of Januário Alves de Santana, a black man who had been beaten and punched by security guards of one of the largest international retailers in Brazil. He was waiting for his family in the car park...
• Global: It takes a Villager
  Owino Odhiambo left his tiny Kenyan village less than a decade ago to immerse himself completely in American culture. Equipped with American citizenship, two degrees, and five years experience working as a dedicated graphic designer in New York City,...
• Honduras: Implications of coup for Afro-descendant ...
  Currently, the country of Honduras in Central America is experiencing its worst political crisis in decades. In the aftermath of the military coup that forcibly removed President Manuel Zelaya Rosales, there have been various developments that have r...
• Guadeloupe: Demand for support for the independenc ...
  Felix Alain Flémin, secretary general of the Guadeloupe Communist Party (GCP) has called for international solidarity in support of the struggle for independence and self-determination of the people of those Caribbean islands under French colonial do...

War in Context

• What planet do these people live on?
  A letter signed by 300 members of Congress and sent to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declares: A strong Israel is an asset to the national security of the United States and brings stability to the Middle East. What an accomplishment! That so many fallacies could be packed into a single senten ...
• Iraq’s election result declared
  The New York Times reports: When the votes were all finally counted, Iraq’s election left almost everything unresolved, from who would finally rule the country to whether American combat troops would be able to leave on schedule by August. The former interim prime minister, Iyad Allawi, a secular ...
• Being there
  After a recent piece by Tom Engelhardt was republished in the military newspaper Stars and Stripes — his op-ed was on opposition to the scheduled US withdrawal from Iraq — a reader from the military sent Tom an email posing this pointed question: “When was the last time you visited Iraq?” The obviou ...
• No peace without equality
  (h/t to Adam Horowitz at Mondoweiss.) When Israel defines itself as a “Jewish State,” it not only sees itself as the state of Jews worldwide. It also sees Arab identity in this homeland as a threat to that definition. That’s why the state sees discrimination against Arabs as part of its “job descr ...
• Netanyahu — disgraced, isolated and weaker
  The headline for Aluf Benn’s article in Haaretz says it all: “Netanyahu leaves U.S. disgraced, isolated and weaker.” Benn’s full account appears below but some of the comments elsewhere in the Israeli press reveal how deeply a racist outlook on the world is embedded within the Israeli perspective. ...

Watts Up With That?

• Energy Star-t Your Engines
  Massive fraud in the EPA/DOE Energy Star Program. Automated system allows fake products to get approval. WASHINGTON — Does a “gasoline-powered alarm clock” qualify for the EnergyStar label, the government stamp of approval for an energy-saving product? Like more than a dozen other bogus products s ...
• Tropical England
  Guest post by Steven Goddard National Trust image by Rob Collins The UK National Trust is warning of a 2-4C rise in summer temperatures by the end of the century.  They envision English gardens full of palm trees, Bougainvillea and tropical fruit, as seen above. The apple orchards have been repla ...
• Catlin Team Averaging 1.7 Miles Per Day – O ...
  The Catlin team has been on the ice for 10 days, and has traveled a total of 17 miles so far as the crow flies.  At that rate, they will reach the North Pole in September, except that the ice gets too dangerous by early May and they will have to evacuate. Their current position [...]
• WUWT Status report – 40 million
  Overnight, another milestone occurred. As of 6:20 AM PST, the WUWT hit counter shows: Thank you readers, thank you moderators, thank you guest contributors. Traffic has slowed from about half of what it was during the heady days of Climategate and Copenhagen in December, but I note that this is not ...
• Earth follows the warming: soils add 100 million t ...
  From the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: Soils release more carbon dioxide as globe warms The researchers overlaid the soil respiration database — which is openly available for the scientific community to add to — on Google Earth. COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Twenty years of field stud ...

