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Thomas Paine

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Thursday, March 4, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • RIGHTS-MEXICO: "Yes, I Do" Want a Same-Sex Marria ...
    MEXICO CITY, Mar 4 (IPS) - Emma Villanueva and her partner lined up at the civil registry office in the Mexican capital to register for a marriage licence Thursday, the day that Latin America's first same-sex marriage law went into effect.
  • INDONESIA: U.S. Seeks to Resume Training of Cont ...
    WASHINGTON, Mar 4 (IPS) - The administration of President Barack Obama hopes to resume U.S. training of an elite Indonesian military unit whose members have been convicted of gross human rights abuses in East Timor and elsewhere in the sprawling archipelago.
  • RIGHTS: Arab Women Caught Between Extremes
    UNITED NATIONS, Mar 4 (IPS) - The status of women in a predominantly male-chauvinistic Arab world continues to fluctuate from one extreme to another.
  • LATIN AMERICA-US: Clinton Attempts Damage Contro ...
    RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 4 (IPS) - The dialogue of the deaf on Iran's nuclear programme that took place in the capital of Brazil highlights the hurdles faced by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in her attempt at forging warmer ties during her tour of six Latin American countries.
  • UGANDA: Pressure Mounts to Make Public Oil Agre ...
    KAMPALA, Mar 4 (IPS) - Uganda’s members of parliament (MPs) are pressurising government to make public details of oil production-sharing agreements it signed with various international oil companies.

Scoop - NZ

  • TIME: Israel faces growing fallout over Dubai hit
    It's always possible that someone besides Mossad carried out the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a top Hamas military commander, in a Dubai hotel in January. Israel has refused to comment; on Monday Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman explained the silence by saying there is "no proof" Israel wa ...
  • US helmets useless against Taliban snipers
    Taliban snipers have emerged as a lethal threat to US troops waging an assault in southern Afghanistan, as their bullets can penetrate American helmets, the US Marine Corps commandant said. Homemade bombs or improvised explosive devices (IEDs) have been the main killer of NATO-led troops in the Afg ...
  • FDIC braces for more bank failures
    The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is bracing for a new wave of bank failures that could cost the agency many billions of dollars and further strain its finances. With bank failures running at their highest level in nearly two decades, the F.D.I.C. is racing to keep up with rising losses to ...
  • UK: Hung parliament looms as Tory support crumbles
    Support for David Cameron's Conservative party has crumbled to its lowest point for nearly two years, according to the latest monthly Guardian/ICM poll, leaving Britain on course for a hung parliament at the coming general election. The survey, showing the Conservatives holding only a seven-point l ...
  • It's a cash cult, say Destiny's walk-outs
    Destiny Church has been attacked by former members who say it is nothing more than a money-making venture. Dozens of ex-Destiny members contacted the Herald after yesterday's story about dissension in the Brisbane branch. More than half the Destiny Church in Brisbane - including its pastor, Andrew ...

Independent ( London )

  • Meredith Kercher murder 'unplanned' say judges
    The murder of British student Meredith Kercher by her housemate Amanda Knox was unplanned and was not motivated by hatred or resentment, the judges disclosed today.
  • Afghanistan 'to block some internet sites'
    Afghanistan will block Internet sites with sexual or violent content, a minister said on Thursday, but the government denied the ban was another attempt at censorship or would include the Taliban's website.
  • Don't hurt my boy, mother begs kidnappers
    The mother of a five-year-old British boy snatched by gun-wielding robbers in Pakistan wept today as she begged the kidnappers not to hurt him
  • Child kidnappings a growing problem in Pakistan
    The gang who snatched five-year-old Sahil Saeed could be linked to wider militant groups - with child kidnappings becoming a growing problem in Pakistan, leading experts said today.
  • Mother's tears over kidnapped British boy
    The mother of a five-year-old British boy kidnapped by gun-wielding robbers in Pakistan broke down in tears today as she said her family had "no chance" of meeting a £100,000 ransom.

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Letter from chief-editors of 6 leading Iranian new ...
    Summary: End Media Bias Against Iran "Dear colleague! You know that there has been a deep misunderstanding between the nations and the governments of both Iran and USA. Now as a professional media should we clear up this misunderstanding or deteriorate it? Do you want to inform the lawmakers a ...
  • Brazil rebuffs US pressure for Iran sanctions
    Summary: Iran brazil President Lula: I want for Iran the same thing as I wish for Brazil: To use the development of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. If Iran is in agreement with that, Iran will have Brazil's support. source: BBC read more
  • Russia calls for diplomatic solution to resolve Ir ...
    Summary: churkin "It's necessary to seek diplomatic solution and possibility for negotiations with Iran," Churkin said. source: Xinhuanet read more
  • Iran's nuclear swap option revived
    Summary: Yukiya Amano, the new director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has raised hopes that a "confidence-building" plan for a swap of nuclear material between Iran and a third party could still be salvaged. At the same time, Amano used his opening speech to the Vie ...
  • China Calls For More Talks On Iran Nuclear Issue
    Summary: China today insisted there is still room for talks to resolve the standoff over Iran's nuclear program. The comments by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang came after Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Moscow is ready to consider new sanctions against Iran for its refusal to ...

The Daily Galaxy

Natural News

  • Heal Yourself in 15 Days by eating MORE (not less)
    (NaturalNews) Can you really heal yourself by eating more food? It seems counterintuitive, but in this article -- part eleven of our 15-day self-healing series -- I'm going to share with you how eating more food can actually be a powerful tool in accelerating your body's own natural healing potentia ...
  • Due to high demand, Healing Miracles LIVE event to ...
    (NaturalNews) The upcoming "Healing Miracles LIVE" event in Southern California on March 19 and 20 has been quickly sold out . Apparently we didn't organize enough seats for this event, as readers have been scrambling to be part of it. So over the last few days we've organized something spectacular: ...
  • Prostate cancer therapy can increase risk of heart ...
    (NaturalNews) A new report published in the American Cancer Society journal, CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians , and in the American Heart Association journal, Circulation , reveals that androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT), a type of prostate cancer treatment, can increase heart risk factors and po ...
  • Natural dental products: Tooth Soap, Dental Miracl ...
    (NaturalNews) I've been a fan of Tooth Soap for years. This is the product that replaces the usual toothpaste products with far more natural, gentle teeth-washing ingredients. That's why, along with Dental Miracle (www.DentalMiracle.com), it has remained among my top-recommended products for oral he ...
  • Natural compound in marine sponges could halt canc ...
    (NaturalNews) A research team at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research has discovered a natural compound found in marine sponges that reduces the movement of cancer cells. This could be an important breakthrough in stopping the often deadly spread of cancer throughout the body -- a process known as metas ...

Webhosts

The Galloping Beaver

  • The national anthem - Thou Dustiness command
    According to this poll at CBC , most do not think two months off were required to consider recalibrating the gender neutrality of the national anthem : O Canada Our home and native land True patriot love Thou Dustiness command "Thou Dustiness" is doubtless responsible for the idea of a National Mo ...
  • Neat Stuff
    JAMES LILEKS' WEB SITE IS A DELIGHT. He's a columnist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and his site's been around since 1996 or so. His site is a fine look at Americana of yesteryear. One section is called " COFFEE & CHROME restaurants from the days before the chains ". Another section is " the ame ...
  • Helena's "Hell-hole"
    By now most of us have probably read accounts of Helena Guergis' birthday tirad e* at the security gates at Charlottetown airport. Helena clearly inhabits a hell-hole but it is certainly not at YYG. If she perhaps spent 10 seconds reflecting on her life, she might consider that working under a soci ...
  • Wait a second,
    I thought NATO occupied Kandahar Province ? ...But the long-expected assault on Kandahar province, and in particular Kandahar city, is expected to be a more ambitious and difficult fight and could see more Afghan civilians on the move. As with the offensive on Helmand province, no precise timetab ...
  • Kentucky Creationists
    VANITY FAIR has a delightful article by A.A. Gill, " Roll Over, Charles Darwin! ", which is his account of a visit to the Creation Museum, which he says, has been battling science and reason since 2007 .Just off a motorway, in a barren and uninspiring piece of scrub, the museum is impressively inco ...

Media Matters for America

  • Glenn Beck's Excellent Adventure
    On both his Fox News program and his radio show, Glenn Beck has repeatedly likened himself to historical figures of note, including Socrates, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Benjamin Franklin. Beck has repeatedly compared himself to historical figures Beck: "Today is the first day I actually ...
  • Witch hunt: Wash. Times calls another Ob ...
    After declaring that Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Judges Edward Chen and David Hamilton were all "radical" judicial nominees, The Washington Times has turned its sights on Goodwin Liu, President Obama's nominee for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, declaring that he, like the ...
  • Memo to right-wing media: Bush DOJ lawyers also r ...
    Conservative media figures have recently attacked President Obama and the Department of Justice for employing lawyers who previously represented terror suspects or supported their legal arguments in their private practices. However, Bush administration lawyers also reportedly represented Guant ...
  • Right-wing media invent scandals to malign Dems
    Right-wing media figures have recently concocted several baseless scandals in an attempt to portray Democrats as corrupt or guilty of wrongdoing. These include the suggestion that the Democratic leadership acted improperly after learning about sexual harassment allegations against Rep. Eric Mas ...
  • Matthews continues to allow Stupak to misinform a ...
    MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews allowed Rep. Bart Stupak (D-PA) to again falsely claim that his health care bill amendment would "maintain current law," even though many people have told Matthews on Hardball that it goes beyond current law in restricting abortion funding. Stupak falsely c ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Financial Innovation: What Is It Good For (I)?
    Brookings economist Robert Litan picked up the gauntlet thrown down by Paul Volcker and others, and put out a lengthy paper defending the major financial innovations of the last four decades. Litan surveys the field and pronounces most of what he sees to be good. While there is certainly some mer ...
  • On Reading Newspapers on Kindle
    I'm on my 4th Amazon kindle. (two broke and were instantly replaced. One is an upgrade). I have been using the Kindle for all my book reading (except books not kindleized) and all my newspapers and magazines. My wife doesn't have a Kindle so we still get the Post and Times delivered. I neve ...
  • A Truth that Barely Speaks Its Name
    " [I]t seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide... whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitution ...
  • Arab/Palestinian leaders okay indirect peace talks ...
    The Arab Foreign Ministers meeting today in Cairo gave a begrudging nod to the Palestinians to resume indirect peace negotiations with Israel, suggesting that they were willing to give US efforts another chance but that the talks should initially be limited to four months. PLO Leader Abbas has b ...
  • Bye bye, Cuckoo Marty Peretz
    I've long known that Marty Peretz, owner of The New Republic, was a bit nuts. But now he has raised the paranoid mutterings of a crazy old man to a new level. This is worth a read. Peretz's subject is the Financial Times newspaper which has caused Peretz his worst conniption fit yet. Bottom li ...

TruthOut

  • Rangel Steps Down From Ways and Means Amid Ethics ...
    Rep. Charles Rangel (D-New York) relinquished the chairmanship to the powerful House Ways and Means Committee after the House Ethics Committee admonished him for taking corporate-funded trips. In a press conference Wednesday, Rangel said he asked for a temporary leave of absence until the ethics co ...
  • Baghdad Bombings Shatter Festive Pre-Vote Atmosphe ...
    Baghdad - Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi security forces voted in early elections Thursday throughout the country, as bomb attacks near polling stations killed at least 12 people and wounded 45. Thursday's voting was restricted to police, the military, detainees, hospital patients and other Iraqis ...
  • Winter in America: Democracy Gone Rogue
    The absolute ... spells doom to everyone when it is introduced into the political realm. - Hannah Arendt� [1]� Democracy in the United States is experiencing both a crisis of meaning and a legitimation crisis. As the promise of an aspiring democracy is sacrificed more and more to corporate and ...
  • Senate Committee Advances Dawn Johnsen to Head Pow ...
    Following a month of delays, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to send Dawn Johnsen, President Barack Obama's nominee to head the Justice Department's powerful Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), to the Senate floor. The OLC advises presidents on the limits of their power. read more
  • A Military Coup in Iraq?
    Twenty million eligible voters are invited to participate in this weekend's parliamentary election in Iraq. The election, scheduled for Sunday March 7, will take place amid an wave of increased violence and political tension in Iraq. But even with the possibilities of a total political meltdown, or ...

Planetsave

  • How to Help the Environment
    If you are reading this article, I think you are probably more concerned about the environment than most others. I assume that you keep up with environmental news a bit, reading more than the miniscule amount covered in the mainstream media. However, I cannot make any guess as to how much you act ...
  • 7 Myths about Climate Change Science [& FUN VIDEOS ...
    The science of climate change is not really the question at hand anymore. Of course, there is always more to learn, but that highly accelerated climate change is real and that humans are the main cause of that are no longer questionable facts to the large majority of the scientific community. What ...
  • DE bottle refund law: Mend it, don’t end it, say ...
    A volunteer poses with the bottles and cans collected at a Massachusetts watershed cleanup. A month after the governor of Delaware proposed dumping the state’s beverage container refund law in favor of a new tax for community recycling, in-state and national environmental groups have come out a ...
  • Mann is Off the Hook, So Let’s Look at the Real Cr ...
    Michael Mann, the somewhat infamous climate scientist from Penn State, shouldn’t be so infamous after all, we find out yet another time! “An academic inquiry into the so-called ‘climategate’ email scandal has concluded that a well-known U.S. scientist [Mann] did not directly or indirectly falsify ...
  • Is A Pill Take-Back Law in Our Future?
    As the product stewardship movement gains steam, attention is turning to the issue of unsafe disposal of residue or unwanted consumer pharmaceuticals.  The widespread detection of pharmaceutical residues in public waters and fish has raised biologists’ concerns.  In Minnesota, the popularity o ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Public Citizen in Texas

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

Climate

  • March 4, 2010
    Wind Industry Slams Schumer's 'Buy American' Plan (The Hill) The wind industry's major trade group has attacked legislation floated by Senate Democrats that would require stimulus-funded renewable power projects to rely on materials manufactured domestically, saying the proposal would kill 5 ...
  • March 3, 2010
    Sen. Graham Calls Cap-and-Trade Plan Dead (Reuters) The idea of imposing a broad cap-and-trade system to cut America's greenhouse gas emissions is dead and will be replaced with a new approach, Lindsey Graham, an influential Republican senator, said. Senators Seek to Block Stimulus Mone ...
  • March 2, 2010
    Top House Republicans Ready Bill to Thwart EPA Climate Rules (The Hill) Senior House Republican leaders, including Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), plan to roll out a resolution today that would nullify EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases. US Senate's Top Climate Skeptic ...
  • March 1, 2010
    Georgia Seeks $2.5 Billion for First Nuclear Plants in 30 Years (Bloomberg) Georgia's Municipal Electric Authority plans to borrow more than $2.5 billion this week to help finance its share of two nuclear reactors, which would be the first licensed in the U.S. since the Three Mile Island rea ...
  • February 28, 2010
    House Democrats Challenge EPA on Greenhouse Gases (AP) Two top House Democrats -- House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson of Minnesota and Armed Services Chairman Ike Skelton of Missouri -- have introduced a measure aimed at blocking the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases. ...

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

  • Republican National Committee advocates a party of ...
    The issue is not merely the fundraising poster that was an open call to fear and hate using language and pictures that no major American political party has ever used. The issue is that the modern Republican Party does not have opponents, it has enemies. The modern Republican Party does not seek to ...
  • Where Are This War's Heroes, Military and Journali ...
    When Charlie Company's Lt. William Calley ordered and encouraged his men to rape, maim and slaughter over 400 men, women and children in My Lai in Vietnam back in 1968, there were at least four heroes who tried to stop him or bring him and higher officers to justice. One was helicopter pilot Hugh Th ...
  • Like Bush, Obama Moves to Bury Bad Economic Data
    The Bush administration had a nasty penchant for trying to bury bad economic news -- a nasty penchant that I was intimately familiar with when working on the House Appropriations Committee. One of the most egregious examples of this came in 2003. Here's the Washington Post on 1/2/03: U.S. Drops Repo ...
  • Nourishing the Planet Featured on Eco-Chick
    Check out this interview featured in Eco-Chick about the Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet 's on-the-ground research in Africa by Stephanie Rogers: If it’s true that there are sayers and there are doers, Danielle Nierenberg falls firmly into the latter camp. Danielle is currently travelin ...
  • Bush/Cheney Pulled Torture Strings
    George W. Bush’s White House stage-managed the Justice Department’s approval of torture techniques by putting pliable lawyers in key jobs, guiding their opinions and punishing officials who wouldn’t go along, according to details contained in an internal report that recommended disciplinary act ...

Ten Percent

  • Avaaz & Environmentalists 4 Ethnic Cleansing
    Another petition this time by Avaaz that makes little mention of the Chagos Islanders (a simple ‘work with Chagossians‘ without mention of their current dispossession by the UK) who were forcibly removed by the UK government so it could rent the islands (primarily the largest one Diego Garcia) to t ...
  • The War On Children, Stranger Still
    Daily Times Saeed Minhas:- ISLAMABAD: During efforts to trace Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s missing 11-year-old daughter Mariam, international organisations have stumbled upon nearly a dozen juvenile girls who have been languishing in several Afghan jails, sources privy to the search told Daily Times on Tuesd ...
  • BNP Continue To Be Not At All Racist
    A new piece of tat is added to their awful online souvenir shop- (from Lancaster Unity) Queen Elizabeth I’s Blackamoore Expulsion Order It is not widely known that between 1596 and 1601, Queen Elizabeth I ordered the expulsion of all non-indigenous Third World people, whom she called “blackamoores ...
  • Jafar Panahi & Family Arrested In Iran
    I just learned of this from Naj, Jafar Panahi an acclaimed filmmaker and his family have been detained- Iranian security forces have detained Jafar Panahi, one of the country’s most internationally celebrated film-makers, as part of a continuing crackdown on supporters of the opposition Green moveme ...
  • Meg Hillier Wins The Thatcher Award For Abusing Hu ...
    Not content with keeping them detained in Yarl’s Wood where they have suffered violence and racist abuse (now minus five who were bum rushed out in an attempt to stop the strike, see below) she has launched a propaganda assault. She sent a letter (pdf) to every MP claiming everything there is just p ...

Booman Tribune

  • Sugar Land Lunacy
    Finally! A Republican I can vote for! Who? Whomever runs against this lunatic. It's your lucky day, Pete Olson. The troubling thing is that I am so rusty with my Laroucherism. I didn't know that they think that the British control the world behind the scenes. How'd she win the primary? I don ...
  • Newer Senators are More Feisty
    I have a theory that the new generation of Democrats who were elected in the 2006 and 2008 elections are different culturally from the older, longer-serving members. What really happened is that after the fiasco in 2004, the base of the Democratic Party exerted itself and started to fight back forc ...
  • Wherefore the Doom, Harkin?
    You know, I find the following exchange between Ed Schultz and Tom Harkin to be a bit troubling: SCHULTZ: But why do I sense a "yes" out of you? If it were to come to the floor, you would vote yes for the public option, would you not? HARKIN: Ed, I'll tell you this straightforward. Not if it m ...
  • The Greatest Satirist of Blogtopia has Died
    If you haven't heard already, Jon Swift a/k/a Al Weisel died unexpectedly. I did not know him personally, but many who did have written moving tributes in remembrance of his all too short life. You can find links to them at Skippy's place and at this Facebook group which I urge you to join if you ...
  • A Rancid Froth
    Now the folks over at Powerline are trying to execute the Republican strategy of making the reconciliation process a big part of the debate over passing health care reform. I don't blame them for making the effort, but I still find it amusing. The Republicans are forgetting that the Senate health ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • The better we get at medical studies, the more wro ...
    How’s that for counterintuitive, eh? But it’s a genuine problem, as Ars Technica explains: The problem is that our statistical tools for evaluating the probability of error haven’t kept pace with our own successes, in the form of our ability to obtain massive data sets and perform multiple tests on ...
  • Recommend exemplary cyberpunk fiction for a new an ...
    We love our (post?)cyberpunk here at Futurismic, and we’re guessing you probably do, too. So here’s a chance to show off your knowledge of the genre, and aid antipodean anthologist extaordinaire Jonathan Strahan in constructing a new retrospective volume that reassesses cyberpunk’s impact on sf and ...
  • Tiny biodiagnostics lab on a piece of paper
    So, let’s say the zombie plague is sweeping a nation where medical hardware is expensive, hard-to-come by, and hard to maintain. You need a way of testing the population for signs of contagion that’s cheap, portable, fast, and requires no power or mealthcare infrastructure. So what do you do? You ge ...
  • Lo-fi wi-fi network springing up from junk in Jala ...
    Offered here as an extension of the arguments made by the Prospect Magazine piece I linked to the other week about the lessons to be learned from the last-minute low-cost solutions of slum residents and other disadvantaged social groups, Free Range International hosts a report from an MIT team worki ...
  • Mass Effect II and Racial Essentialism
    ### Genre is, to one extent or another, all about re-using old ideas. Ideas shared. Ideas reclaimed. Ideas reinvented. Ideas lost. Ideas rediscovered. Encounter enough works of genre over a long enough time period and you will see ideas rise and fall like the tides. You will also see [...] ...

