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Thomas Paine

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Saturday, April 10, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • MIDEAST: Belgian Bank Financing Illegal Settlemen ...
    BRUSSELS, Apr 10 (IPS) - Dexia, a major Belgian-French bank, is continuing to finance Israeli authorities in the occupied Palestinian territories almost a year after it indicated that it would cease providing loans to illegal settlements.
  • IRAQ: Election Sets Off New Political Tussle
    BAGHDAD, Apr 10 (IPS) - The March elections have only deepened political divisions, and brought more violence.
  • ECUADOR: Environmental Inspection in Yasuni Park
    QUITO, Apr 10 (IPS) - Representatives of Ecuador's ombudsman's office and environmental groups are visiting the Yasuni National Park on Saturday, home to some of the world's last indigenous people still living in voluntary isolation, in order to verify reports of illegal activity by oil comp ...
  • ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: A Tragedy of Local and Globa ...
    RIO DE JANEIRO, Apr 9 (IPS) - The people who live in the favela of Guararapes are probably unaware that the heavy rains that forced them to flee their homes were caused by a phenomenon that is affecting the whole planet: global warming.
  • MALI: Shea Production Vital to Women's Incomes
    BAMAKO, Apr 9 (IPS) - Across the semi-arid Sahel region of West Africa, the shea tree prized by women, who produce a butter from its nuts that is a key ingredient in food and cosmetics. However, drought and diseases threaten this source of income.

Scoop - NZ

  • Nat's policies responsible for social breakdown
    A rise in crime rates of 4.6 percent, though not good news, should come as no surprise, says the Alliance Party. Alliance Party co-leader Kay Murray says National's failed, simplistic and cynical policies merely "slam the stable door shut after the horse has bolted" and are designed to appeal to th ...
  • Israel Gags News on Extra-Judicial Killings
    An Israeli journalist remains under house arrest and another lives abroad, after they broke news on Israeli undercover units carrying out assassinations or "targeted killings" of non-combatant Palestinian political opponents. Anat Kam, 23, who used to work for the Israeli news site a4˜Walla', was a ...
  • Monbiot: the root of the climate email fiasco
    The MPs were kind to Professor Phil Jones. During its hearings, the Commons science and technology committee didn't even ask the man at the centre of the hacked climate emails crisis about the central charge he faces: that he urged other scientists to delete material subject to a freedom of informat ...
  • Lovelock: 'Fudging data a sin against science'
    In his first major interview since the climate-change emails scandal, James Lovelock says he is disgusted by the actions of some scientists, applauds 'good' climate sceptics, and warns that global warming could even lead to war As you travel along the drive to James Lovelock's house, located in a r ...
  • Deflation: Bernanke shuts down his printing press
    The US Federal Reserve has completed its purchase of $1.7 trillion (£1.1bn) of mortgage securities, agency debt and US Treasuries, the conjuring trick of "credit easing" that allowed Ben Bernanke to create stimulus equal to 12pc of GDP. The Fed's money creation has been more or less the size of Wa ...

Independent ( London )

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • Trapping an invader
    (Courtesy of the University of Windsor) The first time she saw a group of male round gobies in their nests, pumping out billows of pheromones to attract females to lay their eggs, Lynda Corkum couldn’t help but think of an old boy’s club. “It reminded me of a bunch of men, sitting in a crowded room ...
  • Beefing up
    When a deadly virus spreads through California after being transported from the African rainforest in the 1995 movie Outbreak, most viewers reacted in horror. But not David Asper. He watched with fascination as the main character, an army medical researcher played by Dustin Hoffman, investigated the ...
  • The power of autism
    (Courtesy of Le Devoir)   Montréal researchers have uncovered previously unsuspected intellectual potential in many people with autism, a discovery that opens doors to new approaches for education.   A new approach to research, which looks at the neural disorder not in terms deficits, but in terms o ...
  • Disappearing act
    (Courtesy of Frontier magazine, University of British Columbia)   A commitment to both discovery and education places the Beaty Biodiversity Centre in a unique position to safeguard our natural heritage by bringing together outstanding researchers, exceptional facilities, and the public to better un ...
  • Particle accelerating … in high school
    For Palak Suryavenshi, the grade-12 science lab was the first step in a journey that led to a chance to test a hypothesis on one of North America’s most advanced particle accelerators. In 2007, Suryavenshi and her classmates from Saskatoon’s Centennial Collegiate worked with researchers at the Unive ...

Signs of the times

  • Breaking News: Polish president killed in Russian ...
    Polish President Lech Kaczynski was killed when a plane carrying 132 people crashed in thick fog on its approach to a Russian airport Saturday, killing everyone on board, officials said. Central bank governor Slawomir Skrzypek and several senior government officials were also among those on board t ...
  • Iraqis rally on anniversary of US occupation
    Tens of thousands of Iraqis have gathered in the holy city of Najaf to mark the seventh anniversary of the US-led occupation of the country in 2003. Carrying Iraqi flags and shouting slogans such as "Yes, yes to unity" and "Sunni and Shia Muslims, we won't sell this country," protestors marched acr ...
  • Hundreds protest Israeli wall, settlements
    Palestinians and foreign nationals were arrested across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem on Friday, as Israeli forces dispersed weekly protests against Israel's wall and settlements. Four international peace activists were detained during a protest supporting Palestinian families from East ...
  • People Power: Thailand protestors seize TV satelli ...
    Thai security forces fired tear gas and water cannon at anti-government protesters yesterday as thousands invaded a satellite station demanding that the opposition television station be put back on air. The spasm of violence at the compound 35 miles north of Bangkok was the most serious confrontat ...
  • New Moon Rock Is Fit for a King
    People don't discover a new type of moon rock every day, so consider the odds of finding one rich in a mineral that England's King Henry V wore on his battle helmet. And then imagine spotting, right on the Man in the Moon's nose, huge and previously unknown deposits of another mineral from the same ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Transaction costs
    Once upon a time Canadian foreign policy, especially in the realm of peace and security, was centred on the United Nations the exercise of [relative] impartiality when dealing with parties in conflict. Canadian governments typically officially sat out of the various post-war ideological and post/ne ...
  • Corruption?! Naw. Not in BC politics.
    Unless this counts . VICTORIA — Liberal insider T. Richard Turner personally warned cabinet minister Kevin Krueger that his company would back away from its plan to build a $450-million casino and hotel project next to BC Place Stadium if the government did not proceed with a retractable roof fo ...
  • Slobarrific . . .
    REGRETFUL MORNING has a page, " 24 White Trash Gaming Rigs " with some awesome pictures of chaos in a small place. WARNING: RM is NOT politically-correct, so don't get the tighty-whities in a wedgie.
  • Dear 800 pound gorillas at Facebook...
    You are displaying all the attributes of complete morons. Apparently, Facebook, that faceless social networking giant that really wants to be the market square, inner-city pub and urban playground of the world, doesn't like the idea of someone depicting the image of an infant being fed by its mothe ...
  • The Bureau of Silly Walks is Alive and Well!
    This is the evening ceremony for closing the Indian/Pakistani border. Travel On The Dollar calls the Wagah Border the ‘Berlin Wall’ of Asia. Soldiers from both countries march in perfect drill, going through the steps of bringing down their respective national flags. But the striking feature of the ...

Media Matters for America

  • Right-wing media mockery ignores Obama's nuclear ...
    After President Obama reacted to Sarah Palin's criticism of his nuclear policy by stating that she is "not much of an expert on nuclear issues," right-wing media figures responded by denigrating Obama's own nuclear expertise prior to assuming the presidency. In fact, as a U.S. senator, Obama co ...
  • Hannity falsely claimed "50 percent of American h ...
    Fox News' Sean Hannity falsely claimed that "50 percent of American households no longer pay taxes." In fact, while 47 percent of American households pay no federal income taxes, according to the Tax Policy Center, the "vast majority" of these households reportedly pay other taxes. From the ...
  • Perino falsely suggested Cadillac tax "carve-out" ...
    Dana Perino falsely suggested that health care reform allowed unions a "carve-out" so that their high-cost "Cadillac" healthcare plans would not be taxed, but those of "the rest of us" would be taxed. In fact, changes made to the Senate health care reform bill delays the application and increases t ...
  • After denouncing "Buy America" provisions, Moore ...
    Stephen Moore criticized the stimulus act for allowing California to use federal stimulus funds to pay the Chinese government to help develop the state's high-speed rail line. But Moore previously stated opposition to provisions that would require federal funds to be spent in the U.S., and d ...
  • Myths and falsehoods surrounding Supreme Court va ...
    With the retirement of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, Media Matters revisits some common myths and falsehoods pushed by right-wing media in their effort to undermine the confirmation process and attack anyone President Obama nominates to replace Stevens. MYTH: Liberals -- but not co ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Your Guide to National Nuke Policy History Month
    Busy times indeed for US nuclear weapons policy makers. The administration today released the first Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) in eight years (and the first ever to be published as an unclassified document). On Thursday, President Obama and Russian President Medvedev rendezvous in Prague to sign t ...
  • I Recant: Conservative Ardor For Israel Is Not Mot ...
    Oh my God. All the usual suspects are going after me because I said (and it's recorded) that conservatives like Israel because the Israeli Defense Forces kills Muslims. Jonathan Chait whose ignorance of the Middle East matches his intelligence on domestic issues calls me out big time. But, he ...
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  • Israel's Pentagon Papers
    Common sense tells you that the Israeli military, charged with keeping Israeli citizens as safe as possible, should have the right to keep operational plans secret; and that the government--acting within bounds set by the judiciary--should have the right to censor any stories about such plans and pr ...
  • The Best Quote On AIPAC EVER!
    You never know where Jeff Goldberg will end up on a particular issue except that he will never deviate more than a few degrees from the AIPAC line. It is then no surprise that his piece today is called "AIPAC Is Good For The Jews." Goldberg offers a quote from famed political scientist, Walter R ...

TruthOut

  • Ex Bush Official Willing to Testify Bush, Cheney K ...
    Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld once declared that individuals captured by the US military in the aftermath of 9/11 and shipped off to the Guantanamo Bay prison facility represented the "worst of the worst." "If you think of the people down there, these are people, all of whom were capt ...
  • A Supreme Court Shift to the Right?
    Washington - Here is an unsettling thought for those who waited eight years to have a Democratic president appointing judges: Barack Obama could well end his first term with a more conservative Supreme Court than the one he inherited. This is, I hasten to admit, premature speculation -- even with t ...
  • US and Russia Sign New Nuclear Arms Reduction Trea ...
    President Obama and President Dmitri Medvedev of Russia signed a major nuclear arms control treaty on Thursday that aims to reduce existing nuclear stockpiles of both countries. At the signing ceremony in Prague, where President Obama gave a speech last April calling for a world without nuclear wea ...
  • Hollywood Documentary Calls for Zero Nuclear Weapo ...
    Washington - Hollywood and Silicon Valley leaders have teamed up with Middle Eastern royalty and high-level U.S. diplomats to send a message to heads of state who are gathering here in Washington next week: the world needs to reduce its nuclear arsenal to zero as soon as possible. read more
  • Nurses' Unions for Health Care
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Planetsave

  • NASA Giving Climate Science Funding a 62% Boost
    NASA planning a 62% boost in climate science funding by 2015, to make up for cuts made during the George W. Bush administration. NASA has announced a dramatic climate science budget increase this month. Although, it is really just a correction for dramatic budget cuts made during the George W. Bus ...
  • Trader Joe’s Offers Sustainable Seafood Than ...
    Trader Joe's will offer only sustainable seafood by the end of 2012. Greenpeace successfully targets Trader Joe’s and convinces the supermarket chain to adopt sustainable seafood practices by the end 2010. I have to admit the folks at Greenpeace are quite effective, resourceful, and clever. The NGO ...
  • Americans Want Focus on Energy over Environment
    For the first time in 10 years Americans believe that increasing energy supplies should be prioritized over the environmental conservation. For the first time since the question was first asked by Gallup in 2001 – at which point 52% of respondents favoured environment over energy production – ...
  • American’s Want Focus on Energy over Environment
    For the first time in 10 years Americans believe that increasing energy supplies should be prioritized over the environmental conservation. For the first time since the question was first asked by Gallup in 2001 – at which point 52% of respondents favoured environment over energy production – ...
  • American Waterways Seeing Temperature Increases
    According to a new study published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment water temperatures are increasing in many streams and rivers throughout the United States. “Warming waters can impact the basic ecological processes taking place in our nation’s rivers and streams,” said Dr. ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Public Citizen in Texas

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • True Cost of Cheap Food
    peoplebeforeprofitDSC00464_1.jpg How does cheap food contribute to global hunger?� Tim Wise, a former Grassroots International Executive Director, recently wrote an article in Resurgence magazine explaining the contradictory nature of food an ...
  • Haitian Led Reconstruction and Development
    Subheadline:� A compilation of recommendation documents from several Haitian civil society and diaspora conferences, organizations and coalitions Haiti_leader.JPG Grassroots Intern ...
  • Honoring Land Day in 2010, and Remembering Its Roo ...
    4420070025_7d496d4fc5_b1.jpg � Sakhnin is a Palestinian village nestled between the mountains of Israel’s Galilee and is known for at least 3,500 years of agrarian tradition. It wasn’t until March 30, 1976, however, that the people of Sakhnin ...
  • Water Rights -- What's Wrong?
    bechtel-water.jpg Frankly,�a lot! read more
  • Combating Hunger by Reforesting Haiti
    � Last August, I stood in Haiti’s Artibonite valley with several peasant organizers and looked out at the mountains leading up to the Central Plateau. The older leaders in the group explained in depth how green the mountains once were, while the younger organizers and I listened in amazement. The tr ...

Climate

  • April 9, 2010
    Climate Talks Reopen in Bonn (Guardian) Top of the agenda is how countries respond to the Copenhagen accord, the non-legally binding deal that was pushed through by a small group of countries in a bitter atmosphere in the last few hours of the UN conference. Oil and Gas Leases on Hold ...
  • April 8, 2010
    Schism Remains as World Bank Votes on $3B Coal Plant Loan (Washington Post) The World Bank votes today on whether to lend $3 billion to South Africa's state-owned utility to build a giant coal plant over objections of environment groups and trade unions who say the money should be spent on ...
  • April 7, 2010
    Is the UK Set for a Green Election? (Business Green) As Gordon Brown fires the starting pistol on what promises to be the closest election in decades, green business leaders ask whether the low carbon economy could prove a vote winner. James Hansen Wins $100,000 Award for Climate Work (Reuter ...
  • April 6, 2010
    U.S. Sued Over Nuclear Waste Fees (New York Times) Sixteen utilities and a trade association sued the Energy Department to halt the government’s collection of nuclear waste disposal fees, arguing that the country no longer has a disposal plan. Industry Groups Challenge EPA's Reconsideration o ...
  • April 5, 2010
    Drilling Plan May Buoy Efforts on U.S. Energy Policy (New York Times) As Sen. Lindsey Graham prods Republicans to respond to younger voters’ environmental concerns, there is a chance of offsetting Democratic defections on the climate bill. “There’s a path to five or six Republicans,” Carol Brow ...

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

  • By the Way, Conservatism is Dead
    Recently there's been a lot of speculation about why the mood on the right has turned so sour. Some observers attribute it to the lack of leadership at the top of the Republican Party, the surreal reality that Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh have more influence than do elected Republicans. Others say ...
  • Advertising Bullshit
    I just arrived home after a week on the road, part of it in London. At Heathrow, I was struck by two fantastically ill-conceived Accenture billboard advertisements. The first was a Photoshopped image of an elephant riding a wave on a surfboard. The caption read, "Who says you can't be both big and n ...
  • Massey Energy Bought Workers Comp Insurance Covera ...
    Massey Energy Corp., owner of the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia where at least 25 miners were killed April 5 in a methane gas explosion, apparently arranged for and purchased disability compensation insurance coverage only a month before the disaster, according to one source with inside kno ...
  • Capitalism's Achilles Heel: The Cassano Loophole
    There is a glitch in the system. Alan Greenspan famously said after the collapse that he had "found a flaw" in his free market ideology. He added, "Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholder's equity (myself especially) are in a state of shocked d ...
  • Injecting Dred Scott into health-care debate
    How Dred-ful. As in Dred Scott, a slave denied his freedom by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1857. Tom Corbett and Charles Crist behaved dreadfully when they injected race into their respective political campaigns in Pennsylvania and Florida, the two most populous swing states. They now tie for first in ...

Ten Percent

  • Yeah, But They Really Needed That Billion
    In 2009, the worst economic year for working people since the Great Depression, the top 25 hedge fund managers walked off with an average of $1 billion each. With the money those 25 people “earned,” we could have hired 658,000 entry level teachers. (They make about $38,000 a year, including benefits ...
  • Friday! Malcolm McLaren & The Bootzilla Orchestra- ...
    So we know Madonna was a fan! PS. Should have said this sooner, as vid clips can be embedded in comments and commenters started doing it spontaneously, which is most splendid, please add clips when you get the urge.
  • Vote Shock Doctrine
    The Neoliberal consensus lack of democratic choice is in, all parties are rejecting social democracy and embracing an agenda of Neoliberal cuts, not really news but today they all made it clear, so that no voter can say oops, I really didn’t realise this was going to happen. So with no alternative - ...
  • Danziger Bridge
    Testimony by Officer Michael Hunter of the attack by police on civilians in New Orleans after Katrina- When the officers stopped firing, defendant HUNTER walked toward the back of the truck on the passenger side. While defendant HUNTER was still on the passenger side of the truck, near the walkway, ...
  • The Worst Of The Worst
    We knew this, but maybe there were true believers in the White House? No. As cynical as it gets- George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld covered up that hundreds of innocent men were sent to the Guantánamo Bay prison camp because they feared that releasing them would harm the push for war in ...

Booman Tribune

  • Buchanan Says the South Was Right in Civil War
    When Chris Matthews asked Pat Buchanan who was right in the Civil War, Buchanan responded: "I think in a way both sides were right. Lincoln had a right to save the Union. I think they [the South] had a right to go free." It's awfully generous of Buchanan to acknowledge Lincoln's right to pres ...
  • My Third Cousin Killed in Afghanistan
    I just learned that one of the soldiers who died in the crash of an Osprey aircraft in Afghanistan was a third cousin of mine. I did not know him personally, but by all accounts he was a great guy, and much beloved by his immediate family and one of my aunts who was very close to his mother. I ...
  • Quote of the Day
    Steve Benen: Now, when it comes to experience on nuclear issues, Palin is not only confused about the policy, she's also confused about Obama. As a senator, some of Obama's most impressive work came when he teamed with Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) to work on counter-proliferation. And as president, Obama ...
  • Frivolous Friday Open Thread
    Funny? Accurate? The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cThe Big Bang Treatywww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorTea Party What's on your agenda this weekend?
  • Justice Stevens Retiring
    Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has made it official; he is retiring at the end of this term. I think the following excerpt makes it clear how important it is that Obama fight for a liberal replacement. "I don’t think of myself as a liberal at all," he told me during a recent intervie ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Form, functionality and tradition: why aren’ ...
    The snap answer is “because no one ever made a flat lightbulb“, but Wired UK now puts the lie to that one: someone displayed a flat lightbulb concept at a design show back in 2008, apparently, though it seems never to have made it to production. The second (and more considered) answer would probably ...
  • Crop circles
    BoingBoing is currently playing host to one Jaques Vallee as guestblogger, and he’s been riling up the (admittedly easily-riled) BB comment-swarm by talking with some degree of seriousness about crop circles. [image by trodas] I’ve got a real weak spot for crop circles, because I grew up in a part o ...
  • Shine anthology contributors interviewed
    The SF Signal gang have turned over the microphone (er, keyboard) to Charles Tan to publish a set of interviews with the authors whose stories appear in the Shine anthology of optimistic science fiction, mentioned here many times previously. Shine features a decent number of Futurismic fiction alumn ...
  • William Gibson on the cyberpunk obsession with bra ...
    Having recently completed his forthcoming novel Zero History, William Gibson is kicking back at his blog and fielding questions from the intertubes; if you want an insight into the man’s attitudes and philosophies (toward his work, and the world in general), you’d be well advised to tune in. This on ...
  • The ethics of pirating ebooks
    Via Ars Technica, here’s a New York Times columnist reframing the pirated-ebooks debate as an ethical issue rather than a legal one, in response to a question asking whether it was wrong to download a pirated ebook version of a book already owned in hardcopy. His answer: it’s not legal, but it could ...

Therapy News

  • Body Piercing Explored: Deviance Indicator or Not?
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Body piercing is an activity that has been practiced by various cultures around the world for quite some time, but which has recently gained popularity in the west, particularly among adolescents and young adults. A review of studies on the subject of body piercing r ...
  • Male Sexual Abuse of Boys – An Examination of Both ...
    By Roni Weisberg-Ross, L.M.F.T., Abuse / Survivors of Abuse Topic Expert Contributor Child sexual abuse is as much about power and domination as it is about compulsion. The object – female, male or both – is a reflection of erotic imagery and fantasy. But the action encapsulates repressed rage tha ...
  • Parenting Adult Children – Alcohol & Drug Addictio ...
    By Mary Ellen Barnes, Ph.D. & Ed Wilson, Ph.D., MAC, Drug & Alcohol Addiction Topic Expert Contributors Click here to contact Mary Ellen and/or see her Profile Click here to contact Ed and/or see his Profile Over the years, we have written many articles for ezines.com and every month they send us a ...
  • Fatherless Children Due To Divorce
    By Jim Hutt, Ph.D., Family Problems Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jim and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile One of the saddest parts of working with families of divorce is the tragedy of fathers who have lost access to their children. Failed access has severe consequences on both ...
  • Teens and Friendship
    By Kelly Sanders, MFT, Child & Adolescent Issues Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Kelly and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile When your child is growing up, they enjoy being around you and it’s a great feeling. They don’t want to be away from you, they listen to what you say, they thi ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • EPA Addresses Mountaintop Removal Mining, Water He ...
    The Guardian (blog) EPA Addresses Mountaintop Removal Mining, Water Heater Efficiency Environmental Leader The Environmental Protection Agency on April 1 announced new rules on mountaintop removal mining, as well as new efficiency standards for water heaters. ... New EPA rules to limit mountaintop ...
  • Satellite Photos Reveal How Mountaintop Removal Is ...
    Treehugger Satellite Photos Reveal How Mountaintop Removal Is Scarring Appalachia Treehugger 9.10 From high-profile protests to rowdy political debates, coal-mining by the way of mountaintop removal is a hotly-contended issue. ...
  • Rolling in the mud with Reverend Billy - Gay City ...
    Rolling in the mud with Reverend Billy Gay City News The rousing Earth Day event focuses on the issue of mountain top removal in Appalachia, with special guests from affected areas in Coal River Valley, ... and more��
  • Earth Week activities at Appalachian - Appalachian ...
    Earth Week activities at Appalachian Appalachian State University Larry Gibson will lecture on “ Mountaintop Removal Mining” April 22 from 4-5 pm in Plemmons Student Union's Linville Falls Room. His family land located on ...
  • After W.Va. Mine Deaths, How Much Political Troubl ...
    The Hindu After W.Va. Mine Deaths, How Much Political Trouble Is Coal Industry In? New York Times The explosion was caused by the same profit-at-all-costs culture that leads coal companies to ignore the ecological consequences of mountaintop-removal ... Massey Energy, West Virginia Mine Owner, Draw ...

Memeorandum

  • Pick a politician for the Supreme Court (Ezra Klei ...
    Ezra Klein : Pick a politician for the Supreme Court   —  My first thought on hearing that Justice Stevens was retiring was that it'd be nice to see him replaced by a legislator with legal training rather than another lawyer.  As Matt Yglesias writes, “this is one of these things that pundits …
  • President of Poland Killed in Plane Crash in Russi ...
    New York Times : President of Poland Killed in Plane Crash in Russia   —  MOSCOW — A plane carrying the Polish president, Lech Kaczynski, his wife and other high-ranking officials crashed in a heavy fog in western Russia on Saturday morning, killing all aboard, Polish officials said.
  • Gingrich: Obama is 'most radical president ever' ( ...
    Ron Fournier / Associated Press : Gingrich: Obama is ‘most radical president ever’   —  NEW ORLEANS - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a potential presidential candidate in 2012, called Barack Obama on Thursday “the most radical president in American history” who oversees a “secular, socialist ...
  • Stupak won't seek reelection (The Politico)
    The Politico : Stupak won't seek reelection   —  Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), who played a central role in the health reform fight as the leader of anti-abortion Democrats, announced that he will not run for reelection Friday afternoon, saying he wanted to spend more time with his family.
  • Anger over health-care reform spurs rise in threat ...
    Washington Post : Anger over health-care reform spurs rise in threats against Congress members   —  Anger over the health-care overhaul has led to a nearly threefold increase in recent months in the number of serious threats against members of Congress, federal law enforcement officials said.