Dandelion Salad

• Rachel Maddow: What’s Happening In Iraq And ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ MoxNewsDotCom March 26, 2010 http://MOXNews.com/ March 26, 2010 MSNBC Rachel Maddow Show What’s Happening In Iraq And How It Affects Americans Filed under: Dandelion Salad Posts News Politics and-or Videos 2, Dandelion Salad Videos, Elections, Iraq, Iraq on D ...
• Kucinich sends Origami cranes to Obama + A new Str ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Congressman Dennis Kucinich Washington, Mar 26, 2010 Kucinich Sends Message of Peace and Nuclear Disarmament to President Obama on Behalf of Japanese Students Origami Peace Crane folded by Dandelion Salad photo by Dandelion Salad Congressman Dennis Kuci ...
• The Jeff Farias Show: Tim Gatto on American Except ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Posted with permission from Jeff Farias Note: Dandelion Salad has an RSS feed link to Jeff Farias’ show on the left-hand side of the page. with Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad The Jeff Farias Show March 25, 2010 At 01:35 – Tim Gatto Tim is ...
• Financing Fascism, Part I by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH
  by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted on Buzzflash.com Mar. 25, 2010 Fascism may be defined briefly as: “A politico-economic system in which there is: total executive branch control of both the legislative and administrative powers of government; no independen ...
• The Iron Heel (1908) by Jack London
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Read it online: Jack London: The Iron Heel Table of Contents *** The Iron Heel per­formed by Matt Soar Audio­book ver­sion of The Iron Heel 1908 by Jack London. Foreward Chapters 1-10 (more to come): The Iron Heel The Iron Heel (audio­book) writ­ten by Jack ...

Your New Reality

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  Sarah Palin Won't Settle For Just Any Old Private Jet Really, Sarah Palin is just like you, and me.....If you and me were 1990s high-flying rock stars, on a massive ego trip, looking to cash in at every opportunity : Palin’s contract, according to Shreeve, who had a look at it, called for her to be ...
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  Dave Devries sensational and occasionally downright disturbing artistic reworkings of children's drawings make you wonder whether four year old kids really see the monsters in their imaginations, that they try to get down on paper, as vividly horrific as these : They really are the creatures of ...
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  The CIA Really Did Poison People With LSD In Search Of Mind Control Weapons This story once fell into the point-and-laugh realm of ridiculous "conspiracies theories". Not anymore : In 1951 a quiet village in southern France was suddenly and mysteriously struck down with mass insanity and hallucinat ...
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  Eiffel Tower Not So Impressive Anymore Ants don't need architects : "The structure covers 50 square metres, and goes 8 metres into the earth. "In it's construction, the colony moved 40 tonnes of soil. Billions of ant loads of soil were brought to the surface, each load weighed four times as much a ...
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  The Next Generation Of Astronauts Will Be Inspired By Homer Simpson, Not Neil Armstrong Every now and then it's good to pause and really take in the mind-blowing Future Now! wonder of what the internet brings to us. The part of me that is still a wide-eyed 8 year old all-things-space-&-NASA-total- ...

Wired - Science

• New RFID Tag Could Mean the End of Bar Codes
  Lines at the grocery store might become as obsolete as milkmen, if a new tag that seeks to replace bar codes becomes commonplace. Researchers from Sunchon National University in Suncheon, South Korea, and Rice University in Houston have built a radio frequency identification tag that can be printed ...
• What’s It Like to Fly the Space Shuttle? We Find O ...
  As a person who really enjoys flying airplanes, I never thought I would ever say this, but flying a simulator can be as much fun as flying the real thing. Of course it helps when the simulator is a replica of the space shuttle cockpit at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. On a recent assignment [ ...
• Lab-Quality Booze Detector Fits in a Suitcase
  Ever found yourself staring down a punch bowl at a frat party and wondering just how spiked it might be? What you needed was the AlcoQuick 4000, a briefcase-sized infrared spectrometer that can accurately determine the alcohol content of a wide variety of beverages in just 60 seconds, according to ...
• Ron Howard Was Wrong: Apollo 13 Would Have Burned, ...
  The Apollo 13 module, had it not been for NASA’s heroic efforts to get it back on course, would have missed Earth and tumbled into the depths of cold, lonely space. At least that’s been the story repeated in popular, academic, and cinematic accounts of the ill-fated mission, like Ron Howard’s Apoll ...
• Laser-Guidance Adds Power to Wind Turbines
  The wind industry may soon be dependent on a different kind of environmental awareness that has more to do with lasers than ecology. A new laser system that can be mounted on wind turbines allows them to prepare for the wind rushing towards their blades. The lasers act like sonar for the wind, boun ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Jonathan cook: Israel’s Provocation at al-Aqsa
  The Israeli government has indicated that it will press ahead with a plan to enlarge the Jewish prayer plaza at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City, despite warnings that the move risks... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in ...
• Ajami Director: No apologies
  Scandar Copti: "Successive Israeli governments that prevent the most basic things, such as self-definition, in every way possible, whether through racist laws, the naming of streets, the way the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
• Did IDF general cut short probe into U.S. activist ...
  The Military Police interrogation of a key suspect in the killing of American human rights activist Rachel Corrie was cut short by a direct order of then GOC Southern, Maj. Gen. Doron Almog, army... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
• Israeli West Bank food company fakes address for E ...
  Shamir Salads, an Israeli company located in the West Bank, is marketing its products in Europe using a false address west of the Green Line, violating an agreement between Israel and the European... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Akiva Eldar: Netanyahu and Obama are at a point of ...
  The strife between Israel and the United States concerns something far bigger than the proximity talks with the Palestinians. As far as President Barack Obama and his senior advisers are concerned,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Philip Crowley praises new Russia-U.S. arms reduct ...
  A U.S. State Department spokesman has praised the new arms reduction treaty Russia and the United States are to sign in April
• Fate of Russia's Bulava missile must be decided th ...
  The upcoming tests of Russia's troubled Bulava ballistic missile will determine whether it will be put in service with the Russian Navy or scrapped.
• Black Sea Fleet
• Black Sea Fleet future in Ukraine may become clear ...
  Russia and Ukraine could agree on the extension of the Black Sea Fleet's presence in the Crimea while Viktor Yanukovich serves his first term as Ukrainian president.
• Russia needs minimum 50 nuclear subs for fleet - N ...
  The Russian Navy ideally needs to have at least 50 nuclear-powered submarines, a high-ranking Navy officer said during a live interview with Ekho Moskvy radio station on Saturday.

