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Thomas Paine

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • DISARMAMENT: Developing World Lags in Arms Manufa ...
    UNITED NATIONS, Apr 12 (IPS) - The world's developing nations are still far behind Western industrial countries in the latest Top 20 rankings in one of the most lethal industries: arms manufacture.
  • HAITI: Disorganised Diaspora on Fringe of Post-Qu ...
    NEW YORK, Apr 12 (IPS) - For years, Haitians living overseas have been the lifeline of the troubled country, sending billions of dollars to relatives back home.
  • COLOMBIA: "Body Count" Scandal Haunts Uribe's Can ...
    BOGOTÁ, Apr 12 (IPS) - The front-runner in the polls for Colombia's presidential elections, Juan Manuel Santos, has come under fire from his rivals for his role in the scandal over young civilians killed by the army and passed off as guerrilla casualties, which broke out while he was defence ...
  • U.S.: Guantanamo Detainee Ordered Freed
    NEW YORK, Apr 12 (IPS) - After nine years in captivity, a U.S. federal court has ordered the release of a Guantanamo prisoner once described as the "highest-value detainee at the facility" - and set off a firestorm of protest from Republican lawmakers.
  • GUATEMALA: Bringing Murdered Activist Bishop Back ...
    GUATEMALA CITY, Apr 12 (IPS) - On the evening of Apr. 26, 1998, as Bishop Juan Gerardi returned to the parish house at St. Sebastian's Church, three blocks from the seat of national government in the heart of the Guatemalan capital, he had no idea it would be the last day of his life. That n ...

Scoop - NZ

  • Canada's Police & Churches in Sex Crimes, Child Tr ...
    Kevin Annett, human rights activist beaten in Vancouver on Wednesday, released a new article today exposing the role of Canada's police and churches in sex crimes and child trafficking, including the abuse of Native women and children. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • US food stamp usage hits record 39 million
    Food stamp usage is up again except the program is now called SNAP Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Inquiring minds are looking at a SNAP Participation Table that shows a record 39,430,724 receive SNAP benefits, a 22.4% increase from a year ago. Biggest State Increases Arizona - 32.9% C ...
  • Hey Bill .. Tax Marijuana !!
    A small western Colorado town has become the first in the state to levy a city tax on medical marijuana, even though it doesn't yet have a dispensary. Voters in Fruita, a town of about 11,000 at the foot of the majestic Colorado National Monument, decided Tuesday to impose a 5 percent sales tax on ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • How the CIA is Welcoming Itself Back Onto American ...
    Silent Coup Throughout the 1970s, '80s and '90s, independent grassroots movements to keep the Central Intelligence Agency off American university campuses were broadly supported by students, professors and community members. The ethos of this movement was captured in Ami Chen Mills' 1990 book, C.I. ...
  • Vermont Senator Leahy: Current Supreme Court 'Most ...
    On Meet The Press yesterday, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) called the current conservative Supreme Court the "most activist in my lifetime." This is a very, very activist court, the most activist court in my lifetime. They rewrote the law to say that--so they said that women could be paid less than m ...
  • Orwellian Justice System: Spying on Americans Cont ...
    What could be a significant legal victory in the on-going battle against blanket surveillance transpired March 31 in district court in San Francisco, along with a stinging rebuke of the Obama administration. U.S. District Court Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker ruled that the government had violated the ...
  • UK: One in four DNA profiles could be of innocents
    At least one in four DNA profiles being collected by the police are for innocent people, a study has suggested. Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information show that of 4,668 DNA profiles obtained by Cumbria police between December 2008 and January this year 1,319 people - or 28 per cent - ...
  • A Kinder, Gentler (Or At Least More Self-Aware) Te ...
    The battle for health care reform brought out both the best and the worst in the tea party movement, according to activists. On the plus side, the conservative insurgency showed it could dominate the political dialogue and influence decision-making on both sides of the aisle. Activists say that show ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • deeper into the warren?
    A little problematic, eh Pete ? A fghan President Hamid Karzai’s erratic behavior of late, including suggestions he may join the Taliban , have a “corrosive impact” on Canadian troops, the Defence Minister says. Just back from Afghanistan, Peter MacKay told The Globe and Mail today that was the ...
  • El Degüello Pasa
    ACCORDING TO WIKI , El Degüello means "no mercy" or "to put to the sword" . The literal translation is "a throat slitting ". Originally a bugle call, it was used by Howard Hawks in the 1959 flick, " Rio Bravo ". Well, FABIUS has an article, "Stratfor looks at Mexico: “The Struggle for Balance” featu ...
  • How could this have been more appropriate?
    Perhaps by not calling the dead onto the parade square at all.
  • At the going down of the Sun...
    With condolences and respect to the family and friends of Private Tyler William Todd, the 1 st Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. Killed due to enemy action. Ric-A-Dam-Doo
  • There is a fine line...
    Between earning your stripes and falling on your face so many times that your competence becomes a matter of question. But not to a Conservative. Taking a page out of the Karl Rove playbook, Harper has elevated one of the frat boys based on his loyalty to Dear Leader. Dimitri Soudas, 30, who has wo ...

Media Matters for America

  • Heritage's Carafano falsely claims Obama is "refu ...
    In a Washington Examiner column, the Heritage Foundation's James Carafano falsely claimed that the Obama administration is "refusing to modernize the U.S. [nuclear] arsenal" and is "cutting back on defense." In fact, the administration's Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) includes "significantly incr ...
  • Wasting no time, Liz Cheney distorts Kagan's reco ...
    Liz Cheney said that Elena Kagan's decision while she was dean of Harvard Law School to reimpose restrictions on military recruiters because of the military's discriminatory "don't ask, don't tell" policy was "radical." But Kagan made her decision only after a federal appeals court -- includi ...
  • Quick Fact: Savage falsely claims that "47 perce ...
    Michael Savage repeated the false right-wing claim that "47 percent of families pay no taxes." In fact, while the Tax Policy Center has stated that 47 percent of households pay no federal income taxes, the Associated Press has reported that the "vast majority" of these households pay other taxe ...
  • Barone trumpets McCaughey falsehood on "freedom t ...
    In an April 12 column, Michael Barone cited Betsy McCaughey's suggestion that the health care bill could be unconstitutional because it would remove the "freedom to choose a hip replacement or a Caesarean section," which McCaughey argued would violate privacy rights established in Roe v. Wade ...
  • Wash. Times advances falsehoods about Mat ...
    A Washington Times editorial falsely claimed both that Rep. Jim Matheson (D-UT) "endorsed the health care bill" after President Obama nominated his brother to a federal judgeship and that the bill funds abortions. In fact, Matheson voted "No" on the health care reform, and the bill does not contain ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Nuclear Security Summit: Realistic Expectations
    Tomorrow's Nuclear Security Summit in Washington is a "big deal," to paraphrase Vice President Biden. With 47 countries represented, it is the largest gathering of nations on U.S. soil since the founding conference of the United Nations met in San Francisco in 1945. But what has been missing in some ...
  • 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 ...
  • Nation Review Attacks Gen. Petraeus As Anti-Israel ...
    Andrew McCarthy, a far right columnist at National Review Online, has had it with General David Petraeus and his defenders. He is particularly furious with Max Boot, the neocon columnist and Senior Fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations, for denying that Petraeus is anti-Israel. McCarthy t ...
  • Why More Immigrants Are An Answer to the Coming Bo ...
    I was born in 1946, just when the boomer wave began. Bill Clinton was born that year, too. So was George W. So was Laura Bush. And Ken Starr (remember him?) And then, the next year, Hillary Clinton. And soon Newt Gingrich (known as "Newty" as a boy). And Cher. Why so many of us begin getting born in ...
  • Race and Power at The New York Times
    Everyone attending the long wake for high-end newspapers knows about My Times in Black and White: Race and Power at The New York Times, the new memoir-cum-indictment of racism at that paper by the late Gerald Boyd, who was fired as its managing editor in 2003 along with executive editor Howell Rain ...

TruthOut

  • Massey Energy Bought Workers' Comp Insurance Short ...
    Massey Energy Company, 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 k ...
  • Ignorance of Afghan Society Led to Botched Raids
    Washington - A Special Operations Forces raid on Feb. 12 on what was supposed to be the compound of a Taliban leader but that killed three women and two Afghan government officials demonstrated a fatal weakness of the U.S. military engagement in Afghanistan: after eight years of operating there, the ...
  • Nine Myths About Socialism in the US
    Glenn Beck and other far right multi-millionaires are claiming that the US is hot on the path toward 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. As Sen. Patrick Moyn ...
  • Black Jobless Rate Nearly Double US Average
    The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently released employment data for March. Many analysts agree that the numbers show the first substantial gain for payrolls since December 2007. Nonfarm payroll employment increased by 162,000 and the unemployment rate held steady at 9.7 percent. According to Mark Z ...
  • The Future of American Jobs
    Many of my students at Berkeley who will be graduating in June are worried about the job market. I understand their worries. But they and other new college grads have less cause for concern than most American workers. Let me explain. Since the start of the Great Recession in December 2007, the U.S. ...

Planetsave

  • America’s Environmental Apathy Continues
    Americans have no more desire in 2010 to be environmentally friendly than they did in 2000. According to the large Gallup poll conducted March 4 – 7, Americans surveyed show very little desire to increase their more environmentally friendly actions. And though approximately three in four recycle, h ...
  • Rarest of the Rare Brought to Light
    The Wildlife Conservation Society lists 10 animals that they have dubbed the Rarest of the Rare. The Wildlife Conservation Society has released a list of “Rarest of the Rare” in the 2010-2011 edition of State of the Wild. The ten animals in the list have been extracted from the International Union ...
  • San Francisco’s Green Festival Hosts a Diver ...
    I am so impressed with the line up of speakers at this season’s Green Festival in San Francisco going on now! The Green Festivals are composed of a partnership between Green America and Global Exchange . These highly educational Green Festivals are all around the nation and if you are a green ...
  • 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 ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Week in Review
    This week’s string of fossil fuel disasters–a Chinese coal carrier striking the Great Barrier Reef and dumping tons of oil into the Pacific Ocean, an oil pipeline spilling into the Louisiana Delta National Wildlife Refuge at the same time an Exxon Mobil barge was dredging off coast for oil explorati ...
  • Jim Hightower, Roger Duncan, Tom Smitty Smith, and ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
  • Get to Know an Activist: Carol Geiger
    Say hello to Carol Geiger. Carol is a Public Citizen stalwart and our Office Manager and EarthShare representative. She’s seen our Austin office grow from three to eight people and move into our current location right across from the Capitol building. Carol is a self-proclaimed “non-profit junkie” a ...
  • Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up
    Here are the weekly highlights from the Texas Progressive Alliance. CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme wants to know why Republicans like Victoria’s DA Steve Tyler, Nueces County’s DA Anna Jimenez and (who could forget) Alberto Gonzales abuse their offices? The Texas Cloverleaf thinks Rick Perry is e ...
  • Russel Smith, Executive Director of TREIA, at Pub ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:

Unexplained Mysteries

  • The Turin Shroud's enduring mystery
    The Turin Shroud thought to be the burial cloth of Jesus and to bear his image has gone on display in Turin. For years scientists and scholars have de...
  • New species of dragon-sized lizard found
    A new species of tree dwelling lizard from the Philippine island of Luzon has been identified for the first time. The new animal is only the third kno...
  • Apollo 13 crew would have burned up
    Apollo 13 would have burned up in the atmosphere if they hadn't made it back safely it has been revealed. It has been believed that the stricken Apoll...
  • Boy, 3, 'met dead grandma in heaven'
    A 3-year-old boy who was brought back to life after 3 hours said that he'd met his deceased grandmother in heaven. The boy had been playing on his gra...
  • You can really feel a person's stare
    A noted psychiatrist has published data suggesting that the eyes emit energy that can be captured and measured. Colin A. Ross has conducted experiment...

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 12, 2010
    Investigators to Look Into Cause of Mine Blast (AP) A team of federal investigators is expected to arrive today in West Virginia as officials try to figure out what caused the blast that killed 29 men in the worst U.S. mining disaster since 1970. Extra UN Climate Talks Agreed after Co ...
  • April 10-11, 2010
    UN Climate Chief Urges Progress as Bonn Talks Enter Final Day (AFP) Another failure in the quest for a treaty on climate change would cripple trust in the United Nations' ability to tackle global warming, the UN's climate pointman warned as new talks ground into their final day Sunday. ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Why does real freedom not exist?
    Historically, freedom has been a vital and mostly unanswered question of mankind who has constantly endeavored to realize a free and tranquil life, particularly in the developing world, where the abundance and pervasiveness of natural resources almost sows the seeds for the emergence of corrupt, ill ...
  • Tomgram: Jo Comerford Looks at Your Taxes and War
    —from TomDispatch If you’re an average American taxpayer, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have, since 2001, cost you personally $7,334, according to the “cost of war” counter created by the National Priorities Project (NPP). They have cost all Americans collectively more than $980,000,000,000. As a ...
  • Cartoon for April 12, 2010: Suicide girls are go!
    [click image to enlarge] Suicide girls are go! read more
  • U.S. puppet cuts his strings
    Thwarted by the American government on compromise with Taliban, Karzai has begun openly defying his patrons Henry Kissinger once observed that it was more dangerous being America's ally than its enemy. The latest example: the U.S.-installed Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, who is in serious hot water ...
  • The Nike Ad: Tiger the Brand Finally Conquers Tige ...
    Why is the new Nike ad with a downcast yet proudly resilient Tiger Woods hearing the voice of his dead father making me so furious? It defies logic. After all, we just came through a week during which we saw film footage of the US military taking part in what is being called "collateral murder." Dea ...

Ten Percent

  • On The Bright Side Neither Brown, Cameron & Clegg ...
    The comparison doesn’t mean much, as is their wont, each country has its own specific conditions, for example the UK prefers to kill defenceless civilians on foreign fields, that way you get to travel to somewhere warmer and serve the establishment’s blood lust. Although must be said New Labour hav ...
  • Upsurge In Asylum Seekers In Industrialised World ...
    It is a glaring fact the top three sources of asylum claims are from countries where the war-on-terror™ is being conducted, so a very important component of the demagogic attacks on asylum seekers is nationalists wanting to silence witnesses and survivors of the war crimes being committed in our na ...
  • UK Is Worst For Making Fake ‘No Torture’ Deals
    The UK has today been singled out for heavy criticism in a new report from Amnesty International on the practice among European countries of striking “no tortureâ€� deals with foreign countries as a means to deport people it labels a threat to national security. In a 36-page report – Dangerous Dea ...
  • Kissinger Shits In The Woods
    Otto is rightly not surprised by- As secretary of state, Henry Kissinger canceled a U.S. warning against carrying out international political assassinations that was to have gone to Chile and two neighboring nations just days before a former ambassador was killed by Chilean agents on Washington’ ...
  • Dawkins & Hitchens Copy Me
    Arrest The Pope, well Game On. While I said it on the 10th March better late than never eh fellas? However I would like for this considered attempt to not become a divisive Dawkos & Hitchites vs. Teh Religious, this is not simply religion that has enabled the paedophile mafia, it is Conservatism, th ...

Booman Tribune

  • Thoughts on Political Purity
    As nice as it is to have the kind of party unity that the Democrats displayed on Christmas Eve when all 60 Senate Democrats voted for cloture and to approve the health system overhaul, it's not the healthiest situation. It's far preferable to have some liberal Republicans and some conservative Demo ...
  • Confused Stormtroopers
    The Sturmabteilung of the American right is ready to turn history on its head and become the aggressors in their own Night of the Long Knives. “We need to purge the Republicans of the weaklings,” Tea Party Express 3 Chairman Mark Williams told CNN. “And we’re on a...RINO hunt. And we’re going t ...
  • What If Online Anonymity Went Away?
    The the question in my title is not just there to grab your attention. It seems many news sites, including sites like the Huffington Post and The Washington Post, are considering altering the rules under which people who post comments to their websites are permitted, to a large extent, to use anony ...
  • Casual Observation
    You'll probably be shocked to learn that the prototypically-cracker governor of Mississippi, Republican Haley Barbour, thinks that concerns about commemorating the Confederacy "don't amount to diddly."
  • Taking Winner-Picker to a New Level
    The sports teams I root for are a reflection of where I grew up and what teams were on my television for me to watch. So, I root for New York teams (excluding the 'ets'* and Islanders) because I grew up in the New York media market. Of course, I also grew up in the Philadelphia media market and I ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Behavioural bribery: the sublime and the scary
    Compare and contrast: TIME reports on the research of a Harvard economist that strongly suggests financial reward structures are a highly effective way of motivating academic performance and/or good behaviour in school-aged children. (We mentioned this last year, as it happens.) Meanwhile, did you k ...
  • NeuroLitCrit
    As part of our seemingly ongoing (though erratic) series of posts with “neuro” in the title, here’s The Guardian on a new bridge discipline between the arts and the sciences: neuro lit crit. Later this year a group of 12 students in New England will be given a series of specially designed texts to r ...
  • NeuroLitCrit
    As part of our seemingly ongoing (though erratic) series of posts with “neuro” in the title, here’s The Guardian on a new bridge discipline between the arts and the sciences: neuro lit crit. Later this year a group of 12 students in New England will be given a series of specially designed texts to r ...
  • Personal Information: episode 8
    Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 8 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 ...
  • Personal Information: episode 8
    Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 8 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 ...