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Secure investment strategies (2)
    Far from serving China’s interests, protectionism in the water sector is stifling innovation. In the conclusion of a two-part article, Hu Yusha says it’s time to let more foreigners in. Politically ambitious regulations in China have created wastewater-discharge standards that are comparable to thos ...
  • Secure investment strategies (1)
    Modern infrastructure is urgently needed to combat China’s water crisis. New regulations will help, but incentivising private spending is also crucial, argues Hu Yusha. Strategic water management is crucial to China’s social stability, economic prosperity, food security and long-term environmental s ...
  • Racing to save India’s tigers (2)
    Problems faced by both country and cat stem from poverty, illiteracy and overpopulation. But, writes Gethin Chamberlain, complacency is not endemic and volunteers are defending woodland habitats from poachers and loggers. Tiger Watch ’s approach to poaching is clearly having an effect, but that has ...
  • Racing to save India’s tigers (1)
    As conservationists argue over the number of the country’s big cats still living in the wild, radical steps are needed if the species is to survive. Gethin Chamberlain reports. The poachers perch on the rough platforms they have built in the trees about five metres above the forest floor, waiting pa ...
  • Venturing forth
    Major investors around the world are turning their attention to clean technology. John Elkington visited Silicon Valley – California’s high-tech hub – and found cause for cheer. It is always exciting to be in California, particularly when the venture-capital community there is working itself up into ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Burning Man Rethinks Its Legal Ownership of Your P ...
    With the annual Burning Man celebration of art and self-expression four months away, its organizers are taking a second look at their Draconian photo and video policies. As it is now, the Burning Man Organization requires ticket purchasers to assign to the group the legal rights of photos and video ...
  • Identity Thieves Filed For $4 Million in Tax Refun ...
    A group of sophisticated identity thieves managed to steal more than $4 million by filing bogus tax returns using the names and Social Security numbers of other people, many of them deceased, according to a 74-count indictment unsealed in Arizona Thursday. The thieves operated their scheme for at l ...
  • Spam a Judge, Go To Jail?
    A litigant in a civil lawsuit asked an appeals court Wednesday to overturn his 30-day contempt sentence for urging people to send e-mail to a federal judge. Lots of e-mail. The brouhaha began in February, when TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau urged his radio and web followers to deluge U.S. District Judge ...
  • Lawsuit Says McAfee Plays Loose With Customer Data
    McAfee, a household name for computer virus-protection, is facing accusations it dupes customers into purchasing third-party services, and hands over consumer banking information to enable those transactions. A proposed federal class action in San Francisco claims that, once McAfee customers purchas ...
  • Bank of America Employee Charged With Planting Mal ...
    A Bank of America worker installed malicious software on his employer’s ATMs that allowed him to make thousands of dollars in fraudulent withdrawals, all without leaving a transaction record, according to federal prosecutors. Rodney Reed Caverly, 37, was a member of the bank’s IT staff when he ...

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Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

  • IOT: End War and Occupations, Redirect Funding Ap ...
    Since several people tried unsuccessfully to join this month’s call, we’re happy to compensate for faulty technology with the recording from this rich and informative conference. Mary Nichols-Rhodes spoke first, describing the plans for the ...
  • We Must Speak
    By Norman Solomon “A time comes when silence is betrayal.” The night after President Obama’s recent visit to Afghanistan, I couldn’t sleep. As much as his rhetoric, the president’s attire spoke of a callousing escalation. We seemed to ...
  • PDA Field Report 3/26/10 – 4/2/10
    PDA Field Report 3/26/10 – 4/2/10 IMPORTANT: • We have 100 Brown Bag Lunch Vigils confirmed for April 21st. Let’s keep them coming! Remember that this is tax month so spend some time on the National Priorities Project ...
  • IOT: Special Clean, Fair, Transparent Elections M ...
    Special Clean, Fair, Transparent Elections call with John Bonifaz on the Free Speech for People campaign, 3/31/10 John Bonifaz—former PDA board member, legal director of Voter Action, director of Free Speech for People, and active PDA ...
  • Crazy From the Ground Up
    by: William Rivers Pitt, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed Author’s Note: Sometimes, the best way to celebrate April Fools’ Day is by spotlighting some actual there-but-by-the-grace-of-God-go-I fools, genuine and in ...

Marler Blog

  • Teaching - "Why it is a bad idea to poison your cu ...
    I landed a few hours ago from DC, and will be turning around on Monday AM to head back - rumor has it that S. 510 might actually move - I do not want to miss it.  On the way, I'll detour through Minneapolis to give a series of lectures of Foodborne Illness Litigation, or as I like to tell future bus ...
  • Washington State Day Care linked to E. coli O157:H ...
    I just landed a few hours ago from being in "the other Washington."� It was hard to see news of yet another E. coli O157:H7 outbreak that has taken the life of a child.� According to press reports, a Clark County day care was closed after an outbreak of E. coli infections that led to the death of ...
  • North American Bison Co-Op Recalls Cow Tonsils Due ...
    North American Bison Co-Op, a New Rockford, N.D., establishment is recalling approximately 25,000 pounds of whole beef heads containing tongues that may not have had the tonsils completely removed, which is not compliant with regulations that require the removal of tonsils from cattle of all ages, t ...
  • Whole Foods Market Recalls Tuna Due to Scombroid F ...
    Whole Foods Market announced the recall of its Whole Catch Yellow fin Tuna Steaks (frozen) with a best by date of Dec 5th, 2010 because of possible elevated levels of histamine that may result in symptoms that generally appear within minutes to an hour after eating the affected fish. The product, s ...
  • About-E. coli, About-Campylobacter, About-Hepatiti ...
    We have been working on updating www.about-ecoli.com , www.about-campylobacter.com , www.about-hepatitis.com and www.about-salmonella.com and have finally finished the upgrades.  In addition to updating the content to reflect the newest information on the "bugs," we added a new section called "One F ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 04.09.10
    Greenlings: Which is greener, having two wheels or four? Not as easy a calculation as it could be. Think wants to hear your suggestions for upcoming City EV Who wants a less-powerful battery ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 04.08.10
    New York 2010: Tiny Spin in the Amp'd Equinox all-electric SUV Another step completed for the Midwest EV company, some more to go. Zetsche admits Daimler couldn't have financed Smart revival without Renaul ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 04.07.10
    Turbodiesel Ford Mustang? Could happen in Europe someday... Would you want it here? Video: Nissan compares Leaf electric car to a wood chair Hmmm, is this the right way to sell an EV? ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 04.06.10
    What's the real cost of new CAFE regulations? Millions, billions, nothing? Take the long view. It looks better. Report: Writer stands behind story, says Aptera still plans to export 2e from China to U.S ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 04.05.10
    KGLERB stands for potential fuel tax increase based on carbon content in U.S. The future will be tricky. Colorado tax credit makes electric motorcycles really cheap (like $3,000 cheap) ...

Rafe's Radar

  • Reporters' Roundtable: The Web meets the TV (podca ...
    Today's show: Internet meets your TV. Or, the elusive set-top Internet box. We're going to talk about how the Web is coming to television, both for video programming and other content. Because, really, we all want to surf Facebook on our TVs, don't we? No? How about Hulu? Our guests for this ...
  • Reporters' Roundtable: Google vs. Apple (podcast)
    Today's topic: Google vs. Apple. Or, "It all started out so well." When Google and Apple first started to get to know each other, it looked like a match made in heaven: Apple had Macs and Macbooks running its own operating system and browser, and it wanted to provide non-Microsoft apps and ser ...
  • Coming up at 6 p.m.: CNET Showcase on 3D TVs strea ...
    We're getting ready for our first live demo event for tech consumers--this one focused on 3D televisions. Don't miss it. Originally posted at CNET Showcase ...
  • If you can, buy your iPad books from Amazon
    Both Apple and Amazon have good readers for the iPad, but Amazon gives you more flexibility. Originally posted at CNET to the Rescue
  • Coming April 8: CNET Showcase--3D in the home
    I'm happy to announce that we're launching a little event series here in San Francisco, called CNET Showcase . Our goal is to bring local tech enthusiasts together to talk about new consumer technologies with the people who are studying them and making them. And--bonus!--we want to give ... Original ...

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!

  • COMING UP: Once-Banned Muslim Scholar Tariq Ramada ...
    Scholar Tariq Ramadan was banned from the United States for six years. He’s just been allowed back in and arrived in New York on Wednesday night. Tune in to Democracy Now! Friday for an extended interview with Tariq Ramadan, Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at the University of Oxford in t ...
  • Part II...The Dangers and Difficulties of Reportin ...
    We speak with two journalists who have covered Gaza extensively about the dangers and difficulties of reporting from the Occupied Territories. Mohammed Omer, an award-winning Palestinian journalist was interrogated and beaten by armed Israeli security guards on his way back home to Gaza after recei ...
  • Collateral Murder in Iraq
    A United States military video was released this week showing the indiscriminate targeting and killing of civilians in Baghdad. The nonprofit news organization WikiLeaks obtained the video and made it available on the Internet. The video was made July 12, 2007, by a U.S. military Apache helicopter ...
  • The Obscenity of War
    President Barack Obama has just returned from his first trip as commander in chief to Afghanistan. The U.S.-led invasion and occupation of that country are now in their ninth year, amid increasing comparisons to Vietnam. Daniel Ellsberg, whom Henry Kissinger once called “the most dangerous man in ...
  • Part II: Daniel Ellsberg on US Foreign Policy
    Part II of our conversation with Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg. He speaks on the under-reported leaked memos of US Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry, US Policy on Iran, and more. In 1971, the then-RAND Corporation analyst Daniel Ellsberg leaked to the media what became kn ...

Farming Pathogens

  • The Alan Greenspan Strain
    First, a question with which few biogeographers bother. If a goodly chunk of their discipline is dedicated toward obfuscating the impact capitalism imposes on the natural world (discussed here and here), how can researchers interested in paying their bills study the crises that threaten the croupier ...
  • 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, [...]

Digg Green

  • Why Does Google Want Your Power Bill?
    Google wants to make sure everyone has more and better information about how much energy we use. Is this brilliant or creepy?
  • Millions of Sea Turtles Killed Accidentally?
    Millions, not thousands, of sea turtles have been unintentionally killed by fishing operations in the last 20 years, a new report says.
  • Locusts invade town in Queensland, Australia
    A swarm of locusts has invaded a town in Queensland, Australia, stripping much of the plantlife bare.
  • Wind Turbine: INside Look (Graphic)
    Wind turbines harness the power of the wind and use it to generate electricity. When the wind turns the blades, shaft that is connected to the generator spins, and makes electricity without the burning of fossil fuels. Take a look inside this wind turbine to know the various parts of it.
  • Coal Mine Disaster Shows Economics Still Trumps Sa ...
    This week's disaster in West Virginia brings with it grim but familiar images and headlines, a new chapter in American coal mining's sometimes tragic legacy. The accident also reminds us that, despite federal and private-sector plans for adding alternative energy sources to the national grid, the na ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Riding in the Back of the Universe’s Long Bl ...
    By Les Visible We see where people and groups are combusting due to intolerable pressure; be it psychic, financial, environmental or any other cause. Whole nations are rising up in a collective anger and rejection at what they have endured for so long and which has been intensifying as well. The whi ...
  • Arctic Sea Ice Melting Season Posts Latest Start o ...
    By Alex Morales April 6 (Bloomberg) — The extent of sea ice over the Arctic Ocean grew until the last day of March, the latest the annual melting season has begun in 31 years of satellite records, the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center said. Cold weather and winds from the north over the Bering ...
  • Scientists’ use of computer models to predic ...
    By David A. Fahrenthold The computer models used to predict climate change are far more sophisticated than the ones that forecast the weather, elections or sporting results. They are multilayered programs in which scientists try to replicate the physics behind things such as rainfall, ocean currents ...
  • For the World is Hollow … and I Have Touched ...
    So yes, what you are staring at (probably, in shock at this point …) is, in fact … nothing less than what we’ve been saying all along … since trying to educate the first Bush Administration on this data, in 1989 (see below): That Phobos is, in fact– An “ancient … ex terrestrial … very battered … [.. ...
  • Seasonal flu vaccines increase risk of pandemic H1 ...
    By Mike Adams I remember the H1N1 “swine flu” season of 2009 very well. People were rushing out to get vaccinated, scared half to death by the mainstream media which was pushing false reports that the swine flu would kill tens of millions of people and that only a vaccine could save you. The CDC and ...

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware. George Green will be a featured speaker. September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CA Click here for Tickets & Reservations  
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the Ame ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to put an ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catas ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-openin ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to focus ...

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Twilight Earth

  • The Great Potomac River Watershed Cleanup 2010
    Pulling trash from a river, creek or wetland. There is no better way to spend a Saturday. Related posts: Photo Sunday – Great Falls National Park Kayaking Pics of the Potomac Rivers – Pohick Bay Shell Wants to Divert Yampa River Water for Oil Shale Development
  • Explosion at West Virginia Massey Coal Mine Kills ...
    A huge explosion ripped through a West Virginia coal mine operated by Massey Energy Co. and headed by Don Blankenship, killing 25 miners. Related posts: Coal’s Health Costs In Appalachia Outweigh Economic Benefits Massey Energy is Blasting on Coal River Mountain, Endangering Local Lives -Vid ...
  • Chinese Coal Ship Smashes into Great Barrier Reef ...
    A Chinese coal ship carrying 950 metric tons of fuel oil, stranded off the coast of Australia, is breaking apart and spilling coal and fuel oil onto the Great Barrier reef. Related posts: Worlds Largest Underwater City – The Great Barrier Reef Second Coal Company Sludge Spill – Bad For the C ...
  • Photo Sunday – Easter and Passover – Renewal and R ...
    This week celebrates both Christian and Jewish Holidays and traditions. Both of these traditions represent a celebration of overcoming death and a time of hope realized. Related posts: Photo Sunday – All Things to All People Photo Sunday – The Meaning of Sacrifice Photo Sunday – When its Ra ...
  • Tea Partiers and Suicide Bombers (cartoon)
    In case either group needs some guidance, click here. Follow Mean Joe Green (Joe Mohr) at JoeMohrToons.com and on Twitter at @GreenCartoons… Related posts:School Lunch Reform? I Dont Think So! (Cartoon) Monsanto News Roundup – A Frankenfood Extravaganza of GMO News Articles One Million Acts ...

Inhabitat

  • Artist EVOL Transforms Lackluster Urban Spaces int ...
    Urban spaces that host sparse enclaves or non-descript architecture are more likely to spark feelings of banality rather than inspiration. So when we spotted the work of Berlin based street artist EVOL, we were brought to our knees (literally!) by the sight of a transformation of electric boxes, sma ...
  • Beauty Parlor Hairdryer Transformed Into Phone Boo ...
    A group of Danish students have created a super cute phone booth from an old beauty parlor hair dryer. Who knew lookin’ like a grandma could be so cool? The design is genius and seamlessly uses one device’s form and function and molds it into another completely different object. They rewired the thi ...
  • Scientists Develop First Underwater Robot Powered ...
    Everyone loves a cool robot, and this new one blows others out of the water. A team of researchers recently developed Sounding Oceanographic Lagrangrian Observer Thermal RECharging (SOLO-TREC), the world’s first underwater robotic vehicle powered entirely by thermal energy, a completely renewable re ...
  • From Bauhaus to HUF HAUS: Energy Efficient Prefab ...
    German company HUF HAUS is offering gorgeous green houses to the masses by bringing Bauhaus style to factory-made green homes. The company’s signature post-and-beam construction allows for big open spaces, and they serve them up with solar panels and even an optional geothermal heating system. T ...
  • San Francisco’s W Hotel Makes LEED history
    The four diamond W San Francisco hotel has made history by earning the first LEED certification of an existing building belonging to a major hotel brand.

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Bats, Birds and Lizards Can Fight Climate Change
    Birds, bats and lizards may play an important role in Earth’s climate by protecting plants from insects that forage on foliage. A new study suggests that preserving these animals could be a low-tech way to fight climate change. “The presence, abundance and diversity of birds, bats and lizards, the ...
  • Tipping Point Not Likely for Arctic Sea Ice
    A late-winter expansion of Arctic sea ice is a good example of ice-forming dynamics that could keep the Arctic from hitting a “tipping point” in the near future. Some scientists have predicted that rising temperatures could create a runaway feedback loop in the Arctic. Sunlight-reflecting ice sheet ...
  • High-Speed Video Shows How Flies Change Direction ...
    Fruit flies turn in midair with a shrug of their shoulders. A new analysis shows that the flies’ aerial gymnastics are driven by wing joints that act like wind-up toys, letting the bugs whirl around almost automatically. Insights from the study, which was published online April 5 in Physical Review ...
  • Copycats Prevail in Computer Survival Game
    Being a maverick doesn’t pay, at least not when braving a strange new world in a computer game that’s like Survivor meets Second Life. The outcome of a computerized game tournament, which finds that a copycat strategy is best, may help explain why mimicking others is so prevalent in nature. The new ...
  • Venus Orbiter Finds Potential Active Volcanoes
    The Venus Express spacecraft has found convincing evidence that Earth is not the only geologically active planet in the solar system. Infrared emissions from lava flows on the surface of Venus indicate that they are relatively young, which means the planet may still be capable of volcanic eruptions ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Yesterday's Nuclear Weapons Inventories Today
    There’s really no better illustration of the fact that the nuclear status quo is a relic of the Cold War that we need to move beyond than to simply look at who owns the world’s nuclear arsenals : Obviously if you just look at the present-day strategic environment in terms of the fundamentals, this ...
  • Yesterday's Nuclear Weapons Inventories Threatenin ...
    There’s really no better illustration of the fact that the nuclear status quo is a relic of the Cold War that we need to move beyond than to simply look at who owns the world’s nuclear arsenals : Obviously if you just look at the present-day strategic environment in terms of the fundamentals, this ...
  • People, People, People -- Can We Be Serious, Pleas ...
    The Scene:  An Obama foreign policy (OFP) approaches the home of right-wing critic (RWC) OFP:  Knock, knock RWC: Who's there? OFP: Obam-- RWC: Why you dangerously naive anti-American appeaser!!! Eight years ago, the new Bush administration gave us 'Anything But Clinton (ABC)' foreign policies. Now w ...
  • Turkey's Complicated Middle East Role
    (Photo Credit: mr_smee44's Photostream ) The International Crisis Group (ICG) published a report earlier this week on " Turkey And The Middle East: Ambitions and Constraints ." The paper is an excellent primer on Turkey's growing and complicated role in the region. The report leads to the conclusi ...
  • Debunking Conservative Lies on Nuclear Modernizati ...
    A common refrain from those looking to oppose the START treaty, the newly released nuclear posture review, and more broadly Obama’s nuclear agenda, is that it is reckless to cut nuclear weapons when our nuclear arsenal is aging and deteriorating. Statements from Jon Kyl, John McCain , and Joe Lieb ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: I'm Sure the Party of Yes Will Ta ...
    I don't think there's any mystery about how Republicans are going to handle President Obama 's nominee to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stephens . Here are some revealing quotes from a short Wall Street Journal post on the retirement announcement (all emphasis mine). Mitch McConnell : "America ...
  • Pure Cheney.
    Liz Cheney' s attack on Obama for his handling of disputes with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is really quite remarkable: Afghan President Karzai, whose support we need if we are going to succeed in Afghanistan, is being treated to an especially dangero ...
  • Little Picture: The City That Care Forgot.
    The Treme Brass Band plays a jazz funeral in New Orleans, Louisiana. On Sunday, HBO will debut its series about the city after Katrina, and we here at TAP will be following along. Coincidentally, the Southern Republican Leadership Conference is being held in New Orleans through Sunday. (Flickr/ ...
  • The FCIC's Partisanship Problem.
    During yesterday's grilling of former Citigroup Executives Bob Rubin and Chuch Prince , Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Vice Chair Bill Thomas went on an extensive tirade about the political situation in the early 1990s, one that Noam Scheiber calls "one of the most breakthaking spectacles I've ...
  • Britain's Internet Invasion.
    In the wake of the FCC vs. Comcast decision earlier this week, a few possible paths forward on net neutrality opened up. Jack Balkin had a good rundown of them here . One option was for FCC to claw back the regulatory jurisdiction that it gave away in 2002 by reclassifying broadband as a communicat ...

Andy Worthington

  • Abu Zubaydah: Tortured for Nothing
    The story of Abu Zubaydah — a Saudi-born Palestinian whose real name is Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn — has always been absolutely central to the “War on Terror.” Seized in a house raid in Faisalabad, Pakistan on March 28, 2002, he was immediately touted as “al-Qaeda’s chief of operations a ...
  • Video: Andy Worthington Discusses the Closure of G ...
    On Tuesday, I was delighted to be invited to a TV studio on a boat on the Thames to take part in “Crosstalk” on Russia Today, hosted by Peter Lavelle. The other guest, who, I believe, was not obliged to endure the most miserable wind and rain to reach the equivalent studio in Washington D.C., [...]
  • An interview with Andy Worthington, author of “The ...
    The following interview, conducted by email, was published on the Pakistani website Celebrity Dialogue, run by blogger Zeeshan Kureshi, which describes itself as being “dedicated to bringing forward those who have made a difference in our world.” Celebrity Dialogue: Andy, we really appreciate the ti ...
  • Anger in Yemen Over Halt to Release of Cleared Gua ...
    I’m cross-posting below an article that was published on NPR’s website yesterday, primarily because the sister of Abdul Salam al-Hila (also identified as Abdulsalam al-Hela), a Yemeni colonel who was kidnapped in Egypt in 2002 and rendered to the CIA’s “Dark Prison” before his transfer to Guantánamo ...
  • “Victory at last!” by Guantánamo lawyer David Reme ...
    The following article, circulated as an email by Guantánamo lawyer David Remes this morning, apparently caught a number of people off-guard, and David has subsequently found himself taken to task for circulating it. In contrast, I thought it was a perfect April Fools’ Day joke, and neatly encapsulat ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Welcome Back To The New and Improved New Milford B ...
    This is just a switch over to the new Blogger In Draft Templates ... But I plan on overhauling the place more, installing some better vats, dusting off the mugs and shot glasses. Be careful as you wander around and try not to knock over the cases of empties over on the side bar because recycling bro ...
  • Eric Cantor: "Dem Thugs Did This To Me!"
    From Jed Lewison : It's clear from the Richmond police statement that Cantor's office was not directly targeted. Rather, an office that he has used in the past (but not his main campaign office) was randomly struck by a bullet that had been fired into the sky. I'm not minimizing the dangers of ran ...
  • The view from here...
    Pretty sure you can guess where I am. Hope you had a nice green beer kind of weekend. :)
  • Grayson's Message Embraced By Florida Republicans
    That all mythical squishy middle centristy stuff that The Village preschoolers can not read or write beyond? The one that Obama keeps trying to to pander to and live off of while producing medicocre to pure crap legislation, IF he can get anything to pass at all, which is pissing everybody on all p ...
  • RIP Jon Swift
    A sad day for the entire Bloggosphere as Al Weisel, AKA Jon Swift, has passed away : The great Jon Swift has died. That's the "blogging" angle to a personal tragedy. In reality, the voice of Jon Swift - the hilarious faux conservative blogger whose talent and passion were evident in every post - bel ...

SPL Center

  • He’s Back: Robert Stacy McCain and the Washington ...
    Robert Stacy McCain, a former key Washington Times editor who has suggested that “perfectly rational people” react with “altogether natural revulsion” to interracial marriage, apparently has returned as a free-lancer to the newspaper he left in January 2008. In a “Special to The Washington Times†...
  • Microchip Implantation Feared as Sign of End Times
    Virginians who fret about being forcibly implanted with microchips were likely disappointed this week. A state bill that passed the House would have made it illegal for employers or insurance companies to require that the human tracking devices be embedded in people. Violators would have faced a $50 ...
  • Activist Sues Nativist Leader for Defamation – Aga ...
    San Diego Minutemen leader Jeff Schwilk is the adult equivalent of a small child who burns his finger on a stove and – learning nothing from the experience – does it again. Last May, Schwilk was ordered to pay $135,000 to Joanne Yoon, a Korean-American civil rights activist who had helped monitor Mi ...
  • 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 ...
  • Angels and Demons – Catholics in Conspiracy with O ...
    WASHINGTON, D.C. – Whether it’s suggesting President Obama is a secret Muslim from Kenya or a dictator eager to pull the plug on grandma, it seems there’s no conspiracy theory too outrageous for the antigovernment “Patriot” movement. That is, until Cliff Kincaid apparently crossed the line today. Ki ...

change: org.

  • Care About Animals? There's an App for That.
    With Apple's introduction of the iPad , people are once again looking at all of the things iPhone (and now iPad) applications can do. Whether you're a pet lover, a wildlife enthusiast, or a dedicated veg, there are apps for you. The latest buzz is about the Vegetarian Scanner , which scans food prod ...
  • Remembering Jaime Escalante
    When Jaime Escalante died of cancer on March 30, we lost a pioneering teacher who changed people's ideas of what children are capable of learning. Many people know about Escalante's work from the popular movie "Stand and Deliver," which depicted his success teaching Advanced Placement (AP) ca ...
  • Black Clergy Call for a Stop to Deportations
    A recent survey out of the Public Religion Research Institute found that a majority of Americans want clergy to raise their voices for immigration reform, and at least one group is listening to that call. Atlanta's Immigration and Customs Enforcement office was visited by a number of black servants ...
  • Seven-Year-Old Gang Raped in New Jersey
    Last week, a seven-year-old girl was gang raped in Trenton, New Jersey. The child followed her 15-year-old sister to a party, according to some reports because she was concerned for her big sib's safety, which is simultaneously adorable and heart-breaking. As Sarah Parker reports on the Human Traffi ...
  • California Throws Away Enough Food to Fill 35 Stad ...
    What's worse than being one of the five million people in California who can't afford to buy groceries? It's living in a state that wastes enough food each year to fill the Staples Center 35 times over. Despite an uptick in food insecurity, California throws away 6 million tons of edible food every ...

