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Thomas Paine

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • RELIGION-MEXICO: Legion of Christ Scandal Escalat ...
    MEXICO CITY, Mar 6 (IPS) - A new scandal has increased the pressure on the conservative religious order Legion of Christ, one of the most influential in the Catholic Church, to compensate the victims of alleged sexual abuse by its founder, Mexican priest Marcial Maciel, and carry out interna ...
  • US-TURKEY: Armenian Genocide Vote Threatens Ties ...
    WASHINGTON, Mar 5 (IPS) - Thursday's vote by a Congressional committee condemning the deaths of up to 1.5 million Armenians during World War I as "genocide" is almost certain to complicate U.S. ties with Turkey, a long-time strategic ally and increasingly influential player in the Middle Eas ...
  • RIGHTS-US: Senate Debates Indefinite Detentions
    NEW YORK, Mar 5 (IPS) - Civil liberties advocates and U.S. constitutional law scholars lost no time in condemning proposed legislation introduced in the Senate Thursday that would hand the government the power to indefinitely detain terrorism suspects without charge and to conduct trials thr ...
  • RIGHTS: U.S. Criticised over Soaring Housing Cos ...
    UNITED NATIONS, Mar 5 (IPS) - On Friday, the richest and most powerful country on earth was the subject of a damning report submitted to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva.
  • HEALTH: Potato Drags GM Food Into Europe
    BRUSSELS, Mar 5 (IPS) - Genetically modified (GM) foods appear to be back on the European Union's political menu - thanks to a potato.

Scoop - NZ

  • Toyota sales remain strong in New Zealand
    New car sales in February have confirmed that high profile recall issues in the United States have had little impact on Toyota's sales in New Zealand. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • 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 ...

Independent ( London )

  • New Afghan chief in Marjah has criminal record
    The man chosen to be the fresh face of good Afghan governance in a town just seized from the Taliban has a violent criminal record in Germany, but Western officials said today they are not pushing to oust him.
  • Nigeria makes gains in polio eradication
    Nigeria, seen as the key to wiping out polio in Africa, has made impressive gains against the disease in the year since religious leaders backed vaccination, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday.
  • Car bomb kills 4 Iranian pilgrims before Iraq poll
    A car bomb exploded in Iraq's holy city of Najaf on today, killing four Iranian pilgrims a day before a parliamentary election that Islamist insurgents have vowed to wreck with violence, officials said.
  • Canadian government backs off plan to alter nation ...
    Canadians basked in glory hearing their national anthem played a record 14 times at gold medal ceremonies at the Vancouver Winter Olympics. But they raised an outcry when the Conservative government surprised everyone by announcing it was considering changing a lyric to "O Canada."
  • Vioxx ruling gives hope for payouts to British ‘vi ...
    The popular painkiller Vioxx doubled the risk of a heart attack and was not fit to be on the market, a court ruled yesterday. In the world's first successful class action against the makers of the drug, judges found the subsidiary of the US pharmaceutical giant Merck had failed in its duty of care ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Envoy Reiterates Peaceful Nature of Iran's N. Prog ...
    Summary: soltaniyeh In a statement at the IAEA Board of Governors' session (Vienna, March 1-5) on Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Soltaniyeh recalled the fact that after the most intrusive verification in the history of the Agency, with over 3000 ...
  • U.S. denies circulating draft resolution on Iran i ...
    Summary: Susan Rice United States Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice denied on Thursday reports that a draft resolution on Iranian sanctions was circulating among members of the UN Security Council. "We are not at the present circulating a draft text of a resolution to Council colleague ...
  • Iran's Official reply to the IAEA report of Feb 20 ...
    Summary: Communication dated 1 March 2010 received from the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Agency regarding the implementation of safeguards in Iran. source: IAEA read more
  • Debate Over Military Action Against Iran Gains St ...
    Summary: While the ongoing U.S. military "surge" in Afghanistan continues to capture the headlines, Iran's nuclear programme – and how best to deal with it – is rapidly emerging here as this year's biggest foreign policy challenge. source: Inter Press Service read more
  • 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 ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Skinput: Turning Your Body Into a Touch Screen
    Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft have produced Skinput, an experimental device that turns the body's largest organ -our skin- into a touch screen Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft Research have developed a new skin-based interface called...
  • Skinput: Turning Your Body Into a Touch Screen
    Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft have produced Skinput, an experimental device that turns the body's largest organ -our skin- into a touch screen Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft Research have developed a new skin-based interface called...
  • Has Human Culture Replaced Biological Evolution? ( ...
    Now, after some three billion years, the Darwinian era is over. The epoch of species competition came to an end about 10 thousand years ago when a single species, Homo sapiens, began to dominate and reorganize the planet. Since that...
  • The Colossal Toba Super-Eruption 74,000 Years Ago ...
    Newly discovered archaeological sites in southern and northern India have revealed how people lived before and after the colossal Toba volcanic eruption 74,000 years ago. Several theories suggest that the Toba eruption plunged the planet into a 6 to 10...
  • Radar Map of Mars Buried Ice
    Extensive radar mapping of the middle-latitude region of northern Mars shows that thick masses of buried ice are quite common beneath protective coverings of rubble. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter charting of the locations of these hidden glaciers and ice-filled valleys...

Natural News

  • Free Greg Caton from FDA tyranny; your help needed
    (NaturalNews) Herbalist Greg Caton remains under arrest in the United States after having been illegally kidnapped and extradited from Ecuador by the FDA (http://www.naturalnews.com/027750_Greg_Caton_FDA.html). He faces a hearing on March 17th in a Louisiana court, and he needs your help .To support ...
  • Antidepressants During Pregnancy Cause Premature B ...
    (NaturalNews) Women who take strategic serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants during pregnancy are twice as likely to give birth prematurely as women who do not take the drugs, according to a study published in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine and funded by the Danish M ...
  • NFL and NBL Move to Limit Your Access to Supplemen ...
    (NaturalNews) Last month, a You Tube video titled "The Superbowl Is Canceled" went viral on the 'net. Actually, it was a hoax with a catchy headline; the video urged viewers to boycott the Superbowl and get connected with what's going on in the world around them. Recent events, however, offer new re ...
  • 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: ...

    The Galloping Beaver

  • Told ya so...
    If anyone is surprised over this , you haven't been paying attention. If you thought the ridiculous security imposed for the Olympics was only for... protection of athletes and dignitaries, think again. And get out your wallet .
  • WWW: World-Wide Warfare
    FOREIGN POLICY'S WEB SITE has a photo gallery of 33 current conflicts, called " Planet Wa r", compiled by Kayvan Farzaneh, Andrew Swift and Peter Williams, and taken by some very brave photographers. Worthy of your attention. From the bloody civil wars in Africa to the rag-tag insurgiences in Southe ...
  • 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 ...

Media Matters for America

  • NY Times publishes op-ed with DADT "cohes ...
    The New York Times published an op-ed by former Air Force Chief of Staff Merrill McPeak falsely claiming that "proponents of allowing gays to serve openly have largely avoided discussion of unit cohesion." In fact, numerous studies have considered and debunked the unit cohesion myth and the Times ...
  • EXCLUSIVE: In new book, Rove says he "agreed" with ...
    In his forthcoming book, Fox News' Karl Rove writes that during his infamous July 2003 conversation with the late Robert Novak, Rove "agreed with Novak's assessment" that Joe Wilson was "pompous, self-centered, egotistical, and 'an asshole.' " In Courage and Consequence -- which Media Matters for ...
  • Right-wing media continue baseless smear that Oba ...
    Right-wing media figures have continued to attack President Obama's appointment of Scott Matheson to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, suggesting that the appointment was made to influence his brother, Rep. Jim Matheson's (D-UT) vote on health care reform. Those pushing the smear have cited no ...
  • Glenn Beck and right-wing media grossly distort R ...
    Glenn Beck played doctored audio of Sen. Harry Reid saying it is "good" news that the economy lost only 36,000 jobs in February -- an assessment many economists agree with. Beck criticized Reid's statement, but Beck's audio cut out Reid's accurate explanation that the "good" news was that unempl ...
  • "Louisiana Purchase" was a necessary Medicaid fix, ...
    Media outlets are listing Sen. Mary Landrieu's (D-LA) efforts to insert funding for Louisiana in the Senate health care bill -- dubbed the "Louisiana Purchase" by conservatives -- as an example of Democrats' "corrupt" practices. But the funds are urgently needed to fix the state's Medicaid problem ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Amtrak Censors Research on Racist Attacks on Gover ...
    So I'm riding on the train taking advantage of Amtrak's wifi service. I'm doing some googling searches and get the following response: Oops! You can't visit this site because it contains content belonging to the category of: Intolerance & Hate In order to provide you with the best Wi-Fi experi ...
  • Michael Steele-Mad Hatter
    It is only fitting on the morning of the debut of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland that we visit the world of the Mad Hatter (personified by RNC Chair Michael Steele) and where "up is down". Steele's Mad Hatter has of course been attending a lot of tea parties recently because he believes he can ...
  • Why the Continuing Bad Job Numbers Make It Harder ...
    The loss of 36,000 jobs in February is better than expected but it's still miserable (26,000 were lost in January, according to the government's revised figures), and it complicates the President's final push for health care reform. (And don't blame it mostly on the weather. Although the surveys ...
  • All Dems, including Progressives, Need to Back Oba ...
    The next two to three weeks will determine whether the United States gets on a better track toward including all citizens in health coverage and controlling costs in the public interest. This is NOT the moment for Democrats to posture and bargain -- remember, this is in part what lost us MA, that m ...
  • GI Bill 2010: Quick Update
    I'm in California this week, checking in with IAVA's members in San Francisco, LA, San Diego and then off to Texas, all huge veteran hubs, but I wanted to give a quick update on where things stand with the new G.I. Bill. As you know, the Post-9/11 GI Bill is an incredible educational benefit, a k ...

TruthOut

  • Rep. Massa's Early Exit From House May Ease Passag ...
    The planned resignation of Rep. Eric Massa (D) of New York on Monday may ultimately help fulfill President Obama’s goal of passing healthcare reform soon. The freshman congressman voted against the bill when it passed the House in November by the narrow margin of 220 to 215. Mr. Massa was one of 39 ...
  • Afghanistan's My Lai Massacre
    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. read more
  • Illinois Joins in the Fray, Marches for Public Edu ...
    At a series of protests to celebrate National Day of Action to Defend Public Education , staff, students and faculty marched at public universities in California, Louisiana, Boston, Wisconsin, New York and Detroit to protest the strain on public education caused by the financial crisis. read more
  • Temple Cats
    Americans are obsessed with the notion of control. The control is just an illusion. - Lee Barnes, writer. Bean, the 10-month-old gray tabby, is possessed to leap up on the old dresser that serves as the center for my faith in what little I know of Tibetan Buddhism, and all I am learning about the ...
  • Climate and Jobs: The Same Fight!
    There are not many people left today who oppose the environment to jobs. Several recent studies confirm: the more invested in "green conversion," the more jobs can be created. The crisis of the free-market, productivist model that was "the sole policy possible" for a quarter century has come to pas ...

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

  • Primary Day
    It’s primary day! If you forgot/didn’t get a chance to go vote early(like me, grr), better not miss your chance today! Not sure where your polling location is? Visit the Secretary of State’s website and ask Hope (Andrade, she’s the sec’ o’ state, duh)! ### By promoting cleaner energy, cleaner govern ...
  • ReEnergize Texas Aids “Green Fee” Campaigns Statew ...
    Posted by Trevor Lovell Having passed House Bill 3353 (known as the “green fee bill,” it was one of the few green bills passed this session and made into law) in the 2009 Texas Legislative Session, the student leaders that comprise the ReEnergize Texas coalition knew they had much work ahead of them ...
  • Week in Review
    Welcome to the debut of the Public Citizen Texas Week in Review. Every day our advocacy staff works to organize citizens and politicians in order to realize our progressive vision of a healthy environment, a sustainable economy, and a government of, by, and for the people. This advocacy requires pat ...
  • Texas Universities En Route to Green Leadership
    Longhorns and Aggies to create “green funds” that may soon be emulated statewide Austin, TX – Progressives in America have been stunned over the last year as President Obama’s agenda has repeatedly faltered and the far-right Tea Party has emerged as a dominant force in public policy discussions. Gi ...
  • “Women in Green Jobs” Solar Training Information S ...
    Austin Community College is having a free information session on their Women In Solar class, a women-focused solar installation course being offered this spring and summer. Check it out, but register today — its the deadline for Saturday’s session! Learn more: “Women in Green Jobs” Solar Trainin ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

Climate

  • March 5, 2010
    Met Office Analysis Reveals 'Clear Fingerprints' of Man-Made Climate Change (Guardian) It is an "increasingly remote possibility" that human activity is not the main cause of climate change, according to a major Met Office review of more than 100 scientific studies that track the observed cha ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • How 'Free Market' Snookers Americans
    Although some Americans worry about the growing power of the government, few understand the real power that controls their everyday lives. Private monopolies determine the brand of breakfast cereal we eat, the type of car we drive, where we bank, the medical treatment we receive, the fashion of our ...
  • Out of Iraq? Maybe Not.
    � from Truthout This Just In: the war in Iraq is not over. There has been plenty of news of late to obscure this fact, to be sure: GOP Senator Bunning of Kentucky single-handedly screwed hundreds of thousands of Americans with his obstructionism in the well of the Senate before finally backing down ...
  • Economist Lewis Black Tells It Like It Is
    ADULT CONTENT WARNING: If you're not familiar with Lewis Black, I'd turn back if I were you. Lewis Black is funny. Dangerously funny. That he has such a large audience and still packs plenty of politics in his shtick gives one hope for the fate of our sorry species. So I figured it's time I lear ...
  • Numbers Don't Lie, but Politicians Do - or, Kent C ...
    Robert Byrd just came out in favor of using reconciliation in health reform. Since reconciliation's also known as the "Byrd rule," that's a definitive a confirmation of its legitimacy as you can get. It's like having Chuck Berry saying "that's a good Chuck Berry lick," or having Mary propose a "Ha ...
  • Norm Coleman's Calculated and Cunning Comeback
    When the long drawn out fight for the Senate seat from Minnesota between Democrat Al Franken and Republican incumbent Norm Coleman was finally decided - many, many months after Election Day - no one really expected the vanquished Coleman to ride off into the sunset. And Coleman didn't. These days Co ...

Ten Percent

  • Friday! Vivaldi- Nisi Dominus, RV 608, IV. Cum Ded ...
  • Confederacy of Bigots
    Max Blumenthal via Mondoweiss, excerpt- In the days leading up to Israeli Apartheid Week’s opening event at Columbia University, leading anti-Muslim blogger Pam Geller posted an image of an SS officer with the name of one of the event’s speakers, Ben White, emblazoned on his uniform. (The image reca ...
  • 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 ...

