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Thomas Paine

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • MEXICO: Scientists Reinvent the Corn Tortilla
    MEXICO CITY, Mar 7 (Tierramérica) - The process of making corn tortillas - the filling, age-old traditional food throughout much of Mexico and Central America - pollutes huge volumes of water and consumes a great deal of energy.
  • IRAQ: Secular Candidates Have Their Best Chance
    WASHINGTON, Mar 6 (IPS) - As Iraqis go to the polls on Sunday, a key question in the minds of many in Iraq and Washington is whether secular candidates can continue their recent rise and possibly come out as winners.
  • MALAWI: Climate Change Is Changing Farming Method ...
    LILONGWE, Mar 5 (IPS) - As they slept soundly on the night of Feb. 28, a family of four was killed when their house collapsed over their heads in Malawi’s southern district of Chikhwawa.
  • BIODIVERSITY: CITES Faces Political Storm over Tu ...
    WASHINGTON, Mar 6 (IPS) - The vast majority of the species protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITES, live on land, but as marine species come under increasing pressure from unsustainable fishing and a range of climate change-r ...
  • 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 ...

Scoop - NZ

  • The Tyranny of Positive Thinking
    Could it be that "thinking positively" is contributing to our blindness and inaction around energy issues, environmental degradation and economic devastation? I've hammered this point home in a number of posts, the most widely read being "Do You Have a Panglossian Disorder?." Now, a trenchant social ...
  • 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 ...

Independent ( London )

  • Kidnapped boy to be rescued 'within 48 hours'
    The Pakistani government has reassured five-year-old Sahil Saeed’s father that his son will be returned to him “within 48 hours” as the police were said to be closing in on the kidnappers.
  • At least fifty killed in Taliban clashes
    At least 50 people died in gunbattles between the Taliban and another Islamist faction in north-eastern Afghanistan today.
  • China says only socialism can "save" Tibet
    The new Chinese-appointed governor of Tibet said today that only socialism can "save" the remote region and guarantee its development, and lampooned the Dalai Lama's indecision on his succession.
  • Explosions kill at least 24 as Iraqis go to polls
    Explosions killed at least 24 people as Iraqis voted today in an election that Sunni Islamist militants have vowed to disrupt, in one of many challenges to efforts to stabilise Iraq before US troops leave.
  • Starbucks sticks to its guns
    When most Americans step into a Starbucks, they do not expect a Wild West experience – frothing cups sent skidding down the counter, horses tied up on the street or pistols slung in the holsters of fellow latte-sipping patrons. But when it comes to gun barrels and biscotti, it turns out they would b ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Is the Obama Administration supporting violent "Re ...
    Summary: rajavi rigi Last year, the Obama Administration reviewed whether Jundallah should be designated a foreign terrorist organization, but decided not to do so. Why was that? And, even though the Muhahedin-e Khalq (MEK) retains its designation as a foreign terrorist organization, the Obama ...
  • U.S. criticized on Iran sanctions
    Summary: China is opposed to US sactions against Iran and would not go ahead with the vote, thus emboldeing Turkey, Brazil and Lebanon. US is thinking on a strategy to exempt China but this move will annoy other US allies who have been divesting from Iran in the previous years- to see Chinese fi ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

The Daily Galaxy

Natural News

  • 90 Percent of African American Children Deficient ...
    (NaturalNews) As many as 90 percent of all black children may be deficient in vitamin D, according to a new analysis conducted by researchers from Harvard Medical School, the University of Colorado-Denver and Massachusetts General Hospital, and published in the journal Pediatrics .The American Acade ...
  • Tooth Soap founder Karen Adler speaks out about cr ...
    (NaturalNews) In a video interview now posted on YouTube, Tooth Soap founder Karen Adler speaks out about how she found the courage and creativity to create the Tooth Soap product line and grow her business to the internationally-recognized success it has become today. In the video (http://www.youtu ...
  • New drug-resistant bacteria emerging in hospitals
    (NaturalNews) Researchers from the "Extending the Cure" project in Washington, D.C., have published a report in the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology about a new drug-resistant bug that is plaguing many hospitals. Called Acinetobacter , this new "superbug" is causing severe bloodst ...
  • Majority of Obese People Fail to Recognize Their O ...
    (NaturalNews) Nearly three-quarters of obese adults do not consider themselves obese, according to a poll carried out by YouGov for Slimming World. "In my view there is a very clear tendency for individuals with obesity to feel that they do not stand out from the crowd," says Jonathan Pinkney, of th ...
  • We Must No Longer Ignore the Cruelty of Our Eating ...
    (NaturalNews) The more forcefully we ignore something, the more power it has over us and the more strongly it influences us. Taking a clear look at the foods produced by modern methods and what we have been conditioned to accept, we find misery, cruelty and exploitation. Therefore, we avoid looking ...

    The Galloping Beaver

  • Aircraft maintenance
    UPS has a fleet of aircraft, and they require maintenance. Here's an oldie but goodie: UPS Air Cargo TROUBLE SHEET UPS requires a college degree to fly a plane, but only a high school diploma to fix one. After every flight, UPS pilots fill out a form called a 'gripe sheet', which tells mechanics a ...
  • My Canada does not include war criminals
    In light of this, I think that it is undeniable that there must be a fully public, non-partisan inquest, preferrably by a provincial coroner or similar authority that is more than arm's length away from the federal government. From the CBC: Federal government documents on Afghan detainees suggest ...
  • "No Fly List" her.
    That's the solution to the right-wing concealer of a druggie . Tell her to take a fucking walk.... because she's a goddamned security risk to everyone else on a plane. Remember, these pukes are telling you the reason for the pat-downs, the swabs of your laptop, the unreasonable search of documents ...
  • MoS gives Frank Iacobucci a map to the minefield
    You have to read this .
  • The blazing fury of a reseated parliament...
    Given the extended and expensive time given to the Harper Party to "recalibrate" themselves you might have expected every moment spent in Parliament to simply drip with drama. Private members' bills might have a tough time surviving given the need to reintroduce a huge amount of the Harper agenda k ...

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

  • Terror Trials and the Loss of Faith in American St ...
    By all reports, the Obama administration is losing its will to resist the political pressure to shift the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed from the civilian courts to a military commission. Before giving my commentary, let me echo the good advocates at Human Rights First , who tell us not to give up ...
  • How the Tea Party is Not Like the New Left
    The glib Mr. Brooks, unable to see depredations on the right unless false equivalency alerts go off to put him in mind of depredations on the left, struck again. My response in today's NYT: To the Editor: Re "The Wal-Mart Hippies" (column, March 5): Superficially, David Brooks has a point ...
  • 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 ...

TruthOut

  • UN Envoy Says Afghan Strategy Is "Too Military-Dri ...
    Kabul, Afghanistan - Hours before boarding a flight out of Kabul, Norwegian diplomat Kai Eide delivered a final warning Saturday as he wrapped up his two-year tenure as the top United Nations diplomat in Afghanistan. "This year can become a year when negative trends are reversed, but it will requir ...
  • US Criticised over Soaring Housing Costs
    United Nations - 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. The United States rarely finds itself brought before HRC, and issues of U.S. domestic policy seldom make their way into official U.N. ...
  • Education Day of Action Rippled Through California ...
    Walkouts, student strikes, and marches shook every level of California's embattled public education system on March 4. University of California students blocked access to campus entrances at Berkeley and Santa Cruz in the morning. In the afternoon, college students joined forces with K-12 students a ...
  • Kucinich Forces Congress to Debate Afghanistan
    On Thursday, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) introduced� H. Com Res. 248 , a privileged resolution with 16 original cosponsors that will require the House of Representatives to debate whether to continue the war in Afghanistan. Debate on the resolution is expected early next week.� read more
  • Life in the Gazan "Buffer Zone"
    When I wrote last, I was still in Cairo, beginning to lose hope. However, shortly after, a friend at the UN Relief & Works Agency (UNRWA) was miraculously able to get me into Gaza through Israel's Erez Crossing. In a shockingly quick two days, I was in! Among my first activities was this protest.... ...

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

  • Britain's 'big cat X files' revealed
    The head of the government agency responsible for investigating big cat sightings has said he believes they do exist. A dossier listing more than 100 ...
  • "Snowball Earth" theory confirmed
    A new find showing that the equator was once covered in ice is being hailed as proof of a snowball Earth. The theory is based on the idea that Earth w...
  • Tabloid "ghost boy" made using iPhone
    A photograph published in the tabloids of a ghost boy at the ruins of a school has turned out to be a fake. The photograph that was taken by a builder...
  • It's official: an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs
    A global team of scientists have announced that an asteroid impact is the only plausible cause for the dinosaurs' extinction. Its been a subject of ho...
  • Could Phobos be hollow ?
    Scientists have long believed that the Martian moon Phobos could be porous and filled with vast caverns. In an effort to shed new light on the nature ...

Grassroots

Climate

  • March 7, 2010
    Arctic Melt to Cost Up to $24 Trillion by 2050 (Reuters) Arctic ice melting could cost global agriculture, real estate and insurance anywhere from $2.4 trillion to $24 trillion by 2050 in damage from rising sea levels, floods and heat waves, according to a new report. Climate Change Ske ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • To Hell In A Handbasket
    I live in New York. To say that the politics of my state are dysfunctional would be like saying that Adolph Hitler could sometimes be not such a nice fellow. It's all true, of course. It just doesn't do just justice to the scope of the crimes committed. We have a governor (as of this writing, any ...
  • GOP Lawmaker Demands Recall of Car That Drove Him ...
    SACRAMENTO (The Borowitz Report) - Anti-gay California State Sen. Roy Ashburn today demanded a sweeping recall of the vehicle that drove him to a gay nightclub this week. Sen. Ashburn, a Republican who has consistently voted for anti-gay legislation, said that the car drove him to the club "against ...
  • Campaign 2010: Deja Vu All Over Again
    Comparisons are odious, the old saying goes, and certainly Democrats are dealing with some smelly, stinky realities as they stare down the next eight months until Election Day 2010 and pundits galore compare the party's prospects to debacles of the past. For a long time parallels were being made wit ...
  • Togetherness is a Balancing Act
    Why do people gather themselves into communities, states, nations? Of course there are many reasons, but there are primary - one could say "primitive" motivators: 1) There's safety in numbers. A group can defend it's individuals better than individuals can defend themselves. And it's not just becaus ...
  • 'Hope-America-Fails Republicans' terrified of posi ...
    Friday's unemployment numbers were nothing to write to mom about, but they will create fear in the hearts of Republicans who hope America fails because they desperately want President Obama to fail. The mediocre jobs numbers today suggest the probability of a strong jobs number next month, with wint ...