Common Dreams -News

  • The Death of Dawn Johnsen's Nomination
    by Glenn Greenwald After waiting 14 months for a confirmation vote that never came, Dawn Johnsen withdrew [Friday] as President Obama's nominee to head the Office of Legal Counsel.  As I  documented at length when the nomination was first announced in January, 2009, Johnsen was an absolutely superb ...
  • Polish President, His Wife, and Many Others Killed ...
    SMOLENSK, Russia – A plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski and much of the nation's ruling elite crashed landed in the Russian city of Smolensk on Saturday killing all 96 people on board. The Tupolev Tu-154 jet was carrying Kaczysnki and his wife, the military chief of staff, central ba ...
  • Dozens More Massey Mines Cited as Unsafe
    by Mike Lillis The federal investigators readying their probe into the massive explosion that killed at least 25 West Virginia coal miners this week might take note: The dozens of other active tunnel mines owned by the same energy company have run up thousands of safety violations this year alone, a ...
  • Maine Anti-War Campaign Nabs Resolution Victory in ...
    by Casey Conley City councilors have approved a resolution calling on Maine's U.S. Congressional delegation to oppose new funding for military campaigns in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Unlike similar measures which have come before cities and towns in other part of the country, the resolution ap ...
  • New Orleans Cop Explains How Police Gunned Down Un ...
    by Justin Elliott A former New Orleans police officer has given authorities a shocking account of the killing by police of two unarmed civilians and the wounding of four others on Danziger Bridge in post-Katrina New Orleans. read more

Lifehacker

  • Make a Cheap Stylus for iPad and Other Touchscreen ...
    Whether you've got an an iPad, a different snazzy tablet, an Android phone, or some other touchscreen device, sometimes your fingertip isn't the ideal input device. With a few common materials, you can make an effective and inexpensive stylus ...
  • Binder Clips + Duvet Cover = Painless Comforter Co ...
    If you've tried the most common methods but still go nuts whenever you've got to put your duvet cover back on your comforter, consider reader claudelepoisson 's advice and turn to one of our favorite multi-purpose office supplies: the binder c ...
  • Why You Hold On to Clutter [Mind Hacks]
    Erin Doland is a minimalism guru and editor of the home and office organization blog Unclutterer ; today she's taking a look at the psychology behind clutter, and why it's hard for you to get rid of something once you've touched it. More�� ...
  • Google Suggest Mobile Provides Smart Answers While ...
    iPhone/Android/WebOS: Mobile searching for common information—weather, unit conversions, flight data, and the like—just got a bit faster on some phones. Google's Suggest feature on its mobile page now answers common queries as you type, withou ...
  • JDownloader Turbocharges File Sharing Sites [Downl ...
    Windows/Mac/Linux: If you're a frequent visitor to popular file sharing sites like Rapidshare you'll want to grab a copy of JDownloader, a java-based tool that completely automates the downloading process. More��

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • UK Election 2010: Don't Mention The War
    By Steve Hynd They dare not speak its name: Strangely, the war in Afghanistan where British soldiers are being killed and wounded, and which is costing some £5bn a year, is not appearing anywhere on the agenda of any of the main parties. It has scarcely deserved a mention. Perhaps it is becau ...
  • Osprey Down
    By Steve Hynd A CV-22 tilt-rotor aircraft has crashed in Afghanistan, killing at least four and wounding several others. The Taliban have claimed responsibility but ISAF say the cause of the crash is unknown at this time. The aircraft is known as accident prone though and the Obama administration ea ...
  • Taliban: Karzai Is Our Brother
    By Steve Hynd The Taliban have responded to Karzai's reported threats to join them and a new speech he made yesterday asking them to join his government,according to Afghan news service Qugnoos: The Taliban reacted against yesterday’s speech by President Karzai saying, “They are Afghans, and Karzai ...
  • Too Easy On Them By Half
    By Steve Hynd Josh Mull at The Seminal comes up with a short list of timely examples of ignoring the humanity of Afghans, treating them as aliens, objects. He writes: "Those men and pregnant women our soldiers were carving bullets out of, those are the Afghans who "don’t like or don’t trust" foreign ...
  • Too Easy On Them By Half
    By Steve Hynd Josh Mull at The Seminal comes up with a short list of timely examples of ignoring the humanity of Afghans, treating them as aliens, objects. He writes: "Those men and pregnant women our soldiers were carving bullets out of, those are the Afghans who "don’t like or don’t trust" foreign ...

Water Wars

  • A future under water?
    Where the ancient Library of Alexandria once stood 18 centuries ago, Egyptian and Arab scientists convened last week to discuss the environmental challenges of water shortages in the Arab region and global warming.
  • Whiff of politics and wimpiness
    "Stinks of politics" is how councilman Kevin Stinnett rebuked Vice Mayor Jim Gray for tryi
  • Regional happenings: Wildflowers, home show and mo ...
    Here's a look at local and regional happenings.
  • Brant Community Foundation invites you to go Green
    As part of the celebrations for Earth Week, the Brant Community Foundation is hosting the second annual Earth Week Speaker Series. The events are open to the public and everyone is welcome. There are two events this year and both will be held at St.[...]
  • Film events
    The Met: Live in HD: "Hamlet" starring Simon Keenlyside, 6:30 p.m. Wed. Various theaters. www.fathomevents.com.

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Afghanistan Sun

  • Taliban pushed out of Swat make 'Kala Dhaka& ...
    The Taliban extremists, who fled the military operation in the Swat Valley and other areas of the Malakand district, have made Kala Dhaka as their new base.
  • Afghan officials slam Pak's 'double game ...
    Senior Afghan officials have criticised Pakistan for arresting the Taliban's second-in command, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, saying the step has proved 'counterproductive' and derailed the process of securing peace talks with the extremists.
  • Militants attacks Indian camp in Afghanistan
    FILE - This Jan. 31, 2009 file photo provided by the US Air Force shows a CV-22 Osprey aircraft from the 8th Special Operations Squadron over the Emerald Coast outside Hurlburt Field, Fla. A U.S. Air ...
  • Four dead as US loses first Osprey in Afghanistan
    A US Air Force Osprey went down in southeastern Afghanistan, killing three service members and one civilian contractor in the first crash of the costly tilt-rotor aircraft in a combat zone, the US m...
  • Merkel at Afghan deaths memorial for first time
    BERLIN (APP): Chancellor Angela Merkel was to attend a memorial service on Friday for three German soldiers killed in Afghanistan -- becoming the first German post-war leader to attend such an event. ...

Futurismic

  • Form, functionality and tradition: why aren’ ...
    The snap answer is “because no one ever made a flat lightbulb“, but Wired UK now puts the lie to that one: someone displayed a flat lightbulb concept at a design show back in 2008, apparently, though it seems never to have made it to production. The second (and more considered) answer would probably ...
  • Crop circles
    BoingBoing is currently playing host to one Jaques Vallee as guestblogger, and he’s been riling up the (admittedly easily-riled) BB comment-swarm by talking with some degree of seriousness about crop circles. [image by trodas] I’ve got a real weak spot for crop circles, because I grew up in a part o ...
  • Shine anthology contributors interviewed
    The SF Signal gang have turned over the microphone (er, keyboard) to Charles Tan to publish a set of interviews with the authors whose stories appear in the Shine anthology of optimistic science fiction, mentioned here many times previously. Shine features a decent number of Futurismic fiction alumn ...
  • William Gibson on the cyberpunk obsession with bra ...
    Having recently completed his forthcoming novel Zero History, William Gibson is kicking back at his blog and fielding questions from the intertubes; if you want an insight into the man’s attitudes and philosophies (toward his work, and the world in general), you’d be well advised to tune in. This on ...
  • The ethics of pirating ebooks
    Via Ars Technica, here’s a New York Times columnist reframing the pirated-ebooks debate as an ethical issue rather than a legal one, in response to a question asking whether it was wrong to download a pirated ebook version of a book already owned in hardcopy. His answer: it’s not legal, but it could ...

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Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • NWLDEF to Host Training Seminar April 1, 2010
    JOIN OUR LAWYERS & THE MEDIA TRAINING SEMINAR Thursday, April 1, 2010 12:00 - 2:00 pm EST Sponsored by the National Whistleblowers Legal Defense & Education Fund Lawyers & the Media: Strategies that Work and Pitfalls to Avoid in Whistleblower Cases Whistleblowers who come forward to exp ...
  • New ARB rescues SOX whistleblower on equitable tol ...
    We waited a year for the Obama Administration's new Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis, to appoint new members to the Administrative Review Board (ARB), but now we finally get to see what a difference these appointments can make.� Today the ARB released its decisions from March, and one decision shows ...
  • Maryland House passes watered-down Little FCA
    I previously reported on how the Maryland Senate watered down its "Little FCA" bill so that lawsuits would not cost so much for the contractors who actually commit fraud against the State of Maryland. The amended version of SB 279 does not permit a court to require fraudsters to pay compensatory dam ...
  • OSHA Administrator David Michaels to address Profe ...
    On May 11, 2009, Professionals for the Public Interest will hold a program on Whistleblowers and OSHA: Strengthening Professional Integrity Against External Pressures . Dr. David Michaels, the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health will participate to discuss the Department ...
  • Obama still has no Special Counsel
    GovernmentExecutive.com reports that President Barack Obama still has not appointed anyone to lead the Office of Special Counsel (OSC). The article quotes leaders of a federal employee union, Danielle Brian of the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) and former OSC officials who all agree that a n ...

Science Express

  • Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
    If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant radio ...
  • Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratospheric ...
    The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the glo ...
  • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes spend ...
    Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
  • Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
    A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20th c ...
  • New approach precisely tracks evolution's footprin ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for example. T ...

TechDirt

  • Ideas Into Execution: Giving Away An Idea To Make ...
    This post is part of the Entrepreneurship series - sponsored by AcceptPay from American Express, a new online solution that lets you electronically invoice customers and accept online payments-all in one place. Offer more payment options, manage your cash flow and get paid faster wit ...
  • Fair Use Is Not Enough: Using The 'Copyright Misus ...
    We've written many times about the inherent conflict between free speech and copyright laws. Copyright law is an inherent restriction on free speech. The courts have tried to get around this with two tools: "fair use" as an exception to copyright and the "idea/expression" dichotomy, which is suppo ...
  • Dear Journalists: There Is No Cyberwar
    At the beginning of April, we noted that director of national intelligence, Michael McConnell, who's now consulting for some firms that would profit greatly from a re-architecting of the internet, is going around pushing a ridiculous moral panic about "cyberwar" and how we basically need to break th ...
  • Yet Another Paywall Experiment Fails
    As we've seen time and time again, generally, when newspapers put up a paywall around their content, things do not turn out well. Yet, newspapers continue to put them up. While we applaud the spirit of experimentation, if they simply keep repeating the same experiment over and over again, with the ...
  • More Movies Trying Out Tiered CwF+RtB Support Mode ...
    We're getting so many examples of content creators making use of CwF+RtB business models lately, that it's difficult to figure out which ones are worth posting. Mostly, of course, we're still hearing about the music industry, where these sorts of models are becoming more common, but here are two in ...

VacTruth

  • False accusations of Munchausen by Proxy, The Trut ...
    . . . . Christina England Vactruth.com 04/10/2010 (Part: 1 | Part: 2 | Part: 3 | Part: 4 | Part: 5 | Part: 6) Panoramic Views I recently came across a group of Professionals who call themselves PACA which is Professionals Against Child Abuse. PACA is a group of professionals who work in child prote ...
  • False accusations of Munchausen by Proxy, The Trut ...
    . . . Christina England Vactruth.com 04/09/2010 Facts from Fantasy  The fact will always remain that MSBP type child abuse does exist and not all cases are false. In this proven case, a mother injected faeces into the child’s bloodstream. Mother injects baby with faeces In the UK one victim of MSB ...
  • False accusations of Munchausen by Proxy, The Trut ...
    . . . Christina England Vactruth.com 04/08/2010 My Story and the stigma of false accusations a after vaccine injury With an accusation of MSBP comes suspicion, stigma, prejudice and discrimination. I was wrongly accused of MSBP in late 1999 and my children were both put on the “at risk register” by ...
  • False accusations of Munchausen by Proxy, The Trut ...
    . . . Christina England Vactruth.com 04/07/2010 The justice system is fraught with difficulties for an accused person. The odds are always stacked up against them due to failures in legal aid [ as established by the case of Steel and Morris v UK that showed the unavailability of legal aid in defama ...
  • False accusations of Munchausen by Proxy, The Trut ...
    . . . Christina England Vactruth.com 04/06/2010 Vaccines, a differential viewpoint (Read Part: 1) For many years professionals have been linking adverse reactions to vaccines with autism, neurological disorders, sudden infant death and symptoms mimicking those of shaken baby syndrome, however, prof ...

BroadSnark

  • Of Glenn Beck, Horror Stories, and Fairy Tales
    My friend posted this article the other day.  And I just had to comment, because it is such a clear example of cherry picking facts – not only by Glenn Beck (who is clearly one slice short of a sandwich), but also the people who respond to him. So here is the map that started it [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    A little over a week ago, I sent an email to all those who asked to be put on the email list for the women-focused gathering.  I’ll be sending another one this week.  If you are supposed to be on that list and aren’t, let me know. The anti-sex crusaders can be so vicious.  HT to [...]
  • Monstrous
    I had a post all ready to put up tonight, but I just watched the video of U.S. soldiers mowing down people on an Iraq street and I can’t think about anything else.    It is so cold, so monstrous. If you haven’t seen the video yet, it is below.  And remember, as you watch it, that [...]
  • Guest Post at Womanist Musings
    One of the blogs I follow religiously is Womanist Musings.  Renee always makes me think.  This week she had a guest post by Kola Boof that set off a bit of a kerfuffle.  Renee then challenged her readers to respond with their own post, which I did. Below are links to all the posts (and comment [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Incredibly, the NY anarchist book fair is just two weeks from Saturday.  Don’t forget to pop me over an email if you are going (mel@broadsnark.com). Today is both César Chávez day and The International Transgender Day of Visibility.  I think it’s sort of appropriate that the two groups who are m ...

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Armies of Liberation

  • Yemen National Dialog Coalition Seeks Reform, Broa ...
    Yemen’s National Dialog Committee published an English language summary of its National Salvation Plan yesterday. The document is available at http://yemenvision.wordpress.com/ The National Dialog Committee (NDC) is an important Yemeni civil society coalition dedicated to creating a forum and consen ...
  • Al Qaeda in Yemen, unwanted nomads or essential nu ...
    The announcement that al Qaeda in Yemen’s (AQIY) leadership escaped to Somalia in recent weeks is not the end of Yemen’s terrorism woes, but may instead signal the Yemeni al Qaeda group is taking a leading regional role among al Qaeda factions from Saudi Arabia to Somalia and beyond. The flight ...
  • Large al Qaeda camp in North Yemen dims peace pros ...
    In Yemen, al Qaeda’s training camp in the Abu Jabara valley is no secret. It is in an old military camp between Sa’ada and al Jawf provinces, near the Saudi border, and it houses hundreds of Yemeni and foreign al Qaeda loyalists. Acting as mercenaries for Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, al Qaed ...
  • South Yemen clashes escalate, police wound 20
    Twenty people were wounded today when police opened fire on a funeral march in the restive town of Dhalie. Local reports indicated one person later died. The crowds had gathered to honor two victims killed when police broke up a anti-government protest on March 11. Yemen launched a broad assault on ...
  • Tribal anarchy in Yemen: the tragedy in al Jasheen ...
    The Yemeni government’s abdication of its responsibilities in rural Yemen is amply demonstrated by the ongoing saga in the village of al Jasheen, in Ibb province. In this drama, a group of poor villagers refuse to submit to a tyrannical Sheik who demands illegal taxes. The Sheik’s personal militia o ...

Dark Politricks

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  • Israel May Just Nuke Iran
    Nuking Iran would be an unmitigated disaster. But anyone with a passing familiarity with Israel’s government of Islamophobes knows well its hatred of Muslims. Israel is a country consumed by its own malice, and blinded by its commitment to militarism. Israel like no other nation is driven by a n ...
  • Huge Dem Opportunity in Justice Stevens Resignatio ...
    “When conservatives like Bork treat rights as islands surrounded by a sea of government powers, they precisely reverse the view of the Founders as enshrined in the Constitution, wherein government powers are limited and specified and rendered as islands surrounded by a sea of individual rights.” - S ...
  • GORDON DUFF: CAPTURED AMERICAN SOLDIER IN AFGHANI ...
    ACCUSATION OF DEFECTION, COLLABORATION COMPLICATED BY VIDEO RELEASED BY GROUP TIED TO MOSSAD  SOMETHING VERY WRONG HERE  By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor  Yesterday, a very odd video of PFC Robert Bergdahl was released to the media.  It was said to have been “found” on the internet by S ...
  • Simon Johnson Explains ‘Too Big to Fail’
    By Simon Johnson [T]here remains sharp disagreement on what exactly would end too big to fail.  The main views fall primarily into three camps. The view of Senator Dodd, Democratic congressional leadership more broadly, and the White House – and actually the big banks themselves (e.g., Jamie Dimo ...

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

  • New Game Simulates Impacts on Watersheds, Educates ...
    Photo credit Jane Haley, University of Virginia How do you get kids to understand the complexities of saving a watershed - from the ecology to the politics - and actually enjoy figuring out how to save it? By turning it into a game of course! After a long time in development, University of Virg ...
  • Cooking Up a New Way to Be Green
    Guest post by Anne Driscoll, originally published on Tonic . Day in, day out, we use the stove - and of course, our cookware -- to heat our meals and cook our snacks. But a revolutionary company called Ecolution has put green where we are not used to seeing it: in pots, pans and skillets. It ha ...
  • Travel Stove Creates Electricity While It Cooks (V ...
    Image via Coolest Gadgets How great would it be to have a stove where you can chuck practically any fuel source into it, have it utilize that fuel efficienctly to quickly heat your food, reduce emissions drastically, and power your gadgets? It seems that the option is actually on its way. Utili ...
  • The Week in Pictures: Warmer Temps, Increased Prec ...
    From a new analysis by Clean Air-Cool Planet that shows in the northeast United States extreme precipitation events have been increasing over the past sixty years to the news that the Aral Sea, once the 4th largest freshwater lake in the world, has dried up to 10% of its former size, a lot happe ...
  • Crazy Bus Stops From Around the World
    Anything that encourages public transit is welcome, and these bus stops rounded up on Toxel certainly look inviting. There is something about fruit-shaped stations in Japan; they come in a wide variety of flavours; ... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Biosingularity

  • Insulin-producing Cells Can Regenerate In Diabetic ...
    Replacements for some diabetics’ missing insulin-producing cells might be found in the patients’ own pancreases, a new study in mice suggests. Alpha cells in the pancreas can spontaneously transform into insulin-producing beta cells, researchers from the University of Geneva in Switzerland report on ...
  • Prostate Cancer Results While You Wait
    In an office park in Woburn, MA, a volunteer presents his fingertip for a quick finger stick. A phlebotomist wicks up the small drop of blood with a specially made square of plastic, then snaps the plastic into a credit-card sized microfluidics cartridge and feeds it into a special reader. Fifteen m ...
  • Cell bio, automation merge to screen every human g ...
    Every now and then, there’s a bit of science that’s a combination of brute force and tour de force. Examples that spring to mind mostly come from the world of small, manageable experimental animals, like the mapping of every single cell division of the worm C. elegans, a feat that won John Sulston a ...
  • A Two-Pronged Attack on Cancer
    Last year marked a first for engineered antibodies–the European Commission approved a new cancer drug called Removab catumaxomab, an antibody specially designed to grab both cancer cells and immune cells in such a way that the immune cell can kill the cancer cell. The drug is undergoing testing for ...
  • 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 ...

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Pruning Shears

  • You Can't Miss What You've Never Had
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post On Wednesday Yves Smith fretted that bloggers may be doing more harm than good, and wrote “the hollowing out of news organizations can only go so far before information delivery becomes impaired.” In Smith’s formulation, news organi ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. This could be huge. WikiLeaks may be taking over the functions formerly held by well-funded (and supported) investigative journalism at big ...
  • What's So Bad About A Value Added Tax?
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Over the last few weeks I have heard some rumblings about a value-added tax (VAT), “a fee that is assessed against businesses by a government at various points in the production of goods or services-usually any time a product is reso ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Jane Mayer dismantled Marc Thiessen’s book “Courting Disaster”: In order to make the case that America was blind to the threat of Al Qaeda in the days before 9/11, Thiessen skips over the scandalous amount of intelligence that reache ...
  • Political Rehabilitation and Financial Reform
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Republicans may be at their lowest point since 1964. Sure, they got walloped in 2006 and again in 2008, but afterwards seemed to project an attitude of “beaten but unbowed.” Now though, there is an air of capitulation about them, w ...

Natural Health News

  • 'Fat Dissolving' Spa Treatment is No Such Thing
    So-called fat dissolving treatments offered by spas do not eliminate fat and the companies should stop saying so, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in a statement. The procedures, called by names such as lipodissolve, mesotherapy, lipozap, lipotherapy, or injection lipolysis all involve un ...
  • Women Who Walk Are at 30 Percent Less Risk of Stro ...
    Women can lower their stroke risk by lacing up their sneakers and walking, a new study suggests. Women who said they walked briskly had a 37 percent lower risk of stroke than those who didn't walk. Women who reported walking at least two hours a week at any pace had a 30 percent lower risk. While ...
  • Regular Flu Vaccine Actually INCREASES Risk of Swi ...
    In September 2009, news stories reported that researchers in Canada had found an increased risk of pandemic H1N1 (pH1N1) influenza in people who had previously been vaccinated against seasonal influenza. In a school outbreak of pH1N1 in spring 2009, people with cough and fever were found to have re ...
  • 11 Simple Ways to Avoid Burnout
    1. Schedule regular social activities Remember when you used to spend time with people you were neither working with nor sleeping with? You watched movies, ate meals, played games, and went on trips. You were active and you had fun! You can regain some of that emotional fulfillment by contacting so ...
  • Alert! India Suspends Gardasil After Four Girls D ...
    The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has told Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat to immediately suspend the cervical cancer control vaccination program for girls. The program is part of a two-year study to look into the utility of a vaccine in public health programs and acceptability of Gardasil, ...

Antemedius

  • Wikileaks: Reuters and kids as Collateral Damage
    The man, dressed in a white shirt and dark pants, strides confidently down the middle of the suburban street in Iraq, his camera bag slung over one shoulder, his co worker following behind, with other men in summer clothing ambling down the road. He pauses to speak into his cell phone. In the dista ...
  • The Magnetar Trade: How One Hedge Fund Helped Keep ...
    by Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein , ProPublica April 09, 2010 ( view source ) In late 2005, the booming U.S. housing market seemed to be slowing. The Federal Reserve had begun raising interest rates. Subprime mortgage company shares were falling. Investors began to balk at buying complex mortgag ...
  • A Conversation About Natural Resource Management w ...
    In this regular series, we profile advisors to the Nourishing the Planet project. This week, we feature Louise Buck, Senior Extension Associate at Cornell University. Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet . Name : Louise Buck Affiliation : Cornell University and Ecoagricultu ...
  • Nourishing the Planet in Basil Magazine
    Crossposted from Border Jumpers , Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. Check out this great new regular feature for Basil Magazine from the Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet project: Hello readers of Basil Magazine! I am very excited to be a new contributor to Basil as I travel throu ...
  • FaultLines: Out of Work in the US
    If you count all the people unemployed or under employed in the US today, you have a population of almost thirty million. A country about the size of Canada. ... On this episode of FaultLines we explore Washington's failure of imagination in dealing with unemployment, and we visit places where cr ...

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 ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Response to Professor Mitloehner
    Dear Professor Mitloehner, I appreciate you taking the time to respond to my post.  What you wrote was informative, but your response also raised additional questions for me.  I will lay them out here and you are welcome to respond again. From your response: “I did not write the press releases ...
  • A leader for a livable Future – Happy Cesar Chavez ...
    It wasn’t until I moved to San Francisco after college that I found out who Cesar Chavez was. Being from Pennsylvania, where his birthday is not celebrated as a state holiday, perhaps I knew his name, but certainly not his legacy as a leader and organizer for farm workers rights.  But in California ...
  • DC Healthy Schools Act
    On Friday, March 26th  the DC Council listened to testimony from various concerned citizens and experts from the community on the DC Healthy Schools Act.  This bill represents a wonderful first step in improving the health of DC’s children and the role that schools play in the sustainability of ou ...
  • Unsupported Claims About Livestock and Climate Cha ...
    As a public health doctoral student, I have been taught the importance of communicating scientific information to the public, journalists, and policy makers in a careful manner, especially when dealing with complex issues.  Scientific research almost never provides clear answers, but as a scientist ...
  • Maryland’s Grocery Store Tax Credit Bill Could Imp ...
    Maryland House Bill 1135, the Grocery Store Property Tax Credit Bill, passed the House yesterday with 138-0 votes! The bill grants a property tax credit to grocery stores throughout the state located in low-income areas. Delegate Justin Ross, the main sponsor of the bill, represents Prince George’s ...

Norwegianity

  • Flamenco Friday!
    So, of course, Tom Coburn blocks the extension of jobless benefits because the economy’s doing so well for people with jobs. Yes, the Republicans are so totally going to kick our asses this fall. Right after Don Blankenship is named Virginia Chamber of Commerce’s Boss Man of the Year. Because Ameri ...
  • Hazmat teams still hosing down Target Center
    They came, they saw, they underwhelmed us. Unless, of course, you tried to read about it at the Strib where their special Bachmann-Palin page has refused to load for me 27 consecutive times now using three different browsers. I can open any page at the Strib but the ones involving their coverage of ...
  • Links of wrath
    Three thousand safety violations, $2.2 million in fines. Can we arrest the owner yet? Or did paying a million bucks to teabaggers immunize him? The NYTimes acknowledges that Don L. Blankenship is “pugnacious,” which I believe still translates from the original AP Stylebook as “asshole.” More on mine ...
  • At half mast
    Coal mine fatalities hit an all-time low last year, just 18 miners perishing in this country. 2010’s not off to such a good start following yesterday’s explosion at the Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Mine south of Charleston. So far 25 miners are known to be dead, or over ten percent of the mine’s ...
  • Return of the link spreader
    Cleaning up the accumulated links as well as adding some new ones. Sorted because the health dept. said I had to. - The Wonderful World of Finance: Brick wall justice Heath care reform win has changed financial reform ballgame A reckoning over Bear Stearns? Hail our overlords! Because stock prices 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

  • Video of girl’s flogging in Swat was ‘fake’
    A resident of Swat, who claims to have prepared the fake video of flogging of a girl in Swat, has termed it drama and revealed that he received Rs0.5 million for doing so before the launch of military operation ‘Rah-e-Rast’. Before the operation ‘Rah-e-Rast’, an NGO financed preparation of f ...
  • Constitutional Game to Undo Pakistan from the Back ...
    Written By :- Dr Shahid Qureshi Pakistan is unfortunately one of those countries where traitors masquerade as politicians and treachery is deemed to be ‘legitimate politics’.  There is no prize for guessing how did the desire the revoke the 17th Amendment got transformed into a full fledg ...
  • Palestinians urge global action against Israel
    The Palestinian Authority has called on international bodies and the Arab League summit in Libya to protect East Jerusalem al-Quds against Israeli settlement activities. Acting PA Chief Mahmoud Abbas, speaking at the opening of a two-day Arab League summit in the Libyan city of Sirte, called on int ...
  • Bling Faith or Emotional Pull ?? | Teeth Maestro
    Recent debates, especially on facebook , regarding Zaid Hamid and his relations with a convicted blasphemer who died in jail almost a decade ago have certainly caught the Pakistani youth by surprise. They find themselves locked in an argument which is taking a heavy toll on their intellect and ener ...
  • Israeli tanks cross technical fence near Lebanon
    Two Israeli tanks have crossed their technical fence near the border with Lebanon two kilometers south of the disputed Ghajar village. The United Nations peacekeeping forces in Lebanon, also known as the UNIFIL, were present in the area along with Lebanese Armed Forces to make sure that the Israeli ...