Therapy News

  • Sports Psychology Highlighted for Role in Olympics
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline The hard work, diligence, and strength visible in the stances and faces of Olympic athletes at the podium belies a great deal of inner training, in addition to the physical rigors that Olympians enact in order to improve their performance. As the recent Winter Olympic ...
  • Understanding the Physical Impact of Extreme Stres ...
    By Susanne M. Dillmann, Psy.D., Post Traumatic Stress / Trauma Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Susanne and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile People who have been exposed to a traumatic experience know all too well that severe stress has a significant impact upon the body. Unfortunate ...
  • How do Poor Family Relationships, Personality, and ...
    By Jeanette Raymond, Ph.D., Body-Mind Psychotherapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jeanette and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile It’s frustrating and annoying not to get a good night’s sleep. Taking a long time to fall asleep was bad enough. But waking up at 2:00 a.m. and not bein ...
  • Study Finds a Good Mood Can Exaggerate Trust, Dist ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Traditionally, people probably expect that someone in a neutral or bad mood is less likely to trust others, and that a person exhibiting a positive mood is more likely to put their faith in others. The effects of mood on social interactions is an important line of inqu ...
  • Need for Better Sexual Assault Counseling Services ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Though issues of rape and other types of sexual abuse have been considered serious on college campuses throughout the country for some time, recent revelations about the low number of incidents reported and poor quality of counseling services highlighted by many advoc ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Lawmakers Offer Bills to Suspend EPA Rules - Wall ...
    Lawmakers Offer Bills to Suspend EPA Rules Wall Street Journal But mistrust has been building among lawmakers from coal states in the Appalachian region, where the EPA has held up dozens of mountaintop-removal coal ... and more��
  • EPA's Lisa Jackson and the Science of Mountaintop ...
    Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) EPA's Lisa Jackson and the Science of Mountaintop Removal Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Jackson readily ackowledged the established body of evidence suggesting mountaintop removal coal mining harms water quality. How can it not? ... EPA Approves M ...
  • Local clubs to screen mining documentary at Amhers ...
    Local clubs to screen mining documentary at Amherst Town Library Cabinet.com Women Making a Difference and the New Hampshire Sierra Club are sponsoring a viewing of Coal Country, a documentary about mountaintop removal coal mining in ...
  • Consquences of using coal - Virginia Tech Collegia ...
    Consquences of using coal Virginia Tech Collegiate Times by Letter to the editor In Southwest Virginia, mountain top removal is a popular topic whether you are for it or against it. However, most people are not ... Virginia is for Lovers (of Clean American Power), Not Dirty Coal AlterNet (blog) VT ...
  • NRDC Presents "Music Saves Mountains" Concert - Hu ...
    NRDC Presents "Music Saves Mountains" Concert Huffington Post (blog) This will be the biggest gathering ever of music stars coming together to raise awareness about mountaintop removal coal mining, which is devastating ...

Memeorandum

  • Fox News' Neil Cavuto propagates baseless rumor th ...
    Faiz Shakir / Think Progress : Fox News' Neil Cavuto propagates baseless rumor that Obama bought Rep. Matheson's vote.   —  Today on Fox News, Neil Cavuto irresponsibly pushed the baseless rumor that President Obama bought Rep. Jim Matheson's (D-UT) vote on health care reform by offering his broth ...
  • Howard Dean: Health bill hangs Dem incumbents and ...
    Michael O'Brien / The Hill : Howard Dean: Health bill hangs Dem incumbents and Obama out to dry in elections   —  Passing the healthcare proposals before Congress will “hang out to dry” every Democratic incumbent running for reelection this fall, Howard Dean said Thursday.  —  Dean, a physician by ...
  • Bush Official Defends Lawyers Under Attack for Det ...
    Charlie Savage / The Caucus : Bush Official Defends Lawyers Under Attack for Detainee Work   —  A former Justice Department official who led the Bush administration's courtroom defense against lawsuits filed by Guantanamo detainees is denouncing attacks on Obama administration appointees who previo ...
  • Citing health care, Deal delays departure from Con ...
    Jim Galloway / Political Insider : Citing health care, Deal delays departure from Congress   —  U.S. Rep. Nathan Deal will delay his resignation from Congress by three weeks, citing intense pressure from House Republican leaders to remain and vote against President Barack Obama's plan to overhaul t ...
  • Steele: Leaked RNC presentation 'unfortunate' (Pet ...
    Peterhamby / CNN : Steele: Leaked RNC presentation ‘unfortunate’   —  Congressional GOP aides expressed their frustration over their perception that Michael Steele is using his book tour to undermine the party's political message.  —  Washington (CNN) - Republican National Committee Chairman Micha ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 6.3, Antofagasta, Chile
    Thursday, March 4, 2010 22:39:25 UTC Thursday, March 4, 2010 07:39:25 PM at epicenter Depth : 105.10 km (65.31 mi)
  • M 6.4, Vanuatu
    Thursday, March 4, 2010 14:02:30 UTC Friday, March 5, 2010 01:02:30 AM at epicenter Depth : 200.20 km (124.40 mi)
  • M 5.1, Mendoza, Argentina
    Thursday, March 4, 2010 10:53:51 UTC Thursday, March 4, 2010 07:53:51 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.70 km (6.65 mi)
  • M 5.0, Admiralty Islands region, Papua New Guinea
    Thursday, March 4, 2010 09:39:43 UTC Thursday, March 4, 2010 07:39:43 PM at epicenter Depth : 59.70 km (37.10 mi)
  • M 5.0, Santa Cruz Islands
    Thursday, March 4, 2010 09:36:39 UTC Thursday, March 4, 2010 08:36:39 PM at epicenter Depth : 97.00 km (60.27 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Chinese coal remedies (2)
    The global community can – and must – help China overcome the obstacles to a carbon capture revolution, argues the Natural Resources Defense Council. While it is evident that China needs and has the necessary technical capability – and sufficient storage capacity – to carry out carbon capture and st ...
  • Chinese coal remedies (1)
    In spite of an urgent need to cut emissions, fossil-fuel consumption in China is soaring. CCS offers a solution, says the Natural Resources Defense Council. To avoid the worst consequences of global warming, the world must limit average temperature increases to two degrees Celsius or less above pre- ...
  • Capitalising on capture
    CCS is rapidly gaining ground as an accepted green technology. But, say Li Jia and Liang Xi, financial barriers still stand in the way. Over the last two decades, awareness has grown that carbon capture and storage (CCS) could be an important technology in the fight to reduce greenhouse gas emission ...
  • The science of storage
    Putting greenhouses gases underground is the riskiest part of carbon capture and storage, yet it is often overlooked. Logan West sets out the facts. Editors' message Until recently, carbon capture and storage (CCS) was a phrase largely reserved for detailed discussions in university laboratorie ...
  • Slideshow: organic overtures
    Meng Si visited a project in eastern China that trials natural farming methods. Introducing her photographs of the farm, she says extending its agricultural revolution still seems a distant dream. In late 2008, reports claimed that pesticide residue in peanuts grown in one county in Shandong , easte ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Our Cruel Legacy in Iraq: Birth Defects in Falluja ...
    As the U.S. continues its Iraq withdrawal show — even while the supposed withdrawal deadline is seriously in doubt — what is happening right now in the city of Fallujah is a devastating reminder of what the war has wrought. It’s not just the heavy civilian toll during the famous battles of Fallujah, ...
  • The F Word: Today’s Secrets Are In Plain Sig ...
    Daniel Ellsberg was on GRITtv last week and he left me thinking about secrecy. Ellsberg, of course, was the man who released the top secret Pentagon Papers – a classified report on secret decision making around the wars in Cambodia and Vietnam. He got me wondering — What are the Pentagon Papers of ...
  • Looking ahead to 9/11/2011: The time for national ...
    By Deepa Iyer, South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), Race-Talk contributor In mid-February, people around the country marked the National Day of Remembrance to acknowledge the impact of Executive Order 9066, which led to the internment of 120,000 Japanese American citizens and residents du ...
  • Suicide Prevention and Assisted Suicide.
    Yesterday Michael Gerson at the Washington Post had a well-meaning column on the prevalence of suicide in the U.S.  He starts the column by noting a number of celebrities who have recently committed suicide and works to explain what it is and what signs we can detect in loved ones who may be isolate ...
  • The Right to Privacy and the Right to Speak Out
    Written by Sarah Seltzer for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice. Our right to abortion is couched, legally and often socially, as a right to privacy, the right to keep our medical decisions to ourselves. This appeals to a certain American libertar ...

Threat Level

  • DMCA Muscle Strong-Arms DVD Copying
    Those awaiting a legitimate method to duplicate DVDs for personal use likely will have to wait even longer, perhaps forever, after RealNetworks tossed in the white towel and abandoned litigation toward that end. RealNetworks spent almost two years in a legal battle with the Motion Picture Associatio ...
  • ‘Google’ Hackers Had Ability to Alter Source Code
    The hackers who targeted Google and other companies in January targeted the source code management systems of companies, allowing them to siphon source code as well as modify it, according to a new report. More importantly, systems that the companies used to develop and manage their source code have ...
  • Spain Busts Hackers for Infecting 13 Million PCs
    BOSTON (Reuters) — Spanish police have shut down a ring of computer hackers who infected more than 13 million PCs with a virus that stole credit card numbers and other valuable data in what may be the biggest cyber-raid to date. Spain’s Civil Guard said on Tuesday that it arrested three men suspecte ...
  • Flipping Off Cops Is Legal, Not Advised
    Flipping the bird, or sticking out the middle finger, is perhaps the oldest insulting gesture on earth, dating to ancient Greece and adopted by the Romans as digitus impudicus – the impudent finger. A zillion middle fingers later, an Oregon man is suing suburban Portland cops over his use of the ges ...
  • U.S. Declassifies Part of Secret Cybersecurity Pla ...
    The Obama administration declassified part of the government’s cybersecurity plan Tuesday, publishing parts of it that discuss intrusion detection systems for federal computer networks and the government’s role in securing critical infrastructure. The declassification announcement was made by Howar ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • 15 states and DC make education grant shortlist
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Department of Education said on Thursday that 15 states and the District of Columbia are in the final running for new stimulus grants to be distributed this spring.
  • House OKs $15 billion jobs bill
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional Democrats made headway on Thursday on their top legislative priority -- job creation -- when the House of Representatives approved a $15 billion package of tax credits and highway construction.
  • Taxpayers hit as TARP takes a new turn
    NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A small Midwestern bank has negotiated with the U.S. Treasury for taxpayers to essentially buy the bank's shares at an above-market-value price, in an unusual transaction reflecting how the government's bank investments are entering a new phase.
  • UPDATE 1-US Democrats would kill healthcare over a ...
    WASHINGTON, March 4 (Reuters) - A dozen House of Representatives Democrats opposed to abortion are willing to kill President Barack Obama's healthcare reform plan unless it satisfies their demand for language barring the procedure, Representative Bart Stupak said on Thursday.
  • Democrats would kill healthcare over abortion
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A dozen House of Representatives Democrats opposed to abortion are willing to kill President Barack Obama's healthcare reform plan unless it satisfies their demand for language barring the procedure, Representative Bart Stupak said on Thursday.

Equality Trust

  • 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 ...
  • Broken Britain due to Broken Families?
    Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson on Comment is Free

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #301
    Six more arrested in Lebanon for spying for Israel. Danish journalist admits using job as cover to spy for Israel. Survey of US spy agencies’ web presence.
  • Al-Mabhouh was drugged, not electrocuted
    Members of an Israeli assassination squad, who killed a senior Hamas official last month in Dubai, drugged him with a strong anesthetic before suffocating him to death, according to a new police report.
  • News you may have missed #300
    Indonesian activists capture government spy. Former Monaco head-spy recounts meeting with Prince Albert.
  • Australia investigates more alleged Israeli spies
    The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) is among a number of Western intelligence agencies investigating at least three dual Australian-Israeli citizens, who are suspected of being Israeli spies.
  • News you may have missed #299
    US lawmaker wants to stop CIA agents working second jobs. Poland admits to aiding CIA. Former Romanian-German spy fired for secret past.

After Downing Street.org

  • Berkeley Law Students and Bay Area Lawyers Demand ...
    “The facts revealed in the OPR report are shocking to law students like myself,” said National Lawyers’ Guild Boalt Chapter Co-chair Liz Jackson at a press event at Boalt Hall. Jackson was referencing the new report from the Department of Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility about Boalt ...
  • Vet Group Draws Terrorism, IEDS, Ahmadinejad Into ...
    Vet Group Draws Terrorism, IEDS, Ahmadinejad Into Energy Debate By Sam Stein | Huffington Post � VoteVets' goal is to focus attention to the argument that energy dependence is a pending (if not already occurring) national security crisis. And, in that regard, the spot should be considered a ...
  • How a Bill Becomes a Secret Memo -- From Fool Hous ...
  • EPA Announces Environmental Justice Video Contest: ...
    EPA Announces Environmental Justice Video Contest: Faces of the Grassroots WASHINGTON --The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is sponsoring an environmental justice video contest that challenges professional or aspiring filmmakers to create videos that capture the faces of the environmental justi ...
  • Ayn Rand's Excellent Proposal
    Ayn Rand's Excellent Proposal By Ernest Partridge | The Crisis Papers | March 4, 2010 The organizer of industry who thinks he has 'made' himself and his business has found a whole social system ready to his hand in skilled workers, machinery, a market, peace and order -- a vast apparatus and a pe ...

Grist - News

  • Sen. Blanche Lincoln faces a challenger from the l ...
    by Samantha Thompson Blanche Lincoln Arkansas Lt. Gov. Bill Halter (D) is mounting a primary challenge against conservative Democrat Blanche Lincoln for the U.S. Senate seat she's held for two terms. Environmentalists and progressives have it in for Lincoln , angry over her opposition to high-p ...
  • Hand-made electric cars serve a niche market in Ja ...
    by Agence France-Presse The one-seater Milieu.TOYAMA, Japan -- While auto manufacturing giants spend millions to develop environmentally friendly electric cars, one Japanese company has taken a more low-key approach, crafting hand-made "green" cars. Takeoka Jidosha Kogei may be the antithesis o ...
  • Katrina victims seek to sue greenhouse-gas emitter ...
    by Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON -- Victims of Hurricane Katrina are seeking to sue greenhouse gas-emitting multinationals for helping fuel global warming and boosting the devastating 2005 storm, legal documents showed Wednesday. The class action suit brought by residents from southern Missis ...
  • Obama home upgrade program targets jobs, energy co ...
    by Agence France-Presse SAVANNAH, Georgia -- President Barack Obama on Tuesday unveiled plans to give hefty reimbursements to U.S. homeowners who make home improvements to conserve energy. The president urged Congress to approve the plans to give a shot in the arm to the lagging U.S. constructi ...
  • Democratic candidate in Colo. guv race questions c ...
    by Lisa Hymas “I get in trouble every time I say this, but I'm not 100 percent absolutely sure that climate change is occurring at the rate that some people fear it is and is going to be as catastrophic." -- Denver mayor and gubernatorial candidate John Hickenlooper, speaking at the Colorado Ru ...

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Washington Independent

  • Why Didn’t Grassley & Sessions Ask DOJ&#8217 ...
    So one of the so-called “Gitmo Nine” Justice Department lawyers attacked by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) is Tony West. West, the associate attorney general for the civil division of Justice, defended John Walker Lindh, the California rich kid sentenced to 20 years for ...
  • Tea Parties to RNC: Hey, Nice Pander
    Benjy Sarlin talks to Tea Party leaders — the type of people who were supposed to be the targets of RNC fundraising appeals discussed in a leaked 72-page document on how to bring in more cash — and finds a lot of irritation. Judson Phillips of Tea Party Nation gets at the heart of it: They [...]
  • Who Knew the Bush Administration Was So Filled Wit ...
    It’s not just Alberto Gonzales. Adam Serwer talks to John Bellinger, who served as Condoleezza Rice’s legal adviser at the State Department and the National Security Council, about the Grassley/Sessions/Cheneyite smears on the Justice Department lawyers who represented Guantanamo detainees: “I thi ...
  • Lieberman to Murkowski: ANWR Drilling Ain’t ...
    As the three senators crafting climate legislation try to rally moderates behind their cause, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) could be a key player, since she’s shown some (but not much) willingness to play ball on climate issues. That’s why environmental advocates were so dismayed when she announced ...
  • GOP Senators Smearing DOJ Lawyers for Defending GT ...
    There are two senators who’ve accused Justice Department attorneys who represented Guantanamo detainees of sympathizing with terrorists: Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and, perhaps more disturbingly, Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee who very nearly became a federal judg ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

  • Tax those carbon gluttons
    LEMME TELL YOU about a carbon tax you’re gonna love. Two such taxes, actually. I tell you, kid, Stephane Dion had the right idea, but the wrong sales pitch. The fun starts with the government giving you maybe $2,000 as a carbon dividend. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & C ...
  • Why do we hate? Academics seek answer in new field
    Hate is everywhere, but the fundamental question of why one person can hate another has never been adequately studied, contends Jim Mohr of Gonzaga University, who is developing a new academic field of hate studies. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �A ...
  • 'Fat for cosmetics' murder suspects arrested in Pe ...
    Four people have been arrested in Peru on suspicion of killing dozens of people in order to sell their fat and tissue for cosmetic uses in Europe. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 6 Ways Agriculture Impacts Global Warming
    Sure, agriculture provides us with the food we all eat every day. But do you know how those agricultural practices impact global warming? Turns out there's some pretty big impacts, on both the sustainable and industrial sides of the equation; employing su Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to ...
  • We love Butchers
    Former chef Josh Applestone and his wife, Jessica Applestone, are typical of the new butcher breed. He was a vegan, she was a one-time vegetarian when they founded Fleisher’s Grass-fed and Organic Meats in Kingston, N.Y., in 2004 Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �N ...

Suzie-Q

  • The curse of Fallujah: Women warned not to have ba ...
    Anny Shaw UK Daily Mail March 4, 2010 A sharp increase in birth defects in the Iraqi city of Fallujah could be linked to sophisticated weaponry used by U.S. troops in 2004, it has been revealed. There has been a ‘massive unprecedented number’ of heart defects and an increase in the number of central ...
  • Department of Justice Reveals Names Of Lawyers Sme ...
    DoJ reveals names of lawyers smeared as ‘Al-Qaeda 7′ Raw Story- By Andrew McLemore Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 — 7:13 pm Yesterday, a conservative group run by Bill Kristol and Liz Cheney released a political ad accusing seven lawyers within the Department of Justice of being un-American because ...
  • Sarah Palin And Entourage ‘Like Locusts&#821 ...
    Palin At Oscar Gift Suite: Sarah Palin And Entourage ‘Like Locusts’ Huffington Post |  Adam J. Rose First Posted: 03- 3-10 10:42 PM   |   Updated: 03- 4-10 12:39 AM Sarah Palin aligns her public image with the heartland, but it appears ...
  • Is it just me, or is Zionism going out of fashion?
    Sometimes it’s better to just hop on your old horse,  get rid of that new saddle and light one up. “This Time We Went Too Far” Truth and Consequences in the Gaza Invasion counterpunch March 3, 2010 By NORMAN FINKELSTEIN Editors’ Note: This article is excerpted from Norman Finkelstein’s impor ...
  • Tea Party Is About Race
    I was going to open this piece with an analogy about the tea party groups and why they’re treated seriously by the press and the Republicans. The analogy would go something like: “Imagine [insert left-wing activist group here] getting a serious profile in a mainstream newspaper, and imagine serious ...

Solari

  • Money & Markets Charts ~ 3.4.10
    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 tonight, Thursday, March 4, 2010. Click here to view all charts as a pdf file. See previous Money & Markets Charts blog posts here. Currency char ...
  • Germany: A Major Victory For Privacy
    By Scribe Yesterday, there was a major victory for privacy.  Unfortunately, it was not in the US.  The German Constitutional Court threw out as unconstitutional a law which required storage of all flavors of electronic data on everyone.  Further, they required that the databases which had been buil ...
  • Wall Street’s Bailout Hustle
    By Mayuri Onerheim The Rolling Stone March 2009 issue had an article by Matt Taibbi called Wall Street’s Bailout Hustle in which he likens the financial crisis bailout to a street con and makes a very good case of it, taking us step by step through the con game led by Goldman Sachs. In the article [ ...
  • Meet The Greeks Who Are Way Scarier Than The Stree ...
    By Joe Weisenthal and Kamelia Angelova There’s no doubt you’ve seen the wild images of rioters in Athens. They’re violently objecting to the painful budget measures officials are taking. But officials don’t need to be scared of rioters: they need to be scared of normal clerical/office workers. You s ...
  • Introducing LittleSis
    LittleSis styles itself as: We bring transparency to influential social networks by tracking the key relationships of politicians, corporate executives, lobbyists, financiers, and their affiliated organizations. Sounds like fun! Here are some of their recent postings: What Makes Someone a Bubble ...

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 ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

  • Most endangered primates in 2010
    Apes, monkeys, lemurs and other primates are in peril and desperately need help and conservation aid according to Primates in Peril: The World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates, 2008–2010 report, released in February.
  • Thought-controlled prosthetics
    Scientists in the US have learned to "read" hand movements using Electroencephalography (EEG), which measures electrical activity through the scalp, paving the way for thought-controlled prosthetics without the need for brain surgery.
  • Afghans embrace birth control
    While their Catholic counterparts refuse to countenance the idea of approving birth control methods other than abstinence or withdrawal, imams in war-torn Afghanistan are distributing prophylactics and quoting the Qur'an in the hope of encouraging longer intervals between pregnancies. Researchers at ...
  • Stage set for political showdown
    Preparations for the long-awaited televised debate between the three leaders of the main political parties have begun, after agreement over the format of the shows was reached on Tuesday.
  • Report calls for more staffed playgrounds
    A report has claimed that increasing the number of staffed playgrounds in England could steer children away from crime. Play England said the move would fill the age gap left between children's centres and youth clubs - a time when bored young people with nowhere to go often fall into problems.