Ten Percent

  • Free Shaker Aamer
    Shaker Aamer is basically a hostage because he is a witness to events behind the murder of three other detainees, he is being held in order to protect murderers in the US detention forces and because he also has been tortured which both the US & UK govts want to cover up. A hostage held [...]
  • 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 ...

Booman Tribune

  • Is Howard Ford Stupid...
    ...or evil? He appeared on Meet the Press this morning and displayed an astonishing lack of understanding of the political landscape. Hopefully, you all are familiar with the basic lay of the land. Because there are NO Republican votes available in the Senate, the only way to pass the health care ...
  • Sarah Palin, I Knew Ronald Reagan
    While Friedrich Nietzsche was often critical of Judaism, he was also a virulent opponent of the rising anti-Semitic political movement in Germany. For example, he wrote the following in a letter to his sister because he objected to her relationship with Bernhard Förster, whom she later married: ...
  • Casual Observation
    It's not a good sign that the Iraqi people are dodging mortars and car bombs as they make their way to the polls. This election is very important, both for the Iraqis and for the United States. If we want to get our troops out of there on schedule, we need these elections to go smoothly and for a g ...
  • Axelrod Needs a Break
    I like David Axelrod, but it's ridiculous that he allowed this piece to land on the front-page of the New York Times. I mean, he actually sat for an interview for the article, and I don't see how the article is helpful to the administration in any way. Axelrod is in charge of the administration’s ...
  • froggy Bottom Cafe

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Personal Information: episode 3
    Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 3 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 ...
  • 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 ...

Therapy News

  • Happiness May Not be in Possessions, but in Purcha ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary The old adage that money cannot buy happiness has played an important role in the lives of many, and there are doubtless scores of people who have independently confirmed the idea in their own lives. Money may, however, be able to purchase certain experiences that can ...
  • Study Finds Children of Both Genders Able to Ident ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Though young boys and girls may display negative thoughts and feelings in distinct ways, a recent study conducted at Griffith University has found that children are good at identifying “mean” behaviors regardless of their gender. The study was produced with the help o ...
  • 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 ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Power struggle - Chapel Hill News
    Power struggle Chapel Hill News According to several sources, Red River Mine, one of UNC's largest coal suppliers, engages in mountain top removal . The university's coal contracts come up ...
  • EPA delays action on mountaintop removal plan - Ch ...
    EPA delays action on mountaintop removal plan Charleston Gazette Photos from NASA's Landsat 5 satellite show the growing Hobet 21 mountaintop removal mine along the Boone-Lincoln County border south of Charleston. ...
  • 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 ...

Memeorandum

  • The Up-or-Down Vote on Obama's Presidency (Frank R ...
    Frank Rich / New York Times : The Up-or-Down Vote on Obama's Presidency   —  WEDNESDAY'S health care rally was one of President Obama's finest hours.  It was so fine it couldn't be blighted even by his preposterous backdrop, a cohort of white-jacketed medical workers large enough to staff a hospit ...
  • Consent of the governed - and the lack thereof (Gl ...
    Glenn Harlan Reynolds / Washington Examiner : Consent of the governed - and the lack thereof   —  Our Declaration of Independence observes:  —  “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that amon ...
  • Explosions Hit Baghdad as Iraqis Vote in Pivotal E ...
    Steven Lee Myers / New York Times : Explosions Hit Baghdad as Iraqis Vote in Pivotal Election   —  BAGHDAD — A concerted wave of attacks struck Baghdad and other cities across the country on Sunday as Iraqis voted to elect a new parliament and possibly a new prime minister.  Explosions reverberate ...
  • Mom, Apple Pie and Mortgages (Robert J. Shiller/Ne ...
    Robert J. Shiller / New York Times : Mom, Apple Pie and Mortgages   —  FOR decades, the federal government has subsidized housing — particularly owner-occupied housing.  This has been especially true during the continuing financial crisis, with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Housing Admin ...
  • Iraq poll hit by deadly attacks (BBC)
    BBC : Iraq poll hit by deadly attacks   —  Iraq's second parliamentary election since the 2003 invasion has been hit by multiple attacks, with at least 35 people being killed.  —  Two buildings were destroyed in the capital and dozens of mortars were fired across Baghdad and elsewhere.

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.8, Bio-Bio, Chile
    Sunday, March 7, 2010 15:59:44 UTC Sunday, March 7, 2010 12:59:44 PM at epicenter Depth : 27.40 km (17.03 mi)
  • 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)
  • M 5.4, Vanuatu
    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)
  • M 5.0, offshore Libertador O'Higgins, Chile
    Saturday, March 6, 2010 03:09:31 UTC Saturday, March 6, 2010 12:09:31 AM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
  • M 5.1, offshore Bio-Bio, Chile
    Saturday, March 6, 2010 01:23:22 UTC Friday, March 5, 2010 10:23:22 PM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 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 ...

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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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  • End-of-Life Warning at $618,616 Makes Me Wonder Wa ...
    End-of-Life Warning at $618,616 Makes Me Wonder Was It Worth It By Amanda Bennett | Bloomberg Excerpt: Along with my colleague Charles Babcock, I spent months poring over some 4,750 pages of documents collected from six hospitals, four insurers, Medicare, three oncologists, and a surgeon. Those pa ...
  • Why 10,000 Ugandans Are Eagerly Serving In Iraq
    Why 10,000 Ugandans are eagerly serving in Iraq Thousands of men and women from poverty-stricken Uganda risk their lives for $600 a month in Iraq. By Max Delany | CSM ...hiring Ugandans is cheap. Since the first Ugandans were sent to Iraq in late 2005, competition from other developing countries i ...
  • FBI Paid Racist Shock Jock Hal Turner ‘In Excess o ...
    FBI paid racist shock jock Hal Turner ‘in excess of $100,000′ By Stephen C. Webster | Raw Story Turning informant on your fans can be lucrative, if you're a shock jock by the name of Hal Turner. Amid a trial where Turner faces criminal charges for making threats of violence against public servants, ...
  • Undeterred Iraqis Vote Despite Attacks; 38 Iraqis ...
    Undeterred Iraqis Vote Despite Attacks At Least 38 Killed and Dozens Wounded as Iraq Votes in Parliamentary Elections By Miguel Marquez | ABC News By days end, at least 38 people were killed, four of them children, and 73 injured in a series of attacks that got under way throughout the count ...
  • What States Need from Congress to Make State Singl ...
    From PNHP: We, the single payer movement, are very concerned that the current legislative language in the Senate bill prohibits states from passing state-based reform such as single payer until at least 2017. Several states are poised to pass single payer this year and next year. This will be an imp ...

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

  • The Oscars: 15 Ways To Watch LIVE For Free
    Moviematics- By Alan Smith  March 4, 2010 The mother of all film awards is here – 82nd Annual Academy awards, popularly known as Oscar awards (or Oscars) are the awards presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industr ...
  • Liz Cheney’s Fear Mongering And The Backlash ...
    Countdown: Conservatives Outraged With Liz Cheney’s Fear Mongering Crooks and Liars- By Heather Saturday Mar 06, 2010 8:00am Lawrence O’Donnell talks to Mother Jones’ David Corn about why some conservatives, including a former member of the Bush administration official are none too happy with Liz C ...
  • Michael Moore: Senator Ben Nelson Wears Sooner Pan ...
    Just to give you an idea of the new style I’ll be bringing with me, when a cornhole like Sen. Ben Nelson tries to hold you up next time, this is what I will tell him in order to get his vote: “You’ve got exactly 30 seconds to rescind your demand or I will personally [...]
  • Mercenaries Circling Haiti
    By Bill Quigley, ZNet, Wednesday, March 03, 2010 On March 9 and 10, there will be a Haiti conference in Miami for private military and security companies to showcase their services to governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in the earthquake devastated country. On their ...
  • 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 ...

Solari

  • “Democracy is Coming to the US”
    Continue reading Leonard Cohen Live In London YouTube (21 July 09) It’s coming through a hole in the air, from those nights in Tian’anmen Square. It’s coming from the feel that this ain’t exactly real, or it’s real, but it ain’t exactly there. From the wars against disorder, from the sirens night ...
  • Corporate Crime Data
    By Gary Null So, here is the raw data. The next time you see the head of one of these private corporations appearing as an objective independent expert on CNBC, CNN or FOX, return to this list and see how many times his/her company has been found guilty of [...]
  • The Relationship Betweenthe US Dollar And Gold Sin ...
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  • How Facebook Was Founded
    By Nicholas Carlson The origins of Facebook have been in dispute since the very week a 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg launched the site as a Harvard sophomore on February 4, 2004.  Then called “thefacebook.com,” the site was an instant hit.  Now, six years later, the site has become one of the bigge ...
  • “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 ...

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 . ...

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Sideways News

  • Worn to be wild
    Kate Plumtree is a dress designer and textile artist whose most recent touring exhibition, Worn to be Wild, is currently showing at London's artsdepot. Each creation has been inspired by a British bird or mammal as well as a specific period of fashion. Sideways News gives you a preview.
  • Thanks, Vancouver
    Urban development has been a key factor of London’s Olympic bid since it was thought up. While some were taken aback by the choice of Stratford as location for the forthcoming Games, the London bid emphasised the long-term benefits of the area’s regeneration, alongside the immediate factors such as ...
  • 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 ...

Fabius Maximus

  • Graph of the decade, a hidden fracture in the Amer ...
    From “Where has all the income gone? Look up“, Lawrence Mishel, Economic Policy Institute, 3 March 2010: For more information about growing inequality of income and wealth in America ”Poverty Rose, Median Income Declined, and Job-Based Health Insurance Continued to Weaken in 2008“, Arloc Sher ...
  • It’s not too soon to begin planning for the ...
    “How to Fight a Better War (Next Time) – Three Fixes for the American Way of War“ By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch, 2 March 2010 — Reprinted with permission. Iraq remains a mess from which the U.S. military seems increasingly uninterested in withdrawing fully and Afghanistan a disaster area, but it’ ...
  • “Welcome to 2025 – American Preeminenc ...
    Summary:  Today’s feature is a counterpoint to our imperial cheerleaders, such as Niall Ferguson and the neocons.  At the end are links to six military and intelligence agencies visions of the future, plus other relevant articles. Introduction by Tom Engelhardt:  The Great Superpower Meltdown T ...
  • FM newswire for March 7, gepolitical articles of i ...
    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. We’re on the same path, so I suggest paying attention:  “Japan’s Slow-Motion Crisis“, Kenneth Rogoff, 2 March 2010 Advice from someone worth listening ...
  • 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 ...