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 an ...
  • Court Rules in GMO Sugar Beet Case
    Today, federal district Judge Jeffrey White of the Northern District of California denied a request by a coalition of organic seed growers, and conservation and food safety groups seeking a temporary ban on genetically engineered (GE) sugar beets and sugar beet seeds. While Judge White denied the pr ...
  • More Than 200,000 NGOs, Farmers, Consumers, and Or ...
    Resulting contamination of non-GE and organic alfalfa hay and seed would devastate livelihoods and organic industry The National Organic Coalition (NOC) today announced that more than 200,000 people submitted comments to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) critiquing the substance and ...
  • Lawsuit Filed to Bar GE Crops from National Wildli ...
    Delaware’s Bombay Hook Lacks Required Environmental Review and Justification A lawsuit filed today in federal court against the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service seeks to compel the Service to uproot genetically engineered (GE) crops from its Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge in Delaware. As many as 8 ...
  • Food Safety and Health Organizations Criticize Ela ...
    Food safety, consumer and health advocacy organizations blasted Eli Lilly subsidiary Elanco for claiming that prominent health organizations had endorsed use of the controversial artificial growth hormone rbGH,(rbST) on dairy cows when, in fact, they have not. Elanco’s report, from eight experts and ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Cancer patients on the rise in Gaza
    Cancer patients on the rise in Gaza :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1] : April 6, 2010 GAZA, (PIC)-- Dr. Yousef Ibrahim, the head of the environment quality authority, said on Tuesday that the number of cancer and kidney failure patients ...
  • The Palestinians Are Winning The Legitimacy War: W ...
    The Palestinians Are Winning The Legitimacy War: Will It Matter? By Richard Falk : Ever since the Balfour Declaration in 1917 gave the formal approval of the British government to the establishment of ‘a Jewish homeland' profound issues of legitimacy were present in the conflict recently known as th ...
  • Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz-Stop Saying This Is a Nation ...
    Stop Saying This Is a Nation of Immigrants! � The Speed of Dreams : By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a long-time activist, university professor, and writer. In addition to numerous scholarly books and articles, she has written three historical memoirs, Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie, Ou ...
  • 10 reasons to Commemorate the Chicano Moratoriums ...
    Submitted by Social Justice Affairs correspondent Viola Wilkins: -- 10 reasons to Commemorate the Chicano Moratoriums 1969-1971 1. Because they opposed an unjust war. 2. Because they were grass roots based 3. Because they supported the non violent struggle for social justice 4. Because ...
  • Australiasia Bureau-Chief: Sina Brown-Davis - Lex ...
    On August 9th 2008 Lex Wotton, invited by Indigenous Social Justice Association Melbourne, spoke at the Solidarity Fiesta at the MUA Auditorium prior to his trial relating to the riots in Palm Island. He was charged with "riot with destruction" and describes in his own words the events that day. h ...

Pensieve

  • Guanajuato’s Tunnels
    As we were wandering Guanajuato looking for a the San Gabriel de Barrera museum and gardens, I stuck my hand out the window of our van and shot these three videos of Guanajuato’s tunnels. Guanajuato is unique in the network of bewildering tunnels that crisscross it. The narrow streets of Guanajuato ...
  • Guanajuato and San Miguel de Allende
    I spent a wonderful weekend in Guanajuato and San Miguel de Allende. I took over 1,300 pictures, and several videos. All that has taken much of the energy for blogging about it, but I’ll let these few pictures speak for themselves. Related posts:So much to blog about!!! Miguel Torres: Doña Esper ...
  • Inside Costa Rica Features my Article
    After being disappointed by two articles in a row that presented Honduras in the unfavorable light the news wires shine on Honduras, I complained to the editor of Inside Costa Rica with a accusation of severe bias. He responded, and graciously invited me to write an article for them. I thank him, an ...
  • Chigüire Bipolar Hacked, Bad Week for Freedom
    This week has seen the demise of Google China, the arrest of Guillermo Zuolaga, the president of Globovisión, Venezuela’s last opposition channel, and the reelection of Jose Miguel Insulza as the leader of the OAS. In a much smaller and more personal level, my website was hacked. But that the Chigà ...
  • My Site Was Hacked, sorry
    Apparently my site was hacked. I removed 17 links to malware and have resubmitted this site to Google, hopefully everything will be ok soon. Related posts:Presidential Island, by El Chigüire Bipolar What! (Google Suggest oddity) Here Comes Another Bubble Related posts: Presidential Island, by E ...

Green Times

  • Smells Good – Is It?
    Just how natural and green are the fragrances we surround ourselves with – should we believe our nose?
  • The Challenges of Getting About and Being Green in ...
    Does where you live affect how green your transport can be? We take a look at regional green transport options…
  • Book Review: No Impact Man
    Find out what possesses a man to go off the gird – literally – in New York City. A radical, experimental family journey to full-on eco-living…
  • New Energy Efficiency Ratings Set To Impact Buildi ...
    Approximately twenty per cent of Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions come from buildings, with commercial buildings accounting for ten per cent of those emissions…
  • Environmental News - 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 ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Terrorism threat to England opening match against ...
    A gang of al-Qaeda terrorists have issued a chilling threat to cause "dozens and hundreds" of deaths by attacking England's opening game in the football World Cup in South Africa. British intelligence officials have been alerted after the North African group, al-Qaeda [al-CIAduh] in the Islamic ...
  • Prisoner demands compensation for Guantánamo night ...
    To this day Mr Hamad says that he does not know why he was seized . Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson's serious accusations against the Bush White House over Guantánamo Bay are made to support the cause of Adel Hassan Hamad, a former detainee who is now seeking compensation from the United States. In July ...
  • US government 'abused rights' of Hurricane Katrina ...
    The US government and states have violated the human rights of victims of Hurricane Katrina, Amnesty International claimed today. Its report Un-Natural Disaster says housing, health and policing policies have stopped poor communities rebuilding and returning to their homes since the 2005 hurrica ...
  • Americans 'worked for secret services'
    The Iranian intelligence minister says Tehran has compelling evidence that three Americans arrested in Iran last year were cooperating with intelligence services. In an exclusive interview with Press TV, Heydar Moslehi said Iran will present its evidence to the media soon. Shane Michael Bauer, ...
  • NATO aircraft crashes in Afghanistan, killing 4
    A U.S. Air Force Osprey aircraft crashed in southeastern Afghanistan, killing three service members and one government contractor, NATO said Friday. It was the first crash of the costly, tilt-rotor aircraft in a combat zone. The CV-22 Osprey went down about 7 miles (11 kilometers) from Qalat, th ...

Daily Loaf

  • Watch these eco films online for free (sort of)
    Here's a list of the most popular, highly rated, and most interesting-looking environmental documentaries that you can watch for free (sort of) online.
  • TUF 11 contestant Clayton McKinney appears at AOF ...
    Clayton McKinney visits fans and supports fighters at Art of Fighting 7 in Tampa on April 3, 2010.
  • YouTube under the covers: Lady Gaga (with video)
    Saying there are a lot of Lady Gaga covers floating around on YouTube is like saying Tiger Woods was having a little bit of an issue with those pesky marriage vows. Most of them are bad, like Jesse James-fucking-up-the-fact-that-Sandra Bullock-was-fucking-him-at-night-for-a-go-with-the-most-colorfu ...
  • Movie Review: Date Night, starring Steve Carell, T ...
    The CL review of Date Night , the new "comedy" starring Steve Carell and Tina Fey that left Movies & TV Editor Joe Bardi wondering if he should get a vasectomy before it's too late …
  • Project Runway Podcast Ep. 11 and 12: Circus freak ...
    Well, we missed last week’s Project Runway podcast due to the holiday weekend and some busy schedules, but we are back in business this week and soooo much has changed! Anthony is back, Maya is a quitter, the madness continues. If you missed it, I did a little recap of episode 11 and you can [...]

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • NYT Bronner Tries A Less Biased Path to Reporting ...
     As  the New York Times long-standing Jerusalem bureau chief,  with primary responsibility for reporting on the Israel-Palestine conflict,  Ethan Bronner has  endured bruising criticism for pro-Israeli bias, recently  exacerbated by charges of conflict of interest upon the revelation that hi ...
  • No Such Thing As Israeli Nationality
    There are currently over 130 different nationalities that have been recognized by the State of Israel for use in registering for an ID card.  “Arab” and “Unknown” are, uniquely in the world, recognized as a form of nationality — but “Israeli” is not. On the other hand,  if you are Jewish it matte ...
  • How Israel Gagged on Its Own Gag Order
    by Gila Svirsky This story is a testament to the Internet. (Ed.: in particular blogger Richard Silverstein who broke the story!)  And to Anat Kam, the whistleblower, who is widely regarded in Israeli security circles as a traitor and will probably soon be charged with treason. Anat (I’ll use her ...
  • Wife and Nine Children of Bil’in Political P ...
    Adeeb Abu Rahma, a taxi driver from the West Bank Village of  Bil’in, is known for his  firm committment to nonviolence during the weekly demonstrations against the Wall. At the July 10, 2009 demonstration, he was grabbed by Israeli soldiers  as he walked away from them, his message of resist ...
  • Swedish Palestinians Barred Entry for Promoting Co ...
    A Jewish-Palestinian joint dialogue group arrived from Sweden’s Olof Palme Centre for a visit to Israel. You might think they would have no problems gaining entrance into Israel. You would be wrong. Here’s the Ha’aretz editorial on the subject. Last week Israel deported three Swedish women from Ben ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Smart offshore wind turbine placement can result i ...
    A study shows that strategically placing offshore turbines so as to catch prevailing winds as they shift results in a constant source of energy. This could be a seriously big deal.
  • Ain’t capitalism grand? Hedge fund created assets ...
    Magnetar created deliberately arcane and risky securities then bet against them, making a fortune in the process. Their actions almost certainly made the real estate bubble bigger and the subsequent crash even worse. Not that the parasite financial class cares about that. Propublica has an eight-par ...
  • Ice-T / Aimee Mann smackdown on Twitter
    It started with her saying she was, um, less than impressed with his acting. He responded in fine Ice-T fashion. But it did end well.
  • Navy test submarine powered by thermal power from ...
    A 180 lb. SOLO-TREC has made 430 successful dives to 1640 feet powering its instruments, pump, GPS, and communications completely by differences in ocean temperature.
  • Greek bailout coming. Or not. Or too late. Or poin ...
    Even if Greece gets emergency loans from the EU (something Germany strongly opposes) or from the IMF, the interest rates they will be forced to pay make it unlikely they can pay it back. This could be the end of the euro. Or not. Yes, it’s chaos now. No one knows what will happen.

Coteret

  • White House sources to Yediot: Answers by Monday o ...
    Obama to meet leaders attending nuclear conference next week Netanyahu is not on Obama’s schedule Sources in US administration: Netanyahu can meet Obama only if he gives positive answers to his demands Orly Azulai, Yediot, April 7 2010 [page 11; scan of Hebrew original here] During the nuclear conf ...
  • The unnamed “senior Netanyahu aide” in ...
    This morning the New York Times covers a story that has been central to Israeli public debate for months: The ongoing campaign to silence dissent in Israel and suppress the local human rights community. Reporter Isabel Kershner does not name the official associated with the campaign nor specify the ...
  • Yediot’s Barnea: Netanyahu asks Wiesel to in ...
    Say something to Obama Nahum Barnea, Yediot, April 4 2010 [page 2 with front-page teaser] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knows that he is in deep trouble at the White House. This weekend he made an interesting effort to find ways into Barack Obama’s heart. The author Elie Wiesel, in Israel for th ...
  • Hanoch Marmari: It cannot happen here!
    This morning’s (April 1 2010) readers of Yediot were treated to a particularly cumbersome and puzzling news item, entitled “What the the GSS doesn’t want you to know”: What all the world’s citizens are allowed to know is denied Israeli residents: Foreign newspapers and international media publish a ...
  • Fmr. Israeli NSC Chief: Time to say “no, we ...
    CORRECTION: A reader was quick to point out that Uzi Dayan is a the former head of the National Security Council. The current one being Uzi Arad. See this link for more. Although active in the Likud, Dayan apparently carries no current official position, which of course greatly reduces the importanc ...

Deadline Live

  • Congressional Budget Office: Federal Government Fi ...
    By Walter Alarkon thehill.com - Fundamental changes to the federal budget will be needed to rein in unsustainable deficits, Congress’s budget watchdog said Thursday. “U.S. fiscal policy is unsustainable, and unsustainable to an extent that it can’t be solved through minor changes,” Congression ...
  • Gas prices to reach 3-dollar mark
    NHBR - A new federal report is predicting that gas prices will hover near $3 a gallon this summer, making current prices at the pump a veritable deal. The federal Energy Information Administration, in its annual “Short-Term Energy and Summer Fuels Outlook,” which covers fuel prices from April throug ...
  • Initial jobless claims increase ‘unexpectedl ...
    CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER (AP) - The number of newly laid-off workers seeking unemployment benefits rose last week, a sign that jobs remain scarce even as the economy recovers. The increase also may result from the difficulty the Labor Department has in seasonally adjusting the claims around the Easter ...
  • Obama-China Currency Agreement ‘Tokenism&#82 ...
    Kevin L. Kearns and Alan Tonelson americaneconomicalert.org - The nearly 2,000 domestic companies comprising the U.S. Business and Industry Council (USBIC) today warned the Obama administration that settling for a token yuan revaluation would betray U.S. domestic companies and their employees victim ...
  • FEMA Camps, Cell Phone Registration, And Other Pol ...
    Reporting the loss of freedom, police state, and corruption news from our neighbors to the south… because tyranny always makes its way across the border. By Mario Andrade April 9, 2010 Mexico may purchase ‘Toxic’ Katrina FEMA trailers to create camps for earthquake victims The governor of Baja Calif ...

The Air Vent

  • To the Drawing Board
    It’s a good day for me.  Nic sent a link to an Ammann paper which discussed the suppression of variance in paleoclimate reconstructions- the bane of my sanity.  TAV wouldn’t be a climate blog without the horrible statistics in paleoclimate.  Ammann (A09) proposes a simple method for correcting th ...
  • Conditions of the Slopes
    Digital Diatribes has been relatively quiet on climate for some time.  I still stop by pretty regularly though.  Today Joe posted a collection of snowfall data taken by a skiing enthusiast over the entire set of critical years of global warming.   It’s nice because the data isn’t directly from a ...
  • A Bad Idea that Won’t Die
    Climate talks resume following Copenhagen setback But few expect the meeting, which formally begins Friday, to accomplish much beyond simply patching up some of the bitter divisions that emerged in the Danish capital last December when the biggest environmental summit in history came within a hai ...
  • Instrument Bias
    Zeke and Lucia have an interesting post. http://rankexploits.com/musings/2010/a-cooling-bias-due-to-mmts/
  • Greenpeace got it right
    Well we won another small battle. Thanks to everyone who paid attention to our last post here on greenpeace.  They have taken down their post and retracted their demands for an army of lawbreakers to target homes of skeptics and those who fight the good war against authoritarian politics.  I’m cer ...

Focal Point

  • Rep. Bart Stupak to Retire
    Politico reports that the notorious anti-choice congressman Bart Stupak (D-Mich) is retiring. Stupak claims that he abruptly announced his departure on a Friday afternoon for no particular reason. He told Politico that he'd been thinking of retiring for the last couple election cycles and, now that ...
  • An Engagement Ring is a Deposit on a Wife
    Via Gawker we learn that a New York judge reaffirmed a guy's right to demand the ring back if the engagement breaks off for any reason. In the case before the court, a Long Island woman maintained that she should be allowed to keep the $19,000 ring because her former fiance cheated on her: On M ...
  • FBI Astroturfs the Astroturfers to Nab Nut Who Thr ...
    An FBI Special Agent impersonated a representative of a real, legal anti health care reform group in order to positively identify a Washington man who allegedly left a series of anonymous death threats on the office voicemail of Sen. Patti Murray (D-Wash). The agent called up Charles Alan Wilson cla ...
  • Celibacy and Child Rape
    At the New York Review of Books Blog, controversial Catholic theologian Hans Küng blames the celibate priesthood for the epidemic of child rape in the Catholic Church. (The term "rape" is mine and it's carefully chosen. When adults force sex on children, that's rape.) He argues convincingly that ...
  • As Seen on Rachel Maddow...
    My story in AlterNet about the Republican National Committee's creative expense accounting got picked up by Rachel Maddow last night. Watch the video: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy Topics: Politics & Policy

Inside Facebook

  • Offerpal Expands to More Non-Traditional and Overs ...
    When Offerpal started out a couple years back, it was focused exclusively on online surveys and marketing offers. That’s no longer the case, as last year the company joined the race to become a full-fledged payment platform offering dozens of ways for users to send money to application and game ...
  • Horoscopes and Easter Gifts For This Week’s List o ...
    This week’s list of emerging Facebook apps still under a million monthly active users leads off with Family Feud, an online replica of the classic game show. The game really took off this week, with users alternately begging, complaining and threatening about its limitation to two plays per day ...
  • Facebook’s Multi-Prong Mobile Strategy Pays Off Wi ...
    [Editor's Note: The following article is from Inside Facebook Gold, our new data and analysis membership service tracking Facebook's business and growth. In addition to monthly data updates, Inside Facebook Gold presents weekly in-depth analysis articles exploring the most critical developments impa ...
  • Report: Singapore to Soon Get a Facebook Office
    Following a string of other expansions this year, Facebook has moved to set up its latest outpost in Singapore. The company has registered its name, rented offices and listed a half-dozen positions with the intention of of opening the office this summer, according to Channel NewsAsia. The new p ...
  • Inside Social Apps 2010 – April 20th in San Franci ...
    April 20 | San Francisco Inside Social Apps 2010, our first conference on the future of monetization on social platforms, is now only a few days away – and almost sold out, so we encourage you to register now to reserve your spot. On April 20th in San Francisco, one day before Facebook’s off ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • The dark underbelly of Israel’s security state. An ...
    What is misleadingly being called in Israel the “Anat Kamm espionage affair” is quickly revealing the dark underbelly of a nation that has worshipped for decades at the altar of a security state, Jonathan Cook reports. ”[Fugitive Israeli journalist Uri Blau’s] reports [based on Anat Kamm's leaked i ...
  • Israel and the question of legitimacy
    As the world wakes up to the reality of the colonial implant in the Middle East known as Israel, the hitherto unthinkable question of that implant’s legitimacy is on more people’s lips than ever before. Thanks to the internet, which is allowing a growing number of ordinary people to learn the trut ...
  • Israel’s choice of lawlessness and defiance
    William A. Cook considers what might have been had the Jews decided to work within international law, rather than defy it and seize most of Palestine by force and through ethnic cleansing, and live side by side with the Palestinians the indigenous inhabitants of the Palestine.
  • Reversing Israel’s faux legitimacy
    Paul J. Balles considers Israel’s false claim to legitimacy, how it can be undone and the probable counter-response from Israel and its Zionist allies and lobbyists around the world.
  • Was Israel ever legitimate?
    Jeff Gates views the fraud that underpins Israel’s claim to “legitimacy” and argues that the perpetuation of the myth of Israel’s legitimacy constitutes a real and present danger to United States national security and wellbeing.

Amazon Rainforest

  • Travelling down the Amazon Road
    In the opening of the Sustainability International Forum in Manaus, Brazil, Thomas Lovejoy, the scientist who invented the concept of biodiversity, criticized the construction of a highway through pristine areas in the Amazon rainforest. For Lovejoy, the highway poses a serious threat to the Amazon ...
  • Top Amazonia activist shot dead!
    Pedro Alcantara de Souza, who headed a union of landless farmers in Para, was shot in the head five times by two men on motorcycles, according to a police spokesman in the town of Redencao. Souza was riding a bicycle on the outskirts of the town and his wife was with him when he was shot, [...]
  • Avatar Director James Cameron returns from a visit ...
    James Cameron, director of Avatar, will hold a press conference on Wednesday, March 31 at 10 am at Hotel Tropical to report back on his experience a three-day visit to the Big Bend region of the Xingu River, site of the proposed Belo Monte Hydroelectric Dam project. “I was told by my friends at ...
  • Amazonia for Sale – new documentary – ...
    Amazonia for Sale is a new documentary on the Awajun People and their struggle to protect their ancestral territory. Approximately 35 minutes in length, Amazonia for Sale tells the story of the Awajun Peoples, who, like so many other Indigenous People around the world, are struggling to preserve the ...
  • New threat to uncontacted Tribes in Amazonia !
    Anglo-French oil company Perenco has revealed plans to build a pipeline deep into the heart of uncontacted tribes’ land in the Amazon rainforest. The pipeline is being built to transport an estimated three hundred million barrels of oil from the depths of the northern Peruvian Amazon. The company ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Jamiol Presents
  • Peddling Peril, Peddling Lies
    A Book on ‘Arming America’s Enemies’ Written by America’s Enemies?! David Albright, President of the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), has a new book out (which I haven’t read) about AQ Khan and the nuclear black market called Peddling Peril: How the Secret Nuclear Tra ...
  • Updates & Weekly Round Up for March 28
    Today marks Boiling Frogs Post’s fifth month of operation, and the last day of our fundraising campaign. On behalf of our team members I want to thank all of you for your support, with a special thanks to 658 of you who donated to our cause. We may not have reached our benchmark for our [...]
  • Podcast Show #26
    NWC’s Stephen Kohn Takes on the Absentee White House Last week Boiling Frogs Post invited Mr. Norman L. Eisen, Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform, and Mr. Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center, to publicly debate on the Whistleblow ...
  • White House vs. Whistleblowers Debate: NWC Accepts ...
    National Whistleblowers Center & Boiling Frogs Post Ask White House to Reconsider On Friday, March 19, Boiling Frogs Post invited Mr. Norman L. Eisen, Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform, and Mr. Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center, ...

Afro Spear

  • “Nobody denies genocide in Rwanda‏” by ...
    In the Rwandan New Times Monday 5th April, 2010 analysis titled: “Genocide Deniers and their Agents” by Tom Ndahiro, many salvos and fabrications were written. It wrote: “One of the more interesting ones is to an article entitled: “Kagame must reconcile with Rwandans” by Nkwazi Mhango, purpo ...
  • “New scramble for Africa” by Dr Jack Z ...
    Thanks to Désiré Katihabwa for forwarding this piece. The postcolonial partition of Africa evolves. The partition is between newly arrived Arab Muslim extremists, Eurocentric supporters of earlier genocide/pogroms and those who want to survive at any price even though security is not for sale. Some ...
  • Recognizing Confederate Bitches
    When VA Gov. Bob McDonnell announced that the month of April will be “Confederate Month” in his state by decree it was just a matter of time before blood started leaking out of old oppressive wounds. Not only did he note that April was Confederate Month in VA, he also failed to mention SLAVERY or th ...
  • When “art” is offensive: Solostücke un ...
    \ Jenny Beyer, Christoph Leuenberger und Anja Müller (v. l.) schlüpften in “fremde Haut”, um im Trio gemeinsam die Einzel-Choreografien für ihre Soli “I I I” zu erarbeiten. Foto: Kampnagel The photo above is from a theater production in Hamburg. Click through to read or translate the German text. ...
  • “Godless Goddess Erykah Badu” by Eddie ...
    I found this post by Eddie Griffin a very thought-provoking take on the Erykah Badu nude music video controversy. AN OPEN LETTER TO THE BROTHERS IN DALLAS She left nothing to the imagination, but much to be desired. She is neither cute, nor as fine as she thinks herself to be. Ms. Erykah Badu is vai ...

Expose the BNP

  • Journalists expose ‘murky world’ of far right
    Leading anti-fascist journalists last week gave a fascinating insight into the “murky and disturbing world of far right politics”. Nick Griffin’s biographer Dominic Carman and photojournalist Marc Vallée shed light on the violent and antidemocratic core of the BNP and the English Defence League. A s ...
  • Exposing the Irish National Party
    In February, the Irish Sunday Tribune ran a piece on the emergent Irish National Party, giving undue attention to a group that was little more than one Dublin based paediatric nurse and a couple of impressionable hangers on. The group identified as a moderate party in favour of immigration reform an ...
  • Collett arrested on suspicion of threatening to ki ...
    LAST week BNP youth leader Mark Collett was suspended from the party for allegedly threatening to kill Nick Griffin. Collett (29) was detained by police following claims by the BNP that he was involved in a plot to harm both Griffin and party financer James Dowson. However, sources close to the BNP ...
  • On the ground in Dudley
    Entering the town of Dudley on Saturday was like entering a ghost town, an almost militarised ghost town. More than half the roads in the town centre were closed, with police manning the roadblocks. As we made our way to where the English Defence League rally was due to be held we walked past rows [ ...
  • EDL attack journalists in Dudley
    The following is the eye-witness testimony of an NUJ member who witnessed the EDL rally in Dudley on Saturday. Entering the town of Dudley last Saturday was like entering a ghost town, an almost militarised ghost town. More than half the roads in the town centre were closed, with police manning the ...