Therapy News

  • Diversity May Increase with Age, Study Suggests
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Among the many social stigmas and stereotypes that pervade modern society, false ideas about the elderly are not always investigated and discussed as others. Hoping to address this issue, a study carried out at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden has explored the d ...
  • Girls at Risk for Depression Exhibit Difficulty Pr ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Depression is typically associated with a diminished performance in terms of benefiting from rewards or experiencing pleasure based on success. Recently, researchers at Stanford University investigated this issue among adolescent girls who had not experienced a depress ...
  • 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 ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • EPA guidelines on mountaintop removal offer hope f ...
    Environmental Data Interactive EPA guidelines on mountaintop removal offer hope for Appalachia's environment Facing South (blog) The Environmental Protection Agency unveiled its promised guidelines for mountaintop removal coal mining last week, and they're getting praise from ... New EPA Water Qual ...
  • Moment of Silence for Miners @ 3:30pm EST: Preside ...
    ABC News Moment of Silence for Miners @ 3:30pm EST: President Must End Regulated ... AlterNet (blog) ... from underground mining disasters to the strip-mining and mountaintop removal disasters, and take immediate and urgent action to end two centuries of ... Daughter of Coal Country Speaks to the S ...
  • EPA Proposes Veto of Permit for Major Mountaintop- ...
    KRQE EPA Proposes Veto of Permit for Major Mountaintop-Removal Coal Mine New York Times US EPA proposed a veto today of the Clean Water Act permit issued for one of Central Appalachia's largest mountaintop-removal ... EPA moves to veto massive mountaintop removal operation in West Virginia Facing S ...
  • EPA pledges new mountain top removal protections - ...
    EPA pledges new mountain top removal protections Free Speech Radio News In the wake of an EPA proposal to veto one of the largest mountain top removal mining permits in the county, the Obama administration announced today new ... and more��
  • A Kentucky View of WV Coal Mine Disaster - Public ...
    A Kentucky View of WV Coal Mine Disaster Public News Service Lane Boldman is chair of the Sierra Club Cumberland Chapter Mountaintop Removal Mining Committee. While her focus is on mining that happens above ground, ...

Memeorandum

  • 'BARTER WITH YOUR DOCTOR'.... Once in a great whil ...
    Steve Benen / Washington Monthly : ‘BARTER WITH YOUR DOCTOR’.... Once in a great while, we get a peek at Republicans' health care ideals, but rarely do we see them articulated as candidly as Sue Lowden described them last week.  —  Lowden is a former state senator and chair of the Nevada Republican ...
  • Transcript: George Stephanopoulos Interviews Russi ...
    ABCNEWS : Transcript: George Stephanopoulos Interviews Russian President Dmitry Medvedev   —  ‘Good Morning America’ Anchor Spoke With Russian President Following Signing of New START Treaty … GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Mister President, thank you very much for having us in St. Petersburg.
  • Boehner: Repealing healthcare law GOP's 'No. 1 pri ...
    Michael O'Brien / The Hill : Boehner: Repealing healthcare law GOP's ‘No. 1 priority’   —  Repealing healthcare reform will be Republicans' “No. 1 priority,” their House leader said Monday.  —  House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said that repealing the healthcare legislation passed in Cong ...
  • Powell Says He Will Challenge Rangel (Michael Barb ...
    Michael Barbaro / City Room : Powell Says He Will Challenge Rangel   —  Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV announced on Monday that he would challenge Representative Charles B. Rangel in this fall's Democratic primary, setting the stage for a deeply personal battle between two of Harlem's biggest p ...
  • Obama: We're still working on our democracy (Josh ...
    Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy : Obama: We're still working on our democracy   —  President Obama said Sunday that the United States is still “working on” democracy and a top aide said he has taken “historic steps” to improve democracy in the United States during his time in office.  —  The remarks c ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.5, Antofagasta, Chile
    Saturday, April 10, 2010 15:06:33 UTC Saturday, April 10, 2010 11:06:33 AM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
  • M 5.1, Tonga
    Friday, April 9, 2010 06:04:22 UTC Friday, April 9, 2010 07:04:22 PM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
  • M 5.3, Baja California, Mexico
    Thursday, April 8, 2010 16:44:25 UTC Thursday, April 8, 2010 09:44:25 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 5.0, Kermadec Islands region
    Thursday, April 8, 2010 04:26:09 UTC Thursday, April 8, 2010 04:26:09 PM at epicenter Depth : 42.00 km (26.10 mi)
  • M 5.9, New Guinea, Papua New Guinea
    Wednesday, April 7, 2010 14:33:03 UTC Thursday, April 8, 2010 12:33:03 AM at epicenter Depth : 33.90 km (21.06 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Living vistas
    Franceso Bandarin is director of UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre. In an interview with Jared Green, he discusses the concept of “cultural landscapes” and managing preservation in a changing world. Jared Green: There are only 63 “cultural landscapes” listed in the world, less than 10% of the total Wor ...
  • 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Texas prisons top rape list: DOJ drafts reform
    The number of rapes being committed annually in the U.S. prison system is just deplorable. And what’s even more shocking is that the majority of these crimes are reportedly being perpetrated by corrections officers. Who are the vast majority of victims? Women, gay men, juvenile offenders, the mental ...
  • Tina Fey Launches the Sarah Palin Network: “ ...
    Because the time has come for the Sarah Palin network!
  • KKK Has “Reversed Declining Membership&#8221 ...
    In the upcoming issue of Newsweek, Evan Thomas and Eve Conant report on how “‘Patriot’ groups— described by the [Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)] as outfits ‘that see the federal government as part of a plot to impose ‘one-world government’ on liberty-loving Americans’ — are ‘r ...
  • A “Spectacular” Anthem for Drunken Bla ...
    Written by jaz for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice. The Internet is buzzing (mostly) with criticism of a new song and video by Kiely Williams, former Disney “Cheetah Girl” and member of girl group, 3LW. Her new single called “Spectacular” essen ...
  • Why Won’t NBC Fact-Check Its Sunday Talk Sho ...
    The Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz noted this morning that NBC’s “Meet the Press,” still the most watched Sunday public affair show, is posed to undergo some cosmetic changes. It will not, however, follow ABC’s lead on the fact-checking front. [A]ccepting a challenge from New York University’s Ja ...

Threat Level

  • Romanian Auction Scammer on the Lam
    Romanian authorites made headlines last week after busting 70 suspected cyberthieves accused of operating online auction scams. But it turns out one of the ringleaders was set free after authorities failed to file the required paperwork on time — and now he’s vanished. Police say the 70 suspects ...
  • Take From ATM Malware Caper Exceeded $200,000
    A Bank of America worker who installed malicious software on his employer’s ATMs was able to siphon at least $200,000 from the hacked machines before he was caught, according to a plea agreement he entered with prosecutors last week. Rodney Reed Caverly, 37, was a member of the bank’s IT staff when ...
  • 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 ...

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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

  • KUCINICH ASKS COLLEAGUES TO VOTE NO ON FUNDING ESC ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, April 12, 2010 Washington, DC KUCINICH ASKS COLLEAGUES TO VOTE NO ON FUNDING ESCALATION
  • Earth Day and Climate Crisis
    What can you do for Earth Day?Earth Day was established 40 years ago as a day to take action in support of our environment. Unfortunately things have become a lot worse since 1970 the ...
  • PACIFIC TIME: PDA LEADERSHIP HEADS TO CALIFORNIA T ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, April 08, 2010 PACIFIC TIME: PDA LEADERSHIP HEADS TO CALIFORNIA TO PUSH ‘HEALTHCARE NOT WARFARE’
  • Google Faces Fallout as China Reacts to Site Shift
    By MIGUEL HELFT and MICHAEL WINES Google pushed. Now China is pushing back. The company’s problems in China escalated on Tuesday as its ties to some Chinese partners began to come apart and the government reacted angrily ...
  • Rocks and bullets
    By RICHARD DAVIS | Brattleboro Reformer Wednesday March 31, 2010 When did this country lose its political moral compass? Maybe that is an oxymoron and it is too much to expect that political discourse should be civil ...

Marler Blog

  • S 510 - FDA Food Safety Modernization Act - a.k.a. ...
    After being in the hospital since May of 2009, after $2,500,000 in medical bills and lost wages, after losing a portion of her large intestine, after suffering kidney and liver failure and being ventilator dependent for months, Linda is out of the hospital and heading to rehabilitation.� E. coli O15 ...
  • Michael Moss, the New York Times and Stephanie Smi ...
    Michael Moss of the New York Times told the story, Pioneer Press’ Ben Garvin took the photo, but Stephanie Smith still suffers from Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome brought on by E. coli O157:H7 . From the New York Times: Mr. Moss took that most pedestrian of American delicacies, the hamburger, and subj ...
  • Daycare E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak Leaves One Dead a ...
    � � � � The real question remains is how did the E. coli bacteria get into the Daycare in the first place?� Was is a food item or animal contact shared by some of the children and/or adults and then brought into the Daycare and spread via cross-contamination.� More questions than answers in ...
  • 2010 Pulitzer Prize winners will be announced Apri ...
    The 2010 Pulitzer Prize winners and Nominated Finalists in all categories will be announced on April 12, 2010 at 3 p.m. Eastern daylight time. Finalists are not announced in advance. Winners' names, photos and bios will be posted on this Website at 3 p.m., along with all winning photographs and cart ...
  • WinCo Foods Recalls E. coli O157:H7 Ground Beef Pu ...
    WinCo Foods announced a few moments ago that it is issuing a voluntary Class I recall on all ground beef products sold at its Modesto, California store between the dates of Saturday, April 3, 2010 and Friday, April 9, 2010. The store is located at 2200 Plaza Parkway in Modesto. At this point the r ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 04.12.10
    Amtrak could set ridership record in 2010 Up 4.3 percent so far. Better Place will test first ever commercial battery swap later this month Here goes nothing... ...
  • 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 ...

Rafe's Radar

  • CNET Showcase on 3D: Videos and wrap-up
    At our first CNET Showcase event, local readers learn about 3D and see the latest hardware for themselves. Originally posted at CNET Showcase ...
  • 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

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!

  • Democracy Now! Evening with Alice Walker on Tuesda ...
    Date: April 13, 2010 Time: 5:00 pm Location: 207 West 25th Street, 11th Floor New York, NY 10001 Tickets: $1,000/person Click here to purchase your tickets today. Support Democracy Now! as we launch our new green TV/radio/internet broadcast studios with Alice Walker! Be one ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • 13 Plants That Can Kill You
    Over time people have learned through trial and error which plants are deadly. In our modern, urban world, much of that cultural knowledge has been forgotten. Many gardeners may be surprised to discover they are growing some of the world's deadliest plants in their own backyards.
  • Hawaiian Underwater Canyons Are Hotspots of Biodiv ...
    Researchers from Hawaii Pacific University (HPU) and the Universtiy of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) have now conducted the first extensive study of canyons in the oceanic Hawaiian Archipelago and found that these submarine canyons support especially abundant and unique communities of megafauna (large anima ...
  • Solar Impulse Plane Flying on Sunshine
    Two videos of the Solar Impulse flying over the Swiss countryside, includes all phases of the flight, and air-to-air shots. The plane has four small electric motors powered by sunlight and climbing 1200 meters on the maiden flight
  • China Takes Aim At Landfill Stench...With Giant Pe ...
    Instead of learning from the mistakes of America and other Western countries choking on the stench of their own affluenza; Beijing has decided to treat the symptom instead of the problem.
  • Mojave Desert Squirrels Bury Large Solar Project
    Government concerns over the habitat of an endangered Mojave Desert squirrel threaten to scrap plans for Berkeley-based Solar Millennium’s biggest utility scale project in the California desert.

Invisible Opportunity

  • Ride the Apocalypse on the New Ship of Seeing
    By Les Visible All this is going on and I know about it and many others know about it but… President Obama doesn’t know about it? Senators and Congressman on the foreign relations committees; Homeland Security and other related political brothels, operating in the interests of Rothschildlandia don ...
  • Why Medical Authorities Went to Such Extremes to S ...
    Dr Andrew Wakefield is not some boob from England, he is a dedicated and prolific researcher who has published countless peer-reviewed papers in his field.  It appears that his research has struck at the central problem of the entire vaccination industry-that, perhaps, vaccines do more harm than g ...
  • NASA Data Worse Than Climate-Gate Data, Space Agen ...
    By Blake Snow NASA was able to put a man on the moon, but the space agency can’t tell you what the temperature was when it did. By its own admission, NASA’s temperature records are in even worse shape than the besmirched Climate-gate data. E-mail messages obtained by a Freedom of Information Act req ...
  • Acid Oceans Due to Undersea Volcanoes?: New Study ...
    By John O’Sullivan A study by Australian geology researcher, Timothy Casey contests the recent claims by environmentalists that man-made emissions of carbon dioxide have been causing ocean acidification. These disturbing claims have been perplexing geologists, among other researchers, who have faile ...
  • Cap and Trade: A License Required for your Home &# ...
    A License Required for your house Thinking about selling your house – A look at H.R. 2454 (Cap and trade bill) This is unbelievable! Only the beginning from this administration! Home owners take note & tell your friends and relatives who are home owners! Beginning 1 year after enactment of the Cap a ...

Global Insights

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

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Twilight Earth

  • Eco Child Website Spotlight – Eco Childs Play
    Eco Child’s Play is a blog devoted to informing and discussing “Green Parenting for Non-toxic, Healthy Homes." Related posts: Natural Parenting Website Spotlight – Natural Papa Going Green Has Never Been So Fun! – Play Outdoors Simple Earth Media Website and Social Media Information
  • 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 ...

Inhabitat

  • Energy-Efficient LED Lamp Made From Paper Pulp
    Claesson Koivisto Rune are set to unveil a new lamp made almost entirely from paper pulp at this week’s Milan Furniture Fair. Dubbed DuraPulp, the lamp’s material is totally renewable and was conceived as collaboration between the architecture/design firm, lighting company Wästberg, and forestry i ...
  • Green:Net: How the Internet, Computing Can Fight C ...
    The Internet, software, computing and networks can fight climate change and will be a source for green technology innovation. That’s the premise behind Earth2Tech and GigaOM’s second annual Green:Net event, which will be held on April 29 in San Francisco and will feature speakers including Californi ...
  • GM Invests $8 Million to Double the Size of their ...
    GM announced today that they will be doubling the size of their electric battery testing lab with an investment of $8 million. The Global Battery Systems Lab — which is the largest automotive battery testing facility in the US — will balloon from 30,000 square feet to 63,000 square feet. The cash wi ...
  • Homeland Security Developing Smartphone Tech That ...
    Recently we reported that U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Cell-All had developed a chemical-sniffing iPhone add-on that can potentially offer early information on a chemical attack, confirm suspicions of methane emissions, and give users information about the chemicals present in their ever ...
  • Cardboard Cat Playhouses for Free Wheelin’ Felines
    The average housecat may sleep for 18 hours a day, but we’ve all seen frisky felines frolic during their wakeful hours — and they can really tear it up. When we spotted these cardboard Cat Playhouses, we knew we had found an amusing way to channel our furry friends’ energy — and they’re entertaining ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Gigantic Baby Stars Discovered in Cloud of Space D ...
    Huge new baby stars shine bright in this image of the Rosette molecular cloud. The previously undiscovered protostars are the small points of orangey light in the center of the image. They are up to ten times more massive than the sun. The Herschel Space Observatory, operated by the European Space ...
  • Mapping the Fly Brain, Neuron by Neuron
    WASHINGTON — A new computer-based technique is exploring uncharted territory in the fruit fly brain with cell-by-cell detail that can be built into networks for a detailed look at how neurons work together. The research may ultimately lead to a complete master plan of the entire fly brain. Mapping ...
  • Floating Nanosheets Could Be the Plywood of Nanote ...
    A synthetic, free-floating nano-sheet just two molecules thick may provide the perfect substrate for creating future electronic devices. The biologically inspired sheet is made of polymers, or long molecules with repeating units, that mimic the precision and order seen in proteins and crystal struc ...
  • 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 ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Will the Greek Bailout Work?
    For now, financial markets seem cheered by the news that European leaders have put together a rescue program for Greece. But Wolfgang Munchau argues that it ultimately won’t be enough to avoid a default event: read more
  • Kissinger and Operation Condor
    The question of whether Henry Kissinger was involved in the “Operation Condor” assassination campaign that led to the Chilean government killing a former ambassador on the streets of Washington, DC has long been the subject of controversy. Now thanks to the work of the National Security Archive we k ...
  • Are the Venezuelans Marching through El Paso Yet?
    In general, I feel the same way as Yglesias and Attackerman about the Venezuelan Embassy’s aggressive spamming tactics. In this case, however, the Venezuelan ambassador’s letter to the editor of Armed Forces Journal is a useful corrective to Peter Brookes’ hysterical nonsense about the threat that ...
  • New Generation of Leaders Offers Hope in Burma
    Engaging Burma is not a lost cause, according to an Asia Society task force report released (.pdf) last week�at a roll-out conference at the Asia Society headquarters in New York. The task force -- co-chaired by former U.S. presidential candidate Gen. Wesley Clark and Henrietta Fore, former adminis ...
  • Another Hidden Cost of the War in Afghanistan
    (Photo Credit: DVIDSHUB's Photostream ) Balancing the short-term expediency of working with strategically important states with the ethical issues and long-term costs of supporting repressive regimes is a complicated task that defies simple solutions. One conclusion that can be made with regard to ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • The Case for a Real Liberal on the Court.
    Scott Lemieux on how the retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens provides a foothold for a strong liberal presence on the Court : The pending resignation of Justice John Paul Stevens gives Barack Obama the chance to make his second appointment to the Supreme Court. It also represents what is likely ...
  • Kathleen Parker Wins Pultizer for Commentary.
    Today is Pulitzer Day! As part of the newspaper's big winning spree, Washington Post pundit Kathleen Parker won a prize for best commentary. In our November issue, Kerry Howley profiled the columnist. Here's a taste: Save the Males , Kathleen Parker's 2008 polemic on sexual permissiveness and lib ...
  • Will Blanche Lincoln Lead the Derivatives Exemptio ...
    Among the best things about the current financial reform bill from Sen. Chris Dodd are the strong measures to make derivatives less risky and more transparent. However, don't expect them to stay tough, as Dodd remains open to replacement language that might attract Republican votes. While he hopes t ...
  • One Last Point On McCarthy.
    Last week, I wrote a post from Gitmo noting that the concerns National Review 's Andrew McCarthy has expressed about civilian courts leaking sensitive information aren't resolved by military commissions. Spencer Ackerman responds : In fairness, McCarthy told me he doesn’t carry any particular bri ...
  • Spinning the Stevens Replacement.
    In case you haven't had your fill of contentious debates and preening senators, we've got a Supreme Court vacancy to fill. The big question (after whom Obama will nominate) is just how Republicans will decide to oppose the nominee. Will they launch a filibuster, as Adam discusses , and validate ever ...