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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

  • General Voting Begins in Iraq
    Iraq’s 2010 parliamentary elections officially opened on March 4 , when special balloting took place. 459 voting centers were opened, with 1,742 polling stations. 850,000 Iraqis were eligible to cast their ballots including in 16 foreign countries , such as Syria, Jordan, Sweden, the United States, ...
  • GOP Senators to Obama: No Syria Ambassador
    Another voice in Washington -- actually, another eight voices -- urging President Obama not to appoint an ambassador to Syria. This time it's a group of Republican senators, who sent a letter yesterday to secretary of state Hillary Clinton that basically dubbed the nomination a concession to Bash ...
  • Agathe Habyarimana, France, and the Rwandan "Genoc ...
    Early this year, an improvement in French-Rwandan relations led to the French government finally beginning to take note that many of the most serious war criminals in the 1994 Rwandan genocide were living in France without having been tried or punished for their crimes. The French government's prev ...
  • Good News from Africa
    The research I’ve seen indicates that one of the biggest impediments to making people want to do more to help resolve problems associated with extreme poverty in the third world is a sense of futility. People believe that Africa is just hopelessly mired in poverty, and any effort to help would prove ...
  • Election Boycott in Iraq
    Contentious elections usually make us nervous. To be sure, elections aren’t the nicest of affairs. At best, elections are competitions where the accompanying rhetoric can, and often does, take a nasty turn. But when elections bring violence, accusations of fraud, and protests (threatened or real)— ...

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

  • “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”: A Day ...
    On Friday, there was another successful screening of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” the new documentary film, co-directed by Polly Nash and myself, which was chosen as the closing film in Oxford Brookes University’s 8th Human Rights Film Festival (also see here). The screening was part ...
  • Send a letter to David Miliband calling for the re ...
    Throughout 2010, former Guantánamo prisoner Omar Deghayes and I are touring the UK, showing the new documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (directed by Polly Nash and myself). The film focuses on the stories of three British residents — Shaker Aamer, Binyam Mohamed and Om ...
  • New Photo Book on the 1994 Solsbury Hill Road Prot ...
    On Friday, prior to a screening at Oxford Brookes University of the new documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (directed by Polly Nash and myself), Polly and I met up with my old friend, the photographer Adrian Arbib, at the Art Jericho gallery, where his exhibition “Homeland” ...
  • Andy Worthington on Crooks and Liars, and Talking ...
    Over on Crooks and Liars, Nicole Belle located a recent interview I did with George Galloway on his TalkSPORT radio show, which I hadn’t realized was online. The nine-minute interview, recorded in a slightly Alan Partridgesque manner while I was sitting in the breakfast room of a Premier Inn in York ...
  • 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 ...

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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 ...

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  • Local Clubs the Answer for Racist Group’s Conferen ...
    Fresh off American Renaissance’s embarrassing debacle last week in which it was forced to cancel its biannual confab of academic racists and other extremists, one of the white nationalist group’s members has proposed a solution that can circumvent nervous hoteliers in the future. Chicago lawyer and ...
  • Extremist Groups Surge in 2009
    Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released its annual “Year in Hate and Extremism” report . Broad-based populist anger at political, demographic and economic changes in America ignited an explosion of new extremist groups and activism across the nation. The SPLC documented a 244 per ...
  • Austin Killer Becoming a Hero to the Radical Right
    In the hours since a man enraged at the government slammed his small plane into an Austin, Tex., IRS building, white supremacists and their fellow travelers have elevated Joseph Andrew Stack into an icon of resistance to tyranny. “The Guy is a true HERO!!!” wrote “northroad” on Stormfront.org, the l ...
  • Nativists Stewing Over Refuge for Haitians
    Some nativists are riled up about the Obama administration’s recent decision to give temporary refuge to undocumented Haitian immigrants. Their anger comes after Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced on Jan. 15 that Haitians who were in the United States on the day of the earthquake ...
  • Neo-Nazi Stage Mom Seeks a New Line of Work
    It’s been a while since April Gaede’s teenage daughters appeared as the racist pop-singing duo Prussian Blue , but the former neo-Nazi stage mom is planning to keep busy with a new vocation: white-power matchmaker. Eager to see white folks reproduce, Gaede is touting her services on Stormfront.org, ...

change: org.

  • Should We Be Wary of Counterprotesting Fred Phelps ...
    On March 3, 2010, Washington, D.C. began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.  Predictably enough, the notoriously anti-gay, anti-Semitic Topeka-based Westboro Baptist Church sent a handful of protestors to denounce the decision, carrying signs emblazoned with such typically tasteful slog ...
  • Should We Be Wary of Counterprotesting Fred Phelps ...
    On March 3, 2010, Washington, D.C. began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.  Predictably enough, the notoriously anti-gay, anti-Semitic Topeka-based Westboro Baptist Church sent a handful of protestors to denounce the decision, carrying signs emblazoned with such typically tasteful slog ...
  • White House Demands Explanation on Rate Hikes
    So what do they have to say for themselves? Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius hauled top health insurance company executives to the White House Thursday to demand an explanation for the recent spate of premium increases - as high as 39 percent - that have hit customers in six sta ...
  • I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
    I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced : the title of the book says it all. The book is the autobiography of Nujood Ali, a Yemeni third grader, divorcee, international human rights activist, and winner of Glamour Magazine's Woman of the Year award. That's a pretty impressive resume for someone who is stil ...
  • 5 Ideas for Social Venture Angel Groups
    Earlier this week in an email exchange, a social venture entrepreneur asked what tips and ideas he should share with a well-known forum of angel investors later this week. I thought it was a good starting point for a larger conversation about angel investment groups and their potential to grow the p ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Global Climate Battle Plays Out in World Bank
    by Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON - The United States and Britain are threatening to withhold support for a $3.75 billion World Bank loan for a coal-fired plant in South Africa, expanding the battleground in the global debate over who should pay for clean energy. The opposition by the bank's two large ...
  • How Food and Water Are Driving a 21st-Century Afri ...
    by John Vidal We turned off the main road to Awassa, talked our way past security guards and drove a mile across empty land before we found what will soon be Ethiopia's largest greenhouse. Nestling below an escarpment of the Rift Valley, the development is far from finished, but the plastic and stee ...
  • Left Gears Up to Fight Media Wars
    by Michael Calderone From a glitzy new office in downtown Washington, the ideological war over the media is fully engaged. Six years after its founding to counter what it said was "conservative misinformation," Media Matters for America employs a staff of 70 that spends 19 hours a day monitoring new ...
  • Revealed: The Shocking Truth About Tasers
    by Jason Benetto The smartly dressed sales executive travelling on the number 96 bus across Leeds didn't notice his body descending into a state of severe hypoglycaemia. He didn't have time to ask his fellow passengers for help, or press the bell. Instead he slumped back in his seat in a diabetic co ...
  • Water-Poor Australia Gets Pushed on Sewage-to-Tap ...
    by Peter Ker Australian governments should immediately begin integrating recycled sewage into their drinking water plans, despite the severe water shortages of recent years easing in most capital cities. Speaking today at Australia's biggest annual water summit, one of the nation's top water officia ...

Lifehacker

  • Put Together a Last-Minute Oscars Pool with This G ...
    Got plans to watch tonight's Academy Awards with friends but haven't had time to make things more interesting with an Oscars pool? The Official Google Docs Blog's got you covered with a snazzy Pick the Winners template . [ Google Docs Blog ]
  • Five Best VPN Tools [Hive Five]
    VPN software lets you join private networks as though you're sitting at a local computer on that network, giving you access to shared folders and tons more handy stuff. Here's a look at five of the most popular VPN tools. Photo by Noah Sussman . VPN software brings the security of a private network ...
  • DIY Backyard Gourd Lanterns [DIY]
    Looking for a cool, creative way to light up your backyard? Video demonstration guru KipKay details how to make backyard lanterns from hard-shell gourds. It's all pretty simple and explained really well in the video above. All you need are the gourds, a lighting source (not candles), a drill, and s ...
  • This Week's Top Downloads [Download Roundup]
    Top 10 Android Apps (Android) Android's been around for more than a year, and in that time developers have whipped up some great apps. Whether you're a new Android owner or a pro looking for new tools, these 10 great and free apps belong in your arsenal. Disk Space Fan Analyzes Hard Drive Space with ...
  • Build a Portable Flash Tripod Out of Tent Poles [P ...
    If you'd like to experiment with studio flash configurations but you're short on the space or money to buy heavy-duty flash stands, this video tutorial details how to make portable flash stands using lightweight tent poles. The design relies on sturdy but lightweight tent poles to provide support fo ...

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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CS Monitor - News