Booman Tribune

  • Open Thread: Updated!
    UPDATE! We posted on craigslist.org with her picture (thank you, SecondNature, for that brilliant idea, and she was found by a nearby vet's wife, and they have her at one of the surgical tech's house. We are so incredibly lucky. Sorry for the light blogging. Our Shih Tzu disappeared sometime afte ...
  • The Moderates are Extinct
    This is what happens when a Regent University law graduate is able to pass himself off as a rational person and get himself elected as the governor of a state: “It is my advice that the law and public policy of the Commonwealth of Virginia prohibit a college or university from including ’sexual o ...
  • A New Low
    It's a sad day when only liberals and "some government lawyers" are disappointed to learn that we, as a country, are incapable of holding public trials for terrorism suspects in normal courts of law. Of course, that characterization in the Washington Post's article on the subject is false. There a ...
  • Health Care Talking Points
    It's an interesting thing to see the new Republican talking point that uses Barack Obama's own words against him. Several times since be became a candidate for federal office he has discussed the need to get 60 votes to pass significant legislation through the Senate. In context, he has used this ...
  • Idiot of the Day: Lanny Davis
    I knew that Lanny Davis was perhaps the least principled person in Washington, but I didn't know that he was willing to make himself look like a complete idiot to anyone with even a passing knowledge of the issues related to health care reform. I mean, who is his audience for such nonsense? If he ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Ditch the keyboard and mouse, go with Skinput
    Although my aesthetic tastes tend toward the more retro versions of cyberpunk style (born in the final few years of Gen X, can’t help it), I’m still very seduced by the sheer pragmatic awesome of using your body as an input device for your portable hardware [via SlashDot]. Need to turn down the volu ...
  • Posthumous cover-versions by famous musicians?
    Dovetailing neatly with that piece about the Emily Howell program that composes pieces in the style of famous composers as well as its own, here’s another software company who are trying to develop software that will analyse a musician’s playing style from their recorded putput, and then reproduce o ...
  • Yesterday’s Tomorrows: Popular Science archive ava ...
    Here’s a heads-up for anyone of a geeky bent – Wired reports that Popular Science has scanned nearly 140 years of its archived back issues and put them up for viewing on the intertubes, complete with all images and the original period advertising material. For free. You can’t go directly to an iss ...
  • Amazon trying to bypass publishers, acquire ebook ...
    Here’s an interesting new development in the Amazon ebooks scramble – the online retailer is apparently trying to obtain Kindle publishing rights for some older and otherwise unlicensed titles direct from authors or their agents in the UK [via @DamienWalter]: UK literary agents and authors have been ...
  • 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 ...

Therapy News

  • Tiger Woods: Hypersexuality Disorder or Sex Addict ...
    By Jill Denton, LMFT, CSAT, CSE, CCS, Sexuality / Sex Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jill and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile While Tiger Woods’ sexual experiences have been all over the news recently, the psychiatric task force charged with creating the next edition of th ...
  • Psychotherapy Shown Promising for Lower Back Pain
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Representing one of the most common sources of chronic discomfort among people worldwide, lower back pain is a significant health issue for scores of people, and is also a leading reason for missed workdays and worker’s compensation claims. Many lower back pain problem ...
  • Journal Hosts Debate on Video Games, Aggressive Be ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline The concern that exposure to violent video games may contribute to aggressive behavior is certainly nothing new, but research into the inquiry has recently produced a slew of debate amidst attempts to obtain a definitive correlation. In the journal Psychological Bulle ...
  • A Psychological Look at Disaster Behavior
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary How people act within the chaotic and dangerous environment of a disaster is a long-standing line of inquiry in the field of psychology, and refining understanding of why people act as they do in difficult times may contribute to the prevention of unnecessary suffering ...
  • Study Finds Men with Higher IQ Less Likely to Chea ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline One of the most common marital issues that brings clients to marriage counseling, infidelity can have a significant impact on relationships, and identifying how and why people cheat may help improve the quality of marriages for many couples. A recent study performed a ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • CD Review: Dear Companion is a lovely record of di ...
    Houston Chronicle CD Review: Dear Companion is a lovely record of discontent Houston Chronicle ... Copyright 2010 Houston Chronicle Dear Companion has an agenda, namely raising awareness about a type of mining in Appalachia called mountaintop removal . ...
  • Mountaintop removal threatens communities - UConn ...
    Mountaintop removal threatens communities UConn Daily Campus The Mountaintop Removal Roadshow presents a slide show depicting the impacts of mountaintop removal on coalfield residents, ... Catherine Pancake On the Impact of Black Diamonds, Her 2006 Film About ... Baltimore City Paper all 3 news ar ...
  • Bees hurt by mountaintop removal coal mining - Bus ...
    Daily Yonder (blog) Bees hurt by mountaintop removal coal mining BusinessWeek In doing so, Horn called attention to a problem that has received little attention in the debate over so-called mountaintop removal mining: how it affects ... Mountaintop Removal Mining: Why There's No Such Thing as 'Clea ...
  • NRDC Cranks Up the Tunes and the Fight Against Mou ...
    Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) NRDC Cranks Up the Tunes and the Fight Against Mountaintop Removal Tonic The event is dedicated to raising awareness, money, and action to halt the practice of mountaintop removal coal mining. Through its No More Mountaintop ... Music Saves Mountains Concert ...
  • EPA again punting on Spruce Mine decision - Charle ...
    Charleston Gazette (blog) EPA again punting on Spruce Mine decision Charleston Gazette (blog) US Environmental Protection Agency officials just can't seem to make a decision about the largest mountaintop removal mining permit in West Virginia history ... EPA wants more time for Spruce Mine decision ...

Memeorandum

  • Congressional estimates show grim deficit picture ...
    Andrew Taylor / Associated Press : Congressional estimates show grim deficit picture   —  WASHINGTON - A new congressional report released Friday says the United States' long-term fiscal woes are even worse than predicted by President Barack Obama's grim budget submission last month.  —  The nonpar ...
  • If The Founders Had Wanted a Supermajority Require ...
    Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias : If The Founders Had Wanted a Supermajority Requirement for the Senate, They Could Have Put One in the Constitution   —  Here's some abject nonsense from Judd Gregg as he tries to foster the misperception that the de facto supermajority created by routine filibusterin ...
  • Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Change (Merrill A. Mc ...
    Merrill A. McPeak / New York Times : Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Change   —  THE chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, favors repeal of “don't ask, don't tell,” the nickname for the policy regulating military service by homosexuals.  “I cannot escape being troubled by the fact ...
  • Romney on Palin Besting Him in 'Late-Night Primary ...
    The Note : Romney on Palin Besting Him in ‘Late-Night Primary’: 'I've Got to Come Up with Better Material, I'm Afraid'   —  ABC News' Teddy Davis and Matt Loffman report:  —  During his Friday appearance at the National Press Club, Mitt Romney was asked about Sarah Palin drawing bigger ratings Tues ...
  • Pentagon Shooter Was Right-Wing, Anti-Government T ...
    Alex Seitz-Wald / Think Progress : Pentagon Shooter Was Right-Wing, Anti-Government Terrorist   —  Last night, a California man armed with two semiautomatic weapons and “many magazines” of ammunition opened fire on police officers at the entrance to the Pentagon, wounding two before being killed b ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.5, Kuril Islands
    Saturday, March 6, 2010 13:31:13 UTC Sunday, March 7, 2010 12:31:13 AM at epicenter Depth : 49.00 km (30.45 mi)
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    Saturday, March 6, 2010 12:10:57 UTC Saturday, March 6, 2010 11:10:57 PM at epicenter Depth : 92.70 km (57.60 mi)
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    Thursday, March 4, 2010 00:18:51 UTC Thursday, March 4, 2010 08:18:51 AM at epicenter Depth : 21.00 km (13.05 mi)
  • M 5.1, offshore Araucania, Chile
    Wednesday, March 3, 2010 21:24:02 UTC Wednesday, March 3, 2010 06:24:02 PM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
  • M 5.0, Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia
    Wednesday, March 3, 2010 11:13:57 UTC Wednesday, March 3, 2010 07:13:57 PM at epicenter Depth : 64.50 km (40.08 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Wringing China dry
    Reservoirs and hydropower stations are sprouting up all over China, damaging ecosystems and causing conflict. It’s time to leave the rivers alone, says Feng Yongfeng. Last December, 160,000 residents living along the Qingzhang River in Hebei , north-east China petitioned local government over the co ...
  • 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 ...

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Threat Level

  • 11 More U.S. Airports Get Body Scanners
    Transportation officials announced Friday 11 more United States airports will begin receiving full-body imaging machines “By accelerating the deployment of this technology, we are enhancing our capability to detect and disrupt threats of terrorism across the nation,” Homeland Security Secretary Jane ...
  • White House Cyber Czar: ‘There Is No Cyberwar’
    Howard Schmidt, the new cybersecurity czar for the Obama administration, has a short answer for the drumbeat of rhetoric claiming the United States is caught up in a cyberwar that it is losing. “There is no cyberwar,” Schmidt told Wired.com in a sit-down interview Wednesday at the RSA Security Confe ...
  • Security Pros Question Deployment of Smart Meters
    The country’s swift deployment of smart-grid technology has security professionals concerned that utilities and smart-meter vendors are repeating the mistakes made in the rollout of the public internet, when security became a priority only after malicious attacks had reached mass levels. But when i ...
  • 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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Iraqi leaders wind up election campaign
    BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi politicians made their final appeals to voters on Friday before a parliamentary election that al Qaeda-linked militants threatened to derail through violence.
  • L.A. Times sells Disney front page for movie ad
    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Los Angeles Times' critic may have panned the film, but that didn't stop Disney from paying top dollar to turn the newspaper's front page into a special advertisement on Friday for the new movie, "Alice in Wonderland."
  • Risk. Not for us, say some investors
    NEW YORK/HONG KONG (Reuters) - With the financial crisis seemingly safely in the past, investors around the world are ready to put new capital to work but these moneybags are treading with greater caution after taking it on the chin previously.
  • Regulators close banks in four states
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. bank regulators closed four banks in as many states on Friday, bringing the number of failures so far this year to 26 as deteriorating loans continued taking a toll on financial institutions.
  • British PM Brown tells inquiry Iraq war was right
    LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown told an official inquiry into the Iraq War on Friday that joining the 2003 U.S.-led invasion had been the right decision and denied he had left the military short of funding.

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

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After Downing Street.org

  • Barry C. Lynn's "Cornered: The New Monopoly Capita ...
    Barry C. Lynn's "Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction" By Stephen Lendman | Blogspot Lynn is director of the Markets, Enterprise, and Resiliency Initiative, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, and author of "Too Big to Fail" about the dangers of monopo ...
  • Kucinich Announces Introduction of Privileged Reso ...
    Kucinich Announces Introduction of Privileged Resolution to End Afghan War Read, sign and circulate: "A Petition Requesting the U.S. Congress to Stop Funding Additional Troops in Afghanistan." It is expected that the resolution will be taken up for consideration on the following Wednesday, Marc ...
  • States Begin to Fix Our Prison System
    By David Swanson David Cole of Georgetown University and formerly of the Center for Constitutional Rights has been doing some good writing, not only on our failure to enforce laws against powerful people, but also on our out-of-control epidemic of incarceration which has struck those too unimportant ...
  • Rove: Memoir Aims To Set Record Straight
    Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy Rove "...confirmed to be one of two sources outing Valerie Plame...." Wikipedia : Agreeing with the Bush administration, the Obama Justice Department argues the Wilsons have no legitimate grounds to sue. On the current ...
  • Last Week: US Iraq Casualties Rise to 74,417
    Last Week: US Iraq Casualties Rise to 74,417 Compiled by Michael Munk | www.MichaelMunk.com US military occupation forces in Iraq under Commander-in-Chief Obama suffered 13 combat casualties in the week ending March 2, 2010* as the official total since the 2003 invasion rose to at least 74,417. The ...

Grist - News

  • U.S. stops short of protection for western sage gr ...
    by Agence France-Presse A sage grouse.Photo: Gary Kramer of U.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceWASHINGTON -- U.S. officials on Friday stopped short of giving endangered species status to the sage grouse, an iconic bird that is at the center of a dispute over oil drilling and other energy development ...
  • E.U.‘s ‘carbon fat cats’ get ric ...
    by Agence France-Presse PARIS -- Europe's system for industrial carbon quotas has enriched the continent's biggest polluters, with 10 firms together reaping permits for 2008 alone worth $680 million, a new report revealed. Dominated by steel and cement makers, the same "carbon fat cats" stand t ...
  • 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 ...

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Washington Independent

  • Ron Paul Snaps Up 800 Tickets for Southern Republi ...
    In the wake of his somewhat surprising — and very soft-peddled — victory in the CPAC straw poll, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) is gearing up for a big showing at the next GOP cattle call. Paul’s Campaign for Liberty has purchased 800 tickets for the event, held next month in New Orleans, at a total [...]
  • Banks Seek to Head Off Regulation With PR Offensiv ...
    After President Obama called the heads of 12 of the largest banks into his office to lecture them about not lending enough to small businesses, the message was clear: It’s time to get to lending, or the government will get to regulating. So while banks are busy lobbying themselves out of regulation ...
  • We’re ‘Weeks Away’ From a KSM De ...
    Reports Major Garrett: A senior administration official deeply involved in White House deliberations about the future location and judicial venue of Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other alleged 9/11 conspirators told Fox a decision on the case is “weeks away” and will not be made or announced be ...
  • The Jobless Recovery Trudges Joblessly On
    Economy cheerleaders erupted today at the news that only 36,000 Americans lost their jobs in February, as compared to the 50,000 American jobs expected to be sacrificed to the Snowpocalypse gods. Of course, that means 15 million Americans remain unemployed, and 40 percent of those people have been u ...
  • Rep. Eric Massa Resigns
    The rapid implosion of Rep. Eric Massa’s (D-N.Y.) career will end with his resignation from Congress on Monday, less than a week after he announced that he had terminal cancer — and the Ethics Committee announced that he was under investigation. “I am a deeply flawed and imperfect person,” said Mass ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

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

Suzie-Q

  • Grayson Leading In REPUBLICAN Primary
    Huffington Post 03- 4-10 02:51 PM Ryan Grim Republicans like a politician who stands up for what he believes — even if he believes the Republican Party is populated by a bunch of “knuckle-dragging Neanderthals.” The candidate leading the Florida GOP primary to determine who will take on Rep. Ala ...
  • McCain’s DADT Support Letter Signed By Dead ...
    McCain’s DADT Support Letter Signed By A Bunch Of Dead Guys Jason Linkins Huff Post- First Posted: 03- 5-10 10:10 AM   |   Updated: 03- 5-10 10:42 AM On the matter of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,” Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) once promised that he would listen to “leaders in the military,” tellin ...
  • Scott Brown To Campaign For John McCain
    Naked Scott Brown To Campaign For John McCain! Wonkette- WASHINGTON, DC, 11:20 AM, FRI MARCH 5 A certain nude senator from the state of Taxachusetts wowed the Tea Party Nation with his non-Martha-Coakleyness, which was enough to get him elected, but ever since then he has been SELLING OUT. Exhibit ...
  • Jon Stewart: Fox News ‘Balance’ (VIDEO ...
    Jon Stewart Exposes Fox News ‘Balance,’ Goes After Sarah Palin And Megyn Kelly (VIDEO) Huff Post- First Posted: 03- 4-10 06:12 AM   |   Updated: 03- 4-10 07:55 AM It looked like Jon Stewart was going for some of his bread-and-butter Sarah Palin jokes on Wednesday night, mocking her appearanc ...
  • 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 ...