Fabius Maximus

  • Defaults might be in our future, so we should unde ...
    Summary:  Hard times might lie ahead, forcing difficult choices.   We must clearly understand our alternatives, and their history.  IMO only clarity of thought and resolute wills will see us through the next decade.  How to manage public finances might be our greatest challenge. Why do we continue d ...
  • FM newswire for March 4, articles for your morning ...
    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. Today’s top recommendation:  “Eisenhower’s Nightmare Arrives“, Franklin C. Spinney, Counterpunch, 3 March 2010 — “The Military-Industrial-Congression ...
  • Worry not about America becoming like Zimbabwe. W ...
    People seeking to incite irrational fears — hoping to make us easy to manipulate – warn that America might “turn into” Zimbabwe.   That’s nonsense, for reasons described here and here. The real danger:  becoming like Argentina.   La oligarquia and their working class opponents each sought vi ...
  • FM newswire for 3 March, articles for your morning ...
    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 mancession:  “The Unemployment Gender Gap during the 2007 Recession“, NY Federal Reserve, February 2010 — “The 2.7 percentage point unemploy ...
  • A great speech by the PM of Greece. How soon unti ...
    A great speech, more powerful and truthful by far than anything said so far by President Obama.  Truly the sight of the gallows focuses the mind.  How soon until an American President says such things?  Not long (and only if we’re lucky), unless we get smart and work together.  Note this was a s ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Fears of Undersea Methane Leaks Already Coming Tru ...
    Prodigious plumes of planet-warming methane are bubbling from sediments across a broad region of Arctic seafloor previously thought to be sealed by permafrost, new analyses indicate. The resulting increase of methane gas in the atmosphere may accelerate climate warming, scientists say. Though immen ...
  • Senator Proposes Shuttle-Extension Hail Mary
    The turmoil and political maneuvering over the future of NASA continues in the wake of the Obama administration’s cancellation of the Constellation program. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-Texas) proposed adding $3.4 billion to the agency’s budget between 2010 and 2012 to extend operation of the shut ...
  • Gut Bacteria Cause Overeating in Mice
    The connection between gut bacteria and obesity has gained some weight, with new findings demonstrating a mouse link between immune system malfunction, bacterial imbalance and increased appetite. Mice with altered immune systems developed metabolic disorders and were prone to overeating. When micr ...
  • Pharma Watchdog Needs Your Help With Incriminating ...
    Overwhelmed by thousands of documents describing the inner workings of pharmaceutical companies, the Drug Industry Document Archive wants to enlist the help of crowds. The documents are uncovered during lawsuits against drug companies, but can’t be searched until they’re processed. “In the long run ...
  • Research Calls Forensic DNA Technique Into Questio ...
    A DNA-matching technique often used in forensics has been called to the stand. Fine-grained analysis of DNA found in cell structures called mitochondria suggests that it can vary widely between tissues, making samples tricky to compare. “I wouldn’t say that it throws other results out the window, b ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Lieberman: Cuban Embargo will work in Iran despite ...
    We try to keep things civil around here, but I feel pretty comfortable saying that Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman is either an idiot or a morally bankrupt asshole. Or both. He seems to think a Cuban-style embargo is the best policy against Iran . "I think that from now on Israel should p ...
  • Balancing Foreign Policy between the Department of ...
    Admiral Mike Mullen gave an important speech at Kansas State University the other day . He made an interesting comment relevant to the discussion of how the U.S. government implements its foreign policy. Speaking to an audience at Kansas State University here, Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of t ...
  • Why Are Islamists Popular?
    Commenting on a paper I co-wrote on Islamist engagement, Gregg Carlstrom wrote : If it's "difficult to gauge" why Islamist parties are popular, we can deduce that at least some of their supporters are motivated by an interest in good governance. In other words, some people support these groups b ...
  • What Are Our Nuclear Weapons For?
    The Nuclear Posture Review was due out on Monday but was delayed once again, with reports that the President is pushing the NPR to go further. The question is how far. The NPR is shaping up to be an important test of Obama’s commitment to the pledge he made last year in Prague “ to put an end to Co ...
  • NATO & Afghanistan: Everybody Calm Down
    I’m sympathetic to arguments that the stakes in Afghanistan are higher than some of the war’s critics will commonly admit, particularly for the future of NATO.  But this comment , from former NATO Secretary General Lord George Robertson crosses the line: “Be assured, if the Taliban and their allies ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Another Bush Official Defends Smeared DoJ Lawyers.
    John Bellinger III , a former legal adviser to Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and currently a partner at the law firm of Arnold and Porter, defended the nine Department of Justice lawyers who have been accused of being terrorist sympathizers by Liz Cheney 's group, Keep America Safe. “I think i ...
  • Lightning Round: Serenity Now. Insanity Later.
    Ben Smith uncovers an RNC donor strategy memo which, if not entirely surprising, is still shocking in its depictions of not just Democrats, but how the party views its base of support. Major donors make "calculated" donations, and are motivated by "Peer to Peer Pressure," "access," and “are "Ego-Dr ...
  • Keep America Safe Already Wavering On McCarthyist ...
    Liz Cheney and her organization, Keep America Safe, seem to be playing defense because of the backlash from their latest ad, which accuses Justice Department lawyers who represented accused terror detainees terrorist sympathizers. Yesterday, Keep America Safe Spokesman Aaron Harison , in an interv ...
  • Using Religion to Promote Birth Control.
    The Associated Press reported that mullahs in Afghanistan, which has one of the highest maternal death rates in the world, are promoting the use of birth control: Quotes were used from the Quran to promote breast-feeding for two years, while local religious leaders, or mullahs, joined community and ...
  • Quote Of The Day.
    "One of the wisest things the administration did after Sept. 11 was to permit lawyers to do their jobs in defending detainees. From the enormously talented judge advocates general who directly represented Guantánamo detainees to the hundreds of private practitioners who took on individual cases, the ...

Andy Worthington

  • Who Is the Palestinian Released from Guantánamo in ...
    Last Wednesday, when the Spanish government announced that the first of up to five cleared Guantánamo prisoners to be offered new homes in Spain had arrived in the country (and three other men were given new homes in Albania), I noted that, although the Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalc ...
  • Fundraising Week (Update): Please Support My Work ...
    Please support my work! On Monday, I put out an appeal for financial support for my ongoing quest to expose the dark truths about Guantánamo and the “War on Terror,” which, for the last four years, has involved a concerted and consistent effort to fight back against the Bush administration’s ...
  • A full house at the NFT for “Outside the Law: Stor ...
    On Saturday afternoon, a packed house at the National Film Theatre watched the new Guantánamo documentary, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (directed by filmmaker Polly Nash and myself), in a screening organized by the BFI (British Film Institute). Afterwards, in a Q&A session filmed by th ...
  • The Black Hole of Guantánamo
    When it comes to dealing with the thorny question of how to close Guantánamo, the remaining prisoners have been caught between two competing systems since President Obama took office last January, and the result, to put it mildly, has been confusing. Under President Bush, prisoners were cleared for ...
  • Fundraising Week: Please Support My Guantánamo Wor ...
    Please support my work! Every three months I appeal for financial support to help me to continue the full-time work I began exactly four years ago, when I started researching and writing about the stories of the prisoners held in the US prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and first realized the s ...

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drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • RIP Jon Swift
    A sad day for the entire Bloggosphere as Al Weisel, AKA Jon Swift, has passed away : The great Jon Swift has died. That's the "blogging" angle to a personal tragedy. In reality, the voice of Jon Swift - the hilarious faux conservative blogger whose talent and passion were evident in every post - bel ...
  • Where did the time go?
    If it seemed like today went by a little faster than usual it might be because it could very well have : The massive 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile may have changed the entire Earth's rotation and shortened the length of days on our planet, a NASA scientist said Monday. The quake, the seventh stro ...
  • Is Little Green Footballs a Communist Blog now?
    "The American right wing has gone off the rails, into the bushes, and off the cliff. I won’t be going over the cliff with them." From LGF's Charles Johnson: Why I Parted Ways With The Right 1. Support for fascists, both in America (see: Pat Buchanan, Robert Stacy McCain, etc.) and in Europe (se ...
  • Will Teabagger anti-immigration agnst spill over t ...
    �Smells like Teabaggrrrr spirit... Peter Schiff is well known for his for far right wing way out there libertarian Ron Paul-like views . You have to wonder if some of Teaba grrrrr angst will spill over to the GOP primary battles and burn Peter Schiff here in Connecticut ? Jim Gilchrist, founder of ...
  • Valuable Lesson From Sarah Palin's Book
    TRex has extracted and documented the bulk of the knowledge that can be had from Sarah Palin's new book, Going Rogue. Trust me on this, there is a valuable lesson to be had from her book that every Blogger, journalist and pundit should be sharing with anyone that is truly interested in the politic ...

SPL Center

  • Leading Holocaust Denier Leaves German Prison
    Longtime Hitler enthusiast and Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel was released from a German prison on Monday after serving five years for the crime of inciting racial hatred. Zundel, who turns 71 next month, said he would be heading to his home in the Black Forest to regain his health. “It’s kind of a s ...
  • Mississippi House Again Backs Supremacist’s Resolu ...
    Mississippi lawmakers have short memories. That, at least, may be the kindest explanation for their latest decision to laud an occasion organized by a staunch white supremacist. In what has become an absurd yearly tradition , the Mississippi House voted last month to approve a resolution honoring hi ...
  • Fort Hood Report Calls for Change in Pentagon Hate ...
    An independent fact-finding report made public last week by the Pentagon in the wake of the November shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, concluded that the Pentagon was not well prepared to defend itself from many internal threats. The report, “Protecting the Force: Lessons From Fort Hood,” focused ...
  • Monochromatic Basketball: A League of Their Own
    To many fans, the National Basketball Association (NBA) features exciting games played by gifted athletes. But most of the players are just so darned, well, black . Now an Atlanta sports entrepreneur named Don “Moose” Lewis has a potential antidote: an all-white professional basketball league. Lewis ...
  • American Renaissance Conference Cancelled
    According to an E-mail sent today and signed by Jared Taylor , head of the white nationalist American Renaissance , the group will not be holding its 2010 conference. The conferences are usually a major hit in white nationalist circles and feature as speakers prominent white supremacists, academic r ...

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  • The Peace of Death: Six Skills for Assisted Suicid ...
    Why should the peace so many of us strive for in life be denied to those who, physically or mentally unable to be at peace, strive for it in death? Is not world peace a composite of all our individual or inner peaces, the absence of which makes social and collective peace less likely? Guidelines fo ...
  • The Staggering Costs of Foodborne Illness
    Foodborne illness costs $152 billion and happens 76 million times a year, resulting in 325,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths. The Produce Safety Project , a Pew Charitable Trusts initiative at Georgetown University, just released a report  estimating the total economic impact of foodborne illnes ...
  • That Good Deed Might Cost You $300 in Miami
    The doggie bag from your restaurant dinner could be tomorrow's lunch. But then you see someone on the street who needs that meal more than you do. So you hand it over (with a smile) and continue on your way, maybe feeling a little better about yourself. Then a police officer stops you and hands you ...
  • Flipping Off Cops: A Form of Political Dissent?
    When I was 16, I randomly spied my high school social studies teacher in a crowd outside a Grateful Dead concert. Surprise turned to awe when I witnessed Mr. F suddenly bolt into the street and give the bird to a Berkeley police cruiser stuck hapless in a sea of tie dye. Mr. F ran off before I could ...
  • Fight for the World's Most Vulnerable Thru Foreign ...
    The U.S. government has finally reached momentum for reforming U.S. foreign aid with two acts and two sweeping agency reviews coming before Congress in the next months. But which way is reform going to go? Nearly all sides -- Democrats, Republicans, and the non-aligned -- are looking for more peace ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Louisiana Sheriff Trains Volunteers for 'Project E ...
    by Doug Stanglin
  • Millions Rally As Students 'Day Of Action' Protest ...
    SAN FRANCISCO - Millions of students, teachers and parents rallied in schools and college campuses across California and many other states to protest deep spending cuts to schools and universities. Demonstrations, marches, teach-ins and walkouts were planned nationwide Thursday in what is being ...
  • Foodborne Illness Costs US $152 Billion Annually: ...
    by Christopher Doering WASHINGTON - Foodborne illnesses cost the United States $152 billion in health-related expenses each year, according to a study released by consumer and public health groups on Wednesday. Food safety advocates are hoping that the study will boost efforts in Congress to overhau ...
  • California Man Gets Eight Years for Stealing Chees ...
    by Daniel Nasaw A California man has been sentenced to up to eight years in prison for stealing a $3.99 (£2.60) bag of shredded cheese in a case critics say shows the need for reform of the state's criminal justice system and the overcrowded state of its prisons .read more
  • Same-Sex Marriage Legal in Washington, D.C.
    Same-sex couples in Washington, D.C., can head to city hall Wednesday to apply for marriage licences, as the federal district becomes the most recent place in the United States to approve gay marriage. Some city officials were expecting as many as 200 people to descend on city hall Wednesday in sear ...

Lifehacker

  • Google Wave Adds Email Notifications [Notification ...
    Google just turned on email notifications in Wave. That's great news if you've gotten your hands on an invite but haven't kept up with the going-ons inside—easy to do when you're not in the habit of visiting the site. Using notifications is pretty simple stuff (click the drop-down next to your Inbox ...
  • BookRenter Rents You Textbooks on the Cheap [Textb ...
    BookRenter is a solution to the problem of buying books at inflated prices and selling them back for pennies on the dollar to your college books store. Rent your books for a fraction of the retail price. Click on the image above for a closer look. BookRenter lets you rent a book for as long as 125 ...
  • Run XP Mode in VirtualBox Instead of Virtual PC [V ...
    Windows 7 only: If you've been itching to use the new XP Mode feature in Windows 7 , but you aren't too keen on using Virtual PC or just prefer VirtualBox, here's how to use XP Mode in VirtualBox. We've already covered how to setup and use XP Mode in Windows 7 , how to use it on a machine without ha ...
  • Where Do You Get Your News: Online or in Print? [R ...
    We've been hearing for a while that print is on the decline, and with the purported tablet revolution on its way, that may only continue. We're curious: Where do you currently get your news fix? According to Macworld, publishers are flocking to put their content on the upcoming iPad. The Conde Nast ...
  • Keep Car Windows From Fogging with a Potato [Cleve ...
    If you'd like a clever and cheap way to keep windows, goggles, and other glass and plastic surfaces from fogging up, you can use a potato to keep the vision-blocking condensation at bay. Photo by jimmihomeschoolmom . We're almost out of the so-cold-your-breath-fogs-the-windshield weather in most of ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Reeling in the proxy rebels?
    By Dave Anderson: I'm coming late to this party, but I want to highlight a couple of things. First, from Yorkshire Ranter from last week: Well, this is unusual; Londonstani confirms that the Pakistanis just arrested 50% of the Taliban high command, in so far as such a thing matters. Not only that, t ...
  • US and Pakistan Heading For A Clash Over Terror Ai ...
    By Steve Hynd Despite US analysis that has veared from optimistic to wildly over-optimistic, there's still a serious cloud over US/Pakistan relations in the form of reimbursement for Pakistani expenditure claims in pursuit of American objectives in the "War on Terror (tm)". Yesterday, Pakistani news ...
  • India, Isolated, Has To Find Longterm Strategy
    By Steve Hynd There's an op-ed by Prof. Harsh V. Pant of the prestigious Defense Studies department at King's College, London in the Japan Times today which bears reading as an accurate summation of Indian hawkish - and not so hawkish - feelings on the American misadventure in Afghanistan. Lots of I ...
  • Cash flow and comparisons
    By Dave Anderson: The NFL draft combine is this weekend. The top pick will get a contract with an average value in excess of $12 million dollars per year. Even with a good accountant, that player will owe over $2.5 million dollars for income taxes in his first year. The basic building block of a US ...
  • You'll Have Had Your Pakistani "Co-operation" Then ...
    By Steve Hynd Despite a lot of slightly breathless retelling of the administration's preferred tale that Pakistan detaining so many Taliban high-ups is a "game-changer" for Pakistani co-operation against terrorist extremists, it doesn't seem to be going that way after all. For one thing, Afghanistan ...

Water Wars

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Electronic Intifada

  • The sounds of piano in Gaza
    GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - At 14, Nour plays the piano, and she knows the facts around her. That the average age for marriage is 18, likely to a man found by parents, h ...
  • Gaza police forces and their bereaved families reb ...
    Rami Abu al-Sheikh's parents and siblings still remember how caring and tender their son was before he was killed during Israel's invasion of Gaza last winter. Rami was 27 years ol ...
  • Moment of truth: time to boycott Israel's entire r ...
    Words always matter, and names always have a life of their own. But perhaps Palestine and Israel form a context in which words become positions more dramatically than in many other ...
  • Picking pebbles to survive in Gaza
    GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - They come by the hundreds every day to sand dunes and rubble sites to sift for pebbles, stones and sand that can be used in making co ...
  • Refusal to surrender: "My Father was a Freedom Fig ...
    Palestinian-American author, journalist and editor of the Palestine Chronicle , Ramzy Baroud's latest book My Father was a Freedom Fighter is an antidote to the US, Europea ...

CS Monitor - News

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    Fewer US jobs lost in November and impact on economy.
  • October 16, 2009
    The UN Human Rights Council votes to adopt the Goldstone Report on Israel's military incursion into Gaza.
  • October 19, 2009
    Saudi Arabia is wary of terrorists, especially from neighboring states.
  • October 20, 2009
    How some TV insiders view parents and children on reality television.
  • October 21, 2009
    How African Anglicans might respond to the Vatican's offer.

The Wonk Room

  • Byrd Pushes Back Against Repeated GOP Claims That ...
    Over the last few days, Republicans have repeatedly cited Sen. Robert Byrd’s (D-WV) opposition to passing comprehensive health care reform through the reconciliation process as proof that Democrats are skirting Senate rules to “ram through” unpopular legislation. Republicans reason that if Byrd — th ...
  • Murkowski Wants To Save Alaska By Destroying It
    As Senators John Kerry (D-MA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) work to craft comprehensive climate legislation that can overcome a fossil-fueled filibuster, swing vote Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) is trying to dig the carbon hole deeper. Before climate policy had a chance of becoming r ...
  • Stupak Shifts Goal Posts On Abortion, Lies About S ...
    Yesterday, President Obama signaled his support for passing the Senate health care bill in the House alongside a reconciliation package of fixes, but pro-life Democrats led by Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) have pledged to oppose the Senate bill unless Congress strengthens the prohibitions against federal ...
  • Republicans Propose Giving Fed Chairman Veto Power ...
    en. Bob Corker (R-TN) said yesterday that the Senate Banking Committee is “real close” to completing a regulatory reform bill, after a series of proposals went back and forth between Corker and committee chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) regarding consumer protection. Instead of creating a new Consumer Fin ...
  • The Debate Over Declaring What Our Nuclear Weapons ...
    The Nuclear Posture Review was due out on Monday but was delayed once again, with reports that the President is pushing the NPR to go further. The question is how far. The NPR is shaping up to be an important test of Obama’s commitment to the pledge he made last year in Prague “to put [...]

thwap's schoolyard

  • Oh Those Fucking Liberals!!
    This isn't a very topical issue. It's just that a Liberal blogger who I've only recently encountered and had high hopes for appears to have gone completely off the rails. Eugene Forsey: Liberal has been babbling away lately about "TOTs" ... by which he appears to mean NDP "zombies" ... and how we' ...
  • Random Thoughts on Violence
    Thanks to the failure of my career I'm home a lot more! So why haven't I been blogging as much with all the free time? Simple. There's a very gregarious two-and-a-half-year-old in my house with me who takes up most of my time and energy. While I was often able to spend half-an-hour at work on bl ...
  • Khadr Will Get Millions!!!!
    We can already hear the shrieking and wailing. The same delusional morons who begrudge Maher Arar his compensation, and who have already slandered Abdullah Almalki, Muayyed Nureddin, Ahmad Abou El-Maati, and Abousfian Abdelrazik as either terrorists or fortune-hunters, are now no doubt bitching abo ...
  • New Poll: Liberals Creeping Up On Harpercons
    It's all very exciting! The number of people who would vote for a pack of war criminals who would feed them a poison sandwich and then destroy the public healthcare system that would try to save their lives and which would then blow-up the parliament buildings so that nobody could complain about it ...
  • Quick Thoughts on George Monbiot's "Heat"
    " Heat : How to keep the planet from burning " I'm 3/5ths of the way through Monbiot's book and it's been well worth the effort. I don't think that civilization is going to respond in time. We're going to wait until the crisis is upon us, the tipping point has been reached, and the gases are bein ...