  • podcast091204
    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

  • McConnell Warns Wavering Dems: ‘Reconciliati ...
    This morning, during an appearance on ABC’s This Week, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) warned House Democrats that they will be held accountable for voting for the “special deals” in the Senate bill even if they eliminate those provisions in reconciliation. “Every election this fall will be a referendum ...
  • Romney Praises Massachusetts Health Reforms As &#8 ...
    Mitt Romney continued to praise Massachusetts’ health care reforms this Sunday, telling Fox News Sundays’ Chris Wallace, “I think our plan is working well. And perhaps the best thing I can say about it, it’s saving lives. It is the ultimate pro-life effort,” Romney said, “people who otherwise could ...
  • 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 ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • The Whole Stupid Little "Dosting" Thing
    Maybe harper was trying to pretend he was sensitive to women's rights. And/But/Or Maybe harper was trying to pretend that he was responsive to public opinion. And/But/Or Maybe harper now gets to say that Canadians don't go in for "political correctness." And/But/Or harper didn't tell his cabin ...
  • More Random Thoughts on Violence
    Continuing from yesterday's post , I shall offer yet more of my disconnected thoughts on the issue of violent protest! My first commentator on that post was a banned right-wing blogger who no doubt googled some random quote about non-violence and cut and pasted it here. My response to the dip-shit ...
  • Defeat Them and Get It Over With
    So, during his holiday, stephen harper thought up the brilliant idea to turn the issue of the Afghan detainee documents over to retired judge Frank Iacobucci ? What drivel! Do we have responsible government or not? Is this a democracy or isn't it? Do we believe that there should be oversight in ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Happy Town to premier in April
    A series filmed at Toronto's Pinewood Studios is on the spring schedule for ABC. Happy Town will premiere on April 28 at 10 pm.
  • After the gold rush..., faces and actions.
    After the winning the final ice hockey game in the 21 Winter Olympic Games, the main streets of Vancouver got flooded with people celebrating this event. The crowd and happy faces were visible everywhere until the ceremony of closing the Games.
  • An early sign of spring hits the Greater Toronto A ...
    In the first weekend of March, the city of Toronto experienced a lovely spring day near the end of winter, which prompted Torontonians to go outside and enjoy the sun and near double-digit degree weather.
  • Lap Dancing Teachers Probably Won't Be Fired
    When a video showing Churchill High School teachers performing a lewd lap dance at a student pep rally went viral the Winnipeg School District (WSD) threatened to have them fired.
  • Juno award tickets sell out in 14 minutes, setting ...
    Hosted in St. John's Newfoundland this year, Juno Award ceremony tickets went on sale at noon Saturday. By 12:14 p.m., all 3,000 tickets were sold.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • In Defense of Social Workers
    Since 1984 , the White House has officially recognized March as Social Work Month . Each year, the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) uses it to promote the profession in general and the specific vulnerable populations that we work with. The National Social Work Public Education Campaign ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Iraqi elections
    The New York Times reported: A concerted wave of attacks struck Baghdad and other cities across the country on Sunday as Iraqis voted to elect a new parliament and possibly a new prime minister. Explosions reverberated across the capital moments before the polls opened and continued through the mor ...
  • There has never been an Israeli peace camp
    Gideon Levy at his best: The Israeli peace camp didn’t die. It was never born in the first place. While it’s true that since the summer of 1967, several radical and brave political groups have been working against the occupation – all worthy of recognition – a large, influential peace camp has neve ...
  • Belafonte on King and Obama
    Harry Belafonte interviewed on PBS: Barack Obama is first and foremost a man. He is flawed. He has his contradictions. He has revealed those contradictions. There is a question that we have: do we get behind him and push him to become what we know he should be? Or do we lay back, watch him drift, ...
  • Obama advisers set to recommend military tribunals ...
    The Washington Post reports: 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, administration officials said, a step that would reverse Attorney General Eric H. Hol ...
  • The Guantánamo “Suicides”: A Camp Delta sergeant b ...
    In Harper’s, Scott Horton writes: When President Barack Obama took office last year, he promised to “restore the standards of due process and the core constitutional values that have made this country great.” Toward that end, the president issued an executive order declaring that the extra-cons ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Global Warming not to blame for toad extinction
    From a Columbia University press release, here’s a case where the early speculation of science was wrong. Originally global warming was blamed, but it turns out to be El Niño helping along an already established pathogen. El Niño and a pathogen killed Costa Rican toad, study finds Challenges evid ...
  • 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. ...

Dandelion Salad

  • In the Shadow of Power by Ralph Nader + Q&A with K ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Ralph Nader The Nader Page March 5, 2010 Our just published In the Shadow of Power is a penetrating collection of 92 black and white photographs about life in Washington, DC, by Venezuelan photographer Kike Arnal. After scores of books and reports by our g ...
  • A Guide to the 9/11 Whistleblowers by James Corbet ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Sent to DS from James Corbett. by James Corbett The Corbett Report 5 March, 2010 When losing a discussion on the facts of 9/11, a so-called 9/11 “debunker” will often rely on an old canard to “prove” that 9/11 could not have been an inside job: “So many peopl ...
  • The unequal value of an Afghan child
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ ourjourneytosmile February 25, 2010 more about “The unequal value of an Afghan child“, posted with vodpod see Kucinich Resolution will Spark House Debate Next Week Time for a Broad Based Anti-War Movement: Can the Right and Left Work Together to Oppose ...
  • Mossad Comes to America: Death Squads by Invitatio ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By James Petras Axisoflogic.com Wednesday, Mar 3, 2010 The principle propaganda mouthpiece of the Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (PMAJO), the Daily Alert (DA), has come out in full support for Israel’s practice of extra-judicial, extra-ter ...
  • Dennis Kucinich: Some People Support The Afghan Wa ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ MoxNewsDotCom March 03, 2010 Congressman Dennis Kucinich on the House Floor. more about “Dennis Kucinich: Some People Support …“, posted with vodpod *** IOT: End War and Occupations, Redirect Funding March Call Progressive Democrats of America Blog 3-2-2010 T ...

Your New Reality

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    Do Schools Kill Creativity? Ken Robinson : Kids will take a chance. If they don't know, they'll have a go. They're not frightened of being wrong. I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. ....if you're not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anythi ...
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    2012 London Olympics Will See Deployment Of 'Copyright Cops' By Darryl Mason The police paid for by the people of London will be deployed during the 2012 Olympics to stop punters carrying "non-sponsor items" into venues. Moves to safeguard company trademarks and stamp out ambush marketing, to ...
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    Stunning video from a freak weather event in Melbourne a few hours ago : Chinaapek details on the above incredible vid of flash flooding in Melbourne : I was there having coffee, the sky turned grey within seconds. Withinsecond, hail storm. Within 3 minutes, the street has gone chaos. It was a ...
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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 ...

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

  • Gideon Levy: There has never been an Israeli peace ...
    The Israeli peace camp didn't die. It was never born in the first place. While it's true that since the summer of 1967, several radical and brave political groups have been working against the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  • Protest Friends of the IDF and Ashkenazi – NYC, 9 ...
    PLEASE JOIN US FOR A MOVING PROCESSION TO PROTEST THE ANNUAL FUNDRAISING DINNER OF THE FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES & KEYNOTE IDF CHIEF OF STAFF GABI ASHKENAZI Tue, 9 March 2010... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Thousands protest Jewish presence in East Jerusale ...
    About 5,000 left-wing activists and Palestinians gathered Saturday to protest the eviction of four Palestinian families in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem. Protesters carried... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  • Hundreds protest police brutality at Jaffa rally
    MK Dov Khenin (Hadash): "We have come here today to say clearly that human rights do not end at the borders of Jaffa. We demand that residents of Jaffa receive equal rights, be treated decently by... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Islamic conference slams Israel’s Al-Aqsa action
    [Secretary-general of the pan-Islamic body] called on the international community and the Quartet on Middle East peace -- the European Union, the United States, Russia and the United Nations -- to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

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NewsWise

  • Gene Site Found for a Children's Food Allergy
    Pediatrics researchers have identified the first major gene location responsible for a severe, often painful type of food allergy called eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE). In this disease, which may cause weight loss, vomiting, heartburn and swallowing difficulties, a patient may be unable to eat a wid ...
  • Scientists Discover Reservoir Where HIV-Infected C ...
    Important new research by University of Michigan Health System scientists has discovered that bone marrow, previously thought to be resistant to the HIV virus, can contain latent forms of the infection. The finding helps explain why it's hard to cure the disease.
  • Most Early Stage Breast Cancer Patients May Not Ne ...
    Breast cancer patients with early stage disease that has spread to only one lymph node may not benefit from radiation after mastectomy, because of the low present-day risk of recurrence following modern surgery and systemic therapy, a finding that could one day change the course of treatment for tho ...
  • 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 ...

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 ...

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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

  • News that’s news, and news that’s not
    A few things of interest in the NYTimes this morning. Ombudswhatever Clark Hoyt apologizes for a Times business reporter who plagiarized his stuff from the Wall Street Journal, but still can’t manage to apologize for the entire newspaper plagiarizing Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government’s lies about AC ...
  • Text with etc.
    I’ve said this any numbers of times but it really should go without saying that I am personally myself (me) utterly full of shit. Leaking out my ears full, oozing out every orifice, pore and cranny,  crystallizing on my brows like frost on an overripe gourd. Readers would do well to take my remarks ...
  • What the news dragged in
    When you live in one of the last metro areas served by two daily newspapers, it’s hard not to notice that the competing stories sound pretty much the same. I take that as a compliment to the reporters who independently find the same facts. Pat Pheifer’s Strib story on Koua Fong Lee plows pretty much ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Colonel Imam: ‘I have the Green Beret but the Tale ...
    Perhaps no man alive knows Mullah Omar, his Taleban insurgents and the American military quite so well as “Colonel Imam”, a battle-creased Pakistani officer who wears a faded British paratrooper’s jacket and a turban. As a top agent for the Pakistani intelligence agency, the ISI, Colonel I ...
  • Muslims Are Their Own Worst Enemy
    Muslims are numerous but powerless. Divisions among Muslims, especially between Sunni and Shi’ites, have consigned the Muslim Middle East to almost a century of Western control. Muslims cannot even play together. The Islamic Solidarity Games, a regional version of the Olympics, which were to be he ...
  • A series of setbacks for the coalition in Afghanis ...
    Less To Cheer STANLEY MCCHRYSTAL, the famously self-controlled commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, could be forgiven if he let off an expletive when he heard that soldiers under his command had killed 27 civilians on Sunday February 21st. A missile strike on a three-vehicle convoy in an isolat ...
  • MQM Caught Spying On Pakistan
    Guest post sent in by Truth Seeker MQM caught spying red-handed for foreign nationals and smuggling classified state material outside Pakistan and violated Official Secret Act.  According to a report published in the press Waseem Akthar (MNA) and former advisor to the Chief Minister on poli ...
  • 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 ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • E mau Ke Ea March 2010- Indigenous Peoples in Cope ...
    E mau Ke Ea March 2010- Indigenous Peoples in Copenhagen- Part 3 from Malia N on Vimeo . The March 2010 E Mau Ke Ea show is the third and final show that features footage from the UNFCCC meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark. Malia Nobrega attended and filmed the a few shots at the Global Day of Action a ...
  • Towards the Communal State!
    NOTICIAS - VEN GLOBAL NEWS “Zamora lives, the fight continues," is the motto brought to life by our people. There could not be a better occasion for the enactment of the Organic Law of the Federal Council of Government than the unveiling of the statue of the Peoples General Ezequiel Zamora in the E ...
  • The Myths of Liberal Zionism – Book Review
    The Palestine Chronicle: A Leading Online Newspaper on Palestine, Israel and the Middle East Yitzhak Laor, The Myths of Liberal Zionism (London: Verso, 2010) 162 p. The book deals with the deep contradictions within Israeli society, the fact that a large majority of the population supports the b ...
  • Diversity of Tactics - Harsha Walia
    Diversity of Tactics - 3 - Harsha Walia from working TV on Vimeo . A Diversity of Tactics - A Diversity of Opinions Panel discussion co-hosted by rabble.ca and working TV, Saturday February 20, 2010 at W2 Community Media Arts Centre, Vancouver. Moderator: Charlie Smith, Georgia Straight Panelists ...
  • Indigenous Struggles in the Americas
    Image via Wikipedia Forwarded from New Left Project : by regular Reader-Contributor, Viola Wilkins . Please be sure to visit newleftproject.org to review this entire interview. -- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, a writer, teacher, historian, and social activist , is Professor Emeritus of Ethnic Studies and W ...