Sen4Earth

  • Palin Alaska Boycott Gets Boost from Defenders Cam ...
    Click Here for Palin Alaska BOYCOTT CENTRAL and the link to the latest on the Defenders of Wildlife campaign. SEN could not be more ecstatic and yes SEN has donated to the campaign in honor of all of you making our united effort grow. We will not relent. The boycott SEN is leading has commenced and ...
  • Drill Us to Hell? Say What YOU Demand!
    Drill Oil, USA & World to Hell? Tell Us, Them What YOU want!   The USA and world will soon be out of oil regardless. Tell us what YOU demand, we’ll tell THEM for you. The consequences of “too little too late”. Tools and links for more info and ACTION.   The Energy and Climate Bill being debated in ...
  • ABC’s Kimmel Joins SEN’s Palin Alaska ...
    Click Here For Kimmel’s Video on ABC Please Note: Kimmel’s Condemnation Video is Comedic, but uses animation and special effects to imitate (ie fake) Sarah Palin shooting Alaskan Wildlife. Also, there is a 30-second ad before the two-minute Kimmel video starts. Click Here to Condemn and Boycott Th ...
  • SEN Condemns EDF, Walmart, Fox News, Glenn Beck, D ...
    Click Here for the Boycott Action Page for All Above Article this Page: SEN Condemns EDF and Walmart The Environmental Defense Fund is a non-profit organization that purports to be helping to save planet earth. In fact EDF has partnered with Walmart and is now shamefully singing Walmart’s praises on ...
  • Overshoot: Climate, Inequity and Corruption
    (See Recent Posts at Right for More articles) The author of the article below is Dr. Glen Barry, President and Founder of Ecological Internet (EI). He is recognized internationally by the environmental movement as a leading global visionary, environmental policy critic and public intellectual commit ...

If Americans Knew

  • The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised as ...
    John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.
  • A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and love ...
    We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine providence ...
  • Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
    This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.
  • Impressions of Israeli Executions in the West Bank
    Much planning had gone into our family vacation in Israel-Palestine. We could spare only the last two weeks of 2009, and so had developed an uncompromising itinerary for each day, allowing a mere half-day to recover from jet lag from our trip from California. After devoting most of the first week to ...
  • Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist ... i ...
    In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their Gandh ...

David J. Gregory

  • REMINDER: The Vast Majority Of The Government Defi ...
    Many people right now are making a scare story out of the U.S. government’s future deficit projections. Many of these same people are also blaming our government’s horrific projected deficits on the current administration. Problem is, as shown in the chart below (via The Economist), America’s defic ...
  • Nearly Too Late
    Corporate Takeover 95% Complete Time to wake up!! You’ll be late for the END.
  • PEACE
    ………………………………….PEACE…………………………….. No! Sadly dear heart, passivity and quietism won’t make the nightmares go away!.. Some of US write to reach those who are still asleep.. We rally to express our disenchantment with the status quo! We March to show the strength of our convictions. “We” will com ...
  • Join this Care2 group, Care2 over 12 million stron ...
    ~  WELCOME  ~ Get involved join this Care2 group to make a difference, apathy is no longer acceptable! Group Discussions new topic default View All red Welcome (4) blue News (4) green Petitions (3) yellow Miscellaneous (10) [...]
  • Prayer for America
    This prayer was offered eight years ago in Congress by Dennis Kucinich, one of a very small group, who actually represent the American people in government today. Please do all you can to see that he is reelected to Congress, he represents the 10th District of Ohio in the House of Representatives, w ...

Unsuitable Blog

  • Jan Lundberg Attacks Sierra Club’s Support f ...
    Our good friends The Sierra Club are at it again – this time with regards to motor transport. The Sierra Club believe you can have “clean cars” as demonstrated by this press release, emanating from the new radical Executive Director, Michael Brune (didn’t take long for him to become a member of the ...
  • Greenwash of the Week: Chevron’s Solar Proje ...
    Yes, I’m being lazy: we’re packing to move house so The Unsuitablog will be a bit sporadic for a while. Thank goodness there’s so much greenwash to choose from out there. (That was a joke)
  • The Chagos Archipelago – Where “Conservation ...
    No need for comment, straight repost with thanks to Fred. How do you greenwash a large airforce base? A base that is responsible for bombing nearby countries, and which was built on an island you confiscated from residents who are now living in exile on the other side of the world? Easy. You announ ...
  • RecycleBank Is Worse Than Doing Nothing
    We’re moving house soon, which means discovering untold secrets in the rarely visited corners of our current place of abode. After 16 years in the same place, much of that with an attitude that could possibly be described as “hoarder”, it’s no surprise that our domestic recycling bin is being kept ...
  • Scientists vs Deniers
    The following groups say the danger of human-caused climate change is a … FACT: U.S. Agency for International Development United States Department of Agriculture National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration National Institute of Standards and Technology United States Department of Defense United St ...

Subalternate Reality

  • Lingering Racism Against African-Iraqis
    Today, the New York Times posted a rather disturbing article about the level racism in Iraq.  There are an estimated 1.2 million African-Iraqis. By and large, nearly all are treated like second-class citizens.  In fact, the discrimination is so engrained “that they are commonly referred to as “abd” ...
  • Galbraith: 2nd Stimulus Needed
    University of Texas economics professor James Galbraith appeared on Al Jazeera today to discuss his vision for economic recovery.  The first priority, said Galbraith, is to fill state budget gaps.  While the concern over of the growing deficit and the national debt is important, ultimately, “unless ...
  • Evo Morales Scores Again
    Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first indigenous president, has secured reelection by a landslide. In fact, the victory gives him an even greater mandate than the one he previously enjoyed.  Unofficial results show that Morales received 63 percent of the vote, an increase of almost 10 percentage points from ...
  • Lingering Corruption in Afghanistan
    Corruption is one of the main factors behind the increasingly dire situation in Afghanistan.  Since 2001, billions of dollars have poured in and yet, there is little to show for it.  To a large extent, much of what hinders the present Afghan government is its inability to tackle systemic cronyism a ...
  • The Hijacking of Adam Smith
    Advocates of an unregulated global economy like to use Scottish philosopher Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations to support their bold claims about the invisible hand.  Smith, capitalism’s patron saint, however, was much more nuanced and reflective than unscrupulous market-friendly ideologues portray him ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Clifford Stoll Was Wrong, But Internet is Far From ...
    Poor Clifford Stoll . His 1995 Newsweek essay The Internet? Bah! Hype alert: Why cyberspace isn't, and will never be, nirvana resurfaced last month and, yes, is still so curmudgeony that it makes Dennis the Menace's Mr. Wilson sound like Pangloss: What the Internet hucksters won't tell you is th ...
  • Agriculture and Us
    I attended an Ashoka conference in New Delhi yesterday on rural innovation and farming. There were so many new things I realized about agriculture's deep rooted connections with culture, society and the economy that I decided to immediately write about it before the memories fade. Plus. I watched Av ...
  • Printcasting Adds Partners in Philadelphia, Puerto ...
    Do niche print magazines still have a role to play in the digital age? Media outlets in five different cities around the world are using the Printcasting publishing network to try and answer this question. We've added three partners in two weeks. They are: La República , one of the leading newspaper ...
  • Hacks and Hackers: A New Community for Technojourn ...
    Last June, at the annual Center for Future Civic Media Conference , I got to talking with Aron Pilhofer (an old friend, leader of the New York Times news applications team and a Knight News Challenge winner for the DocumentCloud project) about the growing number of people who are now doing computer ...
  • How Mark Luckie Created 'The Digital Journalist's ...
    It's an increasingly common story in the news business: Young journalist roars out of graduate school at Berkeley, gets a great job at a magazine in New York, works like mad, gets laid off when the economy tanks, turns to his blog and Twitter to brand himself a rock star in his field, publishes a bo ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Edge of Terrorism - How Safe are America's Subways ...
    A sarin gas attack on Japan's subway system in 1995. A foiled subway terror plot in New York City. Attacks on underground trains in London in 2005. The twin suicide bombings in Moscow. Terrorists have repeatedly made underground transit systems a target of their planned attacks. But the fortificatio ...
  • Israel and Hamas - Rumors of War as Tensions Mount ...
    The March 26 clash between elements of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Golani Brigade and Palestinian operatives near the Gaza border was the most serious since the end of Operation Cast Lead in January 2009. The incident has exacerbated tensions—already on the rise due to increased rocket attacks o ...
  • The Weapon's Edge - Israeli Tank Shield Could be a ...
    The Israeli “Trophy” tank defense system could prove to be a game-changing device should the U.S. acquire it for armoured vehicles it now has deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan . The final touches are being applied to a miniature anti-missile system designed and built by Israel-based RAFAEL in coopera ...
  • The Edge of Food - Does the Public have a Right to ...
    Is it a pig or a mouse pig? Relax I am told, it is just a bit of DNA and not species specific, putting mouse DNA into a pig won't affect it at all. Why then are researchers trying to bring a little piggy to market with mouse DNA spliced into the beast? The answer is simple and readily answered by pe ...
  • China on the Edge - Is There Still a Need for War ...
    One of the little-noticed actions in the recently concluded session of the Chinese National People’s Congress was the enactment of a National Defense Mobilization Law. In an age when conventional conflicts are planned to conclude in a matter of days or weeks, it is striking that the People’s Republi ...

    Blacklisted News

  • Why Are Silver Sales Soaring?
    The U.S. Mint just reported another record, but this time it wasn’t for gold. The Mint sold more Silver Eagles in March and in the first quarter of the year than ever before. A total of 9,023,500 American Silver Eagles were purchased in Q110, the highest amount since the coin debuted in 1986
  • Euro Troubles May Reach Boiling Point as Greece Pl ...
    Greek industry slump, inflation point to deeper recession ‎
  • Soros: It’s Not Easy Being God
    I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood, which I felt I had to control otherwise they might get me into trouble. -George Soros
  • Opium and the CIA: Can the US Triumph in the Drug- ...
    The first reality is that the extent of CIA involvement in and responsibility for the global drug traffic is a topic off limits for serious questioning in policy circles, electoral campaigns, and the mainstream media. Those who have challenged this taboo, like the journalist Gary Webb, have often se ...
  • Iraq War Vet: "We Were Told to Just Shoot People, ...

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • New US nuclear doctrine targets Iran, North Korea
    Summary: The new Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) issued by the Pentagon Tuesday is being hailed by the Obama administration’s apologists as a step towards global nuclear disarmament. It is nothing of the kind. The document lays out a rationale that would justify the use of nuclear weapons against ...
  • Iran says US nukes endanger intl. community
    Summary: Manouchehr Mottaki The bedrock of Washington's new nuclear policy, which allows the application of nukes in some cases, is clearly an extension to the doctrines of the previous administrations and in fact defies US disarmament commitments under article VI of the NPT. source: Press TV ...
  • Iran miffed by US's nuclear posture
    Summary: Kaveh Afrasiabi "Even [president George W] Tehran has reacted sharply to the new United States nuclear doctrine that explicitly targets Iran and North Korea and allows for the threat and use of nuclear weapons against them. Leading the charge, Preside ...
  • Is Iran Producing Medical Isotopes?
    Summary: The latest chapter in the Iranian nuclear crisis revolves around a possible “nuclear fuel swap” through which Iran would send most of its low-enriched uranium stocks (LEU at 3.5%) abroad, possibly to Russia and France, which would further enrich it (making it LEU at 19.5%) and then tu ...
  • GETTING THE IRAN-PALESTINE CONNECTION WRONG
    Summary: In his column today, the Washington Post’s David Ignatius presents an important piece of reporting about the Obama Administration’s approach to Iran and the Palestinian issue. David opens his column by citing “two top administration officials” as telling him that President Obama is ser ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Is Our Observable Universe Part of a Larger Univer ...
    The Noble-prize winning physicist Enrico Fermi used to criticize his colleagues work not because it was crazy, "but because it was not crazy enough!" Long before Fermi, Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake in Rome for saying that we...
  • Mystery of Planet-Like Object -Solved!
    A mysterious planet-like object has been discovered orbiting a "brown dwarf" in the Taurus star-forming region is the most recent enigma discovered by a team of Penn State astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope and the Gemini observatory to directly...
  • Could the Universe Be Made Up of Mini Black Holes? ...
    It's fascinating that while one of the concerns that has been voiced about the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is that it could result in the formation of black holes that could destroy the world, a year ago two physicists developed...
  • Does the Earth Have a 100,000-Year Climate-Change ...
    In an analysis of the past 1.2 million years, UC Santa Barbara geologist Lorraine Lisiecki discovered a pattern that connects the regular changes of the Earth's orbital cycle to changes in the Earth's climate. The Earth's orbit around the sun...
  • The iPad Era: The Next Big Thing is Here
    The iPad has been described as the biggest cultural phenomenon since The Beatles. As the most important launch in Apple's history -- bigger than the Mac, iPod or iPhone; the most important cultural phenomenon of this generation. John Doerr, the...

Natural News

  • Jesse Ventura speaks out about conspiracy theories ...
    (NaturalNews) Jesse Ventura is known as being a tough, principled and courageous advocate of liberty and freedom. His new book, American Conspiracy , outlines a fascinating and well-documented accounting of some of the most important conspiracies that shaped American history -- including the assassi ...
  • Secrecy in science is corrosive
    (NaturalNews) Secrecy undermines the practice of good science, charges Michael Schrage in an opinion piece published in the Financial Times , and governments need to step in and provide more incentives for open sharing of data. "On issues of the greatest importance for public policy, science researc ...
  • FDA finally admits that asthma drugs can actually ...
    (NaturalNews) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued new restrictions for four popular long-acting asthma drugs. Novartis AG's Foradil, GlaxoSmithKline's Serevent and Advair, and AstraZeneca's Symbicort, all contain an ingredient that relaxes airway muscles in the lungs which ca ...
  • Seasonal flu vaccines increase risk of pandemic H1 ...
    (NaturalNews) I remember the H1N1 "swine flu" season of 2009 very well. People were rushing out to get vaccinated, scared half to death by the mainstream media which was pushing false reports that the swine flu would kill tens of millions of people and that only a vaccine could save you. The CDC and ...
  • Transplanted organs impart memories onto recipient ...
    (NaturalNews) Becoming an organ donor is a great way to help out a person in the event of one's death. A study has shown, however, that sometimes donor recipients take on certain characteristics or personality traits from the donor, a phenomenon that researchers are having a difficult time explainin ...

Threat Level

  • Burning Man Rethinks Its Legal Ownership of Your P ...
    With the annual Burning Man celebration of art and self-expression four months away, its organizers are taking a second look at their Draconian photo and video policies. As it is now, the Burning Man Organization requires ticket purchasers to assign to the group the legal rights of photos and video ...
  • Identity Thieves Filed For $4 Million in Tax Refun ...
    A group of sophisticated identity thieves managed to steal more than $4 million by filing bogus tax returns using the names and Social Security numbers of other people, many of them deceased, according to a 74-count indictment unsealed in Arizona Thursday. The thieves operated their scheme for at l ...
  • Spam a Judge, Go To Jail?
    A litigant in a civil lawsuit asked an appeals court Wednesday to overturn his 30-day contempt sentence for urging people to send e-mail to a federal judge. Lots of e-mail. The brouhaha began in February, when TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau urged his radio and web followers to deluge U.S. District Judge ...
  • Lawsuit Says McAfee Plays Loose With Customer Data
    McAfee, a household name for computer virus-protection, is facing accusations it dupes customers into purchasing third-party services, and hands over consumer banking information to enable those transactions. A proposed federal class action in San Francisco claims that, once McAfee customers purchas ...
  • Bank of America Employee Charged With Planting Mal ...
    A Bank of America worker installed malicious software on his employer’s ATMs that allowed him to make thousands of dollars in fraudulent withdrawals, all without leaving a transaction record, according to federal prosecutors. Rodney Reed Caverly, 37, was a member of the bank’s IT staff when he ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • The Unbearable Whiteness of Being a Tea Bagger
    Over the past few weeks, two conservative myths about the Tea Party movement have exploded. First, despite the best efforts of Republicans to paint the angry mobs as independents, a bevy of polls confirmed that Tea Party members are ideologically conservative and overwhelmingly vote Republican . S ...
  • Conservatives Resume Cry of Income Tax "Welfare"
    Back in the 1980's, President Ronald Reagan hailed the expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) as "the best anti-poverty, the best pro-family, the best job creation measure to come out of Congress." But as Tax Day approaches, conservatives have forsaken their patron saint, decrying the "re ...
  • The Republican Confederacy of Dunces
    A modest proposal: no one displaying the Confederate flag gets to lecture any American about patriotism - ever . Ditto for anyone trafficking in Confederate nostalgia as a political strategy. Of course, that new red, white and blue rule would pose a problem for today's Republican Party. After all ...
  • Introducing McCain 5.0
    Arizona Senator and self-proclaimed maverick John McCain raised eyebrows this week with declaration in Newsweek that, "I never considered myself a maverick." But as it turns out, this new role for the failed 2008 GOP presidential candidate isn't his second incarnation, but his fifth. In a thirty y ...
  • The Myth of the Mainstream Tea Party
    In the wake of two new surveys from Gallup and the Winston Group , the conservative blogosphere and general media alike have been quick to proclaim the Tea Party movement "mainstream." While the Los Angeles Time promoted the " Myth-Busting Polls ," one right-wing blog laughingly warned of a " Suici ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • The American Taliban by Bruce Gagnon
    Christians cannot love their enemies and kill them, tooOriginally uploaded by Lorri37 by Bruce Gagnonfeatured writerDandelion SaladOrganizing NotesMarch 27, 2010A French documentary about the right-wing Christian fundamentalists who are preparing to wage war on behalf of Jesus.The difference between ...
  • Chris Hedges: War is a Force that Gives us Meaning ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/by Chris HedgesFeatured WriterDandelion SaladUCTV – University of California Television11/1/200459 minutesVeteran New York Times correspondent Chris Hedges has covered conflicts in Bosnia, El Salvador and Israel. Tune in for this thought-provoking lecture based on ...
  • NATO Chief: Weapons of Mass Destruction threat is ...
    Propaganda Alertcompiled by Cem ErtrFeatured WriterDandelion Salad27 March 2010 http://www.nato.int/cps/en/SID-D6107D8E-02CBC541/natolive/opinions_62395.htm excerpts from: Building a Euro-Atlantic Security Architecture Speech by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary General Anders ...
  • received goods 27mar10
    It’s like watching a reknowned and venerable pointillist taking up a brushpen. Studying the paper for long moments, considering its tooth and weight. Laying down five lines without apparent consideration for where they should be or what they are. And with the sixth mark you realise, you see, you can ...
  • The Pentagon is using Haiti as a Training Ground f ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/by Michel ChossudovskyGlobal Research, March 28, 2010A Recent report in Star and Stripes reveals the nature of the US military operation in Haiti. Combat units from Iraq and Afghanistan have been deployed in Haiti under the banner of a humanitarian operation. Conv ...

Consortium News

  • Watching Innocent Iraqis Die
    Official Washington loves George W. Bush's belated "victory" in Iraq but a leaked video shows the grim reality, reports Robert Parry. April 9, 2010
  • Letting Coal Miners Die in West Virginia
    Corporate greed is the backdrop for a devastating West Virginia coal mine explosion, killing more than two dozen, says Michael Winship. April 9, 2010
  • The Case for Independent Journalism
    Editor Robert Parry says he understands why independent journalism may not seem like the most urgent priority at a time of need. April 8, 2010
  • Murder Replaces Torture, Brilliant
    Frustrated by the legal problems of torture, the U.S. government has turned to assassinations instead, observes David Swanson. April 8, 2010
  • CIA Assigned to Kill US Citizen
    The Obama administration has authorized the CIA to kill a radical Muslim cleric who was born in the USA, writes Jason Leopold. April 7, 2010

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

TruthHugger

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

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    This seems like the smoking gun, but we'd bet there's worse to come. "The Pope is facing allegations he was responsible for delaying Church action against a paedophile priest - the first time he has been accused so directly. The allegations stem from a letter signed by Benedict XVI in 1985, when he ...
  • Cure for Tiger Overload
    via Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money.
  • American Landscape
    Matthew Zupnick - "American Landscape" - oil on canvas - 14 inches x 25 3/4 inches - by permission of the artist
  • Charles Swift for Supreme Court Justice
    (Thanks to Blue Girl for reminding me about the Constitution-saving service performed by the JAG lawyers who defended Guantanamo detainees.) You want to know what really makes a potential Supreme Court nominee tick? �What he or she will do when presented with an impossible situation? �Whether he or ...
  • Meet Mr. Mining Disaster_ Clara Bingham, The Daily ...
    Even before the explosion in West Virginia that killed 25 of his company's employees, Don Blankenship was a Hollywood-caliber villain. Clara Bingham on a coal executive with a seeming disregard for worker safety. If this doesn't convince you that the chickenshit CEOs who sit on their ultra padded as ...

Care 2

  • On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Also Think Of Animal ...
    This Sunday, April 11, Holocaust Remembrance Day, while you’re thinking of all the poor people who suffered and died during the Holocaust, please also take a moment to reflect on our modern-day concentration camps and the billions of animals who are Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! � ...
  • Egypt to museums: Return our stolen treasures
    Egypt's antiquities chief teamed with 25 nations to add heft to campaign Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • ACTION ALERT: Expose Ridiculous Research! End Chi ...
    World Week for Animals in Laboratories (WWAIL) will soon be here - April 17 - 24. We'd like to tell you what IDA is doing, and we urge you to participate as well. This week, as part of a coalition, IDA sued the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Not ...
  • PETITION - Ban Cat and Dog Fur in Canada.
    Products that use cat and dog fur are banned in countries all over the world. In Canada, products that include cat and dog fur remain legal and can be imported, exported and sold in Canada without labels. Submitted by Pam F. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Canadian wildcat makes 2,000-kilometre trek home
    Wildlife experts are describing as "incredible" the 2,000-kilometre journey home of a tuft-eared wildcat that was captured as a young adult in British Columbia in 2003 and transported to Colorado for a landmark lynx-reintroduction program Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Ad ...

GreenBiz

Reuters Global

  • U.S., Russia in push to crack down on UN Security ...
    The United States, Russia and China are quietly backing moves to exclude "unnecessary" elements from closed meetings of the U.N. Security Council to prevent what they see as annoying leaks of information to the media on sensitive issues like Iran and North Korea, U.N. officials and diplomats told Re ...
  • War comes to Germany
    Germany, which has kept its military on a tight leash since World War Two, has struggled with the notion its army involved in a "war" in Afghanistan. But Chancellor Angela Merkel and Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg used that and other long-banished terms for soldiers at a memorial ceremo ...
  • Markets call euro zone’s bluff on Greek aid
    The stakes in the race to help Greece overcome its financial difficulties keep getting higher. Euro zone countries have promised loans to help Greece out if needed, but haven't given any details. Financial markets are unconvinced and appear ready to call the EU's bluff.
  • The “Japan High School Party”
    A new party shows that personal ties are often more important than policies in Japanese politics.
  • “Red shirt” festival proceeds under th ...
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Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • He Sold His Soul, And Now He’s Retiring
    Yep, that’s right, after Bart Stupak and his gang of 11 wrangled over $3.5 Billion for their votes on Obamacare, Stupak has decided to end his career in Congress. You know, as if he hadn’t already done that with his vote, and selling out. Here are the details: Rep. Bart Stupak To Retire After [.. ...
  • Barack’s Surrender Monkey Mentality
    Birther’s who insist that Barack Obama was born in Kenya are missing the boat. I think he may be French. How else to account for his willingness to run up a white flag even before the shooting starts (folks, if you don’t understand sarcasm and humor you should stop reading now and go [...]
  • Communication Corruption in the White House
    Sure, every president prefers positive stories emerging from the White House. Yet the Obama Administration appears to be actively ensuring that whatever we get is fairy dust lite. And, there’s an even bigger problem–a true conspiracy actually, and that is not a term I toss around casually–that ...
  • This is what tyranny looks like…
    I remember the day after George W. Bush opened his illegal, immoral, unprovoked war on Iraq – based on nothing but lies – when an email petition came through advocating that we start impeachment proceedings against him. I knew it was a non-starter, politically speaking, but I thought we should, at t ...
  • a tale of two targets
    Sarah Palin’s map: “Dangerous, violent, menacing, threatening, monstrous, paranoid, extremism, pouring more and more gasoline on the flames, far beyond politics as usual, crossing the line”. [Might I add, it's just plain scary!] Democratic Leadership Committee (2004): Democratic Congression ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Brutal Training to Become a Shaolin Monk
    Brutal daily training is de riguer for those intent on becoming Shaolin Warrior Monks. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Tricycle Scooter Invades Skatepark
    Take the feel of skateboarding, the stance of BMX biking and the carving momentum of skiing and you got trikking. Try freestyle trikking at the skatepark and you got real read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...
  • Getaway To St. Augustine
    Winding my way through historic brick streets, peppered with antique stores and mighty fortress walls, I’m suddenly feeling in the mood for some cultural history. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • Taming Your Shadow
    No one has yet managed to separate from their shadow but creativity knows no bounds when playing with it. Be on your guard or instead of taming it, your shadow might tame read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...
  • Lion Vs Hippo
    Most lions wouldn’t dream of attacking a ten times heavier and much more aggressive hippo. But see what happens when reckless, adolescent male lions get ideas… read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...