Solari

  • “By a Solari Reader”
    Mish Shedlock has another story out about how government is broke and union workers are selfishly asking for pay raises in the face of these fiscal catastrophes. Chicago Public Schools System Is Broke; Union Contract Mandates Raises Through 2012; Expect Fireworks But before proclaiming that a gove ...
  • The Census of Agriculture
    From the Introduction: The 2008 Organic Production Survey (OPS) is a follow-on survey to the 2007 Census of Agriculture. It is the first organic production and practices survey conducted on the national level by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), National Agricultural Statistics Service (N ...
  • IBM Awarded Census Bureau Contract
    The U.S. Census Bureau has awarded IBM (NYSE: IBM) Global Business Services a contract to provide data tabulation and dissemination services in support of the 2010 Census and other key Census Bureau surveys. The contract is designed to expedite data assessment, offer more flexibility in analysis, a ...
  • From Permaculture to Profits
    On this week’s Solari Report, we will talking with Eric Toensmeier about permaculture and how it can help you build wealth - whether improving the fertility of your home and landscape, your child’s school or local community or creating new opportunities for local business and investment. Permacult ...
  • How Big Is Big Government?
    By Jon Rapppoport MARCH 4, 2010. A week ago, I wrote and emailed and posted this article. Since then, I’ve had time to reflect further, and I’ve also gotten suggestions from readers. The situation is far stranger than I thought. So I’ve revised my numbers. I hope you’ll take the time to move this a ...

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

  • The pie's the limit
    Pies, once a British culinary staple, disappeared in the 80s - replaced by American style fast food. Yet, in recent years, pies have made a comeback. And that’s not just any old comeback. The return of the pie has seen recession-struck Brits splashing out over £229 million on pie-buying in one year ...
  • Waves to power '1.4m homes' by 2020
    Wave-based green technology could provide power to 1.4 million homes by the end of the next decade - but only if the Government invests substantially in the sector, RenewableUK has claimed. The body said an investment of between £150 million and £200 million over the next five years would make the i ...
  • Shopping bulimia in the spotlight
    Tesco is set to launch an ethical fashion range, collaborating with ethical label "From Somewhere", to create a small collection produced from end-of-line Tesco stock. Cooperation between a leading ethical designer and a multinational chain supermarket (after all, Tesco is hardly celebrated for its ...
  • Giant asteroid 'ended dinosaur life'
    A new report has shown that the dinosaur population was likely to have been wiped out when an asteroid the size of the Isle of Wight hit the Earth. International scientific experts behind the theory said the impact would have been equivalent to the power of a billion atomic bombs exploding. They stu ...
  • Pay as you throw: a rubbish new scheme?
    A trial rubbish scheme is to be launched in towns across Britain this year: each household’s bins will be weighed weekly, with cash rewards from the council to the least wasteful homes. Critics claim the scheme - involving micro-chipping each wheelie bin - will pave the way for fines for overfilled ...

Fabius Maximus

  • Stratfor thinks about the unthinkable: a U.S.-Iran ...
    It says much about Americas foreign policy — both fearful and belicose — that a respected geopolitical analyst can describe a deal with a major power as “unthinkable.”  Talleyrand, Metternich or Bismark would laugh at our foolishness. Thinking About the Unthinkable: A U.S.-Iranian Deal By George F ...
  • Updating the score: number of government employees ...
    Eric at the always-interesting Classical Values website revisited the FM website’s America passes a milestone! (20 January 2010), marking when the number of government employees exceeded those in manufacturing and construction.  Let’s update that, comparing workers in all good-producing industrie ...
  • 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 ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • How Big Waves Go Rogue
    An extra-tall wave struck a cruise ship off the Mediterranean coast of Spain this week, claiming two lives and injuring one person on board. Though the wave may not qualify as a “rogue wave,” it could have been created by the same forces. To officially be rogue, the wave’s height must be more than ...
  • Animation of Giant Iceberg Collision as Seen From ...
    The collision in early February of the 60-mile-long B-9B iceberg with the protruding tongue of the Mertz Glacier in East Antarctica is captured here in a series of satellite radar images. The crash created a second massive iceberg nearly 50 miles long and 25 miles wide, named C-28. The name means t ...
  • Earth’s Magnetic Field Is 3.5 Billion Years Old
    Evidence for the existence of Earth’s magnetic field has been pushed back about 250 million years, new research suggests. The field may therefore be old enough to have shielded some of the planet’s earliest life from the sun’s most harmful cosmic radiation. Earth’s magnetic field was born by ...
  • First Microbes Colonized Land by Using Fat For Pro ...
    The earliest microbes that survived on land may have synthesized fat molecules to prevent their death from dehydration. The molecules, called wax esters, could have helped the microbes colonize land by protecting them against the harsh environments that probably characterized the lifeless con ...
  • 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 ...

The Progressive Realist

  • NRO’s McCarthy: Adm. Mullen’s, Gen. Petraeus’s Pos ...
    National Review’s resident birther/deather fruitcake Andy McCarthy argues that “ If a deal to grant military commissions in exchange for closing Gitmo happens, it is a major win for the Obama Left and an enormous loss for public safety.” Senator Graham and others will tell you such an outcome will b ...
  • Birth Defects in Fallujah: More Study Needed
    The BBC has a somewhat alarming story about exponentially higher rates of birth defects in Fallujah in the years following the U.S. invasion. That's what the story claims, at least. But there's not much analytical rigor in the piece, which doesn't define what it means by "birth defect" and presen ...
  • Armenian Genocide: Turkey Relations Damaged over ...
    Once again, the United States Congress — famously unable to reach accord on even simple matters of domestic policy — has spent its precious time making a point of officially calling the Armenian genocide of 1915-17 genocide .   Once again, this has angered the present government of Turkey, which has ...
  • Sympathy for the Mittster: Romney's Misguided Fore ...
    I almost feel bad for Mitt Romney . He's obviously a smart guy, and when he was governor of Massachusetts he was pretty much the technocratic kind of governor the voters expected -- not pushing conservative social issues too far, creating a health-care reform that's a lot like what the Obama plan e ...
  • Evaluating a "Surge"
    Since the American offensive in Iraq in 2007 designed to suppress the Sunni-led insurgency in central Iraq, the term "surge" has entered the lexicon of American military activities, achieving an almost iconic position as the answer to multiple politico-military problems. Most recently, it has been ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: Fifty Percent of the Country, Sti ...
    Ugh, it's as if we're back in November of last year, when Bart Stupak held health-care reform hostage in the House so he could secure legislation punishing women for having uteruses. And just like last year, the House Democratic leadership is going to have to cut a deal with him because they need h ...
  • Managing Costs Through Doctors.
    In a question-and-answer session with the New York Times , bioethicist Dr. Howard Brody follows up on his New England Journal of Medicine editorial making the case that doctors have a professional obligation to keep medical costs down. In the health-care debate, physicians have supported health insu ...
  • Why the Continuing Bad Job Numbers Make it Harder ...
    The loss of 36,000 jobs in February is better than expected, but it’s still miserable: 26,000 were lost in January, according to the government’s revised figures). And the “underemployment” rate — including jobless workers who have given up looking for work and part-time workers who want full time j ...
  • The Little Picture: Still Out of Work.
    Unemployment numbers are out today, and they are still ugly . (Flickr/ AFL-CIO )
  • Herb Allison Can't Win.
    Yesterday, top Treasury Official Herb Allison testified before the Congressional Oversight Panel. Simon Johnson and Felix Salmon are disappointed in his testimony. I think they're missing the point. Both are mad that Allison said that "there is no too-big-to-fail guarantee on the part of the U.S. ...

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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  • Grayson's Message Embraced By Florida Republicans
    That all mythical squishy middle centristy stuff that The Village preschoolers can not read or write beyond? The one that Obama keeps trying to to pander to and live off of while producing medicocre to pure crap legislation, IF he can get anything to pass at all, which is pissing everybody on all po ...
  • RIP Jon Swift
    A sad day for the entire Bloggosphere as Al Weisel, AKA Jon Swift, has passed away : The great Jon Swift has died. That's the "blogging" angle to a personal tragedy. In reality, the voice of Jon Swift - the hilarious faux conservative blogger whose talent and passion were evident in every post - bel ...
  • Where did the time go?
    If it seemed like today went by a little faster than usual it might be because it could very well have : The massive 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile may have changed the entire Earth's rotation and shortened the length of days on our planet, a NASA scientist said Monday. The quake, the seventh stro ...
  • Is Little Green Footballs a Communist Blog now?
    "The American right wing has gone off the rails, into the bushes, and off the cliff. I won’t be going over the cliff with them." From LGF's Charles Johnson: Why I Parted Ways With The Right 1. Support for fascists, both in America (see: Pat Buchanan, Robert Stacy McCain, etc.) and in Europe (se ...
  • Will Teabagger anti-immigration agnst spill over t ...
    �Smells like Teabaggrrrr spirit... Peter Schiff is well known for his for far right wing way out there libertarian Ron Paul-like views . You have to wonder if some of Teaba grrrrr angst will spill over to the GOP primary battles and burn Peter Schiff here in Connecticut ? Jim Gilchrist, founder of ...

SPL Center

  • Florida Church Triggers Protests With Anti-Islam M ...
    Westboro Baptist Church , the Kansas-based group that pickets the funerals of fallen service members with “God Hates Fags” signs, is notorious nationwide for preaching a gospel of hate. But another small church is using similar tactics to attack Muslims, causing an uproar in the university town of G ...
  • Anti-Racists Work to Kill American Renaissance Con ...
    Activists have persuaded two Washington D.C.-area hotels to cancel their bookings for a conference of the racist American Renaissance magazine, raising the ire of the gathering’s white nationalist organizer, Jared Taylor . So displeased is Taylor that he’s been publicly sparring with the leader of R ...
  • Pentagon Shooter: Political Criminal or Just Plain ...
    It’s hard to say, based on the early reports coming out today, just what motivated the man who tried to murder several Pentagon police officers yesterday but was killed himself instead. Police in California had picked John Patrick Bedell up and treated him as mentally ill in years past. But at the s ...
  • ‘Patriot’ Vendors Hawking Their Own Coins – Again
    Move over George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt and, especially, Abraham Lincoln. There’s a new set of national leaders for America’s currency: conspiracy-monger and syndicated radio host Alex Jones, ardent Federal Reserve opponent and conspiracy-obsessed documentarian G. Edward Griffin, and 2008 ...
  • White National Event Canceled Yet Again
    After being jilted by yet another hotel, the white nationalist American Renaissance conference was cancelled again last week — this time, for good. The conference, scheduled for Feb. 19-21, had been held biannually since 1994 and featured prominent academic racists, far-right politicians and other e ...

change: org.

  • Cover Girl Culture: Documenting The Media's Impact ...
    A new documentary called " Cover Girl Culture " aims to "awaken the media generation," showing the degenerative effect that the fashion and media industries have on young women's self-esteem and body image. The documentary, by former Elite International model NIcole Clark, shows how professionals in ...
  • Criticism is Not Terrorism: The Strange Case of th ...
    Never say or write anything against the government, especially online. Never even think a negative thought or feel an angry emotion against the government. Because, if you do, your criticism may be the first and only thing incompetent journalists can find to explain the odd chance you chose to shoot ...
  • ICE: Stop Getting Local Police to Do Your Job
    Sam Hartnett reports on the Criminal Justice blog that Sonoma County, CA, is that latest addition to Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Secure Communities program, under which ICE gets local law enforcement to do its job. Immigration law is part of federal administrative law, and as such is the f ...
  • Rights for Domestic Workers in Indonesia -- and Ev ...
    Domestic workers are among the most exploited groups of workers globally. At the same time, many countries exclude domestic workers from labor law protections. For example, in Malaysia, there are hundreds of thousands of domestic workers, many of whom are migrants from Indonesia, and labor legislati ...
  • American Idols for Animals
    Last night, the lovely vegetarian Michelle Delamor was kicked off American Idol . Delamor may have lost, but because of her and the overwhelming number of animal advocates on the show, animals are winning. Many American Idol top stars use their celebrity for the good of the animals (except for that ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Yucca Foes Hail Historic Step to Kill Nuclear Wast ...
    by Lisa Mascaro WASHINGTON - The moment that Nevadans had awaited for decades arrived in a flash. There, popping up on computer screens in offices in Washington and Carson City, was the news that a slim, 15-page legal document had been filed, taking the biggest step yet - one in a series of giant le ...
  • One in Three Killed by US Drones in Pakistan Is a ...
    by Dean Nelson The report, by the Washington-based New America Foundation, will fuel growing criticism of the use of unmanned drones in the fight against al-Qaeda and Taliban militants, who use Pakistan as a base for attacks on Nato forces in Afghanistan. Critics say their use not only takes innocen ...
  • RNC Document Mocks Donors, Plays on 'Fear'
    by Ben Smith The Republican National Committee plans to raise money this election cycle through an aggressive campaign capitalizing on "fear" of President Barack Obama and a promise to "save the country from trending toward socialism." The strategy was detailed in a confidential party fundraising pr ...
  • GOP Tensions Simmer Over CFPA
    by Ryan Grim Tensions have been simmering between two top Republicans in the Banking Committee since the senior member, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), backed out of talks with Chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) and a junior member, Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), stepped in to fill the vacuum. On Wednesday, ...
  • US Public 'Will Pay Obama’s $90bn Bank Levy’
    by James Quinn, US Business Editor In a report on the White House's plan to impose a 0.15pc fee on liabilities of banks with more than $50bn in assets in order to recoup money lost through the $700bn Troubled Assets Relief Programme, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said the impact ...

Lifehacker

  • How Do You Keep Your Computer Patched and Up to Da ...
    According to researchers behind a white paper on computer vulnerabilities the typical Windows user has to patch their computer an average of 75 times a year. Many simply ignore the task. We want to hear how you keep things current. Photo by Sam Howzit . Over at the computer-centric blog Computerwor ...
  • 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 set up and use XP Mode in Windows 7 , how to use it on a machine without h ...
  • 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 ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • One in Three Killed By Drones in Pakistan Is a Civ ...
    By Derrick Crowe A new report from the New America Foundation states that one of every three people killed in the U.S.'s not-so-secret drone war in Pakistan is a civilian. The report also discloses that none of the strikes in 2009 targeted Bin Laden, and that they have had little impact on the Talib ...
  • Reeling in the proxy rebels?
    By Dave Anderson: I'm coming late to this party, but I want to highlight a couple of things. First, from Yorkshire Ranter from last week: Well, this is unusual; Londonstani confirms that the Pakistanis just arrested 50% of the Taliban high command, in so far as such a thing matters. Not only that, t ...
  • US and Pakistan Heading For A Clash Over Terror Ai ...
    By Steve Hynd Despite US analysis that has veared from optimistic to wildly over-optimistic, there's still a serious cloud over US/Pakistan relations in the form of reimbursement for Pakistani expenditure claims in pursuit of American objectives in the "War on Terror (tm)". Yesterday, Pakistani news ...
  • 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 ...