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

  • Electric Bike Making A Quiet Buzz
    Australia is in the grip of a bicycle boom, and it’s not just the super-fit and healthy who can go fast, without making any noise…
  • Environmental News - 02/03/10
    Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html)   Exclusive: Google develops prototype mirror for solar energy-Google Inc has developed a prototype for a new mirror technology that could cut by half the cost of building a solar thermal pl ...
  • Environmental News - 01/03/10
    Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html)   - (http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1964085,00.html?xid=huffpo-direct)LEAVING the car at home and catching a train to work may not be as good for the environment as you think. ...
  • Environmental News - 26/02/10
    Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html)   - (http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1964085,00.html?xid=huffpo-direct)Even committed carnivores can't dodge the facts: we're going to have to cut down on the red stuff. A bit.  ...
  • ETS: Wanted But Not Understood!
    Believe it or not, the majority of us think that human activity contributes to global warming and that significant action by individuals and businesses must be taken to reduce global carbon emissions.

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Stop a $54 Billion Taxpayer Bailout of Rich Nuclea ...
    In 2007, Congress approved $18.5 Billion in taxpayer "loan guarantees" for new reactor construction. In February 2010, President Obama approved the first "guarantee" under this program: for $8.3 Billion to build two new reactors in Georgia. But these aren't just "loan guarantees." The money is c ...
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    Readers, we need your support! Please click HERE to donate. Or, please mail a check or money order to the CLG: Citizens for Legitimate Government (CLG) P.O. Box 1142 Bristol, CT 06011-1142 To allow us complete freedom in tackling bad government, CLG is not an IRS Section 501 C-3 ch ...
  • US searching for 'radicalized' Americans
    U.S. working with Pakistan and other governments to figure out how to 'identify such people' The top U.S. diplomat in Pakistan says the Obama administration does not know how many Americans might have disappeared overseas to train with al-Qaida [al-CIAduh] or other terrorist groups. The number ...

Daily Loaf

  • The Green Community week in review: The Roosevelt ...
    Read what you might have missed last week in CL 's Green Community.
  • Brian Blair campaign says they want to sue blogger ...
    Schorsch posted a blog entry on February 1, where he mocked the fact that the Fraternal Order of Police was announcing their endorsement of Blair in his current campaign for the GOP nomination for House District 57.
  • Theater Review: Eliza Jane Schneider’s “Freedom of ...
    Make no mistake that Eliza Jane Schneider's one-woman show, “Freedom of Speech,” is as much about American identity as it is about the spectrum of dialects – and thought – she so perfectly imitates. It is these, the, “lost and disenfranchised voices of a splintered nation,” that make Eliza Jane mor ...
  • 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!

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • At the Waldorf, Helmet in Hand
    Israeli generals live a life of luxury and extravagance, mostly shaded from public scrutiny, while their soldiers enforce a brutal and criminal occupation upon the Palestinian people. Now they appropriately choose the Waldorf Astoria in New York to solicit more American money. New Profile, an Israel ...
  • 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Enclosed Cleveland mall now growing organic veggie ...
    With its barrel-shaped glass roof, the Galleria at Erieview in Cleveland already looked like a greenhouse. Many of its stores are empty, so their marketing director has re-purposed part of it for growing vegetables hydroponically. It’s on a small scale now, however they hope to expand to much large ...
  • Rising anger against banksters from the left and t ...
    The truth is that there’s an enormous amount of anger and frustration around the country. And it’s not right versus left. You know, the anger under the Tea Party movement is the same anger that Michael Moore is feeling. It’s the anger about the fact that what is happening is not fair, that the fix ...
  • Digging Into WordPress. An essential book
    If you have a self-hosted WordPress blog, you need Digging Into WordPress. It’s 400+ pages filled with useful info for bloggers and developers. I’ll be using what I’m learning here to set up CMS sites for clients as well as customize this blog. It’s really put the final pieces of the WordPress puzz ...
  • Greek protester uses tear gas against police
    Many more photos of the escalating Greek protests from the Sacramento Bee. (This image was cropped so it would display here better.)
  • Why we need distributed energy and smart grids
    After Gutenberg explores this and more in an article focusing on Texas and its huge and expanding amount of wind power. We have technology now that uses heat produced in creating electricity to create more even electricity. Why waste it?

    Blacklisted News

  • Wall Street Took Your House and Your Retirement, N ...
  • Greeks ban hedge funds in bond sale
    The decision came amid growing anger among European leaders over what they see as the role speculators played in undermining the Greek debt market and driving the country towards a possible default .
  • Bilderberg Founder Dutch Prince Bernhard 'was memb ...
    "Bernhard, a secret history" has revealed that the prince was a member of the German Nazi party until 1934, three years before he married Princess Juliana, the future queen of the Netherlands.
  • US searching for 'radicalized' Americans
    The top U.S. diplomat in Pakistan says the Obama administration does not know how many Americans might have disappeared overseas to train with al-Qaida or other terrorist groups.
  • Iran's Ahmadinejad: Sept. 11 attacks a 'big lie'
    Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday called the official version of the Sept. 11 attacks a "big lie" used by the U.S. as an excuse for the war on terror, state media reported.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

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

  • US: Bullying down sharply across the nation, surv ...
    There's been a sharp drop in the percentage of America's children being bullied or beaten up by their peers, according to a new national survey by experts who believe anti-bullying programs are having an impact. The study, funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, found that the percentage of child ...
  • Why have US stocks defied gravity for so long?
    This Tuesday will mark the anniversary of last year's US stock market low. Since then the market has rallied by 70 per cent in a recovery only slightly less suspicious than a Madoff hedge fund. A year ago uncertainty hung over the Dow and S&P 500 with the possibility of an economic depression and t ...
  • Eliminating Junk Foods at Schools May Help Prevent ...
    New policies that eliminate sugary beverages and junk foods from schools may help slow childhood obesity, according to a San Francisco State University study published in the March issue of the journal Health Affairs. "This is one of the very first comprehensive investigations that examined whether ...
  • BEST OF WEB: ABC News Vs. Loose Change
    At the Treason in America Conference on 3/6/2010, ABC News decided to drop by and "cover" the event. The creators of the Loose Change documentaries were ready for them...
  • Fabled past awaits in Sudan desert
    There is not a tourist in sight as the sun sets over sand-swept pyramids at Meroe, but archaeologists say the Nubian Desert of northern Sudan holds mysteries to rival Egypt. "There is a magic beauty about these sites that is heightened by the privilege of being able to admire them alone, with the p ...

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

  • Tom Delay Insists Jobless Choose Unemployment
    Back in 2007, former House Majority Leader Tom Delay explained the Republican emergency room health care plan to a British audience. "There's no one denied health care in America," he announced to laughter, "there are 47 million people who don't have health insurance, but no American is denied heal ...
  • 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 ...
  • For Hatch's GOP, No Reconciliation with the Truth
    When it comes to the budget reconciliation process in the Senate, the truth is not setting Republicans free. On Sunday, John McCain vowed to end the use of reconciliation to change Medicare, despite the GOP's repeated deployment of that same tactic for 30 years. Now, Utah Senator Orrin Hatch , who ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Mullen Wary of Israeli Attack on Iran
    Joint Chief Chairman Mike Mullen looks nervously at rising military tensions between Israel and Iran, reports Ray McGovern. March 6, 2010
  • Will Fear Again Be GOP Trump Card?
    Republicans are licking their chops over Democratic vulnerabilities in 2010, but fear may be the winning card, says Michael Winship. March 6, 2010
  • 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

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

TruthHugger

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

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Echoes of John Adams and the Boston Massacre
    On March 5, 1770, the main guard of the 29th Regiment of Foot under the command of Captain Thomas Preston opened fire on an angry crowd of Boston townsfolk which had gathered around the Custom House on King Street to protest the quartering of British troops in Boston, just one of several outrages un ...
  • An internal memo from the Department of Stating th ...
    Sanctions don't work. Sanctions are a mugs game. They not only fail at their intended goal, they undermine the position of the country imposing them and they strengthen the positon of the nation they are imposed upon. Case in point: Iran. In spite of sanctions that the United States keeps going back ...
  • Another great moment in political stenography
    The stenographer weighs in on the open seat race in Kansas' 3rd Congressional District (Johnson County) in today's Kansas City Star . The rumor reported by the Star is that Stephene Moore, the spouse of retiring Congressman Dennis Moore, is considering a run. Consider the following two statements in ...
  • And in the Non-Hating Corner, We Have Louisville E ...
    On the same weekend Kentucky's Southern Baptists launch their Hate, Fear and Money tour, we learn that last year, Louisville Episcopalians brought out the big guns of love, acceptance and progress. A Louisville congregation has quietly become the first in the Episcopal Diocese of Kentucky to begin b ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Back in the last century, the United States had the credibility to criticize stolen elections. "The current president of Togo has won re-election in a disputed vote, electoral authorities say. The election commission said Faure Gnassingbe, son of a late dictator, had beaten opposition challenger Jea ...

Care 2

  • The trouble with the arabian horse community
    So, what is really wrong with the Arabian horse industry, business or community, or what ever you may want to call it? AHA runs their entire overstaffed company by producing horse shows instead of being the promotional arm for the Arabian horse. Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat �|� ...
  • Roethlisberger accused of sexual assault
    Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has been accused of sexually assaulting a Georgia college student at a dance club, marking the second such allegation in nine months against the superstar. Submitted by Lone Wolf to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Endangered mice numbers boosted; zoo to send group ...
    The conked-out critter is one of about 80 endangered Perdido Key beach mice reproducing to their hearts' content in sand-filled glass tanks at Brevard Zoo Submitted by Lone Wolf to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Girls too coerce others into sex
    Have you ever forced anybody to commit a sexual act? is a difficult question to ask any youngster. But clinical psychologist Jan Hendriks and criminologist Anne-Marie Slotboom did just that. This week, the results of their research will be published in Submitted by Lone Wolf to Society & Culture �| ...
  • Three men indicted on sex charges with minor
    Three men were indicted by a Champaign County Grand Jury Thursday, March 4, on charges that they had sexual contact with juveniles. Submitted by Lone Wolf to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

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.
  • The Toxie Awards' 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 alter ...
  • 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. �
  • 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.

Reuters Global

  • Terror index: Iraq down, but Afghanistan and Pakis ...
    Iraqis are voting today for a new parliament and despite the bombings in the run-up to the election, the over-all trend is down, according to the Brookings Institution. Not so in the Afghanistan-Pakistan theatre, America 's other war, which remains red-hot.
  • Balancing powers in the Malacca Strait
    Singapore's warning of a terrorist threat in the Malacca Straits has again highighted the issue of who is in charge of security in one of the world's busiest shipping lanes. Besides the littoral states of Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, regional powers such as Japan, China, India, Japan, not to m ...
  • Papandreou wrestles with family legacy
    Papandreou's family legacy can play to his advantage and his detriment.
  • 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.