NewsWise

• Researchers Take 'First Step': Use Tiny Worms to U ...
  School of Pharmacy pinpoints cinnamon and ginseng as potential life-extending ingredients in two popular herbal mixtures.
• UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School Receives Two $15 M ...
  UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School received two $15 million NIH grants in March. That funding will advance research in HIV/AIDS vaccine development and address infrastructure Improvements.
• First Responder Community Connections
  The nation's First Responders and it's Homeland Secuity officials can now collaborate and exchange information and ideas in a new virtual community.
• The Asthma Files: Creating a Portrait of Asthmatic ...
  About 300 million people around the world have difficulty breathing due to asthma, and for several years, it's been a special research interest for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Associate Professor Kim Fortun. The incidence of asthma has increased dramatically in the United States and globally in ...
• Anti-Violence Summit, Health Screenings and Safety ...
  Rush Medical College and Chicago Public Schools partner with the Student National Medical Association to address issues impacting the underserved community.

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

• Toxic Sludge Being Thrown on Lawns in Black Neighb ...
  Lawmakers and the NAACP are calling for an investigation into reports that federally funded scientific experiments in 2000 spread sewage sludge on yards in poor black neighborhoods to test if it could fight lead poisoning in children. The Associated Press reported Sunday that researchers spread a mi ...
• Nation’s Largest Private Water Utility Joins Lawsu ...
  The nation's largest private water utility company has joined a federal lawsuit[1] that aims to force the manufacturer of atrazine, a widely-used herbicide, to pay for its removal from drinking water. Click here to read this article
• Should Whole Foods, Like Google, Get Out of China?
  Google is exiting China for a number of reasons, including the hacking of its data, but fundamentally, Google found that it couldn’t live up to its values of openness in a repressive society. Whole Foods Market has a different China problem: The company imports lots of organic food from China, but i ...
• No Regulation of Nanotech
  Today, the U.S. is at the fore of worldwide nano-innovation. But when it comes to regulations and laws that will protect consumers and workers from the potential hazards, the country lags badly behind many other nations. Click here to read this article
• New ANH Study Says EU Vitamin Laws Must Change Tra ...
  A study just published in a leading peer reviewed journal explains how the European Commission’s proposed approach to limiting maximum doses of vitamins and minerals in food supplements across Europe is not scientifically rational. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