Andy Worthington

  • “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”: London ...
    I’m delighted to report that a date has now been finalized for the screening of the new documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (co-directed by Polly Nash and Andy Worthington) as part of the London International Documentary Festival. The film festival runs from April 23 to May ...
  • Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: The Torture Victim a ...
    Such is the hysterical disregard for the law in parts of the United States that when, on March 22, District Court Judge James Robertson ordered the release from Guantánamo of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a 38-year old Mauritanian who was once described as the “highest-value detainee at the facility,” Repub ...
  • 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.â€� 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 ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Tea Party Credo: "If you can't reform your image, ...
    Last week I posted on one of the Tea Party leaders and a "Man of Faith", Dale Robertson, who has some serious messaging issues to deal with, as you can see here: It appears that Robertson has decided to reform his image in the only way he knows how: When you're a Tea Party activist and you've bee ...
  • 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 ...

SPL Center

  • Racist Radio Host Pines for All-White Golf, Segreg ...
    Count James Edwards , host of the Memphis-based white nationalist, anti-Semitic radio show called “Political Cesspool” , is among those likely celebrating Phil Mickelson’s victory at the Masters golf tournament on Sunday. Not because Mickelson is a feel-good story, winning the green jacket as his ca ...
  • Counting ‘Confederates’: Once More, Kirk Lyons Til ...
    The neo-Confederate movement ’s best known legal champion is getting some media buzz for urging Southerners to declare their race as “Confederate Southern American” on the 2010 U.S. census questionnaire. In recent video messages posted on YouTube and Facebook, white supremacist attorney Kirk Lyons t ...
  • Calling All Thugs: Gas Line Cut After Tea Party Le ...
    The latest news from the opponents of health care reform who like to suggest that supporters should suffer for their transgressions: A day after two Virginia Tea Party activists posted the address of the brother of a congressman who voted for the bill, authorities discovered that someone had severed ...
  • Armed MCDC to ‘Forcefully Engage’ Border ‘Criminal ...
    The leader of the nativist extremist group Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC) publicly repudiates the use of illegal tactics to secure the border against undocumented immigrants. “If one single individual steps over the line for their personal gratification, we are all stained with that irrespon ...
  • Croatian Extremist Joins White Hate Group Leadersh ...
    A popular speaker at gatherings of white supremacists and anti-Semites has joined the board of directors of the nascent white nationalist political party, American Third Position (A3P). Tomislav Sunic, who describes himself as a former professor, Croatian diplomat and author, has spoken on multiple ...

change: org.

  • And the Pulitzer Goes to ... Anti-Poverty Crusader ...
    When the Pulitzer Prizes were announced today, many of the usual suspects popped champagne corks again. Three for  The New York Times , four for The Washington Post, same old, same old. But there were a few upsets, notably the teensy paper in southwestern Virginia that won journalism's highest honor ...
  • Harvard Immigrant Youth Request Meeting With Senat ...
    The passing of Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA), a long-time proponent of immigration reform, and the capture of his seat by Republican Scott Brown, who was endorsed by the nativist group ALIPAC, was a heavy blow for immigrant right supporters. But Massachusetts immigrant youth aren't throwing in the towe ...
  • Ruthless "Scamlords" Rip Off Would-Be Tenants
    Call it the next wave of the foreclosure crisis. Scam artists, posing as landlords, hoodwink prospective tenants, absconding with their rent and deposit money. In California, where vacant, foreclosed homes glut the marketplace, law-enforcement officials and legal aid clinics have seen a spike in lan ...
  • Man Attacks Meat
    Here's a lesson on how not to advocate for a meat-free diet: Anthony Coffman went into an Indiana supermarket where he  stabbed about $200 worth of raw meat and rubbed dog food into some of the packages to ensure that they couldn't be sold. The first problem with this tactic is that it's crazy. No m ...
  • Back from the Brink: Never Give Up Hope for Recove ...
    It's not often that stories of recovery are documented so well and publicized so widely as that of J.D. Glass, the formerly homeless man in northern Virginia who has been the subject of an unofficial three-part series in the Washington Post. He first appeared in the paper just last June when two re ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Tax Day Prompts Rethinking on Climate Policy
    by Robert J. Shapiro It's tax time, and millions of Americans will steel themselves to send Washington more of their hard earned money than they estimated they'd have to. It may feel galling, perhaps because the benefits of our taxes often go unnoticed. We come to expect drivable roads, clean wa ...
  • US Ignorance of Afghan Society Led to Botched Raid ...
    by Gareth Porter WASHINGTON- A Special Operations Forces raid on Feb. 12 on what was supposed to be the compound of a Taliban leader but that killed three women and two Afghan government officials demonstrated a fatal weakness of the U.S. military engagement in Afghanistan: after eight years of ...
  • Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld Knew They Were Innocent
    by Andrew Sullivan The inmates at Gitmo were routinely referred to as "the worst of the worst." Rumsfeld, Bush and Cheney all knowingly pushed this lie. And it was a lie - because they all knew that the chaotic way in which these terror suspects had been captured had left such esoteric questions ...
  • Guantanamo Detainee Ordered Freed
    by William Fisher NEW YORK- After nine years in captivity, a U.S. federal court has ordered the release of a Guantanamo prisoner once described as the "highest-value detainee at the facility" - and set off a firestorm of protest from Republican lawmakers. ...
  • New Clues Emerge in Post-Katrina Vigilante Shootin ...
    by A.C. Thompson, ProPublica, and Brendan McCarthy, Times-Picayune Three days after Hurricane Katrina turned New Orleans into a ghost town, somebody shot Donnell Herrington twice in Algiers Point, ripping a hole in his throat. Herrington, who is African-American, says he was ambushed by a group of a ...

Lifehacker

  • Lift Heavier Weights with Fewer Reps for Toning an ...
    It's a commonly held belief that lifting heavy weights builds bulky muscles, and if you want to slim down and tone up, lighter weights and higher repetitions are the answer. The New York Times' health writer Anahad O'Connor explains otherwise: ...
  • Find a Good Local Bank to Put the "Personal&q ...
    If you're looking for a new bank, and not of the Bank of America variety, financial site Kiplinger explains how to use several free tools to find a local bank where you're sure your money is safe. More��
  • To→done Assigns You Tasks Based on Your Available ...
    To→done is an untraditional to-do list webapp that forces you to act without conjuring up overwhelming, negative feelings. It's a to-do list aimed to help you get things done based on how much time you've got on your hands. More�� ...
  • Muzic Offers Indie-Focused Music Discovery [Music]
    If you're tired of music discovery tools "discovering" the same stuff you've been listening to, Muzic eschews more traditional acts in favor of small and indie musicians. The best part is songs featured on Muzic are available for download. ...
  • Use Outlook Rules to Create a Single, Unified Inbo ...
    Windows only: One of the problems with using multiple accounts in Microsoft Outlook is that each account has a separate inbox folder, so the Addictive Tips blog walks you through the process of using rules to create a unified inbox. More�� ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • The Trouble With COIN
    By Steve Hynd Back in 2006-07, a lot of progressive national security writers were seduced by the prospect of a "kindler, gentler war" that counter-insurgency theory held out for Afghanistan and, particularly, Iraq. We were being told that "winning hearts and minds" would neuter insurgencies from th ...
  • Unfriendly Fire
    By Steve Hynd Reuters reports: An Afghan soldier opened fire on NATO troops, lightly wounding one alliance soldier, the international force in Afghanistan said on Sunday, the latest in a string of attacks by rogue Afghan forces. Major Marcin Walczak, a spokesman for the NATO-led International Securi ...
  • Pakistan's ISI Still Playing Double Game, Say US O ...
    By Steve Hynd Color me entirely unsurprised by this report from the WaPo: The recent capture of the Afghan Taliban's second in command seemed to signal a turning point in Pakistan, an indication that its intelligence agency had gone from helping to cracking down on the militant Islamist group. But U ...
  • 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 ...

Water Wars

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Afghanistan Sun

  • Australia Faces Backlash Over Freeze on Accepting ...
    Australian Customs officers lower their life boat with Sri Lankan refugees on board as the refugees are transported from Oceanic Viking, an Australian Customs Service patrol ship, to an Australian-fun...
  • UN-backed body deplores deadly attack on de-miners ...
    A United Nations-backed umbrella body seeking to free Afghanistan from the dangers of unexploded mines today called on all sides to support "this important humanitarian work" after four de-miners were...
  • Two UN agencies team up to keep Afghan villagers a ...
    United Nations agencies have distributed 60 metric tons of food to 700 villagers in western Afghanistan in a programme designed to rehabilitate an irrigation canal that is the lifeline of Khosan distr...
  • Taliban want detainee swap
    The Taliban are demanding the French government free detainees in exchange for two French journalists kidnapped in Afghanistan in December.In a statement yesterday, the Taliban say they submitted a li...
  • Taliban wants France to arrange detainee swap
    In a statement e-mailed to news organizations, the Taliban said they submitted a list of "ordinary detainees" — meaning not senior figures — held in Afghan jails to France's government. Th...

Futurismic

  • Behavioural bribery: the sublime and the scary
    Compare and contrast: TIME reports on the research of a Harvard economist that strongly suggests financial reward structures are a highly effective way of motivating academic performance and/or good behaviour in school-aged children. (We mentioned this last year, as it happens.) Meanwhile, did you k ...
  • NeuroLitCrit
    As part of our seemingly ongoing (though erratic) series of posts with “neuro” in the title, here’s The Guardian on a new bridge discipline between the arts and the sciences: neuro lit crit. Later this year a group of 12 students in New England will be given a series of specially designed texts to r ...
  • NeuroLitCrit
    As part of our seemingly ongoing (though erratic) series of posts with “neuro” in the title, here’s The Guardian on a new bridge discipline between the arts and the sciences: neuro lit crit. Later this year a group of 12 students in New England will be given a series of specially designed texts to r ...
  • Personal Information: episode 8
    Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 8 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 ...
  • Personal Information: episode 8
    Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 8 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 ...

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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

  • Apple Reminds Everybody That It Controls The iPhon ...
    Last week, when Apple announced version 4.0 of the iPhone OS, it also made a significant change to the license agreement for its iPhone developer program. One section of the agreement was changed to say that iPhone "Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as exe ...
  • Is There A Bias In Expertise? Or Is The Problem J ...
    Jay Rosen points us to a worthwhile read by Lane Wallace in The Atlantic , concerning "the bias of veteran journalists." The basic concept is that veteran journalists think they know so much about a story that they have an angle going into the story, and only ask questions to support that story. I ...
  • Netflix Agrees To Delay Fox And Universal New Rele ...
    Netflix recently decided it would be a good idea to strike a deal with Warner Brothers that involved delaying all new Warner Brothers releases by 28 days. Film industry executives somehow believe this strategy is going to help them sell more DVDs, though as we've been discussing, the deal as designe ...
  • Call Ralph Nader: Companies Don't Care About Ident ...
    Willton writes "Daniel Solove highlights a paper written by Chris Hoofnagle about how one of the reasons identity theft happens is because companies have made the economic decision to let it happen . In the post, Solove compares the identity theft situation to the famous case involving an accid ...
  • Economist Assumes That The Problem Is 'Thieves' Ra ...
    cryptozoologist points us to one of the most ridiculous analyses of the current patent situation by economist, and former Ross Perot running mate, Pat Choate, who doesn't seem to have a clue how innovation actually works, in claiming that patent infringement is usually "patent theft" by big companie ...

VacTruth

  • (Video) What does the JFK Assassination, Cancer Ca ...
    . . . . . . . Interview with Edward Haslam – Runtime 57:52 // Love Affair – 1/5 Love Affair – 2/5 Love Affair – 3/5 Love Affair – 4/5 Love Affair – 5/5 Get the book that discusses the contamination of the polio vaccine and the Medical Manhattan Project that used radiation to mutate monke ...
  • Were tribal girls guinea pigs for cervical cancer ...
    . . . . . R Akhileshwari in Hyderabad Deccan Herald 04/11/2010 The Union Governmentand the ICMR are divided in their opinion on the research by an MNC. Four tribal girls in Khammam district of Andhra Pradesh have died in the past one year after they were given three doses of vaccine of a multi-nati ...
  • Ex-Pfizer scientist wins $1.37 million in federal ...
    . . . . By Lee Howard TheDay.com 04/01/2010 Hartford — Becky McClain, a Deep River scientist who claims to have been infected by an experimental virus while working at Pfizer Inc.’s Groton laboratories, was awarded $1.37 million today by a U.S. District Court jury. Workers’ rights organizations i ...
  • 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 ...

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 ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

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

  • The United States Postal Service: “What’s Wrong Wi ...
  • The United States Postal Service: “What’s Wrong Wi ...
    BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE The United States Postal Service: “What’s Wrong With Plantations?” As a United States government agency the U.S. Postal Service should be at the very forefront of the fight to protect employee rights. For decades U.S. presidents and government officials have been ...
  • Did Global Elite Kill Polish President Kaczynski?
    Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com April 12, 2010 Damian Thompson, writing for the Daily Telegraph, says there will be plenty of conspiracy theories floating around cyberspace in response to the death of Polish president Lech Kaczynski and a large number of Polish VIPs in a plane crash last week.     ...
  • Did Global Elite Kill Polish President Kaczynski?
    Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com April 12, 2010 Damian Thompson, writing for the Daily Telegraph, says there will be plenty of conspiracy theories floating around cyberspace in response to the death of Polish president Lech Kaczynski and a large number of Polish VIPs in a plane crash last week.     ...
  • Analysis: error, pressure or lost in translation
    Charles Bremner London Times April 12, 2010 There is a growing suspicion that the pilot of the aircraft that crashed at Smolensk, killing the Polish President and 95 others, was deferring to military top brass when he attempted to land in thick fog. An account today from the Russian controller who w ...

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

  • Leaked Confidential Document Reveals Obama's Clima ...
    Photo via the Guardian The Guardian has obtained a confidential document accidentally left on a hotel computer in Europe by a member of the Obama administration. The British newspaper says it "reveals the US government's increasingly controversial strategy in the global UN climate talks." They' ...
  • Americans No Greener In Past Decade, Environmental ...
    images: Gallup I'm going to try not to overly dip into despair in this next one, but the results of a new Gallup Poll on changes in green behavior in the United States over the past decade aren't overly encouraging, particularly when it comes to political action. As you can see in the graphics ...
  • Hybrid Robot's Microbial Fuel Cell Transforms Poll ...
    Photo: Gilberto Esparza What if an army of mobile robots could transform polluted water into plant life? Tracing a fine line between robot and plant, art project and self-sustaining mini-ecosystem machine, Mexican artist Gilberto Esparza's hybrid creation "Nomadic Plants" (Plantas Nomadas) is a q ...
  • Polystyrene Insulation Doesn't Belong in Green Bui ...
    As a writer about green design, I hold some opinions that consistently attract tremendous disagreement and abuse; two are heat pumps and insulated concrete forms (ICF) noting that a sandwich of polystyrene and concrete can hardly be called green. Alex Wilson at Environmental Building News n ...
  • Paving the Way for KFC's Double Down: The 5 Grosse ...
    Photo via NY Daily News Today is the day. Call it the heart attack heard 'round the world. Yes, today KFC's already-infamous Double Down --the bacon and cheese "sandwich" where the bun is comprised of two chunks of fried chicken--hits fast food chains and mall food courts across the nation. I a ...

Biosingularity

  • Seeing a Bionic Eye on Medicine’s Horizon
    Television’s Six Million Dollar Man foresaw a future when man and machine would become one. New research at Tel Aviv University is making this futuristic “vision” of bionics a reality. Prof. Yael Hanein of Tel Aviv University’s School of Electrical Engineering has foundational research that may give ...
  • To starve a tumor
    Since the 1920s, scientists have known that cancer cells generate energy differently than normal cells, a phenomenon dubbed the “Warburg effect” after its discoverer, German biochemist Otto Warburg. However, the field of cancer-cell metabolism has been largely ignored since the 1970s, when researche ...
  • Smart Pill Reports Back
    The medicine cabinet of the future could help make sure patients take their medications on time via a myriad of smart technologies. There are already pill bottles that wirelessly report to a computer when a cap has been opened, and devices for automatically dispensing medicine at the right time, and ...
  • New Drug Cures Hard-to-Treat Hepatitis C
    Patients who fail current hepatitis C virus HCV treatments have few other options except trying the same drugs again, but an experimental antiviral drug is poised to change that.When the drug telaprevir was added to standard treatment with peginterferon alfa and ribavirin, which are also antivirals, ...
  • 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 ...

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Pruning Shears

  • 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. Jerome Starkey on why most war reporting by big outlets is so inadequate: Some journalists in Kabul are hamstrung by security rules set in Eu ...
  • 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 ...

Natural Health News

  • Change Your Focus for Better Results
    Spend sixty seconds looking around the room and to take note of everything that’s red. Any shade of red will do. Crimson. Fire-engine red. Burgundy. Maroon. Even hot pink. Commit as many red things to memory as possible. Don’t over-think the process, or try to figure out the point of the exercise. ...
  • Boomers Beset with Disabilities
    The number of middle-aged Americans with certain mobility-related disabilities, such as trouble climbing stairs, is on the rise, according to a new study. This upward trend for baby boomers contrasts with a decline in disabilities found for people 65 and over. The study is based on data from th ...
  • Zinc Eases Women's Anger and Depression
    Daily zinc may reduce measures of anger and depression in young women, according to a new study. Seven milligrams of zinc per day, as zinc gluconate, was associated with significant decreases in measures of anger-hostility and depression-dejection. On the other hand, multivitamin supplements did n ...
  • What San Francisco Found in Their Sludge
    San Francisco has done tests of their own sewage sludge -- one ingredient in the compound that is given out to gardeners as "compost." San Francisco's tests looked for heavy metals, PCBs, dioxins, volatile and semivolatile organic compounds, and pesticides. They didn't look for pharmaceuticals, ...
  • Smoking Increases Your Risk of Multiple Sclerosis
    Smoking may increase the risk of multiple sclerosis in people who have other risk factors for the neurological disorder. The findings suggest that smokers who have high levels of a protein that protects against the Epstein-Barr virus, a common herpes virus, were twice as likely as nonsmokers to get ...