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Devastating Critique of Obamacare From the Left
    Obamacare is anti-choice, anti-consumer and anti-patient. Obamacare forces Americans to buy insurance, yet still allows premiums and deductibles be controlled by insurance companies that can freely raise rates. Then, if Americans refuse to buy (or can’t afford) the insurance, the IRS will come afte ...
  • Has The Kool Aide Started To Wear Off?
    For some folks at MSNBC? Seems like it, given this recent departure. Craig Crawford, an MSNBC mainstay, has quit the network, even leaving before his contract was out. Wait until you read why that is in this article, MSNBC Political Analyst Craig Crawford Has Left the Network – In A Very [...]
  • No Quarter Radio’s Sense on Cents with Larry Doyle ...
    Raise your hand if you do not trust Wall Street and Washington. Raise your other hand if you do not trust the financial media. Why do I viscerally envision a lot of hands being raised all over America? Because given developments of the last few years, Americans — at an ever increasing rate — are les ...
  • Getting from A to B the Hard Way
    OK Go outdid themselves with this amazing creative video. Kind of reminds me of how our country does its business though—meandering about trying this and that to get somehwre–anywhere–and ending up getting shot down anyway. Video Credits Directed by James Frost, OK Go and Syyn Labs. Produced by ...
  • Request For “Why Do They Hate Us?”
    A regular reader at No Quarter, Cindy, asked if I would be willing to reprint the following post, first posted on 6/28/08, and re-posted a “Redux” 11/13/08 since this is Women’s History Month. I am delighted that she asked, and happy (well, not really HAPPY, pleased) to do so. Thank you for asking, ...

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

  • How Not to Fight School Reform
    By Guest Blogger XX, The Rhode Island Massacre in which teachers were all fired due to low math and literacy test scores set off a backlash among teachers and those who seem to support them. While some of the corporate media has exploited this for a good human interest story and even as a fairly obv ...
  • The DoD – the biggest corporation of all
    By SAUL LANDAU and NELSON P. VALDES Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.  This world in arms is not spending money alone.  It is spending the sweat of [. ...
  • Obama’s Support of Mass Teacher Firing Signals New ...
    By Guest Blogger XX, The New York Times reports that Obama has escalated his attacks on “failing schools.” The Times outlines a recent speech in which Obama “favored federal rewards for local school districts that fire underperforming teachers and close failing schools, saying educators needed to be ...
  • SNL Presidents skit: unregulated banks rip people ...
    video live at source, and opportunity to engage in comments with government PSYOPS/COINTELPRO/Operation Mockingbird: http://www.examiner.com/x-18425-LA-County-Nonpartisan-Examiner~y2010m3d7-SNL-Presidents-skit-unregulated-banks-rip-people-off-Its-time-to-enact-obvious-solutions Funny or Die stated t ...
  • Corporate Barbarians at the Gate: Wal-Mart interns ...
    As Donna Stern and I were finishing up a discussion by phone a few days ago, she and I mused over what is clearly emerging as the billionaire philanthropists’, corporate business elite and giant transnational corporations’ plan for Jamal and his class mates at Frederick Douglass and the other three ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

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

  • Michael Moore: There’s Going to Be a Second ...
    From AlterNet We interviewed Michael Moore on The Young Turks today and he was not shy about sharing his opinions. Anyone surprised? He had very strong words for the Democratic Party, the state of our ...
  • 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 ...

Marler Blog

  • Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein Recall - 94 Products ...
    The FDA has updated its expanding recall list of various products containing Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein.� The list includes: Bouillon Products - Herbox Dip and Dip Mix Products - Concord Foods, De la Casa, Delicioso, Follow Your Heart, Fresh Food, Concepts, Great Value, Johnny's Fine Foods, McCo ...
  • No charges to be filed against unlicensed caterer, ...
    Brian Gehring of the Bismarck Tribune confirmed today that the South Dakota Health Department says it will not seek charges against a rural Washburn woman for operating an unlicensed catering business linked to sickening 180 people last summer. Aggie Jennings of rural McLean County catered three ev ...
  • Lombard Illinois Subway Shigella Illnesses on Rise
    According to local press reports, the DuPage County Health Department is staffing its call center throughout the weekend to keep tabs on the rising number of gastrointestinal illnesses being reported from a Subway restaurant in Lombard. Four more cases of shigellosis were confirmed Friday, bringing ...
  • Queso Fresco Seized at Border - Is Raw Milk Cheese ...
    U. S. Customs and Border Protection announced Friday that officials seized 107 pounds of "queso fresco," which is soft Mexican cheese. The illegal cheese was hidden in false compartments of a vehicle trying to enter the United States across the Bridge of the Americas on Wednesday. Federal official ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Extreme Weirdness: Antarctica’s “Blood Falls”
    There is a glacier in Antarctica that seems to be weeping a river of blood. It’s one of the continent’s strangest features, and it’s located in one of the continent’s strangest places — the McMurdo Dry Valleys, a huge, ice-free zone and one of the world’s harshest deserts
  • Endangered Species by Country (INFOGRAPHIC)
    About 900 species of plants and animals have gone extinct in the last five centuries, and more than 10,000 others are now on the verge of joining them as endangered species, threatened species or vulnerable species. Here's a look at some of the countries
  • A New Way Of Thinking
    The discussion of strategy within the environmental movement, indeed the entire social justice movement, is fraught with challenges that may well be unique to our age.
  • The New Pollutant Threat: Manure
    Nearly 40 years after the first Earth Day, this is irony: The United States has reduced the manmade pollutants that left its waterways dead, discolored and occasionally flammable. But now, it has managed to smother the same waters with the most natural stuff in the world.
  • Walmart's Grand Plan to Reduce CO2: Make Someone ...
    Today, Walmart made its first major commitment to reduce greenhouse gases -- but in typical fashion, rather than set a tough goal that might affect its own growth curve, the company plans to turn up the pressure on its thousands of suppliers to reduce

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...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • Photo Sunday – Water – Wild and Wonderful
    Water, the giver of all life. Wild, wonderful. Related posts: Photo Sunday – Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Photo Sunday – When its Raining on Sunday Morning Photo Sunday – Poems and Prayers and Promises
  • 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

Inhabitat

  • The 82nd Annual Academy Awards is Bringing Green t ...
    This year’s Academy Awards has an underlying green theme to them thanks to five films that have incoporated sustainable ideas. If you’re one of the more than 35 + million viewers planning to tune into Hollywood’s biggest night, keep your fingers crossed for the green nominees that also made Inh ...
  • Nike Unveils World Cup Soccer Jerseys Made From Re ...
    ATTENTION GREEN SOCCER FANS Nike recently unveiled its new team jerseys for the upcoming World Cup and here’s the kicker (pun intended) – they’re made from discarded plastic bottles! That’s right, the uniforms, or “kits” in proper soccer speak, are made from melted down bottles from landfills in Ja ...
  • A Wearable Windmill to Generate Your Own Electrici ...
    Flowers die, but the Dandelion portable windmill will keep on brightening your day without the wilting. A new wearable tech accessory from designers Mary Huang and Jennifer Kay, this beauty uses tiny windmills and turns the energy generated from the moving blades into LED light or plugable power for ...
  • How Technology Can Declutter Your Life
    Is clutter taking over your life? It doesn’t have to be that way! There are tons of smart ways to use technology to get rid of your clutter. Check out our top tips from storing your photos online to using e-readers to help you take charge of the mess that currently resides on your desk. READ [...]
  • NYC Chef Daniel Angerer Serves Up Breast Milk Chee ...
    How adventurous would you say you are when it comes to trying new foods? If you’re the type of person who will put anything on your plate, we’ve got one culinary escapade we dare you to try. New York Chef Daniel Angerer has just added cheese made from his wife’s breast milk to the menu at [...]

Pogue's Posts

Open Your Eyes News

  • Europe’s New Debt Solution: Create Their Own Ratin ...
    Business Insider – Is your nation under massive financial pressure due to deteriorating sovereign debt ratings? Rising interest costs got you down? Rather than having to actually tackle your mounting debt problems, here’s an innovative solution from some Eurozone finance ministers — create your own, ...
  • 5 ways your TV is slowly killing you
    msnbc – Too much boob tube also makes you weaker, research shows. You’ve accepted the idea that TV makes you dumber. You know there are lots of more edifying things you could be doing with your time than cheering on the contestants on “Survivor.” And unless you’re working out to an exercise vide ...
  • One child dies every two minutes in Afghanistan
    Sunday Mirror – Children in Afghanistan are more likely to die before the age of five than children anywhere else in the world, according to Save the Children. At the current appalling rate, one child dies every two minutes in the violence-wracked nation. The study shows that last year was also the ...
  • The Spoils Of War: Iraq Opens Up to Foreign Oil Ma ...
    Bloomberg — BP Plc and Exxon Mobil Corp. took the best deal they could get in Iraq last year when they won the largest oil contracts since addam Hussein was toppled in 2003. Oil companies may wait a long time to get a better one. Parliamentary elections may produce a weak or unstable government inca ...
  • EU Chief Vows To Run UK Economy From Brussels
    Daily Express – EUROPE’S chief bureaucrat last night provoked fury after threatening to use the “full force” of the Lisbon Treaty to impose economic control over every EU nation.European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso claimed that financial stability was so critical that sweeping new ...