Financial Sense Editorials

  • Market Observation: Market Rally & Global Economic ...
    by Chris Puplava. "News today that Greece will seriously work on cutting their budget deficit sent the global markets rallying today. Details from Greece’s proposed measures are provided below from a Bloomberg article"
  • Columbia: A New Gold Rush?
    by Andrey Dashkov. "For many investors, Colombia remains a grey spot on their mental maps of South America. La Violencia, the 50-year dark age in its recent past, came to an end with the close of the 20th century. But the memories are fresh, and the impact on the local economy and international perc ...
  • Market Observation: No Alternative
    by Ryan J. Puplava, CMT. "Currently, the outlook for retirees looking for income is dim. Money market funds are paying close to 0% interest. Short-term treasury bills are yielding less than 0.3% for a one-year maturity. Tax-free municipal bonds have recovered from the credit crisis but the Californi ...
  • Th*nk*ng (Fees)
    by Fred Cederholm. "I’ve been thinking about fees. Actually I’ve been thinking about the current Illinois situation, state income taxes, politics, Questions, Inc. (my personal corporation); corporate annual reports, and eternal vigilance. Last Friday, I was doing one of the many State of Illinois fo ...
  • March Will Come In Like A Lion
    by Paul Nolte. "If last week was any indication, March will indeed come in like a lion. It looked pretty quiet judging by the week to week close, however the daily 100 point swings pointed to more concerns from investors about not only the health of the US economy, but that of countries around the w ...

on Government Oversight

  • New Podcast: Examining FINRA and Other Self-Regula ...
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  • Morning Smoke: Treasury Adviser Will Step Down Thi ...
    Geithner Adviser Sachs Plans to Resign as Banking Crisis Wanes by Rebecca Christie [Bloomberg] Lockheed Delays on F-35 Bring Lowest Fee Since 2007 by Tony Capaccio [Bloomberg] JSF Buy Shrinks If Costs Grow by Colin Clark [DoD Buzz] Trusted Adviser...
  • Detour from Low-Road Contracting?
    With all of the debate over High-Road Contracting proposals that haven’t been publicly unveiled, I hope there is some agreement that contractors that owe taxes should be prevented from receiving federal funds. A step toward achieving that goal was reported...
  • Problems with the DCAA's ad hoc Reform
    Yesterday the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) sent a letter to the Senate Armed Services and the Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committees urging them to continue their oversight of the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA), since the news we're...
  • Morning Smoke: More News from the Recently Posted ...
    Monthly audits show F-35 production plagued by parts shortages by Stephen Trimble [Flight Global] Few JSF Changes After Nunn-McCurdy by Colin Clark [DoD Buzz] Consumer Agency Compromise Fails to Win Backing From Lawmakers by Alison Vekshin and Phil Mattingly [Bloomberg]...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • That Good Deed Might Cost You $300 in Miami
    The doggie bag from your restaurant dinner could be tomorrow's lunch. But then you see someone on the street who needs that meal more than you do. So you hand it over (with a smile) and continue on your way, maybe feeling a little better about yourself. Then a police officer stops you and hands you ...
  • Visiting the Homeless in Alaska
    Blogger Mark Horvath is reporting from his trip to Alaska, where the homeless are subjected to the elements and die at alarming rates. Read his first post here . It is days like this I really wish I had paid more attention in English class. So much happened I want to share with you, yet I just don't ...
  • Which Comes First: the Housing or the Services?
    A research team in Canada has been awarded a three-year grant to study whether "Housing First" is a model that works for mentally ill homeless youth. Housing First is the idea that it is cheaper, and more effective, to place homeless persons directly into supportive housing rather than trying to pro ...
  • What Needs to Be Done to End Youth Homelessness
    On any given night, between 300,000 and 400,000 teens sleep on the streets and in parks, in abandoned buildings, on the couches of strangers, and if they're lucky, on the couches of friends or in shelters. These are not rambunctious brats looking for adventure. They run from severe abuse or conflict ...
  • S.F. Government to Consider Dumb Sit/Lie Ordinance ...
    Today's the day that San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, normally an ally for the disadvantaged, introduces two ordinances to ban sitting on public sidewalks . He was formerly lukewarm on calls to ban sidewalk sitting; his conversion smacks of political opportunism . Newsom says the proposed regulatio ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Loon watch: Gaffney on Obama, Islam, and missile d ...
    Frank Gaffney, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control Policy in the Reagan Administration and President of the Center for Security Policy, comments on the “new” logo of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency: The Obama administration’s determined effort to reduce Ameri ...
  • Prof. Walter Dorn on CPAC
    In February, Ceasefire.ca launched its campaign to make Canada a UN peacekeeper again. To kick off the campaign, we co-hosted Prof. Walter Dorn in conversation with the Globe and Mail’s Gloria Galloway in Ottawa.  CPAC - PUBLIC RECORD On February 11th, in Ottawa, Walter Dorn (Canadian Forces Co ...
  • Struggle continues over Nuclear Policy Review
    The Obama administration continues to struggle to complete its review of U.S. nuclear weapons policy. The Nuclear Policy Review was originally scheduled for completion in December 2009, but disagreements within the administration between hardliners in the Pentagon and National Security Council and s ...
  • Prime Minister too powerful: Canadians
    According to a recent poll conducted by Nanos Research, 42% of Canadians think the Prime Minister’s Office has too much power  (Campbell Clark, “PMO too powerful, Canadians say,” Globe and Mail, 24 February 2010). Nine percent of Canadians think that the PMO has too little power, while 40% respon ...
  • Gates: “Pacification” of Europe threatens security
    U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has condemned the “pacification” on Europe. Speaking to a meeting of NATO officials and security experts, Gates declared that “The demilitarisation of Europe, where large swaths of the general public and political class are averse to military force and the risks t ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • FDA Warns Food Manufacturers Over Misleading Label ...
    March 4, 2010 ABC News By Lee Ferran The countdown is on for 17 food manufacturers to correct labels on popular food products that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says misrepresents the products’ health benefits — or else. The FDA said Wednesday that its commissioner, Dr. Margaret Hamburg, had ...
  • Weight Watchers Endorsement of McDonalds
    March 3, 2010 guardian.co.uk McDonald’s is hardly an ideal dining location for anyone struggling to stay slim. But the fast food chain scored a PR coup today when Weight Watchers agreed to endorse some of its products in New Zealand – a move met with outrage by nutritionists and obesity experts. A ...
  • New Gene Test May Help Pick A Diet Plan
    March 3, 2010 Reuters By Maggie Fox Can’t lose weight on a low-fat diet? Maybe you need to cut carbs instead, and a new genetic test may point the way, maker Interleukin Genetics Inc reported on Wednesday. The small study of about 140 overweight or obese women showed that those on diets “appropriate ...
  • U.S. To Determine Who Can Board Flights To Canada
    March 4, 2010 Montreal Gazette By Kevin Dougherty Starting in December, some passengers on Canadian airlines flying to, from or even over the United States without ever landing there, will only be allowed to board the aircraft once the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has determined they are not ...
  • Obama Launches Last Push on Health-Care Overhaul
    March 3, 2010 The Wall Street Journal By Laura Meckler and Janet Adamy President Barack Obama opened the final act of a year-long drama over health-care legislation Wednesday, calling on Democrats in Congress to approve the sweeping bill despite political risks and Republican opposition. The preside ...

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

  • Dutch anti-Islam leader is major winner in polls
    Reuters reports on the latest display of European Islamophobia: Dutch anti-Islamist leader Geert Wilders scored major gains in local authority polls Thursday, making him a serious challenger for power in a June national election, preliminary results showed. In the first test of public opinion sinc ...
  • It’s not about Islam and Judaism; it’s about anti- ...
    Nir Rosen writes: On Sunday, February 28th the New York Times published an outrageous oped by Efraim Karsh full of lies, distortions and mistakes. Karsh describes the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as an urgent foreign policy matter for the United States. It doesn’t appear to be urgent. One more Am ...
  • Tzipi Livni won’t be visiting the UK any time soon
    To hear it from the Israeli press you’d think that the British government can now makes changes to the law simply by having the prime minister write an op-ed. Last December an arrest warrant was issued for former Israeli foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, when she was expected to arrive in Britain. Acc ...
  • Michael Foot 1913-2010: A passionate English radic ...
    Most liberties have been won by people who broke the law – Michael Foot, 1980 At the height of World War Two in 1942, Michael Foot, then acting editor of the Evening Standard, gave a passionate defense of freedom of the press after the Churchill government tried to censor the Daily Mirror. Foot chi ...
  • The impossibility of a two-state solution and the ...
    Just over a year ago, Bob Simon at CBS’s 60 Minutes did a piece that implicitly challenged the credibility of President Obama’s early push to revive the Middle East peace process. Simon noted the swiftness with which the new president had taken up the issue, but then went on to show the stark realit ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Scientists Locate Apparent Hydrothermal Vents off ...
    The title is from Columbia, and I should point out that this discovery on the Pacific Antarctic Ridge is 2800 miles from tip of the Antarctic peninsula, where volcanic activity is already well known. Examples are found at Deception Island and within the Bransfield strait. These two images I’ve prepa ...
  • Joanne Simpson (1923-2010)
    WUWT Readers may remember this essay: Now THIS is interesting: Pielke on Dr. Joanne Simpson in which she said: No one seems to have properly factored in population growth and land use, particularly in tropical and coastal areas. … But as a scientist I remain skeptical. I decided to keep quiet in ...
  • Spencer’s UHI -vs- population project &#8211 ...
    In case you missed it, Roy Spencer performed a unique and valuable analysis comparing International Hourly Surface data to population density to provide a simple gauge for the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. It was presented at WUWT yesterday with this result: There were lots of questions on the me ...
  • NSIDC Confirms WUWT Ice Forecast
    by Steven Goddard and Anthony Watts In late 2009, Anthony forecast that Arctic sea ice would continue to recover in 2010. Last month Steve Goddard did an analysis explaining why that was likely to happen and yesterday NSIDC confirmed the analysis. The pattern of winds associated with a strongly nega ...
  • CRUTEM3 “…code did not adhere to stand ...
    Those of us who have looked at GISS and CRU code have been saying this for months. Now John Graham-Cumming has posted a statement with the UK Parliament about the quality and veracity of CRU code that has been posted, saying “they have not released everything”. I found this line most interesting: “ ...

Dandelion Salad

  • U.S. Tightens Missile Shield Encirclement Of China ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism March 4, 2010 So far this year the United States has succeeded in inflaming tensions with China and indefinitely holding up a new strategic arms reduction treaty with Russia through its relentless ...
  • Keiser Report №22: David DeGraw on The Economic El ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ RussiaToday March 04, 2010 This time Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, look at the scandals behind: ‘the owner of Great Britain’ bouncing a $54 million check for a pile of dirt in the Persian Gulf; a currency speculator in Monaco moving currency markets wi ...
  • Kucinich Resolution will Spark House Debate Next W ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Congressman Dennis Kucinich Washington, Mar 4, 2010 Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today introduced H. Con Res. 248 a privileged resolution with 16 original cosponsors that will require the House of Representatives to debate whether to continue the wa ...
  • Dennis Kucinich: This Bill Is A Sellout To Insuran ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ MoxNewsDotCom March 04, 2010 more about “Dennis Kucinich “This Bill Is A Sello…“, posted with vodpod see Keith Olbermann: Post Script To Last Week’s Special Comment “When Your Dad Says Kill Me!” How Obama’s Health Care “Reformâ€� Kills Health Care by S ...
  • Keiser Report №21: One downgrade away from the end ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ RussiaToday March 02, 2010 This time Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, report on the scandals of Paul Volcker OverRuled; banks betting on Greek default; Goldman ‘envy’ and one downgrade away from the end of the US empire. Keiser also speaks to Kevin Conn ...

Your New Reality

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    "Copying The Past....How's That Rock N' Roll?" Yes, John Lennon is being used to sell cars, but what a fantastic message to get out to a new generation who don't really know what he was about : Hopefully when teenagers see the ad and curiously google John Lennon, they'll come across this song : ...
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    Lord Of The Lies Tony Blair has a memoir on the way, and you can smell the wretched stink of its bullshit even before the plastic wrap is peeled off the first copies. Look at this what this enormous lying cock has to say about the book he was paid, incredibly, as much as £5 million to write : "I h ...
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    A New Jersey family created something beautiful from the snow : And a policeman came and told them (reluctantly) that they had to cover it up, after someone complained. About the nudity. The Full Story Is Here
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    When She Stops Writing On Her Hand, You'll Know They've Wheeled Out The Robot Sarah Palin Sarah Palin tells the people what they want to hear and gets the expected reaction. She all but admits she made sure the notes she wrote on her hand would become a media freakout, and important talking point f ...
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    Like Scenes From The Game 'Earthquake Wars', If It Existed A massive earthquake strikes Chile, leaving monumental scenes of death and destruction. The Boston Globe's always excellent The Big Picture rounds up images from three days later. Broken brick stone masonry everywhere, fishing boats dumped ...

Wired - Science

  • Fears of Undersea Methane Leaks Already Coming Tru ...
    Prodigious plumes of planet-warming methane are bubbling from sediments across a broad region of Arctic seafloor previously thought to be sealed by permafrost, new analyses indicate. The resulting increase of methane gas in the atmosphere may accelerate climate warming, scientists say. Though immen ...
  • Senator Proposes Shuttle-Extension Hail Mary
    The turmoil and political maneuvering over the future of NASA continues in the wake of the Obama administration’s cancellation of the Constellation program. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-Texas) proposed adding $3.4 billion to the agency’s budget between 2010 and 2012 to extend operation of the shut ...
  • Gut Bacteria Cause Overeating in Mice
    The connection between gut bacteria and obesity has gained some weight, with new findings demonstrating a mouse link between immune system malfunction, bacterial imbalance and increased appetite. Mice with altered immune systems developed metabolic disorders and were prone to overeating. When micr ...
  • Pharma Watchdog Needs Your Help With Incriminating ...
    Overwhelmed by thousands of documents describing the inner workings of pharmaceutical companies, the Drug Industry Document Archive wants to enlist the help of crowds. The documents are uncovered during lawsuits against drug companies, but can’t be searched until they’re processed. “In the long run ...
  • Research Calls Forensic DNA Technique Into Questio ...
    A DNA-matching technique often used in forensics has been called to the stand. Fine-grained analysis of DNA found in cell structures called mitochondria suggests that it can vary widely between tissues, making samples tricky to compare. “I wouldn’t say that it throws other results out the window, b ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Noam Chomsky Rails Against Israel, Again-
    With references to “slaughter” in Gaza and Israel’s successful efforts (with U.S. complicity) to quell protest and expressions of sympathy among Palestinians in the West Bank, Chomsky returned often... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Israel’s Supreme Court slams police over Sheikh Ja ...
    [C]riticism was issued by the justices during a court hearing on a petition filed by residents of Sheikh Jarrah, who demanded to be allowed to protest on this coming Saturday night, a demonstration... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Amira Hass: How will the next Palestinian uprising ...
    The truth is that the suicide attacks on civilians gave Israel a golden opportunity to implement plans, which had always existed, to confiscate more and more Palestinian lands, using the excuse of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Salman Masalha: Israel’s apartheid doesn’t stop at ...
    The alienation between Arabs and Jews can be seen everywhere. It has not arisen solely in the context of the national conflict, but is rather a result of an establishment policy which has... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in it ...
  • Protest Friends of the IDF and Ashkenazi – NYC, 9 ...
    PLEASE JOIN US FOR A MOVING PROCESSION TO PROTEST THE ANNUAL FUNDRAISING DINNER OF THE FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES & KEYNOTE IDF CHIEF OF STAFF GABI ASHKENAZI WHEN: Tuesday, March... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Breakthrough Reveals Blood Vessel Cells Are Key to ...
    In a leap toward making stem cell therapy widely available, researchers at the Ansary Stem Cell Institute at Weill Cornell Medical College have discovered that endothelial cells, the most basic building blocks of the vascular system, produce growth factors that can grow copious amounts of adult stem ...
  • Food Technology Presents: Wellness 10, March 24-25
    Food products are evolving to meet the needs of health-conscious consumers who demand new products that aim to promote better health, increase longevity, and prevent the onset of chronic diseases. Presented by Food Technology magazine, Wellness 10, March 24-25 in Chicago, addresses six of the most r ...
  • First Use of Innovative "IRE" on Pancreatic Tumor
    A new procedure for treating pancreatic and liver cancers using electrical fields to poke holes in tumors was used for the first time anywhere to fight pancreatic cancer at Stony Brook University Medical Center.
  • Scientists Share Data about Malignant Hyperthermia
    Travel Award Available to share data with Clinicians and Scientists to advance the diagnosis, treatment, and management of Malignant Hyperthermia-Susceptible Patients April 23-24, 2010 at Mercy Hospital University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
  • Making BRD DOA As A Cattle Industry Concern
    Bovine Respiratory Disease causes between $800 million to $900 million annually in economic losses from animal death, reduced feed efficiency and antimicrobial treatment costs. Oklahoma State University scientists are showing real dollar benefits of BRD health management practices on cattle operatio ...

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

  • Senator McCain: Bill Threatens Dietary Supplements
    On Monday, Senator McCain released a Senate Floor Statement defending his Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010. He lashed out at "opponents of the bill and their well-paid Washington lobbyists" who have "spread false statements and rumors about the legislation". OK. So what are these alleged "false ...
  • Concern Over San Francisco 'Compost' Made From Sew ...
    It's called biosolids compost and its being given away by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission for use in school and community gardens, and homes. But some activists are protesting the giveaways because that material is actually treated sewage sludge which experts say often contains toxins. ...
  • Obama's Budget Revealed: Money for Wars and Weapon ...
    Send up a flare! The 2011 federal budget has sprung some leaks in the midst of a storm. Not sure there's enough money for life rafts! Forget women and children first! Click here to read this article
  • Who Decides Where Farms Go?
    When Ron Leys and other members of the Crawford County Board approved a livestock farm siting law four years ago, they thought they were giving themselves more control over where big farms go. Click here to read this article
  • Dairy Farmers Need Immediate Action to Survive
    Today I listened to a dairy farmer describe her past year in business. Like all other dairy farmers in the nation, her farm was in crisis. She no longer has TV or trash pick-up. She can't afford it. She could barely buy food for herself and her husband, which is rather ironic considering that her bu ...

fotoFrontera

Executive Intelligence Review

Center for a Livable Future

  • Struck by a Helicopter Toilet: Reflections on Hum ...
    As I was jogging past the group of giggling teenagers on a stoop, something struck my shoulder.  Curious, I picked up the offending projectile: a plastic bag, tied and filled with a dark, crumbly material.  The kids on the stoop burst out laughing. “So what’s in the bag?”  I asked, playing along ...
  • Pedometers from Healthy Monday delivered to Richmo ...
    On Tuesday, while working on my capstone research, I delivered some Healthy Monday pedometers to the participants of a food survey at the school. The incentive for taking the survey as part of the “control” group in my study was this item from the Healthy Monday program. The students were extremel ...
  • Organic Conference Draws Large Crowd
    Last weekend I had the pleasure of escaping the snow-ridden Mid Atlantic to travel to Athens, Georgia for the Georgia Organics conference. I was contacted months ago to come speak to them about what it means to “eat for the future” - the title of the program I run and an apt title for my [...] ...
  • Congressional briefing by meat industry provides n ...
    The Meat Industry* hosted a Congressional briefing on Tuesday (2/23/2010) in Washington D.C. on antibiotics in livestock and poultry production. The purpose of the briefing was to uncover, in the moderator’s words, the ‘true science’ on antibiotics. Contrary to his assertion, there was very little s ...
  • Congressional briefing by panel of vet experts rep ...
    The Meat Industry* hosted a Congressional briefing today (2/23/2010) in Washington D.C. on antibiotics in livestock and poultry production. The purpose of the briefing was to uncover, in the moderator’s words, the ‘true science’ on antibiotics. Contrary to his assertion, there was very little scienc ...

Norwegianity

  • De-Peted, Bachmanned and the Stupak among us
    Well Pete Stark got to be chairman of Ways and Means for all of one day thanks to some members of the committee getting very huffy (as they usually do when pork is involved and since Ways and Means makes the rules, pork is definitely involved). Sander Levin from Michigan will become the new chair, a ...
  • Guilty until proven innocent
    Toyota’s problems are hard for some to take, especially in Toyota City, Japan. When news of the unintended acceleration problems first broke, Toyota management here suggested that the troubles were due to driver error. Taxi driver Toshio Okamura said he believed that explanation. “It was hard to i ...
  • How to win the fight over global warming
    Reading a semi-decent article on the global warming debate in the ChiTrib, I flashed on how to win over the yahoos. Obama’s speechwriters need to determine all the people worldwide who will be displaced by rising sea levels, then break those refugees down by chronology. The worst case scenario, of c ...
  • A morning wasted at the WaPost
    Rangel steps aside. Temporarily but it’s still a first step. Past service does not excuse concurrent corruption. It may not be possible to drive Rangel from the House, but stripping him of his power will strengthen the caucus. We compromised with Jack Murtha but the war didn’t end and the party took ...
  • Actually, it’s not Apartheid — it’s wo ...
    Just back from a brief travel break, Glenn Greenwald saw the same Richard Cohen nonsense about Israeli Apartheid I reacted to this morning, and gives it a thorough Greenwalding. As well he should. Gaza is the most horrific ongoing war crime in the world today. Worse than Darfur. Worse than Myanamar. ...

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

  • Muslims Are Their Own Worst Enemy
    Muslims are numerous but powerless. Divisions among Muslims, especially between Sunni and Shi’ites, have consigned the Muslim Middle East to almost a century of Western control. Muslims cannot even play together. The Islamic Solidarity Games, a regional version of the Olympics, which were to be he ...
  • A series of setbacks for the coalition in Afghanis ...
    Less To Cheer STANLEY MCCHRYSTAL, the famously self-controlled commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, could be forgiven if he let off an expletive when he heard that soldiers under his command had killed 27 civilians on Sunday February 21st. A missile strike on a three-vehicle convoy in an isolat ...
  • MQM Caught Spying On Pakistan
    Guest post sent in by Truth Seeker MQM caught spying red-handed for foreign nationals and smuggling classified state material outside Pakistan and violated Official Secret Act.  According to a report published in the press Waseem Akthar (MNA) and former advisor to the Chief Minister on poli ...
  • US drones killed 123 civilians, three al-Qaeda men ...
    Monday, February 01, 2010 By Amir Mir LAHORE: Afghanistan-based US predators carried out a record number of 12 deadly missile strikes in the tribal areas of Pakistan in January 2010, of which 10 went wrong and failed to hit their targets, killing 123 innocent Pakistanis. The remaining two successfu ...
  • War Begets War, Don’t Call it Terrorism
    Slate | By William Saletan | 11 January 2010 Traitor, Bomber, Soldier, Spy Stop crying “terrorism� every time we’re attacked. Afghan police officers inspect the site of a blast in Khost province Photo: REUTERS Two weeks ago, a Jordanian suicide bomber blew up seven CIA employees at a U.S. m ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • E mau Ke Ea March 2010- Indigenous Peoples in Cope ...
    E mau Ke Ea March 2010- Indigenous Peoples in Copenhagen- Part 3 from Malia N on Vimeo . The March 2010 E Mau Ke Ea show is the third and final show that features footage from the UNFCCC meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark. Malia Nobrega attended and filmed the a few shots at the Global Day of Action a ...
  • Towards the Communal State!
    NOTICIAS - VEN GLOBAL NEWS “Zamora lives, the fight continues," is the motto brought to life by our people. There could not be a better occasion for the enactment of the Organic Law of the Federal Council of Government than the unveiling of the statue of the Peoples General Ezequiel Zamora in the E ...
  • The Myths of Liberal Zionism – Book Review
    The Palestine Chronicle: A Leading Online Newspaper on Palestine, Israel and the Middle East Yitzhak Laor, The Myths of Liberal Zionism (London: Verso, 2010) 162 p. The book deals with the deep contradictions within Israeli society, the fact that a large majority of the population supports the b ...
  • Diversity of Tactics - Harsha Walia
    Diversity of Tactics - 3 - Harsha Walia from working TV on Vimeo . A Diversity of Tactics - A Diversity of Opinions Panel discussion co-hosted by rabble.ca and working TV, Saturday February 20, 2010 at W2 Community Media Arts Centre, Vancouver. Moderator: Charlie Smith, Georgia Straight Panelists ...
  • Trenton Military Commander Charged for Murders of ...
    Image via Wikipedia Guest Editorial from the : From the Eagle Watch #28 Commentary February 10, 2010 When we first heard about 27-year-old Jessica Lloyd gone missing in Belleville, we suspected she was dead. We further speculated that it was a soldier at Trenton who killed her. Someone replied ...