Water Wars

  • Pennington Library to screen green films throughou ...
    Aptly named “Sustainable Sundays,” the month-long film series will feature four documentaries and reps from local organizations.
  • Investigative role (Las Vegas CityLife)
    The Ghost Writer knows nothing about politics. He writes from the heart, in other people's voices. He's fast, he delivers, and he's British, which makes him the perfect replacement for the deceased original author of former Prime Minister Adam Lang's memoirs. That first ghost drowned, an apparent su ...
  • CHAMPI CINEMA (The Telegraph)
    ABHAY DEOL BELIEVES IN DOING THINGS DIFFERENTLY — AND SUCCESSFULLY! Road, Movie has literally been on the road travelling from one major international festival to another. How has this new experience been?
  • Growers share latest in citrus at showcase (The Po ...
    The sweet, tangy aroma of fresh citrus wafted gently through the air at the annual California Citrus Mutual Citrus Showcase as hundreds strolled between booths advertising the newest technology in the industry. The showcase — the largest such event...
  • Print Magazine (Small Business Times)
    Panelists for the event included Dale Shaver, director of parks and land use for Waukesha County; Rich Meeusen, president and chief executive officer of Badger Meter Inc.; John Austin of the Brookings Institution; and Peter Annin, author, The Great Lakes Water Wars.

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Electronic Intifada

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

  • Mitt Romney Warns Against A Branch Of Populism Tha ...
    Earlier today, while promoting his book “No Apology: The Case For American Greatness” at the National Press Club, former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) staked out a stance against a brand of populism which he describes as scapegoating, or looking for someone to blame for the fundamental problems that face ...
  • ‘No Apology’ Romney Embraces Senate Ma ...
    Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, who must be biting his lip to keep from announcing his bid for the White House, went on the record with Greta Van Sustren yesterday and doubled down on his support for Massachusetts health care reform and the individual mandate: ROMNEY: [Reform in Massachu ...
  • NRO’s McCarthy: Adm. Mullen’s, Gen. Pe ...
    National Review’s resident birther/deather fruitcake Andy McCarthy argues that “If a deal to grant military commissions in exchange for closing Gitmo happens, it is a major win for the Obama Left and an enormous loss for public safety.” Senator Graham and others will tell you such an outcome will be ...
  • Virginia AG Instructs State Colleges To Rescind Po ...
    ust weeks after Gov. Bob McDonnell (R-VA) refused to renew an executive order that would have protected gay and lesbian state workers from discrimination, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is asking the state’s colleges and universities “to rescind policies that ban discrimination on the basi ...
  • Will Obama Hand the Cheneys – And Al Qaeda & ...
    The Washington Post reports that “President Obama’s advisers are nearing a recommendation that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, be prosecuted in a military tribunal,” reversing Attorney General Holder’s plan to try him in civilian court: Marine Co ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Khadr's Rights are Our Rights
    KKKate MacMillan collapsed in front of the "Triple-K Biker-Bar and Wing-House" Thursday night, February 4th, 2010 as a result of a massive stomach ulcer caused by poisonous "suicide" chicken-wings and alcohol poisoning caused by drinking 8 pitchers of "Pabst Blue Ribbon" and a 26'r of Tequila. Unfo ...
  • The monster Goes Back to Work
    So, let's see now, he's demonstrated cynical contempt for his own system of government, OUR system of government (by calling the proposed Liberal-NDP coalition a "coup"). He's demonstrated inarguable hypocrisy because he had intimated forming a coalition/coup himself when he was Leader of the Oppos ...
  • Oh Those Fucking Liberals!!
    This isn't a very topical issue. It's just that a Liberal blogger who I've only recently encountered and had high hopes for appears to have gone completely off the rails. Eugene Forsey: Liberal has been babbling away lately about "TOTs" ... by which he appears to mean NDP "zombies" ... and how we' ...
  • Random Thoughts on Violence
    Thanks to the failure of my career I'm home a lot more! So why haven't I been blogging as much with all the free time? Simple. There's a very gregarious two-and-a-half-year-old in my house with me who takes up most of my time and energy. While I was often able to spend half-an-hour at work on bl ...
  • 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 ...

Financial Sense Editorials

  • Market Observation: The 5% Solution?
    by Brian Pretti "No, this is not an homage to the financial archangel Lloyd Blankfein and his flock of chaste and devoted followers on Goldman's prop desk. Okay, let's get to the heart of the discussion. Be prepared, this is one of those discussions where the pictures do a lot of the talking. At Con ...
  • Lies Told to Children
    by J. R. Nyquist. "Consider two cases of mass manipulation through a big lie: the first is directed against children, and has to do with Santa Claus; the second is directed against adults, and has to do with government programs and goodies. In the first case adults engage in a conspiracy to inculcat ...
  • What’s More Important: Price Per Ounce or Ounces O ...
    by Jeff Clark. "In a recent conversation with a fellow gold analyst, he was emphatic that the price one pays for physical gold should be ignored. “What’s far more important,” he insisted, “is how many ounces I own in relation to the total value of my assets."
  • Learn Elliott Wave Analysis -- Free
    . "Understand the basics of the subject matter, break it down to its smallest parts -- and you've laid a good foundation for proper application of... well, anything, really. That's what we had in mind when we put together our free 10-lesson online Basic Elliott Wave Tutorial, based largely on Robert ...
  • 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"

on Government Oversight

  • Judge's Ruling Helps FINRA Keep Its Records Behind ...
    As described in our latest podcast, POGO sent a letter to Congress last week calling for increased oversight of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), a self-regulatory organization (SRO) that oversees thousands of securities broker-dealers, and is supposed to be...
  • Morning Smoke: Senate Committee to Hold Hearings o ...
    Carter Reassures, SASC Sets F-35 Hearings by Colin Clark [DoD Buzz] Levin Demands Blackwater/Raytheon Probe by Daniel Schulman [Mother Jones] What Should McCain Ask on JSF? by Robert Wall [Ares] Treasury fails on transparency rules by Jim McElhatton [The Washington...
  • 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...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Even the Homeless Get Evicted...From Under Bridges
    Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard has evicted a group known as the "bridge people" from their homeless encampment underneath an overpass. Not only has he evicted them, he hired contractors to put up a wall to ensure that they do not return. A wall has been built for sure -- between the city and its ho ...
  • The Power of the Pen: Campaign for Funding a Succe ...
    The advocacy world can be such a drag sometimes, with a focus on what's wrong with society, and less with what's right. But I have some wonderful and encouraging news to share. The National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH) has shared that their recent McKinney-Vento Appropriations letter-writing ...
  • 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 ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Military spending: Up is down?
    The new federal budget commits the Harper government to going ahead with its planned increases in military spending in both the coming year (fiscal year 2010-11) and the next, after which, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says, the size of planned increases in military spending will be reduced for two ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Marines face skepticism after taking Afghan town
    Reuters reports: U.S. forces who pushed the Taliban out of their main stronghold in Marjah, southern Afghanistan, have found residents there deeply skeptical of the Afghan government’s promises to rebuild, a top U.S. commander said on Thursday. The concerns raised by Brigadier General Lawrence Nic ...
  • Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue
    Must-read commentary from Pankaj Mishra: There were chuckles and sniggers in Qatar last month when Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, warned that a military dictatorship was imminent in Iran. Threatening America’s most intransigent adversary, Clinton seems to have been oblivious to her aud ...
  • Brazil rebuff for Iran sanctions drive
    The Financial Times reports: Brazil delivered a wounding blow to Washington’s hopes of international consensus for sanctions on Iran on Wednesday when its president declared his opposition to such measures hours before meeting Hillary Clinton, US secretary of state. In an indication of Brazil’s gr ...
  • Genocide vote harms US-Turkey ties
    Stephen Kinzer writes: For the US house of representatives foreign affairs committee to decide that the killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915 constituted genocide, as it did Thursday by a one-vote margin, would be acceptable and even praiseworthy if it were part of a serious historical effo ...
  • The new McCarthyism
    In The American Prospect, Adam Serwer writes: The “Gitmo Nine” aren’t terrorists. They weren’t captured fighting for the Taliban. They’ve made no attempts to kill Americans. They haven’t declared war on the United States, nor have they joined any group that has. The “Gitmo Nine” are lawyers working ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Grasping at Straws
    If you try really really hard to ask questions a certain way, then you’ll get the answers you want. ~ charles the moderator Scientists misread data on global warming controversy By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you,” then, wi ...
  • Open Thread Weekend
    I’ve decided to step away from WUWT this weekend. Both my wife and I are sick with a cold. I’m very tired, and I need to do something else for awhile besides moderate squabbles; like work on my paper which keeps getting time taken away from it by the attention this blog requires. If you have ...
  • Yowzer! “sea ice extended to the equator 716 ...
    From Harvard University Science: Scientists find signs of ‘snowball Earth’ Research suggests global glaciation 716.5 million years ago Steve Bradt Harvard Staff Writer Geologists have found evidence that sea ice extended to the equator 716.5 million years ago, bringing new precision to a “snowbal ...
  • February UAH global temperature anomaly – li ...
    February 2010 UAH Global Temperature Update: Version 5.3 Unveiled by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. The global-average lower tropospheric temperature remained high, at +0.61 deg. C for February, 2010. This is about the same as January, which in our new Version 5.3 of the UAH dataset was +0.63 deg. C. ...
  • Swedes call out Jones on data availability
    PRESS RELEASE Stockholm March 5, 2010 Climate scientist delivers false statement in parliament enquiry It has come to our attention, that last Monday (March 1), Dr. Phil Jones, head of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (CRU), in a hearing with the House of Commons ...

Dandelion Salad

  • U.S., NATO Intensify War Games Around Russia’s Per ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism March 6, 2010 Along with plans to base anti-ballistic missile facilities in Poland near Russia’s border (a 35 mile distance) and in Bulgaria and Romania across the Black Sea from Russia, Washingto ...
  • Bill Moyers Journal: Wendell Potter + Marcia Angel ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Bill Moyers Journal March 5, 2010 Wendell Potter Bill Moyers sits down with former insurance executive turned public health advocate Wendell Potter, who argues that all is not lost in the healthcare bill and details what he likes about the legislation. via Bil ...
  • “We need a new political party that represen ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ ISSE members address rallies in San Diego, California SEPupload March 05, 2010 Members of the International Students for Social Equality spoke March 4 at rallies in San Diego, which drew thousands of people to protest cuts to public education. The demonstrat ...
  • Goldman Sucks
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ george4vlogging March 03, 2010 Signup for the free newsletter at http://www.Lebed.biz This video is a visualization of Matt Taibbi’s “The Great American Bubble Machine” It has been cut down slightly to fit the 10 minute time constraints. To read the original ...
  • Richard Thompson: Dad’s Gonna Kill Me
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ RavenAlxander February 11, 2010 Richard Thompson song from his album Sweet Warrior. Mash-up images provided by American troops. You can find a live version of the song is on youtube, that’s where the band shots are from and if Mr. Thompson is put off about ...

Your New Reality

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    1993's Falling Down has suddenly begun to catch fire on torrent sharing sites, and rental copies will fly out of video stores across the United States. Any reason for the resurgence of interest in this old movie?
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    Philip K Dick : How To Survive A Totalitarian Society Philip K Dick, a 1 973 speech excerpt : If, as it seems, we are in the process of becoming a totalitarian society in which the state apparatus is all-powerful, the ethics most important for the survival of the true, free, human individual would ...
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    Good Luck With That Whole Anti-Cannabis Christian Movement Raw Story publishes the results of a "Well, Duh!" study into inhaled cannabis and the conclusions reached that it is likely as good as or better than most of the pharmaceuticals prescribed for a variety of ailments. But there it is in the ...
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    New York Times Publishes Column By War Machine Employee Demanding US Stop Thinking About All The Innocent Afghans Killed And Ramp The Fuck Up The Bombing Glenn Greenwald of Salon uncovers a brutal mindfuck of gruesome pro-civilian bombing positive influence in the pages of the New York Times. A de ...
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    The most bizarre collection of old photos you will see this year. I promise.

Wired - Science

  • How Big Waves Go Rogue
    An extra-tall wave struck a cruise ship off the Mediterranean coast of Spain this week, claiming two lives and injuring one person on board. Though the wave may not qualify as a “rogue wave,” it could have been created by the same forces. To officially be rogue, the wave’s height must be more than ...
  • Animation of Giant Iceberg Collision as Seen From ...
    The collision in early February of the 60-mile-long B-9B iceberg with the protruding tongue of the Mertz Glacier in East Antarctica is captured here in a series of satellite radar images. The crash created a second massive iceberg nearly 50 miles long and 25 miles wide, named C-28. The name means t ...
  • Earth’s Magnetic Field Is 3.5 Billion Years Old
    Evidence for the existence of Earth’s magnetic field has been pushed back about 250 million years, new research suggests. The field may therefore be old enough to have shielded some of the planet’s earliest life from the sun’s most harmful cosmic radiation. Earth’s magnetic field was born by ...
  • First Microbes Colonized Land by Using Fat For Pro ...
    The earliest microbes that survived on land may have synthesized fat molecules to prevent their death from dehydration. The molecules, called wax esters, could have helped the microbes colonize land by protecting them against the harsh environments that probably characterized the lifeless con ...
  • 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • UN official: Israel ‘nourishing despair’ in Gaza
    Eighty percent of the people in Gaza are essentially dependent on outside food aid, either from UNWRA or the World Food Program. Not because there isn't food in the shops - there is - but they can't... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Video Interview: Jeff Halper – The Global Pacifica ...
    Interview with Jeff Halper, Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and author of Obstacles to Peace: A Re-framing of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict and An Israeli In... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • 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, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Study Examines Perceived Barriers to Care for At-R ...
    A new study shows that primary care physicians believe the barriers that put patients with uncontrolled diabetes at risk for cardiovascular disease as being patient-related or system-related. Published online today by the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine by researchers at UMDNJ-Robe ...
  • McGill, Quebec Biotech Firm Partner for New Bone-D ...
    Dr. Marc McKee, of McGill's Faculty of Dentistry and the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, is collaborating closely with Enobia Pharma Inc, a Quebec biotech company, to develop innovative treatments for serious genetic bone diseases. McKee's research looks into the reasons why calcium-phosphat ...
  • Managing Expectations Is Crucial as High Unemploym ...
    Unrealistic expectations amid the country's continued unemployment struggles are a double-edged sword that can cut equally into the well-being of job seekers and the companies that hire them, says a University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) strategic management expert.
  • UT-Battelle Recognizes Contributions of Small Busi ...
    UT-Battelle, LLC, management and operating contractor for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), presented awards to seven small businesses today at the 11th Annual ORNL Small Business Subcontractor of the Year Awards ceremony.
  • Furman's Einstein Wins National Award for Fosterin ...
    Furman University psychology professor Gil Einstein will receive the Council on Undergraduate Research's highest award for his role in developing Furman's nationally recognized research programs for undergraduates.