Antemedius

  • Our National Epidemic of Violence
    By David Swanson James Gilligan published a book 13 years ago called "Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic," in which he diagnosed the root cause of violence as deep shame and humiliation, a desperate need for respect and status (and, fundamentally love and care) so intense that only killing ...
  • Dutch Holocaust Victim Finally Receives An Apology
    Today is Shoah day in Israel and also the 65th anniversary of the liberation by Canadian troops of Westerbork , the Nazi transit camp in the east of the Netherlands. As Radio Netherlands reports, one of the survivors of the death camps has finally been recognised by the Dutch government, As part of ...
  • The Rich Progressive Legacy of FDR
    April 12, 2010 marks the 65th anniversary of the death of the leader who spearheaded the twentieth century progressive movement, righting the economic ship during perilous times, giving Americans hope at a time when it was desperately needed while changing the face of the Democratic Party in the pro ...
  • Livestock Keepers’ Rights: Conserving Endangered A ...
    Co-written with Dr. Jacob Wanyama and originally featured in the Mail & Guardian . Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet . Maralal, Kenya, is mostly known for its wildlife. And as we made the seven hour, bumpy trek from Nairobi — half of it on unpaved roads — we saw our fai ...
  • What Do You Want For America?
    In my professional life (such as it is) I am a 6 Sigma Black Belt. For those who don’t know (most of you probably) that is a process improvement project manager. One of the tenets of Six Sigma is that you have to design the process to meet the needs of the customer, whoever that is. It is simply sum ...

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

  • Bush family secrets and Henry the K(ar bomber)
    I probably wouldn’t be so paranoid about this GAO report if it weren’t for Obama’s utterly clueless remarks last year about the Post Office’s ability to compete with private delivery companies. Based on data that shows we need to re-absorb the USPS into the federal government (i.e., subsidize mail d ...
  • Blaming Americans first
    No link to the self-righteous but yes, Katherine Kersten does spend this entire column pointing fingers at others so as to distract us from the “very grave evil indeed” of clerical sexual abuse of children. Besides priests, Kersten reminds us that these folks also abuse children: family members st ...
  • I went out, I drank, I bonkered
    There’s nothing like getting shanghaied into drinking until 2:30 in the morning with friends to guarantee the phone will ring at 8 a.m. Having now driven to White Bear Lake, made a bank deposit, purchased all manner of green papayas, Thai eggplant, etc., etc., I now have a few minutes to try to sort ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Vandana Shiva and Andrew Kimbrell discuss “G ...
    On Saturday, April third, World-Renowned Environmentalists & Activists Andrew Kimbrell and Vandana Shiva Discussed Genetically Engineered Eggplant Moratorium in India and upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case on GE Alfalfa in Washington, DC at Busboys and Poets. Saturday’s conversation,“Global Perspectiv ...
  • 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 ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • John John: Truth and Reconciliation: An interview ...
    www.trentarthur.ca: How many Aboriginal children died in Canada’s state-funded, church-run Indian residential schools, which ran from 1879 to 1996? Where were they buried? How did they die? These are some of the questions Trent history professor John Milloy will be working to answer as the director ...
  • Malema's "Kill The Boer" Is Racist Incitement
    Last week and Tuesday Julius Malema, the African National Congress Youth (ANCYL) leader, sang "kill the boer" (the Afrikaner farmer) at a birthday celebration held for him at the University of Johannesburg. Malema was wearing a bright yellow tee-shirt with the face of Nelson Mandela emblazoned on t ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Why There Are No “Israelis” in the ...
    [ePalestine] Why There Are No “Israelis” in the Jewish State (by Jonathan Cook) Israel Palestine Blogs : Citizens Classed as Jewish or Arab Nationals by Jonathan Cook / April 6th, 2010 A group of Jews and Arabs are fighting in the Israeli courts to be recognised as “Israelis” ...
  • Raed Jarrar: Iraq: Seven Years of Occupation
    Iraq: Seven Years of Occupation | CommonDreams.org: On April 9, 2003, exactly seven years ago, Baghdad fell under the US-led occupation. Baghdad did not fall in 21 days, though; it fell after 13 years of wars, bombings and economic sanctions. Millions of Iraqis, including myself, watched our countr ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Guide to Organic Cotton Clothing
    Organic clothing is a fast growing industry, and organic cotton is becoming more and more popular. But why should we buy it and wear it?
  • Environmental News - 07/04/10
    Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html) 6,000 Plastic Bottles + Some Dedicated Villagers = New Schoolhouse in Guatemala (http://planetgreen.discovery.com/travel-outdoors/plastic-bottles-vilagers-schoolhouse.html)-You'd never know it jus ...
  • The Story of Bottled Water
    Released to coincide with World Water Day is the latest animated video from Annie Leonard takes a provocative, humorous look at bottled water…  
  • Environmental News - 25/03/10
    Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html) Businesses 'should protect environment' (http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-national/businesses-should-protect-environment-20100324-quhg.html)-Nine out of ten Australians believe big business ...
  • Greening Education, Increasing Employability
    Whether directly employed in a green job, or in a related field, green skills and sustainable practice become essential as the world transitions to a low-carbon economy.

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Whistleblowers on US 'massacre' fear CIA stalkers
    Activists behind a website dedicated to revealing secret documents have complained of harassment by police and intelligence services as they prepare to release a video showing an American attack in which 97 civilians were killed in Afghanistan. Julian Assange, one of the founders of Wikileaks, ...
  • Wikileaks 'to release video of US strike on Afghan ...
    Wikileaks, the whistle-blower website, is reportedly preparing to release secret video of a notorious US air strike said to have killed scores of Afghan civilians . The video apparently shows previously classified footage from US warplanes called in to bomb Taliban fighters during a fire fight ...
  • Israel has nearly 300 nuclear weapons
    The Israeli prime minister has decided against going to the US for a nuclear summit, which was to have involved the leaders of 47 nations. Mr Netanyahu dropped out by announcing at a press conference that he wanted to highlight Israel's opposition to a nuclear Iran. It is known in political ci ...
  • Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, threatens to block ...
    The president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, has cast doubt over Nato's planned summer offensive against the Taliban in the southern province of Kandahar, as more than 10,000 American troops pour in for the fight. Karzai threatened to delay or even cancel the operation -- one of the biggest of th ...
  • Italy urges 'rapid' probe of Italians detained in ...
    The Italian foreign minister urged Afghan authorities to "rapidly" carry out a probe into three Italians detained after weapons were found in a hospital run by Italian charity Emergency. Afghan authorities detained three Italians and six others Saturday after suicide vests, home-made bombs, guns ...

Daily Loaf

  • 2010 Pulitzer Prize winners announced in journalis ...
    In the Local Reporting category, the St. Petersburg Times' Ben Montgomery, Waveney Ann Moore and photographer Edmund D. Fountain were listed "for their dogged reporting and searing storytelling that illuminated decades of abuse at a Florida reform school for boys and sparked remedial action."
  • Local Motive event at USF to support local busines ...
    Show our local businesses in Tampa Bay some support by attending Local Motive this Wednesday, April 14, at the USF Tampa campus.
  • Dreaming of a cute little kid
    “Dream Momma,  I want to tell you a something about myself before I tell you the dream. I’m in sales and just got transferred here from Austin. It’s a sweet deal for me and I’m even thinking of finishing school in Tampa if I can get my credits worked out. What is bothering me is [...]
  • Spanish Garnacha is fit for a crowd
    A tale of two garnachas, with pairing suggestions.
  • Latvala and Hackworth already sparring
    We’re more than half a year away until the November elections, but some candidates are itching to engage in combat right now. Last week former Dunedin Mayor Bob Hackworth, a former Republican who turned Democrat in 2008 and is now running for a seat on the Pinellas County Commission, blasted the i ...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • “They Don’t Want Palestinians Damaging ...
    A Report from South Hebron Hills by Shy Halatzi As in every week of the year, we woke up at 07:00 on a Saturday morning to oppose injustice. We, is a group of about 15, mostly Israeli and some International Activists lead by Ta’ayush, a Jewish-Arab organization opposing the occupation and trying ...
  • A Bedouin Tale
    By Rebecca Vilkomerson A few nights ago I had dinner at the home of a dear friend, Ra’ed, the director of the Bedouin-Jewish environmental organization BUSTAN.  In the course of the meal, I heard a story that illuminates so many of the overlapping historicaland political factors that contribute to ...
  • Expanded Military Powers of Deportation in West Ba ...
      A military order to take effect April 13th so drastically expands the IDF’s power to deport people from the West Bank that it threatens mass arrests and exile, according to Hamoked Center for the Defense of the Individual in Israel. In a request to the military commander, Hamoked asks that impl ...
  • Breaking in with intent to terrorise, by Haggai Ma ...
    Translation from Hebrew: Dimi Reider There was one point that stood out for me in Uri Blau’s recollection of his pursuit by the Shin Bet in the Anat Kamm affair. Blau, Haaretz’s outstanding investigative reporter, recalls how as he was traveling in the Far East he got a call saying his house was b ...
  • 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Resilience and ruggedness: Why faster, bigger and ...
    Alex Steffen at Worldchanging goes, perhaps, heretical, saying future sustainability depends on building compact cities where you don’t need a car to get around. We want density, we want a lot more density. Compact cities are the key to sustainable transportation. Suffused with technology, they’re ...
  • Democracy is dead
    Yesterday’s editorial in Sri Lanka’s Sunday Leader used harsh words to mourn the death of democracy in that country– “no longer a criticism or a warning, it is simply reality.” The ongoing tragedy of Sri Lanka, and the use of the conflict with the LTTE to dismantle democracy, is truly sad. Yet muc ...
  • Forests killed by pine beetle being turned into bi ...
    Cobalt Technologies has developed a way to turn lodgepole pines killed by the pine beetle into biobutanol. “If we use only half of the 2.3 million acres currently affected in Colorado alone, we could produce over two billion gallons of biobutanol — enough to blend into all the gasoline used in Color ...
  • More on Catholic Church giving molester priest acc ...
    What is not clear from Andrew Sullivan’s article or the church documents is that Kiesle [the priest] was defrocked in February 1987 – and yet was *still* working in youth ministry in May 1988: The only sane voice appearing in the church’s documents is that of Maurine Behrend, who worked in the Oakla ...
  • Bruce Sterling speaks ill of the recent dead
    Bruce Sterling speaks ill of the recent dead You can’t read kindly stuff like this without realizing that there was something just irretrievably rotten and sinister about that McLaren guy. Yeah, he’s dead now, and even the hardest of the hardcore punks are trying to make nice about him, but he was a ...

Coteret

  • Likud power-broker: When Biden “or any other ...
    Moshe Feiglin heads “Manhighut Yehudit — The Jewish Leadership Movement” an extremist theocon group, which in recent years has established a strong presence in the Likud. Feiglin-endorsed candidates performed strongly in the 2008 Likud primaries and make up a large part of the party’s current Knes ...
  • Yaron London in Yediot: Time to open Israel’ ...
    An end to the age of ambiguity Op-ed, Yaron London, Yediot, April 12 2010 Israel ranks sixth in the world in terms of the number of nuclear weapons it has in its arsenal, according to Jane’s Defence Weekly, the British journal on military affairs. Its researchers, in an article written with a view ...
  • Facing stone-throwing, the IDF cries “popula ...
    A minimal sense of sense of history appears to have become an unrealistic expectation when it comes to Israeli policy makers. Some things should not be done, period. No matter how effective they are. But if Jewish leaders can propose labor camps for refugees, why not use dogs against civilians? The ...
  • Waving the flag of humanism at Sheikh Jarrah
    The sustained protests, against the settlement of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah and the attendant eviction of Palestinian families, have been widely applauded.  However, they have also elicited some fierce push-back. Notably, these have not come only from government and righ ...
  • David Grossman at Sheikh Jarrah: “We cultiva ...
    On Friday (April 9 2010) Israeli author David Grossman made an impromptu speech [video here] at the protest against the continued evictions of Palestinians families in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah and their replacement with fundamentalist settlers. I think that we are all b ...

Deadline Live

  • Vatican makes peace with the Beatles
    VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has finally made peace with the Beatles, saying their drug use, “dissolute” lives and even the claim that the band was bigger than Jesus are all in the past — while their music lives on. Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano paid tribute to the Fab Four in [...]
  • GOOGLE FRANKENSTEIN: MACHINES TO CHOOSE YOUR NEWS
    Mon Apr 12 2010 08:15:34 ET GOOGLE CEO and Obama political activist (Bilderberger) Eric Schmidt declared this weekend that his machines will help decide what news you receive! News sites should use technology to PREDICT what a user wants to read by what they have already read, Schmidt told the AMERI ...
  • Cerberus Capital Management expected to buy defens ...
    Cerberus Capital Management, a New York-based private investment firm, is expected to buy DynCorp International of Falls Church in a deal worth roughly $1.5 billion. DynCorp, a publicly traded defense contractor, said in a news release Monday that its board of directors will recommend that stockh ...
  • Karzai’s Government and the CIA -not the Tal ...
    Peter Dale Scott George Mason University’s History News Network Alfred McCoy’s important new article for TomDispatch (March 30, 2010) deserves to mobilize Congress for a serious revaluation of America’s ill-considered military venture in Afghanistan.  The answer to the question he poses in his titl ...
  • Officials: Mexican Gulf Cartel Uses Austin, TX. As ...
    Tony Plohetski statesman.com The houses stretched from Pflugerville to Manor to South Austin, many tucked in middle-class neighborhoods along quiet streets. When officials started investigating suspects linked to Mexico’s notorious Gulf cartel months ago, they soon learned that some of the dozen hom ...

The Air Vent

  • What would you do
    I worked for several hours on gridded temps again this weekend.  In the meantime ..hours of thought went into this………. What would you do with a little global warming. If I had some global warming, I’d ….. - Canoe to the north pole? Buy carbon credits? By stock in speedo!
  • Do it — Or Else
    This is a huge story, probably as big as Climategate but certain to get little press.  After all, there is less proof to present.  This is not just another day in world politics.  Sure corruption happens, but we’ve just learned how Copenhagen global government was attempted to be forced onto the ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Does Taiwan’s Explosive Facebook Growth Mean More ...
    [Editor's Note: The following article, and the Global Monitor Report data it cites, are from Inside Facebook Gold, our new data and analysis membership service tracking Facebook's business and growth. In addition to monthly Global Monitor data updates, Inside Facebook Gold presents weekly in-depth a ...
  • Marshalls Is Nabbing Facebook Fans With Gift Card ...
    Discount retailer Marshalls launched a Facebook-specific promotion Thursday aimed at simultaneously promoting its merchandise and building its fan base, and it’s noteworthy for its depth and creativity. Marshalls is promoting its Unlock Your Shopportunity application-driven contest charity on its we ...
  • Policy Watch: Facebook Updates Guidelines Prohibit ...
    Facebook has been continuing its crackdown on questionable, if not illegal, advertising practices. Following increased enforcement against advertisers on its performance ad network in March, it made an official update to its ad guidelines terms late last week, although related enforcement appear ...
  • Facebook Tests News Feed Format that Highlights Yo ...
    Facebook is testing out a new way of highlighting comments for items in users Top Stories news feed, according to an interface tweak spotted yesterday by Ryan Spoon of Polaris Ventures. Here’s how the new story type appears to work. First, a mutual friend shares a link on Facebook. This generates an ...
  • Zynga Makes Record Gains on This Week’s List of Fa ...
    This week’s list of fastest-gaining Facebook apps by monthly active users is led off by Zynga’s latest, Treasure Isle. The gain of 7.5 million users over a week that you can see below is a bit off; that’s the total gain in 10 days, while Isle picked up about 6 million [...]

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

  • Out of the Mouth of Fools
    In a recent interview with the New York Post, Actor/Comedian Tracy Morgan stated: “I’m glad I dropped out of high school, man. I wouldn’t be where I’m at. I would have had a net. I’m glad I didn’t have anything to fall back on, man, because that made me go for my dreams that much harder.” OK, [...]
  • Is Satan Speaking and Are You Listening?
    One night last week while I was at work, satan started speaking to me.  He told me I was deficient, old, unable to concentrate, and not truly sold out to God.  When I’m blogging I sometimes get guilt feelings that I’m not focused on my Lord as I should be.  I’m thinking too much about [...]
  • sat’day riddymz
  • “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 Rwandansâ€� 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 ...