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Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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    Scored tickets & blogger access to the Palin-Bachmann event, surely the best GOP show of the season... A mellow crowd greeted Minnesota's top Republicans, ready to slug out another election season. There isn't much new news to report, but Andrew French ( @tacomachine ) got really nice photos ...
  • Oh noes: Epic FBI white supremacist troll Hal Turn ...
    Alright here's a bizarre story about a strange man from New Jersey, Hal Turner, who rose to fame as a racist, anti-semitic blogger and radio talk show host whose violent rhetoric upset many people. Alex Jones to his credit accurately flagged Turner years ago as an FBI informant/operative. No mainstr ...
  • War on WikiLeaks? Nasty intelligence plan to destr ...
    Well this is grim! The ACIC or Army Counterintelligence Center published in March 2008 a National Security Information Special Report, under the auspices of the Department of Defense Intelligence Analysis Program (DIAP). Michael D Horvath of the Cyver Counterintelligence Assessments Branch d ...
  • Restored 1927 "Metropolis" adds new subplots on wo ...
    Frame by frame, the lost almost-complete version of Metropolis is coming out. METROPOLIS2710 It's an amazing & essentially perfect film, which created the bases for epic pop culture characters like Doc Brown, C3PO, as well as a powerful vision of utopian urbanism -- the film itself created a huge c ...
  • Young: "The Internet is a giant spying machine rig ...
    Got BitLocker? Feel a bit r00ted??? [It was later posted that this full Windows 7 law enforcement pack was actually originally posted on the very cool newer site PublicIntelligence.net: Microsoft Windows 7/Vista Advanced Forensics Guides for Law Enforcement | Public Intelligence ] In a continuation ...

Daily Censored

  • NY Times Missed the Mark on Native American Border ...
    The Tohona O’odham native American tribe skirts the border of  southwest Arizona and Mexico. The New York Times covering a drug running story failed to tell the real story of the Tohono O’odham human rights issues and the complicity between elected Tohono O’doham officials, tribal police and US B ...
  • Charter school in mobbed-up New Jersey refuses to ...
    But what is it that the school board of Oceanside Charter School is trying to hide? Could it be that documents or meeting minutes might show further corruption or indicate collaboration or put the light on some conspiracy hatched with public monies by charter administrators, the board or employees ...
  • Fighting the corporate sludge: High school student ...
    You might remember ‘Jamal’ from my article on Detroit Public schools, “Corporate Barbarians at the Gate: Wal-Mart internships at Detroit Schools” (http://dailycensored.com/2010/03/06/corporate-barbarians-at-the-gate-wal-mart-internships-at-detroit-schools/). Jamal is the high school student who fou ...
  • Racism, White Supremacy & Hollywood
    Racism, White Supremacy & Hollywood “There’s nothing that the Black man could use to earn Burn Hollywood Burn” - Chuck D, Ice Cube, Big Daddy Kane By Solomon Comissiong Another Oscar (Academy Awards) season has come and gone and so, too, with it another year of Hollywood subsidized racist imager ...
  • American Monetary Institute (AMI): History of mone ...
    The American Monetary Institute is the world’s leading organization for understanding monetary history and how to reform monetary policy. These six articles reprint AMI’s principle information, available at AMI’s website, with their express permission to share widely:  Explaining the need for monet ...

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Pine River World News

  • Michael Hudson: The Coming European Debt Wars
    The following article is reprinted with permission from Global Research . The Coming European Debt Wars EU Countries sinking into Depression � � Michael Hudson April 9, 2010 Government debt in Greece is just the first in a series of European debt bombs that are set to explode. The mortgage debts i ...
  • Eva Golinger: Political Prisoners?
    [The following article is reprinted with permission from Eva Golinger. She is the author of "The Ch�vez Code: Cracking U.S. Intervention in Venezuela" (2006 Olive Branch Press) and "Bush vs. Ch�vez: Washington's War on Venezuela" (2007, Monthly Review Press).] Political Prisoners? � �Eva Golinger C ...
  • The American Recovery, Lots of Puff But No Substan ...
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Stanislav Mishin, a frequent contributor to Russian newspaper Pravda. The American Recovery, Lots of Puff But No Substance � �Stanislav Mishin Source: � Mat Rodina April 5, 2010, 2010 Ok, ok, if one reads the U.S. post and watches Wall Street, ...
  • Is Iran a Threat to Global Security? U.S. is Wagin ...
    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Global Research. Is Iran a Threat to Global Security? U.S. is Waging War against the Wrong Country � �Kourosh Ziabari Source: � Global Research April 4, 2010 Tittle-tattles regarding the possibility of a military strike against Iran are be ...
  • Pravda: Moscow Subway Bombers Identified
    The following article is reprinted with permission from Pravda. Moscow Subway Bombers Identified � � Pravda.ru April 2, 2010 One of the terrorists, who blew themselves up in the Moscow subway on March 29, was tentatively identified as Jennet Abdurakhmanova, aged 17. She is a widow of the leader of ...

IntelNews

  • Analysis: Canada becoming a heaven for spies claim ...
    Canada is today one of the world’s safest and most attractive environments for international spies, according to a former officer in the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).
  • Interview with alleged CIA spy in Iran
    US government-owned Radio Liberty has aired an interview with an Iranian defector who claims to have worked as a CIA agent in the 1980s and early 1990s.
  • News you may have missed #326
    US spends millions on deception operations. Iranian embassy in Australia spying on activists. Newsflash: Israeli, Iranian spies active in Gulf!
  • News you may have missed #325
    CIA investigator sentenced. President Ford authorized warrantless wiretaps, memo shows. Yemeni court upholds alleged spies’ sentences.
  • Essential links on WikiLeaks video of Iraq shootin ...
    Whistleblower site WikiLeaks has released a leaked video taken from a US military helicopter in July 2007, showing US forces indiscriminately firing on Iraqi civilians, killing 12 people and wounding two children. The dead included two employees of the Reuters news agency.

After Downing Street.org

  • Occupied Washington DC
    By Stephanie Westbrook As a visitor to our nation's capital, I cannot tell you how disconcerting it is to step off the metro and find yourself face to face with a F-35 fighter jet. Where you would normally expect to find ads for cell phones or museum exhibitions, Washington's subway, the second busi ...
  • 15 Mind-Blowing Facts About Wealth And Inequality ...
    15 Mind-Blowing Facts About Wealth And Inequality In America See more . read more
  • Five Dollar Friday
    I'm going to do this. Will you? If so, blog and Email, Fbook and Tweet. --DS From Jon Schwarz Starting today, every Friday I'm going to give five dollars to someone who's produced something funny/interesting/worthwhile and is giving it away on the internet(s). Obviously the internet is the greates ...
  • Rob Kall Speaks to Veteran of "COLLATERAL MURDER" ...
    Josh Stieber, a former U.S. Army Specialist, is speaking out. A member of the Bravo Company 2-16 whose acts of brutality made headlines this week with the Wikileaks release of the video "Collateral Murder," Stieber says such acts were not isolated incidents, but were commonplace during his tour of d ...
  • The New Issue of War Crimes Times Is Out
    READ IT HERE .

Grist - News

  • What the John Paul Stevens retirement means for en ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes Stevens (center) with President Obama and Justice Anthony Kennedy last September.Collection of the Supreme Court of the United StatesSupreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens announced his long-expected retirement Friday, meaning we can expect another testy/goofy/"contentious" ...
  • Bike love in unlikely places—Detroit, Dallas ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes Courtesy Related Links: What the John Paul Stevens retirement means for energy progress Massey coal miner suspected safety problems might prove fatal U.N. climate talks in Bonn are off to a rocky start
  • Massey coal miner suspected safety problems might ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes At least one miner killed in this week's tragic disaster in West Virginia seemed to sense that safety problems in the mine might prove fatal.� Josh Napper left a note for his girlfriend and toddler daughter the weekend before he died.� As his mom, Pam Napper, tells CNN , it ...
  • U.N. climate talks in Bonn are off to a rocky star ...
    by Agence France-Presse Activists outside the Bonn climate talks ask negotiators to "pick up the pieces" after CopenhagenPhoto courtesy WWF Climate via FlickrBONN -- Hopes of hoisting the U.N. process for climate change out of the mire after December's flawed Copenhagen summit suffered a setbac ...
  • Northwest mountain towns become home efficiency la ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes The American pet-food industry spends more on research and development each year than the American utility industry does, according to a mind-blowing line in Thomas Friedman's Hot, Flat, and Crowded . In most competitive industries, companies spen ...

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  • Dow Jones Crosses Intrinsically Meaningless Milest ...
    Investors, rejoice! The Dow Jones Industrial Average has crossed the 11,000 mark for the first time since September 26, 2008. The news has caused much breathlessness in a financial blogosphere hungry for good news. But, to throw some cold water on the situation, the number 11,000 is no more meaningf ...
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  • The States Most Affected by Unemployment Insurance
    With the Senate gearing up to consider unemployment insurance extension legislation next week, the National Employment Law Project has a useful chart breaking down the number of Americans losing their jobless benefits by month and by week, state by state. I took that data and Census Bureau state pop ...
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CowBoss' Brain Food

  • Snail pie is tastier, more nutritious than beef
    Malnutrition and iron deficiency among schoolchildren in developing countries could be reduced by serving up generous portions of delicious, bargain-priced snail pie and other handy beef alternatives. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • CO2, Methane Ousted as Worst Global Climate Change ...
    Move over CO2—you’ve been ousted, along with methane, as the biggest offenders of global climate change. The majority of “greenhouse gases” are created by humans. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
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    Four people have been arrested in Peru on suspicion of killing dozens of people in order to sell their fat and tissue for cosmetic uses in Europe. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 6 Ways Agriculture Impacts Global Warming
    Sure, agriculture provides us with the food we all eat every day. But do you know how those agricultural practices impact global warming? Turns out there's some pretty big impacts, on both the sustainable and industrial sides of the equation; employing su Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to ...
  • We love Butchers
    Former chef Josh Applestone and his wife, Jessica Applestone, are typical of the new butcher breed. He was a vegan, she was a one-time vegetarian when they founded Fleisher’s Grass-fed and Organic Meats in Kingston, N.Y., in 2004 Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �N ...

Suzie-Q

  • Puppet Afghan President Karzai Calls US Troops Inv ...
    by Tom Turnipseed, CommonDreams.org, April 9, 2010 Afghan President Hamid Karzai, a former consultant for UNOCAL oil company was installed by the US as the President of Afghanistan after our invasion and occupation of that country. Now he complains that US and NATO troops [...]
  • George W. Bush ‘knew Guantánamo prisoners were inn ...
    The Times/UK, April 9, 2010 Tim Reid, Washigton Andres Leighton/AP) Two detainees are escorted to interrogation by US military guards at Guantánamo Bay George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld covered up that hundreds of innocent men were sent t ...
  • Rupert Murdoch: Fox News Shouldn’t Be Suppor ...
    Rupert Murdoch says Fox News shouldn’t be supporting the Tea Party movement. He actually said that. Crooks & Liars- By John Amato Thursday Apr 08, 2010 7:00am Ari over at Media Matters asked Rupert Murdoch if it’s appropriate for his network to be supporting the Tea Party movement. He said “no, ...
  • Arianna Huffington: Book Club Pick: Why 13 Bankers ...
    Arianna Huffington  | HuffPost | April 7, 2010 07:42 PM The cliché tells us that you can’t judge a book by its cover. Agreed. But sometimes you can tell a lot about a book by the blurbs on its cover (and just inside the cover). Such is the case with Simon Johnson and James Kwak’s 13 Bankers: [... ...
  • Massey Energy & Don Blankenship: Million-Dollar Te ...
    Massey Energy & Don Blankenship: Million-dollar Tea Party sponsors Crooks & Liars- By karoli Tuesday Apr 06, 2010 9:00am Meet Don Blankenship, CEO of Massey Energy Company. Blankenship is also on the Board of Directors of the US Chamber of Commerce. In this speech above, he denies climate chan ...

Solari

  • It IS Spring!
    By Anais Starr I found a booklet online—The War Garden Victorious—by Charles Lathrop Pack. The image here is just one of the posters produced during that time on the subject. The book was originally published in 1923. What a great idea—grow vitamins at your kitchen door! From Chapter I: The war gar ...
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    View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report tonight, Thursday, April 8, 2010. Click here to view all charts as a pdf file. See previous Money & Markets Charts blog posts here. Currency char ...
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    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.” ~Albert Einstein
  • Murphy Rebuts Gold Lending
    Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: The Huffington Post has posted an essay by GATA Chairman Bill Murphy in reply to an essay by banker Warren Mosler posted there this week asserting that central banks lease gold to earn money rather than to suppress gold’s price. Mosler’s defense of gold leasing was pra ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
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  • Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afg ...
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  • 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��
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Sideways News

  • Kim Jong-Il becomes fashion icon
    State-controlled media has declared North Korea’s Supreme Leader as a trendsetter of a global fashion craze. The Uriminzokkiri website reported that the dictator’s zip-up, monotone suits were sweeping the globe as must-have outfits. The website went on to quote an unnamed French fashion pundit as sa ...
  • Sony aims for zero footprint
    Sony has become the largest multinational corporation to announce its intention to have a zero environmental footprint by 2050, including zero carbon emissions and the elimination of all non-renewable material from its products. The plan includes the entire company, from electronics to music and fil ...
  • Last of the tribes?
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  • A truly out of this world interview
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  • Facebook targets unregistered voters
    Facebook has been recruited as the latest weapon in the battle to solve the problem of the UK's 3.5 million unregistered voters. The Electoral Commission has teamed up with the social networking website to provide unregistered voters with the tools they need to ensure their vote is counted before po ...

Fabius Maximus

  • Freidman of Stratfor writes about “Mexico an ...
    Another brilliant analysis from Stratfor, about (as Martin van Creveld foresaw two decades ago) one of the major threats to America.  This is a another perspective to the recent articles about the “end of Mexico.”  At the end are links to other articles about Mexico.  “Mexico and the Failed State ...
  • Are Americans over-taxed?
     Conservatives are agog over Obama’s inept response to Obama’s 17-minute, 2,500-word response to woman’s claim of being ‘over-taxed’.  It’s a hot topic; high taxes are the heart of the Tea Party Movement.  But are we over-taxed?  A few simple graphs give a decisive (and unhappy) answer. Can we ...
  • Change of URL for Chet Richard’s website
    He is now posting at Fast Transients (a WordPress website), after ChetRichards.com was hacked.  It’s worth a look!  He’s the author of If We Can Keep It, which I strongly recommend.  From the “about” page: Chet was an associate of the late Col John Boyd from 1975–when Boyd asked him to loo ...
  • FM newswire for April 9, interesting articles abou ...
    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. “The Market Value of Public-Sector Pension Deficits“, Andrew G. Biggs, American Enterprise Institute, April 2010 — State pension plans are underfunded by ...
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Open Your Eyes News

  • Study: 1.2 million households lost to recession
    Msnbc – Since Richard Brown lost his job to the recession and his Boston home to foreclosure a year ago, he’s been working short-term consulting assignments until he gets back on his feet. In the meantime, he’s been “couch surfing.” Read Article
  • Traffic-Related Pollution Near Schools Linked to D ...
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  • Kyrgyzstan’s head reveals overthrown president lef ...
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  • US military deaths in Afghan region at 954
    Associated Press – As of Friday, April 9, 2010, at least 954 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count. The AP count is five more than the Defense Department’s tal ...
  • Will fraud lift gold prices to $10,000/ounce?
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  • Amerikkans eat the poor
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PakAlert

  • Three massive blasts rock Peshawar within 20 min
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  • US Is Waging War Against The Wrong Country
    By Kourosh Ziabari Freelance Journalist And Media Correspondent, Iran Tittle-tattles regarding the possibility of a military strike against Iran are being renewed these days. President Obama, to whom I still wonder why the Nobel Peace Prize has gone, is confessing that former President Bush was ri ...
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ecogeek

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    Just yesterday we brought you news of Cree's new module that will soon be working it's way into lighting fixtures. We asked when we'd see their technology taking the shape of high-brightness bulbs that could fit in for home use. The answer was within the next year or two. But today GE announced tha ...
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  • Cree Modules to Speed Adoption of LED Lighting
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Buzzflash

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    BUZZFLASH DISCUSSION The New York Times is reporting that Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) will not seek reelection this year. The nine-term representative of Michigan was facing tough opposition from both sides due to his opposition to , and ultimate vote for, healthcare reform .Stupak dug in his heels ...
  • If the South Wants to Secede, Go For It. Here's Wh ...
    MARC PERKEL FOR BUZZFLASH Right wing Republicans and Tea Party extremists are talking about seceding from the United States. I say - go for it. Governors like Rick Perry of Texas and Bob McDonald of Virginia want to inflame the hatred of America then they should leave and form their own country. ...
  • Who Would Defend a Secessionist Texas if Mexico Tr ...
    BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZFLASH MINUTE Frankly, Virginia, or any other state in these United States, celebrating the Confederacy is as�offensive as if Germany were to announce a celebration of�the Holocaust. It is a time in history when death and dying was a result of wrong-minded beliefs, a time of ...
  • Virginia’s History Month Festivities Ignored Slave ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH Any Southern governor Who does this even once is Only managing to celebrate A confederacy of dunces. read more

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • The death of Dawn Johnsen's nomination
    After waiting 14 months for a confirmation vote that never came, Dawn Johnsen withdrew today as President Obama's nominee to head the Office of Legal Counsel.� As I� documented at length when the nomination was first announced in�January, 2009, Johnsen was an absolutely superb pick to head an office ...
  • Salon Radio: Spc. Josh Stieber on WikiLeaks video
    Josh Stieber is a former solider in the�U.S. Army deployed to�Iraq in 2007 and 2008, achieving the rank of�Specialist.� While deployed in Baghdad, he was in the very same Company -- Bravo Company 2-16 -- as the soldiers involved in the Apache helicopter attack depicted on the�video released by WikiL ...
  • Justice Stevens' retirement and Elena Kagan
    Justice John Paul Stevens, who was appointed to the Supreme Court by Gerald Ford in 1975 and then became the leader of its "liberal" wing, told the White House today that he was retiring in the Summer .  I had been planning to write a comprehensive post documenting the reasons why one of the clear f ...
  • Olbermann on Obama's assassination program
    There are many legitimate criticisms voiced about Keith Olbermann, but he deserves substantial credit for his coverage last night of a story that is as self-evidently significant as it under-covered:�� Barack Obama's assassination program aimed at American citizens .� He not only led off his show wi ...
  • Confirmed: Obama authorizes assassination of U.S. ...
    (updated below - Update II) In late January, I wrote about the Obama administration's "presidential assassination program," whereby American citizens are targeted for killings far away from any battlefield, based exclusively on unchecked accusations by the Executive Branch that they're ...

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • The Open Laboratory 2009
    The self-proclaimed “best in science writing on blogs” brings us once again a wide range of posts from the great and the good of the scientific blogosphere. The project was started with Bora Zivkovic (Blog Around the Clock) who recognised that science blogs were taking on a more and more relevant ro ...
  • Element 117
    Element 117 discovered, ancient climate, change, and intute’s green service. Elemental discoveries – element 117 – An international team of scientists from Russia and the United States, including two Department of Energy national laboratories and two universities, has discovered the newest superhea ...
  • Spectroscopy Now
    Latest science news from David Bradley with a spectroscopic bent… Muscling in on the mussels’ grip – Spectroscopy has been used to probe the chemical composition of the cuticle of the common bivalve mollusc commonly known as the mussel. The research provides the first direct evidence that the cutic ...
  • Press releases should be about people
    We’re all increasingly familiar with corporate press releases. There are countless websites that regurgitate the corporate and institutional public relations output for wider and wider audiences. If you’re familiar with the blogosphere, you will almost certainly recognise that many posts simply echo ...
  • Climate emails, MS trek, Gulf Stream safe
    Latest science news snippets Hacked climate emails – Hacked climate email inquiry clears Jones but questions remain Trekking for multiple sclerosis – Wendy Booker (wendybooker.net), is determined to change the face of MS. Her mission? Climb the Seven Summits—the highest mountains on each continent; ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Feingold, McGovern, Jones Call On President to Set ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 8, 2010 Sen. Russ Feingold, Rep. Jim McGovern and Rep. Walter Jones In a letter sent to President Barack Obama today, U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) and U.S. Representatives Jim McGovern (D-MA) and Walter Jones (R-NC) urged him to set a flexible timetable for remov ...
  • French-Style Nuclear Reprocessing Will Not Solve U ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 8, 2010 Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER) Contrary to some prevailing opinion, reprocessing would not eliminate the need for a deep geologic disposal program to replace Yucca Mountain. It aggravates waste, proliferation, and cost problems. The volu ...
  • Tribes, Conservation Groups Tell Congress to Prote ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 8, 2010 Conservation Coalition Today representatives from the Havasupai and Hualapai tribes will join representatives of conservation groups in voicing united support of legislation proposed by Congressman Raúl Grijalva, D-Ariz., the Grand Canyon Watersheds Protectio ...
  • CCR, Rights Groups Oppose Thomson IL Correctional ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 8, 2010 Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) On April 8, 2010, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Alliance for Justice; American Civil Liberties Union; Amnesty International USA; Government Accountability Project; Japanese American Citizens League; Na ...
  • With Obama in Office, Congressional Democrats' Sco ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 8, 2010 Peace Action West On legislation regarding foreign policy, Democrats voted more hawkishly in 2009 then they had in the previous eight years. This is according to a just-released report on Congress's national security voting record, a survey of 13 key votes in ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Occupied Washington, DC
    by Stephanie Westbrook As a visitor to our nation's capital, I cannot tell you how disconcerting it is to step off the metro and find yourself face to face with a F-35 fighter jet. Where you would normally expect to find ads for cell phones or museum exhibitions, Washington's subway, the second b ...
  • In West Virginia, Coal Miners' Slaughter
    by Michael Winship The high cost of energy in America was paid in human lives this week, with the deaths of more than two dozen miners in a massive explosion at the Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia. It's the worst mine disaster in a quarter of a century. Upper Big Branch is owned by Masse ...
  • Nine Myths about Socialism in the US
    by Bill Quigley Glenn Beck and other far right multi-millionaires are claiming that the US is hot on the path towards socialism. Part of their claim is that the US is much more generous and supportive of our working and poor people than other countries. People may wish it was so, but it is not. A ...
  • Anti-Union, Anti-Regulation Mafia
    by Laura Flanders OK, so the details keep coming out after the deaths of at least 25 miners at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia. While we don't yet know just what caused Monday's explosion, we have learned a lot about the company that owned the mine, Massey Energy. read more
  • Glenn Beck Gets Progressively More Paranoid
    by Peter Hart Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck had a surprising 2009 (Extra!, 6/09 ), becoming a high-profile advocate for the right-wing Tea Party movement and attracting millions of viewers to his late afternoon cable talk show. How does one top that? By spinning out elaborate theories about t ...

Karl Burkart

  • Just say no to 'Dirty Gold'
    New report lauds companies like Tiffany and Sears who have banned dirty gold, but 4 out of 5 jewelry manufacturers still use it. The 'No Dirty Gold' campaign hopes to change that.
  • Computer chip breakthrough mimics brain synapse
    Today HP unveils a breakthrough in powerful computer chip technology that can process data, store memory and stack 3-dimensionally.. just like a brain synapse.
  • The war is just beginning.. on Climate TV
    Yours truly will be featured on the latest edition of Climate TV talking about mountaintop mining and the future of climate activism: 'The war is just beginning.'
  • Greenpeace: civil disobedience is NOT 'terrorism'
    Recent Greenpeace videos inciting civil disobedience have summoned the wrath of an anti-environmental cyber army which is framing Greenpeace as a terrorist organization.
  • iPad verdict: It's green
    A host of eco-features -- and the simple fact that the iPad delivers 3 devices in one -- may make it the greenest device of 2010.

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Polish president among 132 killed in plane crash
    All 132 passengers on board, including top Polish officials, killed after crashing in thick fog trying to land in west Russia The Polish president, Lech Kaczynski, and his wife were among 132 people killed when their plane crashed in thick fog on its approach to a regional airport in Russia early th ...
  • From Russia without love
    Russian president calls Torry Hansen 'monstrous' for putting unwanted Artyom Savelyev, 7, on flight back home with note US authorities are investigating whether an American woman who sent a Russian boy she adopted back to Moscow unaccompanied on a plane can be charged with child abandonment. The cas ...
  • Englishmen lead but Tiger lurks
    • Englishmen share top spot on eight under par • Woods and Mickelson two shots back England expected and Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter obliged, planting the flag of St George at the top of the leaderboard at the midway point of a Masters that threatens to be one for the ages. With the competition com ...
  • Blissful denial – I'll drink to that
    We see shrinks, talk about our IVF and air our psyches on TV. But we're not as open as we appear This morning I woke with the niggling bastardy little ghost of last night's red wine vibrating through my head and dehydrating my synapses. I soaked them in tannin, applied the usual light coating of car ...
  • Not so Innocent any more?
    Innocent insists founders will keep operational control despite 58% of shares going to Coca-Cola The founder of Innocent smoothies denied last night he had sold out to Coca Cola despite allowing the US multinational to swallow a 58% stake in the small and ethically-minded British business. Richard R ...

McClatchey

  • Commentary: China must learn to be a better world ...
    When China's President Hu Jintao visits Latin America later this month, somebody should tell him in unmistakable terms: If China wants to be a well-respected world power, it should be a better global citizen.
  • Commentary: Montcoal mine tragedy touches us all
    The pay may be better, more safety regulations are in place, and casualties have dropped, but the awful tragedy in the small town of Montcoal, W. Va., offers a reminder. Coal mining is still mighty dangerous work. The death toll was at 25, making the explosion in a mine in Montcoal the worst such di ...
  • Lungren: Members of Congress should 'cool it' on p ...
    WASHINGTON — As a member of Congress, Rep. Dan Lungren said he has grown accustomed to dealing with crazy folks.
  • Commerce Department: China dumped cheap steel in U ...
    WASHINGTON — In a ruling important to many companies across the country, the Commerce Department announced Friday that Chinese steelmakers sold steel tubes used by the oil and gas industry at below-market value in the U.S., a practice that domestic steelmakers say has harmed their operations.
  • Stevens' retirement sets up battle over Supreme Co ...
    WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens announced his retirement Friday, setting up a long-anticipated confirmation battle during the most sensitive of political seasons.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Climate: How we got here
    From the UN climate talks in Bonn "When you think back to Rio," the delegate asked rhetorically, "would you ever have imagined it would end up like this?" This is a delegate with much greater experience than me in this arena - someone who saw the UN climate convention come into being in 1992, and ...
  • Bonn voyage for Copenhagen bus
    The battered old charabanc of the UN climate convention (UNFCCC) splutters back into life this week for a quick three-day outing. But how it runs during the course of the year, and where its final destination lies, are issues that the drivers and passengers have yet to decide. It appears that th ...
  • MPs' message of climate trust
    The first of the numerous enquiries into the state of climate science has just been published in the UK, and - you might be tempted to conclude - so far, so predictable, in terms of its conclusions and of the reactions to it. It's important to be clear on what the enquiry by the House of Commons Sc ...
  • Whaling words: Into the new
    Few things drive people who would like to see whaling end to distraction quite as much as the lack of engagement with the issue across Japanese society. Their argument goes like this: continuing whaling is clearly not in the best interests of Japan as a nation, raising opprobrium in countries that ...
  • CITES: Murky waters for marine conservation
    So, the once-every-three-years Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meeting has come to an end; and rather like the last time, conservationists are coming away with hands empty, apart from a few scrappy morsels of succour. I haven't been at the meeting in Doha, but I have ...