• Paisajes Naturales (10 imágenes de 1920x1200)
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. ¿Está usted buscando imágenes o fotografías de paisajes naturales ? Si usted ha respondido afirmativamente, quiero decirle que hoy es su día de suerte pues tengo en exclusiva para usted que viene por primera vez a visita ...
• Bellísima colección de Autos (27 wallpapers gigant ...
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Hola, hola, hola! El día de hoy jueves 25 de marzo , estoy muy feliz porque tengo para todos ustedes una archirequetecontramegasuper colección de wallpapers en alta resolución basada exclusivamente en Automóviles de lujo ...
• Imágenes de pegasos y unicornios. (33 elementos)
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Desde hace algunos días, una excelente persona que visita el Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas con suma regularidad, me había solicitado un especial de imágenes de pegasos . Aunque no fue fácil conseguir la siguiente recopilac ...
• Imágenes de ángeles (23 elementos de seres alados)
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. De alguna forma, todos sentimos algún tipo de atracción o curiosidad hacia estos seres divinos llamados ángeles. Sus... Esto es sólo un resumen, por favor haga click en el link permanente para leer todo y ver la co ...
• Día mundial del agua (World Water Day) Marzo 22
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Con el firme objetivo de concientizar a la humanidad sobre el gran deterioro que está sufriendo nuestro planeta día con... Esto es sólo un resumen, por favor haga click en el link permanente para leer todo y ver la ...

Executive Intelligence Review

• The Only Thing Obama Fears Is Lyndon LaRouche
  By Debra Freeman Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 26, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 12
• LaRouche to Private Washington Seminar: Sovereign ...
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 26, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 12
• LaRouche Webcast: The Ides of March 2010
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 26, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 12
• London's `Our Men' in Moscow Keep Poisoning Russia ...
  By Rachel Douglas Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 26, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 12
• Russia: What Comes Next?
  Editorial, by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 26, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 12

Center for a Livable Future

• Maryland’s Grocery Store Tax Credit Bill Could Imp ...
  Maryland House Bill 1135, the Grocery Store Property Tax Credit Bill, passed the House yesterday with 138-0 votes! The bill grants a property tax credit to grocery stores throughout the state located in low-income areas. Delegate Justin Ross, the main sponsor of the bill, represents Prince George’s ...
• Urban Chicken Farming
  This past Saturday, the Baltimore Food Makers held their monthly potluck in Northeast Baltimore at the home of an urban chicken farming couple. Our hosts distilled a lifetime of farming know-how into a short tour of their backyard chicken coop, and fielded questions about their three hens, poultry h ...
• 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 ...

Norwegianity

• Sinead O’Connor on il Papa
  The more reporters learn about Pope Natzinger’s handling of the Rev. Peter Hullermann pedophilia case, the harder it is to pretend that our former Hitler Youth Corps Pope ever gave a shit about buggered choir boys. It’s an evil church. It has always been evil from its earliest days of being coopted ...
• The return of Johnny Ass®ocket
  Brian Lambert on Hinderaker’s latest eruption: As you might expect, John Hinderaker at Power Line has been melting down his keyboard railing against the “disaster” that is “Obamacare.” In his most recent post, the topic is “political violence,” in the news (and being exploited by liberals, he ...
• Do overs
  By now I’m sure you’ve heard that GOoPer nitpickers have sent the reform bill back to the House for fixes. Well I’m certainly torn. This is the usual horseshit but if somehow (and I don’t think this will) derail healthcare . . . well, it’s not like the Republicans won’t totally and completely own th ...
• A crush of links
  The only good news I’ve heard in a while: Obama’s finally ready to give up on comity and start making recess appointments. No sane person can win an argument with insane liars. Recess appointments for everyone and fuck the U.S. Senate for allowing lone Senators to hold up popular appointments. Not t ...
• A gaggle of opinions and a smattering of news
  I want my own Tea Party. I want a Tea Party of the radical center. Thomas Friedman What a douchebag. We already have one of those: it’s called the Democratic party. I’m totally pissed at myself for even glancing at this column but the title sucked me in. A Tea Party Without Nuts. Yeah, right. Friedm ...

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

• Bling Faith or Emotional Pull ?? | Teeth Maestro
  Recent debates, especially on facebook , regarding Zaid Hamid and his relations with a convicted blasphemer who died in jail almost a decade ago have certainly caught the Pakistani youth by surprise. They find themselves locked in an argument which is taking a heavy toll on their intellect and ener ...
• 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 ...

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

• Flawed justice: The case of Leonard Peltier
  Flawed justice: The case of Leonard Peltier By Peter Worthington Toronto Sun http://www.torontosun.com/news/columnists/peter_worthington/2010/03/13/13219481.html Leonard Peltier is now starting his 35th year in prison. He is 65, and more than half his life has been spent as a prisoner. Impassi ...
• 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 ...