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 ANOTHER Boost from Tina ...
    Click Here for Palin Alaska BOYCOTT Central On sen4earth.org...another SEN donation to Defender's campaign, another Care2-SEN fight-fast fun-fest...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Documents Pouring in as DocumentCloud Goes Beta
    Eagle-eyed followers of the DocumentCloud Twitter feed have already picked up on the fact that we began adding users to our beta last month. We made a strategic decision to peg our beta to NICAR' s March 2010 computer assisted reporting conference , where we knew we'd be able to gather a sizable ...
  • 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 ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Edge on Wikipedia - Wikipedia—The Dumbing Down of ...
    Jay Leno probably said it best a few weeks ago when he joked that when Wikipedia's servers briefly went down for some three hours, it left the world without a source for false and erroneous information. But many in our information-driven society believe it is no joke. A growing community of the info ...
  • UN on the Edge - UN Peacekeepers: Forces of Mistru ...
    “Every child and young person should live in a supportive, protective and caring environment that promotes his/her full potential. Children with inadequate or no parental care are at special risk of being denied such a nurturing environment,” so reads Resolution 64/142 of the United Nations General ...
  • University of Wisconsin Press Provides Comic Relie ...
    I really enjoyed the admission that university publishers, such as University of Wisconsin Press, do not check their facts before publication (see Michael Marrus Falters in Some Measure of Justice , Arts, March 1, 2010). My professors drove me bats to get it right, check and doublecheck my facts. No ...
  • Ezekiel's Tomb in Iraq Still Endangered
    I am writing to alert Cutting Edge readers that the shrine of the Jewish Prophet Ezekiel in central Iraq is in danger of being turned into a mosque. Hebrew inscriptions and decoration have already been erased at the shrine, which used to attract thousands of Jewish pilgrims throughout the ages. Rece ...
  • School Lunch Obesity Problem Must be Tackled
    Instead of just complaining about the obesity of our children, parents must face uncomfortable�facts which your artuicle illuminated ( see Society April 5, 2010 School Lunches May Make for Obese Children ). The schools have stopped the physical exercise that we all knew, those programs are gone. The ...

    Blacklisted News

  • Is the Fed Helping the Big Banks to Cook Their Boo ...
    The SEC has been notified of the allegations and has launched a probe to determine whether further action is needed. Among the banks implicated, are Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Bank of America, and Citigroup
  • BOMBSHELL – Whistle Blower Comes Forward With Soli ...
  • Monsanto Under Investigation by Seven US States
    At least seven US state attorneys general are investigating whether Monsanto Company has abused its market power to lock out competitors and raise prices on seed. Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, Texas, Virginia, and two other unidentified states are in a working group to investigate the biotech giant.
  • First on-site video of plane crash that killed Pol ...
  • Analysis: Ramifications of crash on Polish politic ...
    Experts say the deaths of senior military chiefs in Saturday's plane crash could have more serious implications for Poland than the loss of the country's president.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran reacts to becoming a US nuclear target
    Summary: Following the release of the Nuclear Posture Review last week, both President Obama and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates clearly stated that this new provision in America’s declaratory posture regarding the use of nuclear weapons was aimed at Iran, along with North Korea and other po ...
  • Iran sanctions push casts shadow on Manmohan-Obama ...
    Summary: Apart from lingering concerns over aspects of the U.S. administration's AfPak policy, it is the latest American sanctions drive against Iran that most immediately concerns Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's advisers as he goes into a bilateral meeting with President Barack Obama here on ...
  • Indian Prime Minister to Obama: Iran sanctions can ...
    Summary: US president Barack Obama on Sunday updated Prime Minister Manmohan Singh about the plans on the works for imposing fresh sanctions on Iran, but India struck a different chord saying such plans targeting ordinary people are counter-productive. source: Hindustan Times, India read more
  • Iran's Khamenei condemns Obama's 'nuclear threat'
    Summary: Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei condemned on Sunday US President Barack Obama for issuing what he said was a threat of a nuclear attack against the Islamic republic. source: AFP read more
  • Iran MPs calls for complaint of the US as threat t ...
    Summary: Iran's Parliment (Majles) Two hundred and twenty five members of Iran’s Parliament have called for the country’s Foreign Ministry to complain officially to the UN Security Council about the US government as a threat to the global peace and security. source: ISNA read more

The Daily Galaxy

Natural News

  • Health Ranger thanks NaturalNews readers for their ...
    (NaturalNews) I've just completed three weeks of touring in California where I got the chance to meet literally hundreds of NaturalNews supporters face to face at four different events. Although the schedule was quite demanding, being able to meet and talk with NaturalNews readers in person was incr ...
  • American Humane Certified is raising the bar in an ...
    (NaturalNews) Proper animal husbandry is a vital component to any farming operation, whether large or small. With the advent of agricultural industrialization came the tendency to raise ever more animals in increasingly inhumane conditions, all in order to remain competitive and continue to turn a p ...
  • Enjoy the Benefits of Hot and Cold Water Therapy
    (NaturalNews) Hot and cold baths have been used for centuries and some of the benefits they bring include: increased energy, increased circulation, detoxification, and the clearing of negative energy. An easy way to replicate the spa experience of alternating hot and cold baths, and the primal exper ...
  • 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 ...

Threat Level

  • Romanian Auction Scammer on the Lam
    Romanian authorites made headlines last week after busting 70 suspected cyberthieves accused of operating online auction scams. But it turns out one of the ringleaders was set free after authorities failed to file the required paperwork on time — and now he’s vanished. Police say the 70 suspects ...
  • Take From ATM Malware Caper Exceeded $200,000
    A Bank of America worker who installed malicious software on his employer’s ATMs was able to siphon at least $200,000 from the hacked machines before he was caught, according to a plea agreement he entered with prosecutors last week. Rodney Reed Caverly, 37, was a member of the bank’s IT staff when ...
  • 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • NBER Declares Bush Recession Not Officially Over - ...
    On Monday, the National Bureau of Economic Research ( NBER ), the nonprofit group which officially marks the birth and death of economic downturns, announced that the Bush Recession which commenced in December 2007 isn't over , at least not yet. Despite the promising signs of economic growth, job c ...
  • Haley Barbour the Latest Neo-Confederate Face of t ...
    On Friday, Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post proclaimed Mississippi Governor and former RNC chairman Haley Barbour "the most influential Republican in the country." If so, that dubious title is a reflection of the sad state of the GOP and the nation. After all, just days after Virginia Governo ...
  • The Politics of Life and Death in West Virginia
    In the wake of the Massey Energy tragedy that killed 29 coal miners in West Virginia, there appear to be two steps that could improve worker safety there. First, as the mine accident record of the last decade suggests, join a union. Second, put Democrats in the White House to reverse the GOP's nat ...
  • 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 ...

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 Catholic fall-back position: Blame the Jews!
    I am actually surprised that it took this long , given the Nazi leanings of the current Pope. A furious transatlantic row has erupted over quotes that were attributed to a retired Italian bishop, which suggested that Jews were behind the current criticism of the Catholic church's record on tackling ...
  • Penrose On Politics: Sue for Pete's Sake
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Israeli intelligence service suffers another setback As impressive as the long list of Israeli intelligence coups is, no intelligence agency bats 1.000 all the time, and Israeli intelligence is no exception. The latest revelation is likely to make the Israelis refer to January - when a Hamas command ...
  • Facts on Taxes: The Rich Pay Little or Nothing
    This week, the wingnut Reality-Denying Squad turned its Backwards World attention to taxes, claiming that President Obama's tax cuts and tax credits for working families have turned middle-class Americans into welfare-sucking commies. The truth, of course, is that over the past 50 years, tax rates f ...
  • DoD: Injured Vets Aren't Disabled, Just Crazy
    This is the kind of anti-military crap we came to expect from Smirky/Darth. �That it continues fifteen months into Barack Obama's administration is inexcusable. From The Nation: "To be told that I was lying, that was a real smack in the face," says Luther. "Then when they said 'personality disorder, ...

Care 2

  • Ask Shriners to Stop Exploiting Animals - TAKE ACT ...
    On April 9, an elephant imprisoned by Shrine Circus became "startled" and kicked and stomped a circus worker to death in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Compassionate individuals have been prevailing upon the Shriners to stop using animals for years to no Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-i ...
  • Stop the circus from performing, This is not a Sho ...
    Please sign, and lets stop the circus once and for all, for years of ongoing abuse to these animals, if they want to have a circus let them do it with out animals, and let the people take thier place & then you will see how fast it will end, enough is eno Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �No ...
  • Future brighter for Przewalski's Horse
    The 2010 list also highlights two species on the road to recovery thanks to conservation efforts: Przewalski's horse, which is starting to rebuild numbers after being re-introduced into the wild, and Rober's tree frog, whose population has grown due to Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note- ...
  • 7 1/2 years later, Leo the cat returns
    What a long, strange trip it's apparently been for Leo the cat, assuming his travels actually are over. He's a handsome dude, a big, furry orange tabby that has never been big on bathing. In some ways, the sticks and leaves that stuck to his Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • Revive a Rainforest
    The Revive a Rainforest campaign in Costa Rica is part of the Natural Resources Defense Council's BioGems initiative to save wildlife and wildlands across the Americas. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

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Reuters Global

  • Remembering Hiro’s gentle smile
    Hiro Muramoto from Reuters Television was not the gung-ho war correspondent of the movies. He was a careful, loving married Dad of two and a gentle mentor for young colleagues and an expert story teller.
  • How to ease traffic tie-ups in Washington: hold a ...
    There's nuclear security, and then there's street security -- especially with a gathering of world leaders in town.
  • Being There: U.N. Chief Takes a Rights Message to ...
    U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon greets Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev in Bishkek on April 3. Four days later Bakiyev was ousted by opposition demonstrations.
  • 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 ...

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No Quarter

  • Red Alert! Well-Spoken Arab Smoker Terrorizes Nati ...
    Editor’s Note: John Huey, a security professional involved with aviation security issues for over 28 years, has now published several articles for NoQuarter. Learn more background details about John Huey and his constructive critiques in his first post published at NoQuarterUSA.net on January 5, 201 ...
  • Copenhagen Comes to Washington
    * Bumped up * Maybe Barack Obama is a magician and will pull a rabbit out of his ass come Tuesday. But don’t bet on it. I am thinking of the upcoming nuclear summit, which is being touted as the largest gathering of world leaders since the United Nations was created way back in [...]
  • kenya: barack’s home country ~open thread
    Did you know Michelle Obama is a birther? Online African Newspapers, Magazines, NPR, and now Michelle? What’s up this weekend?
  • Join No Quarter Radio’s Sense on Cents with Larry ...
    Promo for the April 11th show is now bumped down. Catch the archived show. I am thrilled to have James Kwak join me tonight from 8-9pm ET on No Quarter Radio’s Sense on Cents with Larry Doyle. If Wall Street banks are ‘too big to fail,’ what is America to do? While those on Wall Street [...]
  • Why is Dawn Johnson Out?
    Salon’s Glenn Greenwald has an interesting piece on the now-scuttled nomination of Dawn Johnson to head WH office of legal counsel. Greenwald begins by saying Johnson was a good candidate, had Democratic support and could have been a recess appointment. Her withdrawal was a bit murky. Then Greenw ...

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

  • Palin Bachmann: 2010 GOP Convention Center Rally H ...
    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

  • There is a reason “reality” is on TV
    The world has gone batty, or at least the world I know.   Someone has decided to bring tourists to the Tenderloin.  There is a good reason they do not go there.  There is also a reason they do and the reasons are one in the same—Drugs and other gritty subjects. San Francisco Detours Into Reality [ ...
  • America’s Priorities: War, Plunder and Greed
    America’s Priorities: War, Plunder and Greed By: Solomon Comissiong The American Dream is often sold to the masses as a beacon of hope for the so-called free world. The elitists as well as the programmed masses say that America is the land of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. “In the US al ...
  • Florida: sit-in planned for Gov. Crist’s office Fr ...
    But the teacher's initial fear is giving way to something else. They are calling in sick in Miami-Dade. Their student allies are walking out of classrooms and into the streets in protest. Their parent allies have conducted a hunger strike and marched up and down the state on their behalf.
  • Kissinger Overruled Aides who Wanted to “Head Off” ...
    RESCINDED ORDERS TO WARN MILITARY REGIMES DAYS BEFORE LETELIER BOMBING IN WASHINGTON D.C. Overruled Aides who Wanted to “Head Off” a “Series of International Murders” “We now know that it was Kissinger himself who was responsible,” stated John Dinges, author of The Condor Years, and a Nation ...
  • Tenure, merit pay, Washington D.C. and Forida
    It’s all for the kids right? Sure, ask Jerry Lewis the next time you see him at the bank, if you do. The metaphor or analogy to capture this sad sack saga would be like beating up on parents so they could parent better. But the pundits, the right wing think tanks, the billionaires who fund the me ...

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Pine River World News

  • Kyrgyzstan, Another Washington Revolution
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Stanislav Mishin, a frequent contributor to Russian newspaper Pravda. Kyrgyzstan, Another Washington Revolution � �Stanislav Mishin Source: � Mat Rodina April 10, 2010 It seems like just yesteryear when DC's power brokers where rubbing their b ...
  • 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 ...

IntelNews

After Downing Street.org

  • Our National Epidemic of Violence
    By David Swanson James Gilligan published a book 13 years ago called "Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic," in which he diagnosed the root cause of violence as deep shame and humiliation, a desperate need for respect and status (and, fundamentally love and care) so intense that only killing ...
  • “This Is How These Soldiers Were Trained to Act”–V ...
    “This Is How These Soldiers Were Trained to Act”–Veteran of Military Unit Involved in 2007 Baghdad Helicopter Shooting Says Incident Is Part of Much Larger Problem | Democracy Now We speak with a former member of Bravo Company 2-16, the military unit involved in the 2007 helicopter shooting of Iraq ...
  • Families of Victims of 2007 US Helicopter Killing ...
    Families of Victims of 2007 US Helicopter Killing React to Leaked Video | Democracy NOW! Journalists from the investigative team in Iceland that released the now-infamous US military video on WikiLeaks traveled to Baghdad recently to meet with the family members of some of the twelve people killed ...
  • Afghan Civilians Attacked By NATO Troops: Four Kil ...
    Afghan Civilians Attacked By NATO Troops: Four Killed, 18 Wounded In Kandahar By Kathy Gannon and Noor Khan | Huffington Post Afghans burned tires and chanted "Death to America" after U.S. troops fired Monday on a civilian bus near Kandahar, killing four people and wounding more than a dozen. Afgha ...
  • Conservatives and Progressives Agree: Rethink Afgh ...
    Conservatives and Progressives Agree: Rethink Afghanistan The Huffington Post’s Arianna Huffington gets it. Conservative columnist George Will gets it. Senator Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.) gets it. U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) gets it. U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) gets it. Judge Napolitano of FOX ...

Grist - News

  • Australia refloats Barrier Reef oil-spill ship
    by Agence France-Presse The Shen Neng 1 ship has been refloated after a nearly devastating oil spill at the Great Barrier Reef.Photo: Australian Maritime Safety Authority SYDNEY -- Australian authorities refloated a huge Chinese ship on Monday that had been stranded on the Great Barrier Reef f ...
  • U.N. climate talks in Bonn wrap up after fresh fig ...
    by Agence France-Presse BONN, Germany -- Three days of talks aimed at putting a new gloss on U.N. climate talks ended here late Sunday after new textual trench warfare, less than four months after a stormy summit in Copenhagen. Countries wrangled for hours beyond the scheduled close over the w ...
  • 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 ...

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Washington Independent

  • Is Lieberman Really Against New START?
    This is what Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) told MSNBC (no link yet): LIEBERMAN: Yes. I mean, let me say first that I hope I can support ratification of the START treaty, but I’m not there yet. The basic idea that we would reduce the number of nuclear warheads in the world of course is a desirable [.. ...
  • When Are Repo Transactions Fraud?
    On Friday, The Wall Street Journal revealed that major Wall Street banks regularly use repurchase-agreement, or repo, transactions to reduce their debt levels and leverage shortly before reporting their quarter-end data. The revelations came after the Valukas Report showed that failed investment ban ...
  • Nuke Summit Success? Malaysia Edition
    Apparently Malaysia is saying this has nothing to do with today’s Washington Nuclear Security Summit — opening kickoff of which comes at 5 p.m. EST — but over at Arms Control Wonk, Joshua Pollack makes the case that Malaysia’s decision to finally pass an export control law is a great victory for the ...
  • White House Briefing on Mining Explosion Set for T ...
    Last week, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) asked the White House to lend West Virginia’s lawmakers periodic briefings on the investigation into last week’s deadly explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine south of Charleston. The first of those briefings, Rockefeller just announced, will be this Thursda ...
  • Hawaii’s 1st District Becomes Unlikely Battl ...
    Since its inception, Hawaii’s 1st Congressional District has elected only one Republican to represent it in the U.S. House. But an upcoming special election for the seat is drawing national attention, as Democrats risk losing the seat and are being forced to spend money on defense. Oh yeah, one othe ...

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
  • 'Fat for cosmetics' murder suspects arrested in Pe ...
    Four people have been arrested in Peru on suspicion of killing dozens of people in order to sell their fat and tissue for cosmetic uses in Europe. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 6 Ways Agriculture Impacts Global Warming
    Sure, agriculture provides us with the food we all eat every day. But do you know how those agricultural practices impact global warming? Turns out there's some pretty big impacts, on both the sustainable and industrial sides of the equation; employing su Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to ...
  • We love Butchers
    Former chef Josh Applestone and his wife, Jessica Applestone, are typical of the new butcher breed. He was a vegan, she was a one-time vegetarian when they founded Fleisher’s Grass-fed and Organic Meats in Kingston, N.Y., in 2004 Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �N ...

Suzie-Q

  • Bu$h Cheney Administration: The gift that keeps on ...
    AMERICA THE GIFT SHOP is an installation project that reflects the foreign policy of the Bush/Cheney years through the fun-house mirror of American commerce. My palette is the vernacular of retail tourism. Bobble head figurines. A snow globe. A cookie jar. Postcards. T-shirts, neon signs, and choco ...
  • Glenn Beck: Obama Might Find A ‘Gay Handicap ...
    Glenn Beck says Obama might find a ‘gay handicapped black woman who’s an immigrant’ as well as a ‘radical’ for the Supreme Court Crooks and Liars- By John Amato Monday Apr 12, 2010 7:00am Glenn Beck starts the smearathon of President’s possible Supreme Court nominees with his usual racist-hom ...
  • SNL: Tina Fey Unveils Palin’s Next Career Mo ...
    Tina Fey Unveils Palin’s Next Career Move In Return To SNL (VIDEO) Huffington Post |  Alex Leo First Posted: 04-11-10 12:20 AM Tina Fey hosted “Saturday Night Live” this week with musical guest Justin Bieber and while the latter’s fans like ...
  • Tea Baggers have no clue about Police State
    Tea Baggers in Wonderland; Do you see any Jackboots? geezerpower April 10, 2010 Note the difference in the way these demonstrations are handled? We’re talking about total control here. The corporate government is not only controlling Fox News, it is even controlling the Tea Baggers. The police pr ...
  • Glenn Beck EXPOSED – Crying On Cue Using Vic ...