Pensieve

  • Jobs Sues Google Through HTC
    Photo by acaben Steve Jobs could be on the verge of a self-destructive move that would ruin Apple. Again. The idolized CEO’s leadership led to his dismissal many years ago, from the company he founded. The buildup to this was aggravated by  his arrogant and unfriendly manner, and unwillingness to ...
  • Clinton Hails Honduras as Success
    Today Secretary of State Clinton called Honduras a success story, making explicit what some socialist critics have been denouncing since the crisis began. Whatever his leanings at home, Obama’s international policy is not leftist at all. “The Honduras crisis has been managed to a successful conclusi ...
  • Major Earthquake Rattles Chileans
    A major earthquake struck Chile early this morning, followed by a many aftershocks. The US Geological Survey has stated its magnitude as 8.8 in the Richter scale. Chile is much more prepared for earthquakes than Haiti, for its economy is first among emerging nations, approaching the level of a firs ...
  • General Velasquez Dismissed, Who’s to Blame?
    Honduran President Porfirio Lobo Sosa has removed General Romeo Vasquez Velazquez from his position as head of the armed forces of Honduras. He will retire and lead a civilian life. This is transparently the result of international pressure for his dismissal for his role in the 2009 constitutional c ...
  • General Velasquez Dismissed, Who’s to Blame?
    Honduran President Porfirio Lobo Sosa has removed General Romeo Vasquez Velazquez from his position as head of the armed forces of Honduras. He will retire and lead a civilian life. This is transparently the result of international pressure for his dismissal for his role in the 2009 constitutional c ...

Green Times

  • How Far Are You Willing To Go?
    Alicia Silverstone pondered this and found she was willing to go the whole way – and found a kind life…
  • Environmental News - 05/03/10
    Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html)   Bell frog thought to be on last legs spotted alive and kicking-In the world of amphibians, it is the equivalent of finding the Tasmanian tiger. A species of frog presumed extinct for nearl ...
  • Environmental News - 03/03/10
    Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html)   Rees's plan to save redgums faces the axe -The decision of the former premier Nathan Rees to immediately end logging of the Riverina redgums has been reversed by the state government.  It ...
  • 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…
  • Clean Up Australia: Inspiring The Next Generation ...
    Since 1992, tens of thousands of schoolchildren across Australia have cleaned up...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Gordon Brown to stop courts issuing arrest warrant ...
    The Government is to announce plans to stop 'politically-motivated' campaign groups using British courts to secure arrest warrants for visiting foreign officials [alleged war criminals] The move follows an outcry [?] over a series of attempts to detain high-profile figures during trips to London, ...
  • Dubai police chief says to seek Netanyahu arrest
    Dubai's police chief plans to seek the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the head of Israel's spy agency over the killing of a Hamas leader in the emirate, Al Jazeera television reported. Dahi Khalfan Tamim "said he would ask the Dubai prosecutor to issue arrest warrants fo ...
  • U.S. Fears Election Strife in Iraq Could Affect Pu ...
    The deadly suicide bombings in Iraq on Wednesday highlight the central quandary facing President Obama as he tries to fulfill his campaign pledge [ he's broken every other one ] to end the war there: Will parliamentary elections, scheduled for Sunday, throw the country back into the sectarian st ...
  • Bomber poses as patient to attack hospital
    32 die and scores injured in Baquba attacks aimed at destabilising Iraq on eve of elections Three suicide bombers, including one who sneaked his explosives into a hospital, killed at least 32 people yesterday in a former insurgent stronghold north east of Baghdad, sending a deadly signal ahead ...
  • 33 killed, 55 injured on Iraq's black Wednesday
    Baquoba bathed in blood after a third [Blackwater] explosion struck a hospital swarming with casualties from two car bombs in the central Iraqi city earlier in the day. Two bombers in explosive-packed cars attacked police stations in Baquoba on Wednesday, followed by a third bomber who blew hims ...

Daily Loaf

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Hebron Women Take On Netanyahu
    From International Indymedia. On March 3rd, over a hundred Palestinian women marched Hebron’s streets to resist Ibrahim’s mosque becoming an Israeli Heritage Site. The Women’s Empowerment Project gathered women from Hebron to march from Hebron’s Muncipality Office down to the mosque. The exclusivel ...
  • Report from Beit Jalla Sit-In
    By Shy Chalavitz Already when driving on route 60, we saw the intimidating bulldozers riding on the side of the road on their way to another day of “putting facts on the ground” as chiefs of the Israeli government call it. As we arrived in Beit Jalla, a heart-breaking scene came into view – a h ...
  • A Day in the Life of an Israeli Rabbi for Human Ri ...
      Rabbi Arik Ascherman of Rabbis for Human Rights reports on witnessing  the army uproot olive trees in Beit Jala,  calling for supporters to demonstrate with the farmers and help plant new trees,  and then moving on to Jerusalem to demonstrate against Ezra Nawi’s conviction order and to be pres ...
  • Tulkarem Radio Director Imprisoned
    Ma’an, a leading Palestinian news  source, reports that the director of a Tulkarem radio station was seized in his home last night, and later sentenced to 50 days in prison.  The radio station is affliated with the Ma’an network.  The Director has not been charged with any crime, and the re ...
  • Rise of a New Israeli Left
    By Udi Aloni and Ofer Neiman This article was originally published in Hebrew on March 2nd in  YNet, the website of the mass circulation daily Yediot Achronot. It seems that for the first time in many years the Israeli peace camp is reaping the fruits of its labor. Alarmed by the success of the strug ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Laying off accountants: The unexamined leading ind ...
    It’s tax season now, the season when CPAs work 70 hour weeks. But not this year. Not only do job agencies like Robert Half have no accounting jobs, they tell me companies are laying off accountants now, during tax season. This is unprecedented. This is a previously unexamined leading indicator. How ...
  • Idea of nullification gains steam in Texas
    Whether it be over Real-ID, gun laws, or whatever, the idea of nullification is building. This is the belief that the Constitution allows states to ignore federal laws it doesn’t agree with. Jury nullification is a similar concept. For example a jury could decide the marijuana laws are wrong and sim ...
  • Re-priming the economic doomsday machine
    Economists: Another financial crisis on the way Nonpartisan group led by Nobel winner calls for stronger financial reforms The report warns that the country is now immersed in a “doomsday cycle” wherein banks use borrowed money to take massive risks in an attempt to pay big dividends to shareholde ...
  • March 4 Day of Action. Student Activists
    StudentActivism.net has over 100 actions planned for today. March 4 Day of Action to Defend Education is a grass-roots event in which students, faculty, and others are coming together around the country to speak and act. The Day of Action was originally conceived in California as a response to t ...
  • 10 companies reinventing our energy infrastructure
    Wired profiles ten companies doing amazing, positive things, creating our new energy future. The innovations include plants that turn themselves into sugar, speeding the process to create biofuel; high altitude kites that produce electricity from the jet stream, superconductor electricity lines that ...

    Blacklisted News

  • Tea Party leader paid by GOP-run campaign to promo ...
    Tea Party leader paid by GOP-run campaign to promote party goals
  • FBI Operative Hal Turner Says Government Urged Him ...
    In more than two hours of testimony, Turner described how he was recruited in 2003 by the FBI's Newark-based Joint Terrorism Task Force. He said he was paid "in excess of $100,000" by the FBI during his almost five years as an informant, according to The Record .
  • Concerned Citizens Demand Answers about Global Str ...
    What in the World Are They Spraying?
  • US creates terror groups, ex-intelligence chief sa ...
    Former head of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency Hamid Gol says the United States is seeking to create and train terrorist groups in the region.
  • Microsoft Windows 7 / Vista Advanced Forensics Gui ...

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

  • Privacy, Civil Liberties Groups Sound Alarm over E ...
    The Obama administration has declassified part of its plan to bolster cyber security, which calls for greater cooperation between private companies and the National Security Agency. Privacy and civil liberties advocates have sounded alarms about the NSA’s expanded role in security because of the sec ...
  • Boycott, Divest From, and Sanction Israel?: A Deba ...
    In 2005, a coalition of Palestinian civil society groups called for people all over the world to engage in a nonviolent campaign to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel until it complies with international law. The call was inspired by the international boycott and divestment initiatives applied ...
  • Thousands of Students Taking Part in National Day ...
    Thousands of students in at least thirty-two states are planning to walk out of classes today as part of the National Day of Action to Defend Public Education. The call for nationwide protests originated in California following last November’s student strikes and building takeovers in response to un ...
  • Headlines for March 4, 2010
    Obama Backs Reconciliation Vote on Healthcare Reform, 9 Killed in Iraq Bombings, Biden Vows Ongoing US Combat Operations After Pullout, Report: High Number of Birth Defects Seen in Fallujah, Iran Arrests Opposition Activists, US Circulates New Draft of Iran Sanctions, Clinton: US “Deeply Concerned” ...
  • Hamas Bans Men From Women’s Hair Salons

Open ID

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • Nose jobs
    (Courtesy of Carleton University Magazine) People around the world ask the same question on a daily basis: “Is the milk bad?” A quick sniff gives us a fast and reliable answer. The sense of smell is very powerful and often taken for granted. We simply follow our nose, because it always knows…but so ...
  • Snow fall
    To the average Canadian, a research station getting completely buried in snow more than 1,500 metres high in the Cariboo Mountains might indicate that snow levels at this altitude are not at risk from global warming. But University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) professor Stephen Déry says look ...
  • The STEALTH advantage
    The average Olympic ski race lasts between 90 and 110 seconds, with skiers clocking speeds of up to 130 kilometres per hour. The difference between a gold-medal performance and a 10th-place finish is often measured in hundredths of a second. As University of Calgary geomatics engineering professor G ...
  • An accidental soft landing
    In February 2005, Aaron Coret was a third-year engineering student at the University of British Columbia (UBC) with a passion for snowboarding. His goal was to turn pro some day, but that dream changed instantly when he crashed while snowboarding in a Whistler Blackcomb terrain park, a playground of ...
  • Biology in motion
    InnovationCanada.ca sits down with Queen’s University psychology professor and biological motion expert, Nikolaus Troje. In his Biomotion Lab, Troje and his colleagues study the cognitive processes that occur in the mind to help us recognize emotional and mental health through human movement.

Signs of the times

  • Buckling Under Pressure: UK mulling 'war crimes ar ...
    Gordon Brown, the British prime minister, has said he plans to block private groups from seeking arrest warrants against visiting foreign officials, following a dispute with Israel. Last December Tzipi Livni, Israel's former foreign minister, was said to have cancelled a visit to the UK after a cou ...
  • 90 Percent of High School Kids Lack Sufficient Int ...
    Less than 10 percent of high school students in the United States meet the federally recommended daily intake of fruits and vegetables, according to a study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). "A diet high in fruits and vegetables is important for optimal child growth ...
  • Divide and Rule: Media incites Germans against Gre ...
    Fire sale of Greek islands, Acropolis and Parthenon suggested - Greek public reacts with outrage and boycotts German goods Greece must consider a fire sale of land, historic buildings and art works to cut its debts, two rightwing German politicians said today in a newspaper interview that is bound ...
  • Therapy Animals Prove Their Healing Power
    When Sunny, a 3-year-old golden retriever, began working with school kids last spring, one of her first students was a fourth-grader with cerebral palsy - mobile only with the aid of a walker. As soon as the youngster met Sunny, she was eager to take the dog for a walk, said Andrea Bazer, an adap ...
  • The Black Hole of Guantánamo
    When it comes to dealing with the thorny question of how to close Guantánamo, the remaining prisoners have been caught between two competing systems since President Obama took office last January, and the result, to put it mildly, has been confusing. Under President Bush, prisoners were cleared for ...

Threat Level

  • DMCA Muscle Strong-Arms DVD Copying
    Those awaiting a legitimate method to duplicate DVDs for personal use likely will have to wait even longer, perhaps forever, after RealNetworks tossed in the white towel and abandoned litigation toward that end. RealNetworks spent almost two years in a legal battle with the Motion Picture Associatio ...
  • ‘Google’ Hackers Had Ability to Alter Source Code
    The hackers who targeted Google and other companies in January targeted the source code management systems of companies, allowing them to siphon source code as well as modify it, according to a new report. More importantly, systems that the companies used to develop and manage their source code have ...
  • Spain Busts Hackers for Infecting 13 Million PCs
    BOSTON (Reuters) — Spanish police have shut down a ring of computer hackers who infected more than 13 million PCs with a virus that stole credit card numbers and other valuable data in what may be the biggest cyber-raid to date. Spain’s Civil Guard said on Tuesday that it arrested three men suspecte ...
  • Flipping Off Cops Is Legal, Not Advised
    Flipping the bird, or sticking out the middle finger, is perhaps the oldest insulting gesture on earth, dating to ancient Greece and adopted by the Romans as digitus impudicus – the impudent finger. A zillion middle fingers later, an Oregon man is suing suburban Portland cops over his use of the ges ...
  • U.S. Declassifies Part of Secret Cybersecurity Pla ...
    The Obama administration declassified part of the government’s cybersecurity plan Tuesday, publishing parts of it that discuss intrusion detection systems for federal computer networks and the government’s role in securing critical infrastructure. The declassification announcement was made by Howar ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Romney vs. Pawlenty on the GOP's ER Health Care Pl ...
    For years, Republican leaders including President George W. Bush, former House Minority Leader Tom Delay and current Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have insisted that "no American is denied health care in America" because " you just go to an emergency room ." But while Mitt Romney reminded ...
  • Rove Book: No Pushback on Iraq WMD My Bad
    Next week, Karl Rove's memoir Courage and Consequence hits the bookshelves. But as the previews make clear, you won't have to wait until March 9th to appreciate Rove's gift for fiction. According to the AP , his revisionist history claims that "many of the controversies that weakened his presidenc ...
  • The Resurrection of Lamar Alexander
    In May 1996 , a sheepish businessman admitted to a hotel bellhop, "There's a guy in the lobby who was running for president two months ago, and now I've forgotten his name." When the bellhop told him the man was the former Tennessee Governor, the businessman quickly remembered, "that's right, Lamar ...
  • GOP Revives the "Starve the Beast" Amendment
    "My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years," Reagan Revolutionary Grover Norquist boasted, "to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub." Now, a generation after Norquist launched his crusade, Republican White House hopefuls Newt Gingrich and Tim Pawlenty are lea ...
  • Pawlenty Calls for End to GOP's ER Health Care Pla ...
    For years, Republican leaders including President George W. Bush, former House Minority Leader Tom Delay and current Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have insisted that "no American is denied health care in America" because "you just go to an emergency room." Apparently, Minnesota Governor an ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

  • Bush/Cheney Pulled Torture Strings
    A Justice Department report shows how George W. Bush and Dick Cheney stage-managed the torture opinions, reports Robert Parry. March 4, 2010
  • How 'Free Market' Snookers Americans
    Corporate propaganda has sold many Americans on "big government" as the big threat to their freedom, notes Don Monkerud. March 4, 2010
  • Gates Replays His Cold War Message
    Defense Secretary Robert Gates is back in the Cold War with his demand for more military commitments, says Melvin A. Goodman. March 3, 2010
  • The Woeful Washington Post
    The Washington Post is now a neocon bastion that distorts the capital's debate with bias and misinformation, writes Robert Parry. March 2, 2010
  • Teaching Afghans False Iraqi Lessons
    The Obama administration is applying lessons in Afghanistan that may come from a misreading of the Iraq War, says Ivan Eland. March 2, 2010

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

TruthHugger

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

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Echoes of Jim Crow in Conservative Calls for Minor ...
    In today's Washington Post , Ramesh Ponnuru bravely sticks out his chin in making the case that the minority has a right to prevail over the majority. �Minority Rule is a golden oldie at William F. Buckley's National Review , where Ponnuru is Senior Editor, and his particular gripe is with fellow co ...
  • George W. Bush's Real Legacy: a broken military
    Readers who have been following since the early days will likely remember that I expended a lot of pixels writing about recruitment and retention and the loss of senior NCOs and seasoned officers in the United States military. I screamed until I was blue in the face that our military was broken, tha ...
  • In case you missed the President's speech yesterda ...
    It's definitely worth listening to. He's never met a talking point he can't eviscerate, frequently with humor. PASS. THE. DAMN. BILL.
  • Condi Rice's State Department wasn't merely incomp ...
    The four years that Condi Rice spent at the helm of the State Department were marked be incompetence, inept leadership and failure. Or so I thought. Now I am starting to think that it was criminality masquerading as incompetence . An official at the United States Embassy in Iraq has told federal pr ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    The phrase you are looking for is "working the refs" Sensing that healthcare reform is going to pass and they can't stop it, republicans are taking aim at the Parliamentarian, a 33 year employee of the body who was, ironically, elevated to the position a few years ago when e trepublican majority too ...

Care 2

  • Israel's Historic Roots Are Real!!!
    Palestinian protests against the restoration of Jewish heritage sites are part of a campaign of delegitimisation against Israel Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Rwanda: Agathe Habyarimana Arrested for Genocide
    The former First Lady, and one of the most prominent Genocide fugitives living in France, was arrested by French authorities yesterday, but later released and put under judicial control. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Gordon Brown to stop courts issuing arrest warrant ...
    Under the proposals, the Crown Prosecution Service will take over responsibility for prosecuting war crimes and other violations of international law. It will end the current system in which magistrates are obliged to consider a case for an arrest warrant Submitted by Beatrice B. to Offbeat �|� �No ...
  • Ecstasy lab worth $10 million found: police
    A 27-year-old man has become the eleventh person to be charged over what Sydney police have described as one of the largest ever drug manufacturing operations.A police raid on a home at Hinchinbrook in Sydney's west has uncovered a drug laboratory Submitted by Lady Xanadu to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! � ...
  • Picture gallery, In pictures: Orangutans at Hanove ...
    Most of us have been driven nuts by a vending machine on more than one occasion. So imagine the frustration when the orangutans at Hanover zoo in Germany received their very own nut vending machine Submitted by Beatrice B. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

GreenBiz

  • Burgerville's New Corn-Based Cups Complete Green P ...
    By now using cups and lids that are compostable, fast food chain Burgerville has switched all possible packaging to compostable versions. �
  • Mapping the Waste from Pizza and Sandwiches
    Groups in the U.K. are examining the food and packaging waste created by the supply chains for pizza, sandwiches, quiche and frozen meals. �
  • Energy Star Honors Scores of Firms for Efficiency
    Whirlpool, Ford, Johnson Controls, Jones Lang LaSalle, Sears Holdings, Lowe's, Kohl's and Servidyne are among the many companies recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program this year for making strides in energy efficiency.
  • Exploring the Forgotten Water Footprint
    It is becoming increasingly common for companies to measure and report the water they consume within their four walls. Yet they rarely track all the water used to make the electricity powering their operations. It's called the forgotten water footprint, and it's about to get a lot more attention.
  • Why Walmart's Carbon Cuts Will Make a World of Dif ...
    Walmart's new commitment to cut 20 million metric tons of CO2 emissions from its supply chain is big news in and of itself, but it's the way the company will leverage its suppliers to make cuts that will make the biggest impacts.

Reuters Global

  • African poverty falling faster than thought?
    A new study suggested Africans are getting wealthier more quickly than previously believed and the poorest continent's riches are also spreading beyond the narrow confines of its elite.
  • Taliban demand freedom of speech, condemn ban on a ...
    Afghanistan's Taliban have condemned a government plan to ban live coverage of their attacks, saying the measure was a violation of free speech. For a group that had itself banned television, not to mention music during its rule from 1996 to 2001, that's pretty rich irony.
  • The feeling on Iran? Watch NAM
    Could developing nations cause headaches for Iran at the U.N. nuclear watchdog? What they think about the International Atomic Energy Agency's latest report on Iran is important because Tehran has often been able to count on a certain amount of support from the 118-nation bloc of mainly developing n ...
  • EU tests its vision with 2020 strategy
    The European Union is setting out a 10-year growth and jobs plan called the Europe 2020 strategy. The last such programme -- the 10-year Lisbon Agenda, which kicked off in 2000 -- was widely deemed a failure. What makes the EU think it can make it work this time around?
  • Is the EU finally embracing GM crops?
    The EU has taken steps to make genetically-modified crop cultivation more widespread in the 27-country union. But it remains up to individual member states to decide if they want to grow them, and it's still far from certain whether the bloc's 500 million citizens are going to embrace them.