Pensieve

• Chigüire Bipolar Hacked, Bad Week for Freedom
  This week has seen the demise of Google China, the arrest of Guillermo Zuolaga, the president of Globovisión, Venezuela’s last opposition channel, and the reelection of Jose Miguel Insulza as the leader of the OAS. In a much smaller and more personal level, my website was hacked. But that the Chigà ...
• 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 ...

Green Times

• Greening Education, Increasing Employability
  Whether directly employed in a green job, or in a related field, green skills and sustainable practice become essential as the world transitions to a low-carbon economy.
• 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 ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• KBR Bills $5 Million For Mechanics Who Work 43 Min ...
  By Adam Weinstein The Department of Defense agreed to pay the megacontractor KBR $5 million a year to repair tactical vehicles, from Humvees to big rigs, at Joint Base Balad, a large airfield and supply center north of Baghdad. Yet according to a new Pentagon report , what the military got was ...
• GOP: We'll Kill the Liars Who Say We Are Inciting ...
  'Where does it say in the Constitution that you can't use the 'n-word?' Satire by R J Shulman Republican leaders are vehemently denying their tactics and rhetoric have been responsible for the major recent increase in political violence... "The liberal press has it all wrong when they accuse me ...
• FBI: NY congressman gets 'threatening' letter with ...
  The office of Representative Anthony Weiner received a letter that "could be interpreted as threatening," the FBI said on Thursday, and local media reported the letter contained an unidentified white powder. Authorities were responding to the office of the Democratic Congressman in the New York ...
• Death threats plague Democrats who supported Barac ...
  Democrats who supported sweeping changes to America's health care system have been subjected to death threats and vandalism as the tide of anger and outrage over the bill grows . The FBI has been called in to investigate after bricks were thrown through Democrats' windows and menacing phone mess ...
• Georgia Attorney General Faces Impeachment Threat ...
  Georgia lawmakers reacted to Wednesday's news that their Attorney General, Democrat Thurbert Baker, would not sign on to a multi-state lawsuit to block the health care bill in his state by filing papers to have him impeached. The blog Peach Pundit reports that the resolution to impeach Baker , ...

Daily Loaf

• Jannus Landing re-opens as Jannus Live to a health ...
  Has the inherent Jannus-ness been lost?
• When I think of SXSW I don’t think about music
  When you think of SXSW, do you still think first of music? Not me. And I played the damn thing four years ago with my band. For many like, Austin's yearly open-house to the world is about one thing above all: tech.
• Reel Projections podcast: Joe Bardi on The Grind t ...
  The Reel Projections podcast crew will return next week (for sure!) with a dissection of the new remake of Clash of the Titans, but that doesn't mean you have to go without your weekly movies gabfest! In place of our usual show, check out my radio interview with The Grind 's Flip and Bill. We chat ...
• TBARTA comes out against the Hometown Democracy Am ...
  Dubbed the Hometown Democracy Amendment, the legislation would require public approval regarding growth management projects locally. In deciding whether to pass a resolution regarding the amendment, strong opinions emerged from the board members.
• Sex Bites: Woods blows up over sex doll, Robert Pa ...
  Your week in sex news.

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Quarreling Lovers Make Up Over Missiles
  The United States and Israel may be fighting, but fear not. These BAF (Best Allies Forever) have the equivalent of a bunch of roses to reconcile over, a sweetheart deal to buy fighter jets. The US supplies the cash, and Israel buys the weapons. It’s like a gift certificate! For your own store. That ...
• Gaza Students Can’t Study in Gaza, Can&#8217 ...
  From Gisha’s Gaza Gateway Between March 1 and March 5, 2010, the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt was open, and 4427 people passed through the crossing, including 461 students. Of these students, 100 were returned to Gaza by the Egyptians either because Egypt believed that they would ...
• At-Tuwani: Where Walking to School is An Act of R ...
  Here is another report from the Christian Peacemaker Team, who look out after the children in the area of the At-Tuwani village in the southern Hebron hills  as they try to make their way to school.   Once again, the Israeli military fails to patrol the children as they are required to do to protect ...
• Shedding Light on Discrimination Against Arab Citi ...
  Some of you may remember the relentless attacks on Jimmy Carter after publication of his book, Palestine:  Peace Not Apartheid.   To deflect some of the criticism, Carter was at pains to distinguish the situation between Arabs in the Occupied Territories and Arab-Israeli citizens.  Regarding the lat ...
• Israeli Soldiers Torture Another Man for Organizin ...
  From the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Omar Alaaeddin from the village of al Ma’sara was nabbed from the Container Checkpoint on Sunday the 14th. He was released yesterday with no charges pressed against him. Alaaeddin reports having been tortured in the Israeli Russian Compound Jail in Je ...