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

fotoFrontera

  • Google adquiere Picnik y tenemos editor de imágene ...
    Excelente noticia para quienes necesitan de un editor de imágenes en línea. Google ha comprado a Picnik y ahora todos podemos usar esta excelente herramienta gratuita. { Click aquí para probar }
  • Increíble colección de esculturas en MySpace
    No había visto jamás tan lindas fotografías de esculturas artísticas como las que Ray ha logrado coleccionar en su MySpace . Fusión exacta de creatividad e imaginación. {click aquí para ver las fotos} .
  • Fotografías del día en FecalFace
    Quien diga que lo ha visto todo, que alze la mano. Nos faltan tantas cosas por descubrir que una vida no es suficiente. Sirva para ilustrar lo dicho la colección de FecalFace. Click aquí para ver las fotos .
  • 15 fotografías antiguas que realmente asustan
    Bonita colección de imágenes antiguas que bien pudieron asustar a muchos niños en aquéllos tiempos cuando la inocencia era parte de la infancia. Son 15 fotografías extrañas. Click aquí para ver las fotos .
  • Bebé elefante asiático en National Geographic
    Es bien sabido que National Geographic siempre tiene las mejores fotografías. Como ejemplo, comparto con usted la foto de este pequeño elefante asiático . Click aquí para ver las fotos

Executive Intelligence Review

Center for a Livable Future

  • Missouri Jury Awards $11 Million to CAFO’s Neighbo ...
    Media outlets were buzzing this morning with the news that a Jackson County, MO, jury had awarded an $11 million verdict to farmers affected by a CAFO owned by Premium Standard Farms. This is the second time in the last 11 years that Premium Standard Farms has been sued for the noxious odors coming ...
  • Struck by a Helicopter Toilet: Reflections on Hum ...
    As I was jogging past the group of giggling teenagers on a stoop, something struck my shoulder.  Curious, I picked up the offending projectile: a plastic bag, tied and filled with a dark, crumbly material.  The kids on the stoop burst out laughing. “So what’s in the bag?”  I asked, playing along ...
  • 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 ...

Norwegianity

  • Toyota continues to slide into abyss of its own ma ...
    More than 60 drivers have complained of sudden acceleration incidents despite the fact that their cars were repaired by Toyota Motor Corp. in the current recalls, new data released Thursday show. The latest figure, released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, significantly inc ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Morris Dees: A death in Homer
    Image by Getty Images via Daylife Dear Friend, As you may have read in yesterday's New York Times , we've just filed an important new lawsuit against the town of Homer, Louisiana , where an elderly black man was shot dead by a white police officer while standing harmlessly on his own front porch. ...
  • Colonisation and Apartheid in Canada
    Gord Hill reminds Canadians of the Colonisation and Apartheid entrenched in the Indian Act of Canada See Also: No 2010 Olmpics on Stolen Native Land
  • Obama, Severus and Tip: Or, Why Do the Most Influe ...
    By The Angryindian, 03.05.2010 “Come, lieutenant, I have a stoup of wine, and here without are a brace of Cyprus gallants that would fain have a measure to the health of black Othello” -- Lago to Cassio in Act 2, Scene 2 of Othello . White people in the United States need to come to grips with ...
  • Repression "progressive" against the Mapuche / Rep ...
    Columna Negra: El año 2009 puede pasar a la historia como el de la mayor ofensiva de un gobierno “progresista contra un pueblo originario. El gobierno de Michelle Bachelet intenta frenar la recuperación de tierras del pueblo mapuche amedrentando a comunidades enteras con un estilo represivo que recu ...
  • CAPITALISM IS THE CATASTROPHE
    Hommodolars.org : Tras 25 años de acumulación de tensión, las placas sobre las que se encuentra situado físicamente este territorio llamado Chile han liberado una cantidad impresionante de energía, en aquello que para los humanos constituye un terremoto, "catástrofe natural" por excelencia. Pero no ...

Pensieve

  • Carol Cabrera Survives Second Murder Attempt
    Politically-motivated murders have been the grisly aftermath of the 2009 constitutional crisis in Honduras. Journalists, both in favor and against former President Manuel Zelaya have been killed in the last few months. Enzo Micheletti, the nephew of former President Roberto Micheletti was murdered a ...
  • Jobs Sues Google Through HTC
    Photo by acaben Steve Jobs could be on the verge of a self-destructive move that would ruin Apple. Again. The idolized CEO’s leadership led to his dismissal many years ago, from the company he founded. The buildup to this was aggravated by  his arrogant and unfriendly manner, and unwillingness to ...
  • Clinton Hails Honduras as Success
    Today Secretary of State Clinton called Honduras a success story, making explicit what some socialist critics have been denouncing since the crisis began. Whatever his leanings at home, Obama’s international policy is not leftist at all. “The Honduras crisis has been managed to a successful conclusi ...
  • Major Earthquake Rattles Chileans
    A major earthquake struck Chile early this morning, followed by a many aftershocks. The US Geological Survey has stated its magnitude as 8.8 in the Richter scale. Chile is much more prepared for earthquakes than Haiti, for its economy is first among emerging nations, approaching the level of a firs ...
  • 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

  • Invite fresh air into your home
    These days we spend more and more time inside, surrounded by stale air, computers and televisions that are all sources of hazardous positive ions that can rob us of our good senses and disposition, leading to bad moods, weakness and sleeplessness.
  • New Year Green Wishes
    The Green Times Team wishes you a very happy New Year!! Together let's make 2010 a greener year. See our contributors green wishes for this year and share yours!
  • Best Green Christmas Gift Ideas
    Of all celebrations, Christmas is probably the least eco-friendly of all, as it is all based on consumerism. Businesses are getting their huge marketing campaigns out to motivate you to buy buy buy! And buy more. And for most, Christmas is like a race to buy as much as possible, and eat and drink as ...
  • Butterfly effect
    How much does it really take to make one hell of a change? Big things come from small things. No doubt you have heard of ‘the butterfly effect’, the amazing effect the flapping of butterfly wings can have on the environment at the other side of the world. It’s even been said that the flapping of a b ...
  • Just Think...
    So Copenhagen has ground to a close, with not too much to show for it. Some had wished it to be Hopenhagen; some now call it Flopenhagen. The wash up will no doubt be debated for some time. This article was meant to be a round-up of COP15, but to be honest the only thing that seems to make sense to ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • UK involved in my torture, says suspect
    Man claiming ill-treatment in Egypt says Britain 'turned a blind eye' to his rendition Britain may have colluded with America in the rendition of terror suspects that involved "torture flights" from UK territory, judges were told yesterday. The claim was made by Mohammed Saad Iqbal Madni, 28, a ...
  • 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. In a Wednesday interview with Fars news agency, Gol said Washington had been making efforts to destabilize the region through support ...
  • Gunmen kill 7 Pakistanis in Afghanistan
    Unknown armed men [Blackwater?] have killed seven Pakistani workers and wounded another in Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar, according to police. A police official told Press TV that the attack occurred early Thursday. Two gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on a group of Pakistani constr ...
  • Five killed as election begins in Iraq
    Five people have been killed and another 10 wounded in a blast near a polling station in the Iraqi capital hours after the country kicked off its long-awaited legislative vote. "Five people were killed and 10 others wounded by a Katyusha rocket which landed on a residential building" in Hurriya ...
  • Marine's death came at hands of U.S.-paid security ...
    By Chuck Goudie Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Birchfield, 24, left, was killed while on patrol in Afghanistan on Feb. 19. ...[T]he Marine said that Josh Birchfield died for two reasons. "A mix of drugs and gray areas of loyalty between U.S. forces and Taliban seems to be the motivation behind the sh ...

Daily Loaf

  • Countdown to the Academy Awards: Who will get the ...
    Handicapping the Oscars is a delicate art, combining a taste for movies with an understanding of the politics that influence the choices of Academy voters. It's with this in mind that I offer my take on who will win in each of six major categories, today focusing on the race for Best Direction. And ...
  • Reel Projections podcast: Academy Awards Special E ...
    For this week's installment, Host Joe is joined by CL contributors Kevin Hopp and Rabid Nick Reefer as they pick apart all of the major awards up for grabs at this Sunday's 82nd annual Academy Awards show. Check it out, and thanks for keeping it Reel!
  • Featured green site: ‘The Seven Sins of Greenwashi ...
    Green∙wash (grēn’wŏsh’, -wôsh’) – verb: the act of misleading consumers regarding the environmental practices of a company or the environmental benefits of a product or service.
  • Salvation Army looking for volunteers in Tampa for ...
    You mind have forgotten it, or been distracted by the epic earthquake in Chile last Saturday, but there is still a massive humanitarian crises in Haiti following the January quake. The Salvation Army in Tampa needs volunteers tomorrow morning beginning at 8:30 a.m. at 930 E 139th Avenue.  That’s ...
  • Nimby week in review: Remember Florida, watching o ...
    Seems like the only question left is will Commissioners finally fire Bean, or will they take the easy way out and let her resign? Shouldn't slurping out of that big McDonald's cup during the last BOCC meeting have been grounds enough? I admit I like McDonald's, but it seems a bit unprofessional of ...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • How to Build the Home of Your Dreams in Gaza
    From Gisha’s Gaza Gateway. Building the “perfect home” is a dream shared by many people, especially if you are one of the tenants of the 3,500 homes that were destroyed or of the 56,000 homes that were damaged in last year’s military operation in the Gaza Strip. This week, we’ve pulled toge ...
  • Palestinian Child, 12 years old, To Be Tried as Ad ...
    In the West Bank,  Jewish settlers  accused of crimes are covered by Israeli domestic law, with all its due process protections; Palestinians are subject to Israeli military law. Under military law, the defendant can, for example, be seized and imprisoned without charge for six months, and that ...
  • 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

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

  • 9/11 Probe: Americans vote for answers
    A new movement to re-investigate the 9/11 attacks, is gaining pace in the U.S. With major public support, 12 towns are set to decide whether to ask the federal government for a new independent probe. RT's Marina Portnaya spoke to some of the activists, to find out why they want the case re-visited. ...
  • Chinese expert says Chile quake part of new activi ...
    An anecdote from the ancient Chinese book Liezi tells a story about a man from the state of Qi who was so obsessed with the thought that the sky might fall that he had no appetite for food nor could sleep well. Recently some people have developed a similar anxiety over a hypothesis no less catastro ...
  • Quake aftershocks trigger new terror in Chile
    Talca - Three powerful aftershocks Friday spread new terror among weary Chileans traumatized by a huge quake and tsunami as UN chief Ban Ki-moon was due to arrive to assess the damage. A first 6.2-magnitude quake jolted people awake at 6:20 am (0920 GMT), just six days after Saturday's record 8.8 ...
  • Study finds methane bubbling from Arctic
    Large amounts methane are bubbling up from a long-frozen seabed north of Siberia, raising fears of far bigger leaks, say scientists. But it is unclear if the emissions are new or have been going on unnoticed for centuries - since before the Industrial Revolution of the 18th century. The study, whi ...
  • John Hopkins Research: Over a Decade of DNA Eviden ...
    Findings could lead to appeals nationwide, if verified "You've got the wrong man! I'm innocent!" Many perfectly guilty criminals insist that, but what if it was true? That indeed could be true in some cases, as a new revelation casts doubt on certain verdicts in the U.S. Justice system delivered ...

Threat Level

  • 11 More U.S. Airports Get Body Scanners
    Transportation officials announced Friday 11 more United States airports will begin receiving full-body imaging machines “By accelerating the deployment of this technology, we are enhancing our capability to detect and disrupt threats of terrorism across the nation,” Homeland Security Secretary Jane ...
  • White House Cyber Czar: ‘There Is No Cyberwar’
    Howard Schmidt, the new cybersecurity czar for the Obama administration, has a short answer for the drumbeat of rhetoric claiming the United States is caught up in a cyberwar that it is losing. “There is no cyberwar,” Schmidt told Wired.com in a sit-down interview Wednesday at the RSA Security Confe ...
  • Security Pros Question Deployment of Smart Meters
    The country’s swift deployment of smart-grid technology has security professionals concerned that utilities and smart-meter vendors are repeating the mistakes made in the rollout of the public internet, when security became a priority only after malicious attacks had reached mass levels. But when i ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Sorry, Rove, Bush Did Lie About Iraq
    Karl Rove says he should have battled critics who accused George W. Bush of lying about Iraq, but Bush did lie, writes Robert Parry. March 5, 2010
  • Encountering a Tea Party Outrage
    The Tea Partiers compare Obama to Hitler, but German Fabian Lieschke says the parallel is offensive on many levels. March 4, 2010
  • 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

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

  • Nightowl Newswrap
    Caving to whiny-assed titty babies is becoming a bad habit with this administration. "The Obama administration has said it will seek to block a controversial bill describing as genocide the World War I killing of Armenians by Turks. A congressional panel on Thursday approved the resolution, paving t ...
  • GOP Supports Survival of the Fittest
    As I've said before, what's been obvious from the debate over health care is that Democrats are committed to building community while Republicans just want to be left alone. Consider the different ways the two parties approach the concept of social "insurance." �Whether it's sold as protection again ...
  • I'm sensing a trend
    The man who opened fire on two Pentagon police officers was yet another lone wacko with a grudge against the government and a belief in conspiracies has acted with violence toward the employees of a government agency. This time the man was stopped by the officers who returned fire and another office ...
  • Attention Democrats: Stop throwing me under the bu ...
    I have been a woman in a man's world for a long god-damned time. I have made my way through the landmines, confronted wrongs and did what I could to set them right. Along the way I have seen women lose ground my entire adult life as freakazoids screamed about the humanity of blastocysts and drug us ...
  • Still Electrocuting Non-Comformists
    Unfortunately, $150,000 is unlikely to put the Fear of Tasering into police departments nationwide. The city of Louisville paid $150,000 this week to settle claims that two police officers used excessive force when they shocked a naked man with a Taser in September 2006. The Metro government payment ...