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Snow Jobs
      Vague Jobless.   Team Obama Spinmeister Larry Summers is making the rounds on cable and with the newsprint types to prepare the public and especially the headline writers for a Shrek-ugly jobless number come Friday March 5. The spin is, “Blame the blizzards of 2010.” This is both careful a ...
  • Secretary Clinton Meets President Bachelet in Chil ...
    As we know, another massive earthquake hit in February (the 27th), this time in Chile. Not only was this 8.8 magnitude earthquake one of the most powerful on record, but it also spawned a tsunami that also rocked this country. The death toll there is 795. Many of those lost were in the [...]
  • Goldman Sachs: The Reputation You Deserve
    When you sleep with dogs, you wake up with fleas. Of all the lines I heard bandied about during my time on sales and trading desks on Wall Street, the line I reference above is one of my favorites. Why? That line goes straight to reputation. As much as anybody may want to whine, bitch, or moan [...]
  • Democrats Love Them Some Hubris
    * Bumped Up * Call me naive, but I sincerely believed that Democrats learned lessons from the hubris of the Bush Administration. Hubris, in case you don’t have a dictionary handy, is “overbearing pride or presumption.” Bush and the Republicans got their collective asses kicked in 2006 and 2008 be ...
  • We Need A Better Barack
    This genius clip (regardless of whether you agree or disagree with the underlying political message) highlights the major problem with Barack Obama–the lame actor portraying Obama is awful. This is like an ultimate All-Star team, pick your sport. Dana Carvey, Dan Akroyd, Chevy Chase, Jim Carey, Wi ...

Environmental Graffiti

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Young: "The Internet is a giant spying machine rig ...
    Got BitLocker? Feel a bit r00ted??? [It was later posted that this full Windows 7 law enforcement pack was actually originally posted on the very cool newer site PublicIntelligence.net: Microsoft Windows 7/Vista Advanced Forensics Guides for Law Enforcement | Public Intelligence ] In a continuation ...
  • Viddy Still from Michael Ruppert appearance in Min ...
    Its taking a while but I have a lot of footage from Michael Ruppert's visit to St Anthony Main for the screenings of Collapse last week... Overall it was quite awesome, with new items of geopolitics and a lot of jokes. Plus the lighting looks like the movie which is neat :) Standby on that one, I th ...
  • Bad time for Asian plots! Iran busts Jundullah rin ...
    Quick hits for the fans of stuff & things. Welcome to the Fishbowl says a sad federal judge upon the abandonment of the 4th Amendment. Alex Kozinski in the 9th Circuit has some integrity... via Reason : This is an extraordinary case: Our court approves, without blinking, a police sweep of a pe ...
  • Preventive maintenance
    ... is always warranted! What better investment than new hard drives after a few years when things start acting up? I was able to find a dual FireWire 800 SATA enclosure, delightful! Reinstalling OS X 10.5 has breathed new life into this machine, and in the nick of time too. Much snappier!
  • Belgium diss!! Farage rips Von Rumpuy in European ...
    The only redeeming feature of the European Union system is British anti-globalist man of wit Nigel Farage, who rips Von Rompuy, the European Union president, a classic Belgian Reptilian, and noted fan of the New World Order. MOAR: http://www.economicvoice.com/nigel-farage-calls-herman-va ...

Daily Censored

  • New Research on State Crimes Against Democracy
    New Research on State Crimes Against Democracy By Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff New research in the journal American Behavioral Scientist (Sage publications, February 2010) addresses the concept of “State Crimes Against Democracy” (SCAD). Professor Lance deHaven-Smith from Florida State University ...
  • Dear America: Welcome to the Third World.
    According to Wikipedia, the term “third world” originally described countries that did not align themselves with either the capitalist USA or the communist USSR. As time has marched on and the Soviet Union has disappeared, the definition has changed. This is a definition that seems to descr ...
  • Hitler’s “Big Lie” reborn: US lies for war with Ir ...
    The American public is being played; duped into one unlawful War of Aggression after another. The criminal perpetrator of these war lies is a controlling faction of our own government. The evidence in this article will prove beyond any doubt that “war lies” is the accurate term; lies in Orwellian op ...
  • The Folly of a Balanced Budget
    “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”  It was a plain, no-nonsense bumper sticker, but it says it all.  And, today we discover the cost of ignorance.  There are states that are demanding a “balanced budget amendment” for the federal government.  I understand their frustration.  Large ...
  • The Winds of Change are Blowing
    I debated a day or so publishing this.  They shoot messengers here. We staunched the massive hemorrhaging, but the patient coded.  We pushed the eppi,.  We defibrillated at least six times, chest compressions, the whole nine yards.  The patient is acidotic.  Everyone looks to the doc.  It is time to ...

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Pine River World News

  • United Arab Emirates to Follow Third Reich Policie ...
    The following article is reprinted with permission from Pravda, Moscow. United Arab Emirates to Follow Third Reich Policies against Jews � � Pravda.ru By Sergey Balmasov and Vadim Trukhachev March 4, 2010 The authorities of the United Arab Emirates made an unusual decision. Dubai police chief Dahi ...
  • Paul Craig Roberts: Is The Recovery Real?
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Paul Craig Roberts. Is The Recovery Real? � �Paul Craig Roberts March 2, 2010 Happy news! The government has come up with a 5.9 percent GDP growth rate in the fourth quarter of 2009. The recession is over. Or is it? Statistician John Williams ...
  • Gordon Duff: George "W" Bush, Iran's Secret Weapon ...
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Gordon Duff, staff writer and Senior Editor at Veterans Today . George "W" Bush, Iran's Secret Weapon In Iraq � �Gordon Duff Source: �Veterans Today March 1, 2010 * � George Bush and Ahmad Chalabi turn Iraq over to Iran * � 5,000 American dea ...
  • Yes My Dear, Actions Do Have Consequences
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Stanislav Mishin, a frequent contributor to Russian newspaper Pravda. Yes My Dear, Actions Do Have Consequences � �Stanislav Mishin Source: � Mat Rodina February 26, 2010 As previously in the Bush Regime, so too now in the Obama regime, the ma ...
  • Paul Craig Roberts: The Road to Armageddon
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Paul Craig Roberts. The Road to Armageddon � �Paul Craig Roberts February 25, 2010 The Washington Times is a newspaper that looks with favor upon the Bush/Cheney/Obama/neocon wars of aggression in the Middle East and favors making terrorists p ...

MSM Blogging

PDA AMERICA

  • End the Afghan War!
    On Thursday, March 24, Rep. Dennis Kucinich plans to introduce his privileged resolution to end the Afghan War. The resolution requires that the House debate the continuing war in Afghanistan, now the second longest war ...
  • IOT: End War and Occupations, Redirect Funding Ma ...
    The EWO IOT conference call had its usual stellar lineup of guests, including last-minute guest Rep. Dennis Kucinich. PDA Conference Call Guests: Brown Bag Lunch Vigils (BBLV) partner David Swanson started the call off with comments ...
  • Inside the Democratic Party February Call
    PDA-endorsed House congressional candidates Marcy Winograd (CA-36), Tracy Emblem (CA-50), and Robert Dobbs (SC-01), and PDA-endorsed Senate candidate Jonathan Tasini (NY) spoke to the group. Each gave the reasons for their candidacy and demonstrated why ...
  • An Open Letter To Jim Dean, Democracy For America
    February 24th 2010 An Open Letter To Jim Dean, Democracy For America Dear Jim: Your most recent e-mail solicitation (see below) on behalf of my opponent in the U.S. Senate New York Democratic primary prompted me to write ...
  • IOT: Healthcare for All/Single Payer Feb Call
    On this call we had -Donna Smith, Healthcare NOT Warfare co-chair, updated us from the Hill on where we stand and also the Brown Bag Lunch Vigil campaign from DC. Chuck Pennacchio, Executive Director of Healthcare ...

Marler Blog

  • FDA - Salmonella Tennessee Identified in a Process ...
    According to an FDA press release, the FDA is taking steps to protect the public following the early identification of Salmonella Tennessee in one company’s supply of hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP). This is a common ingredient used most frequently as a flavor enhancer in many processed foods, in ...
  • Kinikin Corner Dairy Campylobacter Outbreak Report ...
    In reading the report (which you can download below), I was struck by this one passage: The dairy operator was found to be knowledgeable of sanitary standards and testing methods. However, sanitary measures such as having hand washing stations, the use of bleach for sanitizing bottles, proper dishw ...
  • They say Salame, I say Salami, either way it shoul ...
    The CDC reports now a total of 245 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Montevideo have been reported from 44 states and District of Columbia since July 1, 2009. The number of ill persons identified in each state with this strain is as follows: AK (2), AL (2), AZ (7), CA (30), ...
  • Peanut Corporation of America Salmonella Client, D ...
    Elizabeth Weise of USA Today again shows how the Nation’s Paper does a great job of covering Food Safety issues. According to her story this morning , “Food-borne illnesses cost the United States $152 billion a year, a tab that works out to an average cost of $1,850 each time someone gets sick from ...
  • More from the Food Safety Project - Co-managing fo ...
    We should all be thankful for the hard work from the folks over at the Food Safety Project.  Here is a well-done piece on how to produce safe food while not ruining the environment at the same time: Abstract The safety of fresh produce persists as a pressing national issue. Farmers, environmental ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Geneva 2010: IED Tesla EYE Concept
    Filed under: Geneva Motor Show , Tesla , Electric IED Tesla EYE concept - Click above for high-res image gallery The gaping openings on the front of the EYE design study vehicle from the Istituto Europeo di Design of Turin ( IED ) that's on display at the Geneva Motor Show this week would cause tr ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 03.04.10
    Getting zero mpg (i.e., idling) could cost drivers �20 You wanna shut that down, sir? Zero Motorcycles adds color and power to 2010 line-up More colors to go with enhanced acceleration and inc ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 03.03.10
    Quick Spin: Driving an Amp Sky shows there's real potential here It's not perfect, but it is from Ohio. Report: Cadillac Converj production program killed Apparently, your father's Cadillac wi ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 03.02.10
    Geneva Preview: Audi A1 e-tron extended range EV with Wankel rotary Want one? Nissan: AAA could provide roadside electric vehicle charging Hmmmmm. ...
  • Fisker Karma's aluminum space frame digitally reve ...
    Filed under: Hybrid , Geneva Motor Show , Fisker , Electric , Luxury Fisker Karma Aluminum Space Frame - Click above for high-res image Fisker Automotive has finally taken the digital wraps off the advanced aluminum space frame around which the Karma plug-in hybrid (PHEV) will be built. In lieu o ...

Rafe's Radar

  • Google acquiring Web-based photo editor Picnik
    Picnik, which makes an online photo editor, has announced on its blog that the company is being bought by Google. Originally posted at Webware ...
  • Reporters' Roundtable Podcast: ILM on the future o ...
    This show is about one of the categories for the Academy Awards: visual effects. This year, there are three films up for awards in the visual effects category: Avatar, Star Trek, and District 9. We're going to be talking with Russell Earl of Industrial Light & Magic . Russell was co-visual effect ...
  • Quicken for the Mac: Finally!
    After three years, Intuit releases a (simplified) version of Quicken for the Mac. It's attractive and useful, but people with complex financial lives may run into walls with the product. ...
  • New Seesmic Web out-features Seesmic Desktop
    In a few key areas, the Web-based version of the Seesmic Twitter client bests its desktop sibling.
  • Reporters' Roundtable Podcast: Buzz vs. privacy
    Last week, Google launched Buzz , a status update tool that has elements of Twitter, Facebook, and FriendFeed. Google launched it inside the Gmail app, giving it an instant installed base of millions of people. More importantly, Google gave Buzz access to your Gmail contacts. When the app first ...

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!

  • WATCH: Is the Medium the Message? Corporatization ...
    In 1964, media analyst Marshall McLuhan suggested that a given medium was more important than its message. Kimberly Butler of the Huffington Post interviews Amy Goodman along with Dan Rather, Geraldo Rivera, Tim Zagat, Rachel Sklar, Carol Jenkins, Bill Pullman, Bob Simon, John Ziegler, Juan Willia ...
  • Domestic Violence: A Pre-Existing Condition?
    March is Women’s History Month, recognizing women’s central role in society. Unfortunately, violence against women is epidemic in the United States and around the world. Domestic violence is on the minds of many now, as reports published by The New York Times implicate New York Gov. David Paterson ...
  • Cracking Down on Fracking
    Mike Markham of Colorado has an explosive problem: His tap water catches fire. Markham demonstrates this in a new documentary, “Gasland,” which just won the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize. Director Josh Fox films Markham as he runs his kitchen faucet, holding a cigarette lighter up to th ...
  • Catch Amy Goodman on C-SPAN2's Book TV this Sunday ...
    Friends of Howard Zinn gathered at Busboys and Poets in Washington, DC to pay tribute to the historian who died on January 27th. The speakers include Ralph Nader, Marian Wright Edelman, Amy Goodman, Dave Zirin, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Phyllis Bennis, Geoffrey Millard, Richard Rubenstein and Busboy ...
  • Coming Up: Joseph Stiglitz on "Freefall: America, ...
    Nobel Prize-winning economist Jospeh Stiglitz joins us to discuss the stimulus, the state of the economy and his new book, Freefall

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

  • 15 Fantastically Futuristic Plant Growing Design C ...
    Not all of us own land for farming, but even urban dwellers can grow gardens and plants. There are more and more fantastic green living concepts being designed for people who want to try out their green thumb.
  • Is the sky falling on global warming?
    Todd Stern, America's Special Envoy for Climate Change — and people wonder where to begin cutting government — warned that those interested in "undermining action on climate change" will seize on "whatever tidbit they can find." Tidbits like specious science, and the absence of warming?
  • Bottled Water fad dries as environmentalists wise ...
    Sales of bottled water have fallen for the first time in at least five years, assailed by wrathful environmentalists and budget-conscious consumers, who have realized that tap water is practically free.
  • Bad News Bees: 2009 Worst Honey Crop Ever
    Colony collapse disorder continues to take its toll. Prices for honey were up 50-cents a pound for consumers ... but only 2-cents a pound for beekeepers.
  • The Global e-waste Crisis (Slideshow)
    The world is heading for a potentially devastating deluge of electronic waste as many nations struggle to keep the sheer volumes they are facing under control.

Invisible Opportunity

  • The Unholy Wars and the Disinfo Age
    By Les Visible Killing for Christ and his kingdom is a hi-profit industry for Blackwater, or Xe as it is now known. It’s hi-profit for Carlyle and Halliburton and many another corporation. Whenever some monster has a funeral, like Nelson Rockefeller and… now on deck, Henry Kissinger, David Rockefell ...
  • Mordechai Vanunu’s Nobel Stand
    By Rannie Amiri “He [Vanunu] has written letters to us this year and last year also, where he stated explicitly that he did not want to be a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize. The reason he gave was that Simon Peres had received the Nobel Peace Prize, and Peres he alleged was [...]
  • 23 CIA officials convicted in Italy 5th november 2 ...
    An Italian court has convicted 23 Americans of abducting an Egyptian terror suspect under the CIA’s so-called “extraordinary rendition” programme. Investigative journalist Wayne Madsen discusses the news with RT. The man who was abducted was taken to Egypt, where he was allegedly tortured. Now, 23 A ...
  • UK to kill off internet cafes
    No open WiFi allowed By Edward Berridge THE GLORIOUS BRITISH GOVERNMENT, upon which the sun finally set almost 100 years ago, has decided that having open WiFi networks is bad for the general population and it wants them all shut off. The move, which will kill off using your laptop in an Internet ca ...
  • Carter: “US Candidates MUST do as Israel say ...
    Carter announces that criticism from Obama, Clinton and McCain came as the Government of Israel DID NOT AGREE WITH HIS TRIP!!!!

Cognitive Research - Sciences

Insurgency Watch | True/Slant

  • InsurgencyWatch moving to True/Slant
    In the coming days, InsurgencyWatch will be moving to True/Slant, “an original content news network tailored to both the ‘Entrepreneurial Journalist’ and marketers who want a more effective way to engage with digital audiences.” (That’s what the official about page says.) It’s not a decision I’ve ma ...
  • Kerry-Lugar’s First Victim
    If true, this is total bullshit: After strong criticism on the Kerry-Lugar bill in Pakistan, the government has decided to replace Pakistan’s ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqani and the announcement in this respect is expected within the next two days. There’s nothing in the bill reasonable Pakist ...
  • Pakistan’s Civil War Heating Up
    In the aftermath of this weekend’s assault on the Pakistani General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, the Taliban hit again in Alpuri, in the Shangla district east of Mingora in Swat. According to military sources who asked to remain anonymous because they weren’t authorized to talk to the press, a 13- or ...
  • At Home with a Swat Lashkar
    I just finished up a few days in Swat and while I’m working on a story about it, I thought you might like to see a few pictures I took while there. Enjoy. Share/Save
  • FACTBOX: Uzbek militant leader killed in Pakistan ...
    Washington PostFACTBOX: Uzbek militant leader killed in PakistanReutersBy this time he is thought to have fled the region for the safe haven of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. * Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader ...Pakistan to Target Taliba...

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Twilight Earth

  • Natural Parenting Website Spotlight – Natural Papa
    Natural Papa focuses on natural parenting and fatherhood, home remedies for common children’s ailments, homeschooling, green and simple living for families, and natural foods. Related posts: Derek Markham, Prolific Environmental and Natural Parenting Author to Join Twilight Earth Medical Bills ...
  • It is Not Enough to Question Authority – You Must ...
    I entreat you, I implore you, I exhort you, I challenge you: To speak with conviction. Related posts: One Question for the World (Video) What are you going to DO for Earth Day? Photo Sunday – Robin Chicks From Birth to Flight
  • Photo Sunday – Vancouver Canada
    Home of the 2010 Winter Olympics, Vancouver Canada has a harmony of City, Coastline and Wilderness. Enjoy the Photos. Related posts: Canada Sets Aside its Boreal Forest for Carbon Storage Photo Sunday – When its Raining on Sunday Morning Photo Sunday – Copenhagen
  • Fluoride – Better Living Through Dentistry?
    The difficulty is navigating the ever-growing list of environmental toxins your children are exposed to every day. I have another one to add. Fluoride. Related posts: Green Living Ideas and Twilight Earth Form New Major Environmental Network, Simple Earth Media Living Off-Grid: Micro Hydro Ele ...
  • Jordan Army Fights to Save the World by Attacking ...
    Jordan has unveiled the battle plans to help combat climate change, including upgrading its armed forces and lowering its "Boot Print" by 2020. Related posts: The Proof versus Belief Conundrum in Reference to Climate Change 2009 Global Climate Change Impact Report Released White House Foll ...

Inhabitat

  • University Of North Texas Building the First LEED ...
    Inhabitat reader Erin tells us that the University of North Texas is in the midst of building the first LEED certified college football stadium in the US! After The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board approved the proposal back in October the university held a groundbreaking ceremony to commem ...
  • Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal Gets Superfund Status
    The EPA announced this week the addition of 10 hazardous waste sites to the National Priorities List (NPL) of Superfund sites. One of the sites added to the NPL is the super-famous and now Superfunded Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, New York. The inner-city canal, once home to booming industry is now cla ...
  • Lifetent: A Portable Emergency Shelter That Folds ...
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  • NASA to Launch New Weather Satellite in Space
    While everyone else is commuting home from work today, a NASA rocket will be making another, longer, trip–taking the agency’s newest weather satellite into space! After the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-P (GOES-P) journeys to its orbit 22,000 miles above Earth’s surface, NASA and ...
  • Amazing House Built From 6 Million Beer Bottles
    If you read Inhabitat, chances are you’re a pretty avid recycler – but we’re pretty sure that you’re no match for Tito Ingenieri, who takes his recycling a bit further than your average sorting between paper, glass and plastic. He’s spent the last 19 years building a giant house in Quilmes, Buenos A ...

Pogue's Posts

Open Your Eyes News

  • China posts unexpectedly low defence budget rise
    Times Online – China has unveiled a 7.5 per cent increase in its military spending for this year, the first time in nearly two decades that the budget has grown by less than double-digit figures. The slowdown in defence expenditure growth surprised international experts who had expected a slight dec ...
  • Common weed-killer chemically castrates frogs: stu ...
    AFP – One of the most common weed-killers in the world, atrazine, causes chemical castration in frogs and could be killing off amphibian populations worldwide, a study published showed. Researchers compared 40 male control frogs with 40 male frogs reared from the moment they hatched from eggs until ...
  • Brazil rebuffs US pressure for Iran sanctions
    BBC – Brazil will not bow to pressure from the US to support further sanctions against Iran over its nuclear work, the country’s foreign minister has said. Celso Amorim told US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that Brazil wanted to see further negotiations on the issue before it would support sanc ...
  • Coldest Irish winter since 1963
    Irish Independent – Ireland suffered its coldest winter in almost five decades as the country shivered in the big freeze, it was revealed. Met Eireann said temperatures were around two degrees lower than average during the season, making it the coldest winter recorded since 1963. Read Article
  • UK – Millions of people likely to be unable to vot ...
    Telegraph – According to the last census in 2001, 3.5million people were not registered to vote. That figure is now likely to have increased, the Commission said. A fresh estimate will be made after the next census, due to be carried out in March next year. The Electoral Commission said part of the ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Points on People’s War
    Points on People’s War (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) 1. People’s war must be carried through to the end. People’s war cannot be turned  off and on. Once initiated, only two outcomes are possible. Either the people’s war is victorious and the new power conquers the old or the people’s war is d ...
  • Beware of Amerikkkans bearing gifts: Haiti and Afr ...
    Beware of Amerikkkans bearing gifts: Haiti and Africa (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) The earthquake in Haiti was a natural event, but 200 years of imperialism turned it into a massive disaster that killed between 200,000 and 300,000 people. The tremendous death toll and loss of infrastructure ...
  • Runda 2: Pierwszoświatowy hodżaizm kontra trzecioś ...
    Runda 2: Pierwszoświatowy hodżaizm kontra trzecioświatowy maoizm o kontrrewolucji. (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Ostatnio odbyła się debata między pierwszoświatowymi hodżaistami a trzecioświatowymi maoistami. Debata ta dotykała rozmaitych tematów. Jedną z głównych kwestii była ta dotycząca pr ...
  • Runda 1: Pierwszoświatowy hodżaizm kontra trzecioś ...
    Runda 1: Pierwszoświatowy hodżaizm kontra trzecioświatowy maoizm o Teorii Trzech Światów (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Ostatnio miała miejsce debata pomiędzy pierwszoświatowymi hodżaistami a trzecioświatowymi maoistami, która obejmowała wiele tematów. Jednym z nich była opracowana przez Mao T ...
  • Black history month: Interview with “Steve Struggl ...
    Black history month: Interview with “Steve Struggle” on the Black Panther Party and Black liberation (raimd.wordpress.com, monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) For Black history month, The Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist Movement (RAIM) interviews “Steve,” veteran Black revolutionary, one-time member o ...