Politics in the Zeros

• Crested sagauro cactus
  It’s even rarer to have them crested inside rather than outside. Catalina State Park, Arizona. That’s me pointing at it.
• Best Buy joins others opposing US Chamber of Comme ...
  Best Buys joins Nike, Apple, Johnson & Johnson and other major companies in opposing the anti-climate change agenda of the US Chamber of Commerce. Like others have announced, it says that the US Chamber of Commerce does not represent its views or interests on this key legislation. Even that conserva ...
• JPM, Lehman, UBS alleged as conspiring to cheat mu ...
  Now it is getting closer to being official. This Bloomberg story reports that not only do Wall Street firms screw their clients (hardly a novel revelation these days) but a large group of firms allegedly conspired to price-fix on guarantee investment contracts, a product used by government issuers ...
• Ratzinger knew
  Pope was told pedophile priest would get transfer Pope accused of ignoring pleas to stop priest who molested 200 deaf boys How can someone who is the problem also be the solution to it?
• Obama whacks Netayahu upside the head
  This was in response to Netanyahu ordering new settlements while Biden was in Israel, a huge insult and quite deliberate insult meant to appease the extreme right in Israel. After failing to extract a written promise of concessions on settlements, Mr Obama walked out of his meeting with Mr Netanyahu ...

Coteret

• Arrested for Post Zionism
  Cross posted from Promised Land. Editors note: Note how the charge resembles Yuval Diskin’s definition of the Shabak’s mandate. —– Pay close attention to this item. It doesn’t seem like much, but it’s an important one: Two international activists, Ariadna Jove Marti (Spain) and Bridgette Chappel ...
• Searching for scapegoats, Netanyahu now tries to l ...
  In May 2007, the current head of Israel’s internal security agency, the General Security Service (GSS aka Shabak and Shin Bet), Yuval Diskin, unilaterally revolutionized his agency’s mandate.  Disken was responding to a request by Adalah to clarify the scope of the GSS’s authority to investigat ...
• MK’s Passover proposal for migrants and refu ...
  Fitting that this proposal was circulated in the run-up to Passover by an “observant” MK. It is becoming increasingly clear that for the fundamentalist strain of Jewish Orthodoxy and its secular nationalist allies, the only problem with our history of persecution is that Jews were the victims. How c ...
• 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 ...

Deadline Live

• Whose Streets? (Our Streets between 1pm and 4pm Wi ...
  By Cindy Sheehan On the 7th commemoration of the illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq, there was a rally and march in DC sponsored by the A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition that was attended by about eight thousand people. For quite awhile, I have been having problems with marches on Saturday, anyway. It seem ...
• Liberty vs HealthCare (Video)
  Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList
• Vatican Attacks The Media For “Trying To Sme ...
  Vatican Attacks The Media For “Trying To Smear The Pope” Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList
• Obama Completes Arms Control Deal With Russia
  WASHINGTON — President Obama finalized a new arms control treaty with Russia on Friday that will pare back the still-formidable cold war nuclear arsenals of each country. The agreement brings to fruition one of the president’s signature foreign policy objectives, just days after he signed into ...
• Dogs suffer cancer after ID chipping
  ‘I saw it growing every day, and I could see it taking his life’ Posted: March 24, 2010 8:22 pm Eastern By Chelsea Schilling © 2010 WorldNetDaily Do implanted microchips cause cancer in dogs and cats? That’s the question owners are asking after highly aggressive tumors developed around the microch ...