Solari

  • The Garden
    “You don’t understand, there’s MONEY involved in this!” Watch the trailer. . . “Middle of downtown Los Angeles, 13 acres, people growing food.” It was a “back-room deal.”
  • Unanswered Questions About Chemtrails
    On this week’s Solari Report, a special report by Catherine Austin Fitts on chemtrails, the spraying program going on in the skies overhead America and in many places around the globe. What are chemtrails? What is in the spray and what does it do to us, our health and environment? What are the pos ...
  • Spiritual Warfare
    QUESTION I listened to you on Alex Jones recently and I was wondering where I could go to learn the spiritual warfare techniques you spoke about that you used when managing 18 audits and investigations (See Solari: Legal: Investigations/Audits ) as well as related civil litigation. ANSWER I studied ...
  • Tea Party 48% Obama 44%
    On major issues, 48% of voters say that the average Tea Party member is closer to their views than President Barack Obama. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 44% hold the opposite view and believe the president’s views are closer to their own. Continue reading Tea Par ...
  • Draconian UK E-Censorship Law Passes Parliament
    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 consumption. The “Digital Economy ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

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Sideways News

  • Bribery given zero tolerance
    For the first time, companies can now be sued for failing to prevent bribery and corruption, due to one of the last pieces of legislation to be passed before the general election. The Bribery Bill received cross party support and fulfils the UK’s international anti-corruption responsibilities. Any ...
  • Scrap car tax, think-tank urges
    Vehicle tax should be scrapped and replaced with more toll roads, a think-tank has claimed. The Social Market Foundation (SMF) said all the country's major routes should be transformed into toll roads, with drivers paying 10p per mile to use them and ownership being passed from the Treasury to taxpa ...
  • Commonwealth literacy 'must be improved'
    Around 700 million Commonwealth citizens cannot read or write, a campaign launched to tackle the problem has revealed. The Commonwealth Foundation (CF), which has formed a coalition of authors, campaigners and business people to fight the issue, said one in three people who lived in the network of c ...
  • Week in pictures: 12th April 2010
    A picture for every day, taking a snapshot view of what is happening in the world around us. Come and browse through our gallery of this week's most inspiring images.
  • 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 ...

Fabius Maximus

  • About the consequences of 9-11, and why Bin Laden ...
    Coming next week:  a series of posts about the consequences of 9-11, an inflection point in American history.  And Bin Laden, a candidate for Man of the Century — initiator of the most effective terrorist act ever (compare it to these).  As Hitler was Man of the 20th century (Stalin and Mao kille ...
  • FM newswire for April 12, interesting articles abo ...
    Today’s links to interesting news and analysis, collected from around the Internet. If you find this useful, pass it to a friend or colleague. Big news:  “George W. Bush ‘knew Guantánamo prisoners were innocent’“, The Times, 9 April 2010 “Kissinger’s 1976 Cable Sheds More Light on ‘Operation Co ...
  • A poll shows the source of America’s problem ...
    Summary:  More evidence that I’m wrong, that greater public participation will not by itself benefit America.  Decades of learned ignorance (aka intense propaganda) have left us too ignorant.  We’re living in dreamland.  Only a crash will restore our awareness of the real world.  China’s leader ...
  • The key to success in Afghanistan: independence
    Summary:  The key ingredient for a foreign army’s success fighting an insurgency is independence.  Building and supporting the local government’s legitimacy, with their people confident that the foreigners will leave after winning.  It’s the key theme of FM 3-24, the COIN guide — but ignored in ...
  • Starfor looks at Mexico: “The Struggle for B ...
    More about what might be the greatest threat to American sovereignty.  At the end are links to other articles about our crisis to the south. “Mexico: The Struggle for Balance“ By Scott Stewart, Stratfor, 6 April 2010 — This report is republished with permission of STRATFOR. This week’s Geopoliti ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Iran on Obama-Hu agenda as nuclear summit looms
    Reuters – President Barack Obama will seek to build momentum with China in his push for sanctions on Iran as world leaders assemble in Washington on Monday for an unprecedented nuclear security summit. Obama will hold talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao before hosting high-level delegations from ...
  • NATO troops kill 4 Afghans on bus: provincial offi ...
    Reuters – Foreign forces opened fire on a bus in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing four civilians and wounding 18 others, a provincial official said. The issue of civilian casualties caused by international forces is an emotive one in Afghanistan and undermines support for their presence in th ...
  • Cops Tasered Disabled Son to Death, Mom Says
    Courthouse News – A mother says police killed her schizophrenic son by Tasering him continuously for more than 2 minutes, then kneeling on his back as he lay facedown. Amnesty International reports that more than 350 people – most of them unarmed – have been killed by Tasers in the past 9 years. Rea ...
  • Gendercide: China’s shameful massacre of unborn gi ...
    Daily Mail – In the cruel old China, baby girls were often left to die in the gutters. In the cruel modern China, they are aborted by the tens of millions, using all the latest technology. There is an ugly new word for this mass slaughter: gendercide. Thanks to a state policy which has [...]
  • Wikileaks ‘to release video of US strike on Afghan ...
    Telegraph – Wikileaks, the whistle-blower website, is reportedly preparing to release secret video of a notorious US air strike said to have killed scores of Afghan civilians. The video apparently shows previously classified footage from US warplanes called in to bomb Taliban fighters during a fire ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • What about the Second World?
    What about the Second World? (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) “Dear Maoist-Third Worldist, The First World is made up of exploiters. And the Third World are countries that have  populations that are mostly exploited. What is the Second World? Raised-fist saluteâ€� Thank you for writing. We hav ...
  • Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide
    (shubelmorgan.wordpress.com) Filed under: ..Shubel Morgan, Amerikkka, Communism, Idiot Amerikkkans, Maoism, Maoism Third Worldism, Maoisme, Maoismo, North America
  • Growth of casual sex in the United States
    Growth of  casual sex in the United States (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) According to a new report, there is an increase toward multiple sexual parters, especially amongst  those people in the United States who are in nonromantic sexual relationships. Sociologist author Anthonsy Paik: “The ...
  • Leaked video shows U.S. brutality in Iraq
    Leaked video shows U.S. brutality in Iraq (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) A webpage, Wikileaks, has released a dramatic video showing the brutality of the U.S. military in Iraq. According to the webpage: “WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slay ...
  • The global slum grows
    The global slum grows (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) The global slum has grown by 51 million in the past 10 years, according to a recent United Nations report. The number of inhabitants in the world’s slum grew to 828 million in 2010. Overwhelmingly, these slum dwellers reside in the Third Worl ...

PakAlert

  • There Were 88 Media Companies… Now There Are 6
    From Rense.com These are the 6 media companies that exist today. There used to be 88. These 6 all get their news from Reuters and the Associated Press. Reuters owns the AP and Rothschilds own Reuters. The following information is in circulation on the net. The originating source is not known, no ...
  • Globalzionation
    By: Haris Mumtaz October 30th 1938, just another evening in New York where city life was streaming along nicely and people were busy in their lives fulfilling their social requirements with nothing unusual whatsoever when mercury network, a radio station in New York interrupts the music o ...
  • Mass Depopulation, Genocide, WW3?
    Part 1- The link to the New World Order UK, April 2, 2010 (Pal Telegraph, by Peter Eyre) – This heading may appear alarming to some people but is there a hidden master plan? Is it possible that some aspects of this has already started and if so how and who is [...] Read More at http://pa ...
  • If Pakistan Goes The Way Of Kyrgyzstan
    A failed Pakistani political system is headed for chaos. By Anjum Niaz Saturday, April 10, 2010 The News International WWW.PAKNATIONALISTS.COM ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Wake up before a mob attack. Nawaz Sharif and the faujis [military] may not be the catalysts of change that we see ...
  • Three massive blasts rock Peshawar within 20 min
    PESHAWAR: A series of powerful explosions and gunfire rocked Peshawar area of Saddar on Monday as heavy grey smoke spewed into the sky, witnesses and a security official said. Continue reading… Read More at http://pakalert.wordpress.com/

ecogeek

  • Yamaha to Develop Electric Bikes
    Yamaha, one of the best-known names in motorcycles, is finally entering the electric bike fray.  The company has announced that it will be selling shares in order to raise $812 million to go towards developing low-cost, all-electric motorcycles and "motor-assisted" bicycles. So far, electric bikes ...
  • Is Cheap Solar Paint Coming Soon?
    NextGen Solar has announced that it has raised half of the $1 million it needs to bring its " solar paint " to customers.  The company claims its paint-on solar cells can hit 40 percent efficiency and will cost only a third of traditional solar PV panels. The NextGen solar paint is a liquid materi ...
  • Do Potato Chips Have a Larger Carbon Footprint Tha ...
    A recent report from the Carbon Trust notes that there are " more carbon emissions from crisps (potato chips) than cement ." Although it may be a surprising bit of news at first, it conceals the greater issue of scale. Undoubtedly though, someone is certain to rail against potato chips and argue ...
  • Ahead of Schedule, An LED Bulb for us All
    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 ...
  • Amtrak On Course To Set Ridership Record This Year
    Amtrak is on course to break its annual ridership record this year.  By the halfway point (their fiscal year starts in October), 13.6 million passengers have traveled on the rail system. Ridership for March 2010 was up 13.5 percent from March 2009 on its popular Acela line and five short-haul rout ...

Buzzflash

  • Your Tax Dollars at War: More than 53% of Your Tax ...
    DAVE LINDORFF FOR BUZZFLASH If you’re like me, now that we’re in the week that federal income taxes are due, you are finally starting to collect your records and prepare for the ordeal. Either way, whether you are a procrastinator like me, or have already finished and know how much you have paid ...
  • Former Bush Official Confirms: We Have Innocent Bl ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Meg White There's something especially acute and universal about the pain of being falsely accused. Even the smallest child can understand the unfairness of punishment for a crime one did not commit. It's why most Americans actually believe the accused are "innocent un ...
  • George W. "Knew Guantánamo Prisoners Were Innocent ...
    BUZZFLASH DISCUSSION A new report from Gen. Colin Powell's former chief of staff says Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld had known most of the prisoners they had held without cause were totally innocent but felt it "politically impossible to release them." Is it too late to expect any real ramifications for ...
  • New Clues Emerge in Post-Katrina Vigilante Shootin ...
    BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION by A.C. Thompson , ProPublica, and Brendan McCarthy, Times-Picayune Three days after Hurricane Katrina turned New Orleans into a ghost town, somebody shot Donnell Herrington twice in Algiers Point, ripping a hole in his throat. Herrington, who is African-American, sa ...
  • Planet Autism: April, 2010 Edition
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH My wife, Kathy, our son, Jeremy, and I are visiting a medical clinic which can dispense medication to him to help with his autism. This place, in an ethnic district of Hollywood, is new to us and Jeremy doesn’t much care for it. And why should he? It gives tacky a good repu ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • More cause and effect in the War against Terrorist ...
    (updated below) The extreme paradox of our actions in the Muslim world is now well-documented: namely, the very policies justified in the name of fighting Terrorism (invasions, occupations, bombings, lawless detentions, etc.) are the precise ones that most inflame and exacerbate that th ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • National Lawyers Guild Calls for Value Shift in Su ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 12, 2010 National Lawyers Guild (NLG) With President Obama poised to select his second Supreme Court nominee, the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) advocates for a return to justices worthy of the title-ones who will put the interests of the downtrodden above those of transnat ...
  • Task Force Affirms APA's Refutation of 'Gender Ide ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 12, 2010 National Gay and Lesbian Task Force The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force today affirmed the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) refutation of "gender identity disorder" in favor of "gender incongruence," but calls for the removal of "transvestic disord ...
  • CREW Seeks Additional Information About WH Staffer ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 12, 2010 CREW Today CREW sent a letter to counsel for the White House in CREW v. Executive Office of the President , CREW's lawsuit challenging the failure of the Bush administration to preserve millions of White House emails, based on recent revelations that White H ...
  • Citizens United Against Citizens United: Public Ci ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 12, 2010 Public Citizen With thousands of people across the country uniting against the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Public Citizen today launches the Web site CitizensUnitedAgainstCitizensUnited.org. There’s re ...
  • Healthcare Façade in Turkmenistan Putting Lives at ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 12, 2010 Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Turkmenistan's outward show of health and prosperity to the international community is masking a dangerous public health situation, in which government officials actively deny the prevalence of infectious disease, medical data is ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Challenging the Obesity System
    by David Wallinga Last month, to great fanfare, First Lady Michelle Obama announced her Let's Move initiative to combat childhood obesity. Tuesday's signing of the historic health reform bill assures that more children, once obese, will actually be able to get treatment for it. The bad news is how i ...
  • Moment of Silence @ 3:30 PM EST: President Obama M ...
    by Jeff Biggers At 3:30pm EST today, residents in West Virginia and across the nation will be observing a moment of silence for the fallen coal miners in last week's Upper Big Branch mine disaster, their families, and the rescue crews. Everyone in the nation--across the 48 states that burn coa ...
  • More Cause and Effect in the War Against Terrorist ...
    by Glenn Greenwald The extreme paradox of our actions in the Muslim world is now well-documented: namely, the very policies justified in the name of fighting Terrorism (invasions, occupations, bombings, lawless detentions, etc.) are the precise ones that most inflame and exacerbate that threat.  ...
  • Where Is the National Strategy on AIDS?
    by Karen Ocamb During the intense health care reform debate President Obama occasionally mentioned HIV infections and AIDS-related illnesses as among those pre-existing conditions that could no longer be used by health insurance companies to automatically exclude consumers from health insurance ...
  • The Tax Clock Is Ticking
    by Sean Gonsalves The clock is ticking. And not just for last-minute tax filers. The Bush tax cuts are set to expire at the end of the fiscal year.   And you know what that means. As Congress takes up the FY2011 budget this summer, tea-sipping fiscal hawks will be circling Capitol Hill squawki ...

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

  • Mayor calls for city's water company pri ...
    ILOILO City Mayor Jerry Tre�as reiterated his call for privatization of Metro Iloilo Water District (MIWD) to solve the problem of critical water supply and water delivery services in the city. read more
  • Towns struggle as state aid falls
    It'll be June before most new local tax rates are decided, given the state's fiscal crisis and the governor's "day of reckoning" budget cuts.
  • Towns struggle as state aid falls
    It'll be June before most new local tax rates are decided, given the state's fiscal crisis and the governor's "day of reckoning" budget cuts.
  • Voters may take initiative in tax issues
    Cue the music: Money, money, money, money, MONEY. Or, as they're singing it in Olympia: Taxes, taxes, taxes, taxes, TAXES. Not quite as catchy but about the only tune playing in the Capitol these days where majority Democrats debate what taxes to raise and by how much.
  • Beacon Hill roll call
    By Bob Katzen THE HOUSE AND SENATE. Beacon Hill Roll Call records local senators' votes on five roll calls from the week of April 5-9. There were no important roll calls in the House last week. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT REORGANIZATION (S 2345).

Guardian

  • Labour and Tories offer two visions of Britain
    Tories would hand people 'direct control' over how they are governed nationally and locally David Cameron will tomorrow promise to deliver the most extensive devolution of power in a generation when he declares that a Conservative government would hand people "direct control" over how they are gover ...
  • Conspiracy theories swirl over Polish air disaster
    Pilots' lack of Russian led to tragedy says controller as technical problems with plane ruled out Language problems between Russian air traffic controllers and Polish pilots, and pressure from high-ranking plane passengers, may have contributed to the crash on Saturday in which 96 people – including ...
  • Watchdog calls for Thai PM to resign
    Abhisit Vejjajiva's Democrat party faces ban over illegal donation, increasing pressure on prime minister to resign The Thai prime minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, is under increasing pressure to resign after the country's electoral commission ordered his ruling Democrat party be dissolved for accepting ...
  • Media chiefs cleared of Eta charges
    Judges suggest magistrate overstepped powers in shutting down Egunkaria, after throwing out case against five executives A Spanish court today threw out a case against five newspaper executives accused of belonging to the Basque terrorist group Eta, leaving unanswered questions as to how a magistrat ...
  • Vatican tells bishops to report abuse
    Vatican issues detailed instructions to all bishops after criticism of Catholic church's handling of paedophile priests In an attempt to prove that the Vatican is heeding criticism of its handling of paedophile priests, the Holy See today issued detailed instructions to all its bishops on how to rep ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • US driving climate process - but where?
    En route from the UN climate talks in Bonn: After the brutal medicine of Copenhagen , no-one was quite sure how much of the UN process would survive through the harsh winter intact and emerge into the warming weather of Bonn in springtime. Judging by the three-day meeting here, at least one UN clim ...
  • Earth spirits' twin visions on climate
    From the UN climate talks in Bonn: Good news: I've had my sins absolved. Well, not all of my sins, obviously - that would take more Hail Marys than there are days in the year - but my carbon sins, at least. Tucked in my back pocket is a piece of paper saying I am "hereby forgiven" for sins such a ...
  • 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 ...