PakAlert

  • The Great Recession of 2011-2012
    By James Srodes from the February 2010 issue Are you ready for the Great Recession of 2011–2012? You should be, for it is getting under way even as you read this. Just as the 2009 “greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression” actually began back in 2007, so we [...] Read Mor ...
  • Absolute Proof Most Jews Are Not ‘True Jews’
    The 13th Tribe’ by Arthur Koestler (suicided by Mossad) explains the creation of the European Khazar/Ashkenazi Jews who are descended from Huns, not semitic peoples. From Dick Eastman Arthur Koestler and his wife were killed by Mossad shortly after releasing this book. As expected, The Thirtee ...
  • Terrorism: The Most Meaningless and Manipulated Wo ...
    By Glenn Greenwald Joseph Stack deliberately flew an airplane into a building housing IRS offices in Austin, Texas, in order to advance the political grievances he outlined in a perfectly cogent suicide-manifesto.  Stack’s worldview contained elements of the tea party’s anti-government a ...
  • Video: US Will Start World War 3 by Attacking Iran
    A UN nuclear watchdog report suggests Iran could be developing a nuclear bomb, apparently confirming long-held suspicions in the West. But Tehran denies the claims, again insisting that its atomic intentions are peaceful. Michel Chossudovsky, who’s from an independent Canadian policy research group, ...
  • Iran Nabs Top NATO Terrorist With Pakistan Help
    By Webster Tarpley 2-26-10 On Tuesday Feb. 23, Iran announced the capture of Abdulmalek Rigi, the boss of the terror organization Jundullah, which works for NATO. The capture of Rigi represents a serious setback for the US-UK strategy of using false flag state-sponsored terrorism against Iran an ...

ecogeek

  • Texas Wind Is More Than Grid Can Handle
    While the focus continues to be on expanding means and methods for generating electricity from renewable sources, the limits of the existing grid to handle that generated power and distribute it to where it is needed are beginning to show. Last weekend in Texas, wind power reached a record high p ...
  • Better Math Saves Lots of Energy
    Energy savings of 99% over previous methods probably sound like snake oil. But some math geeks have been able to find a way so that computers can use only 1% of the energy (and the time) necessary for some tasks. IBM has announced a new data-processing algorithm that enables large sets of data t ...
  • Pickens Revises his Plan, Giving Up on Wind?
    In case you thought that after all the setbacks , T. Boone Pickens was giving up, he's reminding us that he's still around and he still has a plan (albeit a different one) to free the country of its dependence on oil. In a recent interview with the Houston Chronicle, Pickens outlined revisions to ...
  • Self-Contained Solar Power System is Only 9mm
    Researchers at the University of Michigan have unveiled their latest breakthrough:  a tiny solar power system that contains a processor, battery and solar cells all in 9 cubic millimeters! The miniature system measures 2.5 by 3.5 by 1 millimeters -- 1,000 times smaller than any comparable commerci ...
  • Sweden Building 2,000 Wind Turbines over Next Ten ...
    Sweden's energy minister, Maud Olofsson, announced yesterday that the country would install 2,000 wind turbines over the next decade that would add to 10 terawatt hours of clean energy per year. The country is also aiming to have 50 percent of its electricity come from renewable sources by 2020.  ...

Buzzflash

  • Jim Bunning is Our GOP Hypocrite for Flip-Flop-Fli ...
    Jim Bunning Welcome back to BuzzFlash's GOP Hypocrite of the Week. Finally, Sen. Jim Bunning is a household name for a reason other than baseball! The former pitcher made waves this week when he blocked the extension of unemployment benefits , even though his fellow Republicans largely opposed the o ...
  • FOX’s Megyn Kelly, Poorly Masking Bias, Airs Attac ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT by Jeffrey Joseph Occasional past attempts by FOX News to deflect the criticism of bias have most famously resulted in their differentiation between opinion programming such as Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity with straight news programming from the rest of the network. Roger Aile ...
  • Is 2010 The Year of the Coffee Party? Progressives ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Meg White Maybe it's just cabin fever, but progressives seem to be emerging from their insulated shells recently to show that tea baggers don't have a monopoly on civic participation. For every stay-at-home mom interviewed by some cable news outlet at a tea party rally tal ...
  • Help "Squash Glenn Beck" Get More Facebook Fans Th ...
    Let's embarrass the real Glenn Beck by making his vegetable effigy more popular on Facebook. Not only will Squash Glenn Beck be bigger, exposing the fragility of Glenn Beck's popularity, but Squash Glenn Beck's Facebook Page will help share information about the offenses of the real Glenn Beck. Now ...
  • Dr. J.’s BF Commentary No. 135: The Preamblers
    First came the "Birthers."� President Obama is not a citizen.� He's a Kenyan, he's a Muslim, he's an Indonesian, he's a Kenyan-Indonesian-Muslim (dunno which is worse so might as well throw them all in), a Hawaiian (oops, didn't know that Hawaii is a US possession, OH, you mean it's a state!?!), a M ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • The full-scale collapse: from Murrow to Blitzer
    When discussing the McCarthyite DOJ witch hunt from Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol , I wrote yesterday:  now that "we have real, live, contemporary McCarthyites in our midst -- Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol -- launching a repulsive smear campaign, and we'll see what the reaction is and how they're trea ...
  • Who are the actual "crazy" people in American poli ...
    (updated below) My Salon colleague, Mark Benjamin, writes about last night's Larry�King�Show -- featuring a debate between Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson and GOP�Rep. Michelle Bachmann -- and does so by repeatedly branding Grayson as being every bit as "crazy" as Bachmann.� Beginning with t ...
  • Salon Radio: The lawyers smeared by Liz Cheney
    As I�noted yesterday, the group run by Liz Cheney and�Bill�Kristol released what is certainly one of the more repugnant political ads of the last decade , if not the most repugnant.� It's the type of McCarthyite act which would, if we had any minimal standards in our political culture, result in t ...
  • Transcript: Jonathan Hafetz on GITMO lawyers
    To listen to this discussion, go here and click�PLAY�on the recorder at the bottom: Glenn Greenwald : My guest today on Salon Radio is Jonathan Hafetz of the ACLU, and he has a new book which he has co-edited, along with Mark Denbeaux of Seton Hall Law School, entitled The Guantanamo Lawyers: Ins ...
  • Genuine American exceptionalism on due process
    (updated below) The�Obama administration has made explicitly clear its intention to deny civilian trials to scores of detainees, by sending some to military commissions and imprisoning others indefinitely without any charges .� And for those cases where it has deigned to provide real due ...

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Forensic saliva test within spitting distance
    The latest issue of SpectroscopyNOW is online. This week I cover everything from MRI for testicular cancer to egg-shaped carbon balls by way of energy molecules, copper proteins, secret writing, first up a forensic test for distinguishing saliva deposits from other substances at a crime scene: Non-d ...
  • Hacking your online identity
    Geo-location services are very useful, helping you find a post office, ATM, decent restaurant, or hooking up with friends. They are commonly used in conjunction with smart phones and other mobile devices that ping your location (based on network coordinates or the global positioning system, GPS) bac ...
  • Time-keeping alchemy
    Time-keeping with quantum mechanics caught The Alchemist’s eye this week with a truly long-term view while secret writing that uses a mix of sunscreen and boron could lead to new scratch and read products. Ionic liquids hold much promise in gas chromatography of biofuels, we learn, and a lethal comb ...
  • Four ways to connect with Sciencebase
    Related Posts:Recognisable scientists versus artistsRSS Awareness DayRoyal stamps for Royal SocietyBerlin Wall falls in AustraliaA month with an electricity monitorFour ways to connect with Sciencebase is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog Four ways to connect with Sciencebase is a post fro ...
  • Royal stamps for Royal Society
    Royal Mail Stamps has issued a commemorative set of stamps in the UK to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society this year. The stamps feature ten of the most prominent fellows of the Royal Society: Robert Boyle – Chemistry Sir Isaac Newton – Optics Benjamin Franklin – Electricity Edwar ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Sen. Rockefeller Attacks Clean Air Act
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 4, 2010 Friends of the Earth Friends of the Earth President Erich Pica had the following statement in response to today's introduction by Sen. John Rockefeller (D-W.V.) of a bill that would freeze enforcement of global warming pollution through the Clean Air Act for at le ...
  • CFTC Should Impose Tough Limits on Wall Street Spe ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 4, 2010 Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy (IATP) The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) should act immediately to limit excessive speculation by Wall Street firms on energy derivatives trades, a move that will help address extreme volatility in both energ ...
  • Hawaii Senate Overwhelmingly Passes Three Bills to ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 3, 2010 Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) Yesterday, the Hawaii Senate passed by overwhelming, veto-proof margins three measures that will greatly improve marijuana laws in the state: · SB 2213 passed 20-4, with one excused. This bill would allow counties to license med ...
  • Historic Day in Nation's Capital as Same-Sex Coupl ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 3, 2010 National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Same-sex couples began applying for marriage licenses today in the District of Columbia. The Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Equality Amendment Act was passed this fall by an overwhelming majority of the D.C. Council before ...
  • No Recession in US Politics: An OpenSecrets.org Li ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 3, 2010 Center for Responsive Politics Join  OpenSecrets.org for a live Web chat at noon Thursday as we discuss and debate -- with you -- how money in politics is more plentiful than ever, despite an otherwise dismal ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • The Karzai-ization of Afghanistan
    by Jim Hightower Isn't it great that America is standing so forcefully for fundamental principles of democracy around the world? We're standing side by side with some of the most notable, incredible, and astonishing democratic leaders on the globe today. Specifically, of course, I'm referring to Ham ...
  • Who Are the Actual 'Crazy' People in American Poli ...
    by Glenn Greenwald My Salon colleague, Mark Benjamin, writes about last night's Larry King Show -- featuring a debate between Democratic Rep. read more
  • Chile's Socialist Rebar
    by Naomi Klein Ever since deregulation caused a worldwide economic meltdown in September '08 and everyone became a Keynesian again, it hasn't been easy to be a fanatical fan of the late economist Milton Friedman. So widely discredited is his brand of free-market fundamentalism that his followers hav ...
  • Breitbart Confirms He Was Duped by O'Keefe and the ...
    by Eric Boehlert It turns out that Andrew Breitbart didn't actually know what was on the ACORN tapes when he helped launch them on his website last year, and used the videos to fuel his oddly personal crusade against the low-income advocacy organization. That's right -- Breitbart didn't know wh ...
  • Who’s Protecting the People from Banks?
    by Laura Flanders If going head to head with bankers alone is too scary for Warren Buffett, why are the rest of us being thrown to the financial wolves? Warren Buffett's annual letter to his shareholders came out this weekend. The gist of it is “Don’t ask the barber whether you need a haircut." Th ...

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Lord Ashcroft faces new claims of tax avoidance
    Exclusive: Bills for huge opinion polls for Conservatives 'sent to peer's Belize firm' Fresh concerns about Lord Ashcroft emerged tonight when he was accused of "systematic tax avoidance" by exploiting his offshore status to avoid paying VAT on opinion polls he commissioned for the Conservatives. As ...
  • Climategate inquiry submission row
    Evidence from Institute of Physics drawn from energy industry consultant who argues global warming is a religion Evidence from a respected scientific body to a parliamentary inquiry examining the behaviour of climate-change scientists, was drawn from an energy industry consultant who argues that glo ...
  • Blair memoirs due in September
    Tony Blair: The Journey aims to 'describe the human as much as the political dimensions of life as prime minister' Tony Blair's memoirs, signed for an estimated £5m almost three years ago , will be published in September, Random House announced today, promising a "frank, open and revealing" account ...
  • US faces surge in rightwing militias
    • Civil rights report shows 250% rise in 'patriot' groups • Economy and media conspiracy theories fuel growth The US is facing a surge in anti-government extremist groups and armed militias, driven by deepening hostility on the right to Barack Obama, anger over the economy, and the increasing propag ...
  • Vatican hit by gay sex scandal
    Vatican chorister sacked for allegedly procuring male prostitutes for papal gentleman-in-waiting The Vatican was today rocked by a sex scandal reaching into Pope Benedict's household after a chorister was sacked for allegedly procuring male prostitutes for a papal gentleman-in-waiting. Angelo Balduc ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Troubled history tinges marine plan
    So what do you think: should the Chagos Islands archipelago be turned into a marine reserve, or shouldn't it? If you care either way, you have until the end of the week to give the UK government your views. If you don't care either way... well, read on, and perhaps you'll decide whether it matters ...
  • Tough love in a troubled climate
    Forget the Norfolk police's criminal investigation , reviews commissioned by universities in the UK and US , and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 's (IPCC) internal deliberations. Governments have now demanded - and will get - an independent review into how the IPCC conducts its work a ...
  • A stark snapshot of nature loss
    While spending a few days off last week with the young primates closest to my own heart, I neglected to flag up here a new report on the threats facing various other primate species around the world. Primates in Peril: The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates 2006-8 is compiled by specialists from ...
  • Whaling: A draft of cold comfort?
    The International Whaling Commission (IWC) has unveiled detailed proposals on how whaling could be regulated in a way that countries still engaged in the hunt and those opposed to it could both live with. The essential dilemma is what it has been for decades: some societies view the whale as just a ...
  • Unknowns behind climate chief's resignation
    Rumours that Yvo de Boer, the UN's top climate official, would be leaving his post well before the end of this year were rife even during the Copenhagen summit. The theory went like this. If Copenhagen turned out to be a "failure" - however you want to define that - then someone would have to take ...

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

  • The better we get at medical studies, the more wro ...
    How’s that for counterintuitive, eh? But it’s a genuine problem, as Ars Technica explains: The problem is that our statistical tools for evaluating the probability of error haven’t kept pace with our own successes, in the form of our ability to obtain massive data sets and perform multiple tests on ...
  • Recommend exemplary cyberpunk fiction for a new an ...
    We love our (post?)cyberpunk here at Futurismic, and we’re guessing you probably do, too. So here’s a chance to show off your knowledge of the genre, and aid antipodean anthologist extaordinaire Jonathan Strahan in constructing a new retrospective volume that reassesses cyberpunk’s impact on sf and ...
  • Tiny biodiagnostics lab on a piece of paper
    So, let’s say the zombie plague is sweeping a nation where medical hardware is expensive, hard-to-come by, and hard to maintain. You need a way of testing the population for signs of contagion that’s cheap, portable, fast, and requires no power or mealthcare infrastructure. So what do you do? You ge ...
  • Lo-fi wi-fi network springing up from junk in Jala ...
    Offered here as an extension of the arguments made by the Prospect Magazine piece I linked to the other week about the lessons to be learned from the last-minute low-cost solutions of slum residents and other disadvantaged social groups, Free Range International hosts a report from an MIT team worki ...
  • Mass Effect II and Racial Essentialism
    ### Genre is, to one extent or another, all about re-using old ideas. Ideas shared. Ideas reclaimed. Ideas reinvented. Ideas lost. Ideas rediscovered. Encounter enough works of genre over a long enough time period and you will see ideas rise and fall like the tides. You will also see [...] ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • OSHA Listens, all day today
    The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) is conducting its public hearing all day today.� The "OSHA Listens" event is also available by webcast . Assistant Secretary Dr. David Michaels opened the event by decrying the 5,000 fatalities American workers suffer every year.� He said OSH ...
  • Whistleblower murdered in Philippines
    Whistleblower Wilfredo "Boy" Mayor was murdered last Sunday morning in Pasay City, Philippines. According to numerous news reports, gunmen on two motorcycles attacked Mayor's vehicle (which had heavily tinted windows) while it was stopped at a red light at 4:11 am on Sunday. Mayor had been an operat ...
  • FBI Whistleblowers Speak Out Against S. 372
    FBI whistleblower Dr. Frederic Whitehurst issued a letter today strongly opposing the repeal of FBI whistleblower rights contained in the current Senate version of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act ( S. 372 ). This bill is currently being “hotlined” in the Senate, a process by which legis ...
  • Stephen Kohn speaks with CorbettReport.com on S. 3 ...
    Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC), spoke today with James Corbett of CorbettReport.com . Kohn spoke about the problems with the current Senate version of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA), S. 372. CorbettReport.com provide Open Source I ...
  • Ugandans press for whistleblower protection and pa ...
    Uganda's The New Vision reports that the country's Parliament is debating a Whistleblower Bill to protect disclosures of public and private corruption.� Legislators are debating whether protected disclosures should be made to regional officials or to national offices.� Perhaps someday they will prot ...

Science Express

  • Study uncovers key to how 'triggering event' in ca ...
    Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered what leads to two genes fusing together, a phenomenon that has been shown to cause prostate cancer to develop.
  • Lizard moms choose the right genes for the right g ...
    Two Dartmouth biologists have found that brown anole lizards make an interesting choice when deciding which males should father their offspring. The females of this species mate with several males, then produce more sons with sperm from large fathers, and more daughters with sperm from smaller fathe ...
  • More than One: Long-Reigning Microbe Controlling O ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Marine scientists long believed that a microbe called Trichodesmium, a member of a group called the cyanobacteria, reigned over the ocean's nitrogen budget.
  • First measurement of the age of cometary material
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Though comets are thought to be some of the oldest, most primitive bodies in the solar system, new research on comet Wild 2 indicates that inner solar system material was transported to the comet-forming region at least 1.7 million years after the formation of the oldest solar syste ...
  • UCSB physicists move one step closer to quantum co ...
    Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have made an important advance in electrically controlling quantum states of electrons, a step that could help in the development of quantum computing. The work is published online today on the Science Express Web site.

TechDirt

  • Roger Ebert Gives People A Reason To Buy
    Last month, we wrote about Esquire's incredibly moving profile of Roger Ebert as part of our discussion of a segment of that article concerning Disney taking down the video of the tribute show for Gene Siskel that Ebert did right after his longtime sparring partner passed away. If you liked the Esq ...
  • South Australia Attorney General Demands $20,000 F ...
    We've written a few times recently about South Australian Attorney General Michael Atkinson, who not only fears angry video gamers, but also upset a bunch of folks with a law that would ban anonymous political speech online during election season. After public outcry over that law, Atkinson quickly ...
  • Soldier Sues Because He Insists Movie 'Hurt Locker ...
    You see stories all the time about moviemakers and authors being sued because someone else had a similar "idea" for a story. Those lawsuits almost always end up going nowhere fast. Now in a slight twist on this, someone's demanding cash because a movie character is based on him. Matthew Cruse was ...
  • Utah Wants To Own State Microbes; May Demand Royal ...
    This one's from about a month ago, but I can't find any info on whether or not the bill has gone anywhere. It's yet another crazy proposal coming out of the Utah legislature, which seems to really lead the field in crazy proposals out of state legislatures. This one, sent in by Kevin Cummings , is ...
  • Viacom Warns Bloggers: Post Clips Of The Daily Sho ...
    Update : A comment from someone at Viacom says that The Hollywood Reporter got this story wrong. He correctly noted that we accidentally called their PR guy a lawyer (fixed), but now says that the quote is not about suing, even though that certainly seems to be the implication from the quote. Perh ...

VacTruth

  • A Response to a Pediatrician
    . . . . From a post on Neil Z. Miller’s Facebook page… I received the following email this morning (my response follows): The documentation of the reduced incidence of certain diseases is public information, and easily accessible. Here is a link to just one report http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mm ...
  • Half of parents concerned about vaccine side effec ...
    Maryn McKenna CIDRAP March 1, 2010 Mar 1, 2010 (CIDRAP News) – About half of the parents responding to a national survey say they are concerned about adverse effects of vaccines, and one in four believe some vaccines cause autism, according to a paper published today by the journal Pediatrics. But ...
  • Gardasil Primer: Doctors & vaccine injured familie ...
  • Activists: Uzbekistan orders forced sterilizations
    Yahoo News MOSCOW – An independent think-tank and a rights group in Uzbekistan claim that authorities have instructed health workers to surgically sterilize women as part of a government campaign to reduce the birth rate in the authoritarian ex-Soviet nation. The Expert Working Group claimed Tuesda ...
  • Infection ‘could trigger MS in those suscept ...
    . . . . Kate Devlin Telegraph 27 Feb 2010 New research suggests that a bacterial or viral infection could cause the immune system to overreact, triggering the condition. (vactruth.com editor’s note: For those of you wondering where a bacterial or viral infection could originate, consider that on ...

BroadSnark

  • Gone Fishin
    No posting this week, as I am in Florida soaking up the sun and trying not to let my relatives drive me over the edge.  If you don’t hear from me by next Wednesday, send a rescue team.
  • Growing Up Jewish – Sabbath Edition
    It occurs to me that I don’t spend near enough time pointing out the lunacies of the religion I was brought up in.  And since I am leaving today to go to Florida, where I will visit my kooky religious mother, it seems a perfect time for the the first installment of Growing Up Jewish. My [...]
  • Issue by Issue
    Political parties and broad categorizations have warped the way we think about issues and problem solving. We may think that we cannot work with a conservative on anything.  But which conservative do we mean – the Christian conservative from Focus on the Family or the follower of Buckley?  We may ...
  • Collaborating Across the Divide
    Here’s a hypothetical situation. You work in a town with one factory.  You need your job.  Moving to another town, starting your own business, or getting some other means of survival is not an option at the moment. One of your coworkers (let’s call him Bob) is a racist, sexist, homophobic SOB.  Y ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    If you ever wondered how to confront the racism, sexism, and homophobia of your family and friends, Model Minority shows us how it is done. Tech Dirt covers the creative ways music artists are getting it done outside the traditional system. Alternet has an amazing article highlighting the stories of ...