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

  • A government that does not promote a strong, just ...
    SUSAN S. PASTIN FOR BUZZFLASH read more
  • Literally: We Can't Afford Afghanistan or Our Mili ...
    PETER G. COHEN FOR BUZZFLASH While Moody’s is saying that the U.S. could lose its gold-plated AAA credit rating, if the budget deficit is not reduced, President Obama is requesting $33,000,000,000 FY 2010 supplemental to fund the troop buildup in Afghanistan.� This is in addition to the war-funding ...
  • Today’s Soulless Republican Party -- Steven C. Day ...
    by Steven C. Day Trying to pick the single most troubling aspect to our current toxic — downright spooky, actually — political environment is sort of like trying to pick the most obnoxious feature of Dick Cheney’s persona: there’s just way too much material out there to choose from. Still, if forced ...
  • Jim Bunning is Our GOP Hypocrite for Flip-Flop-Fli ...
    Jim Bunning Welcome back to BuzzFlash's GOP Hypocrite of the Week. Finally, Sen. Jim Bunning is a household name for a reason other than baseball! The former pitcher made waves this week when he blocked the extension of unemployment benefits , even though his fellow Republicans largely opposed the o ...
  • FOX’s Megyn Kelly, Poorly Masking Bias, Airs Attac ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT by Jeffrey Joseph Occasional past attempts by FOX News to deflect the criticism of bias have most famously resulted in their differentiation between opinion programming such as Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity with straight news programming from the rest of the network. Roger Aile ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • Why do journalists expect to have credibility?
    Clark Hoyt, New York Times Public Editor, March 21, 2009 : THE Times has a tough policy on anonymous sources, but continues to fall down in living up to it . . . .Last year, at my request, a group of journalism students at Columbia University studied anonymous sources in The Times and conclud ...
  • The right kind of bigotry
    From the long-time Editor-in-Chief and owner of The New Republic , this morning : There were moments--long moments--during the Iraq war when I had my doubts. Even deep doubts. Frankly, I couldn’t quite imagine any venture requiring trust with Arabs turning out especially well. This is, you wi ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • ACLU New York Times Ad Today Calls On President Ob ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 7, 2010 ACLU The American Civil Liberties Union today published a full-page ad in the New York Times calling on President Obama not to back down from his administration's decision to prosecute the 9/11 suspects in civilian courts. The ad comes in response to news reports ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Non-Random Acts of Kindness
    by Beverly Bell My 85-year-old mother left a message on my phone right after the earthquake. "I've found 44 baskets around the house and wonder if you can help get them to Haiti. They're so pretty, and I think they would be good for people to keep their belongings in." read more
  • Why Is Barack Obama Writing GOP Talking Points?
    by John Nichols If you want to know where conservatives in Congress get all their ridiculous talking points about how dysfunctional the federal government is, how incapable the public sector is when it comes to doing anything right and, above all, how worthless federal employees are, we've tracked d ...
  • A Look at Man Through the Vapid Eyes of His Captiv ...
    by Pierre Tristam Disturbingly recent exceptions aside, civilized nations now agree that burning fellow human beings at the stake, torturing them or enslaving them is inhuman. The day will come when civilized nations will agree that imprisoning wild animals in zoos, whipping them about in circus act ...
  • Obama Must Scrap Costly Nukes
    by Eric Margolis U.S. President Barack Obama will shortly issue a Nuclear Posture Review, a task each new president must perform. The Nobel Peace Laureate must decide what to do with America’s 5,500 nuclear weapons — enough to destroy the planet at least five times over. Obama, strongly influenced ...
  • To Hell in a Handbasket
    by David Michael Green I live in New York. To say that the politics of my state are dysfunctional would be like saying that Adolph Hitler could sometimes be not such a nice fellow. It’s all true, of course. It just doesn’t do just justice to the scope of the crimes committed. read more

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

  • Throne speech will unveil ambitious 5-year plan (C ...
    Education, financial services, clean water and mining will form the basis of what the Liberals are calling an ambitious plan to dig the province out of a deficit that will be outlined in Ontario's throne speech Monday.
  • Ontario throne speech to unveil five-year plan to ...
    Education, financial services, clean water and mining will form the basis of what the Liberals are calling an ambitious five-year plan to dig the province out of a record deficit that will be outlined in Ontario’s throne speech Monday.
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

Guardian

  • MoD to replace Snatch Land Rovers
    Fleet of new armoured vehicles seen as admission by MoD that existing Snatches blamed for deaths are not up to the job The government is to urgently order new armoured vehicles to replace the army's fleet of thinly protected Snatch Land Rovers, the defence secretary, Bob Ainsworth, will announce lat ...
  • Queen and Blair dragged into tax row
    Tax status casts shadow over advice given to monarch as further details emerge about role in overseas meetings The row over Lord Ashcroft's donations to the Tory party threatened to erupt into a full-blown constitutional crisis last night as questions were raised over whether the Queen and the forme ...
  • Chelsea 2-0 Stoke City
    Chelsea entered the semi-finals of the FA Cup with a purposefulness that almost suggested the defence of the trophy was their priority. The victors were probably more intent on recovering confidence after consecutive defeats in other competitions. It was, in a sense, to their advantage that Stoke Ci ...
  • Suicide suspected in flat deaths
    Bodies of two men and one woman found tied together at foot of high-rise Red Road complex in north-east of city, reports say Three people died today after apparently falling from a high-rise block of flats in Glasgow, police said. Strathclyde police said the bodies of two men and a woman were found ...
  • US team arrives for Middle East talks
    Indirect negotiations mark first return to peace process since Gaza war he US vice-president, Joe Biden, is due in Israel tomorrow for an American diplomatic initiative to start indirect negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. The new round of so-called "proximity talks" could be announced ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

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

Afghanistan Sun

  • Taliban clashes kill 50 in Afghanistan's Bagh ...
    Kabul, Mar.7 (ANI): Gun battles between the Taliban and another Islamist faction in the north-eastern Afghan province of Baghlan claimed the lives of at least 50 people on Sunday.
  • Infighting between two Afghan groups leaves dozens ...
    Kunduz (Afghanistan), March 7 (DPA) More than 50 fighters and an unknown number of civilians may have been killed during infighting between two rival insurgents groups in northern Afghanistan, officials said Sunday.
  • Pak media blames India for engineering recent terr ...
    Islamabad, Mar.7 (ANI): While links between the Kabul attack, in which 17 people, including six Indians were killed, and the ambush in Kandahar, in which four Pakistani labourers were killed, is yet to be established, the Pakistani media continues to blame India for creating trouble in Afghanistan.
  • Blackwater conduct In Afghanistan being reviewed f ...
    US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has said he will check into the allegations of serious misconduct in Afghanistan by the private security firm formerly known as Blackwater.
  • Afghan militants battle Taliban, defect to gov&#03 ...
    (IDM) KABUL (AP) — A battle between the Taliban and an Islamist militia loyal to an Afghan warlord has reportedly claimed dozens of lives and prompted some fighters to defect.Afghan officials in n...

Futurismic

  • Personal Information: episode 3
    Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 3 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • New approach precisely tracks evolution's footprin ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for example. T ...
  • RNA interference found in budding yeasts
    Some budding yeast species have the ability to silence genes using RNA interference (RNAi). Until now, most researchers thought that no budding yeasts possess the RNAi pathway because Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the protoypical model budding yeast does not.
  • Study: Vaccination of 70 percent of US population ...
    An aggressive vaccination program that first targets children and ultimately reaches 70 percent of the U.S. population would mitigate pandemic influenza H1N1 that is expected this fall, according to computer modeling and analysis of observational studies conducted by researchers at the Vaccine and I ...
  • Physicists Demonstrate Three-Color Entanglement
    (PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, physicists have demonstrated the quantum entanglement of three light beams, all of different wavelengths. Entanglement of two light beams of different wavelengths has already been demonstrated, but the researchers explain that going beyond two beams is important ...
  • Heart of a galaxy emits gamma rays
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Quite a few distant galaxies turn out to be cosmic delivery rooms. Large numbers of massive stars are born in the hearts of these starburst galaxies, and later explode as supernovae. In the remnants they leave behind, particles are accelerated to very high energies. Astrophysicists ...

TechDirt

  • 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

  • The Last Acceptable Bigotries in America
  • Romney: Obama’s words support 9/11 truthers abroad
    By speaking to Muslim countries, the president gives support to those who don’t believe in the official account of 9/11, says former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. “I saw even Ahmadinejad is now saying 9/11 is a fabrication,” Romney told Fox News’ Chris Wallace. “These sorts of voices should no ...
  • DeLay: People are unemployed because they want to ...
    Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay says that Sen. Jim Bunning was "brave" for blocking an extension in unemployment benefits. DeLay subscribes to the notion that people only try to find jobs when their benefits run out. "There is an argument to be made that these extensions, the unemployme ...
  • McConnell on RNC ‘fear’ presentation: ‘I don’t lik ...
    The Republican National Committee is trying to manipulate their donors by playing on "fear" of President Barack Obama and the top Republican in the Senate doesn't like it. Politico revealed a GOP PowerPoint presentation last week that recommended using fear and extreme negative feelings about Dem ...
  • Consumer protections the ‘fundamental divide’ in h ...
    Democrats may have to settle for health reforms without Republican votes because Republicans want less regulation and less oversight of insurance companies, Kathleen Sebelius says. The Health and Human Services Secretary told ABC's Matthew Dowd that health care reform has been slowed by attempts ...

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

  • World's Largest Tree House Stands 10-Stories Tall
    Photo via Obvious 16 years ago, Horrace Burges had a divine vision, a calling from heaven. And, like the ark-crafting Noah before him, Horrace picked up a hammer and built a large wooden structure of his own--the world's largest tree house . At 10 stories tall, with roughly 10,000 square feet, t ...
  • This Week In CCS News: AEP Is Bullish On West Virg ...
    photo via flickr The great hope of those who want coal to remain at the center of our energy mix--CCS--received special attention this week from Mike Morris, head of American Electric Power, the nation's largest utility. At a conference sponsored by the Wall Street Journal, Morris touted the pr ...
  • Green Gowns on Oscar's Red Carpet
    Jillian Ganz overlooking Suzy Amis Cameron's green dress fitting. Photo by Jim Peck Even with Linda Loudermilk and Stella McCartney's high-end sustainable clothing, it is still an effort to get eco-minded celebs into black tie worthy gowns. A couple years ago, retro Chanel was all the rage, whi ...
  • Breakthrough Producing Hydrogen from Water + Sunli ...
    Image: Angewandte Chemie, Wiley Sunlight + Water = Hydrogen Gas Scientists at the University of East Anglia, led by Dr. Thomas Nann, report a breakthrough in the production of hydrogen from water using the energy of sunlight. Amidst all the hype about a potential hydrogen economy, which would ...
  • Clear One Health Insurance Hooks Oregonians Up wit ...
    Photo via: Wonderlane /Flickr Current events lead us to believe Obama's needed health care reform will finally come to pass. Being that both sides of the issue are interested in cutting costs, there's an independent, alternative and affordable health care company which provides a good model f ...