Care 2

  • Pit bull puppy killing 'act of revenge'
    Kremer-Allen told police killing the dog was an act of revenge for how he perceived his sister had been treated by her ex-boyfriend, according to a police report. Kremer-Allen's sister's ex-boyfriend owned the puppy, named George. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment ...
  • State OKs use of helicopter for predator control n ...
    FAIRBANKS -- A helicopter will be used to hunt wolves for the second consecutive year in the Fortymile region near Tok as part of a state predator control program Submitted by Lone Wolf to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • TREES Hope for Haiti
    Help Hati Plant trees Submitted by Mamabear Claw to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Minnesota journalist who was tribal watchdog dies ...
    Bill Lawrence, a Red Lake Ojibwe and crusading journalist who hounded tribal officials in northern Minnesota for more than 20 years — and helped send some to prison — died Tuesday in Idaho, where he was being treated for prostate cancer at a Veterans Submitted by Lone Wolf to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! ...
  • Princess Aiko Unable to Go to School After Boys Tr ...
    TOKYO (Kyodo) - Princess Aiko, the only child of Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako, has been reluctant to attend school since Monday after being "treated harshly" by boys in her grade, an offcial of the Imperial Household Agency said Friday. Submitted by Naoko I. to Offbeat �|� �Note- ...

GreenBiz

  • Toxie Awards Name Worst Chemicals of the Year
    A coalition of environmental and advocacy groups staged a red carpet event this week to spotlight a slew of what they call "bad actors" -- pervasive toxic chemicals that consistently behave poorly. BPA, lead and mercury were among the honorees.
  • Bad Actor Chemicals
    This report highlights 16 bad actor chemicals in widespread use in California. What they have in common is that they affect the health of those exposed to them -- whether the exposures take place in manufacturing settings, in the home, or in the general environment -- and that there are safer altern ...
  • Tesco, Nestle Among UK Firms Planning Big Packagin ...
    The second phase of a program for reducing the impact of packaging in the U.K. hopes to lower packaging-related carbon by 10 percent by 2012. �
  • 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. �

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

  • Barack Obama’s Guantanamo Debacle
    Regular readers of NoQuarter know (or should know) that I believe strongly in the power and competence of the American judicial system to bring justice in every sense of the word to terrorists. There was a time in this country when true political conservatives actually believed in the principles of ...
  • Too Much Bang, Bang: The Need to Demilitarize US N ...
    Editor’s Note: Republished from the Center for International Policy with the express permission of Mel Goodman, whose bio is at the end of this post. —————————————————– Secretary of Defense Robert Gates gave a provocative and even dangerous speech at the National Defense University (NDU) last week ...
  • Blowback From the Relentless Push to Pass Obamacar ...
    Americans across the country are getting pretty damn weary of hearing news story after news story about the latest bumps in the road to the seemingly endless tactics employed by the White House and Democratic leadership to ram Obamacare through Congress. Can you believe that we’re now into the secon ...
  • Originator of Reconciliation Opposes Its Use For H ...
    Well, there’s all kinds of talk that Obama is going to push for the Nuclear Option, i.e., Reconciliation, pretty darn soon to pass his unfavorable Obamacare program. Yep, that seems to be the road of Change down which he is trying to take us (I wrote about the whole Reconciliation thing HERE). I ha ...
  • POTUS Moonbeam
    From the blog for the syndicated nightly John Batchelor Show (schedules and podcasts). Tale of Two Heads Less than One.��� In Washington, a surprisingly youthful and bold politician, POTUS, introduces a healthcare agenda that will bring on civil war on the Hill on the same day that in California ...

Environmental Graffiti

Foreign Policy in Focus

  • Africa: C
    The president is using carrots and sticks in Africa, but he might have gotten the two mixed up.
  • Africa Needs Strong Institutions, Not Strongmen
    Recent U.S. meetings with Nigerian dictators do little to improve transparency in a country rife with corruption.
  • Can Japan Say No to Washington?
    In a dispute over one insignificant base on the Japanese island of Okinawa, are we feeling early rumblings on the Asian faultline of American global power?
  • Philip Morris vs. Uruguay
    The tobacco giant Philip Morris is going up against a new anti-smoking law, this time over intellectual property rights.
  • Obama Stumbles on Human Rights
    The president couldn't answer a simple question about Israel and Egypt, which speaks volumes about U.S. human rights policy.

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

  • Biting video satire: President Obama rejects the n ...
    video live at source: http://www.examiner.com/x-18425-LA-County-Nonpartisan-Examiner~y2010m3d5-Video-satire-President-Obama-rejects-the-narrow-dogmatic-views-of-the-Jedi Derrick C. Crowe’s latest 3-minute video below compares President Obama’s rejection speech of peace (and here) to the widely popul ...
  • Why I Didn’t Walk Out
    As Jose` was thoughtfully explaining how an effective thesis statement works, the fire alarm pierced his words, shutting him up, and as we hurriedly packed our bags to rush out of the room, shutting down the lesson and the class for the day. Our class rushed into a river of students from other class ...
  • Kucinich forces Afghan War debate, vote: “Trillion ...
    video and opportunity to engage in comments with professional COINTELPRO/PSYOPS/Operation Mockingbird disinformation agents at source: http://www.examiner.com/x-18425-LA-County-Nonpartisan-Examiner~y2010m3d5-Kucinich-orders-Afghan-War-debate-vote-Trillions-for-war-no-money-for-Americans Congressman ...
  • CNN Uses Massive Education Protest to Push Perform ...
    The March 4th protest scheduled to take place in 29 States across America in protest against cut-backs in the education system has been interpreted by CNN’s resident expert as an attack against the overpayment of teachers. Steve Perry, CNN’s “Education Contributor” suggests that the prote ...
  • Greece: A New Phase in the World Economic Crisis
    A new phase in capitalism’s global economic crisis appears to be opening up. As is usual, this crisis has first hit the financial sector of capitalism. First, it was in the privately-owned banks and other financial institutions. Now the contagion has spread to public treasuries. The sovereign debt c ...

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Institute for Policy Studies

Pine River World News

  • Gordon Duff: America's Political Mess, Time To Sta ...
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Gordon Duff, staff writer and Senior Editor at Veterans Today . America's Political Mess, Time To Start Over � �Gordon Duff Source: �Veterans Today March 5, 2010 * �Term Limits, A Third Party Or Even Real Campaign Finance Rules Aren't Enough ...
  • Swine Flu, the Ultimate Racket
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Stanislav Mishin, a frequent contributor to Russian newspaper Pravda. Swine Flu, the Ultimate Racket � �Stanislav Mishin Source: � Mat Rodina March 5, 2010 As many may recall, only a year ago, the world was abuzz, the death of the human race w ...
  • Ramzy Baroud:Flexible Afghanistan War Objectives: ...
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Ramzy Baroud. Flexible Afghanistan War Objectives: �And the Agony Grinds On � �Ramzy Baroud March 4, 2010 Washington and its willing mouthpieces in the media have for years been trying to sell us the preposterous war in Afghanistan. While they ...
  • 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 ...

    PDA AMERICA

  • Bill Ayers, TO TEACH: The Journey, In Comics
    Bill Ayers takes his classic book TO TEACH into the realm of comics with his debut graphic novel: http://bit.ly/b824WI. Bill shares his wisdom, and with the help of Ryan Alexander-Tanners illustrations demonstrates why, “teaching is ...
  • Chatting With Kirsten Gillibrand’s Primary Opponen ...
    Daily Intel | NY Mag Harold Ford Jr. may have decided not to challenge Kirsten Gillibrand, but that doesn’t mean she’s running for the Democratic Senate nomination unopposed. Unbeknownst to most New Yorkers, Jonathan Tasini, a ...
  • 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 ...

Marler Blog

  • FDA Update on the Investigation into the Salmonell ...
    As part of the Salmonella Montevideo investigation, the Food and Drug Administration has been actively investigating the supply chain of black and red pepper supplied to Daniele International Inc., Pascoag, R.I. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 245 people have been infect ...
  • Marler Clark Clients, Elizabeth and Ashley Armstro ...
    Elizabeth Armstrong and her 5-year-old daughter Ashley put a face on the 76,000,000 American’s who become sick by food each year at a cost of over $152,000,000,000.
  • Did the FDA Reportable Food Registry Start the Hyd ...
    Although some say that government does not work - perhaps there are parts that do?  Did the FDA Reportable Food Registry work as it was supposed to and start the hydrolyzed vegetable protein Salmonella Tennessee recall?  The reality is that according to the FDA : [t]he manufacturer of the affected ...
  • Chasing the Ambulance Away: Reshaping the Role of ...
  • 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 ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 03.05.10
    Report: BMW will offer up to 700 urbanites an electric 1 series lease Who's ready? CARB approves of Roush's propane-powered Ford F-250 and F-350 The wait is over, for those of you who've been ...
  • 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. ...

Rafe's Radar

  • Reporters' Roundtable podcast: The soul of Microso ...
    This week, just because I find it interesting: The soul of Microsoft. We have three guests to plumb the depths of Microsoft's spirit, two of whom have been at points in their careers tireless advocates and evangalists for the tech giant. First, in the studio, Robert Scoble, former tech evalngalis ...
  • Can you appeal a YouTube ban?
    A travel blogger gets banned from YouTube and doesn't know why. We get the ban reversed. Originally posted at CNET to the Rescue
  • Google acquiring Web-based photo editor Picnik
    Picnik, which makes an online photo editor, has announced on its blog that the company is being bought by Google. Originally posted at Webware ...
  • 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. ...

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

  • San Francisco Labels Sewage Sludge "Organic"
    Activists wearing face masks and haz-mat suits dumped a pile of sewage sludge on the steps of San Francisco's city hall today to protest the city's practice of marketing the material to home gardeners as "organic compost."
  • The Impact of Food Waste On Climate Change [INFOGR ...
    New research this week estimates that food wasted by the US and Europe could feed the world three times over. Food waste contributes to excess consumption of freshwater and fossil fuels which, along with methane and CO2 emissions from rotting food, impacts global climate change.
  • Climategate 2? More 'private e-mails' go public
    Undaunted by a rash of scandals over the science underpinning climate change, top climate researchers are plotting to respond with what one scientist involved said needs to be "an outlandishly aggressively partisan approach"; to gut the credibility of skeptics.
  • Foreign Oil Dependance is Crazy (Cartoon)
    A thought provoking cartoon by Joel Pett
  • Huge Garbage Patch Found in Atlantic Too
    Akin to the Texas-size garbage patch in the Pacific, a massive trash vortex has formed from billion of bits of plastic congregating off North America's Atlantic coast, researchers say.

Invisible Opportunity

  • Music Video – “H1N1 IS NOT REAL” ...
    It is hard to believe that, with winter and the flu season basically behind us, the powers that be are still pushing this vaccine…
  • Where did the flu go this winter?
    Theresa Boyle HEALTH REPORTER While infection control experts are grateful for a much-needed reprieve after the chaos of the H1N1 pandemic, they are scratching their heads and wondering what happened to the regular seasonal flu in North America. Ontario typically sees 1,500 deaths associated with se ...
  • In ‘Eisenhower’s Death Camps’: A U.S. ...
    Martin Brech In late March or early April 1945, I was sent to guard a POW camp near Andernach along the Rhine. I had four years of high school German, so I was able to talk to the prisoners, although this was forbidden. Gradually, however, I was used as an interpreter and asked to ferret out [...]
  • 4 convicted over plot against US sites in Germany
    Read this article then the following article.  It is hard to believe that both article are talking about the same case… DUESSELDORF, Germany — Two German converts to Islam and two Turkish men were convicted Thursday over a foiled 2007 plot to attack U.S. targets in Germany and given prison senten ...
  • GERMANY: Terror Plot Emerges as Secret Service Gam ...
    By Julio Godoy BERLIN, Aug 20, 2009 (IPS) – It was announced as a terror plot busted. German police had captured three young Muslim men in the small village Medebach-Oberschledor, some 450 km southwest of Berlin Sep. 4 in 2007. The police declared they had seized 730 kilograms of hydrogen peroxide, ...

    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

  • Podcast Spotlight – Green Talk Radio
    GreenTalk Radio is a play-on-demand audiocast (podcast) that helps listeners in their efforts to lead more eco-friendly lifestyles. Related posts: Green Living Ideas and Twilight Earth Form New Major Environmental Network, Simple Earth Media Green Wont Be The Norm, Until We Stop Calling Thi ...
  • 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 ...

Inhabitat

  • The OOoo Chair Uses Zero Materials
    We love seeing new furniture ideas that implement used, discarded, eco-friendly and recycled materials, but it’s not often that we find a chair that uses zero materials in construction. The OOoo Chair is an innovative concept that presses us to consider all of the energy and material waste issues ...
  • READER TIP: Magtenlight Harvests Energy from Your ...
    The Magtenlight is a lighting system for your bike that uses a contact-less dynamo to generate the energy to illuminate your way at night. The system works by mounting a ring of 28 magnets on the spokes of your bike, which move past the dynamo generating an electric current. Since the dynamo is not ...
  • DIY: Vibrant Curtains Upcycled from Old Film Slide ...
    Like the 35mm camera, film slides have gone to the wayside in favor of digital images and PowerPoint. So what is one to do with that box of slides collecting dust up in the attic? Turn them into a curtain! In a beautiful and clever design, one gal has gathered up these vibrant treasures and turned t ...
  • Stamp-Sized Paper “Chip” Diagnoses Diseases For Ju ...
    As far as mobile, ad-hoc medical labs for developing countries go, you can’t get any more mobile or ad-hoc than something the size of a postage stamp. One Harvard University chemist has developed an ultraportable “paper” chip that can diagnose killer diseases like malaria, HIV, hepatitis, and tuberc ...
  • Pea Power: Researchers Discover a Hidden Energy So ...
    Peas are tasty, sure, but they might also play an important role in our energy future. Researchers from Tel Aviv University’s Department of Biochemistry have discovered that tiny crystals found in peas could one day be used as battery chargers or even as the core of efficient artificial solar cells. ...

Pogue's Posts

Open Your Eyes News

  • Azerbaijan president’s son, 12, ‘buys £30m worth o ...
    Telegraph – Heydar Aliyev, the son of Ilham Aliyev, the oil-rich country’s president, allegedly spent almost £30 million (US$44 million) on nine waterfront mansions in the southern Gulf emirate earlier this year, reports said. The boy, who was 11 at the time, made the purchase in the Palm Jumeir ...
  • Fury as EU approves GM potato
    The Independent – The introduction of a genetically modified potato in Europe risks the development of human diseases that fail to respond to antibiotics, it was claimed last night. German chemical giant BASF this week won approval from the European Commission for commercial growing of a starchy pot ...
  • Indigenous migraine remedy works ‘as well as aspir ...
    ABC – Scientists on Queensland’s Gold Coast say a traditional Indigenous treatment is as effective as aspirin for migraine relief. The remedial qualities of a type of native lemongrass found in parts of the Northern Territory have been researched by scientists at the Glycomics Institute at Griffith ...
  • Western sanctions draft targets Iran’s banks abroa ...
    Reuters – A Western proposal for fresh U.N. sanctions on Iran includes a call for restricting new Iranian banks abroad and urges “vigilance” against the Islamic Republic’s central bank, diplomats said on Friday. Speaking on condition of anonymity, Western diplomats familiar with negotiations on the ...
  • Britain Grapples With Debt of Greek Proportions
    New York Times – As Greece’s debt troubles batter the euro, Britain has done its utmost to stay above the fray. The pound fell to $1.4954 on Tuesday, its lowest level against the dollar in months. Until now, that is. Suddenly, investors are asking if Britain may soon face its own sovereign debt c ...