The Wonk Room

  • Anti-Immigrant Group Cites Report That Disproves I ...
    On Thursday, NumbersUSA — an immigration restrictionist group that calls for the suspension of most legal immigration — pounced on a report by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) which found, amongst other things, that legalizing undocumented immigrants would not have a “significant eff ...
  • Get Ready For Kyl’s Sunbelt Shakedown
    Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) went on the NewsHour last night and artfully dodged whether he would support the START treaty, saying initially that he hadn’t read it yet, despite – as Senator Diane Feinstein noted – it is only 17 pages long. This is consistent with what Josh Rogin reported that GOP Senato ...
  • Blankenship’s Union-Busting Goal: ‘Sel ...
    This week, Upper Big Branch mine in Montcoal, WV, was the site of the deadliest mining disaster since 1984, with at least 25 miners killed and others still missing. The disaster was caused by an explosion of contained methane gas, which caused a similar incident at the Sago Mine — also in West Virgi ...
  • Debunking Conservative Lies On Nuclear Modernizati ...
    A common refrain from those looking to oppose the START treaty, the newly released nuclear posture review, and more broadly Obama’s nuclear agenda, is that it is reckless to cut nuclear weapons when our nuclear arsenal is aging and deteriorating. Statements from Jon Kyl, John McCain, and Joe Liebe ...
  • Carbon Cap Would Deny Iran Precious Petrodollars: ...
    A strong cap on carbon would significantly cut the flow of petrodollars to Iran’s hostile regime, a Wonk Room analysis shows. The economic and political strength of Iran’s dictatorship is a threat to the national security of the United States and the world, and its nuclear ambitions threaten to dest ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Globe & Mail March 23rd
    John Ibbitson: "If the U.S. can set its mind to curbing health-care costs and having a public system, why can't we?" "Blah, blah, blah, ... Canada and the US both have problems. Blah, blah, ... health-care is eating up a bigger portion of provincial budgets ... I'm not mentioning that provinces ha ...
  • How Stupid Is Barack Obama?
    Seriously. The man is proving the uselessness of the US-American electoral process with everyday of his presidency. He has fucked-up healthcare. He said that building a "single-payer" public healthcare system would require "starting from scratch" when it would only have meant expanding medicare, m ...
  • SCHOPENHAUER!!!!
    I don't have time to write anything today!!!
  • The "WikiLeaks" Video and "Jarhead"
    A couple of days ago I posted a youtube link to Bobby McFerrin's song "Don't Worry, Be Happy" because it's been stuck in my head (for a week now!) after hearing it over and over as my partner watched the movie " Jarhead " over and over to critique the film for an English class. Well, last night I s ...
  • Obama Care and Deficit Hysteria
    Well, Obama passed his "health care reform." I've never been taken in by Obama's neoliberal bullshit and I think that this health care bill is a piece of shit. The most that I'll say it might be is a health care version of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 . Because of opposition and amendment of The C ...

Financial Sense Editorials

  • Census Numbers Uncensored
    by Vedran Vuk. "The Census aims to be every man’s hero. It promises an economic stimulus, a reduction in unemployment, and greater funds for every community. Of course, the reality is much closer to a game of musical chairs with your money. And guess who will be left standing?"
  • Fibonacci Techniques for Math Geeks -- and Everyon ...
    by Elliott Wave Int. "The word Fibonacci (pronounced fib-oh-notch-ee) can draw either blank stares or an enthusiastic response. There's hardly any in-between ground. But for those who ask how an esoteric mathematical relationship can apply to price charts and trading, here's a quick lesson. Everyone ...
  • Market Observation: Dollar Free Ride
    by Ryan J. Puplava, CMT. "The U.S. dollar has enjoyed a free ride since Europe’s economic troubles with Greece. Sovereign debt downgrades had encouraged assets to begin leaving the European region causing the euro to drop. The euro zone’s current account balance fell pretty strongly in January. The ...
  • Fibonacci Techniques for Math Geeks -- and Everyon ...
    by Elliott Wave Int. "The word Fibonacci (pronounced fib-oh-notch-ee) can draw either blank stares or an enthusiastic response. There's hardly any in-between ground. But for those who ask how an esoteric mathematical relationship can apply to price charts and trading, here's a quick lesson. Everyone ...
  • Progress is Slowing
    by Paul Nolte. "From the Washington euphoric high on Monday (As VP Biden said: “this is a big ____ deal!!) to the realization that many companies will be taking write-downs due to the increased costs of the bill by week's end could put a crimp in what many believe to be a good quarterly earnings sea ...

on Government Oversight

  • White House Releases Opengov Stretch Goals / Leadi ...
    Hot on the heels of the release of agency Open Government Plans, the White House has released a set of Open Government Leading Practices. The White House says the practices are not meant to serve as version 2.0 of the...
  • Morning Smoke: First Fatal Crash For CV-22 Osprey ...
    CV-22 Osprey down in Afghanistan by Stephen Trimble [The DEW Line] Our work on the V-22 Osprey can be found here Whistleblower protection agency stuck in neutral by Robert Brodsky [Government Executive] POGO's past work on the Office of Special...
  • GAO Report Takes Some Wind Out of NIF Hype
    In the last few months, the PR team for the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Lab has certainly earned its keep. Even though the project is not complete, 400 percent over budget, at least 10 years behind...
  • Who Discovers More Corporate Fraud: Whistleblowers ...
    A new study in the Journal of Finance offers a friendly reminder of the key role whistleblowers play in rooting out fraud, waste and abuse, finding that corporate fraud is more likely to be detected by an employee from within...
  • Morning Smoke: A First Look at Agencies' Open Gove ...
    Agencies' open government plans receive mostly positive reviews by Aliya Sternstein [Nextgov] Dozens More Massey Mines Cited Unsafe by Mike Lillis [The Washington Independent] The great F-35 cost riddle by Stephen Trimble [The DEW Line] Greenspan’s Fed Didn’t Focus on...

Digital Journal

  • Federal Cabinet Minister Guergis Resigns
    Helena Guergis, the contreversial Minister of State for the Status of Women has resigned today. She faces a police investigation and federal ethics probe.
  • Spoken Word artists giving back to their communiti ...
    Spoken word is taking off in Canada. During the Winter Games' Opening Ceremonies in Vancouver, Shane Koyczan performed, taking the art form mainstream. A common thread among artists is community service.
  • Canadians Commemorate battle of Vimy Ridge
    Ninety-three years ago today, on a drizzly Easter Monday the young men of the Canadian Corps supported by the most tightly organized bombardment in history left dugouts, trenches and tunnels and charged up the slopes of Vimy Ridge.
  • Toronto cleans up for the seventh year in a row
    It's time for Toronto's yearly Spring Cleaning. At 2 p.m. Friday the city is planning a massive cleaning effort by residents, students, professionals in the business community, government employees and City staff all doing their part for twenty minutes.
  • Toronto's Nathan Phillips Square gets a $42 millio ...
    The city of Toronto has announced that Nathan Phillips Square will get a major overhaul, including demolishing the current ice rink and installing a two-storey restaurant.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Sex Offenders More Dangerous When They're Homeless
    Jessica's Law, first passed in Florida in 2005 as a way to protect children from sex offenders, actually puts kids more at risk. Since Jessica's Law (Proposition 83) was passed in California in late 2006, for example, the number of homeless sex offenders skyrocketed from 88 to 2,300, all in the name ...
  • Reason We Need Affordable Housing #1,000,076
    I first met Elaine at the  Glendale Winter Shelter . She is a very sweet, older woman who has lived on the streets for 20 years. At the shelter, she would come up to us and ask that we help her friends. She never asked for herself, but for those she felt were hurting worse than she was. She was alwa ...
  • Victory! No More Illegal Boarding Houses in New Yo ...
    After years of advocates sounding the alarm , New York City has ordered all shelters to cease referrals to illegal boarding houses , which are commonly known as 3/4 houses. 3/4 of what, we don't know. Many of these "residences" are buildings containing numerous housing violations and that have been ...
  • Homeless Activists Claim Vacant Homes in Protest
    On Easter Sunday, homeless activists and supporters rallied at noon in the Mission district of San Francisco. The group, " Homes Not Jails " (tagline: "Coming soon to a vacant building near you!"), marched and chanted down Mission Street accompanied by the spirited music of the Brass Liberation Orch ...
  • Social Networks Risk Client Privacy, Please Retwee ...
    My day job allows me to meet a lot of people in the social sector, many of whom work for, and run, homeless service organizations. Therefore, a large number of my Twitter and Facebook friends are individuals who work in homeless services. While the majority of these individuals are great, inspir ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Canadians oppose Afghan mission extension
    A recent poll by EKOS Research has determined that Canadians oppose the idea of extending Canada’s military mission in Afghanistan by a more than two to one margin (Jane Taber, “Canadians shut door on Afghan combat mission,” Globe and Mail, 8 April 2010). The poll also shows that a plurality of Can ...
  • New START treaty signed
    The United States and Russia signed the “New START” strategic nuclear arms reduction treaty today in Prague (Peter Baker, “Russia and U.S. Sign Nuclear Arms Reduction Pact,” New York Times, 8 April 2010). Text of treaty (17 pages) Treaty protocol (165 pages) Ceasefire.ca comments on the treaty ...
  • Experts agree: Peacekeeping is alive!
    Four years ago, David Bercuson, Director of the DND-funded Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, declared that UN peacekeeping was dead: As far as UN-led operations,… there just aren’t any left in the world today and you ought to really know that. These old Blue Helmet operations which our a ...
  • U.S. Nuclear Posture Review released
    The new U.S. Nuclear Posture Review was released on Tuesday. Full text of the report (72 pages) NPR summary factsheet (2 pages) Obama statement on NPR Other U.S. government background information Commentary Ceasefire.ca’s report on NPR contents, 5 April 2010 Statement on Nuclear Posture R ...
  • U.S. to reduce role of nuclear weapons
    The United States will reduce the role assigned to nuclear weapons in its national security strategy, the New York Times reports (David E. Sanger & Peter Baker, “Obama Limits When U.S. Would Use Nuclear Arms,” New York Times, 5 April 2010). The Obama administration’s much-delayed Nuclear Posture Rev ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Censorship Bill Passes in UK
    April 9, 2010 Prison Planet By: Steve Watson A draconian Internet censorship bill that has been long looming on the horizon finally passed the house of commons in the UK yesterday, legislating for government powers to restrict and filter any website that is deemed to be undesirable for public consum ...
  • Bush Knew Guantánamo Prisoners Were Innocent
    April 9, 2010 The Times George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld covered up that hundreds of innocent men were sent to the Guantánamo Bay prison camp because they feared that releasing them would harm the push for war in Iraq and the broader War on Terror, according to a new document obtained ...
  • Bilderberg To Prolong Global Financial Recession F ...
    April 9, 2010 Prison Planet By: Paul Joseph Watson The Bilderberg Group will meet this year in Spain and continue to advance their agenda for world economic governance while agreeing to prolong the global financial recession for another year, according to Bilderberg sleuth Jim Tucker, who has discov ...
  • Bank Worker Died of Blood Clot Linked to Pill
    April 9, 2010 Telegraph Jenna Morris, of Poulton, Wirral, died after a deep vein thrombosis developed in her legs and spread to her lungs. Before she collapsed Miss Morris complained of shooting pains in her legs and within hours her mother Christine found her daughter’s body at her home in Merseysi ...
  • State Cigarette Taxes Not Spent on Anti-Smoking Ef ...
    April 9, 2010 Reuters By: JoAnne Allen Higher cigarette taxes can substantially curb smoking but states can make an even bigger dent by investing the new funds in programs to help people quit, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. “None of the 15 states dedicated any of the new e ...

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

  • The tyranny of law
    When the question, is it right?, is made subordinate to the question, is it legal?, we succumb to the tyranny of law. Once in a while a rare individual when confronting a contradiction between these two will refuse to be tyrannized. Anat Kam might be just such an individual, though as Richard Silve ...
  • Is the US getting ready to push Israel to declare ...
    Whatever else can be said about the strained relationship between Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu, one thing is clear: Obama seems intent on keeping Netanyahu off balance. On Tuesday, Netanyahu announced he would be returning to Washington next week to attend Obama’s Nuclear Security Summit. Ju ...
  • A presidential death warrant
    American soldiers have to be trained how to kill, but for American presidents killing comes naturally. Anyone who aspires to become president must surely ask themselves: am I willing to end someone else’s life, be that an individual or perhaps tens or hundreds of thousands or even millions of peopl ...
  • Look in the mirror Avigdor
    “The problem is not Turkey, the problem is Erdogan,” Israel’s foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, told Ynet on Monday. Sorry Mr Lieberman: it’s you — not Turkey’s prime minister — who has a serious image problem. How many other countries in the world have a foreign minister who would best serve hi ...
  • Michel Warschawski interview
    Michel Warschawski is a writer and journalist and founder of The Alternative Information Center, an internationally oriented, progressive, joint Palestinian-Israeli activist organization. At the end of the war on Gaza, Warschawski wrote this: Absolutely Not! Not in Their Name, Not in Ours Ehud B ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Lindzen: “Earth is never in equilibrium&#822 ...
    This is an essay professor Richard Lindzen of MIT sent to the Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Va for their Opinion Page in March, and was recently republished in the Janesville, WI Gazette Extra where it got notice from many WUWT readers. It is well worth the read. – Anthony To a significant ext ...
  • An error in the pole hole assumption
    Analysis of the recent American Thinker Article By Steven Goddard The American Thinker ran an article by Randall Hoven that asked “Was the Arctic Ice Cap ‘Adjusted’? The conclusion is based on the chosen value of concentration of ice in the “pole hole” where the satellite can’t measure due to inclin ...
  • NSIDC’s Walt Meier responds to Willis
    I read Willis Eschenbach’s post last week on Trust and Mistrust where he posed several questions and challenged scientists to respond to the same questions. So, below is my take on these questions. There are a couple points I need to make up front. First, I’m speaking for myself only, not as a repre ...
  • Climate change and “The Birds”
    From the “you can’t make this stuff up” department. Climate change is now blamed for what is called “Gary Larson events” in homage to the famed creator of the comic strip “The Far Side” “We saw birds dying of what at best could be called Gary Larson events,” said Mark Mallory of the Canadian Wildl ...
  • Cryo-sat launch successful
    Successful launch for ESA’s CryoSat-2 ice satellite From the European Space Agency: 8 April 2010 ESA PR 07-2010. Europe’s first mission dedicated to studying the Earth’s ice was launched today from Kazakhstan. From its polar orbit, CryoSat-2 will send back data leading to new insights into ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Polish President Lech Kaczynski dies in plane cras ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ My sympathies and condolences to all. RussiaToday April 10, 2010 — A plane carrying the President of Poland, and his wife, has crashed in Western Russia. Russian officials say the plane was carrying 132 people, including Lech Kaczynski. The governor of Sm ...
  • Bill Moyers Journal: Andrew J. Bacevich + Louise E ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Bill Moyers Journal April 9, 2010 Andrew J. Bacevich Historian, international relations expert and former US Army Colonel Andrew J. Bacevich returns to the JOURNAL to discuss America’s long war in Afghanistan. via Bill Moyers Journal . Watch & Listen | PBS ...
  • The Male Hierarchy of the Catholic Church: Problem ...
    by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted on Buzzflash.com April 9, 2010 All the rage (literally, for some of the victims and some of their parents) is the discussion/controversy in a number of countries over Catholic priests’ sexually abusing children and teenagers ...
  • Three Cheers for the Tea Party! by Sean Fenley
    by Sean Fenley Dandelion Salad The Anything and Everything April 9, 2010 I’m not sad to say that I’m cheering for the success of the Tea Party.  Surely if they are to ’succeed’ they will take votes away from Republicans, but more than that they will open up a stale process to a new [...]
  • While I walked away with my freedom, the primates ...
    by Jason Miller Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Thomas Paine’s Corner Apr 9, 2010 Devin Listrom, Kyle XVX, Judy Junior, and Jason Miller in a Bite Club protest against vivisection at KUMC…. Meat-eating, racist, homophobic, capitalist-loving white men can openly tote guns and threaten violence ...

Your New Reality

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    The Northern Lights as seen from the International Space Station :
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    Do You Feel Safer Yet? Soldiers and police in combat gear, armed with mega-powerful M4s, patrol New York City's subway.....because bombs exploded in the Moscow subway yesterday (?) . The New York Post calls them "armed guards" .
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    Fudge You, You MotherFudger By Darryl Mason Okay, it's not Bye Bye Birdie or Hello Dolly!, but why isn't Scarface a good morality play for kids? Sure he flies high, but Tony Montana pays dearly for his crimes. The peak of success sees him become a prisoner in his own home, crippled by paranoia, ...
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    Does Hollywood help pre-condition Americans for coming new realities?
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    I wonder if George Lucas watched Woody Allen's 1973 sci-fi satire Sleeper when he was writing early Stars Wars screenplays? Am I the only one who can see similarities between Allen's android character and C3-PO? Head movements, attitude, shuffling walk? A famililarish robot-dismantling moon in The E ...

Wired - Science

  • Bats, Birds and Lizards Can Fight Climate Change
    Birds, bats and lizards may play an important role in Earth’s climate by protecting plants from insects that forage on foliage. A new study suggests that preserving these animals could be a low-tech way to fight climate change. “The presence, abundance and diversity of birds, bats and lizards, the ...
  • Tipping Point Not Likely for Arctic Sea Ice
    A late-winter expansion of Arctic sea ice is a good example of ice-forming dynamics that could keep the Arctic from hitting a “tipping point” in the near future. Some scientists have predicted that rising temperatures could create a runaway feedback loop in the Arctic. Sunlight-reflecting ice sheet ...
  • High-Speed Video Shows How Flies Change Direction ...
    Fruit flies turn in midair with a shrug of their shoulders. A new analysis shows that the flies’ aerial gymnastics are driven by wing joints that act like wind-up toys, letting the bugs whirl around almost automatically. Insights from the study, which was published online April 5 in Physical Review ...
  • Copycats Prevail in Computer Survival Game
    Being a maverick doesn’t pay, at least not when braving a strange new world in a computer game that’s like Survivor meets Second Life. The outcome of a computerized game tournament, which finds that a copycat strategy is best, may help explain why mimicking others is so prevalent in nature. The new ...
  • Venus Orbiter Finds Potential Active Volcanoes
    The Venus Express spacecraft has found convincing evidence that Earth is not the only geologically active planet in the solar system. Infrared emissions from lava flows on the surface of Venus indicate that they are relatively young, which means the planet may still be capable of volcanic eruptions ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Noam Chomsky, Gilbert Achcar: On the Legitimacy of ...
    Noam Chomsky: I don’t think that the notion of legitimacy of a state means very much. Is the United States a legitimate state? It’s based on genocide; it conquered half of Mexico. What makes it... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  • Wikileaks: Collateral Murder
    WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff. Reuters has... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Communal Groups Mobilize Against ‘Delegitimizers’ ...
    Tony Judt: “[T]he ‘de-legitimization’ issue is a fraud... I know no one in the professional world of political commentary, however angry about Israel’s behavior, who thinks that the country has no... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Gideon Levy: Harrass the IDF, not whistleblower An ...
    Are Israelis entitled to know that the IDF's highest ranking officers gave advanced written permission to fire at innocent people during "targeted assassinations?" Isn't the media's supreme duty, not... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Akiva Eldar: In Israel, reality hides under a ‘top ...
    In the summer of 1967, Yeshayahu Leibowitz prophesied that Israel's occupation would corrupt the country and turn it into "a Shin Bet state." As early as the first intifada, we understood there is no... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

Intel Trends

  • NOTICE: IntelTrends is moving to Blogger
    * * Effective 10-FEB-2010 this blog is moving to Blogger. * * The new URL is: http://inteltrends.blogspot.com RSS subscribers need to "re-subscribe" to the updated newsfeed URL. http://feeds.feedburner.com/inteltrends Thank you for your patience during the transition. Steve Permalin ...
  • Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: Peace Campaign Hyp ...
    The following comment is from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Reprinted with permission. Peace Campaign Hypes and the Rogue War-mongering Source: �Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan February 10, 2010 �17:46 �administrator Of Late, the invading forces led by America and their surrogates have l ...
  • Sahara Becomes Desert of Terrorism
    The following article is reprinted with permission from Pravda, Moscow. Sahara Becomes Desert of Terrorism ©   Pravda By Sergey Balmasov February 10, 2010 Senegal's president Abdoulaye Wade urged African leaders and the West to join forces in the fight against al-Qaeda's North African branch ...
  • IntelTrends 10-FEB-2010
    Military hospitals under pressure in advance of new offensive Telegraph, 10 Feb Military hospitals in Afghanistan and the U.K. are operating close to capacity as British forces prepare to launch a major offensive against the Taliban. Arab diplomat annuls wedding with hairy bride Al Arabiya, 10 ...
  • Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: On the So-called R ...
    The following opinion is reprinted with permission from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. On the So-called Re-integration Source: �Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan February 9, 2010 �08:56 �S.H. The recent American tactic to lure away members of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan under the nam ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • You Call This Food?
    I was stopped dead in my tracks by the lunch being served at my daughter’s elementary school here in the nation’s capital. French fries, a bag of Sun Chips, and an 8-ounce carton of strawberry-flavored milk. Click here to read this article
  • Tell the USDA to Ban Factory Farming from Organic!
    Tell President Obama and the USDA National Organic Program that you don't want organic beef cattle to be kept in factory-farm-style feedlots for the last four months of their lives. Click here to read this article
  • Exploring Expectations Beyond Natural and Organic
    Consumers are moving beyond the terms 'organic' and 'natural' toward broader expectations of minimal processing and general healthfulness, according to a new report from The Hartman Group. Click here to read this article
  • The True Inside Story of the Catastrophic Mexican ...
    Why Ciudad Juárez has a murder rate nearly four times higher than Baghdad's. Click here to read this article
  • What San Francisco Found in Their Own Sludge
    San Francisco claims, as no doubt your city does, that its toxic sewage sludge is safe to dump on area gardens and farms. This is a dangerous lie. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

Climategate

Opinio Juris

  • A Question About Targeted Killing
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller As the Washington Post notes, the Obama administration has authorized the CIA to assassinate Aulaqi wherever he is found.  It is very unlikely that CIA agents qualify as lawful combatants — they don’t distinguish themselves from the civilian population, th ...
  • The Constitutionality of President Obama’s Targete ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The NYT reports that the Obama Administration has authorized the targeted killing of an American citizen, the radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, The article notes the international law justification for his killing: he is an avowed member of Al Qaeda actively engaged ...
  • Bashir Was Ready to Step Down Before the Arrest Wa ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller That’s what Rob Crilly claims in an editorial today in the Telegraph: Before he was indicted, Bashir told regional leaders and his confidantes that he was ready to step down: after 20 years in office, he was ready for a holiday, and retirement to a smart ...
  • Maybe Debt Relief Won’t Help Poor Countries After ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The results of this new study about the ineffectiveness of international aid to certain developing countries is not surprising, but it is still depressing. For years, the international community has forked over billions in health aid, believing the donations supplemented ...
  • ASIL Book and Article Awards
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller The American Society of International Law recently awarded its annual certificates and prizes for scholarship in international law.  A number of the winners have either been involved in OJ symposia or are friends of the blog, so I want to acknowledge their ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • Air Con doco, part one
    Although other channels have now copied and uploaded part one of our Climate doco on Youtube themselves, thus turning it viral, I noted this morning that this original upload is only a whisker away from 10,000 viewings. Who will be...
  • Public meetings called on NZ ETS, starting Monday
    Want all prices to rise after July 1? Then reject the ETS now! (posted by John Boscawen) On July 1, the most pointless tax ever inflicted on New Zealanders will come into force. It’s called the Emissions Trading Scheme. And...
  • Errors in Royal Society of NZ climate change paper
    The Royal Society of New Zealand has again nailed its sorry little tail to the mast of a sinking global warming ship, with a statement designed to convince news media, politicians and the public that the science behind climate change...
  • A response to Cleo Paskal
    Cleo Paskal's take on global warming has been getting a little publicity, and I see she's commenting over at Hot Topic. However, I see her argument has fundamental weaknesses. Cleo, I'm curious to know why your article failed to address...
  • The Easter Challenge
    The Easter Challenge Given that it's Easter, I'd like to post something for atheists and agnostics to rip apart, sink their teeth into: Chapter 14 of my book The Divinity Code. Go for your lives: CHAPTER 14 Resurrection: Fact or...