Biosingularity

  • Life’s smallest motor, cargo carrier of the ...
    Life’s smallest motor, a protein that shuttles cargo within cells and helps cells divide, does so by rocking up and down like a seesaw, according to research conducted by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Brandeis University. The researchers crea ...
  • Further doubt cast on virus link to chronic fatigu ...
    Researchers investigating UK samples have found no association between the controversial xenotropic murine leukaemia virus-related virus (XMRV) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Their study, published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Retrovirology, calls into question a potential link descr ...
  • Child Obesity Risks Death at Early Age, Study Find ...
    A rare study that tracked thousands of children through adulthood found the heaviest youngsters were more than twice as likely as the thinnest to die prematurely, before age 55, of illness or a self-inflicted injury. Youngsters with a condition called pre-diabetes were at almost double the risk of d ...
  • How to Change A Skin Cell Into A Nerve Cell or Cel ...
    Eyeballs just don’t become toenails — even though the same genome sits in the nucleus of every cell. The difference is in the parts of the genome that are expressed — a cell’s identity is determined by the specific genes that are active within that cell. The differentiation of a cell, and a cell’s c ...
  • Think Twice: How the Gut’s “Second Bra ...
    As Olympians go for the gold in Vancouver, even the steeliest are likely to experience that familiar feeling of “butterflies” in the stomach. Underlying this sensation is an often-overlooked network of neurons lining our guts that is so extensive some scientists have nicknamed it our “second brain”. ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Viktor Yanukovych to gain points from Bandera cont ...
    It will be easy for Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to cancel his predecessor Viktor Yushchenko's January decree to award, amid much media hysteria, the honorary title of Hero of Ukraine to onetime Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera, a Polish analyst said Sunday.
  • China, Pakistan to hold joint antiterrorist drills ...
    China and Pakistan will hold joint antiterrorist exercises entitled Friendship-2010 in China in summer, the Renmin Ribao newspaper said on its website on Sunday citing the Chinese National Defense Ministry.
  • Toy balloons released into sky in Russian Far East ...
    An anti-abortion flash mob in the Russian Far Eastern city of Vladivostok, entitled Silent Scream, gathered some 30 participants on Sunday who symbolically released black and red toy balloons with unborn children's names into the sky, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.
  • Russia's most beautiful girl and her rivals
    Girls from the Urals region attracted great attention at the Miss Russia 2010 beauty pageant held on Sunday, March 7 in the Barvikha Luxury Village concert hall. Irina Antonenko, a 18-year-old student from the Urals city of Yekaterinburg, was crowned Miss Russia 2010. Along with the title and the cr ...
  • Nationalists hold rally in Kiev to defend Ukrainia ...
    Ukrainian nationalist association Svoboda (Freedom) is holding a rally in the ex-Soviet state's capital Kiev to defend the Ukrainian language, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported Sunday.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The neocons may finally gone too far ( via ). There seems to be an actual backlash building against this latest smear. It’s kind of funny to observe what counts as “over the line” in Washington. Right wing lunatics have been casua ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Capitalism Driving Humanity's Downfall
    Raw Story, March 6th, 2010 In his film Capitalism: A Love Story [set to be released on DVD and Blu-ray Monday], Michael Moore squares off with the free-market system for its role in leveraging the United States's wealth into the hands of a few. But in one clip cut from the documentary [Moore] inte ...
  • 1,000 Words About Malawi
    Cross posted from Border Jumpers , Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. We spent a couple of amazing days in Lilongwe, Malawi - although it was cut short because we took an emergency flight back to Canada for the funeral of Bernard's grandmother (by the time you are reading this, we are back in ...
  • New Heroine Sparks Movement
    Harry Hanbury has a story that any videographer or blogger would love. He created a video of Congresswoman Donna Edwards taking steps to amend the Constitution to restore our democracy following assault by the Supreme Court. A woman you've never heard of named Jessica Sharp saw the video and decid ...
  • 244% Increase In "Patriot" Militia Groups In One Y ...
    As an avowed Dirty Freaking Hippy the Dog is often stunned by the level of vitriol on the Right. It is not that you can not find some folks on the political Left that are, well, on the fringe. You can on almost any political blog you look at and more if you really go digging in the backwaters of the ...
  • Glenn Greenwald: 'This is what the Democratic Part ...
    In a post on Salon today, Glenn Greenwald reveals to readers the essential tactic of the Democratic Party leadership. It's not trying to get Republican support, it's not filibuster reform, it's not registering people to vote. It's much more manipulative than that. It is an explanation for the "lac ...

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

  • The anti-James Hansen article ABC tried to ban
    Professor Carter submitted his article, on James Hansen and the Hansenism cult, and the ABC has rejected his article - which Quadrant Online is privileged to publish.
  • We like where global warming is taking us
    I found this over at Red Ice Creations. Don't know if they or someone else gets credit for is creation, but congrats to whomever--it's brilliant.
  • Spread the word through general interest websites
    Climategate is going general interest, and more and more people are being exposed to the lies of the warmers; most of these readers would have never otherwise heard a skeptical word.
  • Global Warming not to blame for toad extinction
    From a Columbia University press release, here's a case where the early speculation of science was wrong. Originally global warming was blamed, but it turns out to be El Niño helping along an already established pathogen.
  • Climategate II: The coverup!
    Would you believe Climategate II is here? More emails have been disclosed, but this time they are from a National Academies of Science listserv.

Opinio Juris

  • Who Owns the Arctic? Canada, Says Michael Byers
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku That’s a bit of an overstatement, but this review of Michael Byers’ latest book: Who Owns the Arctic: Understanding Sovereignty Disputes in the North, reminds me of the surprising legal positions taken by Russia, Canada, and the United States over the legal status of the ...
  • 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 ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • 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...

Public News Service

  • Should Time Outdoors be a National Health Priority ...
    Should Time Outdoors be a National Health Priority? Phoenix – Child obesity numbers in Arizona have skyrocketed since today's adults were children – that's one reason over 200 groups are asking the Surgeon General to make more time outdoors a national health priority for children. Comments from Kevi ...
  • Report: Energy Efficiency Could Earn AZ Families $ ...
    Report: Energy Efficiency Could Earn AZ Families $300 Phoenix, AZ – A new analysis of research on what federal energy efficiency standards would cost families state-by-state – and how much they would save on utility bills – shows the net gain would be nearly $300 for the average Arizonan. Comments f ...
  • New Jaguar Sighting Boosts AZ Wilderness Protectio ...
    New Jaguar Sighting Boosts AZ Wilderness Protection Efforts Tucson, AZ – A new photo of an endangered jaguar near the Mexican border has renewed calls for wilderness designation on public lands in southeast Arizona. Conservationists hope to preserve critical habitat and the migration corridors linki ...
  • AZ Working Poor Face Continued Child Care Cuts
    AZ Working Poor Face Continued Child Care Cuts Phoenix, AZ – Yesterday (Thursday) marked the first anniversary of Arizona’s growing waiting list for the working poor to get child care subsidies. Enrollment in the program has dropped by 14-thousand, threatening the state’s federal matching funds. Com ...
  • PHX Minister Stops Signing Marriage Licenses in Eq ...
    PHX Minister Stops Signing Marriage Licenses in Equality Stand Phoenix, AZ – A Phoenix minister has decided to no longer sign marriage licenses for heterosexuals. She says it's a stand to promote marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples. Comments from Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray, minister of the ...

My Care2 Picks

  • Campaign Against Sanctions & Military Intervention ...
    I ran Bloglines aggregation to post a synopsis of Iran sanctions related activity including rebuttal to constant demonizing by the biggest merchant of WMD on the planet Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • ACT NOW - Petition to end the use of DU weapons an ...
    BE IT RESOLVED that the U.S. Congress call for a moratorium leading to a ban on the military use of depleted uranium and the sale of depleted uranium munitions to other countries. STOP the use of these inhumane and BIRTH DEFECT causing weapons NOW! Submitted by Grigory Rasputin to US Politics & Gov' ...
  • Goodbye, Yucca Mountain: Obama's Budget Cuts Nucle ...
    under Obama's proposed budget, we'd say goodbye to notorious Yucca Mountiain—the site designated for decades to become our nation's nuclear waste storing house. So what's the plan for all that leftover nuclear waste still stored at hundreds of sites acros Submitted by Judy C. to Environment �|� �No ...
  • Envoy Reiterates Peaceful Nature of Iran's N. Prog ...
    With over 3000 man-day inspections in Iran - no evidence of diversion of nuclear material and activities to prohibited purposes.Application of safeguards in my country is on the agenda of the Board of Governors after over 6 years! Why? Hidden agenda Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! ...
  • States of Detention
    Habeas Corpus: From England to Empire - legal writ of English origin that allows judges to review the government’s grounds for detaining individuals : judges have lost control of habeas and of law’s subjects subservient to an increasingly imperial state Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture ...

Angry Indian News

  • How food and water are driving a 21st-century Afri ...
    The Observer: "The land rush, which is still accelerating, has been triggered by the worldwide food shortages which followed the sharp oil price rises in 2008, growing water shortages and the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • One child dies every two minutes in Afghanistan :: ...
    One child dies every two minutes in Afghanistan :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1]: "The study shows that last year was also the deadliest... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • The Ampilatwatja walk-off – Richard Downs on the n ...
    The Northern Myth: "The Northern Myth: Is Ampilatwatja one of the “prescribed areas” under the NT Intervention?Richard Downs: Ampilatwatja is a prescribed area but this walk-off camp here at... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Wolf Blitzer Apologizes For 'Dept. of Jihad' Text ...
    HuffPo: "CNN's Wolf Blitzer has apologized for using chyron text that seemed to question the loyalties of the Department of Justice.On Thursday, CNN broadcast text that read 'HAPPENING NOW,... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Irish4Palestine: Zionist Bullies
    Image via WikipediaIrish4Palestine: Zionist Bullies: First off, lets use this little bit of news:Source: A video obtained by Ynet depicts Jewish residents of east Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah... [[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

  • Stop a $54 Billion Taxpayer Bailout of Rich Nuclea ...
    In 2007, Congress approved $18.5 Billion in taxpayer "loan guarantees" for new reactor construction. In February 2010, President Obama approved the first "guarantee" under this program: for $8.3 Billion to build two new reactors in Georgia. But these aren't just "loan guarantees." The money is c ...
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    Readers, we need your support! Please click HERE to donate. Or, please mail a check or money order to the CLG: Citizens for Legitimate Government (CLG) P.O. Box 1142 Bristol, CT 06011-1142 To allow us complete freedom in tackling bad government, CLG is not an IRS Section 501 C-3 ch ...
  • US searching for 'radicalized' Americans
    U.S. working with Pakistan and other governments to figure out how to 'identify such people' The top U.S. diplomat in Pakistan says the Obama administration does not know how many Americans might have disappeared overseas to train with al-Qaida [al-CIAduh] or other terrorist groups. The number ...

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

  • Israel’s ’sensitive artist narrative&# ...
    “Ajami” is the Israeli nominee for “Best Foreign Film” at this year’s Academy Awards ceremony.  However, what promised to be a public relations coup for the Israelis threatens to become a political embarrassment that exposes the wide rift between the country’s Jewish and Arab citizens. The film (t ...
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