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

  • Save Your Battery: Unplug Your Laptop
    A recent article from Lawrence Berkely Laboratory suggests that readers should ' Pull the plug. Your battery will thank you. ' Researcher Venkat Srinivasan writes about batteries and battery chemistry rather specifically, but without becoming overwhelmingly technical. He explains how batteries ...
  • 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 ...

Buzzflash

  • House Ways & Means Chairman Steps Down 'Temporaril ...
    It appears Charlie Rangel Played one too many angle .VERSE CASE SCENARIO read more
  • Paradise Lost
    BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY By Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Media Services We owe the residents of the tiny island paradise called Vieques full compensation for the illnesses they are suffering courtesy of the U.S. Navy — and we owe them so much more than that. We owe them a full accounting of what was ...
  • Where Are This War’s Heroes, Military and Journali ...
    BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Dave Lindorff 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 ...
  • Inhofe and His Band of Right-Wing Crazies Go After ...
    BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZFLASH MINUTE Ironic; the same Repuglicans who spout indignity over "our children" having to pay the tab this country is running up, don't seem the least bit worried about what happens to those same children and this planet �if they, the Repuglicans,�continue to deny global wa ...
  • Norm Coleman's Calculated and Cunning Comeback
    BILL BERKOWTIZ FOR BUZZFLASH.COM In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision allowing an unlimited flow of corporate money into electoral politics, the former Minnesota Senator has launched two new ‘center-right’ political organizations focused on traditional conservative principles’ and de ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • The WP: Obama close to reversing Holder on civili ...
    One of the very few commendable steps taken by the Obama administration toward reversing the�Bush/Cheney Constitution/Terrorism template was the DOJ's decision to try the five accused 9/11 defendants in a civilian court (just as the rest of the civilized world does with Terrorists ).� But ever sin ...
  • The WP's employment of a fear-mongering smear arti ...
    One of the DOJ�lawyers being smeared as part of the "Al Qaeda 7" campaign by Cheney/Kristol �(and Wolf Blitzer/CNN ) is Karl Thompson, who, while at the law firm O'Melveney &�Myers in 2007, represented a�Guantanamo detainee (Omar Khadr, who was 15 when he was detained).� Today in The Washington�Po ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Senators McCain and Lieberman Introduce Bill to Au ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 4, 2010 ACLU A bill introduced today in the Senate would hand the government the power to indefinitely detain terrorism suspects without charge or trial, dealing a swift blow to due process and the rule of law. read more
  • White House Health Care Reform Bill Denies Women's ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 4, 2010 National Organization for Women (NOW) Today the White House announced that it has set March 18 as the deadline for Congress to pass a final health care reform bill. President Obama has embraced the Senate's version of health care legislation. This bill is no panac ...
  • 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 ...
  • NRDC Celebrates Tenth Anniversary of Major Victory ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 4, 2010 Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) This week marks the tenth anniversary of a monumental victory mobilizing millions of people to protect Laguna San Ignacio - the last undisturbed breeding place for the Pacific gray whale - located on the west coast of Mexic ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Like Bush, Obama Moves to Bury Bad Economic Data
    by David Sirota 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: ...
  • Dodd to Defang Financial Reform?
    by Zach Carter Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd's effort to house a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency under the Federal Reserve is fatally flawed. For the past two decades, the Fed has aligned itself with any policy that boosts short-term profits for America's largest banks, regar ...
  • Inside the TV Wars
    by Megan Tady The real fight to watch isn't on television-Conan vs. Leno, Olbermann vs. O'Reilly. Rather, it's about television, and the future of online video-a fight that pits cable and content companies against consumers. Instead of being glued to our favorite shows, we'd be wise to pay attention ...
  • Health Insurance Industry’s $300 Billion Victory O ...
    by Jon Walker When Blanche Lincoln (D-AR), Ben Nelson (D-NE), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Joe Lieberman (I-CT), and the entire Republican Senate caucus stepped up to kill the public option in the Senate, it is important to remember that the health insurance industry won a victory-a victory worth $300 bill ...
  • Students Protest Nationwide
    by Peter Rothberg Walkouts, student strikes, and marches shook every level of California's embattled public education system yesterday. University of California students blocked access to campus entrances at Berkeley and Santa Cruz while college kids joined forces with K-12 students and teachers in ...

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

  • British bank privatization? Yes, but not yet. (The ...
    Contrary to reports, the British government would raise nowhere near £70 billion by selling its stakes in banks.
  • Council takes informal look at snow removal ordina ...
    In an informal chat sandwiched between a brief work session and the formal City Council meeting, Milan city officials discussed how to address complaints about an ordinance that requires downtown Milan business owners to remove snow from their sidewalks, but prevents them from depositing the snow in ...
  • Talladega Council discusses water privatization (T ...
    TALLADEGA — The City Council was presented with four ideas for cost savings from City Manager Michael Stampfler during a called meeting Thursday night. No action was taken on any of them.
  • Laiban Deal Setback Temporary, Group Vows Continue ...
    PRESS STATEMENT 6 March 2010 Anti-water privatization alliance Water for the People Network (WPN) today said that the termination of the proposed P52-billion Laiban Dam is just a temporary setback for its proponents and called on all concerned sectors to remain vigilant and continue to oppose moves ...
  • Gov’t Urged to Review, Cancel Water Permits of Hug ...
    Press Release March 2, 2010 Environmental groups slammed the government’s inadequacy in addressing the on-going drought and water shortage and urged the government to review then cancel the water rights and permits of big businesses who wastes and pollutes water, such as mining projects and golf-cou ...

Guardian

  • Venables recall due to 'extremely serious' claims
    Jack Straw says details over return of James Bulger's murderer to prison cannot be revealed if justice is to be done The justice secretary, Jack Straw, said today that the recall of one of James Bulger's killers, Jon Venables, to prison involved some "extremely serious allegations". James's mother, ...
  • Police hold husband of pregnant car-blast victim
    Husband of woman injured in car explosion in Kent being questioned on suspicion of attempted murder, reports say The husband of a pregnant woman seriously injured when her car exploded in a suspected bomb attack in Kent was being questioned today on suspicion of her attempted murder, it was reported ...
  • Weekend readers' pictures: Maturity
    Your best photographs on this week's theme, from the active elderly to nature's marvels Guardian readers
  • gnews140: The three Johns
    Ariane Sherine with this week's highlights from the Twitterverse, including John Prescott and Eric Pickles's spat over donors paying tax, John Terry's haircut and the uproar over BBC 6 Music Ariane Sherine Andy Gallagher Matt Hall
  • English Defence League hit town
    What happened when the English Defence League met Unite Against Fascism John Domokos

McClatchey

  • As U.S. prepares to leave after 7 years, Iraq's fu ...
    WASHINGTON — When the Bush administration invaded Iraq seven years ago, it pledged to leave behind a democracy that would be a model for the entire Middle East. Instead, it now appears that the United States will leave behind a big question mark.
  • For Iraq's young voters, a sense of hopelessness
    FALLUJAH, Iraq — Radio host Shahad Abdul Kareem, the rhinestones on her T-shirt and sequined headband sparkling, sits in the semidarkness of the Voice of Fallujah studio waiting for the generator to kick in so she can reach out to young listeners and find out what's on their minds.
  • Why can't Congress do more to help create jobs?
    WASHINGTON — Despite reports of relentless job losses, including Friday�s news that payrolls shed 36,000 more positions last month, Congress is having trouble approving significant legislation to create jobs.
  • Problems with civilian 'surge' could upset U.S. Af ...
    WASHINGTON — The Obama administration's "surge" of U.S. civilian officials and experts into Afghanistan is beset by a shortage of qualified personnel, a lack of housing and other problems that could disrupt its timetable for turning over full control of the country to the Afghan government, a new re ...
  • U.N. refugee agency for Palestinians in another fu ...
    JERUSALEM — The 60-year-old U.N. agency that provides education and social services to 4.7 million Palestinian refugees will be asking the United States, its major benefactor — and critic — for more funding and political support next week.

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

  • Troops kill 30 militants in Pakistan
    Islamabad, March 5 (DPA) At least 30 Taliban militants were killed by security forces Friday in Pakistan's restive tribal region near the Afghan border, a security official said.
  • Soldier dies in Afghanistan blast
    A British soldier has died from wounds sustained in an explosion in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said. The serviceman from 3 Rifles was killed on Friday morning while on foot patrol ...
  • Karzai calls on Taliban to stop attacking schools
    KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai pleaded with insurgents on Saturday to stop attacking schools so that the five million Afghan children with no access to education can reach their poten...
  • New Afghan chief in Marjah has criminal record
    The man chosen to be the fresh face of good Afghan governance in a town just seized from the Taliban has a violent criminal record in Germany, but Western officials said today they are not pushing t...
  • Afghan 'civilian surge' bogged down by r ...
    The so-called US "civilian surge" in Afghanistan is mired in bureaucracy and may not succeed in time to help the war effort, a State Department report said.The report said US diplomats spent too much ...

Futurismic

  • Ditch the keyboard and mouse, go with Skinput
    Although my aesthetic tastes tend toward the more retro versions of cyberpunk style (born in the final few years of Gen X, can’t help it), I’m still very seduced by the sheer pragmatic awesome of using your body as an input device for your portable hardware [via SlashDot]. Need to turn down the volu ...
  • Posthumous cover-versions by famous musicians?
    Dovetailing neatly with that piece about the Emily Howell program that composes pieces in the style of famous composers as well as its own, here’s another software company who are trying to develop software that will analyse a musician’s playing style from their recorded putput, and then reproduce o ...
  • Yesterday’s Tomorrows: Popular Science archive ava ...
    Here’s a heads-up for anyone of a geeky bent – Wired reports that Popular Science has scanned nearly 140 years of its archived back issues and put them up for viewing on the intertubes, complete with all images and the original period advertising material. For free. You can’t go directly to an iss ...
  • Amazon trying to bypass publishers, acquire ebook ...
    Here’s an interesting new development in the Amazon ebooks scramble – the online retailer is apparently trying to obtain Kindle publishing rights for some older and otherwise unlicensed titles direct from authors or their agents in the UK [via @DamienWalter]: UK literary agents and authors have been ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Heart of a galaxy emits gamma rays
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Quite a few distant galaxies turn out to be cosmic delivery rooms. Large numbers of massive stars are born in the hearts of these starburst galaxies, and later explode as supernovae. In the remnants they leave behind, particles are accelerated to very high energies. Astrophysicists ...
  • Sleep loss linked to increase in Alzheimer's plaqu ...
    Chronic sleep deprivation in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease makes Alzheimer's brain plaques appear earlier and more often, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report online this week in Science Express.
  • A solution to Darwin's 'mystery of the mysteries' ...
    Biological species are often defined on the basis of reproductive isolation. Ever since Darwin pointed out his difficulty in explaining why crosses between two species often yield sterile or inviable progeny (for instance, mules emerging from a cross between a horse and a donkey), biologists have st ...
  • New study predicts future consequences of a global ...
    A report examining the impact of a global biofuels program on greenhouse gas emissions during the 21st century has found that carbon loss stemming from the displacement of food crops and pastures for biofuels crops may be twice as much as the CO2 emissions from land dedicated to biofuels production. ...
  • Cassini Data Help Redraw Shape of Solar System (w/ ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Images from the Ion and Neutral Camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft suggest that the heliosphere, the region of the sun's influence, may not have the comet-like shape predicted by existing models. In a paper published Oct. 15 in Science Express, researchers from the Johns Hopkins Ap ...

TechDirt

  • The Myth Of Originality...
    Nina Paley alerts us to a neat writeup (with illustrations) that she did, discussing the concept of originality , and why it's so often misconstrued. First, things that many people think are "original" usually aren't very original at all. They tend to be derivative in some way or another -- a poin ...
  • Netflix, Warner Bros., Sued In Class Action Lawsui ...
    Warner Bros. has been busy getting both Netflix and Redbox to agree to delay renting new release DVDs for 28 days, in the misguided belief that this will get more people to buy the DVDs. While Netflix has tried to spin this as benefiting customers it appears plenty of customers see otherwise. Spec ...
  • Murdoch's NY Post Continues To Source Articles Fro ...
    Rupert Murdoch and his minions at News Corp. have been going around banging the drum that Google and others are "stealing" from News Corp. newspapers by linking to their stories and sending them traffic. But at the same time, they seem to have no problem totally taking credit for stories that they ...
  • Alice In Public Domainland; Just Because Something ...
    Back in December, we wrote about a submission from someone talking about the new Sherlock Holmes movie, and how it was possible because of the public domain . The truth turned out to be more complicated , but perhaps a better (and more accurate) example of the same point is the new Alice in Wonderl ...
  • Subway And Quiznos Settle Dispute Over User-Genera ...
    Back in 2008, we wrote about a lawsuit between rival sandwich shop chains Subway and Quiznos over a viral ad campaign . Quiznos had set up a contest to get fans to create and upload commercials for its stores, and Subway claimed that many of the ads made false claims about Subway. To Subway, this ...

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

  • I’m Back!
    I made it back from Florida with my sanity and only a minor drinking problem, so things are good.  I’ll get back to my regular posting schedule next week.  In the meantime, you can check out a couple blog carnivals I participated in. Carnival of the Godless and Carnival of the Liberals (I know I’m ...
  • Gone Fishin
    No posting this week, as I am in Florida soaking up the sun and trying not to let my relatives drive me over the edge.  If you don’t hear from me by next Wednesday, send a rescue team.
  • 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 ...

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 صفقات متعددة الوجوه مع القاعدة كتبت: جين نوفاك – فبراير/ 2009 عبدالله عبدالوهاب ناجي- ترجمة خاصة بالمستقلة عقد الرئيس اليمني علي عبدا لله صالح مؤخرا صفقة مع ...
  • Yemen’s three terror fronts
    By Jane Novak March 28, 2009 3:18 PM Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula took credit in an internet statement Friday for a pair of suicide attacks that targeted South Koreans in Yemen. A teen-aged suicide bomber killed four South Korean tourists in Shibam, Hadramout on March 15. A second terror att ...