The Air Vent

• Developing Technology
  Tom Fuller’s blog has me on a roll this morning.  Tom has an economist which he interviewed who calculated that the best way to save the world is to tax CO2, and Copenhagen is a good thing.  Naturally, that get’s me all wound up but I can’t finish my thoughts there without running into the [...]
• Thermal Hammer Part Deux
  This is basically a continuation of the documentation of Roman’s improved method of combining temperature anomaly.  First there are several plots which show the difference between the simple – average the anomaly method – used universally in climate science overlaid on the improved method. Note the ...
• An Alternative Proposal for Health Care Reform
  It’s a bit late for proposals, but this is David’s ideal health care system.  Feel free to negotiate. Guest post by David JP This may be way too late given the recent events at our nation’s capital, but I hope not. As I mentioned in my post on the People Dependent thread, I had [...]
• Thermal Hammer
  Ok, today is the day that tAV, the repeatedly alleged EVIL denialist blog, lucky unwitting recipient of the biggest scientific scandal of the last hundred years, hosting the proprietor who has been snipped from every advocate website, who will now present a global gridded temperature from the RAW-is ...
• Interesting Rreply
  From UK government: http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page22924 I don’t think I signed this petition but the government response to it is pretty interesting. H/T again Kondelar ——- UEACRU – epetition response We received a petition asking: “We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to suspend the Cl ...

Focal Point

• The FDA Ignores Court Order on Emergency Contracep ...
  In March 2009, a federal judge ordered the Food and Drug Administration to reassess the arbitrarily imposed and scientifically unjustified age restrictions on access to emergency contraception (aka "the morning after pill" or Plan B). Nominally, EC is available over the counter, but on ...
• Skeptic and Magician James Randi Escapes the Close ...
  Skeptic and magician James Randi has pulled off yet another daring escape. The famous debunker of scam psychics has emerged from the closet at the age of 81. Randi made the big announcement on his blog last Sunday. After all these years, Sean Penn's biopic Milk inspired him to finally go public. "I ...
• 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 ...

Inside Facebook

• Facebook Proposes Broad Updates To Governing Docs ...
  Facebook is proposing a broad range of updates to its governing documents, the company announced today. It’s a complex combination of simple clarifications and significant changes. The updates could impact everything from the company’s pending location service, to developers and advertisers on th ...
• Facebook Hires Google Advertising Exec to Help It ...
  Facebook’s performance and brand advertising services have been booming, and now the company has hired David Fischer, who until last year ran Google’s roughly similar advertising programs. Fischer went on sabbatical last fall, after having taken over Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg’ ...
• Basketball Brackets Vie With Quizzes on This Week’ ...
  March Madness is in full swing on this week’s list of emerging Facebook apps still under a million monthly active users. There are no less than three basketball bracket apps listed: CBSSports.com Brackets, Bracket Challenge by Citizen Sports and 2010 Bracket Challenge. Brackets are a way of bet ...
• As Facebook Grows, a Few Leaders Leave and More Jo ...
  Facebook appears to be quickly growing its number of employees this year, and we’ve heard the number is up past 1300 already. As its ranks and office spaces grow, it is both hiring new leaders — especially from other Silicon Valley companies — and saying farewell to a few earlier [...]
• Survey Says: Family Feud Game On Facebook Quickly ...
  Developers iWin, Inc. and Backstage Inc. have transformed the popular Family Feud game show into a Family Feud Facebook game app of the same name, piggy-backing on the already successful online game currently available at iWin’s Web site. The game follows the same format as the long-running game sho ...

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: Jeff Cohen | We Won a Robust Public Opti ...
  truthout: Jeff Cohen | We Won a Robust Public Option . . . on College Loans: We won! When President Barack Obam... http://bit.ly/cnYaQh #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Izzy Award Winner Jeremy Scahill: "We're ...
  truthout: Izzy Award Winner Jeremy Scahill: "We're At a Ground Zero Moment to Save Real Journalism": The winner... http://bit.ly/d9vxcM #Truthout #p2
• truthout: @fnytv @Lilobri @knoxkp @wmnfnews thanks ...
  truthout: @fnytv @Lilobri @knoxkp @wmnfnews thanks for the RTs!!
• truthout: EXPOSED:The Troubling History of Tea Par ...
  truthout: EXPOSED:The Troubling History of Tea Party Leader Dick Armey http://bit.ly/9cNuCt Please Digg #Digg #p2 #topprogs #Truthout
• truthout: Euro Zone Includes IMF in Backup Bailout ...
  truthout: Euro Zone Includes IMF in Backup Bailout for Greece Debt:  On Greece's independence day, leaders of 1... http://bit.ly/daRP8f #Truthout #p2