The Wonk Room

  • Wehner: The President Doesn’t Like America V ...
    The day before yesterday, the idea that America is a work-in-progress, an unfinished experiment, a project that Americans are constantly striving to improve and perfect, was considered uncontroversial, even laudable. Yesterday, however, President Obama expressed this idea, remarking to Kazakh Presi ...
  • Republican Gubernatorial Candidate John Oxendine W ...
    eorgia’s insurance commissioner John Oxendine, a Republican who is also running for Governor, said that the state won’t participate in the first phase of a new federal health care law which requires that states establish interim high-risk pools to provide coverage for individuals cannot find aff ...
  • CBO Chief Elmendorf Responds To Paul Ryan’s ...
    n the final days of the health care debate, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) argued that had the CBO used different methods and models to calculate the effects of reform and included different provisions in the final legislation, the Democrats’ bill would have increased the deficit and cut into the Medicare tr ...
  • ANALYSIS: Senate Republicans Block Over 100 Bills ...
    Our guest blogger is Tony Carrk, Policy Director for Progressive Media, a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund and Media Matters Action Network. Progressive Media intern Nick Wellkamp also contributed to this post. Much has been made about Senate Republicans’ abuse of the filibu ...
  • Pressure And Its Discontents
    One of the sillier conservative talking points these days is the idea that, under President Obama, America is being mean to its allies while appeasing its enemies. The most common comparison that’s trotted out is Obama’s attempt to dial down U.S.-Iran tensions in order to engage the Iranian regime o ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • John Ibbitson's Fucked-Up Priorities
    John Ibbitson is valuable for one thing. His columns help to illustrate the nuances of our debased political culture. In this post I speculated that Ibbitson was a craven stooge for the harpercon party of Canada. I critiqued a column where he tried to snidely dismiss the scandal over Canada's comp ...
  • Blogging Tory Response to Guergis-Jaffir
    So, when one of their government's cabinet ministers makes a mockery of Canada's anti-terrorism precautions at an airport, and demands special treatment because she's so important, and it turns out that she and her husband, ex-MP of the Party of Decent, Law-Abiding, Taxed-to-Death Little People, app ...
  • 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!!!

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

  • Why the Recent Osprey Crash Is Turning Heads: An E ...
    On April 9, the Air Force announced that a CV-22 Opsrey crashed in the Zabul Province of southern Afghanistan, killing three service members, one civilian employee, and injuring many others. The aircraft had only been delivered to Afghanistan a few...
  • Quote of the Day: To Be or To Do?
    Secretary of Defense Robert Gates quoting Col. John R. Boyd in a lecture before the U.S. Air Force Academy: “You’re going to have to make a decision about which direction you want to go. If you go one way, you...
  • Departing FINRA Executive to Join Other Former Enf ...
    The Wall Street Journal reports this morning that Susan Merrill, who announced last month that she is stepping down as head of enforcement at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), has decided to join the New York office of Bingham...
  • Morning Smoke: An In-depth Look at One Hedge Fund' ...
    The Magnetar Trade: How One Hedge Fund Helped Keep the Bubble Going by Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein [ProPublica] Air Force Special Operations CV-22 Osprey Crashes In Afghanistan (Updated) by Greg Grant and Ward Carroll [Defense Tech] Big businesses winning...
  • 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...

Digital Journal

  • 'Do The Math' explores living on food bank for a w ...
    Last week the Stop Community Food Centre started the second phase of "Do the Math," a drive to highlight the failure of Ontario's current social assistance rates to support healthy citizens.
  • Toronto Police seeking public's help identifying v ...
    Toronto Police responded to a call from paramedics early this morning at King Street West and Mowat Avenue. Paramedics had discovered a man suffering from head trauma. Police are asking that the public identify the victim.
  • Shelter from the Storm products designed by abuse ...
    When Tammy left 30 years of a abuse by seeking refuge at a women's shelter she found the strength to never return to the abuse. Her design for Shelter from the Storm won her enough money to furnish her first home after the shelter.
  • Ontario cops want you to buckle up
    The Ontario Provincial Police are strengthening campaigns this month to ensure drivers in the province are wearing sea tbelts. Focusing on kids, the OPP wants everyone to wear a seat belt in the car.
  • Pizza shop employee accused of skimming $61,000
    The owner of a local pizza chain in the Durham Region of Ontario found a major discrepancy last summer in the books-a missing $61,000.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Back from the Brink: Never Give Up Hope for Recove ...
    It's not often that stories of recovery are documented so well and publicized so widely as that of J.D. Glass, the formerly homeless man in northern Virginia who has been the subject of an unofficial three-part series in the Washington Post. He first appeared in the paper just last June when two re ...
  • Life After Homelessness: Smell Ya Later
    This is the third of a five-part series looking at the lives of young people making the journey out of long-term homelessness at Hospitality House in Australia. Read previous posts here and here . All my success stories are people who are still alive, and some people who are dead. At  Hospitality Ho ...
  • Foster Care Fosters Homelessness
    Life can be hard for children in foster care. There's the question of an unpleasant and unwanted split from the biological parents, the potential shuffling from foster home to foster home, and eventually, according to a comprehensive new report , the very real possibility of homelessness when youths ...
  • 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 ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • John Polanyi discusses Obama’s nuclear summit on C ...
  • Petition: Rid the world of nuclear weapons
    There are still more than 23,000 nuclear weapons in the world. It's time to finally achieve a nuclear weapon-free world. Now is the time to act. Urge Prime Minister Harper, the political party leaders and your Member of Parliament to support a new international treaty banning nuclear weapons. ...
  • 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 ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Talk to Kevin LIVE On the Air!
    Kevin is ready to take your calls LIVE on the air at 888-99-KEVIN Call in Tuesday and Wednesday between 1pm-4pm CST with your questions about government corruption, health, and wealth-building secrets. This is the show “they” don’t want you to know about, and the only place to get the truth! Be a ...
  • Lawyers Say American Jihadi Suspects ‘Set Up ...
    April 12, 2010 Guardian.co.uk By Saeed Shah Police fabricated evidence to incriminate five Americans facing trial in Pakistan on terror charges, lawyers representing the men will argue in court this week. The men, all Muslims, were arrested in December in the central town of Sargodha, and have been ...
  • Russians Claim Polish Tragedy Was Pilot Error Befo ...
    April 12, 2010 Dalje.com By AFP Speculation surged Saturday on the cause of the plane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski, with attention focusing on why the crew attempted to land despite thick fog. As the Kremlin ordered a “detailed” investigation into the deadly crash in Smolensk in ...
  • Cash Better At Killing Pain Than Aspirin
    April 12, 2010 Telegraph.co.uk Researchers at the University of Minnesota carried out a series of studies which revealed those who counted money before taking part in an experiment where they were subjected to low levels of pain felt less discomfort than those who did not. Its thought that fondling ...
  • Just Twenty-Five Minutes of Exercise a Day Helps T ...
    April 12, 2010 Telegraph.co.uk By Richard Alleyne Researchers found that a workout reduces stress and anger and boosts the sense of physical wellbeing. They claim physical exercise should be more widely prescribed as a treatment to tackle depressive or anxiety disorders. Professor Jasper Smits, a ps ...

Pambazuka News

  • Global: US city opens doors to Cuban 5
    On Saturday March 13, in the auditorium of the Lavonya DeJean Middle School, in the City of Richmond California, a large number of people gathered to commemorate International Women's Day for the third consecutive year. Under the title "Women in Soli...
  • Global: Conference will establish African Socialis ...
    On the weekend of May 22-24, African organizers from across the U.S. and Canada will converge on Washington, D.C. for a conference recognizing African Liberation Day (ALD) with the theme, “One Africa, One Nation: Separated by Colonial Slavery, Reunit...
  • Global: Guadeloupe paralyzed by widespread strikes
    Riot police from mainland France have arrived on the French Caribbean islands as protests threaten to paralyse tourism and spread further afield. Strikes on Guadeloupe and Martinique have closed shops and schools and the reinforcements will help loca...
  • Brazil: The high price of clean, cheap ethanol
    Brazil hopes to supply drivers worldwide with the fuel of the future - cheap ethanol derived from sugarcane. It is considered an effective antidote to climate change, but hundreds of thousands of Brazilian plantation workers harvest the cane at slave...
  • Haiti: Open Letter to Barack Obama - pre-election
    We - citizens of Haiti, political militants and unionists of the grassroots movement for democracy in our country - solemnly address ourselves to you on the eve of the election that will most likely make you the next president of the United States....

War in Context

  • Respect — the currency of infinite value
    Four years ago, Rory Stewart wrote: A great many of the failures in Afghanistan and Iraq arise from a single problem: the American-led coalitions’ lack of trust in local politicians. Repeatedly the Western powers, irritated by a lack of progress, have overruled local leaders, rejected compromises a ...
  • Israeli military order will enable mass deportatio ...
    For those of us who in a practical sense really don’t know what it means to be living under a military occupation, “the occupation” — as Israel’s military control of the West Bank has come to be known — has after 43 years acquired an ambiance of normality. Yet as an Israeli such as Michel [...]
  • Michel Warschawski – On the border
    Michel Warschawski is a writer and journalist and founder of The Alternative Information Center, an internationally oriented, progressive, joint Palestinian-Israeli activist organization. Parts one and two of this fascinating interview by Real News Network senior editor Paul Jay, can be viewed here ...
  • Why Bibi won’t budge
    Ever since David Ignatius revealed that President Obama is “seriously considering” proposing an American peace plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Washington’s Middle East hands have been ruminating on the significance of this report. Obama dropped in on a meeting of former national se ...
  • 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 ...

Watts Up With That?

  • The new math – IPCC version
    From Global Warming Questions -IPCC How the IPCC invented a new calculus A new form of calculus has been invented by the authors of the the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), in order to create the false impression that global warming is accelerating. How the new IPCC calculus works Here’s ho ...
  • Levy walks, solar flares, and warming
    Scientists find errors in hypothesis linking solar flares to global temperature From Physorg.com.  h/t to Leif Svalgaard who offers this PDF with this diagram that makes it all clear. Enlarge In contrast to a previous analysis, a new study has shown that the distributions of (a) the global temp ...
  • Dr. Jerry Ravetz – on Willis, epidemics, rou ...
    Jerome Ravetz, of Oxford University in the UK. First I must apologise for the long delay in my making a contribution to WUWT. I confess that I was overwhelmed by the quantity and quality of the comments on my first posting; and then I was discouraged by the hostile response to my second posting. ...
  • One more thing to worry about – undersea sup ...
    From the National Science Foundation via press release: Scientists explore origins of ’supervolcanoes’ on the sea floor Ancient goliaths blamed for multiple mass extinctions “Supervolcanoes” have been blamed for multiple mass extinctions in Earth’s history, but the cause of their massive eruptio ...
  • Pilgrimage to Montana
    By Steven Goddard Now that Arctic ice area is normal, Antarctic ice area is normal, sea level rise is failing to accelerate, temperatures are below all of Hansen’s scenarios, and the IPCC has proven itself to be untrustworthy – where can the CAGW religion go?  Simple … Montana! Glacier National ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Matt Taibbi on How the Nation’s Biggest Bank ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Democracy Now! April 12, 2010 “Looting Main Street”–Matt Taibbi on How the Nation’s Biggest Banks Are Ripping Off American Cities with Predatory Deals In a new article in Rolling Stone magazine, journalist Matt Taibbi takes an in-depth look at the experience of ...
  • 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 [...]

Your New Reality

  • No title
    If you've taken hallucinogens in the past, you don't need to take them anymore. Your brain remembers tripping, and it it is more than capable of refiring the necessary neural pathways. You just need to see something that will act as a trigger and snap those flashbacks into gear. This works for me. ...
  • No title
    The Drudge Report mere moments after Fox News led a news bulletin with the exact same list of Fox News staffers and regular guests whining about President Obama : Imagine Fox News & F(r)iends' reaction if an American took an extended holiday soon after he'd been alerted that terrorists were abou ...
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    Why Israel Should Thank Obama Gideon Levy argues that US President Obama's fading patience with Israel, and his intolerance of ever-expanding settlements and frustration at further dodges of peace-talk commitments, is exactly how a true friend should be acting : Obama is asking Prime Minister Benjam ...
  • No title
    Washington Post's Plan To Limit Anonymous Comments The Washington Post, this story claims , receives more than 320,000 comments a month across blogs, stories and opinion columns. Each day, some 300 comments are deleted, after being flagged by readers or deemed inappropriate by moderators. The Washin ...
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    As you may, or may not, recall, the Masters Of The Univers e was a popular kids TV show, comic book and toy series in the 1980s. But it didn't take long for the creators to run out of new characters. As i09 hilariously highlights the inspiration well ran blahingly dry, but Mattel kept pumping out ...

Wired - Science

  • Gigantic Baby Stars Discovered in Cloud of Space D ...
    Huge new baby stars shine bright in this image of the Rosette molecular cloud. The previously undiscovered protostars are the small points of orangey light in the center of the image. They are up to ten times more massive than the sun. The Herschel Space Observatory, operated by the European Space ...
  • Mapping the Fly Brain, Neuron by Neuron
    WASHINGTON — A new computer-based technique is exploring uncharted territory in the fruit fly brain with cell-by-cell detail that can be built into networks for a detailed look at how neurons work together. The research may ultimately lead to a complete master plan of the entire fly brain. Mapping ...
  • Floating Nanosheets Could Be the Plywood of Nanote ...
    A synthetic, free-floating nano-sheet just two molecules thick may provide the perfect substrate for creating future electronic devices. The biologically inspired sheet is made of polymers, or long molecules with repeating units, that mimic the precision and order seen in proteins and crystal struc ...
  • 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Haaretz: IDF bid to expel West Bank Palestinians i ...
    Implementing this new military order is not only likely to spark a new conflagration in the territories, it is liable to give the world clear-cut proof that Israel's aim is a mass deportation of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
  • Naked leftist irks settlers
    Creative protest or hurtful provocation? Residents of the religious settlement of Otniel were in for an unexpected surprise Saturday after "hosting" a group of 15 leftist activists, including a woman... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • IDF order will enable mass deportation from West B ...
    Amira Hass: A new military order aimed at preventing infiltration will come into force this week, enabling the deportation of tens of thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank, or their... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in ...
  • Gideon Levy: Harass the IDF, not whistleblower Ana ...
    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 ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Blau-Kamm case exposes the dark und ...
    But this is Israel. Here... there is almost no public sympathy for Kamm or even Blau. The pair are already being described, both by officials and in chat forums and talkback columns, as traitors who... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Depression Symptoms Increase During Medical Intern ...
    Dr. Srijan Sen, while doing his psychiatry residency at Yale University, observed how even seemingly well-adjusted interns suffered from symptoms of depression as their internships progressed. He and colleagues studied this phenomenon to see what factors played a role in depression among interns. Wo ...
  • Most Women Facing Gynecologic Surgery Don't Worry ...
    Most women scheduled for gynecologic surgery to address noncancerous symptoms said in a recently published survey that they were not worried about the effects of the procedure on their sex lives.
  • Stories Have the Power to Improve Patient Safety, ...
    Telling stories of patients and families harmed by medical errors--and of healthcare professionals who have the courage to speak out about errors--is a powerful "secret weapon" in the fight to improve patient safety, according to an article co-authored by actor-turned-patient-safety-crusader Dennis ...
  • Top Five Ways to Sunblock Your Eyes This Summer
    Overexposure to the sun can wreak havoc on your eyes. Sun damage can cause severe conditions such as photokeratitis (sunburn to the cornea), pterygium (tissue growth on the whites of eyes that can block vision), and skin cancer on the eyelids, and has been implicated in the development of cataracts ...
  • Free Health Education Targeted Toward Aging Popula ...
    The National Association For Continence (NAFC) is holding a free educational webinar.

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

  • After Peak Oil, Are We Heading Towards Social Coll ...
    Recently, Glen Sweetnam, director of the International, Economic and Greenhouse Gas division of the Energy Information Administration at the DoE, announced that worldwide oil availability had reached a "plateau". However, his statement was not made known through a major U.S. mainstream media outlet. ...
  • Corporate Responsibility Magazine to Publish a Cor ...
    After 11 years of publishing a list of the best corporate citizens, Corporate Responsibility Magazine plans to introduce in its April-May issue, out this week, its first-ever "black list" of the worst companies, or those that are the least transparent. Click here to read this article
  • Farmers Deceived About Sewage Sludge Safety
    On March 27th Citizens for Sludge-Free Land sent a letter to the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality and US EPA Region 3 that information provided to Virginia landowners about using sewage sludges as fertilizer is deceptive. Land application permits are being granted in several Virginia cou ...
  • Enough Tea Party-Style Whining - It's Time to Take ...
    Imagine what would happen if we stopped blaming and started living democracy. Imagine what could change if we realized our power to remove big money from its dominance. Click here to read this article
  • Has Europe Seen the Light on Renewable Energy?
    Geoffrey Lean looks at how likely a Europe powered entirely by renewable energy could be. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

Climategate

Opinio Juris

  • The Latest EU-Greek Bailout and Liquidity Risk
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Treat liquidity risk and runs on institutions as fundamentally a question of lack of information - the lack of information on the underlying financial solvency prompting flight from uncertainty.  In that case, the question following the announcement in the ...
  • An Unusual Setback for the New Jersey Nets
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I rarely get to blog about the relationship between my two favorite things — professional basketball and international law — so I would be remiss if I failed to comment on the latest problem to afflict the New Jersey Nets, one of the worst teams in the NBA. ...
  • 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 ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • 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...
  • 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...

Public News Service

  • Redefining What It Means to be a Girl Scout
    Redefining What It Means to be a Girl Scout Phoenix, AZ – As the Girl Scouts approach their 100th year, the organization is putting more emphasis on helping girls develop their leadership skills. The newer concept is to help girls find and nurture their own strengths. Comments from Tamara (tuh-MAH-r ...
  • Start Walking Challenge Issued for Arizona
    Start Walking Challenge Issued for Arizona Phoenix, AZ – The American Heart Association has issued a challenge for Arizonans – walk for 30 minutes a day. “National Start! Walking Day,” is April 7th. It’s a national initiative to get people into an exercise program to reduce the risk of heart disease ...
  • Arizona Bucks Trend of Fewer State Prison Inmates
    Arizona Bucks Trend of Fewer State Prison Inmates Phoenix, AZ – For the first time since 1972, the number of state prison inmates in the U.S. has gone down, according to a new report from the Pew Center on the States. But Arizona’s inmate population continues to rise. Comments from Adam Gelb, Pew’s ...
  • Center Offers Families Break from 24-7 Care of Lif ...
    Center Offers Families Break from 24-7 Care of Life-Threatened Kids Phoenix, AZ – Families caring full-time for a child diagnosed with a life-threatening condition will be able to get a needed break when Ryan House opens later this month in central Phoenix. The facility will focus on making kids com ...
  • Lawmaker: Single People Deserve Equal Chance to Ad ...
    Lawmaker: Single People Deserve Equal Chance to Adopt Phoenix, AZ – A bill giving adoption priority to married couples has passed the Arizona House and awaits a hearing in the Senate. One lawmaker rejects the idea that a mom and dad are always the ideal situation for an adopted child. Comments from ...