Dark Politricks

  • Bedell a Libertarian “Terrorist” Soros Linked Blog ...
    Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com March 6, 2010           John Patrick Bedell suffered from mental illness.     For the establishment leftoids, the verdict is in — John Patrick Bedell was not only a rightwing, anti-government terrorist, but a Libertarian to boot. From the Soros project ...
  • Pentagon guards trained for attack like that of gu ...
    Christian Davenport and Annys Shin Washington Post March 6, 2010 They’re both former service members — one a Marine who guarded U.S. embassies all over the world, the other an Air Force reservist who worked as a New Orleans cop — who made second careers in the police force that protects the Pentagon ...
  • September 11 attacks and cloning top Yahoo! search ...
    London Telegraph March 6, 2010 The September 11 terrorist attacks, cloning and the Iraq war top a list of online news searches in the last 15 years, a new study by Yahoo! shows. Saddam Hussein, Harry Potter and the deaths of Michael Jackson and Australian conservationist Steve Irwin were also hot to ...
  • Experts: Pentagon shooter, others strike symbols o ...
    Joby Warrick and Spencer S. Hsu Washington Post March 6, 2010 The setting was seemingly random: an outer gate at the Pentagon at evening rush hour. But John Patrick Bedell’s violent rampage Thursday made him only the latest in the growing ranks of the disaffected and disturbed to take aim at a symbo ...
  • The smearing of dissent as “violence”
    Have Glenn Beck and Chris Matthews linked peaceful activists with violent acts to spring the trap for an era of thought crime laws and politically-correct repression? Aaron Dykes Infowars.com Commentary March 6, 2010 “The first casualty of War is Truth” Why are so many random acts of violence bein ...

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

  • Industrial Bikes that Get the Job Done (Slideshow)
    Photo: longjohn.org Work Bikes, Freight Bicycles, Cargo Trikes, Utility Bicycles, Industrial Bikes -- or whatever you want to call them -- have been been with us for almost as long as the original safety bicycle itself. Though not conceived for recreation or racing, they have often been conscri ...
  • Is It Just Coincidence That States With Anti-Clima ...
    Missouri coal train, photo: Scott Granneman via flickr. As Grist pointed out yesterday, the US now has 15 states with resolutions attempting to prevent limits on greenhouse gas pollution . Add to that West Virginia Senator John Rockefeller's bill, just introduced, which would bar the Environmen ...
  • Even More Methane Found Leaking From Arctic Seaflo ...
    Scientists took sonar measurements to record clouds of methane bubbles rising from the seafloor. Photo: Igor Semiletov, University of Alaska More evidence is emerging that methane previously trapped in the permafrost below the Arctic sea is starting to be released into the oceans and potentiall ...
  • 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 ...

Biosingularity

  • Monitoring Cell Death Could Help Cancer Treatment
    When it comes to aggressive cancers, in the brain or lung for example, oncologists know that the sooner they can determine whether a treatment is unsuccessful, the sooner they can reevaluate and, if necessary, prescribe a new course of action. But typically, it takes two months or more to do the bef ...
  • The incredible beauty in the life of cells
  • Brain ‘entanglement’ could explain mem ...
    Subatomic particles do it. Now the observation that groups of brain cells seem to have their own version of quantum entanglement, or “spooky action at a distance”, could help explain how our minds combine experiences from many different senses into one memory. Previous experiments have shown that th ...
  • Scientists turn stem cells into pork
    Call it pork in a petri dish — a technique to turn pig stem cells into strips of meat that scientists say could one day offer a green alternative to raising livestock, help alleviate world hunger, and save some pigs their bacon. Dutch scientists have been growing pork in the laboratory since 2006, a ...
  • Mind reading, brain fingerprinting and the law
    What if a jury could decide a man’s guilt through mind reading? What if reading a defendant’s memory could betray their guilt? And what constitutes ‘intent’ to commit murder? These are just some of the issues debated and reviewed in the inaugural issue of WIREs Cognitive Science, the latest interdis ...

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

  • How Grass-Fed Cows Could Save the Planet
    Of all the animals that humans eat, none are held more responsible for climate change than cows. Cows not only consume more energy-intensive feed than other livestock, they also produce more methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. But grass-fed cows may have the opposite effect.  Grass is a perennial. ...
  • Experts Warn that Cell Phones Will Spur a Cancer E ...
    Supporters of a Maine bill which would require cell phone manufacturers to put warning labels on mobile phones say that ignoring the health risks of heavy cell phone use invites a cancer epidemic. David Carpenter, director of the Institute for Health and Environment at the University of Albany, arg ...
  • 15 Facts About China that Will Blow Your Mind
    By 2025, China will build TEN New York-sized cities. By 2030, China will add more new city-dwellers than the entire U.S. population. China already consumes twice as much steel as the U.S., Europe and Japan combined. If the Chinese, one day, use as much oil per person as American ...
  • Vitamin D Lifts Mood During Cold Weather Months
    A daily dose of vitamin D will lift your mood during cold weather months when days are short and more time is spent indoors. The researchers who obtained this result plan to take vitamin D research a step further by evaluating whether vitamin D can improve blood sugar control and mood in women with ...
  • Nutrition Experts Battle Industry Groups Over Suga ...
    There's a heated debate going on over the health risks of consuming too much sugar, high-fructose corn syrup and other caloric sweeteners. On one side are leading nutrition experts, who believe that these sweeteners add empty calories to people's diets and promote weight gain. Emerging scientific r ...

Antemedius

  • Chicken Hawks on Steroids
    The venerable Dick Cheney has said so many memorable things in his long career that have been long digested and discussed, but my most unforgettable quote was regarding the Vietnam War, that Southeast Asian conflict that he unflinchingly supported. When asked why as a young man he did not serve in w ...
  • Reconciliation Usage - Republicans 14, Democrats 5
    As of this post there are 24 Senators signed on to the use of reconciliation to not only pass comprehensive health care reform, but to use this process to add the public option back in. The White House and the House Leadership have made it clear this is going to be the Senates call from start to fin ...
  • Waterboarding Too Dangerous, Internal DoD Memo Rev ...
    In recent weeks, former Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen has been on a public relations campaign defending the efficacy of waterboarding, going so far as to say that the torture technique sanctioned by the Bush administration is not only safe, but is in line with the teachings of the Catholic Church ...
  • 1,000 Words About Botswana
    Cross posted from Border Jumpers , Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. As we talked to locals in Gaborone, Botswana Capital City, people were so proud to talk about the things they love about their country. "We are free here, our country is so peaceful, you don't have to be afraid," said one. ...
  • Wake Up Democratic Senators, Republicans Are Not Y ...
    People will tell themselves lies. Everyone does it; it is part of making life more comfortable. They will say that what they do matters more than it does, that their activism has a bigger impact than it in fact does, that they are better looking or more popular than they really are. Most of the time ...

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

  • Way to go James: Warmists overwhelmed by fear, pan ...
    My God, we love James Delingpole: Warmists overwhelmed by fear, panic and deranged hatred as their ’science’ collapses
  • Snowball Earth!
    Geologists have found evidence that sea ice extended to the equator 716.5 million years ago, bringing new precision to a “snowball Earth” event long suspected of occurring around that time.
  • James Hansen is a Nutter
    “Nutters” is English (and Schmidt is English) slang equivalent to “nut” in the sense of crazy person. Well, Schmidt should know—his boss is the director of GISS, Dr. James E. Hansen. Hansen is widely considered to be the leading scientific promoter of global warming alarmism and as such is a highly ...
  • Mark your calendars to light up Earth Hour
    The kooks at EarthHour.org are going to try again to get the world to turn out their lights later this month. What's a skeptic to do? I think you know...
  • Contribute to our Reader Submitted News
    If you haven't noticed, we have a new area in the column on the right, called "Reader Submitted News." Here, a reader with a registered account at climategate.com, can enter any skeptic-related news from other sites that they would like to share.

Opinio Juris

  • 28 U.S. Congressman Sponsor Bill to Repeal NAFTA: ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I doubt it has a chance of passing, but it would be interesting to see how many votes this bill will get: A small group of U.S. lawmakers unveiled legislation on Thursday to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement in the latest sign of congressional disill ...
  • Square Pegs and Round Holes: Individuals and the F ...
    by Chimene Keitner As Opinio Juris readers know, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on Wednesday in the case of Samantar v. Yousuf (briefs and transcript available here ), which asks the Court to interpret the 1976 Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. Commentators, including OJ’s own Julian Ku , ...
  • The Wrong Move
    by Deborah Pearlstein by Deborah Pearlstein Cross-posted at Balkinization This morning’s papers bring news from anonymous administration officials that “President Obama’s advisers are nearing a recommendation that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, at ...
  • KSM Heading Back to a Military Commission?
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Wow! It’s not a done deal, but it sure looks like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is going back to a trial before a U.S. military commission, the Washington Post reports. President Obama’s advisers are nearing a recommendation that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed maste ...
  • Britain to Limit Arrest Warrants Under Its Univers ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced (h/t Jurist) proposals to circumscribe the applicability of Britain’s universal jurisdiction law.  The modification will likely cut back on the ability of private citizens to seek arrest warrants, by requiring a determination by ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • Blog stats
    Sciblogs is reporting 170,000 pageviews since it began last September which it says is enough to catapult it into the number 4 position on NZ's blog stats. The first post I could find in their September archive was Sept 20,...
  • 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...

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

  • Moshe Dayan's widow: Zionism's role is over
    I'm at that age where I don't even talk about peace anymore. We don't know how to make peace. We go from war to war and this will never end. Submitted by Zahra Pilavdzic to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Why Growing Numbers of Baby Boomers and the Elde ...
    Americans, as a whole, are trending toward marijuana legalization. By mid-last year, a few polls showed that the taxing and regulating of cannabis had support from a majority of Americans for the first time ever. The majorities are slim, but they're--> Submitted by Kit B. to Health & Wellness �|� � ...
  • Are we in an era of politics or biopolitics?
    Media is being used to materialise threats that are non existent: a killer swine flu virus; global warming due to human carbon emissions; terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center….These are just some of the dangers flitting across television screens Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-i ...
  • The climate movement is dead: Long live the climat ...
    “A particular model of dealing with climate change is dying. It is revealing itself before the world as nothing more than a final scramble for the remaining resources of a planet in peril.” –Naomi Klein Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Try To Stay Clear Of Craig's List Scams
    Try to stay clear of craig's list scams. Submitted by Janine Boguslawski to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Peasant Leaders to Aquino Sisters: Insulting Farme ...
    .bulatlat.com: MANILA — The Aquino sisters — Maria Elena “Ballsy” Aquino-Cruz, Aurora Corazon “Pinky” Aquino-Abellada and Victoria Eliza “Viel” Aquino-Dee — were on the front page of the Philippine... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Respected Danish journalist admits 'I was a Mossad ...
    Haaretz - Israel News: "There have always been journalists who 'crossed the lines' and switched to being spokespersons, advisers or investigators of bodies that were previously the object of their... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Black is Back marches on Miami in defense of Haiti
    Black is Back marches on Miami in defense of Haiti: "Miami, FL — On Saturday, February 20 over 100 members of the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace, and Reparations (BIBC) and... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Africa Aims to Regulate 'Mercenary' Industry
    CommonDreams.org: "ADDIS ABABA - Twenty-five African states agreed Friday to step up efforts to regulate mercenary activity on the continent amid an explosion of private security companies on the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • "It's Safe to Assume We Execute Innocent People"
    "It's Safe to Assume We Execute Innocent People" | CommonDreams.org: "A judge in Texas, which has long led the country in executions, has ruled that the death penalty is unconstitutional. The ruling... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Hierloom Organics Seeds of Action Community Suppor ...
    The Heirloom Organics Seeds of Action! program provides seeds and assistance, free of cost, to non-profit groups and organizations throughout North America, who are using seeds for community service projects.
  • 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 ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • UK involved in my torture, says suspect
    Man claiming ill-treatment in Egypt says Britain 'turned a blind eye' to his rendition Britain may have colluded with America in the rendition of terror suspects that involved "torture flights" from UK territory, judges were told yesterday. The claim was made by Mohammed Saad Iqbal Madni, 28, a ...
  • 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. In a Wednesday interview with Fars news agency, Gol said Washington had been making efforts to destabilize the region through support ...
  • Gunmen kill 7 Pakistanis in Afghanistan
    Unknown armed men [Blackwater?] have killed seven Pakistani workers and wounded another in Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar, according to police. A police official told Press TV that the attack occurred early Thursday. Two gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on a group of Pakistani constr ...
  • Five killed as election begins in Iraq
    Five people have been killed and another 10 wounded in a blast near a polling station in the Iraqi capital hours after the country kicked off its long-awaited legislative vote. "Five people were killed and 10 others wounded by a Katyusha rocket which landed on a residential building" in Hurriya ...
  • Marine's death came at hands of U.S.-paid security ...
    By Chuck Goudie Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Birchfield, 24, left, was killed while on patrol in Afghanistan on Feb. 19. ...[T]he Marine said that Josh Birchfield died for two reasons. "A mix of drugs and gray areas of loyalty between U.S. forces and Taliban seems to be the motivation behind the sh ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • Putting Arctic methane study in context
    The Dad's Army chicken little types over at Hot Topic are scaring themselves sillier again this weekend about submarine methane release in the Arctic. The latest estimate of methane release from the shallow seas off the north coast of Russia...
  • Blog stats
    Sciblogs is reporting 170,000 pageviews since it began last September which it says is enough to catapult it into the number 4 position on NZ's blog stats. The first post I could find in their September archive was Sept 20,...
  • 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...

Mondoweiss

  • Dubai-Mossad t-shirts now available
    here from Israeli company that markets Israel promotion products. Thanks to Shmuel. � Related posts:Racist and sexist Israeli military shirts show the mindset that led to war crimes in GazaWill Dubai get Gaza to the ICC?WSJ: Israels underestimated Dubai police Related posts: Racist and sexist ...
  • Tail wags the Turkey
    MJ Rosenberg on the Armenian genocide-Turkey flap in House Foreign Affairs: That battle is now being carried to Washington. The Israelis are trying to teach the Turks a lesson. If the Armenian resolution passes both houses and goes into effect, it will not be out of some newfound compassion for t ...
  • Ivy League mag publishes dual-loyal dithyramb to I ...
    My cup runneth over. The University of Pennsylvania alumni magazine publishes a memoir by Joel Chasnoff, who graduated from the school 14 years ago and thanks to an ethnocentric family background that caused him to think, "It wasn’t fair that we American Jews called Israel our homeland but left Isra ...
  • ‘JVP’ takes on the ‘epic battle& ...
    The other night I went to a fundraiser for Jewish Voice for Peace that left me so charged that when I walked out of the apartment and on to a downtown New York street I heard myself singing an old Woody Guthrie tune. What was the song– and why did it pop into my head? The [...] Related posts: Rac ...
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Colorado Senate passes increase to renewable energy standard
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DENVER — The state Senate approved legislation Friday that would increase the state's renewable energy standard to 30 percent. House Bill 1001, sponsored by ...
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Budget takes the wind out of clean energy sails
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DOE Disputes Senators' Claims of Stimulus Grants Flowing Overseas
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By KATHERINE LING of Greenwire The Energy Department official overseeing DOE stimulus spending said today that suspending renewable energy grants as urged ...
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US Ecology, Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2009 Results
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Focusing science on solar cells
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By Patrick Maynard | pmaynard@baltimoresun.com Public employees were working Saturday morning to locate and fix a broken water main. The problem affects the ...
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Atlanta case raises questions about water supply
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Atlanta had plenty of water, he wrote Congress. Thanks, but no thanks. Those words came back to haunt Atlanta last year. A federal judge ruled that the city ...
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The Clean Water Act and the economics of ambiguity
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