ReDress News

• Israel’s provocation at al-Aqsa
  The Israeli government has indicated that it will press ahead with a plan to enlarge the Jewish prayer plaza at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City, despite warnings that the move risks triggering a third intifada, Jonathan Cook reports.
• Bibi Netanyahu’s babe: kneepad diplomacy lives!
  Alan Sabrosky argues that US politicians’ loyalty to Israel – “there isn't any longer even a facade of ‘dual loyalty’, only loyalty to Israel alone – has reached a point where, despite its enormous power, the US is totally paralysed in the face of Israel.
• Obama still has no stomach to take on Israel
  Jonathan Cook argues that, despite recent tension between the US White House and Israel, “it remains doubtful that the US actually has the stomach to extract from Israel the concessions needed to create that elusive entity referred to as a viable Palestinian state”.
• Israelis unhappy with weak loyalty of “British dog ...
  Gilad Atzmon views the reasons behind the anger of Israeli politicians at the insufficient loyalty displayed by their British counterparts that culminated in the expulsion of an Israeli spy over the cloning of UK passports used by the murderers of a Hamas fighter in Dubai.
• Israel’s “No renting to Arabs” policy
  Jonathan Cook reports on how the efforts of one rare Israeli Jewish couple to coexist with fellow Arab citizens have been thwarted by their elected racist Jewish community officials. ”Three of the couple’s six dogs have been mysteriously poisoned; Mrs Zakai’s car has been sprayed with the words ”Ar ...

Amazon Rainforest

• New threat to uncontacted Tribes in Amazonia !
  Anglo-French oil company Perenco has revealed plans to build a pipeline deep into the heart of uncontacted tribes’ land in the Amazon rainforest. The pipeline is being built to transport an estimated three hundred million barrels of oil from the depths of the northern Peruvian Amazon. The company ...
• 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 ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Podcast Show #26
  NWC’s Stephen Kohn Takes on the Absentee White House Last week Boiling Frogs Post 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 publicly debate on the Whistleblow ...
• White House vs. Whistleblowers Debate: NWC Accepts ...
  National Whistleblowers Center & Boiling Frogs Post Ask White House to Reconsider On Friday, March 19, Boiling Frogs Post 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, ...
• 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 ...

Afro Spear

• AFRICOM: The expansion of US military interests on ...
  Thanks to Désiré Katihabwa for forwarding these videos.
• Ann Coulter’s Canadian Adventure
  American conservative, so-called “right-wing”, political commentator Ann Coulter is on a speaking tour of Canadian universities this week. Known for her controversial, sound bite type comments, she didn’t fail to live up to her billing when asked by a Muslim student about her previous stateme ...
• Byts and Bytes: Black to the future
  It’s been a while since I dropped a post. I’ve primarily been busy being a husband, father and worker (in that order). The little free time I do have, I’ve been spending reading, as well as watching documentaries, movies, HardTalk (on BBC World), Tavis Smiley and Glenn Beck (more on him in an upcom ...
• “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 ...

Expose the BNP

• MEDIA BRIEFING: The BNP and the election
  With DOMINIC CARMAN, journalist and author of the unofficial biography of Nick Griffin. And MARC VALLEE,  photojournalist and investigative journalist who is currently working on a long-term project to document political protest and dissent in modern Britain. Wednesday 7th April at 7pm National Uni ...
• Eyewitness: Police attack demonstrators
  The following is the eye-witness testimony of an NUJ member who joined the anti-fascist protest in Bolton on Saturday. On arriving in Bolton at 10.30am, the group from the East London coach walked to Victoria Square, where we assembled on the north side of the square, opposite the eastern corner of ...
• No title
  BOLTON, UNITED KINGDOM - 20.03.10. An anti-fascist campaigner is arrested as the far right English Defence League congregate in Bolton on Saturday 10 March 2010 in Lancashire, England.  Police in full riot gear used the controversial tacit of ‘kettling’ along with dogs, horses and riot police sna ...
• Eyewitness: Dogs and riot shields
  The following is the eye-witness testimony of an NUJ member who joined the anti-fascist protest in Bolton on Saturday My first and only face-to-face encounter with the EDL on Saturday wasn’t even in Bolton. It was at the motorway services in Newport Pagnell. My coach, which had left central London a ...
• Journalist: I witnessed Bolton police violence
  The following is the eye-witness testimony of an NUJ member who joined the anti-fascist protest in Bolton on Saturday I was one of three stewards on a UAF coach from north London that went to Bolton. We ran through the spiel on where we were assembling; how we expected the day to pan out; that we [. ...

 

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