My Care2 Picks

  • Media Feeds Americans Fake News About Afghanistan
    Glen Greenwald of Salon.com reports that Americans are being fed false and misleading "news" about the U.S. war in Afghanistan...major American media outlets ...New York Times...CNN, publish propagandized Pentagon accounts... Submitted by Luisa F. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Com ...
  • Under the Disguise of Counterterrorism: Obama Expa ...
    This has given weight to the U.S. Africa Command inaugurated Oct. 1, 2008, which is viewed with growing suspicion by many in Africa who consider its primary mission is to secure oil supplies that America considers vital as it cuts its reliance on the... Submitted by Raymond S. to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • Honey & Cinnamon EMail
    This showed up in my Inbox : thought I'd share it Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Nonsanto: A Month Without Monsanto
    When I first heard about April Davila's quest to live without Monsanto for a month, I thought she was doing something noble in a public setting. But, would it really be that hard? As a locavore, I pride myself on purchasing my produce from farmer's market Submitted by Daf Yanez to Green Lifestyle � ...
  • Someone Say Green Fund ? Five Sticking Points
    The World Bank’s management of the existing climate change finance has led to a profit-based model that doesn’t give the money to those most in need.IMF and the WBG serve the interests of industrialized countries-bankers in particular. Submitted by John Farnham to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� ...

Angry Indian News

  • Ramsey Clark chosen to head commission to investig ...
    IndictBushNow.org: Ramsey Clark chosen to head commission to investigate Bush crimes: On April 3, at a meeting of over 150 lawyers, legal scholars and human rights campaigners, Ramsey Clark, founder... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • I stole IDF documents to expose West Bank war crim ...
    I stole IDF documents to expose West Bank war crimes, Anat Kam says - Haaretz - Israel News: "Classified documents reveal that the Israel Defense Forces had committed war crimes in the West Bank,... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Kissinger cable heightens suspicions about 1976 Op ...
    Kissinger cable heightens suspicions about 1976 Operation Condor killings - latimes.com: "A newly declassified document has added to long-standing questions about whether Henry Kissinger, while... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Study: Anti-Semitism in Europe hit new high in 200 ...
    Study: Anti-Semitism in Europe hit new high in 2009 - Haaretz - Israel News: "The worldwide increase in anti-Semitic attacks following Israel's 2009 incursion into Gaza hit the U.K. and France the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Earthquake hits southern Spain; damage said unlike ...
    Earthquake hits southern Spain; damage said unlikely - CNN.com: (CNN) -- A strong earthquake struck near the Spanish city of Granada early Monday, but at a depth that made damage to the medieval... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Whistleblowers on US 'massacre' fear CIA stalkers
    Activists behind a website dedicated to revealing secret documents have complained of harassment by police and intelligence services as they prepare to release a video showing an American attack in which 97 civilians were killed in Afghanistan. Julian Assange, one of the founders of Wikileaks, ...
  • Wikileaks 'to release video of US strike on Afghan ...
    Wikileaks, the whistle-blower website, is reportedly preparing to release secret video of a notorious US air strike said to have killed scores of Afghan civilians . The video apparently shows previously classified footage from US warplanes called in to bomb Taliban fighters during a fire fight ...
  • Israel has nearly 300 nuclear weapons
    The Israeli prime minister has decided against going to the US for a nuclear summit, which was to have involved the leaders of 47 nations. Mr Netanyahu dropped out by announcing at a press conference that he wanted to highlight Israel's opposition to a nuclear Iran. It is known in political ci ...
  • Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, threatens to block ...
    The president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, has cast doubt over Nato's planned summer offensive against the Taliban in the southern province of Kandahar, as more than 10,000 American troops pour in for the fight. Karzai threatened to delay or even cancel the operation -- one of the biggest of th ...
  • Italy urges 'rapid' probe of Italians detained in ...
    The Italian foreign minister urged Afghan authorities to "rapidly" carry out a probe into three Italians detained after weapons were found in a hospital run by Italian charity Emergency. Afghan authorities detained three Italians and six others Saturday after suicide vests, home-made bombs, guns ...

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

  • Reflections on the value of respect
    Four years ago, Rory Stewart wrote: A great many of the failures in Afghanistan and Iraq arise from a single problem: the American-led coalitions’ lack of trust in local politicians. Repeatedly the Western powers, irritated by a lack of progress, have overruled local leaders, rejected compromises ...
  • Israeli activists to J Street: ’stop trying ...
    The following form letter has been circulating on an Israeli activist listserv criticizing J Street's leadership for their stance on the Berkeley divestment bill: Letter from Israel to Jstreet: Please Do Not Call Me "anti-Israeli" ! Dear J Street folks I am an Israeli citizen, I support the pr ...
  • Suddenly in vogue, book banning spreads to Canada
    Earlier today, Phil posted on a leading Israeli book chain that has removed a book critical of the settler movement. Seems the trend is spreading. Tablet reports on an effort by the Canadian Friends of the Simon Wiesenthal Center to ban the book The Shepherd's Granddaughter from a program run by th ...
  • Cohen on Poland
    Roger Cohen, who was so stirred by Tehran, is now moved by Polish history to imagine a different Middle East. His teaching re "victimhood" is aimed at those of us who harp about "justice" in Palestine in historical terms. And I think it's a good teaching, poetical, but it would be more meaningful if ...
  • Neocons need not apply
    Below, an event at Tufts last week that will give heartburn to neocons. Notice: no one from Brandeis is participating. The neocon pursuit of corridor, their modus operandi (avoid direct sunlight - why, look at Rob't Satloff's dishonest interaction with Stephen Walt and MJ Rosenberg's honest rejoinde ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: Autism – Steps To Take Toward Prevention & Re ...
    1) Vitamin D is highly recommended – According to Dr. John Cannell, “Autism is caused from a quantitative, not qualitative, variation in one of the enzymes that metabolize Vitamin D. That is, there are no structural differences in these enzymes in autism, only agenetically determined difference in ...
  • 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 ...

B.C. Preppers Network

  • My Quick and Easy Square Foot Garden
    Here's my little garden that I did last week. �It's a modified square foot garden where instead of a 4 x 4 bed this is 1 x 28. I have a small 50x 50 lot so there isn't room for anything much larger. The walls of the bed are plastic fake stones. �They're $15 for 9 feet at Walmart and Cana ...
  • 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 ...

Michael Yon

  • Under Cover of the Night
    Under Cover of the Night with 1-17th Infantry 11 April 2010 During a mission there is no “pause” button.  It’s on until it’s over.  Recently, Charlie Company 1-17th Infantry conducted a mission that included visiting villages in the Shah Wali Kot district of northern Kandahar Province. The m ...
  • 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 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

  • Leaked Confidential Document Reveals Obama's Clima ...
    Photo via the Guardian The Guardian has obtained a confidential document accidentally left on a hotel computer in Europe by a member of the Obama administration. The British newspaper says it "reveals the US government's increasingly controversial strategy in the global UN climate talks." They' ...
  • Americans No Greener In Past Decade, Environmental ...
    images: Gallup I'm going to try not to overly dip into despair in this next one, but the results of a new Gallup Poll on changes in green behavior in the United States over the past decade aren't overly encouraging, particularly when it comes to political action. As you can see in the graphics ...
  • Hybrid Robot's Microbial Fuel Cell Transforms Poll ...
    Photo: Gilberto Esparza What if an army of mobile robots could transform polluted water into plant life? Tracing a fine line between robot and plant, art project and self-sustaining mini-ecosystem machine, Mexican artist Gilberto Esparza's hybrid creation "Nomadic Plants" (Plantas Nomadas) is a q ...
  • Polystyrene Insulation Doesn't Belong in Green Bui ...
    As a writer about green design, I hold some opinions that consistently attract tremendous disagreement and abuse; two are heat pumps and insulated concrete forms (ICF) noting that a sandwich of polystyrene and concrete can hardly be called green. Alex Wilson at Environmental Building News n ...
  • Paving the Way for KFC's Double Down: The 5 Grosse ...
    Photo via NY Daily News Today is the day. Call it the heart attack heard 'round the world. Yes, today KFC's already-infamous Double Down --the bacon and cheese "sandwich" where the bun is comprised of two chunks of fried chicken--hits fast food chains and mall food courts across the nation. I a ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

  • The General must not be disturbed’
    There is a quirky side to the bland and sometimes 'incapable' Burmese dictator, Than Shwe, that has kept biographer Benedict Rogers always second-guessing
  • Suu Kyi triggers health concerns
    Opposition leader suffering from dizziness and low blood pressure and reportedly briefly admitted to Rangoon hospital on Sunday
  • 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 ...

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  • Iceland parliament committee implicates former PM, ...
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  • Obama pick for DOJ legal counsel withdraws nominat ...
    [JURIST] US President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) [official website] withdrew her candidacy on Friday. Dawn Johnsen [professional profile], nominated [JURIST report] as the OLC's Assistant Attorney General in January 2009, has faced over a ye ...
  • Russia judge involved in neo-Nazi trials killed
    [JURIST] A Moscow City Court [official website] judge known for presiding over cases involving neo-Nazi groups was killed Monday morning while leaving his apartment. The murder [BBC report] of Judge Eduard Chuvashov is suspected to be a contract killing [Al Jazeera report] in light of the death thre ...
  • US Senator predicts no approval of nuclear arms re ...
    [JURIST] US Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn) [official website] on Sunday said that Senate approval of the so-called New START treaty [text, PDF; BBC backgrounder] will not happen this year. Speaking on a morning talk show, Alexander stated [transcript], "there's not a chance the treaty will be appr ...
  • Amnesty condemns use of 'no-torture' deals in Euro ...
    [JURIST] Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] on Monday released a report [text, PDF] criticizing some European nations' practice of seeking "no-torture" assurances from other countries in order to remove foreigners. According to the report, the assurances are used to return people to count ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Hillary, Not to the Court
    Sorry, buddy . It's not happening. In case you're wondering whether there's a chance that Barack Obama asks Hillary Clinton to join the Supreme Court, he won't, and she doesn't want him to. So it won't happen.�
  • Sexual Politics and the Supreme Court
    Solicitor General Elena Kagan, the woman who tops President Obama's short list for the Supreme Court, is the subject of a baffling whisper campaign by both gay rights activists and social conservatives : they assume she's gay , and they want her -- or someone -- the media! -- to acknowledge it. Th ...
  • Four Cheers for the Washington Post
    I've got no stake in the matter, but four cheers to the Washington Post for winning four Pulitzer Prizes . It's a needed shot in the arm for a publication that has lost considerable respect inside the Beltway over the past several years, as top correspondents have fled to other papers and as the edi ...
  • Sarah Palin, Gen-X Slacker
    Sarah Palin wins over crowds, but she has low favorability ratings and doesn't win straw polls. Why? As Chris Cillizza notices, whenever she speaks, the default tenor of her voice is sarcastic : " Palin is more comfortable playing to those who already love her rather than to reaching out to those ...
  • Republicans Grit Their Teeth And Bear It
    Tuesday's resignation of RNC member Sean Mahoney was propitious timing for the would-be congressional candidate: ahead a of midterm election where anger at the powers that be inside the Republican Party is high, what better way to protest the shenanigans of chairman Michael Steele? But Mahoney shou ...

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  • Kamm Leaked Secret IDF Documents to Expose ‘War Cr ...
    Finally, we have a evidence supporting Anat Kamm’s motives in leaking hundreds of secret IDF documents to the Israeli press.  Until now, we’ve been forced to speculate on those motives and the theories have been all over the place.  But Haaretz, which appealed to the court to release police files ...
  • Links for 2010-03-14 [Digg]
    Shin Bet Detains Israeli Reporter for Leaking Top-Secret Mem We're going to be getting into deep territory tonight regarding Israeli military intelligence, the Shin Bet, and their ability to make a mockery of alleged Israeli democracy and free press.
  • Links for 2010-03-15 [Digg]
    TV interview: Mossad Assassination in Dubai A 30 minute interview for ScanTV's "Moral Politics" show dealing with the Israeli Mossad's assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud al Mabouh and the repurcussions for Israel from this act.
  • Links for 2010-03-18 [Digg]
    Shin Bet Secretly Detains Reporter Leaking Top-Secret Docume I was the first blogger or journalist to break this story outside Israel. Anat Kam, a young Israeli reporter was secretly arrested and imprisoned for allegedly leaking top secret IDF documents about targeted assassinations.
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    Zvi Solow has told me that the Kamm-Blau case reminds him of the famous imaginary shtetl, Chelm.  It was a place where everyone thought he was wise and no one was.  Each person had to outdo the other in proclaiming their brilliance, and the smarter they proclaimed themselves the funnier they becam ...

Ode Magazine

  • Maggots: Nature's nurses
    By: TheBlueEconomy Have you ever wondered why there are flies? The Nigerian priest Godfrey Nzamujo un-derstood that they eat rotting left-overs, when food is rich they quickly lay eggs and be-fore long maggots proliferate. Maggots are rich in protein and a favorite ...
  • Budadogs gives new leash on life
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  • 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 ...

OpEd News

  • Our National Epidemic of Violence
    If teabagging wakes us up to the realization that our approach to war is based on a bunch of glaze-eyed drooling madmen in search of elusive self-worth, perhaps it will have done us an important service. If Americans will stop killing Afghans because they now think it makes them Karzaiapos;s punks, ...
  • Going For It Versus Playing It Safe
    Life is meant to be fully lived and celebrated but that canapos;t be accomplished by playing it safe as Phil Mickelson proved with his memorable life affirming golf shot at the 2010 Masters: Allen L Roland
  • Going For It Versus Playing It Safe
    Life is meant to be fully lived and celebrated but that canapos;t be accomplished by playing it safe as Phil Mickelson proved with his memorable life affirming golf shot at the 2010 Masters: Allen L Roland
  • Going For It Versus Playing It Safe
    Life is meant to be fully lived and celebrated but that canapos;t be accomplished by playing it safe as Phil Mickelson proved with his memorable life affirming golf shot at the 2010 Masters: Allen L Roland
  • Going For It Versus Playing It Safe
    Life is meant to be fully lived and celebrated but that canapos;t be accomplished by playing it safe as Phil Mickelson proved with his memorable life affirming golf shot at the 2010 Masters: Allen L Roland

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  • Even if the FDA isn't paying attention, the media ...
    Antibacterial chemicals��in soaps have been in the news quite a bit lately since Representative Ed Markey called on federal agencies to scrutinize their safety more closely and specifically called on the FDA to ban triclosan from personal care products. Though they admitted they were "concer ...
  • Listen to Lamar: End Mountaintop Removal
    Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) is the proud co-sponsor of a bi-partisan bill in Congress that would effectively end mountaintop removal coal mining.  (You can help by contacting your senators and urging them to support S. 696 The Appalachia Restoration Act .)  Yesterday, The Tennessean publishe ...
  • Progress in Improving Transparency in Environmenta ...
    On April 1st I was invited to testify on the subject of transparency in environmental protection and climate change in China at a roundtable discussion for the Congressional Executive Commission on China. The purpose of the hearing was to provide an honest assessment of the current state of ...
  • Do the Math: A Comprehensive Energy and Climate Po ...
    The Wonk Room over at Think Progress posted an important piece on Friday calculating that comprehensive energy and climate legislation would reduce Iran’s petrodollar receipts by $1.8 trillion through 2050, an average of $100 million per day. That’s a huge benefit considering Iran’s role as ...
  • Addressing the environmental paradox of smart grow ...
      As noted in my previous post, there is no question that sustainable land use requires, among other things, neighborhood density.  Smart growth based on walkable neighborhoods, transportation choices, nearby amenities and the accommodation of an increasingly diverse society is the only wa ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • For A Change…
    Over at the Prospect I make the case for nominating an actual liberal for the Supreme Court.  In particular, there’s no political reason for not doing so: It might be objected at this point that a nominee like Karlan or Koh might compel a Republican filibuster. The proper answer to this is, so [ ...
  • Are the Venezuelans Marching Through El Paso Yet?
    In general, I feel the same way as Yglesias and Attackerman about the Venezuelan Embassy’s aggressive spamming tactics. In this case, however, the Venezuelan ambassador’s letter to the editor of Armed Forces Journal is a useful corrective to Peter Brookes’ hysterical nonsense about the threat that ...
  • Who Do We Need to Torture to Get to the Bottom of ...
    Thiessen explains why the Smolensk crash sucks for Poland, but REALLY sucks for America: This weekend, in that same forest, much of Poland’s 21st century intelligentsia was wiped out as well—particularly, its pro-American, conservative intelligentsia, those who stood up to Russia, reached out to Ukr ...
  • Is Putin the Right Man to Head Smolensk Crash Inve ...
    Vladminir Putin has personally taken charge of the investigation of the plane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski and much of his upper government and top brass this weekend. Certainly, this move is meant as a signal of solidarity with and support for the Polish people and government. ...
  • Belated 2010 NL Preview
    East:  1. Phi 2. Atl 3. Fla 4. NYM 5. Was I suppose  on some level the Phillies are more vulnerable than they might seem; they feel like a great team and have the core of one, but this core has yet to win more than 93 games in the weak lead.   But you [...] Related posts: NL Preview 2010 AL Previ ...

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