Executive Intelligence Review

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • The Alex Jones Show – ARCHIVE – March 4th With Ron ...
    Alex gets an update from physician and Republican Congressman for the 14th congressional district of Texas, Ron Paul. Larry Pratt, the executive director of Gun Owners of America, a U.S.-based firearms lobbying group, and a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, talks with Alex abou ...
  • LibDem Lords seek to ban web-lockers (YouSendIt, e ...
    Cory Doctorow Boing Boing March 4, 2010 Since I posted yesterday about the UK LibDem Peers’ introduction of a pro-web-censorship amendment to the Digital Economy Bill, the Peers have withdrawn their proposal and entered a revised one jointly with Conservative Lords. Unfortunately, this amendment is ...
  • Media accused of letting groups stir up false outr ...
    HOLLYWOOD (AFP) - Anti-war, anti-imperialist, anti-semitic, anti-social, racist: this year's Oscars best picture contenders have faced a barrage of criticism from groups and commentators eager to exploit the media frenzy surrounding the Academy Awards to draw attention to their causes. While scie ...
  • Infowars Officially Launches Naked Body Scanner Pr ...
    Following runaway success of Obama Joker campaign, new contest launched to bring media attention to intrusive, unconstitutional and dangerous body scanners Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Thursday, March 4, 2010 Following the runaway success of the Obama Joker poster contest, Infowa ...
  • Greece told to sell off islands and artworks
    Guardian Julia Finch 4th March 2010 The call for a Big Fat Greek Auction came on the eve of crucial talks between Angela Merkel and the George Papadreou Josef Schlarmann told Bild newspaper that Greece should consider selling its uninhabited islands for debt redemption. Photograph: Third ...

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

  • James Inhofe Explains His Climate-Hoax Theory
    Image credit: Grist There are few climate skeptics more outspoken than Republican Senator James Inhofe. Recently, Grist had the opportunity to speak with the senator and asked him to explain his climate-hoax theory.... Read the full story on TreeHugger
  • Alternatives for Standing Desks
    image courtesy of Anderlyn Desks After writing Are Standing Desks Healthier Than Sitting? I decided to try it, with a quick and dirty setup of an old draughting table. I am only four days into the experiment and consider it way to early to evaluate (some say that it takes two weeks to adjust) b ...
  • 8 Green Ideas Revolutionizing Fashion Manufacturin ...
    Photos: AirDye, Tristar. We're all familiar with green fabrics like organic cotton , bamboo and hemp , but which new materials and practices are moving fashion forward to a greener, brighter future? Here are eight processes and fabrics paving the way.... Read the full story on TreeHugger ...
  • Today on Planet 100: Occidental Oil Accused of Poi ...
  • Deep Sea Fish Eat Plants as they Sink
    The cusk eel, pictured here, was one of the fish seen eating floating plant matter. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Most research has shown that deep sea fish sit at the top of their food chains—hunting as predators and scavenging the carcasses of dead animals. Recent tests , however, have demo ...

Biosingularity

  • Researchers develop dietary formula that maintains ...
    Researchers at McMaster University have developed a cocktail of ingredients that forestalls major aspects of the aging process. “As we all eventually learn, ageing diminishes our mind, fades our perception of the world and compromises our physical capacity,” says David Rollo, associate professor of ...
  • Chocolate lovers could be lowering their risk of s ...
    Giving chocolates to your Valentine on February 14th may help lower their risk of stroke based on a preliminary study from researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital. The study, which is being presented at the American Academy of Neurology in April, also found that eating chocolate may lower the risk of ...
  • Scientists synthesize unique family of anti-cancer ...
    Yale University scientists have streamlined the process for synthesizing a family of compounds with the potential to kill cancer and other diseased cells, and have found that they represent a unique category of anti-cancer agents. Their discovery appears in this week’s online edition of theJournal o ...
  • Mediterranean Diet May Prevent Stroke-Related Brai ...
    Avoiding potentially dangerous silent strokes may be another health benefit of following a Mediterranean diet. A new study shows people who most closely followed a Mediterranean-style diet were 36% less likely to have areas of brain damage linked to silent strokes than those who least closely follow ...
  • An Early Warning System for Cancer
    A new screening tool developed by scientists in Denmark may help detect the earliest stages of cancer by taking advantage of the body’s own defenses. The researchers constructed a microarray system that analyzes patients’ blood for a specific class of immune agents called autoantibodies. These are a ...

CFACT

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Pruning Shears

  • The Shocking Solution to Senate Obstructionism
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Induction :mathematical demonstration of the validity of a law concerning all the positive integers by proving that it holds for the integer 1 and that if it holds for an arbitrarily chosen positive integer k, it must hold for the in ...
  • Al Weisel, (aka Jon Swift), 1963 - 2010
    Al Weisel blogged as Jon Swift. He was a regular read for me, and his dry faux-conservative persona was flawlessly done. He hadn’t posted in almost a year, but I thought he just sort of went off the grid as bloggers sometimes do. He was co-originator of Blogroll Amnesty Day, where bloggers “link ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Searchable versions of the OPR report and related documents are available here . They are primary sources for items like this .Andrew Sullivan on torture. I can’t tell you how much I admire his sustained focus on the issue. Seeing ...
  • The Many Deficiencies of the OPR Report
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) report on its ethics investigation for torture-approving lawyers has already generated some remarkable reactions. One of the few defenses came from former ...
  • Getting Beyond Regulation (Ritholtz Feedback)
    Barry Ritholtz emailed about my quote of him on Thursday’s post [emph. his]: You wrote: In short, regulation has a spotty track record lately. Economist Barry Ritholtz acknowledged that and pointed to a new approach when he wrote a recent proposal “would not have prevented this crisis, but it would ...

Natural Health News

  • Tap Water Contaminant 'Castrates' Frogs
    Atrazine, an herbicide that contaminates the tap water consumed by millions of Americans, has been found to produce gender-bending effects in male frogs, "chemically castrating" some and turning others into females. Frogs in an experiment were exposed to amounts of the weedkiller that are comparabl ...
  • An Apple a Day Boosts Your Immune System
    A new study touts the benefits of soluble fiber -- found in food such as oats, apples, and nuts -- saying that it reduces the inflammation associated with obesity-related diseases and strengthens your immune system. Soluble fiber causes increased production of an anti-inflammatory protein called in ...
  • Companies You Can Trust to Use BPA-Free Cans
    Eden Eden switched to BPA free liners in April 1999 -- all of its bean and grain combos and chilis are also in cans with BPA free liners. However, due to their acidic nature, Eden's tomatoes (and all of the industry's tomato products) are still in cans with BPA liners. � Vital Choice, ...
  • Poor Sleep Habits Lead to Fat Gain
    Researchers found that among adults younger than 40, those who typically slept for five hours or less each night had a greater accumulation of belly fat over the next five years. But those who logged eight hours or more in bed each night also showed a bigger fat gain, although it was less substanti ...
  • A Good Diet Helps Your Heart
    A study of 140 people found that a good diet, such as a Mediterranean diet, can reduce the fatty build up in arteries. By the end of the two-year study, the arterial wall had been cut by 5%. Atherosclerosis is a progressive condition in which the arteries thicken with fatty deposits, increasing th ...

Antemedius

  • Olympic Dream vs. Vancouver Reality
    With the close of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, much of the media was quick to declare them a total success. This goes against the mounds of journalism produced before and during the games by the Vancouver Media Co-op , the city's newly launched independent media center. Believing that ...
  • What the American People Want in Health Care
    ( From The Paragraph .) “[The American people] … have rendered a judgment about what we have attempted to do so far,” said Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) at the president’s big health care meeting last week. 30 +31 “[P]ut that on the shelf and … start over with a blank piece of paper and go step by ...
  • Nourishing the Planet Featured on Eco-Chick
    Check out this interview featured in Eco-Chick about the Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet 's on-the-ground research in Africa by Stephanie Rogers: If it’s true that there are sayers and there are doers, Danielle Nierenberg falls firmly into the latter camp. Danielle is currently travelin ...
  • Can DNA Falsely Convict You? The Chances Are Highe ...
    Let’s do a thought experiment; you are at home and there is a knock at the door. You open it and there is a police detective there. He wants to question you about a murder from thirty-one years ago. You know you never murdered anyone, so you consent. Then the detective tells you that your DNA was ma ...
  • The Death and Life of American Journalism
    Bob McChesney is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois. In 2008, the Utne Reader listed McChesney among their “50 visionaries who are changing the world”. He has written and edited 17 books, and his work has been translated into 21 languages. ...

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

  • Al Gore’s latest global whopper
    Tuesday Alan Reynolds of the NY Post fact-checked what he says is the biggest whopper of Al's lies.
  • IPCC doesn’t do research
    In this video, Pat Michaels of the CATO Institute states: IPCC doesn't do research; it picks and chooses from scientific reports and environmental organizations "in order to create the reports that it wants to create."
  • Let the AGW lawsuits begin
    This AFP article, discusses the class action lawsuit that charges Anthropogenic  Global Warming (AGW) is responsible for damages and deaths by Hurricane Katrina. The class action suit brought by residents from southern Mississippi, which was ravaged by hurricane-force winds and driving rains, was f ...
  • If only Global Warming were dinosaur science…
    It's obvious where this is leading. Not to science, but to anecdotal "evidence." Frank goes on about what his friend is telling him about disappearing this and that. And then laments on how Climategate has stopped science in its tracks.
  • Where has all the carbon gone?
    Carbon is going missing. We know to a reasonable approximation how much carbon is being emitted to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuel and land use changes.

Opinio Juris

  • Whale Wars: Is the Threatened Australia ICJ Lawsui ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Two different but interesting views of Australia’s threat to bring Japan to the ICJ over whaling. Over at The Jurist, Don Rothwell of Australian National University provides some background and legal context for Australia’s lawsuit. As I understand it, Australia could cl ...
  • The Obama Administration Will Oppose a Global Blas ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Last fall, the U.S. joined Egypt in a carefully worded statement in favor of free expression, but it raised concerns that the U.S. was implicitly endorsing the movement in many Islamic countries to ban blasphemous (or anti-Islamic) speech.   In an otherwise anodyne addre ...
  • Samantar v. Yousef and the Mysteries of the Foreig ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 is perhaps the most important example of the U.S. Congress exercising its power to implement and interpret international law principles as part of domestic law.  It is a basic and foundational statute implicating almost all ki ...
  • Tim McCormack Appointed ICC Advisor
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I am delighted to announce that Luis Moreno-Ocampo has appointed my friend and colleague Tim McCormack to be the Office of the Prosecutor’s Special Adviser on International Humanitarian Law.  From the announcement: Professor McCormack, from the Melbourne L ...
  • YJIL Online Symposium: Response to Matthew Waxman
    by Gabriella Blum The issues Professor Waxman raises about the relationship between international humanitarian law (IHL) and international criminal law (ICL) are of the highest importance to anyone interested in the regulation of warfare, or, indeed, in international regulation more generally. Cer ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • Fisking Ken Perrott over NIWA defence
    Former agricultural scientist turned artist Ken Perrott has been making a big song and dance defending the integrity of NIWA's temperature analysis, albeit in a negative rather than positive fashion. By that I mean that Perrott has offered no information...
  • SCANDAL: So what exactly did they peer review?
    This comment from Phil Jones' testimony to the UK parliament inquiry on Climategate is fascinating: Prof Jones today said it was not ’standard practice’ in climate science to release data and methodology for scientific findings so that other scientists could...
  • Global warming believers murder child, attempt to ...
    Those who are scaring the public literally to death with their fantasy stories about Global Warming should pause to consider the psychological trauma they are causing: BUENOS AIRES – A 7-month-old baby survived alone for three days with a bullet...
  • Who's been a naughty Perrott - SMC told to watch p ...
    The Minister of Research, Science and Technology has instructed the Science Media Centre to check whether its Sci-bloggers like Ken Perrott and others are complying with the centre's Code of Ethics. "Sciblog contributors are subject to terms and conditions laid...
  • World's temperature datasets corrupted - Spencer
    Climate scientist Roy Spencer believes the world surface station temp data may be irreparably corrupt, and essentially worthless in its current form. In a wideranging analysis published today, Spencer pings CRU and NASA/GISS for the sins we've already pinged New...

Public News Service

  • Questions Raised About Brewer Volunteer Task Force ...
    Questions Raised About Brewer Volunteer Task Force Phoenix, AZ – Governor Jan Brewer has announced creation of a volunteer task force to deal with state-funded social services impacted by severe budget cuts. Some fear the added burden may threaten the survival of non-profit and faith-based agencies ...
  • AZ Lawmakers Tackle Budget with Eye on Tax Vote
    AZ Lawmakers Tackle Budget with Eye on Tax Vote Phoenix, AZ – State lawmakers say they’ll work exclusively this week on two budget versions: one assuming voters approve a sales tax hike in May, and one if they don’t. Budget writers say education will feel the greatest impact because it’s the biggest ...
  • Study Pushes $1 Hike in Cig Tax: Doc Wants 'Way Mo ...
    Study Pushes $1 Hike in Cig Tax: Doc Wants 'Way More' Phoenix, AZ – A new report from health advocates promotes a dollar-a-pack hike in cigarette taxes as one way to help cash-strapped states balance their budget. An Arizona public health leader says that’s not nearly enough. Comments from Dr. Bob E ...
  • Health Reform Report: Too Long in the Waiting Room ...
    Health Reform Report: Too Long in the Waiting Room For AZ Phoenix, AZ - Congress continues to shape and debate health reform legislation...and a new report reveals those in rural Arizona just can’t wait much longer. The Center for Rural Affairs research shows that if the status quo on health care go ...
  • Troubling Drop in AZ and NM Gray Wolf Population
    Troubling Drop in AZ and NM Gray Wolf Population Phoenix, AZ – Conservationists and wildlife biologists are expressing concern over a one-year, 20-percent drop in Mexican gray wolf numbers in the Southwest. A reintroduction program started in 1998 had envisioned a self-sustaining population by now. ...

My Care2 Picks

  • Co2, Mass Extinction Of Species And Climate Change
    Note the changes : Global Warming,Climate Change,Acidification of Oceans,Poisoning of Vegetation( Koala Extinction story) I'm paranoid these days : Spin Alert because of theme only Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • How the Mountain of Climate Change Evidence Is Bei ...
    Here is an article about climate change, will people use the evidence to prove it as a way to discredit it? Submitted by Beth Stephens to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Nuclear and Strategic Implications of the Mumbai A ...
    Note : Found searching quasi-military website 'promoting democracy' India and Pakistan, which appeared to be on the brink of war in 2001-2002, stood down in the context of a new security paradigm resulting from the presence of nuclear arms Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
  • Premier Kermit goes to Copenhagen
    Rant against B.C. ( Canada ) government's fake 'green' policies. Some classic dysfunction described Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Oil spill by saboteurs in Italy a ‘death blow’ to ...
    The WWF, the nature organisation, said that the spill, into the Lambro River, was a “death blow to a river that has been in a shameful state of degradation for decades Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Northern Dispatch: The View From Occupied Canada
    Special Report by IIN Investigative Blog-correspondent John John:Australian Labor government releases terrorism “White Paper”The Labor government of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd last week released its... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Hamas official slams spy-claim book - CNN.com
    CNN.com: "(CNN) -- A top official in the Palestinian militant group Hamas lashed out at the son of a Hamas founding member who says in a new book he was an Israeli spy for a decade.'The Israelis... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Strong earthquake hits China's Taiwan
    Strong earthquake hits China's Taiwan: "HONG KONG, March 4 (Xinhua) -- A strong earthquake measuring 6. 4 on the Richter scale hit China's Taiwan Thursday morning, according to information released... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Singapore warns of terror threat in Malacca Strait
    Yahoo! News: "SINGAPORE – Singapore's Navy warned that a terrorist group is planning attacks on oil tankers in the Malacca Straits, one of the world's busiest shipping lanes.Terrorists may also be... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Leading Holocaust Denier Leaves German Prison | Ha ...
    Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center: "Longtime Hitler enthusiast and Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel was released from a German prison on Monday after serving five years for the crime of inciting... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • What In The World Are They Spraying?
    Read this article, then let us know if you have noticed any problems with crops that might be related to chemtrail spraying.
  • The Safe Seed Pledge…Is It Really?
    Research the seed company you are buying from. Demand that they actually support the qualities that are important to you. Demand that they hold true to their pledge. Anything less and the pledge is merely the act of a sneaky company jumping onto an unregulated bandwagon for the sole purpose of misle ...
  • The Monsanto Files
    Monsanto, the world's dominant biotech company and a leader of the reported $6 million effort by corporate special interests to defeat Measure 27, Oregon's labeling initiative, is one of the most controversial companies in the world.
  • Farmers fight to save seed and the DoJ provides co ...
    The PPJ Gazette By: S.D. Fields (c)copyright 2010 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED “ Thomas should have removed himself from the process because of his past employment by Monsanto. Their need to have certain arguments presented was critical. When I looked at the courts opinion I had to ask myself, “Was Monsant ...
  • What makes a corporate hiney hugger: Just ask John ...
    The PPJ Gazette By: Marti Oakley (c)copyright 2010 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ________________________________ A February 20, 2010 article by John Block in the Wisconsin State Journal was quite possibly one of most extreme cases of corporate hiney hugging to come along in quite some time.  After reading ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Gordon Brown to stop courts issuing arrest warrant ...
    The Government is to announce plans to stop 'politically-motivated' campaign groups using British courts to secure arrest warrants for visiting foreign officials [alleged war criminals] The move follows an outcry [?] over a series of attempts to detain high-profile figures during trips to London, ...
  • Dubai police chief says to seek Netanyahu arrest
    Dubai's police chief plans to seek the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the head of Israel's spy agency over the killing of a Hamas leader in the emirate, Al Jazeera television reported. Dahi Khalfan Tamim "said he would ask the Dubai prosecutor to issue arrest warrants fo ...
  • U.S. Fears Election Strife in Iraq Could Affect Pu ...
    The deadly suicide bombings in Iraq on Wednesday highlight the central quandary facing President Obama as he tries to fulfill his campaign pledge [ he's broken every other one ] to end the war there: Will parliamentary elections, scheduled for Sunday, throw the country back into the sectarian st ...
  • Bomber poses as patient to attack hospital
    32 die and scores injured in Baquba attacks aimed at destabilising Iraq on eve of elections Three suicide bombers, including one who sneaked his explosives into a hospital, killed at least 32 people yesterday in a former insurgent stronghold north east of Baghdad, sending a deadly signal ahead ...
  • 33 killed, 55 injured on Iraq's black Wednesday
    Baquoba bathed in blood after a third [Blackwater] explosion struck a hospital swarming with casualties from two car bombs in the central Iraqi city earlier in the day. Two bombers in explosive-packed cars attacked police stations in Baquoba on Wednesday, followed by a third bomber who blew hims ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • Fisking Ken Perrott over NIWA defence
    Former agricultural scientist turned artist Ken Perrott has been making a big song and dance defending the integrity of NIWA's temperature analysis, albeit in a negative rather than positive fashion. By that I mean that Perrott has offered no information...
  • SCANDAL: So what exactly did they peer review?
    This comment from Phil Jones' testimony to the UK parliament inquiry on Climategate is fascinating: Prof Jones today said it was not ’standard practice’ in climate science to release data and methodology for scientific findings so that other scientists could...
  • Global warming believers murder child, attempt to ...
    Those who are scaring the public literally to death with their fantasy stories about Global Warming should pause to consider the psychological trauma they are causing: BUENOS AIRES – A 7-month-old baby survived alone for three days with a bullet...
  • Who's been a naughty Perrott - SMC told to watch p ...
    The Minister of Research, Science and Technology has instructed the Science Media Centre to check whether its Sci-bloggers like Ken Perrott and others are complying with the centre's Code of Ethics. "Sciblog contributors are subject to terms and conditions laid out by the SMC and agree to abide by ...
  • World's temperature datasets corrupted - Spencer
    Climate scientist Roy Spencer believes the world surface station temp data may be irreparably corrupt, and essentially worthless in its current form. In a wideranging analysis published today, Spencer pings CRU and NASA/GISS for the sins we've already pinged New...

Mondoweiss

  • Tzipi Livni won’t be visiting the UK any time soon
    To hear it from the Israeli press you’d think that the British government can now makes changes to the law simply by having the prime minister write an op-ed. Last December an arrest warrant was issued for former Israeli foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, when she was expected to arrive in Britain. Acc ...
  • Two friends argue about the two-state solution
    A hut in a New York state park in winter. Late afternoon, snowing. Three friends sit at a table. A. David Brooks disgraced himself with that piece saying the Haitians were responsible for the earthquake because they’re poor. B. But is there no Haitian agency at all in their situation? Where ...
  • Sunstein augured Obama’s strategy back in &# ...
    I suspect chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and regulatory czar Cass Sunstein have become the advisers that Obama follows most closely. For Emanuel, look at the New York Times story today on his almost completed agreement with S.C. Senator Lindsey Graham: closing Guantanamo in exchange for making military ...
  • More on Jews, Poles and peasants
    A couple of weeks back I did a post on the fact that by and large my ancestors in eastern Europe were not peasants. Here’s a historical paper that explores some of the same terrain, titled "Traditional Jewish Attitudes Toward Poles," by Mark Paul, from a Polish-American perspective. I haven’t read i ...
  • In Israeli-Lebanese brinkmanship, the US is powerl ...
    According to Roee Nahmias at Y-Net, "US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent a message to Beirut that Washington cannot prevent an Israeli strike in Lebanon as long as arms smuggling to Hezbollah continues." Echoing an article in the London-based al-Hayat newspaper, Nahmias writes that "the mess ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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