Public News Service

  • Experts Discuss Vampire Influence on Teen Decision ...
    Experts Discuss Vampire Influence on Teen Decisions Phoenix, AZ – The “Twilight” series (by Stephanie Meyer) has been a big hit with teens, both the books and movies…and with the expected release of the movie "Eclipse" the event is being viewed by local teen educators as an opportunity to talk about ...
  • Full Restoration of KidsCare Funding Expected
    Full Restoration of KidsCare Funding Expected Phoenix, AZ – Arizona’s leading children’s advocate expects lawmakers and the Governor to undo their elimination of the state’s KidsCare Health program. That after the feds put the state on notice that killing KidsCare threatens all $7-billion the state ...
  • Health Reform Challenge: More Doctors Needed
    Health Reform Challenge: More Doctors Needed Phoenix, AZ – Congress’ approval of health care reform is expected to mean millions more Americans will have access to health insurance, but getting access to a doctor may be no easy thing, especially in rural areas...according to Karen Larson, a deputy d ...
  • Buyer Beware: “Greenwashing” Tricks Ar ...
    Buyer Beware: “Greenwashing” Tricks Arizona Consumers Phoenix, AZ – “LEED-certified,” “natural,” and “eco-friendly” are examples of possibly misleading statements Arizona consumers are likely to see. They fall under the label “greenwashing,” according to Jason Dunlop (DONE-lope), a board member of t ...
  • AZ Activists Take Immigration Reform Message to DC
    AZ Activists Take Immigration Reform Message to DC Phoenix, AZ – Twenty members of Arizona-based Border Action Network will join the March for America Sunday in Washington, D.C. They’ll join an estimated 100,000 people in calling for Congress to reform U.S. immigration policy. Comments from Jennifer ...

My Care2 Picks

  • BBC
    Flogging collections of stories about psyops without mentioning the grand tradition of the corporate state conditioning its citizens from the past master seemed remiss. Today Hollywood is Top Dog : but it doesn't always pretend to impartiality. BBC does. Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Not ...
  • U.S. Supreme Court Monitor - Indians Try to Keep C ...
    Justice John Roberts asks, "What's so special about Indian tribes and their relationship to the United States?" Is there a bias on the Supreme Court? Submitted by Bonnie Aller to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Coal and Environmental Posturing
    Tracking some current stories and adding related articles. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • High Resolution Mountaintop Removal Pictures
    Click on picture to open a high resolution image.For permission to use photos (non-profit groups, school, students, low-income organization) or to purchase one-time photo-use rights (for-profit groups) contact vivian@ohvec.org. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comm ...
  • 'Free Speech' and 'Right to Trial'
    If you guys would quit posting topical stories I wouldn't have to make an effort to organize what I think as relevant background ! Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Malcolm McLaren uses last words for Leonard Peltie ...
    Editor's Note: As one can safely assume, the IIN newswire is highly offended by the original titile of this article. While the British press is known for ugly journalism, identifying Leonard Peltier... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Findings and recommendations of First session Russ ...
    Russell Tribunal on Palestine: The recent war waged by the Israeli government and the Israeli army on the Gaza strip, already under a blockade, underlines the particular responsibility of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Asean leaders issue Burma election call
    BBC News - Asean leaders issue Burma election call: "South East Asian leaders have urged Burma's military government to hold free and inclusive elections.In a statement, the leaders of the Asean... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Iraq Killings and Media Indifference
    fair.org: A leaked videotape of a 2007 U.S. helicopter attack in Baghdad that killed a dozen Iraqis was unveiled on April 5 by the website WikiLeaks. To much of the corporate media, though, it was... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Andrew Bacevich: US Military Leaders Have 'Forfeit ...
    huffingtonpost.com: Nine years after the U.S. military invaded Afghanistan, military leaders have "unwittingly forfeited" their claim to providing an important service to society, according to... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Terrorism threat to England opening match against ...
    A gang of al-Qaeda terrorists have issued a chilling threat to cause "dozens and hundreds" of deaths by attacking England's opening game in the football World Cup in South Africa. British intelligence officials have been alerted after the North African group, al-Qaeda [al-CIAduh] in the Islamic ...
  • Prisoner demands compensation for Guantánamo night ...
    To this day Mr Hamad says that he does not know why he was seized . Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson's serious accusations against the Bush White House over Guantánamo Bay are made to support the cause of Adel Hassan Hamad, a former detainee who is now seeking compensation from the United States. In July ...
  • US government 'abused rights' of Hurricane Katrina ...
    The US government and states have violated the human rights of victims of Hurricane Katrina, Amnesty International claimed today. Its report Un-Natural Disaster says housing, health and policing policies have stopped poor communities rebuilding and returning to their homes since the 2005 hurrica ...
  • Americans 'worked for secret services'
    The Iranian intelligence minister says Tehran has compelling evidence that three Americans arrested in Iran last year were cooperating with intelligence services. In an exclusive interview with Press TV, Heydar Moslehi said Iran will present its evidence to the media soon. Shane Michael Bauer, ...
  • NATO aircraft crashes in Afghanistan, killing 4
    A U.S. Air Force Osprey aircraft crashed in southeastern Afghanistan, killing three service members and one government contractor, NATO said Friday. It was the first crash of the costly, tilt-rotor aircraft in a combat zone. The CV-22 Osprey went down about 7 miles (11 kilometers) from Qalat, th ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • Amazon fire major new shot in Kindle wars
    Faced with a battle from iPad and other wireless devices, Amazon.com have tonight announced they're making Kindle software available free for computers, iPhones and smartphones, so you can now read Kindle books on virtually any digital device. This turns the...
  • Air Con doco, part one
    Although other channels have now copied and uploaded part one of our Climate doco on Youtube themselves, thus turning it viral, I noted this morning that this original upload is only a whisker away from 10,000 viewings. Who will be the person that pushes it through that barrier this weekend?
  • Public meetings called on NZ ETS, starting Monday
    Want all prices to rise after July 1? Then reject the ETS now! (posted by John Boscawen)� � On July 1, the most pointless tax ever inflicted on New Zealanders will come into force. � It’s called the Emissions Trading Scheme. And it will make not the slightest practical difference to the Eart ...
  • Errors in Royal Society of NZ climate change paper
    The Royal Society of New Zealand has again nailed its sorry little tail to the mast of a sinking global warming ship, with a statement designed to convince news media, politicians and the public that the science behind climate change...
  • A response to Cleo Paskal
    Cleo Paskal's take on global warming has been getting a little publicity, and I see she's commenting over at Hot Topic. However, I see her argument has fundamental weaknesses. Cleo, I'm curious to know why your article failed to address...

Mondoweiss

  • The Cooper Union question: Was Arab anti-Semitism ...
    Last night at Cooper Union, George Packer sought to expose some possibly embarrassing sources of Tariq Ramadan’s political commitments by reading a quotation from Ramadan’s grandfather, Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. Packer asked Ramadan why he had failed to address the i ...
  • Neocons take over Buckley’s inheritance
    The neocon takeover of NRO is complete: "Petraeus’s Israel Problem." WF Buckley Jr., who opposed the war in Iraq, must be turning in his grave. And Pamela Geller the fevered Israel devotee writes that Petraeus is pushing "jihadist rhetoric of Islamic anti-semitism." Wow who would have believed that ...
  • Ambushing the ambiguity
    Like the gleeful sound one makes upon hearing that a particularly obnoxious and troublesome relative will not be attending a family gathering, Washington officials probably issued a collective sigh of relief when hearing the news that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has cancelled his visit ...
  • J’aime Paul Berman beaucoups
     From Ron Rosenbaum at Slate: Paul Berman’s new book exhibits the same dedication to moral clarity on these questions demonstrated in his earlier Terror and Liberalism. Mais oui, the clarity that he demonstrated when he defended the assault on Gaza’s civilian population under the rubric of fightin ...
  • Is the US getting ready to push Israel to declare ...
    Whatever else can be said about the strained relationship between Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu, one thing is clear: Obama seems intent on keeping Netanyahu off balance. On Tuesday, Netanyahu announced he would be returning to Washington next week to attend Obama’s Nuclear Security Summit. Jus ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: Media Spin & Swine Flu Hysteria
    “Canada’s vaccine uses an adjuvant, which consists of squalene (shark liver oil), DL-alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E) and polysorbate 80 (an emulsifier also used in ice cream). An adjuvant is a chemical product that boosts the immune response. There were claims that squalene, used in the anthrax vac ...
  • Petition: Parents of Vaccine Damaged Children say ...
    A UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF RESISTANCE TO MANDATORY VACCINATIONS We the undersigned, as Freemen & Freewomen, do not recognize the authority of The World Health Organization (WHO) to mandate general forced vaccinations. Our bodies are sovereign territory and subject to our exclusive self-de ...
  • Petition: Doctors & Nurses Say NO To Mandatory Vac ...
    A UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF RESISTANCE TO MANDATORY VACCINATIONS We the undersigned, as Freemen & Freewomen, do not recognize the authority of The World Health Organization (WHO) to mandate general forced vaccinations. Our bodies are sovereign territory and subject to our exclusive self-determ ...
  • VRM: Photo Gallery
    ‘We the undersigned, as Freemen & Freewomen, do not recognize the authority of The World Health Organization (WHO) to mandate general forced vaccinations. Our bodies are sovereign territory and subject to our exclusive self-determination. Any attempted violation of this trust must be construed a ...
  • VRM: Your Testimonials On Vaccine Carnage – ...
    Vaccine Damage Updates: An opportunity to contribute your testimonials from around the world: Charting Physiological & Neurological reactions, including all related trauma to the H1N1 shot & other vaccines. Charting miscarriages resulting from vaccines – Pregnant women are at a heightened risk o ...

B.C. Preppers Network

  • Simple Living: Getting Rid of "Stuff"
    "The stuff you own, owns you." I know that saying sounds bizarre and maybe a little paranoid but in many ways it's true. In my the back of my mind I'm always thinking, "I have to clean up and organize; my house is too cluttered.". �It's a little thing but it's one more stress in my life an ...
  • Product Review: Hydroclean Water-Saving Toilet Fil ...
    The other week my wife surprised me with a gift that only a prepper could �get excited over: a dual-flush toilet retrofit! I'm really excited to try out this gadget, however when I read the instructions I found out that it doesn't work with the "ball and lever" floater style fill valves. �I'd ...
  • More Tips My Wife Hates
    People seemed to get a kick out of my post about tips that my wife hates so I thought I'd keep it. I should let you know though that she doesn't hate all these things. �She seems to range from strong dislike to tolerance with a dash of "my husband is odd". �I should create a "Spousal Colour ...
  • A Reader Asks How to Pay Off Student Loans
    A� Next Best West reader posted this in the comments which I think deserves a post of it's own as a reply: "I borrowed 12,250 for my college education to become a Registered Nurse. I took out these loans in the early 90s and after three deferments and consolidation I owe 30,000. I want to go ...
  • The Ladies Will Be On the Family Preparedness Guid ...
    Last Saturday American Prepper , WVSanta , Matt and Bob were interviewed on James Stevens' Family Preparedness Guide radio show on Blog Talk Radio. They did a great job explaining the ins and outs of prepping and why we do it. Kudos guys!!! If you missed the show, you can download it here . This Sa ...

Michael Yon

  • Village Boys
    Easter Sunday, 2010 Anywhere, Afghanistan Back in December, C-Co  1-17th Infantry battalion had been in about the worst place in Afghanistan.  There is stiff competition for the position of actual worst place, and I am sure there are many contenders that remain unknown, but the Arghandab was one ...
  • War reporter Michael Yon wants answers on Seattle ...
    Published: 02 April 2010 FROM: Americans for Limited Government April 1st, 2010, Fairfax, VA—Michael Yon continues to question why he was arrested upon arrival at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for his refusal to answer a question about how much m ...
  • RED HORSE
    RED HORSE in the Desert of Death Some troops in Afghanistan go months without a shower.  Major Ryan O’Conner, XO of the 1-17th Infantry, now in Kandahar Province, said that during a previous tour his Soldiers fought half a year without so much as a dip in a creek.  Shortages of drinking water aff ...
  • The Battle for Kandahar: Part I
    FOB Frontenac, Afghanistan 28 March 2010 Under an early morning sky, a red glow is cast from the lights on an Air Force water drilling rig.  A new MATV, or “MRAP All Terrain Vehicle,” is being deployed to Afghanistan to combat homemade bombs, the favorite weapon of the Taliban. The 1-17th ha ...
  • The Scent of Weakness
    Kandahar Province, Afghanistan 25 March 2010 Dogs have been trained to carry bombs to attack enemies for decades.  The Soviets and others have used dogs as low-tech smart bombs.  Yet canine platoons likely would rebel if they caught scent they were being duped to die. Today, more sophisticated p ...

The Killing Train

  • Contested spaces worth defending
    Introductory Note: The Sociology and Equity Studies in Education (SESE) at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) Graduate Student Conference this year took place on April 3, 2010. It had the theme “Contested Spaces: The (Re)Organization of Schooling Under Neoliberalism”. From the con ...
  • Slumdogs vs. Millionaires: Sainath in Toronto
    The lecture hall slowly filled up as slides of families of the 200,000 farmers who committed suicide in India between 1997-2005 played on the flat screens on the side of the room. P Sainath, the day's speaker, was the journalist who brought the farmer suicides to wide attention. He opened his talk b ...
  • Implementing the Bolivarian Revolution: Julio Chav ...
    On October 10/09 Venezuelan former mayor, now state legislator Julio Chavez spoke at the University of Toronto sponsored by Hands off Venezuela and the Louis Riel Bolivarian Circle. He came in sporting the unassuming Bolivarian fashion: red T-shirt, red baseball cap (with a Canada logo on it), jeans ...
  • Realclimate on the hacked climate change emails
    A friend asked me for my take on the hacked climate change emails. Before formulating my thoughts I went to realclimate.org to see if they had anything. They do... and it's indispensable as usual .
  • If you are thinking of donating to Haiti relief ef ...
    If you are thinking of donating to Haiti relief efforts I would recommend either of these two organizations: The Haiti Emergency Relief Fund or Partners in Health

treehugger

  • New Game Simulates Impacts on Watersheds, Educates ...
    Photo credit Jane Haley, University of Virginia How do you get kids to understand the complexities of saving a watershed - from the ecology to the politics - and actually enjoy figuring out how to save it? By turning it into a game of course! After a long time in development, University of Virg ...
  • Cooking Up a New Way to Be Green
    Guest post by Anne Driscoll, originally published on Tonic . Day in, day out, we use the stove - and of course, our cookware -- to heat our meals and cook our snacks. But a revolutionary company called Ecolution has put green where we are not used to seeing it: in pots, pans and skillets. It ha ...
  • Travel Stove Creates Electricity While It Cooks (V ...
    Image via Coolest Gadgets How great would it be to have a stove where you can chuck practically any fuel source into it, have it utilize that fuel efficienctly to quickly heat your food, reduce emissions drastically, and power your gadgets? It seems that the option is actually on its way. Utili ...
  • The Week in Pictures: Warmer Temps, Increased Prec ...
    From a new analysis by Clean Air-Cool Planet that shows in the northeast United States extreme precipitation events have been increasing over the past sixty years to the news that the Aral Sea, once the 4th largest freshwater lake in the world, has dried up to 10% of its former size, a lot happe ...
  • Crazy Bus Stops From Around the World
    Anything that encourages public transit is welcome, and these bus stops rounded up on Toxel certainly look inviting. There is something about fruit-shaped stations in Japan; they come in a wide variety of flavours; ... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Burma ‘will remain rich, poor and controversial’
    Norwegian envoy backs continued international engagement with the Burmese junta but warns that the country's future lies with those "in the driving seat"
  • Will ASEAN eventually deliver?
    There are signs that the Southeast Asia bloc is growing increasingly impatient with Burma although it remains to be seen whether this translates into action
  • 16th ASEAN summit
    View Photo Album Regional leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) yesterday began the 16th ASEAN summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, with the Burma elections expected to feature high on the agenda. Reports emerged today however confirming fears that ASEAN, which stands stubbornly by its ...
  • Rohingya minority given ID cards
    Observers claim the government is looking to secure Rohingya votes prior to elections this year, despite confusion still surrounding their long-term status
  • ASEAN stops short of criticising elections
    Southeast Asia grouping sticks to 'non-interference' policy at summit but reportedly "makes suggestions" to Burmese foreign minister Nyan Win

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Philippines supreme court certifies gay rights par ...
    [JURIST] The Supreme Court of the Philippines [official website] ruled [judgment text] Thursday that a prominent gay rights organization may field candidates in the upcoming national elections as an accredited political party. The decision invalidates an order [text, PDF] issued by the Commission o ...
  • Pakistan assembly approves bill to curb presidenti ...
    [JURIST] Pakistan's National Assembly [official website] on Thursday unanimously passed a constitutional amendment [text, PDF] that would curtail the powers of the president. The 18th Amendment Bill would reverse the expansion of presidential powers under former military leader Pervez Musharraf [BBC ...
  • Kyrgyzstan opposition declares interim government
    [JURIST] Former Kyrgyz foreign minister Roza Otunbayeva [Telegraph profile] announced Thursday that she will lead an interim government in Kyrgyzstan after violent protests [JURIST report] Wednesday apparently ousted president Kurmanbek Bakiyev [BBC profile] and his administration. Otunbayeva, leade ...
  • Texas AG: 5 more states to join health care lawsui ...
    [JURIST] Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott [official website] announced Wednesday that five additional states will join [press release] in a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] challenging the constitutionality of the recently enacted Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act [HR 3590 materials]. The five st ...
  • US, Russia presidents sign nuclear arms reduction ...
    [JURIST] US President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev [official profiles] on Thursday signed the so-called New START treaty [text, PDF; BBC backgrounder], pledging to reduce their countries' nuclear warheads by about 30 percent. Under the terms of the treaty and its protocol [text ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Flanking the Right on Nuclear Policy
    Ponder the highlights of the Nuclear Posture Review, and you can't help but wonder: is there all that much that Republicans can complain about? Obama embraces the concept of missile defense as a deterrent against aggression in Europe (albeit as a way of reducing the reliance on nuclear weapons as a ...
  • Intel Director Defends His Job, and the Job
    The Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Adm. Dennis Blair (ret.), said today bluntly that intelligence reform since 9/11 has been "inadequate" to handle current intelligence threats and that the intelligence community's "ability to innovate, to cross traditional boundaries ...�falls well short ...
  • Detainees, Repatriation and Recidivism: An Update
    So how's President Obama's detainee policy coming along? Slowly. A senior administration official would only say that discussions with Congress -- that is, Democrats and Sen. Lindsey Graham -- are "ongoing" about a legal framework. But frustration at the lack of public backstop from the White House ...
  • McConnell Wants a National Intelligence Department
    Adm. Michael McConnell (ret.), the former NSA director and most recent Director of National Intelligence (DNI), said that future occupants of his old job might never be successful unless the entire intelligence community undergoes wrenching structural changes. He said he had come to endorse the con ...
  • Intel Briefings to Congress: Obama's Team Was Skep ...
    In the final moments of a panel on intelligence reform this morning, Michael Hayden, who served as director of the CIA for a short of time at the beginning of President Obama's first term, disclosed that he asked the White House -- the Obama White House -- about whether to brief Congress about a cer ...

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  • Anat Kamm’s Alleged National Security Threat
    When the Shin Bet removed the gag order against Anat Kamm recently and released a new indictment, it accused her of harming the security of the State of Israel by stealing documents whose contents would be much sought after by Israel’s enemies.  At first, knowing that the basis of her indictment wa ...
  • Mysterious Anat Kamm Photo
    Gahli Lit, one of my new Israeli friends from the Anat Kamm case, has sent me a truly mysterious photo of Kamm which cries out for an explanation. It pictures Kamm standing in what the caption calls a “Tel Aviv courthouse” on December 29th after a court hearing. A few truly strange facts about the ...
  • Links for 2010-03-21 [Digg]
    Happy Passover: Settlers, Immigrants, and Jewish Values "You shall not oppress the stranger because you know the soul of the stranger for you yourselves were immigrants in the land of Egypt (Exodus 23:9)"
  • Shin Bet Chief: Our ‘Enemies Dream of Getting Thei ...
    You gotta hand it to Yuval Diskin.  All of Israel has grown weary of the Shin Bet’s three-ring gag order circus.  The Supreme Court was even writing notes asking what was the be gained by this laughingstock.  And yet Diskin bounces right back like a Jack in the Box (pdf) ready for more obfuscatio ...
  • We Won…or Did We?
    Many have written congratulating me on victory we won against the Shin Bet in lifting the gag order against Anat Kamm and Uri Blau.  My haver, Jerry Haber, even wrote a blog post, Thank You, Richard, which was immensely flattering.  I appreciate the sentiment, I really do.  It’s great to feel yo ...

Ode Magazine

  • Budadogs gives new leash on life
    By: MarisaBeahm Answering the cries of abandoned and abused animals in Budapest, a group of committed Norwegian veterinarians launched Budadogs , a nonprofit that rehabilitates and facilitates adoption for some of the capital's neediest canines, many of which are i ...
  • Ton's Musical Musings: Matthias Loibner and the hu ...
    By: Ton Maas Many heads turned in surprise on the 2nd day of the Danube Music Festival , when Mathias Loibner from Vienna in Austria started rotating the handle of his hurdy-gurdy. The sound of this ancient instrument combines the qualities of fiddle, bagpipes and ...
  • Ode reader plans to travel to Haiti to help homele ...
    By: danniedog I'm heading to Haiti this summer on a fact finding mission to learn the ins and outs of working for individual families or communities. I do not wish to be constricted by rules of particular organizations. I'm trying to gather information now pertain ...
  • The quest for peace is unique to each of us
    By: PeaceCorso I look for subjects for this blog all the time, of course. Most of them find me, but when I find myself, on a rainy quiet morning like this one, I love to go back and look at the things I’ve squirreled away for Ode posts. This one is yummy. It’s c ...
  • Getting vaccines where they're needed the most
    VillageReach helps to deliver essential vaccines to remote areas in developing countries. Photo: VillageReach It is widely known that vaccines are one of the most cost-effective ways to save lives in poor countries. In some areas, in fact, living conditions are so dire tha ...

OpEd News

  • Iraq Rules Of Engagement / Fire At Will
    Many Iraq War veterans tell of civilian atrocities which were seemingly justified by constantly changing Rules Of Engagement ( ROEapos;s ) which eventually justified indiscriminate murder: Allen L Roland
  • Greenspanapos;s Testimony: Two hours of buck-pass ...
    Itapos;s galling that, after everything thatapos;s taken place, Greenspan is still treated like royalty; still given a platform so he can run-circles around his critics and make them look like fools.
  • Before And After
    Every day, the USA looks more and more like Robert Mugabeapos;s Zimbabwe. Thatapos;s not a good thing.
  • Voting News: Sarasota Election Sup wastes taxpayer ...
    Did mail-in voting enhance turnout in Dallas TX the wrong way?...Why is everything digital except the voting system?...Arrogance in action: Sarasota Florida Elections Supervisor Kathy Dent is wasting the taxpayersapos; dollars suing the county & state to fight the charter ordered, court upheld elect ...
  • Watching Innocent Iraqis Die
    Bush turned some U.S. soldiers into wanton murderers who had wide latitude to kill Iraqi "military-age males" or MAMS. Yet, it remains out of bounds for the U.S. mainstream news media to deal honestly with these painful issues or to suggest that Bush should be held accountable as a war criminal.

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  • What does 15,000 cfs Look Like? – A Perspective fr ...
    For the past several years, the Bay-Delta Conservation Planning process has been studying the potential benefits and impacts of a large “alternative conveyance facility” in the Delta.  Such a facility would run from the northern Delta more than 30 miles to the state and federal pumps in the ...
  • Climate Change Adaptation Debate At Santee Educati ...
    Last year, the Santee Education Complex in Los Angeles held a debate at about climate change.  On April 16, 2010, Santee students will participate in another debate under the auspices of the United Nations Foundation Global Debates program, this time focusing on the adaptations necessary to ...
  • The San Joaquin River Restoration Suggests Path Fo ...
    Something unexpected lies buried in the conflict over our collapsing salmon fisheries and water exports: a solution.  Some parties in this dispute have presented it as a zero sum game, claiming it’s a matter of “jobs vs. fish.”  This is a canard for two reasons.  First, fish represent jobs ...
  • Anglo American Makes Promises About Pebble Mine It ...
    The British mining giant Anglo American is scheming with Canadian-based Northern Dynasty Minerals to develop one of the world’s largest copper and gold mines, the Pebble Mine, in the watershed above Alaska’s pristine Bristol Bay.  The proposed mine threatens southwestern Alaska’s most abunda ...
  • Pipeline to the Past: Tar Sands Oil Holds Back Our ...
    Late this afternoon, the State Department made available on its webpage its draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline . The DEIS is oddly dated one week from now and it seems as though no Federal Register notice has been published. We can onl ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Horrible
    Context makes it particularly tragic. A plane carrying the Polish president, Lech Kaczynski, his wife and other high-ranking officials crashed in a heavy fog in western Russia on Saturday morning, killing all aboard, Polish officials said. Russian television showed chunks of still-flaming fuselage ...
  • 5 minutes of CNN
    I haven’t glanced at CNN for months, but at the gym today I clicked over to CNN to see what they were saying about Stevens and the upcoming Supreme Court vacancy. I like to think I’m quite aware that CNN is breathtakingly vacuous and has no discernable redeeming value or purpose, but even I was unp ...
  • A Campaign of Dunces…
    We’ve been unaccountably lax in Mickey coverage. Fortunate, TBogg is on the case. Related posts:Upward Mobility Campaign Finance and Oral Arguments Clinton Disowns the VP Pressure Campaign Related posts: Upward Mobility Campaign Finance and Oral Arguments Clinton Disowns the VP Pressure Camp ...
  • Thoughts on Stevens
    Here. Related posts:Stevens Makes It Official More thoughts on Citizens United Deep thoughts on the eve of the inauguration Related posts: Stevens Makes It Official More thoughts on Citizens United Deep thoughts on the eve of the inauguration
  • Koh and Karlan!
    Well, if we’re ever going to discuss excellent potential nominees Obama isn’t actually going to consider, today’s the day… Related posts:Score One For Karlan No Karlan For You! Edwards/Iowa Revisionism Related posts: Score One For Karlan No Karlan For You! Edwards/Iowa Revisionism

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